Ok, Mark, you opened the discussion From: kitten@scoraz.resp-sci.arizona.edu (Bruce Saul) Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1993 19:15:09 +0000 Mark Nielsen writes > he was. He was a noble and they treated him like a peasant, so it was their > fault, but eventually I had to make him quit because the people didn't believe > him his stories and also didn't like him. Of course the DM helped kick > the character out also. This is the dm of the pbem: My name is Bruce Saul. The following is my reply. Mark, I didn't *help* kick your character out. Mine are the only boot prints on your butt. It was my decision, and my action. It had nothing to do with the story of the Count and the battle versus thirty opponents. I did it because you, by your rabid insistence at playing the character of the Count in the manner you did reduced the pbem to a shouting match. There is no excuse either for your selection of the role-playing style you did. You had played with my group for a year and a half. You *knew* what would happen if an arrogant childish prig like the Count, the way you played him, came into the scenerio. I asked you to reconsider the way you were playing. But you refused. You gave me the choice of watching my game, which I have worked on for two and a half years, go down the toilet or requiring that you leave the pbem. What you got, you earned, every bit of it. Wasting bandwidth on the net by whining about how you were treated just convinces me that dumping you was the right thing to do. I just should never have let you play at all. Bruce W. Saul / AD+D dm since 1973 Referenced By Up