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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rabelais" data-source="post: 2471018" data-attributes="member: 2969">I'd been gaming with this group for about a year.  The GM had a tremendous head for details, but NO execution whatsoever.  He could tell you the name of the Tavern keeper 2 villages away, but couldn't run a combat, AT ALL.Not really a problem so much, but after awhile it kinda got irritating.ZTime passes...I meet some people at work, they're gamers and seriously excellent people.  I tell them about this interesting campaign that my GM is starting, and long story short, they get invited.  We're about 3 sessions into the game, tasked with finding the mystical thingybobber of doodadness at the "Bear Stones"Great!  We know exactly where they are... They're stones in the shape of a great bear that we'd seen at the 1st session... Tremendous luck!  Well... we go there.  We search high and low for the entrance into the hidden cave  yadda yadda yadda.  No luck.  We find some mention in a tome that our mage had, that the hidden cave would stay hidden until the noonday sun hit this specific spot at the Spring Equinox... wonderful!  that's only 4 days away!  Yay us!  We're going to finally be able to recover the mystical thingy.Until the GM makes us roleplay all 4 remaining days until the equinox.  All... four... days... for FOUR HOURS!  Well, it's afternoon on day 2 now... what do you do? "Um... well, I think I might go swimming in the pool next to the stones..."I uh... jeez, I already went hunting, we're pretty well off for food.  I guess the ranger will do a turn around the area to check on the traps I set yesterday, and make sure that the bad guys can't sneak up on us...so on... so forth... for 4 hours Real Time.  It's like you're in the Indy 500, going 200mph, and then all of a sudden you're behind a float in the Rose Festival parade or something.  Disconcerting, very irritating...  ZTime passes...The next session, we've finished recovering the doodad, take it back to the doodad's rightful owner.  Who then turns out to be an agent for an Evil king.  He tootles his horn where the ENTIRE FREAKING ARMY of Boris Badinov jump up and start to attack us.... seriously it's like 1000 guys in full freaking armor.  We had just passed that area about 15 minutes earlier... OUR RANGER NOTICING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING...  To make things worse, one of the players is playing a turncoat, who backstabs one of the players for X amount of damage.Our players are supposed to be captured, and sent back to be "interrogated"  Pretty much at that point we decide that it's better to go out with our boots on.  We took perverse pleasure in the GM's attempt to use non-lethal force to capture us.  Finally though, we managed to Butch and Sundance our way into getting his army to kill us.Mercifully, the campaign pretty much ended there.  I haven't talked to the GM in 6 years.</blockquote>

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