Thursday nights we have a group of six players that plays Pathfinder from 6 to 9: R, who plays Corrail C, who plays Felix S, my daughter, who plays Victaerus B, who plays Caleel, the new human cleric A, who plays Nickolai the half-orc barbarian B, who plays The Druid Last night we only had 3 of the 6 players show up, and even one of those was 20 minutes late. One player had told me in advance that he would be out, one player got stuck at work due to a no-call, no-show, and one I haven't heard anything from. This comes one week after we had to cancel our previous game due to 3 players being unavailable. From a GM perspective, missing half the party is pretty much a non-starter. Usually missing half the party also means either the rogue or the healer is missing, which is a recipe for a TPK. So last night we waited for an hour to see if anyone else would show up and then packed up. In general, my policy is that if you don't show up and don't contact...
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