Walking away from a game...

[Raven Crowking]

Thank you, all. I feel much better about my own GMing now!

 

[ExploderWizard]

That's pretty annoying. I mean, even a pretend "Sorry, my schedule isn't working out" or something would at least give you some sort of closure, even if you still thought "Maybe he was just trying to be polite and didn't enjoy X in the game".

But simply vanishing off the face of the Earth is kinda crappy.

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I wouldn't be too judgemental about such things. After all if you never hear from that person again how do you know they didn't suddenly die somehow? It would kind of suck to think of someone as rude when they actually might have been murdered or hit by a car.

 

[Oryan77]

I wouldn't be too judgemental about such things. After all if you never hear from that person again how do you know they didn't suddenly die somehow? It would kind of suck to think of someone as rude when they actually might have been murdered or hit by a car.

I don't know about that. Dying seems awfully rude to me. At least give us a heads up that you'll be getting hit by a car.

Anyway, the chances of "death" being the case are probably close to 0.

The last guy that bailed on us without even emailing me back to say he didn't want to play showed up right outside my office building 2 weeks ago (I work on a campus). We walked past each other and just nodded (I recognized him but didn't realize it was the guy that played one session with us at first). He wasn't dead, so I guess he was rude.

 

[Tewligan]

I bailed on one particular group for a few reasons:

- The apartment we played in was FILTHY. Seemingly every horizontal surface was covered with books, loose papers, and miniatures. The couch looked like a few hobos with diarrhea had been stabbed to death on it, and I couldn't find one clean glass when I was invited to get a glass of water.

- My character lost all the starting equipment he purchased at character generation in a DM-fiated opening sequence and never got it back. Instead, he got some meager weapons and shoddy replacement equipment from some NPC's we hooked up with later.

- The DMNPC who hobnobbed with the powerful "name" wizards of Waterdeep, and told us humble PC's that he could kill us all if we crossed him. I know this was a DMNPC since the DM had told me all about the former PC's glorious exploits previously.

- A tedious amount of target practice in which we played out shooting at targets with arrows . Just rolling against the assigned AC and seeing if we hit or not. If I recall correctly, this was part of training when we joined up with the previously mentioned NPC's. No actual benefits or penalties from the target practice, as far as I could tell. Just, y'know, shooting at inanimate objects for a while.

- The DM let me know that he greatly appreciates it if players let him borrow D&D books that he didn't have. He also made it very clear that he does NOT lend out his own books (not that I asked).

- One of the players wore a t-shirt from (I think) a furry convention that had a picture of an anthropomorphic fox coyly pulling down the front of his pants and giving the viewer a "come hither" smile. This was quite off-putting.

After one PC-creation session and one regular gaming session of that, my work schedule mysteriously changed and I was unable to keep playing. Funny how that works!

 

[Insight]

I bailed on one particular group for a few reasons:

- The apartment we played in was FILTHY. Seemingly every horizontal surface was covered with books, loose papers, and miniatures. The couch looked like a few hobos with diarrhea had been stabbed to death on it, and I couldn't find one clean glass when I was invited to get a glass of water.

Deal-breaker for me. I would left immediately. No looking back.

- The DMNPC who hobnobbed with the powerful "name" wizards of Waterdeep, and told us humble PC's that he could kill us all if we crossed him. I know this was a DMNPC since the DM had told me all about the former PC's glorious exploits previously.

Another deal-breaker. I can't tell you how fast I would have been out of there.

- A tedious amount of target practice in which we played out shooting at targets with arrows . Just rolling against the assigned AC and seeing if we hit or not. If I recall correctly, this was part of training when we joined up with the previously mentioned NPC's. No actual benefits or penalties from the target practice, as far as I could tell. Just, y'know, shooting at inanimate objects for a while.

If there's anything worse than a filthy house and rude DM, it's time wasting. How you stayed beyond half a session is beyond me.

- One of the players wore a t-shirt from (I think) a furry convention that had a picture of an anthropomorphic fox coyly pulling down the front of his pants and giving the viewer a "come hither" smile. This was quite off-putting.

Weird players are also a deal-breaker for me.

After one PC-creation session and one regular gaming session of that, my work schedule mysteriously changed and I was unable to keep playing. Funny how that works!

You deserve xp for putting up with as much as you did.

 

[Sorrowdusk]

I left one game due to an out of control player -- someone I liked in person, but hated to game with. This is the same guy I booted from my own campaign for cheating. No drama, though; I just slid out until the DM dealt with him.

More excitingly, my first DM out of college was an guy in his 30s who lived alone in a house in Cambridge. He had a weird horse fixation; there were plastic horse models (the same ones pre-teen girls have) displayed on shelves all through his house, and he insisted that all mounts have their own personalities and character sheets and special abilities. This got creepier and creepier, with major focus on the horses, which might have been okay if he was a good DM - which he wasn't.

[MENTION=2]Piratecat[/MENTION]

Maybe he was a furry, or maybe it was just his "totem" animal, or he was some sort of Otherkin? I dunno. I gamed with a guy once he was the same way about sharks- knew everything about them, shark themes whenever possible for his characters, and he wore sharks teeth earrings and wore shark print/motif shirts and bandannas. He told me once at the table when I asked him why he liked sharks so much "Dude, I am a shark." I never questioned him any further about it, but otherwise he was a cool/fun guy.

XD

I guess you just weren't in for a...I dunno, whats some fantasy story about horses-type game? Were there any chicks at the table? What did the other players think about it post campaign? Might have turned out interesting if he was better behind the screen.

 

[Piratecat]

Hey, you can share these and possibly get them into a new book!

http://aterribleidea.com/2011/01/20/tales-from-the-table-a-call-for-submissions/

 

[nedjer]

I left one game due to an out of control player -- someone I liked in person, but hated to game with. This is the same guy I booted from my own campaign for cheating. No drama, though; I just slid out until the DM dealt with him.

More excitingly, my first DM out of college was an guy in his 30s who lived alone in a house in Cambridge. He had a weird horse fixation; there were plastic horse models (the same ones pre-teen girls have) displayed on shelves all through his house, and he insisted that all mounts have their own personalities and character sheets and special abilities. This got creepier and creepier, with major focus on the horses, which might have been okay if he was a good DM - which he wasn't.

Don't suppose you've got his email? I collect like unicorns, so he might want to hook up

 

[nedjer]

Maybe he was a furry, or maybe it was just his "totem" animal, or he was some sort of Otherkin? I dunno. I gamed with a guy once he was the same way about sharks- knew everything about them, shark themes whenever possible for his characters, and he wore sharks teeth earrings and wore shark print/motif shirts and bandannas. He told me once at the table when I asked him why he liked sharks so much "Dude, I am a shark." I never questioned him any further about it, but otherwise he was a cool/fun guy.

This just gets better and better. Horses, sharks, all we need now is someone with a mermaid fixation - and I'm betting there's one out there.

 

[Sorrowdusk]

This just gets better and better. Horses, sharks, all we need now is someone with a mermaid fixation - and I'm betting there's one out there.

I like mariliths and other kinds of snake women. Mermaids too...neither one "hardcore" enough to count probably. I'm /d/emented, but it doesnt seep into other aspects of my life. Most people would never know.

I bailed on one particular group for a few reasons:*snip*

"The [ ] looked like a few hobos with diarrhea had been stabbed to death on it"



AHAHAHAHAHA-some of the things people say on the internet are hilarious, even better when they're true. I'll have describe something like that IMC sometimes. "The X looks like-" Cant give you XP, seems you can only do so much in 24 hrs now, huh....

Deal-breaker for me. I would left immediately. No looking back. Weird players are also a deal-breaker for me.

"Weird" is extraordinarily subjective my friend.