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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 3754336" data-attributes="member: 34865">Two related funnies:I let "friends of friends" join the game; a boyfriend/girlfriend couple.  Let's call them Jim and Sue.Sue was on medications for psychological problems (I didn't know this when I said 'sure thing, come on board').  Sue begged to play a Monk, so I let her.  Whoops - first DM bonehead play.  She'd spend whole combats doing nothing, claiming she was trying to figure out what to do.  It usually involved her coming up and making a wholly unremarkable attack that didn't rely on her monk abilities (this is AD&D).Sue's moodswings were unpredictable and tended to drag the game around as Sue would take her boredom out on her b/f, Jim.Anyway, this is becoming a "bad player" story so I'll get to the (second) DM bonehead story:I think we'd just about had enough and I think they sensed it.  So I was talking to the folks who'd invited them (actually very nice people, really) and they told me the couple probably couldn't make it again anyway, so no big deal.So I tore up their character sheets.About 30 minutes later they showed up as cheery as all get-out ready to play.Whoops!  I feigned off not being able to find them, everyone else at the table was struggling not to laugh.  Regardless, they took the hint about me "losing" their character sheets and didn't come back.  Yes, it was horrible and passive agressive of me not to just say "Look, you  guys...it isn't working out, maybe a different game or different classes would be more your speed" etc.  So there you have it. <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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