What are your player behavior rules in F2F games?

[Umbran]

Haters are going to hate.

I recommend you not engage, especially in a dismissive fashion.

 

[R_J_K75]

So, much of humor is actually a social thing. Stuff is literally funnier when the experience is shared with other people. As I remember it, Airplane! is the kind of movie I'd find mildly amusing by myself, but not terribly remarkable, but which would shine if I had a movie night with a half-dozen people.

But, I'm not doing such movie nights right now. So...

True. The first time I watched it was with a friend so it probably was funnier than if I had initially saw it alone.

Most people dont know this but that Airplane is basically a scene by scene reimagining/adaptation of a movie called Zero Hour, just with all the humor added.

Zero Hour! - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Blue]

Dang, the fact that more then "respect one another, and respect the host's location" is needed, especially to the level of detail and contract-ness some are putting out is disturbing. And that should really be the default.

Though I do have some in-game stuff during session 0 - like if there will be PvP allowed or no (which includes stealing and other acts again other characters, not just overt attacks).

 

[MNblockhead]

Currently 5 out of 6 people at our game table smoke and "smoke". Growing up I didnt know or hang out with anyone who didnt at least smoke cigarettes. Alot of people have since quit but up until the 90s no one ever asked before lighting up, whether it was in someones house, a car, bar, bank, grocery store, etc... There were ashtrays everywhere

We I grew up in the 70s and 80s and remember smoking in the student union, friends' parents smoking in cars when they picked me up or drove me home from some event. But I don't think that anyone would just light up in someone else's home without asking. It would have been strange, and considered rude, to have insisted that someone not even smoke outside of your house, but it was still common at that time for people, even people who smoked, to not want smoking done inside their homes. My dad only smoked in the garage or backyard (cigarettes when young, cigars when older) but never inside and I never remember family friends or relatives trying to light up inside.

 

[MNblockhead]

So, much of humor is actually a social thing. Stuff is literally funnier when the experience is shared with other people. As I remember it, Airplane! is the kind of movie I'd find mildly amusing by myself, but not terribly remarkable, but which would shine if I had a movie night with a half-dozen people.

But, I'm not doing such movie nights right now. So...

Monty Python is the same way. Even though I love their movies, rewatching it with the wrong person just sucks the joy out of it. Rewatching it alone gets some late night chuckles. Rewatching it with old friends and fans brings back side-splitting laughs.

 

[R_J_K75]

We I grew up in the 70s and 80s and remember smoking in the student union, friends' parents smoking in cars when they picked me up or drove me home from some event. But I don't think that anyone would just light up in someone else's home without asking. It would have been strange, and considered rude, to have insisted that someone not even smoke outside of your house, but it was still common at that time for people, even people who smoked, to not want smoking done inside their homes. My dad only smoked in the garage or backyard (cigarettes when young, cigars when older) but never inside and I never remember family friends or relatives trying to light up inside.

Don't get me wrong, within reason, but I seem to recall it being more of someone asking people not to smoke in their home rather than people asking to smoke. When there was parties or large family gatherings people usually allowed everyone to smoke. It was just a different time and smoking was more socially acceptable.

 

[aco175]

Monty Python is the same way. Even though I love their movies, rewatching it with the wrong person just sucks the joy out of it.

My wife still brings up the 90minutes I stole from her.

 

[aramis erak]

My general rules
No physical byplay.
No Smoking, no vaping.
If you dip tobacco, your spitoon leaves with you.
No greasy nor powdery snacks around my books and maps.
be polite
1 min to prove me wrong on a rules call; otherwise, wait 'til after session.
If I don't own a copy, you can't use it.

 

[Jd Smith1]

My general rules
No physical byplay.
No Smoking, no vaping.
If you dip tobacco, your spitoon leaves with you.
No greasy nor powdery snacks around my books and maps.
be polite
1 min to prove me wrong on a rules call; otherwise, wait 'til after session.
If I don't own a copy, you can't use it.

Bold-face is a good one. I'm going to consider adding that that.

 

[R_J_K75]

No greasy nor powdery snacks around my books and maps.
be polite
1 min to prove me wrong on a rules call; otherwise, wait 'til after session.
If I don't own a copy, you can't use it.

I've gotten to the point I generally don't lay out my poster maps at the table anymore. I use them more for reference when reading books and if I need something for the table I scan & print it and use that. I once laid out my City of Splendors boxed set map of Waterdeep and literally took 30 seconds before someone spilled a beer on it.

Unless its a critical situation where a rules call might change whether a player's character dies I dont look anything up until afterwards. Not worth the wasted time and loss of momentum.

My players are more or less casual players and maybe 2 out of the 5 players own a PHB let alone anything else. When we make characters I usually do it with them 1 on 1. I wont let anyone borrow any of my books, I lent someone a bunch of 1E books that I never got back.