Worst experience:
Nothing super dramatic....but the DM was insanely "on rails" in his whole campaign. It was a superhero RPG tabletop game and he basically ran us through a campaign based on his original comic pitch. In theory that's fine but he inserted his main character into the story and frankly we started to feel like support crew for an NPC, and any attempts to sort of break out of his structure were met with the hand of god putting us back in our place. It was frustrating and we all eventually walked away.
Best experience:
Basically the exact opposite of the above. Lost touch with the DM for personal reasons but good god he could run a campaign and in general just wanted to make sure everyone had the best and most entertaining time. His prompt to us was "Make whatever you want, and make them broken as hell". We had in our crew: a timelord, an ewok sith lord, a saiyan, a cyberpunk gnome with ironman tech, an amazon with final fantasy materia and weapons, and the equivalent of what dexter morgan would be if he had a yellow lantern ring. We had guest players but that was the core crew and oh dear lord we ran roughshot over the multiverse. Seriously it was like a power fantasy wish fullfillment TV show and the DM was more then comfortable with us just flying off into the most absurd places and wreaking havoc for our own amusement.....and by god he could improv and roll with it.
On one occasion we traveled to the marvel zombie universe and he set the scene by saying "A horde of zombies stands before with light cast from the full moon beaming down on them" at which point our saiyan player raised his hand and said "Uhhh.....Saiyan here.....full moons are kinda a big deal" and suddenly the DM lit up like a lightbulb and was like "OH FUCK....I didn't even......YES. You see the full moon and a primal instinct begins to take over. ROLL FOR AWARENESS TO SEE IF YOU GO INTO A BLIND MINDLESS UNCONTROLLABLE DESTRUCTIVE RAGE!!!!!" He rolled a nat 20 and spent the rest of the night as a 100 foot giant ape who was even more absurdly overpowered then he already was and we went and blew up galactus.
Worst experience: Nothing super dramatic....but the DM was insanely "on rails" in his whole campaign. It was a superhero RPG tabletop game and he basically ran us through a campaign based on his original comic pitch. In theory that's fine but he inserted his main character into the story and frankly we started to feel like support crew for an NPC, and any attempts to sort of break out of his structure were met with the hand of god putting us back in our place. It was frustrating and we all eventually walked away.
Best experience: Basically the exact opposite of the above. Lost touch with the DM for personal reasons but good god he could run a campaign and in general just wanted to make sure everyone had the best and most entertaining time. His prompt to us was "Make whatever you want, and make them broken as hell". We had in our crew: a timelord, an ewok sith lord, a saiyan, a cyberpunk gnome with ironman tech, an amazon with final fantasy materia and weapons, and the equivalent of what dexter morgan would be if he had a yellow lantern ring. We had guest players but that was the core crew and oh dear lord we ran roughshot over the multiverse. Seriously it was like a power fantasy wish fullfillment TV show and the DM was more then comfortable with us just flying off into the most absurd places and wreaking havoc for our own amusement.....and by god he could improv and roll with it.
On one occasion we traveled to the marvel zombie universe and he set the scene by saying "A horde of zombies stands before with light cast from the full moon beaming down on them" at which point our saiyan player raised his hand and said "Uhhh.....Saiyan here.....full moons are kinda a big deal" and suddenly the DM lit up like a lightbulb and was like "OH FUCK....I didn't even......YES. You see the full moon and a primal instinct begins to take over. ROLL FOR AWARENESS TO SEE IF YOU GO INTO A BLIND MINDLESS UNCONTROLLABLE DESTRUCTIVE RAGE!!!!!" He rolled a nat 20 and spent the rest of the night as a 100 foot giant ape who was even more absurdly overpowered then he already was and we went and blew up galactus.
Good times.