>guy refuses to play archers or bards because he sucks at

I do 120 pushups a day, unless I feel like alternating them with palms-out chinups.

Go cry about it on [OTHER WEBSITE], fatty.

>>51024140
I know this one guy who can shoot lightning out of his hand but he won't even play Wizards cause he says magic is for queers. Is there no helping these people?

>>51024140
I refuse to play doctors, because I know shit about medicine and human anatomy. I refuse to play hackers, because the only thing I do on computers is shitposting.
And so on.

>>51024140
I'm autistic and so are all my characters. Does that count?

>>51024187

There has to be a cyberpun game where "shitposter" is a valid class, surely?

I don't play as women because I'm not useless outside of the bedroom.

>>51024255
Edgy/10 post my good man.

>>51024165
I do 100, 100 sit-ups and 100 squats (yes).
I don't see how that's relevant

While not a "restriction", I always try to default to the most physically strange or monstrous choices I can. It's just what I fond most enjoyable, regardless of party role.
Unfortunately, many systems tend not to conform to my highly specific tastes in PCs.

>>51024215
You can probably play as a virtual adept meme magician in Mage.

>>51024140
I'd be worried if he's willing to play Deathwatch or a d20s wizard...

>>51024255
>>>/r9k/

>>51024140
Yeah, I know a guy who generally refuses to play any sort of magic user outside of a Paladin because 'mages are squishy'.

He even refused to play MtAw for the longest time, because he felt the idea of Magic-Users being anything other than shriveled up bookworms to be, "just wrong."

Jokes on him though, he's now playing in my campaign as a Time Mage- time travel being his other autistic phobia

>>51024140
not really a "self-imposed restriction" but one of my players admitted finally that after playing for 4+ years, he only plays himself.

We already knew this but its good to hear he admits it. The only downside is that he never makes a backstory and because he plays himself he sometimes fucks the party out of spite.

>>51024277
>I don't see how that's relevant
It was a joke based on a thread earlier in the week about a supposed GM who supposedly weeded out his supposed player base by supposedly making all of them supposedly perform 20 pushups before he would supposedly allow them to make a character.

Supposedly.

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>>51024140
To be fair, I would hardly call that 'insane'. While I can't speak as to how uncommon it is, there's certainly something to be said for playing something that has some overlap with your own abilities.

Sure, you don't have to be an archer to play one, but it's nice to be able to treat bows as something other than 'guns-with-strings'. That it matters if it's raining, or how different kinds of woods behave.

And sure, you don't have to be a musician to be a bard, but it can be cool to be able to improv a couple lines in a relevant situation, or to write ballads of your party's exploits, or to cut your enemies down to size with a song.

And you don't have to be a mechanic or anything to play a rogue, but it's nice to be able to put together a clever mechanism or trap, instead of saying 'this is what the book says I can do, so that's all I can do'.

In short, you're either blowing this out of proportion, or communicating badly the extent of what's going on. You can only blame someone so much for not wanting to go outside of their comfort zone.

>>51024140
Thats far better than a tone death bard who sings all the fucking time.

>>51024165
I cant do more than five pushups but I accept this as a sad fact of life and try to improve to 6.
What now bitch?

>>51024181

>cause he says magic is for queers

It is.

>>51024140
I try not to play techies in Star Wars, because the way that technology works in Star Wars in no way resembles its real-world counterparts and I end up fucking myself over with preconceived notions.

>>51024140
I have a player who refuses to play anything else than a beautiful young noble archer girl. It sounds like it is a lot more restrictive than what you described.

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>>51024956
>tone death bard

>>51027273
Tone Death is my favourite music based supervillain.

>>51024255
I don't play as women because I'm not useless inside the bedroom. [spoilers]no homo[/spoilers]

>>51027273
Ever listened to Sunn O)))?

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>>51027273
>>51027349
>>51024956
It's one of the oldest memes.

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As a GM the last year has slowly seen me go from describing combat with all sorts of little flourishes and flairs with "he attacks you" because the guy playing the fighter does HEMA and won't shut the fuck up about how little I understand of combat.

That sort of design would just weigh down the weapon. You don't use that weapon that way. It doesn't make sense for him to attack like that. If he's doing that with his shield, I would be able to break his arm instantly.

I'm so fucking tired.

I myself am not good at coming up with clever deceits/excuses, so I don't play high deception characters because all I would be able to do is 'i try to convince him that there's a fire over there and to leave his post' or whatever

>>51030076
You know what you must do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0m57ONmw8c

>>51030076
Can you give some examples?

>>51030076
>being too pussy to tell him to shut the fuck up

>>51030076
>This is a fantasy game, we're using fantasy physics

>>51024140
I don't play wizards because I'm typically too tired and depressed to delve into the rules to make a good one.

>>51024140
My only "restriction" as a player is that I don't like to play something that I've played in a campaign before because I feel I've 'already done that story' even if the setting is different.

but I do make an effort to research things if I'm doing something with a base in realism instead of magic/fantasy crafting. I spent days looking up proper herbalism to play a character in a game that died out a little bit after.

ah! a bard... that is also an archer! what a concept! ranged buffs and ranged attacks!

>>51024140
I refuse to play any new campaigns with my friend sbecause it will end up having a HUEG TWEEST! in that it is part of the exact same campaign as the last 5 and people are just other versio0ns of their other characters, again.

>>51031778
That was an option in 4th edition D&D, at least. It was kinda cool.

>>51029386
>TFW you actually kind of like Sunn O))

>>51024165
Yeah well I do 121 pushups a day nerd.

>>51031778
I've got one in my campaign, except barding isn't a combat skill, it's a civilian skill.

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>>51024140
I wont play a thief class because I'm not black.

>>51029386
Thank you! I was trying to remember that name.

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>>51033572
I won't play thief class because they were always a mistake.

>>51024255
You have a stove in your bedroom?

>>51024923
That's a good point, but your average 21st century human doesn't know shit about bows, melee weaponry, trapmaking...
and we don't even have actual arcane/divine magic to use for context
So unless OP's person is incidentally pretty into RL melee stuff there'd be no sense in avoiding Bard or Ranger on those grounds

>>51030076
Why didn't you just kicked him out and told him not to come anymore.
People like this have zero support and friends and if you talk to other people in the group, they will always unanimously support you.
If you are that pussy of a person, just change the location and time of the next session and block his number.
He will get it sooner or later.

>>51030076
I kicked out retards like this during their first session since none of us is having fun playing with faggots like this and if he is having fun making fantasy miserable for others, then that's person we don't want near us in any capacity.
Happily I only encounter these kind of sociopaths only four times.

>>51024140
I prefer not to play prepared casters like Wizards in D&D and similar because, on the occasions I have, I realize I'm no good at knowing what spells to prepare and tracking all the spells I know. Best-case scenario, I end up so spoiled for choice that I've got to read guides for hours to make a good decision.

>>51033521
I do 122 step to me fool

>>51031859
Your DM sounds almost exactly like mine.

>>51024140
I refuse to be a PC at all. I just opt to be all the peaceful NPCs and throw the rest of the party out of my shops because I'm not a homeless sociopath.

>>51030076
I mean, if it's relevant to the damage being done or the effectiveness of the attack I could see why voicing his opinion would be tolerated.

But if we're talking about what happens after the dice fall he can start his own group if it irks him so much.

>>51024801
I hope this was real and I hope I someday get to play with that GM.

Just so I can do more pushups than everybody else in the goddamn room and still be a raging jackass with my character simply to spite the DM.

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>>51030076
>That sort of design would just weigh down the weapon.
Yeah, you'd think so but somehow it works out. It's some mystic shit my dude, made by fucking mist dwarves.
>You don't use that weapon that way. It doesn't make sense for him to attack like that.
You're right, it DOESN'T make sense. His skill with the weapon is beyond your puny mortal comprehension. Take an extra 1d4 SAN damage.
>If he's doing that with his shield, I would be able to break his arm instantly.
As you move to begin your maneuver, he changes his footing, and you realize that it was actually a feint. His clever tactic to bait you was a success and you're caught off guard against his real attack.

>>51034660
>His skill with the weapon is beyond your puny mortal comprehension. Take an extra 1d4 SAN damage
This. I don't get how people have trouble with those kind of cuntery.

I learned that trick literally my first session DM'ing as a kid. My brother playing a dwarf kept making a point of examining every door or pedestal or wall I ever mention as being made of stone, not for traps or anything, just because, you know, dwarves are in to stone. It was funny, then I got sick of it, so I told him the stone was really in disrepair, just like all the rest of the stone in this dungeon, all this good stone being trapped in this crappy old dungeon, man, you start getting depressed. Save vs. will. Oh, looks like it's really gotten you in the dumps, you're taking -2 attack rolls for the next day. should've kept your eyes on the prize.

Give in game consequences and players learn real quick: DM fucks with you, you don't fuck with the DM.

>>51035823
>I got sick of a harmless character quirk so I gave him a fairly significant debuff for an entire day
Real mature

>>51024140
Well I know I'm an idiot so I shy away of characters with high INT stats.

>>51024140
I only play cute girls because I'm a faggot, does that count?

>>51035856
Same, also with Cha

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>>51035838
>intentionally stultifying game flow
>harmless character quirk
Nice sophistry, are you a kike? Your GM must be a pushover. That was when I was 13, today it would've lasted until the dwarf could find some good stonework to regain his morale, or some other kind of unspecified distraction, like carousing. If you start kvetching like you're already doing here, I'll frame it as part of your depression and point out you're getting on everyone's nerves which would be true.

>>51035856
>>51035898
What are your stats?

STR: 6 INT: 15 WIS: 14 DEX: 8 CON: 5 CHA: 14

>>51035925
>>>/v/

>>51035966
>>>/tumblr/

>>51035992
You know you could just take a recurring offender aside and explain why what they're doing is bad for the game, right? But no, all intent must be inferred from numerical values being lowered, because that's how human beings are meant to interact.

>>51034660
lol this is a 10/10 post for real nigga. every other reply is some salty ass nigga's. wouldn't recommend you kick someone out for something so trivial. but go back to saying these things and just make it funny when ever he talks shit.

though with that being said. if you're GM would it really hurt you to learn weapon techniques?

>>51036017
Getting so upset at even the perceived situation of an "undeserved" debut suggests an autism on your part a lot more strongly than a general DM philosophy favoring in-game consequences, even if somewhat gonzo, over out-of-game wrist slapping by any count. Or that you've just never played a non-convention/gameshop-sanitized RPG. You know debuffs can be fun, too, right?

In any case, it works wonders making good players out of entitled children like you.

>>51036185
Wew lad

>>51024140
My character was cursed to always get a bit of pee on himself evertime he pissed.
No matter how many times he shakes his penis

>>51036071
you just fucking stick them with the pointy end idk, just let me play out my subtle magical realm in peace

>>51024140
I once played a game using a similar system to WoD in which each player played themselves as statted by the person next to them, which was then approved or not by the person on the other side.
Was pretty interesting, i particularly remember that they insisted i had a maxed out computer skill, despite only being a fairly decent PC game player. Perspective can be interesting.

>>51036351
that sounds like a lot of fun with a group you're familiar with but a total fucking awkward nightmare with strangers

>>51036387
Oh there is no chance in hell I'd even try with strangers, this particular game was done during a club in high school, we had all played with each other, and most knew each other fairly well before we played the previous campaign anyway.

>>51024140
I refuse to play characters that are capable of exercising basic logic or reason because I responded to this shit-post.

I know a guy who only plays small races. Halflings, gnomes, occasionally dwarves. If the setting doesn't have races, he'll play a short human.

>>51024140
I don't play riders. I have no fucking idea about horses, last time I saw one live was when I was 5 and I honestly don't feel like bullshitting I have any clue how to take care for one or ride one for that matter.
Dunno, kind of irrational, because I have no other qualms, but this one is definitely it.

>>51024140
I've got a vegan player who let his PC starve to death, because the only things to eat in a across-the-wilderness campaign were eventually their pack horses and oxens

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>>51035925

>>51024140
I refuse to play males because i'm a huge pervert.

>>51030475
>>51033894
>>51033975
Not him, but blessed are those who never have to face short supply of players. There are situations where kicking someone out is equal with disbanding group. And people playing along not because they like each other or enjoy their company, but because there are literally no other players around.
It's like you can't imagine being a fa/tg/uy in Bumfuck, Nowhere OR being a fa/tg/uy in an environment not exactly supportive for such hobbies, like for example the worst hood in the city.
And this shit is so common I fully understand why the original anon entures obnoxious asshole just to have a game running.

>>51024140
I don't really play the bard/courtier/etc "charming fuck" character options in games. Charming people come off as dishonest and scheming to me (which is generally distasteful) and I don't really enjoy the idea of trying to be that.

>>51037684
You must have really, really low social skills and general exposure to people.
As in - pathologically low.

And I'm not even trying to bash you, this is just simply amazing, even for /tg/, how one can be fucked up when it comes to social interaction and people being nice read as "dishonest".
Man, you've got some serious issues

>>51024140
I don't play artists of any kind, because I can't play any instrument, sing, compose or draw for shits and I'm pretty self-conscious about it. So pulling escapism about my PC being proficient in any of this stuff makes me simply uneasy.

>>51037708
Not everyone is a soulless psychopath, anon.

>>51037730
Yes, because it takes to be soulless psychopath (do you even know what that term means?) to not be freaked by people around you, especially those nice to you. Surely, they just want to abuse you and scheme behind your back.
Now that's called paranoid delusions, combined with a dash of narcism, since it makes you unable to realise world doesn't end on you and yourself.

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>>51024206
Do they all count cards?

>>51037739
No amount of bullshitting will remove the fact that your fake smile and brownnosing is obvious to everyone.

>>51037708
Social skills aren't great, that's for sure.

As for exposure I've had a lot of the kind you don't want more of. After a while you learn the shittiest people aren't the ones who are a dick to you from the moment you meet them, they can at least be trusted to do that and avoided.

Charming people will try to infect you. They try and get past your usual strategies, get in with what few friends you have, worm their way into the different parts of their life so removing them gets harder and harder. That's when they start taking anything they think is valuable from you, torment you and don't leave you alone whatever you do. By the time they've had their fun there's little left.

There might be people who aren't malicious when they intentionally manipulate social situations but I've run into enough people who aren't that I don't wanna risk that horseshit again.

>>51037771
>Every smile is fake!
>It's all brownnosing!
Yep, like I was saying - delusional paranoia

>>51037801
Let me get this straight.
Charming means scheming? That's what you are trying to tell?

Holy shit, I know this is /tg/, but this is beyond average basement dweller logic. Nice knowing you have some serious trust issues and that somehow makes being nice to people wrong.
Then neckbearders wonder why people give them shit. Well, cause-effect mechanism maybe?

>>51037801
>I was a pick-up kid
>I also have no social skills
>That means every person that smiles is in fact stereotypical high-school bully that just wants make me suffer
>And the world around is just evil and abusive
Let me guess - you've read Reader's Digest version of Nietzsche's works when you were 15?
Or, which is more likely, you ARE 15, at least mentally.

>>51024277
>Not running 10 km a day
>Not turning the AC off EVEN IN SUMMER

>>51037801
>get in with what few friends you have
Have you ever considered that you're the least interesting in your friend group?
>hey try and get past your usual strategies
Now what kind of strats we talking about here? Because that's already an extremely not normal way of talking about socializing that I need to know how fucked you really are.

Why do you pursue social hobbies?

>>51024140
I never play bards because most of my group are actually musicians and will bring instruments when they're playing bard characters.

>>51037915
>Having AC at all
On a serious note - why the fuck you even have AC in your house? You live in tropics or what?

>>51037969
Probably american, they love their AC

>live in southern scandinavia
>30 degrees celcius in summer
>"just open a window"

>>51037921
>Why do you pursue social hobbies?
Probably he heard that RPGs are for shut-ins and now has hard time comprehending why it's still about social activities.

>>51037982
>Nothern Scandinavia
>25 Celcius in summer
>Good Lord, it's the end of the world!
Funny how small the world is.

>>51037801
>People who start socialising with me are in fact alien spies dedicated on ruining my life and taking away my friends.
>They avoid me, because I'm the only sane person around.
No Jim. You are off your pills again.

>>51038014
Oh god that reminds me.
>>51037801
Are you being gang stalked? Anyone suck your dick and finger your bum in a safeway while you were just trying to get a bagel recently?

>>51024140
I don't play "bad guys". I don't see the appeal. Dunno, maybe it's the childish desire to be a hero, but I just can't make myself to play it otherwise. No Dirty Harry bullshit either.

>>51037801
Son, you've got some serious issues going. Go see a shrink about it.

>>51036401
>>51036351
These kinds of games are pretty fun. I especially like using All Flesh Must Be Eaten for this kind of game in a zombie survival mode. It's even better because anything can be a skill; I had a player who had +6 Landscaping and +3 Irrigation. I'll be damned if he didn't use it though.

>>51037749
This would be a perfect "calculating the NPCs defenses" GIF.

>>51038188
>All Flesh Must Be Eaten
Now that's a game I didn't heard about for a while. Which is ironic, given the zombie craze from few years ago

>>51037915
Kek

>>51038219
Yeah i like to use that system for my modern campaigns. Can't deny the appeal of "anything is a skill" and the incredibly dangerous ranged combat.

>>51038188
>>51038219
>>51038250
Never heard about it. Any source? Pdf maybe?

>>51030076
That's insane. My group has 3 members who do HEMA (myself included) and we've never had an issue with how combat's described by anyone else. It's supposed to be like lord of the rings, not a fucking martial arts training video. Kick that dude out, he sounds insufferable.

>>51024330
Well I play a spiderbro so I understand the feeling.
Also playing from the celling is fun but externally digested food is somehow lacking in taste.

>>51038000
>late 90's
>rural slavlands in the middle of nowhere
>40C in the summer
>I'm sure happy I got this part time job loading and unloading ovens
I've build up immunity and I'm impervious to environmental heat since.

>>51038384
I remember how having 30C in August was considered something weird and unusuall in late 90s in southern parts of slavland and absolutely unthinkable in, say, Suwałki. Now having summer below 30 is considered weird.

>>51038422
Yeah, back then 40 in the summer was exceptional. Last couple years it's becoming standard. It's not really life threatening yet (except perhaps for the elderly and infirm), but it becomes serious concern for the agriculture.

>>51024140
Let's see...
I don't play
>Religious figures
Be them cultists, priests, clerics, monks (you remember that monks are not only about kung-fu, right?) or anything else. It just feels weird to be an imaginary herald of a religion I don't follow myself and felt even weirder playing as Catholic priest in a historical campaign.
>Barbarians
At least in the sense of "burly Germanic-esque raiders from the North". I just can't roleplay being a dumb brick interested first, second and last in pillage.
>Bards
Can't sing for shit, which makes role-playing pretty hard, while it's literally pointless to make dice rolls for artistic performances.

I know players who don't play
>Human characters
"I'm human, so why should my character be like me"
>Mages
"My mother barely allowed me playing D&D at all, being sorceror was out of question. Now it's just a habit"
>Paladins
"Limiting my character with convoluted code and rules of conduct when those games are mostly about killing and stealing is pointless"
>Non-crystal good characters
"Real world is fucked as it is, why do I need to be a murderous asshole and liar in my made-up adventures?"

>>51024165
what are push-ups?

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>>51024140
I don't feel comfortable playing a bard because I'm not that charismatic, and I like to roleplay.

>>51024140
i don't play wizards because it makes the game too easy

i don't play bard because my whole group is dudes & prudes

i don't play rogue because I'm not a piece of shit

>>51033631
>black people are a mistake

>>51024140
I don't play females because I'm a dude.

Can't really think of any other self imposed restrictions.

>>51033431
>>51033538
Put it together with a nimble-defense melee and good running speed and I might just have my next character. I usually find bards to be obnoxious and annoying, though.

>>51024140
ITT:

>I don't play X because I'm too lazy to do the bare minimum of research.

>I don't play X because I'm bad at it and too lazy to get good.

>I don't play X because IRL I'm bad at X and what is role-playing?

>I don't play X because I don't like X and can't separate fantasy from reality.

>player isn't religious in real life
>always plays paladin/cleric of abstract ideals like hope/fear
>which is fine because I've seen plenty of paladins like that played well
>but this guy's """characters""" always go on and on
>about how religion is childish
>and that gods don't truly exist
>the only thing you can TRULY devote yourself to is an ideal
>the same euphoric thing
>for three campaigns running
I don't give a shit if you personally believe a god doesn't exist, because it's not my place to tell you (or any other player at my table) what to believe in real life. Hell, there's only two other somewhat religious people at the table, so you're in the majority when it comes to not believing in a god. But there comes a point where you're only claiming "lol it's just roleplaying" as an excuse to be a hostile cunt toward people who aren't even offending you. Also nigga, it's a fucking fantasy world.

>characters are in an ancient dwarven temple
>interacting directly with the god of all dwarves
>surrounded by devout dwarven paladins, priests, and clerics
>player acts like a rude bitch
>rolls his eyes and sarcastically quips at every single mention of dwarven faith
>also interrupts some great roleplaying and is disrupting the game as a whole
>again, surrounded by devout dwarves, and standing in front of the dwarven God
>so he gets smote like the rude bitch he is
>cries metagaming
>everybody disagrees
>he spends ten minutes complaining
>"NONE of that was in character"
>"it's just a joke, you guys are taking this too seriously"
>"come on you guys make jokes all the time"
I have never felt better telling a player to stow his obnoxious bullshit and leave. Told him it was D&D, not community college philosophy class. Everyone else at the table was there to talk to gods, fight gross demons, and get rich on dragon treasure, and absolutely nobody wanted to use it as a guise to attempt to debate the validity of real-world faith.

>>51040412
>If I can't sing, I should totally play a singer and roleplay that; people love when someone does a horrible role-play and sings off-tone!
>If I don't find any joy in playing specific character, I should do that anyway!
>If something doesn't appeal to me, I should play it anyway!

Yes, because people are into masochism.

>>51024165
>palms-out chinups?

Nigg'a what?

You mean regular old norman pullups?

>>51039950
>don't play females because I'm a dude

Man, I wish it were that simple in my group. I don't play female characters because there's a sweaty permavirgin neckbeard friend of the GM who literally can't be mature about anything and tries to turn everything into an unwanted sexual encounter while frequently reminding me that it's funny because I'm a guy in real life, so I should apparently be cool with violent sexual assault getting played for laughs.

I mean damn, I try not to be too politically correct because it's game night and nobody wants a fight, but it's like come the fuck on, man. There's a huge difference between roleplaying some light 80's anime titty hijinks and trying to force another player to act out your weird magic rape fantasies.

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>>51024140
I don't play magic, because at first it's useless but later it just kinda brakes the game.

We played a "Realistic" game of DnD once, no magic, skeletons, zombies, giant mega rats. Think medieval England the RPG. And it was one of the most fun campaigns I ever played

>>51040412
Even assuming those truly were the reasons, no one has obligation to put more effort than necessary into something they do voluntarily.
Nor are they obliged to play a character which has beliefs they disapprove of.

>>51040723
Thats fucked
My group is a bunch of reformed 'bros' who ended up playing in their 20's
That guy would just get decked

>>51024181
Is his name Sheev?

>>51024165
I do 100 sit ups, 100 push ups, 100 squats. And then I go on a 10 kilometer run every day.

Get>>51024140
Everyone I play games with always plays the most outlandish race and class mix I've ever seen. Never an elf or human or dwarf in the party. Its always men made of crystal, rat people, humanoid bugs and frog people and the like. Whatever happened to the good ol classic fantasy races?

>>51040820
>at first it's useless
>sleep

>>51041035
Yeah it's super fucked but like I said he's an old friend of the GM or something, so he seems to get this weird pass to always be a nasty fucking troll whenever he wants. I haven't even been to the last like three sessions because the last time I was there he had gotten completely shitfaced before any of us showed up and then he wouldn't shut up about how he's certain his aunt wants him to fuck her. Even with me and another player telling him we seriously didn't want to hear that shit, he just got more and more graphic until me and the other guy left. Barely two hours into the night and we ditched, all because of that slimy fuck.

I'm trying to get some solidarity from other players to quit the group with me or at least get enough of us together and tell the GM to stop inviting this gross asshole who ruins a good time, but everybody seems kinda Stockholmed and doesn't think we could have a better group than the one we have. I've been asking some of my other friends if they're interested in some tabletop gaming though, and they seem pretty receptive to the idea, so maybe I can just form my own group that doesn't have that kind of shit going on in it.

>>51024140
The whole point of role-playing is playing the role of someone or something else- this mentality defeats the purpose of the activity to the very core; why would anyone do such a thing?

>>51041921
Because some GMs are fucktards that demand you actually be able to do those things IRL.

>>51041921
>The whole point of role-playing is playing the role of someone or something else
That explains why so many veterans, retired personel and active soldiers play Twilight 2000, right?

>>51041921
Have it ever occured to you that people might be simply uncomfortable with playing as someone or something they have no clue about? As in - not making an ass of themselves or actually realising how little they know about the subject?

Isn't there the so-called spike of stupidity, where people who really have no clue about subject A are the most vocal "experts" about it, but then the eagerness to take voice drops sharply with gainng even little knowledge about A, because they realise how little they know?
Apply it to the situation and you are at home.

>>51042169
This

I've got a player who pretty much enrolled on Sinology to be able to make honest to God Chink PCs. It actually greatly improved our games overally, because he shared a lot of materials and we were reading all on the same subjects.

>>51025399
Can you tell us more?

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Not really a traditional game as such (or is it?) but growing up my dad always enforced fucking stupid rules on the family when we played Monopoly together

>We could only spend the amount of money that he had in the bank at the time, usually about 2-4 grand, but if we 'ate too much food' one month for example he would force us to have less money as 'punishment' so he could win the game
>if he discovered shit stains in the washing that week the 'culprit' would have to buy the brown properties on the first go, and they wouldn't be allowed to build hotels or houses because 'shit isn't a good foundation, and they need the space for laundromats due to anons shit stains'. he did this until I was 18 because I have always been hefty and had fecal issues
>if he bought the electric company he would force everyone to have their turns with the lights off as a 'punishment' for us using too much electricity that month
>if I was in jail everyone could skip that square because 'nobody visits a fatloser in jail'
>sometimes he would cut 'go to jail' squares from other monopoly boards and place them over other squares if he caught anyone breaking the law that month, even if that just meant littering or loitering (in our own home)
>he would charge the same rent for houses as hotels because 'you ungrateful shits treat this house like a hotel'

fuck, I wish I could enjoy monopoly.

>>51042073
Courage on the battlefield, cowardice on the tabletop.

>>51042424
>Enjoying Monopoly
I've got a message for you, anon. Even without such retarded house-rules, Monopoly literally can't be enjoyed. It's part of the design.

>>51042754
? ? ?
The fuck that's even suppose to mean?

>>51042424
Dude, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your dad is a fucking sociopath.

>>51037860
The fact you're missing his point so hard proves you're the one with low social skills.

>>51042754
>People who play what they want to play are cowards
Nice "logic"

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>>51042424
Your dad sounds based.

>>51024140
I can't play musicians because I've been playing for over a decade and fantasy portrayals of stringed instrumentalists drive me up the wall.
>no instrument case, have fun when your expensive violin gets warped and shitty
>traveling with no spare strings or rosin
>instruments are always 100% tuned-up and ready to go, even if disused and exposed to the elements for years
>blood on your bow-hair? No problem! Not like that thing depends on friction against the strings or anything!
>you can totally keep playing while getting stabbed, no problem! No risk of it getting broken!
>yeah, sure you can put a fucking gun into the internals of your mandolin with no problems, why not?
>just slap a bayonet on the end of the instrument, that totally won't break it soon as you apply any kind of force
>play with thick heavy gloves? Sure! Won't' interfere with anything
>no one ever practices music unless it's a gag about how bad the person is.

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>>51043883
forgot muh pic

>>51024255
As in, you're not even useful in the bedroom?

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>>51043883
Well, how else you are going to kill your enemies if not with a trusty battle guitar?

>>51040450
I had a similar issue.
>Running a moderately religiously themed campaign
>Guy wanted to play as an atheist
>said okay
>asked if he could have an int. bonus
>rolled my eyes
I figured that was just bantz, we didn't know each other well but well enough to have bickered about Christianity without rancor out of the game. Poked good-hearted fun at one another a bit.

>start up campaign
>focused on Platonic forms with three gods representing Logos, Pathos, and Ethos
>Corrupt or clueless bureaucracy and law enforcement with terrorists who are really just radical patriots (not against the government higher ups or their species, against abuses and refusing to enforce the law)
>Part of the game is that neither side is in the right, they had to choose from either or neither
>guy decides to run off from the party and pretend he's Dawkins by attacking monks and priests
>gets caught (his fault)
>whines but gets bailed out by the party navigating the inefficient and corrupt justice system
>does it again
>party took a third option and is chasing down an ambassador who may be tainted
>doesn't get rescued so he starts a fight with a religious cellmate
>attacks intervening guards
>dies

He bitched out everyone for not saving him earlier and tried to use RPing as an excuse for his faggotry. Didn't know him well so now he doesn't play with us anymore.

>>51024215
Eclipse phase

I only play stoic characters because I can only effectively pretend to be cheerful and talkative when in the presence of cute girls that I've known for years.

>>51038014
Not him, but you shouldn't have to take meds to post on 4chan. Spell, punctuate, and capitalize correctly, yes. Move from phone to computer, sure. Actually put some thought into posts from time to time? Great. But taking fucking mind-altering drugs to try to create an illusion of normalfaggotry? Fuck that shit. This is a comfy place, let people be comfy here.

>>51038879
A kind of bra.

>>51041921
It's more comfortable to roleplay something that's at least adjacent to your life experiences.

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>>51045683
>Insane asylum
>Comfy

>>51043883
Mate, I'm a botanist. You know how often plants come up in the background?

>>51024140
Yea I know one guy who refuses to play character's with high int because he's a dumb ass. Another who won't play party faces because he's shit at wording things.

>>51046113
It's comfier to be able to take off your mask among kin than to wear it on pain of shunning.

>>51046290
I'm not sure you understand the concept of social mask.
Or anonymity.

But one thing is for sure - you fucking take meds for your mental issues, rather than running amok with them, you stupid cunt.

>>51046290
>Being functional human being is equal to something bad or undesirable
Have you tried eating a bullet?

>>51037801

I get what you're saying. The exact same thing happened to me. Hence why I've spent the past year becoming my groups wormtounge. Hate who I hate, like who I like, etc.

My group has entered a golden age of cooperation and communication. I feel kinda shitty that my autism has forced me to make a point system for social interaction but it's forced me out of my shell. Im slowly purging/reforming all my troublemakers.

>>51046318
Posting on 4chan isn't amok.

Also I wasn't referring to social masks as a concept, but merely using masks in general as a metaphor for maintaining the illusion of sanity.

>>51046365
Nobody thinks it's bad or undesirable to be functional, but for people who aren't really, it's nice to not have to pretend otherwise sometimes.

>>51046405
Take your meds and stop shitposting in this thread. Nobody gives a fuck about your issues, what you meant or any other bullshit from your personal life. If you need friends - leave your fucking basement.

>>51046318
Antipsychotics are chemical lobotomy. Willing taking them is suicide.

All of you normalfags need to fuck right off. You fucks are ruining everything great about the hobby, making it about weed, alcohol, and picking up girls. This is why I only play AD&D anymore, and only over IRC. This is exactly why weebshit will always remain good: you shitheads will never be comfortable with loli and other weird sexualized content, which keeps the community pure.

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>>51046238
>Mate, I'm a botanist. You know how often plants come up in the background?

I feel you. I went to business school, and a little bit of my soul >implying business students have souls dies just about every time a roleplayer tries to make conjecture about anything related to economics or business. It doesn't help that we're playing shadowrun either.

>>51041137
>Colour spray
>Web
>Grease
>Charm Person
>Tasha's Hideous Laughter
>Ray of Enfeeblement
And thats just level 1 core.

>>51024140
i don't play druids because i hate hippies

>>51024140
Are you/is your DM the kind of person who says "Okay, sing it" when bardery is involved?

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>>51046510
Mashallah, brother.

>>51046510
>Implying not being insane is bad
>Implying /tg/ isn't normie board for past 3 years
Ebin

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>>51046510

>>51046510
So you are playing D&D in secluded group, because you are insane weeb with no friends or social skills?
That would explain why D&D and PF generals are now waifu posting and animu bullshit.