@Beefki there are a couple reasons why
1) the game already has a ridiculous amount of players, like 9-12 and i wouldn't want to play with that many anyway
2) it's the campaign for their work group mainly, like 2 of the players' spouses are there as well
3) they started while i was running another game at the same time that one was going on

the sucky part isn't that they're playing d&d without me somewhere else, it's that they could be playing it with me but chose not to because one guy fell off and they thought it was unfair to him to keep playing. WHAT ABOUT ME NIGGA? like the entire rest of the campaign is done and there are like 4 or 5 sessions left!!