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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goblyns Hoard" data-source="post: 1862091" data-attributes="member: 19970">Booting a player is going to have to be hard for the reasons Teflon said.  Never actually had to do it.However I have dropped a player from a gaming group.  There were 4 of us, and we weren't playing anything consistently.  Had a few one-offs going with Vampire, Mage and Werewolf (this was pre 3E and we were all a bit bored of D&D at the time).  GMing was being fairly evenly split between me and one other guy, but he and I hadn't both played together in YEARS, so we asked the other 2 to take a couple of shifts.  One did fine, but the other guy decides to run a game where despite being given the opportunity to get the characters together in a group he ACTIVELY walks away from it.  Basically the NPC hireing us was keeping each of us in the dark about what all the others were doing so the entire night 2 of us were sitting around watching the GM have a series of inter related one-offs.  Plus he threw in some deus-ex-NPCs that actually did everything important instead of tailoring the challenge to the PCs we made.  It felt like we were watching him GM his party of PCs and we were just the bit parts that contributed an action or two.This was the final straw - we'd been putting in a lot of work over the years and felt he was making no effort to let the rest of us enjoy the experience.So we decided to just not phone him and see how long it would take him to pick up the phone and contact us.  We kept on gaming, and found some other people to join us, which was cool.  Had he called we'd have invited him to come to a game.8 years later none of us have heard anything - Firkin Good Riddance</blockquote>

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