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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 1662372" data-attributes="member: 2002">Well, not really, considering how often this topic has come up.  I've faced it myself (see below).Now this is a nasty thing to say or assume.  And tells me that you aren't real comfortable with your gaming habit.As I said above, this thread topic comes up fairly frequently.  It's something many of us have to face, not just in our gaming career, but in all facets of our life.I had to drop a longtime (12+ year) "friend" from my gaming group 2.5 years ago.  He was the kind of guy who freely admitted that the game itself wasn't important to him, that he simply showed up to socialize with the group.  He would down a 6-pack of beer in 5 hours, raid my singlemalts at will (while not bothering to pour me a shot) and interrupt scenes and descriptions with off-topic conversation.  He never paid any attention to the game until it was his turn to roll the dice.  Never contributed to any decision making.Then he started cheating.  At first it was rolling the dice and claiming it was a 16 when everyone could see it was a 4.  Then he stopped rolling altogether and simply declared that he hit.  Blatantly, obviously, right in front of everyone.So I decided to stop inviting him to the game.He insisted that he never cheated, despite the fact that everyone present knew and saw that he was doing it.  He didn't understand *at all* the idea of being an active part of the game.  He just wanted to socialize and didn't see anything wrong with that.  He didn't see anything wrong with getting drunk, or drinking up my scotch.  So he went away angry and our friendship ended.  But to tell the truth, our friendship had been on life-support for two years.  He was a bad friend and I had already reached the point of not wanting him in my life anymore.  It was simply time for him to go.</blockquote>

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