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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Icharbezol" data-source="post: 6856736" data-attributes="member: 89262">Here's my gaming group quandary. I'm running Shadowrun 5e and have been trying to bring that campaign to a satisfying close before a break for another game. I was planning on running D&D 5e, but I'm not where I wanted to close with SR nor am I ready with the D&D campaign yet.Yet half my gaming group is apparently ready to quit SR, and rather than talking to me about their desire to play D&D instead of SR, three of the players decided to have a conversation about basically shunting me into Dungeon Master mode by derailing the SR campaign and providing non-participation at the table.I guess up until this point I had known that one fellow in the group wasn't as interested in SR as he was in D&D, but was not thinking he would be deciding to try to stage a coup or something. We've been on the current campaign for seven months and he only really started to show complete "I don't want to play this anymore" disinterest about a month ago. It was discussed, he offered to sit out the rest of the campaign but then rescinded because he wanted to play with the group. And now after a shared trip with two others in the group, suddenly they also are not wanting to play SR anymore when they haven't ever expressed anything of that nature to me.I would not have known about all of this if he hadn't approached another player, who happens to be my girlfriend (who is also a huge fan of SR). She advised me that he'd told her SR would never be played at this table again.For this guy's birthday, I decided we would go ahead and start character builds for D&D instead of running SR for the night and let everyone know that we are not done with SR just breaking for a night. He also brought his young teen son to the an adult game and lets him plop out a dice bag without even asking the rest of the group about how they feel about that and if the kid can join in. After I bring up that our games and discussions tend to be adult oriented and I wouldn't have my own kid a year younger at our table,XI let everyone talk it out and got majority saying let the kid play, but I'm iffy on this and so is my girl. Kid is really immature.From here on out I am pretty much in a position I do not want to be in. I am not over fond of confrontation within what amounts to a social group of people I considered friends, but at the same time I feel like this guy is flexing his Alpha at me or something and trying to dictate what I will and will not bring to the table and who will be a part of this circle. Mainly what I am looking for are any suggestions on how to handle this confrontation when it occurs, because I know it will happen. Should I even attempt any further conversation when this guy isn't even willing to talk to me as I asked in the beginning? Is diplomacy even called for here since it's clear this guy is willing to go behind my back to force my hand into doing what he wants me to in some kind of high school cliquish power play, or should I just cut my losses here and tell him to gtfo?</blockquote>

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