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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1858383" data-attributes="member: 7240">Let me get this straight: this guy is only entitled to have a properly functioning game if these people are healthy? I'm sorry: he's entitled to have a functioning game full stop. He's a DM, not a doctor/nurse; he's a volunteer. What if these people had psychotic episodes resulting from schizophrenia? Should he have to tolerate that because it's a medical condition? How about brain damage from a car accident? What is causing these people to disrupt his game is only relevant insofar as it affects his ability to stop said disruption. Speaking as someone who has wrestled with issues of mental health in the past, you are responsible for making sure, to the best of your ability that your illness doesn't ruin things for other people. If someone has a mental illness so debilitating that it ruins structured social gatherings, they have the responsibility to either control their condition or avoid these gatherings. This is something that is even taught to delusional schizophrenic people in outpatient programs. There is nothing unethical about wanting to have a gaming group that only includes players your enjoy gaming with. To structure your gaming group any other way does a disservice to you and to your sane functional players who deserve a fun game every bit as much as the batshit loony ones.Here I can comfortably agree; not for the reasons stated but because of the violence this does to the narrative. This is a social problem not a game mechanical problem; it merits a social solution.So, explain to me: does the game have any purpose other than the participants having fun? What are the necessary components of an RPG? A GM and one or more players. To me, if the sole purpose is actually having a game people enjoy, a necessary condition is that the GM be having fun. If he's not, then it's not much of a game, is it?If we assume that Knoxgamer is in the minority and the purpose really is to have fun and not to do volunteer work with the handicapable, then it is a perfectly rational response to change the group composition whenever the group dynamic stops working. It is just a game -- it's not church, it's not school, it's not a voting booth -- as such people who make the game un-fun are in no way entitled to be there.</blockquote>

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