That campaign that started out really promising and ended up being the same ol' shit

part 1 was great, part 2 was a turn off.

>GM promises hard sci-fi deep space colony ship a hundred miles long, play part of the awake crew tending to sleeping passengers, no to low combat, but politics and tough choices.
> i was a fool, and believed this.
>Make engineer, tinkerer, maxed out repair and build robot helper with starting resources.
>other players are two doctors (mind and body, i forget which was which), a navigator / pilot, and a botanist / farmer.
>Game starts.
>First session, Super Hardcore Invincible Alien Megaforce attacks the ship and kills 100% of the sleeping passengers / NPC crew
>Our party is captured.
>Tossed into an arena to fight for the alien's amusement.
>There was no session 2.

>session zero
>dm wants to get a feel for how we want to play, what the world should look like, etc.
>group decides on a low magic, early industrial setting
>the main plot revolves around emerging technology challenging existing hierarchy, in which high level wizards control society
>everyone is excited

>by the second session BBEG reveals that he intends to unleash evil on the mortal plane (basically oblivion)
>by the fourth session we have four new players and they're all magic classes

DM, if you are going to involve your players in world building, learn to say no if you don't like an idea.

>DM tells us that he's unsatisfied with his game.
>Gets a bunch of ideas from some youtuber that I can't remember off hand and decides to implement them in his next campaign.
>Gives us all a questionnaire detailing flavor shit like who our parents were and why we're involved with the campaign.
>Also runs through a session 0 so we all build our characters at the same time.
>We end up having two session 0's because of a combination of one player not completing their shit the first time and the DM more-or-less saying "eh, I wasn't planning on running today anyways."
>Game ends up being cancelled for one reason or another so we don't end up playing until a solid month later.
>By now, balls are a steady shade of blue.
>Finally sit down to play.
>We waste time setting up how we all met and how we got to the place where we needed to do our mission.
>Effectively making it our third session 0.
It's so disappointing too because the premise was sound, but then a bunch of shit kept delaying game.

I feel so bad for this GM

He thought he was so clever

But really he was being an asshole

I feel that a lot of these "high tier RP strats" are for rich people or middle class people with a lot of fucking time on their hands.

>Spend hours fleshing out an obscure corner of an established setting with an intricate political landscape
>Players tell me they're interested in being more than just murderhoboing fuckwits
>Slowly set the scene, introducing them to the different moving parts of the geopolitical landscape over the course of several sessions
>They actually seem to be interested at first, interacting with a couple of factions
>Through it all I try to ignore that my friends are all a lot flakier than i'd like
>Try to encourage them to pick a side in the emerging conflict, nudging them towards choosing a patron from among the local power structures
>Lay rumours in front of them about optional missions and alternative routes in case they want to go a criminal or revolutionary direction
>They just stick with the people they first met
>They don't follow up on any rumours, just keep waiting to be given assignments
>They start showing up on time less and less, sometimes not even bothering to show up and not saying why
>Try to encourage and engage them but they tell me it's just a game and sometimes "real life stuff" comes up and they don't have the time to tell everyone they won't be coming

>I throw up my hands

I hate how the girl was so eager for sex with her boyfriend, so the obvious thing to animate was a gang rape.

>Every game I've ever tried to GM

>sorry guys, I was so busy all week that I couldn't bother to text to that I can't game tonight.

Jesus christ

Gee that really did start out promising and ended up being the same ol' shit

Having a session 0 isn't a bad idea in theory, it's just that you have to keep it contained to one session so that you don't end up losing interest before the game actually starts.

Sauce

That hurts, user.
Good shit turning bad hurts.

>Group is basically a bunch of at least year-long friendships
>Setting up a sequel to the 5e campaign I ran
>Put a bunch of cool returning characters for mid game, plot twists, the fate of mankind resting upon the party, etc.
>Even started animating an "intro" for the campaign that would show up after the main plot was revealed
>One of the players ends up having a video game addiction
>After going to the therapist a few times, he's basically forced to give up on almost all his hobbies, including TTRPG
>Our RPG nights were basically our weekly meetups, so I put the campaign on hiatus so we can still keep meeting, because of time constraints we can't just pick another day without him
>The campaign is never played again

Christ, that hurt to read. I'm sorry for your loss.

>That DM who thinks if one player can't play, no one can

Did you read the post? Nobody in the group could play at a different time until six months afterwards, when the whole thing had already blown over. I tried twice and didn't work

What happened here was the DM was writing a book and just needed you to be his test-audience.

But for serious, shitsux, sorry bro.

I think he is misunderstanding the situation to be that this guy could no longer attend, so you gave up.

Guy, it's not that their friend couldn't show up anymore, it's that this was the only time they could all get together and friend could not be around games because of his mental issues. They elected to hang out without games rather than socially isolate their friend.

>GM contacts me on Meetup, says he saw I like Pathfinder and is recruiting for a game
>meet him in a coffee shop before the game, he seems like a good dude
>sends me a campaign guide PDF, it's not overly long but shows he's put a lot of thought into fleshing out his setting
>He's third party-friendly, I make a Warlord which I'd been dying to play since Path of War came out
>Go to his house, meet the other players. It seems like they all knew each other already but I think I got along with them well
>GM has cooked for us, the food is great
>We have four players present, turns out there's a couple more of the GM's friends who were gonna play with us but they went to a Vampire LARP that day
>okay, I didn't know people still did that in 2015 but whatever
>session goes great, we're all excited for the next one
>contact GM before the next one, he tells me that he cancelled the campaign because the two missing players wouldn't be able to play it

HERE IS YOUR (((YOU))) YOU GODDAMN SLUT. YOU CANTANKEROUS WHORE.

>When the campaign's shit That Guy DM visits 4chins.

>girl who s enthusiastic about pleasuring a guy

Heck yeah!

>Turns into rape and she starts crying while resisting

Why, Japan, why.

The Peridot animation is disgusting. Piss should NOT be fluorescent yellow. And pissing into her bladder would hurt like fuck and make her seriously unwell. Should have stuck to not shit-tier fetishes.

>GM wants us to play in his custom, Norse-centric world
>Really stoked, make a gloomy cleric of Baldur, excited for Viking shit
>We start playing
>No Norse names beyond players, no Norse shit to be found, nothing distinguishing about anything, generic D&D shit
>Plot involves Ragnarok but not much else
>We're getting railroaded nonstop, GM doesn't give two shits about the backstories *he* wanted us to write for him
>Constantly ignores or changes rules on the fly, citing "MUH RULE 0"

The game's ending next week and we're relieved. We like the GM but he doesn't know the first thing about GMing and doesn't see interested in improving.

The rape and crying is hot as fuck, the piss isn't though.

What the fuck

The final scene is attaching a catheter to one of the dudes dick, putting the end through her urethra into her bladder and pissing into it, then fucking her as she has to piss more piss out because, well, they're piss fetishes? And by they i mean the animator.

I disagree about the rape and crying.
But to each their own, my dude.

I mean I wouldn't fap over it, but it's a primal fetish and it's difficult to ignore. It's a taboo thing and that's hot. Like mother x son or father x daughter. Or the rarest of the rare, mother x daughter.

>sends me a campaign guide PDF, it's not overly long but shows he's put a lot of thought into fleshing out his setting
Question: how long should these things be? I'm writing one now and I really don't want it to be overwhelmingly long. One to two pages maybe?

Not that user, but there's literally no point to vanilla hentai when regular porn exists. I have a hard time imagining anyone who actually watches vanilla hentai over porn not being a 400lbs 3dpd weeb.

What did he mean by this?

...

Je suis Christ this is Pe-ta tier or cartoon logic.

My DM decided to integrate all our back stories into the campaign as plot threads for us to follow. A pretty important thread was that one of our characters was running from a continental criminal organization. He also happened to be a greedy cunt and tried to murder a PC in their sleep over a bag of holding, which the rest of us assumed was assault and very quickly killed the fucker. It turns out the organization that was after him was kind of important to the overall story since most of our backgrounds tied into it to some extent and the DM didn't plan for him to do that. We played like 3 more sessions before we all realized that this wasn't going anywhere.

cs.sankakucomplex.com/data/ae/d4/aed4f7c9fb80c8999d690ff05c80ac95.mp4?6253962

Knock yourselves out.

>I'm invited by a friend to play, he tells me that the other players are really good at D&D(A DM and a "veteran" player, let's call him Jimmy)
>warned that Jimmy is "in the spectrum"
>Check the classes, I wanna play a Paladin, friend picks a wizard, Jimmy picks a double wielding weapon thief of some made up unbalanced homebrew race(also he had elf ears, red eyes and vampire teeth), DM allows it, I can see little Jimmy in his seat grinning and twitching in happiness after being allowed
>Okay user, your story goes like this, you are a paladin who lives in the mage tower with the wizards, you are like a bodyguard where your friend also lives, Jimmy on the other hand is part of a thief guild
>Now because we started at lvl 2 everyone can pick a magic weapon or a magic item, what do you want user
>I'm thinking to myself why can't I choose anything about my story wtf, but whatever, I reply that I want a magic item
>Okay user, your helmet can illuminate a radius of 15 feet if you say "light", what about you Jimmy, what do you want
>Jimmy instantly replies "magic weapon"
>Okay Jimmy, you get two daggers +1, one of them does an extra 1d6 fire damage and the other an extra 1d6 ice
>I have a miner helmet and he has two powerful weapons right off the bat what the fuck is this game
>I can see Jimmy twitching and grinning looking down at his knees as the DM describes his daggers, >to this day I can clearly see his face and the stupid beanie hat he wore when I get angry
>Jimmy presents his character before the session starts, his name is "Naughty Achilles", he describe him as having shiny boots and makes the DM swear that the boots won't "fuck up his stealth"
>fine, I just hope the story is good, we start outside of the mage tower, in a ceremony without weapons, just religious clothes, the DM starts narrating, he describes that the arch-priestess enters, "she is really hot, like fapworthy hot", I can see the stupid smile in Jimmy's face as he asks "how hot, show an example"

Jesus christ.

Why not both?

>DM looks in his tablet for a picture of a half naked actress, shows everyone and says "this hot"
>The game starts to get awkward as the DM shows more pictures of the actress to Jimmy and you can clearly see him getting aroused, my friend starts to laugh nervously
>Can we get into the action? I ask as I grow more and more uncomfortable of a man showing another man half naked women posing in a tabletop game
>user don't kill the atmosphere I am describing the characters... if you want straight out action D&D is not for you, go play CS or something, this is a very narrative focused game
>So the DM describes(again) the arch-priestess entering and suddenly he makes a noise "BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM!", you can see Jimmy's eyes widening waiting to hear what is going to happen
>The mage tower collapses in front of our eyes and quickly a new but dark tower emerges from the ground
>So I lost all of my equipment? because you clearly said I had nothing but religious clothes
>Oh right, let's go back in time and pretend that you guys had all of your equipment out
>Arch-priestess tell us "Oh it is the prophecy of Moruas, the evil lord, the prophecy says that he was going to replace our tower by his. Only you heroes can cleanse it"
>Shittiest plot hook ever but whatever we go to the new tower and the entrance is locked
>Jimmy tries to lock pick it, he fails so I say "I kick it down using my strength"
>Jimmy starts screeching and yells "NOOO I KNOW HOW MY FRIEND PLAYS, IT IS A TRAP YOU CANNOT JUST KICK DOORS YOU WILL KILL US YOU IDIOT", he literally gets up of his chair while saying this, I look at the DM and he is looking at me with mischievous eyes (almost gay like) like "go ahead and try it" so I say: I do it anyway
>I roll an 18, doors go down a fireball comes out, DM throws a 1d3 to decide who it is going to hit, it is Jimmy, he receives 41 damage

Whoa there hombre.

Not into rape =/= Vanilla only

>there's literally no point to vanilla hentai when regular porn exists
Regular porn can't go beyond 10% plot 90% sex, vanilla hentai can mix the two any way you like.

>You can see Jimmy's face change when he realised that he is dead... the grin in his face disappears, and he is looking at me in complete anger... he mumbles a few words which I couldn't understand and then starts looking at the ceiling, the table goes silent
>come on Jimmy it is just a game, Jimmy doesn't reply he just keeps staring at the ceiling
>the DM says: OH WAIT I FORGOT THE ARCH-PRIESTESS WAS THERE, she quickly revives Jimmy with no penalty, you guys can now enter the dungeon
Jimmy's stupid smile is back
>we enter the dungeon, we find 2 banshees, I try use my turn undead thing on them, DM takes for ever to check "if you can do that", while he does that I try to RP and say something like "begone demon", Jimmy starst laughing at me and tells me "that's really pathetic little buddy"
>after 5 mins of the DM looking for the answer he says "no sorry you can't
>pizza arrives
>Jimmy complains that he wanted corn in half of the pizza and gives a long rant about how important is to eat fibre
>we are about to fight some ghouls, DM has to stop because he is being attacked in some online game about spaceships (browser game, we couldn't remember the name)
>we fight the ghouls, sessions ends
>DM says: now it is time for the good role playing XP
>what the fuck is that
>he explains: I give XP based on how good of a role player you were
>D&D is about making a good story and for that you need good players who roleplay, you know?
>Jimmy gets an extra 600, I get 250 and my friend 150

>
>>there's literally no point to vanilla hentai when regular porn exists
>Regular porn can't go beyond 10% plot 90% sex, vanilla hentai can mix the two any way you like.
Basically this, the characters in hentai mangoes are way more convincing actors than porn actors are.

>I watch porn for the plot

>he can get off without themes, mythos, narrative or even a fully fleshed-out geopolitical landscape
normies get out

>there's literally no point to vanilla hentai when regular porn exists
The aesthetics of 2D being usually superior to 3D porn, for doujins with good art pretty much any girl will be attractive, whereas I need to spend an hour on pornhub to find something close to my type or only fap to a handful of actresses

It doesn't have to be vanilla but Japan's rape fetishism does get real fucking old.

Ha ha, please tell me this was the only session.

Please tell me it wasn't.

I'm no expert on movies, but I have to say that when you take 20 pages of hentai, and by cutting half of them out turn it into short, but still interesting and perfectly wholesale story, then author did a good job. Don't make me demonstrate.

I wanted to start writing erotica, but I got too worried about how to write the ending without it becoming really not-sexy and I'm convinced that I can't. Maybe I should switch to a more consensual scenario so I don't have to try really hard to avoid writing a Bad End.

I almost don't care about Jimmy, that DM was pretty rubbish all around

Good stuff. Got any more?

Yeah it was the only one, it happened years ago, 2012 or 2013.

3.5 by the way, I saw Jimmy the other day, he started rambling to me about how dumbed down 5e is and how he only plays PF and how he found some magic hammer in some campaign he is playing. I pretended I had to go.

Sounds like your GM burnt-out. That's exactly the kind of shit I did when it happened to me.
Only solution if you don't wanna wait is to find another GM or GM yourself.

It's the same thing as writing normally, to be honest, except with erotica, getting a boner while you're writing isn't distracting, it's motivational. Just don't blow your load before you finish writing, or at least writing the sex, or you'll never finish it. Not like I've written that much erotica but that's what I remember from the experience.

>had the video opened in a private tab saved for later
>read this
>close tab
Thanks man. I owe you one.

Personal choice would be hard pounding and light strangulation for climax that fades into blacking out.

Followed by unconscious aftercare cuddles until breathing stabilized and you're sure there was no real harm.

But not staying until they come about again, that's way too lovey-dovey and sickeningly sweet.

Well it's one scene, rest is pretty cool.

What's with this rise of shitty fetishes? Vorefags, Lolifags, Pissfags, THICCfags, Furries, why are they multiplying so damn quickly? Maybe I'm just noticing it, but seriously, for the past year these shit fetishes are coming up more and more on Veeky Forums

>Someone actually wants to run a game in my area offline other than me
>Oh, no, just kidding. It petered out again.
>Just like always.

The animation is like 4 years old user. If you've not seen it by now, that's on you. As for furrys, you weren't here for the Flare-Era, I see, or the Monster Girl vs Furry wars.

Because NOTHING has been going on in the actual Veeky Forums community worth talking about, except for the occasional UA article for DnD 5e. And even that doesn't really cause too much discussion anymore outside of the DnDrones, everyone else is just waiting and praying for DnD to die and stay dead.

>Gives us all a questionnaire detailing flavor shit like who our parents were and why we're involved with the campaign.
Oh fuck, I was about to do that with my upcoming campaign in order to set up a plot development later.

>Vorefags,
Sergal are a thing for years now, Felarya corrupted a good few people too
>Lolifags,
I blame Nanashi. and there's nothing wrong with loli for as long as you keep it 2d
>Pissfags,
The original Magical Realm.
>THICCfags,
it's not just Veeky Forums, the thing is all over the place lately
>Furries
Always been here. Back when /rs/ existed, half the Veeky Forums uploads were furry porn (or 2hu futa) with misleading filename.

>lately

Thicc is mankind's most ancient desire, you've seen fertility idols.

Twiggy broads were little more than a passing indication of wealth, like tans when yachts were still cool.

>developed port town
>scream from an alley, corpse, murder situation
>this is fine
>some digging though police records later, find some probably information about a cult
>oh neat
>during some down time at the bar, local merchant visits and buys everyone around
>everyone having a great time, nice to get some relaxation after all the snooping
>someone throws a bottle
>merchant goes down face-first into his plate
>[bar fight intensifies]
>turns out the merchant was merely pretending. He brought some goons and is actually raiding the bar for (((reasons)))
>follow along after him, he isn't stopping us
>oh, the bar's backroom is actually a cave. With a stream. In the middle of a city
>nani?
>also it's the cult's hideout
>they're sacrificing a child to their dark god
>also two of the players had infiltrated them, we didn't know about this. Cult dies easy.
>the child actually belongs to another player
>huh
>loot and roll out, intending to tell the police
>oh, the door we came though leads out into the merchant's bedroom
>nani??
>also one of the players decides to complete the cult ritual and get infected with a demon or something
>nani???
>becomes a level 7 warlock, loses control of the character, and slaughters a few city blocks
>GM rules the character is gone and unplayable, roll a new one
>somehow end up in a strange realm
>walk down one alley, come out in another unfamiliar one.
>repeat until we're on a boat in an ocean in the sky
>we need to sing to keep it from sinking
>nani????
>many sessions and a few character deaths later, we learn we're in a dream realm
>the dream realm kills us if we stay too long
>we don't know how we got in the dream realm
>what ever happened to that cult guys?
>oh, maybe there are some elements of the cult in the dream realm. Weren't they a dream cult?
>or not
>guess we'll try a ritual to get home
>oh look, more strange dreams
>now it's winter
>nani?????
>we're in a cave and the entrance is clogged with carnivorous bushes
>TPK
>nani??????

Breath-play is fun, but I wouldn't have it be the main focus of whatever it is that I was writing. If I ever do get around to writing, I'll probably post it on /trash/.

I love lovey-dovey stuff. But I also enjoy certain degrees of non-consensual stuff. I guess this is why I have this weird fetish for Stockholm Syndrome.

Sounds like a shit GM but the story sounds like a wild ride. carnivorous weed

tell him he's fucking shit. right in the middle of one of his probably long winded retcon explanations of someething. If he isn't a bad guy this is the way to correct shitty gamer behavior

if you finish the campaign without saying anything he'll think he did a good job

people who jerk off to anime are mentally ill. anyone who says otherwise has some kind of trauma or is on the spectrum

an hour? How do you have time to scroll through what boils down to white women doing the exact same shit in every video for about 10 mins

You can say the same things about literally everyone on this albanian cave painting messageboard.

Disappointment and lack of cute brown girls

Yep. I sorta feel bad for giving you the sauce.

Bad trip: the campaign

There's nothing wrong with that as a concept though, just make sure to keep things simple, make sure the questions are relevant to the campaign, and to be open minded with the answers that some people give.

>thats on you
and thank christ today was the first and only time i'll see this mhm yes sir god is good glory be to the highest in unity of the holy spirit yes indeed

yachts are fuckin sweet i wish i had a big boat

unless you mean that cat meme

no, having an interest in gaming or a hobby is literally nothing like preferring hentai over real pornography. anime was a mistake

>albanian cave painting messageboard
made me laugh so hard

Fuck, that all sounds pretty cool until
>somehow end up in a strange realm
just following through and having the PCs fight the old PC would've been sweet

Example?

Are you sure you're where you're supposed to be?

That story sounds like it's been carefully constructed to piss the reader off. If it's real, sorry user, you didn't deserve this nonsense.

This though. I can absolutely believe this happened. I'm definitely stealing your GM's more salvageable ideas.

>has some kind of trauma
True, I guess. A lot of people have fetishes that don't translate well to live action porn, for one reason or another. I like more of a story since I like to self-insert.

It's more moral because the only workers exploited are a single sweaty japanese man. It's basically your civic duty to jack off to anime desu senpai.

Rising numbers and acceptance of weapons-grade autism.

t. vorefag though futa still best

Really, it should cover all of the things that are important to the characters coming in right now. As in "No matter what you do or what class you pick, this will affect you and your actions", and shouldn't go beyond that. A page and a half for this at max. If you go over that, strongly consider revising what you have.

>We like the GM but he doesn't know the first thing about GMing and doesn't see interested in improving.
I know that particular feel bro.

>DMing OSR
>Going great, everyone is dying like crazy, having fun
>Take about a month off because of Persona 5 coming out
>Come back, ready to get into the game again
>Friends want to invite people of ill repute
>Suggest not DMing because I'm not sure I want to deal with that while I'm at the head of the table
>Friend: Oh yeah! I've actually had this great idea about using Judeo-Christian themes in a non-serious game!
>There's a prophecy that the devil is going to be defeated by a group of heroes, so you're going to be sent on a mission to revive the devil so you can kill him and fulfill the prophecy
>Sounds fun
>We start playing
>Almost every single day it has consistently been a shitshow with the new players
>The DM is failing almost every litmus test there is for being a good DM, including an entire section of the game where the most rational, level headed people at the table are arguing with him because of the insanely blatant and shocking excuses for the railroading going on
Honestly, it's been an absolute circus every day. Half of me keeps going just to see how much worse it can possibly get.