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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dana_Jorgensen" data-source="post: 1477112" data-attributes="member: 12962">Well, I can honestly say I have never quit a game because of another player.In the past I have quit games due to the referee. In one group I used to game with, just about every player also ran some game or another, or at least tried. Now, I can tolerate bad refereeing while a player is learned the trade, but we had this one guy who was absolutely the worst DM I have ever encountered, which is saying a lot given all the people I have played with in both organized groups and at conventions over the last 27 years. To make matters worse, this guy had been a DM for over 15 years. His problem? He liked killing PCs off. Our characters got killed so often that they rarely lasted more than three gaming sessions and that was with a group of 8 players. If his hands weren't on the table you would have thought he was wanking off from the shameless glee he took in his "well crafted kills" (like killing a first level fighter with an inexplicably inescapable ambush by 10 ogres is well crafted). After tolerating that nonsense for about 3 months, the rumbling started, as we turned from a group of players to a wannabe lynch mob. About a month later, I finally got fed up, told him exactly how pitiful a DM he was, and I quit. That was like opening the floodgates on a dam. Three weeks later, the group had completely collapsed, with only one player and the lousy GM left. Last I heard of him, when he was transferred to another state, he finally gave up DMing and gave away all his books. Too bad we couldn't make him quit earlier.Anyway, that was almost 10 years ago, the group fragmented almost completely, some of us ceased playing for years, but it has slowly been building back up to its old self, with the various players distributed in 3 different smaller gaming groups.</blockquote>

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