worst GenCon gamer

[Cedric]

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.

Was he about 5' 8" and sandy blonde hair and weighed about 145 pounds? Cause I went to bootcamp with a Navy SEAL, Olympic Judo Team Member...I kid you not. No clue what he got on his SAT, but he was a gamer...he was also a jerk.

Cedric

 

[EOL]

Was he about 5' 8" and sandy blonde hair and weighed about 145 pounds? Cause I went to bootcamp with a Navy SEAL, Olympic Judo Team Member...I kid you not. No clue what he got on his SAT, but he was a gamer...he was also a jerk.

Cedric

He had black hair as I recall and probably weighed closer to 180 he could have been 5'8" but I would guess closer to 5'10".

 

[Cedric]

I seriously doubt this was the same guy though. The guy I went to boot camp with "looked" dangerous. If he told me he was a SEAL and a Judo Champion, I would have believed him...even if I didn't already know that to be true.

Cedric

 

[Bodah]

Playing with pathological liars can be..intresting. We had one in our group awhile back..nice guy..but in game and out of game it can get real annoying. I will never forget the now legendary 'wrath of dice' that consisted of a rule the liar claimed was part of a 2nd edition rule where every die in his bag was rolled for total damage. That little arguement between the liar and the DM resulted in the DM leaving the table for that game.

 

[Bob5th]

While our group has never been to a convention I feel that we take the claim as having the worst player. He's not to bright in that he seems to lack common sense.

Example 1. While setting up a watch rotation the DM asks him how he's going to do his watch. He says he's going to spend a hour and a half facing one direction and then turn around and face the other way for a hour and a half.

Example 2. He gets his character drunk in the middle of an adventure. Steps through a portal get toasted by a lightning bolt. The lich that hit him then tells him that the guy he has is not who we think he is. He then steps back through half dead and procedes to tell us that the guy the lich has is the guy we're looking for.

Example 3. We're facing a canyon with a single bridge and on the other side is a guard tower filled with bad guys. He has a item that allows him to fly so one of us suggests that he walks along the caynon until he is out of sight and fly over to the other side and come up behind the bad guys. He just flys over while still close to the tower and after the evil wizard cast hold on him the archers finished him off with no problem.

While everyone else in our group has 0-1 character death he has 5-10

 

[Rasyr]

Originally posted by Bodah Playing with pathological liars can be..intresting.

After getting out of the service, I moved to a small town with only one game store. The owner of the store was also just about the only DM who would accept new players at that point (all other games being full). I soon found out why...

This guy treats everything as a contest, especially gaming. He thinks it is a DM vs. player thing. He is so compulisive obsessive about this that he finds any way he can to ourtight cheat, and see how much he can get away with.

I have seen him actually use loaded dice in generating a character for another person's game. I have seen him switch which dice was high (on every roll in a game using percentile dice) so that his "method" of determining which is high always favored the die that had rolled higher. I have seen him use dice that were almost identical, and had very faded numbers so nobody could read them but him...

Just about any sort of method possible, when both DMing or playing......

The final straw was in a game of M:TG at a local restaurant, a game night hosted by the owner's son. Where he blatantly tried to cheat, saying that a 1 point plink, was completely nullified by another card which would cut damage in half (rounded up).

What made it worse was that nobdy else would argue with him because he owned the only game shop in town... (this was a few years ago)

Since then, other things have happened (him being very vindictive when he doesn't get his own way, and totally off-topic of this thread), and now I refuse to even walk into his store, let along put any money in his pocket. If I really need to visit a gaming store, I will drive an hour to the next nearest one rather than have to deal with such an idiot.