How old are you guys? I'm 23 it feels like all of my friends are drifting away...

27 and life is awesome, all of my close Friends Play ttg, even my gf, we have a chat of D&D in Facebook where we shitpost daily.
The only problem is that I'm dming now, and balancing a party of 10 people is a fucking nightmare.

24. I have a group from uni that I play with. Keeping in touch with pre-uni group is difficult though, what with half of them being in a different city now. I did spend a few years not playing before being picked up by the university group.

>10 people

That's enough people to split into two comfortable-sized groups. No one else willing to GM?

Hey user, do you have a flgs where you can find a group?

19, people seem to only be getting more into it as we grow up

c'mon dude

26. My group comes from like four different states, we just play online.

Turned 18 last week.

30. Used to have a group when in the Navy, now kinda on and off with a potential one with my co-workers although I get a lot of boardgame action with my roommates.

27, 28 in less than a month. Still TTRPG as much as ever, GF is joining one of my campaigns soon.

30
Besides work my only social interaction is my current game

27, had a group until one dude started fucking around with a side piece and took off, another dude fucking dropped off the Earth, and another dude's abusive bitch of a wife drove him to try and move on my wife even though the two of us are his closest friends.

But I bought a new hatchet, and so I reckon everything's gonna turn out real peachy real soon.

24

I always played with an online group that fell apart early last year. Only recently found an in-person group through the lfg subreddit last month. My friends are more than willing to play DnD or any system I'd recommend, but they'd want me to DM and I don't think I'm ready yet. Soon, though.

Tabletop game groups are like any other game groups. I used to play on a TF2 server all the time, but then people either get bored or life gets in the way. C'est la vie, just don't let it get you down.

As much as people on this board whines about millennials I'm surprised to see so few numbers over 30.

It's because the people that complain about millennials haven't found the thread yet.

I know that exact feeling at 20, op. It sucks.

28. Left my group and realized I was better off without them. Then I realized this extended to all my friends.

25; I just now got a group together for the first time in almost a decade, and it's all made out of old friends.

21. I'm far enough in college that I can fuck around a bit, I DM once every Sunday for my brother and some of his pals, run games online, and have convinced myself I shall ascend to wizardhood and become that crazy awesome uncle all my in-laws fear and all my nephews like for teaching them stuff my siblings won't.
Or I'll just become a desk jockey, who knows.

You sound like a cool uncle kinda guy already
>desk jockey
Well thats something i need to see

25.
I feel like I'm drifting further and further away from my back-home friends, but I'm holding on to my college friends pretty tight. That's nice.

a gf would be nice tho

Jesus, that's fucking pathetic LOL.

I'm in my mid forties and I remember the good old days of when all my friends were drifting away and I couldn't hold down a group. Now they've done drifted and I can barely get a group started before it falls apart.

Everybody has jobs and families and shit they're busy with, and for a while we kept things going through that, but now they've lost the energy of youth and would rather get a good night's sleep or drink beer and watch football or some shit.

>football

Are they queers?

To be fair, he didn't say when this year he was 17. Maybe it was earlier this year and he's since turned 18. You can't prove otherwise.

24.
I never played in a real life group even tho I know where one is in the city that's about 20 mins away. Most of my games I do try are online and they never really last.

>Are they queers?
Well, one of them sort of is, but he can't stand sports. His hatred is so strong that he refused to even pick up a controller when the wii first came out and the group was trying out wii sports. The other people just have shitty taste.

Shit, I wish my parents were cool enough that I could have fun playing role-playing games with them.

22 year old and I am still a kissless virgin DMing for my friends every weekend living at home with no car or drivers license. So despite knowing how to drive and having 8k in the bank from my job, I get dropped off to play D&D with my (mostly younger) friends every weekend.

But yeah one of my group has kids (he's my age, too) and he basically stopped showing up. Finally he started coming again. He reminds me why I will never have kids. I have a job but I still manage to make it to the game.

I'm not dealing with assholes and faggots anymore, so I'm happy.

That sounds cool man. I used to play with my dad and brother all the time. Hell me and my dad are doing a d20 Modern campaign right now.

Shut up faggot.

>subreddit

Get out.

19 and I have had the same group for two years now and I hope we stay together for another two more.

How do you find a game online that isn't full of complete autists? Roll20 lfg seems to be cesspool. I DM a session already, I just want to play the game.

Yes. Just me and two guys left in our once huge group. I respect it, they seem happy and so are we.

>So despite knowing how to drive and having 8k in the bank
Take the driver's test and buy a shitty used car for like 2 or 3k. It's fucking worth it, even if you have to put your car in the shop a decent bit. Or did your license get suspended?

As someone who does get players from roll20 and gamefinder It depends like I had a good deal of players from gamefinder who would just up and leave or don't say anything and never come to the game. Where for roll20 I been able to spot players who might have something wrong with them from the start like they come in with something they already copy pasted in 4 other places or doesn't want to play a game without rule book X for people with the high hours I still don't what to think of them seeing how I I just noticed I have 2.2k hours in roll20.

Yeah, it's really easy to spot the clowns that are just pasting their character all over. There are only ever like 1 - 2 interesting games on R20's lfg that are actually recruiting. Is my best bet to just toss my hat in with everyone else, or is there a better way?

19, almost 20.

Only ever played a oneshot with my cousin. Been trying to get a group together but it keeps falling through. Hopefully it will be better when I move to a bigger town.

I don't know of any better way to go about it. I tend to check the hours of the GM and the players and if they talked any on the listing page seeing if they fit with what I'm looking for. Outside of that I don't know really know I try to stay away from games with gm's with less then 50 hours or gm's who are gming more then one game during the week or same day.

How are you sort of queer? Save sodomy for the summer vacation only?

Turning 24 this year. I've finally managed to get a lot of my friends into D&D the past year so I'm fine for now. We're all college students or work simple jobs so things will probably change once people's careers get going.

>How are you sort of queer?
Identifies as "gender queer" but is essentially asexual. Not quite sure which box you put that in.

Like you had any chance of having kids. Go back to r9k

[ ] Attention whore

> matured past
This is bullshit, and you know it.
Becoming an adult means stop pushing your personal responsibilities onto others, not throwing away things that others might view as "childish".
We are living in a glorious age where we don't need to work our asses off merely to survive another day, where almost anyone can afford to dedicate himself to his hobbies without making the hobby his work.

The reason you feel that "all of my friends are drifting away" is because you stopped having things in common with them. The best solution to this is - FIND NEW GODDAMN FRIENDS.

Seriously, socializing with friends you made in highschool or early college is the exception, not the rule - mainly, because people back then are still childish and incapable of being responsible for themselves, but also because they still haven't figured out what they want to do in life.

I'm 21, currently finishing my masters degree and getting a second education in parallel, and I have very few people I can call friends, and exactly i person I can call my genuine best friend/partner for life who will never leave me (well, besides my family, but then again, our family always thought that blood is thicker than water, at least for the closest family members).

People drift away when they stop having things in common. So don't be afraid to reach out and find new friends.

28. I'm a miserable, bitter, failure. The only good thing I can say about myself is that I haven't turned my sense of regret into an ideology fueled on resentiment.

Needs a good fuckin' to be converted to a proper orientation.

>[ ] Attention whore
Overall, he's more of a "fade into the background" type of person, actually. With regards to the "gender queer" label in particular, he's made a bigger deal about it than I think he needs to (in our group, the only person who seems to care one way or the other that he sometimes wears a skirt is him), but it's a relatively new thing and I suspect his fixation on it may recede as time goes by. (Fixation is too strong a word, but I can't think of anything milder that still fits.) But then I've never walked a mile in his shoes and readily admit that I may just lack perspective. In any case, I suspect that most people who have make a significant decision regarding their personal identity are probably overly fixated on it at first.

> their personal identity
Well, duh. Many people just seem to be unable to come to peace with the fact that there is no inherent meaning or goal in their life, and they struggle with creating a basis for their personal identity.
It's like the religion of old. You don't know why you live or what to do with your life? The God loves you, so why not devote yourself to Him?
It's the same old shit, just repackaged for modern audience.

52. My tg game is strong.

My gaming group is sporadic at best, ranges from 19-47. We do wargames and RPGs. Some of the group play card games but it's not my thing. I don't do the LGS scene, too many loud, unwashed (m)asses.

And someday, when my beard fades to white and it is time to shuffle off to a nursing home, I will be tormenting the nurses and aides with demands for tg. Or starting a group with them. Alzheimer's GM go.

23, playing with my group 4 times a year.

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It's my friends from middle school though so atleast people i know very well. Everyone just lives all over the place.

God speed, you glorious artifact.

That's something, user. You can always turn it around. While there's a pulse, there's a way.

>We are living in a glorious age where we don't need to work our asses off merely to survive another day, where almost anyone can afford to dedicate himself to his hobbies without making the hobby his work.
Do you live in one of those glorious nordic socialist utopias or something?

>I'm 21, currently finishing my masters degree
Oh, so you aren't actually working then. Nevermind. You'll find out soon enough.

>Oh, so you aren't actually working then.
Working as a full-time electronics engineer (>inb4 you can't finish your degree via distance learning).
Sucks to be you, because you seem to perceive your job as something to loathe rather than to have fun with.

You're 21. Shut the fuck up you sanctimonious, narcissistic, know it all faggot.

39, manager of the flags. I've seen some dry spells, but there's always something to do.

Fuck autocorrect, that was supposed to be FLGS.

Same old story.
High School, College, Living with the parents comes to an end.
The group splits all over the country.
We all try to continue playing online and do so a few times but everyone starts getting new jobs with new hours, starting new social lives, or getting married and having families and pretty soon it become impossible to game together.
We all stay friends and keep in contact and talk about trying to game but never find the time to do so together.
We all find new groups but the magic just isn't there.
The chemistry is different, the players are less experienced, they hold different visions or expectations and for love of the hobby you compromise more and more of your own.
Soon you find yourself wondering why you put so much time and effort into something you enjoy less and less.
You learn that some of your old friends have given up the hobby entirely, some tell you with sadness, but others with indifference.
The time spent begins to put strain on your other relationships and you start cutting back, not investing so much of yourself but harboring a secret yearning for what was lost.
Eventually you set it aside, only wandering through the old books or looking at how it has changed in your absence when the melancholy overtakes you.
And then the dreams end.

28. My group keeps being torn apart because I play with normies who seem to like fucking one another and then not getting along for no reason instead of just finding someone they can marry and being happy with that.

I really wish there was a non-autistic way to introduce a "no intra-group fucking" rule that doesn't involve having kids and playing D&D with them.

26 years old here. DM. My group range from 26 to 29. We all had our fair share of adult life and we now understand that things like boys nerdy ass rpg nights or LCGs night are not just desirable, but necessesary to live with the shit we go through our daily lives.

Are you me?
I was just about to post and saw you said exactly what I was about to say.

I try to go back and play games with my hometown friends, but they just don't get into it like my college friends do. They mention vapid things, they don't get as in character, they're the most ungodly bitch to maneuver or get organized, and it's just... depressing. Why am I still trying?

College friends are the best group I've ever had though.

No, I've never taken the test. My parents wouldn't let me despite me never being in an accident and knowing how to drive for 2+ years now.

I had to threaten to leave and go homeless so they'd even let me get a job.

I wish I was making this up.

They think any car under 10k is a waste of money and refuse to let me spend my own money and since I live in bumfuck nowhere I am at their mercy. can't even take the test because you have to bring your own vehicle.

I probably could get some fat girl who quotes Monty Python to knock up but they disgust me.

>21 yo
>feeling morally superior in any possible way
>teaching people about life
Although you have some fair points in your outburst, you should consider waiting a bit before giving anyone advice and try and have a look at other people's life stories.

> 21
> my genuine best friend / partner for life

Wait until that roastie leaves you for Chad.

t. bitter lonely robot

30. I haven't had any friends for about 4 years now other than my wife but it's not too tough for me to find a group when I want one, there's plenty of FLGS in the greater Columbus area and I can mooch of my wife's social life if I really wanna.

t. cuck

I ain't the one assuming that 'cause he's got a girlfriend, she's automatically gonna dump him for some chad. That sounds like the reasoning of somebody who's either had that happen to him in the past, or is too afraid of girls to have had a girlfriend in the first place. Either way, you sound pretty sad, user. Wanna talk about it?

36. I play with pensioners nearly my Dad's age, which allows me a role as the enfant terrible.

I was under the impression he was saying that since he's 21 the odds of him having found his soulmate or whatever are very low.

"Roastie" and "chad" are two icons in the gospel of /r9k/.

Nice game, faggot. Reported.

I'm 43. My friends are down to game, but when we game, I'm the Forever DM. I hate it because I'm afraid what I build won't be well-received, or that my judgment calls will be shitty or look biased. I'm forever seeking a solo roleplaying experience, like that first solo adventure in red box Basic. I keep trying to create something I can play, making something randomized that's mentally challenging without becoming formulaic, but so far it has eluded me.

Most old people don't know how to navigate Veeky Forums. They just end up somewhere random and start typing angry messages.

I'm 41.

There's nothing wrong with spending some time with your parents. You'll miss the opportunity to do so when it's too late.

Dude, you're not alone in that. Solo games exist. They're a small niche, but they've been around since long before RPGs split off from wargames. Have some links. Take a look at the GM Emulators, they should be a big help for what it sounds like you're trying to do.

pastebin.com/F8teW7rr - Solo links
mediafire.com/folder/1ecybp6dp8rix/SoloTG

Also have my archive of Two Hour Wargames stuff, a great little company that has both wargame and RPG offerings, and excellent support for solo and gmless co-op play, in addition to the usual head-to-head stuff.

mega.nz/#F!9R8G2aQb!g-dZXkyCmkrljzH60tZEhQ

Thank you!

Just make some friends or something. Not that hard.
I have IRL friends that I do stuff with like movies, gaming and shooting innawoods. Also drinking, we do alot of that as well. Just not with our dakka.
I also a bunch of people I've known online for 5+ years now. I consider them friends and we play tabletop rpgs and other vidya.

19, tabletop games are one of the few things I really enjoy. I have a pretty good group too, which I'm thankful for.

23 y/o here aswell.

I didn't have many friends to begin with but now I've got two semi-stable groups that I play with weekly. And a rl group of buddies that invited me to play with them so that's nice. But yeah, I get what you mean...

25, and if anything finishing engineering school and entering the job market freed us so much time that we play like we never played before.

Plus, with some of us scattered all across the country, meeting up on roll20 once a week is sweet.

22. We manage, but a lot of us are spread wide meaning to get those to play requires the internet. Thankfully we're nearly 9 and not everyone plays every game.
"17 this year" would that "[he would become] 17 this year" thus making him be in violation of rule 2.

Also, let's not forget the financial aspect : having a job, an apartment with a living room large enough to invite people to play, enough money to buy what we need to play... All that helps a lot.

Complaining about millennials is something some millennials do for attention and that's it.

>Just make some friends or something. Not that hard.

19, I've been on Veeky Forums since I was 16 I think. And yeah, one of my friends moved away to study and another spends a lot of time with his gf.

I'm 30.

I met my current gaming groups though an active search for local ongoing RPGs. I would probably only call one of them a real friend, in the sense that we keep in touch outside of the game.

The other ones I just see during gaming sessions. I try to avoid their birthday parties and the like. Too many friends-of-friends I've never met, even though they've all known each other since high school. I don't really think we share very many interests outside of the game, either.

I haven't kept very many personal friends, to be honest. I was always friendly enough with certain classmates and co-workers, but I started working from home a few years ago.

Outside of the game, my only friends are the ones I 'share' with my wife. She's better at keeping in touch with people.

It's a bit of a pity neither my wife nor these friends are interested in 'playing make-believe'.

Does anyone else play RPGs with 'pseudo-friends' they wouldn't otherwise hang out with?

18, currently stuck in clinical center for depression with no club in sight and all friends either super busy or away because of studies