The "HATE" Thread

[Ranes]

I don't hate anything. Too much emotional investment for too little return.

 

[Oryan77]

This is my favorite thread ever.

I'm a grumpy old fart stuck in a young body and I'm known to be a sourpuss. I feel so at home in this thread. Reading this thread when I come into work really perks me up. Can we sticky it?

 

[BriarMonkey]

I hate that I don't have a gaming group...

 

[Pheonix0114]

I hate DMs that say my Return from Death's Door power doesn't count my mentor as an ally.

I hate players that stop me in the middle of combat to tell me the D20 modern rules for burst fire don't make sense and demand that I houserule it to their liking then and there.

I love DMs that compromise and let the power work so I can say goodbye and then say the injuries were too severe for my level 3 cleric to heal.

I love players who, after 15 minutes of me trying to figure out a solution, relent and then helps me come up with a new set of gun rules we can both agree with over multiple hour long MSN conversations the next week.

 

[SuperJebba]

I hate players who are always chaotic neutral so they can steal stuff and generally just be inconsiderate pricks without taking alignment penalties.

I hate players whose character has levels in 7 completely unrelated classes because it's uber or something.

Last, but certainly not least, I hate with the flaming passion of 1000 suns one thing more than anything else on this earth: whisper gnomes.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I hate DMs who don't use screens.

Yes thank you MR roll in the open. You overpowered the monsters and the dice are against us and we are rolling 1s and you are rolling crit after crit. Wow that TPK sure was a lot of fun and now the game we really have been enjoying is over.

Whoops.

Took me a long time to learn that one, only it generally wasn't the powerful monsters. The powerful monsters more often than not slipped on a banana peel and hurled themselves into Mt. Doom, screaming 'a double 1 on a balance check?!!! Noooooo!!!' *Phwoomph*!

No, it would be the goblins, kobolds, and assorted minions that would get crit after crit....

Never a TPK because of it, but the number of times one or two people had to make a mad dash for town, dead companions tossed onto the pack mules....

It took a while but I learned, I roll in the open until things start looking grim, then start hiding the 20s.

The Auld Grump

 

[Elf Witch]

Whoops.

Took me a long time to learn that one, only it generally wasn't the powerful monsters. The powerful monsters more often than not slipped on a banana peel and hurled themselves into Mt. Doom, screaming 'a double 1 on a balance check?!!! Noooooo!!!' *Phwoomph*!

No, it would be the goblins, kobolds, and assorted minions that would get crit after crit....

Never a TPK because of it, but the number of times one or two people had to make a mad dash for town, dead companions tossed onto the pack mules....

It took a while but I learned, I roll in the open until things start looking grim, then start hiding the 20s.

The Auld Grump

The DM did apologize and said he wished he had used a screen.

It was such a cool idea. We were playing teens who belonged to the same family and we had a combo of martial arts and psionic training. We lived in a huge city that was sinking into the water. There was a barrier between the haves who lived in splendor and the have nots who lived below dealing with the ever raising water and very primitive conditions.

We could have gone on with one or two deaths. Death was permanent and we could have found away to believable replace one or two characters but not the entire family.

So the campaign ended three sessions in to everybody's disappointment.

 

[Herschel]

I HATE skill trees.

"My character is constipated?"

DM: "Yes, and too bad. You don't have at least seven ranks in enema application nor training in applied alchemy to create glycerin suppositories."

"Fine, I'll go sit in the cool pond for relaxation and relief."

DM: "How many skill points to you have in heal?"

"What?!?!?!?! You just said I'm plugged to high Hades! I think some very basic common sense would be applicable!"

DM: "Make a heal check." rolls an 18 "Well, I suppose you can figure it out after a while. How many ranks to you have in Swimming?"

 

[RainOfSteel]

"My character is constipated?"

How in Hades did the GM decide your character had a rectally related ailment? I mean, it isn't on an actual game table somewhere. Did the GM create one or did he just make it up on the spot?

I am having flashbacks to all the scat-related quests in World of Warcraft. I always wondered if one or more of their developers had severe issues regarding biological waste and toilet functions.

 

[Dykstrav]

How in Hades did the GM decide your character had a rectally related ailment?

I bet that F.A.T.A.L. has some sort of procedure for determining these sorts of things.