Controversial things you do as GM

I don't allow roasties at my table. Their constant need for attention and stupidity just ruins the game, and they distract people who actually want to play.

>>51734774

What the fuck is a roastie?

>>51734791
Hello, Reddit.

>>51734760
>I also don't allow them to play a race that isn't human, elf, dwarf, half-elf, half-orc, gnome, halfling.
Wow, look at this shitfaggot, allowing all these degenerate races.

The only race that should be allowed at any table is Halfling, because halflings were the main characters in LoTR and nobody should play anything that's not LoTR-inspired, it's all weabo trash

>>51734791
I've been lead to believe it's an r9k meme referring to women.

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>>51734760
>>51734774

>>51734760

I can already tell that you take playing make believe in a basement with your friends way too seriously.

Until recently, I didn't allow rogues nor evil characters, chaotic neutrals that are just CE with a nametag, true neutrals that are just CN that are just CE, spellcasters whose entire spellbook revolves around emulating a rogue...

Eventually I just banned D&D.

Oh yeah, also nonwhites and non-Americans are to be shot on sight.

>>51734774
Topkek

>>51734774
Boy this thread turned to shit fast. Faster than usual.

>>51734845
I mean honestly if a group is there to have fun by taking RP seriously, why not?

>>51734864

It started shit given the stupidity of the OP.

>>51734873
>way too seriously

Don't give a shit about coasters because it's not my table.

>>51734803
Why do crossboarders spouting post-2013 memes think they're some sort of 4chan elite oldfag brigade when someone doesn't know what their shitposts mean?

>>51734760
A friend of mine used to play exclusively female charcaters and was generally terrible at it, so I permanently banned him from doing so. Games are much nicer now without that. While some people can manage it fine, others definitely can't, so I do understand your position, OP.

Also catgirls are banned too. I try not to restrict players from picking a race, but it's a little tricksy when some races are not welcome in other race's settlements. Generally all the players must agree which 'faction' of races to play as.

>>51734895

>I invite other people to my friend's house and tell them they can shit on the floor because it's not my house.

>>51734864
OP deserved it

>>51734939
I simply don't respect wood.

>>51734845
Why shouldn't I? Contrary to what hugbox dwellers here will tell you, there *is* a right and wrong way to play roleplaying games. And forcing your sexually deviant "I wanna be a girl" fetish on your friends who are trying to tell a believable story gets in the way of that. You can have a wank before the session, not spend 200 hours pretending to be a girl so you can get off. Is this the state of the hobby now? Is this what Pathfinder has done to the average TTRPG player? Turned them into thinking that it's perfectly fine to insert this kind of shit into games? There was a time when everyone played their own gender and no one batted an eyelid, dudes wanting to play as girls only started with Pathfinder. Now I'm either /pol/ or some kind of other boogieman of the month for trying to make my games immersive. Fucking ridiculous.

I'm already suspending disbelief at the 90lb scrawny dude being a 25 STR barbarian, or the greasy neckbeard being the fantasy equivalent of James Bond. But no way in hell am I going to sit there and listen to a male voice narrate himself as "she" or try to put on a horrendous girly voice for hundreds of hours. There are trillions of characters for him to play as that are male, if his super original character concept works as a female, it would damn sure work as a male.

>>51734910
The entire reason their community exists is because they need to constantly validate each other that they're great and that everyone else is the problem. Of course they're gonna get smug fast.

>n-no you're not a loser, literally all women are just bitches
>the problem is not you, an individual
>it is half of the world's population
>not you, you're one of the smart ones
>that's why you haven't accomplished anything
>because you're so smart
>don't thrust so hard without warning me, you're making me gag

>>51734889
I guess we're repeating ourselves snidely now, I'll do the same. What is "too serious" for you might be just right for some other group of friends.

>>51734955

Tried reading your post, but it was annoying and boring so I stopped like 2 sentences in.

>Why shouldn't I?
Because taking something way too seriously means that you're ruining the fun.

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>>51734760
I railroad like a motherfucker, and even use a DMPC to do it. I flagrantly direct players where they should go and what they should do and they never question it so long as I make them think it was their idea.

>>51734963

You say that like this is some kind of debate we're having.
I've already decided OP is an autistic killjoy.
His friends probably are too, but whatever.
I don't need any help or input from you.

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>>51734955

>tfw when I played several female characters in my old group
>tfw when the GM said I did it really well and he never once had an issue with it
>tfw when this apparently triggers you even though you and I are so disconnected I may as well not even exist for all it affects you

>>51734955
>if his super original character concept works as a female, it would damn sure work as a male.
Not necessarily. I've got plenty of trepidations about men playing women but there are concepts that work better with a female character than a male. And I've even known dudes that do a pretty bang-up job playing a female character.

Actually, I guess just one dude who did it well.

So I'm not saying your rule is ENTIRELY unjustified.

>>51734760
>I don't let males play female characters.
Stupid

>I also don't allow them to play a race that isn't human, elf, dwarf, half-elf, half-orc, gnome, halfling.
Reasonable depending on the setting

>>51734760
You sound like a good GM. Any guy that wants to play a girl is almost always doing it as some weird sex thing.

>>51735035

The only female character I ever played was a kissless virgin who had no interest in sex, and remained so the entire campaign.

>>51734760
I don't allow Orange-Fetishists at my table. Take your Shit Waifruit and Shit taste out of my home and away from my luscious Apples.

Players aren't allowed to question white supremacy or Trump's policies. This isn't your hugbox.

>>51735099
Are you making a satire or just false flagging?

>>51734774
>>>/r9k/
Kill yourself. You are wasted genes

>>51734760
No vaping at my table.
Kyle.
You goddamn ingrate shit heap animal.

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>>51735165

>>51734760
No vaping or smoking. If you bring alcohol or pot, bring enough for the table, because it's not fucking fun to have one stoned asshat when we're all sober.

>>51735165
It's not like he'll reproduce anyways, and even if he stops consuming resources, you won't see any of them.

I don't allow players at my table, because only fags have friends.

>>51735179
Neither do I own a sword or an armor. Your "argument" is invalid. :^)

>>51735189
If we're lucky, he'll do that thing where your remains get turned into a diamond and he'll wind up an advanced semiconductor in some server somewhere.

So don't rule out the possibility that he'll be useful someday.

>>51735198
What kind of faggot doesn't own at least a sword?

>>51734958
so much this.

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>>51735189
You're right. Feels good.

>>51734760
The group is no longer allow to play "Strip D&D."

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>>51734760
>I don't let males play female characters.

>>51735256
What about Strip MAID?

>>51735256
No, Carl, seriously, put your shirt back on. Nobody wants to see your greasy chest hair.

>>51735217
He might be useful before that, though. He could sell a kidney, or he could take a bullet for the president, or he could become the vital patient zero of some new disease, or something.

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>>51734760
>I don't let males play female characters.
That's fine.

>I also don't allow them to play a race that isn't human, elf, dwarf, half-elf, half-orc, gnome, halfling.
>mfw

>>51735280
No.

>>51735282
>allowing unattractive people into your games
>not stacking your group with roleplay-loving Chippendales dancers and firefighters
Shucky ducky.

>>51735144
Who even knows anymore?
4chan is like the fucking Alpha Legion at this point.

>>51734910

They're huge faggots and most of them are lower quality posters than actual ledditfags. They're basically on the same level as ye olde /b/ shitposters.

t. Habbo Hotelfag, been here for a decade now

>>51735144
Poe's Law.

>>51734774
sounds like you're either inviting women who aren't RPG enthusiasts or all your male players are thirsty virgins who can't focus on a game when there's the scent of estrogen in a room.

All the the female players I've had in games have been invested in creating meaningful NPC and PC interactions and following/affecting the plot I am developing for the game, more than most male players I've encountered. It helps create a good balance with the murderhobo's of the group and makes me feel like the effort I put into my NPC's and story isn't wasted.

>>51734955
>player narrates themselves in third person
>attempts to put on a voice or accent they obviously can't do
That's the fault of the player being shit at RPing, not the fact that the PC is female.

>People playing characters of different gender started with Pathfinder

smug_anime_girl.jpg

>>51734760
i let my players make any kind of character they want, no matter how dumb, derivtaive, edgy, etc.

>>51735189
I'm personally fine with people vaping or smoking, just don't do it inside and make sure you don't reek too badly of smoke when you come back in.

100% agree with the alcohol and pot rule. Either that, or agree beforehand if it SHOULD be brought or not.

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>>51734760
>>51734774
>>51734955
I sincerely can't tell if this is bait or just being a piece of trash that nobody actually likes.

>>51734760
This is the kind of GM created by having to deal with people from /pfg/...And i agree with him completley.

>>51735391
you can't tell? considering you're a smug anime reaction image poster defending playing women in ttrpgs, you should be an expert on being a piece of trash nobody likes

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>>51735414
Here's your (You) you want. I sincerely hope it makes you feel better about your sad life so devoid of attention that you have to shit yourself on an anime imageboard to attract a virtual crowd to mock you.

>>51735401
/pfg/ could turn any doe eyed GM into a grognazi like OP

just imagine the things the poor guy has seen to have rules like that, hes had a hard life

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>>51735469
Autism's a hell of a drug

>>51735189
I don't mind vaping or weed at all, but if you smoke cigarettes you're doing that shit outside.

Thing about alcohol is only about half the people I know actually drink, and those that do are picky as fuck about what they drink, so even if I brought enough for everyone there's a 80% chance I'm the only one that will drink any of it.

>>51734955
I agree with this. It's reasonable. Especially when you have real females around the table and the dude is just rping what he think is a woman. It gets really weird.

>>51734760
Then I hope you don't have any important female NPCs in your campaigns, OP.

>>51735453
>mad enough to reply
>implying im the pathetic one
top jej, animeposter

>>51734760
What if the female is an old lady?
Speaking of which, has anyone ever played an old woman PC?

>>51735453
>Posts a smug anime character in response
Lmao, you admitted defeat at his hands and walked under the yoke.

>>51734995
to be fair it may have to do with the ind of people he plays with, I know I wouldn't let my players....it's just trouble.

>>51735198
why don't you? harnischfechten is great workout

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>>51735521
>implying OP's campaign doesn't solely consist of tall, muscular, bearded men on a quest to discover the purest form of love, whose bonds can only be formed between the manliest of brothers-in-arms.

Utter disdain for plebs. I bet you prefer Bishōnen, ya faggot.

>>51735628
I only have love for crushing my enemies. Have them driven before me and hearing the lamentations of their women.

>>51735061
Same. I played an autisma cleric and the DM adored me for it. But that might've had more to do with my character having a conscience and having consistent beliefs instead of being a chaotic madman like every other PC.

>>51734980
that's funny because everybody does it.

>>51734791

A roastie is a huge whore whose cunt lips are sagging around her knees. They're shallow and fuck around, and their vapid personalities require instant gratification.

After their prime real estate has been used up by Chads, they seek the attention of beta orbiters (in this case /tg/) and fuck the occasional one to maintain their menagerie.

They're usually also feminists, and get mad at women who don't fuck around, calling them oppressed, etc, hence the term.

Basically >>51734774 is smart.

>>51734760
B-but muh kitsune waifu with 14 pages of thinly veiled fetish fuel backstory!

>>51735767
Won't critique the personality description, but holy fuck have you failed to even have a grade-school level grasp of female biology.

Not really surprised about that though desu.

>>51734760
No women players. Period.
No female PCs.
Your character cannot have connections to female NPCs. Having any will automatically invalidate your character's background.
Roll for stats, every time. I'm fucking sick of min maxers.
No non-human races except for dwarves, elves, halfings, and gnomes.
Bringing snacks is required, otherwise you will leave my house.
You cannot be a carbon based life form IRL. I am more sick as these am I am min maxers or closet faggots who play as females.

>>51735899

I was describing the meme. I don't personally have problems with females. I avoid cunts, just like I avoid assholes, and don't waste my time with people I don't like, since life is way too short.

>>51735384
I do this too, not because I am a patient man, but because I actually get a kick out of it.

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I swear to God, /tg/ has gotten so much worse now that all the closet /pol/sters think they have legitimate defensible viewpoints.

>>51736029
It's not /pol/, it's /r9k/.

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>>51736042
You say that as if they aren't the same userbase.

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>>51736029
i think its gotten better. i also want to point out that you are not offering an actual argument as to why their views are wrong. your feelings are not good enough.

>>51734760
you should have made a human only setting then.

Elves, Dwarves, Half Elves, Half Orcs, Gnomes and Halflings are only acceptable in settings with races that arent just X-Human to support the cast.

On their own, they are unacceptable and should be replaced by humans only, which in terms means that you the DM dont have an excuse not to come up with interresting cultures for said humans.

>>51736118
He's using a pretty valid tactic.

See, by offering an argument, you let people believe that they have viewpoints worth considering and debating. It validates their worldview, and enforces the belief that even if they aren't correct, they're at least worth responding to.

If you instead respond with disdain and refuse to address their points, they instead regard themselves as an oppressed minority, someone championing a truth others refuse to see. And while that sounds bad, it's what they were doing already, so they remain as worthless and useless as they were anyways.

Basically, you can't shut stupid shitheads up, so the best you can do is focus on making them stagnate in their views so that they die out.

>>51736243
but right wing parties are sweeping the western world..... the no platform strategy is objectively failing.

heres a good video about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BEubdzytwI

>>51735384
Me too, but acts have consequences. If it's an investigation game and you're a murderhobo, the session will probably end with the bad guys winning.

>>51736072
They really aren't. Crossboarding is a thing (of course) and /pol/ has a massive userbase so obviously there's /pol/tards in every board, but the United Axis of People You Don't Like doesn't exist outside of your mind.

>>51734760
No Malkavians.

I make nearly everything up as I go along. The only prep I ever do is to stat up some monsters that they will fight if I feel like it that night, take little notes of deeds the PCs do to trick them into thinking they're playing in a gigantic sandbox world when in reality it's just cribbed together full of little scribbles and ideas that pop into my head while I'm at work.

I've been doing this for years now and they are still none the wiser. What is important though is that they are enjoying themselves.

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I let my player play any alignment, race, class, or sex they want as long as you build to work together with the party (rouges aren't allowed to steal from members, paladins can't just go lawful stupid and merc players without just cause ect.) and you have fun.

No point buy, always roll for stats/hit points.

All actions have consequences, including character creation. If you roll up a hobgoblin, depending on the cities and setting you may be killed on sight by the local residents.

Players may not roll diplomacy or intimidate (except to force flee) on other players. You "role play" conversation with each other, not "roll play".

Min max if you want, I run a difficult but fair game and the traps/puzzles are just as likely to kill you as the combat.

>>51736693
I like that. I use a module as the bones and bullshit everything else. Very little work involved for me and every experience feels personalized to the players. Every one wins

>>51734774
Good man. I have a similar rule at my table. I find the best way to weed them out is to have them read a rule book in front of you. Sounds simple, but a roastie can't manage to read a rulebook for any amount of time. Seriously, it's almost funny to see women trying to weasel out of learning anything about the game they are trying to play, women's brains aren't just wired for anything but attention whoring.

I fudge dice to quickly kill characters of people who don't roleplay. I also make them look like failures and idiots by fudging their skill checks.

>>51734774
>>51736757
It's horrible to say, but these are true. If people have ulterior motives for turning up to a game then it's always going to cause some trouble. I've had the displeasure of having to deal with one hag after another who were purely there to try and turn the group into their own nerd harem.

Best way to resolve it is to do the same with any other player. Don't give them the slack they expect because X chromosome. Insist that they learn the rules and how to perform and to focus on the game rather than trying to make themselves the focus.

And that's how you end up with good and interested players and weed out the bad ones, regardless of gender.

>>51734760

That's not remotely controversial. Frankly, players tend to forget they're playing the more exotic races anyway - Most players basically play themselves.

If you make them characters that are already fairly close, you don't need to worry about being OOC. Like if someone wants to hit on a girl, it's a little awkward to remind him "Hey, you're a hideous frog-monster, remember? Also, you're a woman!"

>>51736840
>Frankly, players tend to forget they're playing the more exotic races anyway - Most players basically play themselves.
I feel bad for you, your table must be pretty shit.

>>51736029

>ugh people shouldn't have different opinions to me., I need my safe space!

Kill yourself :)

>>51734955
Do you only have male NPCs when you GM?

>>51736920

Why should he only have male NPCs? The DM's prerogative is to run any characters he feels are necessary. If the PCs don't like his restrictions, they can find another DM...Assuming there's one.

It's a seller's market.

>>51734760

No paladins of Religious characters.
Every time I've had someone play as either, they have tried to derail the game or destroy everything plot related because "muh religion"

>>51736912

Exactly what kind of games do you play, at any rate? When you're seated at the table, there's always an element of 'I'm playing as myself'.

That's why it's far easier for PCs to play as characters who are very similar, so there's no disconnect. It also helps me suspend disbelief. Like, it cuts down on the awkwardness a lot, as long as it's a mostly beer and pretzels game.

>>51735900
>Your character cannot have connections to female NPCs. Having any will automatically invalidate your character's background.
I know that's not what you meant, but the thought about the party coming together because they all have no mother sounds not bad.

>>51736932
Obviously because he shouldn't be "forcing your sexually deviant "I wanna be a girl" fetish on your friends"

>>51736840

Oddly enough, the opposite is true. Players basically play themselves but more murderhobo when they're Joe the human fighter, or Billy the human mage.

The best roleplaying and most memorable characters are the ones who are as alien as possible compared to the player.

>>51735503
I don't even allow vaping anymore.

I don't know if I'm just being memed, but I swear every time I allowed vaping, they did something to it to make it smell like cigarette smoke. Across 5 different people.

None of them could even keep that shit put away for 2 minutes like they were addicted to the point I thought they were just smoking regular cigarettes at first.

>>51736961

I think I get what he means. Everytime someone says they have a 'connection' to a female NPC, it means that they want a waifu.

I think some Pathfinder Adventure Paths are really bad at this. Particularly Wrath of the Righteous, where you can choose to have a connection to the redeemed succubus waifu. Which also adds a creepy touch of pedophilia to, because now you're all grown up and ready to show onee-chan how much of a man you are.

>>51734864
>turned
Did you not read the OP?

>>51734760
I don't let people play bards, evil characters, chaotic neutral, gnomes or pixies until I know they won't use those things as excuses for lolrandumb shit.

>>51736693
>>51736723
You two sound like pretty cool GMs.

>>51734910
>crossboarders
The most pathetic of memes, hands up who actually limits themselves to just a single board, who actually fucking does that? You're telling me you have only one interest or that you really do feel some kind of tribal mentality about a god damn anonymous imageboard, please tell me it's the first one.

>>51734955
I once listened to this audio book where one guy did all the voices and so he put on this silly girly voice for the female characters, it was really distracting.

The book was Armour, it was shit.

>>51734958
>The entire reason their community exists is because they need to constantly validate each other
>>51735224
>so much this.

Do you guys even listen to yourselves?

>>51734974
But who is to judge what is too seriously? What right do you have to impose on others how they should act? The name of the thread was "Controversial things you do as GM" not "things that are objectively correct and that absolutely everybody must do". If someone wants to ban people from their thirty years war game for not speaking in German because that would be unrealistic that's their business. Get over it autist, did it ever cross your mind that not everybody has the same definition of fun? Some people like Call of Duty, some people like Arma, it's a big planet.

>>51735005
>Not necessarily. I've got plenty of trepidations about men playing women but there are concepts that work better with a female character than a male
Such as? I could understand in a historical setting where they're like suffragettes or some shit and the campaign's specifically about that but why does it matter what the person shooting fireballs has swinging between their legs?

>>51735061
But you were constantly masturbating the entire time right?

Seriously though why did they have to be female, what did that add to the character? I don't agree with OP banning it but I've always found the idea odd, if you're going to play someone who's dissimilar to you why not set your sights a little bit higher then female, why not play an orc or some shit instead? Female humans and male humans aren't that different.

>>51735198
Holy shit anon you're legitimately autistic, you took that way too literally.

>>51735654
>Have them driven before me
Is that what the kids are calling it now.

>and hearing the lamentations of their women.
What cause you stole their boyfriends?

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>>51737092
Not him just people like to play girls. Like I can understand and have seen the people see pfg play girls and just act really weird or super annoying ( CUTE ! etc) but others just like playing girls and not much outside of that. I don't share the same view as >>51737062
But in his right he *can* do whatever he wants in his game as long he doesn't go about his day attacking people over what *they* want to play

>>51736243
Y'know you could've just said "don't feed the trolls" but obviously you were too butthurt for that simple truism.

>so they remain as worthless and useless as they were anyways.
So they wouldn't be if you'd responded? This whole post makes no sense.

>>51736441
>the irony of this post
Yeah it's only your insane conspiracy theories that are true anon, only yours.

Maybe there's just a whole bunch of people on this board who disagree with each other and have trouble taking criticism? But no, that would be impossible, there must be at least one conspiracy involved, if not more. People don't just argue with each other on the internet for no reason!

>>51735340
I've been to Habbo, RPG.net, Reddit, Voat, Digg, Gaia, and I should be by all accounts the biggest flaming faggot on 4chan yet I'm not. Why?

I only visit two boards; /vr/ and /tg/, and I've lost interest in /vr/.

>Captcha; eleven days

Oh fuck.

>>51736971
But players only get one character while the GM has to roleplay the entire rest of the world, your comparison is entirely false.

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>>51737190

>>51737139
That second post was mine as well, what was disagreeable about it? The people who sperg out about the realism fanatics are just as much killjoys as the realism fanatics who sperg out about the people who don't give a fuck about realism, it's two sides of the same sperg coin. None of your opinions are objective facts.

>>51735767
How can I meet one ???

>>51734958
What do you expect from a place where censorship and downboating things you don't like is the norm?

>>51737227
...what? I'm saying that both people should have the right to do whatever the want but should not sperg out when someone doesn't share the same view

>>51737240
They want*

>>51737062

>But who is to judge what is too seriously?
Anyone who isn't an autist, more or less.
It's pretty easy.

>What right do you have to impose on others how they should act?
This is where you completely went off the rails and started arguing against a straw man.

>If someone wants to ban people from their thirty years war game for not speaking in German because that would be unrealistic that's their business.
Did you specifically craft this sentence for me to make a Nazi joke?

>Get over it autist, did it ever cross your mind that not everybody has the same definition of fun?
Pretty ironic insult.
Also, if you actually think taking your make believe games so seriously that you "ban" people from playing as females or non core races is fun,
you're That Guy.

>>51735189
>>51735388
>>51735503
So if I want to drink I have to bring enough for at least 5 people? That's bullshit, it's byo at my house. You can have a drink or 2 of mine but I'm not made of money nor am I a charity.

I never get schlockered when I RP anyway. Well maybe once or twice, but not when it matters in an ongoing campaign.

>>51735910
So only blowjobs?

>>51736757
The female in our group is both a rules lawyer who knows the book better than the GM does, and an unrepentant min-maxer who carefully maths out the most optimal builds. She is also one of the most dedicated roleplayers in the group, second only to the professional voice actor. So I guess you're full of shit?

>>51737451

>"At least one person has been born with an arm missing so that means the statement "Humans have two arms" is a LIE!"
t. literally you

>>51735005
Rules can have exceptions. That doesn't necessarily make them bad general rules.

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>>51735628
Homosexual sex is innately more manly as it requires participation of two males, a contrario to degenerate heterosexual sex that needs one inferior female.

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>>51734760

I sometimes lie about the dice rolls.

Sometimes I roll something that will kill a player in a very early freak occurance and I don't want that to be the case.
Sometimes I let a player find a small reward of some kind when they shouldn't, but they're struggling horrendously.
Sometimes I do something that fucks their shit up a bit, because they're cruising through the session without a hitch of any kind.

Just sometimes.

Am I a bad GM, /tg/?

>>51737893
>the least manly thing you could do in relation to sex in roman society was cunnilingus
The romans are a real treat.

I let my players create characters together with tie ins to the plot and make sure the group fits together and in the setting.

>>51737975
That's part of your job, so no.

>>51735899
>but holy fuck have you failed to even have a grade-school level grasp of female biology
That's my favorite part about the meme. It's as stupid as "fapping will cause hair to grow on the palms of your hands", but since the people who sincerely use it will never see a naked female that isn't 1) an anime girl or 2) a porn star, they'll never know better.

>>51737975
As long as you are all having fun, it's alright

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>>51737011
I've always thought of crossboarding as not just visiting different boards, but refusing to take on the new board's culture. As in,
this is good:
>go to /v/
>nogaems
>loss.jpg
>LOL
>pcucks btfo
>go to /tg/
>mention specific episodes in powerlevel threads
>post cute dragons
>help a GM think of riddles for a sphinx
>behead all elves
this is bad:
>go to /v/
>black people are literally inferior in every way
>loss.jpg
>LOL
>pcucks btfo
>go to /tg/
>blacks are inferior but also somehow winning the race war
>are all druids cucks or just you
>this dragon thread reminds me of Final Fantasy
>loss.4u

It's the same etiquette as going to a different site - it's not inherently bad to use tumblr to follow your favorite artists (e.g. kavsketch, the one who ran the Omanag quest), but don't come in here spouting shit about how otherkin are valid and throwing uwu all over the place. And similarly, you look like a fool if you go to, say, TVTropes and start calling people cuckfags in the discussion pages.

Have a cute dragon.

>>51734774
I support this.

The only female character I ever played was not-Joan-of-Arc. She fell in battle protecting a group of peasants and farmers from an orc raiding party.

>>51737092
>Seriously though why did they have to be female, what did that add to the character? I don't agree with OP banning it but I've always found the idea odd, if you're going to play someone who's dissimilar to you why not set your sights a little bit higher then female, why not play an orc or some shit instead? Female humans and male humans aren't that different.
Being female should not simply add to the character it should be part of the character, that is what most people get wrong about playing a pc of a different gender.
I have played both female and male pcs, most the concepts could work for either gender, I simply pick one or the other based on arbitrary means.

>>51737893
Another reason their empire still exist today

>>51737190
Why do you think you're not a huge faggot.

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I expect my players to take initiative and not wait for me to explicitly ask them if they do A, B, C or anything at all
Modern video games have ruined people

Not me, but a guy I know played with a DM who mare everyone sign an ethical code of conduct in order to play with him.

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>>51734760
>I let my players play whatever sex and orientation they feel like.
>I integrate the PCs backstories into the main plot, and in a way that challenges their moral codes.
>I allow any alignment so long as the party members are nice to each other and can work together.
>I tell my players the DCs ahead of time and I don't fudge the dice.
>I roll in the open unless I'm rolling something the players aren't aware of, or unless I'm trying to psych them out.
>I give my players leeway to add NPCs, factions, and locations to my setting as part of their backstory.
>I ask my players to describe their critical successes and run with whatever they say, within reason.
>I never railroad, I always give 3+ paths the party can take and I consider the possible pros and cons of that choice in advance.
>I let my players get away with any abuse of their power and abilities, so long as they agree that it's fair game and enemies with the same powers can use it against them in the future.
>I ask my players what their favourite RPGs are and try to integrate mechanics from them into my campaign.
>I give zero plot armour to my NPCs and have contingencies in case they defeat critical ones in advance. Those contingencies never diminish the success of defeating that NPC, it's still an achievement with a meaningful reward.
>I create multiple tag-along NPCs that could join the party but I never force them in, I introduce them one at a time until the party finds one they like or decides not to take any, it's their call entirely.
>I rarely use random encounters and I build every battle like a boss fight, usually with multiple waves or phases, and they're always relevant to the story I'm trying to tell.
>I ask for feedback on my performance and the system after every session, and I actually try to improve myself and the game whenever possible. I try not to take any of it personally, and I encourage them to be as harsh as they need to be.

>>51736951
playing yourself is like baby's first roleplay, man.
After one or two sessions, your group should start becoming comfortable with playing things that are not themselves.

>>51734955

VIRT! HEY BUDDY!
missed you.

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>>51739213
>I create multiple tag-along NPCs that could join the party but I never force them in, I introduce them one at a time until the party finds one they like or decides not to take any, it's their call entirely.
My group would just recruit them all I'm afraid. The bard would just charm them all into becoming followers, without mind control of course.

Basically it would turn into an Npc harem for the PCs

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>>51739213
I do most of these things, though with a few tweaks here and there to fit my personal style (for example, I do make use of the occasional random encounter). Nevertheless, you sound like a pretty cool guy, Anon.

10/10, would let DM.

I have terrible luck with dice so I use a DM screen to blatantly fudge dice rolls for NPCs. I do this so the boss fight with the BBEG doesn't end with him slipping and falling on his ass or cutting his head off with his own sword (yes, this actually happened when I tried to DM Runequest).

The few occasions where I haven't fudge dice rolls, the results have been sadly hilarious. I once succeeded on my stealth roll for once and had a post-apocalyptic biker gang successfully ambush the party in camp, only for ever single biker to miss during the surprise round. Except for the shotgunners who crit-failed and killed some of their own allies with friendly fire.

>>51739279

>Roll for traps.

>>51739279
A player of mine did that until the group were so large they were basically a small army.

Leads to some great moments, but it's a bitch to keep up.

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>51739348
Alrighty

>>51734760
>>51734955
Kys, playing reverse gendered characters doesn't mean its automatically going to be shit. If they can't play a reverse gender character correctly then how the fuck you expect them to play any character right?
Played a female unsanctioned psyker in dark heresy and I have a terrible female voice, yet my group still enjoyed having her around. So you can fuck off.

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>>51739354
>>51739279
>ever not assembling a cadre of camp followers, soldiers, and specialists
>not being a roaming town all on your own
I just don't understand

I pay my friends to play with me and in return they fill out a survey based on my performance

>>51739367
honestly, anyone saying no reverse genders just doesn't know the joy of a good witch.
Any man can do a good old witch lady voice. And witches are a delightful bag of dicks to throw into any conflict. And their behavior is quite distinct from wizards.

>>51739360

>6 pretty npc girls offer to join your quest. Definitely no bulge.

>>51737514
>"Everyone has two arms!"
>"But this guys has one arm. I can see it, I'm looking at it right now."
>"Uh, actually I meant MOST people have two arms! You were wrong all along!Quake before my mighty metaphors! As cat with mouse, I toy with thee!"

I have and maintain high standards for all my players, expect them to heed my instructions/commands without complaint, take pleasure in wreaking emotional pain on them (I love it when they cry) and routinely set them up for massive failure in such a way that it is entirely their own fault.
On the other hand, I rarely lie to them (something that has infuriated past players because expect the gm to lie all the time), cheerfully reward them for running my rat maze, and genuinely want them to succeed in the face of soul crushingly bleak circumstances.

>>51739354
Savage Worlds is pretty alright for that, if you ever miss having enough swords to make a dragon sized bed of nails.

>>51739439

>"I'm autistic and cannot grasp the different between an absolute statement "Every human has two arms" and a general statement "Humans have two arms"

But actually we both know you're not really autistic, you're just pretending to be stupid so you can "win"

I cancel games on the day of.

I allow huge parties of 7 or more so that I can still run if half the party doesn't show up.

I'll leave a game on hiatus for weeks at a time and then expect players to pick right up where they left off.

I'll indulge players' magical realms, as long as they're willing to indulge mine.

I recycle certain plot points and encounter setups to the point they become iconic of my dming style, but mostly because I like them and don't want to spend effort coming up with something new.

I treat PCs as persistent elements within the setting. After the adventure is over, your character continues to be a part of the world and, though the players obviously get a say in how their characters end up, I'm the head writer here.

I never ever fudge dice rolls, persay, but I do make characters with generic stats if I'm pressed for time (so, for example, guy has 20 hit points, makes every roll at +3, ac of 16, swings a rapier since I have those stats memorized).

>>51739213
You're a fucking saint anon, keep on trucking.

>>51739509
"Women's brains can't understand anything but attention whoring" is an absolute statement, you mouthbreather. You need a "most" in there, or it's the entire group you're talking about.

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>>51734955
Man, you can make the same sentence just changing 'girl' to 'orc' and you get the same result.

>>51734955
So.. what about female NPCs?

>>51735654
you can't hear the lamentations of npcs that don't exist.

>>51739580

>"Women's brains can't understand anything but attention whoring" is an absolute statement

No.

It's a general statement, as you can see from the absence of any qualifier such as "All" or "Every" which would make it an absolute statement.

You should be careful, when you try THIS hard to pretend to be a complete retard some people might mistake you for genuinely being one.

>>51739580
That doesn't mean his point is completely invalid

>>51739611
>Why shouldn't I? Contrary to what hugbox dwellers here will tell you, there *is* a right and wrong way to play roleplaying games. And forcing your racially deviant "I wanna be an orc" fetish on your friends who are trying to tell a believable story gets in the way of that. You can have a wank before the session, not spend 200 hours pretending to be a girl so you can get off. Is this the state of the hobby now? Is this what Pathfinder has done to the average TTRPG player? Turned them into thinking that it's perfectly fine to insert this kind of shit into games? There was a time when everyone played their own race and no one batted an eyelid, dudes wanting to play as orcs only started with Pathfinder. Now I'm either /pol/ or some kind of other boogieman of the month for trying to make my games immersive. Fucking ridiculous.
>
>I'm already suspending disbelief at the 90lb scrawny dude being a 25 STR barbarian, or the greasy neckbeard being the fantasy equivalent of James Bond. But no way in hell am I going to sit there and listen to a human voice narrate himself as "orc" or try to put on a horrendous orcish voice for hundreds of hours. There are trillions of characters for him to play as that are human, if his super original character concept works as a orc, it would damn sure work as a human.
Also need to change male to human.

>>51736978
That's weird as hell anon, whenever my friends vape they always use the candy or fruit flavored stuff. Most of them dropped the habit like half a year ago anyway.

>Players can play whatever they want, but it needs to work together with the group, and the group can veto a character/character concept if it becomes a problem

>On that note, there's a session zero for character creation, every campaign. It's to make sure everyone plays nice together both mechanically and thematically, and to make sure everyone's on the same page as far as everything goes.

>I don't really do 'prep' per se, but I actually write a shit ton out beforehand. I have a multi page document of timetables and agendas for the factions/major players in the area, and then have those play out more or less how they will barring PC interaction.
>I never really try to predict or dictate player-related stuff, though. I just have a rough idea for an endgoal, and then wing the shit out of it. If things end up near the goal, then good, easier for me. If they don't, well then I can adapt.

>I roll out in the open, and the dice fall where they may. I never fudge , for or against.

>I ask for feedback from my players a lot, from a big pre-campaign planning discussion as to what they'd like to do and what the setting/mechanics are like, to little between session polls and talks about how they've interpreted things and how the campaign is going. It's often been eye opening, and lead me to consider avenues that I probably wouldn't have thought of on my own.

>I actively encourage my players to 'stunt', i.e. describe the interesting and cool ways in which they perform their attacks/make their skill rolls/do the thing. If it's especially interesting, I'll give a bonus

>I adore it when players add new elements/features/factions to the world via their backstory, and wish my players would do it more often. I find it makes them more invested if they're the ones that thought up person/place/thing X

>I hate random encounters, at least in the way that they're normally used. It's just pointless filler, especially in any system with drawn out combat.

Notice how no one ever has rules against women playing men. Even theoretical ones that take into account the fact that it'll never come up because women will never play with these types of people.

>>51739772
Not that anon, but "Women's brains can't understand anything but attention whoring" is implied to be an absolute statement.

>>51739787
Except it isn't. Most women reduce or stop their attention whoring when they either grow up or get a partner that satisfies their wants and needs (especially financial). Some women don't even attention whore at all because they want people to see them at their best, which is a result of either perfectionist behavior, shyness, or other possibilities.
And while I may be open to the idea that normal women have an innate desire to acquire attention and sympathy, they can also understand other concepts such as kin protection, pragmatic self-preservation, and coping with unfavorable conditions.

>>51739904
There's no advantage in being a man, there's hundreds of advantages to being a woman. It's why there's an order of magnitude more MtF than FtM. Why would anyone want to be a "FUCKING WHITE MALE" in today's political climate?

>>51734760
You don't know your attack modifier? Your attack misses and your turn is over.

Your turn took longer than 60 seconds? No turn for you.

Dice fell off the table? Natural 1. For fuck's sake it's not hard to keep the dice on my massive table.

>>51739954
>There's no advantage in being a man

lol fuck off back to tumblr with that shit

>>51739279
>My group would just recruit them all I'm afraid.
Each NPC companion is part of a different, mutually exclusive faction. There are a few combinations where they'll work together but I've set it up so they can have (at most) 2 at any given time. I'm actually working on a system where NPC allies work more like "tag-in' characters that PCs can work with to perform combination moves; for example, the scrappy thief can leap from the shadows and grab a guy from behind to leave him vulnerable, while the pyromancer can imbue your sword with flames to scorch nearby foes. Still working out the kinks though.

>>51739284
Thank you my man. I have one slot remaining on my Saturday game, Roll20 from 2:30 to 7:00 EST. Low-level sword and sorcery fantasy campaign. Homebrew system but it's super simple, you can make a character in 5 minutes or less. Send me a reply with your Skype info if you're interested.

>>51739954
Being a man is a crapshoot. The price of having only one X chromosome makes you vulnerable to your mom's immune system fucking you up by either making you turn out gay or female-brained, which isn't fun even in a society that is tolerant or accepting of those people. Also you could turn out autistic or colorblind.
However, if you have no problems, being a guy usually kicks ass. Sure, you are often forced to deal with your own emotional problems, your always hungry for sex, your life is even shorter, and you can't get by on looks, but you've got more strength, more guts, and you can pee standing up.

>>51740003
>Why would anyone want to be a "FUCKING WHITE MALE" in today's political climate?
I think he or she is implying that it's the "sins of the father" mentality that is making being a "FUCKING WHITE MALE" unfavorable.

>>51734760

You have a limited amount of time to declare your action in combat. If you don't (how long I give I vary depending on system complexity and how much mastery the players have, but I try to keep it around 15 seconds) say what you're doing in that time, you lose your round as your character stands around and tries to think what to do.

Same goes for the NPCs/monsters. Sometimes they gawp as well.

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>>51738441
you sound like the kind of hothead who gets upset at baneposts outside of /tv/

>>51740092
>you can pee standing up.
Not legally in Sweden.

>>51737198
Since when does your character have to be what you personally want to be irl? Does playing a low-int barbarian mean somebody secretly wants to be retarded? Get real.

One of my friends is playing a girl because they're a huge Touhou fan and they're making a Patchouli expy as their character. They love trying to dig up lore and our DM (a first timer) shits their pants a bit trying to improv things about the world they hadn't accounted for yet. It led to the existence of a public transportation system where people ride on the back of brontosauruses to get from city to city.

>>51740126
A good rule. I use a variant of Popcorn Initiative - highest initiative chooses who goes next and the last character chooses who goes next in the next round. Anyone who can't decide what their doing has to choose to Wait, pick who goes next, and once chosen again they HAVE to either take their turn or skip it entirely.

It helps that every major action in the system either requires no dice roll or uses the SAME dice roll each time, so you don't have people asking "What am I rolling again?" Quick resolution so they can focus more on describing what they're doing specifically.

>>51736757
How the fuck was this post so good up until the last line?

>>51734760
I try to downplay dragons and make them more like super-tough giant lizards rather than some type of intelligent, magical creature. One of my recurring players has a dragon fetish and I try to keep it out of the game as best I can.

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>>51734955
Agree with this post 100%, but I don't think it's Pathfinder that started the transexual trend.

A guy playing a girl isn't some political statement about transgenderism. Am I a trap because I played metroid and enjoyed it?

Playing as the opposite gender is pointless at best and game-ruining awful at worst.

>>51740919
>Playing anything other than human is pointless at best and game-ruining at worst.
>Playing anything other than a commoner is pointless at best and game-ruining at worst.
>Playing anything other than yourself is pointless at best and game-ruining at worst.

Remember when people embraced escapism and, you know, playing a role in a game? You know, a role-playing game. Those were good times.

>>51734760
I can understand not wanting to deal with "Hey, GM, can I play as [unbalanced and badly made homebrew race]?" all the time, but I don't see the problem with men making female characters or vice versa as long as they aren't being a creep about it.

>>51741109
playing games for escapism is too cringey and weird.
Don't you know you play tabletop to be cool?

>>51741109
>not playing your noble self in game

get a load of this pleb

>>51741109
I bet you don't even play as a Mary Sue self-insert in your games. What a faggot.

>>51734774
I love how true this is and how the angry knights and roasties come.

I also ban trannies and homos

>>51737043
so much this

>>51736118
>le marketplace of ideas~

>>51739510
>when the bait's decent but the thread already went to shit about something else

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I get some of my character art from hentai. Nothing explicitly lewd, though.

>>51741972
Except that one actually isn't by ShindoL.

>>51741963
I really wish /tg/ had a better quality of trolls.

Every day, it's the same old shit

>I'm OP pretending to be a libtard
>I'm a /pol/tard pretending to be a libtard, so funny
>I'm a libtard pretending to be a /pol/tard, how's that make you feel, what do you mean you're not upset yet
>tranny tranny
>cuck cuck cuck

for 300 posts, every ding-dong day.

I've basically stopped reading troll threads, which used to be a prime source of entertainment, because they're just so repetitive and predictable. It's like a low-quality bot is churning these out.

I'd try to improve the board quality, but I'm not a very good troll.

>>51735061
One of my players is playing as a female druid with Not!FantasyAustim. It helps with social encounters involving female npcs, and I often give the player advantage in social checks if shes talking one on one with another female in order to reward her player roleplaying her well

>>51734774
>all the asshurt resulting from this post
kek
you must have hit a nerve

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>Establish lore of the world heavily
>Maps, in-depth history, NPC profiles, etc
>Then drop the party into a sealed off land where no information of the rest of the world matters

>>51734955
This anon is totally correct. The only reason I've ever seen for guys wanting to play women is to either make them fuck NPCs or because they wish to be the little girl. It's annoying as fuck and I don't want to have to put up with it when I'm running a game. It's always magical realm and really, there's no place for that in a game unless you're doing private ERP.

>>51737043
Why should they?
They only hear their typing on their keyboards anyway.

>>51742982
Am I the only one who flips a coin to see if my PC is a boy or a girl?

>>51742982
There's ample evidence all over /tg/ to the contrary, maybe you just keep running into shitty players.

>>51743197
>maybe you just keep running into shitty players.

Anon, anecdotal evidence is universal truth. If I have a bad experience with men playing as female PCs then that means everyone else has.

I wouldn't understand a white knighting nu-male cuck to understand though.

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>>51737975
I do this too.

Sometimes I have done it for my own sake. Or I just make up situations where they "need to roll" and make the result whatever's convenient.

>players on a quest
>come across a "traveling merchant"
>they decide he is really suspicious
>their dickass thief decides to assassinate him
>ranger stops him, but not long enough for the "merchant" to go uninjured
>decide to interrogate him
>says he knows nothing
>they roll to convince him to come clean
>they find no lie in his words
>they still freaking suspect him
>"enhanced interrogation"
>still nothing
>tie him up and sleep; plan to carry him with them the whole way and interrogate him until he says something
>I did not plan for this
>gosh darn it, the freaking "merchant" is actually just a merchant
>I don't want to have to keep track of this useless merchant guy
>ranger shakes him awake in the morning
>make him roll
>"aw shucks too bad he was so shaken by your torture that you give him a heart attack upon waking him and he dies"
>party is STILL CONVINCED HE WAS SUSPICIOUS
>even after looting all of his stuff and finding nothing but ORDINARY MERCANTILE WARES
>they still bring it up OOC like "Who was that guy!? How was he related to the mission?"
>mfw this is not the only incident like this

This group is the truest group of murderhobos I have ever GM'd for.

>>51738401
There's also amateur porn, anon.

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>>51735900
>You cannot be a carbon based life form IRL. I am more sick as these am I am min maxers or closet faggots who play as females.

you sulfur based life forms are the fucking worse and is the real reason why this hobby's going down the shitter.

So what if I play an elderly half-elf paladin? Could someone fill me in on where I fall on the deviancy spectrum?
I suppose I understand and even relate to the mindset that guys who play as gals must be fags or betas. I usually base my woman adventurers around my twin sister. This has the benefit of making sure that fetishizing them is...difficult. And by "difficult" I mean impossible, you perverts.

>>51743394
Whenever my players do that, I play along and have the merchant be like an assassin or absurdly skilled ninja or something.

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>>51743379

>>51734774
I just don't allow women at all since it's just unnatural for them to be interested in RPG or any other nerdy shit. It's just unsetling to me to watch woman read D&D rulebook, it's almost uncanny valley. Combine that with a fact that they are shit players anyway.

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>>51743655
>It's just unsetling to me to watch woman read D&D rulebook, it's almost uncanny valley.

The mental image of some manchild uncomfortably squirming over a person doing a mundane thing pleases my intestines.

Threads like this make me wonder if /tg/ is full of trolls or just autists. Or maybe I just won the lottery with my gaming group?

>>51743712
It's really just two autists trolling. I honestly hope your bullshit detector is a little better calibrated than that.

>>51743732
In the past, people who couldn't get a group in real life or on the Internet would roleplay on /tg/.

Now that actually roleplaying on /tg/ is banned, the next best thing is pretending to be retarded on /tg/.

>>51743655
I just remove the problem of having shit players entirely by banning both men and women to my table. Works like a charm!

>>51743756
"Pretending" is a strong word for it.

>>51743756
Whoops, meant for >>51743712

>>51743757
I self-identify as a household appliance, can I still join

>>51735221
Most people who own a sword actually own an SLO which is worse than not owning a sword...

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>>51734760
If sex enters into your story or actions, it's limited to 2 sentences. No details. Keep the story moving and less on your imaginary characters spewing their genetic material at each other.

>It hurts how often I had to enforce this rule.

>>51743182
I also do this

>>51743870
What's an SLO?

>>51743983
This can also be applied to internet and greentext stories too, which is funny. The more people dwell on the sex, the more it becomes obvious that they're just making shit up and are kissless virgins.

>>51744012
Sword-Like Object

Something which looks like a sword but isn't actually functional as one, from my understanding

>>51734760
Well, at least you don't allow Kender.

So you can't be all bad.

>>51743732
well it was calibrated but you just shattered it with your post...

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I ban people from playing albinos in my games. One of my players always plays an albino regardless of setting, and the rest of my players keep playing one when they need extra points in a GURPS or White Wolf game. I can't tell if albinism is an unbalanced negative quality, or if my players have found out I like setting my games in rainy, overcast settings.


>All this shit about female trpg gamers
My girlfriend is afraid of joining any game I'm GMing because she's afraid of our friends thinking she'll get preferential treatment. She won't get any, but she says they'll always think any good roll she makes is favoritism, and tells me no game is better than bad game.

>>51734760
>No half breeds.
Far too often I run into people who don't understand that half breed means 1 thing and another. Not half dragon, half vampire, half human, half demon.

>Don't use katanas unless this is an eastern setting.
If you want to use a single edged curved sword use something that fits the setting. If the game is in !Europe, no weebsticks. I don't want a lost Ronin that doesn't speak the language trying to cut incoming crossbow bolts in half because (made up nihongo)

>Play a character with the same genitals as yours
After an instance with a neckbeard making a female character just so she can get raped by a troll, I'm not taking any chances.

>No talk about gay marriage, straight marriage, or relationships in general
I don't care if you think you're being oppressed, the Dark Lord of EvilBad takes priority.

1-I make every player generate their name at random, NOT "iughuibfiufw e weurh wiuehr", but some random name from a website with names.

2-Each player make their characters alone.

3-They each stay in a separated room.

4-Until everyone dies, they can't talk about their character after the sessions.

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>>51734774
You are a bigger retard than op.

>>51735767
So in words you are a stupid fuck like that other faggot poster.

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>>51736757

>>51742666
Or he is just stupid like you.

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>>51743655

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Casters can't smoke pot at the table. I swear to fucking god, you guys are slow enough at deciding what spell to cast next when you're sober, add in spacing out between turns and losing basic math skills when it comes to telling me what you rolled plus your modifiers.

Not just 3.pf, my players who play casters also can't handle anything more complex than Mordheim because they have no restraint when they smoke.

This wouldn't be an issue, but I live within a block of a pot shop.

And yet, when they drink, all of my players do perfect math. Fucking engineers.

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>>51734760
>human, elf, dwarf, half-elf, half-orc, gnome, halfling
>The core races of 3.whatever
>Still hasn't moved on to 5e
Nigga wut?

>>51745219
This is why I like hackmaster. It uses a count-up system based on seconds for combat. If you dawdle and waste time instead of declaring an action, the count keeps going. It keeps everyone's head in the game.

>>51734774
Agreed!

>>51734955
Also agreed!

Tranny players, women players, all of them need to fuck off. Go back to the good old days of brothers in battle in AD&D, when it was musty guys gathering in a basement to escape to a far-away land. Not a showcase fashion show for your latest mentally disturbed tumblr snowflake """"characters""""

You can thank (((Paizo)))) and (((Wizards of the Coast)))) for destroying that flavor and identity that D&D once had. They are the reason the game has gone to shit..

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>>51745568

>>51740028
Oh man, not that guy, but damn I'd love too but I'm certain I'm not worthy of you game.

>>51734955

Anyone who agrees with this post is a mentally damaged social reject who deserves our pity more than our scorn.

>>51734955
>there *is* a right and wrong way to play roleplaying games

Right, and the indicators are:
>Are players playing roles?
Has to be yes, or it doesn't even count.

>Is everyone having fun?
If not, then you're doing it wrong.

That's literally all.

>>51746221
Hey, you never know until you try. If you want I can send you the skype/discord info and we can chat about the game and see if it's to your liking. At worst it doesn't work out and you only lose a few hours of your time.

>>51747467
You know what, I'll give it a shot. Ive got discord installed currently so guess we'll go with that.

>>51735767
yeah like those vapid women who heard that nerds will fuck anything with tits so they show up expecting easy total affection and its really obnoxious cause youre trying to play a fuckin game.

>>51747569
https://discord.gg/ZsXRt

We can chat, I can get to know you and tell you a bit about the game and group, then maybe introduce you to people and see how it goes.

>>51737975
[b]YOU MASSIVE FAGGOT! WHAT IS THE POINT OF HAVING RULES TO PLAY BY IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW THEM WHEN IT'S INCONVENIENT FOR YOU?![/b]

>>51734955
Why shouldn't I? Contrary to what hugbox dwellers here will tell you, there *is* a right and wrong way to play roleplaying games. And forcing your sexually deviant "I wanna be a magical old geezer" fetish on your friends who are trying to tell a believable story gets in the way of that. You can have a wank before the session, not spend 200 hours pretending to be an old-man so you can get off. Is this the state of the hobby now? Is this what Ars Magica has done to the average TTRPG player? Turned them into thinking that it's perfectly fine to insert this kind of shit into games? There was a time when everyone played their own age and no one batted an eyelid, dudes wanting to play as old wizard only started with Ars Magica. Now I'm either /hm/ or some kind of other boogieman of the month for trying to make my games immersive. Fucking ridiculous.

I'm already suspending disbelief at the 220lb built dude dude being a 8 STR wizard, or the hollow-boned weakling being the fantasy equivalent of Conan. But no way in hell am I going to sit there and listen to a booming healthy voice narrate himself as a 75 year-old man, or try to put on a horrendous crotchety voice for hundreds of hours. There are trillions of characters for him to play as that are strong, if his super original character concept works as an old wizard, it would damn sure work as a fighter.

>>51748081
Why shouldn't I? Contrary to what hugbox dwellers here will tell you, there *is* a right and wrong way to play roleplaying games. And forcing your sexually deviant "I wanna be a grumpy drunkard dwarf" fetish on your friends who are trying to tell a believable story gets in the way of that. You can have a wank before the session, not spend 200 hours pretending to be a beardy dad-bod little man so you can get off. Is this the state of the hobby now? Is this what Dorf Fortress has done to the average TTRPG player? Turned them into thinking that it's perfectly fine to insert this kind of shit into games? There was a time when everyone played their own height and build and no one batted an eyelid, dudes wanting to play as stumpy tosser only started with Dorf Fortress. Now I'm either /elf/ or some kind of other boogieman of the month for trying to make my games immersive. Fucking ridiculous.

I'm already suspending disbelief at the thin 120lb dude with neverending cold being a 18 CON brawler, or the smelly pimpled lardass being the fantasy equivalent of Casanova. But no way in hell am I going to sit there and listen to a faltering falcetto voice narrate himself as a boisterous dwarf, or try to put on a horrendous scottish accent for hundreds of hours. There are trillions of characters for him to play as that are short, if his super original character concept works as a dwarf, it would damn sure work as a midget.

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RCC are treated as race

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>>51743655

i ban t1 classes in 3.5, but only
for players i can't trust to use them

>>51745735
Do you think anyone here actually plays?

>>51748706
Outright banning classes can be a bit crazy. Limiting resources available, yeah. Forcing players to play core stops most of them from getting too far out of hand.

I self-regulate so that I never reach game-breaking, but I usually still end up being a little too effective whenever I play any casting class.
This is to say, my GMs are very gracious, but I'm only not pushing the balance of the game if I'm playing a support role.

>>51750983
I disagree, but I do the opposite. I ban SHITTY classes that are just fucking traps for new players.

>>51734807
This.

>>51734774
Topkek, managed to nail 'controversial' I guess.

>>51737198
Yes, but the GM still shouldn't force his sexually deviant "I wanna be a girl" fetish on his players.

>>51740153
Germany's actually got alarms that go off if you lift the seat

>>51734760
I change what classes and races are allowed from one campaign to the next, even if we are playing d&d.

Nope, human is not playable this time Jim, doesn't fit the campaign premise, pick something from this list of 12 acceptable options.

In Pathfinder, disallow tier 4/5, as the general rule, rather than the exception.

Enemies will sunder equipment, disarm players, and otherwise fight dirty.

>>51747995
It's mostly because the rules are guidelines, which do not have to be followed strictly all the time

>>51751880
yes but that's germany

where taking a shit is foreplay for most of them

>>51734760

Improvise everything, then break down and burn everything when you realize your experiment has gotten too big for your own tastes.

>>51739406
They can join. As long as it's cute, it doesn't matter if it's a guy or a girl

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>>51752562
Every female player character I've had in a campaign is either offed horribly or raped. Since I'm the only DM around no one can do anything about it.

>>51734760
Shit are you me OP?

I don't allow Half-Orcs either. They are rape babies and wouldn't survive in my world.

>>51735099
>Agreeing with trumps policies
>White supremacist

This is how I know you're either shitposting or a Methzi. If the latter, filth like you is why people think americans are literally no different than beaners, niggers and dune coons.

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>>51752769

>>51752786
>Anything I don't like is shitposting

>>51752805
Either it is shitposing or he is a shitty DM

>>51752831
I'd say I'm in line with what this board believes in.

>>51735537
I generally play an old woman. Dwarf fighter, looks 50's but also like she hasn't slept for a while, big dark patches under her eyes, pronounced tan on her, apart from around her eyes and mouth where her forging goggles and face mask were worn while she smithed full time. Is well into her 800's because dwarf. Spends most of her time managing the equipment and repairing shit. high charisma, str and wis, HP flying out of her asshole. Most of her friends shuffled off their mortal coil a while ago serving in the army, or just raised kids and passed peacefully. She's a lonely old bat, no kids of her own, wanders around doing stuff with people so the lonliness doesn't set in and in the hopes she'll leave a mark on the world, despite being childless. Not raising a family and instead prioritizing her career is her only regret.

>>51752862
So you are fine with the board thinking that you are a stupid faggot?

>>51743394
My Paladin killed a nun because she wouldn't tell him what she was up too.

Was literally just sorting prayer books as one of 3 details in the room.

He literally killed her, inside a church, for no reason.

Was surprised when I told him his powers stopped working.

i dont run games where i put in effort with people i dont like or dont know

only my pre-screened groups assembled from the star players of various other games get anything approaching effort

i hate furry races and try to discretely kill players that pick them

powergamers are very often the target of things like hold person

i never tailor treasure and always give it randomly

i am petty and hold grudges

people who piss me off die, get cursed items, or get set up with innocent things that turn out to make them perfect prey for upcoming encounters

>>51744298
Just dont give her preferential treatment. If your players cant see/believe in your fairness then you're not a very good GM or they're not very good players.

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>>51743655
>I just don't allow women at all since it's just unnatural for them to be interested in RPG or any other nerdy shit. It's just unsetling to me to watch woman read D&D rulebook, it's almost uncanny valley.

My fucking sides are in orbit
This can't be real

>>51739321
Here's a tip: Crit fails aren't "something awful happens", they're "dm decides what happens"! So just describe the bad guy doing something and the hero lucking out and avoiding it, like they both have to sidestep a falling branch or something. The players are going to have enough chances to make your villains look stupid without you helping them.

Or just pick a system without critical failures, or where only the players roll, but there's nothing wrong with playing the system you already like!

>>51735189

Holy fuck, who brings buds/booze and dosent share. Get the fuck outta here and never come back if you're gonna do that.

Unless you brought deuces or 40s. No one wants to share those.

I like to burn while I play cause it helps me not to sperg out that everyone is too cool to improv rp.

>>51737043
>>51735224

How do we know you're not just samefagging because you have no counterargument?

>>51748464
Why shouldn't I? Contrary to what hugbox dwellers here will tell you, there *is* a right and wrong way to play roleplaying games. And forcing your sexually deviant "I wanna be a scholar high elf" fetish on your friends who are trying to tell a believable story gets in the way of that. You can have a wank before the session, not spend 200 hours pretending to be a pointy ear smug fuck so you can get off. Is this the state of the hobby now? Is this what LOTR has done to the average TTRPG player? Turned them into thinking that it's perfectly fine to insert this kind of shit into games? There was a time when everyone played their own fetish and build and no one batted an eyelid, dudes wanting to play as gay diplomat only started with LOTR. Now I'm either /Human/ or some kind of other boogieman of the month for trying to make my games immersive. Fucking ridiculous.

I'm already suspending disbelief at the average 120lb dude with pointy gay ears being a Straight diplomat, or the degenerate tree hugger being the fantasy equivalent of the human average. But no way in hell am I going to sit there and listen to a faltering falcetto voice narrate himself as a clean elf, or try to put on a horrendous dildo for hundreds of hours. There are trillions of characters for him to play as that are beautiful, if his super original character concept works as an elf, it would damn sure work as an average human.

>>51743535
>Making the players always right when they do dumb shit for no good reason

>>51738441
>this is good:
>>go to /v/
>>nogaems
>>loss.jpg
>>LOL
>>pcucks btfo
I'll fucking murder you

I start a new game in one system and immediately want to convert it to another system.

>>51743394

Why didn't you just say, OOC, "This guy is just a merchant, I think you may have latched onto the wrong detail or something"?

I always try to get sex from females applying to sit at my table. During the interview I tell them that if they want to play with us they have to give me a blowjob.
With all the mentally unstable cunts, goths and other weirdos there's allways a small chance. One tried to start shit in our local LGS after that interview, but everyone just laughet at her and manager kicked her out.

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>>51735628
>>51737893

>''No female PCs allowed in my campaign! What are you, some limp-dicked hippie queer?''
>Meanwhile OP's game is basically Tom Of Finland in a magical realm

I play 100% by the books and don't care how ruthless the outcomes are. No fudged rolls, no punches pulled, I don't coddle my players. I'll throw avoidable (avoidable to good players, shit 3.PFtard powergamers get added to the PC graveyard) high CR encounters at low level parties where they're expected to use their wits and roleplay things away. I'll roll for NPC reactions, if the dragon you were trying to sweet talk hits the "attack violently" roll, well then you get to roll a new character.

I don't consider my games meatgrinders at all, but the mid-high chance of dying cuts out the buildfaggotry players real quick.

>>51755490
>NPC and Monster reactions randomly rolled
Hey it's just like playing a bad vidya gaem as interpreted by a smelly autist!

At my table, No Alignment system, no gender-bending, no monster races (my current campaign is all human subraces).

>>51739213
All of these except revealing DCs, I like to see players look at that 11 and wonder if it is enough, also some fudging makes for a better story sometimes. Still, you are too good for this world anon.

>>51734760
I understand the first part, but the second part seems silly of course, unless you're playing OSR or the setting demands it.

>>51747995

I don't see how its faggoty when the rules are being bent by the DM to the advantage of the PCs rather than the DM himself desu

>>51734760
>I also don't allow them to play a race
>them
Going by your previous sentence, "them" would refer to males. So there's two possibilities here: Either you can't into pronouns or you let only the pretty girls play their special snowflake race. Either way, I can't imagine your games going that great.

I don't allow homebrew.

The reason is that I'm terrible at minmaxing while my player's aren't, so I'm afraid that they'll just fuck up the balance by bringing something covertly OP.

I also don't allow shit that doesn't conform to the fluff.

Also, no unofficial shit, like Green Ronin crap, it's basically homebrew as far as I'm concerned.

All my players know this and are okay with it.

You can call me an asshole.

>>51757807
Eh I'd say you were more [No fun allowed] than asshole

OP's the kind of person my group let GM once, then we changed our game night and never updated him.

>>51743535
>Rewarding players for kidnapping and torturing a random ass merchant by making their baseless suspicions actually correct

>>51735767
>What is a jilted /pol/ack, for 500$?

>>51739443
BDSM

The term you're looking for is BDSM

>>51739213
something something you're degeneracy encourages gamma cucking orbiters who misandry the mgtow chads something something

Seriously though keep it up, maybe more of us can be like you and less like, well, /r9k/

>>51740879
Yes

Every time you play pretend as a girl, Laverne Cox decapitates a pureblooded white child.

15/87/68, rice wore now

or something

>>51743709
Women thinking makes me uncomfortable because I can't get an erection watching it, ok?

>>51753186
She doesn't play in the first place because she's afraid they'll think that. I'm not concerned with my GMing prowess.

>>51737011
The implication in "cross-boarding" is not that you only use one board, it's that you spread another board's brand of cancer outside its natural habitat