worst GenCon gamer

[catdragon]

worst GenCon Gamer

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Originally posted by KidCthulhu
My worst con experience has to be a Werewolf game I played 3 years or so ago at GenCon. The judge was a transexxual man, in the early stages of his/her transition. And this guy was the ugliest woman you've ever seen.
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I had this... person as a DM for a Living City Game. Not a very good judge. If it weren't for the group of people I was with I think I would have left.

I also had this "person." At first i respected him, after all everyone around me in line was snickering and making rude comments. i find that distasteful.

Later in the interactive, he and I met up. Turns our we were both playing female elf characters. Well, he seemed to take pure joy out of being on a high horse and explaining how the city worked around me. Since i was playing a newbie to the city (2nd level, his was 12th level), i played along with it and did a reasoinable job as a straight man to her jibes.

Then i mentioned something about drow. the player turned on me and proceeded to get in my face, walk around me, and haraunge me up one side and down the other. Perhaps she was in character but for a moment there i thought she was going to attack me!

Strange the way some people *really* get into character.

After that i avoided her.

The CatDragon

 

[d20Dwarf]

Here is a recap of my D&D Open experience at Gencon 2000. This thread reminded me of the dreaded "yo-yo woman," so enjoy!


We sat down ready to play with 7 players, all dreading who would be our 8th. Sure enough, my advice to ANYONE playing in a tournament is don't play unless you know ALL your players. We were thinking, "7 out of 8 isn't bad, one person can't ruin a game." Oh how we were wrong. She was INSISTING that we all fill out RPGA membership cards before we played so she could get points. Really a team player, let me tell you. Then when we sit down she starts telling us about her halfling character, and we're saying "Yes, but, the character you are playing here isn't that character." She continued telling us how she is the "chaotic" one, and emphasizes this point by throwing candy wrappers at some of us. Rexx and I tried to calm her down, but she really never got into the game. In fact, for the last hour of the tournament she had her Yo-Yo out and was playing with it.

 

[Ristamar]

Here is a recap of my D&D Open experience at Gencon 2000. This thread reminded me of the dreaded "yo-yo woman," so enjoy!


We sat down ready to play with 7 players, all dreading who would be our 8th. Sure enough, my advice to ANYONE playing in a tournament is don't play unless you know ALL your players. We were thinking, "7 out of 8 isn't bad, one person can't ruin a game." Oh how we were wrong. She was INSISTING that we all fill out RPGA membership cards before we played so she could get points. Really a team player, let me tell you. Then when we sit down she starts telling us about her halfling character, and we're saying "Yes, but, the character you are playing here isn't that character." She continued telling us how she is the "chaotic" one, and emphasizes this point by throwing candy wrappers at some of us. Rexx and I tried to calm her down, but she really never got into the game. In fact, for the last hour of the tournament she had her Yo-Yo out and was playing with it.

You are being rather polite and generous with this recollection, Wil. I was there. I remember. I wasn't even playing in the game, and she annoyed the crap out of me. Of course, I was sitting next to her, too.

 

[Wikidogre]

Wikidogre, where's your cousin stationed?

Gaius

Coronado,

Until his orders put him aboard the USS Enterprise, that was 4 months ago, and no word since

 

[Wikidogre]

On another note, the guy lying about his SEAL involvement really irks me. Primarily out of my total respect for the folks who join the military and take the risks so I can sit around fat and happy playing D+D and complaining about my civil rights. But also because my former job frequently sent me to Palestine/Israel, a rather volatile place, so I have a few stories that I don’t’ tell (like sitting on a hillside in Jordan after right after King Hussein died while a Secret Police dude, who was very nervous about the possibility of some form of uprising, loudly and vigorously questioned the two men who were driving me around about exactly why they were taking an American into refugee camps) because I worry my fellow gamers will lump me in the category with that fool.

Corey

This i agree with not only do i have the most respect for our fighting men and women, but what irked me about it the most is, that i was a fighting man myself 4 years in the Army, 2 of which that where spent in Saudi,,,,,,Good Times!

 

[Jack Haggerty]

Something Positive

Here are links to the rest of the comics in that particular series... Eric's Grandma might not appreciate all of them.

"I need to get a new 7 of 9 action figure."
"If it isn't my favorite sobbing goth."
"Think of it as charity."

 

[Pielorinho]

Wow. Yicky stories -- makes me look forward to DragonCon.

Last year was my first real con experience, and I didn't meet anyone as bad as the worst of these stories. There was the guy playing an insane goblin with an oversized flaming morningstar in one game, who spoke throughout in a glasscutting falsetto shriek. There was the naked lady in the LARP (well, she was wearing green paint, three oak leaves, and a piece of gauze -- but having someone's bare butt hanging out in the middle of a game is kind of distracting). There were the two schumps willing to kill my paladin character to prevent me from taking a prisoner of war, wanting instead to execute everyone who surrendered to us.

But the shrieker was, bless his soul, doing his best to stay in character. It wasn't the naked lady's fault that bare bottoms are distracting (although she could've consented to pose for fewer amateur photographers -- that did interrupt the game). And the schumps probably thought I was the most annoying roleplayer ever.

I do wonder about the pathological liar, though. I used to know a gamer who was a pathological liar; other than that one character flaw, he was a pretty fun guy to hang out with, polite and funny and friendly. And who knows? Maybe he really did learn to fly a fighter jet when he was twelve, and that's why the government employed him as a secret mercenary when he wasn't doing correspondence courses with a Comic Book college program!

Daniel

Daniel

 

[Xeriar]

I do wonder about the pathological liar, though. I used to know a gamer who was a pathological liar; other than that one character flaw, he was a pretty fun guy to hang out with, polite and funny and friendly. And who knows? Maybe he really did learn to fly a fighter jet when he was twelve, and that's why the government employed him as a secret mercenary when he wasn't doing correspondence courses with a Comic Book college program!

They can be fun, but the one I knew introduced himself to me by saying he knew eleven ways to kill me at that very moment.

I think he sensed my skepticism because he tried to position himself to do a nose slam. I was just -hoping- he'd try it...

 

[Gaius]

Ahhh, if he's on the Enterprise, then I'm guessing he's not in Team 7. Sounds like your cousin might be seeing action before my buddy. Which, among SEAL's, is a big deal. They all want to go to war. Crazy.

Gaius

 

[drnuncheon]

Re: Something Positive

<snip comic that I really didn't need to repost>

Here are links to the rest of the comics in that particular series... Eric's Grandma might not appreciate all of them.

My god. Thank you, Jack. I haven't laughed that hard since I discovered the Thin H Line.

Elastic kitty.

*snicker*

J