Come forward, /tg/, confess your tabletop sins.

Very often I'll be talking with people Monday through Friday about the weekend and getting in a game of something. When people are planning everything out I'm really enthusiastic about it, but when I wake up the day that I'm supposed to go actually play games my motivation usually evaporates. Sometimes I'll go to the store or club and just sorta hang out, and turn down chances to play.

Then I come on /tg/ and bitch about not getting to play enough.

>>54582216
My DM prep work consists of me preparing everything the day before the session.

>>54582216
I've DM'd 4 or 5 different times this last year, and they've all failed because I lose all motivation to continue writing an adventure. It is literally entirely my fault.

>>54582216
I tend to comment on what other people are doing based on their rolls for an action even though I'm not the DM. It's always a spur of the moment thing, but I do it more than occasionally and always feel extremely embarrassed about it hours after, but I just can't help myself from doing it.

>>54582216
When I go out with my friends to play D&D on thursdays I lie to my girlfriend about it, tell her we're going to a strip club or a movie or whatever

>>54582515
That's adorable.

>>54582216
Is it really a sin if your players are just so stupid that they spout memes they know nothing about and then enjoy something when they actually try it?
That's not a sin, that's being an adult in the room ensuring children eat their vegetables instead of letting them not because they whine "I DON WANNA" even though they never tried them before.

>>54582515
I say that to my old man. My gf is usually the first to want to know what happened in the session

>>54582515
Are you serious?
In what way is it more acceptable for you to go to a strop club then D&D?
Apologies if you live in East Buttfucksville, Hickistan County in some crappy part of the US and people have limited exposure to stuff.

>>54582558
Same here.
Hell she'd even go if her off days were the same as mine, she's been there a few times and saw how much fun we had.

>>54582445
I'm here to tell you that its okay. The other players see what you are doing and think you are just excited to be there and immersed in the game.

>>54582216
A GMs job is to be entertaining, not original. Keep on keepin on.

>>54582216
Have they fought The Legend? The Wall?

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>>54582216
I almost always end up with characters I despise on an aesthetic level, because I inherently optimize, but hate Dex-style builds, while almost every fucking system treats "Dex/Reflexes/Agility/Go fast and be accurate" as the godstat.
I hate meta, to the point where I actually lose almost all interest in the other party members when they reveal stuff about them OOC. I actively keep stuff from both them and the GM, not because it will be bad for them, but because I think it's super boring if they don't discover it both IC and OOC at the same time.


I'm playing a loli. Pretty sure my group thinks I'm a lolicon because of some dumb edgy jokes I cracked during the character creation, but if I deny it, it just makes me look more guilty. I just wanted to be cute.

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>>54582562
It's not that complicated, I just want her to think I'm cool and D&D ain't cool. The strip club cover story makes me and my friends sound like cool guys going out to drink and discuss their weeks while watching titties, instead of a bunch of dorks going out to drink and discuss their weeks while prettending to be elves.

>>54582558
>>54582562
Lucky guys

>>54582562
Some strip clubs serve legit drinks and meals.

>>54582216
>my group hates the whole Dark Souls franchise on a meme-driven level
Same. I'm sure the franchise has plenty to love (& I've several times had people ask me if my campaigns, etc. were DS-inspired), but after four years of hearing people use "it's like Dark Souls" to describe any computer game they like, I just want to hear the end of it. The most recent (& probably most egregious) example was someone apparently unironically believing the best way to describe these so-called "check-points" in Mario Universe was "like the bonfires in Dark Souls" not, you know, like the checkpoints in basically every other Mario game.

>>54582239
Stop it then, you faggot. Go play.
Jesus. Whats wrong with you?

>>54582688
>It's not that complicated, I just want her to think I'm cool and D&D ain't cool.
Why not actually educate her on the subject instead?
>>54582768
They all do as far as I know as a matter of legal course.
Doesn't mean the food OR drinks are very good, and are always overpriced as fuck.

>>54582776
That's not hating Dark Souls, that's you getting tired of hearing things described a certain way over and over.
Pro tip for life; most people have a very limited set of experiences with a very limited set of things and therefore always draw connections between those things and new things they experience because they literally don't have the language or depth of references necessary to draw a better word-picture.

Basically it's something you're going to need to learn to deal with because it's something most human beings do to some degree or another: draw connections to things they are already familiar with rather then things they know nothing about because, shockingly enough, they can't draw connections to knowledge they don't have access to.

>>54582768
Has anyone ever tried to play a session of DnD at a strip club?

>>54582926
What this anon said, it's just like the Inuits who have a bajillion different words for "snow" because in Alaska that shit is vital for staying alive.

But everything south of Alaska only has a single word for "snow" even the term "avalanche" can refer to an event that didn't have a single speck of snow in it. It can even be used in deserts to describe the collapse of a sand dune.

Basically, we are the Inuits. And we need to remember to not get pissed off at the people who only have one word in their vocabulary.

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I do a lot of drugs during RPGs.

I'll reroll several times if I don't like the original outcome of the dice

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>>54582216
All of my characters are fully aware, in an in-universe sense, of how shallow their backstories and motivations are.

I would genuinely, honestly play a magical girl campaign, and probably try to do the voice, during an in-person game.

I have no strong feelings about GURPS one way or the other.

I legitimately enjoy Pathfinder.

I am terrible at directing the flow of roleplay, even if and when I am the one initiating things.

My entire group, including the GM, are memelords supreme and I'm the worst of them all.

I collect PDF's of tabletop systems I will never ever have a chance to play on the off chance that they will come in handy later.

The only reason it's so easy for me to keep my magical realm out of games is that I'm never allowed to play a medusa/basilisk/cockatrice.

I am terrible at encounter balance.

I can't worldbuild to save my life.

I scroll through other tabs during combat when it's not my turn during online games and none of them know yet.

Countless other sins have I committed which even I have forgotten. Surely there can be no forgiveness.

>>54582933
No, because there's no room and it smells awful and everything's got poor lighting and is extremely unclean and the folks inside get pissed if you aren't really paying attention to the tiddies or buying the drinks.

>>54583065
>All of my characters are fully aware, in an in-universe sense, of how shallow their backstories and motivations are.
That's not really a sin, it's just odd.
Sort of amusing too in one sense.
>I would genuinely, honestly play a magical girl campaign, and probably try to do the voice, during an in-person game.
Matter of taste, not a sin.
>I have no strong feelings about GURPS one way or the other.
Matter of taste, not a sin.
>I legitimately enjoy Pathfinder.
Matter of taste, not a sin.
>I am terrible at directing the flow of roleplay, even if and when I am the one initiating things.
That's a hard skill to learn. Keep working at it.
>My entire group, including the GM, are memelords supreme and I'm the worst of them all.
Annoying to some, not to others.
>I collect PDF's of tabletop systems I will never ever have a chance to play on the off chance that they will come in handy later.
It's called being prepared.
>The only reason it's so easy for me to keep my magical realm out of games is that I'm never allowed to play a medusa/basilisk/cockatrice.
Huh.
>I am terrible at encounter balance.
Some games need it a lot less.
>I can't worldbuild to save my life.
Neither can half of the board.
>I scroll through other tabs during combat when it's not my turn during online games and none of them know yet.
Sneaky git.

>>54582887
By legit I mean it's actually good value for your money, the strippers are just a bonus.

>>54583144
I guess, never really seemed that great when I worked there. Maybe the one I worked at was shit I guess, we used pretty normal ingredients to cook.

>>54582926
I also think the world looks overly oppressive and the gameplay looks mediocre at best (confirmed by playing a bit of Bloodborne), but I try not to load posts with qualifiers, blogposts and complete explanations of my every opinion. But thanks for the armchair psychology lesson.

>>54582926
Is that why weebs describe everything in terms of anime?

>>54583210
Well that other stuff is just a matter of taste which is totally understandable.
It's not actually psychology by the way, it's a linguistic thing and a knowledge thing; we have a really imperfect method of communicating with each other that often fails to convey what we really mean quite a lot and so usually we tend to draw lines between subjects that are fairly weak because we don't know how else to talk to each other.
>>54583231
It is EXACTLY why they they do that.
It's also why I insist on seeing as broad a variety of pop culture as I can, even stuff I'm not inclined to, just so I can have some kind of comparison I can use with people without resorting to drawing the flimsiest possible lines between wildly different subjects because that's all I know.

>>54583197
You worked as a stripper?

>>54582768
Drinks I get, but what kind of degenerate eats, while someone is shaking a naked ass in front of their face?

>>54583290
What? No.
I worked as a short-order cook at a strip club.

>>54583291
This >>54583297 anon here.
Drunk people. Usually sad drunk people.
Often they're the sort that visit those places.

>>54582216
I draw an 8th card in hand from my deck at the beginning of the game. Always.

>>54583297
Get to know any of the girls?

>>54583304
I don't know, it just sounds very disgusting to me. I'm not someone who gets disgusted easily, but I can never e.g. eat and watch porn at the same time. Just doesn't mix.

>>54583291
Man wants some meat to go with his meat, nothing wrong with that.

There's a club in Portland that's pretty well known for having good steak if I remember right.

>>54582688
Women who think its cool to go to a strip club don't seem like high caliber women. Women who like you enough to learn about your weird hobbies seem more desirable

>>54583316
I guess? They worked there, I worked there, we said hey sometimes.
They don't really "work" at a strip club anymore then construction workers work at a single construction site, they just go there because that's where they where the money is for the service they provide, they're all individual independent contractors.

>>54583322
The A-Crop, yeah.
That was where I worked.

>>54583317
I didn't get it either, but whatever.

>>54583324
He means "did you sleep with any of them", anon.

>>54582216
I'm starting to hate one of our party members (or just their character) because their character gets babied by the rest of the party pratically every moment of the session. They're all friends outside of it so I'm probably a jealous faggot but it gets annoying when the DM is trying to get the story going and we have the majority of the party trying to cheer up the snowflake because shits hitting the fan. Stuff happens during campaigns and it can hit the party hard, but it just gets tiring.

>>54583360
If that is indeed what he meant, then no I did not. That would be unprofessional as fuck.

>>54583365

Gay 100%

>>54583383
Bullshit anon.
I needed the job and I couldn't waste time talking to girls who couldn't waste time trying to get guys in a room so they can get a lap dance and make real money since the club doesn't actually pay them or anything.
Besides that, I knew EXACTLY how interested the girls were in sex after selling their sexuality for hours on end; in a word, not very.
Strippers really just a more naked version of the person giving you your McDonalds meal of choice and they are approximately as happy to be working there in almost all cases as those person wearing the McDonald's uniforms are. At best it's just a job. At worst it's a job that they don't want to do and don't enjoy but have to because they don't have a lot of other options.

Some seemed okay I suppose, but a lot seemed like they had issues of one kind or another. One or two were serious cunts honestly but I figure they had some kinda backstory of unpleasantness leading up to explaining why they didn't have a less humiliating job that they enjoyed doing more.

>>54583437
>and make real money since the club doesn't actually pay them or anything.
What, what? Then what the hell are they getting paid?

>>54582216
I am terrible at acting out NPCs. I can write detailed notes about their backtories, motivations and mannerisms, but they usually end up coming out the same.

except when I DM and get drunk. Those characters are generally memorable to my players

>>54583446
The dollars you throw on stage or put in their g-strings or pay them to go into a private room for a solo dance are what they get paid. THEY pay the CLUB for the privilege of dancing there, not vice-versa.
I was an employee of the place where I worked, the girls were not.

>>54583437

Those are the excuses a cock thirsty fuccboi would make.

>>54583627
Get much action yourself anon?

It actually kills my interest in a game when people outside of it, particularly family, know and ask about it. It's depressing in a weird way, like someone trying to desperately understand a TV show you're watching that they've never seen. And they've never watched TV in general. And they don't get the characters, or the episodic format, or the tone and setting. It throws the whole game into stark relief.

>>54583671

Definitely get more pussy, I probably suck less cock than you do fruitcake.

>>54582315
Is there something wrong about it? It seems like standard approach to me. At least you have the preparation in vivid memory.

>>54583065
>All of my characters are fully aware, (...) of how shallow their backstories and motivations are.
I think that is pretty realistic, frankly.

>>54582216
I started playing 3.pf again just so I could play rather than run something and although I am not having a lot of fun, it is still better than nothing.

>>54583859
Stop fucking cats you furry faggot.

My favorite character is unironically my half-elf cleric who had his face burned off right before his deity intervened and saved him, so now he has to wear mask that covers the burn marks that double as his holy focus.

My favorite moment was banishing shadows that came after the party by shining light from his burned face.

>>54584343
Would you describe him as having an impressive stature?

I haven't written down anything for any of the sessions I've ran for the last 6th months, or done any kind of planning.

I make up stats for enemies and don't keep track of hit points just having them die when it seems right. My players have no idea how much I improvise and I constantly tell them I'm preparing a lot.

On the bright side, they seem to be enjoying it, but I feel kinda bad cause I could probably have better sessions with some real prep.

>>54584297
Be nice to him, we don't know if it's illegal or not to fuck cats in his home state, he might not know any better.

>>54584947
He is rather large, for the party.

Maybe im "That guy" or maybe its just a problem most people have but
Whenever something really fucking convenient happens either against us or for us i sperg out especially if it just happens right in front of our fucking faces
For instance i was magically charmed to be sad by a magical item and the only wizard was a npc and before we had found the item that made me sad i had asked him if he could identify some stuff for us he said no
Then the next day we are getting a job from him and he says he found his identify ring and has a hypothesis about the item he saw me with yesterday
And then the dm had him identify the item, and the guy straight up told me it was cursed (identify cant identify curses)
and then he read me the history of the magical item from his book
That shit triggered the fuck out of me i just did not want to play after that shit

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Not a tabletop sin but I like to drive in the fast lane at exactly the speed limit. I just flip on the cruise control. Nobody has any business passing me, since it's illegal to drive over the speed limit.

I like to get up in the middle of the session to go take a giant shit

>>54582990
get out.

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I have still never ran with anyone who enjoys the roleplaying aspect of RPGs. You'd be suprised how many people in the Navy are open to it, but they all treat it like video games. I had a guy who described DnD as "Like Skyrim but..." and I still DMed for him, hoping I could get him to RP (I failed). At this point I've just accepted that I won't find a good game until my enlistment is up and consign myself to playing with newfags until then.

>>54583312
Untap, upkeep, draw 2.

Snapcaster mage, grab the spell from the graveyard, think, think, think, target the thing, put spell in yard.

If your feeling devious you can shuffle thier lands to the top of thier deck.
https://youtu.be/v0zYMAhp570

These are reasons I stopped going to tournaments. Too much cheating.

>>54582331
Try one offs.

>>54582216
I inject my fetish Giantesses into almost every single campaign I run.

My players have either not wised up to my scheme, or are polite enough to not point it out.

>>54585185
It's not your business to dictate other peoples driving habits.

You are holding up traffic and there are 5 cars behind you who want to pass. Just get the fuck over, man. Don't be a dick.

The speed limit isn't the only law on he road. If your so interested in upholding the rules, then stay in the right lane unless you intend to pass.

>>54583437
>not very.
That's two words.

>>54582216
I'm a DM, and I have sinned.

I overuse undead to populate my dungeons.
I fudge a little too often in the players' favor.
I rip too many little pieces form pop cultural works that only I have seen.
I save all my best descriptive writing for text based ERPs with my boyfriend.
When I get lazy I fall back a little too hard on mirroring real world historical places/factions.

I steal basically everything. Sometimes I tweak it slightly.

I really want to play a magical girl game but I also really don't want to run one.

>>54588888

Hi. Few things to start off with :]

First of all, checked.

Second of all, yes I'm commenting because you are a female DM. 'Tis a glorious thing to see.

Third of all...none of the stuff you listed is a sin except for the ERP thing.
>Undead are solid, and can have a lot of variety if played right.
>Fudging is fine too. This is basically a power fantasy for your players anyways.
>Ripping from pop culture and historical events is actually awesome. Most people don't recognize it and if they do, they will pat themselves on the back and feel good.

The ERP stuff is cringe tho.

>>54589294
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the ERP is more cringe than you know.

I'm not female

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>>54589294
>Second of all, yes I'm commenting because you are a female DM. 'Tis a glorious thing to see.

My first characters was a neutral "good" necromancer. He used both healing and necromantic magic in order to balance himself long enough to become Immortal without hurting anyone. He was a know it all and way too charismatic for what his job was.
If there was anything salvagable from the character, it's that he thought it was perfectly normal to perform tests on dead elves, whether they were enemies, innocent and dead from cross fire, or from grave robbing. He thought they're was some potential with using Elf's blood to become Immortal and saw Elves are greedy for not already experimenting on their dead kin to find Immortality.

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>>54589357
this requires way more powerful fedora shitposting than that

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>>54588958
Gary Gygax?! But I thought you were dead!

>>54582562
>In what way is it more acceptable for you to go to a strop club then D&D?
In the way that D&D is gay.

>>54589357
He's referencing a cringe post somebody made on Steam.

>>54582216
I am a serial bamboozler.

If someone was to ask me, I'd reply I don't know. But today I remembred, and thus /tg/ I ask you to absolve me of my sins
>I have allowed my friend to take on some edgy shadow-race
>I have allowed him to take a dragon as a "familliar"
>I have let him to be
oh god I cringe horribly now that I think of it
>I have let him learn swordsmanship under Drizzt
urrghhh
and I think the worst of all, competing with the one before
>instead of talking over things with him, I have nerfed him and his dragon to fucking shit when I realized most adventure modules I've had can't challange that kind of firepower

In my defense I was 12, but I was still a fag

>>54582988
I can appreciate the druggy who isn't constantly talking to his fellow players about how stoned he is, but I feel the need to tell you that even if you think you're actually keeping it a secret, the other players can probably still tell.

>>54589330
I think it's cute.

>>54585008
>I make up stats for enemies and don't keep track of hit points just having them die when it seems right.

Unpopular opinion right here, but you're doing god's work, anon.

>>54589039
>I want to play X but don't want to run it.

This is understandable. But it's also the sin 95% of us commit.

>>54595057
Nobody listen to this guy. He's a satan.

For the past year, every enemy my players have fought has used the stats for ogres because I can't be arsed looking through the monster manual, so I just learned off the ogre stat block and fudge dice rolls to make it interesting,

i heavily, heavily rip off Stephen King. only one person has read any of his books, so nobody knows.

though they are starting to complain about all the spiders. three of four of them are arachnophobic.

I rip tons of shit off of spiderweb software games, because none of my players have played them.

When I coach new players on character creation I make them weak so I can feel strong with my optimized character.

I'm about to insert lots of dark stuff into the setting just to see how weak goody two-shoes players deal with it.

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I steal from whatever piece of media I've been really into at the time of preparation and it can change between weeks. My players haven't noticed because they don't watch movies and they only play Halo, Runescape or Japanese games but they might get confused when the cyberpunk campaign suddenly turns into Twin Peaks
The rare times I'm a player my character is more or less directly stolen from whatever piece of media I've been interested in while making the character. My current character is basically all of Liam Neeson's roles from Seraphim Falls and onwards even though he was supposed to be a bootleg version of Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence

>>54589357
It's a meme, you dip

I cheat at character creation

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>>54582933
>Old GM wanted to run Shadowrun at what was essentially a hooters if our FLGS shut down (which granted, was a concern for a bit)
Despite the obvious thematic link between SR and a skeevy shithole, I put my foot down on not doing that shit.

Dude kinda creeped me the fuck out, and I didn't want any part of going to any form of public restaurant to play any PnP game.

>>54594976
>am the type of stoner who constantly feels the need to tell other people how high I am while high
I hate myself for doing it, but I can't stop. It's like a compulsion.

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>>54588361
Keep trying, anon.
I too suffered from this issue, and all it took was moving 3700 miles away to fix it. Once you do, it's like a whole new world has opened up.
>I've since moved back
>I no longer have anyone who actually even tries to roleplay
It Hurts

>>54602983
I once ran a mini-session in a pizzeria. It wasn't anything planned though, We were just waiting for the food and someone had some dice in his pocket, so we decided what the hell, why not.

Most of my plot points and ideas are stolen mishmashes

I really like roleplaying but I'm not very good at it, and not really good enough to come up with anything clever on the spot. I'm really jealous of the people here who seem to be great at it.

I use guides when making D&D characters because I'm constantly worried I'll pick shitty trap options.

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>>54589330

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>>54602726
You are the reason your GM drinks

>>54603061
Holy shit are you me?

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>>54582216
I've given myself continual slight buffs to my character since I've never had a GM that actually checks sheets or math, or even anyone at the table who remembers any items anyone else at the table has obtained beside them.
IE:
>I say I have 24 strength on a character that shouldn't?
>I start to explain how
>DM always stops me/outright misses whatever shitty excuse I give
It's always spread out/never for my main skill so I can shore up party weaknesses, but I've literally never had another party member or GM call my characters OP or too good at everything so I'll probably keep doing it.
Worst thing I can think of doing, but it's pretty bad.
I guess maybe outright making cliched as possible characters on purpose counts as another.
I enjoy making them, and I enjoy roleplaying it.

>>54602726
How? You mean when rolling for stats?

>>54583144
You are utterly full of shit and have never been inside a strip club. They serve the cheapest, nastiest brand of junk food at outrageous prices because they have to. They sell the cheapest, half water drinks youve ever had because you arent here to drink.

I make intentionally stupid decisions as a way of 'testing' the GM.

>>54603275
im sorry you only have shithole stripclubs anon

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>>54603358
This is "confess your sins", not "bring up politics"
Cool your damn jets, call it out when it happens in other threads don't just complain about it out of nowhere

>>54588662
You know I just drove for 6 fucking hours today and might I say fuck you. If im going 85 in a 70 im not moving over and eeating the back end of an rv cause your dumb ass wants to go 100 and thinks the only rule of the road is "get iut of my way"

>>54582642
>keeping stuff from the GM
If this weren't a judgement-free zone, I would be judging you so hard I'd be that giant butt from The Wall.

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>>54603378
>Replying to one of the most common shitposters on the entire fucking board.
>Not knowing such blatant bait
Really anon? Really?

>>54582445
oh my god are you me?

I play a chaotic good drow, who multiclasses a few levels into ranger.

He has absolutely nothing in common with Drizzt aside from that, not in appearance or backstory or personality.

But apparently just playing a good drow ranger is one of the deepest D&D sins one can commit.

He's my favorite tabletop character I have ever played.

>>54582558
>tfw I play d&d with an ex
> I'm a strong morals paladin Orc
>She's an insecure asshole mage
>The sexual tension can be cut with a knife
>I have to hold back a lot for my DM's sake

I used the "Because I'm dm and I said so" excuse for the first time last night. I fell like shit /tg/

I have this one character, Grubthak, who has killed of the entire party SEVERAL times and only me and DM know this.

>>54603466
Look I'm stupid okay

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>>54603736

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>>54603736
O-on purpose or?

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>>54603736

>>54603850
>>54603857
Yeah Grubthak is an evil bugger, plotted and killed them a couple of times. I can story time if there is interest.

>>54603736
What if Grubthak only THINKS he killed the party multiple times and it's actually he who is dead.

>>54603938
Man that is some next level shit...

>>54582216
I actually enjoy Age of Sigmar, probably because i prefer fantasy settings

>>54582688
You are the most beta individual I have ever encountered in my entire fucking life.

>>54582926
Also protip: Dark Souls in an insanely influential game to the point where we have a 'souls-like' genre now. A lot of things might actually be like Dark Souls.

I ran a female Chaotic Neutral Drow Rogue.

With 8 wisdom.

And she had Performance trained and would try to sing cute songs.

>>54582962
>What this anon said, it's just like the Inuits who have a bajillion different words for "snow" because in Alaska that shit is vital for staying alive.
That's not at all true. They don't have "a bajillion different words for snow", their language just uses composite words, like German (which is why half of German words seem to be a mile long). So they don't say "powdery snow", they'd say "powderysnow", and they don't say "wet snow", they'd say "wetsnow". They don't have a ton of different words for snow, some idiot just heard them using adjectives to describe different types of snow, just like we would, only they mash them together into one word.

Even if you count each individual composite word as a new word all its own, the reason for that still doesn't have anything to do with the prevalence of snow where they come from, it's just a side-effect of the way their language works.

>>54582216
I have hit a snag in my roleplaying, father.

You see, in a superhero game I play, my character was in pursuit of two villains who were spreading a -for now- incurable disease in the world. Because we are playing a Mutants and Masterminds game, these villains could teleport thousands of miles away in only one round.

So when we cornered them after killing dozens upon dozens of zombies (because that's what the disease did: it created zombies), the two of them regrouped and teleported away just as the rest of the team was about to catch them.

So after an hour or so, we hear another report that thousands of miles away in another corner of the world, there appear to be zombies eating folk: our own teleporter expands her powers and gets us to that location and sure enough, there are the zombies. Now, taking care of the zombies is as easy as a walk in the park, however saving lives and things like that proves a bit more difficult. At one moment, my character, after witnessing friends eat their buddies and then said buddies standing up to eat other passerbys, also sees a kid that has been turned into a zombie. So he puts the poor thing down.

After another bit of searching, we find the two villains responsible for the outbreak in a brothel nearby (one of them really liked visiting such establishments): now a word on the two of them...

One of them was a teleporter who could teleport for miles and miles, while the other was an intangible ghost-person who infected people by coughing/inhaling in their faces given that the virus was volatile in nature too.

So our fearless leader tries to dominate them but fails and then attempts to hold them there long enough for the rest of us to arrive: the teleporter brings my character in first and then gathers the rest of the troupe with portals while my character fazes through the ceiling in an insubstantial energy form, dropping on the two hapless villains.

1/?

>>54606109
Since the corporeal villain was already looking worse for wear, I decided to incapacitate him with a nasty ability that he failed his roll badly against, knocking him unconscious. The ghost was much more difficult, because we couldn't see it. The only people that could see it, were also not our best at attacking it, so we were stuck with me and another character to hurt it.

I managed to get two attacks in and hurt it a bit and the other character also scored a critical hit which damaged the ghost twice so after the first damage roll, it succumbed to the second while it was trying to fly into the ground and towards the sewers of the city we were in. So our team still knew where it was, because of their superpowers of detection and we had the corporeal one incapacitated before us: since I had a way to damage the ghost even if I didn't see it, I went with the teleporter and one of our spotters to get the thing confined: with her powers she ported us back to base where we engaged the nullifying field in order to turn off the villain's powers and make sure he stayed contained...

He reappeared, but was still untouchable by any of us, which meant that he could also float out of the cell at leisure: so we teleported him back to the rest of the team after disactivating the nullification in order to discuss what we were going to do: the ghost had always a way to get away from us even if we nullified it's stealth and if the teleporter also had his teleporting abilities as innate, meaning that we couldn't nullify them, then we would not have any way of imprisoning them.

So I did what had to be done and killed the ghost with my powers. Except the ghost came back to life because it was immortal aswell: after another one of my attacks, it was down again thankfully, so our teleporter decided to take matters into her own hands and teleported the ghost millions of miles away from the planet and into space.

>>54606120
And while she did that, my character decided to get rid of the other and gave him the finishing blow.

So please forgive me for taking the smoother way out, father, for I did not want us to lose the teleporter if it turned out that his ability was innate too and could not be stopped by our nullifying field. He did not come back to life, thankfully, and we threw him into one big furnace to burn the remains for good.

My sin is that I have given in to murderhobo tendencies: I feel ashamed now... I wanted to catch these villains, I truly did. But after seeing how they turned anyone they could get their germs on into zombies without any regard to human life and the danger they posed if we couldn't keep them locked up tight... I went for a kill to make sure they wouldn't hurt anyone anymore.

>>54582796
That's not very considerate of you, father!
>>54582239
I get this too, but you must recognize that standing up your friends is extremely rude and that most of the time once you show up you'll have fun. Bring snacks to your next game as penance, and let your group know beforehand you'll be bringing them.

>>54582990
If you're a GM, it's acceptable, but keep a check on it.
If you're a player, you must confess to your GM and perform one (1) sexual favor of his or her choice

>>54582216
My first dnd character was a drow, and i still haven't been to a Pray Away the Fey camp.

>>54582216
Had a long "D&D needs fix" phase combined with "Hey I can work it out for you" phase and it made all my players who were pretty casual in the first place totally not responsive to rules. They just can't remember shit and I still coddle them.

I am also indirectly responsible for new DMs surge in our small group, so at one point we had three games running simultaneously, each one having different rules, characters and settings.

Due to that I gave up on running things myself and only now slowly started to combat this mess of a situation, keeping only one game afloat.

We also never really got past 3rd level in all of our games in the 3 years period. Mostly because we don't play regularly, and that's another sin because usually it's my fault for backing out of session due to feeling unprepared, using all kinds of excuses. Rarely it was justified.

I also want to run something that's not D&D but due to all of the following problems I know it's not possible.
So I keep trying to think of things that could help my players to more easily approach new rules and settings, knowing that there's only player who can do it no matter what I do.

I'm sure there's plenty of others.