What was the most cringe moment at your D&D table? This one guy didn't understand the premise of

organised play, so he spent zero time helping with the mission and took 20 minutes to tell us about

other awesome games he had played instead of playing the game in front of him that ended when

the store closed. I DM'd for a group where one of the girls was convinced the entire game was for her enjoyment.

She'd throw fits when the rest of the party didn't want to do what she did and constantly

tried to split up from them. It eventually culminated in a very awkward temper tantrum when

she refused to go with her party and ended up dying alone.

Oh, mine's as vanilla as heck compared to some of these.

It was the guy who smelled like cat pee.

I was sat next to him.

Why the frick is there always a cat pee guy at game shops?

So back in high school, we had ourselves a D&D club.

It consisted of myself and five friends.

My senior year, we had a new kid join us,

who I'm going to call Nate. Nate was a very smart, very nerdy kid who was used to doing things

mostly by the book. He had a campaign he wanted to DM, and our normal DM was happy to let him.

Very early on in the campaign, another kid asked to join, who I'm going to call Joey. Joey was not

the brightest. I don't know what was going on with him, but it just took him forever to get

crap done. He began to roll up a character, but because he was frequently late, absent and super

slow, it took him probably a dozen sessions to finish. He had to change things constantly

because we'd be higher level, or he didn't

write it down, or he lost his sheet. Every single step of character creation required one of us

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