Roleplayers

I play boardgames with the head of the R&D in a multinational company. Most of my RP group are engineers or PhD (we met either at uni or at work). I also play miniatures wargames in a group composed of 2 Golden demon winners and one tank driver among others.

If that's true, that's weird as hell.
Do you feel unmanned by the quality of their painting?

>Do you feel unmanned by the quality of their painting?
No, they are pretty humble about it. Plus they are absolutely bro tier in general and give a fuckton of advices for painting.

One of the weird thing about our rp group is that we didn't play any rpg when we were at uni, we all started getting into after graduation when we scattered all over the country.

At a TOTAL guess, if he's a lawyer, he probably does a lot of reading, and if he's coming in straight from work, he's probably got a fair amount of eye strain, and he might just be trying to rest his eyeballs.

Still weird as hell though.

A technique to rest your eyeballs is to put your elbows on a table, closin your eyes and resting your eyes on the ball of the hands (I guess that's the word in english)

My top four consists of
>Priest (played the scariest Black Crusade character i've ever witnessed)
>Porno-mag photographer
>SWAT Cop
>Micro-brewery owner

>Priest (played the scariest Black Crusade character i've ever witnessed)

You know what to do, user, lemme grab some popcorn first.

I havent met him of course, but vin diesel is crazy into DnD. Hr has a tattoo of one of his characters names. Look up the TV tropes article for "one of us" for a list of surprising people into DnD type stuff.

You better got your > key ready.

>>Micro-brewery owner
A winrar! He must have brought some awesome craft beer to the table.

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>Priest, Porno Photog, SWAT cop, Microbrewer
That sounds like a great table. Does the microbrewer bring any good shit?
And I guess that priest just inverts himself for BC maybe?

I don't have any notes but here's a few points from memory

>character was a Human Renegade called Essaiah
>started out as a pilgrim that essentially boarded the wrong ship and ended up in the screaming vortex instead of on a Imperial Shrine world
>after some fucked up warp shenanigans Essaiah and the rest of the PCs had to resort to cannibalism to survive
>Essaiah's first mutation was Pseudo-Deamonhood
>decided that the Dark Gods were pleased with his actions
>at first he only took bits and pieces of fallen foes
>then went on to chomping down on living people
>second mutation was Vampiric Addiction (GM picked human flesh as it seems most fitting)
>takes this as a sign from the Dark Gods to "keep up the good work old chum"
>after a very tense philosophical discussion with both a slaaneshii and khornate apostates he decides that young flesh is best flesh and that it pleases both khorne and slaanesh in equal amounts
>begins stalking scholams and similar institutions
>kidnapping young children and taking great delight in tearing out chunks of flesh from their scalps, cheeks, hands and inner thighs (as only the best bits will do)
>if the child survives the ordeal he drugs the child senseless and releases him or her into he wild
>this keeps up for several story arcs
>third mutation is Emaciated, which he takes as sign the Dark Gods is displeased and wants him to progress in his madness instead of plateauing
>begins to work his way down the age range, eventually ending up capturing pregnant women and eating newborn children limb by limb moments after they enters the world
>all this with a big smiling and whistling a jaunty tune while preparing his meals.

Holy fucking shit
I was prepared for some weird shit but
Holy fucking shit

What a lot of people don't understand is that just because you're a soldier doesn't mean you're the textbook soldier-trope. I'm a soldier, but I grew up browsing Veeky Forums and playing video games. I just also was in boy scouts and learned to shoot/hunt, land nav, etc.

I also have a weird obsession with rules/systems, which is probably why I did so well in HR and why I do so well in Signal (which incorporates IT, soon it will be it's own branch but hey the military is slow to change).

Not everyone in the army rides in a tank or goes on day-long dismounted patrols. It takes all kinds to run an army, and if everyone were a clay shell with a gun you wouldn't have the camaraderie that makes us so close-knit.

Plus, some jobs can be very stressful, others very boring. Tabletops are a great solution to both.

I'm gonna continue rambling a bit but another reason may be that soldiers don't really give a shit about what others think of their hobbies, so they do what they find enjoyable, and might be more willing to try new things. The biggest barrier to entry for me was the impression I had of tabletops, but once I actually tried playing once, I got hooked.

Yeah it was fucked up, even by BC standards.
You wouldn't know it if you met Essaiah's player. He's a really chill and cool guy who can drink most of us under the table. I've heard rumors that he ran with a rough crew and did some Bad Shit(tm) before becoming a priest, but it's all unconfirmed hearsay.

Man, that was... What a priest.

Hearing confessions might be fodder.

Yeah, but he's boring as fuck. He just sits around waiting to fight shit. Roll-player 100%. There's a live play of him with the Critical Role guys.

Didn't happen. Edgelord trying to earn some points with the Edge god (or a Mountain Dew sponsorship).

Guy like that shouldn't be around children and should only stay a priest if he's wrestling drug addicts to the ground.

That's... pretty fucking cool desu. I picture him playing a blind monk elder. Pic unrelated

Yeah, I figured that based on his acting. If Vin Diesel wasn't a famous movie star he'd be the edgiest of the edgelords.

>Your character shows up with a masterwork katana
>His character shows up with TWO DOUBLE-KATANAS!
>Your character has a strength of 18
>His character has a Supernatural Strength of 29!!
>Your character is 6'10"
>HIS character is 7 FEET TALL!!!
>and an orphan from Planet Torment!
>Plus his dad was a DARKSEID and his mom was a NINJA SPY!!!

You don't play Black Crusade, do ya son?

All females play Mary Sues, edgy characters that "you don't want to fuck with", or the special snowflake that is the most important character that everyone should care about for "reasons".

This is a fact.

I know quite a few NOYFB former spec ops that play TTRPGs. They all seem to be huge fucking nerds when not snapping necks with their pinkies. I've got 2 in my group and a former minuteman. Flgs has even more of them.

I mean I guess I have a similar story, but it's not as gruesome, more of the guy being >that guy.

>Have a group of friends that have played Pathfinder together for years
>One of them brought over a younger friend
>We're all 23-25
>He was 17
>I was in another county for now, so I GM'd via skype
>I could only hear the kid
>He had a damned strange voice
>Kinda like if Kermit the frog had a frog down his throat

I'm a firm believer in the old philosophy "if some one looks weird or sounds weird, they probably are weird," and have yet to be proven wrong.

>We begin our session
>The kid immediately starts being edgy
>He refuses to fight in battles
>He keeps walking away from the party and does his own thing, forcing me to have one-on-one encounters I never planned for
>Basically plays the game like a Postal game
>After a while, they stumble upon one of my prepared encounters
>In the campaign, there's a deadly incurable disease spreading
>They encounter some boys trying to rob them for gold
>So they can try to buy a cure for their parents
>It's supposed to be a sentimental point, and I do pretty well roleplaying as the kids
>I know my players and how they play, so I knew they would help them out
>And follow the boys home and progress in the campaign scenario
>Wrong
>New kid
>He hasn't been an ass the last hour
>Now it's time to shine
>"I charge and attack the kids"
>I roleplay as the kids and pull on them heartstrings even more
>I'm pleading as the kids and everyone else on the table wants to help them
>"I want to attack."
>I let him attack because I figure, as much as I'm the GM creating the backdrop and preserving rules, my players are the ones making the story, and I should only steer them, not control them
>He kills 2/3 of them immediately
>The last ones run away, me trying to save the encounter
>He chases them and kills them
>"..."
>The table is quiet
>Feels awkward
>We end the session there
>Never invited him again

We had him killed off next session.

Intel guys are us in green dude. Sometimes even more autistic due to love of regs.

A priest successfully roleplays a child predator. What are the odds?

I've played RPGs with:
>a professional pirate hunter
>an ex-tank commander and Gulf War veteran
>a prodigy with a PhD in a branch of biotechnology so specialist I can't even begin to spell it (and a girl!!!)
>a relative of a non-westernRoyal Family.

An intel guy once told me that at his job, there are people who put their left hand on the wall and it'll take them sometimes 30 minutes from getting into the building to get to their desk because they have to keep that hand on the wall at all times.
He was saying about a 4th of his squadron has "obvious and severe aspergers" and another quarter are super paranoid and into conspiracy theories. It's funny, he'll mention folks telling him about good anime while he's at work and whatnot.

>here are people who put their left hand on the wall and it'll take them sometimes 30 minutes from getting into the building to get to their desk because they have to keep that hand on the wall at all times
okay actually what

Yeah I've got a buddy who was a communication sgt. He's got stories like that for days.

>child predator
You stop it you.

Nurse (Male) and Oncologist. But I would not say oncologist playing D&D is surprising, they are dealing with cancer on daily basis after all.

>a professional pirate hunter
There's plenty of tank commanders, and there's been 2 gulf wars, so that's cool but not amazing.
Prodigies are rare, but tg is a nerdy hobby, not too surprising.
Royal families can get really sprawling, and the grounds for "royal" can be fairly loose with some people...

But a pirate hunter?
Storytiem, pls

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Hi, I DM for exclusively female players cureentlt and I can attest that this is a fact.

I actually find that whiny, neckbeardy fat autists that post shit like this on Veeky Forums like to play Mary Sues, edgelords, or snowflakes.

*currently

Sorry my phone had a stroke.

A black guy.

Rolling with the wizards and shit, yo.

Maybe he does it for immersion

It sounds like a CoC team.

>tattoo of one of his characters names.
That was just a fake for a movie that he request to go along with the rest of the fake tats.
Well...unless he's gotten a real one since.

Or the characters that need attention, and god help you if they're not the center of attention. I've got a mixed group, and the game is divided into factions between the three females.

But I played with a girl and they didn't play either of those characters. So you're wrong.

This, black crusade is one of those games you're supposed to be an edgelord in.

Not that I doubt that Vin Diesal would be a terrible roleplayer, but from what Matt Mercer said later on, Diesal was surprisingly stage shy, and didn't really warm up until much, much later.

Lots of blunts and fresh air. Lots of spare time to let your imagination run wild.

kek

I got a black dude I met online into RPGs. He used to play on Garry's Mod and Arma RP servers and had literally no idea there were games designed around role playing that have you roll dice.

I play a campaign rn with two women, and they're both very reserved and effective roleplayers.

One plays a soft spoken barbarian arakokra, the other plays a tiefling child sorceress who's out of her depth and morally conflicted in our rough adventuring party. They are both great characters to play with.

But it's wrong.

Source : I play with 3 different girls.

I wouldn't say she's "into" roleplaying, but I once had a session with a highly conservative Christian housewife in her late 30s. She was reluctant to play D&D in the first place because of its "Satanic" influences. Suffice it to say, that's all she rambled on about for the next half-hour. I had to make up an excuse to have her character killed so it wouldn't look like I was just booting her from the table. (She was another player's wife, so I couldn't very well be direct about it. And he was hosting.)

I've had plenty of unusual encounters, but always with the typical RPing manchild stereotypes, so that's probably suited for a different thread.

Did you really save that image 80 times?

It's weird that people don't realize that military is the biggest monetary force in board, war, and roleplay games.

The first and only D&D game I've ever played in real life was run by a transgender prostitute. I didn't enjoy the game much, but they were nice.

It's a toss up between a pastor and the local biker gang.

Among the people I've regularly gamed with...

>Satellite Imaging Engineer
He's done work for the US Govt for Spy Satellites and recently has moved to the private sector.

>Cop
Was at ground zero during the Ferguson bullshit. Michael Brown was a thug punk that got what he had coming.

>Labor Lawyer
Works for Unions.

>Insurance Lawyer
Works for Companies.

>Regional Head of IT of a large Real Estate firm
Probably the smartest guy I have ever met.

>A Nun
She ran the Games Club when I was in High School. She played an awesome paladin and an even more awesome rogue.

>A Brewmaster
He is starting his own Microbrewery/Bar/Arcade. He should be opening by Halloween.

And the ultimate That Guy....

>A Child Molester
He got caught when a kid he diddled outed him out when he saw him at McDonald's. Went to prison. Got out on parole, then went to Pokemon night at my FLGS. I pointed him out to the management, the cops came and arrested him, sending him back to prison where he still resides.

Seconded

You would be surprised just how many people don't even know rpgs exist.

>The Nun
>Playing a rogue
Was she playing a femme fatale? If so, story.

If not, no story. Not interested in Nuns doing normal bad things.

>TSA agent
>ex-Army, EOD
>lawyer
They all broke as many laws as possible.

I was in a game where it eventually came up that all of us were Bi and none of us were attracted to one another except one of them had a one sided crush on me. What are the goddamn odds.

>run by a transgender prostitute
>they were nice

I'm not too surprised. It(?) was able to accept that it was entirely a sexual thing and not a lifestyle.

>Got out on parole, then went to Pokemon night at my FLGS. I pointed him out to the management, the cops came and arrested him, sending him back to prison where he still resides.
why? did going to his FLGS break parole, due to proximity to kids?

>pokemon night
What do you think?

Hmm..

I guess that the one that's the most unique is the one that left the group to focus on publishing their own rpg.

>curiosity piqued.

>another quarter are super paranoid and into conspiracy theories.

I'm not sure if that'd be really good or really bad for Intel.

Holy Shit !

You played with a GIRL?

I know I was a faggots for adding exclamation points, but the way people talk on Veeky Forums you would think they'RE magic am game destroying unicorns.

>see also: any thread about "cross playing"

Never met him but the deputy mayor of my city (around 50K inhabitants) used to play in my local gaming club. (he was a huge fan of warhammer v1 apparently)

There are also a lot of military people in my club, they are only outnumbered by high school teachers.

Was waiting for that one.

I live in Detroit and the worst thing that's happened was us getting shot at when we went to pick a player up because we were going through a police shoot out.

Currently hosting a group of 5, with 2 girls. They're both none of these, so you're wrong

dumb cootieposter

Very old people, like people between 70 and 80yo still playing with their teen age friends, bonded together by their passion. Amazing roleplayers, dedicated storytellers and referees, world crafters and wordsmiths. And still managing to use loaded dice to roll for stats and knowing all the rule exploits to build the most powerful shit possible out of AD&D (their system of choice).

None?? People aren't interesting.

A group composed by a porn actress her roommate transgender (male to female) escort and a fireman swole as fuark that used to compete in pro-bodybuilding.

You'd be surprised how many military guys are into Tabletop. I'm a Ranger and me and some of the guys in my Company have a weekly D&D game; our 1SG is this older guy who used to play a lot of AD&D2E growing up and his games are always awesome.

My high school buddy who joined the Marines also plays D&D and WoD with his buddies.

Had a couple of signals units, first one was basically dysfunctional children who tried very hard but needed constant supervision. They didn't play games at all, they where too busy trying to unfuck themselves at any given moment and drive my NCO's crazy. They where to the point I didn't give them guns on most of our training exercises for fear of shooting each other either accidentally (or deliberately), losing them, selling them, or worse yet- shooting me. That was ok up until we got deployed and god help me, I had to arm them.

Second one, most of them where semi-normal... ish. Half of them where out in the field most of the time, the other half which was my ops, intel muppets, terps and techs generally lurked in their own little bunker playing magic the gathering, listening to white noise, fixing things and trying to compress as much pornography as they could onto a laptop HDD. Long as they did their job (which was clearly laid out to them) I didn't mind, the fuckers would be down there playing card games while mortars where coming down and didn't care.

Third one was nearly the death of me literally- twice, huge amount of re-working an entire new company. So field radio ops where the least of my worries, they only get shot at and that tends to knock the stupid out of them, but I reckon a good 2/3rds of the rest + attached EOD teams where complete fucking spastics you would not want near unattended livestock or womenfolk. Bad pulp novels, porn, D&D, comics, MTG and varying levels of social maladjustment where the least of their problems. To be fair though, they where broken when I got them and as far as I know they're still fucked up maniacs.

My group is

>Army
>Construction Worker
>Cop
>Gimp
>Cowboy
>Indian Chief

I'd say it's pretty diverse.

Not my story, but a Delta Green GM that went on to become the Assistant District Attorney of Los Angeles.

They're more likely to, but saying they're all that way is dumb. I've got 3 in a group of 5 players. Two of them are like this, but the third is certainly not.
Doesn't help that the two who are are sisters, tho'

Never really played with anyone super interesting. My current group is:
>Two community college students
>A security guard
>An EMT

I'm the EMT

Holy fuck it's like playing with the village people.

>army acquisition officer who spends most of his time driving from base to base
>high school IT teacher and garage band drummer
>Autist living on gubmint bux and busking with a sax during tourist season, surprisingly lucrative
>Househusband who married his (rich) high school sweetheart and has two kids
>Chemist who works in steel manufacturing, has not shaved for six years
>Friendly neighborhood pot dealer/community college IT guy who knows guys who know guys

We all met in high school. Which one am i?

The NEET or the house husband.

Maybe the chemist.

Obviously the autist.

toppest of keks

Not a player, but my DM is a pretty chill guy. The group is just a bunch of college students, but our DM is a professor of ours. He's a pastor, teaches theology, and is also big into gaming, plus he's a drummer in a local metal band. His family's super nice, too. One of the best guys I know. Just not someone you'd expect to spend his lunch breaks running a pirate campaign for a few students.