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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trellian" data-source="post: 38814" data-attributes="member: 1843">In the past, I have used a variety of methods of getting rid of players. I have been playing for 8 years, and when we started, I was only 14 years old. As you can imagine, some of the players were quite childish, but so were we all, and we enjoyed monster slaying and treasure hunting at first, moving over to thicker plots, puzzles and mysteries after some years. Some players have left voluntarily, some have not. Whenever the others in my group were fed up with a person, we simply voted. If the majority voted for the person to be kicked out, so he was. Two players have been kicked out because they were harassing the other players. One even started pinching and tugging on one others hair!! He was a boy, she was a girl, I guess it was flirting, but we were 15 years and out he went. One other player was kicked out because he twice in a month filled the other players shoes with snow! He had to leave early due to having to catch a bus, and before he left, he gave one of the players a little present. His intent was to fill the shoes of the above mentioned tugger and pincher, but instead, he mistakingly filled the shoes of the more high-regarded players. He was asked to join again after a month or so, and is still part of my group. The third player was also kind of obusive to the others. Taunting them, making jokes on their behalf etc.. Players would rather quit than play with him in the end.. but none wanted to "vote him out". We were all 18-19 at this stage. Fortunately, I had to leave for army duty around this time, and so the group temporarily dissolved itself. When I returned from the army, I restarted the group, WITHOUT the abusive player... The fourth one was a recent addition. He had played Diablo, and wanted to try RPGs. We're 20-21 now, so we certainly have moved from hack & slash to character and plot driven adventures. Anyway, this player found that style of play to be quite dull, and one time, he actually fell asleep on the couch while playing. "Hey, somebody just cast sleep on him," one of my players remarked. So we just stopped telling him when we were playing, and he's not complained about it. OK... lot of ranting here, but I guess a lot of these stories are quite amusing. All of these have been my friends, both before and after they were playing. None of them feels any bitterness towards me. Since you met this guy in the internet, and probably don't socialize with him other than your game sessions, I don't really see why you shouldn't kick him out...</blockquote>

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