Wake up this morning

>cranking 70+ hours over past couple weeks to close the quarter early
>everything set and done end of last week
>start my leave, thinking it's time for toy soldiers
>immediately break down on combination of exhaustion and onsetting influenza
>prognostic for recovery 2 weeks minimum
I'm not even mad.

There's boards where average poster can't make it past the 1st. I'm beginning to suspect we might be one of them.

I was depressed like you. You won’t believe me now, but it gets better.

1. Take the date over gaming. Your players will understand especially if they’re your friends. Just balance gaming and dating.

2. Do a little bit every day. Clean a room in the house, take the garbage to the dump, pay some bills. Have some small task to be conquered every day. A clean home is super comfy too and provides a constant reminder you did something today.

3. Take a break from Veeky Forums. These guys are all miserable for a reason

I got a better idea! Learn to love reading other people’s misery it’s a great way to pass the time

pretty much same here. my friends and i all live by sessions. in between that, we go through our weeks just to get to dnd. when one of us misses out, we get to play our video games at least.

t. Chaotic Evil

I won’t say I’m chaotic evil but I get the most out of life

How old are you? You may be going through that phase in your late twenties where friends end up having ever increasing obligations and kind of stop being cool.

Find another thing. I lived like that for a while and it was the most miserable time of my life. I started going to concerts(alone or with friends) and reading to break up the monotony

I have reasons to live. I love my friends, my girlfriend, I have good relations with my family, and everything is going pretty well.
The problem comes in the fact that I don't think that I will amount to anything. My only skill set comes with RPGs and card games. I really don't think I can make a career out of anything else. Not only because I'll be unhappy, but because I'm not good at anything else.
My dream is to work at WotC or similar or a streaming site that plays these kinds of games like Geek and Sundry or similar. I know that they aren't great, but really it's the only thing that I want to do or would be capable of doing.
What can I do anons? I'm in college to try and figure things out (and because companies will only take you in the states if you have a degree) but I'm not even sure if I'm smart enough to graduate properly. Shit's fucked. I'm fucked.

You didnt waste the time if you created something. Just bank the session and run it next week, or archive it for a time when you don't have anything planned. Even if it doesnt get played naytime soon, you probably learned a few more things or brushed up a few more skills while making it. Keep creating and using your imagination.

Write a book

Trade schools are a good alternative. Decent pay, less bullshit, pretty much transitions directly into a job. Check them out, maybe it's something that'll work for you.

Nothing amounts to anything.
It doesnt matter if you become Hitler,Gandhi,Caesar or nobody at all.
In the end you will become what you were before you were born.
Nothing.
Our perception of self is a complicated illusion that will break the moment we die.
So do whatever you want that makes you happy.

Growing up in a family that worshipped books and such, I've grown cynical, especially with the new digital era encroaching ever closer to it's inevitable peak.
The only people who make good money off books are the ones who become famous from it. The only people who become famous from writing books write YA series or are pretentious idiots who can't actually write but old white dudes pretend that they can so they get awarded for garbage.
Maybe I'll try writing a book, but that requires a lot of work and concentration that I think I'm too dumb to have.

Looked into it. Trades aren't exactly for me, but if college doesn't work out, I'll probably going into one of those. Probably food, I had some fun working at restaurants over the summers

Our philosophies are very different. I'd love to grab a drink with you and have a talk. Hell, I'd be interested in playing some games with you.
But I don't think we can share advice for one another. I do appreciate the effort though. Not just from you either, for as long as I've been on Veeky Forums everyone here has been helpful and pretty nice. So long as I stay civil and apologize for being stupid, they stay civil and apologize for being rude.
We have a great community here guys, don't let it go.

Keep gaming
Stay happy
Maybe we can roll dice in the next life

I have no life at all considering LGS are dying in my city, all my friends live in other cities and I haven't even been able to talk with them for a while because they do have lives to live.

No i dont think we can do that. But i still wish best of luck to you.

>So long as I stay civil and apologize for being stupid, they stay civil and apologize for being rude.

Except in /40kg/

You should take up axe throwing.

Good thing I don't go to /40kg/

Do you live in a big city or somewhere more rural?

Make new friends.

Id be your friend, but we probably dont live in the same place.

Why do you live like that? Damn user, respect. I would crack up and kill myself after 2 weeks.

You now realize there is no meaning in this empty void user.

Only 23.
One of my friends has a couple kids and is basically gone from our group now.
The others are almost all hardcore permavirgins with little direction in life.
So I might be able to keep them around for another 10 years if I am lucky.

I know that feel user. My life is going nowhere too. The worst part is I don't want it to go anywhere.

>Be a turbo-autist who can't socialize for shit.
>Get into D&D, become great GM over the years.
>TTRPGs are the only reason I can get friends and do something rather than stay home and do nothing.
>Eventually accept it and be grateful that TTRPGs exist so I can live a more balanced life now.
It gets better OP.

Largest city in a second world country.
WotC is sabotaging LGS, the only store with GW support is perfectly fine but it's more a board games and wargames club than TCG/RPG store.

This is one of the most autistic ideas i heard on here and i fucking love every bit of it.

Stealing it. Probably use CK2 as my autism simulator tho.

Here, you deserve it.
>+1

Because there ain't no rest for the wicked
and money don't grow on trees.

On more serious note - I like my job, for the most part anyway. I try to climb up social class (my origin put me at poverty line) and I probably sublimate unfulfilling personal relationships into workaholism.

>The others are almost all hardcore permavirgins with little direction in life.

So you are saying you aren't? If not, you might actually try then and help them out. Better than waiting for them on weekends to play some RPG's. Not saying you should ditch the hobby tho im just giving you ideas. Make up some business together or something.

This reads like a satire of a snot nosed college know-it-all that is yet to fulfill his depressingly predictable arc of achieving precisely fuck all through laziness and lack of drive, all the while complaining about his lot in life and how stupid everybody else is.

>person is lonely and feels meaning in a thing that is the topic of this board
>WHAT A SPOILED SHIT HOLY FUCK
This is why male suicide rates are so high you godless animals.

They aren't high enough

Follow the link, don't just use the embed.
youtu.be/GJJClhqGq_M?t=5668

I'm not american, but if I got it right "trades" basically means most menial works right?
If yes, you should probably go for it. I'm studying sociology and ethnology in college and while I enjoy it, I feel kinda lost in life, like a lot of people our age it seems. The only times when I feel like I have a purpose in life is when I work with my hands. Music and writing is good too, but producing something tangible, whether it's a table or a cake, feels especially good.

>The only times when I feel like I have a purpose in life is when I work with my hands
So much this.
I love building miniatures and i love working on my area of expertise much much more. Sadly too many people apply for the job i want and i am stuck at home working on my thesis.

Thanks, autist-bro. Here is how the world changed after my players got done with an assault on a garrison in Africa and being mercenaries in the final assault against the last of the Punics

I live to make them, since I play them in rather rare stints.

World-building is best building
Rules engineering is best engineering

/gdg/ is best thread

I need more information...I crave to know what happened that made those dudes "No Longer Honorary Good-Guys"

Don't worry, user. It comes and goes, but it's really just you deflecting your anxiety towards a comforting safe bubbleworld...
>>Absolutely isn't deflecting himself

The Nervii are the last major Celtic faction in Europe proper. Thousands of Celts served as "Galatian" Royal Guards for Ptolemy and his cronies. With Galatia long gone, my players blamed the Nervii for supplying troops in secret to Ptolemy for money. I was impressed they came up with it all on their own.

I play Massalia in the campaign, but the party can serve whoever they wish... if anyone at all. After the "Lost Legions" got isolated in Germania - during winter no less - the party wanted to lead an expedition to bring supplies to the trapped Romans. We almost died twice from the amount of Germs that showed up once the alarm was raised.

The Thracians made a military alliance with Rome and serve as their buffer against Eastern forces. They sent three armies and two navies to assault Asia Minor in one major sweep.

I "liberated" several Celtic tribes to serve as auxiliaries while the Lusitanii make naval assaults.

Once my friends left, I gave Rome almost 8,000 denarii to represent my party getting "supplies" through. Sure enough, the Lost Legions were able to break back into Roman territory.

Oh, and makes a point, OP. Keep pressing for new comrades and friends. If they are losers then they will drag you down. Which is probably why you don't want life to go anywhere

Thanks user, I am supremely intrigued with the narrative here.

I gotchu user, the end game scenario appears to be Rome absorbing the Germans and seeing me as the big threat to the world. With most of my forces devoted to wars in the Middle East (what else is new, eh?) Gaul and Massilia proper are very vulnerable.

When that happens, my party will encounter some incredibly dangerous enemies. Hopefully they all go out in a blaze of glory just like my campaign will

I can only begin to wonder what will happen when the party learns of the clash between Massalia and Rome. Best of luck to you, dude.

>when they go to greet the Legatus and he draws his sword

>The men they'd been previously fighting with seem a bit colder towards them.
>Some look away, some glare, some just avoid them all together.
>Go to meet the Legatus, deep within the encampment.
>It begins....

youtube.com/watch?v=L9SIS6wBxpI

The problem comes that here in America, those jobs that require skill are considered 'unskilled labor' and you get paid like shit, don't get good benefits, and have to work shitty hours.
I don't want to rely on my wife to bring in good money and I want my kids to have an awesome life. I just don't know if our generation is going to be able to do both what makes them happy and what keeps them thriving.
I might be coming off as a negative Nancy, but really I do love my life. I just wish that I could love it more.

Couldn't think of a song to play once I started the battle, but this is definitely at the top of the list now. Patrician taste, user

Honestly man, the amount of times that I've had this play over Civ games, Tabletop, or other strategy with the boys, if I hear one note, I'm already up and running. Hopefully some of your players don't know what's happening, and some others realize it immediately.

youtube.com/watch?v=LRLdhFVzqt4
This is also a strong contender. By the time the choir starts at 0:45 I want them to all realize that this will be their last stand. There are five of them, so one is bound to catch on right away and just flip

Ah, I think what the first fellow meant by "trades" was skilled manual labor. Sort of thing you learn in a two year school, like welding, plumbing, electrical systems. A good welder can start at 65k a year in the US and it's fulfilling work.

I didn't realize that welders got paid so much.

Welder here.
Most of them don't. If you can get a job working on a pipeline or in a power plant, you can make $75,000 a year, easy. But there aren't many of those jobs, and most of the steady shop jobs have either been automated or get taken by temps or low-grade workers who get training on the job.
Almost nobody records your hours so you can get a journeyman's certificate. Unions in the US are weak. Training gets done on the job, and people don't want good work, they want good enough because it's cheap, so they'll hire some kid out of high school for $9.50 an hour or an undocumented Mexican for $6.50.

There are a few guys with super-specialized skills who make the big money. I knew a guy in Louisiana who ran his own underwater salvage and welding company, and he charged $1200 an hour just to show up. No, I didn't miss the decimal point, that's one thousand, two hundred dollars for an hour of underwater welding.
I've also talked to a guy who did friction stir welding for SpaceX, and that was a $300,000/yr contract. So yeah, you can make money. It won't make you rich, but you have to be crazy good and crazy lucky to be a welder pulling down six figures a year. Most of the guys I know work two jobs during the week and part-time on the weekends just to make ends meet.

Isn't underwater welding super fucking dangerous?

Ah existential crisis, my arch-nemesis

I don't even have d&d.

I move by sheer spite.

You want to know how I can tell that you googled it but didn't actually read about it?

/Fi/tg/uy here, I would love to come up with strength games that are actually fun and fair. 80s era strongman was as close as ever, falling short by still including training lifts that are judged for quality. Football is also quite close, but it contains no lifting. Modern strongman is no longer fun, full stop. I'd like a lifting/strength oriented game that is elegant, not requiring much judging and with simple goals, fair, and incorporates to combat and agility elements of field sports.

>the average poster can't make it past the first
I can only assume the sticking point of the first is food, since the rest of the stuff on tier 1 is breathing, sleeping, and shitting.

...

you need a GF

>go and take a shit realizing I have no real reason to live besides d&d

The saddest part is that you're still playing d&d.

I hope you move onto a real system sometime soon.

I genuinely don't get it.

Oh, wait, no. Nevermind. Got it.

Fuck.

And it's hell on your body, which is why it pays out the ass. Gotta make that money while you can because you won't necessarily be making it for very long.

the version I learned had sex / reproduction on tier 1 (without implication of love or emotional attachment)

That's cool, but how do the sessions actually look like?

Damn shame too because the utter lack of fucks given combined with dumb young guys, and stubborn ass old guys make most trade jobs suck ass. Only great when you land prevailing wage or get picked up as a specialist somewhere.

A wretched money sink that will leave you for better oppertunities once her vagina gets bored? Wish I could stop wanting one, loneliness wouldn6 be so cold if you could turn that desire off.

you can always look into traps, or gelding

I also recommend Jordan Peterson. He is helpful for people who are irreligious and have become swallowed in nihilism.

Neitzche's book, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," can also help people deal with nihilism. He sets up a non-religious case for why people should strive for something greater.

My "DnD group" made of friends from high school has only had one session and there probably won't be another one because they turned it into a memefest and the DM hates that I'm the only one who appreciates it
We never hang out because they're always busy with work or uni
I had spine surgery a few months after a graduated high school which took a year to recover from and prevents me from getting into the military which is the only career I've ever wanted
I don' have the grades or smarts for university
I tried going to trade school to learn cabinetry but my back pain kept me from being able to concentrate so I failed
I can't get a job because I'm 20 and have no experience and I don't have a relative who can set me up a job
I have another friend who gives me shit for being unemployed despite all the jobs he's ever gotten are because of his dad knowing someone
My girlfriend does full time university with a part time job and I just feel like shit because she's the breadwinner
I feel like an embarrassment to my family because I can't get my shit together
I don't even know why I spend so much time lurking this board because all I have are five unassembled guardsmen

>You want to know how I can tell that you googled it but didn't actually read about it?
Not really, since Google and the World Wide Web didn't exist when I first learned about it. I'm more interested in learning more about why you're so irritable. Holidays got you down? Not getting the grades you want? Romantic troubles?

Just kidding about that last one

No, you do.

Don't be silly OP, you have reasons besides D&D to live.

Shitposting here.

>checked
And they go well. The first session had 4 people, but a 5th wanted to join so I went along with it. The new addition is very eager and throws himself into danger. The other 4 are like me - which is why we're friends I guess - and are cautious. Planners. Schemers. So the damage dealer ends up making the party do some pretty dangerous and fun stuff. The newcomer made "Axelus" his character, and he talks a lot during the session. I don't mind during encounters, but I'll just start moving the game along and my buddies will hush him to listen.

Sometimes you really do have to suck things up and press on. Failing a trade because of back pain? C'mon. Move into tech school for heating and AC units and do that to fund your non-existent hobbies and pay friends back for being good friends

I was pretty much doing things that my surgeon said I wasn't supposed to do
So if I kept going I would have done even more damage to my spine
I should have chosen something else to learn but I just rushed the decision because I'm terrified of being a permanent NEET

I play savage worlds and GURPS too. Just not in a while.

That is terrifying, I totally do understand that feeling, user. I wish you luck in your endeavors

That sucks user. Sorry about your back.
If your gf lives nearby maybe she can recommend you at a place.

Thanks user.
It's getting pretty hard to even get out of bed these days
I keep applying to jobs but I keep getting fucked over because I'm not underage and exploitable, so I can't even say that I'll be stuck in some horrible minimum wage job
I keep telling my family I'm okay but I think they know I'm lying because I always look miserable in physical pain
I'm trying my best to not be a pathetic waste of space but I just can't get a break

The funny thing is it's easier for me to get to her job than it is for her and because I'm not a student I'm always available
They just never hire anyone new over the age of 18

>when at school use to spend most of my money on Warhammer and Citadel Goblins
>Played against school friend who lived on the next street he noramlly beat me with his Dwarves
>Use to play loads at weekends and holidays
>Great full days sessions
>My friend became a jesus freak so wouldnt play know more
>Cut him out my life had been in same class since started school
>Fuckin Stumpies

I think as long as the effort is in you, everyone will see that. That day you honestly give up or stop, then you'll be the waste of space. Who knows, maybe you can catch a social media PR job for a local company. Sit at home to manage messages, create ad content, and shill your company

Make an army of Muslim jihadists and challenge him to make some crusaders. In the name of Jesus, y'know?

>Have you never heard of maslows hierarchy of needs?

Wasn't he one of guys killed by Ant Lions in Half Life 2? Maybe it was Laslow... Hmmm.

t. Feminist

t. neckbeard