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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 5674305" data-attributes="member: 2093">In my game (which I DM and host) we only play for 3 hours at a time. We've had a problem recently with two of the players (father and son) having to leave early every other week. The father finally explained it and admitted it wasn't going to stop happening. So we moved the game start time up by half an hour, so even if they have to leave 20 or 30 minutes early, we can still play a full session. And on the weeks they can stay til the "official" end time, we get an extra half hour of play. My players are rarely late, and I start on time as much as possible; we socialize, yes, but we try not to eat up our game time doing it. My feeling is this: I make the commitment to provide a comfortable, reliable game and venue, in my own home. If you can't be bothered to show up more or less on time (15 minutes either way), then you are being rude to everyone else, and you should just admit it and go away. Life crises are different, and traffic when you have a tight schedule is different; those are not in your control, and if you were a gamer friend, we'd work around them.I played in a shop game for several years, and it started at 6:00 on Saturday nights. I worked until six every second or third Saturday. So I was late on those nights. When I wasn't DMing, they started without me. When I was, they had to wait. I minimized the delay by making my hubby meet me in the parking lot each week with my supper in hand. It worked out... because they were my friends and they knew I wasn't deliberately messing with game time. I think that's the key. Rudeness like not bothering to inform friends you're going to be late is bad at any level. And every group will work out their acceptable limits of lateness or other issues.</blockquote>

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