Habits that kill fun in a session.

[Silus]

Not sure if this was posted before but
A DM that complains when you...
Do something they didn't expect
Do something that's really ridiculous but completely allowed by the rules

Me: "Wait, you WHAT?!"
Player: "I read the book."
Me: *Panics a little trying to figure out what to do, as I never expected anyone to read a large, glowing, floating book in the middle of a Genius Loci house*

actually, over the course of my 3(?) year gaming career.

I've only been witness/party to 4(?) chracter deaths.

of those, only 2 have happened while I sat behind the screen. it's a new group for summer because we're off campus.

and I disagree (slightly) about it being annoying.

I have 20+ characters waiting to see play.
character creation is fun for me.


*in the event that this post is completely or even partially off the wall, I'm very tired and on the way to dreamland. so humor me

In my first group, I was asked to provide pretty extensive backstories, which I did at first. And then my characters started dying. Quite a bit. I think I went through two characters in three sessions. Shortly thereafter, I kinda stopped worrying about backstories and just improved it whenever the issue came up, as my characters were either going to be killed off or the campaign would be scrapped.