I really, really feel the need to rant about Role Play Gaming. Don’t get me wrong, I love RPGing. That is not my issue here. What is my issue is the people I am currently playing with, hack ‘n’ slash players and with meta game players.
My issues with Luke. He is an obnoxious fat twerp who spouts too much bullshit, and gets distracted to easily and distracts every one else including our current GM. Today, he succeeded in distracting the GM long enough so that out of the 4/5 hours we were there, I guess we only actually role played half that time. He disrupts everything! When something important is being said he isn’t listening, so when we go to do something he’s like, ‘What? What’s going on? What are you doing? Why are you doing that?’ and we have to repeat everything. I mean, its okay to get a little distracted and have a laugh, but its like he really doesn’t want to role play, he just wants to kill stuff, which is bad. Unfortunately he doesn’t learn so even if I told him this, by next week he would have forgotten and would do it anyway. The other thing that annoys me is that he thinks he knows everything so spouts so much crap, and is like a dog with a bone; he won’t let the issue drop until someone [me usually] screams at him to shut the fuck up.
My issues Dan. I don’t really have that many issues with Dan, but his style of playing is really starting to bug me. He meta game plays really badly. What I mean by that is he will look at a situation from his perspective, not from his characters perspective, and with information that his character is not privy to. And today we had several encounters that could have gone better, but instead of making the most of it and role playing like he should he kept saying things like, ‘You know you’ve fucked it all up for the rest of us?’. How lame can you get? And how he kept getting really impatient, for example, we were headed out of a village and to a fort, but instead of letting us role play the journey, he kept badgering the GM with, ‘Can’t we just be there already?’ and, ‘I think we should just arrive.’ Everyone knows that most encounters that get one experience points happen on the road. Also his constant extreme pessimism is really starting to annoy me. He’s like ‘So are we dead yet?’, ‘We are so going to die.’ and, ‘You all should have listened to me, we are going to die now’ all the fucking time!
My issues with Greg [the GM]. These are most little idiosyncrasies that just bug me. Like the way he won’t explain things very well, so I get lost in the story, and how he runs his hand over his hair when he’s doing extended dialogue. It also annoys me how easily he gets distracted and how loud I have to yell to make him focus again. He also doesn’t seem to have good control of the group. By that I mean, we seemed to have quite a few disagreements on what things look like, etc. He doesn’t seem to be able to enforce the ‘The GM is God and therefore is always right’ rule. The other thing I don’t like about his lack of control is that it means that when he is trying to explain something, or describe something, someone else is always talking so I can’t hear, or that when we are separated, he doesn’t give each group equal time to do stuff and that everyone tries to talk to him at once. He never says, ‘Okay, X and Y you go.’ or, ‘Z, it’s your turn.’ I might try talking to him about some of this as I think he might listen.
I don’t have any issues with Andy, as due to my own actions I got left out a bit and he tried to get me involved again. I think cause I’m a rouge who hasn’t had an opportunity to show her skills yet, I get over looked in favour of the two rangers, whom I am better than, and Andy tried to give me opportunities to show myself. *huggles her Andy*
Jade I don’t really have issues with. I like her, but as she is new to my group, so she’s taking some getting use to.
Yeah, that’s my rant. The stuff with Luke isn’t really that new, but I still haven’t found a cure for him. Humm, I feel slightly better. I might have to print this off and show/ read it to the persons in question.
Night all
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Except its not cheering me up now.
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So of course him being upset made me upset and cry, and I really don’t know why I’m acting like this, I’m in the middle of my pills so I shouldn’t be getting PMS or anything like that. Baka mood swings.
