Lungworth

Did I make any claims against you (or any other claims at all) after the games were over or during their course? I don't remember what happened in the previous one, but in the last one (where Hanzo was), the most I asked was about an alley when guards approached me. Later, there was a lot of back-and-forth with Ples/Loken directly about your reaction, not about your actions as a GM, but I don't think I wrote a single word in the thread or in a private message to you, so I don't know why you're bringing this up.

The problem isn't that you might accuse me of something in the thread or write that the mechanics are bad, the game is bad, and so on. The problem is that you did it through Hanzo. So that later, when my character dies in your game (remember the stealth Knights), you can protect yourself from my claims (or your own conscience). When I don't like what's happening in your game, I drop it or kill my character myself. But you did everything to make me kill your character. You didn't die on a quest to kill homeless people, you didn't get caught in a trap when leaving the toilet, you didn't get poisoned by fruit in the tavern, you weren't surrounded by stealth Knights while completing the main quest. You were deliberately looking for trouble, when the item you found was offered to be bought for a price that you considered insufficient. You were testing my patience as a GM. It's the same as if Atarax now went around harassing townspeople because he couldn't work and study at the same time; the queen would punish him, and I would start complaining about it in the thread (or in a private message, it doesn't matter).

I have a normal attitude towards you and I'm not trying to offend or annoy you. I just want to point out that you're either deceiving yourself by pretending that the situation was a natural development of your character's personality, or you're deceiving me. That's how I see it, and no other way. And I can feel that you were trying to make me feel guilty in that situation. Maybe you didn't even realize it, but you were acting on emotions and have long forgotten about it. But I still find it unpleasant to remember. Or maybe I'm paranoid and I see insincerity and deception everywhere. I'm bringing it up because we're talking about GMing and the game in general.

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I'll clarify once again that I'm talking specifically about the second-to-last post from the ones quoted above - not about a GM's mistake in the gameplay, but specifically about his reaction. I mean, I'm not going to waste my time writing a quest just to "prove something" lol.

Well, basically, I described everything above, how I perceived it. The reaction was appropriate. It's not implied that you initially wrote the quest to prove something. But you decided to prove something already in the process of the game.