Online games and disappearing players
I’ve been DMing the World’s Largest Dungeon via OpenRPG since October 19, 2005. It’s been a lot of fun. My biggest peeve is disappearing players.
So far I have three of my original players left and two original characters. Two of the newer players joined in six sessions ago and have been attending regularly, the last one just joined two sessions ago. I figure that with six players I can afford to have one or two absent or drop out and even when they’re all there I can still keep up.
The thing that bugs me the most is when players drop off the face of the earth. No email, no notification of any kind - they just stop showing up and don’t respond to my queries. Of the five (?) players that showed up for at least one game and then dropped it, only one let me know he was quitting. The rest don’t even respond to emails, which stinks because if I did something to offend them I’d like to know what it is so that I can fix it. Ah well, at least their disappearances didn’t kill my game.