"You have walked away" Topic

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So, have you ever just walked away from a game in progress? Not flipped the board and stormed out. Just called it day for … reasons.

49% said "yes, I have walked away"
46% said "no, I have not walked away"

No. Would just never play again with someone who made me that annoyed.

It happened to me over 20 years at Cold Wars, the GM must have been someone who wasn't comfortable with confrontation and lost control over the game to a rules lawyer. I don't recall the specifics but it was a Battleground game when that set of rules were big. The game was really awesome the terrain was great and so were the miniatures, 20mm. But this one guy just couldn't stop bullying everyone about the rules, the bad part was he was wrong. I wasn't the only guy who walked.

Walked away from a Pirate game (and I love pirate games), at Bayou Wars in 2005, due to the GM being a total complete jack*ss.

In the early 90s at Siege of Augusta two of us walked away from a game where a third player was overly obvious in his cheating with dice rolls and movement.

I also walked away from one of Uncle Duke's Alamo games at Little Wars due to one players obvious cheating.

I walked away from a computer moderated Coral Sea game many years ago after the data entry dude fat fingered Shoho's speed at 200 instead of 20 kts. This should have been a small matter, but after 20 minutes of being unable to rectify the carrier being well into inland Australia, I just melted away.

I was at a Day 2 Gettysburg scenario at a convention a couple years ago. The GM had put a lot of work into it. I was a novice, we were playing Johnny Reb. One gamer was expressing his frustration throughout the whole game, just one gripe after another. When the game ended he kinda unloaded on the GM, who listened patiently like a gentleman. After the griper left I thanked the GM for his help and patience. I had a lot of fun actually.
I wouldn't leave out of respect for the GM. Also, I'm not really there to WIN, I just want to push some miniatures around and roll some dice. It's also my observation that gripers and rules lawyers are rarely the type to run a game of their own.
My two pennies.

Yes. I had signed up for an ACW game at a convention in the late 1970s (IIRC the rules were "The Blue Light Manual"). The author was running the game and had several boxes of troops. I was supposed to be a reinforcement for the Union, but when it was my turn to enter, I looked in the Union troop box and found it was emptied. The GM had given my units away by mistake. I left and found a modern (i.e., 1970's modern) game being played to the WRG rules and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Twistercon, maybe 2006? Pigwars. Was just getting into the game. Saw "pigwars Vikings" in program. Description was in Gaelic but what the heck. PigWars is Pigwars, right? Well it was Odd from moment one…. Players play Vikings, gamemaster plays Irish. First turn, Vikings land and storm off ships. Irish turn. Guy says "suddenly you are all frozen in place. He moves a bunch of naked amazon figures around us and says "they are stripping off your clothes and beep beep beeeeeep (<— me self censoring) and he explains "you have been lured here under a spell so these Amazons can procreate". All the while this guy's 14-15 yr old Goth daughter and her boyfriend are at the end of the table swapping spit and feeling each other up UNDER their clothes. I excused myself apologizing that it was not my cup of tea, and the guy says "shudda read the description"

"Shudda read the description" Well Duh, everyone reads Gaelic right. I mean come on! I would have walked away too.

If you posted it in Gaelic, you were being deliberately exclusive. If you speak it, you are aware it is an endangered language.

I think deceptive might be more like it. I wonder how many would have signed up if the description had fully represented what was going to happen.

I wonder if the con would have run the advert if it described what was going on in a way it could be read …

Nowadays? Sure. Might even have won an award, especially if some of the Amazons had a competitive advantage. Back in 2005? Probably not.