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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bluenose" data-source="post: 5577994" data-attributes="member: 49017">Some of my worst:Traveller, a "scientific investigations" game where the characters were investigating various scientific mysteries and dealing with unusual medical situations. Players rolled up scientists, doctors, one ex-Scout survey expert... and a Marine Commando with a gauss rifle.Pendragon, a campaign based on the concept of a group of young knights looking to ride around the tournament circuit, making a name for themselves, picking up a bit of money (which assumed they'd be successful), maybe meeting some famous knights or attractive ladies. Plus one player who came with a lady-in-waiting character, and wanted to have all sorts of romantic entanglements and chances for intrigue. To be fair, that is something that fits the genre, just not that particular game. It doubled the amount of work I had to do and meant one player was out of the action a significant portion of the time, while the others weren't as involved the rest.D&D, where someone tried to run an acquatic elf character in a fairly traditional land-based campaign. I think it was some sort of misunderstanding, because I'd mentioned the campaign was in a coastal region, but I never got the story.One where I was a player. A game of Heroquest, in the "Magical Girl" manga/anime genre. A group of young female witches just graduated from a magical academy and looking for employment in a world where there were lots of magic users around with more experience and skill. And their cat, who wasn't a magical cat and didn't talk and was in fact a perfectly normal cat in every way. I'm not certain the player wasn't doing it because he hated the concept of the game.And that's excluding all the strange ones where someone was totally out of place. I never did find out why a Kralori farmer would be in Balazar, a Vargr would be anything but a smear on the deckplates in a family of K'kree, or what an elf was doing in Stalingrad in WW2.</blockquote>

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