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The basis of playing an EVIL PC does not rest solely in and is not composed solely of, "the rape and dismemberment of women, the desecration of corpses, ignoring mercy," or blowing my gold at the brothel in vivid detail, and making members of the party feel uncomfortable. I know this so du...

@Lago: I don't see how my killing all the goblins in this cave and every cave there after and taking their stuff will dissolve the party... This is standard operating procedure. They're just monsters to your average PC afterall,thus the moral ramifications of goblin genocide go largely without being...

@Lago PARANOIA: Your ability to grasp the spectrum of evil is stunted. There exist within team evil more than psychotic madmen who are unable to contribute to a group setting and disney villains. There are clerics of tyranny who follow laws to the highest order and uphold order in the land while at ...

PC evil: The obvious problem with this is that almost every, if not every DM who has ever allowed PC evil as a viable option has unavoidably encountered someone who wants to play "Bwa, ha,ha!" maniacal evil. Everyone knows who I speak of. Lord Puppy Massacre, or whatever, who's only appare...

I neither defend nor condemn the level of depravity a DM chooses to use. I speak on the pros and cons of various DM styles as a logical observer and only in that capacity.

@RobbyPants: I am not apologizing for my DM's choice to run the demon rape saga that she so chose. My interest rests in making sure this style of game is viewed from a pragmatic and logical standpoint, devoid of personal morality based bias and emotional sentiment. Though I do concede your point tha...

@Starmaker: The DM's premeditated scheme to have her PC dragged to hell and brutally raped by demons was indeed an act of vengeance but it was nonetheless conducted in a reasonable manner given the limited information she had at her disposal. Even had she smilingly asked Kareemna's player, "May...

In the misery of your game experience, my own cheating DM pales in comparison. I don't believe that there is any amount of character optimization that would compensate for the degree of open fuckery.

You were right to quit that farce of an adventure.

Loops back to my sentiment that guns should ignore armor. We have guns today. No one wears full plate.

It would seem that all who are present favor the notion of warrior women with monstrous boobs which, in no form or fashion, hinder them or their combat efficiency.

I am certain that this new found common ground will serve as a building block to something positive.

@Blasted: Your practices are not so unreasonable as they are geared towards helping the PCs in a fashion. It is more along the lines of things such as: all monsters auto save, auto win skill checks, wind back time to live, gain double hit points mid battle without cause, mind control no save, and th...

@Maxus: How did your play style evolve to compensate for severity of this DM's cheating? Did you simply accept this treatment?
Mind control, no save can have a very inspirational effect on character design.

@Midnight_v: Reasonable procedures were followed - Ask permission of parent to expose a minor to a rated R experience before doing so. This may appear to fail because the parent in question was a psychotic sexual deviant preying upon his own children but he was an exception to the rule and not the m...

@Ganbare Gincun: The DM was indeed as vengeful as she is made to sound, but not monstrous. I'm certain she would have chosen another way to extract her vengeance had she been aware of what was going on away from the table. When the girl turned 18 she and her siblings came out with the truth and deci...

@CatharzGodfoot: Your views of what is reasonable when DMing for a 16 year old girl and her father, while noble, are still YOUR views and morality sometimes varies wildly from person to person, and culture to culture. It may, in fact, not even exist in terms you would appreciate, rendering your view...

The basis if pathfinder seems to rest heavily in finding a class that does not suck.
So heavily, in fact, that playing a none pathfinder related class appears to be the most viable option for a gaming experience which is not defined by facets of misery and mediocrity.

@ubernoob: I still have fond memories of running you through an adventure in my "Citadel of Unending Thumps."
It would be nice to see your style as a DM.

Have you ever stopped to think about why a DM cheats? Is your DM cheating when you play the game? As a DM do YOU cheat? Once, these are thoughts that were unknown to me. Things I would never even have thought to consider but I came to find, over time, that one of my party's long standing DM's was a ...

I can understand how it is tempting to make a hasty generalization regarding the matter "DM rapes the PC with demons" after having read of this particularly worst case scenario. However, that is still a fallacy and one girl's misfortune does not define the entirety of the gaming community....

Well I certainly don't have enough personal investiture to argue for the cause of one breasted female warriors if someone is willing to cast doubt on the possible amazon reference provided by wiki. The massive boobs do, after all, allow for the addition of some favored boob tropes in normal gaming t...

Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, "without breast", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their right breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation ...

People play pathfinder because it has... Pretty pictures?

I favor the notion of guns having the ability to bypass armor. That way a bullet may be dodged or deflected, but getting shot typically means you have been shot.

Do not bemoan the end of things you are comfortable with. Accept your fate with dignity and composure. By most accounts, this system will actually prove rewarding to a well played mage so you need only flow with that current instead of against it if you wish to have a comfortable adventure. Wherein ...

Once my human paladin, Count Morgenstein, was in a long running campaign which featured a beautiful elven enchantress by the name of Kareemna. While there are many celebrated Count Morgenstein tales, today it is her story that I shall share. Now Kareemna was played by a pretty blonde 16 year old gir...