Whew. I've only hit the highlights I can remember, and I don't think I've accurately conveyed the depth of annoyance the GM felt. Oh, and
it's not over.
there has been a session without me (gasp!). As it turns out, the other remaining original player, my girlfriend, and another flaky girl who played on occasion had all conned the GM into running a private game for 'just the girls.' They wanted an opportunity to get more familiar with the game, etc. Apparently they felt persecuted by the guys (i.e. me - they described me as 'intellectually intimidating'
), saying we treated them like dumb girls, just telling them what to roll, never giving them the opportunity to learn for themselves. Interestingly enough, this girl and I were both introduced to the RT system at the same time, so many years ago, and if anything she'd been favored by the GM with more in-game involvement and more opportunity to learn. She just hadn't been interested.
Long story short, I got a bit angry at her, and suggested that if they wanted 'girl time', convincing an older guy to exclude me from my favorite game ever was not the best way to do it. After the dust settled, she took me up on my suggestion of just running some girls-only Vampire. GM admitted to not telling me because he thought I might tell another guy (also a nice guy, but much more confrontational and incidentally the other guy besides me who was there for the last proper session). My girlfriend was rather upset at having offended me so deeply, particularly because she was unable to rationalize why she'd handled it the way she did.
--Impeesa--