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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Ghost" data-source="post: 4441436" data-attributes="member: 60281">I am not sure I can top the OP but here goes...I was invited to play in a short campaign designed to allow one of the PCs to become a deity. Cool.The players were all experienced gamers. Four PCs and a DM. 3.5 Epic level - 50th if I remember right. The DM asked me to play a martial type character to balance the party. And to come up with a cool backstory. Ok.So I write up a Dwarf Fighter/Cleric/Prestige Paladin/Something Else and a three page backstory explaining his life etc. Finally we meet up to play. The DM starts out by telling me that I am dead. Alright.The DM tells me that my soul is thrust back into my body thousands of years after I had died - I do not remember anything of my past life. Why did I have to write the backstory then?I wake to see three "people" standing above me - a drow druid, a githyanki wizard, and a robot cleric named Bob. BOB! Seriously? Whatever. We then learn that we were all summoned here by the gods to help Bob become a diety. Yes, Bob. In order to do so we must go out on four great quests. Alright, enough of Bob - onto gaming.Quest #1 - We travel through time and find ourselves in an open field a village a half mile away is burning from a rampage by the Tarrasque. We go off to fight it. We enter combat only to find out that we cannot do anything to stop the Tarrasque. No spell we had would hurt it. No attacks we made could overcome its AC. The DM just described us failing at everything we tried. And not because of bad die rolling either. We just could not do anything to it. After a few rounds we are summoned back to the court of gods and there we learn that we were not meant to win. They wanted to see how the all powerful Bob would take loosing. Ok. I guess. I learn later that this encounter had happened before only last time Bob single-handedly destroyed the Tarrasque. Fair enough.Quest #2 - We travel through time - again. And find ourselves in facing off against an ancient lich. A lich pixie with class levels. Roll Initiative! Pixie goes first and disappears. We spend the next hour wandering around this forest while the DM describes the scenery. We never find the lich. We are then summoned back to court where Bob learns something. At this point I am fast loosing interest in the game. I have done nothing relevant for four hours now!Quest #3 - We again travel through time. This time we end up in the home of a great vampire lord. We roll initiative. Vampire goes first, attacks me, and kills me in one shot. The DM never rolled any dice! This was my characters true death. Not the backstory he had me write. That was just a dream. Anyway, Bob attempts to save me but fails as per DM. We are the again brought back to the court. I am now suddenly alive. Bob learns about loosing a party friend. We have now been gaming for 6 hours and decide to call it for the night. 6 hours of listening to the DM describe the world and how nothing we do can affect anything in his world or this plot-line. Needless to say I decided to drop from the group due to "time commitments."</blockquote>

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