"building life lessons for your friends into your d&d games based on knowledge aquired as a sophmore psych student will only cost you friends - d&d should be fun and should not be a platform for you to psychoanalize and counsel from. being the dungeonmaster makes you the god of that world but imparts no godly knowledge or attributes in this one. i only hope that some years from now when you may be a competant phychologist thinking back on the foolish mistakes that you made while still in training that you have not driven away the people that accept you as you are and without judgement"
You are absolutely right. What a horrible mistake I have made by trying to teach someone a "life lesson" through a D&D game and as a result loosing such a rewarding friendship........... Bull Shit.
As far as the D&D game went, I was trying to make an adventure that would be fun for everybody and I did. Now let me be very candid for a moment: the game and the results of the game had nothing to with my decision to no longer sustain my friendship with Eric.
In the grand scheme of things I look back upon the six years that we were friends and determined it was not much of a friendship. The constant head games, the manipulation of facts and events, and the lies were enough for me to make my decision. With me (as well as with the rest of the people whom he has relationships with) Eric places himself and his needs above that of the other person's, constantly maintaining the mantra of "to hell with the consequences". Moreover, if someone happens to be in the way of what he wants he tries to destroy them by any means necessary so that he may achieve his goal. If the goal is unobtainable or if someone else beats him to it he broods in jealousy, continuously trying to discredit those factors that stopped him from getting what he wants. And ultimately when faced with a hard task he runs away so that he won't have to deal with it and then later attempts to go around the problem rather than fix it.
After six years of noticing these patterns it doesn't take a psychology class to tell me (or anybody else for that matter) that he acts just like a child. But not just any age of child, he acts just like a toddler. A toddler who is not mine nor is not my responsibility to teach and care for. Thus, I won't. I am happy with my decision to end my "friendship" with Eric and the only regret I have is I wish I had done it sooner.
By the way whoever wrote the comment that I quoted at the top of the post, you are a horrible speller.
