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<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 4456504" data-attributes="member: 813">I had a clarification post eaten by ENWorld so I'll try again here.My name is being thrown around and not including the full meaning of my point of view. To whit....Part of the current equation is also friendship. No, I don't tolerate cheating in a convention setting. But I don't lay the smackdown on my friends either. If my friend is cheating, I don't take a hard stance against. At that point the so-called psycho-babble/pop-psychology is important.My impression was that the OP was friends with the cheater. And as such, my advice prioritized the friendship over the game. If that is not true, well, there's plenty of advice here for what to do.I come to this from experience. My friend cheated during our D&amp;D sessions. And I convinced everyone else who wanted to go passive aggressive on him to just let it go. If he needed to cheat to have fun, it wasn't my problem. Eventually, he stopped cheating. Later we found out about stress he was having outside game. So he worked through it. For a few months he was basically a spotlight hog. No worries.I guess my point of view is colored by the fact that I don't game with strangers. I game with people I'm friends with first. So any aberrant behavior at the gaming table makes me wonder what's up IRL first and foremost.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 4456504, member: 813"] I had a clarification post eaten by ENWorld so I'll try again here. My name is being thrown around and not including the full meaning of my point of view. To whit.... Part of the current equation is also friendship. No, I don't tolerate cheating in a convention setting. But I don't lay the smackdown on my friends either. If my friend is cheating, I don't take a hard stance against. At that point the so-called psycho-babble/pop-psychology is important. My impression was that the OP was friends with the cheater. And as such, my advice prioritized the friendship over the game. If that is not true, well, there's plenty of advice here for what to do. I come to this from experience. My friend cheated during our D&D sessions. And I convinced everyone else who wanted to go passive aggressive on him to just let it go. If he needed to cheat to have fun, it wasn't my problem. Eventually, he stopped cheating. Later we found out about stress he was having outside game. So he worked through it. For a few months he was basically a spotlight hog. No worries. I guess my point of view is colored by the fact that I don't game with strangers. I game with people I'm friends with first. So any aberrant behavior at the gaming table makes me wonder what's up IRL first and foremost. [/QUOTE]

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