>fun freeform crossover play-by-post RPG
>it gets derailed by people constantly wanking on their favorite characters and no selling each other.
>meanwhile the people who actually roleplay, even if it's one line, get shitted on.
I am literally pissed right now and I just remembered why I like tabletop RPGs to begin with.
least yours didn't get derailed by a no-joke baby RPer.
>>51333616
>still playing freeform play-anything crossover garbage
Son, that shit is for high school kids.
I've been in these dive games before and they are the bottom of the roleplay barrel. The same thing will happen to it that happens to all games of that type: the good roleplayers identify and befriend each other, and then sneak off to roleplay with each other in secret games that the power-wank no-selling shitheads aren't invited to, whether they're playing freeform or good and proper RPGs with systems.
I hate to be the "mature games for mature gamers like myself" stereotype, but freeform really is for kids and manchildren. It's something people should grow out of, like fanfiction or YA novels.
>>51333636
What?
>>51333636
Wait.
Baby as in new to roleplaying?
Or as in roleplaying a baby?Or did a baby wheel up to the keyboard and start going to town?
>>51334092
It used to be worse, believe me. I mean, it's cancer, but they've purged themselves multiple times, so at least now it's mostly benign cancer.
>>51333750
>like fanfiction
>implying fiction/art approved by the bourgeoisie ("published") has any more inherent value than fiction/art derived from fiction approved by the bourgeoisie
>>51333616
>freeform
The fuck did you expect?
>>51334761
Well, one implies more effort.
No, seriously.
The other implies that you are incapable of imagining anything unless the bourgeoisie has already imagined it for you.
See also: Our demand that all space fantasy be delivered to us by cartoon mouse.
>>51333616
>implying tabletop is not full of wanking
>implying roleplaying is mandatory
You got me. 9/10 bait.
>>51336795
If that shit happens on table you can leave the table or optimally punch the jackass in the face and make him behave or leave.
being physically present and "vulnerable" makes a hell of a difference.