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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 2401798" data-attributes="member: 1515">I've had to remove 3 players from my campaigns, over 20+ years.  It's never been easy, and never been pretty.In the first case, the guy was a serious power-gamer, combined with a dice cheat.  This was back in 1984, when most dice didn't come pre-inked...and he never colored in his dice.  The players began to suspect that he was lying about his dice rolls, and one of the other players decided to start "spying", and reported that the Problem Guy was way overstating his rolls.  Beyond that, he always tried to take over the game, making his PC the star.The straw that broke the camel's back was when, over the course of 6 attack rolls, Problem Guy "rolled" five 20s.  We, as a group, decided to ask Problem Guy to leave.The discussion was extended, and ugly, and Problem Guy punched a phone booth in frustration during the discussion (breaking his hand).  He just didn't / couldn't understand that we didn't want him in the group anymore.  The fact that he considered us (the game group) his only real friends certainly didn't help.  Finally, he did agree that it'd be better if he didn't play with us anymore.  Some of us were eventually able to maintain a friendship outside of gaming with him, but it was always awkward.The other two were years later, in a different group.  They were two sisters, both of whom had been in the group for several years.  Both of them had some manner of psychological issues, and both of them tended to be very disruptive during the game.  In this case, we took the "chicken way out"....we just stopped talking to them, and stopped telling them about upcoming games.  I'm quite certain that both of them eventually figured it out, and both of them probably strongly dislike me now.  What can you do?We've got one guy in our current group who may be walking this line, too.  He can get loud and aggressive during games, and he particularly ticks my wife (who's also a player) off.  I really need to have a talk with this guy, and have been ducking the issue. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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