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I really just need to vent some steam right now.
Here are the players:
L - The DM for our current D&D campaign
J - L's roommate
T - Been with the group longer than anyone except my husband
K - Not actively playing in the current D&D campaign but still in this story
A - One of the players
S - A's wife
A bit of background on the group. My husband and T have been playing together for about the last 3 years or so. Since then they have had several other players come and go. Most of the current group is relatively new, and frankly, they're all falling apart.
L is a great DM and used to be very reliable about showing up on time when we were going to play. However, he recently got a new job that he works a lot more hours at. It's still a M-F job but he works something like 50-55 hours a week so he's always tired on the weekends now.
J always sleeps in, especially on the weekends, so even when we play in the afternoon, he's frequently late. Also, I'm not sure what his work schedule is, but I don't think he has set hours because one week he will be available Saturday afternoon and the next he won't.
T is going to school so his schedule is set. Almost always available on weekends.
K isn't playing in our current campaign, but I am planning on running a campaign soon that he wants to play in. He works with my husband and they both work 8-5 M-F jobs so their schedules are also very set and are always available on weekends.
A and S, we like to call "baby geeks." They're younger than the rest of us (we're all in our mid-late 20s to early 30s, they are in their late teens) and they're pretty inexperienced when it comes to roleplaying. A works at a gas station, so his schedule is always sporadic. S doesn't work, but she also never comes to D&D unless A is there.
Okay, I think that's all the background. Now the nitty gritty stuff.
We haven't actually gotten a chance to play D&D for almost 2 months now. There's always something that's come up, most recently with our DM, L. He will tell us that he's available to play Saturday at noon, or whatever time we determine. We (my husband and I) get to the game store we play at, and no one else is there. So we wait...and wait...and wait...and finally call the house where L and J live. J will answer and not even know we were planning on playing, despite the fact that his email address is in the mailing list we use to send out the "hey, when are we playing this weekend" emails. Then he will tell us L is still asleep, so he'll wake him up and L will tell us he's on his way. Two hours and several games of Munchkin later, we still will not have heard from L. This has happened twice now. He will not call or communicate with us at all that he can't make it. I understand if he's tired or whatever from working all week, but he could have the common courtesy to let us know he won't show. No, he will let us sit in the game store for over 2 hours instead.
A and S just piss me off, mostly because they suck as players. A always plays the same character. I don't care if he's playing a fighter, a rogue, or a sorcerer. He always plays the same character. "Huuurrr, me smash things with big object!" Yes, he could play a magic using class, and not actually use magic. Instead he will run up to things and hit them with the biggest weapon he can find. He is of the mindset to "hit first, ask questions later." Even in the campaign that I am running -- a Call of Cthulhu game, in which I specifically told all the players there would be very little fighting and a lot more roleplaying/puzzle solving -- he made a soldier who can't do anything but fire a gun.
S, on the other hand, can't even do that much. She gets A to make her character for her. When we're playing and the DM asks her what she's going to do in a specific situation, she looks at A for instructions. She can't do ANYTHING on her own. And she thinks she's so CUTE when she does it, giggling and hiding her face like she's embarrassed to be seen roleplaying or something.
Well, I'm done. As of right now, I'm voting L, A, and S off of my Cthulhu island. I'm pretty close to voting J off, too, but he's a good roleplayer and a fun guy, so I emailed him and asked him if there's a day of the week that he's usually available to play on. That's our (my husband's and my) main gripe right now -- half the group just can't seem to get it together to show up when we decide to play, and even the ones who do say they're going to show, don't! T, K, and my husband are committed to my Cthulhu campaign, and I could run it with just the three of them, and they're the most reliable at showing up to things when we do stuff together, so I've basically told them that it's going to be the four of us, and possibly J. I'm just so sick of people flaking out on us.
Here are the players:
L - The DM for our current D&D campaign
J - L's roommate
T - Been with the group longer than anyone except my husband
K - Not actively playing in the current D&D campaign but still in this story
A - One of the players
S - A's wife
A bit of background on the group. My husband and T have been playing together for about the last 3 years or so. Since then they have had several other players come and go. Most of the current group is relatively new, and frankly, they're all falling apart.
L is a great DM and used to be very reliable about showing up on time when we were going to play. However, he recently got a new job that he works a lot more hours at. It's still a M-F job but he works something like 50-55 hours a week so he's always tired on the weekends now.
J always sleeps in, especially on the weekends, so even when we play in the afternoon, he's frequently late. Also, I'm not sure what his work schedule is, but I don't think he has set hours because one week he will be available Saturday afternoon and the next he won't.
T is going to school so his schedule is set. Almost always available on weekends.
K isn't playing in our current campaign, but I am planning on running a campaign soon that he wants to play in. He works with my husband and they both work 8-5 M-F jobs so their schedules are also very set and are always available on weekends.
A and S, we like to call "baby geeks." They're younger than the rest of us (we're all in our mid-late 20s to early 30s, they are in their late teens) and they're pretty inexperienced when it comes to roleplaying. A works at a gas station, so his schedule is always sporadic. S doesn't work, but she also never comes to D&D unless A is there.
Okay, I think that's all the background. Now the nitty gritty stuff.
We haven't actually gotten a chance to play D&D for almost 2 months now. There's always something that's come up, most recently with our DM, L. He will tell us that he's available to play Saturday at noon, or whatever time we determine. We (my husband and I) get to the game store we play at, and no one else is there. So we wait...and wait...and wait...and finally call the house where L and J live. J will answer and not even know we were planning on playing, despite the fact that his email address is in the mailing list we use to send out the "hey, when are we playing this weekend" emails. Then he will tell us L is still asleep, so he'll wake him up and L will tell us he's on his way. Two hours and several games of Munchkin later, we still will not have heard from L. This has happened twice now. He will not call or communicate with us at all that he can't make it. I understand if he's tired or whatever from working all week, but he could have the common courtesy to let us know he won't show. No, he will let us sit in the game store for over 2 hours instead.
A and S just piss me off, mostly because they suck as players. A always plays the same character. I don't care if he's playing a fighter, a rogue, or a sorcerer. He always plays the same character. "Huuurrr, me smash things with big object!" Yes, he could play a magic using class, and not actually use magic. Instead he will run up to things and hit them with the biggest weapon he can find. He is of the mindset to "hit first, ask questions later." Even in the campaign that I am running -- a Call of Cthulhu game, in which I specifically told all the players there would be very little fighting and a lot more roleplaying/puzzle solving -- he made a soldier who can't do anything but fire a gun.
S, on the other hand, can't even do that much. She gets A to make her character for her. When we're playing and the DM asks her what she's going to do in a specific situation, she looks at A for instructions. She can't do ANYTHING on her own. And she thinks she's so CUTE when she does it, giggling and hiding her face like she's embarrassed to be seen roleplaying or something.
Well, I'm done. As of right now, I'm voting L, A, and S off of my Cthulhu island. I'm pretty close to voting J off, too, but he's a good roleplayer and a fun guy, so I emailed him and asked him if there's a day of the week that he's usually available to play on. That's our (my husband's and my) main gripe right now -- half the group just can't seem to get it together to show up when we decide to play, and even the ones who do say they're going to show, don't! T, K, and my husband are committed to my Cthulhu campaign, and I could run it with just the three of them, and they're the most reliable at showing up to things when we do stuff together, so I've basically told them that it's going to be the four of us, and possibly J. I'm just so sick of people flaking out on us.
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