Playing D&D With Pornstars

[Wik]

Not to veer too far off topic, but I guess this thread is really a discussion about unusual players. So I have to ask, why did the sociopath admit to being a sociopath?? From what I've read, sociopaths either consciously with-hold admitting that aspect to acquaintances in order to manipulate people better. OR ... the sociopath doesn't know they're a sociopath and just comes across like a prick to most people.

First off, we always assumed he was just kind of a dink, until a few years later, when a friend of mine (who knew him better) sort of dropped the details. Mostly because no one could deal with the guy anymore.

As it relates to gaming, though, yeah, he had a few odd rules, such as:

1) If he was GMing, you couldn't play a thief. If you did play a thief (ie, they weren't barred in his campaign), you would die. Painfully.

2) He had the monster manuals memorized. To the point where I remember throwing a fight where there were giant crocodiles and regular crocodiles fighting the PCs, and he was able to tell everyone the ACs of both monsters. And knew their hit dice. And, if as a GM I varied from what was detailed in the book, he'd FREAK OUT. Like, curse and start hitting stuff. Also, he refused to switch to 3e when it came out because he didn't want to have to memorize a new rule book (I think the last time I saw him was around 2 years after 3e's release, so I don't have any new info).

3) Stupid players were not tolerated. If you did something stupid in game, you got a tongue lashing.

4) Excessive "Role-Players" were the target of scorn. Not that it came up much in our groups (we were never hardcore RPers, but when it did happen, he got angry).

5) World details were a big thing. If you were playing a pubbed campaign setting, you had to follow canon. Which got kind of funny. We were running a 2e Forgotten Realms game, and I set my game near Sembia, which was at the time declared "DM's playground - this area won't be touched by game designers!". Because I had free reign, I made the place my own. Only to have the character act strangely - because he was playing with HIS version of Sembia in mind, and was refusing to admit the changes I had made were accurate. So he was acting with his version of Sembia in mind until I changed things to fit his "vision".

Yeah, there were a few others, but I really can't remember them all. I do remember he had a house rule of "if you kill it, you get all the XP" which bugged the hell out of me (you more or less competed with teammates for kills). And I also know he was actually pretty fine until eighth grade (all of these stories are from either the last years of high school, or a year or two after) - around 8th grade was when he tried to slit his wrists. With safety scissors. Which was kind of funny.

 

[catsclaw227]

I've gamed with a couple of porn stars before. One I roomed with back in the early 90's (she was trying to live the double life, and had moved from Chatsworth -- as earlier stated, the porn capital -- to Westlake Village an entirely different place).

The other was my GF, who became a porn star about 6 months after we broke up.

I also gamed with a group (totally unrelated) where being heterosexual was the minority and it was one of the best groups I ever gamed with. Lawyers, Actors and generally all white collar professionals. I really loved that group.

On a sadder note, I hooked up with a good friend from High School after I returned from college. We gamed for a few years and then around 26yrs old, while we were still gaming every other week, he slowly developed schizophrenia and after about 2 years was unable to interact socially anymore. It was terribly sad, and his descent into madness was reflected in his characters, and during the last year he could only play solo or with one other friend without freaking out once in a while. Very sad, but I imagine it would have been worth more than one dissertation to have been a part of those 2 years of gaming.

 

[Wik]

On a sadder note, I gamed with a good gamer friend from High School that after I returned from college. We gamed for a few years and then around 26yrs old, we were still gaming every other week, he slowly developed schizophrenia and after about 2 years was unable to interact socially anymore. It was terribly sad, and his descent into madness was reflected in his characters, and the last year he could only play solo or with one other friend without freaking out once in a while. Very sad, but I imagine it woud have been worth more than one dissertation to have been a part of those 2 years of gaming.

Dude. It is pretty sad stuff, eh? Watching a friend kind of go off the deep end while you game can be sad. Eventually, you have to make the call as a GM (and a human being) on whether gaming is something that is good for this person. And good for yourself.

Reminds me of another gamer friend of mine. He wound up doing a LOT of drugs in the last few years of high school, and was so crazy on drugs that the last I saw of him, he actually needed drugs to be any semblance of normal. He had this creepy stare (as in, he wouldn't blink) accompanied with a half smile that made your skin crawl. Before he got all weird, he was fun to game with, though. We wound up no longer associating with him after a few bad incidents we heard about. I vaguely recall there being police involved.

Can't believe I didn't mention this guy in my roll of odd gamers I've gamed with.

 

[Cyronax]

Outside of faux-Wicca girl,

I once DMed for some people that preferred Adventure Paths (as in 'we always win/know the way') to Sandbox-style (i.e. the NPCs have their own agenda regardless of PCs/world feel real). I quite gaming with them due to our differences ... (after 4 years).

One of those players was a male and would only play females for an undisclosed reason. Most, if not all, of his characters were strikder-ish types (in 3.x) that had angsty emo-style backgrounds.

Anyway, all of your experiences sound much more intense. I'd love to hear more. Its interesting reading.

C.I.D.

 

[Wik]

I imagine someone will post that "creepy players" thread in a few minutes, to put the stories here to shame. Like, the Brazilian Death Squad and all that jazz. Wish I had the link.

 

[jasin]

The dude has a picture of Sasha Grey (look her up on wiki ... trust me ... she's a renaissance woman who happens to be a (major) pornstar) whom he just met out at some hang out.

And now she started playing with them.

 

[Nifft]

Regarding that secret project he's being mysterious about... [sblock]...if they were to make a D&D porn movie, it can't be worse than the D&D movies which have been made already.[/sblock]

Cheers, -- N

 

[Mallus]

Pornstars aside, the site rapidly became me and my group's favorite RPG blog. It's some really insightful and amusing writing about D&D/gaming.

(and unlike blogs like, say, Grognardia --a site which the pornstar guy admires quite a bit-- his blog can discuss fairly pretentious topics with a lot humor and unpretentious-ness )

 

[TheWyrd]

I started following the blog a month ago or so. I'm sure the hook has helped me, but this is one of the few grognard style writings that I can stomach. Most other ones turn me off completely with the sheer bitterness that seems inherent in the writing. It think for me there is also a big difference between someone who plays old school because that's the way they've always played and someone clued in to the spirit of kit bashing.

 

[Runestar]

I can no longer look at tittivilus the same way again, not after how it apparently inspired them to come up with a healing goddess with huge breasts.

And yes, I am jealous I didn't come up with it first.