When do you think tabletop will stop being a part of your life altogether?

I'm on the waiting list to join the navy, I'll hide my power level through basic training but if i cant find any players on deployment I may lose touch with the hobby all together.

I thought military men were all about RPGs. The two guys who got the guy who got me into role playing (that was a mouth full) I think both started playing while they were in the navy.

Isn't it mostly due to the lack of much else to do when you're off duty?

>When do you think tabletop will stop being a part of your life altogether?
Never. Why should I get rid of it?

I think it will always be part of my life to some degree, but it's hard telling when it will fully switch from a group activity I do to something I just do by myself.

I have a playgroup of my college buddies that still meet online and play every week, but it's hard to say how long that will last. One friend recently had a kid and pretty much dropped off the face of the earth, but while he's an extreme case it's not unlikely that as more of us get married/have kids more will drop from the group.

I also used to play wargames more frequently, but I don't have the time to stop by the store like I used to. I still paint minis for fun, but unless I change jobs or move to a bigger city it'll be hard to put my little plastic dudes to good use.

I guess I'll have to see how my life goes from here and hope for the best.

Gave up pretty much my whole life for RPGs.

Turned down marriage to a nice girl. As well as an 80k a year career because it would've meant 50 hours a week and working weekends.

Have severed most friendships that do not involve gaming, save for a few. And gamers that have children, lives, etc. are usually right out of my group as soon as they expect us to cancel game night because they have "family time." Fuck off nigger.

I am a sad pathetic man, perhaps, but at least i have RPGs and I am amazed at the number of stories I have gotten to experience. Sure beats the hell out of wiping diapers and watching lame-ass school plays.

>One friend recently had a kid and pretty much dropped off the face of the earth, but while he's an extreme case it's not unlikely that as more of us get married/have kids more will drop from the group.

Weak and pathetic. What a worthless prick. I hope you blocked him on Facebook and stopped speaking to him. Don't even be angry, just ignore. They do not deserve the satisfaction of your rage. Simply ignore them. Do not let their stupid choices drag you down. Ignore the birthday party invitations, no one gives a fuck about their worthless shitspawn aging and wasting untold thousands that could be put to far better use. The earth has enough people.

I hate when people get involved in an RPG group then choose to basically quit. Having a child, is basically quitting. No, we do not want to reschedule our sessions to accomodate your shitspawn. No, we do not want you bringing your shitspawn to our games and bawling its unholy cry throughout the game. No we do not want to see, hear about, see pictures of, smell, hold, touch, or talk to your shitspawn. YOU created it, not us. We are here to game. That is what matters. Not the fact that you managed to do what literally every human being in history has managed to do, which is stick dick in pussy. Congratulations. And given the fat fuck-nasty women that my (ex) group members have knocked up, it really isn't much to be proud of. The baby will be just as fucking fat and ugly I am sure, because the modern woman instills this "body positivity" bullshit into all the children, making sure they know it is okay to be fat and still expect good things out of life. Meanwhile this loser is getting cucked by BBC on a nightly basis and he can't do anything about it because if you dare to divorce a woman you lose half your assets and your ballsack by the cucked liberal court system.

It's one thing to fuck women or have a girlfriend. It's quite another to make the equivalent legal decision of talking to the cops who suspect you of murder without a lawyer. That is literally what marraige and children are, it is putting a motherfucking time bomb on your testicles.

Stick to playing D&D. Even playing cuck shit like D&D 5e is better than wiping raw rank Gerber-fueled shit from a tiny asscrack on an hourly basis.

I've played with a 50-something guy on Roll20 before, and playing online is only going to get more popular.

So fucking never.

As of tonight's session, right now.

I've only played one session, GMed two more. So I guess whenever I get sick of browsing Veeky Forums

When my girlfriend smugly shoves a pregnancy test in my face

>no friends
>hopelessly brutal and erratic shift work schedule

It basically already is. I bought a bag of dice a couple of days ago. It was nice. Z

It's kind of weird that you describe dedicating yourself fully to something you purport to enjoy as "giving up your whole life"

Never

People might give up everything for something they still enjoy.

Dump her. If she is going to get pregnant without your consent, you should leave her before she ruins your life.

>without your consent

You bang without protection you get whats coming to you. An uncovered dick is giving consent in my book

I don't think I would, but I could see drifting away from gaming if I end up in a serious relationship that keeps me pretty busy, especially if it ends up in marriage and kids, and I have to give up one or more hobbies.

Like, I'd give up gaming before I'd give up photography or biking.

When I figure out how to be happy

>One friend recently had a kid and pretty much dropped off the face of the earth, but while he's an extreme case it's not unlikely that as more of us get married/have kids more will drop from the group.

And that's why if I do have any kids, it'll be through sperm donation, for the sole purpose of passing on my DNA. Though it helps that I'm not into having sex with women, so...

blimp

But what if you are using a condom, and it breaks mid-sex?

I don't have a life, I play tabletop roleplaying games.

>when you don't have to worry about wasting your life because it's entirely possible you might live for several hundred years
feelsgoodman

>Have a son
>Still play tabletop games
>Get to watch him grow up
>Still get to play games

Honestly I have to say the child path is better, but it's nice having both.

Well, at this point in my life it's hard to tell. I don't really want children, so I could potentially keep it up all of my adult life, but on some level playing RPGs at 40 or 50 just seems weird, even with online play. And right now, I doubt I'll really get a chance for a real life game after college, and so far I haven't had many opportunities for wargaming...

I'll try and keep with it even as just a fan if not a player, but I'll really have to drop out of it when I've lost all connection with the hobby - if I'm still stuck on 5th edition D&D and people have moved on to 11e, it's time to go.

When I commit to the life of a Buddhist monk.

Nah. Having a baby is something that should be explicitly agreed to and talked over by all involved parties

When I'm dead, or vidya becomes good enough that it can replace a good gm and i can play a co-op game with friends and custom campaign parameters.

For boardgames and card games and wargames? Id already rather do them in vidya, and only do them with physical boards when vidya isn't an option because of where we are our the game having no good digital adaptation.

>You bang without protection you get whats coming to you. An uncovered dick is giving consent in my book

what the fuck?

I imagine there will be a gap between children being born, and children being sentient enough for me to play with them

Even when I'm ancient, alone, toothless, senile, and possibly mad... I will still be rolling dice and at least scribbling incoherent notes for campaigns with friends long dead or disinterested.

that's what highly illegal genetic modification's for ya goof

Never. Why stop when there are tales still untold, dice left unrolled, and laughs yet to be had?

Why is that my fellow user?

Agreed. Though unwanted children could make a glorious new fuel source for SCIENCE related projects...

The man who walks naked in the rain should not complain that he is cold and wet.

>They say he was once a man much like you or I who lived among us but no one is sure. They now appear to be little more than a beast covered in scars and long matted white hair. It is said that if you go into the woods in which they dwell with a set of seven dice, a notebook, and a pen they will take the dice set stuffing it into a small filthy sack and in exchange write in your notebook the entirety of an RPG long since thought lost...
>Strange but harmless we call them Grognard the mad master of games.

Eh, Technological Singularity within our lifetime seems likely. When we hit that it should only take a few months for AIs to invent functional immortality.

>Be gay
>Mfw me and my boyfriend play RPGS, 40k, and LARP together
When I'm dead OP

Shit, why haven't you married him? You've gotta lock that down.

I want to finish school first, last year in Nursing school, then once I get a steady job to make sure were both secure, we've already exchanged rings, and I couldn't be happier.

You're in my light.

boys can't marry boys user

That's excellent, faganon. I wish you the best. Just went through a break-up with my own fiance so it's nice to see someone else experiencing happiness.

You keep doing what you're doing, gay knight user.

>This strange man, kept alive through cybernetics and genetic treatment, is the only record we have of the pre-War era.
>Unfortunately, his mind is shattered beyond repair. Our best psions couldn't manage to get anything out of him.
>However, he writes.
>He refuses the synth-paper he is given, instead using archaic tree paper.
>He refers to this text as an "arpegee".
>Whatever this ancient text was, it was of great importance to those pre-War.
>This "forf edition" will be the basis for a new area of study.

Probably fairly soon. All I really do anymore is world build and our general for that is about as interactive as tacking notes to a wall.

My work makes meeting weekly impossible and nobody I know in the hobby wants to meet every other week (not like they wouldn't forget everything that happened last time if we tried).

I'm in one game right now which exists almost entirely so I can be apart of it. Had to be rebooted because it got too crazy. We've met once since than. One player clearly was doing something else and barely there. The other is passive as hell. I fell like I'm playing with npcs.

That was 4 weeks ago. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't losing interest. I've thought of the game all of once since than, while typing this.

Every other game I've been a part of for years has fallen apart for some reason. People move. Former friends can't think of more than 2 sessions of plot and then give up. Not that when I gm things don't go south hard in act 2.

It's becoming disheartening and I'm losing interest in having anything to do with it all together. Doesn't help that everyone is across the country now, and there's an inherent disconnect when playing on line none of us have gotten over.

That escalated quickly

When graduating from law school probably. Aint no time for dice when you're working 45 hours a week plus obigatory bar courses.

I've had concerns of something similar. I've had a current IRL group whom I play with once a week. But we've several cases where we lost one members, another quite because of personal drama unrelated to the game, another is going back to school, and even though I am back from school any job I take will most likely be outside of the city. Added to that I've been filled with this sense of 'fuck I am getting older now, wut do?' that I think is effecting my love for the hobby.

I hope the group can carry on after me, but I feel like it's already starting to crumble.

All you people playing every week.
Holy shit. I manage biweekly sessions, but to set aside a day every week seems impossible...

I GM for my wife and her friends. They're all pretty new but they're loving it, much to my surprise and theirs. Has been running for months and I'm constantly catching my wife on the phone to one of her friends discussing their plan for the next session.
Feels good.

Your wife is a lesbian and is cheating on you. She's using the game group as a cover.

>When do you think tabletop will stop being a part of your life altogether?
Never really.

>When do you think tabletop will stop being an active part of your life?
About two years before I discovered Veeky Forums, which was too long ago to think about.
>fml

bump

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second'd

Why would she be smug?

>Started at 12.
>I'm 50 now.
>Same regular group for over 30 years.
>My kids play with me, too.

Looks like never... at least not until I am dead.

Hurrdurr mon capitan!

Virt you really need to spend some time away from Veeky Forums

Because she's a loli

>make a note in your last will
>bone should be extracted from your carcass
>dice should be crafted from the bone
Even in death I still roll!

My DM has been playing since he was 12 and he is 47 now. He once told me that he is in it for life

Awesome idea! If it can be done, it shall be!

Good on you, user. I wish you and yours many happy years

Motherfucker, do you know how easy it is to get your baby adopted? You don't need science, just give it to the government and it will be taken in by some nice middle class family from upstate new york where the wife was kicked in the stomach by a horse so hard she shat out her ovaries or something.

oh /pol/....

Well they can, but they shouldn't

One of my wife's friends wanted to play with us. Never done it before. Made her a character, got a story going, and she took to it like a duck to water. A few months later, her husband (a big knucklehead former linebacker type) accused her and my wife of having a lesbian affair and confronted me about it. I told him that not only was it true, they let me and the rest of the group watch.

(It's not true at all. But my wife and her friend now have characters who are girlfriends in game because of the whole stupid event.)

I read the wall what do I win?

What third-world country do you live in where they can't?

Birmingham

Please, try to calm down.

I never started playing. I just come here for the lewd elf pics

Mein neger! Have one on me!

Perhaps that big knucklehead former linebacker is just more perceptive than you.