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Had a game today where someone decided to hover around the table. Didn't mind him asking questions, but then he started to disagree with us on rule interpretations mid-game making us pull out the rulebook to verify it before he asked "Can I see that model?" which was still in the game before he decided to pick it up.

What are yours?

sonicaucie wrote:
Had a game today where someone decided to hover around the table. Didn't mind him asking questions, but then he started to disagree with us on rule interpretations mid-game making us pull out the rulebook to verify it before he asked "Can I see that model?" which was still in the game before he decided to pick it up.

What are yours?

Probably would have told that guy to piss off, jeez.
Umm, basically just people barging in on my games, kind of like that.

The attitude that's spilling in from 21st century video gamers where everything is 'bad' 'awful' 'terrible' etc, unless it's the best possible, in which case it's 'good'.

Eg: New player posts up his new CSM list and it includes a defiler and some standard CSM. His list is automatically 'bad' or 'terrible' because some vitamin-deficient donkey cave came up with some combo that essentially turns a game into a chore, and now sits back grandstanding about how he's a strategic mastermind.

When people are wrong about a rule (usually wrong in a way that benefits themself), and instead of admitting that they are not quite sure, are adamant that they are correct.

Until I pull out the rulebook, which they then usually begrudgingly accept and mutter "well that's stupid"

The observer rules lawyer is a big one.

It's not your game, stay out of it. I don't care if we're doing things wrong, that's between my opponent and I.

I've been watching games following my own finishing at a tournament, and pulled people up for this. No rules, no advice. The players are playing eachother, not a warlord council.

The people I play with are perfect, until this guy brings his kids. These kids are weird. Like really weird. This 7 year old kid keeps begging my girlfriend for hugs and touches when she brings me dinner. He also constantly try selling off his stuff then complains to his parents to get his money back. Lingers around tables and asks question upon question. He also screams loudly when losing.

In short when people arent mature enough for gaming. The other kids are great, just that one.

As mentioned before, the hovering rules lawyer/advisor ranks highly as my pet peeve in gaming, for all of the reasons mentioned before.

I also have a peeve with the easily distracted guy. And I don't mean anyone who loses their focus, we all do during a movement phase. I mean someone who agrees to a game...then just wanders off for 45 minutes talking to people at the store after my army is out and ready.

The socially inept people who lack all skill to interact in public. One we have at our store is inappropriately loud and obnoxious, likes to sing at full volume, and pouts when she gets beat.

How about losing dice?

yesterday I found on the floor of my FLGS a neat clear green dice. Rolled for the mission, deployment, etc with said new dice.

Played the whole game with my regular green die, and at the end of the game, I somehow lost ONE.

So that new die I found, replaced the one I just lost instantaneously...

Also, I guess the gassy players. Yeah. Silent but deadly kind...

People who can't control their dice. You've seen them, they're the ones that need about three feet of space, at minimum, for every roll they make. I can roll 30+ dice within one square foot, why do they need half the table?

My no.1 pet peeve is (sorry guys) smokers.

I'm very sensitive to second hand smoke myself - in a small, confined room it can make my eyes water non-stop, and/or choke me up and honestly I just can't stand the smell. (which then also gets into my clothing)
It can also make me very light headed, dizzy & occasionally nauseous, due to the fact I've suffered 8 concussions.

If you ask to have a smoke before a game, depending on the size of the gaming area, I've asked if my opponent might kindly wait until after our game if the gaming room is particularly small. (as our one LGS is, due to all the gaming tables being in sectioned little rooms)
I'll explain why of course, and usually most guys I've encountered are fine with waiting once I explain why.

Granted at a tournament it's not possible due to the time constraints, at which point I simply have to suck it up...

The absolute worst though is leaving the game every 20 minutes to go out and turn yourself into a smokestack, then coming back in an wafting that nauseating smell across the table, it's just too much for me. Especially the guys who go and buy the cheap crap off the reserves, which smell about 10x worse than regular smokes!
In a tournament especially I also see this as crap sportsmanship due to the amount of time one person wastes, going out and having 2-4+ cigs in a single game. (and I'll also ding an opponent's sportsmanship score as well, with an added comment such as "lost 20+ minutes of game time due to excessive smoke breaks - only played 3 turns & dude smelled like horrible gak!)


Apologies to guys here who smoke, it's nothing to do with thinking smokers are evil jerks, just that for health reasons, it hits me like a freaking freight train!

People who stink.

TAKE A fething SHOWER YOU REJECTS!!!!!!

People who keep fiddling around with their smart phones on my turn. That´s just rude. If you don´t wanna play, then simply don´t.
Btw I´m not a slow player and usually like some friendly trash talk, way better than just "hm, hmm, yeah"...

People who lack hygiene of any kind. Seriously its not hard to shower or to wear deodorant!!

 tommse wrote:
People who keep fiddling around with their smart phones on my turn. That´s just rude. If you don´t wanna play, then simply don´t.

This is one of my biggest gaming pet peeves, as well as one of my biggest pet peeves in general. Put the friggin phone down for 5 minutes!

As someone who has spent a LOT of time helping both newbies and veteran friends get a tighter grip on the rules I constantly struggle with "sticking my nose" in other peoples games. I think I have mostly gotten it under control and there are a number of people at my FLGS that now request my "attendance" at their games to help make sure they are playing things right (I would also like to think that my constant stream of humor has something to do with it).

That being said. One of the things that annoys me the most is the "silent fumer". The person who wants to disagree on a rule or thinks something is being played wrong but refuses to speak up. I have no problem with someone disagreeing with me or with going to the rule book to make sure that I am correct. This game has a ton of rules and its the rare individual that can keep them all straight.

The ignorant "cheese" crier. This guy doesn't see the list as a whole, just singles out a small part of it and calls out cheese sometimes when the offending unit got nerfed two or more editions prior. It doesn't matter if the list sucks and never wins, you brought that unit so it is cheese.

So, there are two things that annoy me the most during gaming.

First of all, there's people who constantly keep talking about off-topic stuff. And with this I don't mean a bit of friendly banter or chit-chat, I'm talking someone who attempts to start another unrelated story every other sentence. There's this one guy at my FLGS who always has a very strict schedule, yet has to be told to focus on the game at least twice a turn.

Then, there's kids. Sometimes at my FLGS the gaming time coincides with a painting workshop for ages 8+, which is usually attended by a group of about a dozen kids ages 8-12, and perhaps three or four older guys. During that time, you can't play a game without having at least three or four kids standing at your table at all times. Since both free tables are somewhat cramped in a corner, it's literally impossible to get to the other side of the table without having to ask someone to move. And not only that, there's so much more that keeps annoying me, such as: randomly taking scenery off/placing it on the table and starting to play with it; asking questions about the game and then asking the same thing five minutes later; interrupt players mid-sentence; knocking stuff over (last time they toppled my open half-full suitcase after having been told twice to be careful around it); getting in the way; not listening to the painting instructor when told to get back to painting; not listening to us when told to get back to painting; just not listening in general.

Although in hindsight, the suitcase thing might also be partially my fault

People who get pissy when they're losing badly.
(I do this. I would hate playing against myself.)

People who don't like terrain. I make terrain, and it's pretty good other than my complete lack of painting skill, but nobody seems to like to use very much terrain.

Mostly, the hygiene thing kills me. I actively avoid game shops that smell like BO. I'm not talking about the occasional gas or the dude who just got off work, I mean the complete lack of personal upkeep that bakes into clothing vehicles and rooms. If a shop doesn't maintain it's cleanliness, I don't want to be there. It's gross and not worth the nausea.

Eating during the game or putting food/drink on the game table is gross as well. Ruin a figurine with greasy Cheeto fingers or knocking a Coke bottle onto one is the last thing I want to see for myself or anyone else. Respect for personal property thing here. Also goes into touching people's models without permission. I always try to ask even during a game.

As much as I enjoy the small talk during a game, please keep rolling dice while you talk. I've had to ask people to continue playing while they talk multiple times.

 gardeth wrote:
As someone who has spent a LOT of time helping both newbies and veteran friends get a tighter grip on the rules I constantly struggle with "sticking my nose" in other peoples games. I think I have mostly gotten it under control and there are a number of people at my FLGS that now request my "attendance" at their games to help make sure they are playing things right (I would also like to think that my constant stream of humor has something to do with it).

For some reason I get asked to help with rules in other people's games multiple times. I don't mind doing it but I still feel weird doing it. I keep to a silent observer unless engaged and I ask the players if they mind me watching their game if I intend to do so. It can be kind of weird. I'm not sure how many times I've gone from silent observer to book reciter. The positive is that I generally learn something.

 tommse wrote:
People who keep fiddling around with their smart phones on my turn. That´s just rude. If you don´t wanna play, then simply don´t.
Btw I´m not a slow player and usually like some friendly trash talk, way better than just "hm, hmm, yeah"...

Agree 100%.

This is obnoxious, but unfortunately happens all the time. The prevalence of Smart Phones and social media have turned society into attention deficit/rapidly distracted people.

I understand having to step away for a moment to take an important phone call. Is it too much to ask to spend 2-3 hours out of an evening to play an interactive game, involving two people, and not check Facebook, Twitter, or text a dozen people for literally half the game?

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
People who don't like terrain. I make terrain, and it's pretty good other than my complete lack of painting skill, but nobody seems to like to use very much terrain.

Terrain is awesome.
I like your terrain. I've never seen it, but I'm sure that I like it.

I agree with the rules lawyer thing, though when I go to my flgs it's usually beginners day and there's a couple of young lads who look to me and my friends for advice and rules queries. They're good kids so we keep an eye on their games a bit cause they have been horrifically cheated in the past. A couple of times one of the other kids, ( there's always that one who's parents buy him every bloody army) has a 1000pts game and somehow manages to fit in 3 land raiders and about 30 marines. Things like that I don't mind helping with, especially if they ask about it. Though I wouldn't butt into other people's games, it just rude.


Then there's another kid who keeps butting into our games and asking, who's winning? During setup. Then the randomly picks up the tape measure I'm literally just about to use, grabs my models without asking. Hell he took a wing off one of my valks once.... little SOB..

When people follow a rule as written regardless of how it makes the game completely silly, non-narrative and unable to be played 'in the spirit of the game'. Somewhat subjective perhaps...but it is present none-the-less.

MarsNZ wrote:
The attitude that's spilling in from 21st century video gamers where everything is 'bad' 'awful' 'terrible' etc, unless it's the best possible, in which case it's 'good'.

Same here. Especially online. I used to take Repentia just because the Internet said they sucked (back when they didn't suck). Same for a Warp Time Daemon Prince of Nurgle back when Dual Lash Princes were popular.

It's almost as if there are shades of grey in the game instead of a strict black and white on how good things are.

The internet aside, I'd have to say smelly gamers. I don't have the greatest sense of smell and when I can tell you reek you need to go shower in fire because water and bleach won't be enough to save you.

Loud players with poor sportsmanship (I'm talking about the kind who sound like they're shouting at you despite being only a foot or so away).

Basically donkey-caves are my pet peeve.

Experiment 626 wrote:
My no.1 pet peeve is (sorry guys) smokers.

I would never even consider playing against a guy who smokes.

If they want to kill themselves, fine with me, but they are sure as hell not going to drag me down with them.

Aside from that, I am in a decent enough meta and no peeves leap to mind.

I think that, on a more general note, I can forgive everyone for nearly everything if they stop doing it when asked politely. Of course 'would you please stop smelling bad?' wouldn't exactly work, but you get the idea

Players who don't know their own codex (and aren't knew to the game). I'm talking stats that are way off are a special rule that is used in a way which isn't even close to the intended purpose.

 gossipmeng wrote:
Players who don't know their own codex (and aren't knew to the game). I'm talking stats that are way off are a special rule that is used in a way which isn't even close to the intended purpose.

One of my buddies didn't have the new Tau codex for the longest time, it's sooooo annoying waiting for someone to go check rules on a computer every 5 minutes because they downloaded it online and couldn't take the time to at least print it out...

Just buy the damn thing!