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Especially the roleplay kind.

I just came out of this heated debate of god-modding etc and I think I'm getting a migraine. Bleh... XP
It doesn't help when one of the people arguing is drunk!

But I think I drew it to a well formed and reasonable conclusion...total Miles Edgeworth style!

It's hard when you have people who can't admit when they are wrong, and don't want to listen to the rules.

I had trouble DMing a group for DnD. In layman's terms: My friend waned to play a half elf which is half human, half elf. There is a section in the book about them and that's all you need to know for making one as a character. She, instead, looked up Elves in a different book (but still from DnD) and picked what she wanted to have from that book. I had to tell her, like, five times that she only needed the first book. When I finally explained it to her she looked like she was going to punch me. .... Never play in a group that refuses to adhere to rules. This whole group thought DnD = anime adventure. It was frustrating.

I also used to admin at a role playing chat site with a very different format then this. Everyone thought they had the right to tell others to buzz off, take over rooms, and read between the lines of rules to god mode and so on. I want to say it was a flawed system, but it wasn't; it was just the players. Some rooms were so strict that no one played in them, rooms with too few rules being enforced that they'd get taken over. It was a constant power struggle.

For a long time there was a player who liked to pick on other players. His friends he picked on for fun and he didn't like the rest of the players. He brought his crap into my room. He'd come in OOC and diss people. It's only the internet and it's no big deal, but it was annoying at the least, and some of the members got really upset. He wouldn't stop his crap and one day he came in with a new screen name that said something rude about another players so I banned him. The message board exploded with people saying I was on a power trip and this guy didn't deserve to be banned. I explained he needed a one week ban because he didn't seem to understand the proper social etiquette that you need in life, even if it's online. People are still people and he needed to grow up. He said he never wanted to come back and his name is still on the banned list. (If he doesn't want to be there then why should I unban him?)

I love rules.I don't mind bending rules in the case where everyone can be mature and honest, but rules are made for a reason and it sickens me to know that grown adults have trouble understanding this.

The guy was obviously not getting the message, and his friend kept constantly throwing me abuse today. So I may have called him an egotistical brat etc etc and told him to take a hike as well as resablish my case. He's still lurking around, but I think I finnaly got to him.

His drunken buddy is still trying to win some points against me, calling me a rapist amongst other things with his flawed logic, but a few reported posts should deal with that...

Best to blank them when they get like that though, the more you fuel it, the trickier it is. =)