Flare's whining about an Exalted/Mage GM
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Most of you won't understand the words I'm about to say. It involves Pen and Paper RPGs, and I know those aren't big at Fakku.
This is okay, and I fully understand most of you won't give a shit. I just want to say it in a place where other people can see it so I can get it off my chest. I don't want the storyteller to know, because she'd just get more pissed, but I feel like I have to tell someone, and I don't want to bitch to an individual person because I'd feel bad about that. I fully expect a shit ton of -Rep, followed by post after post of tl;dr, and that's fine too. I just want someone to possibly read it, so I don't feel like I'm the only one dealing with it.
My Storyteller is bad. She introduces NPCs and breaks Canon without a care, including removing the Infertility that made a race of creatures interesting in the first place by my character doing something nice for one of them, then them somehow getting a massive amount of inspiration and coming up with how to solve Infertility via a fucking robot baby. My Character Class is basically summed up as 'One of the Best Inventors and Scientists to ever exist, ever', but this no name NPC from a class not made for Inventing somehow sees one of my inventions, and uses it to solve a genetic problem that I had no idea I could even solve. In between this, she gives the female and gay members of our party massive stat boosts and power ups, while leaving the ones who are straight IC out in the cold and receiving no rewards at all, except when I manage to complain enough that she says 'Oh, yeah, you can have the creature one of your party members just killed in three moves as a pet, in a year or two when it heals up'. This is not an overstatement, but rather an exact transpose.
Her Introduced NPCs are always incredibly powerful badasses who we would have no chance with dealing with but have to rely on to help us, and, like her herself, favor girls and gays. I know she's not a pedophile, but when two Godlings who are the only thing keeping Magic from falling away completely show up in a game of Mage, then bully my character out of his own house and take over spending time with his best friend, she and they expect him and me to just sit with it, and she was actually shocked when he lashed out and they almost killed him in response. He lashed out by saying 'Can you please tell me more about you?'. They stepped into the Library of the two characters. This makes no sense, but understand that even the other two members of our party don't get to go in the Library. We bought it with our background points, and no one else is supposed to be allowed in unless both of us agree, then these two NPCs just come in instantly and I'm supposed to accept that IC. Then they act like it's my fault that the two left the city forever. Maybe it was, but it's not like I didn't have justification.
She then goes and introduces another NPC who once more is attempting to muscle between my character and his best friend, and is apparently expecting me to just take it, again. This time, I'll probably die if I talk shit, but at this point, the character is pretty much unplayable when his best fucking friend, the person he's spent his entire life with pretty much, is constantly being taken away from him by Superpowered NPCs who we can't hurt and only tell the other character stuff. It leaves me, as that character's best friend, feeling purposely ignored for absolutely no reason when I feel we should be getting the same information. Then the NPCs swear the PC to secrecy so she doesn't even tell us, and then the Storyteller just expects us to go along and do whatever they ask.
This isn't an exaggeration. All 3 of the NPCs have only spoken to my Character's Best friend, who was there when they decided to choke the shit out of him for wanting to know more about them, and did nothing. In between threatening to kill the other three members of the party, they dote on the fourth member constantly, and the player either doesn't see this or doesn't care, I prefer to think doesn't see, because the player himself is nice.
And when I say dying, that's IF we even play again. We just got into an argument about a Canon NPC from one of the games, and she decided to cancel all games for the week.
Said Canon NPC has killed untold millions of people, sacrificed others, killed her own children, lived with the world under an Iron Fist for thousands of years, and recently gave her 12 year old daughter up to a Rape Dragon for more power, after penning the most terrible and devastating book of all time, so terrible it breaks Setting Rules and can travel back in time (This should be impossible. The Book is that FUCKING EVIL), and the GM attempts to say the character is redeemable.
Obviously we have a difference of opinion here, as I do not think she is, but making my feelings known apparently pissed her off so much she canceled all her games because I hurt her feelings.
I don't want to say it's because she's a Lesbian and is just refusing to admit the character isn't as bad as she seems because she thinks she's hot, but it seriously seems that way.
It's not even that we have a difference of opinion here, it's the way she acted regarding it. She passed off the NPC giving up her 12 year old child to Rape Dragon as 'Being a necessary Sacrifice for the World', when it's made pretty obvious that she only did it for Power. She then goes into this spiel about how the NPC 'Only cries at night, in her sleep, for the horrors she has done', when the actual books say nothing to support she hasn't absolutely loved her iron fisted Rule, which is even supported by the NPC's stats, which indicate that her Compassion is only 2 out of 5. This is the same as an Average Person's Compassion, and how many 'Average Joes' do you think would not love Absolute Power? This becomes worse when you consider her Other Virtues are all 5 or 4. She can easily eat a massive feast while others starve in front of her, will burn down Orphanages to aid in completing her Motivation, and will never back down from a challenge, but she only barely cares about other people. She refuses to see this character as Evil in anyway, and while the game is all about the Subjectiveness, and I understand this, she seems to think that this character is pretty much a Saint.
And I can only assume this is because of her infatuation with the character, but I don't even know.
Man I feel better.
commence the tl;dr, 'Faggot', 'It's because she's a woman', etc. stuff.
This is okay, and I fully understand most of you won't give a shit. I just want to say it in a place where other people can see it so I can get it off my chest. I don't want the storyteller to know, because she'd just get more pissed, but I feel like I have to tell someone, and I don't want to bitch to an individual person because I'd feel bad about that. I fully expect a shit ton of -Rep, followed by post after post of tl;dr, and that's fine too. I just want someone to possibly read it, so I don't feel like I'm the only one dealing with it.
My Storyteller is bad. She introduces NPCs and breaks Canon without a care, including removing the Infertility that made a race of creatures interesting in the first place by my character doing something nice for one of them, then them somehow getting a massive amount of inspiration and coming up with how to solve Infertility via a fucking robot baby. My Character Class is basically summed up as 'One of the Best Inventors and Scientists to ever exist, ever', but this no name NPC from a class not made for Inventing somehow sees one of my inventions, and uses it to solve a genetic problem that I had no idea I could even solve. In between this, she gives the female and gay members of our party massive stat boosts and power ups, while leaving the ones who are straight IC out in the cold and receiving no rewards at all, except when I manage to complain enough that she says 'Oh, yeah, you can have the creature one of your party members just killed in three moves as a pet, in a year or two when it heals up'. This is not an overstatement, but rather an exact transpose.
Her Introduced NPCs are always incredibly powerful badasses who we would have no chance with dealing with but have to rely on to help us, and, like her herself, favor girls and gays. I know she's not a pedophile, but when two Godlings who are the only thing keeping Magic from falling away completely show up in a game of Mage, then bully my character out of his own house and take over spending time with his best friend, she and they expect him and me to just sit with it, and she was actually shocked when he lashed out and they almost killed him in response. He lashed out by saying 'Can you please tell me more about you?'. They stepped into the Library of the two characters. This makes no sense, but understand that even the other two members of our party don't get to go in the Library. We bought it with our background points, and no one else is supposed to be allowed in unless both of us agree, then these two NPCs just come in instantly and I'm supposed to accept that IC. Then they act like it's my fault that the two left the city forever. Maybe it was, but it's not like I didn't have justification.
She then goes and introduces another NPC who once more is attempting to muscle between my character and his best friend, and is apparently expecting me to just take it, again. This time, I'll probably die if I talk shit, but at this point, the character is pretty much unplayable when his best fucking friend, the person he's spent his entire life with pretty much, is constantly being taken away from him by Superpowered NPCs who we can't hurt and only tell the other character stuff. It leaves me, as that character's best friend, feeling purposely ignored for absolutely no reason when I feel we should be getting the same information. Then the NPCs swear the PC to secrecy so she doesn't even tell us, and then the Storyteller just expects us to go along and do whatever they ask.
This isn't an exaggeration. All 3 of the NPCs have only spoken to my Character's Best friend, who was there when they decided to choke the shit out of him for wanting to know more about them, and did nothing. In between threatening to kill the other three members of the party, they dote on the fourth member constantly, and the player either doesn't see this or doesn't care, I prefer to think doesn't see, because the player himself is nice.
And when I say dying, that's IF we even play again. We just got into an argument about a Canon NPC from one of the games, and she decided to cancel all games for the week.
Said Canon NPC has killed untold millions of people, sacrificed others, killed her own children, lived with the world under an Iron Fist for thousands of years, and recently gave her 12 year old daughter up to a Rape Dragon for more power, after penning the most terrible and devastating book of all time, so terrible it breaks Setting Rules and can travel back in time (This should be impossible. The Book is that FUCKING EVIL), and the GM attempts to say the character is redeemable.
Obviously we have a difference of opinion here, as I do not think she is, but making my feelings known apparently pissed her off so much she canceled all her games because I hurt her feelings.
I don't want to say it's because she's a Lesbian and is just refusing to admit the character isn't as bad as she seems because she thinks she's hot, but it seriously seems that way.
It's not even that we have a difference of opinion here, it's the way she acted regarding it. She passed off the NPC giving up her 12 year old child to Rape Dragon as 'Being a necessary Sacrifice for the World', when it's made pretty obvious that she only did it for Power. She then goes into this spiel about how the NPC 'Only cries at night, in her sleep, for the horrors she has done', when the actual books say nothing to support she hasn't absolutely loved her iron fisted Rule, which is even supported by the NPC's stats, which indicate that her Compassion is only 2 out of 5. This is the same as an Average Person's Compassion, and how many 'Average Joes' do you think would not love Absolute Power? This becomes worse when you consider her Other Virtues are all 5 or 4. She can easily eat a massive feast while others starve in front of her, will burn down Orphanages to aid in completing her Motivation, and will never back down from a challenge, but she only barely cares about other people. She refuses to see this character as Evil in anyway, and while the game is all about the Subjectiveness, and I understand this, she seems to think that this character is pretty much a Saint.
And I can only assume this is because of her infatuation with the character, but I don't even know.
Man I feel better.
commence the tl;dr, 'Faggot', 'It's because she's a woman', etc. stuff.
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Paper and Pen RPGs are populated by fuckwits. Always a shame when he/she is the GM though. I feel for ya, bro.
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Ninja4Hire wrote...
TL;DRI tried to skim, and from what I gathered you need to have a new GM.
getting new GMs is hard for me, because I'm a bit shy and find it hard to venture out and look for them, and I rarely know where to look.
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flare_knight1 wrote...
Ninja4Hire wrote...
TL;DRI tried to skim, and from what I gathered you need to have a new GM.
getting new GMs is hard for me, because I'm a bit shy and find it hard to venture out and look for them, and I rarely know where to look.
Become a GM, lead others. Become god... wait, no, that's my job. Back to the point, be a GM, find others, start a group, become better GM in time.
