The only reason I browse tg and play rpgs is to escape my currently shit and boring life, who /escapist/ here?

My wife and I are about to move into our new apartment next week. We moved in with her dad three months ago after our old lease was up because my grandma was going to move in with my aunt and give us her house. About two weeks ago she got sentimental and decided she was going to stay. It sucks because the house was perfect for us but I mean its not like you can be mad at your sad grandma amirite?

It really sucks to move back in with someone after you've lived by yourselves for 5 years or so, especially with children.

21 and still trying to figure out what the fuck to do about life, what to go to school for and what not. Have it narrowed down to either electrical engineering or librarian work. Life with me ma trying to scrap up money from entry level type jobs, it's shitty but it could be worse. The real shit part is that my tabletop group hasn't been able to meet up in about two months, everyone just having conflicting schedules. My escapism has resorted to either reading books or just sleeping as much as possible in order to dream about something more in life. Bored to tears eh?

she's pregnant with chads baby and wants to fuck you to cover it up

*live with me ma
fucking typos

you're doing better than me user
same boat but 24
at least you have a clue man

All I do is escape OP, I've sat for hours on end with my eyes closed just imagining EXACTLY my every move if I had a certain power or was in a certain situation. When I don't have to work I stay in bed for 2+ hours in the morning; not sleeping but escaping.

I once had a dream in which I was another person, living another life, and I've been chasing a similar dream for years.

I occasionally practice my mental imagery, I'm trying to create 'a space' using only mental imagery.

My life isn't even that bad, it just isn't good. I have harsh standards for reality, and as of right now reality is boring as shit, probably due to my lack of risk taking, I'm always very careful about everything I do, I wouldn't be surprised if I have mild autism.

Earlier today I was sitting next to a woman and when I put my hands in my face ( I was exhausted) my first thought was how vulnerable I was, she could pull a knife and stab my neck and in my current position I might not be able to react fast enough. So I sat up straight. This is a normal occurrence, even with family members. I don't think I was meant for this world.

>My life isn't even that bad, it just isn't good
this is both the reason i keep a shotgun in my closet and the reason i dont use it

>mfw

fuck that guy, let mewt have his world

If only we could live in our dreams, is there anyway to make this possible?

The first woman I ever really loved left me for her career, I still love her, and even then I'm terrible with women. It's been months. I'm still unsure whether or not I'll move on.

I was born into a family with money. Not extravagantly rich 1% wealthy, but my dad does well for himself and they're able to put me and my brothers through college without worrying too much. I have forever blamed myself for this and try to live humbly as I can. Taking my parents money makes me feel like an undeserving prick.

I'm a creative type with an inferiority complex and constant fear that I'm not good enough to live up to my dreams.

I'm about to graduate college if I have no home or job lined up, and I might have to fall back on my parents until I can sort that out. This fuels my fears that I'll never amount to anything as an artist.

Plenty of people have it way worse than me. Still sucks though.

>muh lifelong friend

That's not something you can just dismiss with a "muh", though. To many people, a person they've been friends with for as long as they can remember is every bit as important as a family member. You can't just demand of a person that they break off all contact with someone they are that close to.

The element at play here that makes things awkward is that they were former lovers. And so what you must do here is simple: have a man-to-man talk with this person. Tell him exactly how you feel, and let him tell you exactly how he feels. Only then will the two of you have a chance of coming to an understanding. So invite him to a bar or something, get the both of you pleasantly drunk, and get this shit sorted out like civilized MEN. You are not in middle school anymore. You should be able to talk this out like mature adults.

I've got pretty severe crohns which makes working tough because some days I'm a totally normal human and other days I'm either in agony or just non stop explosively shitting. All my peers from my childhood are attaining degrees and I'm barely holding down a part time job that my dad hooked me up with and I didn't even earn myself. I used to work more but I've had stomach problems since high school and when I got to uni my crohns came out full force and I dropped like 80lbs in about 2-3 months from the shitting and self starvation to avoid said pain and shitting. I finished the semester and dropped out. I have tried going back twice since then but dropped out both times because I wasn't physically able to attend class and no doctor had officially diagnosed me so I wasn't able to get support from the school and now I'm in debt for 3 semesters of non learning.

Around that time my peers cut me loose because I was too sick to party. Only 2 stuck with me.

I had to make new friends who are pretty solid and I appreciate. We used to RPG on and off but now we play every week and it's really the only thing between me and crippling despair. I've been in that dark place before but Game Night is keepin me strong.

Starting some new treatment soon and hoping I can get my shit together but I'm also kind of scared because I've been in this rut for like almost five years and I don't even know if I can function as a real human anymore, and then I no longer have the plot armour of "debilitating illness" to hide behind as an excuse and will have to own my failures, which utterly terrifies me.

Game night is really good tho

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>Wife wants baby but won't stop talking to shitty ex-boyfriend

She's pregnant with Tyrone's baby and wants to pin it on you.

hi bro.
i feel ya. crohnsfag here.

If you can redirect some of your escapism into reading it would help. I regret the vidya when I was shitting x999 forever. I have good help from Pentasa suppository. if youre on drugs they make u thirsty as fuck so drink a million water.

Sorry to hear brosephine.

OP here again, I won't lie to you anons, I'm pretty stoned now so this worldbuilding might take a turn for the stupid.

So let's talk about races. Honestly I'm not too sure about incorporating the standard 6 fantasy races. It is a little overdone, but I still think having a few of them around would be a good idea.

Humans area no-brainer. Pretty much couldn't do the setting without them. Humans are the driving force for urbanization and population booms. The first to take to the cities, they can be found all over and in great numbers. The minds behind many a remarkable invention, their quick progress and expansionist tendencies quickly forced other races to adapt to their way of things or be left behind. Very clever, highly social, and practically minded, they receive bonuses to a social, intelligence, and combat skills. Still writing sort of system-agnostic at this point.

Automatons are the newest of all races, having been created a decade ago for the War. Most were built in the rough shape of a humanoid with familiar features, as they were intended to fight alongside flesh and blood foot-soldiers and use much of the same gear. Acting in the War is heavy shock troops, their bodies are designed to take a lot of punishment and dish it out in turn. Somewhere in process of creating a vacuum tube mind to analyze combat situations and respond accordingly, the automatons' makers stumbled upon true sentience. After the War, many automatons found themselves without a purpose and without a guide in the civilian life they were thrust into. There is a strong social bias against them, and many don't consider automatons to be truly sentient, others blame them for flooding the job market, and many are just scared of living among war machines. For this reason many automatons find work as hired muscle(hydraulics?) for criminal gangs. They look like raygun gothic robots with early 20th century military influences. They get bonuses to constitution, strength, and combat skills.

I don't even know what to say. I wrote the reply in the wrong tab. So high I can't even post in the right thread.

I think you may have lost your way, friendo

>t. Cuck

>I have forever blamed myself for this and try to live humbly as I can.

Step 1: Stop being a nu-male Millennial cuck who is supposed to feel guilty for shit he didn't do.

Your daddy or his daddy or his daddy worked hard and got rich. You're allowed to enjoy the fruits of their labor. It's literally the reason why they worked hard and had children. As long as you're not a spoiled, entitled asshole, enjoy the life you've been given.

I was born poor as fuck and if I had a family that was successful financially, I would be proud of it. I wouldn't virtue signal for Pity Points on an anime shitposting forum.

>no doctor had officially diagnosed me

literally stopped reading there desu

DUDE WEED LMAO xD

well im fuckin diagnosed now.

Canadian health system takes years to get anything done. Appointments with my specialist are months apart. Follow ups on procedures are literally months after just to go over the results m8. Sorry I cant just fast track shit with american healthcare

Yeah I wish I could say I did that on purpose as a lame joke.

Get a vasectomy, buddy. She'll divorce you once she gets pregnant. It's all a tactic to extort child support from you.

>RPG group is solid and meets weekly.

Out of everything I envy this the most.

I browse Veeky Forums and play traditional games is to try and escape my problems. I go to a trade school for welding and I might have a paid internship coming up. I have a verbal abusive younger twin brother who also bullies my mom and dad. I don't plan in talking to him after he or I move out. I also have depression and anxiety.

My live is overall good, but I'm just bored. With just about everything. And I can't really see my future being all that better or different.

Life's alright. Family's well off enough to get me through college, but I fucked up my first semester due to illness and depression. No tabletop community here as far as I can tell. Bored as shit, I wanna play some 3.pf

Tldr filthy sadboy

It's worse having experienced a solid group and then simply never having one again.

And by solid, I mean reliably scheduled and fun at the same time.

>he only reason I browse tg and play rpgs is to escape my currently shit and boring life
I use porn for that.

The reason I browse Veeky Forums is that I hate myself, but I don't hate myself enough to browse /v/.

What fucking dystopian hell hole do you live in?

Man if they've been friends for years you can't expect her to drop that shit completely. They're part of each other's lives. Obviously that doesn't mean it's ok for them to fuck but if she gives a shit about you, and she married you and wants to bear your child so that's in the realm of possibility, then she probably isn't after this guy's dick anymore.

Here's a question: why don't you like or trust him? You don't need to tell me, or any of us, but be honest with yourself when you think about it. Are you afraid of him, and if so, why? Do you have an actual reason to be, or are you afraid and jumping at shadows?

Reconcile, talk this shit through with her, rebuild the trust between the both of you because it will have taken a hit, and if necessary talk with this guy and establish his intentions. Be a fucking adult. Communicate.

The last thing you want to do is get so jealous of your woman that you act like a fucktard and drive her away from you into some other dude's arms.

And don't go laying the pipe too quickly, save that shit for when you're both on the same page. Confused sex messes this shit up worse.

Also ignore the cuck posters they aren't shit.

this man knows what's up

How the fuck haven't you divorced that crazy bitch yet?

>>quitting at the first sign of a problem

You are the cause of America's huge number of failed marriages you gigantic irresponsible assbaby.

Kill your dog and eat it's pelvis

I do this, a GM'd a game of dark heresy recently and it was glorious but the next game won't be for two months. Life not just mine but everyone else's just gets in the way.

At my stage of life (wife career etc) getting 5 people in a room together is really difficult. Some friends are dads, others have super demanding jobs or live far away.

I dream of having the games people have on tg with histories and memories the sheer luxury of saying you could start a new campaign after finishing an old one. It will likely be a dream for now. So for now I read your tales of campaigns with awe and envy.

But life's pretty good, I have plenty of money I have an incredible job that allows me to work from home and a loving wife and good friends. Can't complain really.

I just wanna play evenly and moderately, i joined 3 groups this year but everyone work different schedules so I'm lucky if i even get one session per week done. And when we do play it's a tight cluster of 8-10 hours in row that just drains me.

>your life is boring because you do nothing
>you go out to do things and nobody is doing anything worthwhile
>every once in awhile some shit goes down and you're too fascinated by the fact that it's actually happening to get involved.

Hurts man

I know that feel. I guess that's also why waifus and Veeky Forums go hand in hand so easily: they respectively distract from how horrible women are and how boring real life is. Only one of those two is objectively horrible

Anyone else in a job that they hate but stuck with the feeling that there is nothing you want to do in life except games and P&P?

Makes me want to quite my marketing job and just make a fucking blog or something.