I keep trying to get into traditional role-playing games
but the issue is all of my friends are borderline braindead morons who get can barely roll a d6
Any easy recommendations that I can play with idiots?
Knave was too complicated for them
So was DnD 5e
Candela Obscura
Mausritter
and a few others
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I was going to suggest Lasers & Feelings but
>borderline braindead morons who get can barely roll a d6
in the same boat with my friends, but we haven't actually gotten a game together, so we're stuck at the 5e stage. I get the feeling it's going to instantly devolve into a le epic xd funny frick with the dm game. if they're too moronic for it (very likely), I'm planning to go to the OSR SRD, but I'm not confident that it would go any better.
So yeah that's basically how it went, it just devolved into fricking with the DM very very quickly
I mean I tried a game that was rules lighter too
I'll try CoC and see if it works for us. I think they could do well with something more story-focused.
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Amber diceless, or start with board games.
Your friends don't hate role playing they hate rolling dice for every fricking thing and having thousands of rules.
Play a real role playing game like Call of Cthulhu. Tell them to roll dice for skill checks and that's about it.
>who get can barely
What's it like living in a glass house?
Tricube Tales. Dude made it to play with his small children. If they can't hack that then just have them put down.
>all of my friends are borderline braindead morons
You are not going to have fun. I have tried to get normalfriends to play and they lose interest quickly, they don't take it seriously, they will not set time aside to play, etc.
When you play online, flaking is unreal
I suggest you play solo. Solo has single-handedly revived my enjoyment of RPGs when I had practically quit the hobby for a few years
I have tried some solo-journalling style RPG games and I do like them a lot!
Any suggestions?
get in /srpgg/ when it comes back up
if you like something that leans a lot on your imagination while still being random then MUNE is great, but there are crunchier oracles that use more tables and whatnot to actually tell you what happens
Try Risus. Make it a funny beer & pretzels game. Even morons can get it.
fukkin date a girl,you loser
get new friends
Play a game like Paranoia where the GM is the only one who is supposed to know the rules.
If you solo game, you can do everything at your own pace and have any mechanics and options you want.
no matter your audience, making three to four times as many pre-gens as the party, letting them choose and just rolling with it always works, no need to bog them with mechanics, just "you want to do X, so roll YdZ" and you can handle everything else
if that is not working, call a mental health institute, people that moronic shouldn't be walking the streets
Unironically, it might not be worth it. Play with different people.
>my friends are borderline braindead morons who get can barely roll a d6
Please explain.
So I mean, what it says on the tin.
They really struggle with the concept of the roll.
Which is a greater extension of struggling with the concept of 'accepting what the DM has to say'
That's the biggest issue.
They struggle to accept anything
They seem to want to take things seriously (With the exception of one guy) but also push-back a lot?
arguing with the results of rolls and such.
And they seem generally perplexed by combat mechanics sometimes, not understanding actions/bonus actions/etc probably from too much videogaming.
My conclusion is also probably a resounding 'play by myself'
Because I have no idea where to find other people
That sounds unbearable. Do you think they'll get used to it after a while or are they hopeless? Cause that sounds unbearable to me.
It's quite very unbearable. I've tried a lot of sessions and they just can't seem to figure it out. Normies gonna normie I guess
I'll use some of the suggestions from this thread and give it one more go
If they can't learn how to fricking open their ears and engage with battle rules I'm giving up and going solo
Some people just aren't that interested, although if I were in your shoes I'd appreciate that they're willing to try at all - but it's really not worth it. If they want to take it seriously but fundamentally don't understand it, you're not gonna teach them. Don't waste your time and theirs.
>I keep trying to get into traditional role-playing games
>but the issue is all of my friends are borderline braindead morons who get can barely roll a d6
What's the problem? They'll fit right in with the modern audience.
Is tabletop gaming undergoing a shift into the mainstream or something?
from what I understand it's relatively imagination-intense nature makes it barren soil for most of the homosexuals that ruin other hobbies.
Since it requires you to be sentient as a pre-requisite
>undergoing
You poor soul. You don't even know.
Living under a rock has it's perks, I guess.
Wouldn't say no to a spot of enlightenment though
Anon... I...
...I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but roleplaying games, and D&D in particular, has been taken over by reddit for many years now. Even the jannies on /tg/ are basically interchangeable with the homosexual mods that reign supreme on reddit.
Oh....
That makes sense....
I can see DnD being prime troony breeding grounds tbqh
Honey Heist or Goblin Quest.
Have fun