AD&D Players

[ShiningIce]

how many of you are sick of DM's who try to write a novel and trap you in it??? I HATE being dragged around by the balls and NEVER getting to decide what I wanna do. 😡

 

[cleopatra2003]

OUCH! AND OOEEEEEEIIIIIII THAT SOUNDS PAINFUL! 😱

 

[ShiningIce]

quiet you

 

[theallknowing1]

Sounds like a typical group of fighters

This sounds like the typical response of a group of hack&slash fighters.(Am I right?) Not a problem with the Style of play. Just a weakest link problem. The players were the weakest link(people who play hack&slash fighters usually are simpleminded) find a new group of more thoughtful players. From my experience though, while the problem with stupid players is a big one, it is not as big as with controlling DM's because it is easier to find new players that are good than to find a good DM.

(Fighter:Hmm. How do i open the door. I'll use my battle axe)
(Mage:Why not use the key that the king gave us.)
(Fighter:umm. I like the battle axe idea better.)
(Mage:Stupid barbarians)

 

[MadKalnod]

I had to ask my DM last Saturday if it struck him as odd that I was the only one in the party ordering the kobolds we faced to lay down their weapons and surrender before lobbing Lesser Cold Orbs at them, when I'm playing the frellin' Lawful Evil guy?

But then, I should have known the campaign was going to be odd when he decided to saddle my dark, bitter, vengeance-obsessed wizard (I've posted his back story here) with not one but two comic-relief sidekick NPCs:

The first is a Chaotic Good Faerie Dragon which has become his familiar, answering to the name Murfi.
Marukhos: "You do have a name, I take it?"
Murfi: "Murfinakrashniklirlakarvanakorteratanakreggarchur."
Marukhos: "I'll just call you 'Murfi' if it's all the same to you."
Murfi: "But my name is Murfinakrashniklirlakarvana..."
Marukhos: By the time I've finished shouting 'Look out, Murfi-na-krallish-... kregga-...'"
Murfi: "Murfinakrashniklirlakarvanakorteratanakreggarchur."
Marukhos: "Yes, well, by the time I've finished calling out all that, you could be dead."
Murfi's personality and voice, it should be noted, are based upon Eddie Murphy's performances as the dragon Mushu in Disney's Mulan and as the Donkey in Shrek.

The other is a talking, sentient magic item called The Skillet of Lordly Breakfasts. On command, the Skillet can produce pancakes, toast, french toast, waffles, muffins, bagels, croissants, omelettes, eggs (any style), bacon, sausages, tea, coffee, juice or indeed any sort of breakfast menu food ("But not Canadian bacon. It's just wrong," insists the Skillet) in servings large enough to feed no less than two dozen people at a time.
The big drawback is that the skillet is distressingly chipper and over-eager to please, but it can grow quite insistent, even obsessive, if it isn't asked to provide breakfast in tonnage quantities every five minutes. So it makes constant appeals to its owner to please have some "nice, hot, scrumptious blueberry flapjacks with butter and syrup" and it won't take no for an answer. Neither does it grasp the concept of a light breakfast for one. Fans of Red Dwarf should recognize the infamous Talking Toaster as a source of inspiration for this one.
The worst part about the Skillet is that it's my own idea come back to haunt me. I always crash at my DM's house on gaming night (the hour-long drive home is not recommended at 3:00 AM when we've only stopped gaming 'cause we're too sleepy to go on), and he makes pancakes the next morning, usually way more than I can finish. About a year ago, I joked that there ought to be a D&D magic item that fixed breakfast they way he did. We both laughed, came up with the name and the Toaster angle, and laughed some more. Well, Marukhos ain't laughing now...

I shudder to think what he'll do with the villain organization I had been designing around the same time - The Imperium of the Forked Tongue: A coalition of various breeds of Lizardmen, Yuan-Ti & Naga (snakemen), Draconians, and many other reptillian races; all wearing samurai armor and riding dinosaurs; led by the dread Serpent Queen Sssth'karra, the last of the malevolent Cobra Dragons cursed into human form; and bent on displacing those pesky human mammals as holders of the Top-of-the-Food-Chain title belt. All I know is, the DM's been painting an awful lot of reptillian miniatures lately...

 

[Texas_Tickle]

Actually, I had just the opposite problem.

I'd been a DM for nearly two decades, man & boy. I have a group back in Houston that took a module I was running them through to build them up for better battles ahead, but...

After six weeks of mostly wasted time, the party finally met the Villain, who was all set to brag about where he stashed the hostages before he sent his minions to attack the party. Unfortunately, the party killed him as he was saying, "At last we mee..."--thud.

That was about four years ago. Haven't played since.

I don't play anymore, because the group I played with was just so freaking immature. They were all around 25 yrs old (but at times, it was hard to believe)

One of them, just wanted to stay in the tavern, trying to hit on the bar-maid. I was the DM and about 10 minutes of trying to get him to actually "play the game", I said "The gods hit you with a bolt of lightening" and his response was "Nope... I am wearing "lighting proof armor" and I said that his character didn't have any armor like that and he said "I just made it"...and I played along for a few seconds and said "ok you're armor turned to rust" and he said "nope. I waxed it with rust-proof Armor All".

Then there were the "power-god players" who wanted to slash everything in site.


And people wonder why I don't DM any more

 

[Admiral Trouser]

I'd suggest playing "Exalted", made by White Wolf, its designed to make power-gaming fun, providing you have half an imagination. I'm a DM for it on the odd occasion, and its rollicking good fun. For those of you who preferre it more gritty, they released the rules for the "Bad Guys", the Dragon-Blooded, who are more numerous but less powerful than there solar-exalted counter-parts. Loads of scope for political intrigue in that, excellent game.

I preferre the system they use in that to the D20 one in A D&D, I think the latter has finaly run its course.

AT

 

[Oddjob0226]

I don't play anymore, because the group I played with was just so freaking immature. They were all around 25 yrs old (but at times, it was hard to believe)

One of them, just wanted to stay in the tavern, trying to hit on the bar-maid. I was the DM and about 10 minutes of trying to get him to actually "play the game", I said "The gods hit you with a bolt of lightening" and his response was "Nope... I am wearing "lighting proof armor" .....

Why was someone like that even playing?????

The games I played... it got CREATIVE on both sides.