So next week we're gonna have a girl running the show:
Have you ever played under a female DM?
How did it go?
How was it different?
It will suck.
mostly the same except for that the dm will be a girl.
>>44472149
I think the Gm might also have a vagina?
>>44472149
Just this. Jesus, /tg/.
Expect feelings among PCs/NPCs to play a larger role than you may be used to.
Seduction, love, and lust sub-plots are also likely.
>>44471850
>female DM
Abandon ship, I'd say. Don't blame us for what happens when you hurt her fee fees next time your chaotic neutral 18 CHA bard tries to slap a barmaid's ass.
>>44472149
/thread
Not much different at all really.
Mostly the same but they have less social conditioning to avoid magical realm, and generally expect to have to work harder to not be judged based on gender.
>>44471850
>Have you ever played under a female DM?
yeah
>How did it go?
fine
>How was it different?
it wasn't
are you scared or something
are you 12
>>44471850
Ideally, it will be no different
Realistically, it will suck.
>>44471850
Okay, look /tg/, I just want you all to know that this thread is a thinly veiled bait thread by some shitposting faggot looking to
>>44472285
oh look it's already begun.
Remember, don't feed the fucking trolls, anon.
>>44471850
Is she a normal grill or a ca/tg/irl?
If grill, expect less action.
If a ca/tg/irl, expect tyranids to rape you.
>>44472149
/thread. Report back, OP
>>44471850
Depends. First time DM? Go easy. In my experience, women tend to get discouraged more easily the first time they try to run a game. If she's a veteran, no problems at all.
>>44471850
Every male DM ive had was shit, with some going hard into magical realm shit. The only female DM ive had was utterly fantastic and we finished a long campaign earlier this year. I learned a lot about what not to do with the male ones, and what to do with her.
So depending on what type of a DM she is, it could be good or bad.
>>44471850
Try not to fuck it up for her ya weirdo, GMing is tough enough without your players being insecure creepshows
>>44472359
She's big into anime and starwars, always plays a typical elfgirl with a ton of custom-made backstory, kind of a fujoshi, writes tons of fanfiction, been dating one of the guys in our group for about two years now, been playing with us for over a year, and she has been aching to be DM for like 6 months. Also looks a lot like Aubrey Plaza, it's pretty jarring.
>>44472395
First timer, has wanted to do it for a while.
>>44471850
expect breaks once a session while she cleans out her vagina, there will be a long drawn out marriage arc that's very romantic
Get out of there now. Female DMs suck ass.
>>44472536
>there will be a long drawn out marriage arc that's very romantic
C-
Can I be in the group that tries to catch the bouquet
Please
>>44472357
Instead of wringing your hands in agitation over who's trolling whom, try ignoring threads you don't like.
>>44472505
Oh fuck, dude.
Fuck.
Sorry.
>>44472505
>nrrd grrl
>typical elf girl with excessive backstory (implied Mary Sue)
>fujoshi
>writes fanfiction
>dates player
Seems legit.
>>44472536
I see absolutely nothing wrong with this.
>>44472505
>She's big into anime and starwars, always plays a typical elfgirl with a ton of custom-made backstory, kind of a fujoshi, writes tons of fanfiction, been dating one of the guys in our group for about two years now, been playing with us for over a year, and she has been aching to be DM for like 6 months. Also looks a lot like Aubrey Plaza, it's pretty jarring.
you could replace 'she' with 'he' and absolutely nothing would change
the fuck are you asking people if you've known her for a year, just go have fun you stupid wretched dork
>>44471850
overly descriptive of character's appearance an and personality, a part from that everything was fine.
Also she used the word preternatural way too much.
>>44472697
Did she understand the difference between preternatural and supernatural?
>>44472536
>romantica marriage arc
Damn. I didn't knew I wanted this until now
tell me about romantics /tg/. what's the crunch of love?
>>44472618
>don't call trolls out on trolling, just mind your own business
Yeah, nah, you're a cunt. If you had a story to tell you'd tell it, this "what do YOU think about having girls who date other players at the table" bullshit is way obvious. Begone, baitster.
>>44472642
Yeah, I wouldn't want to play with that guy, either.
The difference is while that's a lot of the male gamers I've known, it's damn near EVERY female gamer I've ever known.
I really hate that I feel like this. I try to be egalitarian about everything. But when it comes to gaming, men and women seem to have different... let's say values. And women are cringey as fuck.
>>44472631
It's true, bro.
Her name's Margaret, she's a historian/archivist
>>44472801
Then decline playing in her game if you can't bring yourself to be 'egalitarian' about it. You're going into it with your mind made up and you'll be a detriment to her whether her efforts are good or bad. You could be a good player and offer good feedback, but you'll find 20 excuses not to, like you would with any GM.
>>44472830
Have faith. I wish you beast of luck, anon. Do tell us how'd it go when you're done
>>44472505
>tfw no Aubrey Plaza fujoshit gf
>>44472746
I don't think so, I myself find it hard to differenciate them sometimes. I think is a term between mundane and Supernatural.
>>44471850
-4 narrative str
>>44472830
>irl PCs are real
shit, she's even multiclassing
>>44472830
link to her facebook/twitter/whatever if she's so real
>>44472642
>tfw no Aubrey Plaza bf
>>44472868
>>44472906
>tfw no Aubrey Plaza plaza
>>44472792
Pendragon has a courtly love mechanic for wooing ladies.
>>44472880
Supernatural is done by God/magic, preternatural is done by created beings/not magic.
Use the bit before the slash if you're a medieval theologian, the bit after if you're an early modern scientist.
>>44472830
That's a good profession for a DM, honestly.
>>44472792
Probably sincerity of attraction. This is why you let romances happen naturally instead of forcing them. It's been really fun and cute to see who the players try to set up with who, not out of active matchmaking, but during any city project or wilderness outing they'll try to help people work together, and sometimes it ends in a further friendship or relationship.
Two kids got hooked up because of the PCs and a bunch of unrelated events; they had a scene together and it just sort of quietly snowballed in the background from there.One of them knows she's doomed, even if subconsciously. She sort of wants to get married to her love in some secret little ceremony before whatever end comes. It's rotting my goddamn teeth.
>>44472880
I had to google it. It seems "preternatural" means something that *appears* to be beyond the norm.
The only female DM I've ever had was awful at the job.
The town she presented to us was exceptionally boring, her NPCs were all charming and beautiful Mary Sues / Gary Stus, the combat involved fae enemies putting our party to sleep turn after turn, and on the way to a mountain cave we were hit by an unavoidable avalanche of boulders.
>mfw
>>44473089
What kind of backward-ass containment board did you escape from where Ron Paul is still considered a hot meme? Not even /tv/ does that shit anymore. Are you from /r9k/?
>>44473146
/tg/ has long been the containment board with the most dated of memes.
jesus you guys are babies
ive had a lot of fun with female gms
one had us on a high octane dungeon romp where my characters dick got critted off by a zombie
one had us in a political court intrigue campaign that lasted four or five sessions
but im sure women only care about mascara and ruining our stuff
>>44473208
>you guys are babies
>says the guy who can't into capitalization or punctuation
Okay, bro. Your opinions are definitely valid and well-thought out, since we can all clearly see how much effort and thought went into them.
>>44473208
it's called style, something you seem to avoid, bubba
>>44473176
Only board-specific ones.
>>44473208
>ive had a lot of fun with female [anythings]
Damn, you know how to cut deeply into these lousy trolls.
>>44471850
>>44473282
Being board-specific doesn't make shit not ancient.
>>44473364
I never meant to imply that, my bad.
I'm sensing a lot of hostility in the thread, what's up with that?
>>44471850
In contrast to females on game servers, DM females are well behaved. You can hurt their feelz, disagree with their opinions, say that the DM is shit at what she's doing, or ignore the DM and claim she's not important, without the DM throwing a temper tantrum at you and kicking you from the game.
Maybe it's something about the Tabletop setting that makes women more well-behaved, and men less well-behaved. No idea.
>>44472395
>women tend to get discouraged more easily the first time they try to run a game.
They lack the "I have encountered resistance? I shall PLOW THROUGH IT" instinct men have, that drives men to try to do something, even if they don't enjoy it, just to prove that they can.
That's an essential part in gitting gud as a DM, the ability to tolerate your awkward stumbles and still play the game even if it's a clusterfuck.
>>44473241
>Okay, bro. Your opinions are definitely valid and well-thought out, since we can all clearly see how much effort and thought went into them.
Yous have to be a serious redditer to get so anal over spelling and grammar.
>>44472485
What about completely secure creepshows? ;-)
*slides an arm around you, and offers you a margarita*
>>44472505
>She's big into anime and starwars
Cool.
Does she think the newer films suck? Does she like Madoka and KLK?
>always plays a typical elfgirl
Uh oh
Elfgirls are red flags, they tend to be self-inserts and used for sparkling at the center of attention.
>with a ton of custom-made backstory
This is fine
>kind of a fujoshi
Bad, but you're on 4chan, so it's not like you're much better.
>writes tons of fanfiction
So long as she can keep it out of the game, it's fine.
... She's not gonna keep it out of the game, is she. She's gonna write the game like it's a piece of her fanfiction. Crap.
> been dating one of the guys in our group for about two years now,
!
MAX ALERT
DITCH IMMEDIATELY
All of the other stats don't matter. Could be playing with Gygax himself, I'd get right the fuck out if the DM was dating a player.
>and she has been aching to be DM for like 6 months.
Does she know the rules and the setting?
>>44471850
She ran a mystery/horror game that had us on the edge of our seats.
I've also BEEN a female DM and run a lot of high fantasy shit that is fairly indistinguishable from what the men in our group run.
>>44472792
>what's the crunch of love?
Match some fuggen tokens.
>>44474391
See >>44472797
>>44472631
It's bait.
>>44473146
OLD MEMES NEVER DIE
ZEEKY BOOGY DOOG
>>44474409
>I've also BEEN a female DM
Woah shit, how did you undo being female?
>>44474391
I haven't had a chance to talk to her yet about the new film, I'm willing to bet she liked it but is gonna shit non-stop on Rey, probably the same way she shat on Korra from The Legend of Korra. Yeah, she loved Madoka, and liked KLK a lot.
Her elf-girls feel a lot like self-insert, but they don't even steal the spotlight from the mission at hand, like she's doing her own thing. At most she uses their backstories to deliver awkward puns.
Yeah, she has been "studying" under our own DM for a while, the dude's got the hots for her but she only has eyes for her own boyfriend. She's hellbent on it.
She gave us a sneak peak at what she's planning.
>>44471850
I've been pretty unlucky the only times I have had female DMs they have been insufferable squeeaboos and every npc was essentially a Final Fantasy character complete with dramatic intro described each time we met them just in time for them to Deus Ex Machina us right out of a jam.
Trouble was we were playing Deathwatch.
>>44474553
*but they don't ever steal the spotlight.....
>>44471850
>Have you ever played under a female DM?
Yup.
>How did it go?
Quite well, it really opened up my repertoire.
>How was it different?
Usually I sit at the table, not at someone's feet and I don't have to ask permission to do things; but, hey, life is all about new experiences, right?
>>44474553
Aw man, the newer films are complete ass. She shouldn't like them.
Self inserts are always bad news, because the player takes whatever happens to them personally.
I remember, a few years back, a dude who was all faggy IRL wanted to play a trans character, and I vetoed the fuck out of it because there was no way in hell he'd separate his IRL feelz from what happens to the character. He proceeded to shitstorm in such a manner that made it blindingly obvious he was inserting his own politics into the character.
Try to avoid people like that. They have a way of getting REAL fucking salty and tantruming their bibs off when something doesn't go their way.
>but they don't even steal the spotlight from the mission at hand
Cool. Guess she knows enough of the tropes to avoid it.
>At most she uses their backstories to deliver awkward puns.
Try to teach her to make non-shitty puns.
>Yeah, she has been "studying" under our own DM for a while, the dude's got the hots for her but she only has eyes for her own boyfriend. She's hellbent on it.
Oh jesus christ. One player lusts for another player, and that player is in a dating relationship with a 3rd player?
I would say "Get right the fuck out, that's a drama bomb"
but ...
Stay right the fuck in. And grab some popcorn. That drama bomb is gonna be amusing.
>>44474391
Christ you're autistic.
>>44474409
Was it like in Being John Malkovich?Just kidding, I meant to sayL O N D O N
>>44474792
Being autistic is awesome. You should try it sometime.
>>44474811
*tips autism*
>>44474507
They have surgery for that now.
>>44474832
*tips autism back* Good day to you sir.
>>44474824
I get warned for that all the time.
>>44473146
>promoting newfaggotry
>muh 4chan fashion
You have a terrible, worthless mind. I legit hope you die very soon.
>>44474923
I have a terrible, worthless mind too! :)
We should be buddies.
>>44474683
I'm talking solely about Force Awakens, she hates the prequels. And loves a bunch of old pcgames that I have no clue about.
So, that's it? Shit's gonna implode in on itself? No chance of a cool campaign?
>>44474986
>Shit's gonna implode in on itself?
Extremely.
>No chance of a cool campaign?
What? No. 100% chance for a cool campaign. Shit will implode on itself and it will be SPECTACULAR.
Get in there bro.
>Female DM or Players
Take this as you will, based entirely on personal experience:
I've had the opportunity to play with many female gamers and I find pretty damn universally they all tend to be extremists in once sense or another.
I don't even have a general topic I can point to. There will simply be a "Thing" or aspect and the female player cater to that in the extreme. This applies to while the few I've had DM were running a game. Now just reading that alone I'm sure many people can say that guys can be just as overly biased towards a topic, but I find not nearly as often as women.
Now this isn't good or bad. It's just a thing I've noticed.
>>44475028
Eh. everybody's an extremist in one way or another.
>>44475019
Okay the preview she gave us was this:
>Your typical fantasy setting, you all banded together to hunt down a powerful witch.
>Said witch killed and destroyed your families/houses, took something from them, and left you as the sole survivors in each case.
>Hunting her down is only half of the fun, the other half is figuring out why she did it, and what she has in store for us.
Sounds decent?
>>44475028
Mind giving some examples?
>>44475194
Holy shit just play in your fucking game you complete sperg.
My current DM is female, current group almost entirely female.
It's alright. Definitely different style of play though, but that could just be them as people rather than them as women. Pretty sure the current choice of game though, is characteristic of their gender.
>>44475194
Seems generic enough, would play.
Does the DM know the golden rule for planning for PC actions?
The PCs have an equal chance of ignoring, killing, allying with, and trying to fuck everything you put in the gameworld. Does her story have a plan for what happens if the PCs decide to become the witch's ally?
>>44475240
This has got to be the vaguest possible post you could make.
>>44475210
*is autistic near you*
u triggered bro?
*makes a post*
y u so triggered senpai? baka
>>44475240
>Pretty sure the current choice of game though, is characteristic of their gender.
Is it Maid?
>>44475294
What about an OP post that says "inb4 OP delivers"?
>>44475210
Seconded. How can you be this insecure? You're asking random anons on the internet what it'll be like to play with a female DM you've personally known for a year.
How does that make ANY sense in your head?
Just go and play. Whatever happens you'll survive.
>>44475382
Random anons have a way of turning anything into a comical mockery, or a porn dump.
Perhaps he was expecting one of those two.
>>44475317
>implying women play Maid
>>44475283
>I definitely know the group and game better than ANY woman
>You should ask your DM about stuff that you shouldn't know until/if it happens in the plot
>>44475240
What is the group, game and style?
>>44475283
>The witch will not play ball
Her answer
>>44475194
>>44475283
inb4 the witch is her self insert and when someone tries to fuck the witch, she gets all flusteredinb4 her boyfriend tries to fuck the witch and it turns into ERP while the rest of the group watch awkwardly
>>44475457
Good bait. Have a (You)
>>44475294
>>44475474
What'chu want senpai? A lot more time spent on non-combat and social interactions, particularly between players. I didn't think you could make an entire session out of collecting and organizing shopping carts, but they've done it. All that said, I won't say this is because they're women and could just be their personality. All I can say is this group plays differently than other, mostly or all male groups I've been in and that's one of the biggest ways. There's also a lesser focus on crunch and numbers, and they treat the game as more of a social, friendly activity rather than an actual game. Like more than once we've gone whole sessions without needing the character sheets.
The actual group lineup is me and one guy who isn't always around, and five women including the DM. One isn't a standard player though but likes to help out and is great for NPC duty and other aspects. She also likes to cook and make the game comfy.
>>44475317
Nope, not maid.Steven Universe.
>>44471850
>Have you ever played under a female DM?
Sure.
>How did it go?
She's got horrible luck in all things so #1 We basically raped face all the time ans #2 the campaign came to a screeching halt when apartment burned out. Apparently some anarchists decided that the best way to fight The Man was to firebomb random civilians. Gotta love them. :^)
>How was it different?
She easily lost track of scenes and rules, but once she got her head around that shit it was rather okay. She threw out a lot more NPCs, but it feels like she also murdered them with extreme prejudice.
>>44475546
>that spoiler
How many of the group are gay?
>>44475546
>Steven Universe.
Huh, what are the game mechanics like in that?
>>44475582
>How many of the group are gay?
Most gamers of either gender are at least somewhat bisexual, and given how they're SU fans it stands to reason they'd indulge that.
>>44475617
Oh god, don't tell me they're your typical "We demand that expressing hate for GLBTs should be ILLEGAL" type.
>>44475617
>Most gamers of either gender are at least somewhat bisexual
WHAT
>>44475582
None actually, to my knowledge. I think maybe one was "gay" in high school but not anymore? It was mostly the other players' choice to choose it as a game, the DM said she'd look into how to run something like it, and I just said I'd go along with it since I'm not familiar with the show.
>>44475602
The DM is using Savage Worlds, and though the system comes into play pretty straightforward for combat, a lot of times haven't really needed it so strongly and the game has been based on straight roleplaying. A lot of interaction between player characters, which is new and a little strange for me since I'm used to more combat oriented games.
>>44475653
OKAY
YEAH
>>44475617
>Most gamers of either gender are at least somewhat bisexual
Gonna need some further fleshing out on that right there.
>>44475730
>>44475653
I think he meant gamers of his group specifically, not in general.
>>44475787
I'm kinda bisexual. I like musclegirls and femdom.
>>44471850
Yeah.
Not bad. She made a paladin fall after he failed a balance check.
>>44475811
That's either not bisexual at all, or entirely bisexual, depending on your gender.
>>44475835
I see the joke you are making. I find it slightly amusing but also slightly groanworthy, and my body is confused at how to express both feelings at the same time.
>>44475873
try farting
>>44475936
Okay.
It didn't help my situation at all.
>>44475869
If you take it bi (har har) itself it's not BISEXUAL at all, either way, regardless of gender.
>>44475964
STOP.
My body can't figure out how to react properly to partially funny, partially shit jokes, so I spasm and twitch and my stomach turns.
>>44472868
why even live
>>44476222
to shitpost on 4chan
shitposting > Aubrey Plaza fujoshit gf
>>44476222
To be, or not to be – that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep –
No more – and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep –
To sleep – perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprise of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
>>44476403
Shakespeare a shit.
>>44476403
I read the first letter of every line.
I did not receive any of the following:
Loss
Bel-Air
THE GAME
Talking to animals
Marblecakes
I am disappointed.
>>44476434
Do you disagree with his conclusion?
>>44476470
>not recognizing the most famous speech in the English language
>>44476488
I've got no fucking clue what he said.
>>44476520
You mean "That's one small step for man, One giant leap for mankind"?
>>44475602
Also forgot to note, if it matters, but the group when picking a game tends to stick to it so one shots are uncommon. They also like playing, frequently, a lot.
Like the current game we've had near 30 sessions already, and we started playing in August. That's more games than I've played with other groups over the course of a couple years.
>>44476403
Thanks Hammy. Sorry to hear about your dad.
you're all right, though, you know I think you'll make a terrific king someday
tell your mum and uncle I said 'hello' and 'congrats'
>>44476531
Learn English faggot.
>>44476531
Whether to continue to exist or not – that's the question. Is it more noble to suffer the slings and arrows of an unbearable situation, or to declare war on the sea of troubles that afflict one, and by opposing them, end them. To die. To sleep – as simple as that. And with that sleep we end the heartaches and the thousand natural miseries that human beings have to endure. It’s an end that we would all ardently hope for. To die. To sleep. To sleep. Perhaps to dream. Yes, that's the problem, because in that sleep of death the dreams we might have when we have shed this mortal body must make us pause. That’s the consideration that creates the calamity of such a long life. Because, who would tolerate the whips and scorns of time; the tyrant’s offences against us; the contempt of proud men; the pain of rejected love; the insolence of officious authority; and the advantage that the worst people take of the best, when one could just release oneself with a naked blade? Who would carry this load, sweating and grunting under the burden of a weary life if it weren’t for the dread of the after life – that unexplored country from whose border no traveler returns? That’s the thing that confounds us and makes us put up with those evils that we know rather than hurry to others that we don’t know about. So thinking about it makes cowards of us all, and it follows that the first impulse to end our life is obscured by reflecting on it. And great and important plans are diluted to the point where we don’t do anything.
tl;dr: Live, because death could be worse for all you know.
>>44476720
Not really a question. Live if it suits your purposes and die if it doesn't.
'sides, Death isn't really a big deal.
>>44476753
>Death isn't really a big deal.
How do you know? Are you dead?
>>44476773
Ya alright fuck you too, pal
I thought /tg/ was more accepting than this
>>44476720
>that unexplored country from whose border no traveler returns?
Well, that's not right. People come back from death all the time.
>>44471850
Currently in a game where the DM is a butch lesbian. She gives out free upgrades to the female PC's for being a sex slave for the Half-Orc blacksmith and her elven wife. Couple this with the fact that she is new to DMing and has no real understanding of the rules, That Guy has been running rampant.
>>44477113
>Half-Orc blacksmith and her elven wife
Why can't it ever be the other way around?
>>44477113
Why are you even playing in the game?
>>44472797
Do you really think "calling out" trolls is going to achieve anything? Isn't that basically what they want; a reaction?
>>44473146
Doom Paul will always be a relevant meme; we just didn't listen. Enjoy Trump, this is the future you chose.
>>44474824
Technically speaking that rule only specifies posts be "informative" not necessarily spelt correctly and with proper grammar. If someones post is still understandable it passes, even if it isn't quite the Queen's English.
>>44475084
If everybody's an extremist what meaning does the word extremist have? How are you extreme in anyway if you're just like everyone else, wouldn't that be moderation?
>>44476962
Yeah but no-one's ever been dead for a year and come back have they, it's always like five minutes or some bullshit like that, barely even counts. What is the longest someone's been dead and come back from it?
Been gaming since 1979 never seen a female DM worth a shit. I'm sure they are out there but I just haven't run into one. I'm forever DM and have had good female players.
>>44471850
Can only speak for myself, not all women. I tend to be more involved in worldbuilding, especially setting up procedures for the world to generate itself and people to act with AI behind the scenes.
Almost universally though, you can expect the 80% ratio of NPCs being men to not happen. And more even distribution of badasses being women. That's all I've noticed unless it's just modules, modules, modules: the group.
>>44476865
On behalf of all /tg/, I apologize, mr Skellington
>>44477381
Because I didn't realize it was going to be so bad. I wanted to believe that it would be an okay experience at least.
>>44477338
What do you mean?
>>44478982
A handsome elf guy married to a strong orc girl
>>44478992
They're both female in this instance which is the DM's fetish I guess considering she is a lesbian.
>>44472792
Perhaps I'm wondering why wouldn't you throw some romance into your story.
>>44472149
Jesus fucking christ since when does /tg/ act politacally correct?
Fuck that, it will suck female DMs are terrible
>>44472505
Dave? Is that you?
>>44478982
>I wanted to believe that it would be an okay experience at least.
Sure, but now that it isn't, why don't you quit? Unless you really like the other players (or are secretly turned on by the erotically-charged sexventures), I don't see why you should keep running this gauntlet.
>>44471888
>>44472285
>>44472351
>>44472568
>>44472536
>>44479716
>children and neckbeards.
>>44481012
I've been sticking around because I was trying to be polite to my two co-workers who are also in the campaign. They've been wanting to play for a while. I'm going to talk to the DM about it next session and explain that I don't want to play in her campaign anymore.
>>44472199
Maybe. You can be a girl and not have a vagina. OP will have to check to know for sure.
>>44479716
Are you just being misogynistic for its own sake here or what?
>>44472505
Abandon ship. Alternatively, Elf Murderin'.
>>44481465
Not him but like that ever mattered.
>>44474645
I see what you did there anon, very amusing
>>44471850
Yes. A few times.
The variance between any two random DMs is going to be a good deal greater than that between the average of males and the average of females
>>44472505
For instance this tells us a good bit more. Her game is probably going to end up more interaction heavy than normal. She's been playing a year so she should have some idea how a game goes, but as a first time DM, mistakes will be made. She won't have an intuitive sense of how to structure an adventure unless she's been prepping heavily by examining modules and the like. As you've got a fanfic writer on your hands, there will probably be a strong "plot" element to the scenario of the day. Railroading is not guaranteed (it's more likely for an experienced jerk DM or someone so new he/she doesn't know how any of this goes -- not a +1 years xp player) but even if it doesn't happen there will probably be no contingencies prepared, and anyone who's been a DM for long knows that you will prepare seven paths, use bits three when the group unintentionally sequence breaks in a manner you hadn't accounted for, and then the PCs will manage to jump from your decision tree like lemmings off a cliff. Your new DM is highly unlikely to be able to handle this eventuality well, if at all, first time out of the gate.
Dating at the table is also a red flag, but at two years they should be out of the REALLY stupid phase and able to act like normal human beings around one another. Relationships older than the 1 year mark are WAY less destructive than fresh.
Overall, one session doesn't look likely to be bad enough to avoid seeing how it goes. If the dating shit causes problems or she manages to be cataclysmically bad I expect there will not be a second session until she's had more time to learn her stuff, if at all. If it's just standard new DM stuff, continuing should be fine.
>>44472642
>you could replace 'she' with 'he' and absolutely nothing would change
>looks a lot like Aubrey Plaza
That is not true Anon, /tg/ would be all over it if he was a QT trap.
>>44472830
See, now I just want to date her.
>TFW no QT historian to discuss Hastings or Middle Kingdom or something with
>>44473933
/tg/ has been really hostile lately. Nobody wants to agree on anything, I keep seeing metathreads about what is ruining the board (it's always Quest threads and Generals, and then the thread is just Quest and Antiquest fags shitting at each other). I can't even tell anymore if people are actually passionate about the point they take or they just want to troll/cause an argument. We even turned Bitches for Thulsa Doom into an argument, though that improved the thread.
>>44471850
>Have you ever played under a female DM?
Yes. Several times.
>How did it go?
The last time I did, it was pretty good, I enjoyed the game quite a bit once I got over my initial character slump. It was one of the better games I've played. Bit railroady, but I enjoyed the train ride so it's all good.
>How was it different?
She relentlessly hit on my character and we ended up erping several times. It had nothing to do with how much I genuinely enjoyed the game.
i want /pol/ to leave
>>44474683
>Self inserts are always bad news, because the player takes whatever happens to them personally.
Nah. The best characters I've ever rolled (according to my group) have all been aggregations of different things I hate about myself. Roleplaying what you know can be a very good thing.
It only becomes a problem when someone tries to use their character to live out a wish-fulfillment fantasy (which seems to be the case in your anecdote).
Here's a fucking thought; both women and men suck at GMing, but since women are pushed out of the hobby by grubby neckbeards sticking the place up, they don't get as much opportunity to actually get experienced as GMs. If all women GMs are new GMs of course they'll be a bit lack luster.
>Implying there's no experienced female GMs
>Implying /tg/ isn't a fuckin shit fest
>>44471850
Meh, I've had a female DM and she was pretty good. Maybe things were a bit more social focussed than usual, but it was hardly noticeable.
Unless you already know she's cancer from prior interaction, it's pretty much a coin toss whether she'll be a good DM.
>>44471850
I've played in campaign run by a female first-time DM....it was fine?
We had some time-travel shenannigans towards the end, burned down a hospital, fought assassins...you know, D and D stuff.
One specific case, so doesn't mean much, but still.
>>44472149
What this guy said.
>>44472505
>>44472830
She sounds kinda hot, it's gonna be trouble
>>44472985
>She sort of wants to get married to her love in some secret little ceremony before whatever end comes.
>Dooming the love of your life to widower's grief
>>44474485
>>44476537
>attempting this hard to troll people on a tibetian masonry board
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>44477113
Is it just me or are female players/DMs vastly more willing to go full magical realm?
Not that there aren't good ones, but the bad ones have absolutely no fucking shame.
>>44471850
>How did it go?
Like this, obviously. Games with women always go like this, and that's totally not just some manufactured /pol/ crap where I'm radiating bitterness based on my personal insecurity and inability to connect with women.
>>44471850
>Have you ever played under a female DM?
Yes, once.
>How did it go?
Same as usual.
>How was it different?
She needed thrice the time as the usual dm for roll calculations (but then the guy is a maths doctoral candidate, he resolves those bullshit magic engineering equations in pf without even writing them down), pretty much only difference. Oh she also insisted in playing a standard setting, couldn't be bothered to make one of her own.
>>44475546
I'd kill for this set up.
>>44471850
Our female DM runs a sort of sexadventure. I'll admit, I wasn't really into ERP and the idea of a bunch of guys describing how they rape monster girls to a real woman hiding behind a paper screen was pretty hard for me to get past, but I'm glad I did.
It was the first d&d group I'd run into that didn't avoid erp, so I in my experience the group is super unusual. For a game that's centered around erp, there is a surprisingly large amount of actual regular combat. Maybe 2-4 encounters a night. She's got a thing for dark elves, so she's trying real hard to get our levels up to a point where they'll be an interesting encounter instead of just curb stomping us.
All considering, I think she shows a lot of restraint. Whenever our party gets TPK'ed, the "bad end" is for the monsters to have their way with our charactres for a night or two until some one back in the village pays our ransom and gets us returned to town. We all really enjoy it, but I'm amazed it doesn't happen more often. It's not like she couldn't just have us fight overwhelming numbers every single encounter if she wanted ("You're now surrounded by 30 umber hulks that got the drop on you" and all that).
But I think what makes it all work is the people in the group. There are some TOTAL grognards in our other d&d games that we don't even tell about this game. I gotta tell you /tg/, fa/tg/uys have a bad reputation for being really uncool in our group. I don't mean like fat and un-hygenic, or even all the typical nerd tropes. Just total cunts who don't know how to have fun, or every single joke they make is at some one elses expense (one or two is fine, but it gets tired fast), that sort of thing.
>>44483392
It's not necessarily just you, but I think this has more to do with the landscape that surrounds tabletop gaming as a hobby than it has to do with actual Mars-and-Venus shit. Tabletop games, be they wargames, RPGs, or niche board games, are considered a nerdy hobby and are typically marketed to a male demographic. This means that any girls who get into tabletop games are, from an outside perspective, double nerd for getting into both a nerd hobby and a predominantly male hobby.
This is probably going to either sound like total tumblrshit or total /pol/shit but hear me out here
By "nerd", I'm talking about anybody who readily participates in hobbies that, to the general public, are strange and esoteric. To get into any hobby there's always some sort of barrier to entry, but to get into a nerd hobby requires a stronger force, a greater desire to try new things. Let's call this extra push "nerd momentum". RPGs, being a nerd hobby with a predominantly male demographic, naturally have a barrier that repels women. It's nowhere near as strong as, say, the barrier that prevents a 10-year-old-boy from picking up and playing with Barbies, but it is present.
This means that the women, in general, need more nerd momentum to get started with the hobby in the first place than men do. I'm guessing that, if this Magical Realm Queen Effect is an actual trend, it's connected to differing barrier of entry into the RPG scene for men and for women, and the differing sorts of people those barriers let through. People with a high nerd momentum are more prone to strange fantasies, sexual and otherwise.
>>44484082
Great Scott man, you've done it! You've cracked the first metaphorical seal on why women shit up tg's!
>>44484082
Allah Akbar! This is the greatest discovery in gender studies since 9-11!
>>44484082
>>44484183
>>44484223
Embarrassing tbqh family
>>44484082
Very interesting idea. I say, in my own experience (MMO fetish guilds), that women in these sorts of groups behave in accordance to your theory. In that they are far more "perverted" then the males.
However I feel there might be a sort of nerd non-elastic collision laws at work here. Because since they break more into these "deviant" ideologies they seem to slow down and have a harder time (than men) developing fetishes for things even deviants like myself find odd and gross, like prego/gore/vore/incest.
But I am still tryin to refine this thought. Perhaps the reason is that those fetishes are more male oriented while things like /ss/ & femdom are more female oriented.
Does anyone have a graph of fetishes with like the X & Y coordinates for male & female perfered fetishes? Get like a percentage of men vs women to see if one side prefers a particular fetish and the other hates it (like cream pies).
There has to be some university study done on this.
![Banana-Cream-Pie-articleLarge[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/smmMLpT.jpg "Banana-Cream-Pie-articleLarge[1].jpg")
>>44484721
pretty sure both men and women like cream pies.
>>44484721
Here, have this one. It's convoluted and messy, and probably has a sample size excessively slanted towards people who consider kink to be a hobby of theirs in and of itself, but it's still interesting.
>>44484082
I'm off to get blind drunk but I'm capping this shit for future reference.
>>44471850
Yes
Good
It wasnt
>>44483749
It's pretty good yeah. Not the best group I've been in but probably the second best at least. Can feel a little odd though playing games and hanging out as the only dude.
>>44481452
Back to tumblr pls xir or xadam.
>>44472781
>>>/pol/
>>44472830
>margaret
is she an old lady?
My groups forever GM is a girl. It's pretty good really, she runs games for us and comes up with crazy plots. We happily rampage around making her plots implode under our cunning and/or stupidity.
I've only played under one female GM. The only difference worth noting was that she paid less attention to the specifics of the rules and treated it more like a story than a game. She'd clearly done a lot of prep work but she improvised really well when needed. These are probably the results of our playing schedule (short sessions, far apart) rather than her gender, if I had to guess.
>>44485439
I was thinking more along the lines of "tentacle pit of despair"
>>44484906
Goddamn, I keep switching between confusion and disbelief that these are actually fetishes. What exactly is a full body stocking? I'm afraid to Google it. Is it similar to a thnead?
>>44483480
the fuck is this. what da fuuuuck, are you the author?
>>44484906
>mudlarking
This will never not make me chuckle.
Yeah, once. I didn't care for it, but that's mostly because I found her obnoxious as a person.
>all this /pol/ tier neckbeardery
>>44472149
/thread
>>44484721
My two cents on /ss/ are these:
The appeal comes from it being a rare situation in which we get to be in control and also physically stronger. A situation in which we are viewed as a this big powerful entity, a goddess if you will. Deciding to be a kind merciful goddess, or a selfish cruel goddess is the appeal.
>>44471850
I've had two female DMs
One was only OK, but she didn't like it and went back to purely playing.
The other ran two LARPs and a tabletop RPG. She was phenomenal, one of my all-time favorites. Brilliant, too. A classical scholar, smoking hot. She moved to another state or she'd still be our GM.
I say give her a try. She'll probably suck, just because most new DMs suck. But just because she's a girl won't make a difference. Give her a shot, just like any DM.
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>>44484248
Did I really sound that pretentious? gomen
>>44484721
I think it's simple. DMs of both sexes will sink into fetishy magical realm nonsense unless their players stop them.
Boy gamers will stop boy DMs. Boy gamers will mostly NOT try to stop girl DMs.
Most gamers are 15 to 25. People in that age group are all perverts.
new years bump
>>44471850
Try not to stare.
>>44471850
'Twill be a cancerous disaster. White knights will "m'lady" and lean therein short-brimmed hats.
t. red-pilled black knight
>>44493692
Ugggh. This has got to be one of the most ignorant and disgusting things I have EVER read on 4chan. I can't even imagine how sad and pathetic to post something like that on New Year's.
>>44487890
>thnead
its just a unitard that's sheer like stockings. Honestly that's pretty tame.
>>44471850
Yes.
Quite well.
Her game was a lore more RP than other GMs I've had. Though that was probably more to do with who she is than the fact she didn't have a dick between her legs.
Sup Isobel.
>>44493692
>>44493841
Nobody's taking the bait, senpai.
>>44471850
I never played under a female DM, in fact I never played under anyone. Being the group's forever-DM fucking sucks.
It's almost 2016, do we even need to have this thread?
>>44495642
Yes.
>>44495642
faggot
>>44495642
ITS THE CURRENT YEAR
>>44479716
>b-but POLITICAL CORRECTNESS guys!
Take your boggy-man back to
>>>/pol/
>>44484721
I'm not sure those fetishes are preferred by females despite having a strong female focus.
>>44495642
yes,faggot
>>44471850
I've played Maid RPG with a female GM. Mostly the same as with any other GM, only with more yuri jokes.
I'm still bitter that the guy who had the utterly perfect butler voice didn't play as a butler.
>>44471850
>under
My fiance has DM'd for my group for two years. You can expect her (or any DM's) DMing skills to mirror her character creation skills. If they devote hours of work to crafting backstory and tracing connections between the players and the setting, expect a solidly planned and detailed campaign. If they just slap numbers on paper and let the dice fall where they may, expect a random-ass sandbox. If they let other people build the character for them, expect a mechanically-delivered official adventure module.
>>44471850
I had a female GM once in an online game. It turned out she wasn't female though.
My first ever DM was a girl. Everything went fine, beyond her pitying us all when we got our asses handed to us by Kobolds.
My wife is dming our current game and is catching flak because shes being more on it about naking sure the group is folloqing the rules, and making things more challenging
>>44501376
>naking sure the group is folloqing the rules
If you're as good at the rules of the game as you are the rules of phonics, maybe you need that.
People are saying that it stinks of /pol/, but all this "womyn gms are terrible" reeks more of /r9k/ to be honest.
>>44501376
>rules
There's only one rule that matters. If she's "catching flak" she's probably breaking that one.
>>44500760
>more yuri jokes
not yaoi jokes?
>>44503759
Depends on the sexuality of said GM.
>>44471850
Punch her in the snout to establish dominance.
Works every time.
>>44498666
But then besides being ravished, what is a female fetish?
>>44471850
I have played with a female DM a few times. I have loads of female players regularly (current D&D game I run has 3 guys 4 girls) and the only reason I haven't had more experience with female DMs is because I am a bit of a Forever GM.
My experience has always been pretty positive, the girls who have DMed for me have always had quite a bit of experience. Best tabletop zombie game I was ever in was run by a girl.
A girl actually ran the first Vampire game I was in. Masquerade set in 1890s London. This was in school so none of us had a fucking clue what we were doing. Still I have fond memories of the game, as cringey as some of the shit we did/said was.
I don't want to play up to stereotypes, but I guess I would say girls are generally less interested in crunch/system heavy games. But they are generally better roleplayers, so female GMs often write the best NPCs.
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>>44481452
>You can be a girl and not have a vagina
Stop
>>44507862
>but I guess I would say girls are generally less interested in crunch/system heavy games. But they are generally better roleplayers,
Do you think this is true for traps too?
>>44472149
/thread
>>44509045
>Do you think this is true for traps too?
Yeah, for girls the traps tend to really be convoluted quest hooks designed for complicated social encounters to cause a breach of etiquette based loss of status. Male games just have stuff like spiked pit traps.
>>44510049
Anon, I don't think that was how the question was intended...
>>44471850
Anon go in with an open mind and be positive
It comes down to if she can tell a good story and create a world that you want to play in
All feminism bullshit aside storytelling and relationships are something females are adept at and if she has a shred of sense and listens to her players it will go well
Jesus christ is /pol/ leaking today?
It will be like any other game, except your DM will have tits, I'm sure it will be fine.
What is talking to a girl like, /tg/?
Are there ones who have the same niche interests?
>>44512669
>What is talking to a girl like, /tg/?
mostly the same except for that your conversation partner will be a girl.
>>44513041
That sounds stressful.
>>44471850
Have you ever had a woman try to tell a story?
Where they go into excruciatingly long detail over shit that no one cares about to explain a scenario that is impossible to feel any connection to?
It will be like that except you're stuck playing a game about her story for at least 5 hours or however long it takes for you to kill yourself.
All these "It'll be the exact same" shills are actually just one whale who lives her life disguised as a feminist frequency writer samefagging.
Seriously just imagine your mom talking about her day except now you have to roll dice.
>>44513413
She's a qt desu, just wish she didn't feel the need to fuck up her eyebrows.
>>44513413
Oh for fuck's sake why bring up that attention whore.
>>44471850
It will go one of two ways.
1.) Really shitty. Be prepared for the GM to have a meltdown if you slap a Maids ass, and may the Gods have mercy if you derail the inevitable sex-vampire sub plot. Also just putting it out there, it's possible she'll have a Tumblrite meltdown where she'll rant rape-this and rape-that.
2.) No different from the average GM. Which means it will suck.
>>44513560
I'm glad someone recognized her, I was worrying posting her picture outside of /v/ would be a lost cause.
I just got out of a ~ 8 month campaign where my dungeon mistress was, of course, a woman. As am I and the rest of the players. I have to say I can never go back.
She brought a tremendous craft to the hobby that I haven't ever had from previously male dungeon masters. Every character had a well-crafted emotional arc and this game will be the metric to which I compare all other games.
Since a lot of you neckbeards will view any female inclusion as being SJW tumblr bullshit, though, I'm forced to conclude that op is, in fact, a troll.
>>44513679
Holy shit you ruin this site
