Dungeon Masters of Reddit, who is the single worst player you have ever put up with? What in-game consequences did they suffer, if any?

1. People who don't show up, then cry when they found you all played without them. Ya, we're not going to put off this scheduled game because of one person.
   — Peashout


2. I had a player who kept making dumb technical arguments to justify every little weird stunt he wanted to pull. Ran out of arrows and wanted to shoot rocks with his bows, kept arguing that he'd seen someone do it so it totally worked. Couldn't make camp in the muddy grimey floor of the cave so he wanted to sleep on the ceiling upside down with his boots of spiderclimbing. When we pointed out that the blood'd rush to his head, he argued that there wasn't a sourcebook that stated that elven biology was affected by gravity that way. Sooooo, a goblin ran around the corner and threw its poop at him, he exploded and we pointed out that there wasn't a sourcebook that stated goblin poop didn't double as volatile explosives when thrown at upside down sleeping elves.
   — CheshiresParadox


3. One of the people I gamed with in high school was the worst in my groups 20 years of existence. In one game he played the most annoying gnome you can imagine, and he had a charisma 18, so, as he put it 'you have to like me!'. No... not when you act like that people don't, no matter how many times you insist we like your character. That character got crushed by a spiked wheel he was messing with and we were all happy to see him go. He also was the worst kind of rules lawyer -- he would argue endlessly about minor points, but be wrong the entire time. He tried to insist the Escape Artist skill could be used to run away from battles, because it could make him escape artistically. I eventually gave up explaining it to him and had his character drown when he failed the die roll escaping from a flooding cave system. Only one time that I'm aware of did a GM actually target him in a totally screw you fashion, and I wasn't running that game. It was a game of Werewolf, and he decided to make the worst kind of munchkin character by trying to fast talk the GM into going with the character having multiple personalities, all of which was a different kind of werewolf so he could do anything he wanted. The GM finally got tired of arguing instead of starting the session, so he agreed to let him play his five characters in one rules violating super munchkin character. Two minute into the game a sniper shot him in the head with a silver bullet and killed him.
   — poesraven8628






4. I once rolled a character with stats so low the DM made me a carrot :(
   — Chalky_Cupcake


5. The worst I ever played with was a guy who cheated. He was a one-upping, me-first, min-maxing, rules-lawyering, murder-hobo... but that I can deal with as a DM. What I can't deal with is cheating. When I caught him and confronted him about it, I probably would've let him keep playing with the group if he just confessed and promised not to do it again, but he tried to blame-shift and obfuscate and all kinds of other things, so I asked him to leave and not come back. I also posted his information on some forums (which I admit, may have been a bridge too far) because I didn't want other people to have to play with him. As for in-game consequences... those are for in-game actions.
   — Woodforsheep


6. Still starting as a DM someone joined my game who was a massive anime fan. He joined with a human warlock called Kira. Now I knew nothing about Death Note at the time. To me it was just a human warlock with a name Kira. He played the warlock like an actual warlock carrying around his tome in which he would take notes and make lists of names. In character he said "these are people who I want to see dead". To me that was just a character quirk so I let it be. But then when we encountered a villain again whose name he had noted he got mad at me. "He's supposed to be dead, that's how the Death Note works." I was a bit confused and for a moment thought I had forgotten some obscure dnd rule. So I asked him to explain what his character could do. He told me it was a homebrew magical item. If he writes a name down, they die. Which I thought was overpowered and told him that. He got really angry. Said the whole point of dnd was to play the characters he wants. Eventually he relented that part of his character. But it kept going. He would sometimes refuse to roll for a certain check "I'm smart enough that I would just succeed". So I had a one on one conversation with him about what he wanted to play and what was fair to the other players and myself as the DM. He seemed understanding but the next game would fall back into his old habits. Annoying other players as well. I removed him from the table after that. His reaction was to take out a prop Death Note and dramatically write out my name. Still alive. Watched Death Note since. Good show. Now understand why he also dramatically ate his potato chips.
   — Sanderf90






7. He kept trying to rape female NPCs and female player characters in game. Saying that it was "in character" for him. He found a Scarab of Death later that session and after it burrowed into his heart I politely asked him to leave.
   — ya_boy_ducky


8. I ran a campaign set in the industrial revolution, but with a light steampunk twist. There were numerous things this one player complained about: * Why do I need to buy a train ticket? I'm just going to sneak onto the train! Wait, why am I being thrown off the train? * What do you mean I'm not allowed to build a peasant railgun? * What do you mean I can't call in an orbital strike? * Why does the Kings guard want me to put my bombs in a secure store while I meet the king? I won't do it! Why am I being taken to jail? * What do you mean I can't sneak out of a secure leprosy ward? I was only bluffing that I was sick! And many more
   — Bosunny_Delight


9. My husband was the DM. One of my friends was That Guy. I'll call him Guy for short here. Guy made ridiculously overpowered characters but also made each one Chaotic Unaligned. This meant when we met NPCs who gave us tasks, missions, advice, or even gifts he would try to rob them. It was annoying as fuck. It got to the point where every painting had to be directly painted onto the wall and every ungifted item was cursed because otherwise Guy would just rob everyone blind. We have another friend who has autism and a pretty obvious speech impediment. That Guy would often interrupt him while he was attempting to deliver dialogue in character and then smirk at the rest of the group. He'd boast about it afterwards but we'd ignore him. He thought it would be cute to hit on my character. I wasn't pleased or comfortable. Because Guy insisted on it I was told to roll resist. I failed. Husband was kind enough to say flatly "She is mildly aroused." And quickly move on. Guy tried to keep going but we all told him to knock it off. He wanted to be DM very badly. We let him once. Every NPC and enemy was overpowered and he took great delight in slaughtering us. Each round took *forever* because he had so many characters to get through and each time he got to a player one of Guy's enemies had a special trick to stop us doing a bunch of stuff. Me and another player got so bored we brought out books to read at the table. Rude, I know. But it really was unbearable. Guy's life wasn't very interesting outside of our games. He was an unemployed high school drop out. He didn't study, he didn't have any other hobbies except anime and video games, and he lived with his parents. This meant RPGs were pretty much Guy's only source of entertainment and the only thing giving him a sense of purpose. Our RPG group was bombarded with text messages 24/7 asking when we were due for our next session. He claimed it was his "duty" to remind us. There was a badass moment where he showed my husband a character he rolled which included a bunch of mods and stuff he found in obscure magazines and websites. My husband just looked at him and said "Congratulations. You just won Shadowrun. How was it?" Finally, we told him we needed a long break from him. We informed Guy we no longer wanted to play with someone like him. Guy wasn't happy but seemed to take it well. There was so much crap he did that I've really only just skimmed the surface. He really was hell to play with. It sucked so bad. Eventually Guy encountered his own That Guy and learned some humility. He still isn't exactly a joy to play with but he's *much* better than he used to be.
   — RisaUnwound






10. https://www.reddit.com/r/rpghorrorstories/comments/7233ia/why_i_wont_let_players_pass_notes_anymore/ heres the link - basically a man was caught masturbating at the table. Everyones a little weird but no one is that weird. Consequences, he's been ostracized from everyone that I and my group know. I have no idea if he's found another group. But even the stores he used to go to wont let him in. Also he went to court and while I don't know the specifics I do know he's bargained for a short stint in jail and mandatory counseling. Also he has a no contact restraining order against the woman whom was present. Oh you meant out of game consequences. Uhm, he was kicked out.
    — AwfulMonk