In my current campaign, I have had to boot a total of 7 players since the game started last year.
1st booting::: I was desperate for players for my campaign early last year, and the only people whom answered my requests was this guy, his brother, his brother's two friends and his girlfriend. At first he wanted his eight year old brother to play as well but I was already pushing the limit with letting 15 and 16 year olds in my campaign (the guys brother and his two friends were all this age). I explained my campaign from the beginning and told them all it was RPG intensive and all seemed great with that. That was my first mistake believing that everyone was ok with an RPG playing style.
The sessions started off bad. They canceled the very first session they were suppose to be at. Over the next four weeks, one of the brother's friends missed 3 sessions. I told the group that I had to ask him to leave the group. Over the course of the next 3 months, we played 4 times. Most of the sessions were canceled at the last minute by the teenage players. During the last twoo weeks, before i had enough, the older (25 year old guy) no showed. When I say no showed I mean didn't call until the day after we were about to play. I had had enough. I was legitally worried the last time as we had a bad storm and I thought something had happened. I called the guy, cursed him out, and told kicked him and his friends out of the group. The only person I regret losing was one of the brothers' friends as he was the only good player out the group. The situation was frustrationg and upsetting. I was relieved at the end because the guy seemed wierd from teh beginning. When we went to gencon he made his girlfriend sleep on the floor and on a recliner because they didnt' believe in sleeping with each other. I"m all for a person's believes but there's no way i'm letting any woman sleep on the floor.
2nd Booting
I had to put the campaign on hold again. This time however, I picked up three more players, two were a couple and one was a woman whom seemed like she was really into it at first. She played 2 sessions and no showed the next. Then she played another and completely disappeared for a month. I called and emailed with no response. I was worried. A month later she calls me wanting back in to the campaign. She said she had personal reasons for disappearing. Im understanding so i let it slide. But it put me in an ackward situation as I had already replaced her as a player with another guy whom lives in the apartment complex I just moved in. But I figured there was room for two clerics in the party.
So she comes the first game and she seems pissed off that there was another cleric there. I couldn't understand how she could be upset considering how she disappeared. So the next week she sits right next to the new cleric. that's when the wierd stuff happened. At first I thought she was trying to get to know the guy, trying to soften things. But they started talking and flirting and by mid game her head was burried in his chest. It was very very wierd for the other people in the campaign. I normally don't allow much out of game banter but, as a guy, I didn't want to mess his game up. I did call both outside of game and told them that their acting was inapproriate. The next two sessions was even more sickening. I drew the straw when he pulled out his baby photo album in the middle of combat. After session I called both up and told them that I am happy they found love but i think they need to find another campaign.
I hoped that we all could be friends but he then sent me an email back critisizing my dming style (one that he loved a few weeks ago). Now I see them all the time, she moved in with him, but we havn't spoken since we exchanged those final emails.
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