I've personally never walked out on a game, but I've seen games completely disintegrate mid-session due to personality clashes or simply too many people.

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;594192Walking out isn't something I would do and if someone in my group did it, it would strike me as immature. I am not saying there are never reasons to get upset about what happens in game, but shouting and or storming off isn't the kind of behavior I expect from adults (even if I or someone else makes a boneheaded call). There are better ways to deal with problems in the game than leaving in a huff.

This.  Whatever the situation, immaturity, poor sportsmanship, and bad manners have no place at the game table; any game table.

Quote from: red lantern;594138Well, the other player and everyone else were using STTNG level stuff and whatnot

Amateurs, my chariot for gadding about the galaxy would have been a Dyson sphere on ringworlds.

Quote from: red lantern;594153I understand that when he tried to take over some other games some other players responded by breaking into his stuff and defecating in the captain/pilot/driver seats.

Tradition is the most powerful force known to man.

Once.  I was in the military and we were gaming in one of my buddies room.  Beer was there.  One of the players was drinking too much and ended up puking, trying to puke it all back into the bottle.  He wasn't very successful.  I walked out of that game.  I didn't leave the group, but only that session.  To this day I'm surprised I was the only one to do so, and the others were perfectly OK smelling vomit for the next few hours.

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;594192Walking out isn't something I would do and if someone in my group did it, it would strike me as immature. I am not saying there are never reasons to get upset about what happens in game, but shouting and or storming off isn't the kind of behavior I expect from adults (even if I or someone else makes a boneheaded call). There are better ways to deal with problems in the game than leaving in a huff.

This.

I can imagine reasons to leave a game midstream (e.g. stories of games where PCs are "raped to death"), but I don't hang out with people who would let them come up.

Nah. I've never left a game during a session. I have groaned internally, or felt a little uncomfortable in a few sessions, but things have never gone so bad that I've felt inclined to leave.

We have this guy, our resident method actor type, who's prone to this sort of prima donna behavior and sometimes has to be... for the lack of a better word... brought back to his senses (he's usually fairly easy-going, droll even, in non-gaming social situations; go figure).

I don't recall him walking out on a RPG session. He did walk out on us playing Bang! once, because I was obviously and facetiously and drunkenly cheating. I shit you not. So, there. :shrug:

When I was a kid, I used to quit games against my older brother.  Mostly Risk and Axis and Allies.  Of course he would call me a quitter and get all pissed, but his style of play was to take over the entire world, leaving me with one little area.  And never attack me.  Just kept building up armies around me.  When I'd finally quit, he'd yell, "You can always come back and win."

I still think it was a justified quit

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;594192Walking out isn't something I would do and if someone in my group did it, it would strike me as immature. I am not saying there are never reasons to get upset about what happens in game, but shouting and or storming off isn't the kind of behavior I expect from adults (even if I or someone else makes a boneheaded call). There are better ways to deal with problems in the game than leaving in a huff.

well, I'd been told the game was a freeform genere mashup where we could all bring in our stuff and use it, and it turned into one player taking munchkin level stuff and basically taking it all over because the GM naively assumed that all players would respect each other and the game.

Now the GM had ha denough and actually intended to give me his technology to let someone take this prickweed on, and IF he had consulted me prior to having my ship turned into a runabout I would have gone along, but I'd been stepped on and brushed off so many times by his 'uber tech" (Think traveller vs. star trek and star wars) that when he just had my ship trashed and recycled it was the last straw. Again, if he'd explained to me in advance and asked...

But he still managed to take munchkinboy down with the explosion. It was just too late to save the game for me, which was like a double pisser. First the game gets ruined for me, then it gets fixed by something I did after I can't enjoy it any more.

I walked out of a session, but it was basically a case where my relation with the GM had broken down over a period of time, and she was slagging me off at the table. It was more personal issues than game issues.