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I had many situations with negative TTRPG experiences but mine is focused around a specific player in many campaigns. We will call him Fang because that was my favorite character he played in any game I ever played with him in. Fang was and still is a good friend of mine but we’ve as of recently haven’t done much of hanging out with him. He’s always been the kind of guy who was petty when it comes to loosing and not being in control of situations. Play card games like Magic The Gathering with him is hard because while losing he’ll sulk at the table and once losing he just walks out the store and drops from the tournament. When winning, he will shake your hand and tell you good game and try to take your deck and show you cards you should be playing even if it’s obvious you shouldn’t play it and try to justify why the chaff card should be played. Disclaimer this is a NSFW story but was nothing the players were bothered playing in even though I was 15 at the time and had been playing TTRPGS for just over 4 years. My mom, brother and I met this guy who owned a secondhand store who leased a corner of his store out to my brother for him to practice his music. We will refer to him as DM. I started working for him during the summer break to make a little cash. When DM found out we played DnD he wanted to run a DnD game with us. The first game we played with him was your standard DnD 3.5 game with me playing a Rogue, my mom playing a Paladin and DM had a half-orc barbarian named Cromax (Cromax matters for later in this story). The start of campaign was one of the best starts I had ever played. We got four sessions in saving a bring down this goblin tribe who had taken many caravans, rescuing a baby from a necromancer, which Cromax perished in and we started an adventure where we had to go through the scorpion swamp. This is where Fang made his first appearance. I don’t even remember what he played because when we saved him from a locked cage to introduce him to the campaign, he couldn’t make the very next session, so DM, Mom, and I decided to play a new campaign in a TTRPG called Heroes Unlimited Revised by Palladium. It was the first TTRPG that wasn’t made by Wizards of the Coast. This is by far my favorite TTRPG I’ve ever played. My mom’s character got the party terminated by our teacher who turned evil and my mom would always challenge the teacher to a fight. The NPC Kromax from the previous campaigns, in this world wasn’t a cool half-orc barbarian but a feline powered being that always jacked us up by himself and would always say things like “I’m going to fist f**k you so hard, you’ll feel my claws scrape your throat.” Between the two of them we stood absolutely no chance. Kromax would after solo us. We rolled up new characters where I played a strong guy named Bulldozer and my Mom played a character who controlled the weather named Ambience. We frequently ran into these to siblings named Seth and Tamera. Seth had the power to jump through portals and was very agile while Tamera had the power to make anyone who failed her DC to be enchanted by her sexually. She could take some one out of the fight completely, make them have sex with her, or get any information they knew that she wanted out of them. DM was fairly scripted with the power that would take you out of the fight completely. You would mentally be transported to a place with her doing the deed. Once it got to the part just before the very adult interaction with Tamera DM would stop and have the player roll the break away from mental connection with her. The game was going so well. DM made Ambience be mind controlled by a guy named Paul Trent at so many times and fight the party without my mom even knowing it was her. At one point before Bulldozer found out Ambience was the big bad he almost ended her for good before he took of the mask to see it was her and not Paul. And in comes Fang, the actual Fang character he played. He had the power of Lycanthropy specifically a Werewolf. When he transformed he would have to roll saves every turn to see if he was in control. When he failed, Bulldozer would always wind up fighting him to keep him from attacking the more squishy characters. He would win most of the PvP but he would always gain control before dealing too much damage to me, typically within a turn or two of us fighting. There was this one specific time when he wasn’t winning the fight but was a super close fight and came down to the next round of combat to decide if I was going to perish by his hands or him get knocked out because I was doing nonlethal damage. In Palladium at the end of each round of combat, you have to reroll your initiative. When it came to the new initiative round I rolled fairly high and was going to go before him but when Fang rolled he moved his D20 to a different number to have a higher roll than me so he wouldn’t lose the fight. The problem with this is if he did enough damage with the next roll, Bulldozer would have kicked the bucket. I wish I would have called him out immediately because Fang was all to excited to attack me and try to end Bulldozer and sure enough he rolls a nat 20 and for sure would have done enough damage to kill Bulldozer, and unfortunately this was the point where I called him out for cheating on his initiative and pointed out the fact he just wanted to kill my PC out of having a power complex. Before I could tear into him more DM said that nat 20 was his roll for gaining control of his power and de-escalated the situation but the session would end soon. About a week later we got back together to play. We got intel that Kromax had teamed up with Seth and Tamera to try to bring down the person who gave Bulldozer his power, Eugene Powers, and even though Bulldozer didn’t like Eugene it was the heroic thing to do to save him. Upon our arrival Tamera tried to mind control me to attack Fang, but I fortunately succeeded in my DC roll. When it was Fangs turn, after the very seductive description DM gave me of how Tamera was trying to mind control Bulldozer, Fang transforms to his werewolf, successfully saving on keeping control and decides to SA Tamera. To keep it not as awkward, DM had Tamera enjoy her interaction with fang. Even though we were down a man fighting Kromax, we didn’t have to deal with Tamera or an angrier Werewolf. After dispatching of Seth with a single punch from Bulldozer, Not too surprisingly, we were getting demolished by Kromax and had to flee in a vehicle; except for Fang because once he “Finished”, if you get what I mean, with Tamera he turned to face Kromax by himself. DM did everything to try to prevent Fang from fighting him out of character. When Fang refused to flee and got his butt kick by Kromax, Kromax made a smartass remark telling Fang he has going to leave him alive so he could remember the person who chose to keep a relatable creature alive because they were all too similar. When Kromax went to leave, Fang holding on to few HP (and if you’ve played any of Palladium’s TTRPGs you know when you take HP Damage you’re on the verge of death) chases Kromax. DM was very confused because Fang was knowingly running into an unwinnable fight, he just had Kromax run from Fang and do to Fang chasing Kromax, many innocent civilians lost there lives including a mother and her baby from Kromax saying if Fang continued to chase him, he would take the life of a near by mother and baby. The session ended with Fang chasing Kromax down the sewer. The next session started with Fang being chucked through a window hardly of the teams base hardly breathing with a note nailed to him telling us he wished he could have convinced Fang to join his side but due to his pursuit to want to end Kromax’s life he had no other choice and told us that he new that Fang was in pain because he didn’t use lube to shove the bomb up his ass. At that moment the bomb detonated, ending the life of fang and a beloved NPC who was standing next to his body. We then wrapped up the campaign without Fang within the next six months of playing. After this campaign, DM moved to a state way away from the state we lived in and this was in 2010 and was the last time we played with him. I picked up DMing when I turned 24ish to learn how to be a DM for our friend group because the lack of DMs. I did wind up DMing games with Fang in them but everyone failed due to his negative behaviors. In one game of S5E (which is a system I backed on Kickstarter based on 5th edition but was modern day and with superpowers) he wanted to play a character that was just an orb of light that had the power to take control over people’s body and essentially become that person. I told him it was fine for him to want to control people for a limited amount of time and even went as far as to make a leveling system for his specific power because he didn’t want it to be based off of mind control from the book. He thought it would be cool to be able to use different powers depending on who he took over. Before starting session one I compromised with him to make his orb form more of a flourish thing and he couldn’t attack as the orb but he would be very difficult to hit for he was not solid matter. Also he could only levitate only a certain amount of feet from the ground because flight is a later level ability for other classes and didn’t want people who were working towards flight feel like they hard it hard. He was going to get flight at the same level as the other players at the table that got it respectfully. I was playing with a group of his friends who wanted to play the new system and it couldn’t been worse than how it turned out in the end. The only person at the table I knew very well was my cousin David, one of the best TTRPG players I’ve ever played with. Before starting I informed the players where the campaign would take place and that there was a mysterious building that randomly appeared in the town a few weeks ago exactly where the police station was and everyone was going to know each other except for David, he wanted to be a private investigator, and be at the building. When session one started, I had all four players describe what they were doing in the city. One of his friends, even though he asked to play, didn’t seem like he even wanted to be there, represented by him looking bored with his head rested on his fist building a dice tower, said he was at the bar drinking and paying for lap dances. I reminded him that they were going to start at the building and he insured me he would make his way there. I then panned to Fang to ask what he was doing and he wanted to be floating near the mysterious building to get a layout out of what was going on. He then wanted to fly to the top of the building to get a closer look. I then reminded him he could only float a certain distance from the ground and reminded him that it was discussed before the session started. Bored friend the chimed in to tell me it would only make sense that because he could float he could fly. Fang then shrugged in agreement with his friend. I then had to explain the fairness of Fangs character and the discussion Fang and I had about it. To try to get the game moving along, I then panned to his other friend to see what he was doing and he told me his character was boarding a plain in Los Angeles to get to the city we were in. I then didn’t know what to do with his character and was going to come back to him later to by time in how I would get him there. David was at the building and wanted to investigate the floating orb he saw at the building which prompted Fang to want to take over the body of a cat, which I allowed thinking he was going to go somewhere with this and he then wanted to go chase a rat he saw. It got to the point where, as the cat he wanted to look up a lady’s dress and then take over her body. Before it could get anymore cringey I called the game off and was upset that no one but David seemed to want to get involved with what was going on. The final game I played with Fang was also another S5E game but in this one I was a lot more matured as a DM and picked my players. This story has already dragged out too long so I’ll sum this one up. In short this campaign was going to be strictly based on the characters backstories and if they didn’t give me a backstory then they would get anything focused around their character. Fang tried to get me to make his backstory but I told him that was too much work for me because I was busy trying to make the people who did give me a backstory work in the game. And if he wanted the game to be centered around him at points he needed to come up with a backstory. On top of that he was a robot that really like Macho Man Randy Savage. He wasn’t the only one who didn’t give me a backstory but everyone had fun in that campaign but him. He would stay on his phone playing games or scrolling through social medias. He one day without warning walked away from the table and was never invited to come back and play. He did ask to join back but I refused to let him play and told him as much of a friend as he was and still is for that matter, I was done playing TTRPGs with him and haven’t played with him since. Our friendship has started to decline due to the lack of communication but I still consider him a friend and would help him any time when he would be in need.
TLDR: Once had a player who I was and still am good friends with that was the most negative player that tried to cheat to kill my Character, wanted to derail my games to extreme levels as a fellow player and as a player I had the joy to DM, and would pout and show his lack of enjoyment of my game when he couldn’t even give me a backstory to include in my game. I am honestly happy I got to play so many bad games with him because it taught me how to deal with players like him and improve myself as a DM and a player. Thank you Fang.

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