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I was a player in the campaign, Not dungeon master

 the_Armyman wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Nothing to bad, but frusterating and kinda shady business practice IMO
So, we all wanted to get n more games for Pathfinder society. So we go to a newly open store and start playing. about 3 weeks in, we all get an email from the Bay Area coordinator telling us to go to another store, that this one is shady, does illegal stuff and he will never support Pathfinder Society there. So we stop. What do I find out? the Coordinator is best friends with the owner of another store down the street that has been there longer and secretly ranting and raving about it.

So, you got an e-mail from a guy who told you to do something, and you did it without giving it a second thought? You must be rich, too, from giving all those Nigerian princes your bank account info

Not really. Its a case of an authority figure warning you to avoid a "shady" store. Of course you're going to believe him.

Might not count as a horror story, but this last Thursday at my FLGS I was setting up to play 40k, seemed like a normal gaming night that had been a relaxing day of the week for the last 3 years. As I was getting ready to deploy I see a Newer(A) player come in and start setting up a table. His friend walks in(B) as well and starts setting up terrain. (A) leaves to go to the front to see when his wife was going to get there and play 40k with them. I overhear player(B) said his name was "Blank" and I had a suspicion right there who this was. When player(A)'s wife comes in, It Happened to be my Ex-wife who cheated on me with "Blank" while I was in Iraq in '08. So a lot of anger from my end to that party. they went to the front to get some food, I started tossing my models off the table into my dufflebag, not caring what broke or not, and took everything to my car and left within a minute. I am Not going to that store again. Not to play, not to buy, nothing. Sucks too since I have played there for 3 years.

 conker249 wrote:
Might not count as a horror story, but this last Thursday at my FLGS I was setting up to play 40k, seemed like a normal gaming night that had been a relaxing day of the week for the last 3 years. As I was getting ready to deploy I see a Newer(A) player come in and start setting up a table. His friend walks in(B) as well and starts setting up terrain. (A) leaves to go to the front to see when his wife was going to get there and play 40k with them. I overhear player(B) said his name was "Blank" and I had a suspicion right there who this was. When player(A)'s wife comes in, It Happened to be my Ex-wife who cheated on me with "Blank" while I was in Iraq in '08. So a lot of anger from my end to that party. they went to the front to get some food, I started tossing my models off the table into my dufflebag, not caring what broke or not, and took everything to my car and left within a minute. I am Not going to that store again. Not to play, not to buy, nothing. Sucks too since I have played there for 3 years.

I know his name!!!! Jody

 Chute82 wrote:

 conker249 wrote:
Might not count as a horror story, but this last Thursday at my FLGS I was setting up to play 40k, seemed like a normal gaming night that had been a relaxing day of the week for the last 3 years. As I was getting ready to deploy I see a Newer(A) player come in and start setting up a table. His friend walks in(B) as well and starts setting up terrain. (A) leaves to go to the front to see when his wife was going to get there and play 40k with them. I overhear player(B) said his name was "Blank" and I had a suspicion right there who this was. When player(A)'s wife comes in, It Happened to be my Ex-wife who cheated on me with "Blank" while I was in Iraq in '08. So a lot of anger from my end to that party. they went to the front to get some food, I started tossing my models off the table into my dufflebag, not caring what broke or not, and took everything to my car and left within a minute. I am Not going to that store again. Not to play, not to buy, nothing. Sucks too since I have played there for 3 years.

I know his name!!!! Jody

Dear Emperor that made me chuckle.

A full grown adult - middle aged at that - crapped his pants last night rather than getting up and walking less than 15 feet to the bathroom.

And he wasn't playing cards or tabletop, he was playing a friendly board game with a group of friends.

 conker249 wrote:
Might not count as a horror story, but this last Thursday at my FLGS I was setting up to play 40k, seemed like a normal gaming night that had been a relaxing day of the week for the last 3 years. As I was getting ready to deploy I see a Newer(A) player come in and start setting up a table. His friend walks in(B) as well and starts setting up terrain. (A) leaves to go to the front to see when his wife was going to get there and play 40k with them. I overhear player(B) said his name was "Blank" and I had a suspicion right there who this was. When player(A)'s wife comes in, It Happened to be my Ex-wife who cheated on me with "Blank" while I was in Iraq in '08. So a lot of anger from my end to that party. they went to the front to get some food, I started tossing my models off the table into my dufflebag, not caring what broke or not, and took everything to my car and left within a minute. I am Not going to that store again. Not to play, not to buy, nothing. Sucks too since I have played there for 3 years.

Man that sucks. Maybe no ex-wife is worth broken models though?

 RivenSkull wrote:
A full grown adult - middle aged at that - crapped his pants last night rather than getting up and walking less than 15 feet to the bathroom.

And he wasn't playing cards or tabletop, he was playing a friendly board game with a group of friends.

Either he was terrified of public restrooms, or it was a really engaging board game.

 Sinful Hero wrote:

 RivenSkull wrote:
A full grown adult - middle aged at that - crapped his pants last night rather than getting up and walking less than 15 feet to the bathroom.

And he wasn't playing cards or tabletop, he was playing a friendly board game with a group of friends.

Either he was terrified of public restrooms, or it was a really engaging board game.

Or he has a pathological distrust for his opponents.

Holy crap at some of the stories in here. The one with the Neckbeard family of three pisses me off the most. I bet those losers love AoS since it encourages BS like that.

I don't got a horror story, just a sad one, and its only hearsay since I didn't actually see it go down: In my local GW, there was this posse of teens (I'd say no older than 16-17) that would come almost every Friday night. One guy would always bring his GF along. She was clearly not into the hobby but she was friendly and tried her best to be supportive, thought it was very clear some nights she did not want to be there (and given how some of the regulars, most in their 30s and 40s mind you, would gawk at her like she was a unicorn or something, i can't blame her). Anyway, I heard this from my two friends that one Friday nights there at the store (at an Apocalypse game no less), the girl and her boyfriend get into a loud fight and she essentially broke up with him and stormed out of the store. From what my friends said the guy managed to keep his cool until the game was over for the night (Apoc games ran the whole weekend). Once most people had left he just sat on a painting bench and started crying.

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:
Holy crap at some of the stories in here. The one with the Neckbeard family of three pisses me off the most. I bet those losers love AoS since it encourages BS like that.

I don't got a horror story, just a sad one, and its only hearsay since I didn't actually see it go down: In my local GW, there was this posse of teens (I'd say no older than 16-17) that would come almost every Friday night. One guy would always bring his GF along. She was clearly not into the hobby but she was friendly and tried her best to be supportive, thought it was very clear some nights she did not want to be there (and given how some of the regulars, most in their 30s and 40s mind you, would gawk at her like she was a unicorn or something, i can't blame her). Anyway, I heard this from my two friends that one Friday nights there at the store (at an Apocalypse game no less), the girl and her boyfriend get into a loud fight and she essentially broke up with him and stormed out of the store. From what my friends said the guy managed to keep his cool until the game was over for the night (Apoc games ran the whole weekend). Once most people had left he just sat on a painting bench and started crying.

That's nice. Group people who like a game in with miscreants like that. Just because they like a game you don't. Go back to kicking puppies. People who post messages like yours love to do stuff like that.

See? I can do it, too

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Sinful Hero wrote:

 RivenSkull wrote:
A full grown adult - middle aged at that - crapped his pants last night rather than getting up and walking less than 15 feet to the bathroom.

And he wasn't playing cards or tabletop, he was playing a friendly board game with a group of friends.

Either he was terrified of public restrooms, or it was a really engaging board game.

Or he has a pathological distrust for his opponents.

He had been farting through out the night, and they had been pretty bad, but then it got to a point where it just was awful and not dissipating. That lasted about 15-20 minutes before the store employee started walking around trying to find the source of the smell. That group started cleaning up the game then, and we didn't figure out the guy had shat in his pants and sat in it until he got up and you could see the mess on the chair/pants/floor, and the trail to the door.

They aren't allowed back

That's such comically bad social etiquette that I really can't believe it.

Not that I'm calling you a liar but that's just hilariously terrible. I feel sorry for the employee that had to clean it.

 Bi'ios wrote:

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:
Holy crap at some of the stories in here. The one with the Neckbeard family of three pisses me off the most. I bet those losers love AoS since it encourages BS like that.

I don't got a horror story, just a sad one, and its only hearsay since I didn't actually see it go down: In my local GW, there was this posse of teens (I'd say no older than 16-17) that would come almost every Friday night. One guy would always bring his GF along. She was clearly not into the hobby but she was friendly and tried her best to be supportive, thought it was very clear some nights she did not want to be there (and given how some of the regulars, most in their 30s and 40s mind you, would gawk at her like she was a unicorn or something, i can't blame her). Anyway, I heard this from my two friends that one Friday nights there at the store (at an Apocalypse game no less), the girl and her boyfriend get into a loud fight and she essentially broke up with him and stormed out of the store. From what my friends said the guy managed to keep his cool until the game was over for the night (Apoc games ran the whole weekend). Once most people had left he just sat on a painting bench and started crying.

That's nice. Group people who like a game in with miscreants like that. Just because they like a game you don't. Go back to kicking puppies. People who post messages like yours love to do stuff like that.

See? I can do it, too

Sorry, what? Did you reply to the wrong post?

I think he was referring to the remark connecting Age of Sigmar to neckbeards, because it "encourages BS like that".

 RivenSkull wrote:
A full grown adult - middle aged at that - crapped his pants last night rather than getting up and walking less than 15 feet to the bathroom.

And he wasn't playing cards or tabletop, he was playing a friendly board game with a group of friends.

It's all gaks and giggles until someone giggles and gaks...

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
I think he was referring to the remark connecting Age of Sigmar to neckbeards, because it "encourages BS like that".

If we could avoid making such "helpful" comments in future then the whole thread will go so much more smoothly.

Thank you.

Um, what? Are you telling me off?

The comment that was unhelpful was Ferrum_Sanguinus'. He generalized AOS supporters as being like the terrain wrecking geniuses from early on in the thread.

Shadow captain edithae was just clarifying to Ferrum why bi'ios was frustrated at his post. He deserved no reprimand.

As for on topic, not really a horror story, but the game store in the city closest to me seems to have a problem spreading disinformation. Strange rumours abound there. Just recently a fellow from my group returned from the store convinced age of sigmar flopped completely and that gw is putting out 9th edition fantasy soon. He was buying fantasy models at the time, and aos is such a failure in that city that I feel the store owner told him that just so he might come back and buy more. Not the first time I've heard gakky rumours from that store. It's not even a gw.

Does that sort of thing happen often? Would be better to be transparent about releases and empower your customers a bit to know when things are true or not... sad part is I think he fully believes it and would be hard to convince otherwise now.

Thank you.

I was only pointing out something that he appeared to miss. In fact I missed it myself and had to do a double take of the original comment to figure out why the other guy was offended.

It wasn't a "sarcastically pointing out the obvious" thing if that's what red is getting at.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Thank you.

I was only pointing out something that he appeared to miss. In fact I missed it myself and had to do a double take of the original comment to figure out why the other guy was offended.

It wasn't a "sarcastically pointing out the obvious" thing if that's what red is getting at.

Dakkadakka Horror Stories- Reprimanded and Banned for another's crimes!

Actually I think it was just a general warning- not specifically aimed at you Shadow Captain.

OK. But the warning had my name attached to it .

Back on topic... My ongoing horror story is that we just can't attract new members to the club. its been the same 6-7 people for the last year, and four of us are the club committee.

But on the bright side I'm getting painting commissions from the club, and I've never done commissions. 3 people want me to paint their zombicide and dread fleet board games minis.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Um, what? Are you telling me off?

no.

Phew.

I think Gaming Stores fibbing is quite a common thing in order to eek out that one extra sale...

 Compel wrote:
I think Gaming Stores fibbing is quite a common thing in order to eek out that one extra sale...

You are probably right on this. I have only had two flgs in my lifetime. The first one in the town I grew up would fleece you like this. The second one, which was where I live now, would send you to other buisnesses if the prices were a lot better than what he would offer. He had a real loyal base because of it. He gave painting, modeling and tool advice as well.

I was in an out of town store where the OWNER went to the bathroom on the floor and painted on the walls with it. Why? I don't know. Don't care. Got my rear out of there as fast as I could. But, it sounded like everyone's reaction like he had done that before. sooo disgusting.

I can't say I've ever come across a store making up gak to sell stuff. Even the GW's I've frequented, with their aggressive quotas, wouldn't comment on rumours or heresay and just present you with what was officially known about their product.

I can't see the point either. Once you're stung once they're unlikely to get you a second time, and if they tried, they'd find themselves quickly losing customers.

 -Loki- wrote:
I can't say I've ever come across a store making up gak to sell stuff. Even the GW's I've frequented, with their aggressive quotas, wouldn't comment on rumours or heresay and just present you with what was officially known about their product.

I can't see the point either. Once you're stung once they're unlikely to get you a second time, and if they tried, they'd find themselves quickly losing customers.

That's what I would think as well, but I don't think all store owners posses the maturity or insight to think of that. A LOT of FLGS close their doors due to owner mismanagement.

The owner's wife of a game store near me, who worked in the shop, told me several years ago that GW had gone out of business. This was while they were having a GW clearance sale, as the shop had decided to no longer carry GW products.
I played along, and I did pick up some heavily discounted figures, but I never went back there.

There's a local (now gone) I went to that was very accepting of everyone. The standards were basically: You don't have to be tidy, but you do have to bathe. You can get upset, but you can't get upset and swear at other customers or players.
All walks of life, from folks stopping off for a game on the way home from work, to very flamboyant, to the silent kids who mumble and are clearly there to find some peace.

But my God did it happen to be colourful horse central. Please do not use my post as a springboard for badmouthing a particular group. The reason I mention the hooved animals, is that they were the subject that two particular bellends came after me over. I daresay had their passions been Lego, they'd be just as capable of being tools about it.

I used to suffer pretty badly from being very shy and very stressed out of the blue, for a few years between Man Mailing His Pyjamas and finding a home to call my own out here. Going to tabletop tourneys was a safe thing for me, and going alone, I was nervous but okay.
So I'm mid-game in the store, and my partner had given me a small sealed pack pony as a joke gift before I set out. I unwrapped it, and put it on the map as an Heavy Object token because, well, it was funny. Other objects are things like dumpsters, lamp posts, meteorites, so why not? Thought nothing further of it.
Then I notice this early twenties girl circling, and circling, and then she sat down, staring at the toy.
"Is that yours?"
"Yeah."
"It's a CHASE figure. Do you-"
"Oh because it's pearly coloured?"
"Yeah, would you trade it for my swaps?"
"No. It was a present, I kinda feel like keeping it." (Not really, but you annoy me)
She then proceeded to spend the entire day trying to win me over, endlessly talking about how she was a "pegasister" and pretty much trailed me around the store, nearly following me into the bathroom because her eyes and mouth clearly couldn't engage at the same time.
("Unless you're going to hold something for me, this really is something I need to do alone.")
She gave me all her contact info and insisted we needed to meet up for drinks one night. I'm not sure exactly how oblivious she was, but from my other posts in this topic, you may conclude somewhere between "very" and "dangerously".

She never got my unicorn.

Another time, there was a small pink stuffed pony next to the map I was using, that again, had been a present. I thought he was pretty cute, the toy's face was this amusing cocky smirk, and the hair was curly like corkscrews. This is the depth of my thinking on the thing.
Apparently this was catnip to Captain Donkey Cave, and I was unaware. I was flicking this thing's hair and waiting for my opponent to arrive, and a very large man appeared at the table.
"I have a better pony than that." I gak you not. No "hi", he opens with this bizarre choice.
"Oh. I like him, he's got a nice face-"
"That's a GIRL pony you tard. Hey, I bet you didn't go to Pony Convention."
(Look of confusion)
(Man rips open his jacket to reveal convention t-shirt that is straining to hold in all of the... Joy... This man has to offer. He then show me his custom head phones with some kind of logo on them, and shoves his phone in my hands)
"Um."
"My piny is better, I won this standee in the charity auction!"
"I don't know what I'm looking at." (Man in fedora pointing at cardboard horse)
"You're not really a fething brony! How can you not know who that is? Jesus, you [disabled slurs] ." (This continued about how I was posing to be cool, and got less coherent)
I manage to get out, "I'm not any kind of brony." I'm sinking into my seat against a wall, being yelled at by a man twice my size in all dimensions and genuinely on the verge of crying because someone is yelling in my face and I can't leave.
"Damn right you're not! A real brony would know-"
"[SHOP OWNER] I HAVE A RULES QUERY." I wave to him from behind the mountain of Real Brony.
The shop owner (a very good friend) shambles over, and he takes one look at me, one look at the guy, and gives him a weekend ban for "this gak again."
I learned after a fashion that Real Brony was less a typical brony, and more a typical horrible person.