Sooooo.... Were any of YOU ever kicked out of a game?

[Shemeska]

I got booted without getting booted from one of the first groups I was in. The current game ended with a TPK and I never got asked back though everyone else was.

Of course when I say that game ended with a TPK, it wasn't something special as half of their 'campaigns' ended in TPKs (though I hesitate to call those month long preludes to a TPK a 'campaign') with the other half of them ending because of player boredom, player revolt, DM burnout or roommate squabbles between players.

The DM also had an 'elves in FR are the perfect race and can do no wrong, even when killing innocents they're good and perfect and get +'s to everything but you as PCs get nothing that kewl'.

Individually most of the folks were good players, but like sushi, chocolate, coffee, and brunswick stew, they make a mess when mixed together at once. Since then I found my curren group and thankfully I think I've matured both as a player and a DM since that point, having been around 3 years or so.

 

[Algolei]

Some people I absolutely refused to play with for various reasons (mouthy blowhard, militaristic jerk, smarmy bastard, drug fiend, and so on). But the usual central person was nice to everyone. So basically I was never kicked out, but if I wanted to play, I had to play with people that I wouldn't have fun with. Some choice.

Whoa, did we go to high school together?! That sounds just like the group I ran. Except we also had a guy who thought he was better than everyone else. And there was the guy who made his girlfriend play even though she didn't want to, or even know how.

 

[green slime]

I left a group, that, thankfully enough, never asked me back.

I was the new guy. The DM had his own PC in the group that was just the cat's pajamas. Because we were too "slack". The DM also had skeletons (skeletons, mind you) charge past fighters to attack my wizard (1st level adventure). DM's brother, who was about as intelligent as your average frog, with all the social skills of said frog, got upset because he "wasn't involved in the decision-making". Or in other words, because we didn't follow his imbecile plan but made our own (everyone else at the table was involved, including the DM), which he (the brother) was most welcome to contribute to... and we would have succeeded even better had his character assisted, instead of sulking. But apparently it was better to sulk.

So I got blamed for the sulking brother. Still, after the ensuing discussion, I wasn't going back, even if they had begged me (which they didn't). The DM even had the nerve to ask me for the communal list of plunder which I had taken upon myself to document for posterity. Needless to say, I never gave it to them. Lazy twit can read through his own notes, surely.

 

[Ashrum the Black]

Yep, sure was. I gamed with the same group for 12 years. The group was more or less founded by a guy in my senior year of high school and we generally played at his house during the college years following. When he decided that he wanted to get married, and that college wasn't for him he joined the army and left ot be all he can be.

The rest of use continued to game together every Friday or Saturday while he was gone. He was medically discharged about four years later after he was hurt moving some equipment.

On his return he proceeded to dictate to us when we would game, moving it to Sundays so it jived better with his schedule. Be the reigouos sort I couldn't as the timing ment I'd have to give up going to church which was not going to happen. I was less than pleased with his unilateral descision and leaving the rest of us out of the loop. I proceeded to get together with some of the other guys from the group and game on our regular night.

About six months later his schedule changed and they needed to game on Fridays again so it was decied to combine things. That had to be the single most unconfotable night of my life. I felt like I was a leper and if it wasn't for one of the guys getting up and offering my wife a chair I think I would have just walked then and there.

I tried to talk to the guy, to ease things over between us. But through the gaming grape vine I heard that I my 12 year friendship had always been strained at best. I thought of him as one of my best friends.

So things kinda sputtered along for the next six months with folks being unhappy with the gaming local ( the cramped basement of this guys house), and the campaign in general was disjointed. We weren't a group, we were a bunch of individuals journying in the same direction. (sigh)

So one day just after the Christmas holiday I was asked over early and was told that I was not making it any fun for him and that everybody was complaining about me and it would be better if I didn't game with them all anymore.

I was very upset by this and proceeded to call everybody in the group over the next week and apologize for my behavior. I wasn't sure what I had done but these guys were my friends and I was not happy that I had upset them all this much. Each, and everyone of the guys then proceeded to tell me they had no probelms with me and that they'd game with me anytime. They had had no idea what this guy was going to to and were shocked when I wasn't there that week.

Needless to say I was more than a little ticked off buy this, and that was more or less the end of the group as well. I lost one good friend because of this, and two folks (the guy and his wife) that I had thought were my friends. It was not a high point in my life I can tell you.

-Ashrum

 

[Zelda Themelin]

Nope I haven't been kicked out. I have quitted many games, and few groups though. I am easily bored. I usually give games about two to four sessions of "maybe it will get better"-time, and if it doesn't I silently fade to the background and don't show up next session. And if asked why, I usually say "because I was bored, and didn't want my attitude to ruin game for those who seemed to have good time" or "I am too busy currently" depending on attitude of person asking.

At times I simple indeed have been too busy, and I get back when things slow down. If not that game, the next maybe.

If I haven't liked people I game it for other reasons and happened to be dm, then I either "forget" to mention them about gaming sessions or actually quitted the game.

Roleplaying aren't my life, they are supposed to be fun for me, and to those people I game with.

Disatisfied grumpy angstiness is something I really don't like to see, when I try to play. That's attitude, when it gets overpowering is most typical reason for me to quit game. Some people just don't know when to quit, they continue the game no matter how pissed it makes them to feel.

My current gaming group is 40+ people who form groups, at times drifting from the more regular one to another depending on what kind of game there is, and which people are at it.

 

[Kilmore]

I've never been kicked out of a gaming group, and in fact I continue to game with one person I have gamed with since 1983.

 

[Lord Rasputin]

Once. GURPS Black Ops game. The GM's wife decided that she didn't like me, and threw me out via e-mail. Est vita.

 

[Quasqueton]

I almost got kicked out of a group.

I organized a new group of Players and started a campaign (me as DM). The second game session ended in a TPK, mostly because of the intentional mechinations of one Player. When I showed frustration and disappointment at how my campaign had started and ended, that Player offered to DM his own campaign.

I didn't realize at the time that the TPK was the responsibility of that Player, but soon after, it became apparent in hindsight. Actually obvious.

We played in his campaign for several sessions, and the Player/DM proved to be on an ego trip. *All* his NPCs were either badasses, much better than the PCs, or just simply disrepectful to the PCs at every opportunity. We PCs were completely outgunned, outclassed, and outnumbered in all our endeavors. Every NPC had more attitude than a 15-year-old girl---even those who were supposed to be "on our side". We were never allowed to do anything but fail. And every failure was all our own fault, according to the DM.

One time when an NPC (a frickin wagon driver) rudely blew my character off for suggesting that one of us PCs ride up front with him, I lost it. I bitched loudly. The aggravation had built up so much that I just exploded. The DM said if I didn't like the campaign, I could leave. [We were playing at his home.]

Since I had organized and started that group, just a couple months earlier, I backed down that night. I didn't want to just walk out on my hard work and give it freely to him. Two weeks later, I was DMing my own game with 2 of the other 3 Players from that original game, plus 2 more new Players. And the only reason I didn't offer to bring over that 3rd original Player was because he had joined the Army, and was reporting for duty in two weeks.

Quasqueton

 

[Doug McCrae]

Given that the usual system for kicking someone out is to claim that the game has folded then continue it at another time/venue, lots of us have probably been kicked out of games but never realised it. People are so two-faced.

Anyway, I've never (knowingly) been kicked out a game, despite being a total git.

 

[diaglo]

nope. but i tried like heck.

i did everything i could to get my character killed so i could leave....

and the DM thought all of my ideas were great... so he kept saving me...

but nope. never been kicked out.

that was the first group i finally got the nerve up to leave. it gets easier with practice.

life is too short to play crappy RPGs.