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* {{Anticlimax}}: What normally happens within each entry of the Binder of Shame. Oftentimes, it's because Ab3 decided to eject himself from the session completely, and other times it's because the campaign or session of note had to be destroyed in the most simple, efficient way possible.
* ApocalypseHow: Usually the end result of the campaigns or sessions which Ab3 partakes in.
* ApocalypseHow: Usually the end result of the campaigns or sessions which Ab3 partakes in.
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* Angrish: Surprisingly, an averted trope. While it's clear that anger is a dominant emotion within the group, everyone is still linguistically comprehensible when they're in such a state.
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* Angrish: {{Angrish}}: Surprisingly, an averted trope. While it's clear that anger is a dominant emotion within the group, everyone is still linguistically comprehensible when they're in such a state.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Most of the session's player characters are either Chaotic Neutral done specifically be malicious to the GM, which would technically make them Chaotic Evil eventually, or straightforwardly Chaotic Evil simply because they commit heinous acts and have no regard for the law. El Disgusto especially refuses to play any other alignment, it would seem, as he himself is always contrary to Ab3 simply for the sake of being contrary.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Most of the session's player characters are either Chaotic Neutral done specifically be malicious to the GM, which would technically make them Chaotic Evil eventually, or straightforwardly Chaotic Evil simply because they commit heinous acts and have no regard for the law. El Disgusto especially refuses to play any other alignment, it would seem, as he himself is always contrary to Ab3 simply for the sake of being contrary.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Most of the session's player characters are either Chaotic Neutral done specifically be malicious to the GM, which would technically make them Chaotic Evil eventually, or straightforwardly Chaotic Evil simply because they commit heinous acts and have no regard for the law. El Disgusto especially refuses to play any other alignment, it would seem, as he himself is always contrary to Ab3 simply for the sake of being contrary.
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* AmbiguouslyGay or ArmoredClosetGay: Biff Bam; the one time he runs a game at his house he suggests that they deal with the heat by removing their shirts (and he's quite insistent on that); and he deals with players not liking his rulings by wrestling them to the ground; and he rules that failed SAN checks make the character act [[CampGay increasingly swishy]].
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* AmbiguouslyGay or / ArmoredClosetGay: Biff Bam; the one time he runs a game at his house he suggests that they deal with the heat by removing their shirts (and he's quite insistent on that); and he deals with players not liking his rulings by wrestling them to the ground; and he rules that failed SAN checks make the character act [[CampGay increasingly swishy]].
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* BigEater: Blobert Smith.Smith; in spite of it being hazardous for him to continue a largely gluttonous diet, he continues more or less due to wanting to be free to eat as he chooses.
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* MonochromeCasting: We don't get much information on what they look like (which is probably a blessing), but considering Psycho Dave's... err... proclivities, we'd probably hear something about it if any of them were something other than White.
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* MonochromeCasting: We don't get much information on what they look like (which is probably a blessing), but considering Psycho Dave's... err... Dave's proclivities, we'd probably hear something about it if any of them were something other than White.
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* {{Munchkin}}: Most of the players, but especially El Disgusto, who wants to play a {{Ninja}} in every damn game he's in. A ninja with a motorcycle. Cheating Bastard also counts, per his obvious nickname.
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* {{Munchkin}}: Most of the players, but especially {{Munchkin}}:
** ElDisgusto, who Disgusto wants to play a {{Ninja}} with a motorcycle in every damn game he's in. A ninja in, regardless of appropriateness for setting or theme. The type of Munchkin that he represents is "The Troll." His eccentricities and wanting to play a Ninja would ordinarily just be harmless and an extreme case of TheLoonie, but El Disgusto's inflated sense of self-worth have constantly put him at odds with a motorcycle. Weasly Crusher and Ab3. El Disgusto never thinks of himself as in the wrong, instead surmising Weasly as just an easy target, whilst Ab3 being rational just infuriates him. Whenever it's El Disgusto's turn to get comeuppance, he tries to RulesLawyer his way through the problem and, when he can't, says Hastur's name or whines about it.
** Cheating Bastardalso counts, per his has an obvious nickname.nickname; as a Munchkin in practice, he was a supreme mixture of Gamebuster and RulesLawyer. When he was exposed as a cheater, he pretty much was just not allowed to be in the group anymore since he refused to co-operate with the other player characters.
** Ab3 himself has had to Metagame his way in some of the more painfully brutal sessions. Of course, when such sessions involve ''Homebrew Hell,'' he doesn't seem like much of a Munchkin in comparison to Cheating Bastard or El Disgusto.
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** Cheating Bastard
** Ab3 himself has had to Metagame his way in some of the more painfully brutal sessions. Of course, when such sessions involve ''Homebrew Hell,'' he doesn't seem like much of a Munchkin in comparison to Cheating Bastard or El Disgusto.
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-->'''Ab3:''' “No.“No. In fact the god Boccob appears before you and says that for your crimes you must go to the Tomb of Shartok the Unattractive and retrieve the Xenon Codex. If not he will destroy you and the world utterly.”
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Most of Psycho Dave's sessions end in this from Ab3. Those that don't often have a hefty consequence of some sort, such as him being late for work.
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Blobert Smith indulges a charade of cerebral enlightenment, with Biff Bamm offering something similar. While Biff's verbosity and mannerisms bestow a neat discrepancy entertaining the possibility he's being self-aware of his DelusionsOfEloquence, Blobert does not offer anything equivalent. To act as a foil to Psycho Dave and the others, Mr. Smith seems to have overloaded his cranium with radical liberalism which would, at least, put him at odds with Collateral Darren and Psycho Dave. Else, Blobert and Ab3 seem like they would have engaged in camaraderie as [[OnlySaneMan diamonds in the rough]].
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Blobert Smith indulges a charade of cerebral enlightenment, with Biff Bamm offering something similar. While Biff's verbosity and mannerisms bestow a neat discrepancy entertaining the possibility he's being self-aware of his DelusionsOfEloquence, Blobert does not offer anything equivalent. To act as a foil to Psycho Dave and the others, Mr. Smith seems to have overloaded his cranium with radical liberalism which would, at least, put him at odds with Collateral Darren and Psycho Dave. Else, Blobert and Ab3 seem like they would have engaged in camaraderie as [[OnlySaneMan diamonds in the rough]].
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* OnlySaneMan: Ab3.
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* OnlySaneMan: Ab3.Ab3 is supposed to be the main person who is the only sane one. Weasly Crusher himself would have been this before Ab3 was introduced to the group, as evidenced by some of his comments in various episodes. Asenath also counts as zig-zagged variant of OnlySaneWoman, if we discounted the fact she often encouraged Deviant Boy; she tried to tell him about her previous relationship with El Disgusto but only got the chance during "Reservoir Torgs," seems to react appropriately to Blobert Smith saying the wrong name in bed when they were a couple, and brought cleaning supplies to one of the tabletop games El Disgusto was hosting.
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-->'''Me:''' “Anyway, I am not running a game where you run around like a bunch of kill happy lunatics.”
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-->'''Me:''' “No. In fact the god Boccob appears before you and says that for your crimes you must go to the Tomb of Shartok the Unattractive and retrieve the Xenon Codex. If not he will destroy you and the world utterly.”
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-->'''Me:''' “For the last time yes. And he transports you all into the dungeon.”
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-->'''Me:''' “Anyway, I am not running a game where you run around like a bunch of kill happy lunatics.”
-->'''Blobert Smith:''' “In our defense it is what we do best.”
-->'''Me:''' “No. In fact the god Boccob appears before you and says that for your crimes you must go to the Tomb of Shartok the Unattractive and retrieve the Xenon Codex. If not he will destroy you and the world utterly.”
-->'''El Disgusto:''' “What’s in it for us?”
-->'''Deviant Boy:''' “Now let me get this straight, we’ve got the god Boccob ticked off at us.”
-->'''Me:''' “Yes.”
-->'''Deviant Boy:''' “That’s Boccob the Uncaring.”
-->'''Me:''' “For the last time yes. And he transports you all into the dungeon.”
-->'''El Disgusto:''' “Fine we leave.”
-->'''Me:''' “And he teleports you right back.”
-->'''Deviant Boy:''' “Again this is Boccob the Uncaring doing this.”
-->'''Me:''' “Must be having an off day I guess.”
-->'''Me:''' “Anyway, I am not running a game where you run around like a bunch of kill happy lunatics.”
-->'''Blobert Smith:''' “In our defense it is what we do best.”
-->'''Me:''' “No. In fact the god Boccob appears before you and says that for your crimes you must go to the Tomb of Shartok the Unattractive and retrieve the Xenon Codex. If not he will destroy you and the world utterly.”
-->'''El Disgusto:''' “What’s in it for us?”
-->'''Deviant Boy:''' “Now let me get this straight, we’ve got the god Boccob ticked off at us.”
-->'''Me:''' “Yes.”
-->'''Deviant Boy:''' “That’s Boccob the Uncaring.”
-->'''Me:''' “For the last time yes. And he transports you all into the dungeon.”
-->'''El Disgusto:''' “Fine we leave.”
-->'''Me:''' “And he teleports you right back.”
-->'''Deviant Boy:''' “Again this is Boccob the Uncaring doing this.”
-->'''Me:''' “Must be having an off day I guess.”
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* ChaoticStupid: The players take Chaotic Neutral characters as a free pass to "run around like a bunch of kill-happy lunatics".
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--> '''El Disgusto:''' “We’re ChaoticNeutral characters as Neutral, that’s practically a get out of plot developments free pass to "run around like a bunch of kill-happy lunatics".card.”
--> '''El Disgusto:''' “We’re Chaotic
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Blobert Smith indulges a charade of cerebral enlightenment, with Biff Bamm offering something similar. While Biff's eloquence bestows a neat discrepancy entertaining the possibility he's being self-aware of his DelusionsOfEloquence, Blobert does not offer anything equivalent. To act as a foil to Psycho Dave and the others, Mr. Smith seems to have overloaded his cranium with radical liberalism which would, at least, put him at odds with Collateral Darren and Psycho Dave. Else, Blobert and Ab3 seem like they would have engaged in camaraderie as [[OnlySaneMan diamonds in the rough]].
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Blobert Smith indulges a charade of cerebral enlightenment, with Biff Bamm offering something similar. While Biff's eloquence bestows verbosity and mannerisms bestow a neat discrepancy entertaining the possibility he's being self-aware of his DelusionsOfEloquence, Blobert does not offer anything equivalent. To act as a foil to Psycho Dave and the others, Mr. Smith seems to have overloaded his cranium with radical liberalism which would, at least, put him at odds with Collateral Darren and Psycho Dave. Else, Blobert and Ab3 seem like they would have engaged in camaraderie as [[OnlySaneMan diamonds in the rough]].
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* BerserkButton: The author, when he [=GMs=], doesn't care for Monty Python quotes.
** El Disgusto has several, but most notably anything that can be linked to [[GroinAttack his injury]]. "Half-cocked," anyone?
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* BerserkButton: The author, when he [=GMs=], doesn't care for Monty Python quotes.
**quotes, and now twitches violently every time someone mentions the word "ninja". El Disgusto has several, several too, but most notably anything that can be linked to [[GroinAttack his injury]]. "Half-cocked," anyone?
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**Arguably the Ab3 himself, with a hint of unreliable narrator, since it's clear his mindset wasn't [[NotSoDifferent too different]] before the end and he seems similarly willing to look down Asenath for her appearance.
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** Combined with RocksFallEveryoneDies in "The Dammed Treasure of Lord [=DeGreasey=]", the first installment of The Second Edition, when Psycho Dave's character, a thief with 18/00 Strength, snaps the ribbed staff that used to be Weasley's character in half in order to destroy the tower and put a decisive end to Deviant Boy's utterly creepy campaign.
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** Combined with RocksFallEveryoneDies in In "The Dammed Treasure of Lord [=DeGreasey=]", the first installment of The Second Edition, when Psycho Dave's character, a [[CthulhuMythos Deep One]] thief with 18/00 Strength, snaps the ribbed staff that used to be Weasley's character in half in order to destroy the tower and put a decisive end to Deviant Boy's utterly creepy campaign.
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* OffTheRails: "The God Trip." "
** Combined with RocksFallEveryoneDies in "The Dammed Treasure of Lord [=DeGreasey=]", the first installment of The Second Edition, when Psycho Dave's character, a thief with 18/00 Strength, snaps the ribbed staff that used to be Weasley's character in half in order to destroy the tower and put a decisive end to Deviant Boy's utterly creepy campaign.
** Combined with RocksFallEveryoneDies in "The Dammed Treasure of Lord [=DeGreasey=]", the first installment of The Second Edition, when Psycho Dave's character, a thief with 18/00 Strength, snaps the ribbed staff that used to be Weasley's character in half in order to destroy the tower and put a decisive end to Deviant Boy's utterly creepy campaign.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: Psycho Dave turns ''[[StarWars Yoda]]'' into one of these in "Trapped in Jedi Academy."
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* DrillSergeantNasty: Psycho Dave turns ''[[StarWars ''[[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]]'' into one of these in "Trapped in Jedi Academy."
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-->"My character deals with his post-traumatic stress disorder by putting porridge up his nose on moonlit nights."
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-->"[[DontAsk Don't! Just don't.]]"
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-->"I trip and fall on my sword-"
-->"Roll for it."
-->"I fall on my sword again and again UNTIL THE HURTING STOPS!"
-->"I trip and fall on my sword-"
-->"Roll for it."
-->"I fall on my sword again and again UNTIL THE HURTING STOPS!"
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''And that was how our party ended up being a dwarven fighter with a piece of broccoli for a head, a chick in a chainmail bikini, two wizards, the luckiest fighter in the world and a ninja brandishing the dreaded halfling on a stick.''
[[http://albruno3.blogspot.com/p/the-binder-of-shame-rpg-rants-and-other.html Al Bruno III]]'s series of [[LifeEmbellished allegedly-autobiographical]] stories about the TabletopGames group he endured throughout his college years. Al himself, known as Ab3 on RPG.Net, is led to the group by his friend Weasley Crusher and rapidly finds himself forced into the role of the OnlySaneMan of the group. Arguments, dysfunction, and {{Total Party Kill}}s abound as they systematically ruin every game they can find, from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' to TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu to {{Rifts}}.
The title of the series comes from the philosophy of the KillerGameMaster Psycho Dave: "Every D&D game has many binders but each D&D game must have a Binder of Shame and a Binder of Glory. The player characters that die heroic deaths are saved forever in the page protectors of the Binder of Glory. The characters that suffer, humiliating, soul-crushing deaths go into the Binder of Shame. It's a sign of quality [=GMing=] to have a Binder of Shame three times the size of your Binder of Glory."
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!!This provides examples of:
* AmbiguouslyGay or ArmoredClosetGay: Biff Bam; the one time he runs a game at his house he suggests that they deal with the heat by removing their shirts (and he's quite insistent on that); and he deals with players not liking his rulings by wrestling them to the ground; and he rules that failed SAN checks make the character act [[CampGay increasingly swishy]].
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Johnny Tangent/Short Attention Span Larry (probably different nicknames for the same person).
* AwesomeMcCoolname: El Disgusto's character "Lord Baron Whoopass Von Badass".
* BerserkButton: The author, when he [=GMs=], doesn't care for Monty Python quotes.
** El Disgusto has several, but most notably anything that can be linked to [[GroinAttack his injury]]. "Half-cocked," anyone?
* BigEater: Blobert Smith.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Cheating Bastard compares stealing milk crates to "tearing the tags off of mattresses, trading bootleg videotapes and bestiality."
* ButtMonkey: Weasley Crusher, and possibly Ab3 himself. El Disgusto's dog Lamont gets this treatment as well.
* CanonDefilement: In-universe, any and every game based on an established setting.
* ChaoticStupid: The players take Chaotic Neutral characters as a free pass to "run around like a bunch of kill-happy lunatics".
* CloudCuckooLander: Most of them have their moments, but Johnny Tangent is probably the winner.
-->'''Ab3:''' NightRanger was a bitchin' band.\\
'''Johnny:''' Really? I hate them, I just wear the T-shirt to remind me of my character class.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Collateral Darren, who believes resumes are useless except to make the paper manufacturers more money.
** Distressingly, ''no one can actually think of any reason why his logic is wrong''.
* DelusionsOfEloquence: Biff Bam is an [=exCELLerant=] example of this [=trOUPe=].
* DirtyCoward: Ol' Yellowbelly.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Psycho Dave turns ''[[StarWars Yoda]]'' into one of these in "Trapped in Jedi Academy."
** "Yoda force chokes you until you black out."
* DudeNotFunny: [[InUniverse In-universe]], [=Ab3=] gets up and walks out once he realizes that Psycho Dave expects the group to help Hitler.
* DysfunctionJunction: The entire damned group with the exception of [=Ab3=]
** At one point it mentions that Ab3 went into deep denial and actually convinced himself that this was just what a roleplaying group looked like, that this is how friends treated one another. The epilogue and the extra chapter, both happening several years later, reveals that he's come to his senses and has found a group of of supportive, likeable people to play with instead.
* EmbarrassingSlide: Deviant Boy and Asenath's photos from a gaming convention include some of these. Though Ab3 seems to be the only one who's actually embarrassed by them.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Psycho Dave's games.
** El Disgusto's house, too. It's littered with bottles of...post-consumer Mountain Dew. And one day the group comes in and notes that the walls are a completely different color, which El Disgusto mentions is because his parents had them cleaned; apparently the previous color was the result of ''toxic mold''.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: One player is known as "Cheating Bastard". He is.
* ExtremeDoormat: Weasley Crusher is bullied by El Disgusto into buying pizza with the money he needed for insulin.
* FunetikAksent: Biff Bam's "habit of randomly mispronouncing things". The mispronunciations are capitalised so they're easy to notice.
* GirlfriendInCanada: El Disgusto. [[spoiler:It turns out she does exist—in fact, she's [[ReallyGetsAround Asenath]].]]
* GodModeSue: In-universe (or in-game, rather) Biff Bam's favourite NPC, "Dick Marvil".
** El Disgusto maintains that his ninja survives attacks because it hides in the shadows. Every. Single. Time. ("There are shadows in the afternoon!")
* GrievousHarmWithABody: The Amazing Boozehound's wizard character used a cat on a string as a weapon, and El Disgusto's ninja used Weasley's character.
* GroinAttack: El Disgusto apparently lost the tip of his penis when he frightened the dog into biting him.
* HelicopterBlender: In "Reservoir Torgs," everyone has derailed the campaign and is on the run from the law. El Disgusto's ninja finds his path blocked by a police helicopter and attempts to jump his motorcycle over it using a crashed police car as a ramp.
-->"But my character's a ninja!
-->"Correction. Your character was a ninja. Now he's confetti, [[LudicrousGibs wet red confetti]].
* IAmBigBoned: Biff Bam was kicked out of the army because he was "a little too manly" and they were "[[DelusionsOfEloquence intimidimated]]" by him. He's not fat, it's untoned muscle, and he's as strong as Olympic weightlifters...honest!
* ICallItVera: The "Stick of Pain". WordOfGod is that the Stick of Pain was a wooden yardstick.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Psycho Dave couldn't deny being "crazier than a crapfight in a monkey house" but objected to being called a "lousy Dungeon Master".
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: El Disgusto's philosophy.
* IntoxicationEnsues: "Once More With Filking."
* ItTastesLikeFeet: El Disgusto apparently smells "like clowns crying."
* JarPotty: The end of "A Night at the Inn, a Day at the Racists" reveals that El Disgusto has stashed a whole collection of bottles of Mountain Dew under the stairs, except it's not Mountain Dew in the bottles -- as he explains, he doesn't like to go upstairs to the bathroom when he's watching TV, so he just goes in the bottles with the intention of throwing them away later. He hasn't thrown away a single one -- some of them are crusted with age and other substances, which is exactly as disgusting as it sounds. This revelation, which capped off a truly nasty bit of gaming, was the "rock bottom" moment for Ab3.
* {{Jerkass}}: El Disgusto and Psycho Dave mostly, but everyone in the last entry (even Blobert).
* KickTheDog: Literally. El Disgusto is neglectful of and abusive toward his dog Lamont.
* KillerGameMaster: Mostly Psycho Dave, but everyone gets their turn.
* LameComeback
-->'''Blobert Smith:''' "Your xenophobic gibes grow wearisome."
-->'''Psycho Dave:''' "And your ass smells like cheese, what’s your point?"
* LargeHam: Blobert Smith, in more ways than one.
* LifeEmbellished
* MonochromeCasting: We don't get much information on what they look like (which is probably a blessing), but considering Psycho Dave's... err... proclivities, we'd probably hear something about it if any of them were something other than White.
* {{Munchkin}}: Most of the players, but especially El Disgusto, who wants to play a {{Ninja}} in every damn game he's in. A ninja with a motorcycle. Cheating Bastard also counts, per his obvious nickname.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: See above. Most of the RP characters have at least a dash of this - see Deviant Boy and Weasley's incestuous lesbian stripper naval officers with matching toe-rings.
* NoodleImplements: "Weasly had recently been expelled from college due to a freak accident involving a moped with faulty brakes, a Take Back The Night rally and an inflatable bath pillow."
* NoodleIncident: "I don't owe you anything, I told you not to eat that damn salad in my car."
* OffTheRails: "The God Trip."
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: To protect the author.
* OnlySaneMan: Ab3.
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: Cheating Bastard's system from the chapter ''Monty Python Mishaps in the Deepest Pit of Homebrew Hell'', which involves inverse drag coefficients, slide rules, and algebraic calculators. It takes ''two hours'' for the group to finish one round of combat.
* PetTheDog / FridgeHorror: [[ThoseWackyNazis Psycho Dave]] mentions that "even with the sniveling and whining" Ab3 has been his best player.
* PornStache: Deviant Boy has an "abnormally thick moustache".
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Psycho Dave (an actual Neo-Nazi), full stop. Especially when he's playing [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] as blatant stereotypes. Most of the other boys have their moments as well. [[spoiler:This is especially obvious in "The Last Straw Trilogy Part Three: Once More With Filking," where they go after the author's future wife for being chubby:]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Blobert Smith:''' "[[{{Hypocrite}} You must admit she is a girl of size]]."]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Ab3:''' "And you’re not a Goth of size?"]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Blobert Smith:''' "[[DoubleStandard My girth is a sign of epicurean experience and my wealth. Women see me as a man of experience and deep thought. When a girl is large, however, that is a sign of weak character, it warns of slothfulness and a lack of impulse control]]."]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Collateral Darren:''' "Women always put on weight when they’re in a relationship; this girl already has weight to spare. [[JerkAss Stick around too long and they’ll be taking off the side of her house to load her into a flatbed truck to take her to the hospital]]."]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Weasly Crusher:''' "Look I don’t mean to be mean but you know how it is. [[StandardHeroReward The hotness of the girl you end up with is a symbol of how well you’ve succeeded in life]]. If you end up with a model it means you’ve got it going on, if you end up with a plain Jane it means you’re middle management. A {{fat girl}}, Ab3, that’s trailer park, man."]]
* {{Pun}}: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Schindler's Lich.]]
* PunnyName: [[Literature/HarryPotter Weasley]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Crusher]], [[Music/TheCure Blobert Smith]], and Collateral Darren (named after his TabletopGame/{{Champions}} character Collateral Damage).
* ReallyGetsAround: By the final installment, Asenath has slept with every member of the group except Ab3 at least once.
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Most notably, "The Day I Killed The Entire Party Before The First Combat Encounter".
* {{Rule 34}}: Deviant Boy's "Unified Porn Theory" involves attempts to find a single pornographic image which will appeal to everyone in the world. His first attempt:
-->"It's a green-skinned large-breasted elf chick dressed like a [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule Catholic schoolgirl]] ... and she's peeing on Mayor [=McCheese=]!"\\
"Yeah, but it's missing something, isn't it? Maybe if it was two elf chicks ..."
* TheScottishTrope: Invoked when El Disgusto's ninja summons Hastur when Cheating Bastard tries to kill him.
* StealthPun: Weasley claims that if he met his D&D characters he would take them to Denny's [[spoiler:"to apologise for the terrible ''rolls'' I make"]].
* {{Stripperific}}: Asenath's outfit is described as "part schoolgirl outfit, part leatherwear".
* ThoseWackyNazis: Psycho Dave.
* TooDumbToLive: "So you want to take a shortcut through the Desert of Certain Doom?"
* TotalPartyKill: Their record is three in one night - Ab3 left when Psycho Dave suggested they try for a fourth time.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Ab3 puts up with the group because he thinks the bickering is their way of showing friendship. [[spoiler:He comes to his senses and kicks them out when they start badmouthing his new girlfriend. The fact that they allegedly slipped him acid that same day probably didn't help]].
** Although he may have been in denial about that; one early story mentions that, in spite of having sworn off gaming at the end of the last story, he came back because his only other option was another group of friends who liked to go to crappy strip clubs, and gaming with these freaks was the cheaper of two evils.
* AWizardDidIt
-->'''Psycho Dave, regarding the broccoli-head incident:''' "It's magic, I don’t have to explain it."
* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: In regard to parts of Blobert's insane character backstories, among other things.
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[[http://albruno3.blogspot.com/p/the-binder-of-shame-rpg-rants-and-other.html Al Bruno III]]'s series of [[LifeEmbellished allegedly-autobiographical]] stories about the TabletopGames group he endured throughout his college years. Al himself, known as Ab3 on RPG.Net, is led to the group by his friend Weasley Crusher and rapidly finds himself forced into the role of the OnlySaneMan of the group. Arguments, dysfunction, and {{Total Party Kill}}s abound as they systematically ruin every game they can find, from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' to TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu to {{Rifts}}.
The title of the series comes from the philosophy of the KillerGameMaster Psycho Dave: "Every D&D game has many binders but each D&D game must have a Binder of Shame and a Binder of Glory. The player characters that die heroic deaths are saved forever in the page protectors of the Binder of Glory. The characters that suffer, humiliating, soul-crushing deaths go into the Binder of Shame. It's a sign of quality [=GMing=] to have a Binder of Shame three times the size of your Binder of Glory."
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!!This provides examples of:
* AmbiguouslyGay or ArmoredClosetGay: Biff Bam; the one time he runs a game at his house he suggests that they deal with the heat by removing their shirts (and he's quite insistent on that); and he deals with players not liking his rulings by wrestling them to the ground; and he rules that failed SAN checks make the character act [[CampGay increasingly swishy]].
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Johnny Tangent/Short Attention Span Larry (probably different nicknames for the same person).
* AwesomeMcCoolname: El Disgusto's character "Lord Baron Whoopass Von Badass".
* BerserkButton: The author, when he [=GMs=], doesn't care for Monty Python quotes.
** El Disgusto has several, but most notably anything that can be linked to [[GroinAttack his injury]]. "Half-cocked," anyone?
* BigEater: Blobert Smith.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Cheating Bastard compares stealing milk crates to "tearing the tags off of mattresses, trading bootleg videotapes and bestiality."
* ButtMonkey: Weasley Crusher, and possibly Ab3 himself. El Disgusto's dog Lamont gets this treatment as well.
* CanonDefilement: In-universe, any and every game based on an established setting.
* ChaoticStupid: The players take Chaotic Neutral characters as a free pass to "run around like a bunch of kill-happy lunatics".
* CloudCuckooLander: Most of them have their moments, but Johnny Tangent is probably the winner.
-->'''Ab3:''' NightRanger was a bitchin' band.\\
'''Johnny:''' Really? I hate them, I just wear the T-shirt to remind me of my character class.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Collateral Darren, who believes resumes are useless except to make the paper manufacturers more money.
** Distressingly, ''no one can actually think of any reason why his logic is wrong''.
* DelusionsOfEloquence: Biff Bam is an [=exCELLerant=] example of this [=trOUPe=].
* DirtyCoward: Ol' Yellowbelly.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Psycho Dave turns ''[[StarWars Yoda]]'' into one of these in "Trapped in Jedi Academy."
** "Yoda force chokes you until you black out."
* DudeNotFunny: [[InUniverse In-universe]], [=Ab3=] gets up and walks out once he realizes that Psycho Dave expects the group to help Hitler.
* DysfunctionJunction: The entire damned group with the exception of [=Ab3=]
** At one point it mentions that Ab3 went into deep denial and actually convinced himself that this was just what a roleplaying group looked like, that this is how friends treated one another. The epilogue and the extra chapter, both happening several years later, reveals that he's come to his senses and has found a group of of supportive, likeable people to play with instead.
* EmbarrassingSlide: Deviant Boy and Asenath's photos from a gaming convention include some of these. Though Ab3 seems to be the only one who's actually embarrassed by them.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Psycho Dave's games.
** El Disgusto's house, too. It's littered with bottles of...post-consumer Mountain Dew. And one day the group comes in and notes that the walls are a completely different color, which El Disgusto mentions is because his parents had them cleaned; apparently the previous color was the result of ''toxic mold''.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: One player is known as "Cheating Bastard". He is.
* ExtremeDoormat: Weasley Crusher is bullied by El Disgusto into buying pizza with the money he needed for insulin.
* FunetikAksent: Biff Bam's "habit of randomly mispronouncing things". The mispronunciations are capitalised so they're easy to notice.
* GirlfriendInCanada: El Disgusto. [[spoiler:It turns out she does exist—in fact, she's [[ReallyGetsAround Asenath]].]]
* GodModeSue: In-universe (or in-game, rather) Biff Bam's favourite NPC, "Dick Marvil".
** El Disgusto maintains that his ninja survives attacks because it hides in the shadows. Every. Single. Time. ("There are shadows in the afternoon!")
* GrievousHarmWithABody: The Amazing Boozehound's wizard character used a cat on a string as a weapon, and El Disgusto's ninja used Weasley's character.
* GroinAttack: El Disgusto apparently lost the tip of his penis when he frightened the dog into biting him.
* HelicopterBlender: In "Reservoir Torgs," everyone has derailed the campaign and is on the run from the law. El Disgusto's ninja finds his path blocked by a police helicopter and attempts to jump his motorcycle over it using a crashed police car as a ramp.
-->"But my character's a ninja!
-->"Correction. Your character was a ninja. Now he's confetti, [[LudicrousGibs wet red confetti]].
* IAmBigBoned: Biff Bam was kicked out of the army because he was "a little too manly" and they were "[[DelusionsOfEloquence intimidimated]]" by him. He's not fat, it's untoned muscle, and he's as strong as Olympic weightlifters...honest!
* ICallItVera: The "Stick of Pain". WordOfGod is that the Stick of Pain was a wooden yardstick.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Psycho Dave couldn't deny being "crazier than a crapfight in a monkey house" but objected to being called a "lousy Dungeon Master".
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: El Disgusto's philosophy.
* IntoxicationEnsues: "Once More With Filking."
* ItTastesLikeFeet: El Disgusto apparently smells "like clowns crying."
* JarPotty: The end of "A Night at the Inn, a Day at the Racists" reveals that El Disgusto has stashed a whole collection of bottles of Mountain Dew under the stairs, except it's not Mountain Dew in the bottles -- as he explains, he doesn't like to go upstairs to the bathroom when he's watching TV, so he just goes in the bottles with the intention of throwing them away later. He hasn't thrown away a single one -- some of them are crusted with age and other substances, which is exactly as disgusting as it sounds. This revelation, which capped off a truly nasty bit of gaming, was the "rock bottom" moment for Ab3.
* {{Jerkass}}: El Disgusto and Psycho Dave mostly, but everyone in the last entry (even Blobert).
* KickTheDog: Literally. El Disgusto is neglectful of and abusive toward his dog Lamont.
* KillerGameMaster: Mostly Psycho Dave, but everyone gets their turn.
* LameComeback
-->'''Blobert Smith:''' "Your xenophobic gibes grow wearisome."
-->'''Psycho Dave:''' "And your ass smells like cheese, what’s your point?"
* LargeHam: Blobert Smith, in more ways than one.
* LifeEmbellished
* MonochromeCasting: We don't get much information on what they look like (which is probably a blessing), but considering Psycho Dave's... err... proclivities, we'd probably hear something about it if any of them were something other than White.
* {{Munchkin}}: Most of the players, but especially El Disgusto, who wants to play a {{Ninja}} in every damn game he's in. A ninja with a motorcycle. Cheating Bastard also counts, per his obvious nickname.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: See above. Most of the RP characters have at least a dash of this - see Deviant Boy and Weasley's incestuous lesbian stripper naval officers with matching toe-rings.
* NoodleImplements: "Weasly had recently been expelled from college due to a freak accident involving a moped with faulty brakes, a Take Back The Night rally and an inflatable bath pillow."
* NoodleIncident: "I don't owe you anything, I told you not to eat that damn salad in my car."
* OffTheRails: "The God Trip."
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: To protect the author.
* OnlySaneMan: Ab3.
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: Cheating Bastard's system from the chapter ''Monty Python Mishaps in the Deepest Pit of Homebrew Hell'', which involves inverse drag coefficients, slide rules, and algebraic calculators. It takes ''two hours'' for the group to finish one round of combat.
* PetTheDog / FridgeHorror: [[ThoseWackyNazis Psycho Dave]] mentions that "even with the sniveling and whining" Ab3 has been his best player.
* PornStache: Deviant Boy has an "abnormally thick moustache".
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Psycho Dave (an actual Neo-Nazi), full stop. Especially when he's playing [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] as blatant stereotypes. Most of the other boys have their moments as well. [[spoiler:This is especially obvious in "The Last Straw Trilogy Part Three: Once More With Filking," where they go after the author's future wife for being chubby:]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Blobert Smith:''' "[[{{Hypocrite}} You must admit she is a girl of size]]."]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Ab3:''' "And you’re not a Goth of size?"]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Blobert Smith:''' "[[DoubleStandard My girth is a sign of epicurean experience and my wealth. Women see me as a man of experience and deep thought. When a girl is large, however, that is a sign of weak character, it warns of slothfulness and a lack of impulse control]]."]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Collateral Darren:''' "Women always put on weight when they’re in a relationship; this girl already has weight to spare. [[JerkAss Stick around too long and they’ll be taking off the side of her house to load her into a flatbed truck to take her to the hospital]]."]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Weasly Crusher:''' "Look I don’t mean to be mean but you know how it is. [[StandardHeroReward The hotness of the girl you end up with is a symbol of how well you’ve succeeded in life]]. If you end up with a model it means you’ve got it going on, if you end up with a plain Jane it means you’re middle management. A {{fat girl}}, Ab3, that’s trailer park, man."]]
* {{Pun}}: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Schindler's Lich.]]
* PunnyName: [[Literature/HarryPotter Weasley]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Crusher]], [[Music/TheCure Blobert Smith]], and Collateral Darren (named after his TabletopGame/{{Champions}} character Collateral Damage).
* ReallyGetsAround: By the final installment, Asenath has slept with every member of the group except Ab3 at least once.
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Most notably, "The Day I Killed The Entire Party Before The First Combat Encounter".
* {{Rule 34}}: Deviant Boy's "Unified Porn Theory" involves attempts to find a single pornographic image which will appeal to everyone in the world. His first attempt:
-->"It's a green-skinned large-breasted elf chick dressed like a [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule Catholic schoolgirl]] ... and she's peeing on Mayor [=McCheese=]!"\\
"Yeah, but it's missing something, isn't it? Maybe if it was two elf chicks ..."
* TheScottishTrope: Invoked when El Disgusto's ninja summons Hastur when Cheating Bastard tries to kill him.
* StealthPun: Weasley claims that if he met his D&D characters he would take them to Denny's [[spoiler:"to apologise for the terrible ''rolls'' I make"]].
* {{Stripperific}}: Asenath's outfit is described as "part schoolgirl outfit, part leatherwear".
* ThoseWackyNazis: Psycho Dave.
* TooDumbToLive: "So you want to take a shortcut through the Desert of Certain Doom?"
* TotalPartyKill: Their record is three in one night - Ab3 left when Psycho Dave suggested they try for a fourth time.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Ab3 puts up with the group because he thinks the bickering is their way of showing friendship. [[spoiler:He comes to his senses and kicks them out when they start badmouthing his new girlfriend. The fact that they allegedly slipped him acid that same day probably didn't help]].
** Although he may have been in denial about that; one early story mentions that, in spite of having sworn off gaming at the end of the last story, he came back because his only other option was another group of friends who liked to go to crappy strip clubs, and gaming with these freaks was the cheaper of two evils.
* AWizardDidIt
-->'''Psycho Dave, regarding the broccoli-head incident:''' "It's magic, I don’t have to explain it."
* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: In regard to parts of Blobert's insane character backstories, among other things.
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