Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1407731" data-attributes="member: 1656">Oh dear.  That just reminded me of one.I don't think I've ever had a truly bad FTF gaming experience.  I've had a less-than-stellar DM (the raft incident springs to mind), but nothing appalling.I've had a couple of creepy PbEM experiences... there were the two guys with the inevitable slutty lesbian drow, and there was the game I thought was a free-form "Fall of Rome" type scenario, that ended up being some sort of cooperative pornography writing exercise... eek!But one of the most frustrating PbEMs I ever played was all the more disappointing because three of the four players (one didn't really do much at all) immediately got heavily into character, and 'clicked' as a party (the theory being that even though the game had just started, the characters had known each other for some time).  The players were fine, but the DM... gah!We walked into the village about noon.  We headed for what looked like an inn."Make a Spot check," I was told.Now, this necessitated back and forth emails involving a dice server, so any given roll could take about two days to actually resolve.  I rolled a 3, but with a +10 in Spot, that made 13."You walk straight into someone you didn't see."It turned out that this guy wasn't hiding or anything... he was a big burly innkeeper standing in front of his inn, at midday, sweeping his step.  I just hadn't noticed him because of my appalling 13, so I walked into him and offended him.Oooo-okay.Now, the rolls were called for for any action.  That gets a little irritating in  a FTF game (like the raft incident), but in a PbEM, where the DM insists on using a dice server, it's interminable.  It takes forever to do anything in a PbEM under normal circumstances.At some point the innkeeper invited us to follow him into the back room."Okay, we follow him."But no.  The DM posted a tactical map of the inn, with 5' squares and a coordinate system, and required us to post our movement path in combat rounds.  This round I can double move 60 feet... so I'll go I3 to L3, then south east to N5, then south to N10... what can I see through the door?Understand, nothing happened... after a couple of "rounds", we were in the back room, and we had a conversation with the innkeeper.  But it was vital that the DM knew exactly which squares we passed through.I wasn't at all upset when that game collapsed.-Hyp.</blockquote>

Verification