How and why did you become one?
What's preventing you from having a game?
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What's preventing you from having a game?
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Work
I didn't, I run 3 games and play in 4, and I have another one lined up after I finish one of the ones I'm running now. Picrel.
Now take out all the online erp ones.
Yep, still 7.
Stopped playing Heroclix years back because I moved and didn't bother seeing if the new LGS had a scene for it. Stopped going to FNM because there were always smokers loitering around outside
Id trade you the smell of rotting mold and grease within the unwashed bodily crevices of the MtG players at my LGS for Marlborough smoking goatrats.
Can’t find a DM for d&d, too new to Dm safely, too lazy to Mordheim
Pick a system that isn't gay garbage and run it. I started with Delta Green.
Sure, I will be even more nogames if I run something beyond the mainstream. Or I’ll have to go with Dark Eye or some gay ass shit my compatriots seem to love even more than Redditors and Dragonborns
> T. the guy who shills GURPS all the time.
I wish I could play GURPS with that guy from my old school tbh
For DMing 5e, the trick is just to make bullshit up as you go. So long as you don't railroad players, you can get away with so much.
The only real challenge is building combat encounters, but that's an art you can only get through experience.
long story short.
masturbation
>Okay guys you come to a clearing in the forest and spy some gobli- Anon for the fifth time stop trying to jack me off under the table I am not going to give you a Holy Avenger
The proof that other cumbrained anons really gotta cut it down.
Too paranoid and anxious and fear of having to perform.
Got the coof, went unconscious for 2 weeks and when I woke up I got a hemorrhoid from doing physical therapy with a shit tube up my ass. Went home, can’t wipe my ass because it’s too painful. Have to use the shower but even that isn’t a good job. Had to change underwear every time I shit. Felt too self conscious to go out to games like that. Still self conscious about smelling like shit to this day even though hemorrhoid is gone.
Are you mentally challenged? I'm amazed at how many people can't clean their asses properly.
First off, you don't wipe, you press down the toilet paper to clean yourself, starting with very little pressure (the more shit there the less pressure, because you don't want to smear shit all over your ass) then up the pressure more and more as you go through the next pieces of paper until its almost clean, then you soak the next pieces with a bit of water and clean a bit, finish with a dry piece to dry your ass. Done. Do it all gently without scraping. It's very quick, easy, efficient and won't hurt, plus you are assured to be completely clean.
t. hemorroid haver
>Don’t wipe
N-Nani?!
Just buy a bidet you maniac.
There are pieces of shit in the folds of your anus because you don’t want to wipe your ass.
This post should be stickied, half of the lardplanets in this board stink of shit.
Nah, anon is right, wiping does nothing but smear shit all around your ass and ass pubes. You want to catch the shit with the TP, so you get the majority of it with the dry TP and then you do the last bits with wet TP so you don't end up with shit on your folds.
>t. hemorroid haver
You sir deserve a whole tube
>Ass wiper copy pasta
Still gets me every time.
Also if it's really that bad get a hemorrhoid ligation
Just get one of these little frickers.
That's nonsense. You can't spontanously grow hemorrhoid over the curse of 2 weeks, no matter how badly your butthole gets mistreated at the time. It takes months, even years, of sedentary lifestyle.
the sort of social anxiety where you pee in gatorade bottles and are skinny rather than leave your room
Work and everyone who would play having an active social and home life.
If we get one group together a month it's a miracle, and then there's the 'do we even wanna play or do we wanna drink beer and hang out?' in the equation and that wins a lot more than it should.
Mental energy being drained by life is a sad thing to see as we get older but it happens and we all hate it.
But when it happens it's nice. I refuse to play over Discord/TTSimulator though, it's not the same and I hate being tied to a desk, so that much is on me.
I have no idea how the frick do I even have two groups I play with pretty consistently.
Of course, there are long stretches of time where the campaign goes on a hiatus, or ends and takes a while for a new one to restart, that kind of thing, but that's just life as an adult, sometimes things get in the way.
But eventually, one of the two groups always gets back into it.
>How and why did you become one?
I love D&D. I have no interest in being in the same room with D&D players, talking about D&D.
Graduated from my PhD. In the couple years since then, it's been hard to find a bunch of other autists.
My friends were too stupid for TTRPG growing up, I played 5e with coworkers but I know there is better out there and wouldn't join one of the many games available in my area.
It stopped being fun. I left
No one in my friend group DMs anymore because we all got sick of it.
I'm an anti-social autistic moron
Small town
I was nogames for years mostly through incompetence and a small friend group that was interested in playing. I found some friends online a few years later and got invited to a few games. Now I'm in 2.
>how
Not having a game.
>why
Haven't finished making it yet.
I'm socially incompetent and unmotivated, so I have no friends and little interest in playing with strangers.
I keep asking in several groups for local players but nobody is interested. I have all the stuff needed to play for 23 different miniature games but there's just no interest
Nothing. It's a conscious choice. Covid restrictions liberated me from my then-current group and during the quiet few months of quarantine I realised I absolutely loath playing TTRPGs and never had fun with them, but always tried anyway for nearly two decades.
I switched to just playing board games and it greatly improved my mood and amount of fun I get from my hobby, plus I don't have to deal with most of the people from my former group, too. The fact the nearby library has a gaming room and there is always someone to play there whatever only adds to the resolve of never returning to TTRPG.
>run game for friends
>brother of one player starts attending, but he's insufferable
>run a year long campaign putting up with this power gaming no imagination moron
>we get to the end
>say I'm not running for this guy again
>"oh come on anon, friends are more important than games"
>I wouldn't call this guy up if I was bleeding to death and he was the only other person on earth
>stick to my guns, say I'm not running for him
>group won't play without him because it's "mean"
>now they meet irregularly for boardgames and I turn up when I feel like it which is rarely
I'm too lazy to find another IRL group.
So how does someone actually go about finding a group, assuming you've already exhausted your friends already? Has anyone done this and do you have any advice? Do you just turn up to the FLGS and pin your contacts to the board? Should you attend other people's games (suffering through 5e) and then selectively invite the good people from there?
LGS is a valid option, provided you got some.
Otherwise, knock at some discord, reddit or facebook groups, I guess. Best if you don't mind online play, but with the two latter you might find players from your group.
No one to play with. I occasionally play games with the only 3 people I consider friends but one is bi-poler and not good in an RP scenario. Another is turbo autistic and has a martians brain with the way his mind works and the logic he uses, and a third is very inflexable and obtuse. I also live in the middle of no where (The North-East of England) where nothing happens, there is nothing to do and no where to go to talk to and meet people who share my interest. I browse and post on tg because its the closest I can get to others who share my interests but dont have my friends hang ups. Sucks man.
Have you considered moving? Alternatively, finding an online group?
For online I dont know where to look. All the public Discord groups for RPs are the most normie shit and I know I wouldent be allowed to be myself. I'd probably end up regretting it but I'd want to seek out places where tg posters congragate and try joining a game or two there.
As for moving, cant. I'm cursed with self awareness and from that I know I am medium functioning autistic. Smart enough to not be moronic but not smart enough to be able to fit in with proper high stress jobs. Cant drive either and live with my middle aged mother. Cant drive either. Will probably go back and try and ace the test for no other reason then to open up oppertunities.
Just find the public groups or whatever for the games you want to play, don't worry about finding "the one game." You'll go through at least half a dozen, but keep tabs on the ones that don't flake and are cool dudes. You'll either get lucky and find that one group or build a group that will last years out of the bones of multiple failed attempts. The networking part is important though, the people who say it's impossible after so many games are the ones who don't keep up with the good people.
MtG kinda ass now
>NoGames
I prefer to think of myself as "in-between-the-games". It gives me more hope.
I spend all my free time monitoring /tg/ for nogames threads.
I'm not 100% nogames but apparently people just doesn't enjoy these hobbies like I do. They all have work and responsibilities yet they still talk about videogames, football and whatever. "I have no time" seems to be "I have no time for tabletop" and "I'm poor" seems to be "I'm not buying figures and paints".
>They all have work and responsibilities yet they still talk about videogames
It's about time commitment. Video games can be played for 30 minutes as a quick break. Most TTRPGs take 2-3 hours minimum.
Long, low-priority time commitments become increasingly difficult to meet when you're busy. Try making a D&D game from 2-6 when you have a work meeting pop up at 4.
>"I'm poor" seems to be "I'm not buying figures and paints".
"I'm poor." is a catch all for
>my wife said no
>I'm cheap
>I don't want to play and this will end the conversation
>I actually am poor and if you had pieces I can use I will play
I'm financially in a better place than most of my friends (dual income, no kids) so the last line item I try to help with. I have 3 kill teams I legitimately bought, built, and painted so a friend could participate and not feel like he was stealing someone's turn using their guys. Made me happy to have them involved, made them happy to not have to worry about the money and time commitment.
The thing is I'm also poor and I can't afford that. And I know they can afford to slowly build a band because they're in similar or better situations.
It's the second or first lines for sure.
I'm a piece of shit that emotionally self destructed and burned all the bridges along the way. So rather than trying again I just stay away from the hobby so other people don't have to deal with my shit.
No social skills at all
Not even enough to get an RP going anymore
I had to put more effort into vetting a player than vetting a nanny for my own children.
Because everyone near me only plays shitty games like 5e D&D and Pathfinder.
Currently have a group I play MtG on and off with that consists of my brothers and some friends. Been considering using of the systems (that is basically just gurps) and settings, but the hardest part is just getting people in the room.
I have multiple games, but I still feel empty inside because there are not enough fuzzy girls in them
I have a Saturday game, but it gets regularly cancelled because
>GM will cancel a session if we are missing more than 2 players, even if the pace has been going slowly or the group could get some stuff done without everyone there, he still doesn't want players to miss out
>Player A is player B's girlfriend, and is just playing to spend time with B. If player B isn't showing up then player A is a guaranteed no-show.
>Player C is a senior IT technician for an American hospital, so he is constantly on-call and has to respond to service tickets that the hospital staff could solve themselves if they were sentient
>Player D recently became a father, god bless him even though I personally think he's a dope
>My selfish ass is too mentally exhausted from work to work on my own campaign, so we don't have a backup game to fall back to
I think this thread is a brilliant idea, though. A thread dedicated to talking about nogames is infinitely more interesting than the endless schizobabble slide threads pretending not to be nogames.
Other nogames threads are constantly getting bumped when they should be posting their opinions here instead.
Have you tried autistically and incessantly calling them out as nogamesers
Did I touch a nerve? I'm just gonna bump this thread again because if they could be reasoned with they wouldn't post stupid shit in the first place
Last group exploded 2 months ago, Initially I was holding out on being able to salvage some members but that's not likely at this point. Now I'm moving at the end of the year and will be looking for new players after.
Recently broke my nogames streak, but for a couple of years before that it was because
1) the group I was DMing for (college acquaintances, not close friends) exploded over political arguments when Trump got covid, four of the six players decided they didn't want to be friends with each other anymore and couldn't even tolerate roleplaying over discord with each other, so two left. Added one new player for what would have been the final session but the wind had been taken out of my sails and it was also just getting too hard to organize enough people showing up at once.
2) several of my friends lost passion for 5e
3) the last couple who still played apparently don't think I'd be a good fit for the group they played with nonstop during my nogames period (they're discord communists and possibly furries too so no big loss tbh)
>hey anybody wanna do a game
>do a few sessions
>alright is friday good for everyone for the next session?
>*crickets*
>hey anon that game last year was great, we should do some more sometime
>okay let's do a game next week if you're free, I'll run it
>*crickets*
>hey anon, I've heen cooking this game idea for a while and I think I might wanna run for once
>I'm down absolutely whenever just tell me when you're doing it and I'm there
>*crickets*
>hey anon wanna come over and play some board games
>sure what day's good for you
>*crickets*
I think people just like the idea of the game more than actually playing it.
>How and why did you become one?
I have no friends or social circle. Actually I'm not sure how the frick I came to /tg/ in the first place. Probably because of Dawn of War way back in the day, so yes, I am the cancer that is killing the board. I don't even like 40k anymore, I just come here out of habit at this point.
>What's preventing you from having a game?
I don't have any friends and don't feel up to committing to any sort of online organized thing.
I'm not nogamez right now but I can say that when I was, I was turned off primarily by wokeshit being everywhere. I had be pickier about who I played with and for a while that eliminated a lot of games that allow trash like trannies etc into them. But I did find a circle of people who I enjoy TTRPGs with now and things are going a lot better.
Had session 0 with some flaky shitbuckets a few years back. That game went nowhere.
Now I've got an edh group that does some board games and apparently has run DnD in the past. I'm going to try and gauge interest this weekend, see if I can get two or three that want to do an rpg. I don't really want to play DnD. I've never played it so it's not like I know that I hate it, it's just that it feels so oversaturated in the culture that everyone is going to come in with preconceived notions with which I really don't want to compete. I was thinking about doing something like Crash Pandas, just a quick fun one off to see how we work as an RPG group, and then see what people want to to play after that.
I like these threads, we need a nogames general, it will filter about 60% of the threads (especially if we rightly put worldbuilding stuff in here)
After leaving my last group, I came to the conclusion that TTRPGs may not be for me. When I'm a player, I find myself getting frustrated with both the GM and the other players. Inversely, when I'm a GM, I find myself getting frustrated with my players and my own inability to properly translate the ideas I have in my head to a roleplaying environment. I simply wasn't having fun no matter what I tried.
I have games but with age i am becoming less and less agreeable and able of compromising, to the point i'm seriously evaluating the notion of either going solo or straight nogame.
Plenty of people express interest in RPGs, but suddenly go quiet when they find out you're planning to run something other than 5e.
No one in my shithole plays one and i don't know any discord servers that plays table games
I’m a friendless loser. No one to play with. I considered going to the local WH store since they’re obligated to let anyone play who buys a box and enters a tourney.. but they’re temporarily closed
I had a tightly knit group of friends with weekly game nights, but we split all over the country due to boring reasons like work and family. And it simply never felt right to play with anyoine else.
We still get together sometimes, but it's like once per year now.
Question: why don't all you No Games get together and play something? Or is this an Incel/Femcel situation where everyone is insufferable?
Are you unaware that the people using this site likely live hundreds if not thousands of miles away from each other?
>I-I-I was talking about o-online
If I need a computer to play, I'm just gonna play videogames. Physical tabletop face-to-face or nothing.
>If I need a computer to play, I'm just gonna play videogames. Physical tabletop face-to-face or nothing.
So you're a whiny homosexual who has the answer in front of him and refuses to accept it, good to know. Please have a nice day you useless c**t, or at least get off my board.
I think you’re partly right. There’s of course the distance thing, but even in my cities discord like 99% of the people are fricking insufferable. I’m sure I’m annoying in my own way, but at least I’m aware of it and can manage that if need be. If someone obviously doesn’t like my story I don’t just drone on for 20 minutes.. which is a skill not everyone has acquired apparently.
Cities have discords? Man I am so out of the loop on discord, anons talk about it like it is a social media site I've only used it for group calls while playing vidya
It’s new to me as well, I’d only ever used discord for multiplayer with people I know irl, or raiding when I played classic wow. But I got an invite through the cities FB page. It’s mostly dead besides redditors calling stores greedy for charging 10$ to rent a table. I think I’m gonna try the local WH store when they reopen.
>play with anyone from /tg/
I'd rather be forced to hold my balls over an open flame while eating broken glass.
I found my current group through the /tg/ gamefinder thread, they're pretty cool and we're having fun playing.
I don't get free money from anyone/anything.
Scheduling conflicts.
Nta, but I left TTRPGs after 21 years of playing, on the very similar premise. It only took covid to finally embrace the fact that I don't miss it and I was never really having fun, always either doing a homework that I disliked and never felt meaningful or getting incredibly frustrated by other GMs.
I'm the only one willing to DM irl and online is full of forever DMs like me
No one fricking plays PF1e unless I run it