Refs: How'd you tick your players off?!

[cgriffen]

Any refs out there do something that really ticked your players off? A story development that just didn't sit well with them? Taken their favorite toys away? Blown up their starship? Permanently lowered all their UPP characteristics by one point? Worse?!

Reveal the whole sordid tale. Spill!

 

[vegascat]

Really got a group angry in a D&D game. They found out the prison a genie was keeping them safe in was a large gem. The only way out was to destroy the gem, and all value in it. Their choice, immense wealth they couldn't use, or life as paupers. The whole idea was be careful what you wish for. They didn't want wisdom, they wanted Monty Haul.

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In the end, Murphy will rule

 

[Tarn]

It was in a DnD game, at one point they figured that the entire world was just a program in a computer. I still hear the screams. "What do you mean my make believe character is make believe?" One guy spent a week in a funk trying to figure out why he cared about a fictional character but not if that character was a fiction in a fiction.

It was fun.

 

[Tarn]

It was in a DnD game, at one point they figured that the entire world was just a program in a computer. I still hear the screams. "What do you mean my make believe character is make believe?" One guy spent a week in a funk trying to figure out why he cared about a fictional character but not if that character was a fiction in a fiction.

It was fun.

 

[PapaGolfWhiskey]

This started small, (don't they always) and snowballed first into a running gag, then into a mutual annoyance... although....

I'll steal from anyone. Then go overboard. I stole the name for the 'Dead Spacer Pub' from one of the 'exit visa' adventure variants (I think it was Zillan Wine. though I got the name wrong.. that was Dead Spaceman)

the details of the interior don't matter (think 70's motif sleazy bar: half-way between a pick up join and a nudie bar) What did matter is The hologram.

Instead of a service bell, the 'Dead Spacer' franchise had a holographic image of a Tech 9 spacer's helmet. When you pushed the 'press me' button the faceplate shattered and the face inside screamed and decompressed. (I think I'd read Steel Beach too recently).

Well... first it was funny. Then it was sort of a running joke. A friend even began a forum post with the Topic Dead Spacer Pub, and started the first line with "(press) CRACK.. ARRRGGH!"

One time, just to be a sick bastich, I had an 'electronics' crate they were um .. near (not hiding no, and they weren't trying to steal anything from the electronics shop either no) be full of 'frachise supplies'. of course the crate got shot in a fire fight (cr.crack..ack ck ARgARGARGARGARG!)

but Someone in the party just didn't know when to give up and they kept pressing that Durn button until the whole party and the REF (me) wanted to kill them.

So the dead spacer pub is no more.

Though. I am considering (if I actually run a game set in +1000) having the players encounter a person with a 'great idea for a new pub'

heh.

 

[Secrect Cow Level]

I was running a T4 campaign back in '98 in which my group was on the trail of an alien terrorist who had stolen a gram of anti matter from an Imperial testing facility. The alien had plans to use the anti matter to create a bomb to destroy the capitial city of Sylea. They had just pieced together the plot and were hot on the alien's trail when I decided that my "clever" idea was actually pretty boring and asked my friends if they were as bored as I was. I ended up scraping the campaign, even though they all assured me they were having a great time and now they won't let me run anymore campaigns because they are afraid I'll get bored and scrap it again (d'oh!)!