Who is the weirdest/creepist person you have ever gamed with?

[nexus]

For me, it would have to be a guy I'm going to Ed. I met Ed threw a mutual friend in high school and at the first meeting he seemed pretty all right. A little rough looking but an ok guy. Looking back, I recall getting some serious warning vibes from our mutual friend but I (and the others in the group) ignored them since we were just happy to meet another gamer. It was a small city and gamers were few and far between. Things were find until we started gaming at Ed's house. It was close to school, his parents didn't seem to mind and it was more conveient that using the cafeteria. That's were we learned a few things about him though.

Ed didn't bathe much. In fact, he didn't ever seem to. Being in close proxmity to him for days at a time made this abundantly clear. He would go into the bathroom, you'd hear the shower run breifly and he'd emerge, hair not even damp and smelling of thick colonge. Mingled with days old BO. He wore the same tattered sweat pants (with multiple embarrasing holes) for weeks on end with a stained t-shirt and cheap leather boots he couldn't walk in for weeks, despite crusty food stains and tears. Hisliving conditions were just as filthy. I'm not a neatnick myself, but this guy was gross. There were old food coverd plates eveywhere, garbage strewn on the flood with stuff growing on it. He even refused to walk his poor dog and unless one of us took pity on her, she'd end up having accidents that he refused to clean up which made our gaming area smell -really- nice... He seemed to a vortex of filth. Once we spent most of a weekend cleaning up his place, left for 3 hours and came back to find it completely trashed. He never even thanked us and in fact lectured us about moving his stuff around.

He cheated. Big time. When we played wargames he's screw with the rules of leave out major sections of them "accidentally" to screw us over. The game's he ran were full of Uber NPCs that existed to upstage our PCs and let us watch them to "cool" (IE:whatever stuff he'd stolen from some show or anime he was currently obsessed with). He would deliberately misinterprete our actions to make us look as stupid as possible in game. His lying didn't only include games. He would weave this long (and looking back ridiculous) stories about his personal life such as how he was in motorcyle gang, was abducted by aliens, saw ghosts and been in a serious player in our town's drug scene. All complete BS but we were naive enough to actually believe it then I'm ashamed to admit. He has this entire fabricated life that just happened to resemble ALL of his characters.

Speaking of his characters, or character, I should say, he only had one. A streetwise, cyberpunk style gang member named Alex, Paul or Kevin. All his characters were named Alex Paul or Kevin. He seemed to honestly notice. They were all "rock stars", had red headed slutty girlfriends and deep deep emotional issues which made them do things like write things on their own blood on the cockpits of their X wings (He played this character in every game from Shadowrun to Star Trek to Star wars). He'd then act like he didn't know why the other PCs wouldn't associate with him. His character also had severe issues about sex and sexuality, going into frenzies if he even suspected someone might be having sex with more then one partner and disrupting the game with his antics for hours on end. This even happened as a GM when he would either change reality to "Punish" sexually active characters or just insult them and their players non stop, often about situations he'd initated in the game to begin to with! Personally, I had a character stalked by one of his threw an entire game of Shadowrun by a guy she could not stand. When I talked to him about he said my PC had "lead him on". Apparently not shooting him in the kneecaps like she threatened to do when the first met was a come on.

Eventually the last straw came when Ed started faking "seizures" out of game to get attention. When he didn't get his way he'd have an "attack" and start spazzing on the floor. If you watch closely you could see he would stop and see if anyone was buying it every now and again. He used this gimmick to cost his parents (who were really nice people) several hundred dollars in therpay bills. At that point, the rest of just started finding "other things to do" on weekends and the group moved on.

[Gunrunner]

I don't appreciate you calling my Dad creepy!

Haha, good story. I enjoy reading about deranged people.

[paigeoliver]

As far as the sex stuff goes. Do most people really have much any sex in their games? Never had any to speak of in mine.

[Vondy]

As far as the sex stuff goes. Do most people really have much any sex in their games? Never had any to speak of in mine.

My games tend to follow the following implicit rating system:

Violence: R.

Language: PG-13.

Sexual Content: PG-13.

At the same time there have been rare occassions (rare over a period of 24 years at this point) that have led to the coining of the term "Boddice Ripper Hero (TM)"

I've also had one or two players who thought they were Scarface over the years, but as I've grown older (and become a father) I'm less inclined to entertain that at the gaming table.

[OddHat]

Ah, so he was a typical gamer then?



Creepy story, well told.

Two of the stranger ones I remember:

Norris: Handsome “Born again Christian” navy guy with two illegitimate children, each with a different mother. Every time we went out together he would immediately start hitting on any female under 25 we ran into; waitresses, young mothers with their husbands sitting right there, high school kids, store clerks, you name it. Picked fights constantly as well. All of his characters were Navy Seals. Stopped gaming with him when I realized that it wasn’t just an act.

Joe: Over six feet tall, over 400 pounds, gay Pagan 7-11 manager. Funny, smart, believed in magic and constantly told us about the mystic activities he was engaged in, including the various spirits and demons he either communed with or was protecting the world from. Believed he could astrally project into computers. Stopped gaming with him when his shift changed.

[nexus]

As far as the sex stuff goes. Do most people really have much any sex in their games? Never had any to speak of in mine.

Speaking personally, Graphic sex? In face to face, not really, but characters date, fall in love and marry so sexual activity is assumed to happen. The characters are "human" and most people eventually have sex. Romance is also a good plot hook. In PBEM, IME, sexually active characters are pretty common and sometime its done graphically.

[OddHat]

As far as the sex stuff goes. Do most people really have much any sex in their games? Never had any to speak of in mine.

Most of my games tend to have a fair amount of romance with no on-screen sex, but I ran some hard-R and NC-17 games in my early twenties. Always had female players, which I think encourages sex and romance related themes.

[nexus]

Always had female players, which I think encourages sex and romance related themes.

Yeah, I've noticed that myself. Particuarly in PBEMs. Women seem more interested in exploring their characters love lives and relationships.

[OddHat]

Yeah, I've noticed that myself. Particuarly in PBEMs. Women seem more interested in exploring their characters love lives and relationships.

Yup. Also, I think it may be easier to role-play relationships well with mixed genders at the table / in the online group, as long as the players are comfortable with it.

[Vondy]

Yeah, I've noticed that myself. Particuarly in PBEMs. Women seem more interested in exploring their characters love lives and relationships.

True, but I did have two male gamers who were an avid proponent of Soap Opera Hero (TM) and it was the female player who ended up having to drag them out into the field to get anything done.

[OddHat]

True, but I did have two male gamers who were an avid proponent of Soap Opera Hero (TM) and it was the female player who ended up having to drag them out into the field to get anything done.

My wife is a great believer in getting past the chit-chat and straight to the blowing things up.

[Vondy]

Simone.

Simone was a morose neo-pagan goth girl who was invited to one of my short lived between-major-story-arc games (it happened to be vampire) and then remained far longer than I'd hoped when we got back to the main event. She was a firm believer in the occult, freely advertised the mantra of tantra, and had a truly macabre sense of humor. I don't mean dark and edgy. I mean abyssally weird and twisted. Murder and torture gave her the giggles. She also had a passive aggressive tendency for making cold personal attacks out of the blue. She was also 'anti-monogomous,' which was really more of an excuse to be a slut, and actually had the paucity of good sense to tell one of my gamers that he didn't have to be faithful to his wife because marriage was an artificial construct. He didn't listen. Neither did I when she thought the Orthodox Jewish guy might be more receptive (moron). All of these traits existed in her characters as well - and on a superhero team, no less. Shortly before the informal players caucus that resulted in "Dave-man, ask her not to come back" one of my long-timers commented that she was creepier than some of the more psychotic and disturbed villians I'd thrown at him. I am forced, in some ways, to agree.

I've had a few encounters with the emotionally disturbed along the way - and even had to forcibly eject a visiting player who tried to pummel one of the regulars - but Simone remains the creepiest. You could just feel the aura of "not-rightness" she had.

[sinanju]

James - A guy who joined our gaming group back in college. We were playing a weird home-brewed system based on Traveller, but including lots of psionics and mutations and, well, superpowers, basically. We began to notice that James was building characters that were consistently well above average. And that every new character seemed to magically acquire a mutation or psionic power that would have saved the previous character. Eventually we confirmed that he was cheating. Plus, none of us really liked him all that much.

So while we were in-flight (this was Traveller) one day, we had a "combat drill" where you hop into your spacesuit and we evacuate the ship's atmosphere. Oops. Turns out that one PC had sabotaged his suit so it had only 5 minutes of air but the readout didn't tell him.... He got the hint and we didn't see him again.

"Book" - So-called from his annoying habit of shouting, "Let's book!" whenever he thought we ought to hustle. His characters invariably wore more weapons than Mad Max and he carred a crate--a crate! --of grenades. Which was ridiculous, but the GM got tired of arguing with him.

At one point Book and another PC were captured by the bad guys. The rest of the group tracked them down. One PC got ahead of the rest of the party and kicked in the door of the bad guys' lair. The GM asks one player, "You see several bad guys and the captives. What do you do?"

"I shoot Book!"

"What?"

"I shoot Book!"

[Cpt.Storm]

I have two that come to mind...

'Paul' - met him through the internet when I needed more players so I posted a wanted note on the net for more people. He started off just fine. He was newly married and seem well-grounded mentally. He was a good player and everyone enjoyed him until...

About six months into a campaign his new wife decided that marriage really wasn't the way to go and she wanted to see other people. 'Paul' didn't take this well at all. He started drinking, just a little at first, but it got worse and worse until one night the party was surrounded by orcs. There were orcs in the trees and on the ground. To make a move would be very fatal. So, I ask them each what they do. The rest of the players had their characters either drop weapons or sheathe them. Not Paul, he nocked an arrow and shot it straight into the air bellowing something undecipherable. It was a race to see if the orcs or the other party members could knock him unconscious first.

The situation worsened at the next gaming session when he arrived clearly inebriated. I pulled him outside and talked to him but he said he was fine. The problem was for a solid hour every few minutes he would shout out, "Crack whore!" and then chuckle to himself. After an hour of this, the group collectively asked him to leave. We never saw him again.

"Bill" - I met 'Bill' through another gaming friend of mine and he seemed harmless, if a bit lonely. He lived alone and was a scientist by trade. The problem was he seemed to have a thing for my daughter who was 9 or 10 at the time. He would always talk to her which wasn't bad in and of itself. It was when he started having her sit in his lap while we gamed that I realized something was not right.

Others in my group noticed it too and it all came to a head when he bought her a personalized book for Christmas. You know the kind where you put the child's name in and some details like where they live, their favorite toy, and a friend's name and the book is produced that is custom tailored using that information? Well, he used his name as her 'special' friend in the book and insisted on a hug that was entirely too long.

At that point, I told my daughter she needed to stay away from him and the group decided it was time for him to go. So, at the first opportunity they set up a way for him to be killed while saving the rest of the party. He didn't get the hint. So, when he created his next character, who just happened to the be brother of the previous character they immediately set upon him, chopped him into pieces and dumped him in the nearby river. He finally got the hint and never came back.

[OddHat]

"Bill" - I met 'Bill' through another gaming friend of mine and he seemed harmless, if a bit lonely.

Snipped Evil.

You win. That is creepy.