'She ruined a 4 year old D&D campaign': D&D players "stunned" when one player walks out of final session early

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Mar 13, 2024 11:00 AM EDT

This isn't the way one D&D player imagined their campaign ending. It's all thanks to their inconsiderate roommate, who is seemingly focused more on her new BF than her current friend group.

Falling in love is wonderful and crazy. Love makes people act in ridiculous ways. You've probably experienced this yourself. Maybe your high school best friend suddenly partnered up and stopped hanging out with you every day. Or maybe your friend starts canceling all of your dinner dates so that she can spend more time with her new guy. If you've ever been in love, you know the feeling is strong! You're so infatuated with this person that you want to spend 100% of your time with them.

This person's roommate seems to be going through something like that. She's been involved in a very longterm D&D game. After four years, the campaign is finally coming to a close. The original poster, u/Top-Contribution7320, writes that six people have been invested in the game, but that it was finally coming to a close. Instead of getting hyped up for it, their roommate made the awkward choice to dip out at a crucial moment. 

After you check out the drama below, read about the nepo-hire whose "brilliant idea" crashed a website. 

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    WIBTA if I (33F) told my friend/roomate (32F) that she ruined a 4 year old D&D campain?
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    We are a group of six friends that have been playing a D&D homebrew campain for a little over 4 years. This saturday was part 2 of the Big Boss Fight. We were going to finish off the campain with an epic combat. We had actually started the combat
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    the previous saturday, (we play D&D almost every saturday) and were going to finally defeat the "wannabe god" that threatened to destroy the world. My roommate (32F) resently got a boyfriend and she was invited to a party this saturday. She told me
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    that she had said to her boyfriend that D&D was really important to her and that saturday was D&D day, so if we finished early then she would come to the party, if not she would go back home with me. Her boyfriend lives over an hour away by bus/train. So back to
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    saturday, we finally killed the BB, and before anyone gets to calm down from the fight or celebrate or even talk about what we just did, my friend interups out DM and asks if the session is over soon? She wants to make a train
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    that leaves in 10 min or she'll have to wait an hour for the next. This was around 6 in the evening. I noticed that my other friends especially the DM got a little. stunned and he answered that yes its coming close to the end of the session, She then gets up
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    from the table and starts packing her stuff while the DM is trying to recount what happens after the fight, what will happen next time (the epilogue), and I missed most of what he said because I was so shocked and her packing was really disrupting. She then said
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    goodbye to everyone and told me to have a nice evening (it was my birthday) and then she left. I just sat there and wondered what the had just happened. We did not do our normally after session talk, were we recount significant moments that happened in the session, funny moments etc. I
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    feel like she robbed us of the ending to our 4 year campain. WIBTA if I told her that I think she and ruined the was really campain just so she could go to a party with her boyfriend eventhough she had said that D&D came before the party?
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    ChancePool8953. NTA. I don't play D&D but could you guys get amnesia and forget that day happened and have a do over? It sounds a horrible way to end four years otherwise. If that is too
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    wrong maybe you could have an event without this person and go over the highlights of the last four years and the ending?
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    wy100101 I've been running games for nearly 40 years, and I've had people need to rush out early or skip for other engagements. I don't really get bothered as long as they aren't ruining the actual gaming session.
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    From the comments, I guess I'm in the minority, but I've found my best campaigns have involved players who haven't been able to fully commit. I just work around it because they are great when they can make it.
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    potato22blue Nta. Don't invite her to your new campaign.
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    Say_Hennething. This is the answer. It's the same way we handle fantasy football. You can't force someone to have different priorities. You can only try to cultivate the best group possible.
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    Commercial_You2541. NTA don't invite her to the next campaign as it seems her new bf might end up being her priority over your d&d sessions. I mean who would do that after waiting 4 YEARS for this moment??
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    Top-Contribution7320 OP She actually wants him to join the group for the next campain.
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    Reinefemme NTA - she should've just waited the extra hour or just not come at all if she was going to be that disruptive. though i'm sure you needed her to finish it seems her priorities have changed. clearly can't be that important to her if she rushes at the end and leaves before it's actually finished.
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