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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Acmite" data-source="post: 1052348" data-attributes="member: 183">That must have sucked, and I feel bad for you, but, man, reading that made me laugh.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I have very little con experience, and of that, about 25% sucked sour frog butt.The worst was a Tier 1 (1-3 level, IIRC) Living Greyhawk mod.  The group was formed of a cleric (me), a fighter, a wiz/sor (I don't remember which), a druid, a rogue and another cleric.  We were investigating these holes caused by giant beetles in a farmer's field and we had a very good startegy laid out.  We were all set to ambush the bugs when they came out, and I was set as the guy near the front to cast some close range spells then book it outta there.Well, the female druid was played by an overweight older man (mid 40s, I'd guess) who had decided to give his character an outrageously horrid pseudo-french accent.  I mean, reaaallly bad.  Imagine bad, then make it worse.  And not a parody--he took it very seriously.So, we were all set up for our well-laid out ambush and as soon as the bugs show up, he decides to break with the plan and cast Entangle centered on the hole.Him:  "I cast Entangle on the hole the beetles are coming from."Me:  "Ummm.....that's a 40ft radius burst, dude.  That'll get most of the group except you and it lasts a looong time and you can't dismiss it."Him:  "I know.  That's what SHE would do" (referring to his character)The Group:  That's the plan the whole group came up with, what changed?"Him:  "It's just what my character would do"DM: "OK, you cast entangle".Well, needless to say, my 2nd level cleric with dex 8 died spectacularly becuase I couldn't possibly defend myself and I was 30ft away from the edge of the effect.  The fighter almost dropped while the rogue and the others were able to escape.Plus, earlier in the adventure, the druid's player had had a hissy fit because the town guards wouldn't let a WOLF into town.I had people coming up to me the rest of the weekend telling me about this guy does these idiotic things all the time despite the fact he's been playing since the late 70s.  I talked to one of my friends later that day (he was one of the organizers) and he mentioned that he'd had people specifically request to not play with him because of past experiences.I stopped playing LG shortly thereafter due to rules changes (including the item disappearance mentioned earlier), but mostly due to the changes in how experience was awarded--experience was basically awarded only through combat.  Roleplaying solutions were not considered to have "overcome the encounter".  It also nixed my plans for writing a mod.Anyway, Superman shouldn't be ripping peoples arms off.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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