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

These days it usually happens when someone with enough autism goes through the trouble of writing a callout document. It seems those are mandatory and without one unless you get some type of media attention your cancelling won't go anywhere.
Dude may have been a sleazeball but the chick who wrote that blog post is mentally ill and will probably be accusing someone else of this kind of thing within two years.

Against my better judgement, I skimmed some of this shit.
Here's what I pieced together:
For the unaware (aka anyone who has had sex), Arcadum is a "pro-DM" who runs several highly-involved games on Twitch via Virtual Table Top (like crit roll, only no one is attractive enough for a face cam) and basically a shadowrun rippoff LARP on VR chat. I have never seen any 'arcadum effect' nerd anger posts so I'll let you decide how successful/influential he is. As mentioned, he looks like you would expect a Male Feminist who is also a DM to look.

Anyway, I guess the guy has a girlfriend, but they either were having troubles (or at least he was pretending as such for pity for the absolute most pathetic female validation, which we'll get into) and would message girls from the twitch D&D community, especially the ones with VR chat. He would then say how he didn't have anyone to talk to, it was so hard to find real friends and confidants as an eceleb, and then would then e-flirt with girls, talk them in to phone sex, or get them to give him lapdances/ERP in VR Chat (yes, this precisely as gay & lame as you imagine it to be) and in every sense use them for an ego massage to get his rocks off. (He'd sob about how unattractive he felt and how much he wanted any female attenton to feel validated, please grind your virtual ass in my VR helm so I can stop crying)
The only case of this exiting online-only simpcel behavior is he apparently went to visit one of them, and rubbed his erection on her leg during a hug while crying and generally trying to in the most cringeworthy way possible to dip his toes and try to see if she felt bad enough to toss him a pity fuck, but backing off when it was more than abundantly clear that wasn't happening. But that was years ago, (also that was her account of things - but given the logs from the other girls, crying to get a pity fuck seems part for the course.)

So what caused this drama to unravel right now?
The leader of this Spartacus E-thot revolt was angry her character was killed and wasn't allowed to be revived.. Just her character. From what I could tell she wasn't off the show, just her preist was permadead and she had to make a new one. But that was only half of it. Arcadum committed another grave sin, which was not giving a melting down attention whore that what she craved (attention) and when she threatened to take her character to a new game was told 'lol, good luck'.

I believe that this e-thot scorned got in contact with his girlfriend, and Arcadum was forced to cut contact with any girl he'd so much as sent a winkie-face, and it wasn't too hard for the rest of them to figure out what was going on.

Coinciding with this, I guess he was also getting his swerve on (i mean you know....fucking lol. Just fucking lol.) with someone on his musical team, and removed her from the team (with serverence) as girlfriend was making him cut contact with his side e-chicks. So I guess she realized that Arcadum was probably doing to her what he was accusing her of doing (and she very likely was doing) whichwas trying to hook up with other guys now that she had a growing career and fans of her own.

Due to all this, All of these girls realized Arcadum was effectively a dry well for them now, it was easy for a group of them them to find each other, and they and decided it was time to burn that bridge for internet publicity to boost their careers since this guy wasn't going to be able to help build their brands.
At least one of them it was personal as she realized she was the extreme side chick, and was none to happy when she realized he was never breaking up with his girlfriend. Her account is pretty wonderful, with "he helped me financially, paid for my VR skin so I could be in the LARP, supported my career personally and professionally, and didn't do any reprisals when I realized that he wasn't going to make me his girlfriend so I cut down the ERP way down.... but seriously fuck him. #METOO and here is a link to my twitter"

All of these girls were legal adults, but one of them (the Momo one) is trying to get "grooming" introduced into the discussion because of how successful that was at deplatforming the other e-celebs who were diddling underaged fans.
(Oh and just because I know you're curious: One of the girls describes herself as 5'3" and 140lbs. That seems to be about par for the course for the rest of them. And that's what he burned down his career for).

There is absolutely no one who looks good. Arcadum is of course a fat creeper who is e-cheating on his girlfriend. The girls posting their screeds are very clearly butthurt to discover they were not the only one he was doing this shit with (being they knew he was living with his girlfriend), that there were other e-girls and that shit cannot stand. They are trying to downplay it, but very clear him asking for ERP was an not out of line thing for someone to ask them - they all try to hurry past it, but at least one was a VRChat stripper (yes, this is a thing) before deciding she was asexual and all of them seem to think his request to ERP with them was not a shocking request or their first time doing it. By their own admissions he was nice, supportive, and helped their careers. His biggest sin seems that he was being a pathetic sex pest who when told firmly 'no incel sex tonight' would checkout of the conversation to them to go find someone who would. He was also weirdly passively-aggressive possessive/stalkery in that turbonerd way. And I guess also possibly rubbing his erection on that one girl that one time.

And that's where we are today.

(Oh and his channel admin, who has a literal Gender Studies advanced degree (and is married to a man and her 'job' is moderating virtual D&D community chat, so have a thunk there) was angry because I guess he had a "...its actually a man!" moment played for laughs, is angry at him for transphobia and mansplaining to her it wasn't a big deal. This woman let this shit run her life, but its all his fault.)
Its just failure all the way down.

tl;dr:
I leave you these wise words:
maybe, I stopped after >vrchat.
 
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Against my better judgement, I skimmed some of this shit.
Here's what I pieced together:
For the unaware (aka anyone who has sex), Arcadum is a "pro-DM" who runs several highly-involved games on Twitch via Virtual Table Top (like crit roll, only no one is attractive enough for a face cam) and basically a shadowrun rippoff LARP on VR chat. I have never seen any 'arcadum effect' nerd anger posts so I'll let you decide how successful/influential he is. As mentioned, he looks like you would expect a Male Feminist who is also a DM to look.

Anyway, I guess the guy has a girlfriend, but they either were having troubles (or at least he was pretending as such for pity for the absolute most pathetic female validation, which we'll get into) and would message girls from the twitch D&D community, especially the ones with VR chat. He would then say how he didn't have anyone to talk to, it was so hard to find real friends and confidants as an eceleb, and then would then e-flirt with girls, talk them in to phone sex, or get them to give him lapdances/ERP in VR Chat (yes, this precisely as gay & lame as you imagine it to be) and in every sense use them for an ego massage to get his rocks off.
The only case of this exiting online-only simpcel behavior is he apparently went to visit one of them, and rubbed his erection on her leg during a hug while crying and generally trying to in the most cringeworthy way possible to dip his toes and try to see if she felt bad enough to toss him a pity fuck, but backing off when it was more than abundantly clear that wasn't happening. But that was years ago, (also that was her account of things - but given the logs from the other girls, crying to get a pity fuck seems part for the course.)

So what caused this drama to unravel right now?
The leader of this Spartacus E-thot revolt was angry her character was killed and wasn't allowed to be revived.. Just her character. From what I could tell she wasn't off the show, just her preist was permadead and she had to make a new one. But that was only half of it. Arcadum committed another grave sin, which was not giving a melting down attention whore that what she craved (attention) and when she threatened to take her character to a new game was told 'lol, good luck'.

I believe that this e-thot scorned got in contact with his girlfriend, and Arcadum was forced to cut contact with any girl he'd so much as sent a winkie-face, and it wasn't too hard for the rest of them to figure out what was going on.

Coinciding with this, I guess he was also getting his swerve on (i mean you know....fucking lol. Just fucking lol.) with someone on his musical team, and removed her from the team (with serverence) as girlfriend was making him cut contact with his side e-chicks. So I guess she realized that Arcadum was probably doing to her what he was accusing her of doing (and she very likely was doing).

Due to all this, All of these girls realized Arcadum was effectively a dry well for them now, it was easy for a group of them them to find each other, and they and decided it was time to burn that bridge for internet publicity to boost their careers since this guy wasn't going to be able to help build their brands.
At least one of them it was personal as she realized she was the extreme side chick, and was none to happy when she realized he was never breaking up with his girlfriend. Her account is pretty wonderful, with "he helped me financially, paid for my VR skin so I could be in the LARP, supported my career personally and professionally, and didn't do any reprisals when I realized that he wasn't going to make me his girlfriend so I cut down the ERP way down.... but seriously fuck him. #METOO and here is a link to my twitter"

All of these girls were legal adults, but one of them (the Momo one) is trying to get "grooming" introduced into the discussion because of how successful that was at deplatforming the other e-celebs who were diddling underaged fans.
(Oh and just because I know you're curious: One of the girls describes herself as 5'3" and 140lbs. That seems to be about par for the course for the rest of them. And that's what he burned down his career for).

There is absolutely no one who looks good. Arcadum is of course a fat creeper who is e-cheating on his girlfriend. The girls posting their screeds are very clearly butthurt to discover they were not the only one he was doing this shit with (being they knew he was living with his girlfriend), that there were other e-girls and that shit cannot stand. They are trying to downplay it, but very clear him asking for ERP was an not out of line thing for someone to ask them - they all try to hurry past it, but at least one was a VRChat stripper (yes, this is a thing) before deciding she was asexual and all of them seem to think his request to ERP with them was not a shocking request or their first time doing it. By their own admissions he was nice, supportive, and helped their careers. His biggest sin seems that he was being a pathetic sex pest who when told firmly 'no incel sex tonight' would checkout of the conversation to them to go find someone who would. He was also weirdly passively-aggressive possessive/stalkery in that turbonerd way. And I guess also possibly rubbing his erection on that one girl that one time.

And that's where we are today.

(Oh and his channel admin, who has a literal Gender Studies advanced degree (and is married to a man and her 'job' is moderating virtual D&D community chat, so have a thunk there) was angry because I guess he had a "...its actually a man!" moment played for laughs, is angry at him for transphobia and mansplaining to her it wasn't a big deal. This woman let this shit run her life, but its all his fault.)
Its just failure all the way down.

tl;dr:
I leave you these wise words:
That's... the most intense bout of table drama I've ever seen. Kudos to you, sir, for braving all this shit.
 
Against my better judgement, I skimmed some of this shit.
Here's what I pieced together:
For the unaware (aka anyone who has sex), Arcadum is a "pro-DM" who runs several highly-involved games on Twitch via Virtual Table Top (like crit roll, only no one is attractive enough for a face cam) and basically a shadowrun rippoff LARP on VR chat. I have never seen any 'arcadum effect' nerd anger posts so I'll let you decide how successful/influential he is. As mentioned, he looks like you would expect a Male Feminist who is also a DM to look.

Anyway, I guess the guy has a girlfriend, but they either were having troubles (or at least he was pretending as such for pity for the absolute most pathetic female validation, which we'll get into) and would message girls from the twitch D&D community, especially the ones with VR chat. He would then say how he didn't have anyone to talk to, it was so hard to find real friends and confidants as an eceleb, and then would then e-flirt with girls, talk them in to phone sex, or get them to give him lapdances/ERP in VR Chat (yes, this precisely as gay & lame as you imagine it to be) and in every sense use them for an ego massage to get his rocks off. (He'd sob about how unattractive he felt and how much he wanted any female attenton to feel validated, please grind your virtual ass in my VR helm so I can stop crying)
The only case of this exiting online-only simpcel behavior is he apparently went to visit one of them, and rubbed his erection on her leg during a hug while crying and generally trying to in the most cringeworthy way possible to dip his toes and try to see if she felt bad enough to toss him a pity fuck, but backing off when it was more than abundantly clear that wasn't happening. But that was years ago, (also that was her account of things - but given the logs from the other girls, crying to get a pity fuck seems part for the course.)

So what caused this drama to unravel right now?
The leader of this Spartacus E-thot revolt was angry her character was killed and wasn't allowed to be revived.. Just her character. From what I could tell she wasn't off the show, just her preist was permadead and she had to make a new one. But that was only half of it. Arcadum committed another grave sin, which was not giving a melting down attention whore that what she craved (attention) and when she threatened to take her character to a new game was told 'lol, good luck'.

I believe that this e-thot scorned got in contact with his girlfriend, and Arcadum was forced to cut contact with any girl he'd so much as sent a winkie-face, and it wasn't too hard for the rest of them to figure out what was going on.

Coinciding with this, I guess he was also getting his swerve on (i mean you know....fucking lol. Just fucking lol.) with someone on his musical team, and removed her from the team (with serverence) as girlfriend was making him cut contact with his side e-chicks. So I guess she realized that Arcadum was probably doing to her what he was accusing her of doing (and she very likely was doing) whichwas trying to hook up with other guys now that she had a growing career and fans of her own.

Due to all this, All of these girls realized Arcadum was effectively a dry well for them now, it was easy for a group of them them to find each other, and they and decided it was time to burn that bridge for internet publicity to boost their careers since this guy wasn't going to be able to help build their brands.
At least one of them it was personal as she realized she was the extreme side chick, and was none to happy when she realized he was never breaking up with his girlfriend. Her account is pretty wonderful, with "he helped me financially, paid for my VR skin so I could be in the LARP, supported my career personally and professionally, and didn't do any reprisals when I realized that he wasn't going to make me his girlfriend so I cut down the ERP way down.... but seriously fuck him. #METOO and here is a link to my twitter"

All of these girls were legal adults, but one of them (the Momo one) is trying to get "grooming" introduced into the discussion because of how successful that was at deplatforming the other e-celebs who were diddling underaged fans.
(Oh and just because I know you're curious: One of the girls describes herself as 5'3" and 140lbs. That seems to be about par for the course for the rest of them. And that's what he burned down his career for).

There is absolutely no one who looks good. Arcadum is of course a fat creeper who is e-cheating on his girlfriend. The girls posting their screeds are very clearly butthurt to discover they were not the only one he was doing this shit with (being they knew he was living with his girlfriend), that there were other e-girls and that shit cannot stand. They are trying to downplay it, but very clear him asking for ERP was an not out of line thing for someone to ask them - they all try to hurry past it, but at least one was a VRChat stripper (yes, this is a thing) before deciding she was asexual and all of them seem to think his request to ERP with them was not a shocking request or their first time doing it. By their own admissions he was nice, supportive, and helped their careers. His biggest sin seems that he was being a pathetic sex pest who when told firmly 'no incel sex tonight' would checkout of the conversation to them to go find someone who would. He was also weirdly passively-aggressive possessive/stalkery in that turbonerd way. And I guess also possibly rubbing his erection on that one girl that one time.

And that's where we are today.

(Oh and his channel admin, who has a literal Gender Studies advanced degree (and is married to a man and her 'job' is moderating virtual D&D community chat, so have a thunk there) was angry because I guess he had a "...its actually a man!" moment played for laughs, is angry at him for transphobia and mansplaining to her it wasn't a big deal. This woman let this shit run her life, but its all his fault.)
Its just failure all the way down.

tl;dr:
I leave you these wise words:
Moral of the story: Don't be a thirsty motherfucker.
 
Moral of the story: Don't be a thirsty motherfucker.

Well, don't be a thirsty Simpcel and hide it.
No one was underaged. Except for rubbing his erection on one leg, it was all online. CG tits and ass (which makes the ethot stories all the better; "he asked if he could grab my tits. In minecraft VRChat!" )
If he hadn't tried to things on the D/L or been a possessive creep, or if he would have limited himself to running one ethot at a time, this would have been complete non-starter, and just relationship drama. Hell, for all I know that's how this will end up. The one girl trying to play word games by calling his schtick 'grooming' was getting push back so this might all flame out.

Which I guess is the tragedy; there's enough star-fuckers out there he could have been 'want to be my backup?' and had takers, but as a male feminist he had to play the nice, sensitive guy. Except he very clearly has no self esteem so that made him insecure and controlling.

Plus the accusers aren't doing themselves any favors.
The ethots are claiming "He can ruin our careers (as voices with tits)!" while also admitting he's done nothing to ruin or sabotage anyone's career except for breaking things off with the girl on his music team. The worst he's done since the drama started to leak that I can tell is edit out the cringiest of the cringe from his discord messages.
(One of them posted calls I haven't listened to. I don't think I can handle the cringe)
They are also being the most back-stabbing of bitches; playing along with this guys creepy simp fantasies when it looked like he could help them build their brands and now that its en vogue to do so, shit talking him and posting private convos.

The internet was a mistake.

Anyway, to talk about actual games and not E-celeb "Professional DM" cringesex drama...
I'm looking forward to my groups next session. They are finally about to advance the plot.
They've been going breadth-first through all the quests and side quests, so everything is set up to start popping off in rapid order once they knock over that first domino.
 
Ah so tl;dr -

Fat nerds thought they were horny teenagers, gets duped by catfish, immediately feels sad, #metoo.

Thought it was something important for a second.
 
I'm looking to run a bunch of PBP one shots considering all my attempts to join or run a PBP game that lasts longer than a week before imploding have failed. So far it is going slow but steady, trying out the Quick Quest rules-lite system and I'm hoping it'll run well for a quick 2-3 week dark fantasy adventure.

I don't expect any players to learn a new system and have no interest in 5e, got a few others I want to try out on my list. Simple stuff like Everyone is John and Lasers and Feelings before any more intricate games. But finding reliable players is like gold panning, but I'll admit to only searching on reddit. So probably my own fault.

What rules-lite/one page games would you guys recommend? My general consensus on the Quick Quest system is positive, it is simple and easy to use.
 
I'm looking to run a bunch of PBP one shots considering all my attempts to join or run a PBP game that lasts longer than a week before imploding have failed. So far it is going slow but steady, trying out the Quick Quest rules-lite system and I'm hoping it'll run well for a quick 2-3 week dark fantasy adventure.

I don't expect any players to learn a new system and have no interest in 5e, got a few others I want to try out on my list. Simple stuff like Everyone is John and Lasers and Feelings before any more intricate games. But finding reliable players is like gold panning, but I'll admit to only searching on reddit. So probably my own fault.

What rules-lite/one page games would you guys recommend? My general consensus on the Quick Quest system is positive, it is simple and easy to use.
My go to is QAGS, which is almost the ideal convention /one-shot rules system. Not sure how it translates to a PBP game, however. Part of the game is the DM giving out Yum-Yums (bennies for rolls) which are supposed to be pieces of candy (Starburst is a favorite because they're individually wrapped).

 
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@Starscreams Cape I hate to inform you, but it lookslike QAGS has bent the SocJus knee.
If so that's a shame. Moreso because I have played in Gencon games run by just about everyone who wrote or contributed to the book and the supplements. Generally speaking they were pretty good.

They're all fat, old white guys. You'd probably mistake them for grognards.
 
If so that's a shame. Moreso because I have played in Gencon games run by just about everyone who wrote or contributed to the book and the supplements. Generally speaking they were pretty good.

They're all fat, old white guys. You'd probably mistake them for grognards.
They don't all look that old. Only one I think is still with the company is Stephan, maybe Leighton. The others have dead Patreon accounts except Juan.
 
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I've been reading Starfinder's Core Rulebook in my downtime, can anyone with experience tell me how hard I can go on my players if I'm starting them at level 1? I'm feeling kinda out of the loop here with the whole SP and HP thing, been dming 5e with a mid level party for too long.
 

I've been reading Starfinder's Core Rulebook in my downtime, can anyone with experience tell me how hard I can go on my players if I'm starting them at level 1? I'm feeling kinda out of the loop here with the whole SP and HP thing, been dming 5e with a mid level party for too long.
Check out one of the later adventure paths for the setting. You'll see what a level one character can handle now compared to one of the older adventure paths. A group of four can handle a CR1 creature and three 1/3 CR creatures pretty easily.

Stamina Points work like soak damage. You absorb damage equal to your SP then the rest carry over to your HP. Unless you have a way to increase your SP, all further damage is going to deplete your HP. There's also RP (Resolve points) that once at 0 you die. RP can also be used to replenish SP by spending 1 RP and 10 minute wait.
 
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If so that's a shame. Moreso because I have played in Gencon games run by just about everyone who wrote or contributed to the book and the supplements. Generally speaking they were pretty good.

They're all fat, old white guys. You'd probably mistake them for grognards.

Current Year politics cannot let a bunch of white cismen be successful and enjoy it.

Dear Reader,
Thanks for buying QAGS Second Edition! Before you begin reading, there are some things you
need to know.
First off, this letter is not a joke. We want to be clear on this point, because QAGS 2nd Edition
is full of jokes and lies. (The Introduction, for instance? Almost entirely lies.) We didn’t want to
write just another dry rules manual, so we included a bunch of jokes to entertain the reader. But
we made so many jokes that at times you may wonder if this is a working game system (it is) and
if you really can use it for serious games (you can).
Some of these jokes haven’t aged well. At all. We wrote Q2E in 2003, but it was largely based on
the original QAGS, which we wrote in 1997. We were two young straight white dudes, just out
of college, who maybe hadn’t given a lot of thought to social issues. Also, we were products of
our era. If you weren’t around back then, you probably don’t have a sense of how different things
were in the 90s—there was a backlash against “PC Culture,” The Man Show was on TV, Maxim
magazine was selling huge numbers, and very few people were talking about how sex with
pastries was possibly the least problematic aspect of American Pie. Many of our favorite movies,
and much of the comedy of the time, were about pushing boundaries and shocking people. We,
and millions of other straight white men, were rebelling against . . . something? It’s unclear what,
but it was probably dumb.
Recently a reader complained that there are sexist lines in the book, and compared us to “insecure 12 year old boys.” Yeah, that’s harsh but fair. We’re older and wiser now, and we regret a
lot of the choices that we made—the bisexuality running joke, for instance (which would make
more sense with context, but we didn’t supply the context). We ask you to consider that we were
young and it was a different time. This is not an excuse, just an explanation. If we’d predicted
that the book would still be around over a decade-and-a-half later, we probably would have made
more sober editorial choices.
In short, we apologize for the dumb and off-putting stuff. If you can forgive us for the parts
where we were trying to be edgy, we think you’ll enjoy the rest of the book.
Sincerely,
Steve Johnson & Leighton Connor

They went beyond the normal levels of "Product of its time" disclaimer.
 
Honestly the twitlongers aren't worth reading, frankly they could be carbon copies. I highly recommend listening to at least the Naomi phone call, but really all of the recorded audio is fascinating. I'm not sure what he is more lacking in, intelligence or empathy. He has the manipulation skills of an autistic preteen but it still seems to be the only thing he is capable of doing. He's like the rain man of sexual harassment and bad social interactions.

I'm not really into DnD but it's still been an interesting watch. Unfortunately it has the depth of a puddle (big fucking puddle though). It's the same exact shit 20+ times which is just impressive onto itself. It's also the lowest stakes ever. Most of it was crying and dumping his emotions on VRchat and trying to whine his way into some ERP. My personal favorite highlight is that one of the girls literally got to the point where she tried to tell him to get an escort instead if he needed to do that kind of shit. He was handed the solution and went right on doing the same exact thing.
 
Thought Leighton was still there. I wonder how the other four feel. Your dead site has more than just those two listed.
@Wasabi Bobbi pretty sure there's a google doc out there with the format on how to write these.
 
Thought Leighton was still there. I wonder how the other four feel. Your dead site has more than just those two listed.
@Wasabi Bobbi pretty sure there's a google doc out there with the format on how to write these.
Are you talking about making a thread? Like I said it's got the depth of a puddle. I really can't think of anything major I really missed that wouldn't just be the exact same thing over and over. If it's formatting for this thread just let me know and my apologies if that's the case. I'll edit my shit.
 
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