It's not unreasonable, but if your players obviously don't wanna play that, then it doesn't really make much sense to keep trying.
Michael Davis
No, it's perfectly reasonable. You have the freedom to run whatever you want, as a DM. You should not, however, forget that your players have a freedom to play whatever you want, and you can not really force them to play the game you want them to play.
Evan Peterson
Those are not bad ideas in and of themselves, but your attitude and way of presenting players makes me suspect you might just be an asshole, possibly one with control issues.
It’s perfectly reasonable. Try to find players that fit your preferences.
Anthony Baker
They sign up for my shit and then they throw this shit on me
Elijah Nguyen
FUKKEN SAVED
I spent last week saying the exact same things in threads on Veeky Forums. Nice to see it all collected in one place.
OP: read these
Pitch the game you wish, but if players don't want it, they're not snowflakes. You just need to find a middle ground.
Elijah Howard
Tell me exactly what you told them
Owen Flores
1920s bootleggers
Christian Cook
That's incredibly vague and a very weak pitch.
Thomas Martin
Tell them that if they dont want to be in this sort of campaign then they should leave and if you want to (which I think you dont) you could organize a campaign of what those guys like with some of your original ideas, while running the campaign you originally wanted.
David Robinson
They probably have nobody else to GM for them and will sign up for anything.
Owen Wright
We didn't tell him what he wanted to hear, so he's trying again. Notice how we said he was the asshole for trying to force his players to play a campaign they clearly weren't interested in, so now he's leaving them out entirely. Tomorrow he'll make something even more abstract and passive aggressive, like "Why is no one interested in realism anymore?"
Jaxson Morgan
Which was the thread for yesterday? "Didn't you make this thread yesterday" is a troll response to rant threads and no I didn't make whatever thread yesterday
Tyler Perez
A historical setting with no fantasy elements wouldn't be good for an RPG, every combat would just be human fighters vs human fighters.
Jason Sullivan
I think it's assholish behavior too to join a game and then want to play something entirely different than what was advertised. If you want superpowers then find a supers game to join indtead.
Jordan Lewis
That is your opinion and you are entitled to it. At least you aren't feigning interest just so you can later attempt to insert your fantasy snowflake shit in my game
Liam Brooks
>Snowflakes >Historical realism >Steampunk You're complaining about literally the same shit, worded the same way, in a thread made around the same time of day. Don't even try to pretend that wasn't you
Adam Howard
But it's equally assholish to see that none of your players are interested in what you want to run, forcing it on them anyway, and saying they're shit players when they don't have fun. And his players aren't the ones spamming these threads
Lincoln Russell
You realize that watching humans fight humans is an entire sports industry of its own?
Christian Campbell
Oh that? I posted in someone else's "what should I run" thread and my exact words were to hijack the thread just so I don't spam the board with similar threads. It was a little different (I was looking for system recs) and I posted that 2 days ago in the evening I think. Also I don't remember mentioning historical realism. No one responded to my post but good eye that was totally me
Jonathan Fisher
He is talking about which is quite similar to your post
Adam Jenkins
Depends on the setting
Austin Ross
Oh ok that's totally not me I'll be honest I learned to avoid "snowflakes" from Veeky Forums Captcha agrees
Parker Young
No that's just foolish. Can't blame man for trying.
Thomas Davis
See that makes me think Call of Cthulhu
Henry Peterson
fuck off
Lincoln Cruz
It's not unreasonable to want such things, but people play games for escapism and fun, so they'll want certain things that you might not want
Hudson Adams
It's doable, but requires slightly more effort to make it fun,engaging, and interesting. You also need a system suited to that sort of system. For instance, running a pure historical campaign in any D&D-alike would be fucking awful and require a ton of homebrewing and ad-hocing to not be a total slog
Christian Wright
If you run it, they will come!
Seriously, just be upfront about what sort of game you want to run, and people who are interested will join. I always advertise 3d6 in-order for character gen when I run D&D, and it weeds out the people who are in the game just to play their perfect super character. You would be shocked about the number of people who throw a fit when I just banned half-orcs; even if they didn't want to play a half orc. But people who can't stand any restriction on their choices make for poor group members.
If you want to run a semi-historical all human game just tell people that, and then run the game in a way that rewards sticking to the setting.