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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dwarf Bread" data-source="post: 2668647" data-attributes="member: 22205">I laughed and laughed when I read this.  Well played, sir!I never realized how truly fortunate I've been in my gaming career until I read this thread.  I've had some weird moments, though, like the time I responded to an ad at my FLGS for a 2e game; the GM was a bouncer/AV tech at a local club, and had his entire living room set up like a stage--complete with multiple spotlights with different color gels.  He also told me he'd painstakingly created multiple cassette tapes (with some MIDI equipment) full of different music that would act as a sort of "soundtrack" for the campaign (there were at least 20 tapes, carefully labelled and arranged on a nearby card table).  We start playing (in an all-Viking campaign, iirc), and he pops in a tape.  Pretty standard Conan background music, kind of cheesy, but not any kind of problem.  Then we begin to travel, and he carefully selects a new tape, puts it in, and we hear...the exact same music.  I don't mean "similar," I mean I couldn't tell the difference between them at all.  Maybe this guy had some kind of dog hearing, and had adjusted the bass a tiny fraction, but that was it.  Then, we finally run into some bad guys and are about to start combat, but the GM makes us wait for a couple of minutes while he painstakingly selects the appropriate "combat music."  He puts in the tape, plays it and...yes, once again, it is the *exact* same music.  By this point, I was trying so hard not to laugh I didn't trust myself to talk, so I just rolled some dice, waiting for my chance to cut and run.  Once I finally made it out of there, I told the GM that I was sorry, but that the campaign wasn't for me.  Luckily, though, I stayed in touch with one of the other players (who also bolted after the first session) and we've been friends ever since.We still talk about that night.  In retrospect, I dearly wish I'd had the foresight to ask the GM if I could have a copy of one of the tapes, if only to have him earnestly ask me which one I'd liked best.  "Oooh, the combat one!"  I would have said, and it would have been awesome.</blockquote>

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