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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UniversalMonster" data-source="post: 2653519" data-attributes="member: 1034">Ouch. Okay, well I can think of three or four occaision, but they weren't egregious, horrible or hilarious like you guys all had. Guy #1: "Master Po". He played some kind of monk or paladin guy in AD&D2e (it was a kit so I am kinda fuzzy on it), and anyhow, he always had a problem with events in the game, didn't want to switch to 3e when it came out and would sometimes fall asleep at the game, so we lost him. His character was named "Master Po". Honestly, he was a nice enough guy, but he was dragging us down, funwise.Guy #2: Was an Enworlder! And I don't remmeber his name but I met him here. Anyhow, I have nothing bad to say about this guy other than he missed every other session for like 4 months straight and would never let me know ahead of time so I was constantly trying to edit him in or out. He was also a bit chaotic of a roleplayer- when the group spent an entire session stealthily stalking bad guys, he would show up at the next session and go "bad guys? I attack! Where are they?" <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=":)" /> Mainly he just missed to many sessions for me to keep him in. Once again, he was honestly a nice enough guy, I guess. Guy #3: Total jerk, but we didn't find out until later, and we didn't even kick him out so much as he quit. He "wasn't into miniatures" and showed up with the "blind Paladin" character. I was even willing to work with him and give him some kind of ability to still participate in battles using blindsense or something (these are 1st level characters in a 'first session' type of game). But he basically spent the entire session ignoring the game and talking to my 5 year old because he "loved kids". After that 1 session he quits and says its because we weren't roleplaying enough and because he didn't like the fact that we used miniatures-- but actually it was this guy that didn't do any roleplaying. I was ready to attribute it to him being the only new guy there (the rest of us had gamed together before) and just general newness. I mean- first sessions are always a bit stiff with me. Then we find out later he was basically really obsessed with us in his online journal, talking a lot of smack. Okay, someone from our group may have taunted him after he made a few comments, but really this guy was out there. And in general, he turned out to be kind of an odious and sort of obsessed/troubled person. He may even have an Enworld account! So anyhow. Not fun. Guy #4: Also an Enworlder! I didn't kick him out, but I ended a campaign because this guy was a little too heavy handed as a player with me. Basicaly a campaign I ran went horribly wrong and a PC was killed and rose again as a vampire. The player then insisted he should be able to attack the party. It was a nightmare, and I was kinda responsible, so I offered to end the campaign and start a new one, retcon certain events, have him make a new guy.. just .. anything. The campaign had turned in on itself and was going bad. This guy insisted he should be allowed to play his guy with the full vampire template added AND that the campaign should suddenly be a PVP one. I just wasn't interested in GMing it- and I should add- neither was anyone else really wanting to play it out. (Although the cleric was reasonably sure he could turn him). He ended up quitting over the events, and so that ended badly. He later formed his own campaign with him as DM and I was afraid to join it because word was he was really upset with me. <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=":)" /> (I may not have been welcome anyhow). I quit DMing for a while after that to do music and most of the players from the group joined his campaign for a while. Then later when I restarted my campaign, they eventually rejoined mine. I honestly didn't mean to have any conflict, and I made an honest effort to recruit players broadly--  but apparently some bad feelings may have lingered. Not on my part, I just want to stress. He was really an ok guy and we went to Gen Con as a group one year and he was a lot of fun on that trip. Well, I bear that guy no hard feelings or anything. JUST IN CASE HE IS READING AND STILL WANTS TO KILL ME.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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