It'd only be for OOC stuff or for being a totally disruptive stupid cunt in character, and even then, we usually just kill their characters and get on with it. PvP weeds out shitbricks right good.

Quote from: Dominus NoxIf a player decides to rape and murder a female NPC in detail for whatever reason. I've seen this done by players who justified it under a variety of means, but the players were universally sick fucks who I would not want in my game.

Quote from: TonyLBPretty much the same stuff that would make me say "Get out of my cocktail party." Player-to-player social-level stuff.

The first two posts covered the reasons I would have mentioned. Rule number one is: don't be a dick. Playing Rongor the Raving Rapist automatically places you in that category. Playing Rongor authentically isn't good roleplaying either, just the same dickery given a shiny new coating of paint.

Fortunately, I have generally been blessed by good players, so booting people hasn't been an issue since I was cca. fifteen.

Being a genuine shithead by being a dick to the group or any of the players, ie ruining their fun,  does it for me. I'll either un-invite them or leave that game myself.

If basic Manners (sharing, curteousy) are missing, in or out of character, they might get a good talking to, and taken to extremes they'll get the boot as well.

Ironically, I'm on the same page with Tony. If somebody is deliberately violating the established group boundaries where certain subject matter is concerned or, alternately, where game focus is concerned -- they may get the boot (it depends on the seriousness of a violation). For example:

Giving your character a "joke" name (e.g., Nuckinfutz) in a game that all participants have agreed will be serious beforehand usually merits a warning and an order to step back in line (i.e., change the offending name to represent the agreed upon game tenets).

Attempting to rape the dead body of a fallen party member gets you kicked out. I've long since learned that people who propose such actions are beyond redemption and I'm in this thing to play games, not teach a full-blown course in basic human deceny to people who have none.

Playing the 'lone wolf'. I got pretty tired of this as a teenager.

You're in a party, working together towards a common goal. Save the world, deliver the goods, get revenge, make brekafast whatever. You're all in this together. Sure, you may have ulterior personal motives, or secrets. But someone playing a loaner who 'doesn't play well with others' just causes to bog the game down. If you're going to go out of your way to create conflict in the game, then just leave.

Edit: Just remembered something that almost made me kick someone out. Playing Deadlands-Weird West. The group is in a town somewhere in the North. They'd just broken one of their members out of jail, so that member doesn't have any of his gear. Two Wendigos have suddenly burst through the log-wall around the town. The PCs high-tail it towards the other side of town, planning on escaping out the gate there. More Wendigos are coming, and one is chasing after them.

The PC that was just broken out of jail turns around, saying he's heading back to et his pistol. One of the other PC's tells him he can have one of theirs, becuase they don't have time. He says no, saying he wants his own pistol. Now this wasn't any special pistol. He didn't pay any points for Belongin's, or say it was given to him by his father or anything. Just run of the mill Colt Army Pistol. The same kind the other C was trying to give him. I, being the GM, tell him myself there is no point, the town is being overrun, he wouldn't make it. He still tells me he wants to. I finally just saiid "No. This is stupid, it's just a fucking gun. We're moving on."

If he'd pressed it, I would've told him to leave, because he was already disrupting the ambience I had built up to that point, as well as disrupting the game itself. But that shut him up.

I have never had to boot anyone from a game, but If you bring asshattery to the table your character will probably die a gruesome death at the hands of another PC and you will not be asked back.