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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7496743" data-attributes="member: 3400">I tend to ditch out of games more because of other players than the GM, but I also don't usually ditch out of face to face games, mostly just online where your likelihood of knowing the other players or GM is slim. And ultimately ditching is usually because of style differences.I once ditched out of an online Traveller game because the GM was having us roll for... everything. We were had crashed on an icy planet with a corrosive atmosphere and had to refuel. I was playing an engineer and between me and the other players had come up with using a probe to bring ice back to the ship to refine into hydrogen gas. This was going to take something like 72+ trips to get sufficient fuel. The GM was having us roll for every one - and each one involved multiple skill checks. The fateful, hazardous failed check was pretty likely to come and do so more than once. Plus, it was simply a waste of time. Sure, the rules may have implied that each could be a separate check, but, honestly? Who does that? Someone with no sense of pacing or the patience of his players.That said, there are few absolute deal-breakers, but a number of red flags. These include:* being overly pedantic with the rules (such as rolling for everything when it's not serving anything useful)* loot division based on dividing up the cash and then buying the items out of it based on their value (I detest that method)* blatant favoritismI'll ultimately put up with a lot more face to face than I will online, usually because the problems I've encountered have never been as extreme face to face as they have been online. I'm not entirely sure why. I'd like to think it's because, in a face to face environment, we manage to communicate better on multiple levels so the misunderstandings are less likely to get out of control. But I'm not sure that's true. It may be simply because the population of people who game online has a higher proportion of goons unable to find a decent face to face game...</blockquote>

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