oxybe
2015-05-10, 11:01 AM
Up until "recently" (as in the beginning of last month) I hadn't actually played the final version of 5th ed. I was at the local convenience store buying some cookies or something and talking to the cashier, who I've come to know after years of "this store is a block from my house and actually convenient".
Dude was seeing about starting up a 5th ed adventurer's league and was asking around if I wanted to join. I said "Sure, last time I played was in the beta so why not?" I wasn't really sold on the beta but I'm a strong believer in giving a final product a good test before making up my mind.
I drop in and see that someone from my regular group was wrangled into GMing at the last minute. And by last minute I mean "I came an hour early and he's in the middle of printing off and reading the WotC materials at the FLGS".
Convenience store guy comes in with a group of people, having picked them up in his car, we do the "Hi, my name is X and I'm playing a Y".
It doesn't take long for the poop to hit the fan.
One particular player is playing a pushy draconic sorcerer nobleman and seems to have made it his mission to butt heads with me at every turn. My druid want to help people, he complains that I'm wasting my (downtime) heals on the populace. I disagree with his course of action, voting prudence over pushing onwards, he starts calling me a coward (and gets his face immediately punched in by a spiritual weapon's crit. That was karma. I did heal him though).
Every time I try to get a word in, the guy shoots me down. The other players are pretty passive, not actively agreeing with him but going along because he seems to already be doing something regardless of what we choose or are in the process of deliberating.
I change character going "alright, if being a nice guy isn't going to work i might as well play a character who won't care. It might just be a conflict of character interests." Roll up a bardlock.
Didn't help. I gave Guy a second chance and he still kept ragging on me, and on Thursday, after half the party bailed (him being the first one, natch) when my character was grappled (the only ones who actually tried to save me were the two passive ones mentioned before), I was basically left for dead, the paladin being out of lay on hands and still hurting from the last fight and the rogue being semi conscious and unable to get a sneak attack to save my life.
I went home that night and after spending a few evenings deliberating, I told the GM that I won't be playing again with that group. We then played Dicemasters and laughed at funny videos on the internet.
So yeah, after about 4-5 sessions I left a group. Moral of the story folks: don't play with abusive gamers. It's far better to play other games or watch funny videos of cats or looking at stuff spinning on their axis in microgravity and actually having fun with people who's company you do like then wasting hours with bad company.
No idea what my convenience store buddy and the rest of the group are going to do. Not my problem anymore though.
Dude was seeing about starting up a 5th ed adventurer's league and was asking around if I wanted to join. I said "Sure, last time I played was in the beta so why not?" I wasn't really sold on the beta but I'm a strong believer in giving a final product a good test before making up my mind.
I drop in and see that someone from my regular group was wrangled into GMing at the last minute. And by last minute I mean "I came an hour early and he's in the middle of printing off and reading the WotC materials at the FLGS".
Convenience store guy comes in with a group of people, having picked them up in his car, we do the "Hi, my name is X and I'm playing a Y".
It doesn't take long for the poop to hit the fan.
One particular player is playing a pushy draconic sorcerer nobleman and seems to have made it his mission to butt heads with me at every turn. My druid want to help people, he complains that I'm wasting my (downtime) heals on the populace. I disagree with his course of action, voting prudence over pushing onwards, he starts calling me a coward (and gets his face immediately punched in by a spiritual weapon's crit. That was karma. I did heal him though).
Every time I try to get a word in, the guy shoots me down. The other players are pretty passive, not actively agreeing with him but going along because he seems to already be doing something regardless of what we choose or are in the process of deliberating.
I change character going "alright, if being a nice guy isn't going to work i might as well play a character who won't care. It might just be a conflict of character interests." Roll up a bardlock.
Didn't help. I gave Guy a second chance and he still kept ragging on me, and on Thursday, after half the party bailed (him being the first one, natch) when my character was grappled (the only ones who actually tried to save me were the two passive ones mentioned before), I was basically left for dead, the paladin being out of lay on hands and still hurting from the last fight and the rogue being semi conscious and unable to get a sneak attack to save my life.
I went home that night and after spending a few evenings deliberating, I told the GM that I won't be playing again with that group. We then played Dicemasters and laughed at funny videos on the internet.
So yeah, after about 4-5 sessions I left a group. Moral of the story folks: don't play with abusive gamers. It's far better to play other games or watch funny videos of cats or looking at stuff spinning on their axis in microgravity and actually having fun with people who's company you do like then wasting hours with bad company.
No idea what my convenience store buddy and the rest of the group are going to do. Not my problem anymore though.