Ever been kicked out of a gaming group? Admit it!

[Jubilee]

I was once kicked out of a game!

I had been invited to the game by my boyfriend at the time (he was the GM). We broke up about a month and a half or two months after I had joined the game. Not long after, I started dating another player in the group (who I am happy to report is now my husband of almost 2 years).

I was under the impression that I left the game out of mutual agreement, but later I heard that my high-elf princess character turned out to actually be a dark elf seductress, who killed the other player's character and then betrayed the rest of the party... I get the impression he feels he kicked me out, because I am a vile, horrible person (I guess my faults depend on which guy you are..).

I don't lose sleep over it, though, and don't regret a thing (except that I dated the guy in the first place.. OTOH, I probably wouldn't have met my husband without the invite to the game... Oye, the headaches!).

/ali

 

[sniffles]

I've never been kicked out of a game, but I almost was (see the thread on removing problem players).

I was almost kicked out by Jubilee's husband!

 

[KB9JMQ]

Not yet. But since I am the DM and we game at my house I don't think it will.
Of course if one day no one shows up anymore I guess that means I am out.

 

[cmanos]

Booted? No. Left voluntarily when I did something that the entire group rebelled hard against. Yes.

 

[Ashrum the Black]

Yes, yes I was. At the time it happened ,I tried to walk away gracefully becuase the DM made it clear he was speaking on behalf of the whole group. It wasn't until I started calling around to the other players to offer my apologies for my behavior that I started to hear that they had no problem with me and that they were as blindsided by the move as me.

I have to admit, I should have left the group some time earlier. The DM was insiting on playing late into the night and starting at 1:00PM. Now back in college this would have been fine. But I have a full time job, a house, a wife and child now. I cannot commit that much of my time every week to gaming. Add in that my job gets me up at 4:30AM to go in each day, and even on the weekends I start to flag at about 11~12 these days. By 1:00AM I would be half asleep, not becuase I had no interest in the game, but because I was exhausted. I'm sure that didn't help his feelings torwards me.

The DM himself admited he had a personal problem with me. It didn't matter what I did, he was always felt very competitive towards me. What really brought things home to me was when his wife told mine that the DM had always had a strained relationship with me. I always thought of him as one of my best friends. That right there really told me that our opinions of each other were totally out of whack, and that his booting me was for the best.

I currently have a group of four folks playing in my AE campaign and so far we've been having a blast. It's a shame he ended up alienating so many of his friends after I left that the group broke up after close to a decade of gaming in one form or another.

-Ashrum

 

[Aaron L]

My last group, including my best friend who was DM, just kinda stopped calling me last year. Just a few months after I was a groomsman in his wedding, in fact. I havent played since.

 

[Shemeska]

The game ended at a TPK and that was that. When the group later decided to reform for a different game, they didn't ask me back. Admittedly, that was in the first six months that I had started to game, back in 2000, so I probably sucked at the time on some level.

 

[KaosDevice]

I've definately kicked myself out of some gaming groups, usually in the nick of time.

 

[Lanefan]

I've been "stealth-booted" once as a player because the DM had had his fill of me and 2 others - we were told the game was sinking; a week or two later it sailed without us knowing about it. As we all knew each other outside the game, the secrecy didn't last long, and fences were mended later. (that DM is still in my current game, 20 years hence).

I've also been revolted against as a DM. The players in a campaign I was running (badly) many years ago decided it was time for a new DM. About the same time, I as DM (with no knowledge whatsoever of what the players were doing!) also decided it was time for a new DM. As fate would have it, we all had the same person in mind to take over. So, we dreamed up a mechanism for the PC's to planeshift from my world to his, and away we went. The end result was that after about 6 months and many many PC deaths in the new campaign we all realized the grass really wasn't any greener over the fence...

Lanefan

 

[Miles Pilitus]

I was kicked out of my gaming group a few years ago, various personal faults on my end and one person just not liking me very much. I grabbed a couple of the players for a short thing that I ran before I left town.

Now I'm back, a little more mature (I hope), and solved one of the major complaints, and rejoined the group.