Thread 96337305

Stormbringer
Call of Cthuhlu and scenarios and campaigns
Paranoia
Dragon warriors
Warhammer fantasy Battle OG
Old white dwarfs
D&D 3.0, 3,5 and 4e and the modules
Choose your own adventure books
All the D&D starter sets from 3.0 up
Warhammer fatasy Role play

Loads of painted lead
etc etc.
I don't think I've actually played a game with anyone in 25 years (I did paint some figurines). Wierd huh?

I was talking to someone younger than me who said they played dungeos and dragons and they have only ever played it 'online' because zoomers can't schedule metting up with people to play and don't answer phonecalls to each other. What's the fucking point in attending another shitty zoom meeting? I always though one of the worst things that happned was Games workshop savaging white dwarf just to sell their warhammer crap and I guess sthat's when I parted ways (warhammer 40K was the worst thing ever to happen to tabletop gaming and RPGs). Is the hobby just dead now? Do you anaons actually sit around a table with figurines and maps and roll dice still? Looking at the board is like a lot of people having psychotic breaks and imagining what it would be like to play a game? There is a whole thread for digimon, do adults really meet up and play fucking digimon? I don't believe that.

>>96337305 (OP)
>Do you anaons actually sit around a table with figurines and maps and roll dice still?
Yeah.

>>96337305 (OP)
>Do you anaons actually sit around a table with figurines and maps and roll dice still?
Yes, and its super fucking fun.
>There is a whole thread for digimon, do adults really meet up and play fucking digimon?
I don't know, but my game group is mostly in our late 30s to mid 40s, and we play a Pokemon game, in person every other week.

>>96337305 (OP)
Yes, I also play via text-based IRC for almost 25 years now

>>96337305 (OP)
>Do you anaons actually sit around a table with figurines and maps and roll dice still?
Yeah, at least every other week.

>>96337305 (OP)
I just played a game of alpha strike with my son.

>>96337305 (OP)
>I don't think I've actually played a game with anyone in 25 years
So you're 25?

>>96337305 (OP)
I'm pretty much the same way. I download ttrpg books from the internet and just read the lore. I'm also a big fan of the Dune encyclopedia and Gods of Pegana for the same reason. I would like to play a game at some point though. I just don't have any friends that are into old obscure ttrpgs like I am.
>T. 22 year old zoomer

>>96337305 (OP)
People go through phases in their hobbies. Friends break up as they focus on different things in their lives, like having families, moving away, getting jobs, taking up different hobbies, etc. Sometimes people stick with something (like you have), or drift back to the things they use to enjoy, but not everyone. It's great that you can still enjoy the things from your youth, some others do as well, but not everyone does so.

If you want to start up again, maybe try to search out like minded people and start up doing it again? It may take some work, as you will meet a lot of people who only want to 'talk about the good times they had' and not actually play - people have different commitments now. You will also find people that don't want to do it themselves but want you to do it for their kids - be a free baby sitter basically. Others will want to do it but only in the way they misremember themselves doing it so long ago and will quit when they detect a flavour you introduce that isnt like the way they remember. Also keep in mand that many will still have commitments today that they didnt have as teens, as well as being older, slower, with medical problems and not able to stay awake for as long late into the night.

If you can get past these speedbumbs though you might be able to find a group of a similar age to play with.

The alternative is sticking with playing with younger generations, being the 'old timer' or 'Grog' in the group and biting your tongue as you watch them make all the 'obvious' mistakes you learned not to do years ago. It can be frustrating at times, but also hilarious if you stick with it.

>>96337305 (OP)
>Do you anaons actually sit around a table with figurines and maps and roll dice still?
Yeah, one of my two current groups has been going for about 10 years now and we still meet every 1-2 weeks, the other group is about 5 years old and we meet monthly.
We did online a bit during covid but went back to in-person as soon as we could. Online was better than nothing but its not the same, even the guy who's driving almost 2h on game night was happy to go back to normal. Same when my wife and I were on our honeymoon, online was better than not gaming at all for a year but we were happy to go back to in-person when we returned.

>I was talking to someone younger than me who said they played dungeos and dragons and they have only ever played it 'online' because zoomers can't schedule metting up with people to play and don't answer phonecalls to each other.
Not all zoomers.

I think about half of both my groups are late-20s which I think puts them just barely into the zoomer category and, like I said, we've never had any issues. Beyond that, I know the younger brother of one of the guys in my fortnightly group has a game of his own going and I'm pretty sure they're all early to mid-20s.

>Looking at the board is like a lot of people having psychotic breaks and imagining what it would be like to play a game?
Honestly, yeah. I get the same vibe. Wouldn't be entirely surprised if ~90% of /tg/ hadn't played more than 2 sessions in their life.

>>96337607
>I would like to play a game at some point though. I just don't have any friends that are into old obscure ttrpgs like I am.
If you're living in even a mid-sized city it shouldn't be too hard to find a gaming group if you want to.

>>96337607
The other way is to run your own one-shot or campaigns way better chance to find players than the other way around, of couse my area was super hard on D&D, so anything else was snobbed.

>>96337305 (OP)
>Hears of a solution to stop being a nogames from the youngsters
>Refuses to try it
The folly of man.

>>96337952
>>96337305 (OP)
>Do you anaons actually sit around a table with figurines and maps and roll dice still?
Yeah, one of my two current groups has been going for about 10 years now and we still meet every 1-2 weeks, the other group is about 5 years old and we meet monthly.
We did online a bit during covid but went back to in-person as soon as we could. Online was better than nothing but its not the same, even the guy who's driving almost 2h on game night was happy to go back to normal. Same when my wife and I were on our honeymoon, online was better than not gaming at all for a year but we were happy to go back to in-person when we returned.

>I was talking to someone younger than me who said they played dungeos and dragons and they have only ever played it 'online' because zoomers can't schedule metting up with people to play and don't answer phonecalls to each other.
Not all zoomers.

I think about half of both my groups are late-20s which I think puts them just barely into the zoomer category and, like I said, we've never had any issues. Beyond that, I know the younger brother of one of the guys in my fortnightly group has a game of his own going and I'm pretty sure they're all early to mid-20s.

>Looking at the board is like a lot of people having psychotic breaks and imagining what it would be like to play a game?
Honestly, yeah. I get the same vibe. Wouldn't be entirely surprised if ~90% of /tg/ hadn't played more than 2 sessions in their life.

>>96337305 (OP)
I play with terrain and minis
Have a homebrew campaign going on for DnD right now
Sometimes I steal things from official campaigns
We play one shots(Cthulhu, DSK, DnD) if 2 or more people are missing
>>96338142
>Honestly, yeah. I get the same vibe. Wouldn't be entirely surprised if ~90% of /tg/ hadn't played more than 2 sessions in their life.
That would explain a lot

>>96337305 (OP)
>I have a whole bookcase full of Cool TRPGS
>Loads of painted lead
Well, where are the photos? We're waiting.

>>96338698
It's 2025 dude, with AI so prolific nowadays, photos are no longer proof of something. You will just have to make up your own mind on what anon claims.

>>96338698
>>I have a whole bookcase full of Cool TRPGS
>>Loads of painted lead
Bless him for keeping some gaming store open.
My meager spending certainly wasn't enough to keep the local university's open.

>>96338796
I can rest comfortably knowing AI would never generate MY bookshelf.

>>96337305 (OP)
>Guy who just mindlessly consumes and admits to never ever actually playing a game makes a thread to complain about people actually playing games and say how dead the hobby is
OP wins the /tg/ poster of the year award. Truly there has not been a greater display of being a no-games retard than this thread.

>later 30s
>oh wow malifaux 4th ed coming out
>realise I haven't played since 2nd
>realise I've basically not played anything in 10 years or so, just been collecting the game systems

What the fuck man
Am I too late to actually play 40k or the like?

>>96339513
>Am I too late
Yes. Anyone above 35 will get shot to death on sight when trying to enter a game store.

What the fuck kind of a retarded question is this? Go find people and play you sad sack of shit. And pick a better game than 40k to play while you're at it.

>>96337305 (OP)
>Choose your own adventure books
well, you don't get to play those with people usually

Go out, OP. Just like everything else once you're older and you're no longer forced by the state and society to interact with people, you need to put the effort. If you just can't meet people otherwise then you're proving communism right and showing we're happier when the state tells us to do things. Do you want communism to win, OP? Wouldn't you do this for your old pal Reagan?

>>96337607
>I just don't have any friends that are into old obscure ttrpgs like I am.
>>T. 22 year old zoomer
You're hiding from the world and creating excuses. You need to meet people halfway sooner or later and it's gonna become harder and harder as you age. Don't fuck yourself over.
Also, take care of your teeth. The more you wait to get shit fixed the more the price balloons. They will not fix themselves.

>>96338796
Nah, I can tell.
Come on, OP. Take or generate some pictures and I'll be the judge.

>>96338796
I just like to see others' painted minis.

>>96337305 (OP)
>I don't think I've actually played a game with anyone in 25 years (I did paint some figurines). Wierd huh?
No. Most of the games you listed suck to actually play and there are better versions made by indi creators as homage.
Good job proving many anon's point about fakeboomers being nogames with terrible taste though.

>>96338796
Old mins are very easy to verify compared to generative images. Post them.
Post your cool bookshelf too.

>>96337305 (OP)
>and don't answer phonecalls to each other.
I've also noticed this. They get anxiety from answering the phone because they have to do some real time communication. Making a call? Yeah, forget about it.

>>96340463
Phonecalls are creepy. It took ages to convince people to get phones, even though it could had been the diference between life or death at the time, and now that we don't have to do avoid them. It's the natural thing, there are just 2 generations weirdly obsessed with that shitty tech.

>>96337305 (OP)
Foundry is great, even in person everyone plays with a VTT on their laptop or go full TotM

>>96340463
Cold calls are for emergencies only, arrange a meeting for a voice call like a normal person

>>96341145
>have a meeting to see when you can have a meeting
>with your hobby time
This is middle management societal psychosis.
Just answer your phone you idiot
Or leave a message.
Actually check your messages and respond to them.
Move on with your life.

>>96341197
>>have a meeting to see when you can have a meeting
>>with your hobby time
the post you linked didn't say that

>>96337305 (OP)
We had an in-person game but it just got easier to play online. I use Tabletop Simulator, these days. I'd say it's 60% of the way there. It's just a tabletop. Import maps and books and minis. You've got dice and sheets on the table, and move things around like you would at a real table. It's not great but it's not bad, and I'll take it over constant cancels. I still paint minis and have dice and physical books, but yeah scheduling is just way the hell easier, over a VTT and Discord call. I don't like the VTTs that try to turn it into a video game, personally. I like this one that just gives me a table.

>>96341211
>arrange a meeting for a voice call
If you can't read maybe try talking on the phone.

>>96341197
Bro just text or dm me, I work for a living

>>96341502
you don't arrange a meeting during a meeting.
You arrange it by sending a txt message that you can answer whenever.
Why did you think anon was saying to have a meeting to have meeting if the point was that having them doesn't come natural? Are you projecting your imaginary issues on randos again?

>>96341800
>>96341722
>don't think meetings happen over txt
>still pretending to be sooooo busy
Its this sort of shit where you've only seen people being
>successful
so ape busywork appearances. Works on the other fake it till you make it cast posers but actually effective people see right through you and ignore you as appropriate.

>>96337305 (OP)
>Do you anaons actually sit around a table with figurines and maps and roll dice still?
Regularly for the last 12 years. It's an amazing hobby. Playing online sucks donkey ass though.

>>96341873
Foundry is extremely good

Either VTT, TotM or go full 3D printer with war gaming terrain

>>96341855
If I'm playing a game or watching a movie I won't answer your call, but if you send me a message I will answer later. You say this aping work but also want people to be all the time available for a phone call? Are you paying me for that service? If not it's my call if I want to interrupt what I'm doing for you, even if I was smoking a cig on the balcony.

Why are people so afraid of a phone call these days?

>>96338796
You'd have to have an IQ bellow room temperature, if you couldn't distinguish real photos from AI, by now.

>>96337305 (OP)
After college my whole group moved all over the country. It's been around ten years and we still have weekly games, because we weren't stuck up about technology. Last month we got a cottage for one week. Had nearly daily in person games of DCC. Online we currently stick to Genesys, but since one of our players couldn't attend we decided to run a few connected oneshots.
In a few weeks I'm going to a LARP con with a few of them.

>>96341993
>are you paying me to answer a call from a friend about an activity?
kys

>>96343690
I'm already doing an activity, I'm not waiting for your phone call. I'll assume it's an emergency and be mad that you interrupted me to chit chat when you could had sent a message.

>>96337433
late 50s
>>96337792
thank you for the thoughtful post
>>96337952
There was one and itivolved a discord which seemed to be mainly spammed by foreigners looking for accomodation in shared houses and two people who ran a shop tryingt to charge people to play (which I find really horrible)

>>96338003
I worked in IT I find it nofun. The idea of an online zoom call RPG is not a TRPG as there is no T, no figues, no scenery etc
>>96338142>>96338171

That sounds very nice

>>96338698
OK I will post photos at some point
>>96338820
I started with dragon warriors and a D&D red boy and Cthuhlu boxed set and found everyting else in thrift stores over the decades although I have not seen anything else in a thrift store in a loooong time, perhaps due to the rise of PDFs

>>96338956
Fuck you too. Have a nice day of fucking yourself and being cunty.
>>96338956
>mindlessly consumes
You should try it someday, it's rather nice
>>96339513
>play 40k or the like?
Don't that fucking thing ruined white dwarf
>>96339764
>>96339764
>Wouldn't you do this for your old pal Reagan?
You're joking but I know a lot fo peopel who came from places lie eastern poland and what the Russians did there was just as bbad as what the Germanys did. They were still hanging people publicly for being resistence fighters up to the late 60s. Comulsory Russian and kids informing on their parenst, meat rationing etc.
With no irony, God Bless Reagan and forgive him his sins.

>>96339775
I have children your age. You're all terrified of even going out for a beer or calling each other and answering the phone to each other.
>>96340457
>>96340109
OK but not now it's late and I have taking pictures at the best of times.
>>96341100
>Phonecalls are creepy.
Sigh
>>96341145
>arrange a meeting for a voice call
Fuck. Scheduling your friends speakinng. Fuck.

>>96341383
Stop get them at a table

>>96337305 (OP)
This has to be the fakest and gayest post I've ever seen.
>I don't think I've actually played a game with anyone in 25 years
Then why are you here?

>>96343738
Zoom call? Anon, I don't use webcams. And I treat running games online as a way to multiply my autism for props and terrain by a degree that would be impossible to do in-person.

Now don't get me wrong there is definitely a different vibe to playing digitally or playing in-person. But we simply use Discord to talk, and to keep track of notes and information the party gains. Sometimes pictures. Everything else is done on a Virtual Tabletop. Hence my confusion about you calling it a zoom call without a table.

They have figures, they have scenery. I easily can use background ambience and music, and there's no shuffling around trying to reach a spot on my physical table to add something to the map with a marker, I just use a tool and either draw it or slap down an image.

>>96344585
>there's no shuffling around trying to reach a spot on my physical table
How fat are you?

>>96343755
>Nogames tries to tell others how they "should" play
No thanks. I'm your age, by the way. It's not because you're old. It's because you stopped learning.

>>96337305 (OP)
>Do you anaons actually sit around a table with figurines and maps and roll dice still?
Yes. I'm not a loser like you.

>>96337305 (OP)
>Do you anaons actually sit around a table with figurines and maps and roll dice still?
Been a while since wither of the groups I play with managed that. Adult life and moving to different cities and states and all that.
We still play via discord+roll20+gsheet every week, both groups.

>There is a whole thread for digimon, do adults really meet up and play fucking digimon? I don't believe that.
Anon, you might be jaded.