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I'm in an absolutely foul mood
Feb. 26th, 2004 02:32 pmRegardless of what I posted in my last entry, I'm in an absolutely foul mood. I woke up in a decent mood despite really needing to pee. I woke up, emailed things, posted things and took my shower. After my shower, I started thinking about why I can't play D&D anymore. These are in no particular order.
1. The last campaigns I was involved in saw me shunted aside every single game so that the rules lawyers and the power gamers could show off. No matter what character I played, someone did the skill better than I or more creatively than I (or so they thought) so I would get pushed aside and ignored by the DM.
2. I get told more often to sit down and shut up at game than anywhere else. Not because I'm being out of character, but because I'm trying to play.
3. I was once told that I don't know how to act or how to roleplay. Supposedly all my characters are the same. Let's see, I played a sullen mage, a flirtacious bard, a barbarian fighter with a 5 INT and an Amazon warrior. Yeah. Real similar.
4. More often than not, I get ignored for the sake of the game.
5. I can't have my characters be afraid of things like rusty hangers named WIFRL because that's just silly. Yeah, god forbid I take away from the seriousness of the game. IT'S A FUCKING GAME.
6. The people I used to play with forgot how to have fun. Their games became more about how to bend the rules and kick ass than to have fun in a fantasy environment.
7. The DM would okay my character then decide for the sake of the story to manipulate my stats or tell me I wasn't playing her right. This happened more than once and usually half-way into the campaign.
I'm just tired of the game. I should have gotten the hint that D&D and I were not a good fit when my first GM stabbed my very first character in the back because he didn't like me. Not my character: ME. Then, he passed the rule that the player couldn't talk or interact with the party out of game if their character was incapacitated. *sigh*
And for future reference, that quote was not for Derek.
1. The last campaigns I was involved in saw me shunted aside every single game so that the rules lawyers and the power gamers could show off. No matter what character I played, someone did the skill better than I or more creatively than I (or so they thought) so I would get pushed aside and ignored by the DM.
2. I get told more often to sit down and shut up at game than anywhere else. Not because I'm being out of character, but because I'm trying to play.
3. I was once told that I don't know how to act or how to roleplay. Supposedly all my characters are the same. Let's see, I played a sullen mage, a flirtacious bard, a barbarian fighter with a 5 INT and an Amazon warrior. Yeah. Real similar.
4. More often than not, I get ignored for the sake of the game.
5. I can't have my characters be afraid of things like rusty hangers named WIFRL because that's just silly. Yeah, god forbid I take away from the seriousness of the game. IT'S A FUCKING GAME.
6. The people I used to play with forgot how to have fun. Their games became more about how to bend the rules and kick ass than to have fun in a fantasy environment.
7. The DM would okay my character then decide for the sake of the story to manipulate my stats or tell me I wasn't playing her right. This happened more than once and usually half-way into the campaign.
I'm just tired of the game. I should have gotten the hint that D&D and I were not a good fit when my first GM stabbed my very first character in the back because he didn't like me. Not my character: ME. Then, he passed the rule that the player couldn't talk or interact with the party out of game if their character was incapacitated. *sigh*
And for future reference, that quote was not for Derek.