>really like X rare, obscure game >desperately want to play X game >successfully find online group for X game >spend a whole afternoon building a character, writing a backstory >spend the evening and night talking with the GM, revising my character, getting to know what they have in mind for the campaign
>game day >other two PCs are complete and utter edgelords >shameless, "feral barbarian" and "shadowy assassin" edgelords who "like to kill" >they kill random people for no reason >GM has no problem with this >try to report other PCs to the authorities >GM calls me a PvPing snitch
How has your RPG heart been crushed recently?
Nathan Foster
I'm an forever GM with no friends that can commit to a schedule and all my FLGS groups are just min-maxing Pathfinder Society players who have no interest in the RP part. It's basically/tg/ hell.
Nolan Lewis
>13 people in the game >6 people waiting for their turn that will never come >3 people that never played before >2 edgelords >Pink haired anime randumb.
>I'm the only cleric >GM doesn't tell me anything about his homebrew deities or world lore >Get hired for free to hunt bandits >Head in random direction from city with no information or preperation >Asks me to roll perception >nat 20 >"You're surrounded" >ask if I should roll initiative >"No, there are too many." >Get hit 6 times >Skip my turn >Get hit another 6 times and die
>Bandits flee >Party sets up camp and anime character polymorphs into a cat >I was the only casualty >Roll20 not even once
I still don't know what deity I followed.
Charles Torres
Update.
I am still in this game at this very moment.
The session culminated with an important negotiation against a critical NPC. After ~45 minutes in real time of my character negotiating with this NPC (because the others were hardly being helpful in this), expending resources to do so, and coming to a peaceful resolution, one of the other PCs declared that they attacked the NPC.
I tried to stop this, but ultimately could not. The GM went along with it.
Everything went to hell from there, sparking a bloody battle.
My character has opted to stay out of this, and I will probably be leaving the game afterwards.
Why did the GM allow that many players?
Robert King
>find group on roll20 for GURPS >3 cool guys (Gm included). 1 not cool guy >not cool guy didnt say shit in the discord and just left >another honestly didnt find the game interesting so left >Gm has some stuff come up and cancled. >2 left me and another guy.
We are going to gm a game together but i feel like theres a curse on me
Angel Scott
I guess he was lonely.
btw you should've left that game already. Either that or start trolling people.
Ryan Adams
The same thing happens to me user, every game Im in doesnt last more than 3 weeks, either the GM doesnt respond, the game is cancelled for personal reasons or most of the players leave
Nathan Brooks
>shadow run campaign is the only hobby and distraction from everyday grind I have left >players keep on bitching and moaning at each other over the dumbest shit >games constantly get canceled because people can't manage to show up for various reasons >I'm busting my ass off preparing games for nothing
I have nothing left but work, bills and being shat on
Hudson Brooks
I GM.
>Wait, who's that guy again? >What's at that place we went to? >Who do these guys work for again? >Remind me why they're doing this?
Caleb Taylor
>prepping for a fate/stay night campaign >sequel to a previous, rather short but still enjoyable campaign in the same setting >players are broken up into teams of three, with each master having two servants to make things more interesting >first campaign was fun but the master played his character as somewhat whimsical and lighthearted, so he ended up getting his head evaporated when he agreed to "parley" with another team >this time we're going full survival mode, with layers upon layers of schemes and magical protections >master character act exclusively through puppet clones while his real body is hidden in a sealed bunker underground, totally inaccessible >thanks to magic doesn't need food, water, sleep, nor air >owns half the city because he's a rich oil monopolist >the other servant player and I make sure to take abilities that will allow us to better protect him >we spend days coming up with more and more defensive measures >we're finally all prepared and ready to go, this time we're going to WIN
>game fizzles because none of the other teams show up nor does the other servant player on my team