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<blockquote data-quote="Neo" data-source="post: 1386209" data-attributes="member: 4139"><p><strong>Things that annoy me as a DM </strong></p><p></p><p>1. Players thinking they have done you a favour by turning up, and having absolutely no consideration for the work and effort, let alone cost and time you put in on thier behalf before hand for thier to EVEn be a game.</p><p></p><p>2. Players who think of thier characters in terms of thier Stats, bonus, levels etc.... <em>e.g So whats your Strength then mines 16... or I have whirlwind attack and am 12th level i am a GOD! </em> as these are the foodstuffs of the munchkin.</p><p></p><p>3. Players who cannot open thier minds to the concept of something not being used as it was printed <em> e.g. BUT THE BOOK SAYS... </em> There are times when thier is confusion over a rule such a thing is appropriate, but when you house rule something differently and players just cant or wont accept it.. it just annoys.</p><p></p><p>4. The Pizza place getting your order wrong I HATE ANCHOVIES!!!!</p><p></p><p>5. Any player who suggests a new campaign by starting off <em> I think we should play 14th level characters...you know just for a while...</em></p><p></p><p>6. Players who come up with a new character by flicking through the Monster Manual <em> Can I be a............ <sigh> </em></p><p></p><p>7. Not having a proper gaming room, with a proper gaming table, squared matts, surrounded by bookshelves with the rulebooks on for easy access and a nice easy to access miniatures storage near the table... hmm I must rebuild my house <sigh></p><p></p><p>8. Players who do not think of thier characters in any regard beyond the session they play... I like players to make plans for thier characters, hhave aims, goals, things they want to achieve.. and players not wanting to put the effort in because they cant be bothered and don't want to risk the possibility of having some more paperwork added to thier character bug me.</p><p></p><p>9. New books <strong>NOT</strong> being put through my mailbox on a daily basis from companies who are grateful for me having put in 24 years to the hobby and hellping to support them getting a wage by having bought thier books for so many years... (Well a DM can hope cant he LOL).</p><p></p><p>10. Players who when they cant solve a puzzle, or come up with a plan, or otherwise "think" a little, that just sit there in a mood and give up completely.</p><p></p><p>Well..you did ask <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neo, post: 1386209, member: 4139"] [b]Things that annoy me as a DM [/b] 1. Players thinking they have done you a favour by turning up, and having absolutely no consideration for the work and effort, let alone cost and time you put in on thier behalf before hand for thier to EVEn be a game. 2. Players who think of thier characters in terms of thier Stats, bonus, levels etc.... [i]e.g So whats your Strength then mines 16... or I have whirlwind attack and am 12th level i am a GOD! [/i] as these are the foodstuffs of the munchkin. 3. Players who cannot open thier minds to the concept of something not being used as it was printed [i] e.g. BUT THE BOOK SAYS... [/i] There are times when thier is confusion over a rule such a thing is appropriate, but when you house rule something differently and players just cant or wont accept it.. it just annoys. 4. The Pizza place getting your order wrong I HATE ANCHOVIES!!!! 5. Any player who suggests a new campaign by starting off [i] I think we should play 14th level characters...you know just for a while...[/i] 6. Players who come up with a new character by flicking through the Monster Manual [i] Can I be a............ <sigh> [/i] 7. Not having a proper gaming room, with a proper gaming table, squared matts, surrounded by bookshelves with the rulebooks on for easy access and a nice easy to access miniatures storage near the table... hmm I must rebuild my house <sigh> 8. Players who do not think of thier characters in any regard beyond the session they play... I like players to make plans for thier characters, hhave aims, goals, things they want to achieve.. and players not wanting to put the effort in because they cant be bothered and don't want to risk the possibility of having some more paperwork added to thier character bug me. 9. New books [b]NOT[/b] being put through my mailbox on a daily basis from companies who are grateful for me having put in 24 years to the hobby and hellping to support them getting a wage by having bought thier books for so many years... (Well a DM can hope cant he LOL). 10. Players who when they cant solve a puzzle, or come up with a plan, or otherwise "think" a little, that just sit there in a mood and give up completely. Well..you did ask :D [/QUOTE]
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