Odd title.

It’s a great title

OH GOD. The wife… I know exactly what sort of person this is and I Hate dealing with them or seeing others have to deal with them outside of their own weird, weird, Weird circle of people. It’s the same sort of fandom school of thought as the Yaoi fans. They make up a male character just to shove at as many of their favorite men so they can have their men on men sex fantasies. It doesn’t matter if she wasn’t an anime fan or not, this goes beyond anime into other fandoms. It’s everywhere and I Never understand it. God, I feel Terrible for you guys to have to endure that.

 That was a funny story and jaw dropping He almost lived out the no pants dream impressive.

this story reminds me of when i was at Gothcon in Gothenburg, sweden (I love the english name for Göteborg. Gothenburg. Sounds so awesome). We have had a realy great day, played some awesome sessions and generaly had a blast. But it was getting late and we were going to our appointed sleeping hall wich was a classroom since the con was held in a university. So we get there, open up the door and wouldnt you know it, some people had decided to use that room as a gaming room for their adventure. They go “Oh sorry, is this your sleeping hall?” And we go “Yea yea. Are you gonna take long?”
the Dm goes “No no. Give us ten minutes and we will be done. Its kinda the last battle.”
and we are like “its cool. dont feel rushed. Its only sleep after all.”
So the DM feels that he should thank us. So he gets up to shake our hands, and as he rises from his chair we notice that he has no pants. Dressed in a suit with a tie, polished shoes and pressed shirt, but no frikken pants. And we are like Oookay, thats a bit weird. But hey its a free country. So we give them the ten minutes. It dosnt take ten minutes, rather an hour. But hey thats roleplaying. It happens. So after about an hour the door opens, one guy runs screaming and crying out of the room, the other player is soon after, trying to catch up with his friend and last out is the DM, still no pants. He leans towards the doorframe, looks after the two guys running away and with a calm voicce goes: “They didnt win against the boss.” scratchin his balls while saying that. And then he asks us if we are up for a game of Spank The Monkey (A cardgame, feels like i should clarify that.) We all stand there, jaws dropped to the floor and trying to find something to say. And i go like “im out.” and just walks away. Dont know if the played Spank The Monkey, dont realy care. I prefer not to think what monkey got spanked if you know what i mean. 
Slept on a parkbench in Gothenburg that night. Slept realy well on top of that, even if it was a bit cold.

So thats my relating story.

Oh my god that’s the hell of a story dear Sponny, i know how
uncomfortable you must have been, I know everyone has their beliefs, but
damn just ease up a little, people. 

It’s like one guys I knew, when I was in high school.  I’ve played 2
game with this guy and some other people or friend, but this guy, who i
did not knew a lot at first.  He would always make this wannabe bad ass
character, which was badly handle, but otherwise he was a good player,
he was a bad role player, but he knew dnd and showed it a lot.  Anyway,
this guy’s character would always be this Xenophobic bastard, bringing
down every race, and he would always ask the color of the skin of every
npc, so he would act this way.  At first we though it was nothing, until
we go out with this guy for Saint Patrick if I remember correctly.  And
this guy was really a xenophobic bastard has we soon discovered.  There
were three barman/barmaid, and he would only go to the white barman. 
One of the other guys friend came, and he was asian, so this guy would
be rude with him. When we decided we had enough and went out to walk
home, this guy, an other and me had to go the same way. And the bad shit
crazy he told us, first about asian, after about black, and soon every
other human who were not white. 

It’s sad, cause he was a good guy, but I feel uncomfortable around
xenophobe, because I have friend and friend who has friend who are not
white.  And that’s really sad for the people like  that guy, that don’t
hate people because of their beliefs, of the religion, or culture, which
are not good reason either to hate people, but because their parent
were racist and it’s like they have to hate them for no other reason but
their skin color, and no other reason really.  He just repeat what his
father or mother said, he believe its right because his parents must be
right no?  Anyway, great job Spoony. Keep it good, Keep it real, and may
you stay on this road of awesomeness dude!

there is always someone who even seems crazy to his own subculture and omg, crazy roleplayers are terrifying ^^”

 I’m not sure if this is the dumber statement, but one time we called a player to see where he was and why he was late and his response was, “I’m not sure I can make it. I just woke up, I don’t know where I am, and all I can see is white.”

Speaking of harassment in game…. As said before, I rarely go to the Gaia Online forums because they’re generally full of absolute pricks or entitled bitches that I want to continually throttle. however, i have been known to occasionally go onto Gaia Towns as one of the characters I play from a fandom. I like Hetalia. I like the general silliness of Hetalia and the jokes in it to be made on the general stereotypes of the various countries. I don’t like everything about Hetalia, but I love it in general.

I. Hate. The. Fandom. They drive me nuts and the fandom looks like it’s mainly comprised of a lot of yaoi fantards making a mountain out of a bump in the road. I stay as far away from them as I can for my own sanity, however, on occasion, I like to go into the Towns part of Gaia where the Hetalia avatars usually sit around and role play. I tend to go in as one of the characters and I try to use as authentic lingo as I can find for the nation that character is. I don’t do the Japanese honorifics and I’m honestly rather annoyed by that. But I digress. 

When I go in I just take a seat and someone will eventually come over and start talking to me, which I do in character. I don’t bother the people who do the yaoi role playing. I have no problem with them doing their own thing because that’s what they enjoy and it’s all fun. I do, however, have a problem when another character starts harassing the one I’m playing and I’ll react according to how the character is supposed to act. If I’m playing France then he may or may not be interested in the person groping him because he’ll fuck anything that’s pretty. However, here I was playing America. I was watching the interaction between Turkey, Ireland, Sweden and… Norway and Denmark, I think. Every now and then I’d say something and then maybe get chased around by Ireland for whatever I said, but it was in character.

And then Turkey’s player decided she was bored and had Turkey come over and stuff his hand down America’s pants. America immediately reacted as you would expect any man to react to being suddenly grabbed by his junk. “Dude! Not cool! Get the fuck off me!” 

Turkey’s player’s automatic reaction was “A STRAIGHT HETALIAN?” She started shrieking about “STRAIGHTS IN MY HETALIA” and then immediately started badmouthing me because I didn’t play along. Needless to say I informed the people she played with on her character profile that I knew that she was indeed a rude, intolerant person.

It’s like the naked at school dream where you don’t know HOW you got on the bus naked, but that’s no longer important because you’re on the bus naked, and you’ll be at school soon.

I’ve occasionally known to forget a thing or two while leaving home, but never in my life have I forgot to wear pants. That’s just crazy… :D

I wish you would play D&D with LordKat again that was awesome.

I can see forgetting your pants. I sometimes forgot to put pants on because of how my boxers at the time looked and felt when  worn. So i can kind of see just forgetting to put some shorts on if you were in a hurry or whatever.

It can be pretty jarring to find out the person sitting next to you is a bigot. I didn’t know for many years that my uncle was like that until one Thanksgiving I brought up President Obama. Very awkward.

You, Spoony, are clearly one of the most tolerant of racist and homophobic people I have ever known. Its amazing that you were able to keep your cool in those situations with her. But I promise to leave it at that. ;)

And the “I forgot my pants” part did have me giggling so much! Thank you, I really needed that today!

29:41 sexual frustrations much?

This is Spoony’s house, you and behave in Spoony’s house.

Moral of the story: Don’t be racist, or your gaming group will bail on you.

That’s a pretty crazy story there, Mr. Spoon.

But one burning question still throbs in my mind…

Did you leave immediately or did you finish out the session before casting aside the game?

And if the latter, what happened during the adventure?

I played with a female AD&D DM.

Unfortunately, she was terrible.

This aside, I am the polar opposite of a killer DM. I hate killing players unless they specifically try to and even then I might let them live just to spite them; however, I take it out on them by forcing them to try and be smart and keep their wits around lest they become playthings to a schemer or seven, and occasionally face them with opposition they cannot possibly face in a fair fight.

Plus, a dead PC is a PC to which you can’t do anything anymore and I don’t like to have afterlives with revolving doors, so I’d rather have death be final and just be careful with it.

But then again, my games are all about relationship charts and tea parties.

Aww, Spoony never said what kind of character ‘Gary’ played as in their Thieves World game.

Assuming he was the priest? that dropped out.

This chick should be shot!
As a matter of fact, this bitch is horrible and should be arrested!!

Couldnt resist :$

Generally bringing someone’s significant other into a RPG is guaranteed to start shit. At least that’s what I’ve heard from my friends that role play. I don’t. 

One good example is my former roommate getting his wife involved in one of his games. The first time he let her roll up her own character she died one turn into the game. Then she decided to invite a friend of hers to play, having said nothing of this to anyone else before getting her all excited about it and starting her designing a character. This may be an odd case, though, since the girl in this story has the IQ of pudding.

Come  on Spoony…i’m a huge fan of your work, i follow you for like 3 years but…i dont know how exactly to tell this, but only the most Die-hard type of fanboys like this thing. If you are reading this, I know you might think”Who is the motherfucker? Who the fuck he thinks he is to tell me how to do my job?” And you are right. As far as things go, I am nobody, but if my oppinion means anything, i needed at least a chance to ask you when are you going to end the Ultima series, when are you going to review other movies and games the way you used to. To make really funny, sly and intelligent jokes.
To make really funny, original and inspiring videos.
I feel ya, bills gotta be paid, meds ougha be bought and blood shall be shed but please, instead of releasing videos where you either milk from TGWTG dudes (some of which, i may say, seems to be relly rad dudes) either you just rant and ramble for about 1 hour on some topic that really…almost no one cares.
I believe that the real core fans of you dont mind waiting for a bit longer for these good videos and, if you may hear a suggestion, make the Vlog videos shorter or try to illustrate them. Maybe, trying an obscure and nostalgic videogame-themed channel on TwitchTV. This way, you might please both audiences from your website, cash in dem good dollas and make your image among the interwebz better!

Anyways, sorry about the long post, i hope this comment draws your attention and seriously wish most succeess, much WIN and a bright future to this website.

Hail from Brazil
Walmor

Off topic I suppose, but if you’re inspired by Spoony’s tales and want to get into roleplaying, but don’t want to keep a lot of rules in your head or spend a lot of cash, I recommend the Savage Worlds system. I’ve been gaming as a player and GM off and on for 15 years (mostly D&D 2nd edition through 3.5, new and old WoD, with some Palladium games, Shadowrun and B5 thrown in), and found SW at just the right time. A universal system like Gurps, with an emphasis on fast pulpy storytelling over rules crunch, and the Savage Worlds Explorer Edition gives you all the rules you need for any setting for ten bucks. It’s a good place to start before diving in to some of the more complicated systems.
Sorry if this came across as an advert, but my weekly group and I have been loving it, and most of the players are relative beginners.

I really enjoy all The Counter Monkey stories (even the weird ones). I would say that they inspired me to try and start playing again. Friend of mine is planing to start a game in a steampunk RPG system called Wolsung. I’m anxious to try something new.

Keep up the good work Spoony.

Well, I was expecting a story about an adventurer who refused to wear pants.  I was considering different situations of hilarity that could ensue, but this counter monkey was a bit more serious that I was expecting.  Still not bad though.  Being a bit eccentric, I have been know to go to the store in pajama pants.  That’s because I didn’t care though.

“Yeah, I’ll be there if in five minu-oh, wait, I forgot my pants.”

“What? Dammit dude, can’t you just steal a pair?”

“…I’m not that kind of thief.”

You know….I’ve only ever had dreams about showing up somewhere not having pants, or my uniform or whatever.
But honestly, “You forgot your pants!” That is really messed up.

Kudos to running with him past the “hour and a half late” thing. If somebody showed up more than an hour late to a game I was in even once, odds are I’d never play with them. You’ve got some legendary patience- I salute you sir.

 I have never played D&D or anything like that, but I love these stories and I hope you keep ‘em coming !

Sending some love from Sweden !

if there is to be a moral, it would probably be to keep your personal prejudices to yourself. no one wants to hear it, and therefore it shouldn’t be brought up.

I’m more shocked that HE FORGOT HIS PANTS!

“Gary” can’t get a job because he’s a dumb stoner fuck!

I’ve met some crazy people while role playing.  One guy I remember was a guy we called Torg.  That was his character name and we gave him that nickname because he really liked it.  He played a barbarian type guy with the intelligence of someone like The Hulk.  And in the game he took some weird delight in chasing down bunnies and beating them to death.  Always yelling, “Torg smash!”  Much like what Spoony said, it was funny the first time and we still tell that story in jest, but he kept doing stupid things and it just extended the playtime from a couple hours to all day long.  It got really annoying.

Spoony quit fucking around and do an epic pony tail already! I could see you doing a Mel Gibson Patriot type thing.

I get the impression that your racist “friend” was just bursting at the seams with frustration at a situation.  I’ve come to a head in similar situations because I can’t stand religious fundamentalism.  Sure, it’s not the same thing–but my point is frustration can make someone irrational.  At least you were just playing a game; my situation ended up with me having to move out of an apartment very suddenly.

SirSeanConnery–I TOTALLY read that as Spoony giving an in-depth review of MLP:FIM.

About forgetting pants. These things happen and when they do, you have no idea why even when you’re the one who forgot. Seriously. I once forgot my backpack to school. Pretty much the only thing you need to bring to school with you. And it’s a little different with backpacks here than in USA (weel I actually base this “knowledge” on cartoons and movies so I dunno how much accurate is this). Each student has to buy his own books for each subject and we carry them around all the time so our backpacks are full of books, notebooks and other stuff everyday. So it weights a little (don’t remember how much because I’m long since finished with my compulsory education) and one day I just went to school without it and I didn’t realize I was few kg short. I realized it at school when I tried to do my homework (I always did my homewrok at school because “hey fuck you, my home time is my free time”) and couldn’t find my backpack and then I was like “Oh you can’t be serious… how did I manage to forget a whole backpack?!” These things just happen (I’m writting here just about forgetting pants, not being late as I hate when people are late).

And you’re too easygoing with people. I don’t talk to people much, truth be told, I’m scared of people overall but when someone needs to hear something I will tell them straigth. No “diplomatic” approach (because someone might not understand) no trying other people to tell them, just face to face without pulling punches with a person you’ve got problems with. But then again I have like one friend and maybe 2-3 closer acquaintances so maybe I’m not a prime example of how to deal with people :P

Oh and also in the reference to this video, greetings from Poland :)

Oh and congratulations on keeping the name hidden :P

I forgot my pants once… then I took an arrow in the knee.

Now, I just want to play devil’s advocate for a moment and make a point: I’ll agree her ignorance was at its peak when she disregarded to being corrected on the matter of Dominique being Polish. However, I have to defend her ignorance in that she couldn’t distinguish between the two purely on the grounds that she clearly had no idea what a Polish person looked like.

If you’ve never seen an image of a Polish man or woman nor given an explaination of their appearance, you’d have no clue how to distinguish one from anyone else.

Now I know that doesn’t excuse her blatant racism, but you can’t knock her, or anyone in any situation for being unable to identify someone by nationality if they’ve never seen the differences. That’s all I wanted to say, thank you.

Thank you so much for posting your stories. I always find them entertaining when I can get a moment to listen to them.

Spoony, you were way more polite than me. I have a really bad temper when it comes to racism or ignorance. Even the conspiracy theorists I can’t help myself and blast them with the fury of Reason. I think people who think that kind of stuff are talking about this publicly like that because they never met people who could tell them that it’s wrong…

I point to the Hitchcock classic, Psycho,   so it can be done.  Not that it should, but to say it can’t be done, isn’t true.

Less Counter Monkey and more Ultima 9! :P

say somone:I TOTALLY read that as Spoony giving an in-depth review of MLP:FIM. me too but he need a lot say to him to do that So make fourm does say spoony do want do that and people need yes

 Wow… there are some people out there that are just on a completely different wavelength from the average person- and there’s times when that just doesn’t work. At all. I sympathize with Gary in a way about always being late, I’m one of the least organized people you will ever meet, and it’s really hard for me to factor others into my own personal schedule, but when I get late like for a group I apologize my @** off. Every freaking time. That’s probably just as annoying, but I think it helps diffuse the rage at my general incompetence a bit. That must be terribly frustrating to have someone that just says “Yah, I’m here now… 2 hours late… whatevs…”

The Beez! The Beez!

I don’t find myself racist, for the most part, but I do find that I’m generally an idiot at politics. Also, I so happen to disagree with what she says. I’ll just leave it at that.

I do have stuff to ask about your friend though (the guy who forgot his pants). I’m wondering if the guy is in the autism spectrum. I’m in the autism spectrum myself (specifically, I have Asperger’s Syndrome) and your friend seems to have similar kinds of difficulties with everyday tasks. I know that, for myself, I’ll have times where my mind will just not “connect-the-dots” when it comes to my memory and decision-making, and I’ll even had periods where I get so focused on a specific task that I’ll completely forget what I’m SUPPOSED to do right after, or even at a specified time during it. This stuff even happens when I’ve practiced a routine for a while; I’ll just randomly forget that I’m supposed to bring something with me, or do a specific task at a certain time, even though I’ve always done this stuff before in the same way, and at that same time, every time.

An example of something that might happen with me is that, let’s say, I wake-up and I figure-out what I’m supposed to do when I wake-up. I’ll be like: “Ok, I’ve got to have breakfast, brush my teeth and gather my stuff for school.” So, I prepare breakfast and then eat it all. I may then think: “Ok, look…” *sees bagpack* “I’ve got to go to school now. I have my bag, so let’s go!”, so then I go… I’m on the bus on the way to school. I suddenly think “Omg, I forgot to brush my teeth!… Well, it’s too late now, so whatever!” *sigh*. And by the way, Spoony, this kind of forgetfullness and “remembering at the wrong time” can suddenly manifest itself and persist frequently in my life despite me successfully and consistently spending weeks or months practicing. So anyways… I get to school. I remember that I prepared and finished something for school that’s actually due that day (could be homework, could be stuff to prepare for an event, could be whatever…). I get to where I’m supposed to be at the school and, at the last fucking minute, I suddenly think: “Hey, wait a minute… Did I BRING what I was supposed to bring?” *searches backpack* “Oh crap, I didn’t!”. So, yeah… That’s a big chunck of my everyday behavior in a nutshell right there.

If you think about it, everyday life is pretty complicated, but at the same time, most people basically take everything for granted. You basically make everything in your life much simpler by practicing everything and making it all a bunch of habits (dressing-up at a certain time, taking showers at a certain time, having a meal at certain times, and so on). It doesn’t become a big deal where you might keep forgetting things. It’s just a “normal” everyday habit. Well, your friend probably had a persistignly hard time dealing with everyday tasks. He might’ve been a complete genius at various things, but had such a hard time with everyday tasks that he would either neglect doing a lot of those things or waste a lot of time looking around, searching everything, asking himself loads of questions (“What do I need? What am I doing today? Did I forget anything? Did I bring everything?”), making various to do lists (and perhaps later organizing them into a big to-do list) and making entire everchanging plans and schedules revolving around making sure everything that had to be done was actually done (and even then, he’d probably end-up forgetting some stuff).
 
Your friend was probably trying HARD, and I mean fucking HARD, to make sure he got everything done to get to your DnD game. He had to be sure to take a shower, put on clothing (and make sure he doesn’t forget an important piece of it), bring his keys (or bus-pass or whatever), bring his DnD stuff, and do everything else to be absolutely SURE that he’s got all the basic stuff he needs for the DnD game you guys were having. He was keeping you posted on how things were going and he was giving you what he thought was a very good estimate of time for when he’ll probably show-up (and by the way, I also have this trouble myself with estimating time and timing things properly). That day that he forgot his pants, he probably didn’t notice he was even wearing pants; his brain probably just randomly “skipped”, and forgot, that he’s supposed to put on pants before leaving. He didn’t notice until much later on; he just randomly looked down and noticed: NO PANTS! :-P (I’ve never had that specific problem happen to me in my own life though.) When you went to his house to play DnD, he didn’t have to do as much preparation beforehand; therefore, he didn’t have as much stuff to try to remember. Also, he probably had problems with finding and using “the grey area” with situations, which would explain why his DM-ing always went to the extremes (and I’d probably do the same kind of thing too). He’d end-up giving “distress” instead of “eustress” to everyone in the game. ;-)

On a final note, I don’t think the woman was in the autism spectrum at all. She just so happen to be the way she is.

Oh well…I’ll talk to you later, Spoony :-)

Honestly if it was me and someone made a character as offensively over-the-top and stereotypically gay as that woman did, I doubt I’d even be able to play in that game. Maybe I’m thin-skinned, I dunno. But that just really would never fly with me.

So many Counter Monkey videos lately.
It’s like Christmas!

Given the various themes as well as the title of the episode, I have to say one thing:

To forget one pant, Mr. Gary, may be regarded as a misfortune. To forget both pants looks like carelessness.

Wow, so Poles are illegal Mexicans. I’ll try and remember that >_>

I kind of wanted to hear some stories about how brutal that Gary guy was as a DM though, if you have a few good ones about that. Maybe next time?

And I don’t think you needed to try and cover yourself like you did at the end. I don’t have time to read the 200+ comments there are right now tonight but all you did was relate someone else’s views, as controversial as they are. But I do like to act like your friend and draw people like that out because it tends to be pretty damn funny and interesting what comes out of people’s mouths. I live in Canada’s only bilingual province and work in a small mostly English-speaking town, and my boss was astounded when she said she was thinking about adopting a kid and a co-worker said to make sure she didn’t adopt “one of those damn French kids.” As a native French speaker I found that hilarious since a lot of people in my hometown think the same way. You see that everywhere since people who take views like that for granted (be it racism or political opinions or anything) never really go out of their way to do research and see if they’re wrong.

Frankly though, it’s a bit refreshing when people are upfront about it since at least then you know where they stand. It’s always worse when they lie to your face about it and do shit behind your back. In that respect you did the right thing by confronting her about her character and pointing out that your friend was Polish instead of just politely nodding and making fun of her when she left.

The only time I had a bad time playing with someone who was a lousy roleplayer was when I played with a group of friends and one of my good friends was the “culprit” so to say. I just remember he was responsible for getting my character killed and also getting into debates with the DM over things that didn’t make sense.

For example he created a character that was a centaur and we just happened to be on an adventure that required us to break into this mansion. To get in we had to scale a wall on the outside of the mansion and of course that wouldn’t be much of a problem for us with the right planing and the right roles. Of course since my friend was a centaur his character couldn’t climb the wall since the bottom half of his body is that of a horse. Even though the group was trying to figure out how to get him into the mansion grounds he decided to argue with the DM why he couldn’t climb the wall like the rest of us. He just didn’t understand that the centaur can’t climb a brick wall because he has hooves!! After thirty minutes of arguing the DM decides to cut him some slack and says “Okay, you can role to see if you climb the wall but it will be at a -5 penalty” and my friend still kept complaining.

Most of our adventuring took place in a large city environment similar to Sigil from Planescape. So while we were all trying to pick practical classes that would match the campaign setting he goes off and decides he wants to be a druid. That may not sound so bad I guess if you can play the character right, but he would even pick the wrong spells. He would pick spells like entangle when we are basically in an urban environment. He’s a great guy just not a good roleplayer.

I wasn’t even bothered by the views of the woman.  I was still dumbfounded by the lack of the man’s pants and how it took him so long to realize and recover from it. 

I had a lot of double-takes in this video where I had to back it up just to hear it again simply to make sure I wasn’t going crazy and I actually heard what I heard!

“forgot his PANTS?!”

“even MORE offensive than the Beastmaster 2 guy??”

“Wetb-WHOA, wait, what?!” (I am partly Mexican and I was too busy having fun to be offended, so I wasn’t bothered)

And of course throughout the whole thing, I kept thinking the question “how DO you forget your own pants?”  This was my Mystery of the Toilet Pizza kind of thinking.  But I forced myself to stop wondering when I came to the idea that “maybe he left his pants at somebody *else’s* house!”, and I was just creeping myself out at that point and just listened to the rest of the story, heh. 

Perhaps that’s the real reason why “Gary” can’t get a job.  Just keeps forgetting his pants.  I can honestly imagine Spoony ringing the guy’s doorbell, chanting “PLEASE be wearing pants, please have pants on, oh god, please, please, PLEASE do not forget your pants this time!” as he waits for him to open the door. 

This was certainly the most “interesting” of the Counter Monkeys, and that is a good thing! 

Yep, this is why you game with your close friends.

Anyway, cool story, but I was REALLY hoping that Dominic would have turned out to actually be hispanic, and that he would have walked back into the room right as she was really throwing out some offensive insults. The look on her face would have been priceless.

That guy sounds like my flatmate. xD Except, thankfully, she’s never forgotten her pants.

Lately I have a hard time spotting where my pants are. But I always look for them. Maybe that guy had the same problem and just gave up one day.

you were waaaaaaaaaay too nice when it comes to the gay character walking up to you and groping you. 
what I mean is, imagine if you walked up to the Ultimate Warrior and grabbed his balls out of the blue. guess what would happen next? Warrior would slam his fist through your face and pile-drive you into the toilet. 
gay or not, homophobic or not, that’s just not something you do

Spoony, you’re my favorite online entertainer who isn’t a porn star. Keep doing these Counter Monkey talks!

Spoony, you’re a great story-teller. Keep the Counter Monkey going.

Poor Dom, nobody deserves that kinda treatment, but if it’s the kid I’m thinking of. He sure as hell didn’t deserve a statement like that (he usually had bad luck at the game tables back in school).

It would have been far funnier if Gary would have shown up without his pants (hopefully in some long shorts or something safe).

I remember a game that I was DMing. It was a game that was being played via E-mail. Playing via email has its pluses and minuses. You can play with anyone, anywhere, at any time, but the progress of the game can be slower for obvious reasons.

Anyways, I had a player who pulled something that really surprised me. Part of it was my fault as the game’s DM, I admit. He was being a bit of an ass, and he was doing everything he could to annoy everyone playing the game, myself included. He was succeeding, I might add. Every now and then I would privately send him a message telling him to tone it down. He would for a little bit, then he’d be back at it again. But then he really crossed the line.

I’d like to say it came out of nowhere, but he was being an ass to such a degree that the rest of us weren’t enjoying ourselves. It was annoying as hell. I think I tolerated it because he was playing a douchebag character. He was trying to be funny, but he was the only one laughing.

Anyways, the incident. I had separated the characters into a smaller groups as part of the story. The idea was that a few characters weren’t getting along so this is my attempt to get them to cooperate and thus get the characters to work better together. Kind of cliche I know, but I thought it would be interesting. The douchebag is with a female character. He suddenly decides to pull down his own character’s pants and he started to, and apologize for even mentioning this, but his char started to touch himself while standing in front of this female character. The player playing the char was a friend of mine and was a little bit younger, I think she was 15 at the time, I was 17 or 18 at the time. I’m a bit older now.

At that point I brought an immediate stop to the game. All I said to everyone was that I was putting the game on hold from anywhere to a few hours to as long as a week. I send a message to my friend and said I’m sorry about that, but I’m demanding he apologize for his actions and never do it again or else. She told me I had nothing to apologize for, but I felt it was necessary. For him, I was done playing games or beating around the bush. I told him, you need to send two messages. One to the whole group, one specifically to her. In it you need to agree never to do anything like that again, and apologize for your ignorant action. I didn’t care if it was supposed to be in character or not. That was uncalled for. Foot placed firmly down.

A week came and went, and I sent a message to the group, minus the douchebag telling them that he was no longer in the game. I warned him and I kept with my guns. And I had been tolerant of lot of his crap too. I had just had enough. Kind of like Spoony had had enough with the player who can’t remember his own pants apparently. He tried to apologize when he realized that I was being serious, but at that point I had had enough and it was too late. He tried to play it off as if he didn’t realize that that was too far. Some might say I was being harsh, but I didn’t buy for a second.

Oddly enough, or maybe not so oddly enough, the characters in the group got along great after that and we all really enjoyed the rest of that campaign. We ended playing via email for almost three years after it had started too. It was a lot of fun.

So, sorry for rambling. Just thought I would share my own little story.

he forgot his pants…? i was so flabbergasted i couldnt even laugh about that :D

Is anyone else intentionally NOT watching these, so they can save up, in case he goes on hiatus again…and they don’t have Spoony-withdrawal?
 
I’ll start watching again next month, so I have a nice little bank of vids saved up.

Until then gentleman, onwards and upwards!

Good to see Spoony back in the saddle again.

I remember something similar, this DM who kept being extra mean to me for some reason. Turned out he was just a massive racist. Didn’t even learn that until years later.

A friend of mine once told me that with his group’s longer games the number of racist jokes increase proportionaly to the time of game. And by longer I mean “start at twilight, end at dawn” so you have to forgive them, they’re usually half-asleep and just everything sounds funny to them. One time, they started to play at 5th p.m. and ended somewhere around 6 in the morning. The game ended when my friend, being half-asleep and not really in control of what he’s doing anymore, said “nigger is black”. Everybody else just bursted down laughing and realized it’s probably time to go home.

The Importance of Wearing Pants

or
When I realized I was actually Lawful Good as opposed to Neutral
(I’ve watched too much Rocky and Bullwinkle)

Spoony, you think that’s bad? try playing Marvel RPG. Pack of cheaters. ok, one: his name was chad and he couldn’t play honest if he tried. the upside was, Jean Grey was dead, and stayed dead. and when it comes to the women? yeah….most are frickin clueless.

You know, with the kind of shit that your state has gained a reputation for, I’m surprised over your being surprised over the shit talking the wife was doing.  I live in West Virginia and I hear that shit at least once every few months.  You, on the other hand, live on a border state.  As I’d figure it, it would be quite an accomplishment if you managed to avoid somebody spouting off like that entirely.  I’m not saying that your whole state is full of racist rednecks, but you were bound to find one at some point.

The first 11 minutes of this video is pretty much my exact thoughts on one campaign I’m currently in…

Til this story I thought most of them took place around ’97-02. I don’t remember that stuff being an issue back then, but I also live in the New York suburbs.
   This dude at my college plays a flaming character, but respected us too much to do what that lady did. Never even ‘joked’ with it, guess he just wanted it to be more like him to get more into the game or something. Too each his own. Right?

Yay, another one of those Counter Monkey! Where you just rambling on and on for an hour..

Mybe the guy forgot his extra pair of pants.  Like he was going to a job interview or a party afterwards, and wanted nice pants to bring.

Remember when Spoony did hilarious let’s plays and movie reviews?  What happened to him?  Or is this site devolving into a Nerd version of Cocktales?

Are you sure he didn’t say: Pens?

Racism and ignorance tend to go hand to hand. Here is a small story about it.
A cousin of mine went on student exchange abroad to the U.S. He is a Mexican living in Mexico. So am I. The thing was that he went to a Jr. High to study in the U.S. for a year or so. When he returned, he told some anecdotes to the family. One of the most shocking to him was the very first day. He introduced himself to the school class and kids immediatly started asking questions. Some of which were:

Do you have electricity?
Do you know what videogames are?
Do you have TV?
Does your father ride a “burro”?
Where you live are there streets?
Do you have tubed water? (Meaning having sewers and running water)
We were somewhere between shocked and laughing at all these questions(Yes, we have all of that and practically only people from farms in SMALL RURAL towns use burros). At some point a cousin of mine said:
“You know what? You sould’ve said something like -nah, we don’t have tubed water. We get it wiresslessly or by bluetooth.-”
We cracked up laughing.

As usual, nice story.

As for the views, I aint touching those with a 10ft pole…

she is free to have it, still shocking as all hell 

Since i know you are watching the comments i wanted to ask you a question that i have had since i noticed it in your theives world review. Isn’t the 8 normally where the 7 is on your d20 on your shirt? I don’t know why i bugs me so much but it does

You know, the extreme stereotyping aside, I swear that this is why leaving your significant other out of the game is practically a cosmic rule. Any time I’ve ever seen people in a relationship game together, it’s seemed to either distract from the game because they focus on making it a “couple’s activity”, or one is trying to impress the other or thinks they can get away with being outrageous because of their life partner, or there’s favouritism…or the “you’d better give me special treatment if you don’t want to be in the doghouse” threats, or the worst thing of all “Hey guys, this is my girlfriend. She doesn’t roleplay and thinks it’s stupid, but she wants to be a part of everything I do.” (not saying guys can’t be the ‘obligatory non-gamer’ but it’s less common).

Some couples can probably put aside their…well, “coupleness”…and play a good session, but I haven’t been lucky enough to meet them.

On the much safer topic of DMing styles, I think the best compliment I ever got was someone thanking me that, when I screwed over their character (I think they got pickpocketed and left unconscious in an alley) I did it in such a way that they had to acknowledge that it all stemmed from logical outcomes of their own actions. Probably, “Hey, that was totally fair and logical.” is the best compliment any DM can receive.

The levels of awkward here wow. But the big question: Did you ever forget your pants?

Sigh for the crazy people who ruin perfectly good games. 

Isn’t there always one?
That’s why I don’t run public games anymore. I choose my group and keep them close. 
I hate having that one person in a game who you really wish just wouldn’t show up.

Wow…. i Had a SO SIMILAR EXPERIENCE, it’s frightening.

  A few years ago, i think …3 maybe, there’s this GUY that comes from the big town; you gotta know that i’m from a town (120 000 souls) in the province of Quebec that is actually split in three really distinct sub-towns with their own circles and stuff, but the RPG community is quite united all around. For such a backwater place (it’s like 300 kms from Québec City, and more than 750 kms from Montreal!), the gaming community’s still pretty big, totalling some 120 players from the three sub-towns (hey, backwaters are good for hobbies!). So MOST of the time, it’s split in like three “gangs”, let’s say Center, West and East, with center being numerous and diverse, west being more hardcore and tightly knit and then east being kinda emergent and …”young” (west was MOSTLY over 35 years old in general, the “Old Bunch”).

  So the GUY comes in town, and we …well we’re ALL impressed. He went to the BIG LARPS with THOUSANDS for WEEKS in Europe, and he’s got a gods damned real handmade armor, personally crafted; he’s familiar with ALL the games, and i mean ALL from the obscure indies to the Classics and News D&Ds and the OLD Paladiums and Robotech and GOD he’s seen it ALL! One of my gaming partners at the time said he was our geekie equivalent of the “Artistic Revelation of the Year” award winner; it was mostly true. EVERYBODY wanted that GUY in his games, in his LARPs, in their circles; He was f’ing AMAZING! Charismatic! Smart! Strategic! Incredible Actor, Poet and Improv MASTER! A Hundred and twenty people litterally had a RPG-Crush on the guy! And HO his bombshell of a gf did NOT made it easy to just shrug him off either: hot, gentle and (larps be blessed) a REAL CLOTHES DESIGNER specialized in VINTAGE AND COSTUMES! They were SPLENDID!

  And SO, the GUY gets in EVERY circle; West, Center and East are RAVISHING the man and plugging him in ALL the games, creating settings around this AMAZING character he has been carrying for a couple years in differents larps, tabletops and whatnots. In 1 month, this guy got invited in the SIX most renowned larping groups AND in the four main games that are running at the time …and through luch, the dude gets to crash at MY place one night, and i talk to him about MY game that’s been running for two years and he’s ALL   GOOGLY  EYED   AT   IT!!! He asks for a place in; my two friends/players in the living room go “YES!” and i’m “Sure, man that would be GREAT!” *thinking OHMYGODTHISISSOGONNAMAKEMYGEEKIEREPGOUP!*

  And so we start having him at home almost three times à week, he’s really researching this character for the game, inserting himself into our little casual larp group (mostly, we’re just 6 palls drinking and smoking shisha at larps, being hauty jerks before that;), getting real close real quick with most of us and fitting in just well.

… and then.

  The guy takes time during game breaks, NEVER DURING GAMES MIND YOU (as he said), but he starts taking time during game breaks, in MY living room, with my friend from guadaloupa just leaving and my wife being there, PLAYING WITH US while HIS girlfriend is back at their appartment sewing his suits and costumes, he thus starts spreading neo-nazi-AND-misogynistic propaganda every  single   setence     for      HOURS! Nonstop. Their is NO other subjects in his mouth; he’s not “hateful”, he’s “Just so Emminently Superior” that he doesn’t need to hate, just to spread his gospel.

   I am frozen for 10 minutes. Completly taken aback. Nobody says ANYTHING. For HOURS we heard his comments ringing in our ears and whenever we would take a pause, he would spam the hate again.

The GUY has INFILTRATED US!

   Next days, we don’t see him but GOD we talk; was he high? Joking? Mad with anger at someone? WTH?!

   Anyways… we go on, the rpg community goes on, the games and larps and shits go on and he doesn’t talk about it anymore. …until a few days later, maybe 10, some 60 persons break camp after the big larp where the 3 gangs are starting to meet up (it’s a new really classic fantasy one with swords and stuff that is starting to get real big, real quick at the time, his PERFECT setting) and   he    starts   AGAIN! HOURS while guys are STUCK packing tents, fetching lost items and gear he talks to the YOUNG ones and he’s spreading his nazy-macho gospel!

   So NOW people are getting on to him; what we five have been whispering in disbelief for days is true, the guy is SPAMMING the community with Hate-speach! WTF?! So we TRY, and GODS we TRY to get him OUT of the games; he gets killed in 2 larps, he’s sent on weird solo errands on tabletop games and i’m essentially calling him last minute possible every game so he CAN’T talk to us before, and i’m doing my best to expulse him (or say, we all go at the convenience store and hey, let’s seperate now that we’re here and you guys are halfway there anyway, ok all, yeah good, bye! and wink at the accomplices…) right as the game is done ’cause we were SO enthousiast about him in the first games that he’s become central and ESSENTIAL to the plot, so we can’t KICK him out of the GAME, but i’m sure as hell trying to kick him out of my APPARTMENT!

   And guess what, it works! He guesses i want more time with my then engaged girlfriend (now wife) and willingly gives us space, by his own words. As the weeks go by, his presence is slowly fading from the plot, we can slowly relegate him to a token role (i know, not the most human thing to do, but that game had been going on for 17 months with our best pals! IT STILL IS like 20 months later!) and he finally gets bored and, on a fancy, he moves away, like that, back to the big City where he’ll try to catch a cougar to sugar-mommy him.

  That would have been an acceptable ending to the chapter.

  Somewhat…

  But he’s a recurring character; we implanted him too well. I did.

  I realize that fact, a couple months later, when he “for old times’ sake” wants to come around in town and ask to crash at my place; only natural, no? After all, it’s the first place he did while around these parts and he got really engaged in our games, friendly terms and stuff, so …yeah, i’m thinking “come on, he’s not …well, he’s not ALL bad”. So we let him in (the fact that he WAS standing in the rain, 11pm, with only a second pair of shoes and two shirts in october did kinda matter; in october, it gets to 16fahrenheit during nightime so it WOULD be bad to leave him to wander the streets…). Never. Let. Them. IN. EVER!

  He stayed for 4 days, days during which no games were running, no larps were active and no questing was possible. So he talked …Bitched mostly; about black people, women, his ex *yeah the awesome designer girl who’s still our friend? he cheated on her AND stalked her for months at the same time, while BOASTING, classy!)*, my softy-pink relationship and the no-balls rolists around here who aren’t up to HIS standards and so he chose to quit their games…

  And he left. Leaving me with borrowed dirty clothes and a contant mental nausea.

  …for a couple mounths. Then appeared with his BROTHER at my door, asking for hospitality. I promptly pick up a Risk 2210 game so he’ll have to concentrate and GUESS WHAT, he doesn’t but the BROTHER is SO, SO no happy with the shameful talk of this little brat brother of his, but he doesn’t SAY so, he just looks SSSSOOOOOOOOO SAD whenever the GUY opens up his hate-hole. I’m pitying the poor older bro and let them crash… god i’m a pushover.

  So, they leave next morning, there IS nothing there for them *why were they here anyway?*, no one who CAN let them stay anylonger, dudes, i WORK, and nobody wants them in any circle for ANY thing, even binge drinking among the bar pillars (yip, they were NOT allowed inside and i do NOT want to know WHY they still recognized him months later).
 
  Did i ALSO mention that we learned the guys has been training in Muai Thai and Krav Maga? Nobody wanted to EVICT him, or lock a door in his face cause he had a history, we discovered, of agression and forced entry (many injuctions still bar his way from MANY girls neighboorhoods). So when he’s FINALLY left, i send a quick note on his email, and while it could have been MUCH nicer, he realizes that my “inferior ways will never be compatible with his drive and charisma”, and to this day, we haven’t heard of him again. And we Moved. And i made sure he can’t find me on facebook or anywhere else. And my phone number’s not published in the book. And my real name doesn’t appear anywhere on the internet, i check monthly (he DID broke two of those injunctions, and corresponding windows, after all… lucky the girls weren’t there).

  So WHAT have we learned here? Well… that some GUYs can be both pretty cool on the onlook, and god awful when you scracth the surface; that i’m positively afraid of guys who can kill four people in 5 seconds and manifest interest in such things, but hey, i’m not sure THIS is bad; that you will hear the most terrible things come from the places that seem the most unlikely, and god damn, that this year’s new trendy fashion or idol MUST be and asshole, SOMEHOW! DON’T LET THEM IN!

…oh, and that with a high enough Intelligence+Performance extended roll, you can steer your game AWAY from the ball-hungry star that you HAVE to bench away for your team’s sake ;)

  Other funny things: i’m now know among gamers around to be both great AND merciless at storytelling/DMing, having been adept at removing him AND keep the game going; it was a greater achievement than including him, as so many game crashed once he shat all over ‘em. That and the official Discriminatory Discourse = XP(half a level) Yellow Flag then BAN Red Flag at my house and games: i’m the respect-fascist now!

A cruel DM? BWAHAHAHAHA HA HA HA…yeah i know what you mean Spoony..heck after 7 years of not playing DnD 3.5 i still remember ONE…ONE FUCKIN’ thing…okay first you have to know:
We didn’t play DnD as it was meant to be played… ’cause we’re new to DnD and our DM was an Idiot! So what happened?
Basically we restarted DnD after we got to Level 3 with our last chars…in that Group we NEVER got higher than Level 6 which was boring as hell so I leaved the group soon, but back to topic.
I was a Level 4 Cleric (i still have the Charsheet here) and we played an Adventure so goddamn boring i remember nothing about the Story except THE ONE thing! So you know at Level 4 a Cleric can’t do much when it comes to casting cause you have just a few good Spells and then not many of them, so you basically you have to stay with you sword until Level 12 (i think) when you get your first “Safe or Die” (Yes you can do awesome stuff with magic before Level 12 but at Level 12…your powerlevel raised EXTREEEEEEEMELY because of the safe or die spells).
So i had a Mithril-Sword (yeah i know just go with it. We were REAL noobs cause the DM explained the DnD-Rules and everything…well he didn’t actually explained anything besides: There is a 20 sided dice…roll it!) and that sword had an enchantment so his Crit-range was 18-20 instead of 19-20 and then x4 (which is INSANE) instead of x3 (i can barely read the stats. The Charsheet is 7 years old^^). So for a Level 4 Char this sword was a real treasure and i sorta loved it (i love badass swords. Really i collect swords at home…real swords). What happened was we arrived at a small village just for resting and sleep, so we rented a room at the tavern and that’s all you have to know.
We went to sleep and nothing really impressive happened (because the adventure was BORING!!!!).
The sun rised, i stood up and the DM said the following:
DM: “Your sword was stolen!”
Me: “What?”
DM: “Your sword was stolen!”
Me: “WHAT why?”
DM: “You didn’t lock the room!”
I was REALLY mad!
You know there are some things the DM should and some things the DM should NOT do!
This is something the DM shouldn’t do! Yes basically he is right, but that didn’t add anything to the story. He just did it because he felt like it would be fun and suprise IT WASN’T FUN AT ALL!!! You CAN steal from the player yeah you can, but just because you can you shouldn’t do it!
So we stayed at the village for one more day so i had time to find the thief.
And i found him…her i dunno…he sold the sword…for 40 bucks <.<.
So i searched the guy who buyed it, I found him and the sword was broken…what?
It was broken! I mean this was a sword made of goddamn mithril! You can't fuck it up just like that. You can break mithril, but it's difficult.
So i lost my only weapon and what the DM did too besides being a dick:
He was REALLY stingy with loot so we had about…350 golpieces and I mean the WHOLE GROUP (6 Players)! So i couldn't afford a new sword without begging at my Groupmates.
Long story short:
I got gold, i searched for a new weapon and what i got…back then i was just lucky…today i'm like: WHAT THE F… 0_0

Here are the stats:

1 D12 +6 normal +1 D6 fire -Damage / Critrange 17-20 x3 <— ONE HANDED!!!!

for 130 Goldpieces!

THIS IS INSANE!!!
I mean as a player: You're fine! This weapon is overpowered as hell, but if the DM says i get this for 130…have fun!
Today i'm just like: Besides being a dick he didn't know the rules!
I didn't know the rules because i played DnD for…about 1 Year and not very often. It takes time to get into PnP RPGs and with such a dumb DM…there was no chance to become a good player!
The other mistake we made was: We played WAY over 10 hours! That's too long!
A good session is about 5-7 hours. That's enough. Over 7 hours you have to fight with some problems:tiredness and hunger are just two! So i left the group because it was just so boring and the group was too dumb and childish to play DnD right! I managed to find a good group (which sadly doesn't exist anymore :/) and i managed to play some other systems like:Shadowrun 4th ED (with the DnD Group mentioned above and it was quiet fun, because we also didn't play it the way it is meant to be played…and that's good because I don't like Shadowrun how it's intended to be.)CthuluSavage WorldsWarhammer FantasyWarhammer 40kDnD 4.0 (I REALLY like the system because it's so easy, but you can get much out of it.)World of DarknessDSA (I really don't like DSA)Dungeons the Dragoning 40k ( a REALLY GOOD and FUN mixup between: DnD, W40k and 2 others i forgot. I just played one session in a PbP-Game).

How does one even… how does a Pole ever… what?

I am actually in a somewhat similar situation right now.  Someone who I am gaming with and often is the DM is a bit of a racist, from a long line of racists, including a few actual Nazis, not just Germans during WW2.  But he realizes his family is racist and that they tend to also be colossal a-holes that he generally doesn’t like.  What I find interesting about him and his games are that they are often a reflection of him working through his own issues with his background.  Often the villains are Nazis (in a recent 50′s pulp scifi game) or Human Supremacists (in both a recent D&D and Star Wars game).  It can get weird and interesting at times as he works through his own personal demons in the games he runs.  Reoccurring themes in racist propaganda will bleed into his games in weird and interesting ways.

And as someone who was raised Jewish I really do find it fascinating.  His games are almost universally enjoyable if a bit rough in places.  And I find our friendship surprising in so many ways. 

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I was going to watch the next story but i forgot my pants

Speaking of crazy, I’ve got a bad one. Needing players to bolster a campaign, I found a new player who came recommended by a second group as an experienced player. Needless to say, I was in for a surprise later. At first he seemed fine, well kept, not socially awkward, always perfectly well in character. Seemed like the holy grail of ‘new’ players. However, it soon became apparent that he was a bit of a spotlight stealer, and he started to sap the fun from the others. I attribute part of this to the fact that he was the only one being very proactive at the time, which was part of the reason for getting another player, so I let that slide.

However after a late game at my apartment, he started talking about a campaign concept that he ran in World of Darkness. We were interested at first, but things turned from a normal, if long, talk of campaigns, to something much darker. The hour long diatribe of a campaign concept quickly spiraled downhill into a psychopathic raving about himself as a reincarnated angel and sermonizing us with half formed sentences that only got louder and more disorganized as the next hour bled on and left us long behind until he finally broke down outright. A short time after that he stitched himself together and left as if nothing was wrong, leaving my friends and I chilled to the core that we had invited someone that batshit crazy not only into the group, but my home. After that day, I spilled the beans on that to the other group, and they were of course shocked speechless, and shortly thereafter he wound up dropped from theirs from a similar, if milder, psychotic incident. Since then, however, I must admit I never frequent places I know the man goes and it was a mountain of relief when I moved.

Damnedest thing is, aside from the whole raving lunatic side, he was one of the best and most talented players I had ever had.

It reminds me a kind of roleplayer. Like this woman, he was disturbing as a roleplayer and in real life. He roleplayed a catholic priest in a nWoD session. That priest was a total pervert, the kind of sexual deviant you could only see in Law and Order SVU. Like the “gay character” in the video, he was a groper (he groped an innocent woman who passed out when we announced her the death of her child… Charming), but he was a rapist too.

The player loved sick, bad and dark things like that. As a player, I love playing with morality and struggles with my vices and temptations, all that sort of things… But others think that a good nWoD game must have total psychos. So, we had two characters like that : our rapist and a cannibal, murderer and sadistic nymphomaniac young woman (yes, all in one character).

Let’s go back to the first (the girl is… so surpringly… DM’s girlfriend ! However, she was not his girlfriend at the beginning of the campaign) : so he roleplayed a priest like that. Oh, and he expressed his hatred of chritianity too. I have no problems with anti-christian views. I was raised christian, but I probably was never truly a believer and I’m more an atheist or a bouddhist now. The problem is : that wasn’t anticlericalism or atheism ; he is religious, but he hates christianism because he follows another path and thinks “the new testament” should be burned.

Every one can play what he wants, but that kind of character disturbs me and more if the player expresses political and religious views which follow the same path during sessions. Yes, of course, I’m an atheist, but I love studying religions and find some things good and sympathetic, so even if I don’t believe, I’m tolerant if people aren’t fanatics or proselytes. I just dislike the “your religion is bad ; mine is the best” thing.

It was not the worst for me. He had a special kind of humor and loved insisting on things like that famous rape scene (fortunately, I wasn’t in that session because it was played without some players ; it wasn’t even a planned one and all that things were partly played out of character and in roleplay). So a year and half after that…thing. He loved to say “hey, it was not rape, she was willing” while laughing (because his character used mental powers to restrain her).

I find that definitely terrible and so I left… It was, by far, my worst table.

the worst players I ever had was an authistic guy who was obsessed with “sharpening his blades” and “improving his combat stances” and would never do anything but that. Everytime it was his turn he would do one thing and one thing only. Attack with whatever weapon he was carrying, even if he was playing a wizard his character would just walk up and start wailing on whatever creature (or NPC) and when the battle was over, he would go back and sharpen his blade and “work on his combat stances” so basically the plot had to move around him because he never took iniative…….at all….ever. Even if his entire party was captured by the legion of Hextor and he was the only one left who could save them and even though I pretty much told him to “sneak in” or something, his character regardless of anything would just walk right up to the front gates and attack the nearest soldier. If you didnt tell him what to do, his character would never stop sharpening his blade and honing his sklls.

I would probably have stopped playing with the guy if he forgot his pants.

I’ve gamed with people like that,real mood killer. There have been when player have said things I ‘agree’ with that have made me cringe. During a session is not the time for those topics to come up.

Wait a second… these aren’t the people in the Battlestar Galactica video are they?

Don’t you think that perhaps he did wear pants, he just wore the wrong pair, the pair in which he didn’t have his wallet thus he went back home to collect it?

It’s just something dumb you say when you’re not thinking – you know your wallet is in your pants and you want that wallet, but somehow, for whatever reason, your brain tells you that you “forgot your (other pair is implied) pants”. :P

Two dollar bills are normal, they exist and are part of the regular sequence following a pattern of 1, 2, 5. Its easier to see in 10,20,50, 100, 200, 500. But I do have a $3 with my mom’s picture on it we made for fun.

No, Law Breaking Mexicans, “flooding the job market” isn’t so much about them crossing the border (yes that is how the law gets broken) its people like Ronald Reagan granting Amnesty recently repeated by Barack Obama only going one further saying immigration laws will not be enforced and having a “Minimum Wage” that makes it so unskilled workers are too costly for companies. And illegals become easier to have on the payroll to avoid the tax aspects and other federally mandated benefits.

Fantastic video Spoony! Really interesting.
On the subject of Gary, I’d totally get why’d you want things to go the course per se, I’m pretty much like that myself. I hate it when people arrive late, I get impatient and annoyed quite easily. I’m pretty much a perfectionist so I want things to run smoothly. Oh and I’m actually impressed of how patient you were with him, letting him do the same routine for a month, I’d stop at a week. Also, as akward as it is, I thought I would never live to hear you mention that a DnD player forgot his pants! XD

On Gary’s wife I’m sorry but as a person who has a friend who’s hispanic, I’d punch her. In the throat. And call her a bigoted bitch. I’m sorry, I despise the fact people assume a person of a certain race or sexuality or gender, that they are a problem to the world because of it. I really have little patience for those type of people.
However, I really respect and understand how uncomfortable it was for you. Pat yourself on the back, Spoony, you’re far more respectful and patient then I’ll ever be.

>you know that’s why “Gary” can’t get a job right?

…Did she not know your friend was on disability and working out of the home…despite living in the same house?

Stupid ass.

I think what it amounts to is that Princess Daisy may have been the reason he was all ways late to games. And probably the reason she played a Raging Homosexual pc and made those comments was to ruin his game at home. She probably did not like his gaming lifestyle.

I got a good story, its not about D&D but it is about racism. Not going into any particulars, this is just a funny story.

Okay, my uncle isn’t a Nazi, but he is a racist, and a anti-Semite. I’m not going to tell you what religion he belongs to, but lets just say that it goes against what my father believes. ((This is the man my mom’s sister married.)) So once while I was really young my uncle felt as though that my father would lend a sympathetic ear to his ways. Since that is what family is ‘for’ he must have guessed. But the thing is, my father is basically a twelve year old.

So after he ranted about the Blacks, it wasn’t long until my cousins birthday came up. Now I need to say something else as well, my uncle never gave my cousin anything remotely human-like as a toy, because he was afraid giving her a barbie would turn her gay.

So… what my dad did, was buy a black barbie for my cousin. It was a one to punch and I can just imagine the look of pure utter rage on my uncles face, and him just grabbing the barbie and throwing it into a grill and burning it, as well as ruining his grill. ((I remember him making a huge fuss at the time about having to buy a new grill.)) So that is mainly why you never rant about anything to my father, especially if you are a racist and have kids. Cause once their birthdays roll around he is going to buy something for them that basically proves what an asshole you are. Just take a guess who raised me to be the same way? Believe me, once his children start pumping out babies the ONLY toys I’m buying for the kids are ‘black’ toys. Just to prove to his children and EVERYONE what an asshole he is.

“…I wasn’t fond of the guy, but I didn’t hate him.”
Of course you didn’t spoony, (Here it comes) You’re not that kind of theif.

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