Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

[Blarmed&Dangerous]

Which is why I like the idea of the poster further up talking about setting up their own community.

That was also me lol. This problem angers me so much I've given serious thought to dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars to try and build my own bypass of it.

Not familiar with the term, what's it mean?

"Power-levelling" - revealing too much about your personal life.

 

[p1138]

Do you guys ban anyone with a liberal arts or psychology degree from your table?

No don't have to, because such people would never be anywhere near my table in the first place. Watched the first couple minutes, can't figure out wtf she's talking about. Skipped around a little, still can't figure out wtf she's talking about. And that hair alone would mean this person would be nowhere near my table.

Unless you're stuck having to deal with people like this because of work, it's generally pretty easy to avoid anything beyond the bare minimum of interaction with them.

 

[The Ugly One]

This fucking sucks, btw. I've mentioned this before, but the proliferation of life-ruining trannies really limits the cultural growth and development of KF.

I was involved in old forum culture, and before it got taken over and destroyed by trannies (notice a pattern?) we had IRL meetups, boardgame nights (over Mumble and Vassal, pre-Discord/Tabletop Simulator), a gaming clan that was, while not dominant, at least notable in every major game and many minor ones, fuck - we ran at least one annual charity. At least one (very stupid) person got a tattoo of one of our injokes (if it could be even called that).

And we now can't do even a fraction of that because, at best, trannies will start caterwauling until whatever we're doing gets banned/stopped/shut down - just because we're kiwis - and worst case, go after anyone involved's job, family, etc..

It's fucking bullshit


My experience is that the are real long fucking odds

The funny thing is that we're in a similar spot as all the blackmailed fags in Hollywood, whose only way of wriggling out of the grip of blackmail was to make homosexuality socially acceptable. Now that being discovered to have ever said "nigger" in your life, even when you were 13, is a social and economic death sentence, the only option we have is to make racism cool again. As long as it was merely an unseemly social faux pas, the motivation to reinstitute racism was never quite there.

I can guarantee you that the Trump administration, which has at least a few Millennials in it (including Stephen Miller and JD Vance), has at least a few guys who said "FUCK YOU NIGGER" in Modern Warfare 2 when they got buttblasted on Rust yet again, and are scheming on how to move the Overton window right on racism out of sheer self-preservation.

 

[Ghostse]

Do you guys ban anyone with a liberal arts or psychology degree from your table?

No but I guess its time to start.

"Dungeons and Dragon [ ... ] or Other storytelling games" ...REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Skipped around a little, still can't figure out wtf she's talking about. And that hair alone would mean this person would be nowhere near my table.

She's talking about why she will die alone, childless, her 10+ cats feasting on her corpse.
Trying to have an "I'm so deep" fart-huffing wank and expecting to get her ass kiss because "is a girl".

This bitch has her players do a dinner party in character and recommends you do the same.
yeah naw. Fuck off back to PbtA and V:TM

edit:
Fuck it, time to play "How long can you last before dying of cringe?"

 

[p1138]

No but I guess its time to start.

"Dungeons and Dragon [ ... ] or Other storytelling games" ...REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


She's talking about why she will die alone, childless, her 10+ cats feasting on her corpse.
Trying to have an "I'm so deep" fart-huffing wank and expecting to get her ass kiss because "is a girl".

This bitch has her players do a dinner party in character and recommends you do the same.
yeah naw. Fuck off back to PbtA and V:TM

22 minute video for that? God damn. I caught the bullshit that sounded like her yammering on about some "EQ" or whatever the fuck they're calling it these days. It's a damned TTRPG, it's a game to play with friends, it's not some deep thing that needs to be examined and if you're such a boring individual that you need to make it so much of your personality that you're doing an in character dinner party as an excuse to hang out with friends? You need help.

This is also what happens when you have a culture of idiots that feels the need to "diagnose" everything, including themselves(which is rarely a good idea) instead of just accepting simple shit for what it is.

edit:

Fuck it, time to play "How long can you last before dying of cringe?"

Ok, I'll play along. Even keep some notes here.
00:17 What the fuck is a "D&D completionist"? And it's a bad habit? How does it overshadow roleplay? Is it like the morons who think optimizing stats overshadows roleplay? Or that combat overshadows roleplay(because I guess people don't bother to RP in combat? I've read this complaint a lot)
00:40 If you need a fucking dinner party to have your the players at your table get their characters to work together... Also I don't give a shit about this woman's mother's birthday. Jesus christ it's a minute thirty in and she's mentioning her autism and "health issues".
2:50 Why does every player need a "secret"? And to generate bullshit drama?
4:10 So this is a gossip party? And you're having to bait players with loot for it? What the fuck weird meta bullshit is this?

I'm trying really hard to restrain myself from skipping through this.

6:40 "social escape room" just go play a fucking VtM LARP
7:00 No I'm not cosplaying for a fucking D&D social escape room dinner party. No I do not want some autist playing with a cigarette lighter in my house because they're playing a fire loving wizard in a game.
8:30 shitty sponsorship for a drink recipe book, as if there haven't been dozens of those over the years... but this one only has 20 drinks and 10 mocktails? So it's also a shitty version
9:30 Stop doing whatever you're doing to require antibiotics 4 times a year.. HYGEINE, holy shit no one needs to know this.
11:20 I don't believe she's ever been in a years long campaign, so talking out of her ass.
13:00 That's not making a character, that's making some shit you would have previously written a tumblr fanfic about as a self insert into harry potter or something.
13:30 We did not need to know one of your players had diarrhea and missed a session.
14:00 So because someone missed a social escape room dinner party it was partly a waste of time?
14:30 If rolling dice, in a tabletop roleplaying game that uses dice ruins your immersion, then you aren't there for a TTRPG. Why do so many people forget the G part of RPG?
15:30 I'm losing strength...
16:50 What the fuck am I watching?
18:15 The faggot in the lilac sweater wasn't the gayest one
19:20 What the fuck is that body shape?
20:00 Pouring a fucking drink should not be this gay
20:15 Of course this idiot eats pasta with chop sticks
22:15 Just use a fucking fork
22:45 The dog doesn't understand what the fuck is happening
23:10 JUST USE A FUCKING FORK IF YOU CAN'T USE CHOP STICKS


23:50 The retard bloodied his knuckles on a bag of ice? How fucking fragile are these people?
25:00 No one cares that you're adopted or your dad was sober
26:40 Your cherished memory of your dead father is you not paying attention to what he added to cranberry juice?
27:50 No one wants to see you at a comic-con
28:00 ...

Why do you even know this shit exists?

 

[Waifuchu]

Though there's also the opposite problem of being a guy that plays female characters on occasion, I've been asked if I'm trans. These days, even playing as a female character in online games gets me the side eye from some.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Fuck it, time to play "How long can you last before dying of cringe?"

I barely made it past the thumbnail.


Had a wall of text prepared for @The Ugly One and others who recommended Traveller, but the short version is this.

Game seems fine from what little research I've done. Perhaps a little too lethal, but didn't dig deep into the mechanics. What's putting me off is limited availablity (either US import or direct from publisher at a high price) and the amount of books deemed "essential". The companion, vehicles book, alien races books, robots book, JTAS, equipment book, and the ships book. All full price hardbacks.

But The Ugly One's comment about it doing fantasy dungeon crawls okay and sucking at sci-fi did give me an idea. For a long time I've wanted to run Destiny as a RPG. Specifically running the Beta story. I might combine Starfinder rules with Points of Light.


I know this isn't really a board game thread, but I was looking at dungeon crawl board games. Descent has become app driven shite, which is a shame as I loved the one I played (2e I believe), as it was almost DnD lite. Gloomwood, Maladum, and Core Space seem to be the big three, with some praise going to the Aliens minis game. Supposedly the DnD games are still going strong too, but I've not played them since Ravenloft was the new hotness.

 

[p1138]

I barely made it past the thumbnail.

You missed some of the worst tabletop cringe I've seen in a long time. You can check the notes I edited in above, it's fucking horrifying.

 

[LovisXVI]

Had a wall of text prepared for @The Ugly One and others who recommended Traveller, but the short version is this.

Are you ever going to decide on a system or are you just going to keep finding reasons to reject our advice? This is like the fifth round of systems you've rejected out of hand rather than actually trying them out.

 

[The Ugly One]

What's putting me off is limited availablity (either US import or direct from publisher at a high price) and the amount of books deemed "essential". The companion, vehicles book, alien races books, robots book, JTAS, equipment book, and the ships book. All full price hardbacks.

Is 45 britbucks considered a lot for an RPG book? They run around $50 here, which is pretty normal. And you get free shipping, too.

 

[Ghostse]

Why do you even know this shit exists?

You missed some of the worst tabletop cringe I've seen in a long time. You can check the notes I edited in above, it's fucking horrifying.

my brother in christ I salute you for making it through that. I didn't make it through her taking 2 fucking minutes to let everyone know its her mom's birthday.
I skipped around and it was just so fucking awful and up her own ass I had to share.

I knew about it because someone posted the a video of this bint earlier and it was the first thing in the "recommends" and it was pure cringe.

Supposedly the DnD games are still going strong too, but I've not played them since Ravenloft was the new hotness.

I owned and have played through all the D&D "Adventure System" boardgames. They are fun through usually there is at least one or two bullshit adventures.
This will not be your most favorite game of all time but for $40 you get a game you'll enjoy playing with friends that takes no more than an hour to set up play per adventure, isn't so mentally taxing you can't talk and drink during, and older kids can play too, but isn't just RNG.
you also get a lot of shit that, if you're clever, you can reuse in D&D campaigns. The interlocking tiles can be used to build your own dungeons, you will be hard pressed to find a better $-per-mini value.

Ravenloft is solid OK with a good adventure variety. Ashardalon is decent but the characters are so fucking terrible. Drizzt has some serious horseshit but Drizzt himself is so fucking OP. Elemental Evil is ok, but Tomb of Annihilation and Dungeon of the Mad Mage introduce persistent character progression & items (and let you level to 4 instead of just 2) so it makes it more like a "Legacy" game where you and a group of friends come back and play through over a period of sessions.

Also all the games are nearly 100% interchangable. It starts as "4e lite" and the last games introduce 5e mechanics (and let you level up 4) but you can take characters from any edition of the game and play any other game, same with monsters. And its not hard to make your own adventures, IIRC there are fan adventures you can find online (for my group, but they time you finish adventure 13 we were ready to move on).

 

[p1138]

my brother in christ I salute you for making it through that. I didn't make it through her taking 2 fucking minutes to let everyone know its her mom's birthday.
I skipped around and it was just so fucking awful and up her own ass I had to share.

I knew about it because someone posted the a video of this bint earlier and it was the first thing in the "recommends" and it was pure cringe.

If her kind wasn't so common, she'd be a fucking lolcow. As cringe as it is, it's sadly not even noteworthy enough.

Also, how the hell you going to challenge people to sit through that shit when you didn't, come on man.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Are you ever going to decide on a system or are you just going to keep finding reasons to reject our advice? This is like the fifth round of systems you've rejected out of hand rather than actually trying them out.

No. I'll just keep finding reasons to reject your advice.

But seriously, I'm not rejecting the advice. I find this all interesting and I'm taking it to heart. At very least (I hope) people enjoy talking about their favourite systems. Even though it's been a decade or so now, I still consider myself a novice, an outsider who is just learning about things like Shadowrun and DnD 4e. If that's a problem, I can fuck off.

Without repeating myself at length. I have specific criteria spread across two or three theoretical groups that fall apart.
eg, Wanting vehicle combat rules, which led to Shadowrun, all for a game where the entire group no showed.

Is 45 britbucks considered a lot for an RPG book? They run around $50 here, which is pretty normal. And you get free shipping, too.

No. £50 is the standard for a A4 sized hardback. The problem is needing £250 worth of books to get started. That's a big ask for any game, let alone one that doesn't sound up my street.

And for context, Pozzo pocket editions are £20 or less. Self contained games like Twilight 2000 are £45 and come with dice, boards, etc. Dungeon Crawl games like Maladum or Hero Quest are £50-£125,

Tomb of Annihilation

This one caught my attention when looking them up simply because Tomb of Annihilation was a campaign I loved the pitch for. Supposedly the actual module is "meh" and having a board game version might be a way to play it by proxy.

 

[p1138]

Without repeating myself at length. I have specific criteria spread across two or three theoretical groups that fall apart.
eg, Wanting vehicle combat rules, which led to Shadowrun, all for a game where the entire group no showed.

You're never going to find "the perfect system" it doesn't exist. At the end of the day you'll either need to accept something else, or find something close enough to be able to fiddle with it to make it work.

If you're willing to DM for a group, and put the time in to read up on a game, and can't even get the slightest bit of interest for a session 0 no matter what the system is... find a new table. I get maybe some people don't like one system or another for whatever variety of reasons, but for the entire group to consistently no-show? These people either don't actually want to play, or they want to play some mish-mash of random bullshit where you'd probably be better off just letting them do literally whatever they want and just ask them to semi randomly roll dice on occasion, aka PbtA.

 

[Ghostse]

If her kind wasn't so common, she'd be a fucking lolcow. As cringe as it is, it's sadly not even noteworthy enough.

Also, how the hell you going to challenge people to sit through that shit when you didn't, come on man.

I wanted to see if anyone could make it through. But mainly just so other people would take the same sanity damage I did.

This one caught my attention when looking them up simply because Tomb of Annihilation was a campaign I loved the pitch for. Supposedly the actual module is "meh" and having a board game version might be a way to play it by proxy.

Its only vaguely ToA themed, The games are pretty much Heroquest. But the characters are decent, the items are pretty good, and the missions have variety and enough challenge to be engaging without being just pure punishing horseshit.
I'm trying to remember how good the monster minis were, and it was pretty meh. Raven loft had probably the best universal mini selection; Wolves, Skeletons, waiths, Zombies, ghouls, kobolds, giant spiders and ratswarms will find utility in nearly every campaign.
The flaming skeletons and gargoyles can probably be subbed in for somethign else.

And you had the villians of a Kobold mage, werewolf, hag, flesh golem, zombie dragon, and dragolich (plus strahd) and 5 heros: Dragonborn fighter, human rogue & ranger, elf mage, and dwarf cleric. So you can really get a ton of mileage out of the box.

 

[Blarmed&Dangerous]

Fuck it, time to play "How long can you last before dying of cringe?"

3 minutes, though it was more hysterical laughter, because she started talking about her mom's 70th birthday, and I was about to comment on the correlation between geriatric pregnancy and mental disabilities, and then she mentioned "dealing with my autism."

Dude, I can't even make jokes anymore. The universe tells them for me.

 

[The Ugly One]

No. £50 is the standard for a A4 sized hardback. The problem is needing £250 worth of books to get started. That's a big ask for any game, let alone one that doesn't sound up my street.

Well, no accounting for taste (and you really only need 1-3 books to get going), but you should at least have a look at the free starter PDF:

https://www.mongoosepublishing.com/products/starterpack

 

[Henri Barbusse]

Do you guys ban anyone with a liberal arts or psychology degree from your table?

Only if what they claim to be liberal arts isn't part of trivium and quadrivium.

 

[Fuck Bankers]

Spoiler: Summary

0:00 There's a bunch of newfags at the table, as a matter of fact I myself am a newfag. Thanks critical role, and stranger things.
1:00 DnD is a game, like sportsball or checkers
2:00 people play the game differently, I like to play RP heavy games. But I like to run games with a mix of combat and RP.
(I like RP in games, but I want characters that have clear goals and motivations, rather than bitch about their dads not loving them enough)
3:00 My last DM hated me, because I'm a girl. I almost quit playing because of it.
4:00 stop playing vidya and going to the gym to play DnD
5:00 Critical Role is "perfect DnD", You should watch Dimension20 instead.
6:00 Watch youtube DnD advice videos. If one of your players isn't doing what you want, make them watch those videos. That totally won't kill your table.
7:00 This is a "collaborative experience" But if a player isn't doing what you want, make them watch hours of videos
8:00 my first character had a super long backstory that I couldn't keep track of
9:00 badger your DM, in and out of the table.
10:00 Don't let a DM make you nervous. If your DM makes you nervous you shouldn't be playing with them. Playing a game shouldn't be stressful
11:00 DMs work really hard OwO
12:00 Have fun OwO

Fuck off back to PbtA and V:TM

please don't send them to V:TM, if ran well it's a great game.

 

[Henri Barbusse]

please don't send them to V:TM, if ran well it's a great game.

Don't worry, they will never leave DnD until Netflix remakes Kindred: the Embraced.