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Message: <blockquote data-quote="merelycompetent" data-source="post: 4801988" data-attributes="member: 33830">First, let me clarify: There is a difference between constructive criticism ("Hey, MC? We're having some problems with your game...") and being a jerk ("MC, I can't *believe* you're running RPG 7.2, The Rotten Tripe Edition! What a load of horse puckey!"). The former is invaluable, but painful, feedback. The latter is what I'm posting about below.Indifferent is OK. Spending a full five minutes dissing the game that I spent hours preparing to run is a slap in the face. Talk about just plain out and out rude! That's not being a friend. That IS being a jerk.Now, your friends may also be feeling upset that you're moving away. They could be showing that in a very un-friend manner. Now is the time to find out... and stay friends.Or it could be that your friends weren't the sort of friends you thought they were.Whatever the reasons, I think it would behoove you to contact one or more of your friends for a little one-on-one heart-to-heart about what's really going on here. I think you're currently operating on hurt feelings and assumptions. If they really are your friends, they'll talk with you honestly. If they blow you off, or tell you to get a thicker skin... then use this move to cut the leeches off. You can more constructively spend the time before the move a) prepping for the move, b) searching for a new group at the destination, c)setting up a new campaign to introduce your new friends to, and so forth. Life is too short... you know the rest.</blockquote>

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