yfw the weekly session is cancelled

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>>46320482
>mfw 2/3 people drop out for weekly session
>mfw session was written with personal key moments for drop outs' characters
>cant deal

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>>46320482
Every fuckin' time man.

When I don't have that relief, the grind can get to me.

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>>46320482
Guess it's time to burn down someone's house again

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Back to my boring, miserable life

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>>46321718

>Considerate player lets the group know in advance that he won't be there that week
>Set up a scenario where his character is integral--he gets captured or mind controlled or whatever, doesn't matter, it'll be wrapped up by next week and the party will have a cool story to tell him about what happened while he was gone
>He shows up
>Have nothing else prepared

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>>46320482
this is mfw the weekly session is cancelled

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>mfw the weekly sessions that've been on hold for two months finally starts back up

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>>46322057

>mfw you've mourned the campaign and moved on, and now have to decide between an old flame and the new hotness.

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>The same guy cancels every other week but he's always got a perfectly good excuse that isn't his fault and he's been an integral character in the campaign for a year already so nobody wants to kick him out

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>>46322102
>mfw the campaign is kinda cheesy and there's at least one That Guy but its the only game running

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>waiting 3 hours for a third player to show up

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>the DM sends you a Skype message saying you're kicked out of the campaign, days before you were going to just leave anyway

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>>46320482
>mfw the campaign is filled with That Guys but I can't quit it

>>46321952
We have a rule that if a player can't make it to a session there character just follows the party arround like a ghost, in and out of combat, for this exact reason. If a player wants there character to partake in decision making for the party then I rp the character to the best of my ability. It's worked out pretty well. Especially since our group is slow as shit and usually doesn't finish a dungeons/adventure in one sesion so creating a story for why they arnt there would be hard.

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>>46321718
>mfw this happened
'>mfw agreed to tutor newbie RPers instead
Yes... YES! Come into the embrace of our hobby, my ducklings.

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I'm just glad I've had a game go longer than one session. I'm the kiss of death to a tabletop game.

>>46320482
twice in a fucking row
DM can't keep his real life shit in line

>>46323159

It happened to me as well, but the DM's held together with duct tape and string and we don't want him to stress himself out enough to get sent to the hospital again.

We've worked out how to reschedule it, but one player may not be able to join.

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>Been a regular at this one GM's games for a few years now
>Schedule's all sorts of fucked for so many different reasons
>Player schedules
>GM's schedule
>End up going restarting campaigns more often than I'd like.

Eh. Could be worse. Hard to find someone that's willing to do the dedicated GM thing and be okay with it.

One time I was in a group that was only able to play once every two weeks. One of the guys couldn't make it and he said the reason he couldn't make it was because he wanted to go hang out with other friends that day instead. I tried to convince the DM to just let us play without him because his reasoning was really shitty and I didn't want to lose out on game we get to play twice a month because a guy I didn't know just didn't feel like showing up. But the DM refused to play without him.

I quit that campaign obviously.

>>46323477
Well at least I'm not the only one who feels frustrated. But I'm more upset at the fact that I can't help him at all.

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I don't honestly enjoy all the games I play in - one's great, but keeps getting new people shuffled in and out, one's got good and meh sessions, and the other has become a semi-cozy one on one RP that's running on fumes and should have died months ago, but no one else cares about 40k.

And despite all this, these games are still the highlights of my week, what I look forward to half the time, and when a GM mysteriously does not show up, it ruins my whole evening. It's hard to work up the enthusiasm to come on time sometimes when it feels like there's a fair chance I'll end up waiting for half an hour before going home.

>>46323764

I know that feel bro. I sat there for like 11 hours today with nothing fun or enjoyable to do to fill my time other than wait for game time this evening. Only to get sad and make this thread instead.

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>weekly session is cancelled because one player dropped out because it "isn't her thing"
>two of them not responding/on the fence about coming back because of how frequently people drop out
>remaining two are dead weight

Guess I'll just... Go cry or something.

>there is no campaign
>you show up to 5e adventures league at the LGS every week and it's slowly killing you to not play the system you like

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>when you feel maybe mildly disappointed at a cancelled session

>tfw I don't want to run this game anymore
>tfw I'm pretty much worn down on this game and it has drained any passion I had for tabletop
>tfw I just want to take one player and abandon this whole group and start again next year

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>>46320482
I run a weekly Dark Heresy session and let me tell you, it is hard AS FUCK to run it every week.

Between University, Working part time, family commitments and everything else ~ it's a minor miracle I cancel about one session every two months

>DMing 5th edition D&D
>depression kicks in, and hard
>tried DMing when I felt like this in the past
>it was terrible
>decide to cancel D&D for the week
>still feel like I've let everyone down

I know it was for the best for the players but I still feel like absolute garbage

>tfw haven't played in nearly three years
>have never had a group that wasn't shitty uninterested friend or awful internet randos
>physical isolation makes it hard to find a new group and mental illness makes sure I won't
>tastes are too esoteric for 99% of gamers anyway

I actually want to die

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>tfw the GM tells you the other players want rid of you for shitty reasons and arent willing to talk it out

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>DM 5e game for some folk at irc channel
>People don't show up, are late, fall asleep during/at start of session, etc.
>Three months, 2 sessions

I don't feel like running it anymore.

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And then I proceed to play/write stories by myself

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>>46323812

>>46323848
Why don't you run it?

>>46321952
You kind of set yourself up for that.

As a GM, I've longed since learned to NEVER plan a session around somebody's mandatory presence or absence. Yes, you're going to sacrifice concentrating on somebody's background in depth, but that can be compensated for by using a character's background in such a way that doesn't require the player to actually be at the game. All the other players can fill them in on what went on while they were away.

>>46324273
I hate to break this to you, but if THE ENTIRE rest of the group want you kicked out, and aren't willing to discuss it with you to your face, it's because there's something about you that makes the prospect of any sort of confrontation with you to be avoided at all costs. In other words, you're not approachable. And that's probably why you got kicked out.

>>46324673
It was because I said I didn't like Final Fantasy 13, actually.

>>46324584
I do, I just wanted to post in the thread. That was my experience for a few months though.

>>46324690
Was it just mentioned in passing or did you rant at length over why FF13 is a blight upon humanity when everyone else at the table was politely trying to signal you to shut up and get back to the game at hand?

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>>46320482
at least you have a weekly session

>>46324703
It was mentioned for roughly two seconds during my second session.

The group period has literally kicked three other people out for other minor transgressions like this, and even the GM hates them for it and left them for said group of us rejects.

>start a campaign
>players into it, packed house every week.
>six months later
>one regular gets a new job
>another regular moves and vanishes
>left with basically 2 players

At least the players still with me are still enjoying the game.

>weekly games
sheit, weekly? I play once every two weeks, for a total of 2,5 to 3 hours per session.

>>46324006
If you're my DM, then thanks, man. You're great and we really appreciate everything you do.

If you're not my DM, you're great and we really appreciate everything you do.

>>46325196
You poor deprived man.

>>46325196
But then again, We all always show, and because the short time frame, we actually get shit done during games.

Plus, Rotating gm duties. Every time someone goes to gm they get to think of a story and a system to go with it. Basically, we'll play anything as long as it isn't d&d. not cause we dislike d&d, but because we wanna try different things

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>>46322131
Christ, I thought I was the only person in this situation. He always feels so bad about it that I expect pic related to happen any day now. Dustin you bastard, if you're reading this know that I don't hold it against you, but I'm still driven to madness every time it happens.

>>46320482
And it is my birthday :(

>>46324673
Alternatively, the group is pure fucking autism in which case why haven't you left already?

No internet group I played with survived past session 3 ;_;

>>46325338
I did. I'm with the same GM (who was and has been a total bro through it all) and the other people the group sperged on and got kicked out.

>>46325219
>tfw successfully built a network of like 5 GM and 12 players
The gravytrain never stops.
Plus having an all-GM party is a simple means of starting new systems with minimum prep.

>>46324070
>tastes are too esoteric for 99% of gamers anyway
What sort of games do you prefer then?

>>46325208
idk I could be.

What's your characters name?

>>46324723
Doesn't sound like the kind of group you want to be in, then.

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>Tfw when your weekly sessions haven't happened in 3 weeks because other player's schedules are ass but they have reasonable excuses.
>tfw you're the only uni student left in your group and therefore have most evenings free and bored

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>post a time for the game to happen on Skype
>nobody says anything
>game time rolls around
>two hours later
>"Oh, this time doesn't work for me anon"
>"Why didn't you tell us in advance anon"
>"Why are you so mad anon how were we supposed to know?"
>mfw

wake me up

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>Have semi-weekly session with a group of friends I've known since childhood
>mfw each year one of the players move to another place, where they can't come and join the games anymore
>mfw one by one, real life is breaking my one and only group
>Group started with 7 players, me included. Now there's only four players and the occasional visitor
Life goes on, I guess.

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>mfw I'm aware I'll never play rpgs again

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>go to friends birthday
>he wants my help for some game preps
>tells me he and 4 of his friends will be sitting in the old basement after the party
>according to him , they already studied the system
>mfw i get there and 12 people are waiting to play
>mfw his brother suggests to be co-DM
>mfw 9 of these people , including the brother , never read the system
>mfw the basement is too small and he wants to play outside with party music at full volume and smoke from the neighbours garden blowing all over the place

they must have been drunk at this point to "organize" things like this. On the other hand , they have never been DM and dont know shit about the work one has to do

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>yfw you finish GMing a 3 year online campaign that the group talks about still in joyful tones about and wants to revisit the homebrewed setting

>yfw you made contingencies for missing players by simply saying "they fell off the boat" and they reappear at the next session

>yfw you've got a dozen games lined up as a player since you're burnt out on GMing for now

>join an online game
>GM suddenly has real life stuff pop up, promises to continue the game as soon as they can be ready

It's been almost a year since then. Granted, the GM comes around to all of us sometimes and makes sure there's still interest and none of us have died, but I barely remember what my character was like anymore.

>>46325926
Switch to online?

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>>46327841
>online

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>>46320482

>That feel when the bi-weekly session is cancelled
>Twice in a row

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That feel when a group comes together but then gets ruined by personal bullshit like two of the players breaking up.

>>46322131 followed by >>46322057 recently happened.
His character then got turned into a vegetable by what might possibly be a miscalculation on my part. So I've given him a choice. Either he can have his character survive, because I couldn't remember whether or not the roll for the creature's psychic kill ability was actually high enough for it to go off, or he can roll up a new one.
Either way, Psychic Death in Anima is a brutal Psy power.

>>46320482
The only time the session gets cancelled is I don't show up. Everyone else bails. Otherwise the game continues.

I don't really get it but it keeps happening and I feel like an ass when the game falls apart because I had family/job stuff get in the way.

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>>46322131
>I am that guy
It hurts, I just want to be done with college already.

> get a new player
> seems to enjoy the game and get involved
> randomly vanishes a couple weeks later
> repeat repeat repeat repeat

This seems less major than most of the complaints here but it's still pretty damn annoying. Campaign is completely consistent outside the revolving door of that one player slot. Never any warning either.

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>>46320482
On one hand, me and the DM are good friends and i can understand his pain and suffering due to his college life being too demanding to run, and i sympathize and try to be calm and understanding as crushing blow after crushing blow has cancelled. Three. Sessions. In. A. Row.

ON THE OTHER HAND, I'M GOING INSANE BECAUSE THIS IS MY TRUE FUCKING LIFE THATS BEING SHIT ON BY SUCH NORMIE DEMANDS. RATIONAL OR NOT, I'M FUCKING READY TO TO HAVE A PSYCHOTIC BREAKDOWN BECAUSE THE DM HAS MADE TOO GOOD OF CONTENT FOR ME TO LIVE WITHOUT.

I can't last much longer TG.

Tell me you know this feel.

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>>46322229
>realize the GM has been inserting his shitty political beliefs into the game since the very beginning
>discover one player is just using the game to play out his fetish fantasies
>realize another player has been cheating by surreptitiously adding shit to his character sheet
>realize another player has a grudge against me for casually talking shit about something and I can't even remember the conversation because it was a throwaway remark
>decide not to show up to the next session

>get a message from the GM that I'm no longer welcome at the game

I almost want to show up just out of spite, but that would require mustering more than zero fucks to give

>>46320482
>playing with flakes
>not having backup strats
Le_costanza_maymay.jpg

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>>46330712
>finally make it past level 4 in a D&D game for the first time
>somehow the planets aligned correctly to allow this to happen
>the DM isn't total shit
>the players can't remember the rules to save their dog's life but they are good people and enjoy it
>campaign is fun with lots of content
>sessions are always canceled if one person can't make it
>played once in 2 months
>when we do play, it becomes the social hour since everyone hasn't seen eachother in a month or so
>"HEY ANON DID YOU SEE THIS ONE VIDEO"
>"LAWL LOOK AT THIS THING I FOUND ON THE INTERNET"
We have 4 hours to play, and we maybe ACTUALLY play for 1 hour. I get that everyone is excited but Jesus tap dancing christmas christ just stop interrupting the game when the DM pauses for 20 fucking seconds with some STUPID ass video.
I feel like an asshole when I have to point out "hey guys, can we get back to the game?" but fuck man.

Yes anon, I know this feel.

>>46330769

> rampant paranoia
> pic shitting on an entire genre of gameplay
> leaving the game without warning or communication

The shitty person here.. it might be you.

>>46331163
>finally make it past level four in a D&D game

Man, I used to really enjoy starting at level one, because I find the early levels fun and it gives a great sense of accomplishment.

But most DMs I play with now are reluctant to move past the early levels. And now the early levels are filled with wolves. I am tired of wolves.

>>46324483
Yup...
I straight up run entire campaigns of DMPC's. Night shift is lonely.

>>46330769
>realize another player has been cheating by surreptitiously adding shit to his character sheet
Damn, what a dink. DM never went "wait a minute, how did you get that [item/skill proficiency/etc]?"?

Did he try to justify it at that you know of?

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>game night is every Tuesday night
>see this thread

There's no reason for me to worry since everyone usually let's the GM know at least a day before session, but I'm still nervous.

>>46333604
It just happened to me this morning.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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>>46333684

>>46333794
Hey Terry, just wanted to let you know that me and Randolph are going out to get plastered and fuck bitches instead. Next week would be better. Ttyl brah.

>>46332955
We're halfway there. Livin' on a prayer

>>46323812
why not go to the gym?
or read something?
or vidya?

Bitch, I haven't been able to get my group together since December.

>>46324690
I remember you and that girl whose favorite FF was 13, right?

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>>46320482
>Player asks to delay game a day, other players are fine with it
>Misses the session anyway

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>>46324066
Jesus, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one.

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>>46320482
We haven't played in two months. I think my group is dead.

Where do I find friend to play games with?

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my mfw when my group plays bi-weekly and sometimes tri-weekly

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>>46337055
my mfw when my group plays bi-weekly and sometimes tri-weekly
>It's the other meaning of bi-weekly and tri-weekly
>It gets cancelled ever other session

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>>46335964
You get your hopes up to play, because you are imagining all the fun imagination adventures you are going to have and/or recalling the previous ones, and maybe you even like spending time with the guys in your group. And then a couple can't go so everyone just decides to call it, and now all your hopes have been dashed and all you can think about is how hyped you were and that nothing is coming of it. The mistake was in ever hoping that something would happen. Having goals is a mistake because if you have a goal you can fail to meet it.

>>46337412
You can do those things and anticipate the game session at the same time anon. Would probably make you feel better. Esp gym.

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>>46320482
>mfw this is every game I ever make
>when I spend months building a setting, npcs, learning new rules and researching
>when every player is a flake and I still bend over backwards to accomidate

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Super salty I am.

>>46337494
Noah /fit/ plz

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>least amount of players I had in a session was 5, the most 7
>have a session every week, twice if everyone's down
>only time we don't is if GM is out of town or something else
>great homebrew
>feelsgoodman.avi
>pic reminds me of GM

>>46325338
This is the real answer.

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>>46337494
Oh these feelings come after the cancelled session. Certainly there is time for other activities when you think you'll get to do the thing you enjoy the most later. But after? After your hopes have been crushed under another pile of "Whoops, can't make it tonight guys!" you just don't even want to try anymore.

>finally find a decent group
>they're not a decent group
>they're actually an indecent group

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>>46331166
I absolutely will not deny being a shitty person, but I'm still not as shitty as Fascism Fanboy GM, Mindbreak NTR Fetishist, Cheats McGee, and Lady Vengeance.

Also freeform is garbo.

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>mfw canceled RPG night this week to chill with some other friends watch Kung Fu movies cook Chinese food and smoke weed

>>46324462
Im so sorry Rand ;_;

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>>46320482
>weekly session gets canceled on the account of the DM not feeling up to it
>Everyone's fine with this, DM's going through really rocky shit that week
>Get PMd by one of the players
>turns out the DM changed his mind one hour into the (online) session time and just ended up doing solo stuff with that player
It gets grating that the rest of us get to play Player 2 to that player's Player 1. I get the DM ran a solo game with the guy for a couple years, but it's really annoying. That, and that it seems like while he's never fully ready for the weekly session, he's always ready for solo shit with that player. Top it off with the DM being hard to reach (save through that player) and it's downright frustrating

>>46340024

>Playing online

Plebs go and stay go

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>>46337412
Too close to home, Anon.

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>Weekly game every Tuesday night.
>go through Tuesday as normal, except I don't seem to find anything wrong with the fact I'm just minding my own business that night.
>realize my error only when I notice the calendar and go "Oh, it's Tuesday."
>"OH FUCK IT'S TUESDAY"

And that's how I fucked up tonight!

>>46340751
Huh, I did that this morning.
But then the flake cancelled, so whatever.

>>46330559
Extremely late, but I know why this happened, because I did it once myself.
It's the awkwardness. That's really it. You miss one session and think it'll be alright, you'll show up next week, say sorry and explain what happened. Then you miss another, maybe for a good reason, maybe not, it doesn't matter. It soon spirals out into a torturous cycle of guilt and embarrassment, and you decide the best thing to do was to make it seem like it never happened, try to forget them and what you've done, and still feel sorry about later, no matter how much you try to forget.

>>46340290
Anon I play in game where I am on the other side of the country to the rest of players, and two others are in two different countries other than ours
What are we supposed to do

>>46341081

Go outside.

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>completely new to /tg/ and all roleplaying games
>don't know how to enter the community or where to start

JUST

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>>46341101
>Go outside.

you guys need backup games you can just fuck around with and not feel bad about running with a skeleton crew

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>>46325970

Never say "never", senpai

>>46340290
Eh, we play online because we live in different places and our DM smells like shit sometimes. He's a great guy, good games. He's just infuriatingly hard to get ahold of and can reek

>>46341202
Depends on what floats your boat.

There's three big crowds here, in order of money wasted.

1) "D&D", aka any pen and paper roleplaying game. 90% of them pirate their books, or there's an open resource (Pathfinder), so their hobby is pretty much entirely free, barring a few minor purchases if they play in real life (dice, paper, maybe a cool mini to represent them)

2) Magic the Gathering. If you have a group of sane friends that agree to a format or houserules, you can get years of enjoyment for minimal investment. If you want to play tournaments or stay up to date though, you'll end up spending a few hundred dollars, with the possibility of getting sucked in deep and shelling out hundreds more when new releases come out.

3) Warhammer. You are going to be spending over $800 to have an army where the rules can change and where new models can come out that make your old ones obsolete. However, the hobby spans a variety of things. Some people just like to build and paint the models. Some people just like theorycrafting armies and crunching numbers. Some people like playing really zany objectives or multiplayer. Some people become obsessed and do all of the above, spending hundreds of hours collecting, building, painting, mathing and playing Warhammer. Probably the deepest rabbit hole of /tg/.

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>>46320482
>Be busy and have to arrive late for a few weeks in a row
>Schedule finally clears up
>Game cancelled because the GM is busy/tired
>Next game gets rescheduled to the one day of the week that'd force me to arrive late
>mfw

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>>46341202
JUST make a fucking Roll20 and spam cunts

ya cunt

also learn how to read rulebooks

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>>46320482
MFW I am the DM and people cancel. My anxiety makes me doubt the value of all the prep work I do.

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>>46341907
Goddamnfrogandtoadshitfuck GMing makes me have full on fucking anxiety attacks if I don't think I'm ready

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>shitty player the GM is reluctant to kick out has to cancel

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>>46342026
>awkward player that references super obscure shit nobody knows
>always away from party doing his own thing
>general shitlord
>nobody really likes him
>player approaches after session saying he saw him fudging his die rolls
>mfw can't wait to catch him in the act

>mfw I've just got involved in an online thing which timing is fine for for literally everyone else but which might well not be fine for me
>mfw hyped to play but also might not be able to
>mfw I have no face

>>46336932
The comment section on porn sites

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>>46334653
Terry, it's Greg. Tuesday I have a job interview at the scheduled time so probs won't make it. Also if I get the job the hours will likely get in the way so I'll probs ending up leaving soon. Tell everyone there I said hey. Peace, ma dude.

>>46337545
I can relate. My friends finally seem to not be flaking on me, in the one campaign I've finally put no effort into making, due to the previous wasted effort.

>>46341202
Gamefinder thread. Although I got my current group (going on for about 3 years) from a random thread asking if anyone even played Pokemon Tabletop Adventures. Got like 8 players on accident. 4 never showed up after the first session. Still doing games with the rest. Loving life.

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>>46341907
>>46341935
>my players tell me they like my games and my GMing
>I suspect they're lying and just like the status quo

>>46342235

Why do you not simply remove him from the game group, rather than trying to catch him in the act of cheating?

Also, make everyone use a public dice tray, "so the dice don't fly everywhere and fall off the table. Or get a dice tower and make sure you see the roll.

>>46343369
I don't plan on confronting him on the spot, I meant 'catch him in the act' as confirming with my own eyes. The table we use is pretty long and somewhat crowded, and witnessing every single dice roll would slow the game quite a bit. I also made it very clear at the first session (he is one of a few players I had not met prior) that rolls use the honor system. He really has no reason to even do it, since the party has not had much adversity so far. It also makes me afraid he is compulsively dishonest.

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>tfw I'm in a group online with a bunch of random people from 4chan and it's going great, with the games never cancelling
>It's also my first group
I hit the goddamn lottery, and it feels good guys

>>46344135
Good luck man, hold the times close because its rare enough irl and online.

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>>46320482

>>46320482
Man my shit is getting cancelled because of wrestling this weekend. Fuckin blows.

>>46344422
So you're saying you weren't ready?

>>46344422
IT'S FUCKING WRESTLEMANIA YOU CUNT.

>>46344671
It doesn't matter what it is that shit's lame.

>>46344600
I knew it was coming but it still blows.

>>46324066
>DMing 4e
>Get to the absolute height of the campaign
>Missing one week of sessions, already planned in advance
>It was to take a week off work with my girlfriend who was complaining about not spending enough time together
>She breaks up with me instead
>She's in the group
>Old friend of mine in the group turns on me too just cause break ups
>I decide to just never come back

Feels bad, but I don't gotta deal with that.
I found an online 5e group now anyway. Online feels kinda clunky in comparison but they're pretty cool.

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>mfw had to ask a player to drop because his schedule just couldn't be compromised with the game's
>mfw might have to drop another in the same game for similar reasons
We haven't run in almost two months, and it's supposed to be weekly

>>46344135
Been there, done that, felt good for two years but then it went with a whimper amidst a ton of exams and players moving delays right before the final battle with the BBEG.

No play for two years since.

>>46322639
>those I-M-I in "giving" in the pic
That designer must be shot.

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>tfw im the GM
>tfw i was gonna start it up but no one seemed interested but said they'd like to attend
>tfw i dont know if they actually enjoy it or are just coming because it's there
>tfw I ask for feedback or type in the group chat and get literally no responses ever besides asking if people will show up
>tfw wanted to start it up again for 5 months but anxiety and medical issues kept me from it
>tfw this kicks my anxiety into overdrive and cancel the session the day before
>no one posts anything except for one person who says "weh"

Guys please! It almost literally kills me to run these and worry if you're having a good time, at least you could co-operate!

>never play d&d
>really want to start but with the group of people I know I would have to dm when I fucking know I cant do it

>>46348124
Start online with random people. Get experience without leaving a mark of fuckups. Share stories here on tg to get judgement on how good you did.

>>46321718
Fuck man this happened to me this week as well

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>>46336901
I will kill you for making me feel these feels

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>>46348226
>Share stories here on tg to get judgement on how good you did.

>>46339532
Out of curiosity, what exactly do you mean by 'freeform'?

>>46348358
What's the problem you have with that?

>>46348028
This. I don't have any anxiety/similar issues but having no feedback hurts the game in the long run. And if you, players, are OK with anything that goes… why the fuck should GM care for making a good session?

I've had groups that acted like that only to discover later that for MONTHS they were bitching among themselves about the level of convolution in my plot. Did I ever heard that when asking for feedback? No. Their defense? They don't want to look dumb. Despite openly stating among themselves that they have no fucking idea what is going on and mostly guessing what to do next.

BUtthurt? A bit, but no-one is a fucking telepath.

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>tfw the group I put together has been dying a slow painful death due to scheduling and missing players
>tfw I've lost the will to run the game

I don't hold it against my players, they're all cool but god fucking damn when 2/4 players go AWOL with no warning (or reason for one of them) for months it really kills my spirit.

I hate this feeling, I've become more and more jaded after every failed game. I don't want my passion for /tg/ shit to die but I can't seem to find a stable group that I enjoy playing with to reignite it.

>>46348512
I can recommend one thing: look around places outside of hobby. One of the best groups I have ever got was, out of all places, in my own job. I was reading Dark Heresy and people got at first interested because illustrations were pretty. With some luck you can get a bunch of newbies that you can actually guide astray from That Guy path.

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>TfW you're gonna DM for the first time with friends who never played, amd you can make or break how they will perceive this game. And you really want them to like it

What if I suck donkey dick

>>46348642
Just maximum pander to their tastes.
Do they like vidya RPGs? Ask which ones. And ask what they would like to ADD to those vidyas.

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>>46348642
The fuck is wrong with you, you shitlord frog poster?
This is your fucking CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING AWESOME YOUR FRIENDS WILL REMEMBER THE REST OF THEIR FUCKING LIVES.
STOP BEING A OHMAGERDWHATIFI'MSHITOHWAITIAMALREADYSHIT CUMSTAIN AND START BEING AWESOME, BECAUSE YOUR BOYS NEED YOU TO BE AWESOME.
It's seriously that fucking simple. Now stop frogposting and start being the fucking guy your friends wish they were.
>captcha is steak
>eating steak right now
>DEUS VULT

>>46336038
Yup, same guy from that thread, also got called out for 'derailing' (i.e. I was 'wasting time while privately investigating THE MURDER OF MY CHARACTER'S BROTHER.)

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>>46348696
>>46348698
Okay I will make shit awesome. When they are 80 and have mild alzheimers they will tell their grandchildren every fucking time they visit how they found and killed crime lord Van Dael.

>>46348734
Yes! That's the spirit!

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>>46348734
>posts more frog shit
POST THAT SHIT ONE MORE TIME, MUTHAFUCKER, I DARE YOU, I DOUBLE DARE YOU!

>>46348734
Seriously, I'm >>46326117
and I just picked it up and ran with it. Just run some thoughts past /tg/ and get your stuff together and you too can be a great GM.

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>>46348763
That's not a frog silly man.

>>46348792
Alright I already have a story and 3 characters. A human rogue urchin, a dwarf paladin sage and a human fighter soldier. Their quest is to find and kill the crime lord Van Dael and it takes place in a huge yet unnamed city run by criminals and corrupt guards. They can bribe fight and earn criminal trust all the way ti find Van Dael so there are plenty options on how to play. And each character also has a side mission. The rogue has a crippling debt he needs to replay. The paladin needs to find out how the intoxicating drug called Dust (what the criminals make and sell) is made and where it comes from and the fighter has to find an old army friend who is now an addict. I was thinking of making a map but that kind of limits my imagination. So should I just wing it and write down where everything is in the go? also any tips in general would be great. Still learning the rules and working on NPC's and events.

>>46345139

>Play 4e
>Get dumped

standard stuff desu

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>>46345139
>>She breaks up with me instead
>>She's in the group
>>Old friend of mine in the group turns on me too just cause break ups

She was fucking him.

>>46349029
This.
>>46348938
Gimme a sex.

>>46349046
I'll let the players decide whether they want the char to be female, male, transgender, furry, otherkin, transnegro. etc

>>46348938
Alright, sounds like you have a good grasp on your setting and well entangled the PCs in it. Good start!
(However, a tempering reminder to not overdo it and let them pursue other things if they catch their fancy. If the players start drifting /completely/ off the plot, gather them up for a talk and discuss where all four of you want the campaign to go from now on.)

And yeah don't worry about big exact map, just describe general districts and what's in them. Maybe MSPaint some vague blobs.

>>46349145
Thanks! The part of asking where everyone wants the story to progress to is a new one for me. Will do! Also the general districts thing is a good idea.

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>DM is an IRL friend
>wants me to join his homebrew fantasy/sci-fi online game (magic but also technology)
>the players are
>me an engineer
>a furry playing a catgirl gunmancer
>a russian that speaks mostly through google translate, plays a robot barbarian speaking in broken English due to malfunction
>a homo playing a crossdressing samurai also a pokefag so he has to have a pet magical fox shooting ice
>complete edgelord as the paladin of pain and suffering
>Somehow the best group I have ever had, everyone shows up on time, world is immersive and role-play is great along with a good story and a threatening BBEG
I just don't know

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>DM cancelled the most recent session
>That was a year go

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>>46320482
>well over a year since super kickass GM has been able to run
>weeks to months go by in between him making contact
>his latest visit suggests that in a few months he won't even have power, much less internet

Why must Venezuela be such a shithole?
GM is an an absolute trooper too, both in terms of dealing with the crazy shit we try to pull off, and the shit going on in his country. Guy's response to tear gas outside was to brb long enough to get something to cover his face with, and one session was notably interrupted because he had reason to believe that a deathsquad was rolling through the area.

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Goddamn it /tg/, I didn't want this feel today. I've been dming since the start of freshman year and and I got burnt the fuck out at the beginning of this year. Not to mention I Dmd before college for about a year and a half [sp] Campaign was shit though.[/sp] I only played maybe once or twice in college so far.

I asked my friends to run something in this new year and we've only played twice, in two separate campaigns with weeks of nothing between it. I think the last time we played was around the end of January. I just want to play /tg/.

As a GM who has run a game since august of last year, almost every week, i have cancelled all but maybe 5 times. twice because i was ill, and the other times not enough showed up. (This is a group of seven, so not enough showing up is 4 or 5.)
They are about to fight the BBEG and the heart of a demon god, but after seeing this thread....


i just might cancel....

>>46349861
>>Somehow the best group I have ever had, everyone shows up on time, world is immersive and role-play is great along with a good story and a threatening BBEG

Everyone on /tg/ says this. "I play with this group of complete fucktards, but somehow it's the most amazing gaming group every, here's a story of how awesome it is".

Really, it's 1000x more likely that you're just as horrible as they are, so you THINK it's great, but it's actually just as awful as it sounds.

>>46348380
/tg/'s judgement is schizophrenic at the best of times.

>>46352094
I'd recommend real life over anything online when it comes to getting advice and building experience, but when it comes to online, I'd trust /tg/ and its schizophrenia over a forum or reddit.

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>>46322229
I haven't experienced that but I have witnessed something that is worse IMO.

Once when we were starting a new online session, player X suddenly pipes up without any prior discussion and says that he can't stand player Y and that ether one of them must leave the group.
We told that X was a bitch for pulling that shit and that he should be the one to get the fuck out. Y was just confused.

>>46326117
hey, i wanna join a campaign.
Where is it possible to join those?
Is there a specific online site, or anything.

Any tips viable.

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>Always put RP group on priority when it comes to the scheduling since it's not just about me having fun.
>Game night approaches.
>"Sorry, we gotta cancel. One of the player has to go the birthday of his second cousin."
>My face.
I mean, family ties are great and all but come the fuck on.

>>46352791
His second cousin? Unless for some reason they were really close, it's still socially okay to skip that relative's birthday.

>>46352892
That's the point. He always puts some meaningless shindig above our RP night when they pop up.
Reminds me of my theater hobby. I always went to rehearsals even if my fucking leg was broken but there were still people who skipped it because of a hangover.
I don't think he acknowledges it, but in my eyes it's pretty disrespectful...

>>46352266
Second.

>>46353001
If he puts distant family above friends, that's his problem. It could be seen as admirable in some ways.