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<blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 2966077" data-attributes="member: 9646"><p>Poor GM obviously, who forgot the one rule GMs should stick to: <em>Players should have fun with the game.</em> Now you can discuss that with him, and if things don't improve, just seek another game.</p><p></p><p>I have seen much worse than this:</p><p></p><p>1) Game begins, and my character polymorphed into a bird flies over the castle we are supposed to investigate. My character lands down onto the highest tower's roof, and then the DM says: "You're dead". No amount of discussion changed anything to it. Of course the DM had a perfect explanation for this: "The vampire-mage-assassin has been alerted by a demon sentry in the ethereal, so he used his mirror of mental prowes to come to you and kill you. Period." End game for me after just 20 minutes of gaming session. Of course I didn't play again with that DM.</p><p></p><p>2) Novice DM winds it up all the way, obviously having no knowledge of d20 rules (he had been a player in a 3e campaign of mine for 12 months though). After 1 hour and a half of play, I told him I couldn't continue with a game run like this. The new campaign aborted just there and never resumed. I am in no hurry to ever play again with that DM, even using a rule-lite system...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Turanil, post: 2966077, member: 9646"] Poor GM obviously, who forgot the one rule GMs should stick to: [I]Players should have fun with the game.[/I] Now you can discuss that with him, and if things don't improve, just seek another game. I have seen much worse than this: 1) Game begins, and my character polymorphed into a bird flies over the castle we are supposed to investigate. My character lands down onto the highest tower's roof, and then the DM says: "You're dead". No amount of discussion changed anything to it. Of course the DM had a perfect explanation for this: "The vampire-mage-assassin has been alerted by a demon sentry in the ethereal, so he used his mirror of mental prowes to come to you and kill you. Period." End game for me after just 20 minutes of gaming session. Of course I didn't play again with that DM. 2) Novice DM winds it up all the way, obviously having no knowledge of d20 rules (he had been a player in a 3e campaign of mine for 12 months though). After 1 hour and a half of play, I told him I couldn't continue with a game run like this. The new campaign aborted just there and never resumed. I am in no hurry to ever play again with that DM, even using a rule-lite system... [/QUOTE]
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