I gave up playing games at my local stores. Everything from RPG's to Warhammer and Star Wars. Most of the people I've met over the years have been the stereotypical sperg or neckbeard types. Theyre flakey when it comes to getting together and can't be relied upon to make plans with to do anything. Where are the people who can socialize like normal people. I even went as far as trying to start a meetup in my area and it failed miserably because these kinds were the only ones that showed. I just want to play games and have fun. Not borderline babysit. I almost feel like unironically trying pic related. Its been a goal of mine to spend less time playing video games and more doing tabletop stuff. How do you meet well adjusted people in this hobby?
How do you meet non dnd and non 40k players? Please, I need to know.
Historic war games.
They are all 40k refugees.
>I’m not a loser like you, I-I’m normal!
>Had ZERO friends willing to play with him
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LAUGH AT THIS FRICKING LOSER BWAHAHAHAHAHA
>ZERO
I've never really met any of the stereotypical ttg crowd, more so there are a bunch of hipsters at my lgs.
Is it an american thing or am I an butthole for assuming that?
Depends on the shop really. My area is mostly neckbeards.
I swear I must have seen this comic a dozen of times already. Oglaf did one too.
>How do you meet well adjusted people in this hobby?
I don't think there's a hobby with well adjusted people. I'm actually doubting well adjusted people exist.
oglaf did it better
Then they did it again but worse
But it was still better than OP's piece
OPs piece is safer to send to a girl you don't know well enough yet
I've had some luck getting normal friends interested in the hobby. Me and my 40k bro kept sharing pictures of new 40k releases in our little discord group for playing vidya, and now we have a new admech player who's damn good at painting.
When you do find someone good at a game store, don't lose touch. We still talk with the most normal guy from our college lgs 10 years later
I stopped going to local shops to play anything. Last time I was there, the breaking point was when I mentioned I wanted to play historics like bolt action to a guy and he gave me a speech about how he unironically cant play those games or wont because he's "too busy fighting nazis in real life". I just gave up
Yeah it’s a lost cause. I was an MTG guy and knew this shit was over when I was playing against a dude with a half beard wearing lipstick and a wig at GP Vegas. I switched to 40k and it’s not a whole lot better.
>I mentioned I wanted to play historics like bolt action to a guy and he gave me a speech about how he unironically cant play those games or wont because he's "too busy fighting nazis in real life". I just gave up
holy cringe, this can't be real. I actually laughed irl.
>like Bolt Action
I would have said no too, anon
Shit taste
normal people dont play children's games
You must be fun at parties
You must have a high Reddit karma
You have to make a group out of your friends
Strangers are never going to be committed.
It depends on what you mean by normal. The Warhammer scene in my area is almost shockingly normie. There's football guys, ex soldiers, plumbers. It's actually overwhelmingly blue-collar, which surprised me a lot. The dudes who play D&D in stores and the most stereotypical spergs imaginable. The people who play D&D with their friends at home are your standard college kids and tech employees. The people who play historical wargames are literal boomers who collect classic cars and put on showcases of their historical battles at museums and libraries. I have never looked at the MTG people. All of these groups are pretty different, and there's not much overlap between them. Who's normal?
Hell, I wouldn't write off spergs either. I'm a sperg apologist. I went to a college which has much higher-than-average number of autistic students. Aspergers dudes tend to be very reliable players, never flake on a session, read the rules front-to-back before trying a new game, and will eagerly talk lore with me when no one else will. I LIKE playing with aspergers people. Sure, some of them are disasters but several of them were genuinely cool to hang out with. Try running a semi-serious game with normies, on the other hand - it can't be done. Normies are great for beer-and-boardgames nights. So there's cases where you WANT autistics to play with, and cases where you want normies. Not always, but sometimes they can be lovely.
Honestly, I can get along with anyone. I even ended up on friendly terms with a couple open /misc/ dudes during college even though I'm a israelite. Sure, I've also hated plenty of people, I've met perverts and psychos and buttholes, but I just cut them off. In a social hobby, inevitably I've found that there's more friendly guys than jerks. Hating people isn't fun. It builds up bile inside you that fills you up and sloshes behind your eyes. If I see a group of dyed-hair types playing nu-rpgs, I'm not interested... but good for them. Good for everyone.
Absolute chad /tg/er right here. I also get along with people whom I "shouldn't".
>I have never looked at the MTG people.
Most of us smoke the weed because our game of choice sucks ass. Either that or they love the game and also think they're a woman.
>It's actually overwhelmingly blue-collar, which surprised me a lot
Why? Blue collar guys like and know how to build and paint shit.
>Normies are great for beer-and-boardgames nights
This is true. I enjoy playing with my normie friends, but I always find myself resorting to shitposting during our games because it's hard to take seriously. It's actually a problem because I'll even frick around when DMing.
>Aspergers dudes tend to be very reliable players, never flake on a session, read the rules front-to-back before trying a new game, and will eagerly talk lore with me when no one else will
I'm_retaded?.webm
>Where are the people who can socialize like normal people.
Not playing games.
Smelly neckbeards are undesirable to play with but more "normal" gamers will be constantly called away by work and family obligations. Most games seem to die because wives get jealous, people get assigned overtime for months on end, etc.
When forming a group you're looking for a very specific type of lovable misfit. Many of the non-poopsockers I've known who still gamed after college had some kind of independent source of passive income(family fortune, disability money, bitcoins, rental units etc). Many of them were gay or were straight but couldn't have kids. Many had less intense careers with weekends off(community college professor) or multiple months off like merchant marines, oil rigers, tourism industry etc.
>most games seem to die because
for me it's because GMs don't filter out toxic and shitty people, so we get some chick with BPD or a guy who just asks like the most unmitigated piece of shit using OOC drama IC and the GM will never, ever grow a spine.
Not OP, but I moved recently for work so need new friends but it's a smallish town
>for me it's because GMs don't filter out toxic and shitty people, so we get some chick with BPD or a guy who just asks like the most unmitigated piece of shit using OOC drama IC and the GM will never, ever grow a spine.
I've kicked people before, but its also important to listen to the players. If you as the DM like everyone at the table but 3 out of 4 players don't like the 4th guy and want him fricking gone,. then he is gone.
>then he is gone.
I wish this was true.The last three GMs I've been in a group with never kicked anyone out, and constantly had drama in the group. It was miserable even if it wasn't directed at me.
>How do you meet well adjusted people in this hobby?
Like everything else worse having, a good tabletop gaming group is the product of a thousand shots, the maybe couple dozen "yeses" and then boiling down to the...cream of the crop.
Basically, it's dating, but a much more complicated variant.
Or just jealously hang on to your high school group. Whatever works.
Why don't you just ask your real life friends to play? If you're as normal as you claim you are, if you're even remotely more normal than me, this is literally not a problem.
I dont ask my real life friends because majority of them live out of state or have 0 interest in tabletop stuff. If I want to go shoot sporting clays or play a round of golf I have a friend who can come by but games are different.
>Have open-minded friends
>Ask them if they want to try tabletop rpg
>they agree
>they like it
Here's how you do. Finding well adjusted people in the hobby is hard. It's easier to get your well adjusted acquaintances and make them play with you, slowly turning them into players.
>Have open-minded friends
>Ask them if they want to try tabletop rpg
>they agree
>they don't like it
>they just want to watch a shitty movie next time
>>Have open-minded friends
what does promiscuity have to do with tabletops?
>first session was fun, everyone agrees to continue next week
>next week
>X is attending some wedding
>next week
>Y is somewhere
>next week
>Z is on a BBQ
>next week
>Y is doing something
>...
It's going to be a year soon, just say no if you don't want me around. Also around that time my best bro for the last 10 years decided he won't even chat me up once a week let alone play anything and I don't know why. I was even his best man at his wedding. I fricking hate normies.
His wife probably didn't like you, sorry m8
Do you have his home address? You should spend the weekend driving on over to him and checking in on him in person. Alternatively you could hire a Private Investigator to look into it. If he has social media you could stalk him through there too
There are two groups of people like this. The normalgays and the neckbeards. Normalgays hate commitment, don't realize how much effort you actually have to put into a game and treat it as a MMO game with everyone else just being sidekicks expecting the DM to bail them out of trouble because of the "story" when they could give less of a shit themselves about said story. Because they don't care they are also really flaky and if they don't pay attention because the focus isn't centered on them they miss important details on what to do next and lose interest.
Then you have neckbeards. They like the games but have zero social understanding of things so they sperg out, be flaky and other social negatives and expect the other players to play exactly to their playstyle. Despite being social outcasts they love table top RPG's as it gives them more freedom then video games and the chance to sit down and talk to others.
>Normalgays (...) don't realize how much effort you actually have to put into a game and treat it as a MMO game with everyone else just being sidekicks
>Neckbeards (...) expect the other players to play exactly to their playstyle
You're doing some Geek Social Fallacies style overthinking there, both of them are just selfish people who don't think about the rest of the table enough the only difference is that one of them showers
Has anyone had any luck with online groups?
I'm about to start DMing just go get a group. Hopefully from there I can find a game ti play in.
Online games are even worse anon
Well adjusted normies don't play escapist fantasies designed by spergs for spergs, go do drugs like a normal person ffs.
>stores
found your problem
You're surprised at meeting spergs and neckbeards at game stores? Normal people who shop at stores tend to just buy shit and leave, the ones who stick around are usually weirdos of some description.
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