Earlier, after hammering out an online game's application form with many questions, including the usual "give me a character concept" and "respond to this prompt with a sample of your in-character roleplaying," I was accepted. These application forms can be exhausting to answer, so it felt rewarding to make it into such a game.
Only after I was accepted did the GM inform me that the campaign world was no-humans and furry-centric; this detail was nowhere in the advertisement. I asked if I could simply play a character with animal ears, an animal tail, and otherwise human features, but this was rejected. I was interested in neither playing an anthro character nor playing in a beastfolk-centric world. I found this to be highly frustrating, and a waste of my time.
If people want to run an anthro campaign, then fine, but at least advertise that up-front. I, personally, do want to be restricted to playing a beastfolk or whatnot. Why bother concealing the furry-centric nature of the setting?
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Crazy to think that you spent all that time and effort creating a character without first asking the GM about the campaign.
The advertisement included a description of the world and the campaign. I did not commit to any one race while pitching a character concept in the application form.
Unfortunately, the GM neglected to mention that it was a furry-centric game until after I had already been accepted.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Have you tried not playing DnD?
In this case, D&D doesn't seem to apply, because OP specified "game" and "GM".
But you knew this, because you want to falseflag HYTNPD&D as a mindless utterance, since people not playing D&D hurts you.
>Why did furries do this?
This is where you made your mistake: trying to understand something that has no explanation. Furries are beneath the level of logic.
Have you tried not playing Ironclaw?
Ironclaw's cool though, once you get past some of the atrocious book art.
I know, right? If there was a version of the book with passable art I'd feel much more comfortable waving it in my players' faces and suggesting we play. They seem to enjoy the rules, but always recoil at the example art. It takes them right out of the fantasy of a game with beastfolk and into staring at some B-tier Don Bluth imitation (or at least that's my best description of the art style's mess).
Unironically, it’s basically better GRRM setting and a solid medieval role play game (especially the older versions)
Plus I use the Myriad Song version of the ruleset for my own homebrew games, underrated system
They really need to get the artists who worked on Redwall or those old british animal stories to do art for it, even if it’s just per-chapter art better then the c-grade furry shit it’s stuff with
>an online game's application form with many questions, including the usual "give me a character concept" and "respond to this prompt with a sample of your in-character roleplaying"
This is not normal. Online games were a mistake.
If you're going to open your game to strangers, you need some way to filter them and understand what they're bringing to the table. If it wasn't online you'd ask similar questions directly.
I would have agreed were it not for the GM lying about the nature of the game. That filtering shit works both ways, after all.
The DM is literally under no obligation to tell you what the game is about until it starts...
True. Lying on the game's listing is like lying about what character you're brining though. It makes no sense.
The DM is literally under no obligation to tell you what the game is about until it starts...
Nobody is under any obligation for anything when it comes to tabletop. You're still a fricking dickwad in this kind of scenario though.
Obligation or not it's still moronic. Not stating what the game is about acts against the DM's own self interest.
It's called "filtering". Playing with strangers on the basis of "first come, first served" is a mistake.
You have to filter trash somehow. Personally I ask applicants to send a video of them doing 20 consecutive good-form pushups.
Nice try, Gymteacher Roberts, but you can't trick me.
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>Why bother concealing the furry-centric nature of the setting?
Maybe they think advertising as furry will invite harassment.
Why?
>why would furries ever be harassed
… you're kidding, right?
Why would you want to just play a human with inbuilt accessories?
Depending on the world, a game exclusively consisting of anthro characters can be a very interesting if they lean heavily into the animal side of the races. If you're just going to play a human that defeats the purpose.
Do what I'm doing for a PF2e game a friend of mine is running, pick Kitsune and invest into illusion/enchantment and embody the scary bits of the youkai instead of being some homosexual uwu softboy or whatever it is furries do. Become fear itself.
There's a non-zero possibility they've been burned before by a troll looking for furry games and pretending to be a serious player before then going on to try to ruin the game. Alternately, could be that while they are a furry they hate the type of people openly advertising that tends to attract, or are specifically looking for the type of people who will consider it a pleasant surprise or be able to roll with it because they think those make more agreeable players.
Or they hinted at it and thought it was clear but you missed it. Or it just sort of slipped their minds.
Or the have some sort of ego trip mental disorder where they think any player should be grateful to play their game no matter what they do and they're trying to filter out people they think are ingrates.
My point is there's about a million different reasons they could have done this and that's assuming you're not deliberately leaving anything out or lying. No one here can remotely read minds so it's not like anyone's going to be able to give you a good answer. Just shrug it off and go looking for another game.
Was it that Delver's Guide To Beast World setting? Either way I'd say at least try it out?
>furry game that doesn't openly advertise itself as furry
>open registration
Fake and gay.
Application forms are basically standard for online recruiting these days.
If a furry game doesn't want to attract too much attention, it simply won't advertise itself outside of furry sites or private chatrooms, and it certainly won't advertise itself on a general purpose LFG site.
The story doesn't make any sense and is just an excuse for OP to shitpost about snout vs no snout.
i'd be pissed too, but only because I couldnt indulge my hmofa fantasies
>but at least advertise that up-front.
Always this. I *like* furry-only games, and even I'd bail on this group for concealing a detail like that.
I didn't know you could find online groups that advertise for games like this. Where do you look? What site was this on? Is it in your area, or online?
Probably Reddit and Discord