It's time for confessional /tg/.When I DM, I steal all my NPCs from Precure anime and reskin them as rugged old men.
>>47944684When I GM, I usually have the players encounter a cutesy trap that will help them along the way with downtime stuff like healing, preparing potions, scrolls et cetera. The look on their faces when the NPC they thought was a girl joins them in the men section of the bathroom/hot baths is always a treat.Doubly so when they still go for it even after they know the truth and insist on 'no homo though'
I've been running Pathfinder for 2 years and I still don't really understand grappling
>>47944831
nobody does.I almost never plan games more than a day or two before the session.
>>47944844
Haha... speaking of which, I'm running a game in half an hour and I still don't have a single encounter planned
I might just make stuff up REALLY hard
>>47944844
>>47944855
>those dubs
Checked mate.
I've got a confession;I railroad fucking everything. I can't help it. I spend every week talking on podcasts and shows about being a great DM that makes player-driven moments and events take precedence in the campaign, but I have NEVER had a player do anything like that. They don't attack anyone out of turn, they don't chase reckless ideas, they just pick up a quest, go do it, and then come back to get paid. They never ask for more.So instead, I just keep them chugging along the plot train because otherwise nothing would happen.
>>47944844
>I almost never plan games more than a day or two before the session.
Since I run exclusively published adventures, I always spend some time during the week reading/prepping what I think will happen just so I'm familiar with it. But 90% of that time is setting up statblocks, maps, and tokens I'll need.
I run 3 campaigns a week right now, and play in a 4th and host a show, so I have very little actual time to prep anything anymore.
One NPC in my setting is a youngster of mixed race who shows great promise of being a master archer. Prefers to wear only flexible rogue pants and sandals. Nothing else.It's actually a girl, she goes to great lengths to hide this fact
>>47944811
I do similar, onlythey're a tomboyish reverse trap.
>>47944928
>Girl
>Wearing just pants
>Hiding anything
That's...not how it works.
>>47944894
that just means that A, there isn't really another option or B, your quests are really good
>>47944969
They're not, at least I don't think. I have a habit of the "no consequence quest", which means that the players go in and kill someone, and will usually make an enemy, strike a bargain, or burn something down in the process, but it never actually comes back to them.
That's mostly just the way my brain works, I guess, I have to force myself to remember those things for later.
>>47944955
FLAT
L
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This is probably one of my favorite places on the internet yet I have never had the joy of partaking in any form of DnD / roleplay experience. I envy all of you, I only have a few friends and none of them would ever be down for anything like this.
I hate people who do blatantly magical realm shit in game and trust me, none of you cunts are any good at hiding it.
The moment someone isn't a team player in my games I start heaping penalties or a lions share of the damage until they beg for support from others.
If there's a powergamer in my group I thrust them into situations that make their character vulnerable and weak while giving benefits or nice things to other, non optimized characters.
>>47945027
How have you somehow made it to 2016 and not realized yet that you're on the fucking internet?
>>47945040
What am I going to do? Ask people on craiglist if they want to explore /tg/ stuff with me?
>>47945084
roll20
>>47945084
First, you're literally retarded and your parents should have aborted you because you make the world dumber simply by existing.
Second, type "How do I play D&D over the internet" into fucking Google.
Holy shit. Has no one ever taught you people to think for yourself?
>>47945098
>You make the world dumber simply by existing.
Sweet. Thanks anon.
>>47945148
If you're too stupid to use google, he's kind of got a point.
>>47944894
If what your players want is a structured story to run through the motions of, then giving them that is entirely fine.
If you're laying rails either way then at least you can take the opportunity to make a rollercoaster.
>>47945012
That's not how it works.
Unless by "youngster" you mean "prepubescent".
>>47944684I make OP enemies with a "weakness", but I don't decide on what that weakness is until the party tries something and then I retroactively make that the weakness
>>47945148
Don't take it to heart, anon. They just don't know how to communicate in nicer ways.
Listen, sometimes the simple things don't occur to people. Sometimes, you may just not know how to proceed. Either way, there's nothing wrong.
I hope you're able to play in some games soon, hopefully with people who are not as asshole-ish as these.
>>47944684>When I DM, I steal all my NPCs from Precure anime and reskin them as rugged old men.
examples
>>47946877
Extremely flat + muscular body could be totally sufficient to pass it off, anon
>>47947767
Yeah, nah. Not without some hormonal jiggery-pokery involved too.
DFC is my magical realm too, but this just isn't at all plausible.
>>47944684Despite reading rpgs constantly and posting on online rpg forums for the last 8 years I've never joined a campaign that lasted more than 3 weeks. I think I enjoy the idea of roleplaying games more than the execution.
>>47944928
>>47944946
Good taste.
When I run Deadlands I just use the plots of westerns I know my players haven't seen. They've only ever seen The Man With No Name trilogy so my material is practically endless. I steal characters from them all the time too so it's not just the plot either. I enjoy imagining them fighting side by side with classic western heroes or going up against great villains. They actually shot a vengeful zombie Liberty Valance to protect senator Ransom Stoddard.
>>47944684I was part of a campaign where I became the DM after the DM got burnt out. As I had to come up with a reason to get rid of him, I baited one of the players into setting of a chain of events that turned my player character from a Neutral Good hero to a Lawful Evil villain over the course of a year. He had become the Lawful Neutral antagonist of another campaign before being defeated by them and going full Lawful Evil because he had basically lost everything.Only one person in the party he came from knows that their character abandoned him in the Feywild and kickstarted everything. He's now a Chain Devil and he'll be back for that character eventually.
>>47947725
Don't enable this kind of thing.
I actually enjoy being a forever GM.
> I regularly bring my girlfriend to my games
> I gave magic items that encouraged nudity to my players, knowing that the female players would take them
> I got three of my players compete for my affections, fucked one of them and essentially tore the group apart so I could get my dick wet
> I don't use coasters
>>47948105
Me too.
Most of my friends are shitty GMs, and I almost always start thinking what I'd do differently.
>>47948120
I could almost forgive you if it weren't for the coasters.
>>47947928
My players think tomboys forced into girly dresses are really cutesaid players consist of three women and a crossdressing guy, so I sometimes include a tomboy just so they can go out of they can have a little amusement during downtime.No, I don't mean sex. Sex has never actually come up during the campaigns.
Though they also joked about wanting to force a villain to dress like a french maid once they beat him.
>>47948105
I enjoy being a DM. I'm the only one in my group that can get a campaign to last longer than three sessions.The only thing about being forever DM that bothers me is when my players don't appreciate it.
My homebrew is just 3.X mixed with runescape and a priority system to better represent weapon length.
Every three months or so my group will get super hammered and try and run F.A.T.A.L.
I've browsed /tg/ for 3 years, and i have yet to play a single session of anything.
>>47945098
>roll20
>lfg forums
>craigslist
>/tg/ gamefinder (kek)
These are the options. They are bad. So bad in fact that for you to go off the handle over the lack of real options is ludicrous. You are the one that is the retarded. Kill yourself, shitheel. At the very least, stop posting forever.
>>47948995
>Roll20
>Bad
Murder your family and hang yourself
>>47949024
>Roll20
>good
Eating shit because it's the only food available doesn't make shit good. Roll20 is one step above playing through skype.
>>47949024
>Roll20
>good
Well thanks for showing the class youve never used it or played with a group on it. Your homework for tonight is to eat shit and die.
>>47945084
If you have any preferred internet forums, make a thread about tabletop games. You might be surprised to find users you like and respect are into it.
I haven't played before, but I'm getting into a gurps game with some forum friends in a few weeks from now.
>>47944684
I have a player that plays a chaotic neutral wizard really well. Pretty sure he is on a path to become the next god of madness. He might be on the edge of chaotic evil, but hasn't pushed over the line yet. He's taken out a village of innocents previously because they kicked him out of a brothel, but he has more recently saved a monastary from demonic influence. our group paladin is getting ready to *attempt* to smite him either way.
>>47947403
Stealing this
>>47949093
also his favorite pastimes are raping goblins and breeding dire skunks for the defense of a regional druid clan. The skunks can spray out various effects depending on the patterning of their stripes. Cloud kill is the easiest to make, but he succeeded at making one that does prismatic spray.
>>47947813
I have about a hundred images that prove you wrong, but none can be posted on this board.
>>47947813
thank god you havent met my older sister. shes 31, a dike and so flat chested you could use her as a carpenter's level. she has been a practicing nudist for 12 years so i have seen plenty of them tiny titties. she isnt petite either. she 5'10" and runs marathons multiple times a year.
>>47949097
>being a dm
>not already encouraging your pc's to come up with really resourceful and cool ways to bone your npc's
>>47948939
That's actually not uncommon. I haven't played in years since my group split and moved away. Timezone issues made playing online problematic and eventually some lost interest so now I'm forever alone. I tried roll 20 but that shit was cancer and I'm never going back.
Why is roll20 so bad?
>>47949361
Because /tg/ is full of anti-social fucktards who blame everyone else for their own flaws.
>>47949372
It's not anti-social to avoid fuckheads.
>>47949361
>>47949372
>playing with pubbies
>ever
>>47949361
unnecessarily clunky
It's been years since I used it last, but an RP platform that doesn't have built-in tile-based support is behind the Byond platform, made in 1996.
>>47949361
The interface sucks balls.
It's mostly the pubbies that suck. Not so bad if you play with people you know.
>>47944894
What podcasts?
I never plan anything before one hour before the session and just wing it. I used to try to plan things, then my players destroyed almost everything I ever planned, I improvise now.
I need to constantly lean on one of my players for emotional support because I have wanted to quit the campaign a couple times recently, convinced myself my players didn't give a shit about anything I was trying to do and got tired of them running off on their own impossible to manage side ventures.
One player's annoying actions are coloring my perceptions to where I get unreasonably angry whenever he does anything, even if he doesn't deserve it, and I'm trying to be more fair to him.
I'm terrible at writing combat encounters. I focus on social encounters because I did improv in highschool. There have been numerous sessions that I've run in which I've forgotten to include combat and I feel like I'm just hosting pretend time.
>lots of systems I'll never run due to forever GM status because I fear I'll fuck it up having not "played" the system before
>on the off chance I end up being a PC instead of a GM my enthusiasm for playing tends to die after 2.5 sessions
>I occasionally put in less cash towards pizza if they're just getting cheese>I'd love to run a magical realm campaign that catered the player's fetishes as long as I knew they were getting off to it
>I stole a player's girlfriend once semi-accidentally
>it's been two months since I last worked on my miniatures
SIN
>>47948105
>>47948165
friends
brothers
countrymen
I complain about not being in a game as a player but I dropped out of last three games due to lack of interest.
All the games I've run died out do to players losing interest or never getting started.
It's like I'm a bad GM and Player.
>>47948120
I don't know what it is but I swear it's so common for players to fall for their GMs
The first time I ever played a ttrpg, I developed a crush on my DM within a couple weeks. He had a girlfriend already, so that didn't go anywhere. But now that I'm running my own campaigns, one of my players has a really obvious crush on me, and I'm not sure what to do about it either.
Is it just something about the power dynamic? I'm honestly perplexed by this trend.
>>47949851
Holy shit dude, me too. My roleplaying moments as a GM are entertaining and "captivating" according to my players, but when I attempt to run combat, everything just slows to an immeasurably dull crawl and people end up pulling out their phones when it isn't their turn. How the hell do I make combat more engaging?
>>47949950
>I'd love to run a magical realm campaign that catered the player's fetishes as long as I knew they were getting off to it
Hmmmm I wish I knew a GM who would do this but I'd be forever too afraid to ask and/or confess my obscure fetishes
>>47949361
It's kind of alright if you play with friends, I qouldnt touch random people though.
I wish there was an alternative, or at least I haven't found anything better.
>>47944684
I try to become better friends with the people that I'm playing with. Lately I have been fucking up and making them dislike like me.
>>47950187
Show up by /tg/chat on F-List and you'll be sorted out.Though if I may burst this bubble, Magical Realm campaigns are more of an ideal than something really achievable. Long-term freeform RP is doable, but bringing actual RPG systems into it gets wonky. You can still get lewd with other characters of a regular game in 'downtime', but making the Magical Realmness part of the campaign itself makes it lose its Magic imo.
>>47944684I always have to force myself to not put a plot-relevant, cute loli into my campaigns
>>47950136
Being a good GM takes intelligence, charisma and perceptiveness. And he/she is in a position of authority over you, which makes you either want to rebel or submit. No one gets turned on by an egalitarian, noncompetitive relationship.
My girlfriend freely admits that one of the reasons why she liked me was that I was so arrogant and such a smartass that she wanted to take me down a peg.I guess the joke's on her.
>>47944894
matt, please tell your wife to stop overacting
regards
Despite her repeated interest and enthusiasm, I purposely leave my girlfriend out of my D&D group partly because I'm afraid she'll embarrass me and partly because I enjoy it as a private thing away from her
>>47944894
Wait a minute, are you from... Nerdarchy?
I kicked a guy out of the group for having a speech impediment.
>>47948939
>3 years
Try ~6 years.
Unfortunately, I don't think we are too uncommon. It feels like /tg/ is overrun these days by people who have never played and probably never will.
>>47950527
sheeeit son, I'm dealing with this situation right now but I haven't yet been able to be enough of a terrible person to kick him out
It's so distracting and disruptive to the game, though, but I'd feel so bad dude
>>47947813
Kitty Katzu
Kennedy Kressler
>>47950170
Make people act faster. If they stop to ponder their action, snap your fingers and tell them they don't have time to think in battle.
Additionally, make combat more intense. Use the D&D 5e method:
>HP can't drop below 0
>when you hit 0, you are unconscious
>every turn and attack while unconscious you must make a death saving throw
>three failed saving throws = dead
>restoring HP will wake the character and reset their death check count
This lets you put characters in mortal peril more frequently without the threat of instagibbing.
>>47950136
I've noticed this as well. I have ended up banging every single girl I've run for.
My theory is that it has something to do with the demonstration of authority being subconsciously analogous to the idea they have amassed actual power, which in turn is a pretty strong attractor.
Like, I'm not trying to dehumanise people, I often find myself romanticizing the women in my life that I see as being 'influential'.
>>47950754
Or use the FFG method where once HP/wounds hits zero you start taking damage on the infamous critical tables.
>risk of mortal peril
>no risk of lingering bodily injury
>>47949232
>she has been a practicing nudist for 12 years so i have seen plenty of them tiny titties
Sorry for off-topic but I have to mention it, is it considered abnormal for relatives to see each other naked where you're from? My older sister actually BATHED me when I was a toddler. Modesty only started coming into question when she turned 15 or so and that was more out of general self-consciousness. My mother never saw a problem with it either. The only person in my direct family who I didn't regularly see naked for a few years was my dad
>>47951158
Every family is different, and nudity isn't a big deal when you're kids.
Whenever I am a player, I go out of my way to make unorthodox, stupid, or otherwise off-the-rails decisions just to see how the DM will react. I also backseat GM whenever whoever is running the game doesn't seem like he knows what to do next. All the while, I think how I would have run the game differently.
I am forever GM for a reason.
>>47951215
I'm That Guy as a player. I make shitty characters and I once raged so hard (the end result of a long series of disappointments in my life and protracted case of depression) that I tore my character sheet into pieces and literally ate it. I was very upset. I'm a pretty great GM though apparently.
>>47948165
> I almost always start thinking what I'd do differently.
I do this for almost every piece of media I consume. I cannot read a book or watch a movie without thinking what I would have done differently. Is anyone else this way?
>>47944913
How do you find the time to do all that? I'm lucky if I can do a game a week.
>>47951392
I used to do this all the time. It's an entirely normal trait, noticeable only by the people who don't do this and are incapable of reflecting on why something didn't work.
I play my character as a quiet, vengeful, and downright cold bitch in the campaign I use her in, but online I RP her as a closeted slut.
I just want to ERP stuff with her, but I'm pretty much the only one in my group that does that. At least online.
>>47948120
>I don't use coasters
I hope it's your table you fuck
>>47950754
I've been playing a game of pathfinder with some friends and they were fighting a hobgoblin chief. He ran the dwarf cleric through with his sword and dropped him to dying, while mocking him in cockney accent.
The party was almost out of heals and realized this guy is no push over and started thinking strategically. The druid sent in his bear while they distracted the hobgoblin and the bear dragged him to safety where he could be healed by another party member.
They really enjoyed the challenge of the encounter, and stopping to speak to them as the hobgoblin really put them into the mood, and made them want victory even more.
>>47944684
I made a gigantic, integrated setting in which I run multiple campaigns.It's literally just Zemuria from the Kiseki series. If my players, who like the setting, knew what it's reskinned from, they'd flip out.
>>47951392
>>47951453
It's fine to think about how you would have done something differently. It's not fine to get smug about it and act like a know-it-all, since your ideas are probably just as open to nitpicking and alteration.
>>47951558
what kind of tables do you use? I never ever saw a coaster in my life and there are no circles on my table
I steal about half my minor NPS's from blue oyster cult songs.I'm horrible at storytelling, and would rather let my players rampage around neat settings.
>>47944684
Im an asshat fellow anons.
My players are escorting the prince of the realm on his rock tour.
His name is Frederick Quicksilver.
>they havnt worked it out.
And he is going to die on their watch, and i know they will set it up for me in pursuit of a few gp more.
>a political rival to a pc paladins order is gonna shift blame too
I have a folder full of the crap i am pouring on my players, set to dole it out on them whenever they start to catch up.
And this is the most kind of my campaigns ive run
>>47944955
The overall body of a prepubescent of either sex is pretty indistinguishable from one-another at a glance.
>>47948120
You are a monster
>>47950448
It's probably correct for you to do that
>>47949618
Seriously?
>>47947725
Go straight to hell if you think that coddling stupidity is acceptable,
>>47944894
>>47949618
Yes, please give us key information about you, so that we may defeat the purpose of the thread!
>>47951215
If there's ever a spell (d20) or trait (WoD) that gives me my own pocket where I'm basically DM (create demiplane, owning a large business), I go for it as a way to take some creative load off newbie DM's.
>>47951481
I know that feel. I know that feel deeply.Made worse by dumbass in our group triggering muh fetish during underwater sparring fight where my character kept failing INT saves against groping, choking phantasmal hands and a literal tentacle monster familiar getting ecchi sketchy.
i noticed one of my players who is a hardcore weeb didn't look as interested in the game as my other players. i introduced a waifu character for him based in the type of anime he watches.
it worked
he flirts with this character
we roleplay the flirting
i regret my decisions.
>>47952900
have you made him blush?
>>47952910
im not sure but he's been posting on Facebook about it.
His friends want in i think my table is about to be filled with weebs.
I'd put an end to it right now but my momma didn't raise a quitter
In one of the campaigns I'm in, I hate the way the DM handles things, very No Fun Allowed. So whenever I play that campaign I usually lie about my rolls upping them some notches up.
Don't even feel guilty though, especially when your DM won't let you even get a conversation of an NPC or strays the plot to fuck you over no matter your plans (or lack thereof).
Which is kinda sad, being myself one of the only ones having fun with the game no matter how fucked up things get. Everyone else plans waaay too much what they'll do, thanks in part to the GM.
>>47944684I'm usually THAT GUY for the table because I've ended up being the 'rough and tough' asshole in the group of friends so I keep them in line.I want an ERP so badly but my friends all have such strange fucking fetishes and none are willing to try it.I killed an entire fucking game because the GM was being an asshole and rule lawyering, So I framed him and we all almost ended our friendship... nobody knows to this day it was my doing.Nobody ever wants hugs ;-;
>>47952947
Is the player acutie?
>>47944844I only improv. I haven't prepared for a session in years.
>>47953238
u sound lame as fuck, bruh
>>47953238
Framed him with...what, exactly?
Died at the same session twice with two different characters
I don't have that much friends and no one plays dnd w me so I Dm with my dolls for myself, pretending each doll is a human player
>>47944928
What the fuck, dude.
>>47951158
I think that's super weird because I was raised in a completely different type of family. I have never seen a member of my family even close to naked or vice versa. Even when my sister was an infant I don't think I ever saw her naked.
But you're not abnormal. In fact I might be the weird one.
>>47944684
> Tell a game of political intrigue and warfare
> Group rises to power rather fast by use of exessive force and a ridiculously large merc-army which will eat up all their funds within two months tops.
> I provide a vast landscape, custom and detailled maps and dozens of factions and noblehouses fighting for power.
> I try to not make anyone except the Big Bad Antagonist seem really evil - mostly it's shades of grey, ambition, powerlust, ruthlessness.
> Of this I did too good of a job.
"Anon, we just don't have any clear enemy except for Big Bad, how could we make alliances with anyone? They're all one shade of shit or another, but none really evil."
> "Well, you could always align yourself with the Empress and her Marshall of the Region. They are definitely goodguys."
"True, but they also don't have the strength to project military force into the Region we are trapped in. By aligning ourselves with them, we would be in a bad spot." (Many of their Neighbours are in Feud with the Empire).
> "Then maybe try to forge an alliance with the Knightly and Godfearing Lord who holds large lands to your east, he can project his power easily and be a boon to you in all the wars to come."
"True, but then we'd be enemies of the empire, because he is in bloodfeud over the succession of his daughter with the empire."
It goes on like this.
> One Year (Outtime) later
> Four Months (Intime) later
> War has escalated
> Heroes have run out of funds
> Heroes have failed to secure a larger foothold to keep up with their spending habits and merc-demands
> Heroes have refused to make an alliance with ANYONE
> Now they're in deep shit.
It's my fault, really.
I should have made some of the Noble Houses more clearly evil, and I should have made some of them much more clearly good guys.
>>47944894
Matt Mercer, good sir.
You're doing a good job in critrole.
Nevermind that the Adventurers and Players basically just mindlessly follow the obviously laid out plotthreads you crafted.
You dun gud boi
>>47953972
>It's my fault, really.
It's their fault for being retards who can't work out that sometimes you have to ally with people you don't like.
>>47953995
naw man, whomever they turn up to, they discover, they can't bring themselves to hate. Even some of the more overt bad guys I portray, I try to portray as human beings.
The only guy whom my heroes gladly destroyed was a sad out of luck broke baron who wanted to extort them for money, since he stood no chance of defending his people against the Big Bad.
The Heroes promptly killed him and half his knights in one of the most gruesome fashions one can imagine. It was a bloodbath.
>>47944684
I hide coasters. There is always one less coaster than there are people at a table.
I've become what I hated most. A flake GM. After a certain amount of sessions I lose interest in the campaign. At first I thought it was the people that I had as players but now I think that it's some flaw in myself. I've yet to successfully conclude a campaign, but I'm hoping to change it this time, but maybe I'm just not cut out for it.
>>47954071
I've almost flaked on my game a couple times, had myself convinced none of my players cared about the campaign or anything I was trying to do.
Turned out it was really just one guy who was being a lot more interested in his own personal story elements than the overall plot and being very loud about it, the others were actually very invested and it gave me the energy to turn things around and move forward.
I know it sounds petty, but I had really high hopes for the campaign for story and adventure and when it feels like nobody gives a shit and takes you for granted week after week, it was sucking the fun out of being a DM and making it feel more like a tedious chore than something I wanted to do.
Now I'm doing interesting stuff and having fun again.
>TFW your last combat encounter starts with the players shitting bricks about how dead they are, and finish with sighs of relief and exclamations of triumph after they really had to think to overcome their enemies and say how satisfying a battle it was.
So good.
almost all of my campaigns and settings are somewhat inspired by dragon age:originsmy first campaign had a DMPC
>>47954116
I have like 4 DMPCs in my campaign, they're well received because most of them are noncombatants who just stay at the mobile base and offer fun roleplaying interactions, the only one who did fight was only in a couple fights before plot developments sidelined him.
>>47952332
That sounds rad as hell, can you give some examples?
People who want to be taken from earth by aliens? A magician who helps people with relationship advice?Godzilla?
I DM a fantasy setting with heavy steampunk elements in it.
The current antagonists in my campaign are thinly veiled expies of Star Wars characters.
I'm waiting to see how long it takes or how blatant it gets before anyone notices.
Nobody has so far.
>>47954129
You realize that those are just NPCs then, not GMPCs right?
>>47944894
It's OK James Demato. One Shot is my favorite podcast.
>>47954490
The line is a little hard to draw sometimes I guess. I've had various NPCs fight alongside the party or go with them for extended periods before, half of them because the party said 'we like you, you're one of us now' and dragged them along.
>>47947813
>DFC is my magical realm too, but this just isn't at all plausible.
Neither are passable traps.
>in before someone dumps their trap folder
Still images and anime shitscribbles don't fly in the real world.
I unironically wear a fedora.
>>47954583
I had two friends at college who wore fedoras.
One autistic guy who thought it was the height of fashion to wear an old fedora with any other articles of clothing.
And one guy who wore a fedora when and only when he was wearing a complimentary vest and dress pants. Looked pretty good in my opinion.
>>47944684I've been wanting to run something with people from here for a longass time, I know I'm never going to do it.
Mostly because I haven't played anything since my old online group fell apart ages ago.
>>47954019
I wish my gm did that. He never runs cool shit.
>>47950849
It's because your entertaining and run interesting games, dipshit. These things very rarely have anything to do with "power."
People tend to fall for people that provide entertainment, joy, or mystery for them as it keeps them interested.
>>47953890
Obviously it lets her pass as a young man, which may be allowing her to evade sexism. At least until she grows tits. It also has the subtle reinforcement of "Nah, a girl wouldn't go topless like that"
I've self inserted Stannis Baratheon in my 3.5 campaign, and the players, somewhat GOT fans have followed him in basically every endeavour he's set himself toThe villages and covens they burned so far, filled with undead and general unholy things were actually normal people, but the Priestess placed a spell on the party and followers to see them as vile, necromantic minnions.I'm afraid I'm shit at storytelling T-T
if it wasn't for the really good gaming group I have I'd have tried to kill myself
I'm the german guy from /fit/ that was getting discussed about a lot last week
>>47957579
When do you plan on telling them what they've done?
>>47957579
Did the spell had a save on it at least or there was some sorta ritual involved under the guise of it being something else? Having my character be mindfucked in a way I had no real way to avoid would bug me a little. So long as everyone's having fun you're good though.
My group doesn't play video games, so I steal names and places wholesale and they'll never know
The strange merchant chilling at the side of the road and calls everyone 'stranger'
The main kingdom called Boletaria
The succubus named Catherine
>>47958113
My girlfriend doesn't play Magic: the Gathering. Therefore the barkeep is named Angus Mckenzie when I have to think of something on the fly.
My group doesn't watch Twin Peaks, so my next campaign is going to be dark ages era Twin Peaks + slightly more blatant fantasy. Even just straight up taking Log Lady.
>>47944684
Forgive me, /tg/, for I have sinned.I've GM'd entire game sessions without really rolling the dice, having pre-determined outcomes for the current situation already planned out in my head. Any dice rolling I've done in these situations is purely for show.
>>47957869Next Saturday, actually. It'll be one of those "final battle" type of situations, where if they succeed, they find out in a "WHAT HAVE WE DONE" type of deal.But if they fail, I've got a few scenarios in mind, like the clammering undead chitterings surrounding them and screaming until the illusion goes away and they all are surrounded by peasant militia, etc, shouting "WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS, YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HEROES, SAVIOURS"
>>47957938Yes, there have been plenty hints here and there, but they were oblivious.
>>47957682
Congratulations, a lot of people on this board look up to you
>>47958222
story? nice trips
I can't stand being a player, almost all gms are shit, I'm probably shit too but I don't have to deal with me being shit.
>>47944955
Yes... It is. Unless you're William Dafoe your dick and balls aren't going to be on the verge of bursting through your pants, it's generally going to appear flat so long as you're wearing a real fabric.
>>47958248
A little girl with abandonment issues just fell into his lap one day, she's got a puppy crush on him, he's being her big brother and he expects that by the time she turns legal her puppy love will have turned into sexual attraction and he'll get to be her first free of consequences.
He's a gymrat and he's german.
>>47958193
Seek the Emperor's Mercy, heretic.
>>47958534
>He's a gymrat and he's german.
Isn't there a guy posting about this on /fit/?
Despite my best efforts, and large investment, I'm really bad at magic.
>>47945098
Christ what an aggressive and unpleasent faggot you are. I wasn't going to reply to this thread but damn, you are a repulsive little turd.
>>47953517
This is the only actual 'weird' confession in this thread but I imagine if I got lonely enough I'd do something similar. Good thing I have nerdy friends.
>>47953919
>>47951158
I went skinny-dipping with my family last summer, and we're all adults but my 16-year-old brother. You Americans are prudes.
>>47952900
Oh shit I wish I thought of this before my weeb friend left my game
I mostly think he's far too ADHD to play tabletop, though
>>47954116
>my first campaign had a DMPC
I'm running my first campaign right now and I've got one of those. It's honestly going completely fine because the players love her and she definitely isn't a Mary Sue.I'm also going to kill her brutally in a few sessions.
>>47944684I run, and genuinely enjoy running, ERP campaigns. You need the right kind of players, which is to say people with basic social skills and a significant amount of real-world sexual experience who still enjoy ERP, but they're out there.Oldhammer sucked ass and I far prefer the current edgelordism over its painfully unfunny attempts at "humor"
I'd write fanfiction about my players' characters if I knew I could get away with it.Lewd fanfiction.
>>47954602
The second guy has it. A fedora is meant to be paired with a suit or a coat.
I am bad both at preparing stuff in advance *and* at winging it, so I steal blatantly left and right, and any major NPC tends to start life as a Mary Sue DMPC and then get told not to steal the spotlight. In one of my particularly excessive games I had a Mary Sue shapeshifter DMPC join the party and seduce one of the PCs, combining That Guy with That DM, while a Rogue Trader spaceship was making a crossover into the setting and crashlanding on the PCs' fortress-base.And this is why I run Exalted, where you're doing it wrong if you aren't at least a double mary sue and nobody bats an eye at so much stupid bullshit.
>>47958616
There's two guys, the actual guy doing the grooming of the little girl and some paladin dude trying to smite him.
The actual guy is here with us.
>>47959331
Anon, I'm pretty sure that's the entire reasonExaltedwas created.
>>47959331
Are you in Europe?
>>47945027
same here
i have no idea why I like this place but I keep coming back
>>47959455
Will I regret answering this question?Yes, I am, are you trying to dragoon me into more Exalted?
>>47959266
Are you me? If only they were open to shit like that, but it is all for the better I suppose.
>>47959499
I am looking to play exalted. Wether I will have to run it or not, I will play it.
I WILL!
So yeah... if you have a spot free, I would be glad to fill it. Otherwise, maybe we can play 1 on 1 sometime so I can learn a bit on how to ST Exalted for myself.
>>47944684
Iunironically like 3.X.
I alsohave no problem with CYOA threads.
And last, but not least, Iactually like my group.
>>47944831
Nigga, I've playing anima for years and I still don't know how breakage works
>>47953517
There are some solo adventures that you can play by yourself. I know GURPS did four of them based on Conan books, with semi-random progression through the quest and a lot of different possible outcomes.
Sortof like a fighting fantasy book, but with a real ruleset.
>>47959611
I am not currently running. Where do I contact you?
>>47957682
Nice to meet you, man
I'm a big fan
>>47960122
You can contact me through email, if you wish.[email protected]
I have more contact details, but I'd rather just send them all through email than leave them on here..
>>47948939
we propably should group up and find some experienced GM that will play with the newbies
>>47949950
>>I occasionally put in less cash towards pizza if they're just getting cheese
Who the fuck just gets cheese? Ditch your friends and get new ones who aren't small children.
>>47957682
care to explain?
>>47958113I stole the whole goddamn plot for the entire campaign from Wakfu S1. None of them knew, until another friend saw some sketches and I had to explain to him. I've confessed to them before, but they seemed to like it.They even bought me cake.I plan to steal plots from Hogfather, Gravity Falls, and Twin Peaks soon-ish.While I plan the framework for games, I improvise almost all details.I cheat for my player's benefit when killing them would be boring.
>>47945030
you sound like a barrel of fun, buckaroo
>>47949205
If they would prove him wrong nobody would be able to tell they are women.
>>47960968
He probably doesn't even play, anon.
>>47944844>Ever planning for your sessionsI made a generic fantasy world and am copying the plot of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, changing up names with slight plot variances based on what players do.
My players claim its my best setting yet.
>>47952718It hurts me when I think back to the session we had when the party went up against an Aspect of Lolth and some Drow-relafed things. Femdom is high up there for me, but when my character gets webbed down by the Aspect in spider form, that hits all of my standards.
>>47945027
damn this hits close to home, moving to another state sucks
I want to GM but I'm afraid of my players getting bored. I really just want to run a mostly joke campaign with dumb jokes and puns and silly things happening all of the time. I've never met a single person that wanted to be in a game that was both rich in story and character development, but also silly.
>>47945027
In a similar boat. I go to a university in another state, and am more into the party and drinking scene there, so I dont know anyone who would play that isnt your typical fa/tg/uy. And playing college Rugby, ROTC, classes, and Frat shit doesnt allow me time. Fuck.
>>47945098
Dude fuck off. Your a fag.
>>47944844
I only run one-shots because my friends have fucked up schedules
I have never run a full campaignI do all of my planning during character creationHalf my ideas are re-skinned Cowboy Bebop plotsI secretly fantasise r34 situations of PCs and NPCsWhen playing D&D/PF with new players I purposefully withhold system information. I remember the game was so much more fun when me and my group didn't know all the rules and couldn't powergame. I change rules during play to make for a more smooth and balanced game. It feels sleezy and I'm probably doing my players a disservice but it results in much better game.Outside of play I spend more time tweeking and trying to create systems than I do planning games. At this point it's starting to become an addiction. Whenever I play the little imperfections in the system bother to no end. I hide how much it bothers and just let it slide or houserule it but it haunts me. I don't get to play often and when I do these systems just bug me, I want to maintain the integrity of the game but it's just so fucking annoying.Whenever I do start tweeking I loose focus and start changing to much. I forget what the system is intended for and drive myself up the wall. Maybe if I had a group to steadily play with I could do some testing and shit but that never happens. I just have to live with this neurotic little obsession
