The DM did IMPURE things to my PC!

[Illvillainy]

You know, I took the title literally before reading the thread... Heard too many horror stories there...

Anyway, I'd either retire the character and make a new one if I enjoyed gaming with the group or just leave. Very bad form on the other members of the group and DM though. Especially the dodgy rule calls.

 

[Al]

Personally, I'd say that this is beyond the bounds of the charm spell. Charm makes you friends with the PCs, but doesn't convert you to their beliefs; imagine if you had a strong political or religious opinion and a close friend of yours had an opposite one and tried to persuade you of the rightness of his cause. You'd disagree in civil tones and more respectfully than you would if a partisan of his cause harangued you in the street, but you wouldn't drop your beliefs and suddenly switch. Now, dominate , of course, is a different issue...

 

[Turanil]

Charm Person makes you feel that the caster is your good and trusted friend. It does not affect your religious beliefs (nor your PC's, either)! I'm with you; your PC has been treated unfairly... by a bad GM.

I second this opinion; the DM also abused the rules. HOWEVER:

Was I poorly treated? Or, am I a cry-baby player?

Well, it's their game after all. I mean, on five persons, four want to play a Chaos campaign, DM included who can do what he wants, even if it is unfair. (BTW: is this a Warhammer campaign?) I know it's a poor advice, but if you don't like it, you should better find another group to play with.

Now from a roleplaying perspective it's really a bad idea for a non-chaos worshipper to spend his life with chaos-worshippers. Imagine that in real life, you are an honest person but have decided to go business with three (not one, three!) criminals! Chances are that the judge will laugh at you when you say you were "raped" by them into doing criminal activities.

See, if you'd got yourself a Mac, you wouldn't have a PC to rape.

LOL! (It's the reason I use a mac for Internet...)

 

[Gez]

LOL! (It's the reason I use a mac for Internet...)

T'as un mac ? Il te laisse de l'argent de poche ?


PS for the confused: "Mac" is French for "Pimp". And Macintoshes are expensive computers. So it's a joke about the mac leaving enough, or not, money.

 

[Belen]

Dude, find another group. What they did is completely uncool. Yes, it is a game, but they showed a complete lack of respect for you and a definite lack of maturity.

 

[Hellefire]

Yes, it sounds like it sucks. It sounds like the DM is trying to play you. It's possible, depending on the DM, that he is only doing that for some plot point for the moment and stop. It's also possible that the DM will come up with some idea to switch it, so that all players end up anti-Chaos (though I hope he comes up with a more plausible explanation). Maybe he is going to drop it at a crucial moment so that your character can do something critical. I don't know really.

On the other hand, he might just continue along the same lines. If he does, you have a couple options. You can play the character to the best of your ability (everybody goes through life-altering changes at some point, it might be fun to try to role-play that), or you can persuade him to let you play the character you want to play, or you can play the character as you 'have' to, but look for every opportunity to turn it back on them (this can get nasty, I only suggest it with very good friends).

Aaron Blair
Foren Star

 

[Zappo]

This sounds like a Warhammer Fantasy game, so the charm spell may or may not work as it does in D&D. If I were in you, I would explain to the DM that you have no interest in playing that character, and that you'd rather make a new one which fits the campaign in some other way.

(Tzeentch is quasi-evil? O_O )

 

[Pielorinho]

This is pretty bad. I'm tempted to give the following advice, given how much they're just beggin' for it:

Consider that your PC has been charmed into believing in an ethos he finds repugnant, and is tortured by this internal contradiction. He finally finds a way to resolve it while staying true to both philosophies:

Next time you're on watch, let the Chaos side take over. Go quietly from PC to PC and commit a coup de grace on the chaos worshippers who have foisted this horrific slavery on you. Have ready the page reference to the rules for making listen checks while asleep, and be ready to make sneak checks--or just cast a silence spell prior to your treachery. Once you've finished this, wander out of the story.

But that's bad advice, even though the other PCs really have a big dose of karma built up, and even though it'd make sense from a character perspective, and even though it keeps in the DM's philosophy of not telling folks what you're going to do because it ruins the suspense.

Instead, I think it's time to make it clear to the DM what you're looking for from the game, and make it similarly clear to the other players. If they want a monkey on a chain, that's a role to be filled by an NPC; you're unwilling to be the monkey. Either the story progresses very quickly to a point wherein you have control over your character, or else you get to come up with a new character, or else you bid them a fond farewell until the next campaign.

I don't normally advise threatening to quit a game, but what you describe sounds to me like fairly bullying behavior on the part of the DM and the other players, and I just can't see any resolution short of the measures I suggest above.

Good luck, and I hope they'll treat you right!
Daniel

 

[berdoingg]

Make 'em pay

You don't have to kill the other PCs to cause trouble. Embrace the chaos, act in a contrary fashion and piss people off. Make it clear that this pattern will continue as long as people continue to yank your chain. That or find a more friendly bunch of gamers. With bullys you've got to go through them or round them. Both are valid choices.

An old DM once raped a player character in a Cthulhu game. It was a new female player's first session and it really screwed everything up for a very long time. This is the worst roleplaying experience our group has ever had, and one that won't soon be repeated.

 

[Aust Diamondew]

If he wanted all his players to be chaos worshipers he should have said so during character creation. Just like if I were running a game and didn't want any elves (for whatever reason) I should tell the PCs before the game starts.

PS Since you're chaotic now might as well become evil too and start killing all the other PCs and NPCs