No Friends?
No one wants to play what you want?
No money?
No time?
What's keeping you from gaming, and how much does it suck
I'll start:
>Had group of friends from high prime for geeking
>we all grew apart, so no geeking EVER
>end up rooming with one
>never wants to play what I want, always finds a reason why it isn't "fun" (basically anything that doesn't let him stomp me)
>only wants to play tactical competitive games to show me up
>not falling for this trap
>Magic:The Gathering night
>group of brother-in-law's friends
>playing non-Standard, mix sets
>every game session "Jay" throws a hissy fit using older rules when convenient and ignoring newer rules
>my deck is shit because game's with group are won by who tantrums the most, logic doesn't work here
>D&D
>never have a DM
>only people that DM are power tripping
>no one lets me DM because they don't believe in my abilities
>>44503920
Lol
Sucks to be op.
Sounds bad man.
>not American
>Tabletop RPGs are therefore niche as hell and the community is intimidating to get into because they all have a decade on me on age at least and have been playing for years and years.
wishes Shut Up & Play guys were my friends, mfw
>>44504075
I have yet to see a group that wouldn't at least try a n00b once.
Tell them your new. Don't be a prick. And odds are, you can get in some games.
You know that guy who always says he wants to play, but never actually shows up?
Some random thing happens, real life drama that keeps him from playing.
And the thing is, he's not lying or making it up.
He just leads a hectic life and can't seem to reliably show up to a game.
He is a flake.
He is an unintentional, unwilling flake, but a flake none the less.
You know that guy?
I am him.
Only I know that I can't get my shit together.
I know I can't keep a promise to make a game.
My life is crazy and I am a flake.
Or I would be if I made those promises.
I don't promise to make games or run them.
I haven't tried to play in forever because I refuse to be that guy.
Not being an active gamer is better than actively being a flake or shitty gamer.
So instead, I come here in the few random moments I have and pretend along with everyone else.
Party on.
>>44503920
Oh, why the hell not?
>Be me
>Be heavily into RPG's and Warhammer when late teen/young adult
>Generally play 3-4 times a week, sometimes more when skipping classes.
>Bunch of pals, couple of dear friends in the hobby.
>Couple of year passes
>RPG's become less frequent due to BF's/GF's
>FLGS closes; amount of warhammer games plummet
>Studies finally over and got a job; so do friends.
>Free time is now suddenly much less, but still manage to play every weekend.
>One, then two then ultimately all members of the group move out, 2 people fall from the face of the earth entirely
>Marriage and children for others.
End result, we now manage to come together for a RPG session (if everyone makes it) or Warhams/Mordheim/Blood Bowl/Confrontation (otherwise) once a month. Painting/modeling is almost a thing of the past due to almost inexistant free time and general tiredness/lack of motivation.
TL;DR: Fuck getting older.
>>44503920
>have about 20k points of 40k
>5k points of HH
>two large Infinity armies
>two tables with custom and GW terrain
>lots of board games Kingdom Death, Zombicide, etc.
I work every weekend, so I miss the big days at the flgs. My two friends that will play at my house are ultra-mega-powergamers. My wife always has us doing something friday nights, which is the main 40k/HH night at the flgs. Our main group of friends has zero interest in games. Made 1 attempt at Zombicide with them last year, but it failed because the game was 'too complicated.'
Thousands of dollars worth of dust collectors in a closet and on shelves. No hope for it changing ever.
>Have group of friends in college that all discover tabletop games together
>Game night becomes us drinking drinking beers and bullshitting hilarious stories in Shadowrun and D&D
>Graduate, everyone moves to different parts all over the US
>Time differences are so great that online games are an impossibility
>I'm clear on the other side of the country, no friends, no groups outside of the local university that I can't access
>Not even a comic shop for 20 miles around
>Too much of a sperg to play online games with strangers
Shit sucks
>>44504179
>once a month
Consider yourself lucky that you didn't lose everyone.
>DM for group of friends
>First time DM'ing but we couldn't find anyoene else
>Most of them new
>Go through character creation with them as a group, so they can jump right into the game without meeting in a tavern
>Simple investigation quest with a few side options tacked on.
>They stop a siege by nuking the attackers from orbit, without any information gathering
>Decide to enter sieged castle via secret entry, they really wanted to have in the next session
>They no longer want to spend a lot of time on the way, but don't want to find a new way either
>Complain when tunnels are unstable after an bombardment
>Act like idiots in the castle and the session ends
>the older players seemend fine, but moved for studying
>Don't hear back from a lot of them for some time
>Play 40k with some of the others
>Only find out by a slip up from one of them, that they are still playing
>Appearently they decided I railroded them into some mega plot and was anti fun towards their epic ideas
>It sounds like they run some kind of clusterfuck with no regards for a storyline
>Can't get a new group together since they told near everyone about their perseived version
>>44504461
op here
I almost got desperate doing the online gaming, until two incidents nailed that coffin
>get a game together from 4chan
>GM is testing their chops with horror-mystery game
>game starts fine, we're told to mingle
>player plays a drunken veteran
>soon we witness supernatural events
>drunk vet starts acting murderous towards another player
>investigation phase begins, drunk vet runs off to the bar
>vet starts losing his shit and has wartime flashbacks
>kills cop player and runs off into the forest
>GM damage control is to say vet died
>vet's last words are insane gibberish
>4chan story #2
>guy wants to role-play as khajiit in Elder Scrolls RP
>allows me to GM
>look up rules and send him pdfs and organize an entire week
>have rough draft of 1st quest
>skypes me name of some other guy who wants to play
>okay.jpg
>new guy sounds stand-offish and starts asking me a lot of questions about what the campaign will consist of
>answer and nudge him to create a character so he can start at the same time as 1st dude
>says he'll get to it
>no responses from either ever again
Small town, no tabletop community. Been looking for games for the better part of a decade. Finally have one...
Except I have to GM, it's online, and all of the players save one seem disinterested. This may never even make it to the stage of starting.
Fuck, having someone who's never even PLAYED be the GM is a terrible idea.
>>44504179
>TL;DR: Fuck getting older.
No, TLDR is fuck your shitty life choices.
YOU decided to get married, YOU decided to allow your friends to get married.
You had plenty of opportunities to stop them.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
>>44504461
>>44504179
>>44504224
As if I needed anything more to be afraid of adultness. This thread just got me fucking down.
>>44504119
You'd figure old timers would love fresh blood
>Be nearly 30
>Be ex-military
>Be so interested in D&D and shit
>Know 40k and Tolkien and Star Wars and all sorts of other hilariously detailed lore.
>Never share with anybody
>Work in a hard, blue-collar enviroment (Oil and Gas industry, yay Texas)
>Still would love to join a group of people my age and roll some die and tell a story
>mfw I would be ran out of my job if anybody even suspected I knew Count Dooku's lightsaber style, or how a Bolter works or why I whisper a litany to my AR-15 before I shoot it.
>mfw I just want to play a foppish sea-faring rogue with a thing for green eyes or a half-orc gang boss with a fondness for hammers.
>>44503920
>Be me, during first semester of this year
>Uni and work forced me to leave my regular D&D group, it happened every other week on sunday, but sunday became the day that I worked on uni shit
>Only day I can actually have a game would be Saturday
>Not interested in playing D&D without my group
>Haven't found a Shadowrun game on saturday in my time zone with a decent gm yet
>>44508341
It's not so bad. Playing less and being a responsible adult is better than being the lonely middle aged guy that dedicates all of his money and freetime to /tg/ pursuits in my opinion.
>>44508523
I worked in the oilfield for 2 and a half years man, everyone knew I was into D&D, belegarth and other unconventional behaviors. Sure everyone was fucking weird about it at first but if you just own it and joke around with your co-workers then there aint an issue.
>>44508523
>Or Russian SpecOps soldier turned traitor to the Regime that is controlled by Necromancers and Witch-Folk
>Jaded Rancher with one hand for Colt SAA and a knife-stump on the other out to fix what the law-men can't.
>Gunner Master for the Merchant Vessel Mastificant, purchased as a indebted Bondsman to the Merchant Captains after saving his life and then freed, in danger of falling swiftly to Slaanesh after a long life of penal legions, prison and gladiator fighting.
So many ideas that will go untried and unknown.
So...
>RPG
>I played AD&D for maybe 15 years. Then you know the story : we're all getting older
>Really REALLY want to play again
>Can be the DM but not every fucking time
>4 or 5 friends are ok but they don't know many things about RPG
>the day where we're supposed to give a try, two of them are coming in late, without any characters.
>"Sorry anon, we were playing MTG"
>Finally, we start with three hours late
>We're playing four or five hours. We're having fun
>Everyone agrees : we should play more often
>No one want to be the DM in the futur
>Fuck you guys
>>44508523
Assuming South Texas since Oil&Gas, there are some good shops in Victoria. I hear there are some in Corpus too, but I don't go down that way much. No idea about McAllen/Brownsville. What region you in?
>>44508419
They do, new players come in without the bad habits most shitty players pick up through shit gm's.
It's a blank slate, and if they do seem a little too crunchy, because they're less experienced they're more likely to take advice to heart.
>>44509711
Houston, north-west Houston.
>>44509626
>>Can be the DM but not every fucking time
>>Everyone agrees : we should play more often
>>No one want to be the DM in the future
I know those feels bro.
>my campaign ends
>we all plan for rotating DM seat after each campaign is done when we started
"Ok guys, who is next to be the DM?"
>oh none of us can, we all have shit to do and none of us like being the DM anyway lol
>mfw
>>44509754
Shit bro, Houston is spoiled for gaming. Google that shit and find you a store nearby.
>>44510205
Gotta be assertive man. Ask the dude/chick up front when they play RPGs. Ask who you should talk to for when new ones come up. Go back there, sit down, and act like you belong there. Because you do.
Also tats and ex-military is pretty common in my experience, having gamed in Austin and San Antonio when I did my undergrad. Nerds are just real fuckin weird about social interaction.
>>44503920
>What's keeping you from gaming
A crippling belief in my own incompetence. And GMT +12.
>>44510380
I have been in the past, I've gone in there a couple of times, always a twenty-something couple at the desk. They sort of mumble something and excuse themselves since it is normally a busy store.
>played some stuff through 4chan and Skype
>find a group at LGS
>Shadowrun group
>make a character
>game was alright, I just didn't have much to do since I made the character last minute
>everyone in the group was nice enough, I just didn't feel like I meshed with everyone
>just didn't feel like coming back for any more games
>>44503920
This is something I kinda worry about in the near-future. After years of stagnation, I'm about ready to join the military to get out of my parents' house and get some progress in my life going. I'm looking forward to that because, even if I hate the military life, at least it's moving forward and being an actual grown-up.
What sucks is that I have a very good group of friends that I play RPGs with on a near-weekly basis, and a number of other local friends involved in 40k and Warmahordes. I know tabletop gaming is all over the place, but I worry about ending up in bumfuck middle-of-nowhere with no tabletop in sight, or a place where there IS tabletop, but very little, if any, people I see eye-to-eye with (heavy story/narrative/fluff-focused players). But hey, only time will tell.
I'm not deathly afraid of it or anything to that degree, just that I realize this sacrifice is necessary for my future, and it's only a temporary one.
>depression
>anxiety
>no job
>no car
>can't get anywhere even when i feel like leaving the house
it's tough having a shitty brain
>No friends for years
>Shit job
>Shut-in at home, doing nothing productive and hating my life.
>Oh hey, Roll20 is a thing.
>Fast forwards to 2.5 years later
>I still have no friends, shit job, and am a shut-in.
>But I'm a pretty good DM
You really do only have yourself to blame, though. Literally everything you can say is an excuse. Don't make excuses.
Or, you know, do. But don't cry about it.
>RP'd when i was younger, was good times.
>move to france at 17, become gypsie because lol fuck you
>life happens, too busy for tabletop
>27 now
>charismatic
>ex military
>wife and 2 daughters
>house
>now plumbing apprentice, long days
>starting other business with wife on side
>not to mention wing chun, shooting, childcare responsibilities, hobbies etc
>want to do nothing more than spend a saturday eatan, drinkan, and playan tabletop with likeminded, humorous gentlemen once a month a la Shoggy or 2D
>no scene in melbourne
>wouldnt even know where to start
>no time, theres never time
>>44503920
>What's keeping you from gaming, and how much does it suck
There is no Infinity meta in central Europe. Which is bizzare considering Spain's just a country away.
>>44509750
Are we talking about games or east european sex slaves and their pimps?
>>44508585
>having responsibilities doesn't make you lonely
You're quite the optimist.
>>44516570
why would having responsibility make you lonely?
>>44516612
>why would having responsibility make you lonely?
It doesn't. I'm saying it needn't prevent it. Unless that's synonymous with starting a family, in which case I apologize for being ESL.
>>44503920
>that pic
>tfw no thick and fat gf
>tfw no gf at all
>tfw my only escape is roleplaying games
>tfw i have no friends so I can't even play those
>tfw i have nothing in life
>>44516709
Have you considered killing yourself?
>>44516612
Not him but I have a responsibility to educate mentally handicapped children with behavioral problems how to perform basic mental functions at work and i'm lonely as shit. This on top of maintaining 150 acres of property I was willed.
You can get to the point that your responsibilities take over your life and you run out of time and energy to not be lonely.
Only 2 friends, so DMing is hard because I have to go easy on them, or have a respawn system, and one of them keeps saying I'm too easy on them.
>>44504115
>snoke.jpg
kek
>>44503920
RPGs
>group is afraid to play anything that isn't D&D or PF
>more that half the group are a bunch of divas
card games
>most of the players in my area are tourneyfags
minature games
>too expensive
>playerbase in my area has a worse reputation than yugioh players
no offense but any of you faggots ever heard of meetup, craigslist, etc.?
try one of those out, you might find some chill people
>>44517124
>using craigslist for anything but meeting non-white shemales
>Move to a different town for college
>Larger town but somehow has even less of a /tg/ community than the old one
>Find a group of gamers from an ad at the bookstore
>3 dudes, worst /tg/ stereotypes imaginable at first appraisal
>give them a benefit of a doubt, set up a warmachine game - 'just for fun'
>opponent plays Everblight, pulls eLilith - a huge cunt move
>nope.mp4
>bring my fucking A-Game Cygnar and get ready for a brutal battle
>table him in three turns
>suggest he use ranged units and better positioning
>their response:
"Oh if we wanted to play ranged we would play Infinity"
>okay
>pack my shit, know these cunts aren't worth bothering with
>opponent slams his bellyfat against my case as I'm picking it up, spilling my models on the floor, breaking some
>offers the most salty 'oops' imaginable
>leave and never contact them again
>no wargaming for years
>worked in music industry pretty much straight out of highschool
>completely unpredictable hours, odd shifts, and constant driving around make it hard to get to games in the nearest flgs, over half an hour away on dark, windy, dangerous as fuck country roads
>get fed up with it after 4 years, move to outdoors work because I like to get /out/ when I work
>end up moving all over the country for seasonal work
>will find great communities occasionally, never less than half an hour from where I work
>often working week+ shifts onsite in the middle of nowhere with no way to tabletop
>none of my coworkers are even remotely interested in this stuff
>they loved to watch me paint, but have no interest in games
>can never be part of a group because I always have to move
>end up collecting a ton of systems because I have no idea what's gonna be popular in a given area till I get there
>get job at a ski resort
>nearest flgs's are in fucking Denver, over an hour and a half on a good day on a road known for hideous conditions during the winter
>literally surrounded by ski bums and drugged up hippies.
>no gaming buddies, but at least I have time to paint.
I hate loving being outside and being a nerd. The two lifestyles clash so much sometimes. It's like I can never fucking win.
>>44517072
>playerbase
Lower Hutt?
People don't like to play with me because my memory is poor and I have trouble remembering things
>>44507339
>be fat nerd
>want to play warhams
>LGS always full of tattooed ex army guys
>ask them if I can play with them
>they say sure
>play warhams forever and have a good time because I wasn't intimidated by people who look physically different than I do
>>44508523
Lal, what the fuck. Maybe oil & gas is a harsher industry than construction, but fuck man, I've had philosophical discussions with woodworkers while I was pulling electrical cables.
>>44503920
I love roleplaying online through text, but am way too shy and awkward to do anything in person, joined a friend;s group and enjoyed being out with people, would freeze whenever I had to do anything. after a few months I just stopped coming because I felt so embarrassed at how bad I was at the table.
I also love complex skirmishy like infinity and btech, but can never find anyone that likes anything similar, I started playing x wing and armada despite finding star wars ships hideous, working on some designs I like.
I find it really funny that living in northern Seattle, I;m closer to cgl than any store that has a battletech playerbase.
>>44517265
Holy fuck, I;ve never had anything that bad happen, I'd kick that guy from my store if he did that.
>>44516709
I have mild autism and depression. See a therapist, Or even just talk to people at http://www.7cups.com/ get help, trust me, it gets better.
>>44503920
>sickness at an early age led to a high fever
>dad is a farm boy so rather than take me to a hospital he shoves me into a tub full of ice
>end up at hospital anyway after my heart stops
>doc says i'm lucky walking away with "only slight" brain damage
>mostly memory but some ticks
>could be that guy that knows all the rules and a word for word from any splatbook you ask one second and a bumbling newb who's not sure how to roll the next basically
>left me with some depression and anxiety and picked up OCD to keep things ordered in case i forget
>would love to play any sort of TTRPG
>circle of friends not down for it
>luckily theres a gamestore a block away
>have to work up courage for a week to get around the anxiety of going someplace alone near people i've never met
>manage to awkward my way into a beginners game
>actually pretty fun and no episodes
>manage about 4 more sessions before anything wrong happened
>became known quickly as a walking rulebook so i get asked shit all the time
>session 6 rolls around
>get asked something
>have a random memory wipe
>okay...i'm playing 3.5...who's the new guy?
>becoolbecool
"Anon? Are you okay? Hello?"
>guess i just sat there for 2 minutes staring into oblivion
>session ends on that note
>dm asks me out of game what happened
>spill the beans
>dm seems to be taking it pretty well
>never get told the next sessions time or date
>no group at the store will take me
>stars aligned for this to happen right before several other life disasters
>suddenly have to move to a new state
>don't know anyone
>native drum group i loved is gone
>close group of friends are gone
>my shit job to keep me busy is gone
>become a depressed reclusive shut-in highschool dropout
>cousin knows a guy who calls up his bud in the area
>random monk at my door asking for me by name
>>44517998
>gives me a job cleaning the temple and cooking shit
>new mentor teaching me about life
>teaches me meditation which helps with episodes
>so long as i do my exercises no episodes
>5 years later lifes back on track
>now i'm too busy with my job and social obligations to actually be able to sit down and play
>entire process though i could do shitty online games that last maybe half a session
>everythings finally sorted in life
>predictable schedule, money, car, own house to host if need be
>local area is now a deadspot for gaming
>had some a year ago but went out of business
>mountain town firmly in a valley between mountains
>only gamestores or groups are on the otherside of either mountain
>by the bird its not to far away
>by the fucking dangerous mountain road going 60 its a 3 hour drive one way on dry summer days
>winter ups that time to 5 hours
>to avoid it live onsite
>now only 20 minutes from a gamestore
>only groups there are 13-17 year olds who don't want a 23 year old oldman playing with them
Life is pain.
>>44509862
Right? The last time I played a character was 2006. I absolutely hate DMing, my brother is always "oh I have this cool idea for a game, I just need to get it started" since '08
>>44503920
>Online group of 3
>Can't play on 24s because of Player1 work, reschedule to 30
>Can't play on 26-27s because Player1 had other plans, reschedule to 30
>Can't play on 30s because of GM work, reschedule to after new year
>Can't play on 1-4s because GM have other plans, reschedule to later date
>Online group of 3 can't gather for 2 weeks
fucking dumb niggers.
