People who ghost/flake out on roll20

Only played on Roll20 once. The setting turned out to be virtually non-existent and pretty boring, it wasn't worth adjusting my bedtime to game so I told the GM our workload has increased and I will likely be not coming around often. Then stayed in group chat for around a month before he removed me. What should I have said, "your creativity is non-existent and I won't be writing your campaign's lore for you"?

Probably should've asked more of him since the beginning, then I wouldn't end up in this situation.

I don’t want to spend five hours every week for the next year playing a game I don’t want to be in.

Because they're evil.

If you tell the group it's not a fucking flake.
Not finding the game interesting or not wanting to play because of this and that is perfectly fine, but don't be a fucking nigger and outright disappear. Be a fucking man and SAY you're dropping out.

You don’t know what “ghost” or “flake” mean at all, huh?

Just these, OP
Just these

I showed up at a Shadowrun game once and decided I never wanted anything to do with those autists ever again but didn't want to tell them their group is fucking weird and that the system is retarded

Looks like it.

Sauce?

The only time I ever did it was because I was a few years ago and I realized afterwards that I agreed to a schedule in the wrong timezone.
It was too late to change anything by the time I missed the first session and I was too embarrassed to contact them any further so I basically cut ties and dropped out of the game silently.
I kinda regret it because I don't think I've talked to the person who invited me to the game since.

Because I was a depressed fuck at the time and I didn't like the players.

Because the dm tells me "it's fine" or that I'm overreacting when I ask if they'll press the button that rolls for me because I'm balls deep in a rut of shit rolls. I'm not going to spend 4 hours playing only to fail every check, save and miss 80% of my attacks. It's not fun and I'm willing to trade the "thrill" of clicking for a measure of normalcy

Social anxiety
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It's called "Xenobiology" and it's by "InCase"

I join games to try them out. If I don't come back it's because I didn't like your game. The End.

>Basically 80% of games on Roll20 are shit.
>Because of this, I apply to 5 or 6 games at a time
>I pick the best game of the bunch and stay in that game
>Slowly go from giving the actual reasons for me leaving the bad games (met with lots of defensive fighting and complaining), to making up excuses (same thing, people being whiny about it and telling me to drop whatever obligation was more important than their game), to not even bothering.

When you do this shit over and over and over, eventually the effort just becomes exhausting. Leaving a game or a discord chat with a single click is alot easier than having to tell someone their game sucks and deal with their defensive asspain afterwards. Especially when there's zero penalty for it. If your game is good, I'll stay. If it's shit, I'm not wasting my time.

Basically it goes something like this.
>Be me
>Join game
>Make a character who makes sense with the world and integrates into the setting, someone who's not useless but not a mary sue snowflake
>Other players start handing in their characters
>Chaotic randumb kitsune, guy with a masochist fetish playing a useless-as-fuck kobold, that chick playing some super special star elf that's not in any published books, and that guy who picks the most overpowered out-of-place shit in the monster-races book and tries to play it off like a normal person.
>Decide these people, and the DM who allowed these characters, are so fucking retarded that typing this post out here is less of a waste of my time than telling these hopeless wastes of meat that they're so retarded it physically hurts me.
>The few times I have attempted this, it always gets met with "no fun allowed" and "PHB is boring" arguments.

Fuck you and your snowflakes. Stick to videogames and deviantart where you belong.

I'm a new dnd player player with only a one shot to my name should I acquire more experience before playing on roll20?

If the GM is a creep.

If you've managed to sit through a real life session you have more social skills than half the people on Roll20.

You'll be fine. Just be ready to thread through shit.

Playing on Roll20 is no different than playing with a bunch of rando's on any other co-operative video game. Sometimes you'll join a group of people who are sociable, can have fun, and generally likeable as people.

And other times you'll join a group full of argumentative, whiney autists who are socially inept and/or completely ignorant of their own bullshit that even just trying to hold a conversation with one of them feels like a tedious chore.

The one benefit is that there are a LOT of people registered to places like Roll20, so chances are you'll find some people who aren't unlikeable spergs. It does however take some digging to find what you want, but once you do find what you're looking for it can become a lasting friendship.

you sound like an insufferable twat.

As much of a twat as he may sound to you I get where he is going since in a group like that you get de facto assigned as the mom player, the player that has to deal with all the bullshit the others do and figure a way to move them foward and let me tell you that shit gets boring quickly.

I think you need to actually attend a session before you can make that assertion about people. I've had players who make great sounding character who are pants-on-head retarded in practice, I've had players make ridiculous sounding characters and had them turn out to be exceptionally compelling. With new people, you just don't know until you see for yourself.

In any case, there's no reason you can't drop a quick "yeah I'm out because this shit sounds stupid as fuck" in a thread on the game page.

Right back at you because the dude clearly experienced this and bailed.
we're not talking hypotheticals here, we're talking reasons for bailing out.

>I dont have a set setting per say, I just have a world in which I will react to actions you do.
And then even though they're clearly the no-prep type of GM, they've cancelled on 2/4 games since I joined up.

>Because the dm tells me "it's fine" or that I'm overreacting when I ask if they'll press the button that rolls for me because I'm balls deep in a rut of shit rolls.
???

>If you've managed to sit through a real life session you have more social skills than half the people on Roll20.
>You'll be fine. Just be ready to thread through shit.
That reminds me:

Text games. Not even once.

Text in character and voice for OOC is the best format.

There are no consequences. Its easier to just disappear than it is to tell someone their game sucks and you don't want to play anymore.

Fuck off, I don't want to have to go buy a mic.

because most players are man children who are afraid of confrontation

You should have just left them a short message that they are fucking spergs and you want no part of their shit.

Ive only ghosted 1 game and it was because I genuinely never wanted to interact with the other people involved again.

sounds like you're overreacting to me

Wanted to give my players a chance, but lost interest in their characters.

I would never do that, getting into a Roll20 D&D5e game is literally 10 times harder than getting a job.