Thread 96722081

>Multiple players across multiple groups across multiple years can never take anything seriously
>Allergic to any stakes, drama, emotion, horror, moral greyness etc and respond by turning everything into memes and reddit humor
>Complain about it online
>UM ACCHYUALLY HUMOR IS A NATURAL RESPONSE TO EASE TENSION WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LET YOUR PLAYERS HAVE FUN HOW DARE THEY!!!
Sigh

Your image is why.

>>96722081 (OP)
*rips a greasy pepperoni fart in your face*

>>96722081 (OP)
The past decade of Disneyslop has contributed to this inability to take things seriously, but I think this is a symptom of a deeper root cause. The way zoomers were not raised? Media as a whole degrading? Kali Yuga? Who knows?

>>96722081 (OP)
Can you give us some examples of stakes being turned into memes? Otherwise, I'm forced to assume you're a troll.

>>96722135
I kneel

>>96722140
Its being the first generation to be in the Internet at a young age. You cant be sincere on the internet and most zoomers took that to real life. Every thing is a joke
>T. Zoomer

>>96722081 (OP)
>Story shitters keep seething that their GAMES arent movies or television.
As always.

>>96722081 (OP)
Who are you quoting?

>>96722081 (OP)
If no one can take your shit seriously, maybe it's too shit to take seriously.

>>96722201
Your character dies. Go find another table sweaty ;)

>>96722181
>Its being the first generation to be in the Internet at a young age.
Lol. Lmao.

>>96722081 (OP)
Have you tried not playing D&D?
If you play a game NOT made for retards, you'll be able to find players who aren't retards.

>>96722081 (OP)
I don't have this problem. Seems like the common denominator here is (you).

>>96722081 (OP)
blame hackmaster

>>96722081 (OP)
You can't be complaining about this kind of thing whilst posting wojaks

>>96722081 (OP)
Who are you quoting?

>>96722140
>>96722181
>>96722752
Wasn't it millennials that started the "DeeAnDee is all funny hijinks" trend? IIRC most big DND creators are in their 30's, and they're the ones in charge of spreading "le subversive quirky fantasy" stuff as the face of the game. I mean >>96722752 is the most early 2010's millennial shit you can possibly imagine. The person who probably made the original image is probably in the 30's and on Twitter or Bluesky now. 4chan vs Tumblr was always millennials vs millennials.

>>96722795
That does raise the question, why is DND full of so many shitters? I get why the culture has continued, but I don't understand why it got up there in the first place. It can't just be "popularity," as tempting of an answer that might be, because nothing is ever that simple.

>>96722081 (OP)
I feel you on this one OP.

While complaining about players having the wrong kind of fun at your table is always a little bit gay, there does exist a certain type of very annoying player who, through lack of maturity, lack of exposure to difficult topics, or simply just by living a very closed-off life where they never leave their comfort zone, they ABSOLUTELY cannot take tension.

IMHO it's the terminally online NEETs who are the most common for this kind of hypersensitive behavior. Probably an issue endemic to never once pushing their boundaries, so their comfort zone shrinks and shrinks, until even the slight ambient tension, or sense of imminent peril, is too much for them to handle.

So they spit out desperate pithy one liners and 'table memes/jokes' like picrel, or chant "we're not gunna make it!" (to the tune of 'we're not gonna take it!') or even just cut over you to interrupt the game and talk about something else.

And if they ABSOLUTELY can't halt the tension or the emotion, they suicide their character into doing the dumbest, meme-est shit possible, like a tabletop game of Chicken. Where he bets that you won't kill his character before you turn the whole game into something more slapstick and lolzrandumb.

If you want to look at the positive, it means you're able to generate suspense, emotions and gripping situations at the table. But these kinds of characters are best promptly kicked end of session.
Theirs is a Red Flag that you actually, flat out, cannot play a game with.

>>96728868
>Wasn't it millennials that started the "DeeAnDee is all funny hijinks" trend?
I'd say it's less millennials, and more a certain subcategory of players with very very small comfort zones, see >>96732587.

>Inb4 'So it was X generation.'
Trying to claim which generation was the big one full of soft bois is a doomed venture. Sensitive people have existed since Naseir was selling copper.

>Why is DnD full of so many shitters.
It's the common one, so it gets by far the most people. A lot of DnD people, and people who don't do ttrpg's, unironically think DnD is all there is out there.

That makes for a far larger pool to catch bad players in. And it means that all the other pools tend to be more experienced hobbyists, who came from that pool originally. So the other pools are less likely to contain shitters, per capita.

mod thread

>>96728868
I see >>96722752 caused a nerve.

>>96728868
im in my 30s and learned dnd from my gen x parents and aunts and uncles and desu they could never take anything seriously and were extreme power gamers, i still love and will play with them, but i have an extreme aversion to other players who try the same stuff

I struggle with the same shit. My DnD group is way better suited for other games that we have played because every time we try to play DnD it turns into fucking quiplash. It's a competition to see who does the most bullshit inane thing with the winner being the funniest person on the table
But to be honest if DnD like that with prostitution and necrophilia is already incredibly dull and hard for me to really care about I struggle to believe how monstrously boring an actual serious game of DnD might turn out, specially given our DM is not a particularly bright mind but at least she has a knack for organizing things that everyone else lacks and lives at the best point in the city for us to meet up in where it's equally far for everyone else so she's our only real choice. Im bad at keeping up with numbers to DM properly and I would probably just be a giga asshole trying to put the heros in even more outrageous situations as the ones we make up r

>>96722081 (OP)
My man; if you belong to a small well educated ethnic group, that keeps inserting itself into the financial systems of host nations, and then getting blatted, and this carries on for centuries across the span of the known world, then you have to stop and ask if you might not be the problem.

*ahem*

Maybe the problem isn't even in how you are running the games, but in how you are selecting your players, but the first possibility should also be examined.

Are you asking people to emotionally invest in things that are insufficiently developed, or not what they would naturally be inclined to care about?

Choose your audience, but also, work your crowd.

>>9672239
No we just roll a new character, nogamestard.

>>96728868
>Wasn't it millennials
The ones hired for that purpose by the hr xers, under corpo boomer orders to make it lame.

>>96722081 (OP)

The latest D&D movie must have been that. I refuse that watch that 5e crap. Funny how nobody gave a fuck about that film.

The party is made of

> tiefling who loves debunking and fact-checking conservatives
> fat chick with a rape kink
> dude who is too cool for that group
> that guy playing with an anime main character syndrome
> fat dude playing an amazon snu snu fetish with le ram hammer get it? lol xd
> le gentlesir

Should be something like this:

> *opens a portal to another dimension*
> okay nothing weird about that just your regular tuesday that's cool
> casting fireball
> "WOW did you see THAT? DID YOU SEE THAT?!"
> *slashing the enemy with a sword*
> "Well that's gonna leave a mark"
> they hear strange heavy steps within the dungeon
> "w-who goes there and what are your pronouns?"
> "the dragon's right behind me isn't it?"
> "well this is awkward"
> "wow that was EPIC! we defeated BBEG Lord Drumpf and his fascist army of chuds (that's a phrase I never thought I'd say). See you folx next time!"
> *nobody shows up*


I hate that self-deprecating, socially awkward, slice-of-life kind of humor. Make your own server or community explicitely against having too much humor and find like-minded people.

>>96728868
>>96722081 (OP)
If it matters, my dad who began college in '88 was a big time dnd and tabletop gamer throughout his 20s and 30s. His favorite campaign story involved the party trying to escape an evil wizards keep by tunneling- only to end up in the middle of the wizards courtyard when they came out the other end and get immediately tpk'd by a fireball. No tabletop game has ever been -too- serious.

>>96733767

Honestly, I've had the same problem as him. i try to recruit serious players but they're always playing pic related, freaking latino otakus playing marvel humor. And I wasn't playing 5e at all

>>96722081 (OP)
>emotion
Hold up, "muh feefees" is literally the only thing zillenial story-tellers care about at the expense of everything else

>>96739276
Platoon is a good movie

>>96739276
Do you have any examples? I've apparently not seen much of zillennial storytelling and now I'm curious
t. totally not a zillennial who wants to compare with his own writing to check if he falls into the same stereotype

>>96737044
>2021+4
>He still is trying to force a meme

>>96745642
which meme?

>>96742454
No it's not.
But you would have to see it, instead of meming about it and Berenger's shitty character.
Want to see good Vietnam movie? Go watch Hamburger Hill.

>>96722081 (OP)
>Greentext
>Memes
I'm shocked your friends lack social skills.

>>96722752
I wish I could've been like my grandpa who didn't grow up in of that gay shit.

>>96722752
>We were raised online by 4chan
>Website requires you to be 18+
Lol.

You should have listened to him

>>96722081 (OP)
Maybe you are boring.

>>96722081 (OP)
Sounds like you only played with people who were into the hobby as a social activity used to unwind from life's pressures, whereas you want to play with people who "take the hobby seriously", or to put it another way, the "hardcore" hobbyists.
Good luck.

>>96747955
Now how many people using the website today were actually 18+ when they first started using it?

>>96748064
I don't know where you're supposed to find the latter these days. I think they all shriveled up.