"Most Annoying Thing Your Buddy Does at the Gaming Table?" Topic

Picks his teeth using the bayonets of a stand of Imperial guardsmen.

Picks his teeth using the bayonets of a stand of Imperial guardsmen.

You're makin' that up!

If not, I hope they're HIS Imperial Guardsmen.

As I mostly play solo I'd have to secretly film myself to see…

Don't do it, Aaron! Folks always look and sound worse to themselves on film or radio than they do in real life. I know I do…

Double checks rules he double checked in the last five games.

Pedantic measuring and remeasuring….AND then not moving the full distance to avoid copping artillery shot.

Not paying attention. "Huh? My turn?"
Refusing to use the charts. (Picks up dice) "What do I need to roll?"
Moving figures in the "plop it down" method. Vague measurement followed by picking up a mass of figs and putting them down "close enough."

None of them deal breakers or worth a stink, but in the long haul annoying.

When one of the guys in our group realizes that he is losing, he all of a sudden moves at a snails pace, moving pieces back and forth, going into conversations with his team mates. I have suggested a timer and the guy went crazy.
This guy is also famous for trying to take command of others troops, and he likes playing against new players so that he can give them the wrong advice while on his way to victory, telling them at the end, "I was trying to teach you a lesson, so you don't make mistakes in the next game"…..Alot of guys never come back……Hell I don't even know why I still game with this guy.

Handling an opposing player's pieces.

The guys I play against are all great guys……………but:

Throwing the dice with a bowling gesture so that the dice come rolling into my figures, almost knocking them down. I've also seen this with some tournament players and in some convention games too. It doesn't seem to bother most people but it annoys me.

The guys I play against are all great guys……………but:

Throwing the dice with a bowling gesture so that the dice come rolling into my figures, almost knocking them down. I've also seen this with some tournament players and in some convention games. It doesn't seem to bother most people but it annoys me.

Being a jerk: Had one guy in my store that would rules lawyer everyone over everything. I told him that he may be right but he's also a phallus. I made sure to pair him up against the other rules lawyers and slow players.
Slow Play: Get on with it guys.
Body Odor: Jerk from above actually got fired because he smelled so bad.
#1 pet peeve: Cursing in front of kids.

Eating something greasy and then flipping through my rulebooks and/or handling my figures or scenery.

How about flying a Su-25 Frogfoot NOE below a ridge with a company of Abrams on it and having them try to engage it with every vehicle mounted MG in the company each mg gettin gits own dice roll needing 3% or less to hit. Grrrrs talk about slowing a game down. Thats 42 rolls if you don't want to do the math. He missed them all if you wanted to know.

Some one I used to play regualry a while back.

Not bothering to compile an army list for WHFB or properly working out the points cost, then changing his army as he went along.

Flipping the dice rather than rolling them.

I played against someone (boardgames) who would point to three or four combats, then start rolling dice to resolve them. Except he wouldn't identify which combat he was rolling for first, and would do it quickly, before his opponent could react.

Yep, if he rolled poorly, it was for an unimportant combat, and if he rolled well, it was for the most important one.

I think we need to establish something here:

Other people have annoying habits at the gaming table;
I have delightful eccentricities.

Starring intently at my move, while I am moving and questioning everything even before I am done moving.

No matter where or what I am doing during my move he gloats "perfect" or that's just what I wanted or something like that. What, are we in Jr.High School?

The measured movement is 6", he takes 7. Makes me nuts when someone squeezes out extra inches/MM.

Sulking. I had a buddy years ago (we were in the military and went separate ways) that was a chronic moaner. His most bizarre response to a charge that went poorly (and frankly I thought it would succeed but the Odin of Dice went against him) and me and 2 others, one of which was on his side, watched him pick up his lancers and hurl them across the barn we were playing in. We were stunned. Ended the game and it was the last time we played together.

Spouting off expletive-filled commentary about current politics during games. If I want to listen to right-wing drivel, I'll tune into Rush Limbaugh on the radio.

Putting trees on a field after I had removed them once. Adding cavalry in a fight because he brought some despite my wishes not to include them in the scenario.

oh.. I'm the guy with the right-wing drivel, tuned in to Rush Limbaugh.

Exposed buttcrack.

Dude. Please.

Funny, funny thread. And annoying! I did not want to be reminded of all those annoying things that various gamers in my past are known for; but like a moth and a candle, once I started to read it I could not stop.

I try to determine what is most annoying about me to other gamers. And only Rocky Russo ever told me to my face: "I don't want to argue rules during the game." That is what I do that is egregiously annoying; and I doubt I will ever get over it: pausing the game as often as I want/need to, to hash out a rule that I do not like; to "fix" it during the game in other words.

But the most annoying thing about nameless gamers I have known: Top of the list, is playing some other variant of the rules than I understand. By that, I mean their interpretation is so radically different than mine, that we might as well be playing different games. This does include moving; where I am precise, they are lax, even to the point in one case, of dispensing with the ruler altogether and just moving units where he thinks they should be: if he was good at estimating visually I wouldn't mind so much; but no, he actually increases the movement until (I exaggerate not) he is moving them double the distance that the rules say. I could only follow suit; and I hated it.

Second on the list would have to be food on the gaming table. I absolutely loathe it, especially the huge drink cups.

Third is the Holy Grail quote spammer: The same old, same old quotes each and every game, in the same situations; followed by laughter at himself. Bad, bad, bad dog.

Fourth is the complainer: He doesn't like the scenario; he doesn't like the part he's playing; he doesn't like the rules; he doesn't like the way the sides are divided up, i.e. who's on his side, etc.

Fifth is the distracter: He talks about everything BUT the game.

And lastly the player in a tactical rut: You might as well not bother to play the game if your enjoyment is dependent on wanting to find out how the game will end; this guy always can be counted on to do exactly the same things, usually dumb things, in the same tactical situation. He is a loser because he sucks at tactical games. If he is your only regular opponent, you begin to wonder each week why you bother going through this same routine. Looking forward to the game each time is like looking forward to reruns of a boring sitcom; or watching the same commercials again and again….