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Some months back I was checking out the RPG.net thread "Lousy Players & Lousy GMs: Conclusions" wherein Greg Stolze lays out by name and frequency various complaints collected about Lousy Gamers in a previous thread. I was reading along, and I'm like, "Wait, where's the section for 'GM comes up with crazy hybrid system and then refuses to tell you what various levels of the stats mean'?"
Hah! I've played with GMs so uniquely shitty that not even the RPGnet people have seen their like!
I was reminded of it precisely today when I read Badger's story about a onetime boyfriend and a broken moped, and how the boyfriend refused to explain what he had done to fix the moped. Though in my case, the question "Why do you not want me to know?" got an answer: "We don't want you to minmax. Why won't you just focus on character?" "How can I know who my character is unless I know what she can do?"
People who hang their self-image on forcing others to rely on them... Badger draws the connection to sexism. I found it in an entirely different milieu, and drew different conclusions.
( What makes a man like that, Doc? )
Hah! I've played with GMs so uniquely shitty that not even the RPGnet people have seen their like!
I was reminded of it precisely today when I read Badger's story about a onetime boyfriend and a broken moped, and how the boyfriend refused to explain what he had done to fix the moped. Though in my case, the question "Why do you not want me to know?" got an answer: "We don't want you to minmax. Why won't you just focus on character?" "How can I know who my character is unless I know what she can do?"
People who hang their self-image on forcing others to rely on them... Badger draws the connection to sexism. I found it in an entirely different milieu, and drew different conclusions.
( What makes a man like that, Doc? )
