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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4961010" data-attributes="member: 22779">Oh, dude, totally with you Mercutio, about the flakiness of online players.  Gack.My first campaign, using OpenRPG, back in about 2002, 2003, went through FIFTY players in the course of two years.  That's right FIVE ZERO.  OMG.  IT was insane.  I've become an absolute tyrant about things now.  Players get three strikes and they're out.  Three unexplained absences (and explanations have to come BEFORE the absence) and they get the heave.  I can always get new players.  I've actually had to toss a few players over the years after that first aborted campaign.Fortunately, I stuck with it, and my current group is sweetness and light.  Great rp'ers, really get into the thick of things, loads of fun.  [sblock]Except for that Kamikaze Midget guy.  Man, what a ... oh, wait... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />[/sblock]It takes time, but, if you put in the effort and be a complete and total Nazi about your game for the first little while, it really pays off.</blockquote>