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<blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8401337" data-attributes="member: 30438">Yeah, I had a friend back in the mid 90s run a game, do an awful job, get told he's never running for us again, and then I got elected to be the DM.I've known only two of these sorts, and they can be the worst. I had never encountered anything like them before, so I had no idea how to deal with that sort of behavior at the time. I don't game with either anymore.The one, I don't think was really consciously trying to be disruptive, but the other, absolutely was. Their fun seemed to be solely in making the game more boring and difficult for the rest of the players, and more stressful for the DM. He considered it skilled play to &quot;challenge&quot; the DM by trying to slow the game to a crawl with digressions into minutiae or by trying to convince the rest of the group to never take the hook and go do something else.We may just be debating semantics here, but I think that there's a difference between someone that just knows the rules very well, and a Rules Lawyer. The former will speak up regardless of whether or not getting the rules right will hurt their character or not. The latter will only speak up when it's to their benefit, or will try to argue an...interpretation, shall we say, of the rules to benefit them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ralif Redhammer, post: 8401337, member: 30438"] Yeah, I had a friend back in the mid 90s run a game, do an awful job, get told he's never running for us again, and then I got elected to be the DM. I've known only two of these sorts, and they can be the worst. I had never encountered anything like them before, so I had no idea how to deal with that sort of behavior at the time. I don't game with either anymore. The one, I don't think was really consciously trying to be disruptive, but the other, absolutely was. Their fun seemed to be solely in making the game more boring and difficult for the rest of the players, and more stressful for the DM. He considered it skilled play to "challenge" the DM by trying to slow the game to a crawl with digressions into minutiae or by trying to convince the rest of the group to never take the hook and go do something else. We may just be debating semantics here, but I think that there's a difference between someone that just knows the rules very well, and a Rules Lawyer. The former will speak up regardless of whether or not getting the rules right will hurt their character or not. The latter will only speak up when it's to their benefit, or will try to argue an...interpretation, shall we say, of the rules to benefit them. [/QUOTE]

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