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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashrum the Black" data-source="post: 1389959" data-attributes="member: 1585">Most of the breakups I've had happen were messy.1) Had a DM suffering from DM burn out and some real life things he wasn't telling us about. He blew up at the group and we, unfortunately, didn't take it that well. We asked one guy to talk to him when they went to Gen Con and see about straitening everything out, that blew up too and the DM won't talk to anyone form that group any more. The crappy thing was he was a great friend, stood in my wedding, and now he won't even talk to me. 2) After that breakup we gamed with the aforementioned friend that we asked to talk to the old DM as the new one. This worked for about a year before he asked me to leave as I was bringing down the enjoyment of the whole group. I was ashamed that I had done this and bowed out. I then called all the folks in the group to apologize to each of them myself for my behavior. (I wasn’t sure what I had done specifically, but since my enjoyment level had been down for the campaign I felt I might have been transmitting it to folks and bringing them down.) I then found out that nope, nobody had a problem with gaming with me, and even the DM's wife had no idea what he had intended to do. So, at this point my anger boiled up over this, but I just decided to game with those that were willing to with me and we started a new group that gamed on an opposite night from the other DM. That way they could still game with him if they wished.3) This new group has been going for the last four years pretty well until recently. We had one lady leave with a big blow up that I have yet to totally understand. I think it boils down to issues of playing style that she took out of the game and made personal. But I could be wrong. One gentleman left to DM the old DM and his wife in shadowrun, and because he didn't like low level campaigns. Unfortunately I don't start folks out at high levels since I like long plots that mesh together so I never start over second or third level. In addition I like the character development that happens as play progress’s. When the last lady left, I had a sour taste in my mouth for the whole campaign. So I decided to start over and take things in fresh directions. He wasn't happy, and I can understand that, and decided to bow out. No hard feelings, and he's always welcome back.Finally, we've had one gentleman bow out due to going back to college. So with three folks gone while the group goes on we've reorganized and restarted a brand new campaign (again), and it feels like a new group. We've been having a blast so we'll see if we can avoid any drama for the foreseeable future.These have been my experiences with breaking up the group, and they, unfortunately, have not been good, or fun.-Ashrum</blockquote>

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