My Dungeon Master Put Me on a PIP

I declared the blogwagon for player advice but I was not sure what advice I could bestow since I have never considered myself a particularly good player when I am not in the seat of the referee. To toot my own horn, I am a damn fine referee, and it is that aspect of the hobby that keeps me coming back. But as a player, I always felt I am either stealing the spotlight or too easily distracted and fidgety when I’m not stealing the spotlight. So how could I, a mediocre player, deign to give out player advice to others? I have to get better if I am going to be proffering advice worth listening to. As funny as “My DM put me on a PIP” is to me, this post is part charade. (Sidenote: for those who don’t work in, or are blessedly unacquainted with, a hellish but fake email job, a “PIP” is short for “Performance Improvement Plan” but in practice is an ass-covering technique for your job to fire you for cause with documentation that they did their absolute, honest-to-god best to not fire you so…

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