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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 4191594" data-attributes="member: 2002">Reminds me of my one and only foray into Shadowrun.Our first session lasted eight hours.  Eight freaking bloody hours spent on ONE very short combat.  The guy running the game had never GM'd before and insisted on looking up every detail to make sure he was running the combat correctly.  It was excruciating.  The first round took FOUR HOURS.  We were begging him, pleading with him to just do something and move on.  But he insistently sat there rumaging through rule-books looking for things because he wanted to do it properly.  I started going through the rulebooks, starting with THE INDEXES, finding what he needed because in all his effort, he never bothered to look at the (expletive) index!.  He'd just rummage through the book, back and forth, trying to find it by scanning.  By the end of the night, all five players were on him about GETTING IT DONE AND MOVING ON and three of us were looking things up for him.He got better after that, primarily I think because the message was "We're not doing THAT again!".Then we got into a situation where we had to go to Chicago and steal a truck.  I'm playing a Physical Adept (think D&D Psychic Warrior/Monk) who is an outlaw martial artist with a price on his head out west.  We get the trucker down and he's on the ground with me standing over him.  He (foolishly) orders his truck's AI to kill us.  Ok, you're at my mercy and you order your truck to kill me.  I'm an outlaw runner.  What do I do?  I stomp him, roll exceptionally well and kill him outright.  Massive damage, DEAD.The GM goes nuts, telling me I didn't have to kill the guy.  Then he has me haunted by the guy's ghost, because I wrongfully killed him.  Over and over, just a constant drone through that session in the next about how I didn't have to kill the guy.  I got seriously annoyed and told him to knock it off.  Unfortunately, then he starts telling me OUTSIDE THE GAME what a horrible person *I* am because I killed that NPC.Seriously.  (I guess I misunderstood Shadowrun and it's theme.  Who knew my GM thought we were all Paladins??? )A month or so later, I went into Divorce.  Since he had been a friend of my psycho ex for years, he decided that everything she said about me was true ("She would never lie to us!" - true quote) and combined with my poor gaming character, I must be the worst form of human imaginable.</blockquote>

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