I'm not looking for that guy or sjw stories, just things that are different. Tabletop Games are a wide arena, after all.
>meet a player who gets really into roleplay and immersion
>but for some reason, the more serious he gets, the whackier and funnier other players try to be
>guy eventually ends up leaving once the other players are flat out referencing modern shit like star wars and die hard in character
>but once he leaves, the memes die down quickly
>everyone is suddenly serious and in-character, just like the first player
It was like a switch was flipped. Strange shit like that I guess
Passive aggressive behavior isn't strange.
That's because tabletop groups try to achieve a certain tone that blends seriousness and humor while allowing everyone to have fun. Every tabletop group will have that in one form or another.
The serious player was probably going way too hard into the role-play, and so everyone else started shitposting to balance it out. The solution here would have been for him to take his character a bit less seriously (especially out of character).
Alternatively, he was taking up too much of the spotlight and preventing other players from fleshing out their characters, which left them bored and so they start shitposting when they have moments to roleplay. The solution here would have been for someone to talk to him about how he's making it harder for the group to be serious themselves.
HOW DARE YOU ROLEPLAY AND GET INVESTED IN THE WORLD YOU NEED TO MAKE EBIN POP CULTURE REFERENCES AND LAUGH WHEN I STAB PEOPLE IN THE DICK
wannabe comedians in my tabletop games are a cancer that should be removed
... are you all right?
No, I get it. When players start referencing real life in-character, they're no longer role-playing their character, they're role-playing themself at a ren-faire. It just means they can't into RP, so why bother keeping them around?
It's called a "joke"
>you know that daughter npc you saved from the BBEG? Well I cut off her hands, ripped her eyes out of sockets, and threw her corpse into one of those Goblin Slayer rape dens. It's just a pop culture joke, bro!
>Ohh, you want to give a grand speech about heroism and bravery? Let me play some Rick Astley "Never Going to Give you Up" over the speech! I'm such a funny jokester!
>For critical hits, you describe your cool and awesome swordplay? Neat, my character pulls out an iphone, blasts gangam style, and all his spells come out of his dick while he dances! Haha, I'm fricking hilarious!
get the frick out of my game, it's just a joke has been an excuse to be shitty since time immemorial
all of those guys are cooler than you, take a shower nerd
Yeah you can obviously make up moronic scenarios where you shouldn't be joking, but 99% of tables joke in and out of character as appropriate.
Not everything has to be Marvel. It's okay to let a scenario breathe, to not undercut it, to just let it speak for itself.
gay
I don't know what's worse. The weakness of this bait, or the fact people are biting.
I honestly think that's one of the worst things you can do, when someone really commits to acting out their character, and some stupid fricking Black person feels the need to throw in a snide comment like "okay, calm down gandalf lol" or "I punch him in the nuts while he monologues haha" because they can't feel good playing ttrpgs without making someone else feel bad. Are we playing tabletop with grand tales about dragons, wizards, and swordsmen, or are we playing "make fun of the nerd for being really passionate about his hobby" ?
>but it's what they find fun
I'm on 4ch, I find the word Black person and gore to be extremely fun, but I know it would ruin the enjoyment of many people if I went "okay, whatever you say, you stupid welfare-stealing, baby-killing, gang-raping Black person" after their character did something, or pulled up a gore image and said "this is what I do to that NPC you like LOL" so I don't do that shit. I've been in those hobby for over a decade, and as a serious-minded player, I've clashed with a lot of people over this. I agree with
Dedicate to the character. Keep pop culture and OOC undercutting out of it.
>when someone really commits to acting out their character, and some stupid fricking Black person feels the need to throw in a snide comment like "okay, calm down gandalf lol" or "I punch him in the nuts while he monologues haha" because they can't feel good playing ttrpgs without making someone else feel bad
You realize that the humor and serious moments go hand in hand, right? This strawman where people shitpost during serious moments all the time can happen, but that's not the same as people joking around frequently.
Tabletop groups often want a mixture of humorous moments and serious moments. If there's not enough of either, they either leave or become disruptive.
>You realize that the humor and serious moments go hand in hand, right?
Spoken like a true wannabe comedian who tries to pull the "no I'm actually making the serious even more serious by bringing out my best humor lol you should be thanking me" type attitude. I've gone years without your jokes in my campaigns, and will continue to do so. You won't be missed.
> that's not the same as people joking around frequently.
That's a beer and pretzel campaign. Believe it or not, people can and do indeed run campaigns without the shitty humor and pop culture references those games involve. I don't need to see lord bearington for the hundredth fricking time, thank you
>Tabletop groups often want a mixture of humorous moments and serious moments. If there's not enough of either, they either leave or become disruptive.
Yeah, and that's my fricking issue. Can't tell you the amount of times I've told people at the start this is a serious game, let's be serious, and while 4 out of the 5 people I've recruited agree, the 5th starts b***hing because they need to make penis jokes like in Critical Role or some other "humorous" thing that they absolutely MUST do because it's so FUNNY.
tl;dr comediangays are shit players. Want a joke? Blow your brains out next time you're with your group, it'll be hilarious.
>Spoken like a true wannabe comedian who tries to pull the "no I'm actually making the serious even more serious by bringing out my best humor lol you should be thanking me" type attitude
Comic relief and serious drama go hand in hand in every form of media, because they accentuate each other and provide moments of respite.
The fact that your complaints center on Critical Role and Marvel is pretty showing, since it means that you just don't enjoy those jokes, not that jokes overall are bad.
>Can't tell you the amount of times I've told people at the start this is a serious game, let's be serious, and while 4 out of the 5 people I've recruited agree, the 5th starts b***hing because they need to make penis jokes like in Critical Role or some other "humorous" thing that they absolutely MUST do because it's so FUNNY.
Then you kick the fifth player out. That's the entire point of communicating expectations before playing.
>it means that you just don't enjoy those jokes, not that jokes overall are bad.
I enjoy them when they're good. Pop culture references and memes do not equate situational humor and quick wordplay, and quite frankly that's 99% of what most tabletop game comedians have, and if you don't laugh it, gets worse as they try and jam in the joke more and more in some desperate attempt to be funny.. I know what you're referring to, stuff like Stargate does it all the time, but when O'Neill makes star wars reference or Teal'cs straight man humor, they get back to treating the situation with the gravity it deserves. They don't then try to derail the session into their joke.
>4 out of the 5 people I've recruited agree, the 5th starts b***hing because they need to make penis jokes like in Critical Role or some other "humorous" thing that they absolutely MUST do because it's so FUNNY
Ironic because virtually all real games avoid character monologues and maudlin drama but critical role is packed with that shit
Obviously true and right, but you're talking to disingenuous morons
look at this fricking homosexual getting super serious about his make believe dragon games lol. no wonder you never get laid
Larping is gay. homosexual.
Vampire LARPing is full of horny women. It's probably the least gay RPG playing there is.
they're all fat and fricking fat chicks is gay
>they're all fat
A lot of them are actually very skinny from eating disorders and/or drug problems, but having sex with girls is never gay.
none of them are and you're wrong and gay
>having sex with women is gay -/tg/ 2023
Yes, moron. Fat women aren't human and don't count as women, and fricking anything that isn't a woman is gay.
Do you Catan?
What the frick?
If this was described as happening in the 90's (with some other boardgame than Catan obviously) and those people were WoD larpers, it wouldn't be anything out of the ordinary. In fact a lot of post game orgies I was in had way weirder shit.
It's very old copypasta, so maybe?
man, looking back so many slightly sketchy older girls tried to steal my wizardry bak in my Vampire LARP days. Thankfully I was too oblivious.
>In fact a lot of post game orgies I was in had way weirder shit.
A lot of what now
Welcome to old-school Vampire.
I miss the 90s.
>he isn't invited to postgame orgies
A damning confession indeed!
>post game orgies
Where do I find a group like this?
In the 90s
It's gonna be a while until those show up again, is there truly no other way?
reminds me of this
Hmm. That went places I wasn't expecting.
I would call this fake, but a man capable of committing that level of atrocity to his facial hair is capable of anything
It's impressive he was able to type that all one-handed.
it's the use of "boobies" that really sells this imo
Ah, the human pet guy.
Somehow he looks even worse than I've imagined.
>Open table in the local fantasy club
>Guy comes in, says "Hi"
>Spends the entire session passing notes to GM, pushing his mini around the grid and rolling dice (followed by notes)
>When his attention isn't needed, he sketches in the notebook
>Never says a single fricking word the entire game
>Session ends 5 hours later, guy says "Bye"
Never saw him again, don't even know what's his name, his character was named Cedric (so said the sheet). No, his character wasn't mute, we checked the sheet after the game. It was just stats, skills and gear.
Fricking based.
I assume it wasn’t because he was trying to have some moronic hijinks but frankly what a player does when nobody else is paying explicit attention to them is between them and the GM unless the character themselves is loudly announcing their actions.
Except the GM showed us the notes, being just as fricking puzzled by the guy. It was a collection of "I attack the closest one" and "I flank the mini on the left/right"
>b-but based
Anxiety? Autism? Selective Mutism?
Selective autism anxiety.
Extremely fricking based
Guy came in, played tabletop, communicated with the gm, didn't interfere or cause drama with the rest of the party, and politely left
DnD is filled with too much bullshit from trying to reenact reddit posts, pretending like you're the critical role stat and no one else matters, stupid fricking memesters, homosexuals who need to block up the game because they have unmet social needs, and b***hes just there for nerd attwntion that a guy willing to sit down and dedicate to his character is the most based
We were playing Twilight 2000, the 2.2e, but ok, I guess you just came here to jerk off over people you never met and insert them into your own angry rants about strawmen you're also jerking off to
Either way - seek help
Uh oh! Identity theft is a crime anon
playing a social game and being too scared to interact with anyone is the most cucked shit in the world
We have a buddy who has a Gypsy curse on him. (He's Italian, and got cursed while visiting family in Rome)
In five years of gaming with him he has never once made top of initiative rolls.
Has he tried prayer? Satan has no worldly power not given to him by us, and neither do the ragged and wicked get of Cain.
When things gets too serious, i get uncomfortable and I might try to lighten the situation with some shitty joke.
Is that weird?
No. Most people do that. But try to remember the situation you're in: doing it in a swashbuckling game is par for the course, but doing it in a horror game and undercut the GM's delivery.
>stranger_things_dnd.jpeg
GM lunging belly first on the table to grab the rulebook and starting to eat pages of it.
Technically part of the rules, if you send proof that you did that to the game creator he's supposed to send a new copy of the game.
Kind of funny, it was during a convention, but I was a bit pissed off that it spilled lemonade on my pants and I couldn't go back home to change.
Another moment was our group getting destroyed when two players went into a screaming match/arguing about The Sword of Truth book, gave me another reason to dislike them
>player joins game
>send him the rules
>complains that rules seem "empty" (?)
>ask him which part he's confused on
>refuses to give non-vague answers, I can't even get him to tell me which section he's looking at
>leaves
The other two players made characters and started playing with no problem. I genuinely don't get it. I would have preferred to receive criticism so that I could have edited the rules to be more clear.
I had a girl punch another girl in our D&D group over a dispute over fictional almonds.
She did it again over vegetables in a game of MAID.
Nobody even knows what pissed her off so badly.
We don't let her play anymore.
This is your brain on an agricultural science degree.