Tell me about the neckbeards you've encountered over the years, /tg/.
>>46988137
A few years back I partook in cleaning out a LGS of all the horrible grognard neckbeards. I was looking for some Shadowrun stuff, this was back when 4E came out. Turns out the place was run by an old highschool friend of mine that I hadn't seen in years. We get all caught up and I make my purchases but notice that there's this group in the back that's been giving me dirty looks since I arrived. I asked about it and turns out they were the local grognard clan. A group of NEET neckbeards that show up daily and chase away the regular customers except for their select friends. They don't spend money and they're generally assholes. The owner's too beta to chase them away so I offered my assistance.
The first that needed to be removed was the catpiss guy. Every game store in every country around the world has a catpiss guy. He's the guy that smells like catpiss. I brought my gaming group in and invited the owner to join us in our Shadowrun campaign. Shit was going to be cash. Low and behold, catpiss guy was there and tried muscling into the game. Just some fucking total stranger, and his plan was to nerd his way in with edition war lecture. So in the middle of his stammering speech on why 2e was the best edition of SR, I straight up asked him why he smelled like catpiss. Apparently no one had done this before. At first he denied it and after a few others in my group confirmed that yes, he smelled like catpiss, he mumbled some confusing explanation about a glandular problem combined some kind of spray that keeps dogs away. I don't know but it was the way he said it, we all just started laughing. He went red in the face and quickly left the building in borderline tears. He came back a few more times after that but any mention of catpiss followed by a chuckle, even in passing would have him run out of the store.
>>46988302
The next one to go was the Manwhich. Now the gamestore had a minifridge in the back game room for people to use on long campaigns or when a tourney was going on. The Manwhich had a tendency to steal peoples foods and deny that he'd done so while eating it in front of them. A food kelpto. From what I understand, this type of person is also common to gamestores, but not as common as catpiss guy. This wasn't his only sin though. He was a Magic player and liked to spit on his opponents cards while acting all apologetic. He had been escorted out more than once due to this behavior but always came back. Typically when stories of dealing with this type of person are told, hotsauce is involved in some kind of trick sandwhich. We weren't so elegant. Instead we took photos of him, flash and all, every time he was caught bent over digging through the fridge. We printed the pictures and posted them all over the wall that the fridge was against. We'd also make airplane divebombing noises to accentuate his fridge assault. It was childish but man did it piss him off; he did not like anyone noticing him doing his shit. Eventually people were just making fun of him to his face and he stopped showing up.
>>46988317
Next was the gamergirl. Of course she was a hamplanet, or porkbeast as we called her. Porkbeast loved attention. She dressed all whiteface goth and write poetry about her elf having sex with his slit wrists or something suitably edgy. One onf of the guys in my group had a sister. She was hot but had a case of bitchy resting face. She occasionally joined our campaigns and typically played elderly spellcasters, she loved them sarcastic wizened old wisewomen. Anyways, it came down to her to remove the porkbeast. She showed up while porkbeast was doing her routine and put her down in a way only another woman can. Everything was judged, openly and loudly. Porkbeast called on her fawning allies only to find that they had dumped her for the hotter girl. Porkbeast left and only returned every now and then to pick up something and never to stay for long.
>>46988334
The enemy team of grognards were breaking up quickly. I smelled blood knew that taking down their leader would break them once and for all. He was their GM. A pear shape wrapped in a trenchcoat and fedora. He generally held anyone in contempt that wasn't at least as fat as he was. From what I had been told, he was a vindictive asshole who delved into magical realm as his preferred method of revenge for perceived slights. Polymorph and and rape, or flesh to stone-stoneshape-stone to flesh followed by rape. Typically rape and some kind of impregnation fetish that showed up in some form or another in every game. He was always around and if he didn't already have a game going, he'd butt into others and try and take over gm'ing their game. He saw himself as the king GM of the place and it was time to let him know that he had been usurped. The first step was to remove his contact information from the corkboard. Step two was probably the meanest thing I've ever done to anyone. He always runs his games in some homebrew d&d setting he made himself and has a tote bag full of paperwork. That's what would break him. My group all arrived and set up for game night. He came running over to demand he GM so they agreed. Part of the plan. He flashed his shiteating grin and pulled out his paperwork. That's when I showed up and promptly poured a big old bottle of SunnyD on his notes. All of them. SunnyD will come out of carpet. It ruins paper. That shit is sticky forever and it eats ink and pencil. I'm sure he could recreate it eventually but that was that. He through the shitfit of all shitfits, his flab was swinging around like you wouldn't believe which made the rest of us laugh. We laughed his ass right out of the place. He was wheezing and out of breath by the time he made it to the door.
Finally we had freed the gamestore from the horrible curse. Business picked up within the month, or as much as business in a game store ever does.
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>>46988345
Thanks OP. That didn't happen but it was fun to read anyway.
>>46988458
Check the IP count. That wasn't OP. Give anon credit.
Im a 40 year old dude been gaming since 1988. I just attended a local small con where I ran OSR games and played the dexterity game Crokinole which is a fairly simple game to flicking wood disks at your opponents disks while trying to hold the center of the polish wood board. Had a great time till Jimmy the autist rolls in. He is 16 years old with a large foam anime sword and a fedora like hat festooned with "witty" gamer sayings. Before I can say a word he plops his fat ass down across from me and points to a pin that says "Velma was the hot one" and practically shouts at me "Don't you agree?!" I said " no I prefer Daphne". He proceeds to lecture me why I am not a true gamer. I interrupt him and ask if he wants to play and he says yes. I try to explain the simple rules but he keeps interrupting me before I can finish the whopping 2 minute rules spiel. I say well maybe you can learn as we go. The rest of the game is him arguing with me on the rules and playing fast and violently flicking the disks of a $150 board as hard as humanly possible and saying things like "haha you suck" when he makes a play. I let him win the first round and promptly spank him in the second round. "I want a rematch!" He shouts. I tell him there are other people waiting to play and he is welcome to a rematch after everyone waiting gets a chance. He smugly smirks and says (loudly) what if I beat you with my sword. I look him in the eye and said if you hit me with your sword I will hit you with my fist. He mutters " it's just foam" and slinks away.
>>46988137
>Tell me about the neckbeards you've encountered over the years, /tg/.
Do you count, OP?
>>46988720
Sure. Storytime?
>>46988663
>two computers means I have different IPs
>>46988744
He's obviously using his phone to tether. At least he has enough pride not to mobilepost
>>46988741
>be me
>go to /tg/
>see thread with epic mtg sper out gif
>read the OP text
>cringe because OP is likely one of those selfsame neckbeards
>ask if I can count OP as one of the neckbeards I've encountered over the years
>get (You) saying I can
>type this
>OP BTFO
>>46988663
Just because you wasted a couple minutes of your life to make a "funny" image macro doesn't make it true. You can keep thinking that, it's really no skin off my back and I get credit for someone else taking the time to type all that shit.
Went to the game store this time and there was this fat... THING looking at stuff on the shelves. I kept seeing this asshole glance toward me.It was a mirror.
>>46988891
My GM has an obese neckbeard friend that just joined our game.
He jumped onto the couch and broke it.
Now that couch is fragile as fuck and every one of use could potentially break it again if we're not careful.
out of all the things that happened, this one happened the most
>>46988591
Velma > Daphne
>>46989098
It's time to sheathe the foam katana and go take out the garbage, son.
>>46988851
The game he was playing is settlers of catan
>plays with toys and boardgames
>calls others neckbeards
>>46989308
This hobby has plenty of neckbeards but not everyone in it is a neckbeard. And don't be ebin and say 'yes you all are!' because if that's true something tells me you're not exempt from it too.
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>>46988345
I seriously hope this is pasta
Why don't neckbeards just shave their necks?
I imagine they trim their moustaches so they can eat without fuss.
Why not just trim the neck and go for an ordinary full beard instead?
>>46989608
They don't shave at all. It's a lack of hygeine thing. Honestly even if you have bad hygeine I can't see how anyone could stand not shaving. If I skip shaving even one day I'm already picking and scratching at my face.
>>46989608
>tfw 22 and still cant grow a full beard
>>46989736
>one of the members of my group is in high school
>he has a better beard than I do
>>46989608
As someone cursed with shitty facial hair, I can only assume they're like me in that they can't, and are ignorant of how terrible they look. Patchy teenage beard above the jawline, bushy below.
I shave regularly, of course.
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>>46989760
>mfw can grow beard but since I'm partially arabic I'd look like a terrorist so have to shave all the time
>>46989736
I'm 30 and can't grow anything better than a Fuhrer 'stache. I blame Chernobyl fallout.
>>46989736
>>46989760
>live in south europe
>16 aged teenagers have more beard than you
Kill me now, I don't deserve this.
>>46989855
>tfw grow beard
>look perfectly germanic
>friends and family still make fun of me and ask if I want to join ISIS
One of these days dad, one of these days.
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>>46988345
Im almost never at tcg because MTG threads are elitist as fuck, but i know i have read this at least half a dozen times. Is pasta, just not extremely common pasta, basically instead of spaghetti it's Angel's Hair
>>46990021
>tcg
fuck, tg
>>46988137
I've had one time where a neckbeard I know got so angry that he threw a d20 across the room and almost cracked a window.
>>46990021
>>46990060
>going on /tg/
>to visit mtg threads
>>46990089
What pissed him off?
>>46990122
In a nutshell
>Playing 5e
>He played an Evil sorcerer
>He attacked the Cleric
>Didn't know clerics have decent AC
>Missed every shot
>His character gets beaten to within an inch of his life
>Tries to Scorching Ray (x3) against party's paladin
>Misses every shot
>Got beaten to death the following turn.
Cue d20 sailing across the club room we were playing in and almost cracking a window.
>>46989608
Personally I'm quite hairy. My body hair is very dark and very thick. Think zangief, but instead of a little patch you can draw a line from crotch to collarbone.
It's at the point that I have to shave the base of my neck, because my chest hair is showly creeping upwards to meet the whiskers that are almost past my adam's apple at this point.
>>46990089
How does one almost crack a window? Glass either cracks or it doesn't. I guess in theory he could have thrown it within say 1 percent of enough force to break the glass but you wouldn't know that unless you had prepared some kind of accelerometer or force gauge beforehand.
1/10 your story is full of holes.
>>46989879
>>46989736
>be argie
>in the land of the eternal 2 days beard
>start shaving at 12
>grow a full beard by 16
feels good
>>46990312
Sounds like very slow lycanthropy.
>>46990317
He threw it hard enough to make a loud sound but not hard enough actually crack the window.
It's not really that serious mate.
>>46989736
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>>46989879
>It's okay my facial hair will improve!
>"Hey new guy to the group, that's a fantastic beard! How old are you?"
>"Seventeen."
Time to kill myself and start the genetic lottery over again.
>>46990317
Hello fellow were-carpet
>>46990383
Throw something hard at a wide of pane glass, it'll be loud because glass resonates. Doesn't have to even be thrown very hard.
Face it man your story is about as plausible as Bigfoot doing the hokey pokey in loch ness. You have been thoroughly debunked by my investigative skills and I eagerly await your apology.
>>46989736
>mfw trans but STRONG VIGOROUS FACIAL HAIR that would make any dwarf proud.
>mfw why is this shit growing on me
>>46990562
I thought your hormones prevented that.
>>46990586
It can thin out body hair a lot but, unfortunately it doesn't do much for facial hair.
>>46990562
>>46990562
tried IPL? Hurts like a bitch but it seems to be working
>>46988137
There was this guy Nate that use to hang out at BET'R Gaming in Rockville, MD back in the mid-late 1990s. I was in my late teens working at the store part time while in high school. He was a rotund NEET in his early 20s. This motherfucker was fat, broke and annoying as fuck. Highly opinionated and loud. However it was his pathetic begging for food that annoyed me the most. Remember he has no money and what little cash his mom gives his NEET ass goes toward Warhams. So any time those of us that worked there would order food this fucker was prowling around like an alley cat. "Hey can I steal a fry?" as his fat fingers hover above my meal. I say "what the fuck dude I am eating here". "well I just wanted one fry" he whines.
But the clincher was his favorite saying "its the principle of it". Any time you were talking to him if you brought up a good point he would try to end it with "its the principle of it". I had just picked up a cheap italian sub from Nikkos a shithole el cheapo greasy spoon right by the Rockville Metro station and Nate smelling food comes up from him MTG game at me full waddle. "Hey man, can..can I get a bit" he looks at me with hopeful eyes. "Let me get this straight Nate, you want a bite of the sandwhich I am in the process of eating". "Um, yeah!" I think he is starting to drool.
I'm pissed and lay into him with both barrels "You fucking freeloader I am trying to eat. Never ask me for food again and if you say "its the principle of it" I will ban you from the store."
I joined the Marines after High School. Nate was banned for shop lifting while I was at boot camp.
>>46988137
There's this guy, we honestly call him the 'Nigga', albeit he's latino brown at best.
He's semilliterate, has to powergame every time, and his PCs never quite make sense on their motivations, behavior and so on. Every background of his is an exercise in written interpretation for our GM.
The thing is, RPG makes him write 14 page backgrounds, read novels (of a certain dark elf though), dedicate poems for his own characters. It really inspires him to do these things when 99% of the guys like him woul hiss to letters in general. I find that amazing.
Even if he's our That Guy, we have fun with it and wouldn't have him any other way.
>>46991314
But anon,
It's the principle of it!
>>46991314
I feel like this is a reference to something, but I can't place what.
>>46991314
Fuck man. I think I've met Nate. So many of those fuckers around dream wizards.
>>46991945
>He's semilliterate, has to powergame every time, and his PCs never quite make sense on their motivations, behavior and so on. Every background of his is an exercise in written interpretation for our GM.
I've played with two guys like this, and it was a lot of fun. One of them was just a hick, a little on the stupid side, but very enthusiastic.
The other guy, well, he was was very hairy, largish and kind of fat, a sweatpant wearer. He wrote voluminous piles of Johnny Spaceboots tier 'lemon fan-fic' as we called it (this was the mid 90s and we still watched 4th generation copies with hideous yellow subs) involving some of his characters
>>46996157
Kill yourself.
>>46996157
rude
>>46990562
It's growing on you because you're a dude, dude.
>>46989760
That puppy is sad.
Activate the device, we apocalypse now.
More of a That Guy things that anything but has anyone ever noticed that most budding That Guys make their first characters defining trait be extreme alcoholism? Noticed it with a player who is slowly turning into a major problem DESPITE talking them more than once...
>>46994965
It's not a reference to anything. It's a true story.
>>46989879
Well the answer is that those "16 years old kids" aren't really 16 years old, but much older.
>>46988851
That's Catan, and I think the guy is Francis, it's staged (like his MTG one)
>>46997123
>Kill yourself.
Why would I? I'm not the one who's mentally ill.
>>46997320
go back to your tumblr echo-chamber if you don't like the truth.
>>46989098
For the old shows yes. For the new shows no, they finally started giving Daphne an actual personality beyond "wears makeup."
>>46989736
>have the ability to grow a glorious full beard that would make some who are my elders green with envy
>I have no idea how to properly care for facial hair, so it looks like I'm a hobo instead of a viking gentleman
>>46990312
Anon, do you remember what you are doing at the full moon nights?
Just asking.
>>46989736
>Tfw 19 and still haven't gotten my beard to connect.
>Tfw my beard and my chest hair are both have a very prominent bald spot.
>Tfw I haven't grown an inch in height in years.
It-it's gonna get better, right? I still have a chance?
>>46990562
Do you just shave every day, and otherwise look feminine?
>>47000795
No man. After 18 your body slows down on the growing process. I shot up to 6' 2" at 18 and now at 26 I'm 6' 4".
>>47000912
So I still have a shot a being 6' 0" instead of 5' 10"?
Good, That means I might not have to lie on Tinder anymore.
Last week, doing a SOI draft. I get sat next to these two guys who look like background characters from a Beavis and Butthead episode. The one on my right is the complete package. Overweight, body odor, thick glasses, constant slouch that juts his head forward so his neck looks deformed, patchy and thin beard, thinning hair that makes him look 55 even though he's probably 20, the works. He does this weird thing when passing me the draft cards where he'll hold the cards from the top and act like he's placing them down on the table next to me, but he stops about a centimeter above the table and just holds them there, waiting for me to take them awkwardly from his hand. I can't slide my hand under his because he's nearly pushing the cards against the table, so I have to negotiate around his fingers to take the cards. You know how some people hum or tap their feet or flick their cards when they think? Well this guy purrs. But not like an absent-minded thing that he does quietly to himself. He does it loudly, and like he's trying to seduce someone in a comedy movie. It's like he can't roll his tongue, so it's too slow and sounds incredibly labored and makes everyone around him stare whenever he does it.
>>47000795
I'm 21 and I'm registered (on my gov ID) as 5'10".
Worse still, I have lower back problems, and the last time my doctor measured me during a checkup, I was 5'8".
>>47003263
>mfw I have back problems, but I'm already 6'2"
>I'd probably be 6'4" without them but no one has any sympathy for me because I'm already 6'2"
I just hate being shorter than my father damnit
>>47003448
>18
>taller than parents
>taller than whole family
>5'9"
At least I till have some time to grow
>>47003800
>taller than whole family
I don't know what to tell you Anon, either you're adopted outright, or yo dad ain't yo dad.
>>47003834
My dead grandpa was 6'5", so I guess I inherited part of his height. All his kids were women.
I'm the spitting image of my dad.
>>46989736
29 here. If you can't do it by 17 it'll never happen. If you try then your family will just shame you and call you things like "Rat Beard" or "Patches". Then proceed to remind you of your failed growing attempts randomly for the rest of your life.
>>47003448
>tfw I was always shorter than my cousin during childhood, but then grew past him one year.
He is pretty short as I am only 6' in morning.
>>47004404
Don't think like that, anon! It took until my early twenties to grow the beard I have today.
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>>47000795
When did this board turn into frogposting about our height?
>>47004526
Neckbeards -> short people isn't that big of a jump.
>>46991232
What is that picture in your picture from
I'm pretty /fit/ but a huge loser that just wants to spend all day playing DnD, WH40K, etc.
The people at stores / clubs for these kinds of things are unbelievably mean towards me, it's pretty tragic. The only reason I even look remotely buff or what not is because I use my autism to grind at the gym as if I was grinding in a game.
>>46989736
>mfw grew a full beard at 12
>but it grows in a mixture of black and red
>everyone thought i dyed my beard like some kind of freak
>>46998408
Not fucking true, since I went to highschool with a lot of them. I even know people who started to grow a beard at 14.
>>46988591
I like this one. This one is great. Thank you for sharing.
>>47004777
Hey, a fellow /fit/izen. I too ended up learning picking up heavy things and counting my macros wouldn't turn me into a social butterfly.
>>46988744
Sauce?
>>47004777
>it's pretty tragic
For them, yeah
Realise that the true reason they are behing mean is because they are jealous.
Be it that they want your body or your perceived normie-ness, or hell maybe just your ability to get anything done in your life and improve yourself, they envy you.
Anyone worth playing with wouldn't judge you on it.
>>46988137
Surprisingly, I have only met 2.
Neckbeard 1 was the coolest bastard I've met. Helped me understand how to pick my WH40k army, how MtG works and found me dice that his store didn't even have, due to a lack of interest on d10 systems in the area.
Neckbeard 2 was a guy that wanted to set up a game at my home town. He suffered in the company of what I can only describe as the unholy abominations of a /b/, rebbit and tumblr threesome. Never saw him again after that.
Hang in there, neckbeard 2.
>tfw can only grow a goat
>mustache doesn't connect to goat, will only grow in child molester style
> beard only grows on neck and sides, patchy on cheeks
> unable to just let it grow to see if it will fill out because the early stages are so horrible
I guess its goat for life, weak chin so goat covered my shame
>>46988137
>2 neckbeards encountered in tabletop setting in entire life
>1 played a chaotic neutral fat 65 year old bard
>talked to an ancient witch with a magic amulet, convinced her to give it to him if he got her laid
>convinces 16 year old blacksmith apprentice to have sex with the town widow
>blacksmith apprentice walks out of house 40 years older
>widow looks absolutely stunning, 40 years younger
>gives bard amulet
>bard puts it on
>later we find a drunk guy innawoods
>drunk guy feebly punches bard
>"HE HAS VIOLATED THE NON-AGRESSION-PACT, I AM PERMITTED TO DEFEND MY LIFE"
>puts manacles of mind control on drunk dude
>tells him to go to the river and bend over
>guy bends over
>bard rolls for erectile dysfunction (nobody told him to), rolls 20, says he has ED
>okay...
>pulls out a zombie's penis that he stored in a jar of formaldehyde
>casts prestidigitation to make it hard
>rapes guy who is facedown in river
>gets 40 years younger, the drunk dude is now 80 and dying
>drunk guy dies
>bard tosses the amulet in the river, now 25 years old but still fat
>alignment change to CE
>none of us stopped him
>>46989890
Trim that shit anon, the reason they make fun of you is probably because you have a greasy untrimmed beard like they wear. It also looks like shit comparatively. Clean lines and even length are what separates facial pubes from a proper good looking beard.
>tfw can only grow a reverse hitler and mutton chops
>it doesn't even share my hair colour. Black on my head, ginger on my 'beard'.
Just kill me now, lad.
>>46994781
Nate you fat bastard! After all these years you're here on tg?
>>46997547
Now that you mention it...
>>47004777
Stop playing with NEETs. My gaming groups are all guys in thier 30s and 40s. with jobs, families, mortgages. Professionally speaking everyone is gainfully employed at the higher economic tiers. The hotel desk clerk got booted for being an ass and attacking NPCs and arguing incessantly with other party members.
Call me an elitist but I won't play with someone who dresses like a retard. Anime button down work shirts, fedoras, trench coats, fingerless gloves, any MLP shit. I mostly see these guys at Cons since I have no reason to go to FLGS much anymore. Other warning signs are lack of significant other, lack of job or going to school, no transportation, bad hygenie, bad table manners, can't carry on conversation without interrupting. These guys aren't hard to spot.
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>>47005487
My dad's beard is white, black, red, peppered, and all four at once. It looks like he has red mutton chops and a black goatee growing out of a white full beard.
>i'm gonna inherit the fuck out of it
>>47005654
>lack of significant other
Does it count if you don't want an SO? I'm schizoid.
>>47008706
>I'm schizoid
>plays one of the most social hobbies
>>47008745
It's probably one of two things I enjoy doing. The only reason I started and still play is that my group is old high school friends. A group of strangers is another story though. I might have to branch out someday because we've all got our own lives now and if the group falls apart that means no more games.
>>47008706
As DM I grant waivers on a case by case basis for neckbeardery provided you submit your request in typed, double spaced Times New Roman font size 12, submitted in triplicate.
I like to set up a interview at a neutral location like a restaurant or coffee shop before you meet the group. At our initial meeting I will have you fill out a questionnaire which I will screen for warning signs of anti-social behavior, social disorders, depression, etc then I administer a series of questions from the Voight-Kampff test.
A quick criminal background check by my cop buddy and we can proceed. Mostly I'm looking for violent crimes and recent substance abuse arrests.
Your application would be brought before the gaming table for a vote. Any current party member can veto and veto only takes one vote. No questions asked.
If you've made it this far you begin a 3 month or 12 game (which ever is longer) probation period.
You become a voting member after 1 year of gaming with us.
>>47009063
When do I submit the urine and stool samples?
>>47009063
If this isn't pasta already I'm saving it.
The biggest neckbeard I know it's the one that always watches me when I go to the bathroom
Fucking pervert
>>47009188
What? Context please.
>>47009143
There is no drug use allowed at the table save drinking in moderation. One of the players is a cop and we play at my house around my kids and wife who are upstairs. I've found smokers to be too distracted and need constant outside breaks. I might consider gaping inside of you aren't a rude ass about it but it would go to a party vote. This is about building a collaborative story telling experience not your outlet for your own pleasures. If you don't mesh with our game that's fine but you will be asked to leave.
I've never had trouble getting and keeping players on the rare occasion 1 of my 5 chairs opens up. Vested party members with 1 year of service do have call back rights.
We serve a home cooked meal (usually by my wife) at every Wenesday night game. I am a big boy at 6'4 270 lbsand I like to eat. The food is good.
Here is a pic of my basement game room, library, lair. Full party members do have library borrowing privllages.
>>47009257
The weirdo gets inside the mirrors of my house due to some black magic mumbo jumbo and when I look at them he's right there staring back
>>47009063
>Voight-Kampff test
Is that the one about the turtle dying?
>>47009170
It's not copy pasta. I just wrote it. Not joking.
>>47009410
Yes it's from blade runner to test for empathy to determine who is "real" and who is a replicant.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/when-a-newspaper-gave-blade-runners-replicant-test-to-m-1687558534
>>47009386
And you haven't kicked him out?
>>47009517
He always comes back and hides in the mirrors and other reflective surfaces
>>46989736
>24
>I can only grow a semi-goatee
>Cheeks literally hairless save tiny, uneven patches if I go long enough
>I'm super blonde so the hair is practically translucent on my skin tone anyway
>>46988928
10/10
>>47003448
Fuck your mom. That'll show him.
>>47008745
Depends on the game. If you play a miniature skirmish game like DnD 4th edition you just need to roll the die and not talk much.
>>47009358
I want to have this someday.
>>47009358
>allow gaping.
sounds like you do.
>>47010004
Vaping
>>47009933
I've been collecting all non electronic games for over 20 years. I've got quite a few.
>>46998959
You're pathetic. If I were you I'd seriously reconsider the way I behaved towards other people.
>>47010146
I can imagine the feeling of being in that room.
Sounds have that slightly muted quality, like a in a bookstore. Smell of cardboard/paper dust. A single light makes an ever so slight buzzing noise, the only thing disrupting the silence. It's pleasantly warm, the kind of warm in which you could wear either sweatshirts+pants or just a T-shirt and shorts in and feel just about the same in. Man, I'd love it.
>>47010396
Well there aren't buzzing lights but my wife does complaint about the "used book store smell"
>>47010516
best smell in the world IMO
>>46990562
Same. FML
>>46988137
Me.
Then I got my razor fixed and shaved.
>>47004663
It's from the webcomic Outsider.
>>47009446
>Yes it's from blade runner
FFFFffffffffuck you, read a book!
>>46988137
What did he expect to accomplish other then getting booted and disown by his friends?
>>47011299
It's staged. Boogie is basically an ironic shitposter style neckbeard.
>>47011236
You just failed your test.
>>47011329
Big talk from someone with electric sheep.
Yeah, I said it.
What're you going to do about it?
>>47010396
Sweatshirts? t-shirts? shorts? What the fuck are you some kind of barbarian?
We play wearing full suits, don't you dare take the jacket off
Source: I'm a member of the group, my record is impeccable
>>46989736
>>46990462
I CAN FUCKING TASTE THE AUTISMO
ITS LIKE A HOT STEW OF ASPIE AND FUCKING RETARD
>>46989713
Some people actually grow beards. A neckbeard tries to grow a beard, and fails. Like Nero.
>>46990562
The struggle is fucking real.
>>46996157
>guaranteed replies
>>46989736
>grew a salt and pepper beard at 13
>all my hair has faded to white and grey at 23
>starting to look older than my dad
Fuck, got to find whatever is draining my fucking levels fast.
>>47009358
>There is no drug use allowed at the table save drinking in moderation. One of the players is a cop and we play at my house around my kids and wife who are upstairs.
Have you had bad experiences with druggie players? I'm genuinely curious.
>>46988137
I could be that Neckbeard...
>>47013839
>One of the players is a cop and we play at my house around my kids and wife who are upstairs
>>47010910
Shit yeah man.
Hope we a get a good update sometime this year.
>>46988137
I just saw the worst one I've ever seen today.He was in my mirror strangely enough
>>47009063
>>47009358
>>47010146
What are you a half man/half gronard? Are you the fabled daywalker? Do you have club dues or a monthly new letter for your group members?
>>47000607
My nigga, I was actually surprised of Daphne being so helpful in Mystery Inc.
>>47015739
Daphne is genuinely my favorite part of mystery inc.
I was fucking squeeing like a goddamn teenage girl when Fred proposed to her.
I, I uh...
Later arcs were a little rough for me.
>>46988302
>in the middle of his stammering speech on why 2e was the best edition of SR
>kicking out the wisest man in your game store
>>46989736
>tfw 22 and can grow a full beard that looks amazing
>job wont let me
also I dont understand neckbeards, they itch. Goatees only.
>>46989736
I'm with you there anon. The only place I can grow hair on my face is around my neck for some retarded reason. It makes no sense to me because I otherwise have fairly consistent hair growth across most of my body. Hell, I grow more hair on the back of my neck than I do my face.
>>46989736
>26
>can grow full beard
>dont because hipsters ruined beards and moustaches for another 20 years
Also, work out. Working out will give you a beard, trust me. READ THE /fit/ STICKY
>>46990317
Holy fucking autism batman!
>>46991314
I share my food with friends, but fuck freeloaders. but...
>Is eating
>someone asks to steal one
>dude, I'm EATING!!!! (spazz mode activated)
How the fuck is that a reply? Of course you're eating, why else would someone ask to to have a bite
>doesn't have food
>hey anon, can I have a bite?
Wut??? freaking retard
>all those people that want to have fast growing beards
I dont understand you. Started shaving in the 5th grade.Now the job requires being clean shaven so I shave every day. Its shitty.
When I have free days I never shave and start looking like a train hobo by the end.
>>47017025
Not fast growing, just the ability to have a full beard. It's the luxury of not looking ridiculous with a patchy incomplete beard if you don't shave for a few days.
>>46997123
>>46997320
What was it?
>>46988137
I met and played for over three years with the man who established Blood Moon as a staple card
Can't think of many experiences with "neckbeards", but back when yugioh was still relatively new(no more than 3 years since launching the tcg), there was one high school aged kid who was a bit...hyper; he was always shuffling his hand, doing the leg bounce, or other twitches...
One day, he lost a game and unfortunately I missed the details of, all I remember is after losing he got PISSED and slammed his fists down onto the table >>46988137 in this style.
It broke the table and he was asked to leave. Not sure if he was banned, however.
Now for one about me(warning, cringe INC):
>be me, severely obese(mid 200s) teen
>very little facial hair, but a true neckbeard in spirit
>at vidya-oriented LGS with friend for their weekly halo 2 lan
>make ridiculous names that usually generate a "who the hell is [immature name here]? "
>end up shit talking too much, the owner which was playing with us reaches over and turned off my xbox
>in disbelief I look at him then figure he was pissed from me killing him too much and reached over to his side and turned his xbox off(my friend laughed about this for weeks)
>he tells me "alright, that's it; you gotta go."
>confused, I ask why
>he calmly explains I've been causing quite the ruckus
> and as it turns out, people don't like having a loud mouth punk shit talk for hours on end(my words, not his)
>ask for partial refund because "We didn't get the full time spent"
>surprisingly partial refund is given and I somehow wasn't banned
>haven't sperged since(too much- I promise)
>>47009358
>I might consider gaping inside of you
will you at least buy me dinner first?
In my first campaign I hosted and was forced to make a blanket demand that everyone must shower before coming over. Apparently one of my group mates decided the best way to express his new found freedom (just turned 18) was to not bathe.
The closest experience to playing with a neckbeard was with my flatmate. He's fine to live with, but he's the sort of person you cannot take to social situations because he creeps out all the women there and gets atrociously drunk in an attempt to show off.
Anyway, we play 5e together with a few of my other friends. His characters always have interesting concepts, but are ruined by thousands of words of useless backstory (far too much for a level one character) and the fact he plays EVERY SINGLE FUCKING ONE as himself. Same demeanor. Same manner of speech. Same moral attitudes.
It's a shame because he's a considerate player, knows the rules well, doesn't argue and doesn't fuck around with the rest of the party. It's just that the rest of the party are better people and better players.
>>46990312
Hello my fellow bear. This shit is the most annoying shit, I swear to fuck all the hair on my body is connected.
I have to shave my entire neck, back and front, not to mention the small of my back and the top of my shoulders otherwise it's super visible.
On the bright side, I've had a *good* full beard since grade 10.
>>46988345
>He generally held anyone in contempt that wasn't at least as fat as he was.
>>46989736
Beards are male makeup. I've got a nice jaw, I have no need to hide it under a """"""""""""""""manly"""""""""""""""" beard
>>47018305
Beardless young lad detected
>>46988458
I've always found it amazing how I can see the expression on the face of the guy in the last panel even if his face is blank.
>>47009063
I unironically support this
>>46988137
My first neckbeard was a guy wearing nothing but thin clothing, german of course. Cause for some reason all autistic neckbeards ive met are either german or finnish.
He had dead skin cells covering his whole neck and he smelled awful though he always complained otthers did because "muh sensitive senses."
Only story i have is beating a guy around for smashing one of my warhammer models when he lost a dice roll that cost him the game despite a cheesed as fuck list.
>there are people in this thread who cant grow a beard
This site is 18+
>>47009063
Honestly if you started this kinda shit with me i'd just assume you were the mental neckbeard in this relationship.
But hey you said it works so maybe Im just not taking tabletops seriously enough.
>>47009545
You... um... if you're serious (dear fucking gods, I hope not), you might want to pop over to /x/ and ask for help with that. We only deal with fake magic hereWhat the actual fuck why is that so creepy?
>>47020676
he's joking about his own reflection
>>47020477
It's also ruled by a nip. We shit-bearded folk will inherit this place.
>>47020508
That's fine, it means my screening process is working as intended. I'm not a haughty jackass about it. If you aren't willing to conversationally answer a few questions about yourself and how you would fit in with the group, well that means you probally won't fit in with the group. As the DM it's my job to make sure everyone is having fun and that means acting as the gate keeper on who plays with the party. Better to find out upfront we don't have compatible gaming philosophies.
>>47020508
One final thought....I'm forever DM and I use to just about let anyone join in. Every rule I have come up with has a name behind it. There was Brian who couldn't make it 20 mins without running outside for a smoke. There was Steve who use to sit with a mini cooler and slam shots of whisky chased with beer and get piss drunk. There was Sarah the mantic depressive who was habitually late/no show and would often attack other players and NPCs for attention whoring.
>>47009063
I sincerely don't know how I would react to this. In one hand, it sounds between fun and interesting. On the other hand, it's a gigantic red flag telling me this whole party is the biggest neckbeard clan in the town.
>>47009358
>I might consider gaping inside of you
>>47020676
the joke
you
>>47016669
What are you talking about, there's nothing abour beards in the /fit/ sticky.
>>47017025
You have to shave every day (or every couple of days) anyways, unless you want to be called neckbeard.
>>47016920
It's this interesting new thing called "sarcasm."
>>46991314
>joining the marines
You're far worse than he could ever be.
>>47009358
>I am a big boy and like to eat
holy shit youre not real
>>46989098
This
>>47022143
lol your pathetic mewing is music to my ears.
>>47022700
not him, but you forgot to the bit about how many confirmed kills you have
>>46988345
While that seems like the asshole way of doing it's also hilarious. Good story.
>>47022798
None. I fixed jet engines.
>>47022876
oh, that actually sounds kinda neat
good on you man
>>46989736
its not so great.
>At 22 finally able to grow a beard.
>Male pattern baldness kicks in.
life is suffering anon.
>>47020477
I'm half-Asian. I couldn't grow a beard even if I wanted.
Not until I'm past 80.
>>46988137
Just one obese grognard at Games Workshop who had just spent a fortune on new blood angels, sanguinor etc, we had a game, I was using a speed freek orks list.
Game was pretty standard at first then one turn I fight his new Sanguinor, a bunch of the orks die but the nob gets his power klaw attacks and kills the Sanguinor, he got mad as fuck saying nobs were OP, I was a cheap fuck, I just enjoyed the salt coming from him. Then on his turn he shoots and kills the nob in question, he then picks up the model and throws it off my end of the table.
My entire army is painted, I spent many hours making it look good and this fat fucking manchild just lobs one. I just had to shout "What the fuck are you playing at?" then the indignant pile of lard starts mouthing off about how I was taking the piss the entire game, obviously the staff get involved, they can't have swearing in the shop, the fat fuck was ejected when some other guys stood up for me saying he'd thrown my model off the table.
>Be me at flgs making purchase
>4-5/10 girl working counter
>make small talk like a normal person
>girl laughing
>neckbeard protection mode activated
>counted surrounded
>neckbeard gazes burning through my face
>sense of satisfaction rising
>Tell funny story to girl
>laughs more
>says "eww!" laughing during gross part
>Neckbeard says "Is there a problem?"
>Ignore him, smile at girl, tell her have a nice day, wink at her
>instant moisture, as I walk away
>Overhear neckbeards pestering girl about who I am, what I said, etc. etc.
>"MUST PROTECT OUR QUEEN!>
Lame I know, but this is about the extent of my neckbeard/flgs interactions
I've never been to a LGS for more than 5 minutes and judging by these threads, I won't ever.
>>47023321
Yeah, I usually go to the paint section, but my shit and GTFO. I tell my girlfriend about the weirdos all the time. She wants to come see them for herself, but always chickens out.
>Ultra-autist at FLGS
>Very annoying, talking over people constantly
>Interrupts strangers conversations to share is unwanted opinion
>Ask employee what this guys deal is, why hasn't he been told to believe
>Employee says "he stabbed his Dad. We are afraid of him. He is heavily medicated, but still afraid."
>Go home and do a quick google search
>Find article about stabbing. it is ultra-autist
>mfw
>>47023321
Taking every single story in here at face value is stupid in itself, let alone allowing that impression to guide your real life actions.
Don't let stupid stories from 4chan make you avoid real-life things, ever. Not all overweight people are the hamplanet monstrosities of fat people hate threads, not every person who uses Tumblr has an endless persecution complex, and not every LGS is filled with inhospitable, asthmatic neckbeards.
>>46988928
every goddamn time
>>47023609
Stereotypes exist for a reason.
>>47016463
If your beard itches you might be using the wrong shampoo or conditioner. If you don't use some form of soap in your beard please shave it.
>>47023691
Yes, stereotypes exist because people have a tendency to illogically assume that a small sample is representative of an entire population. Proudly affirming that you consciously allow stereotypes to influence your day-to-day behavior is a purposeful claim to idiocy and ignorance.
>>47024123
"small sample"
Stereotypes exist because they are confirmed across a large segment of the population, by many different people. One man knowing 90% of Chinese to be bad drivers does not a stereotype make; one million men knowing 90% of Chinese the know to be bad drivers does.
>>47016920
>How the fuck is that a reply?
If someone is eating, you don't ask for food.
If they're done but have leftovers, or just seem to have stopped actively eating for several minutes, THEN you may ask.
>>47024428
"Confirmed" as far as these things actually can be. You're throwing around numbers like "90%" as though statistics like those are actually at play when people are swapping neckbeard horror stories. One look at this thread should tell you that these stereotypes aren't rooted in critical, objective observation but biased reporting of exaggerated traits. In this thread and in plenty of similar social interactions online and off-, reinforcing stereotypes is rewarded positively by social affirmation, so singular, perceived trends are underlined and apparently supported by "evidence" that is really just hearsay.
The root cause of most stereotypes are perceived, not actual trends. The problem with this, of course, means that you confuse correlation with causation: for example, a Chinese immigrant might drive poorly in America because they don't have the same kind of traffic laws and etiquette that they do. However, if you associated this trait with the immigrant's ethnicity, you would be making a mistake, because a Chinese man born and raised in America would be unlikely to have this trait. Similarly, although some people who enjoy /tg/ hobbies do so because they are social rejects, this is not the case for all of them, and it is irrational to assume so.
>>47024874
I don't disagree with you but this thread is for laughs. We tend to remember the most exaggerated traits. You could walk past 100 normal dudes at a con but your going to remember the outlandishly dressed neckbeard.
Hell, yesterday at Walmart I saw a guy wearing a leather vest and crushed leather top hat with goat shaped horns on the side. WTF!
>>47024938
Well, yeah. I'm not saying threads like these are bad. I'm saying that using threads like these as reasoning to never visit a game store is fucking dumb.
>>47016920
>fuck freeloaders
>be me
>be host
>wife makes food for us
>delicious
>she makes enough for everyone and for us to have leftovers tomorrow
>one guy
>gets 3 servings.
>every. time.
>Sometimes more
I understand my wife's cooking is delicious, and I understand that there is a bit left in the pot, but do you fucking mind? We specifically have SNACKS before dinner. You eat half the bag of chips, then eat 3 servings of my wife's cooking, can you fucking eat before you come? You're not poor. You have a job and a kitchen. Don't come to my house just to stuff your damn face.
>you'll never do pnp with francis
>>47026618
Mean spirited. Just don't bother with the food penny counting miser. Or be a good host and be happy if your guests are happy.
You're obviously a complete pussy for not confronting him anyway.
>>47009063
A few questions.
-What do you do if someone filling a test seems positive for a mental condition, but not obtrusively so?
-For the Voight-Kampff test, do you score people answering such that you deny any with a score too high or low, or is it more of a thing purely to get to know something of a person's thought process.
-How often do player vetoes get used in the screening process?
>>47020477
1) No website is 18+ really, honestly. How would you enforce it?
2) I'm 27 but thanks to my biology my face doesn't grow hair properly and yet I have a doctorate. My body's failure to grow hair does not invalidate my intellect and/or my opinion.
3) Ginger's don't have souls.
4) Thanks for your insightful contribution to this discussion I would take a picture of my bum and add it to this post but I'm far to lazy.
>>47026875
It all sounds very uptight, serious and unrelaxed. I cannot for the life of me why anyone would want to join this quasi cult of autism.
Voight-Kampff test!? Very very silly.
>>47017274
>I played Halo and acted like every retarded Halo player ever.
No real story there.
>>47026875
1. I'm not a shrink. I am looking for outright nutters that will be very disruptive to play. It's amazing what people will tell you if you just ask.
2. The test is looking for empathic responses which is also what I am looking for. My games are heroic games of good vs. evil. I'm not interested in entertaining evil character concepts. Looking for socially well adjusted, somewhat outgoing players to help build a story together. Kill some monsters, loot the dungeon, save the prince/princess.
3. The veto rule exists to give tenured members some say over thier playing experience and weed out notoriously locally known bad players. I trust and respect my players and want thier blessing. Player veto has been used twice in 12 years. Once to keep out a 17 year old player (against my wishes I might add I was in favor of letting the lad play) probally simple descrimination and he was leaving in a year for college. And another time against an argumentative player who was still on probation. The setting is Greyhawk and non-standard PC races are generally not allowed. This guy reveled at every turn wearing dragon styled armor, face paint etc. if he couldn't be dragon born by God he would be a human dragon born poser.
>>47027077
Again your view tells me the vetting and interview process is working perfectly. You probally wouldn't fit in with my light hearted crew.
>>47005434
>I've met a neckbeard, here let me write you a poorly written story about my roleplaying session.
>>47027077
How can he be very uptight and serious and very very silly at the same time?
>>47027135
>if he couldn't be dragon born by God he would be a human dragon born poser.
goofs aside, that's actually pretty neat
>>46991945
Not a "That Guy" just an overly enthusiastic gamer.
>>47027161
Yes, you're clearly very light hearted and chilled.
>>46991314
>I joined the marines to stamp about the place holding a gun and if I get super lucky enough I might shoot a sandnigga. The fat kid won anon at least he can play 40k whilst your bumhole loses every night.
>>47023321
Most of these stories are hand-picked of the worst experiences people have had at their LGS over years or decades, and some of them are possibly lies(on the internets?!?), or perhaps spiced up a bit.
The typical lgs experience should be good, after all, that's what they're for; fun. But you'll never know if you don't try.
>>46991945
I would kill for our That Guy to be like that guy.
>>47027402
Most gaming stores are filled with teens on the weekends. The majority of them are unwashed, rude, annoying pricks.
By contrast on the weekdays you'll mostly just get the regulars but within this group of typically normal(ish) gamers you'll have people that have "grown up" surrounded by the game shop environment. These are your aforementioned neckbeards and yes they are just as bad as everyone on here says.
Having not gone through the standard socialisation that an average person has by their mid-twenties they find themselves regressing to childish behaviour when presented with a situation that they are unused to dealing with. This is why the term autist gets thrown around a lot on here these days.
The growth of internet culture and things like gentrification has acted like a catalyst so now we're seeing man-children with warped world views more and more often in the gaming world, sadly.
>>46989736
>Can grow beard
>Mfw my hair color is so bright and the beard is never thick enough to even be noticeable.
>Mfw I keep it shaved, but I want a glorious beard
>>47001205
Is your LGS in central-north Florida, by some chance?
>>47009358
DESU for access to a game library like that and a place to campaign that isn't the student center of my university I would go through your firearm-purchase-in-Canada-tier application process in a heartbeat
>>46988137
Sadly, the worst by far I've spoken to on /tg/, and at worst in real life there's one or two that's too shy.
>>46988137
There are more tits in that gif than in the swimsuit edition of sports illustrated.
>>46988591
So you meet the avarage /co/nrad
>>46989736
>22
>beards look utterly shit on most eastern asians
>>46989736
>MFW I could finally grow a full beard at the age many become wizards.
>It's still fucken patchy and I'm afraid to touch it because whenever I cut something patches come out, so I end up in neckbeardom territory for 3+ months
>I spend about 300+ hours doing research on patchy beards and how to fix them.
>Now applied knowledge makes me look like a dorf hobo.
>Finally experiment with trimming that works fine for me, through sheer determination now I have at least a modest beard and a modest stache. No longer unkept dorf look.
>Take about one year more to fine tune my technique and feel ridiculous for trying so hard to grow shit on my face.
>Results came in: I'm glorious.
>Little niggas want to have my beard, it's awesome.
>If I touch it too much I'm afraid I'm going to lose it again and never grow it, since I kind of forget the early stages of grooming.
>Finally after years of search, get to find elite level job.
>Shit gets serious, training doubles like 500 motherfuckers with more qualifications than me to their fucken knees.
>Experience darkest dungeon's (black mod) levels of stress, afraid my hair will fall off because of this.
>Dude, congratz, you're into last stage, it's between nigga 1, wigga 1, and you.
>But because we need corporative image up in this shit, we're going to need you to shave that shit.
>Really?
>Really, it's a deal breaker if you don't. Can you do it?
> (You need to sacrifice shit to achieve greater heights) O...ok...
>(Angry shaving noises)
>Still don't get the employment, they give it to nigga 1, who I find later is son of someone already in and had like a year of extra training.
>Currently unemployed, beardless, and depressed.
You know what? I'll just let it be this time. Little beard does what it can, I'll just give minimal upkeep to it to not look like a serial killer.
Just don't try to be something that you're not, that route takes you nowhere.
>>46989736
1/4th copper skin
Native genes give me cool ass smooth black hair. Still cant grow anything other then a soul patch and a stoner stache
>>47027033
>>>/tumblr/
>>47020477
I keep mine cut down with clippers because I like my jaw too much to lose it underneath hair
>>47027033
Yikes. That's embarrassing
>>47035654
>>47035684
You know about 3 years ago beards weren't even popular with the in crowd twats. It would have been seen as odd for a 20 something to walk around with a full face of hair and now thanks to hipsters and the Internet every dick wants one.
'Oh you don't have a beard? Hahaha you'll never be popular.'
Well kiddies I was into /tg/ related stuff back when you would have been beaten up at school for being a nerd. I'm used to not being cool.
i am a lovely well groomed and good smelling man yet I cannot find a group
I'd just walk into my flgs but I dunno anyone in there and I don't wanna game with the guys I read about on /tg/
>>47036416
What makes you a faggot is the way you post, which in turn makes no one read your shit.
>>47023288
>I limit my interactions with the neckbeards on purpose
That's not lame anon, that's good advice for the rest of /tg/ and their "I'm too beta to stand up for myself" stories. Even if they don't believe the part about you impressing a girl.
>>47036584
>I promise I'm socially capable
>I just never socialise and don't know how
Maybe that attitude is what stops you?
Just fucking go there and join a group on one of their public RPG nights. If they're horrible swap groups or start your own.
>>47020477
Sam? Aiden?
>>47005434
shut the fuck up, Ray
>>47036754
>I just never socialise and don't know how
I have multiple friend groups and party all the time.
I'm just a complete normie at surface level and I don't have any real experience with games besides that I've read everything in the phb
>>46988137
A (slightly) smaller version of the guy in the GIF. Didn't quite flip the table in our college rec center, but messed up our "city" in a game of Zombies when he got wasted thanks to one of the other players. Guy was (is) a real piece of work too. Haven't talked to him in years, but still have him on social media, and he's been fired from numerous call centers in the region (for, and these are all from different places, 1) skipping work during the probationary period; 2) joking about workplace shootings, leaving trash INSIDE the walls of his cubical, AND stealing his supervisor's doughnut; 3) saying "no homo" to a gay guy he worked with; and 4) showing up late every day and being given a dozen chances to shape up) not to mention other jobs.
The guy spends all his money on Magic shit, once got a random government check and promptly bought a bunch of rares he "needed". And he's had at least two cars repossessed. A friend of his once told me about how back in high school, he arranged some kind of bizarre trade that started with a foil Charizard, and of course the guy got swindled out of said Charizard (so did Neckbeard, who was a complete dumbass for even trying to broker the deal) Also owed one of the instructors at the college about a thousand bucks for something or other, and oh right, the fucker owes me 30 bucks. Jesus christ.
>>47036803
>I've read everything in the phb
That gives you more rules knowledge than a lot of GM's. Go for it. They wouldn't care if you didn't even have your own phb. That's a great start.
