The Gaming Den

For Valor wrote:What does it mean to get someone in the sack?

The DM wanted to get my girlfriend into bed with himself and his wife.

Datawolf wrote:At least that story had a happy ending.

And we got to hear about it, which is kinda win too.

Oh. I see.

Sarandosil wrote:Of course, I wanted to play D&D since it was the only system I was familiar with. But I quickly find out D&D is a plebian system for the masses, we're going to play something much better. Rifts.

I've actually had some very positive experiences with both Rifts and Palladium Fantasy RPG, but that had a lot to do with the fact that both of the GMs that ran the games I played in were some of the best that I've ever had the fortune to play with. The parties were typical fare - we typically had a Juicer or two, a SAMUS pilot, a Tattooed Man, and everyone else was some kind of pop-culture icon from the 80s - but everyone knew coming out the gate that Rifts was fucking ridiculous, and we treated it accordingly. My only complaint is that one of the GMs had a HUGE hard-on for the Federation from Star Trek, and they basically served as a very irritating "deus ex machina" towards the end of the Rifts campaign.

But every other Rifts game I was ever in was absolute crap. Huge douchebag GMs with massive egos and little to justify them. The fact that Ley Line Walkers and other mages sucked donkey balls compared to the mech/dragon/superhero/demon characters that were running around sure didn't help either.

I always felt like Torg was a much better game that Rifts.

Palladium Fantasy was fun.. but the magic classes were seriously over powered.

(in 1 game, I almost accidentally TPWed everyone with a 1st level spell "Wind Gust" )

I played Rifts with some friends of mine years ago. We all knew full well what a screaming shit show Rifts was and made the most insane characters we could think of, who would go on the most insane adventures ever.

Good times.

That's how you handle Rifts.

It falls apart as soon as you think you can run a serious game with it

I honestly believe that you can make a insanely serious game based on an insane setting idea like rifts.

Examples include notable comic books such as Scud: The Disposable Assasin and the Filth.

ubernoob wrote:The guys that actually talk about their game... their games tend to suck in my experience. I suspect that it is because those guys are "playing D&D" instead of "hanging out with their friends with D&D as an excuse."

which just shows you have no interest in playing D&D, but do it as an excuse to hang out.

i heard of a DM once and the glories of the D&D games had, but in turn it was ubernoob's apparent type of game, where people were jsut sitting around fucking around with some D&D books nearby.

I always questioned where the hell was the D&D at that al these stories came from, it seems it was just their stupid antics when they were saying "Bob did this"...they really meant Bob did it...and you don't want to know what Bob was doing, I just feel sorry for that dog.

often the hype can tell enough about the game to tell whether it would be good or not by listening to what is in it. hype itself means the game is probably going to be nothing, but details or stories about what happens and the like offer ideas there may be a game there rather than a bunch of people sitting around playing grab-ass with each other.

TheFlatline wrote: It was a bad game, but it ended well. I fucked the dude's game, and then I went home and fucked my then-gf until dawn. And she never hung around that house again, so I'd say all in all I scored a hat trick in one evening.

Yeah, normally I'd say something like how that was a passive-aggressive thing to do, but damn. It's like all that guy wanted to do was shit on your three hour drive each way and your evening between.

I can't understand why people are like that.

That story is pure awesome and win. Period.

His name wasn't Moonchilde was it

Ever had this excuse as to why you can't join?

"Sorry, the campaign already started, and new players would disrupt the story I've been working on"

I've given up on a friend because of that line one too many times. This is a guy I practically taught D&D a decade ago, and put up with his LARP-like bullshit ADHD antics every time he wants to hog the spotlight on other players' turns, but has since started his Own Private Group.

I've gotten off lucky over the years. The worst I ever had to deal with was a MC who assumed we could read his mind and tell what his house rules were (he never mentioned them otherwise unless there was a dispute). This guy was a total CHUD who seriously believed that cats were sapient and the universe used to be two-dimensional. He was also a Firefly fan.

My favorite gaming horror story is when I played with an awful GM, his fat-stupid-and-unattractive-but-clearly-looking-to-fuck girlfriend, and his deaf buddy.

IT'S THREE GIANT RATS!
I duck down under the table.
NO, RATS!
Oh. I swing my sword.

The whole night was like this. I couldn't bring myself to just up and walk out, but it was terrible.

sabs wrote:His name wasn't Moonchilde was it

I read this as 'Manchilde' the first time.

I thought that I alone bore the rare privilege of playing in a game where the DM used a manufactured reality to carry out and indulge in various perverse rape fetishes.

However, it would seem that, "and the session ended with me dying a horrible horrible death, ass raped by Shub Niggurath sex cultists, without a chance to blow my brains out, because they were inhumanly fast." is a more common eventuality in gaming circles than anyone would imagine.

...a more common eventuality in gaming circles than anyone would imagine.

Certainly more than I would imagine.
Why the fuck do you guy allow this shit? Pretty much as soon as someone says "Sex Cultists"... full stop, because there might need to be a discussion about respect of character... uh... integrity.

Midnight_v wrote:

...a more common eventuality in gaming circles than anyone would imagine.

Certainly more than I would imagine.
Why the fuck do you guy allow this shit? Pretty much as soon as someone says "Sex Cultists"... full stop, because there might need to be a discussion about respect of character... uh... integrity.

Perhaps because, when hearing "sex cultist", people optimistically think of this:

...rather than this: