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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 408655" data-attributes="member: 633">Hmmm... I've played one RPGA game at a con, and it was unremarkable, but I've played much worse ones. There was this game - a tournament game, no less - where in the first encounter we got ambushed by twice our number enemies of twice our level (5th vs. 10th, this was OD&D). Two of us got killed, the rest fled. Most of us survivors got imprisoned later by a traitorous governor. I attempted some illusions to help our escape but all the enemies simply behaved as if the illusions weren't there. I died later; I was invisible and wanted to end the spell, but the DM said that I could only end it by attacking someone. I was in the middle of a big row, so I just rolled my eyes and said that I would hit a random rioter with a punch. As luck would have it, the guy was armed and a high level fighter <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />, who assumed that getting punched during a riot was a capital offense and promptly eviscerated me.Then there was the Call of Cthulhu game where a player insisted for bringing his own character - seeing that he had little weapons, scarse combat skills, and good detective skills, and when I told him "No guns, I see" he answered "Are they of any use?", the DM assumed that he was a good CoC player. Big mistake. During a formal dinner, when another players' character made a little joke about him having a higher EDU than his, this guy tells the DM: "I pull out my taser under the table and shock him"... it went fairly downhill from there.</blockquote>

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