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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 1875553" data-attributes="member: 7280">Most of the truly awful bad GM stories I have are about myself, for not making things crystal clear ahead of time to the players with my ominous and heartfelt glances to try to keep them from doing completely stupid things which required me to do equally stupid and unfun things as well. Like the time I told everyone that they were going to be starting off in the military, and everyone was cool with that until someone brought a few friends over at the last moment who were apparently not cool with it. So, five minutes into the game these new guys have attacked their superior officers and half the party is dead because there's only one appropriate response to a group of your most elite soldiers apparently deciding to assassinate their immediate superiors and talking about killing the royal family in "retaliation." It wasn't the rest of the party's fault that I couldn't figure out exactly to stress the consequences of not putting down their weapons and surrendering immediately as in right freakin' now. I think exactly two characters made it out of that fiasco alive, and at least several players probably still think I'm the cruelest most idiotic guy that ever ran a game for running an almost TPK before the characters had even gotten to a tavern to exercise a cliche or two. Then there was the time I thought that it would be ok to send my players as messengers to give something to a dragon at 1st level, never dreaming that they'd attack the thing that I described as "bigger than the barracks." They were pretty happy about that, but *I* still feel stupid for letting the Paladin throw his shield at the beast like Captain America and "Sure, you'll knock it out if you can roll two 20s in a row" and so what he did and now I'm the guy who lets 1st level characters frisbeecide dragons - and how stupid is that?But seriously, the guy who showed up to run the game in a bulletproof vest and drunk (he drove himself and smelled like a malt liquor factory)- he was worse. I went "to the bathroom" and out the door without saying anything. I didn't even get my stuff out of the car.</blockquote>

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