I got kicked out of my group!

[WayneLigon]

[Tale of Gaming Group Drama From Hell]

You know now that the next time you run a modern game, these people must all make appearances to show the PC's how the monster works, and die in amazingly horrific fashions. Wow, that wins the Drama Club award, for certain.

 

[wingsandsword]

I was booted from a group once, by the DM, in a very roundabout fashion.

It was a big, dramatic, political/intrigue campaign, and it was the first time I'd played in a campaign where the PC's weren't all allies trying to help each other, which was a big adjusment to be sure, and since I'd joined the campaign in-progress I was walking into a political minefield of established friendships and rivalries, it's not long before I've accidentally burned some important bridges and gotten myself honor-bound and indebted to another PC as a virtual slave because I didn't understand the many intricacies of the setting.

The DM sets up a big "special" session, where plotlines from the last 6 months or so are coming to fruition, and the DM says to underscore how important this session is, anybody who dies who has a character die in this session is out of the campaign, ressurection magic not existing in the setting.

I manage to survive some truly heinous fights with CR's way over my head, work my way out of some fierce traps, and survive what was a pretty killer adventure. Then, after the climax and as the game is winding down, we're back in town and wrapping up when the DM asks for a fortitude save out of nowwhere. I roll a 22, which apparently wasn't enough. He then gives me a flashback to a day before, when an NPC handed me a tool I needed while bypassing a trap earlier, and I now realize the tool was coated in contact poison, with no initial damage and a 1-day secondary damage delay. The save DC was over 22, it was Constitution damage poison, and my 11 Con character was killed outright by the secondary damage (he didn't even roll the damage, when I pointed that out, he said he'd rolled it earlier), so my character was killed. As a sort of consolation prize, he underwent divine ascention to being essentially a demigod, but I was out of the campaign, and as soon as he died, the session ended.

He never admitted it, but I always interpreted it as being booted out of a campaign.

 

[StupidSmurf]

Thia and Wayne:
Thank you, thank you....And of course you do realize that post was the abridged version.

I think one of the more outrageous statements from Female B was when she told my wife that she'd love to still be friends with her, but for the fact that my wife was married to me. The whole context, inflection, and such seemed to create the impression that she was telling my wife "If you want to still be my friend, dump your husband".

Apparently, I pissed her off so much that I earned a few choice mentions in her blog. I was right up there with her constantly bee-yatching about her out of control weight, or whining about the fact that we don't have a President who practices Wicca, or how all Conservatives are generally evil people. I guess since I'm a Moderate, I'm only half-evil!

But thankfully, enough time has gone by that I can relate the matter in a semi-humorous fashion, and without using words that rhyme with "truck", or "twitch".

::Sigh:: I've met a lot of people who are hideous examples of Christianity. You know the type...the ones that make you say "If all Christians are like you, then I want to stay far away from it, thank!" Well, I think she was my first true encounter with a hideous example of Wicca!

 

[StupidSmurf]

I was booted from a group once, by the DM, in a very roundabout fashion.

STORY

He never admitted it, but I always interpreted it as being booted out of a campaign.

Wow...that's harsh!

 

[Peter Gibbons]

The last time I broke up with a girl I don't remember giving her a reason (4 years ago). I hope I was nice about it.

And I assume you didn't tell her that you were giving up dating entirely, just that you weren't going to be dating her anymore.

Remember: "We just aren't a match" isn't a reason, it's just a clear indication that the relationship is over.

Now, if there is an articulable reason why you're breaking up with someone, you might tell them what it is (if it's something they can change in the future) or you might spare them that knowledge (if it's not), but you don't--if you are a mature person--tell them that you aren't actually breaking up with them.

Fusangite and I will just have to disagree about what's "polite."