This is the game of thrones of RPG horror

i feel bad for the store owners. they run a business, not a kindergarten.

I’m autistic, and I still keep my worst behaviors under control and show discipline. Big difference in wanting people to understand the why you do something, and forcing them to accept it. They don’t have to. Just at least know where it stems from.

I recently had to ban someone from my D&D club for this kind of thing. He sent abusive messages, and justified it with depression and because they 'angered him'. Thankfully he's getting the support he needs.

"It explains it, it doesnt excuse it"
This is a line that I live by with my Asperger's. I constantly apologize for transgressions and seek to fix my mistakes.

People like this are some of the few people I genuinely hate, using their disability as an excuse to be an a-hole paints everyone else with that in the same light.

As someone who has aspergers. It sickens me every time someone tries to use autism like this. It is not meant to be "your get out jail card" its meant to show while there are some troubles, we have more than the capability to change and be better. this person did not and it was disgusting to me that he thought saying such a thing would work.

"I'm autistic" as a defense is both my favorite because it lets me Uno Reverse with a "me too, and?" But also my LEAST favorite because I cannot stand being lumped in with these people

Im not autistic, but i do have Explosive Bi-polar disorder, and any game im a guest in or have new players, I ALWAYS tell people off the bat. Especially since im built like an NFL offensive lineman. And apologize in advance if i trigger, since Im still in the process of getting a suitable medication to level me out. and EVERYONE I've played with was more than happy to work with me or let me know if im starting to trigger. Thankfully, I havent had an episode so bad that it warrants a critcrab worthy event. because I know what i am and dont want to ruin the game for other people for my problems.

Does it bother anyone else that “gaslighting” is often used in place of “lying” to embellish the severity of stories like this?

I'm only like 7 minutes in but this group honestly sounds painful to deal with. It's just a constant stream of "That's a long and terrible story that we won't go into detail about." It can't possibly be fun to deal with all of this

Honestly I was having trouble even following this one, it had very little to do with the game they were playing and just so much of drama that seemingly one guy caused. If "warhammer 40k" weren't mentioned at the beginning I wouldn't have even known what was being played despite how frequently "the store" got mentioned.

So it's less than 5 minutes and OP is already sounding insufferable.

This is an insanely drama ridden group. I would have bailed from the whole thing ages ago.

OP is as cringy as the actual dude, damn. Not fun to tackle at 4am

Everyone in this stroy is horrible. This isn't even about a game they played. I can't imagine trying to play with any of these people.

Also OP's telling makes me believe their club is a magnet of problem people.

I really started to get some "op is the problem" vibes as soon as they started explaining how everyone around them was problematic

This entire story reads like a load of BS, honestly. It's hard to follow, barely related to tabletop stuff, everyone is insufferable, and I'm left wondering what any of it amounted to.

I definitely think OP had some hand to play in this whole problem, the fact that they glossed over all the drama and blamed everyone else is a bit weird...

This just sounds like a group of utterly pathetic people inventing drama. Everyone's mentally ill, everyone's an admin, mod, organizer, pillar of the community etc and banning someone somehow still takes weeks.
The people I feel sorry for is the store, because they have to deal with both sides of this.