How old are you guys? I'm 23 it feels like all of my friends

>>51826423
Nope, you're just SOL.

25 and have a stable group, have had one for years. Friend of mine across state has a group too.

>>51826423
28. Managed to keep a strong group together for a long time now. Helps that I've been living in the same place for a long time, so I have an established friend base and whatnot.

I sympathize with you though, OP, I've gone through droughts and they aren't fun. Keep your chin up and find people who will share your passions, they're out there.

28. Just accept that any group you play with is a temporary dynamic mini community and deal with it.

Or become a sour faggot neckbeard and stop playing because you are autistically allergic to change.

>>51826423
35

And finding a group is easy to do if you just look in the right places. Hell, I could probably find one super easy right now by going to any of the colleges in my area, checkign the meetup.com postings, or goign to the couple of LFGSs in town.

Only reason I'm not playing is that i'm working on my own campaign world and needed a break due to burnout from doing too many games at once.

>>51826423
24. None of my close friends play tabletop, never managed to make them interested in tabletop. Always play with randoms, sometimes I get a solid group.

Right now I'm with one such group. We might be proper friends by the end of our latest campaign.

>>51826423
27. I play board games with my college friends but can only get an RPG group online.

I'm 30 and I've had a steady group for the last 3 years or so.

I had some dry spells before that, but mainly due to lack of trying.

>>51826423
25 years old and the only group I have are my parents. My friends are a bunch of chucklefucks and they suck(at least when it comes to either tabletop or videogames), but my parents(who thankfully are also my friends) got me into tabletop games and they're not chucklefucks.

27 and life is awesome, all of my close Friends Play ttg, even my gf, we have a chat of D&D in Facebook where we shitpost daily.
The only problem is that I'm dming now, and balancing a party of 10 people is a fucking nightmare.

>>51826423
24. I have a group from uni that I play with. Keeping in touch with pre-uni group is difficult though, what with half of them being in a different city now. I did spend a few years not playing before being picked up by the university group.

>>51827141
>10 people

That's enough people to split into two comfortable-sized groups. No one else willing to GM?

>>51827023
Hey anon, do you have a flgs where you can find a group?

>>51826423
19, people seem to only be getting more into it as we grow up

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>>51827023
c'mon dude

>>51826423
26. My group comes from like four different states, we just play online.

Turned 18 last week.

30. Used to have a group when in the Navy, now kinda on and off with a potential one with my co-workers although I get a lot of boardgame action with my roommates.

27, 28 in less than a month. Still TTRPG as much as ever, GF is joining one of my campaigns soon.

>>51826423
30
Besides work my only social interaction is my current game

27, had a group until one dude started fucking around with a side piece and took off, another dude fucking dropped off the Earth, and another dude's abusive bitch of a wife drove him to try and move on my wife even though the two of us are his closest friends.

But I bought a new hatchet, and so I reckon everything's gonna turn out real peachy real soon.

>>51826423
24

I always played with an online group that fell apart early last year. Only recently found an in-person group through the lfg subreddit last month. My friends are more than willing to play DnD or any system I'd recommend, but they'd want me to DM and I don't think I'm ready yet. Soon, though.

Tabletop game groups are like any other game groups. I used to play on a TF2 server all the time, but then people either get bored or life gets in the way. C'est la vie, just don't let it get you down.

As much as people on this board whines about millennials I'm surprised to see so few numbers over 30.

>>51827399
It's because the people that complain about millennials haven't found the thread yet.

I know that exact feeling at 20, op. It sucks.

>>51826423
28. Left my group and realized I was better off without them. Then I realized this extended to all my friends.

25; I just now got a group together for the first time in almost a decade, and it's all made out of old friends.

>>51826423
21. I'm far enough in college that I can fuck around a bit, I DM once every Sunday for my brother and some of his pals, run games online, and have convinced myself I shall ascend to wizardhood and become that crazy awesome uncle all my in-laws fear and all my nephews like for teaching them stuff my siblings won't.
Or I'll just become a desk jockey, who knows.

>>51827517
You sound like a cool uncle kinda guy already
>desk jockey
Well thats something i need to see

>>51826423
25.
I feel like I'm drifting further and further away from my back-home friends, but I'm holding on to my college friends pretty tight. That's nice.

a gf would be nice tho

>>51826803
Jesus, that's fucking pathetic LOL.

>>51826423
I'm in my mid forties and I remember the good old days of when all my friends were drifting away and I couldn't hold down a group. Now they've done drifted and I can barely get a group started before it falls apart.

Everybody has jobs and families and shit they're busy with, and for a while we kept things going through that, but now they've lost the energy of youth and would rather get a good night's sleep or drink beer and watch football or some shit.

>>51828253
>football

Are they queers?

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>>51827223
To be fair, he didn't say when this year he was 17. Maybe it was earlier this year and he's since turned 18. You can't prove otherwise.

24.
I never played in a real life group even tho I know where one is in the city that's about 20 mins away. Most of my games I do try are online and they never really last.

>>51828268
>Are they queers?
Well, one of them sort of is, but he can't stand sports. His hatred is so strong that he refused to even pick up a controller when the wii first came out and the group was trying out wii sports. The other people just have shitty taste.

>>51828228
Shit, I wish my parents were cool enough that I could have fun playing role-playing games with them.

22 year old and I am still a kissless virgin DMing for my friends every weekend living at home with no car or drivers license. So despite knowing how to drive and having 8k in the bank from my job, I get dropped off to play D&D with my (mostly younger) friends every weekend.

But yeah one of my group has kids (he's my age, too) and he basically stopped showing up. Finally he started coming again. He reminds me why I will never have kids. I have a job but I still manage to make it to the game.

>>51828228
I'm not dealing with assholes and faggots anymore, so I'm happy.

>>51826803
That sounds cool man. I used to play with my dad and brother all the time. Hell me and my dad are doing a d20 Modern campaign right now.

>>51828228
Shut up faggot.

>>51827330
>subreddit

Get out.

19 and I have had the same group for two years now and I hope we stay together for another two more.

How do you find a game online that isn't full of complete autists? Roll20 lfg seems to be cesspool. I DM a session already, I just want to play the game.

>>51826423
Yes. Just me and two guys left in our once huge group. I respect it, they seem happy and so are we.

>>51828417
>So despite knowing how to drive and having 8k in the bank
Take the driver's test and buy a shitty used car for like 2 or 3k. It's fucking worth it, even if you have to put your car in the shop a decent bit. Or did your license get suspended?

>>51828516
As someone who does get players from roll20 and gamefinder It depends like I had a good deal of players from gamefinder who would just up and leave or don't say anything and never come to the game. Where for roll20 I been able to spot players who might have something wrong with them from the start like they come in with something they already copy pasted in 4 other places or doesn't want to play a game without rule book X for people with the high hours I still don't what to think of them seeing how I I just noticed I have 2.2k hours in roll20.

>>51828628
Yeah, it's really easy to spot the clowns that are just pasting their character all over. There are only ever like 1 - 2 interesting games on R20's lfg that are actually recruiting. Is my best bet to just toss my hat in with everyone else, or is there a better way?

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>>51826423
19, almost 20.

Only ever played a oneshot with my cousin. Been trying to get a group together but it keeps falling through. Hopefully it will be better when I move to a bigger town.

>>51828669
I don't know of any better way to go about it. I tend to check the hours of the GM and the players and if they talked any on the listing page seeing if they fit with what I'm looking for. Outside of that I don't know really know I try to stay away from games with gm's with less then 50 hours or gm's who are gming more then one game during the week or same day.

>>51828383
How are you sort of queer? Save sodomy for the summer vacation only?

>>51826423
Turning 24 this year. I've finally managed to get a lot of my friends into D&D the past year so I'm fine for now. We're all college students or work simple jobs so things will probably change once people's careers get going.

>>51828914
>How are you sort of queer?
Identifies as "gender queer" but is essentially asexual. Not quite sure which box you put that in.

>>51828417
Like you had any chance of having kids. Go back to r9k

>>51829074
[ ] Attention whore

>>51826423
> matured past
This is bullshit, and you know it.
Becoming an adult means stop pushing your personal responsibilities onto others, not throwing away things that others might view as "childish".
We are living in a glorious age where we don't need to work our asses off merely to survive another day, where almost anyone can afford to dedicate himself to his hobbies without making the hobby his work.

The reason you feel that "all of my friends are drifting away" is because you stopped having things in common with them. The best solution to this is - FIND NEW GODDAMN FRIENDS.

Seriously, socializing with friends you made in highschool or early college is the exception, not the rule - mainly, because people back then are still childish and incapable of being responsible for themselves, but also because they still haven't figured out what they want to do in life.

I'm 21, currently finishing my masters degree and getting a second education in parallel, and I have very few people I can call friends, and exactly i person I can call my genuine best friend/partner for life who will never leave me (well, besides my family, but then again, our family always thought that blood is thicker than water, at least for the closest family members).

People drift away when they stop having things in common. So don't be afraid to reach out and find new friends.

28. I'm a miserable, bitter, failure. The only good thing I can say about myself is that I haven't turned my sense of regret into an ideology fueled on resentiment.

>>51829074
Needs a good fuckin' to be converted to a proper orientation.

>>51829157
>[ ] Attention whore
Overall, he's more of a "fade into the background" type of person, actually. With regards to the "gender queer" label in particular, he's made a bigger deal about it than I think he needs to (in our group, the only person who seems to care one way or the other that he sometimes wears a skirt is him), but it's a relatively new thing and I suspect his fixation on it may recede as time goes by. (Fixation is too strong a word, but I can't think of anything milder that still fits.) But then I've never walked a mile in his shoes and readily admit that I may just lack perspective. In any case, I suspect that most people who have make a significant decision regarding their personal identity are probably overly fixated on it at first.

>>51829437
> their personal identity
Well, duh. Many people just seem to be unable to come to peace with the fact that there is no inherent meaning or goal in their life, and they struggle with creating a basis for their personal identity.
It's like the religion of old. You don't know why you live or what to do with your life? The God loves you, so why not devote yourself to Him?
It's the same old shit, just repackaged for modern audience.

52. My tg game is strong.

My gaming group is sporadic at best, ranges from 19-47. We do wargames and RPGs. Some of the group play card games but it's not my thing. I don't do the LGS scene, too many loud, unwashed (m)asses.

And someday, when my beard fades to white and it is time to shuffle off to a nursing home, I will be tormenting the nurses and aides with demands for tg. Or starting a group with them. Alzheimer's GM go.

23, playing with my group 4 times a year.

feelsbadman.jpeg

It's my friends from middle school though so atleast people i know very well. Everyone just lives all over the place.

>>51829595
God speed, you glorious artifact.

>>51829299
That's something, anon. You can always turn it around. While there's a pulse, there's a way.

>>51829287
>We are living in a glorious age where we don't need to work our asses off merely to survive another day, where almost anyone can afford to dedicate himself to his hobbies without making the hobby his work.
Do you live in one of those glorious nordic socialist utopias or something?

>>51829788>>51829287

>I'm 21, currently finishing my masters degree
Oh, so you aren't actually working then. Nevermind. You'll find out soon enough.

>>51829804
>Oh, so you aren't actually working then.
Working as a full-time electronics engineer (>inb4 you can't finish your degree via distance learning).
Sucks to be you, because you seem to perceive your job as something to loathe rather than to have fun with.

>>51829287
You're 21. Shut the fuck up you sanctimonious, narcissistic, know it all faggot.

39, manager of the flags. I've seen some dry spells, but there's always something to do.

>>51830272
Fuck autocorrect, that was supposed to be FLGS.

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Same old story.
High School, College, Living with the parents comes to an end.
The group splits all over the country.
We all try to continue playing online and do so a few times but everyone starts getting new jobs with new hours, starting new social lives, or getting married and having families and pretty soon it become impossible to game together.
We all stay friends and keep in contact and talk about trying to game but never find the time to do so together.
We all find new groups but the magic just isn't there.
The chemistry is different, the players are less experienced, they hold different visions or expectations and for love of the hobby you compromise more and more of your own.
Soon you find yourself wondering why you put so much time and effort into something you enjoy less and less.
You learn that some of your old friends have given up the hobby entirely, some tell you with sadness, but others with indifference.
The time spent begins to put strain on your other relationships and you start cutting back, not investing so much of yourself but harboring a secret yearning for what was lost.
Eventually you set it aside, only wandering through the old books or looking at how it has changed in your absence when the melancholy overtakes you.
And then the dreams end.

>>51826423
28. My group keeps being torn apart because I play with normies who seem to like fucking one another and then not getting along for no reason instead of just finding someone they can marry and being happy with that.

I really wish there was a non-autistic way to introduce a "no intra-group fucking" rule that doesn't involve having kids and playing D&D with them.

26 years old here. DM. My group range from 26 to 29. We all had our fair share of adult life and we now understand that things like boys nerdy ass rpg nights or LCGs night are not just desirable, but necessesary to live with the shit we go through our daily lives.

>>51830386
Are you me?
I was just about to post and saw you said exactly what I was about to say.

>>51830305
I try to go back and play games with my hometown friends, but they just don't get into it like my college friends do. They mention vapid things, they don't get as in character, they're the most ungodly bitch to maneuver or get organized, and it's just... depressing. Why am I still trying?

College friends are the best group I've ever had though.

>>51828574
No, I've never taken the test. My parents wouldn't let me despite me never being in an accident and knowing how to drive for 2+ years now.

I had to threaten to leave and go homeless so they'd even let me get a job.

I wish I was making this up.

They think any car under 10k is a waste of money and refuse to let me spend my own money and since I live in bumfuck nowhere I am at their mercy. can't even take the test because you have to bring your own vehicle.

>>51829137
I probably could get some fat girl who quotes Monty Python to knock up but they disgust me.

>>51829287
>21 yo
>feeling morally superior in any possible way
>teaching people about life
Although you have some fair points in your outburst, you should consider waiting a bit before giving anyone advice and try and have a look at other people's life stories.

>>51829287
> 21
> my genuine best friend / partner for life

Wait until that roastie leaves you for Chad.

>>51830741

t. bitter lonely robot

>>51826423
30. I haven't had any friends for about 4 years now other than my wife but it's not too tough for me to find a group when I want one, there's plenty of FLGS in the greater Columbus area and I can mooch of my wife's social life if I really wanna.

>>51830764
t. cuck

>>51830932

I ain't the one assuming that 'cause he's got a girlfriend, she's automatically gonna dump him for some chad. That sounds like the reasoning of somebody who's either had that happen to him in the past, or is too afraid of girls to have had a girlfriend in the first place. Either way, you sound pretty sad, anon. Wanna talk about it?

>>51826423
36. I play with pensioners nearly my Dad's age, which allows me a role as the enfant terrible.

>>51831040
I was under the impression he was saying that since he's 21 the odds of him having found his soulmate or whatever are very low.

>>51831279

"Roastie" and "chad" are two icons in the gospel of /r9k/.

>>51826423
I'm 43. My friends are down to game, but when we game, I'm the Forever DM. I hate it because I'm afraid what I build won't be well-received, or that my judgment calls will be shitty or look biased. I'm forever seeking a solo roleplaying experience, like that first solo adventure in red box Basic. I keep trying to create something I can play, making something randomized that's mentally challenging without becoming formulaic, but so far it has eluded me.

>>51827399
Most old people don't know how to navigate 4chan. They just end up somewhere random and start typing angry messages.

I'm 41.

>>51828228
There's nothing wrong with spending some time with your parents. You'll miss the opportunity to do so when it's too late.

>>51831464

Dude, you're not alone in that. Solo games exist. They're a small niche, but they've been around since long before RPGs split off from wargames. Have some links. Take a look at the GM Emulators, they should be a big help for what it sounds like you're trying to do.

http://pastebin.com/F8teW7rr - Solo links
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1ecybp6dp8rix/SoloTG

Also have my archive of Two Hour Wargames stuff, a great little company that has both wargame and RPG offerings, and excellent support for solo and gmless co-op play, in addition to the usual head-to-head stuff.

https://mega.nz/#F!9R8G2aQb!g-dZXkyCmkrljzH60tZEhQ

>>51831537
Thank you!

>>51826423
Just make some friends or something. Not that hard.
I have IRL friends that I do stuff with like movies, gaming and shooting innawoods. Also drinking, we do alot of that as well. Just not with our dakka.
I also a bunch of people I've known online for 5+ years now. I consider them friends and we play tabletop rpgs and other vidya.

19, tabletop games are one of the few things I really enjoy. I have a pretty good group too, which I'm thankful for.

>>51826423
23 y/o here aswell.

I didn't have many friends to begin with but now I've got two semi-stable groups that I play with weekly. And a rl group of buddies that invited me to play with them so that's nice. But yeah, I get what you mean...

25, and if anything finishing engineering school and entering the job market freed us so much time that we play like we never played before.

Plus, with some of us scattered all across the country, meeting up on roll20 once a week is sweet.

>>51826423
22. We manage, but a lot of us are spread wide meaning to get those to play requires the internet. Thankfully we're nearly 9 and not everyone plays every game.
>>51828296
"17 this year" would that "[he would become] 17 this year" thus making him be in violation of rule 2.

>>51831794
Also, let's not forget the financial aspect : having a job, an apartment with a living room large enough to invite people to play, enough money to buy what we need to play... All that helps a lot.

>>51827399
Complaining about millennials is something some millennials do for attention and that's it.

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>>51831655
>Just make some friends or something. Not that hard.

>>51826423
19, I've been on /tg/ since I was 16 I think. And yeah, one of my friends moved away to study and another spends a lot of time with his gf.

I'm 30.

I met my current gaming groups though an active search for local ongoing RPGs. I would probably only call one of them a real friend, in the sense that we keep in touch outside of the game.

The other ones I just see during gaming sessions. I try to avoid their birthday parties and the like. Too many friends-of-friends I've never met, even though they've all known each other since high school. I don't really think we share very many interests outside of the game, either.

I haven't kept very many personal friends, to be honest. I was always friendly enough with certain classmates and co-workers, but I started working from home a few years ago.

Outside of the game, my only friends are the ones I 'share' with my wife. She's better at keeping in touch with people.

It's a bit of a pity neither my wife nor these friends are interested in 'playing make-believe'.

Does anyone else play RPGs with 'pseudo-friends' they wouldn't otherwise hang out with?

18, currently stuck in clinical center for depression with no club in sight and all friends either super busy or away because of studies

19 gonna turn 20 in 4 more months from today, had the same group for the past 3 yrs.

I don't want to age anymore.

Similar thing happened to me
Are these friends from highschool? That's bound to happen with 99% of your high school friends. Turns out that you didn't have that much in common aside from seeing each other everyday, it's easy to lose touch when school finishes.

If they're friends from uni or college it's the same principle really. It might take a while but you'll find goof friends.

>>51826423
OP, that happens when you're in your 20s. Suck it up and find new friends, or work around your schedules.

I'm 30, and make time for gaming. Helps that I have a few friends I've known for something like 15 years now.

>>51827023
MODS MODS MODS

>>51827241
Welcome to 4chan.

>>51826423
I've got a group, but most people who used to play with us have left. The sad fact of the matter is that most people who have the requisite intelligence and social skills for tabletop games often have better things to do, and even nerdy people tend to gravitate toward sex and drugs rather than hobbies if given the choice.

>>51828228
>LOL
Fuck off back to 2003. I wish I had parents I could stand to spend time around.

>>51826423
21. I am for a lack of a better term crazy. I can't into roleplaying at all because I can't even into real life. I like the idea of it though. Roleplaying that is not life.

31, never really knew anyone in person who was into it, and I myself wasn't really interested in tabletop at all until my early twenties when I realized it was possible to do online, and that appealed to my love of writing. (I guess my post would be useless for someone used to the meatspace version.)

I started with D&D and branched out to other games with a couple tight-knit online groups I stumbled upon(invariably college-aged), but most of them ended up having some kind of drama bomb and then dying a lingering death. Despite that I still try to befriend the people in the groups I join.

I play a lot less than I used to due to job concerns and poor health, but I still find the time, it's a hobby I can share with my girlfriend and we do well in the same groups.

I think the best I can say is that it's good to keep looking anywhere and everywhere to find groups, and don't get discouraged if one explodes.

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>>51826423
I'm 27 and I hate being a manchild. I actually watch more anime now than I did as a teenager and love everything related to RPGs and fantasy. It's just that
>I have no friends
>Even if I had friends, I'd never show them my weeb side
This is also why I don't want a girlfriend. I've had enough of hiding my anime from my parents, I don't want to spend the rest of my life hiding my anime from my girlfriend too.

Seeing that most of you guys are around my age and quite a few of you are even older than myself is kind of comforting. Thanks bros.

>>51833672
you should get better taste in anime.

>>51833672
>I've had enough of hiding my anime from my parents, I don't want to spend the rest of my life hiding my anime from my girlfriend too.
That sounds like a shitty excuse. Girls are capable of liking anime.

Yes. The group i have is one I have cultivatted like a motherfucker to keep.
I recruit around the local university and the like. But I have about 7 or so people that have a decent view on how to act like a normal being.
And when I find new people that fit, I keep them around.

Sometimes I get people moving away, such is life. But one needs to spend time and meet new people to have an active social circle. It's a struggle at times. But it's a necessary one.

>>51833692
Even assuming that happens, in the long run she'll probably want at least one child. I already pity that child. Instead of a badass father who can guide him in life and be the man he himself aspires to be, it's a manchild who still watches cartoons and pretends he's an elf on weekends.

I have a childhood friend who does not reply back to me anymore. I do not know why. Every time i ask him if he wants to hang out he either says no or does not answer at all.
Should i tell him that this behavior pisses me off? He acts normal when we meet in our group of friends

>>51833672
>Hiding anime from your parents
There is no laughter loud enough to express my feelings. I rarely call people beta, but this is seriously the saddest thing I have ever heard.

>>51833764
I'm pretty sure I'd have loved if my dad brought me LARPing.

>>51833764
Kids don't want neckbeard dads. You're doing the right thing.

>>51833764
>cucked by your own self esteem
News flash you obscene beta, there are women who never want to have kids
There step women who love anime and collect big tiddy figurines with removable clothing
There are women who stay indoors all day playing video games

You think you deserve a thin, quirky qt who is magically into all your hobbies, sexy, pure, and devoted but somehow has standards low enough to date you. You just make excuses because you can't admit that you're being impossibly selfish by expecting everything out of your partner and nothing from yourself.

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>>51826423
There's alot of negativity in this thread (rightly so on 4chan fuck it) but let me set it out with what I think is more to the point.


Approaching your mid 20s friendships are less something you can just take for granted and successful people have far less time on their hands.

You just have to outwardly make more of an effort to hang out with your friends. Bottom line.

It's hard for guys to do this because you don't want to be the one to always be asking to hang out or starting convos and feeling like a desperate beta (bad enough when you feel like that trying to get laid let alone with your mates).

Sadly if you want to just lie around all day with your bros. You have to be single and probably unemployed. I am both currently and my social life is fantastic.

My successful friends with full time work and live with their loving girlfriends get out once or twice a week and are on the clock. You just have to accept this. You're more than likely going to have to hang out at theirs to see them.

Also it's not a set in stone thing. Sometimes it can be worst at 23ish and people will chill out on their studies or careers and start hanging out again into their late 20s.

Also it's the winter bro. Most people wake up in the dark. Go home in the dark and veg out in front of the computer all of their free time. You're not gonna see them in January, February, March and the ones who have active hobbies or hit the gym are even more shut in in the winter.

>>51833978
>successful people have far less time on their hands.

hmmmm

makes you wonder if they're really successful.

>>51826423
It happened just try to find a new group
I thought I could never play again and a year later I have my now long going group.

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I'm 28 and I just want to die already.

21, started playing TTRPGs when I was about 17. My old group's DM has moved half way across the country, currently I'm in an online group that I found on /vg/ of all places and I much prefer them to my old RL group. I think it may be because my old group is all guys I went to school with, so we revert back to that sort of schoolboy mentality and just fuck about, but with my new group I had to be on my best behaviour and we've all slowly become friends. At least one of them I think I'll be friends with long after the game is over.

>>51826423
>using Max as an OP image for such a shit thread
end yourself

>>51826423
23 also, but I've got a steady group since we all share an apartment, and the only guy in our play group who isn't already living with us is considering moving across the country to split the rent even further. It's pretty grand.
Good luck on your own side, though. Not having a regular group sucks.

>>51826423
29.

Most of my friends are dead or in prison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W6y7YhHdVE

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>>51828228
>look at this dork he's spending time with his parents hahaha fuck him

>>51834449
I work 40h a week but got 50 holidays a year. Really, it's okay. I spent 6 months unemployed and I couldn't bear it in the end.

>>51833176
i feel you on this psuedo-friend thing, but i actually got past it. my current group consists of an old guy who's a fantastic GM, an arab from a country I'm legally required to hate, a conquistador and some random unestablished yank.

people I thought I'd never become proper friends with, but now after a year or something we're actually pretty good dudes. still kinda inbetween the storming and norming stage as far as the group as a whole goes, but it actually feels like a solid group of friends rather than some dudes who just share an interest in die based statistic systems.

stick with it, you'll realize they're probably great people if you invest some time in them.

Hasn't happened to me:

Our group is:
>a 27 year old student and IT guy
>a 28 year old dockworker/fast food guy
>34 year old financial guy
>47 year old ex MP, now IT guy
>32 year old engineer guy
>19 year old student
>20 year old student
>24 year old carpenter
>24 year old student

>>51834830
Sounds like a nice group except
>10 people (presuming you haven't listed yourself)
That's a really big group for TTRPGs, right? I thought the ideal size was 4-6 players + 1 DM. Aren't games horribly slowed down when there's that many people?

>>51826423
It's al about the girlfriends. I'm 25, I have a pretty damn great job, but no girlfriend, and I don't think I will ever get one to be honest. I'm absolutely addicted to roleplaying games because they seem to be the only thing barring drugs that helps me to keep depression at bay.

I am 38. Currently my gaming is in schedule purgatory, as I have multiple friends who would roll the dice with me if work and other schedules allowed us to have mutual time for gaming. In a local Larp, however.

>>51826423
Table top roleplaying is kind of like experimenting with your sexuality.

For some guys, it ends up being a core part of their interests or identity.

For some, it's just something they do because they can't get a girlfriend.

For some, it's just something they kind of tag along into.

Eventually people move away, get girlfriends, start their real life etc and don't really want to acknowledge what they got up to in their friends basement or at sleepovers.

And the real fags/roleplayers are left behind.

But hey, there's good news! Now that you're out of your childhood social circle you are free to seek out others who want it as bad as you do, and the internet has made it easier than ever to connect with likemindeds.

It's the golden age for role-players AND homosexuals anon, embrace it.

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>>51831655
>Just make some friends or something. Not that hard.
Anon, do you realize the kind of people you're talking to?

>>51826423
I'm 24, and I have a pretty good group that's been going for roughly 5 years now (our first campaign being Rogue Trader, run by me). Unfortunately, we're going to lose one of the two major GMs here in a couple months (he's shipping off to the Air Force), and I'm utter uncreative shit.

>>51835391
This. I can't make new friends to save my fucking life between social anxiety and a general dislike of most people.

>>51826423

31. It's entirely possible to lose your group of friends after college, depending on what everybody does.

In my case, I managed to turn a temp job into a career or sorts, and basically fucked off of my group of friends when suddenly I had money and a non-shitty car and I found out everybody else had been using me as a metric of 'well I'm not doing good, but at least I haven't fucked up as bad as anon'.

On the gaming side of things, look around for game stores, organized groups, etc. There's some shit groups out there, but you should be able to recognize them. I managed to dig up semi-regular people for board games, and get my RPG fix online. Which is admittedly like trying to catch the drips falling from an icicle to satisfy thirst, but it's better than nothing.

>>51835513
>I found out everybody else had been using me as a metric of 'well I'm not doing good, but at least I haven't fucked up as bad as anon'.
That's shitty, man, I'm sorry to hear that.

31. I've been gaming with the same core group for about 12 years now. I've had to dial back the amount of time I spend gaming the last couple of years, between becoming a dad and my job offering me enough money to take a longer rotation at work free time has been lacking. I still manage to get a gaming session in every other week and show up to most table top wargame nights at the LGS.

>>51834894

Well, this actually includes 3 groups with some overlap. Our Saturday group has the youngest average age; our Friday group has the oldest average age.

>>51831506
>There's nothing wrong with spending some time with your parents. You'll miss the opportunity to do so when it's too late.

Different anon, but that's different. Spending time with your parents is one thing. Considering them friends is, to me at least, bizarre

>>51836206
The anon who's friends with his parents, I personally find it bizarre that people are not friends with their parents. You and I have a different upbringing though, since with me family is what's most important and being an only child, I have stronger ties with my parents then most. Also, my mother has multiple aliments and my father is getting old (he's nearly 60), I've got to take care of them. I don't care what others say, but I will admit I'm not the biggest fan of people giving me the stinkeye because I live with my parents as a live in caretaker. How many fucking times I've heard people say "put them in a retirement home" or "leave them, their adults", it makes me frustrated.

22. I had a long hiatus after high school, but after some time I decided to finally put in some effort and found both an IRL group and an online one, and I'm now playing with both.

>>51836333
>How many fucking times I've heard people say "put them in a retirement home" or "leave them, their adults"

Those are some shitty human beings, anon.

>>51826423
26, didn't have friends in the past either.

>>51827399
The people who hate millenials the most are other millenials.

>>51836333
You are a credit to the species and we need more people like you. I pity people who are on such bad terms with their parents that they don't even consider them friends.

>>51837403
I'm taking care of my 82 yo mother, she's not going to go to a retirement home as long as her physical conditions allows continuing life at home. I haven't had anybody tell me such a thing in ages because the people around me know that it's no use to approach me this way.

>>51831655
>Just make some friends or something. Not that hard.
1. Never had close friends even in school
2. Live in the US so don't make acquaintances in daily life outside of work
3. Parents don't have friends either so it's probably in my blood or something

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>>51833347

>>51835482

Creativity is a skill, not an inherent trait. If you can imagine, you can create.

>>51836333
Not everyone has a positive family life.

I'm glad you do, anon.

>>51838419

Are you Finnish?

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>>51826423
I'm 22. I've recently graduated uni and am searching for a career position while holding down a 9-5 design job at my university.
My group consists of 5 local dudes, 4 of whom were my roommates at different points throughout college. 3 are married, the others have careers and serious girlfriends. The sixth player, my older brother, joins us remotely after he puts his kids to bed.

I mostly just fuck tinder girls and drink with friends when I'm not working and job searching. I feel unaccompkished compared to my group members and I'm balding at an alarming rate, but I feel this is a transition period in life. Once I get a stable job (probably far from here) I'm gonna shave my head and move out.

We haven't addressed whether we will keep playing remotely or not. I can't help feeling it will lose a lot of the chaotic fun of the group to DM from a webcam.

>>51840802
Danish expat.

>>51826423
27, and my friend group is all nerds. Not all of them are big on RPGs. but we play x-wing, magic, and other board games stuff too.

I've got another group I've been gaming with for 22 years. They more family than friends, though.

>>51840820

Yeah, wanting to be chronically left alone is pretty Danish too.

>>51829595
>Or starting a group with them. Alzheimer's GM go.
Sort of my life plan too.

To be honest we're lucky. TG stuff and vidya is stuff we can enjoy well into our twilight years. A lot of other hobbies you can't.

Also just think how much mileage we can get out of the same campaign prep, if everyone in the group forgets we've run it before.

>>51831794
>25, and if anything finishing engineering school and entering the job market freed us so much time that we play like we never played before.
This. Post College, you stop having to do shit jobs and work shit hours.

A set schedule means time for gaming.

18, living at home and commuting to uni, and I burnt the bridges I had with people from high school, who were the closest thing I have ever had to friends. How do you guys find a group? I've got social anxiety
and a host of other problems, and I haven't talked a single person on campus other than in a lab group.
No matter how corny it sounds though, /tg/ has more or less kept me going. But I'm wondering if I should go down to the FLGS by campus; can I find a not horrible group there?

>>51841058
>I burnt the bridges I had with people from high school
Why?

>if I should go down to the FLGS by campus
Definitely. You don't make new friends unless you put yourself out there.

>late 20's
>childhood sucked
>working since 15 to afford college
>kicked out of college due to failing health
>two breakdowns and one diagnosed crazy later
>re-enter college and graduated
>cozy job with decent pay
I cut ties with all classmates from any stage of education process, and I full well intend to cut ties with office colleagues the moment I move to another job. I've been through more groups than I care to count. I cull the unreliable, the latecomers and the disruptive. And if that would come to culling everyone, just move on because there's nothing worth saving. May the bridges we burn light our way onward.

>>51841083
More or less accidentally insulted all of them, then stopped talking to them online. They all went to a different college, but I'm still friends with them on Steam, but they have made no effort to contact me either.
As for going to FLGS, how would I find a group? I've only played ~3 sessions of Pathfinder, but want to try other games. Are there flyers there or something? Haven't been to one since I bought GW stuff when I was little.
I'm also a little hesitant to go, after reading horror stories here about the people (like me) who can't find a group and instead hang out there, plus I am a little That Guyish...

Motherfuckers stop complaining, I am 28 and have already died twice (by no choice of my own) and been brought back by doctors. The shit you see while your dead, especially the second time around fucks your world inside out.

>>51826423
I'm 26, most of my group is a couple years younger. It definitely gets harder to schedule sessions once you get past college age, but right now I'm managing to play in one roughly biweekly campaign and run a campaign myself weekly. It just takes a bit more effort and organization.

>>51841683
Alright, I'll bite. What does Death/Grim Reaper/St Pete look like?

>>51841859
Fuck if I know, I didn't make it that far if there is such a place. I saw upside down desert with a creepy thing just staring me down the first time. Think a lion, jellyfish, and bird mixed together with Gary Busey's creepy ass smile.

>>51828228
Wew lad

>>51826423
Arranging games is hard when only some people have their lives together but it gets easier if everyone more or less knows what they're doing and has a regular schedule.

24. One steady group, one not-so-steady group.

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>>51842006
Well that's mildly worrying. I've seen something similar.

Time for the memory erasing potion.

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>>51826423
23. I've had one group I've played with for four years but they're either turning into waifu fags or constantly bickering about rules. I've been looking for a new group to try but everyone on campus either plays 4e or yugioh, so my options are limited.

>>51830286
Friendly Local Autistic Game Store.

I see no problem.

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>>51828228

>>51827141
>a party of 10
You brought this on yourself.

>>51833778
You know that this can be considered normal behavior in murica ? I don't hang in the weeb boards, but I've read about this shit quite a few times on 4chan
It's probably linked to how anime came into America in the first place, although I don't know the subject too well

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>>51833672
Here, have this.

>>51827141

>10 players

Have them elect a caller, anon, it'll make your life so much easier.

>>51826423
I'm 22, and still newly fresh graduated. I have stable group near my campus from various age, some even take their kids with them. My LGS are growing after going throught some bad years.

I've got my colleagues and my families into boardgames recently, after the occurent "unplugged boom" in my country. To be honest, tabletop games are considered cool stuff in here. I don't know about your countries guys.

>>51829300

Sure, because that's how that works. What a waste of dubs.

>>51826423

I'm 35. My group has stabilized out at myself, my wife, our roommate (a guy I know from highschool), another guy we know from highschool, a chick my roommate tried to pick up at Free RPG Day one year (backfired hilariously), and the chick's husband.

You just gotta find people who are still into the hobby.

>>51834786

I can totally relate to this. My group is not that ethnically diverse, but It's the same. Guess you can make friends once in a while after all.

>>51830728
Fucking run

>>51826423
26 years old and still living in my parents basement. I have nothing to do but play vidya and tabletop. All of my friends have moved on with jobs/families and shit. Fuck'em.

Just turned 27 and I table top with my brother and his friends who have accepted me into their circle of friends. I lost contact with my "old" friends when I moved outta country for two years and my brother and his friends were the only ones who kept in touch through Skype. I've tried to re connect with some old friends but it seems like they all are either a. Having kids and getting married or going fucking insane cause in their mind they haven't lived up to their expectations

>>51836333
Man your parents are lucky to have a kid like you.
>trips of parent-child love
Beautiful.

>>51826423
27 AND I'VE BEEN HERE FOR AT LEAST 5 YEARS (I DONT REALLY PAY ATTENTION TO TIME ANYMORE) AND I'VE NEVER PLAYED A TRADITIONAL GAME OUTSIDE OF CHESS WITH MY PHONE COMPUTER

Another 19 reporting in
Honestly I think i'm in the peak of by tabletop life. Maybe i'll have to give it up in a few years, but i'm meeting some nice people in uni through it, and my games are getting better slowly. Also, no gf to distract from the game, so that's nice, and grad school will probably bring a new group.

I've got two consistent friends who don't flake on me that I gm for on breaks and over summers from high school, god bless them. We'll probably never find a consistent third player but fuck it. I just hope I can give them the campaign they deserve before circumstances intervene.

>>51834914
>no girlfriend, don't think I'll ever get one
>pretending to be an elf in a fantasy world is the only thing keeping the depression at bay

Son, it's called forming a meaningful, intimate relationship with another human being. If you don't want a girlfriend, fuck a bloke. But as someone who was in the exact same position five years ago, let me tell you: putting myself out there and eventually getting married saved my fucking life.

>>51826423
I'm 25. I've always been team captain and forever GM for my friend group so I've managed to keep them together by appealing to their sensibilities and branching out into a lot of separate hobbies. The key is to not let anything get stale or to become too wrapped up in one pursuit. I've been fortunate enough to only lose one friend's interest in the past time. He sort of grew out of it as well and it wouldn't be an issue but he rags on us for still playing what made us friends 13 years ago. Gradually we have all moved away from him as he has distanced himself with his condescending behavior. While it is very disheartening for us to steadily lose him the other dozen of us have withstood the test of time so I'm fairly certain we'll go the distance.

>>51834914
>but no girlfriend, and I don't think I will ever get one to be honest
You know they don't randomly get delivered to your doorstep, right?

>>51848007
>If I said my actual age I'd get b&, but it's highschool age.
Yeah nah, this is a foolproof way of not letting 'them' know how old you really are.

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>>51826423
I'm 23.
I have never had any friends that were interested in tabletop stuff.
I've been alone with this hobby ever since I began collecting warhams at the age of 14

>>51826423
26. Many of my group are in their 30s and one is in his 40s.

You never 'mature past' tabletop, your interests just sometimes shift. There's no age limit.

>>51830386
niddersq

>>51826423
Group is 28-32, stable. But we did have some rough time, and the group is unrecognizable from when we were 18-19.

It evolves. When some people go, you recruit from their other friends they left behind. You scout ahead. You recruit, you teach, you prospect.

>>51828440
>Get out.
>le irrationally hating reddit meme
wew lad

I only went there anyway because the game finder thread on /tg/ never had anyone local and I wanted a live, around-an-actual-table group.

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20, third year of a history degree with an eye on going into law school afterwards. Haven't played for a few months, but my honest introduction to TTG in general was through my friend's Dark Heresy game in first year. Now I'm hooked, but haven't been able to get a group together at school. Trying to decide on whether roll20 is worth it or not for some simple fun.

>>51826632
Social outcast. 21. Genuinely curious. You would just walk onto a college campus and find people to play tabletop with? How would you even do that? Explain your process. I'm "that age" and I wouldn't do that shit.

>>51826423
I've been there. Just drought period, it passes. If it really is a schedule thing on their part, organise less frequent, longer sessions.
(I have a monthly group cause real life gets in the way for them too often. It works well enough)

If you need a new group though? Gaming Clubs in the local areas, though dreaded, the FLGS too. Find some players who gel with your playstyle before you run at a game at your house or make a big commitment to a campaign though, just my recommendation. You can find both great new players on a first dives, and the kinda folks who hang around because nobody else will play with them for /reasons/.

Outside of obvious hobby groups, I've honestly found work to be pretty good for recruiting - might just be my line of work, but I run a group in the office. All of them new to RPGs, but they've played a bit of Magic and stuff before and were open to trying it out. Also, tangential hobbies are good too - I was recruited to my first ever RPG group from a drama club. Theatre groups, science socs are all fertile potential recruiting grounds for the lonesome GM.

>>51826423
27. Friends drifted apart when I was 14, but then again I only met them when I was 12 when my original group went their separate ways.

You get used to it after a while. Make new ones that work with your schedule, and continue the cycle.

49. Have made, lost and made new friends throughout my life. People change over time, yourself included. Only natural for you friendships to change as well. Just be passionate about what you like, don't be to much of a cunt and you will always have friends that like to spend time with you.

>>51826423
the 20's are often like that anon. When some people go start a family or get heavy into their jobs because they've already commited several years they don't have as much free time as they used to. After putting in a decade though, you don't HAVE to put in all the extra hours and jump through all the extra hoops at work, you've got seniority. And a 10 year old kid dosen't require anywhere near as much time as a newborn.

Look for an older or younger crowd; 20 somethings are usualy too busy laying the foundation for the rest of their life to devote serious time to a hobby.

>>51826423
24, and I've still got plenty of friends. We don't get together for something every week (except for my fnm friends), but we talk constantly and play games regularly. Girlfriends are pretty cool too, don't hog our time and even come hang out sometimes.

Life's pretty ait.

25.
I struggled for years to get a group outside of the shitheads I DMed for in HS when I lived in a small town, but I managed to assemble a pretty decent one in a few weeks just by asking around and puting up a couple flyers since I moved to a larger city. I've even had the luxury of turning away people and kicking people out when they're shit.

>>51830728
>22 years old
>Needs parents permission to move out
>Needs parents permission to take a driving test
>Needs parents permission to buy a car

You're a fucking adult for chrissakes, it's not like they can legally stop you. Just go and do it.

18, almost 19. I live at a nearby university but I come home on the weekends. I run a game for 4 of my friends and occasionally participate in games run by other friends. Life is pretty good!

42 here. Still have a regular group with some fluctuating members. Kept on steady over the last 20 years except for a hiatus for 3 years when I had kids. It's hard to juggle family responsibilities but it's possible.

>>51835319
Underrated post

Anywho I'm 24 and my IRL group disintegrated post highschool and died for good post college

But now I play online and while the shit games are shit, they also fall apart quickly. And the good games are an order of magnitude better than anything I ever had IRL.

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>>51826423

Cthuloid abomination here, I'm older than your mortal minds can comprehend but eternity is as boring as fuck so I spend my time shitposting on 4chan.

Pic mostly unrelated, I just find it amusing.

>>51834703
You're either coping with this very well or you're going to kill yourself soon. I can't tell which.

>>51826423
26 and I've had a consistent group of 22 to 26 year old players for the last year and counting.

>>51828228
Literally nothing wrong with this at all.

>>51828228

Well you're fucking pathetic, LOL

>>51857884
Are cats truly Your favorite creatures, Your Eldritchness?

>>51852755
But I can't take the test without borrowing their car. Also once I have it I need someone to drive me someplace to buy a car. And if they kick me out I will be homeless so I'd better be ready to live in that car for a few weeks.

>>51836206
You must be young, Im 30 and I consider my parents "friends." Do you think after you've been an adult, living on your own with a family for a few years that your relationship with your parents will be the same as it is when you were a teenager living in their house?

>>51833672
Im 30 married with two kids and I dont hide my love for anime from anyone. The thing people hate about weebs is they try to inject weebness into everything. Dont do that and you are golden.

>>51859513

Yes, they remind me of myself in many ways, and I find that most cats have much more personality than humans do. I also have a thing for jellyfish and cephalopods, they're just so majestic in their own special way.

>>51860608
Cuttlefish truly are nature's greatest creations.

>>51860664

It appears I've found a kindred spirit in the murky depths of the 4chins.

>>51826423
31, been gaming with the same group for damn near 7 years now. Gaming is wonderful and has helped me through some rough shit, but I'm close to really getting through it all. Age has nothing to do with your gaming situation and it's gonna be okay.

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>>51860688
You mean there are people who don't have cephalopod folders?

>>51826423
22 and i could say very similar things. Had 2 major groups in the past, but life has changed and they have moved or got busy, one dude started a family. It sucks, and i dont get to dm anymore and now i have nightclasses so im turning nocturnal so even regular chances are slim with my schedule.

>>51826423
I'm 22. I don't have any friends so I can't really relate

>>51850852
Literally walk into the Union or whatever your student meeting ground is. 99% of the time there's a group there doing something, boardgame or otherwise.

>>51836206
As you grow older you will begin to see more as extremely experienced peers. It's annoying how right about things they turn out to be. My dad has spoken to me before about how he tries to be hands off after us kids leave the house, so that we can become our own men and later approach him as a fellow adult and friend, rather than resent him for being controlling as we try to grow.
I have really awesome parents, honestly. I call them to talk about 4 times a week, usually on my commute.

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>>51826423
>20
>Friends have dnd group
>ask if i can join
>they say they already have too many people
>that feel when they just started a new campaign and invited 2 new people but not me.

>>51827517
are you me

>>51826423

26. Never played tabletop, never wanted to and never will. When RPG video games exist, it always felt redundant to sit around a board imagining a game instead.

>>51826423
Hang in there, things stabilize again once everyones careers progress a little and their timetables stabilize.

There is no such thing as maturing past tabletop.

>>51865046
But why are you here though?

>>51826423
25. College-dropout security guard. Haven't played DnD since I was 15.

Just a lurker. I don't even see my best friend, anymore, because we both work full time and I only get Wed/Thu off. Plus, I'm night shift, he works evenings, so it's all fucked up.

>>51860786

There are? Honestly, I lose more and more faith in humanity every day.

53.
Group is 20 - 60yo, several females, some are cute.
LGS is run like a private gentleman's club (not the strip club type). All we are missing is a butler we would address as 'Alfred'.