Your Playing Group - Do You Like It?

[Bendris Noulg]

I must say, my group has always been excellent. Six months ago, I took a contract position in Virginia, and lost two of my Players from the move. Now, however, the contract is over and I'm going back to Chicago. Time to get everyone back together (assuming no one else has left!).

 

[Uzumaki]

I hate my damn group. I don't DM, but all of their behaviors are very irksome. The majority always play the same character, albeit with different stats and classes, and the ones who don't, don't really play at all. Just make attacks when needed and suck up XP.

Bill plays his Paladin as a Lawful Stupid tool.
Bob plays the same cleric of the same god in every single damn game.
Joe, powergamer supreme, seeks to screw around with the rest of the PCs as much as possible. (i.e. stealing the archmagus's prize possession we were trying to transport and hocking it on the black market)
Mort stands there. And does nothing. All. Of. The. Time.
Stuart's characters never have any personality. ("DM: The King is asking you to protect his daughter." Stu: "I don't know. High is yes, low is no."*rolls*)
Sam can't stand it when things don't go his way. Will often quit games because we don't wait for his late ass to show up.
Neil is always borrowing my stuff and not returning them. Makes me want to kill him.

Granted, I probably have mannerisms that piss them off, too. I can be really indecisive and sort of rules lawyerish, but mostly because they still don't know 3e rules.

I hate my DM, too. He has, at one time or another, been guilty of the following:

Deus ex Machina
PCs as Spectators
Railroading
Leading PCs around by the nose
Coddling his Damn Girlfriend's PC (20th lvl Fighter lover and her 20th lvl older brother)
Just Frickin' Cheating ("The Lightning Bolt that hit you didn't do enough damage." *rerolls*

God. I think I just left my group.

 

[Ace]

SNIPS LITANY OF YUCK

Granted, I probably have mannerisms that piss them off, too. I can be really indecisive and sort of rules lawyerish, but mostly because they still don't know 3e rules.

I hate my DM, too. He has, at one time or another, been guilty of the following:

SNIPS

God. I think I just left my group.

I understand the feeling completly. IMy gaming of late has been so bad if it weren't for these boards I would hate gamers entirely.

Find a mture agreeable adult gamer in my neck of the woods, Yeah Right

 

[Kaji]

My groups a pretty good bunch. We're friends outside of the game, which helps, but some of them have a lot more invested in the game then others. I do have one player who is always insisting that he gets an AoO pretty much the second anything even blinks. He is sadly mistaken. I show him the rules every time. I've gotten used to it, and now he at least laughs over it, but for a while I thought I was going to throttle him. Alas, no prison for me yet...

 

[Guilt Puppy]

My group is my roommates, none of them that vastly interested in the game... Not too big on the role-playing aspect, which gets boring at times by my standards, but then I tend to get bored in rp-heavy games as well (sitting around a table with dice that just sit there while a group of kids over-act gets old quick.)

All in all, I have fun DMing for them, and have fun playing in the games they run... I'm not looking for another group.

On another note, my PbP group has been a lot of fun so far, and we haven't even had a single combat Definitely had some good players coming in there.

 

[Kichwas]

A simple poll cannot sum up my feelings about my gaming group.

As people, I enjoy them quite a bit. As roleplayers they are quite good at times. There are some rough spots, but overall they're good. Both the players and the DM.

They have a particular thing for not exploring beyond the core rules that drives me up the wall...

They have no desire to see gaming outside of D&D...

I see morality very differently than they do...

And they seem stuck in Forgotten Realms, a setting that has -no- appeal to me...

Those complications are frustrating. Dealable, but frustrating.

 

[ArcOfCorinth]

Well, we haven't gamed since December so I'm irritated.

 

[Corinth]

The foursome I run a D&D game for can't be bothered to read the damned PHB. It's not like these four are newbies either; they're all veteran gamers that have at least five years of tabletop play experience, and two of them are familiar with previous editions of D&D. All of them played at my table before or sleep with those that have, so they know damned well how I operate when I sit behind the DM screen.

So the session's time gets wasted dealing with rules questions that wouldn't be asked if they bothered to read the damned PHB. (I had to tell one of the grognards how to compute the damage roll for his greataxe-wielding dwarf barbarian.) It does not help that they don't engage in the game, pay attention to what goes on, bother to play up to their PCs' potential or even do some of the most basic stuff like work as a team so that they can stay alive. Their collective stupidity nearly resulted in a TPK twice so far; this time they finally realized that they needed more than some guy with the Heal skill on hand.

*grumble*

 

[Argent Silvermage]

I have to say that the group I game with is exceptional. I really have the best group of friends. Dru and Karen (wizardru and Valenth) are wonderful. Tom and J (Kayleigh and Aethramyr) are some of my oldest friends. Ed and Dylan (scorch and Dravot) are great guys and I really should spend more time getting to know them better.

We have been gaming for over 15 years together.

 

[hong]

(snip dysfunctional bunch o' gamers)

God. I think I just left my group.

If any of them happens to read this forum, I'd also say that you just left your group.