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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epametheus" data-source="post: 1407219" data-attributes="member: 719">Worst game I can immediately think of?The system was 2e, and at the point that the game really went downhill, 3e was only a few months away.Basically, the DM didn't have the best grasp of the rules but trusted the players not to abuse the rules.  The two players with the best grasp of the rules and the most supplements deliberately set out to wreck the campaign, largely out of the spite for the DM.  These two players already had the two strongest characters in the party (they were both 2e psionicists), but eventually they became so grossly powerful in comparison to the rest of the group that anything that was a decent fight for them would annihilate the rest of the party, and anything the rest of the party could handle could be snuffed by these two without any effort.On top of this, the DM had some rather annoying tendencies, including his villians auto-passing saving throws (seriously -- he'd roll the die and announce "it passes" without actually looking at the die; I busted him once when he rolled a 1 without noticing it), and often just hand-waving immunities to attack-type X on the spot.  Physical attacks and psionics (which generally didn't allow saves) were the only attack types that were actually allowed to work; my wizard and the party cleric were completely SOL.  And, of course, the DM gave his fiance's character enough artifacts that she was almost on par with the two psionicists.It took about 5 months or so after the death of that campaign before we allowed him to DM again.  The two players got off scot free, since we were collectively more frustrated with that DM than we were with them.===========Next worst I think of wasn't nearly as bad, but still fairly annoying:The DM had a pet NPC.This invincible pet NPC happened to be the main villian.  He was a 30th level wizard who had Dominated the Tarrasque, among other things, and we'd all be maybe L17 or so by the time we finally faced him.The villian was unstoppable and infallible, and so the group lost complete interest in a campaign that we knew would end with the party getting killed in one round by the DM's pet.</blockquote>

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