Quote from: tenbones;1097797Is it in fact necessary to be told whom/what/how you should run your game at your table? Are we that infantile?

That may be one of those questions it's wiser not to ask.

Quote from: Jame Rowe;1097787My take on #5 is to keep in mind to show respect for what everyone believes, but also for how quickly or indeed slowly/quietly everyone talks.

Right up until it becomes time to kick the asshole out of the game group.

Quote from: jeff37923;1097803Right up until it becomes time to kick the asshole out of the game group.

That would be because someone IS violating #5, and ignoring other people's beliefs.

Quote from: tenbones;1097797What if what one of your players believes in something completely stupid and demands either passively and/or aggressively that you and others comply with those beliefs?

This was years back, maybe 2004? Somewhere around there...anyway, I was in grad school and played in a D&D campaign on hiatus over the summer. Since I didn't have any classes, was fully funded for the year, and stuck in a college town that basically had no one around for a couple months, I went to the gym two or three times a day, drank a lot, and started playing in three more games. One was a 3.0 game run by the same guy as the primary campaign, but I was the only player who was in town so we found a couple extra guys. One dude was probably gay, although he never talked about it and focused only on gaming. Another guy was pre-med and was 2nd string on the baseball team, focused only on gaming. Third guy was the brother of the fourth guy, really weird nerd vibe going on, but focused only on gaming. The fourth guy...wtf. Not only was he a pedantic rules-lawyer, he was functionally retarded. I have never see anyone spew out that much inane bullshit in my life, much less during a game. It was like trying to play D&D with Alex Jones during one of his broadcasts: roll some dice between 20 minute rants. And if you disagreed with his crazy talk, he'd launch into an even more ridiculous tirade. One of the best things (worst) game-related (it was probably 50/50 rules-lawyer bullshit/CT nonsense like faking the Moon landing) was when he insisted that the invisibility spell would make your eyes invisible, meaning light would pass through them, which of course means you can't see. This was all in an attempt to get out of taking damage from an invisible thief who backstabbed him. He went on and on how the thief just couldn't have been able to see him while invisible due to the light passing through his eyes. This was like the tenth or twelfth tirade in less than a week, so we collectively decided to tell him to fuck off and play the game. This devolved into an HOUR long argument about how stupid we'd have to be to not accept his premise. Even when we conceded that sure that's reasonable in the real world, but this is a fucking game so let's just assume it's magic and play, didn't stop him from going on and on. Just kept berating us about being science-deniers or some shit, even though two of us were getting science grad degrees and the third was a physics major. It became comical. Dude went outside to smoke after this nonsense, his brother joined him, the DM locked the door (his house) and we played. He knocked for 20-30 minutes and started screaming, we ignored his ass.

So, that's how I handled that. #forrestgump