Board Thread:Fun and Games Forum/@comment-26355186-20150819063938/@comment-68.184.198.249-20150909233030

NegativeZero.0 wrote: 68.184.198.249 wrote: NegativeZero.0 wrote: (Hello 40, and welcome. We aren't hostile to new players, so sorry if it seems that way. It's just that Sauron in particulaur got on everyone's nerves constantly and broke the basic rules a shit-ton, resulting in him being exiled and disliked. So as long as you aren't a jerk, you're welcome.

However, this RP is nearing it's conlusion, so wether or not you can join right now is up to the GMs: Inquisitor01 and Vesssel of War. It is them who you must ask to join. Either way, I recommend you check out the Forge of Gods RP, as it is desperatly in need of players, and a good learning experince if you are new to the concept of roleplaying.) (TBH, I'm not a newbie. I've played plenty of CoC and D&D, and I've been a rather succesful DM among a group I'm in. I went back through all this, and your old threads, and it honestly doesn't look like a good place. That Sauron guy might be an idiot, and I can agree that his stuff was stupid, but you all just seemed to lay into him without treating him like a person. It's always terrible when people do that to each other, I'd honestly not like to join if this is the kind of environment I'll be subjected to, wether I did that kind of stuff or not (I don't). (Well, it's your choice to join or not. Sauron kicked everyone in the nuts, promised not to do it again, and than proceeded to do the same thing like, 20 more times until we kicked him out, so I believe our actions were justified. And believe me, we tried to nicely ask Sauron to follow the rules MANY a time, but he just kept going. And yes, some of us tend to overreact upon seeing something and not reading it carefully, but if you calmly explain yourself, and aren't being an ass, said people will realize they were wrong and apoligize. Again, it's your choice wether or not to join us, but we really aren't that hostile unless you're a totall douche.) (I realize this may sound odd coming from an outside observer, but it looks like you guys were the ones hurting him, not the other way around. This probably stems from the fact that, since this is the internet, people don't gain as much information or learn as much about the way the people they interact with behave. I've gone back through your guy's threads, tracking this Sauron guy's post history, and it seems that while you guys were justified in your criticisms of his actions, you eventually fell into a cycle of legitimate cyber-bullying. From what I've seen, he never cussed any of you out in the way you did him, and even when arguing against your critques, his language and tone seemed rather reticent, or perhaps frightened. I'm not saying he was in the right, heck, I don't even know any of you. but it seems like you displaced your hate of Sauron's actions onto him, and decided that it was his motivation. You, in search of a reason WHY he was doing what he was doing, decided that he just plain old hated you and your threads. From what I can see, that isn't the case. I've read all your guys' posts and threads, all the way back to your "House Of Storms", and it looks like this guy may have just been trying to find a new way to fix his character, which, regrettably, almost never works. In a CoC campaign I was running, I had a guy who did stuff like this. Nuclear weapons, made-up guns and armor, the works. We treated him calmly, and fairly, and eventually tried explaining why his stuff was wrong instead of simply forcing him to take it back and redo his turn. After a particularly nasty spat over a remote-controlled Yithian war golem (it's a long story), he wised up, apologized, and killed off his character, deciding to make a new one in the next campaign. When he returned, his old ways had died out, and now he's one of the best & most interesting guys in our group. I'm not saying getting mad at this guy was the wrong decision, heck, I would have blown my stack too. I'm just trying to say that if you treated everyone who made mistakes like this, you'd soon lose all your players to happier, nicer campaigns. But, if you'll have me, I'll be happy to join your next adventure, although due to tech reasons, I can't make an account.

Happy hunting.