Well, the "D20 is the best system ever and your system of choice should be destroyed" D&D fan crowd really irritates the piss out of me sometimes.  Bradford Walker used to be the representative for that community, but seems to have mellowed and been replaced by Pundit.

Needless to say, I'm constantly embarrassed to have ever played Palladium games whenever the Siembieda culties raise their heads.

The fandom for Exalted on RPGnet was pretty bad, but it's not reflective of anything outside the Purple Palace.

I've seen a bunch of people slag on Magic: the Gathering players, and it's always a drag for me. I won't deny that there are some funky dudes who play the game, but the people I played with were always pretty decent. They ranged from guys who were simply clean, if not terribly attractive, to some very well-dressed gentlemen and ladies.

I know that I, in particular, always dressed nicely to go to tournaments to put on a good impression.

One of several reasons I stopped playing Warhammer 40K was the fan base. I really didn't like the extremely competitive character of playing with strangers.

The gunbunnies finally turned me off cyberpunk 2020. It was bad enough getting "Dude, XX country sucks because they're not allowed to own a GUN!" threads every few days from one of the site moderators, but when I suggested a variation to the bullet damage rules I got shouted down because I'd picked the wrong bullets as examples, and nobody even mentioned the basic concept of the system which IMHO was sound.
Irony is, the site admin there was from the UK (few miles up the road from me actually) where gun ownership is virtually impossible.

Pretty much anyone who posts about forge games, and RPGnets darling of the week/month/whatever posters.

I had a very bad experience with a Deadlands GM. It almost made me swear off the game. Almost.

Quote from: RockViperPretty much anyone who posts about forge games, and RPGnets darling of the week/month/whatever posters.

Isn't that sort of the other way around? Games that turn you off the fans?

Exalted, Vampire and any other White Wolf games.

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The only game I can think of that fits the title of this thread would be Vampire:the Masquerade for me.

 Almost 8 or 9 years ago, some friends and I were at MARCON in Columbus, Oho and a bunch of  people were playing a LARP version of Vampire. They were so rude in their behavior  that we took an instant dislike to that game for YEARS. We were so ticked that we thought of making wood stakes with clan names and putting them on Klingon sashes as a sarcastic joke.  We didn't meet any reasonable players of Vampire till many years later.

 Now I work wth a co-worker who is storyteller for World of Darkness LARP games played once a month. He's okay to talk to.  He also recently started playing D&D 3.5/D20 , so at least LARP isn't the only type of game that he plays.

- Ed

Quote from: jeff37923I'm curious about GURPS: Transhuman Space. I'm wondering if it is worth picking up. I'm wondering if it will satisfy my twin gaming interests in Traveller and Cyberpunk.

So why is it that every time I start to ask about the game, I get responses from fans telling me how wonderful Transhumanism is and how cool it will be when we can finally download our conciousness from a male body into a female body? I'm looking for a game, not a philosophy.

Consequently, I haven't picked up Transhuman Space.


What game has fans that have turned you off from buying it?

Strong, kind of... inappropriate advocacy turns me off a game to the extent that I suspect I might not like the community (although that kind of advocacy is, honestly, so pervasive, that if I were rigorous about applying that standard, I'd probably be left with a bad taste about many games).

I'm especially wary of fans defending systems they really, really like against what looks like (potentially) valid criticism. I don't remember the specifics, but I saw this kind of thing with Savage Worlds -- a system I would probably otherwise have looked into, since it's the sort of generic system I tend to enjoy.

Quality being equal, I'd rather play a game by someone I respect than someone I don't -- but just as with music, I'm willing to go with product quality over my personal opinion of the author at the end of the day.

Finally, I'd be willing to play almost anything at least once -- but with so many good systems to choose from and limited gaming time, mild negatives are enough to cull out most of the options.

Cheers,
-E.

It pains me to say it because I love the game. But fans of Classic Traveller can be rabidly defensive and parochial, especially now that T5 is on the horizon, and with it (shudder) change.

Not saying that T5 will be great. It will probably be bad. But they don't resent its possible badness--they resent its very existence, good or bad.

Yep.  It has happened to me most often with Exalted, where I realize that I have a casual interest in the game and enjoy it where other folk have a... much stronger interest in the game.

Although I will admit it wasn't the fans, but the philosophy, that held me from C&C, the constant pimping of the game at every turn by its fans really drove me batshit.

Quote from: C.W.RichesonYep.  It has happened to me most often with Exalted, where I realize that I have a casual interest in the game and enjoy it where other folk have a... much stronger interest in the game.

I find this the worst. And I'm talking in more general terms too. It doesn't really put me off the game or whatever but I have at times been a bit more guarded about mentioning my involvement.

Quote from: Caesar SlaadAlthough I will admit it wasn't the fans, but the philosophy, that held me from C&C, the constant pimping of the game at every turn by its fans really drove me batshit.

Thanatos02 and I had a running joke about using C&C for everything that stemmed from a particularly shill-heavy period on TBP.  The proper response was always "I'd use Exalted!"

"Hmm... What kind of food should we order for lunch?"
"Have you tried Castles & Crusades?  It sounds perfect for something like this."