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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deadguy" data-source="post: 419237" data-attributes="member: 2480">I can think of two where I've personally embarrassed myself.The most recent was when playing Earthdawn. We were trying to quietly acquire information in a large city, drawing no attention to ourselves. Satying at the inn, one PC used a spell to create food. Except he rolld exceptionally well... reallly exceptionally well! Soon, 62 nine-course banquets are covering every surface in the inn, piled on people's laps, dropping out of the windows and sliding off the roof into the street!My character was annoyed, since this did rather make us stand out, and started to shout at the Elementalist for being so damned careless. Of course, he (player and character) found it really funny and laughed at me. Sadly I was (and still am) on powerful painkillers, which cloud my thinking, and it just touched a nerve. I shouted louder and louder, getting more an more incherent until I spluttered to a halt with everyone staring at me... I went for a walk to cool off, and later that week hears stories about "how Rich went mad in a game"!Another time was whilst playing Ars Magica, a longterm campaign (entering its twelfth year). My main character was a Tremere, a member of a rigid House of wizards. One of their cardinal rules is: you must attend the 10-yearly meetings of the the House, no exceptions unless you are ordered otherwise. Well, due to an oversight my character was busy binding a familar when the meeting happened. Emerging later from my laboratory, on the of the players innocently said "Aren't you supposed to be in Transylvania?" (the House Tremere has its HQ in Transylvania). It slowly sank in that I'd misremembered the timing of the meetings. Well, fearing my character could face execution or worse for this, he went on the rampage to confirm the truth of the matter...In the meantime my fellow players and the DM are finding the situation more and more amusing, laughing on and on. And I... I was getting more and more humiliated. If we'd been playing where we usually played, I would've walked out there and then. Being as we were in the middle of nowhere, playing in a rented house, all I could do was retreat to my room.Stupid to get so embarrassed by these things? Perhaps... but this is also the price of getting deeper into  playing the character. Or maybe I need to speak to a shrink? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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