You know the GM has it in for you when...

[CGlied]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

...the GM gives you "Distinctive Feature: Target on your back (Unconcealable' date=' Causes extreme reaction)" as a mandatory disadvantage.[/quote']

 

As I said in my game last Friday, "Bummer of a birthmark Al"

[Guest Major Tom]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

...In the course of the campaign, he throws not one or two, but FIVE

dimensional counterparts of your personal nemesis at you from time to

time, and they periodically decide to have "fun" with you (making chicken

catchatorre {not sure about the spelling}, using your bathroom and tell-

ing you -- quite cheerfully -- that "you might want to let it air out for

a while").

 

And that's when they're not trying to cause complications in your

personal life (i.e., your Secret ID) by pretending to be your rela-

tives.

 

 

Major Tom

[Mike W]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

You tell the GM your character's name and he says

 

"Oh, whatever. It's not that important - as long as you know you're the one taking damage, that's enough."

[Mike W]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

This is a huuuuge inside joke but I'll explain in a moment*:

 

You know the GM has it in for you when....you're playing Ravenloft for Breakfast.

 

 

 

* When I was in college a guy had a "campaign" called Ravenloft for Breakfast. Everyone brought a character, ordered breakfast and tried to surivive long enough to bring the character next week. No one ever did. Death was generally arbitrary and amusing. For instance, two people showed up with very similar characters so the GM ruled that they were too much alike and created a reality paradox which caused them both to wink out of existence. The record length for character survival was 45 minutes.

[Pariah]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

You're rolling d6's for damage, but the GM is rolling d10's.

 

Except for STUN Multiples, where he's rolling d12's.

[ParagonAlpha]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

... when the villain is named the Protarren* and his underlings are named Dave**, Ball Bearing Guy*** and Firey Guy****.

 

*

The Protarren had "Does Knockback, Increased Knockback" on his PRE.

 

 

**

Dave had a 6 SPD, +6 SPD "Invisible Power Effects, Only to take Recoveries or Defensive Actions"

 

 

***

Ball Bearing Guy had "Desolidification-not vs. Area of Effects, Explosions or Spread Attacks". Also all his Energy Blasts (thrown ball bearings) were Indirect.

 

 

****

Firey Guy had "Desolification, Persistant, 0 END, linked to a 4d6 RKA, No Range, Persistant, 0 END, Damage Shield, Explosion".

 

[Shadowsoul]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

A darkened room counts as a potentially dangerous encounter. Because if you're not paranoid the GM will make sure that your character is.

 

You encounter a 20 foot tall creature made of the substance you are vulnerable to.

 

If you are wearing heavy armour then you will encounter a river or lake that needs to be crossed without a boat or a bridge.

 

If you a kill a villain too easily then he is probably coming back as something worse.

 

You spot the GM leafing through a Call of Cthulhu sourcebook and giggling quietly to himself.

[Doc Samson]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

When you are in a dimension where there is no sun and your Regeneration with Resurrection and Power Defense only work in sunlight (plant based powers) and then the GM has 3 coordinating minions with (campaign maximum AP) BODY Drains run out and attack only your character...true story.

[BoloOfEarth]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

... he puts on brass knuckles and says, "Okay, *this* is what the thugs do to your character..."

[Odraude]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

You know the GM has it out for you when...

 

He sets up six bombs each containing Hydrogen Cyanide gas in a subway/sewer system, then has it set to where when they are disarmed, the main bombs in the public housing areas and the conference area above are activated.

 

(True story and I was the GM. Only one person realized what I was doing because we both play too much MGS)

[Certified]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

When you hear: "Hay, I have an idea, lets up the drama a bit and I'll make your roles for you. It will be sweet, trust me."

[teh bunneh]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

... he puts on brass knuckles and says, "Okay, *this* is what the thugs do to your character..."

 

I only did that the one time!

[Lord Mhoram]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

When you hear: "Hay' date=' I have an idea, lets up the drama a bit and I'll make your roles for you. It will be sweet, trust me." [/quote']

 

I was in a rolemaster game once, and we got to the end of the adventure, and were up against the big nasty beasty. I open ended twice on one roll, and then rolled a phenomenal crit - all open table.

The beasty was defeated in one fell swoop.

The next session the GM said he was going to make all player character combat rolls behind his screen. I handed him my character sheet with some comment to the effect of "If you are going to play my character, you may as well have the sheet too" and walked out.

[Certified]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

I was in a rolemaster game once, and we got to the end of the adventure, and were up against the big nasty beasty. I open ended twice on one roll, and then rolled a phenomenal crit - all open table.

The beasty was defeated in one fell swoop.

The next session the GM said he was going to make all player character combat rolls behind his screen. I handed him my character sheet with some comment to the effect of "If you are going to play my character, you may as well have the sheet too" and walked out.

 

I think the only time this works is in a double blind game of battletech, but how often do you get one of those going?

[incrdbil]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

The GM bought Taco Bell for everyone, and the only fan in the room directs all air at you.

 

Ok, in the spirit of the thread: the GM rolls your activation roll. Only yours.

[yamamura]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

He is running Crisis on Infinite Earth and he hands you Supergirl to play.

 

He is running a Marvel campaign and he hands you Spiderman to play.

[BoloOfEarth]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

... he puts on brass knuckles and says, "Okay, *this* is what the thugs do to your character..."

 

I only did that the one time!

 

And the bruises are healing nicely!

[Cygnia]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

 

He is running a Marvel campaign and he hands you Spiderman to play.

 

Admittedly, I wouldn't panic just yet...unless the GM says he's a huge fan of Quesada's "improvements".

[Kirby]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

You're new to the game and the GM allows you to take "Berserk: when innocents harmed," because you think it's your PC being stronger than when Enraged, then he has innocents harmed in the first plot. Then he has you roll your attacks, but only he gets to roll your recoveries -behind a screen. Strangely enough, you roll 11s or less throughout the fight and he rolls 12s or higher for your Recovery throughout the fight.

 

Your Cherokee group is trying to save a bunch of Navajos from Minotaurs, but every time you try to attack, a Minotaur (without die rolls) blocks your attack, disarms you, or wraps up your weapon, telling you that you have to leave. When you leave, a Navajo woman a hundred feet below the cliff you're on comes out of her home and yells "Heartless bastards" at you. Only when another player (who was absent on the previous game day) is back is it discovered that we can now attack them because Minotaurs can only be hurt with silver (which everyone in the party has). Why? Because the GM wanted all players there for the battle.

 

You're playing a Dark Alliance (WW Werewolves, Mummies, Vampires, Mages, etc.) game and your group has finally figured out what needs to be done and where to stop the evil people from doing what they want. However, every time you head into the direction you need to go (driving on the highway) helicopters start chasing/following your vehicle and don't pull away unless you head back the way you came. This goes on for an hour (real time) until the players decide to call it quits for the night since they can't figure out a way past the helicopters. The next gaming session, you try the same thing (showing the absent player what was going on) and there are no hinderances. The GM stated he wanted all players there for the big battle.

 

You want your WW Werewolf to leap from point A to B and are given a target number. You score so many successes and critical successes that the GM says you overshot your mark and fell down the chasm you were trying to avoid.

 

You're stuck in traffic for two hours and the gaming doesn't start, not because they wanted to wait for you to play, but because none of the other players wanted to make a "critical" decision in the game ("do we head towards A or B?") and voted you as team leader while you were stuck in traffic.

 

Yeah, all true stories. The "leaping" was the only one that didn't happen to me.

[Kirby]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

You're playing a fertility priest in a D&D game and the DM tells you that you have to daily try and get someone to procreate. You try once per day per PC, but when you get to the GM's wife's PC, he tells her that her (gnome or halfling) has a 35 year courting ritual before mating can commence (another male player is playing the same species).

 

He tells you you can't have Find Weakness for Martial Arts and Armor Piercing for your shooting knives because that's too powerful; only one or the other. Then you discover that his GMPC has Find Weakness with her HKA Claws and Martial Arts because that's "character concept."

 

He makes a big speech to the players about how our nemesis villain will no longer be used after this plot line and whatever happens, happens. If the villain dies, he dies. If he's captured, he'll be captured and put away forever, if he escapes, he'll go elsewhere. When the battle is over, the NPC is beat and captured. And shows up two plots later with higher defenses (though lower Speed and Strength).

 

He goes on and on about the virtues of playing an Indian game where there's no desire for money and that the Indians were skilled shots at hitting bison behind the third rib for one-shot kills. When you agree to play the game...

• You have to roll a natural 20 to hit the bison, regardless of your THAC0.
  
• Your reason for adventures are based on acquiring gold
  
• As Indians, you're hated by all the surrounding Elves, Dark Sun beasts, and other Indian tribes.
  
• Every time you hunt bison, they stampede in your direction even when you're hiding behind a boulder on hill.
  
• Every time you hunt bison, someone gets broken ribs, and it's not the bison
  
• The chiefs scorn you for never bringing back a bison and always getting ribs broken in the stampedes
  
• Every time you hunt bison, some stranger is found that leads to "an adventure"
  
• The ONE time you score a 20 and kill a bison, you're chided for not bringing back more than one

 

Your campaign takes place in central Texas but your latest adventure requires you to travel to save a city that's being attacked in southern South America. You know this because of a wounded man who traveled from there and you found him on your bison hunt. He promises to guide you safely.

 

Everyone you meet on your journey to the southern South American city either attacks you or tells you "you can't win; turn back now." No one is friendly.

 

You have to role play traveling through every country on your journey.

 

After three months of travel and being told "you can't win; turn back now," you decide to turn back. Suddenly everyone you met previously tells you "you're they're only hope." The stranger/guide whom you're carrying with you begs and pleads for you to help.

 

When you're one day away from his city, your *guide* asks "What? You're taking me where? I don't want to go there!"

 

The city you're sent to protect/save is on an island in the middle of a lake. The inhabitants don't like you. To prove you're worthy, you have to go kill a beholder on a neighboring island.

 

The city you're sent to protect has 50 people left alive. When the night raids come (from Drow), the citizens beg for your help. The priests of the city sacrifice other priests (those who have run out of spells) of the city to cast down flamestrikes on the boats of invading Drow.

 

The next day, with only a dozen or so city inhabitants left alive, the high priest demands you go attack the Drow hideout. To help you with this, he tells you where you can recruit 100-200 Amazon warriors (why they wouldn't help the city, we never were told).

 

The Amazon warriors are tougher than your PCs.

 

When investigating the Drow caverns, the Amazon women are abducted one at a time until it's just the PCs left, regardless of where the PCs are stationed amongst the Amazons and no matter what methods you use to try and prevent the abductions (which you never see happen and only "notice" when you do a body count and there are always less Amazons than before).

 

A Wish spell of "I wish all the Drow would explode into flames" is enough to kill off the enemy.

[yamamura]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

You're playing a fertility priest in a D&D game and the DM tells you that you have to daily try and get someone to procreate. You try once per day per PC, but when you get to the GM's wife's PC, he tells her that her (gnome or halfling) has a 35 year courting ritual before mating can commence (another male player is playing the same species).

 

He tells you you can't have Find Weakness for Martial Arts and Armor Piercing for your shooting knives because that's too powerful; only one or the other. Then you discover that his GMPC has Find Weakness with her HKA Claws and Martial Arts because that's "character concept."

 

He makes a big speech to the players about how our nemesis villain will no longer be used after this plot line and whatever happens, happens. If the villain dies, he dies. If he's captured, he'll be captured and put away forever, if he escapes, he'll go elsewhere. When the battle is over, the NPC is beat and captured. And shows up two plots later with higher defenses (though lower Speed and Strength).

 

He goes on and on about the virtues of playing an Indian game where there's no desire for money and that the Indians were skilled shots at hitting bison behind the third rib for one-shot kills. When you agree to play the game...

• You have to roll a natural 20 to hit the bison, regardless of your THAC0.
  
• Your reason for adventures are based on acquiring gold
  
• As Indians, you're hated by all the surrounding Elves, Dark Sun beasts, and other Indian tribes.
  
• Every time you hunt bison, they stampede in your direction even when you're hiding behind a boulder on hill.
  
• Every time you hunt bison, someone gets broken ribs, and it's not the bison
  
• The chiefs scorn you for never bringing back a bison and always getting ribs broken in the stampedes
  
• Every time you hunt bison, some stranger is found that leads to "an adventure"
  
• The ONE time you score a 20 and kill a bison, you're chided for not bringing back more than one

 

Your campaign takes place in central Texas but your latest adventure requires you to travel to save a city that's being attacked in southern South America. You know this because of a wounded man who traveled from there and you found him on your bison hunt. He promises to guide you safely.

 

Everyone you meet on your journey to the southern South American city either attacks you or tells you "you can't win; turn back now." No one is friendly.

 

You have to role play traveling through every country on your journey.

 

After three months of travel and being told "you can't win; turn back now," you decide to turn back. Suddenly everyone you met previously tells you "you're they're only hope." The stranger/guide whom you're carrying with you begs and pleads for you to help.

 

When you're one day away from his city, your *guide* asks "What? You're taking me where? I don't want to go there!"

 

The city you're sent to protect/save is on an island in the middle of a lake. The inhabitants don't like you. To prove you're worthy, you have to go kill a beholder on a neighboring island.

 

The city you're sent to protect has 50 people left alive. When the night raids come (from Drow), the citizens beg for your help. The priests of the city sacrifice other priests (those who have run out of spells) of the city to cast down flamestrikes on the boats of invading Drow.

 

The next day, with only a dozen or so city inhabitants left alive, the high priest demands you go attack the Drow hideout. To help you with this, he tells you where you can recruit 100-200 Amazon warriors (why they wouldn't help the city, we never were told).

 

The Amazon warriors are tougher than your PCs.

 

When investigating the Drow caverns, the Amazon women are abducted one at a time until it's just the PCs left, regardless of where the PCs are stationed amongst the Amazons and no matter what methods you use to try and prevent the abductions (which you never see happen and only "notice" when you do a body count and there are always less Amazons than before).

 

A Wish spell of "I wish all the Drow would explode into flames" is enough to kill off the enemy.

 

Wow, that is one campaign I am glad that I have never played in.

[Kirby]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

Wow' date=' that is one campaign I am glad that I have never played in.[/quote']I wish I could say the same. The first three paragraphs are about two different campaigns (two other GMs). The rest are about the same campaign. The guy didn't understand why we never wanted to play that game again.

[Kirby]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

Your Cherokee group is trying to save a bunch of Navajos from Minotaurs, but every time you try to attack, a Minotaur (without die rolls) blocks your attack, disarms you, or wraps up your weapon, telling you that you have to leave. When you leave, a Navajo woman a hundred feet below the cliff you're on comes out of her home and yells "Heartless bastards" at you. Only when another player (who was absent on the previous game day) is back is it discovered that we can now attack them because Minotaurs can only be hurt with silver (which everyone in the party has). Why? Because the GM wanted all players there for the battle.

 

You're playing a Dark Alliance (WW Werewolves, Mummies, Vampires, Mages, etc.) game and your group has finally figured out what needs to be done and where to stop the evil people from doing what they want. However, every time you head into the direction you need to go (driving on the highway) helicopters start chasing/following your vehicle and don't pull away unless you head back the way you came. This goes on for an hour (real time) until the players decide to call it quits for the night since they can't figure out a way past the helicopters. The next gaming session, you try the same thing (showing the absent player what was going on) and there are no hinderances. The GM stated he wanted all players there for the big battle.

 

You want your WW Werewolf to leap from point A to B and are given a target number. You score so many successes and critical successes that the GM says you overshot your mark and fell down the chasm you were trying to avoid.

 

 

He goes on and on about the virtues of playing an Indian game where there's no desire for money and that the Indians were skilled shots at hitting bison behind the third rib for one-shot kills. When you agree to play the game...

• You have to roll a natural 20 to hit the bison, regardless of your THAC0.
  
• Your reason for adventures are based on acquiring gold
  
• As Indians, you're hated by all the surrounding Elves, Dark Sun beasts, and other Indian tribes.
  
• Every time you hunt bison, they stampede in your direction even when you're hiding behind a boulder on hill.
  
• Every time you hunt bison, someone gets broken ribs, and it's not the bison
  
• The chiefs scorn you for never bringing back a bison and always getting ribs broken in the stampedes
  
• Every time you hunt bison, some stranger is found that leads to "an adventure"
  
• The ONE time you score a 20 and kill a bison, you're chided for not bringing back more than one

 

Your campaign takes place in central Texas but your latest adventure requires you to travel to save a city that's being attacked in southern South America. You know this because of a wounded man who traveled from there and you found him on your bison hunt. He promises to guide you safely.

 

Everyone you meet on your journey to the southern South American city either attacks you or tells you "you can't win; turn back now." No one is friendly.

 

You have to role play traveling through every country on your journey.

 

After three months of travel and being told "you can't win; turn back now," you decide to turn back. Suddenly everyone you met previously tells you "you're they're only hope." The stranger/guide whom you're carrying with you begs and pleads for you to help.

 

When you're one day away from his city, your *guide* asks "What? You're taking me where? I don't want to go there!"

 

The city you're sent to protect/save is on an island in the middle of a lake. The inhabitants don't like you. To prove you're worthy, you have to go kill a beholder on a neighboring island.

 

The city you're sent to protect has 50 people left alive. When the night raids come (from Drow), the citizens beg for your help. The priests of the city sacrifice other priests (those who have run out of spells) of the city to cast down flamestrikes on the boats of invading Drow.

 

The next day, with only a dozen or so city inhabitants left alive, the high priest demands you go attack the Drow hideout. To help you with this, he tells you where you can recruit 100-200 Amazon warriors (why they wouldn't help the city, we never were told).

 

The Amazon warriors are tougher than your PCs.

 

When investigating the Drow caverns, the Amazon women are abducted one at a time until it's just the PCs left, regardless of where the PCs are stationed amongst the Amazons and no matter what methods you use to try and prevent the abductions (which you never see happen and only "notice" when you do a body count and there are always less Amazons than before).

 

A Wish spell of "I wish all the Drow would explode into flames" is enough to kill off the enemy.

In case anyone is curious, these are all the same GM. Good friend, cruddy GM.

[lemming]

Re: You know the GM has it in for you when...

 

Wow' date=' that is one campaign I am glad that I have never played in.[/quote']

 

At least he's not bitter.

[Kirby]

This one is funny, though

 

He asks you to play Paranoia.