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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 670859" data-attributes="member: 8704">Do you have a barbecue every week? Yes he should of cancelled with more notice but if the guy was running adventures from modules that were straight Dungeon crawls then I don't think the guy prepared for hours on end. This was closer to "hey lets hang out at my house", and then one person saying "oh wait I can't make it" nobody was out a bunch of money or time. Lets not forget that in the discription of what's going on other people no showed on a regular basis and he called ahead to miss once. You stated that you put lots of work into your campaign and expected people to be there, but not every D&D game falls under that catagory. I posted this once and I'll post it again, "It all depends on the group you play with". Your standards are for your game, they are not universal. To some people D&D is a major social event, to others it's just a get together. Some people spend weeks working on indepth modules with tons of roleplaying and character development, some people "hit the orcs". For both sides on this, people play the game different and have different interpretations of what is involved and how the game should be played. Implying that somebody is wrong or bad because they don't share the same views is wrong and just goofy. As long as the group agrees with each other as to how imprtant showing up is that any way is ok. This situation is not about how bad not showing up is but about a DM holding one member to a different standard and taking out his anger by abusing being the DM to kill the guys character and running him off instead of the two of them sitting down and talking about it. If he is wrong for not giving enough notice, then how wrong were the people who missed regularly with out giving any notice? I guess I have fallen firmly on one side of this issue, I agree that he should of paid more attention and he should of tried to give more notice but these are not major "lets end or friendship" issues, these are very minor things, the response was wrong and overblown, especially when a "hey please stop that would of sufficed".</blockquote>

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