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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sidekick" data-source="post: 3048508" data-attributes="member: 13946">Well far be it for me to be a reasonable person but I’m also in this group of ‘Bad DMs’.As a DM I make it clear that I want a regular, weekly commitment from my players. I make that clear from the get-go. We play Monday evenings. Now I don’t expect us to play on bank-holidays And everyone has holidays, but I expect people to turn up the rest of the time.If someone’s sick, then sure, or there’s a death/10th wedding anniversary, or getting married/honeymoon – of course.If someone’s GF wants to go see a film with them? Not good enough. It’s a case of respect. I expect my players to respect that I as the DM have put in a minimum of 3-5 hours prep for that session, EVERY SESSION. If they can’t respect that then they’re out of the group simple.I don’t consider that to be a hall-mark of a bad DM, far from it. They’re a good DM. A good DM puts the effort in and then, fair enough, should be able to figure that the group will turn up to play.If there’s something better you’d rather be doing. Then go do it. That slot you’re hogging could be filled by someone who actually wants to play DnD.As some others have said. I’ll still play the session with ¾ players. The PC who’s player isn’t there is NPC’ed. Any extended unexplained absesnces will likely result in me going ‘Fixxxer’ on their character – trolls and all!But then again, none of these things have ever been an issue because my groups have either been all a) my close friends from high school or b) my current group have our own message boards where we coordinate sessions, who bring what food & we have a holidays thread so that the group as a whole know about everyone’s planned holidays.So it’s never been a problem really.</blockquote>

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