Only just really got into table top and my god what an awful landscape.
How did D&D and the other high fantasy games get so popular.
Wow dude, I roll to do an epic back flip off the mountain while seducing the dragon and fire 5 arrows at 5 different enemies with my level 20 skills and change into my half demon form before landing on my war bull.... SO COOL!!!
I honestly don't understand how anyone over the age of 12 is impressed by marvel tier set peices. Can someone explain how their happy to spend 4 hours of their life, mouth agape trying to jump an ever bigger shark over a simple high risk more grounded setting where social interactions are more valued.
>I roll to do an epic back flip off the mountain while seducing the dragon and fire 5 arrows at 5 different enemies with my level 20 skills and change into my half demon form before landing on my war bull.... SO COOL!!!
I don't get it.
If I wanted good combat from a table top I'd just play Warhammer or something, if I wanted to gush about epicness I'd be 8 years old for one but I could just gush about it in my head playing pretend.
Look everyone, I rolled a number and SHOT a guy! WOOOO!!!
What's worse is the whole dumb ass backstory lore, a few monster ideas and god ideas are cool but it just encourages people to buy new marital and be spoon fed ideas over the DM coming up with their own setting.
>If I wanted good combat from a table top I'd just play Warhammer
lmao
better than DnD homie
They can both be bad.
You're too moronic for either regardless.
Enjoy your stay.
>If I wanted good combat from a table top I'd just play Warhammer or something,
You're moronic.
>Can't differentiate a war game from an RPG
Why are you even here
You're aware Warhammer has RPGs, right newbie?
Nobody every accused them of having good combat though.
I'm literally pooping right now while I type this sentence out.
Go to the bathroom, NOW
>How did D&D and the other high fantasy games get so popular.
>I honestly don't understand how anyone over the age of 12 is impressed by marvel tier set pieces.
You just answered your own question and the sad thing is other game systems do marvel tier set pieces better but D&D still wins out just by being popular and catering to certain groups.
>How did D&D and the other high fantasy games get so popular.
they were the first
> I roll to do an epic back flip off the mountain while seducing the dragon and fire 5 arrows at 5 different enemies with my level 20 skills and change into my half demon form before landing on my war bull.... SO COOL!!!
only part of this you can actually do is backflip off a mountain, but this is more because thats something you can do in real life
you cant actually seduce a dragon in most cases because the DnD chromatic dragons are strictly antagonistic
metallic dragons are more likely to attempt to seduce the players rather than the other way around
only the fighter can actually attack 4 enemies at a time by designating 4 different targets for each attack, but this is a pretty fair and logical trade off since killing 4 small targets vs 1 big one have different use cases
you also cant turn into a half demon
having a war bull is entirely dependent on the DM to allow you to have one, though choosing to land on your mount after jumping is suitably cinematic
>I honestly don't understand how anyone over the age of 12 is impressed by marvel tier set peices
now youre just being weird about movies
most movies will involve large setpieces not just marvel
when it came out, D&D was not a high fantasy game, but more like murder-hobos.
DnD was categorically high fantasy since it took place entirely in another world with our earth being a footnote at best
low-fantasy was, and is, rare as a TTRPG because no one wants to play a normal human from a US suburb who gets whisked into another world
they want to play a knightly knight who already lived in another world
Watch, as bait this fricking obvious and shitty actually has people responding seriously to it.
>Watch, as bait this fricking obvious and shitty actually has people responding seriously to it.
Not you, though. You're only feeding OP attention ironically.
>grounded setting where social interactions are more valued.
>table top
Never was.
>impressed by marvel tier set peices
They are the highest grossing movies of all time. You just lack imagination
even before marvel, giant setpiece battles have always been some of the most engaging parts of a movie
hence the giant war sequences in lord of the rings and star wars
the 80s was a veritable renaissance of special effects laden spectacle and the world is all the better for it
Yeah because it's made to appeal to morons, it's the metal equivalent of staring at a fireworks display on loop.
Sign me up
That's all good, I just don't get why d&d is so popular, looking at videos of it on YouTube it's filled with wholesome non binary folks going around in their special snowflake custom race parties doing the most mundane shit imaginable.
>only just got into tabletop
>feels as if he is qualified to share his opinion
>doesn't say he actually played a game
Lol
>watched on youtube
>doesn't say played a game
>dodges the question about if he actually plays games
Hey, no games moron, you can play a different system that suits your tastes.
>Wow dude, I roll to do an epic back flip off the mountain while seducing the dragon and fire 5 arrows at 5 different enemies with my level 20 skills and change into my half demon form before landing on my war bull.... SO COOL!!!
All of that, literally all of it, depends on the game and people you're playing with. Find people who aren't moronic and you will have a less moronic time. If everything you know about the hobby comes from youtube and Ganker you should do something about that.
So, when you say that you just really got into tabletop, did you mean that you just really got into reading other people b***h about tabletop online? Because you kind of sound like your familiarity with tabletop is entirely based on reading other people b***h about the hobby online.
D&D is tabletop to anyone not into it and is still clearly the biggest most profitable and most often updated.
I just don't get why it's still popular, high fantasy seems like mental mush, and I get that's normally universally appealing to large audiences but I wouldn't expect a hobby so niche would have people attracted to the most uninspired pre made world.
>a hobby so niche
kek it isn't the 80s anymore, bub
They came first and marketed so aggressively their was a Satanic Panic.
You will find more ‘grounded gritty realistic’ game systems than you can ever have time to play.
To be fair the Satanic Panic WAS the marketing. The Satanic Panic was more marketing than they could have ever hoped for.
You would find more satisfaction in the /osrg/, where more serious games are played and original content is made.
I've got something a little more your speed OP
>https://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=16543
Nice to see you take interest in the hobby, maybe you'll get to actually play a game sometime.
>How did D&D and the other high fantasy games get so popular.
I agree.
>I swing my club and roll a 2. It hits the wall. With that, I end my turn.
>posts a black and white photo of an old dead white dude
>"I am very smart."
>simple high risk more grounded setting where social interactions are more valued.
Try Traveller/2d6 or wod games. Problem with wod is trying to find well adjusted people to play because every game just turns into erp and kink shit.
The main problem with this style of play is that good roleplay is hard to do right and even harder to codify to rules, thats why most of the time its skipped and replaced by beat target number and add your charisma/communication mod.
The best games I played were victorian/current/near future settings where everyone has playing more or less themselves, people here will look down to this but they will play a 300 year old warrior elf while being a 30 year old soft men and inject anachronistic ideals and language.
In my most recent World of Darkness game (which was Hunter) there was zero
fetish bullshit. Unless you consider the horrific realization that you’re bound to eternity to ever reincarnate as the former friend or lover of a mummy fetish bullshit (I didn’t mind it was a fricking great reveal and made the situation for my character far more hard - as the only way to escape that fate was to destroy the mummy, utterly. And doing so would doom everyone because it was our best chance against another horrific thing.)
OP is a homosexual though there’s no wrong way to play a roleplaying game if everyone’s having fun.
>if everyone’s having fun
Big if, if you ask me. Contrary to other types of games a single bad agent can really ruin your experience. A lot of DMs prefer to have a shit game than no game at all which I don't agree with, everyone should be at the same page and a session 0 to veto players is crucial to a good campaign imo, but I'm autistic to the point that even character portraits should be cohesive with the game and between all players so idk.
I'm not a prudish guy but my experience with the wod players I encountered has been really shit, no nuance, no romance, no taste.
Get out of it then you pretentious homosexual.
yeah bro we definitely believe you're new to the deadest board on Ganker
>over a simple high risk more grounded setting where social interactions are more valued
you are free to join organized crime if high stakes mundane is that appealing to you, you nerdster