other people can be annoying

[melchar]

If anything eventually burns me out on gaming it WILL be the players, never the game. I've been refereeing since 1973 and the dawn of time [for rpgs] and mostly ref'd at least once a week during all that time. That's a ton of gaming.

Right now I'm doing one 2nd ed AD&D game on Saturdays [where my player complain bitterly about NOT gaming because of FC staff meetings] and an Agris game [home-made rpg that's about 20 years old now] - ref'd about twice a month on Sundays. Then I ref 12 games over the 'net [text/response] at boojum's Warren site.

So now one of the Sunday players is bitching at me - in 7 freaking emails the last 2 days! - about how I'm ruining his gaming life because I have a class I want to go to next Sunday & have a Baycon staff meeting the Sunday after that. So why can't I ref a game the Sunday thereafter? Because THAT one player can't make the game, so I'll inconvenience the -other- 5 players JUST for him. Do I get any credit for that? Nope. I just get complaints. (sighs) Some days it's just not worth reading my inbox.

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Re: Wanna sick the doggie on them?

[melchar.livejournal.com]

Nah, I don't want to do -that- to him. It would be too cruel. (BTW, I looged onto the Warren and found -2- other messages about the same subject from him - then another in regular email. And THEN he read my reply ... in which I was unhappy .... and he realized he was being a bit too pushy and apologized. And that was enough for me.

But thanks for offering. It made me smile to read your response!