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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Craer" data-source="post: 1987605" data-attributes="member: 435">My group is in the process of falling apart. It's interesting to watch, in a Kafkaesque sort of way. Really, it's because of player bloat. At the session last night, we had ten people running around in my basement. That's a ridiculous amount of players. Well, minus one for being the DM, but still. Ten. Egad. Our group used to consist of one DM and four players, with an additional player every now and then when he took a train from the city into town to hang out with us. It was good. And then, the DM suddenly brought in three new players.  The Beginning of the End. New Player 1 is a silly powergamer. That's it. If the character isn't twinked to hell with at least four prestige classes, two templates, and based off of an anime hero, he's not interested. New Player 2 is a rabid rules lawyer. Not only is he bad at being a Rules Lawyer, but he's quite stubborn about being right, even when shown the proper page in Book X that directly contradicts his eagerly shouted mandates. New Player 3 is worst of the rotten lot. This girl is a seething pit of mental issues, on top of being a poor and distracting roleplayer. She frequently makes pointed attempts to steal the spotlight of the entire game for herself with her overly dramatic characters. Case in point, her last character was a human fighter that, after a whispered conversation with the DM mid-game, suddenly sprouted wings made of chains. When the rest of the party understandably uttered a collective "WTF?", her character started crying tears of blood and flew off over the city. This change in her character was never explained. Later, her character tried to commit suicide in front of us, and when none of our characters stopped her, the player became angry at us. By the way, she's dating new player #1, in addition to being the subject of the DM's unspoken affections. I can't be the only one to see this DramaBomb-a-tickin'. On top of all of this (!), one of our players is leaving to join the U.S. Navy in March. Another player simply doesn’t play. When he shows up, he sits down for five minutes, grows bored, and wanders off to play GameCube, no matter if the party is in the middle of combat. Last session, he got up in the middle of a fight, wandered into the guest room, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep for two hours. Then his girlfriend, another player, went into the room with him, and closed the door.  Cue awkward silence. At that point, our DM just gave up and packed his stuff up.  I figure that my group has about 3 months left before we shatter for good. Luckily, I'm in a second group that doesn't meet as frequently, but I believe that to be a good thing. When we do meet, we actually play a decent game for the alloted time. The group I described in this post meets every week.</blockquote>

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