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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 934255" data-attributes="member: 1710">I sympathize with you, I really do.Last summer I started a new campaign. There were five players. We had, I think, four sessions before it began to fall apart. Two of the players are my age (mid-twenties), one was college age, the other two are in high school.First one of the older players (Dave) was tied up for a few weeks in July. He came back and then his younger brother went back to college. I had planned for that and his PC's abscence wasn't a big deal. Then his youngest brother had band camp in August. School started for the younger kids and no one had time to play. Now really there was plenty of time for games during the summer, but here's the thing; we play at Dave's house. Dave's house is located evenly between all the players, whose houses are pretty far apart from each other. It's right beside the school so everyone knows where it is, and there's plenty of room. No one else has room for all of us to play in relative privacy, with the exception of Eric (the other older player) but his house is out in the boonies. Dave refused to call players and let them know when a session was going to be on. He thought that I, as the DM, should do that. Normally I'd agree, but we're not playing at my house, we're playing at his parents'. You don't invite a bunch of people over to another person's house. That is what we call, "socially unacceptable". There is always something going on at his house. Religious stuff, relative stuff, wedding stuff, weird holidays no one has ever heard of. You name it. As such, it was a lot easier all around for him to just find out when there was nothing else going on at home and tell everyone there was a session that day. He knows I always have material ready...He refused to see the logic in this. He would always ask why we hadn't had a session in a while and always acted surprised when I gave him my standard answer; that I had told him to just schedule one whenever they were free. Half of the people playing live at his house! He hardly even had to call anyone! So we missed a lot of perfectly good opportunities because of that. He could have even just called me and I would call the other two people.Anyway, after the beginning of the year we could have started back up again. Instead of resuming my campaign (which he knew I fully intended to finish) he started up a D20 Modern campaign, thus successfully hijacking my campaign. After a few sessions of the D20M game over a span of a few months or so we haven't played for about three months. He's working on getting a teaching degree, has a job with no set schedule so he often has to work at night and he's in a cover band that plays the night before we usually play and thus, his throat is sore. That's cool, I'm all for bettering yourself and having hobbies. But why then, did he start a campaign? Well, that's what he does when he gets a new toy (I can't believe I got him the damn book). The sad thing is that the quality of his campaign really suffers because he has NO time to spend on it. It would be easier to play mine because the only time he would need to devote to that would be during the session. He has enough time to play, but let's face it, he doesn't have the time to run a decent campaign. Which makes me even more POed that I can't run mine right now. If I do start back up I'll still have to deal with the issue of having to schedule rendevous at someone else's house. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> The other players assumed I wasn't going to resume the campaign when he started his D20M campaign because he quit running his last campaign halfway through and figured I was doing the same thing. Ugh.Heh. I wonder if he'll see this. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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