Everyone I have some news.<br/><br/>Ghostwheel will be leaving this game.<br/><br/>I want to state first and publicly that this is a sad decision I had to make.  I think that he is a fantastic roleplayer, and I love his character, and I think he's got some genius ideas.  More so he's shown me some of his custom content he's created and it's inspired.  Design level type stuff, he really understands the game and I respect and am impressed by that on every level.  Mind you this is coming from someone who's been DMing D&D for almost 30 years now and is close personal friends with one of the authors who has shaped 3rd edition through his writing.  So I don't say those things with any sort of flippancy.<br/><br/>However today I spent almost two hours trying to negotiate what should have been a simple matter, time that I should have spent on my ERP writing.  It wasn't the first time I've had to make this choice.  While Ghostwheel is an amazing writer and player, his 'style' of play does not fit with our game or the style of the rest of the players.  I wish very much to remain friends with Ghostwheel, and have spoken with him at length about this choice.  This is unfortunately a simple matter of a square peg not fitting in a round hole.<br/><br/>I hope that all of you thank him for his contributions to this game and give him a respectful adieu from the game, for he deserves nothing less.  That being said, I'll be writing Arafel out of the game shortly and then we will continue on.  The other three characters have already had quite a lot on their plates, and the loss of a companion won't be their last trial.<br/><br/>Stay tuned, I'll get to resolving this and writing a bit more very shortly.<br/><br/>-Rhev