Is this common in the rpg space?
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With a new group I like to run bitd. Simple, can go in whatever direction the group ends up fitting to, and rules-light enough that I enjoy running it.
Just looked this setting up. If you do get anything going, I am so down to be part of it!
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Best advice I can think of is to hit up your local hobby shop, or a Renaissance fair, if you have one nearby. Those places are chock full of ttrpg nerds.
If you wore a sign or badge that says something like, “looking for D&D group,” I bet you’d get asked by at least a few folks. Especially if you’re already being nice and friendly and joining in the other activities there!
That said, playing online is not as bad as you’d think. I’ve played with a group fully online for over a decade now (shout-out to Foundry VTT).
I wish you luck in your ventures!
Foundry VTT is amazing. Been running Kingmaker for almost 2 years on it with the official module (very slow pace, 1-2 sessions a month). I’d argue it’s basically mandatory if you’re serious about online TTRPGs.
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Meetup got me into vampire larps when I was a teen. Loved those days.
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Yeah. Wanna try to fix this?
Edit: I will run an online group if I get people.
Please express this as my tentative expression of interest (tentative because I’m travelling for Christmas and don’t have brain to think about this properly right now, but I’d certainly like to bookmark this for if this ends up happening)
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You ever just want to play a rpg but have no group or pals to play with? I made this meme to see if there are others like me.
Ive also tried online but its not the same.
I think it’s a big reason why there’s a lot of people are watching hundreds of hours long campaigns online. People are just vicariously playing DnD because so few can get a group together and sustain it. You’re not alone by any stretch!
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You ever just want to play a rpg but have no group or pals to play with? I made this meme to see if there are others like me.
Ive also tried online but its not the same.
I just play the computer ones.
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Please express this as my tentative expression of interest (tentative because I’m travelling for Christmas and don’t have brain to think about this properly right now, but I’d certainly like to bookmark this for if this ends up happening)
You make three potential players. Still room for a couple more, especially since we’re pre-schedule, but we at least hypothetically have enough. I’ll DM you a link to a matrix room before the new year.
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Obsidian makes games much better at the ‘rpg’ part of crpg. ‘Tyranny’ is maybe the best of all time. ‘Pillars of eternity’ is pretty great too. They’ve made a bunch of others, but those are the stand-outs.
Tyranny: a treatise on discourse and the meaning of power taking place in a grimdark sword and sorcery world. The two branches of the Evil Army representing how fascist think they’re strong and how they’re actually strong, and especially the asshole demigods that lead them just can’t get along, and you die in tutorial valley if you can’t figure something out. Character creation is mostly your warcrimes résumé. Which matters a lot.
Pillars of eternity: an intensely Hegelian game about morality in the context of all the fuckedness of history in compressed anachronistic high fantasy america. Wizards are generally upset by the invention of the blunderbuss. Brilliant, beautiful, sometimes a little bit of a slog because I wasn’t joking about the Hegel.
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I just play the computer ones.
Very different feeling… I guess if you had the absolute worst railroading DM it might be similar…
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I’m way too socially awkward to try and join a new group and none of my friends are interested in any sort of ttrpg so I just started playing solo D&D. Once you get into the habit of using solo tables it’s pretty fun. The Solo Adventurer’s Toolbox is a great book for trying it out, I just wish I could find something on the same level for other rulesets.
If it helps, most people in a game store, and most dnd players, are socially awkward as well.
I used to be very socially awkward as a kid until I went to my local game store to play yugioh. I haven’t played in ages but I’m still happy i did! I’m still socially awkward, but a lot less than before, and I met some people I’m still friends with years later.
