I sometimes feel like the art of telling a good, solid RPG story has been lost.

All of these stories were always fake to begin with.

Never really existed because the roleplay is a shitshow of interpersonal drama in waiting and the game aggressively refuses sensible narrative structure. It simply happens when the stars align, there is no "art" to it.

>>96008917 (OP)
>little girl
creep DM

>>96008917 (OP)
Not really. People stopped posting ttrpg stories partially because random anons would show up to shit all over them, but mostly because too many fuckers go to 4chan, dig through the archives and active threads looking for content to steal to post to youtube in hopes of getting paid for doing nothing

>>96008932
I think you're playing the wrong games with the wrong people.

>>96008930
Probably but it fun unlike the shit crapping up /tg/ these days.

>>96008995
The point is that "good storytelling" and "good co-writers" have points of tension with "good gameplay" and "good players", so a generalized "art of telling a good, solid RPG story' cannot exist. The collaborative storytelling and TTRPG aligning is simply too sensitive to marginal minutia.

>>96008930
>>96008932
I've had some interesting roleplaying things like happen, I´m not sure how anyone would fail to experience something unexpected like this unless the players are completely disconnected from the world and the characters they're playing with.

>>96009113
>marginal minutia.
You seem a bit confused. You don't need a good game to tell a good story. You can tell a good story about an awful game.

>>96008917 (OP)
I personally just don't have interesting tales to tell. Or the ones that were fun are from a format that /tg/ would rightfully recoil at: play-by-post freeform roleplaying

>>96009209
>You don't need a good game to tell a good story.
Yeah, but pic unrelated.

>>96010049
>He's never seen bad worldbuilding
Unless you want the plot to take place in a sea of urine, preconstruction would be a good place to start.

>>96010049
>Stop painting miniatures
>There is no point to painting miniatures if the game is never going to be played

Self-absorbed players can fuck off. The world-building is fun for me. Demanding I focus all my energy on entertaining you is some autistic toddler bullshit.

>>96008930
Honestly that sounds perfectly believable to me. I left a giant space-hamster on a dwarven hammerhead overtaken by goblins who'd eaten everything else but the last giant space hamster. The players named him waffles and took him with them throughout the rest of the campaign. Was just supposed to be that extra heart-string pull as the walk into the room with blood and gore and rotten dead things everywhere, to see one quivering hamster.

>>96010828
>The world-building is fun for me.
That's nice but it isn't fun for your players. I've had DMs practically begging me to ask them about the 4000 years of history they wrote for their homebrew D&D settings.

>>96008930
>>96010834
My Bard found a genie who would grant one wish and I used it to freed him and he became my sidekick.

>>96010878
Aladdin ruled that you use your final wish to always free the genie, how does your gm not figure this out?

>>96010873
As long as they didn't force you to partake, what was the harm. Your DM made something either for himself or that he believed his players would appreciate and he wants to share it. I get you not being interested, that's fine, but it's not like he's tying you to a post and monologuing about the sacred reeds grown for weaving the marriage bands of his notEqyptian nobility.

>>96009209
Awful game? Settlers of Catan is amazing wtf are you talking about

>>96010873
You're not a player. Furthermore, you're a nobody. We the Worldbuilders have no obligation to entertain you, you're the consumer, we're the creators. You will eat our insipid diarrhoea if we told you to do so.

>>96008917 (OP)
A lot of them were BS, quite a few were "you had to be there" moments, and others were someone being a jackass and annoying the rest of the table with anti-play they thought was hilarious.

>>96011124
Never really understood why people were so insistent on trying to "prove" most of those old stories couldn't have happened and therefore throw a fit anytime they're reposted. Maybe I'm just old, but I thought that was just something you accepted when you go on the internet, that most of the shit you see has a strong possibility of being fake as fuck, and that it mainly comes down to a matter of if you were still entertained or not. And I see far too much effort over the years to "debunk" these stories rather than someone straight up saying "this story is boring", which always seems like a waste of time but that's just me.

>"but I hate it when people just try to emulate these annoying meme characters, therefore those stories should be banned"

I get that, but that's just people being retarded and unoriginal. Before it was everyone playing ripoffs of Drizzt and Dr. Who and Sasuke, then it was people playing Sir Bearington and Old Man Henderson ripoffs, now they've moved onto Critical Roll characters. It's just the cycle of unoriginality, it happens to everything. That kind of attitude, along with fears of jackasses on youtube scraping their content, is why people refuse to post OC anymore.

>>96012039
>Sir Bearington and Old Man Henderson
Those are completely shit stories though and always have been. They're bad whether they happened or not, with Henderson in particular being a story only ever forced by the dumbest shits.

>>96012060
That's a fair opinion, though I admittedly don't see why people get so assmad over a Chicken Boo joke.

>>96008930
Unlikely. I am sorry you have never played with a good gm. Or group. Or both.

>>96011124
>A lot of them were BS, quite a few were "you had to be there" moments, and others were someone being a jackass and annoying the rest of the table with anti-play they thought was hilarious.
Those were not good stories though.
Maybe some of the BS ones were, but the others you mentioned break some of the basic rules of what makes a good RPG story.

It's kind of like the "rules" of a detective story, with Ronald Knox's Decalogue being the most famous. Things like "All supernatural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course" and "No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right."

These weren't strict rules no one was allowed to break, but general guidelines created to help make the story "fair" to the reader, created from countless bad detective stories that broke the rules and failed as a result. Some writers even deliberately broke these rules, but they first had to understand them in order to make breaking them work.

A rule about RPG stories would be something like "If the story depends on a roll/luck for its climax, it's a you-had-to-be-there story" or "If the story depends on the GM to provide extreme allowances with no reason why (or every reason not to), it doesn't work as a story." Whether the story actually happened or not doesn't really matter, because the decision to tell the story, real or fake, should simply depend on whether it's a good story.

/tg/ has a lot, and I mean a lot, of bad stories in its closet, and some of the more famous ones have aged like milk because the truth is they were never all that good to begin with. The good thing is that we can learn from their failings.

>>96012123
>The good thing is that we can learn from their failings
Except that's an absolute crock, because the only thing that's ever replaced those meme stories were people bitching about how they were never true and were shit stories. Example your post.

So it's either shitty meme stories, or smug posters doing nothing but explaining why these meme stories sucked without ever contributing their own supposedly superior stories.

>>96012071
The biggest problem might be that it's presented as a "Look at this clever thing you can do with the Disguise skill in 3rd edition! It's completely legal in this system, and I'm very clever for it!"

The problem is that the story really just doesn't work if you're actually familiar with the system. Even accepting that the bear was an awakened bear or that the DM just handwaved it entirely, the stacking penalties to the disguise skill would completely obliterate even a high level character's bonus. The story is essentially "Look at what my DM let me get away with", but with layers of misdirection that really only work on people unfamiliar with RPGs. There's nothing really clever in any of it (especially with the "joke" just being a Chickenboo ripoff), and it has about as much tangibility as someone recounting a dream.

"Look at what my DM let me get away with" is a pretty bad core for a story. I'm actually reminded of a long, long time ago, someone came here to tell everyone about their character, and the details were really just "My DM always let me win." No clever tactics, not even any miraculous luck, just the DM throwing ludicrously high CR encounters at the PC and the PC coming out on top. Something like him being 16th level and fighting 3 CR 23 Dragons simultaneously and winning by being such a badass.

The story becomes less "Whoa, that character is so cool" and more "Whoa, he's unaware of how much his DM must be fudging things in order to let him win." Regardless of whether his story was 100% real or 100% fake, there's really not much of an actual story. There COULD have been one. A character overcoming great odds could be a fantastic story. But there has to be an actual story to it, and not just "it happened."

Bearington has pieces and components that could be a good story, but the core of the story is just "I played a bear version of Chickenboo in a freeform game and my DM allowed it." Not a terrible story, but definitely not great.

>>96012218
It’s still being mad at a Chicken Boo ripoff, though

>>96012224
It's more just not liking the efforts put into forcing the story. You probably weren't around at the time, so you can't really appreciate the effort to try and make it a meme here.

Weirdly enough, it didn't actually catch on here all that much. It was, at best, a "My DM let me do an Animaniacs." It really only took off when it was reposted on Reddit, and tried to use its 4chan origin as "raw cred", which is actually kind of ironic because it turns out that the Bear Chickenboo story originated on the Giantitp forums. It was just rewritten (with the chickenboo business no longer explained right from the start), repackaged as a 4chan story, and then people from Reddit came back here to tell us how much we loved the story and they loved the story too.

There was a time where people would try to pretend stories were popular here for the Reddit audience, in hopes that it would act as a fake-it-till-you-make-it lie. I think most people don't like shit like that.

>>96012279
So do you have any better stories or not?

>>96012285
Let me see if I can find some.

>>96012312
I meant from you, anon

>>96010873
I've had players practically begging me to sit down and spend hours and hours planning dungeons and adventures that I can run them through.

You can hear five minutes on the backstory. Eat a dick you whiny little bitch. It's not just about you.

>>96012333
I mean, yeah? I think I may have even just told a more interesting one, because the story behind Bearington is actually considerably more interesting than the actual Bearington story.

On one hand, Bear Chickenboo. It is what it is.

On the other hand, we've got a tale of a story with essentially the internet version of "stolen valor." A mediocre story that didn't really make much of a splash on 4chan, but pretended to have achieved huge popularity here in order to gain popularity on Reddit. Surely, a story that survived the battlefields of 4chan and achieved universal praise from the monsters that dwell there must certainly be the greatest story ever told, right?

The Bearington story is the grandfather who told his grandkids he fought through a nazi castle and punched Hitler in the face, when he actually spent the war peeling potatoes in the boot camp kitchens. No one here really ever paid it that much attention, and in fact the only art ever made of the character came years later and from a /co/ artist fairly detached from this board and by that time clearly influenced by the Reddit perception of this place. Meanwhile on Reddit, there's thousands of posts regarding the story, even some within the last few months.

It's a bizarre thing where the general 4chan stance of refusing to visit Reddit lead to people creating their own version of what 4chan was, allowing it to fester on Reddit, and then that unchecked version actually started to influence 4chan.

>>96012473
Way to dodge the question, anon

>>96012473
I don't mind sir Bearington, but man that image is just cringeworthy. Thanks for posting the full original story though.

>>96008930
Mine weren't.

>>96012039
>Never really understood why people were so insistent on trying to "prove" most of those old stories couldn't have happened and therefore throw a fit anytime they're reposted.
Because they're miserable, soulless creatures and the idea that others aren't hurts them the same way holy water hurts biblical demons.
If there are things in this world that aren't shit, but everything they do and encounter is then the common thread isn't 'everything everywhere is shit all the time and in any place'.
The common thread is them.

>>96012039
>Never really understood why people were so insistent on trying to "prove" most of those old stories couldn't have happened
Oh, that's easy to explain. To start, people didn't bother trying to prove "most" of the stories didn't make any sense, only the particularly bad ones that certain people kept trying to promote.

It's not about trying to prove the story didn't happened, it's explaining how stupid the story is. Proving the story didn't happen is just sort of an inevitable result of that. When the story has no real logic to it, you genuinely need to be some kind of complete idiot to think it could have happened, and there's an enormous strain on the suspension of disbelief.

While an unrealistic story can still be great, a story that entirely banks on people believing it's a true story yet also doesn't have any real logic to it is just a shitty story.

>>96013426
Do you really need to deliver an essay on why Sir Bearington "doesn't make sense", though? Cause >>96013298 sounds about right, most of this just sounds like sour grapes

just ask chatgpt

>>96013621
>Do you really need to deliver an essay on why Sir Bearington "doesn't make sense", though?
If you don't understand how RPGs work? Yes, it's good to have an explanation. Part of why Bearington had success on Reddit rather than here is because on /tg/, most people understood how RPGs, particularly D&D, worked, and the story not making a whole lot of sense stood out.

On Reddit, it found an audience of "RPG-curious" and even "RPG-oblivious" people, kinda like how AI images of cakes get liked on facebook by people who don't know anything about either baking or AI images. On Reddit, you have people who said things like "That sounds amazing! I can't wait to play DaD and also play a Bearington!", just like you have fifty-year-old wine aunts commenting "That cake looks delicious! Can I get the recipe?"

People shouldn't need explanations why bad stories are bad, but some people are particularly dumb.

>>96008917 (OP)
I always feel like the art of a proper bait thread died in the onslaught that was summer '18, and /tg/ never recovered

>>96008917 (OP)
/tg/ is now full of joyless niggers who screech and rage and cry the moment someone ever dares to be creative in any way.

>>96014025
Everything you just said has zero impact because of the following six little words:
>The DM thought it was funny
But the mechanics don-
>DM let it happen
But it's absurd, you can't just-
>Wasn't your table and the DM was fine with it
I refuse to accept that anyone could-
>Stop arguing retard, I'm not making an argument I'm stating a fact, if the DM allowed it then it doesn't matter what kind of bullshit it was, it could happen in a tabletop game

Shit, I once told the story on here of my character taking out a CR 20+ demon at level 8-ish and people were raving about how it was impossible right up until the moment the DM came in and went 'Hey, yeah, it was trying to take him alive because I, as DM, was more interested in getting his cash off him than killing a PC with bullshit'

>>96014045
Agreed

>>96014092
Agreed. And from the other angle, the idea that a bad game can't have happened cause "no DM would ever let this happen, they had to have been working together with the PCs" never made sense to me. Cause I've played with bad dms before, and while most of them are definitely control freaks, there's also a subset of them that are generally apathetic to what the players do if it doesn't immediately concern them or their own ongoing narrative. They tend to attract That Guys like flies who know they can get away with a ton of shit if they just kowtow to the railroads or suck up to the GM's ego every so often. And the idea that there are fa/tg/uys who believe that no GM can willingly let a bad game keep on running without putting a stop to it or enabling it genuinely baffles me.

>>96014092
Also before anyone says it;
>Paeliryon
Was the beast in question.

>>96014166
I even found the archive and the logs:
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/30835022/
https://pastebin.com/SCYyr9bL
Good times.

It all depends on the story you tell and how it lands with the audience I suppose.
There are still some legends being made as we speak.

>>96014092
You'd do yourself a favor if you read >>96012123

A story about a DM being extraordinarily permissive is not a particularly good story.

>Shit, I once told the story on here of my character taking out a CR 20+ demon at level 8-ish and people were raving about how it was impossible right up until the moment the DM came in and went 'Hey, yeah, it was trying to take him alive because I, as DM, was more interested in getting his cash off him than killing a PC with bullshit'

So, the story is that your DM let you kill a powerful demon. That's not much of a story. I'm not even sure you really appreciate how much your DM would have to fudge things in order to even just not immediately capture your character with a monster 12+ CR above a PC, and it definitely makes the reader lose faith in the writer if the writer isn't even aware of what's going on.

The bullshit isn't that the events didn't play out as you described. The "bullshit" is your DM softballing so hard and you being so oblivious that you thought it was just a story about how awesome your character was.

>>96014261
>So, the story is that your DM let you kill a powerful demon.
No, the story is that I overcame something the DM intended to be insurmountable because it was trying to part me from my hard-stolen gains.
>B-but the DM had it pulling its blo-
This just in 'Police let rioters win by not Tiananmen square'ing them, the cucks'
The monster acted in line with its in-setting intentions and didn't pull a single blow.
I acted in line with my characters in setting intentions and I won.
Funny how my 'They're miserable, soulless creatures that feel the need to blindly refute without ever once engaging' comment fits to a T with what you said.
And that's even after I posted the archive link, including the back and forth between the DM and I.
Which, I notice, you didn't open before firing off full auto from the hip because 'A fun thing happened and I need to be a piss soaked blanket laid tenderly across the entire region'

>>96014261
>A story about a DM being extraordinarily permissive is not a particularly good story
Considering you've yet to give any examples of a "good story", I don't see how you have a right to judge. Especially because you seem to have this notion that every DM that ever lived is always on the ball when it comes to games, always handling every outcome perfectly, when I've seen shit like house rape get generally ignored because the DM had other things on their mind until it was far too late to backtrack on it.

>>96014281
Did I just hit an autism land mine?

Here. Do yourself a favor. Explain exactly HOW you overcame the demon. If you did something particularly clever, it's probably a good story. If you just won by sheer-dumb luck, it's not a great story, but there's worse stories out there. Especially considering that if the reason you won was because your DM effectively tricked you and you're too stupid to see that, it's probably a terrible story.

>>96014322
>Did I just hit an autism landmine?
Maybe you're just retarded, have you considered that given I already posted a direct link to the story being told?

>>96014301
>Considering you've yet to give any examples of a "good story", I don't see how you have a right to judge

Maybe if you listened to my reasoning? Your whole logic here is kind of stupid, because I don't really need examples to support my reasoning because the reasoning is fairly self-explanatory. If your story is "Look at what my DM let me do", you're just telling the story of how permissive your DM is, and the more extreme the permissiveness is, the worse it reflects on your DM.

> Especially because you seem to have this notion that every DM that ever lived is always on the ball when it comes to games, always handling every outcome perfectly,

I don't think you understand what a good RPG story is. As in, at all. Like you don't even understand the basics of what a basic good story is. I'm not even entirely sure where to start with you, because it's almost like we're talking about completely different things.

>>96014332
tl;dr, summarize it.

>>96014365
You've spent all day pontificating on the idea of what an "ideal" roleplaying game story is, but when asked to provide one from their own experiences, you suddenly have nothing to talk about at all. You're like a literary critic who can talk about what goes into a good story, but has never actually written one. Seriously, what was the last campaign you were part of like? The last one-shot? The last solo game, even? Shit all over old /tg/ all you like, they actually had goddamn fiction to share with people. You've only got your own mental farts to share.

>>96008989
We should find all the YouTubers that do that shit and submit copyright claims on all their 4chan videos. YouTube's policy is to take down copyright claimed videos without question. You don't even have to prove you own the material in the video and YouTube will just take it down and issue a strike on the "offending" channel. Three strikes results in channel deletion.

>It's this retard
Alright, good thread everyone, he's only here to win points and claim that players have no agency outside of the DM letting things happen.
Do not engage, he's here for gotchas rather than discussion as proven by him going 'Well your story was probably shit' then demanding it be summarized so he can pick holes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQbBzOvPBpc

>>96008917 (OP)
Hmmm HMMM
What If I gaslight the spirit?
>Oh noooooo I'm being controlled against my will by the player whom I hate to grab this item you said not too. I'M MAKING A BLUFF CHECK DM ohhhh whatever you're gonna do should befall them and not me I'm just a smol bean

I'm gonna take the shit anyway
But now I can be an ass about it

>>96014410
Shame. I really do enjoy /tg/'s stories, but between the grifters and sour grapes nitpickers, it feels like nobody really enjoys sharing their stories.

And I know I have zero room to talk about quality storytelling. The closest I've ever had was the time I saw an npc babushka beat up a particularly dumb street sam in Shadowrun, but that's not so much a story as it is a good example on how glitches combined with a bad build leads to mildly entertaining moments of old grannies kicking the snot out of criminals for sassing them. That's not really a story so much as a "you had to be there" moment.

>this tastes bad
>oh yeah are you a professional chef??!?!?
>this painting made out of piss and shit is ugly
>oh yeah where's your art exhibit
>this story is bad
>b-but you aren't an author you can't say that
Faggot logic

>>96008917 (OP)
Anyone who tries to tell a story on /tg/ is either farmed for engagement by youtubers or told to stop blogging and go to reddit. Nobody cares anymore.

>>96014446
>grifters and sour grapes nitpickers, it feels like nobody really enjoys sharing their stories.
I still do, shit, I just posted a 250 page write up in /srpg/
>B-but what if someone reposts it to youtube.
Man I don't give a shit, I just enjoy telling stories, if anyone did repost it I'd be surprised. Someone once referenced a tale I told on here in a podcast and I was bricked up for days over it.

>>96014476
>that's not how roleplaying games happen at all, your so-called experiences are fake and gay
>okay, got any counter-examples from your own games?
>th-th-that's not relevant, shitlord!

>>96014512
I'm not him you autistic retard.

>>96014524
I know. Still was a retarded analogy

>>96014535
>I know
Weird thing to lie about

>>96014556
Retarded as the comparison was, it actually tried to make a point instead of waffling

>96014400
>t when asked to provide one from their own experiences, you suddenly have nothing to talk about at all.
Largely because I'm trying to understand what is wrong with you, and why you even want a story from me.

Is it because you disagree with me? Than disagree with my points, don't try to bait me into telling you a story just so you can passive-aggressively exaggerate some nitpicks regarding it and then claim some hollow victory. If you think you seem like you're actually just earnestly interested and not being a transparent prick, you're really not that clever and probably should take a minute to re-read your own posts, preferably from the point of view of anyone besides yourself, and see how much of a disingenuous prick you sound like.

But here. Here's an olive branch. I'll tell you a story, but you're going to first have to stop trying to divert the discussion and actually explain what you disagree with, WITHOUT going for the "Oh yeah? Where's YOUR story" bullshit you think is so clever. If you do it in a way that I feel is earnest, I'll give you that story you're begging me for.

>>96014631
nta but you're clearly and obviously the prick in this discussion.
>Just kneel before me and do as I say and maybe I'll deign to answer your critiques of my bullshit, this is a fine olive branch for me to offer a peasant such as yourself
How about you stop talking like you've got a mouthful of your own dick and answer his fucking question?

>>96014631
a) Cause this is a thread about /tg/ stories

b) Cause it's easy to criticize, but far harder to actually put what you say you know into practice.

c) Because bottom line, the kind of stories being brought up in these kind of threads aren't just regular fiction. They're supposedly anecdotes or summarizations of actual games and experiences other fa/tg/uys have had. And the kind of people who spend all their time doing nothing but nitpicking how these stories can't have happened don't seem to have any of their own experiences to convey to others.

d) I'm just really fucking tired of people whinging about how Old Man Henderson and Sir Bearington are 'bad stories' or that they 'never could have happened' because that shit is almost as old as the stories themselves are. If people are so opposed to stale copypasta, logically the best way to counter stale pasta is making something fresh and new to talk about. And I'd rather read something fresh than trod the same old ground about whether or not Wafflehouse Millionaire was lying his ass off or not, cause the guy's long fucking gone from this mongolian basket weaving forum either way, so at least whine about something interesting and new instead.

Legitimately, I don't give a shit about nitpicking whatever story you want to tell.This isn't some kind of nanowrimo contest, or a bunch of nerds voting on the most convincing "I caught a fish this big" whopper. I just want to hear /tg/ stories, good or bad, cause even made up bullshit can let you grow as a storyteller if you're willing to personally acknowledge it could be a lie. Contrastedly, I could email a writefag like Seldom Shoggy right now and tell him he's a fucking liar and his story is fake and gay, and achieve nothing but satisfying my own ego. And frankly, the latter sounds like a bigger waste of time than making up tall tales for 4chan losers to marvel at.

Know what. Fuck this, he's not going to give an answer so lets make this a storytime thread.
Post your screencaps everyone.

>>96014785
Fuckit, I'll dig into my folders and see if I can dig up some stories that haven't been shared a thousand times already

Know what, I'll join you.

>>96014400
Let's look at the OP example and why it is a good story that resonated on this board. It's far from a perfect story, but it does serve as an example of a good one.

The main story beats are:
>DM introduces a small diversion/challenge, assuming two binary outcomes
>Players select a third option
>the small diversion becomes a big part of the game

Simple framework. Not wholely original in itself, because "my players did something unexpected" is a fairly common RPG story, but the details of the story are all pretty good. Having the NPC act like a video game character manages to actually be oddly endearing, and it's not a full surprise when the players decide to grab her.

It's a simple, wholesome story. It's short but entertaining, and competantly (though not quite expertly) written. It does have a "something happens because a PC rolled high" moment, but it's largely inconsequential, and possibly could even have been omitted in the retelling.

Maybe there's more that could be edited down, and who knows how many details were cut out that left in could have improved the story, but as it stands it does its job and does it well.

>>96014769
You seem to have just been running on a mistaken assumption, one that was already addressed here.
>>96013426

Whether the story happened or not doesn't matter and never did. A good story is a good story even if it's obviously fake, and bad story is a bad story even if it's trying it's hardest to convince you it's real.

I'm not actually sure your post qualifies as you actually being earnest. You went for a "I just want stories, good or bad" angle, and frankly I'm not sure I can really believe that.

/tg/ has never had a shortage of bad stories, not even recently. You wouldn't want more stories if you were happy with all the bad ones continuing to float around here.

I'll be nice and simply give you the benefit of the doubt anyway, and deliver you a story of my own in this thread. However, I reserve my right to embrace my anonymity here, so unfortunately I won't tell you which it is. But, since you're happy trudging through shit, you'll enjoy reading all the crap that's someones been posting here already anyway.

>>96014952
You can have that right, just as long as you know I and probably more than one judgemental anon will refer to you as a dickless coward from now on. But that's your right. Here's one specifically in your honor. Enjoy, asshole.

>>96010049
They hated Jesus because he told them the truth

>>96014978
The funny thing is you already posted one of my ancient stories in this thread. It's especially funny because it's not even particularly one of my better stories.

I was gonna say you have completely shit taste in stories, but I guess you can broken clock your way to enjoy a mediocre one too.

>>96015070
If you bother to point it out, I'll bother to compliment, otherwise fuck right off with your snobbery

>>96015090
Hey, don't talk to me like that, you're one of my fans.

You also have to agree with what I've been saying apparently? Is that how this works because I put my stuff into practice and you liked it so much you kept it for years?

>>96015127
Fuck right off with your snobbery

>Retard is playing retarded games and trying to stolen valor ancient posts
At least I linked to the archive where I posted my story, one that wasn't even screencapped and isn't particularly well known so no one can say it isn't mine.
The fuck are you doing?

>>96015132
I'm doing you a favor and letting you continue to enjoy the story without you being blinded by your weird petty hatred. You seem to be the sort who gets filled with that kind of negativity.

I will say this is the funniest thing in the world to me. The best part is you motivated to start posting stories out of spite.

>>96010695
>>96010828
Missing the point of the post to seethe about scenarios you invented in your head.

>>96015190
Fuck. Off. With. Your. Snobbery. You. Overpolished. Bell-end.

>>96015190
Fuck right off with your snobbery

>>96015199
We understood your point. It's wrong and you're dumb.

>>96015143
>The fuck are you doing?
Being genuinely amazed.

Look. I understand story structure pretty well. Even I'm having a hard time believing you posted my own story in an attempt to spite me, in part because it seems like one of the only halfway-decent stories you posted (and i didn't think you had any shred of good taste), but largely because it's the kind of thing that's just too perfect.

I'm mildly curious how many other of my stories have ended up in your collection, considering you already hit one in like ten stories.

>>96015255
>We understood your point!
>Clearly did not understand the point
?

The point you made up in your head to be cranky about is dumb.

>>96015259
Fuck off with your snobbery

>>96015271
Hey, if you guess which story is mine and mail it to me, I'll autograph it for you.

>>96015355
Fuck right off with your snobbery

>>96010962
SoC is great but that game was weird as fugg.

>>96015268
>If you don't agree with me you're not smart enough
Hahaha. Enjoy that, little buddy.

>>96010049
I do think it should generally be in service to a coherent, potential piece of art yes. It doesn't have to be a story, it could be a setting for a tabletop or imagined miniature game. Having a specific thing its meant to be for allows you to make worldbuilding choices that serve and enable that thing. What works for a novels worldbuilding is different from what works for the worldbuilding of something like warhammer, or a tabletop rpg, or a sort of anthology series of different shorter stories.

Even if you basically want to lore dump, it could still be in the form of something like a readable, engaging in universe text that would naturally talk about all these things. Something a potential audience could sit down and engage with as a thing.

>>96016124
>it could still be in the form of something like a readable, engaging in universe text that would naturally talk about all these things.

>Bro suggest "just make your ttrpg more like an elder scrolls video game"
lol

>>96009209
Where can I find more like this?

>>96016257
Weird stories or screencaps from 4chan yesteryear? They’re basically everywhere, though some faggots will pooh pooh and whine if you post them because they’re boring dipweeds

>>96016286
Good stories.

>>96016287
Despite what some narcissists will say, “Good” is subjective since everyone’s tastes are different. But screencap threads in the archives tend to make it easier to find the ones people found memorable enough to keep. Or check out the sup/tg/ archive since they will preserve entire threads. Though since it’s mainly based on what people personally enjoyed, you may disagree on which is good. Just have to look and judge for yourself.

>>96016319
Please leave me alone.

>>96008930
I'll have you know that all of my favorite stories are fake. All my favorite stories have dragons in them.

>>96008917 (OP)
People are still having fun, interesting encounters in tabletop.
They just can't talk about it anymore because they're afraid some autist is going to start screaming at them for being off-topic, and then nobody is going to show up to the dead, shitshow thread.
Everyone is also in Discord games now, which are way shittier and less interesting.

>>96014400
>Natty 20! Followed by another Natty 20! And then some softball epicsauce anime moment happen!
This genre can be good, but the problem is that almost all of these "series of unlikely die rolls" involve the GM ignoring a bunch of rules. It's not like Battletech stories where it's like "so he tried to run down the road to finish me off, but he failed his PSR, and crashed into a building, and the rubble trigged a TAC, which caused his ammo to explode". These series of unlikely probabilities are interesting because they're the outcome of the game system, not ignoring the game system in favor of DM fiat.

A lot of them fall into the problem of bad standup routines, where the situation isn't that funny when retold. The tipoff that it's a "you had to be there" story is if it talks about everybody laughing or otherwise reacting dramatically to something that's not that dramatic or interesting - sometimes that spontaneity or body language doesn't translate to a good story.

>>96016540
That or they don't want a scraper youtuber to churn it into a low effort quick buck

>>96016491
You asked, man

>>96016581
>That or they don't want a scraper youtuber to churn it into a low effort quick buck
This.
Mickbeardia and his Tunisian mutt bitch wife have ruined this board by stealing all the content for their dogshit youtube channel. I genuinely hope they get culturally enriched.

>>96016581
Yeah. I once wrote a somewhat niche /x/ copypasta. A guy read it a year or so ago, with ads up and all that shit.
It kind of pissed me off, because even though it wasn't a major time investment, I was still a legit short story hobbyist at the time and the story took like a solid three weeks of start to finish, drafting, pacing around thinking about it, etc.
Only to have it used by some faggot.
Don't get me wrong, posts on 4chan are obviously fair use, but I don't want to labor on behalf of some stranger who's just going to steal my work.

needs more Oinkbane.

>>96016623
I've had a couple of similar narrations by channels like that for stuff I posted way back. In fairness to them, some of them ask you for permission if they have a way to get in touch with you. Some don't.

Even the ones with hundreds of thousands of views seemingly make very little per video, too little for it to be reasonably to go haggling for a percentage even if you had the leverage to do so. If they can ask for permission and don't that's scummy theft, but I always would give permission if they did cause I like seeing more reactions to stuff, so I'm left feeling a little ambivalent.

>>96016985
The way I see it, if I'm doing writefagging on here, it's purely a labor of love. I'm anonymous, and I will never gain a goddamn thing from it. I do not mind if people read stuff or post stuff, but I do not want them profiting for it. If I produced something for free, I expect people to provide their interpretation for free.
Otherwise I just feel like a naive bum who's just getting screwed. May as well not bother at all if some dickhead is just going to steal the fruits of my labor.