Top Twenty Reasons Your Players Hate You

We all have our reasons, whether we vocalize them or not. Sometimes, we secretly hate our GM’s. Here is our top twenty list of reasons why:

Rust monsters destroyed my epic magical items.
Rocks Fall [WARNING: TvTropes.org Link we are not responsible for the time suck that is about to occur].
Your NPC is more interesting then me.
NPC’s should not be able to out drink me.
Your dice don’t hate you / We can’t see what your rolling.
All your characters talk the same.
You’ve canceled the game.
Your wife/girlfriend is playing an albino vampire were-tiger, and I’m not.
You keep wanting to play an online game and can’t get the tools working (My GM has Gremlins).
My foot has been tied to a train.
Your toddler/cat keeps walking over the battle map.
You’ve turned this game into a drinking game and I can’t remember my character’s name.
Because I’m hungry, and you don’t live next to a Circle K.
The only beer you have in the fridge is Bud.
Hummus and Vegetables are no substitute for Cheetos and Mountain Dew, goddammit!
You made me sign a contract with the Infernals.
Uzi wielding Ninjas dropped from the ceiling.
Mirror of Opposition. On the ceiling.
Zombies should not be your default.
Your idea of prep work is two hours of FreeCell.

What is your worst experience with a GM? Share it with us in the comments and continue our list!

http://singularmoments.blogspot.com/ Cole

You go off-topic every 5 minutes. I only rolled the dice once for this entire session.

My character is so stinking strong, it feels like I am playing in godmode.

The game system you are using is so complicated, only you understand.

Paul von Meerschedit

While I cannot remember to this day if you told me before hand, the other three players who did not show up did not. The only punishment you as a group received was not partaking in the hideously dangerous and profitable mini adventure that the players who DID show up partook in. Oh, and you got stuck to the ceiling with sovereign glue, which was just comical.

And freecell is gravy for the brain.

And while the wife might have been playing an albino were-tiger vampire, she took the appropriate level adjustment. Had you wished to play something similarly retarded, such as your hairless catling from your 2e days, it would have been allowed. And I made you chosen of your god. I’m hurt.

Theron

The other players said my character was a jerk, so you killed him when I missed a game. And then I never forgave you. Jerk.
Will

- Railroading.
– Sudden, unannounced house-rules that nerf my character for no good reason.
– You are the only one who knows the rules, and you don't understand them, so you have to keep looking them up.
– GURPS.
Theron

You gave away the entire terra incognita history of the Deadlands universe in the first session.

You do “evil GM” bullshit.
http://www.apathygames.com Tyson J. Hayes

Or on the flip side of the rules, I understand the rules, you don't, and you keep enforcing them wrong. Good list though.
http://www.apathygames.com Tyson J. Hayes

When I announce a week before hand I will be missing the game and am still “punished” for not showing up “and not communicating that I wouldn't be there.”
River

You took advantage of my innocence.
http://www.apathygames.com Tyson J. Hayes

I saw an opportunity and went for it. :D
Paul von Meerschedit

While I cannot remember to this day if you told me before hand, the other three players who did not show up did not. The only punishment you as a group received was not partaking in the hideously dangerous and profitable mini adventure that the players who DID show up partook in. Oh, and you got stuck to the ceiling with sovereign glue, which was just comical.

And freecell is gravy for the brain.

And while the wife might have been playing an albino were-tiger vampire, she took the appropriate level adjustment. Had you wished to play something similarly retarded, such as your hairless catling from your 2e days, it would have been allowed. And I made you chosen of your god. I’m hurt.
Paul von Meerschedit

While I cannot remember to this day if you told me before hand, the other three players who did not show up did not. The only punishment you as a group received was not partaking in the hideously dangerous and profitable mini adventure that the players who DID show up partook in. Oh, and you got stuck to the ceiling with sovereign glue, which was just comical.

And freecell is gravy for the brain.

And while the wife might have been playing an albino were-tiger vampire, she took the appropriate level adjustment. Had you wished to play something similarly retarded, such as your hairless catling from your 2e days, it would have been allowed. And I made you chosen of your god. I’m hurt.