50 Excuses for Good Players

How to be a good flake.Today's mini-post is for Prismatic Wasteland's latest blogwagon, "How to Be a Good Player." I've shamelessly stolen this prompt from Chris McDowall, who's too busy making the next great Bastionland to write excuses. Not me though. I took the time to write down 50 bulletproof excuses for the next time you flake.Anyway, I'm sorry I can't make it to game night. I know. I know. It starts in five minutes, but I can't come tonight because...My wife went into laborI'm delivering a stranger's baby.That gunfight scene from Heat? Yeah, it's happening to me right now.I've discovered I was never Clayton at all, and my training is kicking in.Torn apart by wolves.Applied for a different game and got accepted.*That gunfight scene from Point Break? Yeah, it's happening to me right now.Hunted to extinction by sharks.A hotdog car crashed through the display at my local shirt store.I've contracted a new strain of Covid that's memetic.I'm too busy slouching towards Bethlehem. I'm…