Baby insanity wolf meme template: "Player is habitually late no matter the schedule/Start the game earlier"

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[–] 44 points 6 months ago

Sit them down like an adult and tell them that wasting 20-30 mins of 5 of your closest friends time every week isn't a good quality.

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  • [–] 62 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Tell them their own seperate start time 30 minutes before the others?

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago

    My grandmother would tell each of her grown adult children a different time to show up in order to get everyone there on time.

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  • [–] 32 points 6 months ago*

    Give their character a disease where they take damage every 10 minutes the player is absent without notice

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Funny story: because I was always late, my old group started giving me earlier times to show up. Because these times aligned better with my trains and subways, I started showing up on time. Except they'd lied to me going my being late would actually make me arrive at the same time as everyone else. But now I was half an hour early and they were unprepared.

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    If you can't align your trains and subways with your agreed upon time, you still need to take the earlier train and be there 30 minutes earlier. That's just how it works. You take the transport that gets you there before the time, not what gets you there closer to but after the time.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    No, they’re correct. People need to be more respectful of others, especially when it comes to things with hard start times like D&D, a concert, etc.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Depends on the friend group, honestly. I can see scenarios where people aren't ready to have guests half an hour earlier than expected.

    Though, this is why communication is important; if you ask the host if 30 minutes early is preferable to 15 minutes late, you'll get the answer that works for them.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Only tell that player that the game starts at 6pm instead of 7pm, everyone else tell that it starts at 7pm. If they are half an hour "late" they will finally be the one waiting for the others to finally show up.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Give out all the best loot in the first 20 minutes. You beat a boss at the end of a session? "Alright, we'll go over the loot beginning of next session"

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Give them an earlier time. If they find out that they're given an earlier time and get salty about it, they have bigger problems.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Make their PC cursed with a broken Blink spell. They random pop into and out of existence. DC 12 for staying in this plane.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Just start the game on time without them? They can hop in when they arrive.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    You can't stop me being late, I run the game. I have an entire channel in the group chat solely dedicated to my excuses for being late. They always suck. I've turned up on time to maybe half a dozen sessions in the last 6 years. If I turn up within 20 minutes of the starting time my players don't even count it as late anymore.

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