As A GM I Dislike When My Player(s) Do This, So...
As a Game Master I Dislike When My Player(s) do this, so when I play a game in someone else's game, I never _____________.
Great prompt from "Dicey Tales" Jeff Mejia on Facebook, "As a DM I hate when my players do this, so when I play a game in someone else's game I never _______________."
This blog posting is more just an aggregate of the variety of responses. More than 400 comments in response to his prompt!
While I started the rough version of this Blog with a direct copy and paste, I then went through and started editing it down, and looking for duplicates, so you will note that it is a mix of copy/paste and pairing down edits.
This would be interesting to delve into further, and potentially a slew of potential research question prompts here, if you are like I am, where just about every question is a potential research question. :-)
Enjoy!
Alex Statz Not calling in advance to let the DM know I can't make it. And just straight up not showing up.
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Henrique Nogueira What do you mean?
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Joncliff McKinley .. you don't show up to session, and dont call to explain so people wait around for you. seriously?
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Cody Maestro Fejo I never get to play in someone else's game.
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Caleb Gar Radney Bring my phone to the table
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Steven Poro Brown Hog the spotlight
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Tristan Line Start having long unrelated conversations with another player in the middle of combat, and then act offended when I'm reminded it's my turn
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Jason Sharples Interrupt others in game convo's with out of game talk.
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Jeremy Johnston Play a bard :D
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Leslie McEuen Complain that they don't do things exactly as I would.
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Lon Varnadore Same...
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Clint Finnell Seduce their sister
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Bam O'Grady turn up :P
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Iannick Martin Argue the DM's ruling
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Jeff Mejia Talk about "Hit Points".
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James Craver disrespect their monsters
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Jessica Roberts-Leek Be late
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Jenna Forcier Sit unprepared for my turn in combat.
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Austin Stepp Keep talking and talking or being uninterested in other peoples time in the spotlight
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Henrique Nogueira Don’t roleplay
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Johnathan Albrecht goof off or not pay attention
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Taylor McCallister Wait till my turn in combat to start thinking about what I'm going to do next.
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Cody Biroth throw the dice across the fucking table when rolling
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Andrew Stagg Get hammered
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Alyse Griffin MinMax
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Randall Martin strike up a real-life conversation while playing
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Michelle Ledbetter Play a sex obsessed bard
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Jeremy Johnston Play a sex obsessed bard with very low charisma
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Michelle Ledbetter As charisma is the defining trait of a bard only a handful of players would want one with charisma under 10. But I find all sex obsessed bards equally cliche and annoying
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Josh Johnson Take up the DMs time asking meaningless questions and shopping by myself for 2 hours
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S Thomas Cook Hog the spotlight and prevent others from playing as they want to.
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Justin Wiley Try to seduce everything in the game.
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Gideon J Pulsarfiest Ask them to fill in the blank....
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Justin Wiley Only pay attention on my turn.
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Brendan Quinn-Larsen Try to take liberties with the rules and get pissy when I say "no".
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Madison Rodriguez Keep suggesting music that I want to hear (because if you dm like me, you have set songs that play at certain points in the game) a dm is not a DJ. If you want to send me music that you think would be a good dnd candidate I will listen to it and find a place for it if I like it. But please don’t yell for songs you want in the middle of a session.
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Kassie Prawns My players don't do anything annoying 🤷
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Akashambatwa Lewanika Miller attempt to overrule the DM
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Chad Cottle Speak.
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Derek Sawyer look at DM rolls or enemies HP
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Mini Painty? Attention whore
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Heini Latumäki I never OP build my character.
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Jeffery William Dunaisky Fart at the table. I go to the bathroom like a civilized person. Unless I’m RPing a barbarian. Then it’s game on.
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Edward Pokorski Metagame EVERYTHING
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Henrique Nogueira My bad, but the card resemblance is just asking for it...
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Lianne Rogers I try to minimize phone usage and really try to pay attention because it pisses me off when I have to re-explain the same thing because people only pay attention during their turn.
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Nicodemos Grischkowsky Split the party.
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Trevor Bull Nicodemos Grischkowsky Bwahahaha! Agreed. I try my hardest not to fight with the DM over rules (even though sometimes it’s hard to catch yourself)
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Mark Bradley Refuse to pursue an obvious plot hook.
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Robert A. Moore III Rules lawyer
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Benjamin Dean Payne Complain that there is no role play and then when role play opportunity arises go back to killing shit.
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Evalyn Farnot Go about with malicious intent to break the game because it's only fun when it's my game.
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Zachary James Shields Run a murderhobo
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Chris MacDougall Not show up without telling the gm
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Ashlee Shaw Act like a baby if I'm not in the spotlight every single session. Gripe about what the DM decides happens. Murderhobo/act like an evil dick for absolutely no reason.
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Jeffrey Malcolmson Ask what I should do with my turn.
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David LeBlanc Play in another DMs game
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Paul West Exist
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Alex Aries ...have my phone out.
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Paul Mendoza Use magic to break the game or minmax
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Benjamin Dean Payne isn't magic apart of the game, i don't see the problem?
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Paul Mendoza Benjamin Dean Payne it can be game breaking at higher levels (gygax himself hated wizards)
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Mark Harbison Crosstalk.
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Gregory Hicks Mark Harbison crosstalk?
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Mark Harbison Gregory Hicks People who aren’t involved in a scene having an unrelated conversation, or RPing a different scene simultaneously.
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Earl Fernandez Not offer snacks to the dm
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Jason Coburn Debate the DM's ruling on something not in a rulebook
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Bill Powell Jason Coburn may I ask you to elaborate? Let me say why. No where in the book is there a set way to role play. So, if I am a illusionist or heavy RP character...and the DM never let's you achieve that approach...I would contest and have not contest. But, I do question.
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Sean Patrick Argue with the DM ruling.
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Shaun Hansen Book bitches suck
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Monte Nunn Meta game
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Kevin Blank Show up without beer
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Aron Agerton play a ranger.
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Casey Williams Roll a check without asking
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Dustin Jorgensen Thats a good one.
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Chase Woolery Min/max my ac
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Matthew Martin Use my phone during the game
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Kevin Blank Matthew Martin oh man whether I’m playing or running I usually use my phone to look up spells and play background music
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Matthew Martin I have my character and spells on apps but as far as texting and stuff I ignore everything
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Sarah Reed Expect the DM to give me a reason to care
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Abner John Jimenez As a DM you hate when your players expect you to give them a reason to care? Sounds like a bad DM
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Sarah Reed When you expect the DM to perfectly insert your character into the universe with little to no effort on their part. I’ve had too many campaigns where people act completely disinterested because they cannot see a reason for their character to care about what’s happening. I understand it’s partially a DM problem but also it’s to do with your character - that’s the players true jurisdiction there
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Jonathan Strike Interrupt narration with a question or act before the detail is done being described.
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Logan Robinson Ask for them to repeat important notes because I chose not to pay attention the first time
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Kerry Nelson Play a warlock who actually uses the Devil's Sight/Darkness combination in combat.
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Kevin Blank Kerry Nelson yeah they should be using Devil’s Sight with Hunger of Hadar
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Kevin Blank Kerry Nelson also Repelling Blast to keep kiting enemies back inside the spell 😈
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Howard D Vitkus Watch videos on my phone.
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Vivian Rentsch Play the typical edgelord character or want to play characters that just don't fit into "classic fantasy" aka iron man super weapon boy or "the typical blind,deaf,family died samurai".
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Ben Kilgore Rules-lawyer my way into an at times absurd power fantasy.
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Jorge A Reardon Min-Max
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John Harkulich Not know how my spells and abilities work
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Paul Naprstek ...say "just assume I check for traps and secret doors every turn."
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John Morris Pick fights with the party
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Paul Freeborn PVP
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Brian Stiles *I try not to* cross-talk other players. In our group we all realize that we get excited sometimes, so it's OK.
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Thomas J. Henry Figure out which book we are playing though and it read it, then build character around the creatures used in it. Then, when the Dm says that its not okay yo do that make rants on facebook about that Dm. Then, when that Dm asked the players to leave th…See More
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Thomas J. Henry sorry felt like ranting
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Dane Kendall I'm guessing this happened to you, I'm sorry. Did you actually count the words in the email, tho? 😎
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Valerie Lynn Miller Man, I need to be better about this one 😂
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Bryon Me I used to b4 I started dming
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Matt Hyttinen Play the typical edgelord or in any other way act antisocial.
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Andrew Geertsen Matt Hyttinen Absolutely. If you hate being around people, you wouldn't work in a party. Make a new character.
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Matt Hyttinen That’s why I’m usually the Barbarian or Fighter. Some class that needs another to be fully efficient.
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Jared Morris Argue with the DM
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Kevin Blank Jared Morris exactly, bribery is far more effective
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Karen Giselle DeDiego Throw a fit if things go badly for my character, refuse to play any more if my characters key features are nerfed or not useful in a given encounter.
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Andrew Thomas Jones Roll without being asked to make a roll
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Andrew Pettitt Retcon when a PC is surprised.
I played with a guy that if a creature pops out from a around a corner, he has to argue with the DM that his passive perception is blah blah blah and that he would never walk around a corner if he could sense something was there. …See More -
John Chroninger Break into interpretive dance.
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Kevin Blank John Chroninger I just feel sorry for you
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Mark Crean Argue too deeply the DM's adjudication on a rule...I'll gently make my point but if its not received as compelling thats fine...Im not there to argue the rules Im there to have fun and enjoy the escapism
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Jeff Mejia Play a warlock and scream in peoples heads with telepathy.
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Daniel Higgins Jeff Mejia Why even go warlock then lol
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Robert J. Grady engage in nonsensical behavior that neither advances the scenario nor meaningfully represents my character.
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Aaron Chism Play on my phone instead of listening
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Aäron Quick Fail to show up
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Andrew Geertsen Srsly
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Jeff Moore Ask to play some dumbass minmax op character
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John Teehan Come without having a fully prepared character sheet.
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Robert Kelsey Ask for magic item(s) that is/are going to unbalance the campaign.
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Jason Owens I never eat more food than I bring!
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James Kennon Smith Get super drunk and be bad at combat
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James Kennon Smith Haha just kidding, that’s me on both sides of the table yeet
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Scott Lurker Dick around on my phone.
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Michael Semonelle There are a bunch of little things I do try to and not piss off my DM.
Don’t know how successful I am. 😂
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Scott Lurker So far, so good. :)
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Gary Cormier Interrupt someone who is talking...
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Brian Ball Ignore things the DM takes time to include and describe in the game.
Recently the PC’s found a ransacked caravan of wagons on route to a new city, and I described the remaining cargo, including a large tome with a name embossed on the front. Nobody …See More
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Dane Kendall Brian, you should have the party meet another adventuring party in an inn. This other party is flush with loot. Your NPC otwoodsman is quietly reading the tome in a corner. One of the npc party members chats him up and discovers that they have done wha…See More
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Hildemar von Regensburg Crack open the PHB and literally read from it as a way of arguing with the DM about her/his interpretation of a rule... particularly when the DM has already established the rule within this world or scenario. Aarrrrrgh.
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Gerardo Gallegos Do something else that isn't game related
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James Pohlman Spend more than 30-60 seconds saying what I’m doing in combat
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Noah J Whitaker Fart in the bag of popcorn.
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Michael McDonald Don't RP. Your missing half the game if you just show up to roll dice.
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Eric Ramirez Sleep with my friend's mom.
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Jarrod Chapin But this is the best part of D&D..
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James Neufall Michael, this thread remind you of...?
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Darren Green Actively walk away from what the DM clearly made to be the campaign and try to explore something they'd have no opportunity to prep for. Had a friend who made an entire continent for his players.... and they bought a boat and insisted on sailing to another one without exploring it. Needless to say, he brought down the wrath they deserved on their ungrateful heads.
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J James Furlong Play a stubborn immovable character who probably doesn't have any business associating with others much less adventuring in a party.
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Thomas Clifton Olivent shit at the table
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Joseph Levi Curtis Jacob Loyd Niemeyer this post
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Jacob Loyd Niemeyer Joseph Levi Curtis oh man, idk what to pick
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Joseph Levi Curtis Jacob Loyd Niemeyer there's so much to relate to lol
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Derek Westenbarger I try not to disrupt their story to much the rest is fair game:)
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John Darwin Forrest use my phone, stack dice, interrupt the DM
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Skyler Vaillencourt
John Darwin Forrest oh no, I’m a new player and stack dice while fidgetting between turns. Is this poor etiquette?
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Jake Cole Look up magic items that I shouldn’t know what they do yet
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Frank Freire metagame, break imersion, tell what other should do during their turns in combat
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Andres Perez Frank Freire this, i quit one game because of one guy telling everybody how he wuld have done something much better
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Frank Freire o actually take XP away from my players when they do
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Joshua Hall metagame, discuss non-game related things, not pay attention to what's going on.
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John Newman Argue about canon
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Ryan Good Split the party
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Brandon Alexander Cutts give a fuck
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Travis E Hathcock So much this
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Brandon Black This is why I like to use a battle mat. Avoids the dreaded "how are the enemies arranged/room setup/ ect."
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Andersen Michael Argue with the DM about a ruling
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Kevin Kastle go off alone. that's what solo adventures are for.
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Blake Spradlin Kevin Kastle I disagree I have never understood the stigma of splitting the party. it un realistic that all of the party are constantly together. I think it impedes role play and team building
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Blake Spradlin gives you more chances for one on one rp
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Thomas Adams "take back" an action I say my character is taking.
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Keith Estanol do any kind of disruptive RP.
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Thomas Reiske Never forget to say thanks for running the game.
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Chris Bailey shit on the floor
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Kevin Blank Chris Bailey you would hate my character Sir Schwifty
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Krishan Soda Comme without beer
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Emanuel Jincory Lizama Be a Rules Lawyer.
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Jeremy Noble Play a character that’s just ‘along for the ride’ have some bloody motivation!
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Keith Ellis Take forever to RP selling every single freaking piece of loot and haggling for every last damn copper piece instead of just taking what the DM says it’s worth and moving on.
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Daniel Beckett Rock the boat.
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Aaron Michie Rules Lawyer during the game. Wait to the end of session to discuss.
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Garrett Patrick Gessell Play the annoying ass edgy rogue
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Nate Dykstra read into everything with a microscope.
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Martin Silk Attempt to seduce a Bugbear... LOOKING AT YOU Cat AND Elliot!!!
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John Penner Fall asleep
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Halley Palmer Not know what to do on my turn in combat >.< I stab him! With my dagger and rapier and I get sneak attack damn it!!! Sometimes I do other things. But they are less fun.
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Thane Stroop play a murder hobo
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Bethany Ann Inviting over a non-player during a session and having them vocally talk about how they don't think D & D is for them.
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Alora Mathis-Holierhoek It'd be a bit weird if they non-vocally talked about it........like they were just doing cherades about how they felt during a session.
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Bethany Ann I mean, some people just keep shit to themselves lol.
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Brian Gold ask the DM what the NPC's names are
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Alexander Mullins Brian Gold that’s a tricky one, because 50% of the time they don’t have a name, and the other 50% they have a really well thought out and important name that actually has clues in it. My players seem to only ask for a name the half that I have nothing. 😂
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Brian Gold Alexander Mullins If the DM wants you to know someone's name, they have every excuse to just tell you without needing to be asked.
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Tim Muller
hit the DM’s brakes every, single, step of the way, questioning every failure and explaining why it should succeed instead.
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Randy Price 1. play a murder hobo
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Mike Geiger Dm hog
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Alicia Lublin Murder hobow
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Harry Fisher Question a rule during a session rather than after it. Admittedly i find it hard to bite my tongue.
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Keith Edward Schussler Bring up the rules cause let's just have fun if u have a problem with it tell me after the session and I will tell you why I did it like that
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Nathaniel Codr 1- murder hobo
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Jamie Blake Tell the other players when to use their abilities.
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Silverslain Ragenraith 1. argue about rules
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Oni Syn stay off topic and keep others off topic - vaguely participate - call being uncooperative character development
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Zoey Sloane Do "rules lawyer" stuff.
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Ben Hirsch Lol. I've been gaming for 40 years and have GM'd more than 1/2 the time. I have no issues with problems asking about rules, asking for clarification, confirming how something works in the edition we are playing, reminding _me_ how something works in …See More
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Brandon Black I hate when there are a lot of side conversions and going off topic in continuos games. I like to get really into my characters or story and enjoy a more "serious" game session vs a beer and chips style game where the mood is more for socializing instead of playing. I'm good with it for 1 shots and party games but for a long campaign i like an on topic group
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David Scott Frank III Intentionally mispronounce names of places or NPCs
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Eric Whitney David Scott Frank III Intentionally? Dang. That would get annoying fast.
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John Smith My friends love when I do this, but if they didn’t/when it gets old, I wouldn’t/I stop.
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Joe Wieland Continuously pass flatulence
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Isaac Reefman But min/maxing can be great fun, and doesn’t need to come at the expense of roleplay!
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Karl Lommerse Interrogate a prisoner using torture
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Shane Frazier Sit there on my phone when it's other peoples' turn in combat.
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Philip M. Magallanes Cheat.
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Eric Whitney Show up late!
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Justin Boehm Monologue
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Chris Christiansen Intentionally break a character to be better than all other players and make it no fun👍🏻 I have one player who does this in every campaign at least once and I have to kill him off until he gets the point
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Jay Colebatch Chris Christiansen some people just enjoy making strong characters. Punishing a player for this seems wrong.
Maybe try treating it as a challenge for you to balance the party creating situations where there "broken character traits" cant help them to make things challenging still.…See More
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Jay Colebatch I use to have the same problem and found it really hard but now i prefer to adapt to there fun, its harder but more rewarding.
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Paul McLeod Sadly, ..said no DM ever !
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Scott Williams Get to play in someone else’s game!
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Les Schilling Meta
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Trent Davidson Argue rules that don't matter.
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Gaetano LeFavi ...do what they wouldn't do. :D
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Alejandro Mchitarian Take out my monster penis and put it on the table.
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Eric Altman Alejandro Mchitarian which monster's do you have?
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JayDee Gauthier Meta game
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Eric Altman Drop character without being clear that I'm doing so.
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Kevin Blank Eric Altman in one game I’m required to stand up if I’m speaking out of character, but that’s partly because my character is a warlock whose patron is the DM so there’s a lot of fourth wall breaking
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James Baker PvP
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Gregor Troll Constantly delay play by making joking announcements about doing stupid or outlandish things. After a small bit of that, I just announce, if you say it, you do it. No take-backs.
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Trevor Riley Gregor Troll you’re 100% right on that. Can’t stand it!
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Mathew Pedlow Talk/joke over the dm exposition
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Devin Cutler Fart around on my phone.
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Tim Goodhue I never don't roleplay
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Donald C. Dudley Be over the top goofy. I like a game where there is humor but it doesn’t cross the line to abject pointlessness.
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Eric Kline Have a coversation during the game that is not game related.
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Eric Kline Really like what everybody's saying. Treat people with respect and kindness.
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Ryan Beverley Get distracted on my phone.
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Justin Hool Talk alot
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Kareem Riley Verbally dispute rules or mechanics, ever. Even if I know the DM made a mistake. Let it go. They're doing the footwork to run the game, my job is to play.
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Tim Peterson
Kareem Riley I've never understood this. While I'm very good st rules if I make a mistake I'd rather my players point it out.
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Kareem Riley Tim Peterson I mainly DM, as a practice I always review a session in my mind afterwards. Ill point out an error next session or send a text. But as a player, I've yet to find something serious enough to warrant stopping the flow for a dispute
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Doug La Grow Cause excessive shenanigans.
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Hirini Hohaia play a disengaged character
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Annastasia Loucks Play annoying overly sexualised characters
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Bethany Gartland Be a rules lawyer. People play their games differently so let them have fun.
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Timothy Goebeler Create a character based on a TV or movie character.
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Lachlan Volling-Geoghegan Timothy Goebeler what about a video game such as for honor
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Timothy Goebeler Lachlan Volling-Geoghegan I didn't even think of that. Lol
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Clint Walker I don't understand this disputing of rules thing. No DM knows all the rules and if you are also a DM and know the rules, then why not ask the DM how he wants to run it? I've literally been like "Yo DM, the rule for this thing is like this in the book. What you wanna do?" and he gets to decide
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Kevin Blank Clint Walker I think it’s a matter of tone. Reminding the DM or another player of a rule is different from starting an argument over a ruling.
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Ryan Thomason If that's where it ended, that's fine (especially if it wasn't discussed previously). It's when a player says "Yo DM, this is the rule for this thing in the book, so this is how you HAVE to run it." THAT is not cool, and can get a player booted.
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Casey Reed Miss the session
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Nathon Cosker Try to kill everything, yes u have a sword/powers you don't always have to kill everything in your path.
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Trevor Riley Cross talk
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Mark Boisvert Put numerical strategy before role play. This isn’t Magic: The Gathering.
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Tim Peterson
Mark Boisvert I'm curious what exactly you mean by that, do you mean your characters set up strategically?
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Mark Boisvert When players make their decisions almost entirely based on math & probability, and not their character’s personality. Some characters are so play-to-win that they forget to role play.
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Michael McCurry Use my character that uses a big a$$ hammer that controls lightning, and name is THOR...Smh
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Bannister Nicholas .. steal from the party, these are my travel companions, I need to trust them, and that means they need to trust me.
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Alexa L Mac Talk over other players, or be impatient about my turn.
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Bryce Galloway Metagame or cheating dice rolls
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Zak Kaufman Stall the game to ask stupid questions about nothing to do with the game
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Amber Mathew 1. Disrespect the time and effort a DM puts into their session.
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Aaron David Argue with the DM
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Mariel Aimee Archibald Talk during “cut scenes”. That’s just a generic rule at my house, wether it’s table top or video games. No talking during cut scenes!
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Jason Grotluschen Not pay attention and talk about outside stuff when the DM is talking
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Lorianne Earl This drives me crazy!
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Jason Grotluschen Amen!!!!
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Kiel Heperi Go into munchkin mode/do stupid things to see if the DM will save me.
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Valerie Lynn Miller What's munchkin mode?
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Gary Huard Valerie Lynn Miller Just murdering everything you see
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Wendy Matchen Whine. Lol.
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Gary Huard Split the party
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Allison Hitt Woo say that again man 😂
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Kirk Tuttle To be fair, some of our best adventure came from temporarily splitting the party.
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Richard McManus Ask to make a skills check. I always tell the DM what my character is doing.
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Allison Hitt Ugh my biggest pet peeve
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Richard McManus same.
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Zak Kaufman Yes
I don't know why people get this confused with steal everything and hord it
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Søren Moses Malinowski Check my phone
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Aaron David Søren Moses Malinowski i agree but I do allow players to look up rule by phone.
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Andrea Toomey Do something really bizarre that makes it tough for the DM to keep the game on track.
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Mike Rofloc Roll a die before the DM asks me to.
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Kirk Tuttle Continue to argue after the DM has made a ruling.
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Allison Hitt Not being in communication. We have someone who consistently doesn't show up to agreed upon times, and sometimes never comes at all and never ever calls to inform us.
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Todd Jeffcoat Use my experience as a player to undermine the tension that the DM is trying to build by immediately declaring what we will be facing based on what the DM has described.
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Todd Jeffcoat Or more aptly: Metagame, as has been mentioned.
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Boogie Russell Speak over the other characters
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John Eubank If I ask the DM about a ruling I try to include "but it is your table" or "I'm not trying to be a jerk here" - some indication that I'm not squabbling or pointlessly challenging them, that I genuinely want to know why the rule is being interpreted that…See More
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Dave Bisset Question the DMs decisions
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Justin Harper Talk over others. Especially if my character is not in the current scene. Nothing drives me crazy like someone losing thier shit and commenting on what happens when thier character isnt around. (Durig the moment)
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Benjamin Dean Payne Throw dice accross the table
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Benjamin Dean Payne Haleigh Garnett Bramer lolz. Had a player doing that just because he was bored. Roll the dice when you need to. Not when you feel like being a duoche 😊
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Nathan Schade cancel on game day
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Jack Nicholas Jerk off at the table
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Benjamin J Fassl Jack Nicholas yeah, really makes thing awkward..
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Brandon Baer Jack Nicholas yeah, like in-party combat... unless everyone agrees, this will ruin the fun.
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Deven Morgan Not plan ahead
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Sullivan Schattie Correct the DM on rules calls.
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Tim Peterson
Sullivan Schattie This I've never understood. If I legitimately misremembered a rule I want my players to correct me. (It's rare but it happens.)
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Christian Kierans Arrive late
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John Z McClane Cancel if I've committed to playing.
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Brian Andrucci Play on my phone/tablet/laptop
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Mark Denholm Assume. I ask.. Clarify.. Check on etiquette. Their game is not my game.
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Vanyel Wolfshadow Phone...
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Patrick Domingo Rentas Parker Forget my character sheet
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Lars van der Zeijden Noah Wu yup, I had the same thing!
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Jonas Idebrant I will occasionally drift away from the topic but I will never not listen to when the DM ask us to focus again.
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Michael Pao ...go off and ignore the OBVIOUS story hook.
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Andrew Streeks ...go off alone and waste everyone's time doing something absolutely ridiculous and stupid.
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Jason Schock Split the party.
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Marc Davies Play on my phone!!!
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Jesse Mangum make me wait.
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Haleigh Garnett Bramer
Question the DMs every call. "Well, actually...Well it could be said....well on page 88 of the....."
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Sam Cousins Haleigh Garnett Bramer Agreed. It's a story, let it be told and be told while being a character in it. You make the decisions but the DM decides the outcomes of those decisions.
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Matthew Leef Complain about rulings
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Haleigh Garnett Bramer
Making jokes when the DM is obviously trying to invoke a more serious reaction
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Nero Paolo Posadas Agree
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Nathan Jensen break out in songs
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Benjamin Dean Payne Nathan Jensen guilty 😂
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Nathan Jensen Benjamin Dean Payne me too, bards my favorite class
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Thomas Stakenborg Backseat DM
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Stephen Mudie Do it naked..
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Chris Sylvain Watch porn at table with the volume all the way up
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Benjamin Dean Payne Chris Sylvain who watches porn at a dnd table
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Nathan Carter Benjamin Dean Payne People who play DnD.
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Motiejus Lazauskas
Be inactive, fight with other players, follow the rules, become angry and ending fun for everyone, because their character was not so lucky.
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Kasper Trøst Buch Make assumptions how the story might unfold out loud. Because sometimes they are right and it makes the DM feel predictable/unimaginative...
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Domagoj Jonjić Criticize DM at every turn and treat him as a hostile witness when a battle is on and HP/AC of monsters is questioned.
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Jacob Bolen Pvp
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Nathan Bell Go out of my way to break the game or make one of the other players uncomfortable.
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Molly Sung Look at memes on my phone and distract other players with them.
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Jared Daniel Dufault Making sure I dont Attempt to derail my DM with silly BS and make sure I understand how my characters abilities work entirely so not to break up and slow down the flow of combat
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Chris Pearson Argue about character creation. If you tell them standard array then they'll say why can't I do point buy. If you tell them no third party they will ask to do third party. If you tell them no monster races they'll try and build monster races.
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Tanner J. Burnside Question the DM's ruling on an issue. You can deliver a good argument for your opinion before the DM says, their ruling but after they say how it is, let it go.
If it bothers you that bad, talk to them after.
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Chris Pearson I had a player once insist that I made a bad call. However, the reason why it had happened was because there was something that the player character didn't know and it was tied to the plot. So the player argued with me for about 20 minutes in the game …See More
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Tanner J. Burnside Chris Pearson this kinda crap is why I only DM one shots or short form campaigns these days
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Brandon Schissler Use being a rogue as an excuse to be a douche. Ex: The mondset that as a rogue its okay if i steal from my party members, or randomly attack my party members or friendly NPCs because "dude, im a rogue"....
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Mason Cary Brandon Schissler one of my biggest pet peeves I have actually committed mass player murder in a session when night when my character raged out and went on a war path
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Ben Vaughan Sit at the back, don't engage, and have to be filled in on what is going on
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Dan Routledge PHONES
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Dylan Deeves Constantly talk over the DM
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Shayne Carpathia do area of effect body hits...
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Edén Yomar Cruz Cordova Check my cell
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Charles Hathaway Haggle excessively with shopkeepers and quest givers for more money
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Mark Hows Act like a murder hobo.
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Henrik Nygård Ertzeid Play Chaotic Stupid