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<blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 7209804" data-attributes="member: 30438"><p>Agreed, absolutely.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I have two groups. One of which, attendance has never been a problem. I’ve never had to worry about not having enough people there. The other of which is practically the opposite. Two, maybe three reliable players, and the rest are flakes. Yet because they are friends, I have traditionally let it slide, because yes, friendship is important.</p><p></p><p></p><p>But I always make my adventures scalable for the group with the flakes. I plan for both good attendance and bad attendance. Because even if just two people show up to play, I don’t want to punish them for everyone else’s slacking. They showed up to game, so let’s game!</p><p></p><p></p><p>The attendance issues of the one group still really bother me. I’m doing double-work for most adventures. I get that life comes up and gets in the way from time to time, but ultimately people either want to game and can, or they don’t and can't. A DM doesn’t have the luxury of not putting work into the adventures and trying to make things fun for everyone, or no-showing. After a while, non-attendance starts to feel pretty disrespectful, friendship or no friendship.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ralif Redhammer, post: 7209804, member: 30438"] Agreed, absolutely. I have two groups. One of which, attendance has never been a problem. I’ve never had to worry about not having enough people there. The other of which is practically the opposite. Two, maybe three reliable players, and the rest are flakes. Yet because they are friends, I have traditionally let it slide, because yes, friendship is important. But I always make my adventures scalable for the group with the flakes. I plan for both good attendance and bad attendance. Because even if just two people show up to play, I don’t want to punish them for everyone else’s slacking. They showed up to game, so let’s game! The attendance issues of the one group still really bother me. I’m doing double-work for most adventures. I get that life comes up and gets in the way from time to time, but ultimately people either want to game and can, or they don’t and can't. A DM doesn’t have the luxury of not putting work into the adventures and trying to make things fun for everyone, or no-showing. After a while, non-attendance starts to feel pretty disrespectful, friendship or no friendship. [/QUOTE]
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