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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5543482" data-attributes="member: 15538"><p>Pukunui, I can identify with your plight. It sucks when a group flakes out on you. However, I'm going to level with you. By the time I was done reading your OP, <em>I</em> wanted out of your group. </p><p></p><p>Whatever the truth of the situation is, and I don't claim to know it, here's how your coming across: entitled, negative, possessive, self-centered. Your group doesn't owe you three weeks in a row. Most people don't want to game with someone who spends his off-time considering which players to fire, or whether others are being disloyal, or whatever. It sounds like you're used to GMing from a standpoint where others follow your lead, but the group has come to want more input on scheduling and such. Through it all, all I keep hearing is how upset you are, how your feelings were hurt, and so forth, and it appears likely to me you have offended your group members and I'm wondering why you're not curious why. </p><p></p><p>IMHO. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Your game probably sucks. From the sound of it, you don't feel focus, and neither do your players. They have told you they like the other game better; there is no reason to mention it if they could have both, so the fact that someone volunteered this information pretty much means they are complaining that your game is not as much fun. </p><p></p><p>Stop inisting like other people have to be as excited about your campaigns as you are. Let people go in peace who want time off in a different campaign. Don't force people to choose. Recruit new players as you will. This is a situation where you have to give up some control: the more you tighten your grip, the more players will slip through your fingers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 5543482, member: 15538"] Pukunui, I can identify with your plight. It sucks when a group flakes out on you. However, I'm going to level with you. By the time I was done reading your OP, [i]I[/i] wanted out of your group. Whatever the truth of the situation is, and I don't claim to know it, here's how your coming across: entitled, negative, possessive, self-centered. Your group doesn't owe you three weeks in a row. Most people don't want to game with someone who spends his off-time considering which players to fire, or whether others are being disloyal, or whatever. It sounds like you're used to GMing from a standpoint where others follow your lead, but the group has come to want more input on scheduling and such. Through it all, all I keep hearing is how upset you are, how your feelings were hurt, and so forth, and it appears likely to me you have offended your group members and I'm wondering why you're not curious why. IMHO. :) Your game probably sucks. From the sound of it, you don't feel focus, and neither do your players. They have told you they like the other game better; there is no reason to mention it if they could have both, so the fact that someone volunteered this information pretty much means they are complaining that your game is not as much fun. Stop inisting like other people have to be as excited about your campaigns as you are. Let people go in peace who want time off in a different campaign. Don't force people to choose. Recruit new players as you will. This is a situation where you have to give up some control: the more you tighten your grip, the more players will slip through your fingers. [/QUOTE]
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