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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azure Trance" data-source="post: 459071" data-attributes="member: 372">Another Q:Our games start up at 7:30 PM to roughly 12 AM or 1 AM. One of my players has class that ends at 8:20 PM. Is it worth keeping him in the game if he would be chronically late?Also, something somewhat related...The first night we played a few weeks ago someone stayed and watched. She was listening attentively to what was happening. The next session, she comes with a character that another DM made for her (who plays a different day of the week) and wants to join. I was very hesitant at that time because:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I have 6 people and promised a 7th who will join us next session, and had to reject a potential 8th. I'm wary of large groups of PCs with the limited time I have and my experience.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">She's very new. As a matter of fact, up to that night she hasn't played any RPG before.</li> </ul>But by a stroke of luck, 3 players were out. One had class (above), another couldn't make it, and (as it happened) the last was just really late. With ubercombat coming up I said, OK. You can play for tonight. The game didn't go that well, because sleep dep made everyone go into video game mode for about half an hour before I snapped out of it. I also found out later on that the DM made her a 6th level character for our 1st level group, which I didn't notice because she was rolling poorly.A few days later - specifically, yesterday, one of my PCs told her to make a new 1st level character to join the game. I riled up at that. There were two other games which were running at higher level I tried suggesting to her but no bite. I had a talk with the guy who de facto made her a new member and decided to try it out for the next session (only) with him godfathering her, which he agreed to.Regardless, I'm still strongly inclined to relegate her to observer status after the session unless something miraculous happens during it. Now, this may feels like I'm newbie hating (which it may sound like above), but I'm really not in the mood to have a totally new person to my game after we started. My feelings are probably magnified because I have some superb roleplayers and don't want to spoil the atmos of the game, but I think I'm justified in doing this since I wasn't going to let her continue after her first session anyway. How do I break it to her without sounding like an evil ogre whose an elitist snob?</blockquote>

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