Confess

Probably never, friend. The type of people Veeky Forums interests seems to attract is enough to drive anyone away. That is anyone who hasn't invested thousands of dollars into winning a RNG board game, or; anyone who isn't allowed to play their super special character and isn't interested in telling a fun story.

Same.

As much as I hate the questfags and was happy to see them go, the board turned into a shitshow after they left. I'm not sure if the two are actually related, as I never bought into the whole BS about them being "content creators", but the vacuum they left got filled by even worse shitlords and chased all the content-creators away shortly afterwards.

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I fucking DESPISE Kingdom Death, and hate anyone that throws money at it.

While I find some of the pin up art to appealing, everything else, the monsters, the setting, everything (Except dung beetle knight, he's great) to be revolting and legitimately don't know why anyone likes it.

Above all though, I hate Adam Poots for his complete lack of business model that just fucks over everyone (including himself) and scalpers looking to resell the minis because everything he makes is limited run. EVERYTHING.

Why? Why do people keep throwing money at him when he keeps running out of it and having to do additional kickstarters to put out the product?

For fuck's sake, the last kickstarter he did was in late 2016 with an "expected" shipping date of December 2020, and all it was for was as second printing of the game.

And I still hate myself for throwing 30 bucks at the first kickstarter he did

I don't want to get in an argument and the whole "no true scotsman" thing, but I feel as though you were introduced and playing under the wrong people. That includes people who play D&D by the rules, mind.

There is literally nothing wrong with taking the base, core game rules and running with it. It works great for certain types of game.

>While I find some of the pin up art to appealing,

And there are other, better sources for pin-up models.

On that note, a confession: I play ERP games and have a (almost) completely pinup 40k army. I don't inject erp into normal games and would never field the army at the flgs during normal hours when theres kids running around, but even with those restraints imagine tg still finds this sinful.

I've been GMing for going on about 6 years now and have never gotten to play in a game that didn't fall appart right off the bat.

I've been working on my own game for a half year now, but I get stuck and stop working sometimes because it's hard to create varied balanced concepts. Also it's really tempting to just outright steal systems and options that other games do well.

What kind of pin-up army are we talking about?

Wow, Veeky Forums is more pathetic than I suspected.

Ad-mech army with a lot of heavily kitbashed stuff built around a core of wargames exclusive minis.

Newfag detected.

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I wish we had stable GMing generals, because I'm a newbie GM and I am fucking terrible at it, and I need help for even the most basic shit. I've read the Angry GM but I want more direct feedback about what I am doing specifically, and the fact that I have to interrupt existing threads with my dumbass questions fucking sucks.

Not really, is few years (4 or more actually) but I read arms and weapons threads, or discuss about system. Setting ideas. Inspiring concepts and pics. I enjoy it.
But the worst spergs extremely autistic about their pet system are way more interesting and sincere than someone like absolutely baffling.
I would kill myself if I had to live with such cognitive dissonance.

Its not just me then, thank fucking Christ. I thought I was just a lazy bastard.

Are you guys by chance depressed? Is quite typical.

I mostly go on Veeky Forums looking for character art, which I never end up using, and to see what porn gets posted.

I pretend to enjoy grounded, gritty, balanced characters. But I always end up playing a gloryhogging min-maxed special snowflake who ends up solving or trying to solve all of the party's problems. Nobody calls me out because I'm the best role player at the table, but I feel like I'm squelchung the other players.

Not the spoiler guy.

For me, it's the paranoia that my players aren't having fun. Then, I try to add some form of in game drama via deals with a demon or a god edging them onwards. Then, it turns into a game that goes off the rails and I end up not being able to keep track with my own bullshit. Notes are jumbled and then I get even more paranoid until the game I've been running just dissipates. Happened with my pathfinder game, my end game, and my dark heresy game.

The only threads I reply to on here are MTG related. Occasionally I'll read one about folklore or history. I have no fucking clue what the rest of you are on about.
Worst thing is that I mostly lurk MTG threads because I'm so new to the game that people immediately go into turbo autism mode and scare me off whenever I try posting anything

I come here to shitpost in 40kg and occasionally try to help people.
I really miss the old smut threads we used to have

I'm 30 and I've only had 5 girlfriends, and only had sex with 6 women

>New to MTG

Get out.

Get out right now while you still can. Shit it going downhill FAST. You've stumbled onto the worst era in the game's history and it's losing players faster than it ever has.

People got it into their heads that the correct way to deal with content you don't like is to shitpost and derail until it goes away. It got to the point where you couldn't have a project that ran for more than a few threads because people would ruin it simply because they were sick of seeing it. Quests were OC methadone, an fundamentally unsatisfying experience we only enjoyed because we couldn't get the real thing and this is coming from someone who used to occasionally take part
The problem with people here is that they generally don't get laid much (especially as a teenager, when their sexuality was still developing) and never found a healthy, balanced view of sex. They end up either hyper-sexual or hyper-repressed. I'm convinced there's a certain amount of "horseshoe theory" going on between the two, given the way anti-lewdfags can find fetish bait in literally everything There's nothing wrong with ERP as long as you aren't forcing it where people don't want it
pics of your army? I'm really curious where you went with the pinup admech idea
Honestly, Veeky Forums sucks at giving GMing advice. The GM general threads are a bit better, but frankly /r/rpg is a better place for actual RPG discussion. Veeky Forums is more for exploring off the wall ideas

I'm far older than 40k's target demographic and haven't played in years, but still collect and paint because it reminds me of happier times.

>For me, it's the paranoia that my players aren't having fun
My brother! I know exactly how you feel, it's hard not to add insane bullshit to carefully planned out encounters when you're not getting any strong "this is awesome!" feedback from your players. It's an insecurity that I also have issues with, and I haven't figured out how to resolve it outside of just quitting.

I think.. I have just to leave this site I guess.
In a way.. thank you user.

I can't really hate you in particular. I hate that there's more than a single digit amount of you on /tg

Just make your own threads. There's so much shit on this board I'd gladly post in a thread actually ABOUT TRADITIONAL GAMES

I hate to shill a utube dude but watch some Matt Colville. His videos are very well edited and it shows that he's spent some time thinking about ttrpgs. Even when I disagree with some of his points, watching through his thought process about GMing helped me a lot when I started up my most recent campaign.

Get the fuck out redditor.

I only lurk Veeky Forums for the sci-fi/fantasy art threads, worldbuilding discussion and TES lore threads. I have never played a tabletop game in my life and probably never will and still can't figure some of the jargon used here.

I can pick a fucking system to run. There are so many that I want to try.

I'm just trolling for a good meme I can text to prodigal members of my last group and *casually* test the waters about starting a new game again

But I'm dumb and I'm phone posting so I cannot find a humour thread

The half-fae catboy menace that plagued Veeky Forums for years was my fault

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I try to keep my discussion on topic but I often take the /pol/bait and start arguments with anons because I’m a raging leftist who can barely keep it in his pants. I don’t have this problem IRL though, just on Veeky Forums.

I let a game I was DMing fall apart and die because the PCs found a creative and highly unexpected way to neutralize the first major antagonist I introduced by sinking his pirate ship and killing most of his crew while he was away. I panicked when that happened mid-session, ended it early, and haven’t had a session since.

I play kobolds in all my erp games,
And I'm in a lot of those

literally a nazi

See this is exactly what I’m talking about. I got a paragraph into typing a rant about punching Nazis and burning Confederate flags before I realized you were joking.

>The type of people Veeky Forums interests seems to attract is enough to drive anyone away.
There's a lot of smelly neckbeards lurking around everyone's LGS, but don't fool yourself into thinking the kind of autists that sperg out on Veeky Forums are the end-all-be-all of participants in Veeky Forums hobbies. You can find normal, well-adjusted people to play D&D or Magic or something with if you actually want to.

>I’m a raging leftist who can barely keep it in his pants. I don’t have this problem IRL though, just on Veeky Forums.
I mean, are you a real-life raging leftist or just one by Veeky Forums standards? Because "hey women can play too" and "let's at least not be explicitly racist" can be "left-leaning" opinions on Veeky Forums.

Read Apocaplyse World. You may not like the system or how it plays but it does a very good job of making you think about what you are doing when you are running a game, and how the game´s theme influences how you play.

Same. We had a fa/tg/uy at my work for a bit. He had to weigh 350 lbs easy, was constantly eating and would get out of breath WHILE EATING. Dressed in meme shirts, had a psychotic wife that he was always texting because she caused him drama, usually smelled of BO.

I didn't mention my interest in tg stuff to him.

Actually Leftist, though not a Democrat. Like, a believes-democratic-socialism-is-the-way, socialized-medicine-is-the-only-ethical-choice, remove-“in-god-we-trust”-from-our-currency Leftist-with-a-capital-L Leftist.

I respect that. What little you get out of Veeky Forums brings you entertainment and from personal experience Veeky Forums is usually the least stale board in terms of (non-weeb) content

That said I'll postulate that even though this is a fun board and worth browsing regardless, non-players that post here will always detract--never add--to the overall sense of community here. You can only be a facsimile of a fa/tg/uy and never contribute constructively. You can only echo Veeky Forums memes and never post OC. You can only shitpost and never produce relevant opinions. Every time you do so, you are borrowing from someone who made epic OC. The more people who repost and shitpost without significant OC, the greater sense that Veeky Forums is a has-been board and all the good fa/tg/uys have moved on

So I ask you and others like you to enjoy your stay but stop posting. You're hurting Veeky Forums. This thread is the most relevant contribution you can hope to make and it's only a meta post

the mass majority of games I've ever played have been over text on F-list

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because
>jealous
>insecure
>pussy
>faggot

>not getting the joke
typical of fascists

>believes-democratic-socialism-is-the-way

"Retard" is much more succinct.

Oof been in the same position a few times. Never really panned out. I always pussy out

>videogamey
Here's my confession: I hate that anything that actually resembles a game gets called "video gamey", and that even if it were accurate, it's apparently taken as self evident that that's bad and why. I am open minded, but I have no respect for opinions about RPGs that consists of comparing it to the most successful medium of the 21st century as this weird shorthand for "bad in some specific yet vague way", or maybe just "plays like a game at all".

Videogamey in ttrpgs is bad because it means the players treat the ROLEPLAY like a game to be exploited, and leads to retard murder-hobo characters and "LULZ SO RANDUMB XD" players who think they're playing Skyrim with retarded joke mods turned on.

I own three warhammer 40k armies but I have never played with anyone at a club or store.

Yeah see, I think that is ridiculous. It not only shows a short-sighted view of what video games are like, it pretends that there aren't rules and skills for social interaction in tons of RPGs. It's the mindset that leads to double standards where you can roll dice to be good at hitting things, but you have to actually be good at talking in real life if you want to have a character who is good at social situations.

That's not the point at all... the point was players not taking the roleplaying seriously because they're expecting to play Skyrim where they can just do whatever they want without consequences and whine about "railroading" when they can't.

So "videogamey" means "like Skyrim specifically"? And people think that's a valid criticism of anything? Also, have those people actually played Skyrim? There are absolutely consequences in that game.

Yeah that behavior totally didn't exist before videogames were invented

I play ERP games.

I regularly post made up 40k opinions and experiences even though I haven’t played the game for 3 editions and even then I played very irregularly.

I'll post as much as I want to bitch. Try and stop me.

Confession: I respond to bait because of the chance it might spark interesting conversation.

I've tried finding games there, but of the two campaigns that appealed to me, one never got off the ground and the other proved fairly disappointing. It's a lot like Roll20, in a way.

No, there really aren’t, outside of a few outliers like choosing to be a ware wolf or a vampire. For the most part you can do every quest, be the leader of every guild, do evil things, do good things, be a magic user and a brawler and a thief. You can do it all and very rarely have anything closed off to you. It makes everything feel sort of empty and like you’re just trying to complete everything the game has to offer and not actually build a character. Fallout has similar problems.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Bathesda games, but I can recognize they are watered down RPGs to some degree.

I hate spell slots and spell preparation (especially in Pathfinder) and regularly lie about what spells I have prepared or how many spell slots I have left because the game is more fun that way.

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have you tried asking your GM to switch over to one of the other variants like spell points, or playing a psion?
or do you just want to jizz magic all the time?

a friend of mine recently kicked a player over this, and it bothers me a lot too. Don't end up like him!

>I respond to bait because of the chance it might spark interesting conversation.
Same. If you respond to bait in a good thread then you're an asshole, but if the OP is shitposting then what's the harm in biting if it my go someplace interesting? It's not like there's a limited number of threads to go around.

>The problem with people here is that they generally don't get laid much (especially as a teenager, when their sexuality was still developing) and never found a healthy, balanced view of sex

Sounds like something which would, at least sometimes, show up as a shared-environment effect. Shared environment does nothing though.

Ill post pics once painting is finished and im satisfied with it so probably never

just do it, steal and steal and steal then over time you'll twist it into your own shape. One doesn't materialize ore, we take it, rip it from the earth and refine it into something.

I don't play RPGs anymore, don't paint anymore, and the closest I come to a genuine Veeky Forums-related activity is writing elaborate Zombicide missions to play with my gf.

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When I first got into TTRPGS I did this because I was a stupid teenager and didn't grasp how spell slots actually worked.

You're right, the game becomes alot less fun once you understand it.

I really hate people going around and unironically entering their magical realm in every goddamn thread. And I'm not one of those paranoid idiots who sees fetishes everywhere, I'm talking stuff like the people who overtly go on about how much they want to fuck the dragon or rape the women or shit like that.

I thought the point was to keep your dicks out of it (unless it's an ERP or some shit)

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I'm constantly conflicted between wanting to give my players a challenge and not wanting to be (or appear to be) too harsh on them.
I'll nerf enemies at the start of planned encounters if I suspect it'll be too much for them only to feel annoyed when they breeze past them with ease.
[Spoiler]and I've got no one to blame but myself[/spoiler]

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What years.... I've been a regular here since 13 and lurked infrequently from 08 and I don't member this.

11-13
sounds like you were just lucky

>the closest I come to a genuine Veeky Forums-related activity is writing elaborate Zombicide missions to play with my gf
So you're homebrewing original content for a traditional game? That's as Veeky Forums as it gets. Just because you're not painting 40k minis or running D&D or sneering at other people for running D&D doesn't mean you're not doing it right.

I ERP vigorously with fantasy characters.

I also wind up wanting to play my ERP characters in actual games.

I can't stop buying Warhammer and I really should because I paint so slowly and my backlog is too big already

My man!

I love to see I'm not alone in enjoying the spectacle.

I play essentially the same character in every game and every system. I'm always some kind of veteran fighter. I never try to play a caster because I just can't wrap my mind around spells and buffs when I can just shoot something/hit it with a sword. It's starting to affect my gaming because I'm beyond bored in my games, since both of my GMs prefer to do diplomacy over combat.

I can't leave those games either because both GMs are my personal friends and they'd take it as a personal insult if I left their games.

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The game itself shipped last year with wave 2 stuff going out shortly. The only stuff not coming out until 2020 is the goblin dragon and some of the other new sculpts.

So... play a different kind of character?

I actively look down on people who put their magical realms in games or go on any tabletop/roleplay forum just to talk about their fetishes. It's the same for people who like anime just for the lewds. Just look at porn you troglodytes!

And I also have fetishes for days, so I can't tell if I'm just some closeted puritan living a lie or if I'm the only well adjusted fetishfag out there.

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I'm 27 and only had sex with one.

persona non grata

Same, except I know I'm That Guy as I've been told repeatedly by the party. I try to restrain myself but I can't.

I mainly started hanging out on this board just to bitch about this one edgy cunt I have to deal with in a pathfinder game.

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I get too hooked on my PCs. I mean, I'm sure I have some kind of personal deficiency anyway, given that I'm seeing a psych. But it's taken me til last year (seven years) to learn to stop sorta seeing myself as them.

I still take success/criticism too personally when it's directed at my PC even though I know it's roleplay though. Like, I end up making things real bad because I'm still not very good at remembering in the moment that it's not a personal attack.

Also I like to lie in bed and think about whatever PC I'm doing getting comfy, i.e. snuggling with their partner, when I'm trying to sleep. It's kinda relaxing though, so I don't regret this part.

I have a bit of the same issue
I won't shut up about my character because she has a huge-ass backstory compared to everyone else and I'm always afraid I'm derailing the plot

Is that you, me?

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I want the erp threads to make a return
Even worse at points I have considered making book of erotic fantasy like supplements for some games I like detailing romance and eroticism in that setting

I know this feeling, I can only assume it's just healthy acceptance that there's a time and place for smut and it isn't during tabletop.

Sexual stuff gets weird if people aren't mature enough to properly handle it - i.e. discussing it from a purely narrative purview - rather than for the sake of titillation. People who trip over themselves when sex comes up are bad too.

>GM asks everyone to come up with a backstory (no minimum/max length - just something)
>Read everyone else's and try really hard to make yours engaging
>no-one reads it

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