Game Night! Episode 6: The Book That Cannot Be Opened Part1 (Recap part 3 pictures and drama)

As promised, pictures of this amazing game night. Since this time, the time when the game took place, I have learned a few things as a DM for an amazing group.

One is; don’t let the group get too big. I allowed people we had never planed on having in the group join. This is my fault because I’m a pleaser. Being a DM and pleaser is not the best combination. It causes me to break the rules OFTEN. One such “extra” player was the boyfriend of another player. This was a problem from the beginning. I should have known when the Boy (I will use the name Boy to describe the boyfriend so I can respect his identity) and the Girl player (you guessed it! she is called Girl from here on out) said to the group “my character is stalking her character” then the Girl turned and said “we may be dating in real life but that doesn’t mean we are together in the game”. This was in front of the entire group. Some funny and awkward things have happened since then.

 The Boy was not a good player and we tried to teach him, other players just occasionally barked at him. He had it coming. Every turn he would talk incessantly and loud. So the group did not like him. They asked me constantly if they could do mean things to him or even kill him. I said NO over and over, but I understood and did not blame them. One day he attacked another player to save his own ass. I posted it all in a previous recap. The players did not enjoy being attacked and he got himself killed. Since then he has felt “picked on” and for some reason.

Along with all that; other people outside the group wanted to poke their nose where it did not belong recently. The nose poking was concerning an extra activity for the group that was not a part of the game. After posting my final decision, after having the group vote, everything seemed fine. Suddenly the next day out of the blue the Girl quit. I kicked out her dad because the drama was continuing in weird ways and I realized having her dad in gave access to the outsiders, Girl, and Boy. I’m protecting the group and removing the problems. Now we move on and we have new players that I wish to say WELCOME to! Players that already fit in well.

On a sad note we have lost another player to LOVE. Yup he moved for love (I honestly cant blame him). Regardless he was a wonderful friend and player. He was old school D&D player for years and played with a skill that was one of the highest I have ever had the privilege to DM. You will be missed good sir. So we lost a total of 4 players in 4 months. I’m kind of happy we have 4 left. Now we need a 5^th. As for the rest of the recap I will do that this week and we will be caught up. UNTIL NEXT TIME HEROS!...