For me it's a toss up between:



and

nope, I can't think of much worse than those two.
Unless it's -It's pitch black and there is a Grue in the room with you.

Those two are awesome.

I don't like things like, "If you try that, it'll work."  I don't want to know that until I try.

Sure it will work.. but what else will it do?

"I can't run this game any more."

In reply to bigbadron (msg # 5):

yeah that one is bad - but better than the GM just vanishing.

Die roll, smiles, and does nothing else. Freaked me out every time when I was younger.

"So what exactly do you wear under your armor?"

with no warning or preamble
Roll a Saving Throw.

"Sure, you can do that!" with a too-happy grin that looks far too excited for me to do said thing.

1. Anything is better than silence and disappearance.

2. "Don't bother me any more." But it turns out that that was a good thing, saving me much irritation.

"Looks Clear" and "Hey guys, what's tougher than a Tarrasque?"

The phrase "Because I said so!"

Specifically in a situation where they don't want you to do something, but can't or won't justify saying 'No' due to rules or story necessity.

"You're playing your character wrong."

Which a GM actually said to me once because I was running a pacifist cleric and wouldn't kill undead that were trapped in 20 foot pits with no way out, even though my chosen god had no problems with the undead and I'd told him I was going full pacifist at the start of the game. I pretty much quit at the end of that session.

"You suffer X because you didn't specify that you were doing Y."

Where X is a trap, poison, attack, or whatever, and Y is something anyone with two brain cells to rub together would be doing in the situation. Examples include "You get hit by a fireball because, after the last two booby-trapped chests, you still opened this one from the front because you only said 'carefully' and not 'from behind'," and "You are surrounded by an angry mob in the middle of the night because you didn't say you stopped looking into windows after the first ten people started following you around and before I rolled the second die."

Yup. Not a fan.

That one just crawls all over me the absolutely wrong way.

When he doesn't say anything, just ducks behind his screen and rolls dice and you don't know why.

Actually, I found out years later he was just doing it to make us nervous.

"Are you REALLY sure you want to do that?  Okay..."

In my experience, those words are usually followed shortly by the words, "Here...start making another character..."

"You remember that blond barmaid back a couple months back in that village? you think you see her, coming this way across the square. She is wrapped up in a short cape in spite of the sun. She has five guys with her, they are All BIG, and Blond."
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"Oh-kay!" and he just reaches up to the miniatures shelf and starts putting figures on the board. Big, powerful-looking figures. Lots.

"Which of you is walking farthest to the rear of the group?"

"Where are your spellbooks?"

"Your character is standing where again?"

"Um, how much HP did you have left?"

"Roll a Will save!"

Anytime the GM winces after rolling dice, I get a knot in my stomach.

"I don't have enough dice, can I borrow some d10's?"