Glorious Tabletop Roleplaying Moment I'm into RPGs (of the Dungeons and Dragons sort). It's a great, cheap hobby and a good way to get a bunch of friends together on a Saturday for a few hours of laughs. The hobby, of course, is embarrassingly rife with fat guys and because I run games at stores or for random groups, I've had plenty of horrible encounters. I could write pages and pages but it would only be depressing. This weekend, however, I told a friend that I would run a game for a group of people he knew but were relative strangers to me. We would be trying a relatively new system, one that takes place during a modern zombie apocalypse. The gimmick is that it 'begins' while the people around the table are playing- the person running the game is horribly killed and the players get to see how long they would survive using only what's around.  The group turns out to be a good bunch of people but of course there is the token obese, barely-fitting-in-his-chair guy who brings nothing and begins drinking all the beer. As they begin to assign numbers to their skills, it becomes clear that this guy thinks he is the lord of killing zombies. Despite struggling to get in and out of a chair, despite wheezing incessantly, despite a clear inability to ration food, he makes a character of himself that wildly overpowered. What he didn't know is that anonymous votes are cast at the end of the character creation process. This voting has nothing to do with me- it involves the other players looking over the sheets and deciding if everyone is honest. To my deep, deep inner glee, the guy's friends panned his character, widdling it down to the dead weight he ought to be.  And he was not happy. He explained about his martial arts skills. He explained about his collection of swords. He explained about his deep knowledge of zombies.  'But can you run?' somebody asked.  He played the game, but he was a broken man and his character died a horrible death attempting to crawl through a window in order to reach his sword collection. So it goes.