Thread 96108549

No, you should whack off to anime characters instead

>>96108549 (OP)
I dunno, is it worth it to you? It could be an enjoyable time, or it could be a lot of hassle and headache for a bad time.

>>96108549 (OP)
Do you want to play a game or not? There's your answer then.

What a dumb fucking question.

>>96108549 (OP)
This thread didn't go how you expected huh. Retard.

>>96108549 (OP)
Nope, that is why if you want a group you need to go impregnate a female many times and then groom your kids to play games with you

>>96108549 (OP)
Anon...
I've been at this hobby 20 years. I've had groups cycle through members, lost touch with people, had to start anew with randos off the internet (including here on 4chan) and people I could barely recall from my high school days.

And damn if I'm not having the best fucking games of my life after making the effort to make new groups! This image was drawn by one of my players during the session I was running, she's an incredible artist. Another player helps me with technical issues and finds cool vidya for us to play during the week. My other group all met up last month to tour the city where our campaign takes place, then we ran an in-person session like God and Rein•Hagen intended.

So yes. Totally worth the effort.

>>96108549 (OP)
/r9k/ called they want their doompost back

>>96108549 (OP)
No it's not. My table is full. You should fuck out of hobby and even kill yourself.

>>96108549 (OP)
I enjoy it. What else are you going to do with your time?

>>96108549 (OP)
most ttrpg groups don’t accept brainless retards like you, so probably not.

>>96111837
eat library paste, i assume

>>96108549 (OP)
I feel you OP. I get called nogames on here, but the truth is that no games are even worth playing with the freaks that play these games. I dream about finding the perfect group of slightly right wing white men that aren't obese some day. Until then, I'll keep being a nogames

There is something to be said about the joy only a TTRPG can bring. If that's something you crave, it's always worth starting a game. If you're not able to have fun in a group setting with relative strangers, just play Vidya. I will say, it will never be a perfect fix compared to collective storytelling.

>>96113340
>slightly right wing
I can already tell you mean a liberal with slightly different tax policy

>>96113413
Nope, I mean casually racist, no tolerance for gay degenerate shit, etc.

>>96114156
What is slightly too right wing for you? Correctly identifying disproportionate tribal influence in government?

>>96114156
>no tolerance for gay
What a boring group of people
My friends and I are casually homophobic and homoerotic at the same time. We're to afraid to jokingly call each other gay. And I'm gay myself too. And they don't know. But it still wouldn't change a thing.

>>96114629
We're not* afraid to call each other gay

>>96114435
I'm very far right wing myself and extremely antisemitic, it becomes too far when you can no longer hold a conversation in polite company without ranting about /pol/ shit

>>96109457
>This image was drawn by one of my players during the session I was running
During? Not after?

>>96108549 (OP)
If you already have people you know from something else it can be worth it to get a game together with them, it's not worth trying to play with randos though.

>>96108549 (OP)
Its never been easier to find a group and run a game, both IRL and online

>>96114629
>homo has to cut out the part where he specifies degeneracy to make his point
Exactly the type I wouldn't want

>>96114629
The only thing worse than playing with a fag is playing with a guy you suspect is hiding the fact he's a fag

>>96108549 (OP)
>Is it even worth trying to find a group anymore
The time to find a group is when you're between 14-22. After that it's a lost cause. And if you keep a gaming group after that it's literally because all of you are stuck in your hometown and did little with your lives; you'd be lucky if one among you is a college professor, more likely everyone still lives with mom.

I understand the demotivation OP. I'm really lucky to have had multiple consistent groups for years. My best suggestion is to get into West Marches / Open Table / OSR, even if it's not your favorite, it can be a good way to at least get scheduling complications out of the way, and then later you can "take the game private" and go with more of a plot if you want. If you want something more plot-focused right off the bat, then I suggest finding TWO other players to start and make sure they are consistent schedule-wise, and don't add more people. Also, playing at your local FLGS' Adventurer's League can be a basket of cringe, but it's also a good place to find those 1 or 2 actually good players and invite them to a separate game. At least in my experience.

>>96109457
>she's an incredible artist
Is she fat? Did you guys fuck?

>>96115524
Damningly accurate. Every group formed after age 25 just seems kinda soulless I've found. My groups have been going since I was 15, 18, and 22 respectively.

>>96114835
Nothing wrong with drawing during the session. Way better than being on a fuckin smartphone and that's gotten way too normalized.

>>96115524
>>96115578
I didn't get into tabletop until I was in my mid 20s. Holy shit it never even began

>>96113375
If you've been chasing the dragon for years without result it'd be a better idea to let go because there's a lot of systems and combinations that simply do not work.

>>96108549 (OP)
Probably not if you're making threads like this on /tg/ 4chan.

>>96113340
>>96114156
I think golf might be more your speed, assuming you're not an obese, broke freak yourself. You'll find plenty of douchey white guys that aren't retarded wiggers to hang out with.

I don't know why you come into hobbies known for freaks and losers to complain about not fitting in with the freaks and losers. Do you not fit in because you're a normie, or do you not fit in because you're an asshole even by freak standard?

>>96120807
NTA. The hobby wasn't always so degenerate. The group my dad ran when I was a kid was all normal dudes who also happened to have nerdy interests. Even now guys like that are still out there, just harder to find between all in the insane people.

>>96120831
>The hobby wasn't always so degenerate
That's not true. Look at all the crypto commies, outright commies, and pedophiles in the old school SF & Fantasy writing world - like Arthur C Clarke, Asimov's kid, the Dragoncon founder, and numerous others I'm forgetting.

You not noticing it, or not being aware of the wider nerd world doesn't make it true.

>>96120807
Right wing types are considered freaks and losers by the establishment, are they not allowed any space?

>>96120921
when did the right become such snowflakes? who the fuck cares what asimov's kid think about unions?

>there's nobody good to run games with! all the people on [website] suck terribly!
lol
same principle as online dating: the services which connect people with each other are concentrators for individuals who cannot find someone to accept them

just make friends irl and then ask if they want to play d&d
(and then later wean them off of d&d)

>>96121626
only the most extreme ones that want the state to support violence against most groups of people. If you're right wing on anything besides wanting radom people to be hurt on the street whenever you go to buy groceries you might as well be on CNN. The people getting mocked are the psychos that agree on other stuff that gets them protection, but most people outside of their in-group wouldn't leave their child alone with them,

>>96121709
>just make friends irl
lol

>>96121738
speaking as a right winger you're absolutely wrong. you can't say you oppose homosexuality without being tarred and feathered.

>>96121757
who the fuck cares? your opinion on who someone else fucks isn't right or left wing, it's currently in the republicqan culture side but that's like liking Mickey Mouse. Currently is on the democrat side, it was in the republican side when Reagan gave them forever copyright. Do you think Disney ever got limitation from either party? Both parties are right wing, have the same policies and are funded by the same people. The only difference is superficial shit to trick the rubes.

>>96108549 (OP)
No, kill yourself now

>>96121671
Because these people were heavily involved in the early nerd fandom as we know it today. SFF cons, SFWA, etc. Asimov's kid was up there in SFWA, and he got busted for CP.

It's safe to say this idea that there was ever some era where based rw nerds were even a plurality is horseshit. It's always been a scene for liberals and freaks.

>>96108549 (OP)
Surr, if you want to.

>>96121836
>thinking pedos aren't right wing

>>96121869
Or really that identity politics determines whether you're good or bad at all. If you're sold on your identity politics in-group in the first place, you're far down the road yo scumbag.

>>96121869
This was more about the assertion that nerds weren't freaks back in the day. I can go into politics of the SFF scene in the 50s-70s, but I think we both agree that right wingers were a minority back in the day. Ergo, nerddom has always been freaks and liberals, and the right wing nerds are simply in denial that they've always been a minority in the scene.

>>96121973
Yes, that is roughly correct. Marginalized people, in general, tend to be more accepting and welcoming of differences. Right/left then? Eh. But if we're going to apply today's terms, then sure.

>>96114629
>I'm gay myself too. And they don't know
>I just constantly engage in playful gay bashing banter with them, as a joke.
>they have no idea im gay

They know.

>>96121626
Music. Anything with plants or animals. Depends on what you mean by "right", i guess. If you mean Sunday School right, then you already know where to go. If your parish doesn't have a table top group, i bet they'd let you start one.
>>96121671
People are pussy bitches, mostly. Therefor, any popular idea will have majority pussy bitch adherent.

>>96121757
>buy into republican wedge issues invented specifically to appeal to the lowest common denominator
>why does everyone treat me like i am dumb and mean?

>>96121626
That's why I'm telling this dude to give up on his pipe dream, because the people he's imagining are so few and far between they basically don't exist.

The people he wants are Country Club Republicans. He should get a membership and start golfing, but I suspect he's a brokie and can't wrangle his /pol/ power level IRL so this avenue is also closed to him.

>>96115524
>college professor
Lmao

>>96121973
Normal people back then would be considered hyper right wing racists by todays standard. The entirety of history most everyone was an evil right wing bigot
Although I guess I cant expect the people who manage to excuse their love of Lovecraft to be logically consistent

>>96122657
>R-Rodenberry would totally be right wing today, guys. Fandom was so based and trad in the 80s.
Why do you lie like this? You can't even convince yourself.

>>96121813
everyone i try playing with tries to shoehorn fags in

In a couple of years you'll be able to play with AI bots anyway.

>>96122092
You're not cute when the poster already specified right wing.

>>96109457
That is amazing, you have wonderful players

>>96108549 (OP)
Yes.

>>96124672
I meant that "right wing" is a worse than useless term. Just looking for something to hurt you.

>>96122769
>h..here's one person
Lovecraft.

>>96122165
You're one of the good ones. Speaking as a right winger I've met so many of you who insist that I simply have to find the right groups after I've explained the repeated failure to find any. This shit isn't merely political, without including anything overt you have different styles that simply don't match because the types of people who play tabletop aren't likely to be interested in things like taking responsibility. Every time I've interacted with a guy who was overly political OOC, it was the left wing variety and he inevitably crashed and burned.

>>96124904
Not to mention that the second you let your players talk to each other, they try to push their agendas, right or left. Then they get mad and demand you to kick the other player.

>>96124904
>>96124949
Literally a non issues with IRL friends.

>>96108549 (OP)
yes you whiny faggot

>>96124904
>Speaking as a right winger

Lol
Who even does this
All that shit is made up
Not even trolling
If some right or left identified person tries to profile me I tell them to fuck off, because values inform ideology and I care about what is achievable and has a local impact. It's actually easier to be morally consistent when your point of view isn't just proscribed .

>>96124949
Yeah if you sit on Discord all day with the kind of adult men who hang out on Discord all day they will invent drama that would make a high school girl cringe.

>>96108549 (OP)
No, kill yourself, it's all pointless

>>96124949
It's less of a nightmare than the GM pushing his agenda on you. I was in a game where he got into an argument with me about having easier accessible sex change surgery. I pushed back hard on it and he backed down. Nobody else in the group cared. Then he seethed for weeks before kicking and blocking me mid-session.

>>96127510
Fair. DMs are worse to be up on that high horse. I just hate them looking at me like the final authority when I don't care, but I'm just trying to keep the whole thing from exploding.

>>96108549 (OP)
Where body text?

>>96114693
Doing that is super fun though

>>96122165
I dont really understand him or you. My two groups right now are comprised of racist white people who have good STEM careers and are starting to have kids. The sole exception to that is one of my players is Spanish but he could pass as white in certain lighting.

My group prior to this was comprised of some of the same players but the rest were also white. Before that there a group with a nigroid who cried any time we said nigger, before that it was a game with two gays and two normals all of whom were extremely racist. I could go on and there were a few groups that were less actively racist but not by much, and I've almost never seen a group comprised of anybody but either whites or jews.

>>96136375
this isn't the creative writing thread faggot

>>96121626
>Right wing types are considered freaks and losers by the establishment
Right Wingers will control the government of the strongest country and still think they're victims, how embarrassing!

>>96136419
What

>>96122165
>the people he's imagining are so few and far between they basically don't exist
Maybe in your country.
This 100% depends on the country you live in. Here 30% of young men vote far right and you are almost guaranteed to get such a guy in a group, maybe even more since both the far right and ttrpgs are a magnet for socially isolated men.

So I'll give my anecdote. I had a pretty bad group. One dude had horrible internet connection so he could not really keep up. One chick would play in her living room and her roommates were always chiming in and another dude was just a boring player with no improve skills. it kinda sucked and when the campaign ended we didn't ever talk to each other again

>fat ugly nerd!! weirdo creep loser!!
i don't really feel anything being called that anymore, just wanna play some games man

>>96136692
get on roll20 and join a group retard it's not hard

>>96136375
>I could go on and there were a few groups that were less actively racist but not by much, and I've almost never seen a group comprised of anybody but either whites or jews.
Really? The casual racism tracks but as far as race, my experience of the rpg community has been about 90% white (or jewish, not like they're wearing badges) and 10% brown or yellow. Not as diverse as wotc's whining about nclusivity would have you believe but definitely not "almost never".

My current group is
>A. White guy, early-30s, outright "esoteric fascist" and extremely racist (although apparently not when it comes to relationships, his gf and maybe soon-to-be fiancee is Latina), doctor
>B. White guy, early-30s, equally racist but his political beliefs are hard to categorize beyond that. Also a doctor.
>C. White guy, late-20s, overall I'd still describe myself as a libertarian but maybe less extreme than I was when we were in college. Racist but only in the sense that I don't think a libertarian state is viable if your nation has been flooded with low IQ tribal groups. History teacher.
>D. White chick, late-20s, libertarian-leaning. I wouldn't describe her as racist but reddit probably would. Trust fund kid and post-doc zoology student
>E. White chick, late-20s, politically the environment and animal welfare>anything else. "I'm not racist but if I could press a button and wipe out 90% of the population of Africa, China and India, I would. The planet would be better off." Veterinarian.
>F. Argentinean chick, late-20s. Generally right-wing but doesn't care that much about politics as far as I can tell. Low-key racist against anyone browner than her, dating A.
>G. White guy, early-30s. Doesn't care about politics. Investment banker.

Other than that it's been
>3 white guys, a Vietnamese guy, a white girl and a Balkan/Caucasian/white-ish Middle-Eastern girl.
>4 white guys, a half-Kenyan guy and a white girl.
>5 white guys, 2 white chicks and a Korean chick.

>>96136765
>or jewish, not like they're wearing badges
They should be.

I can relate to A about F. There was a girl, Italian unfortunately so not white, but still. I regret not pursuing her anon.

>>96137078
We talked about it last time we went camping. Essentially his response was "race matters but it matters most at the population level, I'm not going pretend there can't be individual exceptions and [F] is definitely exceptional". At the end of the day, she's at least 8/10 in looks, a doctor too and cooks some damn good food whenever we game at their place; he'd be an idiot not to put a ring on her finger.

>>96115524
>And if you keep a gaming group after that it's literally because all of you are stuck in your hometown
My gaming group has been together for over a decade and we literally immigrated to another country in that time. Unironic skill issue.

Short answer no.

Long answer nope.

>>96137812
Like, the entire group? That's pretty fucking wild.
From where to where?

>>96136765
>a half-Kenyan guy and a white girl.
Did they fuck?

>>96136757
>playing online
utterly soulless plus half the players will be playing vidya and "I'm totally paying attention man"

>>96108549 (OP)

No

>>96108549 (OP)
the truth is I'm getting old and playing games with people who are generally younger than me feels cringe. not in the sense of what will people think about me? it's a different kind of cringe you only experience when you get older. it's like trying to act young and do young people things when you know very well that time is gone. when you grow up you're meant to either raise a family, become a hermit or die of overdose

>>96141258
how old are you?
im 31 and like this

>>96108549 (OP)

>Greedy executives trying to ruin games with microtransactions and focus group slop
>Everyone's attention span is totally fried from smartphones and streaming TV
>Trying to find people who are the right balance, not normies but not smelly neckbeards either
>Tons of people exclusive play online, which is quasi-gaming at best, the equivalent of having condom sex with a fat girl you're not into to break a dry spell
>Scheduling nightmares and 4 hours every other week is considered a lot of game time once you're out of HS/college

But I think a regular game is something worth striving towards.

>>96136375
That's not my experience. In my experience, people into RPGs lean normielib to very lib. As you'd expect with STEM professionals, who are something like D+20 nationally.

That's fine, because overt /pol/tards are kinda tedious to play and hang out with, and unsuccessful losers that kinda drag you down for hanging out with them. I also like douchey fratbro normiecons, but you won't find them at an LGS. You're much more likely to find them at the golf course, which is a great hobby in its own right (and one which you can afford if you can afford Warhammer or Magic).

It does get demoralizing after a certain point. I considered myself geek gentry at one point and would have to turn people away from games so I didn't end up with 8+ player groups. And now gaming feels like looking for an oasis in the desert.

The girls and the more normal passing geek guys leave to marry and have kids. Other people turn into workaholics as they enter middle age, get promoted, and constantly have to bail. Even the really enthuasiastic nerds with plenty of free time develop health issues or get stuck in a rut where they don't want to try new campaign types or learn new rules anymore.

I had one friend start tire-kicking when I threw a big Halloween get together. He wanted a summary of the plot of a game of Dread I had in mind. And a list of who else was coming to the party. And what horror movie we'd be watching afterwards. And that shit is why I resent GMing sometimes. I'm offering free entertainment, I don't think I should have to cajole players, remind them of schedules, feed them, etc like they're helpless toddlers when they're all 28-33.

tl;dr It's a young person's hobby. And maybe you should just let it go if you're past your mid 20's or missed out on the social flow of going to college, conventions, LARPs, etc when you were younger.

>>96142220
Strange. Pretty much every group I've interacted with has been broadly right-leaning (although not usually the sort that would vote for the dominant right-wing party, more likely libertarian or far-right than centre-right).
I'm guessing you're American so maybe it's different over there, same with the dominance of 5e I always see people complain about.

>>96109457
god damn do i miss Robots Rebels and Kaiju

>>96108569
fpbp, found my current group by whacking off to anime characters

>>96108549 (OP)
Buy a bunch of Real Dolls, sit them around that table and play a game.

>>96108549 (OP)
Nope. Soloplay is where it's at now if you really want to have fun without having to tard-wrangle a bunch of faggots who all want to do their own thing.

>>96144211
>for the last time: you don't get advantage, Marie Rose. We're not playing 5E
>This is your last warning
>Okay that's it
>*wipes everything off the table*
>PLAP PLAP PLAP PLAP

>>96108549 (OP)
No.

/thread

>>96108549 (OP)
Every lgs in my area has some unredeemable characteristic that I can’t quite get over. I’m right wing and I can’t stand the politics of one of them. Tranny central and beta onions boy liberals. The other is a total sweaty waac den of rotating grey tide armies. Both stores overwhelmingly play competitively. Any crusade league just turns into a cut throat competition and it fizzles after 2-3 weeks. I’m not going to start doing solo games when vidya can handle that. At this point I’m just happy to causally paint minis from time to time ant home and pick up my other hobbies that don’t gravitate toward fatass freaks, losers, and incels/trannies.

>>96108549 (OP)
>Is it even worth trying to find a group anymore, let alone run a game anymore.
I've been asking this to myself recently.
AI chat bots are getting really good and there are lots of good TTRPG ones out there now.

>>96142220
>overt /pol/tards
I've seen people use that phrase(or the equivalent phrase more likely) to describe all sorts of different levels of people, what do you actually define it as?

I'm always surprised by how gamers seem to manifest around me whenever I think it's time to quit because multiple regular players have gotten too busy, quit, or moved away.

Just keep an open mind, talk to the quirky people at your work, participate in other hobbies, and gamers will manifest.

Oh, and go to the occasional event at your LGS. They'll attract the bad players for sure, but there will be some cool people who are new to the area etc mixed in that you can invite to private games.

>>96142472
>>96136375
online vs. IRL
you probably play with a live group and probably older grogs
if you play online it's all they/them marxists
I never talk about politics in games because I'd get arrested if I did

I've been trying to get out more and I found an event near me that seemed pretty cool. Would it be weird if I just went alone? None of my friends play DND lmao. I'm from SoCal and it looks like most events are down in San Diego

>>96149463
I've actually never played online. Every irl group I've played in has been dominated by liberals - which is fine. Maybe tabletop stuff is dramatically more liberal-coded where I've lived in the US.

Like I've said, if I wanted to hang around normal white conservatives, I would and do play golf.

>>96151604
are you new to DND? unless you’re some /pol/tard nobody cares really. hell it might be great to make new friends

>>96142472
Why would you not assume America on a website based in America?
>>96149463
Same. I've read about the propensity of in person groups to have a higher percentage of right wingers. The retard who replied to you didn't understand the exception proves the rule. Nobody in my local city area plays TTRPGs or if they do, they're not advertising, so even if I wanted to do in person I can't.

>>96108549 (OP)
>make group
>play shitty system with big player base
>5/6 players are insufferable
>one decent person in group
>game fizzles out
>invite one person to new group
>same thing
>maybe 4/6 players are insufferable
>rinse and repeat until you have it down to 1 or 2 insufferable players
That is your lifetime group. It only takes a few years to get there.

>>96154811
It's been more than that for me and I'm no further.

>>96154569
>Why would you not assume America on a website based in America?
But I am assuming you're American. Literally said "I'm guessing you're American"

>>96151604
>I've been trying to get out more and I found an event near me that seemed pretty cool. Would it be weird if I just went alone?
Nah, that'd be perfectly normal. I imagine most people attending would be solo too.
Just don't be a trannie freak and you'll be fine.

>>96108549 (OP)
It's called having friends. I run or play in 8 games on rotation across the week (we swap games sundays, tuesdays, and saturday mornings, wednedsay is every other week as is saturday afternoons).

>>96156429
yeah I think so too. I've been wanting to make new friends this year just to break out of my comfort zone and DND seems like something up my alley

>>96108549 (OP)
I strongly believe you're only supposed to game with your friends (and perhaps, their friends), so if you don't have any of those left you should probably just give it up.

>>96156476
I play with some of my friends and dont play with others. Being friends doesn't mean I'll enjoy them as players in my games necessarily.

>>96142273
blackpilling post but I feel it. I'm 30 and have a few groups and they are basically my only social life. Board games nights and renaissance faires, too, but with those same people. If I didn't have TTRPGs I would have no friends.

>>96145709
glad someone else appreciates these memes

>>96160111
Biggest bitch about getting older. Friend end moving away, lose interest in games, do not want to play the games I want to play or just die.

>>96142273
>>tl;dr It's a young person's hobby
But neither Gygax nor any of the people he DMed for were young.

I really just want to play one more DnD or Vampire game without having to deal with tranny drama, just once more before I die, but I know it's not going to happen.

I've tried being understanding with these people as well and I feel like everybody remotely tolerable just moved on to other more adult hobbies. I'm getting older now and everybody who thinks you just need to be open-minded and approachable to find new people to game with is fucking lying - and if you do find a new group you'll soon regret it.

>>96168676
Literally not a problem with IRL friends. Try having some.

>>96168704
Please look at >>96165414
Not that anon, but in my particular case the people that I used to play RPG with they no longer play or live in another country with very different time zones.
While the friends that I have wont touch and RPG but are fine with wargames.

>>96108549 (OP)
I rarely play with new people. I usually play with my friends that I know for a long time.

>>96168775
>I have no friends to play with.
Make more friends? It's pretty simple.

>>96169536
When you are in your 40's?

>>96108549 (OP)
No, just kill yourself already

>>96168704
>Literally not a problem with IRL friends
That assumes your friends are a) playing games and b) the same one as you do and c) have a workable schedules.
You would know that, if you had any.

>>96169990
>That assumes your friends are a) playing games and b) the same one as you do and c) have a workable schedules.
Make new friends that can play. It's that simple.
>>96169960
Yes? Is there some unwritten law against making new friends past the age of 20? Is there a friend cap that decreases with age? Just talk to people and you'll find friends. It's that simple.

It's always funny in these kind of threads that the obvious and simple advice of just making friends or finding new friends is met with obstinate refusal or a never-ending list of why its impossible. If you want to play games (that don't suck) make some IRL friends.

>>96170099
>Just talk to people and you'll find friends. It's that simple.
If only where it so simple.

ergo, the human condition

>>96170099
Spoken like a true zoomer.

>>96170696
It literally is. You'll never make friends with anyone staying inside and never talking to people.
>>96171194
>noooooo its literally impossible.
>your undeaged and not mature like me!!!!!!
Kek. Keep going anon. I might just start taking a liking to you.

>>96171228
You must be 30 years or older to use this website. You're clearly in your 20s kid, endure a few years of failure then talk about 'friends'.

>>96171268
>grrrr im a hard boiled egg who has been let down by life. I'm one tuff hombre.
>grrrr your just a kid and not mature like me.
Kek. You are adorable. That's it, we are gonna be friends.

Do (you) paint with the helmets, backpacks, and shoulders on or do you attach them on after painting?

>>96171288
>didn't deny it
My point proven once again.

>>96171447
You got a friend in me anon.

>>96171530
Post your discord tag for daddy kitten :3

>>96171562
Don't have a discord. I said were friends anon, im not a faggot so you can stop the flirting.

>>96108549 (OP)
Nah. I've been trying to get a new group for the past couple of years. The effort hasn't been fun and still I have nothing to show for it.

>>96171804
post your steam fren code :3c

>>96171842
Same here. I had an effort that I spent almost two years trying to cultivate blow up in my face a week ago.

>>96171268
Anon are you actually trying to argue that making friends in your 30s is impossible? Gary Gygax and his buddies were adults, if anything hobbies like TTRPGs are filled with older people.

>>96172023
Gygax was long friends with those people in a culture that doesn't exist anymore either.

>>96172023
Existing friends anon. The problem is make new friends past your 30's and 40's
A few years ago you could just go to a random bar and talk to random people, but today at least in my country the night life has been utterly murder by well murders and other crimes along with stupid prices.
My biggest victory has been playing golf once a week with some guys in a country club thing and have dinner after the game. Doing anything outside of that has been a colossal failure.
I fucking hate golf but at this point I'm taking anything, I've seen what sitting at home doing nothing does to an old man

>making friends is impossible!!
Kek.

I got into DND last week, I'm planning on DMing Phandelver in a few months, on my brother's birthday with my family, I hope they'll get into character and the fantasy, and not bicker. We played Monopoly once and it was hell.

>>96173335
after you get out of college it really is

>>96173335
>>96180016
not impossible, just takes more effort. only you're if an introverted chud it is

>>96165854
Except for Ernie and Luke.
>>96142273
I'm 44, and I've been gaming more since the start of my 30s than I ever did in my teens and 20s.

>>96172023
When have you been to a third place in the last month. How many times did you go? How much did it cost you to be there? How far away from home was it?

>>96178696
Never play Monopoly. It was specifically designed to not be fun. It was stolen by the Parker Brothers and never change. An entire genre, no an entire industry has been predicated on a threshold game that was specifically designed to be painful and misery. It is the equivalent as if the video game industry never went past donkey Kong quarter crunching machines. Where the average game last less than a minute on average.

>>96182225
>When have you been to a third place in the last month.
What the fuck does this ESL shit mean?

>>96108549 (OP)
Depends on how much you care, OP.
You could move area to find a group, or develop your social skills and become more attractive and then try, or set up a weekly night in a community building or your own home with free food, or stay in a hotel or hostel weekly to participate in a group that's far away, or any number of things.
Maybe those would be too much effort, but at least some are possible. Up to you if they're worth it- I'm not sure what a Mongolian basket weaving forum is supposed to tell you.

>>96182388
https://courier.unesco.org/en/articles/third-places-true-citizen-spaces#:~:text=American%20sociologist%20Ray%20Oldenburg%20developed%20the%20notion,informal%2C%20free%20social%20interaction%2C%20essential%20to%20democracy.

>>96182388
Third places, true citizen spaces

In the 1980s, American sociologist Ray Oldenburg developed the notion of a "third place": a space for informal, free social interaction, essential to democracy. The concept has gained unexpected popularity over the years. Coffee houses serve as a perfect example of the third place.

>>96182661
>>96182652
>Sociology

>>96108549 (OP)
I enjoy it and frankly my best memories are of new players

>>96182913
Yeah. Guys who get paid large amounts of money to study social trends while you whack off to anime girls.

>>96180432
>doesn't post any examples
kek

>>96182225
I haven't been to a third place in years with any regularity. There's no way I can afford that shit in this economy.

>women must find a husband and make families before 30
>men must form friendship bonds and make social connections before 30

>>96184236
I made friends with a bunch of LGS boomers. Its not hard but you do have to leave your house and converse with people like a normal human.

>>96184566
I don't have a LGS.

>>96185071
The closest one the me is around 40 to 50 miles.

>>96183367
>get paid large amounts of money
Doubt