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Kiioro 12-05-07, 06:07 PM	I like this "1001 ____ players..." trend. Yet, I haven't seen this one, so I decided to start it. A player that creeps you out doesn't have to be great or horrible roleplayer, but sometimes s/he does things that send shivers down your spine. In a funny or not-so-funny way, the player gets it done. I'll start with examples close to my campaign: 01 The TRUE Cross-Gender player/character This player does a character of an opposite sex and maybe gets TOO much into character, because he sits in a very feminine way in the table when he starts playing. He doesn't hesitate to flirt with male NPCs and maybe does it too well, hell, he might even start a relationship with another male PC and-- wait. Did he just flutter his eyelashes at you? *brrrr* 02 The Random Player He's sitting there, making the life-or-death save throw... he takes the die and... laughing histerically out of the blue, runs out of the room. *blink, blink* 03 The player truly in love with his/her own character Everyone makes -usually- characters that comes to one's liking, but this player gets way excited when a level up happens, an item is discovered or s/he is saved from an utterly hideous death. To celebrate it, s/he kisses his/her character sheet. You've even seen him/her caress the character sheets against his/her chest in a way that would be almost arousing for others if it weren't downright disturbing.
Pudge_is_cute 12-05-07, 08:34 PM	4. Gore lover: you know those guys who like's to slash his opponent in half but no, this guy/gal loves to describe how he/she get and eats the heart of his/her enemy and then severs the head of his/her enemy so he/she can make a shrunken head later. 5. Rapist: Guys that like's to rape random NPC elves, uses the grapple check extensively. They frequently befriends them 1st and do the nasty after. Like's to target wizards and druids "ftw".
Mock26 12-05-07, 08:50 PM	01 The TRUE Cross-Gender player/character This player does a character of an opposite sex and maybe gets TOO much into character, because he sits in a very feminine way in the table when he starts playing. He doesn't hesitate to flirt with male NPCs and maybe does it too well, hell, he might even start a relationship with another male PC and-- wait. Did he just flutter his eyelashes at you? *brrrr*What's wrong with playing with someone who acts too feminine or who is, might be, or acts gay? The person might actually be gay or might just be a little or a lot feminine. Big deal. There's nothing wrong with that.
tharivol266 12-05-07, 08:58 PM	well this one guy i used to play with is now referred to only as statch...as in statutory rape....he was a perfect gentalman in game....i dont think i need to say anymore
Malcaor 12-05-07, 09:54 PM	5: Dude WTF?! I ran an dventure where the party had to figure out that a young 10 yea rold girl was not a witch and actually wilder. Well one player went on and on through out the session about how he was going to rape her etc. etc. Luckily he had to leave a little early, just early enough he never met the girl.
Exposed_Wires 12-05-07, 11:01 PM	What's wrong with playing with someone who acts too feminine or who is, might be, or acts gay? The person might actually be gay or might just be a little or a lot feminine. Big deal. There's nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with being gay, but there is something wrong with unwanted sexual advances. I don't even allow that **** in my games when it's hetero. You can be playful about it and still pull it off in game without making things too awkward but I don't recommend it. It's creepy when the guy in sweatpants' character makes passes at the only girl at the table's character, and its creepy when the effeminate guy gets his swerve on at another guy at the table under the guise of playing a female.
key 12-05-07, 11:24 PM	I would like to play with all the types that have been mentioned so far.
Pudge_is_cute 12-05-07, 11:37 PM	5: Dude WTF?! I ran an dventure where the party had to figure out that a young 10 yea rold girl was not a witch and actually wilder. Well one player went on and on through out the session about how he was going to rape her etc. etc. Luckily he had to leave a little early, just early enough he never met the girl. good for you, mine is they g******** the NPC druid elf... 6. Torture lover: In a party, our burly LN cleric of Helm interrogates a prisoner we captured and applies different sorts of suffering like removing the nails etc. After that, he crucifies our poor prisoner when he did not say anything about their evil activities. Whats weird is our halfling rouge helps him in doing his malicious work and even stick an "apple" on the mouth of the prisoner. My elven bard tries to stop them but he threatens I'm next if I did not shut up. Whew, to tell the truth they are really determined to crucify me too(since I always pickpocket them and I always spot the rouge's attempt at me :P ), if the paladin has not interfered.
The_Wild_King 12-06-07, 12:41 AM	7. The Robot A guy in my group shows absolutely no emotion. ever. His character just died? Meh, I'll make a new one. Major plot point uncovered? K, I'm getting another drink. Girlfriend called to break up with him? (actually happened). Sure, I'll talk to you later. It got to the point where being around him made everyone apathetic :rolleyes:
Dog_O_War 12-06-07, 01:17 AM	8: The "Ken". Yours might have a different name, but mine is "Ken". This is the loner/shut-in that ONLY comes out of his troll-cave to play D&D at a mutually accessable location. He is over-weight, sweaty, and stinky, despite having "just took a shower". While he may seem like a good player, he slips in subtle hints and gestures when it comes to women. Also, out of game he will comment on how "all women are *****s". This attitude carries into the game, as does his elitist attitude towards you on any subject you have a lack of knowledge on. Also, his eating habits can make your stomach turn. Mine pours an entire two-litre of skim-milk in a cup full of ice, and drinks it all night.
Kiioro 12-06-07, 01:21 AM	There is nothing wrong with being gay, but there is something wrong with unwanted sexual advances. I don't even allow that **** in my games when it's hetero. You can be playful about it and still pull it off in game without making things too awkward but I don't recommend it. It's creepy when the guy in sweatpants' character makes passes at the only girl at the table's character, and its creepy when the effeminate guy gets his swerve on at another guy at the table under the guise of playing a female. Quoted for truth. I don't have anything against him, I actually consider him a good friend and I get along really well with his boyfriend too, but sometimes... And I had forgotten, I gave an advice with a vampire player because this happened to us once: 09 The Masochist Many times associated with the torture lover, this is the player that enjoys just too much the pain inflicted on his/her character. We all know a character suffers to get what s/he wants, but The Masochist just takes it to a creepy extent. It doesn't matter if his/her character is being cut by a greatsword, The Masochist revels in it. 08: "Hit me harder... *aroused hiss* harder."
Mock26 12-06-07, 03:59 AM	There is nothing wrong with being gay, but there is something wrong with unwanted sexual advances. I don't even allow that **** in my games when it's hetero. You can be playful about it and still pull it off in game without making things too awkward but I don't recommend it. It's creepy when the guy in sweatpants' character makes passes at the only girl at the table's character, and its creepy when the effeminate guy gets his swerve on at another guy at the table under the guise of playing a female. It's called roleplaying. Saying that someone playing a feminine character is giving you unwanted sexual advances is akin to saying that someone playing a Chaotic Evil murderer is plotting a real world murder.
Eater_Of_Souls 12-06-07, 04:12 AM	It's called roleplaying. Saying that someone playing a feminine character is giving you unwanted sexual advances is akin to saying that someone playing a Chaotic Evil murderer is plotting a real world murder. Rp in game is another thing entirely from pawing your fellow gamers around the table and should be kept that way.
Mock26 12-06-07, 04:42 AM	Rp in game is another thing entirely from pawing your fellow gamers around the table and should be kept that way. Who said anything about physically touching someone? If someone's character makes a pass at another player's character and they are looking at the other player they are not making a pass at the other player. They are merely looking at them because players are, in essence, their characters.
kelvinaw273 12-06-07, 10:05 AM	Should I mention the Brazilian Death Squad from <ahem> a rival forum's creepiest gamer thread? 10: The psych-out DM: This DM will be either the greatest you ever met ... or you will have a nervous breakdown as he carefully invades your psyche, take hold of your hidden fears, pulls your personal demons from inside the closet and hurls them at you when you least expect it. That small sentence in your back-story you forgot about suddenly leaps back into life when you confront the BBEG and realise that HE holds all the cards ... the premonition you thought you had figured takes on a whole new meaning and it's too late now to prevent it ... In my case, he was the greatest DM ever. But two players quit due to nervous exhaustion, and another was reduced to hysterics on one occasion (he loved it really, though).
Dog_O_War 12-06-07, 10:32 AM	It's called roleplaying. Saying that someone playing a feminine character is giving you unwanted sexual advances is akin to saying that someone playing a Chaotic Evil murderer is plotting a real world murder. Some people find sex in D&D uncomfortable. I am one of them. Love and romance is not a problem, but the former(sex) usually makes everyone in the room uncomfortable. This includes "in character" 'advances', as well as having one's sex define the character. It (D&D) may be a role-playing game, but it was a combat simulator first. Some of us find flirtation in battle an unwanted distraction.
LSMFT 12-06-07, 12:14 PM	Some people find sex in D&D uncomfortable.:gah: That's totally me. D&D is not a sex game. That kind of role-playing is done in the privacy of your home with a consenting adult. Not in my garage. I ran an dventure where the party had to figure out that a young 10 yea rold girl was not a witch and actually wilder. Well one player went on and on through out the session about how he was going to rape her etc. etc. Luckily he had to leave a little early, just early enough he never met the girl. Because I thought nothing could top the regular rapist. Holy ****! No freakin' way is this guy coming back to my house. I have kids. Rape fantasies are something that should address with a licensed and practicing therapist. Not with your friends over a bag of Cheetoes and a d20. Not with miniatures. 8: The "Ken".I can’t top the pedophile rapists, but since the target is 1001, I’ll add a category that could be called the “secret Ken.” You’ve known him and gamed with him for a while, and he seemed like a normal guy, but then you went to his house/ailing mother’s basement and its all empty pizza boxes, casually displayed euro-porn with too many pictures of feet, discarded chicken bones, and oh-my-god-is-that-thing-loaded firearms.
kelvinaw273 12-06-07, 01:17 PM	Some people find sex in D&D uncomfortable. I am one of them. Love and romance is not a problem, but the former(sex) usually makes everyone in the room uncomfortable. This includes "in character" 'advances', as well as having one's sex define the character. It (D&D) may be a role-playing game, but it was a combat simulator first. Some of us find flirtation in battle an unwanted distraction. It is still a role-playing game, and flirtation in battle is a valid tactic and good RP, but I agree that there are limits and the group should set them and all respect them. There are occasions when a player has done something physical for effect (the expression on the other player's face was priceless) but those are one-game-in-a-thousand instances. Crossing the comfort line every game can, I agree, be in poor taste and is bad manners.
Stormbrand 12-06-07, 01:37 PM	Mood & Method Actor: True kind-hearted gentleman or lady in real-life, so sweet and kind and honest... yet they can convincingly play a ghoulish blackguard morbidly fascinated with death and pain and is always totally calm (me) or a feral vampiress with total nihilism (a friend of mine). Tries to simulate Aura's through roleplaying... and manages it. Apparently playing a blackguard gives me an aura of despair across the table and playing a paladin enables me to project an aura of courage. Frightening at the table. Then you speak to the person out-of-game find them to be perfectly polite and charming and reasonable... which leaves you waiting and watching and actively seeking out signs of freakiness.
Exposed_Wires 12-06-07, 02:31 PM	Who said anything about physically touching someone? If someone's character makes a pass at another player's character and they are looking at the other player they are not making a pass at the other player. They are merely looking at them because players are, in essence, their characters. Mock, I'd don't appreciate that you assume we're intolerant ***holes. That when one guy is creeped out by the in-game advances of a male player, he's being prejudiced. The fact that he was uncomfortable at all should tell you that this other player crossed a line. Yet you think you need to educate this person because you clearly know better than him what he should be comfortable with. With what little information you had, you manage to imply that he is biased and close-minded. What gives you the moral high ground? How do you know this other player wasn't actually being inappropriate? Doesn't matter, he's a gay basher. Maybe you didn't mean it quite like that, but that one post tasted condescending and it's insulting The "Real life comes second" person The person who tells you what their character did this week before what they did this week. I used to play with a girl who practically never left her house except for school. I would occasionally chat with her online or call her to see when we were playing next and whenever I asked her how she was doing, she would tell me what kooky mess her character from the various other RPGs she played had gotten into. The part that was even creepier was that her mom was the same way. I remember on prom night (the girl came with my group of friends), when all the parents were gathered around taking pictures. Her mom remarked, in front of all the other parents, that she could only look that good in role playing games. One of the other moms was dumb enough to ask what she was talking about and she started telling her what her character looked like.
RobbyPants 12-06-07, 03:29 PM	The "Only Seems to Like X" player (where 'X' is some dispecable activity): Similar to the Rapist, Gore Love, and Torture Lover, this player loves to get involved in some grizzly, activity. What separates them from the previous players is that they only seem animated or interested in the game when doing said activity. Their previously glazed-over eyes gleam with new light at the chance to leap into action.
annoyinglizardvoice 12-06-07, 06:48 PM	I'm not sure what number we're up to, but: The DM who's far too drunk to remeber the plot Made worse by the fact that it was the first adventure he'd ever run.
dankster1221 12-06-07, 08:50 PM	Zealot: This one gentleman I played with, retired Army foot soldier, played a zealous fighter and he was creepy doing it. The fighter was a do-gooder at heart but didn't care if he broke alliances or other PCs faces to get what he wanted. It was difficult to play with him because he would frequently bully other PC's into doing his bidding which was not evil but just annoying.
KillerVole 12-06-07, 11:17 PM	17. The "ends justify the means" player This guy is completely serious about everything he does. Like, say, selling innocents to passing neogi, in exchange for transportation, but, hey, he has to move quickly to save the world. But, really, "it's all for the greater good." Actually described his character as "so good he's evil"... 18. The willing minion The player who tries to become a servant of the BBEG. Willingly. And does evil things just for the hell of it, because "the master said to". Usually has a weird love of betraying the party, even though they know they will die. This player can't have fun unless they have some evil secret, and they thrive on deceiving the other PCs. Makes you worry what they hide in real life...
Voran 12-07-07, 03:33 AM	The "If I'm not winning, I'm going to make all the other players feel like crap too" player. The "I like playing young girls as characters" player The "I wanna roleplay out the seduction" player.
Mock26 12-07-07, 05:02 AM	Mock, I'd don't appreciate that you assume we're intolerant ***holes. Based on the very initial post about this particular type of player what else am I supposed to think? To me that is exactly how the original poster comes across in his first post. Getting creeped out over how someone sits sure sounds biased and closed minded to me. To me nothing described in that original post sounded like anything more than someone getting into character and not even the fluttering of the eyelashes sounded like someone giving unwanted sexual advances.
eamon 12-07-07, 08:59 AM	It's called roleplaying. Saying that someone playing a feminine character is giving you unwanted sexual advances is akin to saying that someone playing a Chaotic Evil murderer is plotting a real world murder. This could be construed to suggest that women always make unwanted sexual advances :D. In any case, around our gaming table, we don't take things too seriously, and if you're uncomfortable with something most don't care about, you'll be bugged about it. I'm sure I wouldn't look up at a player doing something a little too in character which seems spooky... chances are, they're just goading you. Are you afraid of unwanted advances? Chances are they'll appear when you least expect them. Last session, they started detaching and reattaching limbs of a captured ogre mage. A guy squeamish about seafood now no longer gets invited for D&D, but instead for oysters (we always duly apologize that we've taken along dice instead of oysters). Then again, I've never played with someone that seems to have a fixation on a particularly creepy in-character activity and focuses on that across-sessions, even in different characters.
Radijs 12-07-07, 09:09 AM	Mood & Method Actor: True kind-hearted gentleman or lady in real-life, so sweet and kind and honest... yet they can convincingly play a ghoulish blackguard morbidly fascinated with death and pain and is always totally calm (me) or a feral vampiress with total nihilism (a friend of mine). Tries to simulate Aura's through roleplaying... and manages it. Apparently playing a blackguard gives me an aura of despair across the table and playing a paladin enables me to project an aura of courage. Frightening at the table. Then you speak to the person out-of-game find them to be perfectly polite and charming and reasonable... which leaves you waiting and watching and actively seeking out signs of freakiness. Why is that bad? Playing with someone like that, who can really portray his character in such an impressive way would be cool in my book.
Empirate 12-07-07, 09:45 AM	This may seem like trolling. Honestly, it isn't supposed to. I've never played with a player who creeped me out. I tried a lot of groups over the years, and the only differences I noticed were (a) I liked the players differently well, and (b) I liked their styles of RP differently well. I can't tell whether some of you are making this up or whether so many of you have actually met and played with "creepy" players. I've never been creeped out at an RP table for any OOC reasons whatsoever. Maybe I was just lucky, but, my point being: In my experience, roleplayers tend to be decent, imaginative, nice guys. Most of them are quite... well... normal. Granted, some people can get on your nerves a lot, so much is true at the gaming table, too, but they don't "creep me out". Are you guys really creeped out by somebody RPing well or even somebody "too drunk to remember the plot"?
Entropy_Judge 12-07-07, 10:33 AM	The only player I can think of that would "creep me out" would be one who actually believed in the game. You know, one of those people all the anti-D&D people are warning everyone about.
UAMDB 12-07-07, 10:52 AM	The guy who crys when his character's NPC Brother dies. And I dont mean they get up set and wines like "Why did you kill him?" no I mean tears are running down his face. Talk about making everyone else feel uneasy. Of course that person was never allowed to play again.
Stormbrand 12-07-07, 12:11 PM	Why is that bad? Playing with someone like that, who can really portray his character in such an impressive way would be cool in my book. I have done it, and it scared people. Once the game was over, people reacted to me with wariness, as if waiting for me to have some kind of dark secret or some such. I agree it's cool, but the stark contrast between player and character can be unsettling as well... no one said cool and creepy were mutually exclusive. ;)
RobbyPants 12-07-07, 01:01 PM	The "Really gets into roleplaying" Player - to the point where when his PC is angry, the player gets so angry (or does such a great job at pretending it) that everyone gets uneasy. Angry to the point of getting out of his seat and yelling at the other players. A bit of a raised voice is one thing. Standing and shouting is another.
Kiioro 12-07-07, 06:15 PM	Based on the very initial post about this particular type of player what else am I supposed to think? To me that is exactly how the original poster comes across in his first post. Getting creeped out over how someone sits sure sounds biased and closed minded to me. To me nothing described in that original post sounded like anything more than someone getting into character and not even the fluttering of the eyelashes sounded like someone giving unwanted sexual advances. Sigh. OK. I'll skip the details. He's good at roleplaying, but there is a difference between roleplaying and actually crossing the line, a line you can differentiate because one is acting, the other is using the game as an excuse. And you can tell. I can hear you already. "How would you know the difference? You're just a close-minded a**hole who wouldn't know the difference between a character and a broken mug of coffee." Because it has happened to me. After roleplaying, a few of my friends stayed over. I had to punch this guy -who happened to be one of my best friends at the time, he made that kind of thing in our game and I had a hard time believing it was only in character- because I was sleeping and... when I woke up, he was on top of me, with his lips way, WAY close to mine, he wasn't asking for permission, he was about to do it. Long story short: the next day he apologized thoroughly and, up to where I know, honestly. I consider myself open minded but even that was too much, I needed a few months to think about it, then believed in him. Now I consider him a friend. Not like before, but, I don't hate him. So, was that roleplaying? Or was that an unwanted sexual advance? I have the "hunch" that he wasn't playing Lucilda anymore at that time. You know... just a feeling.
Kiioro 12-07-07, 06:23 PM	The "B-but you can't kill him!" player. A subdivison of the "really gets into roleplaying", this player gets too much into character, so much the DM doubts every time the character is in deadly danger, because he fears it'll warp the player's mind. Not to be confused with the first character you made that resembled yourself, the "B-but you can't kill him" player will start to act real strange when the character faces any kind of danger that would end up in death. A desperate expression between anguish, histeria and sheer desperation builds up, quirky and emotionally unstable are some ways to describe him, but not enough. Every single time. With every single character. You want to pat him on the back and say "take it easy, it's a character", but you fear for your life.
Exposed_Wires 12-07-07, 07:39 PM	HA! Mock, enjoy being the biased and closed minded one! Give the people on these boards a bit more credit next time. Kiioro, I've got a lot of gay friends and thats happened to me more than once, now. Not that I hold any grudges against gay guys, but I'm now weary of young people who identify themselves by their sexuality. Sometimes they can get a little inappropriate. The costumed DM at conventions that didn't come with anybody has spent way too much time by himself. Has a huge campaign designed but has nobody to play with him. Goes to conventions for some human contact and can't talk to anybody without glancing around or staring at the floor. Manages to make a pick-up game feel anything but casual and asks too many questions that border on too personal or too abstract. I met this guy when I was younger and thought that if you played D&D too much you would grow up to be like him. I quit playing games for like 6 months.
Dog_O_War 12-07-07, 11:04 PM	HAHA! Mock, enjoy being the biased and closed minded one! Give the people on these boards a bit more credit next time. While I disagree with what Mock26 said, and his rebuttals to what you and others said, laughing at someone - however "wrong" they were is just as bad as being biased. Perhaps he'll give board members credit when they mature enough to deserve it.
Radijs 12-08-07, 06:10 AM	I have done it, and it scared people. Once the game was over, people reacted to me with wariness, as if waiting for me to have some kind of dark secret or some such. I agree it's cool, but the stark contrast between player and character can be unsettling as well... no one said cool and creepy were mutually exclusive. ;) Thats true. I've creeped a few players a few times. My character suffered a terrible blow and I roleplayed his grief in a most excellent way. And when I looked up from my terrible bout of 'crying' several asked OC if I was allright. I laughed so hard I almost couldn't breathe. :)
Voran 12-09-07, 04:41 PM	Seriously, one instance of creepiness can end a gaming group.
Radijs 12-09-07, 05:00 PM	It didn't. I still game with these guys and we have a blast every time we play!
Mock26 12-09-07, 07:57 PM	Because it has happened to me. After roleplaying, a few of my friends stayed over. I had to punch this guy -who happened to be one of my best friends at the time, he made that kind of thing in our game and I had a hard time believing it was only in character- because I was sleeping and... when I woke up, he was on top of me, with his lips way, WAY close to mine, he wasn't asking for permission, he was about to do it. You were playing D&D in your sleep?
Nessaj 12-09-07, 09:14 PM	The Not-So-Closet Furry: Werecreature? Catfolk? Half-hamster halfling Druid with a 27 charisma? This player is less creepy so much as amusing, depending on how far they go with it...The one example I've known was a typical gamer otherwise, if a bit silly, but the rest of the table couldn't help but exchange glances each time a new session began. Even in a City of the Spider Queen campaign, he managed to stick to his theme :rolleyes:
Keevo_Darkwood 12-09-07, 10:31 PM	Even in a City of the Spider Queen campaign, he managed to stick to his theme :rolleyes: That simply affirms Rule #61 of the Internet: There is always furry porn of it.
Shadowshimmer 12-10-07, 10:39 AM	The Person Who Stares Right At You But Says Nothing For A Long Time: You say something in game to this person and they just stare back at you like Deer in the headlights. "So, Aerial, I say we attack the Wizard's tower tonight because he will not expect it." "What do you think?" Stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, uncomfortable silence, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, "Hmm, okay," says Aerial. I mean for crying out loud, can these people take any longer to think/roleplay?? What are they thinking for what seems like 30 seconds or longer and they are not even blinking? It is just really uncomfortable and they look at you like they are doing a gaze attack.
RobbyPants 12-10-07, 11:27 AM	The Person Who Stares Right At You But Says Nothing For A Long Time: You say something in game to this person and they just stare back at you like Deer in the headlights. "So, Aerial, I say we attack the Wizard's tower tonight because he will not expect it." "What do you think?" Stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, uncomfortable silence, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, "Hmm, okay," says Aerial. I mean for crying out loud, can these people take any longer to think/roleplay?? What are they thinking for what seems like 30 seconds or longer and they are not even blinking? It is just really uncomfortable and they look at you like they are doing a gaze attack. What you're experiencing here is server lag. It actually took said player 15 seconds to receive your question, and you another 15 seconds to get the response. The 30 seconds in between was just a symptom of this. Tell the player to update from Daily Conversations Dial-Up 1.2 to Daily Conversations BroadBand 3.0. :P
pogrom666 12-10-07, 01:50 PM	Creepiest gamer I've met: former friend and room mate named B.J. He was the one who actually got me and Brendan playing D&D, but wifey hated him, so she wouldn't play with him. Now that he is permanently out of our lives, she plays every Sunday. He would sit at his comp every day and watch illegally downloaded T.V. shows, read illegally downloaded Dragon magazines and D&D suppliments, and watch bad quality gross porn, all in our living room. Yay. Also, he had this one character (thankfully before I met him) that apparently got angered at a female NPC, and so tortured, raped, and killed her. How ****ing cool is that? When he told wifey and I that we looked at each other and were like "And we let this azzbole live with us?" We were kind of scared of him after that. Oh, and a bonus! He was 26 and had a thing for a 15 year old girl that we worked with, and she as well as everyone else there thought he was creepy.
pogrom666 12-10-07, 01:51 PM	I just shuddered as I thought of him again. Uuuuhgghghghghahhhhhh!!!!!!
Viatos 12-10-07, 07:15 PM	You were playing D&D in your sleep? Now that's just uncalled for, and well outside the boundaries of reasoned debate. Plz no troll k? This is a bit of an edgy thread by subject matter as is. Your earlier points were refuted due to a faulty assumption; everybody does it now and then. Best option is to just move forward. No need to instigate. The Hate Advocate: This guy has a cause. A bad one, that involves other people being pushed down. Maybe it's gay superiority, maybe it's Catholicdom (that whole rule-the-world thing, in case I'm using the wrong name), maybe it's we-should-ship-all-the-non-whites-back-to-subhumania-where-they-came-from. Whatever it is, though, he's smart enough not to talk about it outside of his scary little online message board groups...or DnD. As soon as he hits the mid-levels, he starts reshaping the world to his generally unpleasant image. It starts off subtle, but soon enough he's slaughtering "the smaller races" or demanding a DC for a constitution check to rape a local ***** to death for "excessive breeding". If you let him, he'll turn the whole campaign into some kind of sick hate-fest where he walks the earth as a twisted god of misery. This is another one of those discuss-with-psychologist things that's ended up in your game. My DM thought it was funny enough not to kick him, so I got a new DM. There are some things I go to the table specifically to get away from. The Soulless: This is the serial killer torturer master of Chaotic Evil who just doesn't seem to care. On the one hand, his lack of immersion and focus mean he isn't immediately disturbing; he rolls a Charisma or Intelligence check for torture, and limits his murder descriptions to "I stab him in the heart and he dies". On the other, his sheer apathy begins to becoem disturbing in and of itself; NOTHING fazes this guy, and he just keeps on killing and looting. Maybe you talk to him outside of game...and discover, with a nasty jolt, that he's like that about real-life people, too. Not quite a sociopath, not quite a functioning member of society; just born without any sense whatsoever of empathy for his fellow man, and especially upsetting whenever any kind of emotion builds in a game. Just because you had an awesome romantic sub-plot running with the demon-king's daughter doesn't mean he won't lop her head off and totally kill your character development. And roll his eyes when you complain, somehow transmitting the chilling sense he'd be about as interested in your dismay if he ran over your dog. Or your fiance.
Mock26 12-10-07, 07:23 PM	Now that's just uncalled for, and well outside the boundaries of reasoned debate. Plz no troll k? This is a bit of an edgy thread by subject matter as is. No need to instigate.. No, it isn't outside the boundaries of reasoned debate and it wasn't trolling (and, for the record, it was not meant to imply anything sexual or indecorous in nature were going on). He said that he woke up and found his friend hovering over him and his friend's lips inches from his own. He was obviously creeped out by that incident. But, in my mind, that incident has no bearing on how this person plays D&D. I see them as being unrelated. It seems to me he is creepd out by his friend's non-gaming actions and not by how the person plays D&D.
kelvinaw273 12-10-07, 08:17 PM	What you're experiencing here is server lag. It actually took said player 15 seconds to receive your question, and you another 15 seconds to get the response. The 30 seconds in between was just a symptom of this. Tell the player to update from Daily Conversations Dial-Up 1.2 to Daily Conversations BroadBand 3.0. :P ... now that's a bit creepy ...
bobotheguy 12-10-07, 08:59 PM	The "Pray to the Dice Gods" Player Every time there was a major roll, hed colse his eyes, take a deep breath... quitely chant and then pray the dice gods would take pity on his roll... At which pointEVERYBODY including the DM yelled "GO!!" bobo
Enigmis 12-10-07, 09:41 PM	Now that's just uncalled for, and well outside the boundaries of reasoned debate. Plz no troll k? This is a bit of an edgy thread by subject matter as is. Your earlier points were refuted due to a faulty assumption; everybody does it now and then. Best option is to just move forward. No need to instigate. ??? What's you're problem??? The Hate Advocate: This guy has a cause. A bad one, that involves other people being pushed down. Maybe it's gay superiority, maybe it's Catholicdom (that whole rule-the-world thing, in case I'm using the wrong name), maybe it's we-should-ship-all-the-non-whites-back-to-subhumania-where-they-came-from. Whatever it is, though, he's smart enough not to talk about it outside of his scary little online message board groups...or DnD. As soon as he hits the mid-levels, he starts reshaping the world to his generally unpleasant image. It starts off subtle, but soon enough he's slaughtering "the smaller races" or demanding a DC for a constitution check to rape a local ***** to death for "excessive breeding". If you let him, he'll turn the whole campaign into some kind of sick hate-fest where he walks the earth as a twisted god of misery. This is another one of those discuss-with-psychologist things that's ended up in your game. My DM thought it was funny enough not to kick him, so I got a new DM. There are some things I go to the table specifically to get away from. I hope you don't still play with him, I'd say this is the creepiest so far.
JimProfit 12-10-07, 10:14 PM	5. Rapist: Guys that like's to rape random NPC elves, uses the grapple check extensively. They frequently befriends them 1st and do the nasty after. Like's to target wizards and druids "ftw". Epic lulz, I want him in my group.:D Blahblahblah BJ This sounds suspiciously like me. Even my innitials are the same. Sept i'm 22 And toture/rape really isn't my thing, even in D&D, it just doesn't strike me as fun or lulzy. Unless toture involves having a dire monkey give oral to someone who has a vow of chasisty. As you can tell if I do evil, you can bet it's gonna be unequivalicly abstract and leave you going "what the hell was that?!"
Salla 12-10-07, 11:41 PM	The Not-So-Closet Furry: Werecreature? Catfolk? Half-hamster halfling Druid with a 27 charisma? This player is less creepy so much as amusing, depending on how far they go with it...The one example I've known was a typical gamer otherwise, if a bit silly, but the rest of the table couldn't help but exchange glances each time a new session began. Even in a City of the Spider Queen campaign, he managed to stick to his theme :rolleyes: *raises hand* You caught me. :D
key 12-11-07, 02:18 AM	Creepiest gamer I've met: former friend and room mate named B.J. He was the one who actually got me and Brendan playing D&D, but wifey hated him, so she wouldn't play with him. Now that he is permanently out of our lives, she plays every Sunday. He would sit at his comp every day and watch illegally downloaded T.V. shows, read illegally downloaded Dragon magazines and D&D suppliments, and watch bad quality gross porn, all in our living room. Yay. Also, he had this one character (thankfully before I met him) that apparently got angered at a female NPC, and so tortured, raped, and killed her. How ****ing cool is that? When he told wifey and I that we looked at each other and were like "And we let this azzbole live with us?" We were kind of scared of him after that. Oh, and a bonus! He was 26 and had a thing for a 15 year old girl that we worked with, and she as well as everyone else there thought he was creepy. This man would be perfect if only he was into high quality gross porn.
Lord_Tirian 12-11-07, 03:18 PM	Should I mention the Brazilian Death Squad from <ahem> a rival forum's creepiest gamer thread? You know that the Brazilian Death Squad wasn't the worst of it? And that that infamous thread has some indexes now? I wonder if I should drop a link here... Cheers, LT.
Master_Vega 12-11-07, 11:20 PM	No, it isn't outside the boundaries of reasoned debate and it wasn't trolling (and, for the record, it was not meant to imply anything sexual or indecorous in nature were going on). He said that he woke up and found his friend hovering over him and his friend's lips inches from his own. He was obviously creeped out by that incident. But, in my mind, that incident has no bearing on how this person plays D&D. I see them as being unrelated. It seems to me he is creepd out by his friend's non-gaming actions and not by how the person plays D&D. His situation was this: the guy was not hitting on/flirting with his character; he was trying to hit on/flirt with HIM through his character. There's a big difference there, very big. The title "True Cross-gender Roleplayer" was a sarcastic allusion to someone who isn't just roleplaying a character of the opposite gender... and isn't just roleplaying flirting with the others. I believe he thought that was rather clear (I thought it was), but apparently it needed to be explained. [/offtopic] I've had a Robot in my group, though he wasn't quite as apathetic as the example. He was actually a lot of fun to play with because his characters were a lot more straight forward than everyone else's. :P
cptevil 12-13-07, 01:29 AM	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhmUj9QJ9RM it cant get better then that (video is french with english subs)
Delfedd 12-13-07, 02:05 AM	The Cylon (and not the hot blonde one either) A variation of the robot, the cylon adds death threats to his demeanor of null emotion. The Cylon often threatens players out of game for things that their characters have done in game, makes threats upon the group upon joining, and complains about the "slow pace of combat." Presumably because he's used to being rendered in 3d by the graphics people. And yes, we're still playing with him.
kelvinaw273 12-13-07, 09:20 AM	You know that the Brazilian Death Squad wasn't the worst of it? And that that infamous thread has some indexes now? I wonder if I should drop a link here... Cheers, LT. I know, but did not wish to be reminded. Now I have thought of the other things, could you please pass the bleach? my brain needs cleaning ... scrubbing ... exorcising!
Savin 12-13-07, 10:02 AM	The "Kill everyone no matter how useful or nice to us they are" Everyone knows this player. while interrogating someone or talking to someone friendly anytime they get angry or even just annoyed their sticking their sword in them. This especially makes other PC's mad when we open a door and theres someone their who automatically get's run through. It always happens to be a useful npc or a town gaurd, or the mayor and then were ****ed But then as it always is they can't hit **** when your fighting someone whos evil. I'm guilty too though. As most of us are.
Savin 12-13-07, 10:08 AM	I'm also a player who whenever something interesting happens i freak out. One time i had a vision which was pretty ****ed up. I saw a big storm and a bunch of ships then a few people and me with a red knife in my back. when i went back to my other members i related the tale talking in hyperspeed slapping myself and constantly pausing to talk to myself. I was disagreeing with myself then pretended to pass out knocking over a soda and scatering books everywhere. The two other players ad DM were looking at me like i had just got up and hung myself though i think i lost some of their respect it was hilarious to see what they were trying to comprehend.
Emissary666 12-13-07, 12:18 PM	The guy of amazing violence We are an example of this. This person will savagely kill anything, eating, regurgitate the corpses, and feed them to the young. After doing this, he will throw the young to another evil player. When he dies he will kill himself in the grossest way possible. We played a half-dragon monk and did all in a lesser form to avoid being thrown out of the group. The [insert country here] lover This guy will not play any character not based on [insert country here] and will turn every session into a history lesson on said country.
Exposed_Wires 12-13-07, 01:28 PM	The [insert country here] lover This guy will not play any character not based on [insert country here] and will turn every session into a history lesson on said country. You don't need to generalize. We know you're talking about japan. Silly weeaboos.
KillerVole 12-14-07, 12:32 AM	You don't need to generalize. We know you're talking about japan. Silly weeaboos. Actually, I've seen one of these who was a severe francophile. I've also seen tons of "romans". It's cool for one character, but after a while it gets a little... obsessive.
Salla 12-14-07, 12:51 AM	Actually, I've seen one of these who was a severe francophile. I've also seen tons of "romans". It's cool for one character, but after a while it gets a little... obsessive. These days, it seems to be Spartans, but it's winding down. I did have to put one player in his place, though ... stylishly. He starts talking about how Sparta did this, and how Sparta did that, so of course, I stood up and yelled at the top of my lungs: "THIS IS NOT SPARTA!!" One stunned player, three more laughing their butts off. :)
Kargush 12-14-07, 03:20 AM	I know, but did not wish to be reminded. Now I have thought of the other things, could you please pass the bleach? my brain needs cleaning ... scrubbing ... exorcising! Here you go. http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb76/Interrogator-Chaplain_Ezra/brain_bleach.jpg Anyway, what's the Brazilian Death Squad? I've taken a look at the thread mentioned, but that was many pages into it, and no Death Squads to be seen,except by referance. So, care to enlighten me?
kelvinaw273 12-14-07, 10:10 AM	<scrub scrub> Ah thanks for that ... OK, there is a post in there by a DM in Brazil who after a game one evening had a new player ask him if he could run a game for some friends of his ... he agreed. A few days later he found himself running a game for a squad of <ahem> police officers who belonged to what at that time was a very select unit of the police who had licence to act with great discretion in the execution of their duties (with heavy emphasis on the 'execution'). They brought along munchies, beer, guns, various illegal drugs and a couple of 'ladies of negotiable affection' who performed their trade at the table as the riotous game progressed. The DM made it a free-for-all game that the players loved in between swigging, snorting and other words ending with 'ing' and made a fast exit afterwards grateful to escape with his life and vowing never to return!
Kargush 12-14-07, 10:31 AM	I see... May I have that brain bleach back? I think I need it. Though, if you left out the dope, I might sit in on a session merely for the experience and the memory. :P
Saiato 12-15-07, 08:13 PM	18. The willing minion The player who tries to become a servant of the BBEG. Willingly. And does evil things just for the hell of it, because "the master said to". Usually has a weird love of betraying the party, even though they know they will die. This player can't have fun unless they have some evil secret, and they thrive on deceiving the other PCs. Makes you worry what they hide in real life... Thanks for the idea for the signature. Admittedly I've alway wanted to play one of these, at least once. Wonder what it would be like to secretly word against the party?
Saiato 12-15-07, 08:16 PM	<scrub scrub> Ah thanks for that ... OK, there is a post in there by a DM in Brazil who after a game one evening had a new player ask him if he could run a game for some friends of his ... he agreed. A few days later he found himself running a game for a squad of <ahem> police officers who belonged to what at that time was a very select unit of the police who had licence to act with great discretion in the execution of their duties (with heavy emphasis on the 'execution'). They brought along munchies, beer, guns, various illegal drugs and a couple of 'ladies of negotiable affection' who performed their trade at the table as the riotous game progressed. The DM made it a free-for-all game that the players loved in between swigging, snorting and other words ending with 'ing' and made a fast exit afterwards grateful to escape with his life and vowing never to return! :OMG!
kelvinaw273 12-16-07, 03:03 AM	I see... May I have that brain bleach back? I think I need it. Though, if you left out the dope, I might sit in on a session merely for the experience and the memory. :P Certainly. http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb76/Interrogator-Chaplain_Ezra/brain_bleach.jpg Better now? Personally the thought of spending time in the company of unstable men with guns who face no consequences should they decide to shoot me and in fact are employed to kill people regularly is frankly ... look, I'm just not going to go there, OK? I've been desperate to play in the past, but never THAT desperate.
On_the_wings_of_TPK 12-16-07, 03:22 AM	The thread is still there (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=133489) in all its glory. There's a spin-off/compilation here (http://p102.ezboard.com/Creepiest-gamers-RPGnet/fthehouseoftangencyfrm59.showMessage?top icID=35.topic) too.
Daeva 12-16-07, 04:26 AM	we have a guy who ALWAYS plays a warforged and ALWAYS puts a data from star trek spin to it, same personality, and everything, wasnt so bad the first and second time. But he son his like 6th one and the mere obsessiveness of it has become creepy. not sure if its more annoying than creepy but we have this one guy that must, absolutely,no mater what, end up in a position of leadership over the group somehow or he gets all kinds of pissy, which is the creepy part, has a weird voice and odd eyebrows. And the other guy whos openly anti gay, but is obviously gay at the same time in real life... obsessed with playing bards and gnomes
The Game 12-16-07, 09:29 AM	I am a bit of a freak. That I will admit. But, truth be told, Im harmless, in fact Im pretty friendly, I just have a very twisted sense of humor that branches off into other things. I dont live in a basement, nor do I live off pizza scraps I found floating in my mothers pool. I go to university and I study writing, so I spose Im an educated oddity. Yes, I like that definition more. Like the Japanese saying goes, if you want to judge a man, look at his friends. While this would of course, doom me if my future step dad ever did such a thing, it can still kinda hold some water, even if you shudder at the thought of what it says about me when reading the following descriptions of a pair of my gaming friends. The point I am trying to get across here, is that in a way, everyone at our RPG'ing table is a little weird, but not in a way that we notice - except in moments of self-reflection that ultimately see's us laughing at ourselves - but more of the Adams family kind of way you know? The family are a bunch of weird, social misfits, but too each other, they are perfectly normal. So, where shall I begin. I think Ill start with my DnD GM: The Knight-complex: This player, generally a male, takes the envisioned fantasy of being a Knight, just a little too far. He owns a real sword that he keeps in his car, and in his caravan home he practices on plastic bags. Though he usually DM's - and hates magic users when he does, tailoring any encounter he can to favor the close combat damagers of a party - whenever he plays he is always a Paladin, he always has blonde hair and his character names always start with the letter A. In any form of video game, he will endevour to consistently be on the 'good side', unless it is a World War II themed RTS or FPS, in which case he will always go the Germans. Not the Japanese, not the Italians, but the Germans. This man is also 6'8, built rather heavily (Muscle, not fat), and though has the ability to laugh at himself he takes any homosexual jokes directed his way as a dire insult. He does not drink, for it is against - in his words - 'His knightly vow'. However, on the upside, he is incredibly loyal, and despite his menacing visage, he is a rather pleasant person to joke around with, and he fiercely protects women, but not to the point of hindering their freedom. The Arrogant Pig: This man has a superiority complex over others just brimming under the surface, yet no one understands why. He is ghastly in appearance, lacking in hygiene, is something of a bully, chubby, and who garnered the reaction from a woman who was sent his picture, something along the lines of 'No f***ing way'. Despite these lemons that life has handed him, he does boast a good intellect, if though possessing twisted and sometimes outlandish logical processes. True to his namestake, this particular gamer enjoys his food to such an extent, that the way in which he consumes it concerns him very little. Whether it is eating half a chocolate mud cake then drinking 5 bottles of beer before vomiting the rest of the night away - then wondering why it happens when he does it again the next night - or leaving dirty dishes on the floor of his living room for long enough that blocks (blocks, not patches) of mold have taken up residence, the fineries of dining are lost on him. This gamers life style can be summed up with a simple quote, that was his answer to the question of why he was wearing a brown shirt 'It used to be white'.
UltimateReality 12-16-07, 05:36 PM	his answer to the question of why he was wearing a brown shirt 'It used to be white'. Oh god. I used to know a guy like this. Wonderfully nice man. Bachelor who couldn't keep his apartment worth a damn. You couldn't see the floor under all the garbage, I was SCARED to use the bathroom, and we started bringing pop because getting to the faucet to clean a glass and get some water was iffy. What did it for me? They ordered pizza in, set it down, and then promptly lost it in the mess. They found a pizza box shortly, but were unable to determine whether it was the pizza they had JUST laid down, or an old box from two weeks ago... I felt so sorry for his roommate's cat.
The_Shaman 12-16-07, 08:12 PM	Ouch, and I thought I was bad at housekeeping. The BDS takes the cake, though. Can anyone provide a link to the thread where it was first detailed? I want to sig that.
kelvinaw273 12-17-07, 01:00 PM	Ouch, and I thought I was bad at housekeeping. The BDS takes the cake, though. Can anyone provide a link to the thread where it was first detailed? I want to sig that. It's here somewhere: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=133489&page=1
OmnipotentSeal 12-18-07, 08:42 PM	For those too lazy to look through 700+ pages for this wonderful anecdote, here's another link (http://dnd.meetup.com/1059/boards/view/viewthread?thread=3559848) that has the story quoted at the top of the thread.
Shadowshimmer 12-19-07, 02:28 PM	The Mood Changes On A Dime Guy/GirlThis person can change on a dime and it must be because they are bipolar or something. "So why don't we attack the Vampire's castle during the day because they should be asleep?" "What do you think John?" "What are you blaming me for any missed chances?!!!" "I could kill the vampire all by myself, screams John, The Mood Changes On A Dime Guy." "Umm, okay, just thought we would get some kind of plan going." "Oh, okay, that seems logical, says John, The Mood Changes On A Dime Guy who now is in a calm mood." These people are difficult to play with because they are nice one minute and then act like they want to kill you because you talked to them.
Dog_O_War 12-19-07, 03:23 PM	The Mood Changes On A Dime Guy/GirlThis person can change on a dime and it must be because they are bipolar or something. "So why don't we attack the Vampire's castle during the day because they should be asleep?" "What do you think John?" "What are you blaming me for any missed chances?!!!" "I could kill the vampire all by myself, screams John, The Mood Changes On A Dime Guy." "Umm, okay, just thought we would get some kind of plan going." "Oh, okay, that seems logical, says John, The Mood Changes On A Dime Guy who now is in a calm mood." These people are difficult to play with because they are nice one minute and then act like they want to kill you because you talked to them. I'd actually throw this one in "worst players" thread instead. I game with a woman that is like this' storming out of the room or freaking out when things don't do her way, or constant attempts to kill themselves (in game) over something small and insignificant. I gamed with a guy that was like this as well; good times. I used to press his buttons just to watch him flip out - it's really funny too when he's a 5'6" 130 pound man.
snakeman830 12-19-07, 04:15 PM	lonewolf6339 would probably say me. You know, The player who does evil/insane too well. Torture? More fun than asking nicely. (liquid pain extractors also work for discipline problems!) Enslaving? Cheaper than buying a pet. (Poor Jack, why did you have to die? Oh yeah, you wouldn't behave, so we had to put you to sleep.) Skull for a puppet? Why not a god? All hail George! What he would say was creepiest was the fact that I actually enjoyed doing this. (I haven't had the time to do things more vile, but I'm going to give BoVD a lesson on mild evil before I'm done.)
CaptainPicard 12-19-07, 08:19 PM	The Guy who Likes Moe Anime too Much This is a guy who can rattle off the voice actors (and he will often insist on calling them 'seiyuus') of everyone in Haruhi, Otome, Ouran, Lucky Star, Zero no Tsukaima, and xteen other anime that are based around girls being cutesy and adorable. If you don't know what 'moe' means, this page attempts to explain it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_%28slang%29. Anyway, this guy decides that because he loves the moe character archetype so much, he is going to make all his characters adorable girls with dozens of "cute" character flaws. Moe anime on its own is creepy for people not used to it, but when this guy does it, it tends to go to the next level. Often coincides with the guy who thinks little girls are valid PCs. Known for his ability to permanently ruin the image of female Drow for everyone. As a side note, even with people who share his likes and are comfortable around these sort of portrayals, he only gets upgraded to the "annoying" category. This is due to while your adorable Louise ripoff (I feel a picture is better than an explanation here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Zero_Louise.jpg) might be cute when she botches the spell, the party just got TPK'd because of her.
PlaDeDump 12-19-07, 10:28 PM	The Person Who Stares Right At You But Says Nothing For A Long Time: You say something in game to this person and they just stare back at you like Deer in the headlights. "So, Aerial, I say we attack the Wizard's tower tonight because he will not expect it." "What do you think?" Stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, uncomfortable silence, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, stare, "Hmm, okay," says Aerial. I mean for crying out loud, can these people take any longer to think/roleplay?? What are they thinking for what seems like 30 seconds or longer and they are not even blinking? It is just really uncomfortable and they look at you like they are doing a gaze attack. OMG, this is me! It's my main social problem, I tend to stare at people. I don't mean too, but I can't really help it. I'm working on this problem of mine, though. Oh well, everyone has something weird about themselves. At least, I tell myself this to make me feel okay about my weird problem. :)
key 12-20-07, 08:46 AM	the party just got TPK'd because of her. But at least everybody had a good laugh?
Keevo_Darkwood 12-21-07, 02:49 AM	Certainly. http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb76/Interrogator-Chaplain_Ezra/brain_bleach.jpg Better now? Personally the thought of spending time in the company of unstable men with guns who face no consequences should they decide to shoot me and in fact are employed to kill people regularly is frankly ... look, I'm just not going to go there, OK? I've been desperate to play in the past, but never THAT desperate. Giving back the brainbleach so soon, eh? *smiles sadly at you as he continues calmly* Some advice for you is in order, then: do not--I say again, do not click on this link (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=133489&page=267). These days, it seems to be Spartans, but it's winding down. I did have to put one player in his place, though ... stylishly. He starts talking about how Sparta did this, and how Sparta did that, so of course, I stood up and yelled at the top of my lungs: "THIS IS NOT SPARTA!!" One stunned player, three more laughing their butts off. :) While we're on the subject of things originating from the RPGNet forum, I'd like to be the one to bring a rather fun tradition from there over to here. Salla, you are hereby awarded a Laugh Point. You've earned it. :D :thumbsup: :clap:
Entropy_Judge 12-21-07, 04:51 PM	Some advice for you is in order, then: do not--I say again, do not click on this link. I don't need Brain Bleach from that (something must be wrong with me ...), I just feel like I need to puke. Ugh. Those people are disgusting.
Etarnon 12-21-07, 05:14 PM	SECRET NAZI: The guy who shows up for the pre-advertised one shot D&D campaign recruiting/startup game wearing a full dress Luftwaffe uniform, complete with peaked cap, and medals. Disturbing to the game groups at the Adventurer's guild, escorted off the campus by campus police. STALKER GUY: The guy who is stalking your girlfriend, to the point of joining your D&D group, to get recon on you, as an antagonist of his. Until one day your girlfriend drops by the game, walks in and is horrified to see him sitting there, gaming with you. ANIMAL LOVER: The girl who loves her cat so much all of her clothes are covered in cat hair, her arms are covered in cat scratches, and she carries the fresh scent of cat urine. Gaming with her is impossible, becauseshe only puts down her dragonlance book to "Roll dice in combat."
lonewolf6339 12-21-07, 05:24 PM	[QUOTE=snakeman830;14624543]lonewolf6339 would probably say me. You know, The player who does evil/insane too well. QUOTE] Yes I do say you... You were the most into that evil campaign out of the entire party.
The_Shaman 12-21-07, 06:43 PM	Giving back the brainbleach so soon, eh? *smiles sadly at you as he continues calmly* Some advice for you is in order, then: do not--I say again, do not click on this link (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=133489&page=267). Creepy, no; unpleasant, hell yeah. I pride myself on having a very controlled imagination (as in, not having it unless I have to), but that made me rather uncomfortable as I was eating my sandwitch.
Pudge_is_cute 12-21-07, 10:39 PM	Creepy, no; unpleasant, hell yeah. I pride myself on having a very controlled imagination (as in, not having it unless I have to), but that made me rather uncomfortable as I was eating my sandwitch. Whoa... I have never seen people as extreme as Darkwood has linked. I may have strange quirks in me but I will not go all out on them or reveal them unless I trust the guys or gal that I am with. I am an animator of sort and I draw stuff for people to enjoy but man, those guys described there is way to degraded. I mean, there is a reason why the word "civilized" and "secrecy" is invented. Yes, be civilized everywhere you go and act normal, except in your bedroom that is.
kelvinaw273 12-22-07, 10:54 AM	Giving back the brainbleach so soon, eh? *smiles sadly at you as he continues calmly* Some advice for you is in order, then: do not--I say again, do not click on this link (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=133489&page=267). Read it before. With growing revulsion I found myself drawn back into the story again. Fortunately I made my Horror check by suspending my belief ... mostly. I feel ill now.
Pudge_is_cute 12-23-07, 02:51 AM	Read it before. With growing revulsion I found myself drawn back into the story again. Fortunately I made my Horror check by suspending my belief ... mostly. I feel ill now. Specially the fatty girl who sneaks up on him from the table, man that's so vile and nasty. >.<
kelvinaw273 12-23-07, 09:31 AM	Specially the fatty girl who sneaks up on him from the table, man that's so vile and nasty. >.< :yuck: You just had to remind us all didn't you? There is a new thread here which is slightly less revolting, though still creepy: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=369229
Brownie 12-23-07, 11:46 AM	I once played with a guy who decided to go out on his own in a swamp, and he died. I said that I was going to find him and take his sword, and he was telling me I couldn't. So he said he was going to make a new character to kill ours, because of "honor." Anyway, me and my friend had a good laugh, and he started to cry, because he doesn't like when you laugh at his creations. We stopped once he started crying though.
Pudge_is_cute 12-23-07, 12:59 PM	:yuck: You just had to remind us all didn't you? There is a new thread here which is slightly less revolting, though still creepy: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=369229 sorry about that....:weep:
icuall 02-22-08, 12:43 PM	The Casual Torturer We used to have a player who would volunteer and offer to torture anybody and everybody in game. It didn't matter who it was - prisoners, homeless, children, ladies, and of course males. It was always under the guise "for the good of the party goals". And he would at every session discribe the most horrific ideas on how to torture someone - unbelievable! I am a grown man now, and it still creeps me out. More so in that he would laugh and think all his ideas were funny. Also bothersome, he expected as if we would also enjoy playing them out in game. Our DM would say "Okaaayyy....lets move on now" cautiously half expecting a real life dagger to come out on the table and for the player to strike down anybody randomly. Other than that, the player was a nice guy in all respects except for that side of him that he let came out when he wanted to torture someone. You would not expect it.
Captain_Madrick 02-22-08, 01:33 PM	The "My character's death ruins the night" Player The guy who loves his character, thinks he's perfectly ready to kill any baddie the DM throws at the party, and then when his character gets killed, his face drops, he starts speaking snarky and rudely to everyone, continually points out that his character died (though we all saw that), and storms away from the table. Can't handle players that won't accept death as a possibility in the game...seems to think he deserves an invincibility cheat code in the game or something :(
themocaw 02-22-08, 02:22 PM	Ken reminds me of this exchange from Star Wars West End. Chuck: How do I get Dark Side Points? GM: You act in an evil way. Chuck: So, like, if my character Jaden turned to Lobi-Winn and asked, "I wonder which of those two little girls will scream louder if I tortured and anally raped them," that would get me Dark Side Points? GM: (appalled) Chuck, take two Dark Side Points. Chuck: What? But Jaden didn't actually say that to Lobi-Winn. (picks up his pencil) GM: No, don't write them down, Jaden doeesn't get the Dark Side points, YOU do. You, Chuck, the player, now have two Dark Side Points in Real Life, and Jim? (turns to Lobi-Winn's character) You got one Dark Side Point for listening to him. Jim: What the hell!?
Shadowshimmer 02-22-08, 02:58 PM	The I want to be a killer in real life guy but I play D & D instead This is the player who is frustrated in real life and angry at the world and boy are they going to take it out on their D & D roleplaying. "Okay, so the group is approaching the stable and" says the DM before being interrupted. "I launch a fireball at the stable!" screams The I want to be a killer in real life guy but I play D & D instead guy. "Why did you do that?" the group screams in unison. "Because, they had it coming!" screams killer guy. "Who had it coming, the horses?"
Guardian1 02-22-08, 10:38 PM	Specially the fatty girl who sneaks up on him from the table, man that's so vile and nasty. >.< At first, I was confused about the link, mainly because I coudn't access it. Then you reminded us, and I remembered reading it before. "Shudder" That's as bad as Cthulu making an appearance. Wait, it's worse, because with Cthulu, you at least have the mercy of going insane when he's nearby.
Enmarnacu 02-22-08, 11:40 PM	The Girlfriend: The player that is only there because she wants to be with her boyfriend every waking moment. Has a terribly generic character that is devoid of personality because she only speaks to her boyfriend. By whispering. In his ear. Creepy because she seems to be some kind of coolness void, making her otherwise awesome roleplaying boyfriend as dry as unbuttered toast.
Majick 02-23-08, 01:27 AM	The "My character's death ruins the night" Player The guy who loves his character, thinks he's perfectly ready to kill any baddie the DM throws at the party, and then when his character gets killed, his face drops, he starts speaking snarky and rudely to everyone, continually points out that his character died (though we all saw that), and storms away from the table. Can't handle players that won't accept death as a possibility in the game...seems to think he deserves an invincibility cheat code in the game or something :( Sadly i have a friend who is like this. It is always readily apparent that whenever his character isn't being the centre of attention and making all the decisions, the game is obviosly going badly and will therefore badmouth the other players, their tactics and the game itself. To me this expresses a certain superiority/holier-than-thou attitude that simply cannot be avoided sometimes in the real world (and therefore in D&D too). Fortunatly when it's my world and i am the DM, harsh life lessons can come thick and fast: You act like a fool and think that the world revolves around you and it will, in every way possible; enemies will hunt you, evil NPC's always want a piece of you, random NPC's will know you only for your complete disregard for others and lack of anything resembling a brain. If the DM really is considered 'God' in most games, i am definitly OLD TESTAMENT
Drackthor 02-23-08, 07:31 AM	EDIT: Ignore this, give a big round of applause for guy who reads first page and makes post on 4th after argument is over!
Cuindless 02-24-08, 01:34 AM	The Not-So-Closet Furry: Werecreature? Catfolk? Half-hamster halfling Druid with a 27 charisma? This player is less creepy so much as amusing, depending on how far they go with it...The one example I've known was a typical gamer otherwise, if a bit silly, but the rest of the table couldn't help but exchange glances each time a new session began. Even in a City of the Spider Queen campaign, he managed to stick to his theme :rolleyes: This one is actually a sub-category of The Overly Proud Deviant. They're into something... something not generally considered normal. Maybe it's BDSM. Maybe it's Yiff. Maybe it's Hirsutism. It doesn't matter, right? That's cool, to each their own. This player, though, takes it a bit further. They like to talk about their fetish. All the time. Every day. Constantly. You say, "This conversation makes me a little uncomfortable, can we just get back to D&D?" They just look at you with these hollow, cat-like eyes and say, "You wouldn't if you tried it..." It still sends shivers down my spine... STALKER GUY: The guy who is stalking your girlfriend, to the point of joining your D&D group, to get recon on you, as an antagonist of his. Until one day your girlfriend drops by the game, walks in and is horrified to see him sitting there, gaming with you. Holy crap, this happened at my table! I was the DM, and this guy joined the game. He was really cool, played an interesting character, optimized fairly well and had a good head for tactics. One day, one of the other player's girlfriend came to pick him up. When she walked in, she dropped her purse and started breathing heavily. "Hi Janice..." STALKER GUY says all creepily. Thankfully, someone had the police on speed dial.
moonblossom 02-24-08, 06:31 PM	Who said anything about physically touching someone? If someone's character makes a pass at another player's character and they are looking at the other player they are not making a pass at the other player. They are merely looking at them because players are, in essence, their characters. I don't think that's true in every situation...my character once got seduced into various things by a guy who clearly has a crush on me OOC. And another girl's character was completely flirting with her OOC crush's character. I suppose it's possible to PC flirt without meaning it, but I've seen a lot of cases where there's more to it.
key 02-25-08, 10:54 AM	Holy crap, this happened at my table! I was the DM, and this guy joined the game. He was really cool, played an interesting character, optimized fairly well and had a good head for tactics. One day, one of the other player's girlfriend came to pick him up. When she walked in, she dropped her purse and started breathing heavily. "Hi Janice..." STALKER GUY says all creepily. Thankfully, someone had the police on speed dial. Did they actually call the police?
Cuindless 02-25-08, 02:07 PM	Did they actually call the police? Yes. There was a lot more involved in this than a simple stalking. There was a restraining order and a lot of other legal problems. I won't bother you with the details.
squidyak 02-25-08, 04:25 PM	The creepy sexual fetish guy. As a dm he tried to sodomize my character, until another PC severed the gimp's *****. Most brutal thing he did as a player was the lightsaber up the butt-hole of an NPC. Creepiest thing as a DM was the npc jerkin his gerkin in the outhouse. Not just in the outhouse, but down IN the outhouse. As in the hole the outhouse sits over.
key 02-25-08, 05:45 PM	Yes. There was a lot more involved in this than a simple stalking. There was a restraining order and a lot of other legal problems. I won't bother you with the details. Can't get any creepier than that. :hides:
Cuindless 02-25-08, 07:33 PM	Can't get any creepier than that. :hides: I don't know... Brazilian Death Squad is pretty hard to beat.
key 02-26-08, 12:59 AM	I don't know... Brazilian Death Squad is pretty hard to beat. Hmm... <scrub scrub> Ah thanks for that ... OK, there is a post in there by a DM in Brazil who after a game one evening had a new player ask him if he could run a game for some friends of his ... he agreed. A few days later he found himself running a game for a squad of <ahem> police officers who belonged to what at that time was a very select unit of the police who had licence to act with great discretion in the execution of their duties (with heavy emphasis on the 'execution'). They brought along munchies, beer, guns, various illegal drugs and a couple of 'ladies of negotiable affection' who performed their trade at the table as the riotous game progressed. The DM made it a free-for-all game that the players loved in between swigging, snorting and other words ending with 'ing' and made a fast exit afterwards grateful to escape with his life and vowing never to return! The sex and drugs don't sound that creepy to me. If one of those words ending in 'ing' is 'killing', hopefully they were gentlemanly enough to target only the hookers.
Cuindless 02-26-08, 02:53 AM	Hmm... The sex and drugs don't sound that creepy to me. If one of those words ending in 'ing' is 'killing', hopefully they were gentlemanly enough to target only the hookers. The account as originally written (sblocked below) is actually a little creepier. The guys brought guns and were blatantly intimidating the DM into staying and running the game. I get the impression that the DM is a fairly straight-laced individual, so he found the illegal drugs and illicit sex to be objectionable. This Brazilian Death Squad wouldn't let him leave! I guess I will just have to mention my brief GMing to the brazilian police death squad. Everything begun at my local gameclub (by local I mean the only one in a 4,000,000 people city) some five years ago. This club was run by a fellow hobbyist on weekends, was located at a big avenue and had a large 'Camelot' plaque hanging over the door with the picture of a knight. Needlessly to say it attracted a lot of curious people. Well, at the end of a saturday afternoon of particularly intense WEG Star Wars playing I was approached by this timid skinny guy in his late twenties. He had been watching the entire session and was almost apologetic about coming forward to talk to me. Anyway he lived just 3 blocks away and he loved "games", so he wanted someone to GM a game for him and his "work colleagues". They had never roleplayed before. He seemed a nice, clean, eager-to-play guy, so I invited him and his buddies for a AD&D game in the club, the following night. Nothing would have prepared me and the other player (the club owner) for the cast of foul characters arriving at the club the next night. Just to contextualize the many non-brazilian readers in this thread, there are two kinds of police in Brazil: the semi-illiterate oppressive superviolent military police, and the corrupt immoral wiseguy detective/mobster types from the civilian police. These guys were the second type. These four men (the skinny guy only showed up later) were villain prototypes and had intimidation skill points worth entire 20th level characters. Even when they nicely said hello they had menace written all over their foreheads. It was night, but they were dressed like beach tourists, wearing soccer team t-shirts and sandals. There were so much male jewelry as to make Mr. T look like a girl playing childīs bijouterie. All of them had pistols attached at strategic holsters in their bodies, at least one of them had knives, and all of them were anxious to play the nice "game of dice". I should see the size of the problem when a huge black man put two bottles of smuggled whisky on top of the table we would play. He seriously asked me if that was booze enough for all of us (two bottles for 7 people). I replied I didnīt drink. He said he would freeze the liquid for me to eat it and his mouth opened in a big smile filled with golden teeth. Anyway the quarreling began when I showed them the pre-gen characters. All of them "wanted to be the master". There were also quarreling about who would get which character (they were choosing by the pictures). But that was mild quarreling and they calmed down as their heavy drinking and joint smoking ensued. Oh, and they also loved the dice. The game finally began at the tavern where I had planned the characters to meet and the players to familiarize themselves with the blessed and (to them) newly-perceived freedom a player has in a RPG. They caught on fast enough with IC dialogue, and besides the incessant joint passing and abusive drinking the players were concentrated, with cellphones turned off and all. Thatīs when the prostitutes arrived. Unknowingly to me and the club owner, skinny guy had arranged for two prostitutes, old acquaintances of these guys, to meet at my friendīs gaming club. Things went downhill from there, with the women disrupting the game and the telling of IC mixed with OOC murder stories. By this point my friend made the second mistake of the evening, trying to stop the game by telling me he was late and had to close the club and stuff. The murderous cops didnīt take his intentions well, and started to get all serious and quiet, trying to intimidate my friend. After all, he wasnīt being a nice host, since they had brought the booze, the girls, the drugs and the guns, and they were not going to leave before knowing "who won" anyway, since everyone of them had (of course) bet 50 bucks his character would "win". So I wrapped things up by having an all-out combat between the characters, while a detective banged one of the girls against a wall 4 feet away. The winner got 200 bucks and a knuckle-duster, they all had a blast and left me and my shaking buddy glad we were left alive . We never saw any of them again, not even skinny guy. Maybe not too creepy, but then again my experience is limited.
Vazhkatsi_Eleerion 02-27-08, 11:35 AM	may i just say, that around our table and hell, when we hang out too, we just have a safety word that would never come up in conversation, so that if someone is feeling uncomfortable or feels like they'd really prefer to drop the topic they do so, and we continue past it with no questions asked, mind you this doesn't happen often, and my group feels comfortable with just about anything, for instance in my last campaign, there was a lot of RP and less direct combat. it was a lot of situations that either you suceeded and lived through it by diplomacy, or you were very likely to die. course that was dungeonland, great scenario. but yeah at one point there was a fountain that granted random magical effects, for which we swapped tables and used one that had a lot of stranger effects. for instance, our cleric got doubled, then went behind the bushes, and well its not wrong because he was by himself. but yeah, for us if someone doesn't respect the word, they don't play anymore, regardless of who their character is. how do you make those spoiler hiding things? edit: um i only got to the second page before posting this, and i just want to also mention the group i play with, we aren't exactly the small weak guys and girls who are always portrayed stereotypically as such in the media as gamers. one of the other things a lot of my group does is that we fight in markland, a medieval recreation group, this is not a larp with no hitting the head, and people wearing sweatshirts and calling it armor, this is full out frat and recreational combat. I mainly do archery, but for recreation combat i fight sword and board, a 15-20 pound shield, and iron sword, along with steel helm and brigandine. so if someone gets rowdy we can usually handle them. though probably not the death squad, god that would give me nightmares.
Dog_O_War 02-27-08, 01:39 PM	may i just say, that around our table and hell, when we hang out too, we just have a safety word that would never come up in conversation, so that if someone is feeling uncomfortable or feels like they'd really prefer to drop the topic they do so, and we continue past it with no questions asked, mind you this doesn't happen often, and my group feels comfortable with just about anything, for instance in my last campaign, there was a lot of RP and less direct combat. it was a lot of situations that either you suceeded and lived through it by diplomacy, or you were very likely to die. course that was dungeonland, great scenario. but yeah at one point there was a fountain that granted random magical effects, for which we swapped tables and used one that had a lot of stranger effects. for instance, our cleric got doubled, then went behind the bushes, and well its not wrong because he was by himself. but yeah, for us if someone doesn't respect the word, they don't play anymore, regardless of who their character is. how do you make those spoiler hiding things? edit: um i only got to the second page before posting this, and i just want to also mention the group i play with, we aren't exactly the small weak guys and girls who are always portrayed stereotypically as such in the media as gamers. one of the other things a lot of my group does is that we fight in markland, a medieval recreation group, this is not a larp with no hitting the head, and people wearing sweatshirts and calling it armor, this is full out frat and recreational combat. I mainly do archery, but for recreation combat i fight sword and board, a 15-20 pound shield, and iron sword, along with steel helm and brigandine. so if someone gets rowdy we can usually handle them. though probably not the death squad, god that would give me nightmares. there is <sblock> </sblock>, and <spoiler> </spoiler> except you use [] instead of <>. Also, it sounds like your group qualifies for some of these entries here. Infact, I've got a new one; Groups that require Safewords; see above. (while inserting sex and such into your game, as well as other "random" yet sexual elements might seem funny and more "interesting", I would point you to F.A.T.A.L. as to why they are not.)
Exposed_Wires 02-27-08, 08:14 PM	edit: um i only got to the second page before posting this, and i just want to also mention the group i play with, we aren't exactly the small weak guys and girls who are always portrayed stereotypically as such in the media as gamers. one of the other things a lot of my group does is that we fight in markland, a medieval recreation group, this is not a larp with no hitting the head, and people wearing sweatshirts and calling it armor, this is full out frat and recreational combat. I mainly do archery, but for recreation combat i fight sword and board, a 15-20 pound shield, and iron sword, along with steel helm and brigandine. so if someone gets rowdy we can usually handle them. though probably not the death squad, god that would give me nightmares. Good god. It's not the pads that make LARP lame.