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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Robert Ranting" data-source="post: 3985300" data-attributes="member: 28906">I have only ever left two campaigns, and both of them for similar reasons.  In the first case, I left because of the DM.  He had been my mentor, the guy who taught me how to be an effective DM and who had run most of the games I had been in during college.  Unfortunately, the same qualities which made him a good DM, the ability to tell act and tell believable stories, and to read his players also made him a fairly effective manipulator out of game.  Eric's grandma certainly doesn't want to hear all the messy dealings he was involved in, so I will just say that after four years of playing in his games I finally woke up and realized that his moral and ethical standards were completely incompatible with my own, so I cut off all contact with him.The only other time I have left a game was when my girlfriend and I broke up for a few months.  In an effort to reduce drama, I talked to the DM and with her, and decided that I would bow out while she remained.  Truthfully, I had other issues with the game, but I would have powered through and stuck with it if my g/f and I had stayed together.  As an update, my girlfriend and I have since gotten back together, and I intend to re-join the game with her later this month, provided the DM finds a good point to work my new character in within the next session or so.Robert "It Is Always Personal" Ranting</blockquote>