>guys who only shows up about 70% of sessions while making lame ass excuses all the time says he wants to DM >go "eh maybe" which is a nice way of saying "no you dickhead" >he insists as the current game is coming to a close >we ignore as much as possible >he REALLY wants to do it >we tell him fine, text each other not to bother besides making the most generic half-assed characters >one day before game is suppose to start >"uhh sorry guys I've been way too busy, give me one more week to set things up." >I am Jack's complete lack of surprise >play the "back-up" game the other guy set-up
Fuck flakers.
Hudson Gonzalez
>go "eh maybe" which is a dickless way of saying "no you dickhead" >we tell him fine, text each other not to bother
I fucking hate you.
Asher Bell
If the guy wasn't going to run a game anyways, what's the issue?
Luis Phillips
this. colossal dick moves. turned out it didn't matter in the end, but I can't comprehend how people can live with behaving this dishonestly
Justin Gonzalez
You're a dishonest little shit, that's the issue. Fucking talk to him instead of saying "eeeh maybe" and insulting him behind his back
Josiah Turner
>t. shitflake wannabe gm
Grayson Sanchez
If a GM skives on a game and not players turn up to see it does the pope shit in the woods?
Brandon Parker
It's honestly easier to let him think that he "won" and plan for the eventual "eeeeh guiz, I got [stuff] to do for [reasons] and I have to do it next week."
It ended up happening anyways so obviously I was right.
Isaac Taylor
Humoring people is a natural part of social interaction to avoid offense, user. Of course OP could just be honest with his friend but there's always the possibility that doing so could upset the friend. Sometimes it's better to lie to people to avoid upsetting them and since OP mentioned that friend flaked out on the game anyway there was no harm done.
Gavin Thompson
Because we knew that he'd end up flaking anyways and decided not to bother because we knew that it wasn't happening anyways.
Zachary Jones
so instead of being a slimy piece of shit, why not just speak to him like a human being would and explain why his flakiness is a problem?
Logan Bennett
>wannabe GM is known to not get shit done >hypothetical players don't invest much energy into potential game before they know it's actually happening >hurr the players are bad guys Of course, nobody here is a bad guy, it's just one guy who doesn't know himself and a bunch of others who know him better.
Jordan Price
Dishonest? How? They gave him a chance despite knowing it likely wouldn't happen, and then it didn't happen. That they predicted that it wouldn't happen doesn't make it dishonest to give him that chance.
Angel Cook
Because it would just make him butthurt and nothing would change, so rather than deal with a shitstorm and pointless drama, we just play around his unreliability so he thinks that he got more time and we actually get to play.
Everyone wins.
Cameron Hall
Most human beings don't need others to explain how it's a problem if the GM doesn't show up for the game.
Camden Lee
>Humoring people is a natural part of social interaction to avoid offense, user. Honestly, it's reached the point that Veeky Forums has double-backed on itself and now spams "just fucking talk to them" to the point that they ignore all aspects of social norms that people are expected to use. Yes, communication is key, but always being a blunt ass is not how normal people go about it. There's subtlety in communication that Veeky Forums seems wholly ignorant of.
In other words, Veeky Forums is still autistic as fuck, just in a different way.
Wyatt Baker
This chihuahuaposter is right.
You were a pussy, op.
Cooper Diaz
>Starting drama when we already know that the dude's going to flake anyways. t. autist
Jonathan Thomas
Probably an okay way to handle things, but with the plan to ramp up the characters if it did actually take off.
Samuel Collins
That's a nice idea steeped in wishful thinking, but unfortunately most people don't take constructive criticism too well, especially the people with the most flaws.
Michael Gutierrez
then kick him out. acting like a cock is still acting like a cock, even if you get away with it and think the other guy's worse
Jaxson Miller
But nobody got hurt. It seems like OP's group is fine with playing with him, the problem is merely that he's flaky and none of them had an ounce of belief that he would pull through with DMing.
Josiah Cooper
>kick him for being flakey That's just way too severe. Why's it so all-or-nothing with you?
Liam Fisher
My guess? Lack of ability to understand social norms i.e. autism.
Eli Diaz
I'm willing to believe that, yeah.
Aiden Hall
>half hour before session >"hey guys, can't make it (insert lame excuse)
I have this guy in my group and he does it around 20% of the time.
Jose Cook
I spend a lot of time making a character. And take time off of work to play. I quit my last group because the dm was invited to a party at the last moment and called of. Literally fuck you for wasting my free time and costing me money.
Robert Martin
At least that was expected. It's so much worse when the you've been playing for months before the GM stops feeling like running it.
Landon Fisher
Holy shit reminds me of my shit ass group
>group wants to play dark themed campaign >I volunteer and set up a campaign, rules ideas and minor touch ups to rules everyone hates usually >create lore and world building >ask for characters >no response >set up a session zero and everyone joins >I help people with characters >next week I ask for the final characters >no characters >some players lose interest, I recruit New ones >new players give me characters almost immediately >I ask everyone else for characters and give a hard deadline >no characters Deadline >finally get all characters >set up a game night >everyone says they cant make it >set up a new one >everyone says they cant make it >set up several meeting times and take a vote on availability that would work for everyone >no one answers >I declare the game dead do to continued disinterest of players
Turns out they were assholes who decided to cut me out of the group and defriend me totally.
That's life
Chase Baker
>especially the people with the most flaws
Holy shit if that isn't the truth. I think it reaches a certain point where they've either they're so far up their ass they don't know it or they intentionally double down because they've gone do long with their flaws they literally are incapable of fixing them.