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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dlsharrock" data-source="post: 4191012" data-attributes="member: 55833">You have to ask yourself why they let them come back?? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.My worst experience was part of my best, unfortunately. The first D&D group I played with back in the 80s. My DM was a biker called Tony who I worshipped (the best DM in the world bar none and the reason I fell in love with RPG) and all players got on really well. I lived for Sunday sessions and we played a really great campaign for a looong time taking in lots of the really great modules, like All That Glitters. Classic stuff. I've never forgotten it.Up until the end the players, and PCs, gelled perfectly. I was a youngling and still learning so my PC (Bivotar) got the nickname Biv the Div for his less than considerate methods of progressing (while the group huddled and discussed the best methods for opening a door behind which they 'meta' guessed a trap might be lurking, I passed DM a note that Div was having none of this faffing about lark, took a long run up and shouldered open the door. Lucky for me everyone was willing to resurrect old Div).The bad bit came when one of the players started whining that his parents wanted him to allow his younger brother to join the game and practically railroaded the DM into saying yes. We played at each others houses on a rota basis and we were in danger of being banned if we didn't make room. Suffice to say the brother arrived and promptly made his presence known as a) a rules lawyer (my first) and b) an assh*le. Worse still, the brothers clearly hated each other and spent the entire time bickering. One of the last sessions I attended we played approximately two hours of D&D and endured in silence approximately 3 hours of nitpicking, arguing, accusations, dice throwing, tantrums and so on. There was also one infinitely amusing  tug of war with a character sheet. It haunts my dreams still.It upset me, and my short sighted parents noticed I was seeming rather down after game sessions. They naturally attributed it to D&D having 'negative effects' on my young psyche and promptly told DM that I wouldn't be attending again. Well- it was the 80s and in those days D&D was on permanent probation, and they'd only recently watched Mazes & Monsters. Bl***dy Tom Hanks.</blockquote>

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