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

[Brain Problems]

We had an idiot who played for a session once start crying when the party executed some orcs that had surrendered (all praise unto Maglubiyet) and we laughed her out of the game.

I had a player cry when a bad guy's agent escaped due to him doing his scripted bit about bolting after hitting half HP.
In retrospect I should have fired her as a player right then and saved everyone a lot of grief, but hindsight being 20/20

When you guys say cry, please tell me you mean it broadly like 'general bitching' not actual water streaming from eyes.

 

[Ghostse]

When you guys say cry, please tell me you mean it broadly like 'general bitching' not actual water streaming from eyes.

I mean actual sobbing.

 

[Corn Flakes]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why gatekeeping is good.

Keep it up.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

is Vampire: The Masquerade a good game to setup a Hellboy type setting or are there other options anyone would recommend?

Everything depends on what you want in your hellboy homebrew. Do you want a survival horror like tone, gameplay and atmosphere? I recommend using all S.T.A.L.K.E.R AFMBE fan rule conversation. All flesh must be eaten hands down, the best zombie role-playing game that died after zombies stopped being trendy. AFMBE rule's translate so well with other settings and mosnters.

 

[40 Year Old Boomer]

I mean actual sobbing.

Same, this dumb purple haired bitch was crying about imaginary orcs that didn't even have names.

 

[Shidoen]

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Everything depends on what you want in your hellboy homebrew. Do you want a survival horror like tone, gameplay and atmosphere? I recommend using all S.T.A.L.K.E.R AFMBE fan rule conversation. All flesh must be eaten hands down, the best zombie role-playing game that died after zombies stopped being trendy. AFMBE rule's translate so well with other settings and mosnters.

All Flesh Must Be Eaten looks interesting. However I'm thinking more of a squad that hunts paranormal entities like the undead, ghosts, and demons under an official government contract.

 

[Ghostse]

Same, this dumb purple haired bitch was crying about imaginary orcs that didn't even have names.

Should have just told her that the orcs were in Washington DC on Jan 6.

 

[AnOminous]

I had a player cry when a bad guy's agent escaped due to him doing his scripted bit about bolting after hitting half HP.
In retrospect I should have fired her as a player right then and saved everyone a lot of grief, but hindsight being 20/20

Good lord at least make it about something that matters. I've had a couple moments like that, where some beloved character who had lasted years (irl time) died sacrificing himself to save the rest of the party, and basically had to stop the session there so everyone could process it.

I always groan inside when someone new shows up and tells us that he's been playing RPGs since before anyone else at the table was born. They are spergs when playing with people they don't know and hate being expected to do some role-playing in between massacring monsters.

Tbh I could say that and would probably be this guy for at least one session. Almost everything I ever played is either no longer played or has been superseded by wildly different rules. Of course I'd try to minimize this learning curve by playing something simple at first like a dumb sword swinger rather than some magic user with complicated rules.

 

[BlazikenLover]

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More soy boys on YouTube cry about Dark sun. I feel good about the setting being safe from woke censorship. It was the game that got me into AD&D. Bringing back Dark Sun was one of the few things people liked about 4E. P. S William Srd can take an HIV infected dick in his anus for saying the culture war around Dark Sun, a myth during his Dark Sun video games reviews. When the Wizard of the Coast outright said the setting was too racist and problematic to bring back.
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This post got me curious and so I decided to watch a few of his videos, I was expecting something highly obnoxious (like that hat guy who makes d&d videos who can't go five minutes without mentioning drag queens) but they were fine, except for the wake of the ravager video where he rambles on why dark sun is not coming back, his point made zero fucking sense and I could hardly understand it.

 

[40 Year Old Boomer]

Should have just told her that the orcs were in Washington DC on Jan 6.

This was nearly 8 years ago.

 

[Ghostse]

This was nearly 8 years ago.

Then tell her they were pro-life Orcs that had just pillaged an abortion clinic.

 

[Flareanthia]

I cannot emphasize how much prepping for your action in a combat round makes me like you. I am deathly serious. Even if your idea doesn't work, it at least shows you're engaged and trying to do things. This goes double if you're playing a complex class or role, like a spellcaster in D&D/PF. For the love of Gygax and Arneson, if you play those, you should at least have quick-reference info for your spells and know what they do. I've played with a couple players who literally had to open the rulebook every time they cast a spell, and it wasn't for some weird exception or edge case.

Seriously, if anyone here is teaching new players, for the love of God and all that is holy teach them how to use cue cards. Even if they're not full-time spellcasters, having a small fan of cards in their hands reminding them that they have Second Wind, Assassinate, Fighting Spirit or Feral Instinct makes things go faster. Shuffling the cards is also a good fidget toy for those who need that kind of stuff to stay focused.

I told the new players already how I don't want anyone to play with their phone so yes, cue cards! I will tell them thanks

One of the best people I ever played with was a guy who was always looking for opportunities to roleplay with the other players at the table. Players often default to interacting with the DM, but the game is way more interesting for me when the players interact as a party rather than a collection of solo players.

One of the core rules of improv is that the way to make yourself look good is by making the other people look good. You get back proportional to what you give. A lot of zoomer CR kids don't get this.

I like that: "the way you make yourself look good is by making other people look good" thanks!

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why gatekeeping is good. Keep it up.

I'm making his one of the rights, for sure.

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Right, not sure why the quotes didn't work as intended, but you know who you are. Thanks for the advice! I might post pictures of my little bill of rights, or whatever I will call it, when I am done. I feel like things along the lines of "just learn your own character sheet" and "don't forget your own backstory please?" Are going to be included.

 

[40 Year Old Boomer]

Then tell her they were pro-life Orcs that had just pillaged an abortion clinic.

We spent the better part of 15 minutes mocking her until she left because that was the biggest failed audition I've ever seen.

 

[Quintus]

I mean actual sobbing.

That's quite something. I had a player once get on the verge of tears during a really messy combat where she was rolling like shit. She's uh, a little soft and had a really rough day though. Never had someone full on cry, especially over something so trivial.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

Most people, even in tabletop, do not mainline politics 24/7 and do not fret over whether or not raiding an orc cave to get cool loot "embodies colonialist themes" or whatever. The bowldlerization of 5e in the name of inclusivity is now starting to annoy normal, left-leaning, but not politically-addicted gamers. Taking your tiefling to trans prom or whatever isn't actually fun or something most TTRPG gamers want to do.

This. When WotC shit the bed I saw a number of nominally left-leaning types straight up punch out. We're talking 'Fuck you WotC, not one more dime.' It was glorious. Plus, where the fuck is the escapism and adventure for 'run a coffee shop' or 'go to prom'?

On the whole 'crying at RPG events', I did let out a rather loud 'MOTHERFUCKER' when I failed a spell penetration roll in a recent PF session. But that was mostly because my dice had been fucking with me all night.

 

[Buckaroo]

Plus, where the fuck is the escapism and adventure for 'run a coffee shop' or 'go to prom'?

The escapism is "have a job where you deal with quirky customers" and "have people be romantically/sexually interested in you" which is something new and exciting to Twitter people.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

I’ve never seen anyone cry over dead niggers orcs in a game I’ve been in. At least not yet. However, and I may have mentioned this story before but I once got called a bigot by tow fellow players for killing a few orcs who had just tried to murder us and had at that point surrendered. I decided that it would be safer for everyone in the surrounding area to commit a war crime since my fellow players thought letting the clearly unrepentant warband of orcs just up and leave to attack more innocent people. So in the interest of protecting future would be victims my character killed two of the surrendered orcs before my party restrained me and told the orc to run. Don’t worry though, I managed to chase him down and kill him.

Apparently this wasn’t very cash money of me according to the crew and I was labeled a bigot both in and out of character. To be fair my character was actually evil BUT they didn’t know that AND I was acting in the best interest of the surrounding farmland and residences.

What’s really funny is not two sessions later we found other orcs from the same warband massacring a village a was like “What did I tell you? I told you they’d do this”

 

[The Ugly One]

On the whole 'crying at RPG events', I did let out a rather loud 'MOTHERFUCKER' when I failed a spell penetration roll in a recent PF session. But that was mostly because my dice had been fucking with me all night.

You're allowed to cry if you roll three 1s in a row.

 

[40 Year Old Boomer]

I’ve never seen anyone cry over dead niggers orcs in a game I’ve been in. At least not yet. However, and I may have mentioned this story before but I once got called a bigot by tow fellow players for killing a few orcs who had just tried to murder us and had at that point surrendered. I decided that it would be safer for everyone in the surrounding area to commit a war crime since my fellow players thought letting the clearly unrepentant warband of orcs just up and leave to attack more innocent people. So in the interest of protecting future would be victims my character killed two of the surrendered orcs before my party restrained me and told the orc to run. Don’t worry though, I managed to chase him down and kill him.

Apparently this wasn’t very cash money of me according to the crew and I was labeled a bigot both in and out of character. To be fair my character was actually evil BUT they didn’t know that AND I was acting in the best interest of the surrounding farmland and residences.

What’s really funny is not two sessions later we found other orcs from the same warband massacring a village a was like “What did I tell you? I told you they’d do this”

It's rather sad how so many people have that slave philosophy rendering them incapable of dealing with evil and dispensing justice.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Plus, where the fuck is the escapism and adventure for 'run a coffee shop' or 'go to prom'?

The escapism is "have a job where you deal with quirky customers" and "have people be romantically/sexually interested in you" which is something new and exciting to Twitter people.

This is why I like 5es "superhero" power level instead of the "mudfarmer that dies from being bitten by an angry rat" type of game.