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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulorian - Agent of Chaos" data-source="post: 1464910" data-attributes="member: 16668">No, I wasn't attacked.. I guess a lot of people agree with me! I haven't played with many people like this, but the ones I have run across seem to feel they have no strength/power/influence in the real world, so they live out their control fantasies in the game. It's a little sad and a little scary.To be fair, I haven't played any RPGs in over a dozen years (since my early twenties), and the people I'm remembering were quite young (13-14 years old), so maybe there aren't many adult players who do this. Maybe they were just expressing the anger a lot of people feel during their awkward teenage years (in this case, VERY awkward) and they eventually outgrew it and turned into sane adults. I certainly hope so.This isn't to say that I think anyone who goes on the occasional killing spree to blow off some steam after a hard day at school, work, etc. is a raving maniac/sociopath. These kids were a special case.. slaughtering innocents, cheating on their die rolls, and other power fantasy activities were stock-in-trade at every game session.</blockquote>