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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 7482903" data-attributes="member: 1210"><p>Yeah, a couple of times over the decades. The most recent one was when we were transitioning from 4e to 5e. We had one player who is a long-time friend of most of the group, but who has been going downhill for years. He basically takes it for granted that whoever he hangs out with will feed him, put him up for the night, get him drunk and stoned, etc, and brings little to the tale. It had been getting worse and worse for a long time, but the last six months or so of the 4e era, he would show up long enough to eat dinner, then "have to leave" to hang out with the girlfriend who he spent all his time with anyhow. He did this on three different peoples' birthdays. And I get how it can be with a new gf or whatever, but that wasn't the situation; he'd been friendsish with her for decades, they'd hooked up off and on for a while, and it was one of those relationships full of constant fights and breakups/getbacktogethers. Also, she was a meth head, so there was that. </p><p></p><p>Anyhow, after he showed up to the final session of the 4e game only to pull the same crap- eating the dinner we provided, then bailing with road beers in his pockets- we had a long talk about whether to invite him back and decided not to. </p><p></p><p>When I delivered the news, he was devastated. I explained exactly why I had made the decision (I'm the DM, so the final word is mine). He was totally upset about it. I offered to run a one-shot for him, so he could get some rpg time in. Planned a Paranoia session, got a big ol' group of his friends together... and he didn't show up, even after expressing how excited he was a few hours before the game was set to start. </p><p></p><p>So, sorry, buddy, your seat at my table has been passed to someone else. </p><p></p><p>Sadly, one of my friends just had to disinvite him from an annual camping trip we all like to go take due to similar entitled behavior. God dammit Dave.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 7482903, member: 1210"] Yeah, a couple of times over the decades. The most recent one was when we were transitioning from 4e to 5e. We had one player who is a long-time friend of most of the group, but who has been going downhill for years. He basically takes it for granted that whoever he hangs out with will feed him, put him up for the night, get him drunk and stoned, etc, and brings little to the tale. It had been getting worse and worse for a long time, but the last six months or so of the 4e era, he would show up long enough to eat dinner, then "have to leave" to hang out with the girlfriend who he spent all his time with anyhow. He did this on three different peoples' birthdays. And I get how it can be with a new gf or whatever, but that wasn't the situation; he'd been friendsish with her for decades, they'd hooked up off and on for a while, and it was one of those relationships full of constant fights and breakups/getbacktogethers. Also, she was a meth head, so there was that. Anyhow, after he showed up to the final session of the 4e game only to pull the same crap- eating the dinner we provided, then bailing with road beers in his pockets- we had a long talk about whether to invite him back and decided not to. When I delivered the news, he was devastated. I explained exactly why I had made the decision (I'm the DM, so the final word is mine). He was totally upset about it. I offered to run a one-shot for him, so he could get some rpg time in. Planned a Paranoia session, got a big ol' group of his friends together... and he didn't show up, even after expressing how excited he was a few hours before the game was set to start. So, sorry, buddy, your seat at my table has been passed to someone else. Sadly, one of my friends just had to disinvite him from an annual camping trip we all like to go take due to similar entitled behavior. God dammit Dave. [/QUOTE]
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