Thursday, November 22, 2007

10 signs your DM has lost the plot

Let's face it, being a DM is no bed of roses, there's roleplays for one thing. if your going to tentatively put forward a tenuous semi-plagiarised plot then the last audience you want to do that to is a bunch of obsessive, reclusive, bookish geeks....in other words your players.

But on the other hand, sometimes DM's aren’t much fun either. here are the 10 signs that your DM is officially away with the dryads, and not in a good way.

10. He starts to refer to you (as a person) by your characters name. even clameing that you should pay for the pizza as you have at least 300 gold.

09. He try’s to get into character by dressing as the NPC's.... all at the same time.

08. He can recite lord of the rings verbatim, work out the maths for a full scale war where every combatant has different feats and makes more notes than a reporter discovering that David Beckham is really gay..... but he can no longer tie he's own shoe laces.

07. He Bases he’s choice of mate on how much they look like 'gold moon' from the dragonlance saga.

06. he has every D&D and GURPs source book going back to first edition, enough dice to make a monument to roleplaying, and yet can only afford to live on toast

05. He has tried to assassinate Gary Gigax (for those of you who don’t know:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax ) to absorb he's ultimate geek power

04. He can speak Klingon, Elfish and Ork.... and lists them on he's CV

03. He has a loathing for players who deviate from the plot that most people reserve only for Nazis

02. He reads this list and doesn’t think any of them have been unreasonable

01. He gets into a fight and has the snot knocked out of him because he was trying to roll to hit.

...oh by the way, anyone pointing out that I missed the one about the DM creating a blog of the game and general role play humour is free to spend a hour with the Pain Monsters (aka Rebekah with a bokken and Sarah with PMS)

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