Things players say to me

Maz · 10-02-2018, 12:50 PM

One time at a con-game I ran...
Let me set the stage first. [Warning for grossness]

The game is using BESM (an anime style game but similar in many respects to GURPS). The PCs are various pregenerated chars who are all on an airplane that crashes on the north pole. Most people on the plane died as it crashed but the PCs all had Powers that awoke as part of the crash. As the PCs crawl out of the ship and realise they are stranded, the very first action of one of the players is to - and this is were it gets gross - he wanted his character to consume human flesh.

I immediately pulled out of game and told him it would be wildly out of character for his pretty normal high school kid to suddenly want to eat people. Maybe search for survives - try to find a way to call for help or something? Or, if he was hungry there were airplane-meals scatteres around the area. But no, because, as he pulled me aside and told me in confidence, he had heard it tasted good...
This is the only time I have ever in any game ever GMed stated "no, you do not do that".
And then the alien robots who was supposed to turn up after some tension-building showed up and we had a fight scene. During the next scene the player decided to assault an alien base alone. And I was thankfull to simple tell him "you died" and ask him to leave so the rest us could try to have a normal 'super magical anime heroes stranded on the north pole battling alien robots'-game thank you very much!

[Edit] Sorry I had a point that was relevant to the OP: Some people are just crazy, they turn up at game cons. Forget about them and focus on the people who are having fun at your game.[/edit]

10-02-2018, 12:50 PM	#11
Maz Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Denmark	Re: Things players say to me One time at a con-game I ran... Let me set the stage first. [Warning for grossness] The game is using BESM (an anime style game but similar in many respects to GURPS). The PCs are various pregenerated chars who are all on an airplane that crashes on the north pole. Most people on the plane died as it crashed but the PCs all had Powers that awoke as part of the crash. As the PCs crawl out of the ship and realise they are stranded, the very first action of one of the players is to - and this is were it gets gross - he wanted his character to consume human flesh. I immediately pulled out of game and told him it would be wildly out of character for his pretty normal high school kid to suddenly want to eat people. Maybe search for survives - try to find a way to call for help or something? Or, if he was hungry there were airplane-meals scatteres around the area. But no, because, as he pulled me aside and told me in confidence, he had heard it tasted good... This is the only time I have ever in any game ever GMed stated "no, you do not do that". And then the alien robots who was supposed to turn up after some tension-building showed up and we had a fight scene. During the next scene the player decided to assault an alien base alone. And I was thankfull to simple tell him "you died" and ask him to leave so the rest us could try to have a normal 'super magical anime heroes stranded on the north pole battling alien robots'-game thank you very much! [Edit] Sorry I had a point that was relevant to the OP: Some people are just crazy, they turn up at game cons. Forget about them and focus on the people who are having fun at your game.[/edit] Last edited by Maz; 10-02-2018 at 12:55 PM.