I was locally famous for being a deadly GM.
Unmerciful is more apt.
I also discovered a regional reputation as a killer player!
It was fun to go to GenCon (when it was still in GENeva) and introduce myself and have someone go "THE McThag?"
Standing Bear (an Ames gaming legend) was the GM for the incidents that had legs.
The first instance was my eradication of what became known as "The Force Sword Cult". Three players found a loop-hole in the character creation limitations and they made what they called TL11 soldiers. Armored with DR 30 reflex armor they were effectively immune to the weapons of a TL 3 fantasy world. Armed with 8d(5) cut force swords, TL3 fantasy opponents were effectively unarmored against them.
I was exploiting a similar loophole and had re-treaded a TL8 Twilight 2000 character.
I don't remember exactly what set me off, but it included my losing my Barrett M82.
Remember my earlier post about research? Yeah, that includes reading the equipment listings. I realized something they'd missed. Reflex armor doesn't include face protection. A series of great rolls means a 3d-1 pi MP5 can kill your ass dead long before that sword is anywhere near in range.
Bear changed his limits, but I found another loophole to make a point he was making mistakes we could exploit in defining those limits.
The second time it was a Traveller Imperial Marine, Aulin Ramvinkilin, complete with battlesuit and FGMP-15.
In one sitting I'd killed a fellow player's character (a dragon) for eating the bodies of obviously sapient beings then killed another for being psionic and taking action against my psi-shield.
I'd also like to point out that I tried really hard for my character to not notice the dragon eating the orc corpses and the flagrant display of vile Zhodani mind witchery. Bear had had enough of Vint's dragon and Angela's psi and I was the instrument of his divine retribution.
Those two stories are what actually happened.
The story that emerged and got spread was I'd total party killed my fellow players so hard that their next two characters died from it as well.
The saddest part of the story is the angst generated from my creating character who had codes of conduct and role-playing where that code would take me rather than ignoring it when convenient for the party.
And none of this touches on my time in Carl's dungeon setting with Thag The Evil Magic User or Earlbrand bok Blackmane.
Unmerciful is more apt.
I also discovered a regional reputation as a killer player!
It was fun to go to GenCon (when it was still in GENeva) and introduce myself and have someone go "THE McThag?"
Standing Bear (an Ames gaming legend) was the GM for the incidents that had legs.
The first instance was my eradication of what became known as "The Force Sword Cult". Three players found a loop-hole in the character creation limitations and they made what they called TL11 soldiers. Armored with DR 30 reflex armor they were effectively immune to the weapons of a TL 3 fantasy world. Armed with 8d(5) cut force swords, TL3 fantasy opponents were effectively unarmored against them.
I was exploiting a similar loophole and had re-treaded a TL8 Twilight 2000 character.
I don't remember exactly what set me off, but it included my losing my Barrett M82.
Remember my earlier post about research? Yeah, that includes reading the equipment listings. I realized something they'd missed. Reflex armor doesn't include face protection. A series of great rolls means a 3d-1 pi MP5 can kill your ass dead long before that sword is anywhere near in range.
Bear changed his limits, but I found another loophole to make a point he was making mistakes we could exploit in defining those limits.
The second time it was a Traveller Imperial Marine, Aulin Ramvinkilin, complete with battlesuit and FGMP-15.
In one sitting I'd killed a fellow player's character (a dragon) for eating the bodies of obviously sapient beings then killed another for being psionic and taking action against my psi-shield.
I'd also like to point out that I tried really hard for my character to not notice the dragon eating the orc corpses and the flagrant display of vile Zhodani mind witchery. Bear had had enough of Vint's dragon and Angela's psi and I was the instrument of his divine retribution.
Those two stories are what actually happened.
The story that emerged and got spread was I'd total party killed my fellow players so hard that their next two characters died from it as well.
The saddest part of the story is the angst generated from my creating character who had codes of conduct and role-playing where that code would take me rather than ignoring it when convenient for the party.
And none of this touches on my time in Carl's dungeon setting with Thag The Evil Magic User or Earlbrand bok Blackmane.