What are your player behavior rules in F2F games?

[Stormonu]

Eh, it's more of a case for me of me if someone does one of these things (except one, which will get you kicked - #2), they run the risk they won't get invited back.

1) No cheating; it's easy enough to misremember or forget rules, outright cheating is a no-no
2) No illegal drugs; I live two houses down from a police officer who keeps his cruiser at home in the evenings (and I am friends with him) and have had too many friends/relatives ruin and/or kill themselves from drug abuse to even consider allowing it in my house
3) Don't drink to drunkedness - you can't flop at my house afterwards and we don't need addled players
4) Smoke outside; my wife has asthma, and I'm not fond of second-hand smoke myself
5) No smokeless tobacco at the table; after an incident with a mistaken coke bottle and the mess thereafter
6) Keep the cussing to a minimum, and keep the action "clean" ("R" rated or less, better less)
7) State your case to the DM for consideration, but once the decision is made, drop it.
8) No stealing from the party, no inter-character combat (one-upping and friendly rivalry is okay, but no overt hostility), evil characters only with special permission
9) No bullying other players or running their characters for them
10) If you can't pay attention to the game, don't bother to come
11) Don't make your play area sloppy, and clean up your mess when you leave

 

[MNblockhead]

Regarding #5:



I haven't known anyone who partakes in chewing tobacco since college in the 80s. Not sure I would ban it from my table, but I do find it gross.

 

[Jd Smith1]

Regarding #5:



I haven't known anyone who partakes in chewing tobacco since college in the 80s. Not sure I would ban it from my table, but I do find it gross.

Given the popularity of 'dipping' around here, I'm lucky that it hasn't been at my table in over a decade. It was a constant at work.

 

[R_J_K75]

2) No illegal drugs; I live two houses down from a police officer who keeps his cruiser at home in the evenings (and I am friends with him) and have had too many friends/relatives ruin and/or kill themselves from drug abuse to even consider allowing it in my house

I can relate. Unfortunately over the last five years or so I've had quite a few friends who have either OD'd or drank themselves to death. I don't let any hard drugs in my house.

5) No smokeless tobacco at the table; after an incident with a mistaken coke bottle and the mess thereafter

Yeah its pretty disgusting. I've seen this happen quite a few times; someone at a party accidentally drinks the spit cup or the beer can filled with cigarette butts and ashes. Honestly though if you happen to catch the instantaneous look of shock and horror cross their face after they realize what they've done, it is pretty funny.

11) Don't make your play area sloppy, and clean up your mess when you leave

This is definitely one that aggravates me, but its hard to get mad when I'm right along there making a mess too and I really don't enforce it. I've just come to realization that I'm going to have to clean it up in the morning. Still sucks waking up to empty cigarette packs, empty beer bottles and cartons, and whatever other miscellaneous debris. Think I'm just going to have to get a bigger garbage can.

 

[Stormonu]

Regarding #5:



I haven't known anyone who partakes in chewing tobacco since college in the 80s. Not sure I would ban it from my table, but I do find it gross.

Yeah, it wasn't an issue until I was cleaning up sympathetic puke from four onlookers. Never. Again.

 

[Ulfgeir]

Regarding #5:



I haven't known anyone who partakes in chewing tobacco since college in the 80s. Not sure I would ban it from my table, but I do find it gross.

Here in Sweden a lot of people use "Snus". English term is (wet)snuff. If I understand it correctly the EU forbid us to export it to the rest of the EU. The old version* was loose stuff, which you took and made into a ball, and then put underneath your upper lip. Utterly disgusting. You have the filthy stuff on your fingers, and then saliva will make the stuff drip, and when you were finsihed with it, you took it out and threw that stinking mess hopefully in the garbage. Lets's put it this way you used to find lots of sitting in the ceiling in schools.

Nowadays they are prepackaged in individual portions. Still disgusting though.


* way back (the 17-1800s) it was finely ground dry stuff that you used to smell, was apparently quite expensive..

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Point taken. I remember when there were still ashtrays on planes. Though I didn't smoke, my teenage memories are redolent with the smell of clove cigarettes. Heck, I can still hear that particular crackle.

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

 

[billd91]

Here in Sweden a lot of people use "Snus". English term is (wet)snuff. If I understand it correctly the EU forbid us to export it to the rest of the EU. The old version* was loose stuff, which you took and made into a ball, and then put underneath your upper lip. Utterly disgusting. You have the filthy stuff on your fingers, and then saliva will make the stuff drip, and when you were finsihed with it, you took it out and threw that stinking mess hopefully in the garbage. Lets's put it this way you used to find lots of sitting in the ceiling in schools.

Nowadays they are prepackaged in individual portions. Still disgusting though.

Here in the US, both versions are still available.

* way back (the 17-1800s) it was finely ground dry stuff that you used to smell, was apparently quite expensive..

And that's still available too.

 

[Jd Smith1]

Here in Sweden a lot of people use "Snus". English term is (wet)snuff. If I understand it correctly the EU forbid us to export it to the rest of the EU. The old version* was loose stuff, which you took and made into a ball, and then put underneath your upper lip. Utterly disgusting. You have the filthy stuff on your fingers, and then saliva will make the stuff drip, and when you were finsihed with it, you took it out and threw that stinking mess hopefully in the garbage. Lets's put it this way you used to find lots of sitting in the ceiling in schools.

Nowadays they are prepackaged in individual portions. Still disgusting though.


* way back (the 17-1800s) it was finely ground dry stuff that you used to smell, was apparently quite expensive..

Here its called 'worm dirt', is very popular, and still used loose. Although not at my table, thankfully.

 

[R_J_K75]

Point taken. I remember when there were still ashtrays on planes. Though I didn't smoke, my teenage memories are redolent with the smell of clove cigarettes. Heck, I can still hear that particular crackle.

The Posers in high school who wanted to be cool but didnt really smoke would smoke cloves. Those things were gross and stunk.