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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9517072" data-attributes="member: 20564">First, I'm sorry to hear your West Marches server shut down.&nbsp; After putting effort into it that sounds like a rather unhappy result.But reading this, it was likely inevitable.&nbsp; In-characters rivalries and tensions can be just fine.&nbsp; Player tensions with other players needed to be addressed and dealt with early.&nbsp; This West March campaign was already doomed, what you mention below was just the catalyst.Frankly, that doesn't seem escalating or provocative at all.&nbsp; Was there other context that made it so?&nbsp; Or is this a back-feel because of how it went when your druid did go talk to the ranger?Again, players mocking other players -- this campaign was already doomed.&nbsp; Both that they would do it, and that they would feel free to do it publicly and without fear of backlash against whatever informal code of conduct the server held to.More of the same.This is conjecture - what you feel would have helped defuse it.&nbsp; I understand tensions are running high, but this isn't a &quot;failure to take responsibility as a leader&quot;.&nbsp; Especially as they effectively did this exact thing from a different approach telling people to talk to them.DMPCs in a West March game?&nbsp; You know what, there are so many red flags going on here that while I'm sorry for you that it got here, I'm also happy for you that it's ended.&nbsp; There was no good path.&nbsp; Between hostile players and a DM favoring a player and running a DMPC (which is doubly bad in a West March game), be glad this didn't linger.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 9517072, member: 20564"] First, I'm sorry to hear your West Marches server shut down. After putting effort into it that sounds like a rather unhappy result. But reading this, it was likely inevitable. In-characters rivalries and tensions can be just fine. Player tensions with other players needed to be addressed and dealt with early. This West March campaign was already doomed, what you mention below was just the catalyst. Frankly, that doesn't seem escalating or provocative at all. Was there other context that made it so? Or is this a back-feel because of how it went when your druid did go talk to the ranger? Again, players mocking other players -- this campaign was already doomed. Both that they would do it, and that they would feel free to do it publicly and without fear of backlash against whatever informal code of conduct the server held to. More of the same. This is conjecture - what you feel would have helped defuse it. I understand tensions are running high, but this isn't a "failure to take responsibility as a leader". Especially as they effectively did this exact thing from a different approach telling people to talk to them. DMPCs in a West March game? You know what, there are so many red flags going on here that while I'm sorry for you that it got here, I'm also happy for you that it's ended. There was no good path. Between hostile players and a DM favoring a player and running a DMPC (which is doubly bad in a West March game), be glad this didn't linger. [/QUOTE]

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