Players from Hell.

[Phebius]

What exactly is a bardic wink, anyway?

Bardic wink a facial gesture, favored by bards, which combines the effects of the rockstar "get over here" gesture and the porn star "come hither" look. This does not ever work.

 

[Ashtal]

A player who had basically guilted her way into my game ("my therapist says it's very important that I be part of this group") watched while a PC argued with an NPC merchant over the price of a magic sword. When the negotiation was over, she said to the PC's player: "Oh, come on, I'm sure you can jew him down!"

Long silence around the table.

"Oh!" she said to me, "I'm sorry! I didn't realize you were Jewish."

As if THAT'S the point....

Two side notes:

(1) this was the first time I had heard that derogatory use of the word "Jew" used in real life, as opposed to reading about it in books about anti-Semitism. I guess I was lucky growing up.

(2) she wasn't in my game much longer.

The Spectrum Rider

Something like that happened to me in school during one of my cooking classes ... I had never heard anything like that before ... and I went ... well, I can't use the word here, but I freaked on him. He tried to justify it as not being so bad, and I got even madder. I have heard something like that exactly two times since, and it boggles my mind each and every time.

I was lucky, too. 'Till then.

 

[Vaxalon]

I was at a con once ( a VERY small con, in Massachusetts) and during character creation, we had the option of selecting "Jew," "Pole," "Black" etc. for our character's race. No mention was made of advantages or disadvantages associated with it, but from the selection available it was pretty clear that "race" didn't mean what it means in DnD.

I got up and walked out of the session, and everyone at the table followed me. We went to the con organizer to complain, and we were told that particular DM (who had brought his own adventure) would not DM for them again, ever. When we went back to the table, he was gone.

We played "Toon" for that two-hour block and had a lot of fun. I ran the session, and strangely enough, all the little bunnies (PC's) were green, blue, purple, gray...

 

[Wraithdrit]

One El Creepo story and one funny story.

Long ago, when I still had to bum rides to games because I was under the legal driving age (I'm 29 now) I was in a game across town. I had met up with some players and we were riding with the 'new guy' to the game location. He is taking a hair pin turn and says, "Whoa I better make my driving check to see if I can make it around this turn. Percentile time!" Whereupon he reached down and hit a preset button on his radio. It flipped over to a station number like 99.5 or something, and he says, "Whew. Made it."

What would he have done if he had hit 104.3? Flipped the car? He didn't come back to the game.

The funny story was a friend who had a sleeping problem. He could sleep anywhere. Well one game I looked up from behind my screen in the middle of the combat and the two girls in the game are giggling and pointing. There he is chin on his chest, snoring. He would lean closer and closer to the table. When his nose would finally touch he would snort, sit back up and go right back to the slow descent. It was all we could all do not to laugh out loud.

- Wraith

 

[Krieg]

A player who had basically guilted her way into my game ("my therapist says it's very important that I be part of this group") watched while a PC argued with an NPC merchant over the price of a magic sword. When the negotiation was over, she said to the PC's player: "Oh, come on, I'm sure you can jew him down!"

Long silence around the table.

"Oh!" she said to me, "I'm sorry! I didn't realize you were Jewish."

As if THAT'S the point....

Two side notes:

(1) this was the first time I had heard that derogatory use of the word "Jew" used in real life, as opposed to reading about it in books about anti-Semitism. I guess I was lucky growing up.

(2) she wasn't in my game much longer.

The Spectrum Rider

Unfortunatley I have to confess that at one time I was guilty of the same thing.

When I was in Saudi somehow we got into the habit of saying "don't jew me like that" etc.

A Cpl who was attached to us from 1st RadBtn casually mentioned to me one day that he was Jewish & it bothered him to hear the comments.

I literally felt poleaxed. Not because he was Jewish, but rather because for some reason the comments & the reality of Judaism never actually connected in my mind.

I never consciously realized what we were saying off the cuff was offensive & bigoted.

That is of course no excuse.

That was 12+ years ago & I am still ashamed that I was so thoughtless.

Since that time I've been far more careful about what I casually utter in daily conversation.

 

[ForceUser]

Re: pee man

There was a guy a friend brought to a game at my house who had some kind of obvious physical problem. I have no idea what the problem was--he just had kind of soft facial features, no volume control, and was very slightly twichy. Not a problem (except the volume a couple of times), he was an ok gamer and all, until about halfway through the evening, when he goes to the bathroom. I happened to need to go just after him, at which point I discovered the seat was down and there were great puddles of urine totally covering it. I mean there was piss every which place anywhere near that seat. On the rim under it, splashed onto the floor, everywhere. I can understand a motor control problem, but damn, just lift up the seat if you can't not piss all over it! What, had this problem never come up before in his life? He didn't smell bad, so presumably he didn't usually sit around in his own urine.

I wiped it up and didn't say anything. My mistake. He was invited back one more time, whereupon he did the exact same thing. No more after that.

This is the most disturbing story in the thread. I can't believe you didn't say anything; I would have screamed "WTF!" the instant I stepped into my bathroom, and that guy would have had to clean it up and explain himself. And if the excuse wasn't up to snuff he'd never be coming back.

 

[Phebius]

Re: Re: pee man

This is the most disturbing story in the thread. I can't believe you didn't say anything; I would have screamed "WTF!" the instant I stepped into my bathroom, and that guy would have had to clean it up and explain himself. And if the excuse wasn't up to snuff he'd never be coming back.

That's the promlem with situations like that, though. It's easy to theoretically plan how we'd react in a situation, but actually put into that situations, people generally don't know what to do. They've done Psychological experiments where they put people in increasingly bizarre situations and found that people, for the most part, will awkwardly put up with almost anything.

 

[PowerWordDumb]

Quietly put up with it? Naww. That's when you scream out "Who the F*** P***ED all over my bathroom?!?!?!?!!" at the top of your lungs. Then you quietly clean it up, and when you come out either someone's got a good explanation to which you say "That's very nice, but next time you p*** around my bathroom you clean it up like a normal functioning human!", or if they don't explain or 'fess up, they don't get invited back.

Either way, kick them in the junk for your troubles.

 

[Phebius]

Either way, kick them in the junk for your troubles.

Oh, well that goes without saying. That was part of my quietly putting up with it comment.

 

[The Spectrum Rider]

>That was 12+ years ago & I am still ashamed that I was so thoughtless.


Well, you're more thoughtful now. More power to you.

The Spectrum Rider