Touchy situation with my group

[Sir Osis of Liver]

As for the pegasus...sigh...I won't make a hit on it. It's utility is pretty high as it has been enhanced by god-knows-how-many magics, makes fly by attacks and, as mentioned, loves to use darkness which screws monsters and PCs alike. I should note it's not a nice pegasus - it bites any PCs that try to interact with it. Oh, and it's bite drains levels. One time the party paladin tried to lay on hands on the pegasus after it had been hurt and the player playing the wizard had the pegasus attack the paladin, draining two levels. The wizard rationalized to the paladin, "He thought you were trying to hurt him". Needless to say the paladin was PISSED.

Wow, i got to give it to, you have serious patcaince. That is WAAAYY beyond screwed up. I garantee after that session the group would be "Unavialble to game for several weeks." While we had a few break from the stupid crap sessions somewhere else. That and if i we're playing the Paladin, that hourse would going back to the G funk era! I would have fought that thing to the death, and i know the rest of the group would have backed me up.

 

[the_mighty_agrippa]

dallas is a tough town. i happened to luck into a good group, but most of the others were just plain ridiculous.

example

dm starts off the night by saying "anyone going to do anything smart tonight?

eeep.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

Welpers...

I've been on the other side of this situation. I'm (essentially always) the group DM and both my ex-wife, one of my girlfriends and my wife have been in my games (dear god, no, not at the same time...) at separate times.

What I did was make them sort of co-GMs. Yeah, they got to play their characters (which I absolutely insisted on their characters being equal to everyone else's..no preferential treatment here), but they'd occasionally take over an NPC or the like. And on the rare occasion that I did show preferential treatement, and someone brought it to my attention, I rectifyed the situation ASAP.

Try bringing it to her attention. If you can get others to do so as well, that will only help your case.

If that doesn't work, start poking people in the eyesockets.

 

[reapersaurus]

As for the pegasus...sigh
Oh, and it's bite drains levels.

Luckily in our last session we were travelling and the wizard stayed in his "enchanted wagon" analyzing dweomers while we fought most of the monsters that came our way.

Dude, you are so screwed at any semblance of equity in your game.

I hate to break it to you, but you and the husband are playing DIFFERENT GAMES.

You are playing D&D, and he's playing favored DM-cohort.

I GUARANTEE you they are not doing things by the rules.

Now, DM's are known to do that, but it MUST be to better the campaign, not to pander to ego and preferential rules.

From what little you've gotten across, I would say this is an unresolvable situation, now that it's gotten this far, and it hasn't been fixed, much less addressed properly.

How could you players have let it get to the point where the wizard would just stay in 'his' enchanted wagon just to provide you guys some glory-time?

Bah - Zogg, you've got my utmost sympathy, but if things are remotely as bad as I'm picking up vibes about, than there's NO WAY to stop it now, unless you talk to the other players OUT-OF-GAME about this, and reach a concensus about how you guys prefer to play.

It's NOT all about the DM, regardless of what anybody tells you.

 

[buzzard]

From what I can see we have people who are far too desparate to play for their own good.

Zogg- start your own damn game. I've left games which weren't nearly as bad as the one you describe. Are you a masochist or something?

Sir Osis- just because your friend doesn't mind being whipped by his wife doesn't mean the rest of you have have to strap yourselves to the whipping post.

If nothing else, look into Living Greyhawk. I can't guarantee you'll find all good games, tables, or DMs, but you will find some. It is apparent that you can't do much worse. You will also find gamers who might be able to provide you a home game to join.

buzzard

 

[Zogg]

Trust me guys, if I had the people to start my own game, I would. I'm pretty sure I'm ready to be fitted for a DM hat (never DM'd before, unless you count my being "Zargon" for the board game Hero's Quest some 10 years ago), but as has been noted,

DALLAS SUCKS FOR GAMERS.

For those who know the area, Plano (just north of Dallas) seems to have a small gaming population, and I'm scouring the internet and forums looking for a new group. But as it stands now I have to drive over 30 minutes just to play with the group I'm in now and I really don't want to drive any further to play. I have a group of friends I'd like to introduce DnD to, but I think I will do this with the new DnD board game (with miniatures) when it comes out. I think baby-steps would be appropriate...lord knows inundating newbies with rules is a guaranteed way to scare them off...

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Trust me guys, if I had the people to start my own game, I would. I'm pretty sure I'm ready to be fitted for a DM hat (never DM'd before, unless you count my being "Zargon" for the board game Hero's Quest some 10 years ago), but as has been noted,

DALLAS SUCKS FOR GAMERS.

For those who know the area, Plano (just north of Dallas) seems to have a small gaming population, and I'm scouring the internet and forums looking for a new group. But as it stands now I have to drive over 30 minutes just to play with the group I'm in now and I really don't want to drive any further to play. I have a group of friends I'd like to introduce DnD to, but I think I will do this with the new DnD board game (with miniatures) when it comes out. I think baby-steps would be appropriate...lord knows inundating newbies with rules is a guaranteed way to scare them off...

My area seems pretty sucky for gamers too. Although boston seems to be brimming withem. What about the rest of the group you play with? None of them are sick of the crap?

In my case we've cut things down to playing everyother weekend with my friend and his wife, then the rest of us(one DM and two players at this point) play at my place without them on the other weeks. If you could talk the others you lay with into doing that i does help relieve the stress of dealing with the problem game. Either that or offer to to switch out DMing with the full group everyother week. In my case that didn't work because my DM's wife would passive aggressivly sabotage things for any DM she wasn't married to, but it could work for you if they are a little more mature about things.

 

[buzzard]

Trust me guys, if I had the people to start my own game, I would. I'm pretty sure I'm ready to be fitted for a DM hat (never DM'd before, unless you count my being "Zargon" for the board game Hero's Quest some 10 years ago), but as has been noted,

DALLAS SUCKS FOR GAMERS.

As I said, if it's that bad do Living Greyhawk.
I looked into it. Your region is the Bandit Kindoms . You can get information about games and cons and such at:
www.bandit-kingdoms.net

It appears to have a pretty decent amount of information and looks to be up to date (better than can be said of the County of Urnst website).

There is also a yahoo groups mailing list which may be even better for staying up to date. Most of the information in our LG region is related via the yahoo group.

You have alternatives. However, if the pain threshold has not gotten high enough for you to move on, I will offer no sympathy since it is apparently self inflicted.

buzzard

 

[LuYangShih]

Vote with your feet. Leave the game. D&D is great fun, but it can be greatly annoying as well when situations like the one you describe occur. I do not think continuing to put up with such crap is worth it, and there are better things you can do with your time. If you cannot find a good group, it is better to spend the time on something else.

 

[Breakdaddy]

Duuuude, Im with Reapersaurus here. You are totally being hosed down by the DM so that she can cash in brownie points with her hubbie. Not only that, but the hubbie is going ego-trip on your group and making sure you all "know your place". As a DM, and for pete's sake, as a rational player of D&D, I must ask, nay, IMPLORE you to try to find another group. Im in Little Rock here and over the years have found a wonderful group of people to play with. At this point Im having to turn people away from the group (always a sad event for me). This is a much smaller town than Dallas, Im sure that given time and patience you can find a proper DM, and maybe take some of your fellow players with you!