In reply to PhatJackal (msg # 33):
I think that's really crumby. I had something similar happen, being dropped from the game (well sort of).
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I was the note taker and appointed leader of the party (which was really not fun). I would do OOG work, note coordinates of the battlemap in between sessions that had combat carry over, bring extra dice, food, stuff like that. I was very engaged.
Well, the GM got very jealous of me, but relented that because I was "new".
Well, he came up with this master plan of his enemy. Basically a way to have a grand scale war happen in a D&D game, which is largely micro scenes, not supposed to be hundreds of tokens on battle map the size of table.
I said "Yeah, I'm not drawing all that. Sorry, that's your job here Ethan" And he said "Okay, well, your character loses his paladinhood and 10,000 XP" I was shocked, but was willing to play on as a 2nd level fighter, for the sake of the other players. Then while the combat took place, over about 20 hours, it was clear no one was having fun. WE were all gabbing about out of game stuff. So the GM said "Okay we need restart." So he called for vote. Some play6ers dropped immediately, for various reasons. I agreed. Ethan said "Not you V. You were part of the problem"
TL;DR
I had done player activities to make the game easier for the GM to run. GM started mass combat D&D game without mass combat rules. I said "I'm not drawing out four hundred coordinates. That;s on you" He ran the mass combat. No one was interested. WE called for reset. I agreed, I wasn't allowed to be in the reset since I was "part of the problem"
That's very niche though. So it's not exactly something that I expect to be quotable. Your comment about the "yeah, we need to reset...but without you."
It was softened a lot by the fact that two months later I inherited the game. The GM got overwhelmed doing all the things I was doing and also running his "Faerun is at war" theme. The other players talked to me, and I offered to continue. So I got to stay involved with the characters even if my character was now an NPC that was lower level than them and also unwilling to atone for something he thought overly capricious of Torm.
That was not the worst thing a GM has said to me. The worst is creepy and I won;t put it here. But the worst thing that's appropriate for community chat had to be when I was told "You're making multiple 20th level PCs." to whcih I asked "We'rew not playing these characters are we, Greg?" "Dude, you get to make 20th level characters. Your characters are going to be intergal to the world" ... "Okay, so your characters are all affected by..." let me paraphrase this "You make a single st level character. The characters you made are my NPCs....you have to fight them too....when you get high enough level"
I quit, and I have done that only ten times in my life. I just outright quit at the onset of the game. I took my character sheets too. Fruit that!
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