Remove sick player from table?


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Scarab Sages

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Thea Peters wrote:
A suggestion to give the player a mask was just that ... The GM could also wear the mask himself, but doing a lot of talking means that he'll be muffled, which is why I went for offering the player the mask

"For the the journey to the Azlanti ruins, the gillmen provide you with these airmasks...'Only our most trusted allies are provided with these', says their leader. 'Don't take them off, till you're back on the surface'"

(hands out 'props'. Bonus points for added 'Azlanti runes'.)

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Socalwarhammer wrote:
I guess it really comes down to how much initiative you want to take as a GM. As for me, I trust my training and experience to determine if someone is sick enough for me to ask to leave a table. If I am told that 'we can't do that' by event staff, so be it. I will just not GM or offer my services in the future. It really is that easy.

Dammit Jim I'm a DM not a doctor.

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Snorter, while your efforts to disguise the situation might be good for a 'home' table, or possibly even a Game Day where folks know each other and it doesn't come off as cloying and condescending, that might be a way to go.

At a convention where you've never met the people before? Not only would that *not* fly, but there might be complaints lodged against you not only for deviating from the scenario (especially giving someone 'Combat Reflexes' on the fly like that) but also for failing to run as the scenario indicated (adding in 'extra folks' is not allowed)

Empathetic partial departure here: Imagine one has some odious aroma/illness that's chronic, one has done everything they can imagine to address it, but it just *won't* go away.

We're talking showering twice a day, brushing teeth after every meal, drinking water, avoiding 'smelly' foods, pacing one's self to get to events with plenty of time and not break a sweat, wearing layers and changing clothes to help restrain how much one 'emanates'.

We're not talking someone who is being selfish in this example, they've made every effort to try and not spread, and the worst fits they actually make a hand signal to the DM that they need to step away for five minutes in a non-disruptive sort of way.

Should this person who has made good faith efforts be restricted from playing, even if their respiration isn't the greatest?

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Bad breath is easy .. *pulls out pack of gum* anyone want some?

Scarab Sages

Don't worry, Wei Ji, I wasn't being totally serious.
I know about the ban on altering scenarios.

And I wasn't implying anyone should have feats added on the fly, it was more about taking advantage of a PC's known abilities and tactics.
So if you knew the PC had Combat Reflexes, exploit it.
"Wow, those guys didn't expect that."

If he used Burning Hands often, they could have stood in a really poor formation.

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Snorter wrote:

Don't worry, Wei Ji, I wasn't being totally serious.

I know about the ban on altering scenarios.

And I wasn't implying anyone should have feats added on the fly, it was more about taking advantage of a PC's known abilities and tactics.
So if you knew the PC had Combat Reflexes, exploit it.
"Wow, those guys didn't expect that."

If he used Burning Hands often, they could have stood in a really poor formation.

"Wow - PAPER skeletons? I've never seen those before..."

Grand Lodge 4/5 5/55/5 ** Venture-Lieutenant, Florida—Melbourne

Okay, time for an ironic anecdote.

Last night I drove to a game store in another town to play at their game-day. I sat down at a table next to a father and son who I have played with before. Both always seemed like nice people to me. I thought it odd that the son what sitting this one out next to me as he likes to play. About a 3rd of the way through the adventure, his father apologized profusely that he was sorry, his son said he could tough it out but he was just getting too sick and he had to take him home. This man was extremely apologetic about abandoning the table and the party being as he was the only front liner. So clearly he was trying to be very considerate as to our enjoyment of the adventure. But the thought that sitting his sick son at the table might endanger our health did not seem to even cross his mind.

But is doesn't stop there. Shortly after he left, I went up to the front counter to purchase a snack. There were a couple of Magic players standing at the counter in front of me and I overheard one of them talking about how sick he was. No sooner did I get to the actual counter, then an employee comes out of the back looking sick as a dog. The employee at the counter looked at him and said, "Dude, you're looking worse. You should go home." The sick employee muttered something about too much to do, got a bottle of water and sat down for a bit.

Clearly, from all of this, much though we may wish people would just stay home when sick, it just isn't going to happen. Now all I have to do is wait a few days to see if I am getting an early Christmas present of Concrud.

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Oh no.... My signature has changed New VL. So all you sickly people stay away. ;)

Grand Lodge 4/5 5/55/5 ** Venture-Lieutenant, Florida—Melbourne

I hear its contagious.

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trollbill wrote:
I hear its contagious.

It is. They spike the water with a contagion.

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Well, I'm at least immune to that pathogen. :P

I figure at the rate I'm GMing, I might get my first star in a year or so. :)

No, that's not begging for more work to do, honest. There's too many sick people out there wanting to sit at my tables! I gotta protect myself!

*coughs*

The above was Morbid Humor. If one cannot identify it as such, please forgive the confusion in advance.

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