Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

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Mr. Manchester said:
Many eons ago, when I was in college, there was a small resident student organization I would attend called something like 'The Roleplaying Club'. It was essentially a place with a few open DnD groups where people could go and join a pick up game. It was a great way for people looking for something to do to sit down and play a game where the people were friendly and would teach the rules and have a good time. Most of the games had some sort of default setting where people would go and dungeon crawl, maybe some light role play stuff, some sort of overarching story but nothing huge. Just play the game and have fun, ya know?

I've posted about my wonderful experience in this group before, both in the friends that I have made and the random weirdos that would sit down and be entertaining speds at those games. I treasure many of those memories, most of them in fact. However, I say most of them for one reason.

That reason is the god damn LARP fuckers.

Where even some unwashed bastard would just show up to sit down and roll dice, LARP fuckers would show up and start bothering the everliving fuck out of everyone. Didn't matter if you were in the middle of something, some dick with a 3 wolf moon shirt and plastic dog ears would come over, wiggling sausage fingers like they were invisible and steal a pencil or some shit, making the DM stop and tell the asshole to knock it off. All of them were fat disgusting motherfuckers too, wear capes and shit.

They were also constantly trying to establish control. Demanding increased dues so more snacks and specifically money for LARP only events that didn't include 90% of the group. This was to the point where they would ask some freshman sitting down for 20 dollars to the fund, despite being some random retard. The opening meeting at each group was supposed to be a 10 minute talk about things like what games could be played or if people wanted to pitch in for pizza. These would last an hour because one of them had an elaborate monologue about why their stupid shit needed to be allowed. This was the kind of blather where a fat woman and a sperg would discuss the nuances of their ridiculous requests for a god damn hour. This was rarely stopped because as a rule, people that play tabletop stuff tend to be reserved and kind of polite. If I could only step in my shoes back then just once...

What was worse was they would walk around campus in cracked grease paint and costumes bursting at the seems with gunt and ass screaming about shit. Acting out their gay bullshit in the middle of campus and saying they were members of this innocent little table top club like it was some sort of secret society. They were smug about it too, so god damn smug, like they were some grand secret society. The only people who want into that sort or thing are faggots like them. Insidious really. After a while even the slightest association to them was shameful.

Eventually they were given enough cold blank stares and requests to knock their shit off by even the nicest of regulars that they disbanded and formed their own group. It was something like the Ministry of Midnight or gay like that. This was placed on a student union request and when it was they made a direct comparison and condemnation of this nice tabletop group the people before us had built. They failed of course.

In conclusion, weird loudmouth attention whores who act like assholes and dress just the same cannot possibly take the LARP over, because that is who they have been for a very long time.

Fuck the LARP. Gimme my top hats.
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Any LARP with magic tends to be saturated with these annoying little faggots. The Dag(?) guys I went to the free-drinks event with seemed to be able to at least be normal.
Vampire players also seemed to be weird, but not any weirder than you'd expect vampire kids to be.
 
Ghostse said:
Any LARP with magic tends to be saturated with these annoying little faggots. The Dag(?) guys I went to the free-drinks event with seemed to be able to at least be normal.
Vampire players also seemed to be weird, but not any weirder than you'd expect vampire kids to be.
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Dag/Belegarth campout events were fun. They party hard, especially the group of Russians if you were lucky enough to find them. VtM LARPs were just gay rock/paper/scissor tournaments.
 
The best story I ever heard about LARP was where they tried to interact with one of the other tabletop gaming groups.

Unfortunately, it was a Battletech group, and they weren't having ANY of their shit.
 
Capsaicin Addict said:
The best story I ever heard about LARP was where they tried to interact with one of the other tabletop gaming groups.

Unfortunately, it was a Battletech group, and they weren't having ANY of their shit.
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Bitch, you can't drop some shit like that to your fellow gamers, who thrive off of gossip, and not say shit...

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Maybe instead of a Giantlands theme park the nu-TSR can make a park with giant mental mechs shells on train tracks so the Battletech boys can finally LARP.
 
@Jet Fuel Johnny @Grotesque Bushes

Haven't forgotten, I promise. Been out of pocket for the last few days with no chance to post. I'll have a post up later today.

EDIT: OK, so I'm prodding my decaying neurons to remember how this went.

The VtM LARP scene at the local game store wasn't anything super notable. Usual spread of pretentious fucks pretending to be vamps. They usually played in the parking lot, while the conventional players (Magic, and in this case Battletech) were playing inside. Occasionally the LARPers would come inside to use the can or have private convos. No biggie.

But occasionally, like in all things, you get a sperg. I don't even remember this guy's name. All I know is that this dumbass wandered over to where a pair of lances were slugging it out (GM vs players) and made some stupid ass comment about 'demanding our fealty'.

Without missing a beat, one of the other BT players says, 'What's the BTH to hit the doof in the trenchcoat?'.

GM replies without hesitation, 'Well, he's out in the clear, so... 8+, 'cause he's one guy.'

Player: 'I light him up with the pulse lasers. Might wanna go get your judge to resolve this.'

Sperg immediately flounces off, and game continued. Vamps ain't shit compared to heavy Mechs. :D

There's also a tale I like to tell about the old BT sims (MUSE/MUSH). If I recall correctly, this was on the old 3034-I site. We had a newbie pilot who had been assigned a Hunchback-4G. This is the 'stock' 3025 model, with the AC/20. When I say 'newbie', he was very new to the sim experience as well as MUD/MUSH gaming.

So at one point, we're skirmishing with another faction and getting the better of them, and newbie sees an enemy contact pop up on his sensors at close range. In a panic, he hits his full alpha strike.

Fun fact: ejected Mechwarriors would show up on sensors much like any other unit... they were just a lot squishier. That poor pilot got smeared across the landscape by the AC/20.
 
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The Spoony One X said:
Maybe instead of a Giantlands theme park the nu-TSR can make a park with giant mental mechs shells on train tracks so the Battletech boys can finally LARP.
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I really would like to see updated Virtual Worlds (MechCorps) pods. Possibly running a hacked version of MWO or MW5M.
 
DumbassRecords said:
How is a new player like me supposed to get into DnD even? Rules change due to current year, races are getting removed, retconned, traits
getting removed/changed. What rulebook do I follow, how do i play even? Why can't I be a goblin that is a pos that steals the loot runs away
from fights and leaving my party to eat shit. I don't understand.
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Same way you always did tbh. Find a group, online or in person, and play the way you want. The dirty little not-so-secret of TTRPGs is that the online kerfluffle is completely extraneous to the hobby.

You can buy (or borrow or download) a copy of the 5e PHB and play 5e and not have to care about the changes and errata if you don't want. Or you can find another system that has less baggage; up to you.

I would recommend not doing the goblin that steals from the party and runs away bit unless your party is cool with it. You might be trying to do a funny asshole schtick and just end up a regular old asshole.
 
My new character will be an orc. Modeled after an actual African tribe. When the other players demand that I stop, I'll ask them why they want to remove Him, why they want only "white culture," why they so racist?
 
anti SJW said:
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DnD head that works for WOTC admits he wants to ruin the brand.
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Quick context on this (I guess the tweet has been undeleted) for people who have touched a boob and don't know what's going on:
Christopher Perkins was the "official" GM for D&D 4th edition and now is the "Senior Story Designer" and a kool-aid chugging shitlib.
Nikki Dawes is one of the WotC artists. I don't think I need to explain further.

The offical D&D twitter tweeted the following image with the text "Let this satyr be the first thing we post in 2022 and may he set the tone for the rest of the year."
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This image was drawn by Nikki. This lead to backlash from the community because of its not so subtle faggotry insinuation. Also the promotion of (@Adamska ear muffs) freakshit races like Satyrs.

Because this was also timed to coincide with release of the "5th Edition Expanded Rules Gift Set". A box set with a new DM screen (New artwork, no idea what's different if anything on the DM's side) and the three books full of more gendershit: Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, Xanthar's Guide to Everyting and Voldo's Guide To Monsters lol J/k Voldo is a straight cis-male and has been canceled for racism against Drow, Gnolls, and K*b*lds, so his book has been replaced with "Monsters of the Multiverse" which I've not read or heard anything about, but the presser describes it as "" the debut of Monsters of the Multiverse, a comprehensive resource for players and Dungeon Masters alike, containing over 30 updated player character races and a massive bestiary with over 250 redesigned monsters and stat blocks, all for use in any D&D world." but just guessing is a lobotomized Voldo's (which is saying something) where anything CURRENT YEAR problematic has been removed and replaced with more genderspecial advice for shitting up a campaign with your snowflake self-insert.

Basically here's your 5.5e.
Like if Wizard published a separate series of books to do the 3 -> 3.5, but instead of rules clarifications it was all advice about roleplaying disabled Trannyfaggots and how no one who isn't white can be racist. (And probably some prestige classes.)

Anyway, if you are running 5e campaigns, look forward to enhanced whining from people wanting to insert this shit because now its "official"

Edit: Confirmed the that monsters of the Multiverse is neutered Voldo. I can't seem to post images but you can check out the comparison on Wizards site.

tl;dr - Looks Monster stats going heavy back to 4e including recharge powers, especially for casters, and refocusing monsters to be more brawly.
There's some QoL improvements, like including the proficiency bonus (because 1/2 level too much math*) and just in general reads a little cleaner.

*I am being both sarcastic and earnest.
 
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Ghostse said:
Quick context on this (I guess the tweet has been undeleted) for people who have touched a boob and don't know what's going on:
Christopher Perkins was the "official" GM for D&D 4th edition and now is the "Senior Story Designer". He is now a kool-aid chugging shitlib.
Nikki Dawes is one of the WotC artists.

The offical D&D twitter tweeted the following image with the text "Let this satyr be the first thing we post in 2022 and may he set the tone for the rest of the year."
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This image was drawn by Nikki. This lead to backlash from the community because of its not so subtle faggotry insinuation. Also the promotion of (@Adamska ear muffs) freakshit races like Satyrs.

Because this was also timed to coincide with release of the "5th Edition Expanded Rules Gift Set". A box set with a new DM screen (New artwork, no idea what's different if anything on the DM's side) and the three books full of more gendershit: Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, Xanthar's Guide to Everyting and Voldo's Guide To Monsters lol J/k Voldo is a straight cis-male and has been canceled for racism against Drow, Gnolls, and K*b*lds, so his book has been replaced with "Monsters of the Multiverse" which I've not read or heard anything about, but the presser describes it as "" the debut of Monsters of the Multiverse, a comprehensive resource for players and Dungeon Masters alike, containing over 30 updated player character races and a massive bestiary with over 250 redesigned monsters and stat blocks, all for use in any D&D world." but just guessing is a lobotomized Voldo's (which is saying something) where anything CURRENT YEAR problematic has been removed and replaced with more genderspecial advice for shitting up a campaign with your snowflake self-insert.

Basically here's your 5.5e.
Like if Wizard published a separate series of books to do the 3 -> 3.5, but instead of rules clarifications it was all advice about roleplaying disabled Trannyfaggots and how no one who isn't white can be racist. (And probably some prestige classes.)

Anyway, if you are running 5e campaigns, look forward to enhanced whining from people wanting to insert this shit because now its "official"

Edit: Confirmed the that monsters of the Multiverse is neutered Voldo. I can't seem to post images but you can check out the comparison on Wizards site.

tl;dr - Looks Monster stats going heavy back to 4e including recharge powers, especially for casters, and refocusing monsters to be more brawly.
There's some QoL improvements, like including the proficiency bonus (because 1/2 level too much math*) and just in general reads a little cleaner.

*I am being both sarcastic and earnest.
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No, this is one of the very few times calling something freakshit is less autistic than the thing being complained about. It's also a rare case where it safely applies. Even I have standards, and a forced meme by /tg retards who do rapehobo games unironically and who tard out at elves is less cringe that that fucking shit. This smug garbage is genuine freakshit.

Also this is them smugly assuming that this will work. And while it might in hype and in Critical Role idiots using it; they ain't gonna pay for it since it ain't on Kickstarter.

Speaking of Kickstarter, I ran a game of that Jewish Deli RPG from Doikayt. It's so far the first and only PbtA game I've seen that I like, and that's because it has strong "Everyone's John" energy to it.
 
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