worst GenCon gamer

[Negative Zero]

i was gonna post this in the What are the odds of getting a good GM at Gencon? thread, but i figured i'd start it here instead.

this was my first Con, and i'd heard a lot about the gamer "stereotype." but nothing prepared me for that huge smelly guy in the black T-shirt sitting next to me, with the 5x5 foot dandruff flake, and the foot-long nose hairs! if only i couls get the image out of my head!

~NegZ

 

[Romotre]

Are you sure the wasn't his life-size minature of his albino character that had just been stepped on by the tarrasque?

 

[Dagger75]

i was gonna post this in the What are the odds of getting a good GM at Gencon? thread, but i figured i'd start it here instead.

this was my first Con, and i'd heard a lot about the gamer "stereotype." but nothing prepared me for that huge smelly guy in the black T-shirt sitting next to me, with the 5x5 foot dandruff flake, and the foot-long nose hairs! if only i couls get the image out of my head!

~NegZ

And we sometimes wonder why our hobby gets a bad rap.

 

[Black Omega]

Neg-Zero! Pleasure to meet you at Gencon, dude.

Thankfully, people like that are the exception, rather than the rule. But it only takes a little to reinforce a sterotype.

 

[Piratecat]

Nothing prepared me for that huge smelly guy in the black T-shirt sitting next to me, with the 5x5 foot dandruff flake, and the foot-long nose hairs!

... Mom?

 

[WanderingMonster]

I dunno. I still think I met the worst Gen Con Gamer during one of my first cons. We were playing Mage and this guy (black shirt, beret, bad-roleplayer-who-thinks-he's-great) pulls out an onion, peels it, and eats it like an apple. I was horrified.

The game wasn't that memorable, but that guy...<shiver>

Pity I couldn't make it this year. Sorry you missed my my wife's d20 cookies...er, uh...biscuits (or chips, crisps, prams, lifts...whatever the heck you call 'em there) Morrus! Next year I'm making waffles!

 

[Vaxalon]

The worst gamer I ever met was at a tiny con in Massachusetts.

We were playing Starfleet Battles. He confirmed every single damage roll (fans of the game will know how many this is) against the table, slowing things down immensely, and showing his contempt for everyone else at the table.

We wiped his ship off the map and everyone (including his teammates) said, "Okay, your ship is gone, you can leave now."

 

[SJ]

i don't know if he's the worst, but...

I've only been to 2 GenCons, had a blast both times.

But this year we had a guy who COULD NOT STOP TALKING, IN OR OUT OF CHARACTER. If he wasn't asking the DM for special character considerations (it was a living campaign game) he was annoying the hell out us by reviewing every esoteric rule of the handbook. Plus he had an injured leg and kept sticking his foot on a chair in another guy's lap. If he had been at another table I would have laughed.

Like any dice story, you had to be there, but I actually considered punching the guy twice, just to determine if he would SHUT THE HELL UP.

SJ

 

[William Ronald]

Negative Zero, it was good to meet you, Black Omega, and so many others at Gen Con. I have seen a few of the "unbathed" gamer archetypes, but they seem to be increasingly rare.

I would say the worst gamer I meet at the con was someone who played a paladin and signed a book to gain a magic item from an evil deity in exchange for a favor. It went down hill from there.

On the other hand, I had the fun of being at one table where no one had less than 10 years of gaming experience.

You show up at Gen Con and take your chances.

 

[EOL]

My first GenCon I ran into someone who had fine hygenie, no discernable body odor, neatly trimmed nose hairs... But he was still the worst I'd ever encountered. He claimed to simultanously be preparing to compete at the olympics in Judo, join the Navy Seals as a sniper, all that and he still had time to get a perfect score on his SAT. I kid you not this guy was easily the most egerious pathological liar I have ever met, and then the character he insisted on playing was beyond annoying. It was 5 years ago, but I still worry I'll run into him at another convention.