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<blockquote data-quote="Naoki00_" data-source="post: 6246646" data-attributes="member: 99243">I'm the DM of a game that's been running for a good while now (going on 2 years), but recently there has been a huge issue in trying to run it lately, 2 of the players aren't showing up like they should. Now this apparently happens for a number of reasons, and despite them both saying how much they enjoy the game and want to meet, they keep having 'things' to do that for some reason take all day long to do on the one day of the week we meet. Since we only meet once a week, this has gone on for a months time, with them finally coming...only to have something else to do the next week.Seeing as we all set this day aside specifically for game day I feel like it's hard to really be lenient, as because of how the game is currently set up we CAN'T player if they don't come, all the encounters and plot hooks I have are assuming all the players show. I can retool these of course but doing that every time and having to plan for both them coming and them not is wearing thin on my time and enthusiasm of running the game, and it's severely annoying the other players, who have suggested that we just move the game on without them and that if they don't show up again to have their character summarily dumped down a ravine or dragons mouth.I'm not sure if this is the proper action, but as these players hardly even return my calls or messages I can't even talk to them about it reliably, and feel a little pressured into doing SOMETHING about it, is the suggestion the way to go or should I try something less drastic?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Naoki00_, post: 6246646, member: 99243"] I'm the DM of a game that's been running for a good while now (going on 2 years), but recently there has been a huge issue in trying to run it lately, 2 of the players aren't showing up like they should. Now this apparently happens for a number of reasons, and despite them both saying how much they enjoy the game and want to meet, they keep having 'things' to do that for some reason take all day long to do on the one day of the week we meet. Since we only meet once a week, this has gone on for a months time, with them finally coming...only to have something else to do the next week. Seeing as we all set this day aside specifically for game day I feel like it's hard to really be lenient, as because of how the game is currently set up we CAN'T player if they don't come, all the encounters and plot hooks I have are assuming all the players show. I can retool these of course but doing that every time and having to plan for both them coming and them not is wearing thin on my time and enthusiasm of running the game, and it's severely annoying the other players, who have suggested that we just move the game on without them and that if they don't show up again to have their character summarily dumped down a ravine or dragons mouth. I'm not sure if this is the proper action, but as these players hardly even return my calls or messages I can't even talk to them about it reliably, and feel a little pressured into doing SOMETHING about it, is the suggestion the way to go or should I try something less drastic? [/QUOTE]

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