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So I was just sitting here thinking I can not stand when I am playing a game against someone and they have all their crap all over the gaming table. It looks like we ran around the house and grabbed random stuff to use as terrain.... the only problem is we did not do that! We took all this time to create a nice board and build nice terrain to have epic battles and then it is ruined by coffee cups or beer bottles, iPads, countless numbers of books (rulebook, army book) and who knows what else on the table.

Yes this is a rant....

Just curious am I the only one who feels this way?

Oh and there are places for keeping this stuff that is not on the playing table!

The unsupervised child. . . "Wow! This is so cool. Can I see that?" *Drop*

The spectator player. . . "Dude, that is so stupid. Why would you do that? You know he has. . ."

The model critic. . . "You know that color isn't the correct red for Blood Angles. . ."

There are more.

I love model critics... The best ones are the ones that tell you that you should of added a color here or there or that you messed up this tiny hightlight when their models generally look like *insert explicit here*.

Exactly right! Another favorite line of the critic: "Here look at this picture, your models don't look anything like it."

How about the forgetful gamer. . . "Ok, that is all my shooting. Oh wait, I forgot to move! Can I go ahead and move?"

I understand the messy are thing. I also have OCD but I've found even though my wife finds its funny to tease me about it. It generally annoys others so I find if I dial it back and bite my tongue then I'm not the bad guy, just the really clean an organized guy?

My only big issue is the kids thing. I'm a parent and I wouldn't dream of taking my daughter with me. She's just not old enough to understand not to touch. We had a few running around on an FNM night while me and a friend were trying to do a 3k game in the corner of the store. One 5 year old walks up to the table and just grabs my friends iPad and started to walk of with it. I had to stop the little dude and take it from him without scaring him to bad. Then I'm like ok who's kid is this? Did you know your son almost bought you a new 500 dallor iPad? Come to find out dad's in one of the pods for FNM totally not even paying attention to his kid. I had to keep an eye on the squirt so he didn't wonder out of the store. /sigh

If your gunna bring your kids to game night please be responsible and at least watch them!

People who leave their dice all over the table. Quite apart from the practical issue of them getting confused with other dice, it completely detracts from the immersion of the game experience if there are dice all over the place!

R.

Personally, I can't stand the ones who are looking for a game, but refuse to play you because of what army you play. I had it happen with my old tau in 4th edition.

-Unpainted figures.
-Folks who carelessly treat other peoples (or FLGS's) Miniatures and terrain
-Counters on the playing surface.
-Whiners
-Players who offer unsolicited commentary and rules judgments on games they are not playing.

Of course most of this is moot since I now play almost entirely with my club at members homes rather than at public venues.

"Counters on playing surfaces"
... How else do you remember how many wounds a model has suffered?

Strangers who come up and tell you how much they hate the game you're playing - like you're supposed to care.

rigeld2 wrote:
"Counters on playing surfaces"
... How else do you remember how many wounds a model has suffered?

Names of the character or model on a piece of paper?

Cheetos fingers.

 infinite_array wrote:
Cheetos fingers.

Yo fingaz is orange, Tupac.

I play vampire counts so there is no way for me to justify being annoyed at people who leave their stuff all over the table, I'll constantly have dead trails following my units waiting for them to be brought back into play. Having said that I try to keep them out of the way and my dice/rulebooks/tape measure/etc are never in the playing area.


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 blood reaper wrote:

rigeld2 wrote:
"Counters on playing surfaces"
... How else do you remember how many wounds a model has suffered?

Names of the character or model on a piece of paper?

That can get very confusing when playing things other than 40k.

What I find annoying is not having enough time to build and paint all the cool units I come up with.

The stinky kid. . . Hey pal, you smell like Limburger cheese. And wash your hair.

Line infantry/troops choices etc..

Not within the game as such, I just hate having to paint tens of basically the same model in the same colour scheme, knowing that in all likelihood they will either be mown down like wheat or spend an entire game camped on an objective and very likely achieving nothing.

When actually playing, it's when other people start a conversation with you or your opponent, which has nothing to do with the game. You now have the choice of being rude to your opponent and stopping the game, or blanking the other person and being rude to them!

 pretre wrote:

 infinite_array wrote:
Cheetos fingers.

Yo fingaz is orange, Tupac.

This made my day. HAHA!

My biggest piss me off moment is when people sit there and comment on every aspect of your game. I asked someone the other day if he wanted to play instead of me because he wouldn't shut up and made comments on every dice roll. Generally I don't mind spectators but to me that's the biggest pain in the butt annoyance.

TheMostWize wrote:
So I was just sitting here thinking I can not stand when I am playing a game against someone and they have all their crap all over the gaming table. It looks like we ran around the house and grabbed random stuff to use as terrain.... the only problem is we did not do that! We took all this time to create a nice board and build nice terrain to have epic battles and then it is ruined by coffee cups or beer bottles, iPads, countless numbers of books (rulebook, army book) and who knows what else on the table.

Yes this is a rant....

Just curious am I the only one who feels this way?

Oh and there are places for keeping this stuff that is not on the playing table!

What? dice and manuals on a war gaming table, heresy!!!!

Except I never said anything about dice.

And besides you can keep your dice in your area having them dropped all over the middle of the board like they are objective markers is lame.

Always good to see this topic rehashed...

In no particular order:
1. The Dirtball (This is that smelly, unwashed, greasy haired gamer that you feel like you'll catch something if you get too close.)
2. Kids (Dislike 'em, enough said.)
3. The Garbage Pale (This is the gamer that leaves their gak all over the battlefield; dice, templates, 'dead' models, books, etc.)
4. The Know it All (The title pretty much explains itself.)

The list goes on, but I should get back to work

 oni wrote:

3. The Garbage Pale (This is the gamer that leaves their gak all over the battlefield; dice, templates, 'dead' models, books, etc.)

I hope you don't mind me using this term from now on!

What's wrong with leaving a template in an easy to grab place if you're sharing with your opponent? Where do I place my codex/rulebook, etc... if there isn't extra area surrounding the table? The floor?

Only happened once thankfully. Lady's kid messed his diaper, she changes it on the table behind us, puts said used diaper on OUR gaming table while she cleaned up her kid.

 Alfndrate wrote:
What's wrong with leaving a template in an easy to grab place if you're sharing with your opponent? Where do I place my codex/rulebook, etc... if there isn't extra area surrounding the table? The floor?

That's what I was wondering...

The smell.


The fething smell. Annoying people you can move away from, know it alls can be avoided.

I'm talking about the bastards that just stink, they wear the clothes from the day before, don't wash, don't use deodorant, don't clean themselves.

The local store in town has about 5 or 6 young men who have not got this down, they smell bad, one of whom smells so bad of unwashed and overly, self-manually-primed, man bits that you can cut the air with a butter knife.

LISTEN TO ME, IF YOU HAVEN'T WASHED AND PUT ON CLEAN CLOTHES, EVERY DAY, EACH DAY, YOU SMELL OFFENSIVE TO OTHER PEOPLE. GO, LEAVE THE SHOP AND BATHE.

You getting depressed cos girls won't talk to you? Upset that you're not making friends, even among the nerds at your store?

ITS BECAUSE YOU STINK! TAKE A SHOWER AND USE FRESHLY WASHED CLOTHES.

YOU ARE MAKING THE REST OF US LOOK BAD YOU FILTHY BUGGERS, WASH YOUR HAIR... ALL OF IT!!!

My dice, mostly when light shines on them, I often get pips mixed up.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
The smell.


The fething smell. Annoying people you can move away from, know it alls can be avoided.

I'm talking about the bastards that just stink, they wear the clothes from the day before, don't wash, don't use deodorant, don't clean themselves.

The local store in town has about 5 or 6 young men who have not got this down, they smell bad, one of whom smells so bad of unwashed and overly, self-manually-primed, man bits that you can cut the air with a butter knife.

LISTEN TO ME, IF YOU HAVEN'T WASHED AND PUT ON CLEAN CLOTHES, EVERY DAY, EACH DAY, YOU SMELL OFFENSIVE TO OTHER PEOPLE. GO, LEAVE THE SHOP AND BATHE.

You getting depressed cos girls won't talk to you? Upset that you're not making friends, even among the nerds at your store?

ITS BECAUSE YOU STINK! TAKE A SHOWER AND USE FRESHLY WASHED CLOTHES.

YOU ARE MAKING THE REST OF US LOOK BAD YOU FILTHY BUGGERS, WASH YOUR HAIR... ALL OF IT!!!

You forgot to put "/rant" at the end of your post...

 conker249 wrote:
Only happened once thankfully. Lady's kid messed his diaper, she changes it on the table behind us, puts said used diaper on OUR gaming table while she cleaned up her kid.

Hey rub your dice on the dirty diaper for good luck... If you play nurgle