Thread 96840569

I decided to make a thread to help Anons find games and GM to find players by using this easy format


>Player or GM:

>Looking for:

>System:

>Preferences:

>Contact info:


With this, this should help you Anons hopefully find people to game with.

>>96840569 (OP)
>he thinks /tg/ plays games

Selfless bump

Frogspammers don't deserve friends or games. No one wants to play with you for a reason.

>>96840569 (OP)
Good luck

>>96840569 (OP)
Only if I can play 5E with my lesbian Pink Tiefling named Happiness Hexblood.

She was abandoned by her family for being in love with another female Tiefling and journeys to show the world that her way of life is okay.

>>96840569 (OP)
>wojak and pepe slop
Why would I want to play with anyone who posts that crap?

>>96840569 (OP)
>Game finder thread
>Not following game finder format
>With pepes and wojaks in OP
... why are you trying to kill the actual game finder general?

>Player or GM:
GM
>Looking for:
Any number of Players
>System:
OSR alike (I did the classic ORS thing of taking rules and systems I like from many OSR games but I pulled from a few non OSR d20 games as well) (the core is LotFP, but there is a lot of DCC and 13th age in here too as well as bits and pieces from half a dozen or so other d20 games)
>Preferences:
Some level of commitment, you dont have to show up to every session but I need enough people to show up to each session in order to run a game.
>Contact info:
smashed on discord (the game will be ran on discord b/c there isnt really a good VC alternative) (I get alot of solicitors with that real english word name so I have a default response that is a bit harsh, be forewarned)

Fully fleshed out KotBL to start. West marches style campaign meaning if you want to show up, if you cant you cant, no issues either way. For now I am thinking a session on the ides of each month, the 13th in most months but the 15th in March, May, July, and October but as/if more people join more sessions will be conducted.
I will not giving a ton of info to the players about how the system is working, in a super old school style. Players will still roll and have a sheet but you will not know everything that is going on in the rules.
It will probably be rather lethal if you don't take things slow
THIS IS NOT 5e OR ANYTHING CLOSE, if you come in assuming that it is like 5e you will be wrong.
I tend to run mostly theater of the mind so no VTT. If you want maps you will have to draw one yourself, there may be some regional maps available for purchase in game but no guarantees those are any more accurate than what a medieval peasant could draw without cartography gear

>>96845085
>Never-game thinking this is a problem or an issue to anyone who actually plays

>>96845591
The last proper game finder thread was months ago. I am happy for there to be anything

>Player or GM:
Player
>Looking for:
WoD/VtM Campaign
>System:
Honestly just looking for any World of Darkness campaign to sink my teeth into. I played Bloodlines 2 and its so shit, it makes me crave a actual proper Vampires game
>Preferences:
A GM that won't flak and not too many people that getting together is a hassle
>Contact info:
mrmeatyclaws on Discord, Solicitors with no intentions of playing or setting up a thing to play will be blocked.

Honestly a relaxed guy with a flexible schedule and a ton of experience with playing Pathfinder, and other systems, looking to get my feet wet in World of Darkness and just play a Nosferactu creep.

>>96845591
>>96845584
>>96841759
Cut the Anon some slack at least they are trying to help others find games

Game searching bump

>>96845597
I love LotFP. How can I join?

>>96846549
>Cut some slack a shitposter pushing out genuine game finder thread off the catalog

>>96852481
This is a genuine game finder thread, so it hasn't been pushed off the catalog.

>>96852481
Then when this one dies, make yourself one then fag since you wanna bitch about this one being "Improper" and not of a format no one has seen in months

>>96845597
Forgot to mention ~7pm EST.
>>96851962
reach out to me on Discord and tell me that you are interested in playing

>>96852481
what gamefinder thread you retard. kys gatekeeping faggot.

>>96859239
I have no problem with gatekeeping >>96852481 is just retarded.

Anyone else just kinda surprised to see people wanting to play TTRPGs online anymore? I feel like the thrill has gone. I have a couple games going on but we mostly just play D&D now, with a few excursions into something else. Used to run loads of non-D&D games. Just feels like my imagination isn't there anymore. I collect a lot more miniatures now. I feel like I need to buy a miniature for every monster I plan to use. It's like my imagination is failing me, and a 2x2 inch wood circle on my battlemat isn't good enough anymore. I don't have aphantasia but after 6 years of wagecucking I am starting to get it. Now I am a NEET again and I was hoping my imagination would come back, but I think it's a "getting older" thing and not a "wagecucking burnout" thing. I used to listen to ambient music and feel deeply about my settings. There was some je ne sais quoi about what was in my mind that I could never truly convey with words. I made machinimas and even amateur film projects trying to convey that. Just for their own sake. I would find a niche RPG and start a discord text game just to try playing it. It just all feels so empty now. I really don't know how to feel about this. I was always okay with the fact that I never became a published author, because the median age of authors was something like mid 30s, so I accepted that it was ok my writing still kinda sucked, cause I still had time. Now I feel like I can barely write at all. And I feel like everyone feels like this. Or should. I feel foreign to this community now. It really sucks. I see someone's ad for trying out some new RPG and think, who even gives a fuck?I see people talking about VtM lore and I always thought it'd be cool, especially if set in a nearby city I am slightly familiar with. Or some other cool premises for games my friend has. And it just feels like my excitement to actually play them is not there. RPGs almost feel like a waste of time now. It fucking sucks and Idk how to cope.

>>96859970
bla bla bla, nobody cares about your loser life, DORK. he he ha ha maybe you should imagine getting a job!

>>96859970
You're that pathetic sad sack that daydreamed about living in a car, aren't you?

>>96845597
how do u mix 13th age into lotfp?

I run lotfp modules in 13th age sometimes

>>96861297
maybe

>>96860077
I had one. I'm sure I'll get another. I was curious if NEETing would repair my soul. Hasn't really so far. I think who I was in 2019 is gone forever.

>>96862402
When I say the core is LotFP I literally mean the core. The project started out of my hatred for d20 games clashing with liking tiny bits and pieces from a ton of different d20 games. I used LotFP as the base as it is the d20 game I hate the least. I tried to put emphasis on the fact that this is no longer an osr.
I don't want to get too deep into the rules as I want to keep potential players in the dark but some martial classes can get some powers, npc spellcasters use 13th age enemy spellcaster powers to speed things up, and there was some inspiration around magic items

Does anyone play Apocalypse World PbP that isn't a gay tranny?

>>96840569 (OP)
I'll GM, but only obscure 80s RPGs that you probably can't find a PDF of and it'll be text only during inconvenient hours.

If it's text, the time doesn't matter.

>Player or GM:
Gm
>Looking for:
2 players

>System:
GURPS 75+35 power game TL9 light horror game. Session time is Saturday at 8pm est running 2 and a half hours.
>Preferences:
I want players who are not passive will RP with others and act.
>Contact info:
tsukamoto

>>96874786
If it's live text, the time matters more than voice.

>live

KEK

cool idea, I am looking for players for a medieval fantasy campaign using Fate Core
>contact info
idk about that though

I think I'm done guys. Trying to play tabletop has given me too much stress for too little return. Nobody wants to listen to the GM, no GM wants to set standards, nobody wants to read the rulebook, and nobody wants to care about the setting. Coddling players leaves them feeling entitled to take up all of your time, criticize them once and they'll blow up in your face. It feels like if you didn't win the player lotto years ago, you're SOL. When I first started my journey I didn't think my criteria of a player that could be summed up as "a theater kid who adores mechanical fidelity" would be so impossible to find outside of a mirror. The entire culture is anathema to what I enjoy.

>>96879405
There is only one way forward.
You are perma dm and you just have to demand respect from your players.
Players are unthinking unfeeling agents of chaos that must be guided to order and deserve your undying distain.
There may not be winners in table top, but we can all lose if they are allowed to exist unfettered. Just don't ever tell them that, players need to think you are on their side or better that there are no sides at all. They are like children, or small animals being guided by whimsey, novelty and destruction.
That's how I see it, I DM mostly randos and they seem to like our sessions.

>>96879464
>You are perma dm and you just have to demand respect from your players.
It would be nice if I could do that, but I was talking mainly from the perspective of a GM.
There are literally no players that can handle what I throw at them when I'm actually having fun with the game instead of going through the motions throwing the weakest softballs.
The enemies must not only be weak, they must be incompetent and incapable of recognizing how to put up a fight against a stronger opponent.
An endless stream of jobbers that wouldn't last past the first episode of an average show, whether live action or anime.
Last session I ran months ago left wondering at multiple points why they didn't seem to care about my perspective at all.
>Just don't ever tell them that, players need to think you are on their side or better that there are no sides at all
That's part of what I meant about needing to coddle them at all costs.
If you present a single challenge to randos they blow a gasket.
If you get irritated at them after weeks of effort they self destruct.
That is simply too much time to waste.

>>96879583
>There are literally no players that can handle what I throw at them when I'm actually having fun with the game instead of going through the motions throwing the weakest softballs.
Damn, that's rough.
I DM mostly LGS games and yeah I do have to pull some punches in early sessions. We do 4 session seasons the first two sessions I try to establish that there are consequences to this setting and the last two sessions I try to challenge the players.
I find that you need to first establish your authority. Second establish the setting as a place where challenges do occur and then and only then can you begin to challenge players because then it is the setting/game that is the obstacle, not the DM.

>>96879464
Why do you hate the idea of people having fun?

>>96840569 (OP)
.。.†:*・゜.。†.:*・゜.

Robin Hood and his Merry Men embark on a quest for justice; a heist on the Tower of London, King John's fortress, where the money unfairly taxed from his subjects is being stored. However, they have limited time, for they know that by tomorrow morning the money will be shipped to France to fund the royal family's military efforts to retain their fiefdoms in the mainland. This is their only chance to restore justice to their fellow Englishmen.

The Tower of London is not only the royal palace and the king's personal bank and coin mint, it is also the prison in which the enemies of the crown are locked. This small citadel is patrolled by the king's retinue and it is rumoured to be inhabited by wild beasts from distant lands. The castle has towers which serve as jails and workshops, a chapel and the king's quarters, as well as four main entrances and a moat. Getting caught red-handed while the king is soundly asleep is not an option.

The players, who will be Robin Hood and his Merry Men, will decide how to break into the Tower of London to retrieve all the wealth hoarded by King John, whether to release prisoners who may join their ranks if they prove to be persuasive enough and perhaps snatch a few coins from the mint and take some of the royal goods as a bounty. Encumbrance may hinder their roguery.

.。.†:*・゜.。†.:*・゜.


• 5 Pre-generated characters assigned randomly (So no one will fight over who gets to play Robin Hood).
• Time limit: 3 hours. If exceeded, dawn will arrive and the money will be shipped to France.
• System: Lion & Dragon (B/X retroclone)
• Stealth and ingenuity are key. Combat is risky. There is no magic (we may include a few, rare ghosts if all players agree).
• The map of the Tower, while not exhaustive, will be historically accurate.
• Date & Time: 21-23 on Friday or Saturday, or Sunday from 15 to 19:30 (GMT-3)

>>96879781
Fun does not exist in a vacuum; fun must be created. The creation process needs many things to be successful, players tend to be in opposition to these processes and that is why they must be correctly labeled as agents of chaos as opposed to the GM who is an agent of order.
Here are a list of things that are crucial to the fun creating process that players tend to grate against
>limitations
>consequences
>coherence with the setting
>taking turns
>taking initiative
The list can continue but I digress.

>>96879967
nah

>>96879966

Also looking for players to play "Raiders of the Lost Artifacts" (OSR b/x retroclone).

Pulpy one-shots inspired by Indiana Jones, Uncharted, Tomb Raider, The Mummy, Tintin, Secret of the Incas, National Treasure, etc.

Find me on discord as: sabri#2888

>>96879970
t.unthinking agent of chaos

>>96879977

Also looking for people interested in Sword & Planet game "Warriors of the Red Planet". If you like John Carter of Mars (not the awful Disney film), Gor, Dark Sun, The warrior and the sorcerer, Revelations of Mars, etc. Hit me up as sabri#2888 on discord:

Here's the lore:

> After a cataclysmic war destroyed planet Grythar, the inhabiting races were left in a barren wasteland of crimson sands under two scorching suns and two pristine moons. The marble ruins of what used to be a thriving civilization litter the landscape. Tyrannical wizard-kings are evil geniuses who rule from their spires with an iron fist by means of their preternatural techology and eldritch sciences, which they employ to build armies of bronze automata, airships and rayguns.

>The Free Tribes of Men, originally from a distant blue planet with stronger gravity, are ruled by insurrect warlords who rebel against these wicked sorcerer-scientists. Given their strength, many men earn a living as sky pirates, bandits, mercenaries and gladiators.

>The Brigdzids, a small, big-headed reddish race of bug-eyed aliens, use their advanced brains and psychic powers as minions of the mad witch-kings, in exchange for power and under the threat of annihilation. Some still yearn for freedom and peace.

> The Shaldon, yellow reptilian marauders of the desert, live as isolated nomads, working as spies, thieves and explorers, away from the murmurs of the city-states of Grythar.

> The Ankrek, insect-folk of the jungle, are a warlike hive. They can barely utter the language of Grythar due to their anatomy, and see other races as enemies to be crushed and devoured.

> The Allunad, fishmen of the seas, live in underwater palaces, hidden from the dangers of the surface they seldom visit, being the keepers of the depths.

----------------------

Preferences:

> no people under 21
> no sexual stuff
> no woke people (safety tools, identity politics, pronouns, etc.)
> Fluent in English but not my first language

>>96879997
t. faggot

>>96859970

I think you just need people who appreciate what you write. Maybe that's why it's meaningless to you. You don't have to be a published author to play a game and no one gives a fuck about the average age, life doesn't work that way.

I feel the same about videogames. I used to enjoy them but now I don't care. It started with me not being able to catch up with the latest releases due to not being able to afford consoles. Then didn't feel like playing open-world games because they were overwhelming. Then other games lost their appeal. I tried a few but I no longer enjoy them.

>>96879405

I get you, I kept coming across flaky players and latino otakus that want to play freakshit and marvel humor, and can't seem to think outside 5e and VtM. The only OSR server I found demanded "safety tools".

>>96880006
I accept your concession.

>>96880065
nah I accept yours

>>96880042
>latino otakus
*shivers* I haven't had to find new players since before they became a noticeable invading force.
Good fucking luck guys.

>>96879629
It doesn't matter if it's 4 or 40 in my case. Not helping is that I don't play D&D and so I'm never a DM and my pool of players is inherently limited.

>>96880092
Thanks for assuring me I wasn't crazy thinking all the good players were long recruited, and the good GMs more than satisfied with what they already had. I lose out on both fronts but I get to know I wasn't missing any chances by abandoning my hopes.

>>96879405
Cheer up. I've been GMing for 25 years now and met tons of people. I love teaching new people how to play and inspire them to reach out for better games and better roleplaying techniques. I also had people who wanted me stay and play with them but a good GM knows when to end a game also "favourite dish grows bland if tasted too often".

Ther will be shitty players or players that lack direction. There are also generation gaps but all of this can be overcome with skill, knowhow and tools that can be aquired.

Rules to GM by:
- Never let a shity system bog the game down
- Use tools from older games that you know they work
- Include music and art
- Save good ideas for later games
- Use chatbots to finetune or retheme things.

>Player or GM:
GM
>Looking for:
3-5 players
>System:
Vampire: the Masquerade, 20th Anniversary Edition
>Preferences:
Modern nights campaign, set in and around the city of Memphis, Tennessee, USA. No experience with VtM or WoD is necessary. Games will probably occur weekly on Saturday afternoons/evenings or Friday mornings/afternoons/evenings, American timezones (depending on player availability).
>Contact info:
modestmousorgsky on the 'scord

bunp

>>96840569 (OP)
You should also include time zones. I messaged a couple anons but it wasn't possible because it turned out they live on the other side of the Earth.

>>96882242
I think I've run out of time. The amount of effort spent trying to get tabletop to work has cut into time I could've spent on playing video games or reading books or helping others.

>>96882737
I sent a friend request

>>96882737
wtf are you me? I've been planning out my own v20 game in memphis

>>96888740
>wtf are you me?
N-no, haha... unless...

>>96845085
Sure, come play our meat grinder campaign.

>>96845085
Sure, come aboard.
Happiness is gonna be so evil by the end of this campaign i can feel it.

>>96845597
Sounds fun. Do us all a favor and post this monthly. I’d join but I’m wrapped up studying for the next few months for a licensing exam.

>>96880029
Video games are actually worse now though. If you grew up at any time between 1988 and 2008, you experienced gaming's "golden age", so nothing is gonna live up to that.

>>96845597
Looks like 4pm EST the 3rd Sat of each month would be a more agreeable time for more people so I am moving the schedule to then but with the same note that as/if more people join or people want to play more more sessions can be conducted.
>>96890382
I was planning on posting it in every gamefinder thread for a few months and if the game is still going I wont turn you down if you reach out even if I stop posting about it here.

Looking for 1d4+1 thugs to play Delta Green in a Saturday morning (Start 0900 @ UTC-7) OR Friday afternoon (Start 1400 @ UTC-7) timeslot, open to discussion for scheduling. Game be held on FoundryVTT with supporting elements in Discord.

Email handler@bullet.rentals with timezone and nationality.

>>96890398

I think it's just me. I tried playing old school games from the 80s to the 2000s and they didn't click with me.

>>96840569 (OP)
First time player.

Looking for group around Lisbon, Sintra or Oeiras.

Any rpg system that isn't too crunchy (easy to jump into).

Weekends are best.

Reply to this if you can hook me up.

>>96892560
If you are looking for an IRL game you are almost certainly better off asking around at LGSs, maybe look around on cork boards at coffee shops and the like

>>96845584
it's part of our board and site culture, anon

>>96879405
This but unironically. Playing with randos is miserable and I don't get any long term good players out of it.

>>96897345
After GMing for a pool of randos for years huffing the copium that it would get better and I could get long term players out of it, I woke up one day and realized I'd never get my time back. Multiple players and GMs who ghosted me, I always had to be the one hounding them for a follow up, I went absolutely everywhere people claimed there would be good players, man. There were some funny conversation partners but nobody that could play their way out of a paper bag. Believe me, if I could rewind back to those days I'd have chosen a different path. Now all I can say is that it's better I changed direction later than never.

>>96899289
The next OP image should be Ribbon so the thread can be spammed with
>Work on your art

>>96897345
exact opposite here

>>96841759
>>96845584
>>96845591
Go back to plebbit you assblasted faggots. Or better yet, immediately kill yourselves. Wouldn't you think of The Science^(Tm) and the Global Warming?

>>96840569 (OP)
>Player or GM
Player, but not against GMing at all
>Looking for:
A game in NYC
>System
Open. I'm a fan of NSR/OSR, but not against 5e or Pathfinder even.
>Preferences
Preferably in person.
>Contact Info
If there's anyone else here and you haven't posted yours already, I'll make an email or something.

>>96899305
Someone should find the woyafag and punch him in the dick.

We moved to GitP, got one player interested so far

https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?689197-Interest-Recruiting-Brainstorming-P-amp-P-UE-Heroes-of-Suur

I'm not sure what to do anymore as a GM
Almost all my games have died out and some point in time due to the players hating one another in some manner


I've made adds in the foundry discord, and sometimes on reddit
Even with a vetting process like a form, it doesn't accurately capture what a person it like and that's done with time
The idea is now is to look for an already established group of friends and just run something for them
I believe I am doing something wrong as not herding them better but I'm not sure

Anyone had any luck with people in threads like these in the recent years? I might just give it a shot with some anons

>>96903289
join my game

>>96903310
I don't like being a player

rip

not only this entire threat but the entire experience of this hobby boils down to this mean.

>>96879967
A TTRPG is like an ouija board, the chaos from input is what creates the fun, otherwise you'd just be running a simulation and you don't need the players for that.
You are a perma nogames worldbuilder who jerks off over his creation and only wants rats that chase cheese in his little maze.

>>96863549
>don't want to get too deep into the rules as I want to keep potential players in the dark
Red flag

>>96904405
Just a different style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIWMR7829Wc
Rather famously Arneson went way further than I am going to go, his players knew nothing and had no sheets. I just want to start off with the players knowing less than normal and drip small amounts more as things go along

>>96882737
Voice or text?

>>96905052
Ain't nobody running text these days unless it's PBP.

>>96904839
the wrong style, yeah. Arneson is certainly not an example to emulate.

>>96879967
No. The players make decisions and the referee adjudicates. Nothing else. You're wrong. Do not reply.

>>96906229
I tried that and all I got was bitter players who didn't know what direction to go in until I gave up and handed them an answer.

>>96904350
He's not wrong that players hate limitations, consequences, and coherence. I can also vouch that they grumble about initiative and taking turns.
There is no chaos to input when it's all freeform garbage and you make me, the GM, waste my fucking time learning all of these rules and trying to help you when you never had any intention of LEARNING to play.

>>96840569 (OP)
>>Player or GM:
Player
>>Looking for:
Game
>>System:
Dark Sun
>>Preferences:
Old school brutality
>>Contact info:
Nice try FBI.

>>96906799
Then you didn't have players at all.

>>96907194
Speak for yourself.

>>96907408
I speak for the players I suffered under when I GMed for them for much longer than they deserved.

>>96907399
Of course. I don't think the players you speak of exist any more, or if they do, they're normally GMs.

>>96907399
>if they aren't the ideal vision of players that exist in my imagination they aren't real players

>>96907428
Like I said, you speak for you and your players only. I can't relate.

>>96907433
No, what I actually said is that you didn't have players, which is correct, because a player is someone who plays the game. Since they weren't playing the game, they weren't players.

>>96907448
I'm sure the players in your head are happy to hear that.

>>96907474
I'm sorry you're so unsatisfied with your life. Hopefully things improve for you.

>>96906218
Alright stop replicating him then. Go play poker or chess or something. Any modern game made in the last 4 decades is going to be replicating Arneson in one way or another.

>>96907488
I'm actually quite satisfied, I dumped them and now I don't have to give a shit about tabletop anymore.

>>96907517
No you're not.

>>96907516
No, they certainly aren't, and I'll do whatever I want.

>>96907660
LMAO, I don't think you know who Dave Arneson is.

>>96908436
Clearly you don't, or you wouldn't be pretending to think he understands anything about game design.

Any GMT friendly games?
>Player or GM:
player
>Looking for:
Can voip or text. Not big on crunchy, skill heavy games but open to playing if the GMing isn't foul
>System:
see pic related for an idea of what I am into
>Preferences:
no sjws or /pol/fags
>Contact info:
91945434674647040

>>96908748
>Not big on crunchy, skill heavy games
>Lists 40k RP (preusmably FFG)
>Notoriously crunchy game with a high ceiling of system mastery.

>>96908781
It's for reference, I've never played them because they are not to my taste

>>96908873
That post says it's a list of what you're into. This post says they're not to your taste. Do you like those games or not?

>>96908873
well?

>>96908873
well?

Player
Looking to learn and play a non D&D/Pathfinder game
Any system that's not the above, would like to try out some mech stuff if possible. I'm currently GMing a game of Lancer so it would be neat to get some inspiration. I'm open to jumping in a new game or something already in progress.
I'm available on Friday evenings and the weekend in general, CST
Discord dandog. (with the period)

>>96908873
well?

>>96908886
>>96909061
>>96912908
>>96913433
you know what nvm I'm not into this shit

>>96905052
Voice
Imagine being a textcel

>coping this hard
kek

I would like to run a maid game one day, but finding player is a pain. If you don't have a ride or die, you're pretty much screwed.