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<blockquote data-quote="just__al" data-source="post: 1781754" data-attributes="member: 11068"><p>We benched a GM. Our group founded to play on Saturdays and we decided to rotate DM's. As the first campaign was nearing it's stop point the discussion happened as to what campaign was next. One of the players wanted to run a rifts game. I had never played rifts but decided I would play.</p><p></p><p>The game was awful, the GM was an awful control freak but also just handed us stuff on a silver platter for no real benefit. Picture 1st level D&D characters with +5 weapons and armor and staves of power and magi (to give you an idea in D&D terms).</p><p></p><p>That was however not actually his damning fault. He kept cancelling games. We all agreed to set aside saturday afternoons to play before everybody went to Rocky and in 10 weeks he cancelled 5 games, 3 of them, the day of the game including the last one where we got a call 15 minutes before the game started from his roommate saying he was too sick to come to the game.</p><p></p><p>So, everybody rolled up characters for my campaign and we told him we weren't playing rifts. He was welcome to play in my campaign but he declined. We didn't talk for a few months because he thought I was really pissed off at him. Which I wasn't, and I didn't talk to him because I thought he didn't want to talk to me.</p><p></p><p>Not too upset over the whole thing though, I really hated Rifts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="just__al, post: 1781754, member: 11068"] We benched a GM. Our group founded to play on Saturdays and we decided to rotate DM's. As the first campaign was nearing it's stop point the discussion happened as to what campaign was next. One of the players wanted to run a rifts game. I had never played rifts but decided I would play. The game was awful, the GM was an awful control freak but also just handed us stuff on a silver platter for no real benefit. Picture 1st level D&D characters with +5 weapons and armor and staves of power and magi (to give you an idea in D&D terms). That was however not actually his damning fault. He kept cancelling games. We all agreed to set aside saturday afternoons to play before everybody went to Rocky and in 10 weeks he cancelled 5 games, 3 of them, the day of the game including the last one where we got a call 15 minutes before the game started from his roommate saying he was too sick to come to the game. So, everybody rolled up characters for my campaign and we told him we weren't playing rifts. He was welcome to play in my campaign but he declined. We didn't talk for a few months because he thought I was really pissed off at him. Which I wasn't, and I didn't talk to him because I thought he didn't want to talk to me. Not too upset over the whole thing though, I really hated Rifts. [/QUOTE]
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