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What sort of stuff really pisses you off in play?

Started by RPGPundit, May 17, 2007, 06:39:08 PM

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Warthur

#45
May 20, 2007, 11:35:03 AM
Quote from: ClaudiusWarthur, what you describe is pretty much railroading in my book.

It is, except the GM will swear blind if challenged that that's not what it is. He'll point to how the players are actually free to go and do other things. What he won't realise is that those "other things" are inevitably a) less developed than the lever in the room, b) not as important as the lever in the room, and c) in the worst case scenario, will end up pointing back to the lever in the room. You end up with a bunch of players resenting the time they sank into things which, in retrospect, clearly weren't as important as going to that damn room and pulling that lever, all the while without the GM making even a hint of a suggestion that he really wanted them to go back to the room and pull the lever.
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jeff37923

#46
May 20, 2007, 10:27:04 PM
Quote from: jeff37923Make me a happy man, tell me that the Seattle Cam has cleaned up their act since 1996. When I last lived there, many of the Vampire LARPers had decided that trying to freak out people not in the game was fun and should be pursued at every chance.

I'm being snarky to balzacq here and I apologize because I'm pretty sure the situation has changed. However, a little over ten years ago in the Seattle area, the Cam was banned from LARPing at two area conventions (DreamCon in Everett and NorWesCon in Seattle IIRC) because of the obnoxious behavior of their members at the previous year's conventions.

I attended those conventions and I remember the Vampire LARPers' attitude of "scaring the straights" was rude in the extreme and really did nothing but piss off convention staff and conventioneers. I'll grant that it was only a segment of the Vampire LARPers behaving like this, but that was all it took.
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Aos

#47
May 20, 2007, 10:33:41 PM
This one bothers me so much that I warn all new players against it and all similar behavior.

The guy who looks up from a hatch marked peice of paper during the middle combat and tells me that he's been keeping track, and the creature the party is fighting has taken more damage than its maximum possible hitpoints.
He dies soon after and is not invited to make a new character.
I had to refuse a guy a place in our group recently because he admitted to being this kind of player and reserved the right to play in such a way. However, this was a guy who didn't understand (post Katrina) why everybody in New Orleans didn't have enough money to own a car. He also wanted to play a talking sword. Gygax preserve us.
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Claudius

#48
May 21, 2007, 12:34:03 PM
Quote from: WarthurIt is, except the GM will swear blind if challenged that that's not what it is. He'll point to how the players are actually free to go and do other things. What he won't realise is that those "other things" are inevitably a) less developed than the lever in the room, b) not as important as the lever in the room, and c) in the worst case scenario, will end up pointing back to the lever in the room. You end up with a bunch of players resenting the time they sank into things which, in retrospect, clearly weren't as important as going to that damn room and pulling that lever, all the while without the GM making even a hint of a suggestion that he really wanted them to go back to the room and pull the lever.
Aha. I would call that railroading, but whether that's railroading or not, it doesn't matter, what matters is that it is very annoying, as annoying as railroading is.

I would tell that GM that that is "lever in the room", that I find "lever in the room" very annoying, and I would ask him in the future not to pull a "lever in the room" ever again.
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