Quote from: Warthur;635896I know a guy a bit like that - his forte is being creepy and inappropriate around women, from unwanted touching to inviting himself to sleep in people's front rooms without anyone in the house in question actually giving him permission to so (in our defence, we all assumed that one of the other housemates had given permission - he was quite good at playing people off against each other like that) to making disturbingly explicit sexual propositions to women when their boyfriends are standing right there next to them.

He LARPs in Belgium these days. The reason why he LARPs in Belgium has a lot to do with the fact that more or less every substantial LARP group in the UK has blackballed him over the years - he literally got ostracised by group after group progressively further and further away from his home town until it got to the point where he has to pop over the Channel to find groups who'll let him play with them. I suspect this pattern will continue - few people can play with him for long before wanting him gone.

Ugh, no wonder he got banned. I think what happens in some of these cases is the person who's creeped out thinks he or she is the only one, so it takes them a while to speak up. I know that's what happened to me. I was in a phase of my life where I was doubting my first impressions a lot and assuming I was just off-base about things.

Heh. Lesson learned. When someone says, "Jeeze, why is Dana so quick to write people off?" this would be the answer. Having that nutcase in our gaming group was a shitty experience for all of us, and if it takes me being the first to speak up and shoulder the blame for vamoosing someone abusive like that out of the group, so be it.

I actually *tried* to suicide my character in one of the last games I was in with this asshole, but the DM figured out what I was doing and prevented it. Turned out he was creeped out by the dude, too, so comparing notes was enough to get the guy gone.

Heh, I've had plenty of "potential self-sacrifice" moments, but generally none where one of my PC's decided to check out due to emotional issues.

There was a buddy's campaign, where halfway thru I decided to try everything I could think of to kill the character (I thought he was over-powered, compared to the group; so it was becoming "The Yojimbo and Friends" sessions, which I was uncomfortable with).

Damned if I couldn't kill the PC off for over 10 sessions. I pissed and antagonized everything I could think of off in those sessions, but he just kept coming up with lucky rolls.

The GM eventually created a six-armed super giant, when my roll came up a "1". The giant did like 6 times the damage necessary to kill me. The worst part, he made it necessary to defeat the giant to progress the story, and all the others fled when they saw my character become goo...

The above story is part of the reason I think BESM is severely over-rated, by a lot of folks.