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<blockquote data-quote="Squirrel Nutkin" data-source="post: 629545" data-attributes="member: 32">Unfortunately they were my friends, and I had no idea how much they were into these low-level characters. Not a one of 'em was higher than 3rd level, and yet it turned out these guys had already been writing stories, poems and even songs (!) about their PCs. Not really the kind of thing you ought to be doing if you're in a hack-'n-slash AD&amp;D 1E campaign like the one I was running at the time. Unfortunately I'd missed all of this since these same players lived in another town and would drive in to game, role-playing and filking among themselves on the car trip and stuff like that&nbsp; -- the only time I got to socialize with these guys was on game nights. So again I simply didn't know I had a roomful of &quot;real role-players&quot; although I did find out the hard way. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />The worst part though is that most of them broke of their friendships with me over this, and that also caught me by complete surprise. I had never gamed with people like that before, and I didn't have any kind of experience with that kind of drama over some low-level AD&amp;D characters.I didn't run any RPGs again for a good while after that...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Squirrel Nutkin, post: 629545, member: 32"] Unfortunately they were my friends, and I had [i]no[/i] idea how much they were into these low-level characters. Not a one of 'em was higher than 3rd level, and yet it turned out these guys had already been writing stories, poems and even songs (!) about their PCs. Not really the kind of thing you ought to be doing if you're in a hack-'n-slash AD&D 1E campaign like the one I was running at the time. Unfortunately I'd missed all of this since these same players lived in another town and would drive in to game, role-playing and filking among themselves on the car trip and stuff like that -- the only time I got to socialize with these guys was on game nights. So again I simply didn't know I had a roomful of "real role-players" although I did find out the hard way. :( The worst part though is that most of them broke of their friendships with me over this, and that also caught me by complete surprise. I had never gamed with people like that before, and I didn't have any kind of experience with that kind of drama over some low-level AD&D characters. I didn't run any RPGs again for a good while after that... [/QUOTE]

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