Have you have been gaming and had a player like this?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/5/14/

What did you do about it?

Sounds like a very extreme version of a "canon lawyer".

In the past, I've played in games with "canon lawyers".  For the most part, these games typically self-destructed after awhile if the DM wasn't a "canon lawyer".

Quote from: Daedalus;446693Have you have been gaming and had a player like this?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/5/14/

What did you do about it?

You mean the fat guy? Sure. I went to cpr training. I also bought a woodchipper.

I'd like Daedalus to precise "like that." Like what? People who ask silly questions at the game table?

Quote from: Benoist;446722I'd like Daedalus to precise "like that." Like what? People who ask silly questions at the game table?

To clarify what I am talking about, yes who ask silly questions at the table or make weird demands like that guy did

Quote from: Daedalus;446728To clarify what I am talking about, yes who ask silly questions at the table or make weird demands like that guy did

About that particular question -

DM: The Sun of Athas is enormous, much larger than our own, but it is also dying, which means that if the Sun is darker, less bright than our own, it is scorching the surface of Athas nonetheless. There are legends that speak about a distant past when the Sun was farther, but brighter in the heavens, but these are just bits of fairy tales that are usually discarded by the time you make it to adulthood. Who has the time to care about such things when life is a struggle of every moment?

Quote from: Daedalus;446728To clarify what I am talking about, yes who ask silly questions at the table or make weird demands like that guy did

I'll assess the question fairly. If it's a question that has merit, I'll answer, or make up the answer. If questions like this keep piling up out-of-character, I'll remind everyone we're here to play the game, not to play Dark Sun trivial pursuit. The thing is, you can use these types of questions to drive immersion into the game world. See the answer to the particular question of the strip I just wrote above. You get to talk about the characters' perspective, and create a sense of immersion from a question like this.

If the question has no merit, I'll just ask the player to shut the fuck up and roll the dice.

I don't think there was actually point to this thread, except that Daedalus found the webcomic funny and wanted to post it, so he made up some half-assed bullshit "question" to try to justify it.

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Quote from: Benoist;446732I'll assess the question fairly. If it's a question that has merit, I'll answer, or make up the answer. If questions like this keep piling up out-of-character, I'll remind everyone we're here to play the game, not to play Dark Sun trivial pursuit. The thing is, you can use these types of questions to drive immersion into the game world. See the answer to the particular question of the strip I just wrote above. You get to talk about the characters' perspective, and create a sense of immersion from a question like this.

If the question has no merit, I'll just ask the player to shut the fuck up and roll the dice.

I have been lucky.  The gamers I have gamed with have been pretty good and I dont think I have ever run into gamers like this in my tabletop games (I have run into 1 or 2 in online games that I have fun.

You are right though, telling them to shut the fuck up and roll the dice the dice is the right way to go.  If they get too anoying then just kick them out of the group.

I don't play Dark Sun FOR THIS VERY REASON! If it says DARK SUN on the box, WHY ISN"T THE FREAKING SUN DARK?

Bastards!



-clash

Quote from: Daedalus;446922I have been lucky.  The gamers I have gamed with have been pretty good and I dont think I have ever run into gamers like this in my tabletop games (I have run into 1 or 2 in online games that I have fun.

You are right though, telling them to shut the fuck up and roll the dice the dice is the right way to go.  If they get too anoying then just kick them out of the group.

I honestly can't remember the last time I had someone asking really stupid questions in a game I ran. I guess there's the way it's asked, and what's meant by the question, too. You can have a player ask a question that seems stupid but from his POV is honest to God in a "I'd really like to know, that doesn't make sense to me" kind of way, and I think that deserves an equally honest answer. If however the question is just short-hand for mean-spiritedness, "your game sucks" style, then that should stop, and fast.

I've seen my share of the former. Not so much of the latter. But then, I don't make a habit of playing with douchebags.

Actually, a dying star, showing up on the planet's pale blue sky as some dark ominious black orb, while scorching the world of life, sounds pretty damn awesome as flavor text to me...

Have to remember it for a Rogue Trader game!

I had a player like that, yes. Once.
I regulated the player.



Random bullshit rant based on setting or system. Roll a d6:

1: "Why is it called FORGOTTEN REALMS, IF ALMOST EVERY SAGE REMEMBERS THEM AND THERE'S STILL ARTIFECTS AROUND!?!?"

2: "WHY IS THIS CRAPPY SETTING CALLED GREYHAWK IF THERE ARE NO GREY HAWKS IN IT!?! I CALL FRAUD!!!"

3: "WHY IS THIS CALLED "ESSENTIALS" IF IT MISSES IMPORTANT GAME RULES!?!?"

4: "WHY IS THIS FUCKY SYSTEM CALLED "SAVAGE WORLDS" ALTHOUGH IT DOESN'T EVEN INCLUDE A SETTING, NOT EVEN ONE AT ALL?!?"

5: "d20 MODERN? WHAT IS THIS SHIT? CLASS-BASED SYSTEMS AREN'T 'MODERN', THEY'RE ARCHAIC AND OUTDONE; WHY ARE THERE CHARACTER LEVELS?!?"

6: "WHY DOES THIS BRP-THING INCLUDE 'BASIC' IN ITS TITLE ALTHOUGH IT DOESN'T EVEN USE BASIC SIX-SIDED DICE FOR ITS CORE MECHANIC? WHAT IS THIS BOGUS CRAP?"


That's what this discussion reminds me of.

Quote from: Phantom Black;4469781: "Why is it called FORGOTTEN REALMS, IF ALMOST EVERY SAGE REMEMBERS THEM AND THERE'S STILL ARTIFECTS AROUND!?!?"

:hmm:

Quote from: Daedalus;446693Have you have been gaming and had a player like this?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/5/14/

What did you do about it?

Nope.

 Never.

 Probably because I don't have players that are one-joke comic strip characters.
 The folks I play are bright enough not to ask such questions and know that the name of a setting is just a proper name, not a literal description.


- Ed C.