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<blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8248893" data-attributes="member: 30438">I put up with a lot of bad player behavior on account of them being my friends. In the end I finished that campaign and just didn't invite them to the next one. Still friends with them (with one exception, who was bad enough to get a hard boot before then), but I'm not going to game with them. Just because people are friends does not mean they area good fit gaming-wise.One of them asked me a while back (pre-pandemic) &quot;so when are you starting up the next campaign?&quot; My reply was just &quot;Oh, I'm just really busy with work and my other game right now and I just just don't have the energy to take on another campaign right now.&quot; I won't say part of me wasn't tempted to call him out on his bad behavior then and there, but since I value our friendship more, I left at just that slight fib instead.The only times recently I've been a player and had a bad table fit were at conventions. I've been lucky that most of the players and DMs/GMs have been good at cons (or at least inoffensively average), but there've been a handful of times where one or the other or both just weren't fun to game with. In those instances, I generally just grin and bear it until the 2-4 hours are up, I've got my XP, and I never have to see these people again. There was one time I was this close to getting up and walking, but my brother prevailed on me to stick it out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ralif Redhammer, post: 8248893, member: 30438"] I put up with a lot of bad player behavior on account of them being my friends. In the end I finished that campaign and just didn't invite them to the next one. Still friends with them (with one exception, who was bad enough to get a hard boot before then), but I'm not going to game with them. Just because people are friends does not mean they area good fit gaming-wise. One of them asked me a while back (pre-pandemic) "so when are you starting up the next campaign?" My reply was just "Oh, I'm just really busy with work and my other game right now and I just just don't have the energy to take on another campaign right now." I won't say part of me wasn't tempted to call him out on his bad behavior then and there, but since I value our friendship more, I left at just that slight fib instead. The only times recently I've been a player and had a bad table fit were at conventions. I've been lucky that most of the players and DMs/GMs have been good at cons (or at least inoffensively average), but there've been a handful of times where one or the other or both just weren't fun to game with. In those instances, I generally just grin and bear it until the 2-4 hours are up, I've got my XP, and I never have to see these people again. There was one time I was this close to getting up and walking, but my brother prevailed on me to stick it out. [/QUOTE]

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