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

[reveal]

I've left a few groups (personality issues and what not) but have only been kicked out of one group. I got kicked out because... um... I really don't know. I was called one day and told I was no longer invited to game and to come get my stuff. I did and that was that. Pretty weird...

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Humor removed that was a little TOO grandma-unfriendly. -Henry



I've been thrown out before but it was a personal drama thing (DM thought I was cutting into his action with the girls in the group), rather than some gaming thing.

 

[Desdichado]

I did unintentionally offend a guy in one group a few years ago (he thought my story hour entries made him look stupid.) Because of some real life things going on (birth of my third son coinciding with this, more or less) the group fell apart temporarily around that issue.

We later got back together again briefly, until work schedules ruled it out again. Then I found another group right about then, and haven't been interested in going back. It was also a 45 minute drive for me, which was part of the reason to not make an attempt to keep it up.

So, no, I guess I wasn't thrown out, but if I hadn't realized what I was unintentionally doing and apologized, the group would probably have broken up, and then reconvened without me (since I was the relative newbie in that group, and most of the rest of them were old friends.) I guess it might have amounted to about the same thing.

 

[Evilhalfling]

nope, but I have left 1 long playing group, I ran one game, played in a second and bailed on the third campaign. Looking back Im not sure why,
I grew bored with the lack of risk for my character, we were rescued from TPK twice, for no good reasons. The game nights and location were inconvienant, for me but not the rest, so I just stopped coming.

I dont count groups where I tried a session to see if I liked it and never returned. We all new going in I was just trying it out.

 

[jester47]

Never been kicked out. But I would like to make a comment and possibly hijack the thread (If it looks like that is going to happen, I will make a new thread).

What reading this thread made me realise is that there are so many gamers out there will ulterior motives and two faced-ness. I mean DMs wanting to score with the girls at the table, people pretending to fold a group to get rid of people. I mean wow! If they treat the people they play games with this way it makes me how they treat other people in their lives. This thread has firmed up my resolve to let it go and if I have to kick a member being straight forward about the reasons and the kicking itself. It also reminds me to never run my game as a democracy. Its a benign dictatorship with the purpose of people having fun. Self glorificaiton does not work here. Neither does dramatic sillyness.

Aaron.

 

[Particle_Man]

Not only did I get secretly kicked out (the players met on another night), but the DM of that one point blank refuses to this day to play in a D&D game in which I am a player! Something about my paladin losing status, me losing interest in the character and suiciding, him being p.o.'d because my paladin regaining her status was a major plot point, and accusations of me power-gaming on my next character (Well, it was a 3.0 spiked chain monkey). When someone else stood up for me so that I was invited into a game in which he was also a player, he soon found reason to quit the game.

I also (soon after that) had one other DM describing a campaign he was starting up, and when I asked questions about it, got a quick "sorry, we're full". Maybe he was.

Ah well. Currently I am in two campaigns (both D&D, but as far apart from each other on the kick in the door/deep immersion line as you can get) and running a King Arthur D&D campaign that people seem to like. It's all good.

 

[pogre]

I understand why groups fold and then start up again without a player. Kicking a player out of a game is very difficult. I have done it a few times. It is never easy, and a few times I have had players literally beg to get back into the game. 90% of the time I have not had an actual problem with the player, but folks at the playing table have.

Group chemistry is very important to me - spending time with friends (new and old) is a major draw to gaming for me. I will agree with diaglo on this one - "life is too short to play crappy rpgs."

My old players are always appreciative of my forthright manner and honestly in dealing with these folks, but they always say I'm glad I did not have to do it...

 

[JoeGKushner]

Back in high school my friends and I had some disagreements that spilled heavily over to the game. It was like we had two gaming groups.

 

[Henry]

Never been kicked out, but I was NOT invited to a game that about 6 of my friends started. I didn't feel bad, however, because I think they wanted a more "close personal" game, including the guys who made up their original group before I and a couple of others had come along. Well, that, and I had another gaming group made up of the guys who DIDN't play in that game, to play with.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Never been kicked out, but I did have an arguement with a DM in college after which I left and never went back. He accused me of staring at his girlfriends breasts one night when she came over while we were playing. This took everyone by surprise, especially me, as I hadn't given her so much as a second look after she got there. He would hear no excuses, so I picked up my books, said goodnight to everyone, and left.