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Message: <blockquote data-quote="farscapesg1" data-source="post: 2549771" data-attributes="member: 15234">In the situation of sickness, a death in the family, medical attention for the kids, etc. then things can be overlooked.  As I mentioned, in our group all you have to do is provide your character information.  They can email it to the DM or post it on a messageboard that I created for the group.  It's that simple.  Then when they can't make it, we have access to print the information out and play the character (which I usually do).  The "It's a game" attitude doesn't fly for me.  Yes, it's a game, but at the same time you have a committment to the group.  I'm not saying the group comes before your family, but it is the lack of committment and common decency that irritates me.  When a player misses a session, especially in smaller groups, that makes the group suffer.  At one point our group only had 5 players.  My DM has a strict rule that if there are less then 4 players, the game would be cancelled.  Everyone knows this in the group.  If one person misses, I usually take up the reigns of his character along with my wizard (and running two wizards or a wizard and a psionicist is not fun, let me tell you).  However, we had a couple sessions where 2 people missed and one of them didn't notify the DM  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> So, the rest of the group drove over an hour and we didn't end up playing.  Now, some may say that is the fault of the DM, but since it was a rule that everyone knew, it was the fault of the players being inconsiderate and rude.  All they had to do was pick up a phone and call.  I get together with the group to play DND, not board games or to sit around and BS.  I can do that with my wife at home or with our other friends, and not have spent the gas money and time to drive there and back.Edit -> There are times when a player is too dedicated  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />   We had one player that actually showed up to the game to give us his character information while his wife was in the hospital in labor  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />   We constantly tease him about it now, even though he tried to explain that the doctors said she would be in labor for at least a couple hours.  By the time he got there, they had already called the DM to tell him to turn around and come back (since he didn't have a cell phone on him).</blockquote>

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