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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 665837" data-attributes="member: 6521">Just some highly hypothetical "DM's perspective:"- Reading during the game... It would be nice if this person would pay attention. It's one thing if we digress into a topic that most of us are interested in, but when one player is off in d20 Modern-Land while everyone else is trying to slay the Evil Stat-blocks, it's pretty rude. Maybe he's just feeling neglected. I'll have to plan some stuff for the next game that'll really involve the party rogue!- Missing a game, without prior notice, or even a real reason? And damn, half the stuff I have planned for tonight requires a rogue... I guess I'll have to run him as an NPC... And hey, if he's that flippant about it, may as well let the dice fall where they may. If he dies, well, at least that'll make it clear to the guys who are here that keep missing sessions to shape up a little!- Now he wants to play a Forsaker? What's that? From one of the later splatbooks? That's probably okay... (Goes and reads up.) Well, crap! That's going to be a pain to the party. Well, if he really wants to play it, might as well cater to him... Hmm, how can I introduce him in a way that really emphasizes the character? Ooh, cursed bonds, that way he can risk self-sacrifice himself to refuse the assistance of magic! I'll throw in a giant somewhere nearby, so he can still get to play...- Wow, these guys are taking forever to get through this dungeon. And Readsy McReadsalot over there still hasn't been introduced... Maybe I should have put him earlier in the dungeon, but I figured this would be easy! Oh well, more reading time for him I guess.- Crap, now the party wants to teleport? Well, I guess it's their choice... Geez, did he pick this class just to be spiteful or what? Maybe he wants out of the group, and he's just being passive aggressive about it... I guess I'll do a session where he's not needed, give him the opportunity to exit gracefully, and if not that to rethink that whole "Forsaker" idea... It's no fun picking out neat magic items just for one player to destroy, after all...---Sure it's a stretch, I'm just trying to present what another biased opinion might be. If you want to keep playing with the group, talk it out with the DM, see where both sides of the story meet, and make some compromises... If you don't want to keep playing with the group, well, then your DM did you a favor <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Good gaming to you in either case, and I hope you find a more amicable situation.</blockquote>

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