Any of you video game rpg fans willing to give a tabletop rpg a try?

Any of you video game rpg fans willing to give a tabletop rpg a try?

Just asking in general, not looking to get a game going or nothing.

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Yeah, I'm just never sure how to roleplay. I generally play RPGs for the gameplay, not for the story or characters. Hence I don't play very many of them.

I would be willing to try if I had friends to play with.

I don't.

Starting a pathfinder game this wednesday, it'll be my first time playing tabletop. Wish me luck

I only play video games because I have no friends

Gl man

Tabletop is first and foremost a social activity. You have to listen and talk with other people.

I'm into solitary stuff.

I've been DMing DnD since I was 10. If you check down your local tabletop shop they should be able to hook you up with groups. It's fun as fuck if you get a group of people that like to have funny. Super serious RPers I find a bit intense, I run my games with plenty of room for jokes.

Have fun, I hear Pathfinder has some neat stuff.

I played one once. It's more of a thing to do with people you know.

Serious groups kind of cross that line of autistic and fun, but I play with a group that's got two normies and they make meme jokes all the time while having no originality at all with decisions and roleplay. I'd kill for one guy to keep them in line

Despite what stereotypes would have you believe, tabletop nerds are actually way more socially well adjusted and friendly than video game nerds. You need to actually be capable of having friends who like hanging out with you just to play most of the games.

So expect most of these losers to say no, OP.

If you're not already friends with everyone, bring food. Everyone likes the guy who brings food. Like the guy in an office who's a hero for bringing a box of donuts, so is the guy who brings doritos to an RPG. But you don't want to be the guy who brings cool ranch, you want to be the guy who brings 3d jalapeno, ya dig?

>signed up for 3 separate campaigns
>all of them either haven't started yet or are on hiatus
>simultaneously overwhelmed and blueballed on tabletop stuff
help

I just started Tabletop gaming this year, after strictly only vidya and board gamin'.

I'm involved in two D&D campaigns, one that meets weekly and another that meets monthly, and then I run a Star Wars Edge of the Empire campaign with some friends, one of which is a vidya youtuber.

This is his character sheet. It always seems to get some laughs from /tg/, so maybe Sup Forums'll like it.

I always rolled a gnome illusionist.

In other words I seriously played a silly character.

I'm guessing he flies the ship?

same.

i played, lik, half a campaign of d&d in hs. the group i played with became disinterested in the campaign as it became interesting tho

We haven't gotten a ship yet. My campaign starts with our heroes trying to escape Coruscant which is under Imperial Blockade after the destruction of the Death Star.

>Eyes: Dead
>Build: Not Attractive
fuck

>that guy who rolls a min-max character based on whatever anime he's watching and acts just like that character and even plays fucking anime music and HAS to be the center of attention

One time we had a great guy who loved Sailor Moon and was playing a female spellcaster and he was really passionate about his character and confident so he could RP well. He kept BTFOing the other anime guy and stealing the spotlight from him since he was charismatic and not an edgelord.

All in all, I miss playing AD&D. Seems like back then groups were capable of paying attention, being serious yet still have room for funny scenes and actually rolling with organic jokes instead of memespouting or being anime.

I've always wanted to have a campaign with custom classes but I know there are going to be so many min-maxers and animefags I don't bother.

Tell him that MGSV > MGS2 and that Gothic is infinitely superior to the witcher.

I'm running a Legends of the Wulin campaign right now. It's quickly becoming one of my favorite rule systems, though a few mechanics are a bit difficult to grasp.

I was about to comment on how pathetic this character was, until I looked at the name

I would definetely play a digital version of dungeons and dragons boardgames.

I lvoe that shit, but its just too much of a ballache to set up and clean up a game like that.

But Wizards of the coast will never make this game because its much easier to jew people with new sets and rulebooks every month

>But Wizards of the coast will never make this game because its much easier to jew people with new sets and rulebooks every month
Those swine.

I've been trying to get him to play Gothic. He says he will eventually.

There's always things like Roll20 and Tabletop Simulator

I am, but I'm painfully shy and don't have any friends that share my interests.

Me and a buddy of mine really want to get into it but two people's not enough and the rest of my mates don't care for it. I might check out the role play society when I go to uni later this year and see what happens from there.

Tabletop simulator doesn't have in game character sheets which sucks

Played D&D nonstop for about 5 years now. Got a Pathfinder Kingmaker nearing its completion on roll20 and a 3.5 game with rookie university pals.

While I love having rookies to show around, I find that MMO players make roleplayers.

I've seen both sides. I know group that played a pokemon tabletop and then half the group had a panic attack and ptsd when a bad guy pulled out a bat and hit someone. They freaked and talked about internal bleeding and how they were committing assault, player said they were so distressed they couldn't speak anymore for the rest of the game and only communicated with the group and dm by writing.

terrible roleplayers*

How does a pokemon RPG work?

That's dumb.

Lol, what system were they using?

They were really dumb people that got upset their light hearted kids pokemon game had someone use violence.

>pathfinder
I'm honestly sorry.
I had a buddy who wanted to get into /tg/ shit and after two sessions he saw just how bullshit wizards were due to powergaming and Roll-play rather than Roleplay while he was a monk and I was a rogue, both of us getting completely outclassed at level 5 for fucking everything.
I'm still trying to get a 5e group together after we both quit the PF group.
it's been a whole year dating yesterday now.

>play DnD 5e with friends
>takes them weeks to grasp even basic concepts, constantly having to explain things despite asking them to read the fucking rules beforehand
>pain in the ass to setup games, sometimes go months between sessions, everyone forgets why we were doing things
>half the players are tryhards that get mad when one of the enemies damages their character, god forbid they ever come close to dying or being challenged
>other half are "which one is the d20" types

Tabletop RPGs showed me that other people ruin everything.

If they're upset then they'd leave or stop playing. The writing bit is dumb.

Making a video series about the Witcher without having played the games that were the biggest influence on it is retarded.

It's always funny how people can hold such great and such terrible opinions simultaneously.

Funny thing, I just lost a group of friends because they thought I had read the story before. Don't play them if you're good.

Did a dnd campaign with some friends. It was pretty fun. I played a loli elf ranger prostitute that tried to fuck everyone behind the back of our cleric, who would get pissed at my debauchery. The dm got fed up with my bullshit when we tried a second campaign and rage quit. Haven't played since

MGSV > MGS2 is really more just to piss the person off. I like MGSV about the same as any other entry in the series but saying its the best in the series engenders such butthurt in MGS autists that I can't resist.

I prefer world of darkness over dnd but 90% of world of darkness people I meet larp and I hate larp so finding a good group is hard unless I settle for dnd.

DnD and shit is too nerdy for my tastes.
I play MtG a lot but that's really the only nerd game I play.

>rounded the 20's edges of my favorite D20 to make sure it never landed on 1

If anyone wants to try out a tabletop rpg but doesn't have any friends these books are pretty cool

projectaon.org/en/Main/Books

They're kinda like Choose Your Own adventure books but with gameplay.

Surprised no one makes solo adventures like these anymore.

You misunderstand friend, the great opinion is that MGSV > MGS2, the terrible one is that Gothic is better than The Witcher.

Straight up user, run a different campaign.
If someone makes a bard, ask them what they sing when they play songs.
When someone lands the finishing blow on a boss, ask them how they kill it, and then add the visceral details yourself.
I fucking DESPISE DMing, but a one-shot to show the players the ropes and then sticking someone else in the DM's seat and helping them along while slowly backing into a solely PC-only role is the best way to do things with a fresh group.
I had to learn this the hard way.
My first table had one of the other players' girlfriends as the healer and she didn't pay attention at all.
All she did was guzzle attention and stuck around for pizza that I made it my obligation to order every week as the DM and the guy whose house the games were held in.

search for "pokerole core book" on teh google
REAL simple to learn, made to be light hearted
poison attacks are OP

Ah, well at least Gothic has decent combat, unlike any Witcher game.

And by choose your own adventure, I don't mean like "If you choose to do this go to this"

I mean, these books are fully fledged solo rpgs. Also their free which is nice :)

I distinctly remember ganking the combat system by spamming the block and forward strike attack into a flurry of attacks that let me dominate every opponent thrown at me.

The game is influential, sure... But don't kid yourself man. Gothic was a clunky ass game.

for an enjoyable pathfinder, ban full casters classes (9 levels of spells)
no wizard cleric sorcerer witch arcanist, etc
also try to avoid non caster classes, they are weak, dnd/pathfinder is meant to spell at least a little

i personally recommend magus, inquisitor, paladin, alchemist,bard, hunter, investigator, skald, warpriest for a fun time

I've been playing with more or less the same group for like 2 years now. We're playing 5e and one campaign of a starwars rpg which they mixed with x-wing for simulating space battles. It was pretty fun, but in both cases we can never get further than like 10 sessions into a campaign. Shit drives me nuts. I just want to finish a damn campaign. But if we end up missing more than two sessions in a row the campaign is dead in the water.

well, WoD mostly attract the edgy and the thespian, the darkness is so dark, woe is me kinda people

You're thinking of G1. G2's combat will kick your ass if all you do is spam block. I actually prefer G1 overall since I think G2 went a bit overboard on its difficulty but the combat in G2 does have depth. Really the Witcher series has some of the worst combat in any popular Fantasy RPG series, up there with TES, decent series for its C&C and atmosphere, but godawful gameplay.

The other guy in that group was an inquisitor that literally could not die due to build shit.
PF is far too heavily based on caster supremacy.
5e seems a little more balanced for martials, which is why I picked it up.
Plus the monks are much more decent and Matt Mercer pretty handily transferred over Gunslinger, which was by far my favorite class in PF (until the DM said "no gunslingers, they're too weak") himself to 5e by himself.

...mom?

Honestly user, RPing is one of the most fun parts of the game. Try and find a couple of people who have played before and just let loose. They'll probably let you know if you're doing something wrong, but I'm guessing mostly they'll be bros and go with the flow for what ever character you want to be. That being said I know finding people to play is easier said than done.

I used to have a ton of fun in DnD groups but the members would always rotate in and out so much because the main guy's gf would always have to participate and was just a straight up cunt. Never listened to rules, too much joking around, made fun of us if we tried to actually RP, barely paid attention, etc. Any time a guy would call her out on shit the host would run to defend her along with whatever other white knighting faggot happened to be there that night. I stuck around for around a year but just sick of the bullshit.

Now I don't really like to do any tabletop campaigns if there are girls involved single or otherwise because thirsty tabletop players are just annoying as shit with girls around. After a few sessions the single girl realizes how much attention she can get and it just goes to shit.

I wanted to but the first college groups I found consisted of an underwhelming high voiced GM who lied to self aggrandize (no, your McLovin lookin ass didn't get into a three way with 10/10s while you are at Yale, you're in community college just like we are), another guy was okay but quiet, and the last guy kept on making rape jokes toward every female NPC.

That was a few months ago. I'll try again some time, but I'll probably have to be the one to set it up with reluctant friends.

There used to be a store here for that stuff and I wish there was something like it today. I think there's a comic book shop downtown and I'm sure they play MTG there but idk where the hell to go to play TTG.

>plan big huge campaign
>invite all the players I know to play
>get ready to dm
>all cancel the day of the first session and then again the second session
>none make time to come to the game and have to cancel without ever starting
And that's why I quit it.

I've played a few.

They're okay, but the dice-roll combat is shit and 9/10 times your party is either going to fall apart in 3 sessions or be insufferable for 30.

What I don't understand are the people who push the fucking combat of all things. Play it like they play a fucking videogame. Tabletop RPGs are at their best when you're solving mysteries and the like with like-minded people, not when you're playing what is essentially a VERY shit videogame.

>it's a DM tries to force his fetish into the campaign episode

>It's a DM didn't realize that the party is chaotic neutral/evil episode
>It's a DM forgot the mage has Stone to Sand as a spell and planed a boss-fight on a stone bridge..

Honestly my Highschool had a 1/3 of the party played by girls in a six man campaign in my senior year.
The party was
>a copper Dragonborn Scorcerer (Star Pact), generic aloof carnage engine type
>a Dexfag fighter with a rapier, really played up the fencer and swordplay Schtick, had a GLORIOUS mustache
>a twin axe ranger who doubled as the "why are we not dead yet" guy
>Gnome Bard (skald) who was out on the quest to map the wilds and tell stories of the amazing sights, rather than simply the incredible acts of heroes Until the final battle, where she sang her heart out about our party and the adventures we had
>Dwarven Artificer who politely asked the DM if they could have a failure check on all their robotic creations, including their own arm, right from the get go It was a D20 roll that if it ended on a number divisible by the last number rolled, or was a prime number, the action failed to work to full effect. On Primes, it would be a catastrophic failure, which usually ended in explosions.
>and a Tiefling Rogue who used ranged sneak attacks that commonly gibbed the enemy with a single arrow.
Now guess which two were the girls, and which one was me.

Gothic's greatest blunder is that the combat is clearly designed for 1 on 1 fights but the game throws nothing but huge mobs at you. So you have to spend the first half or so of the game tediously pulling enemies because fighting more than 2 orcs at once is a death sentence. The only time you can actually take on groups of enemies is when you're strong enough that you can just spam.

The Witcher 3's combat is much better. It has the appropriate mechanics for all of the different enemies you encounter, including two different forms of dodge which more games need.

I played D&D 3.5 a few times in college with my roommates and their friends. It was fun. Playing online just ain't the same, you know?

True. Plus the weirdos that want to play online but insist that the group play without talking over mics and only group text chat just seem bizarre.

I feel like girls who don't put any effort in are worse than thirsty virgins

>Pathfinder campaign
>I played as a half-orc barbarian who was dumb as a brick
>Two girls made Mary Sue versions of themselves essentially
>Constantly stopping the story to flirt/fuck imaginary NPCs
>Somehow my barbarian roleplaying is "disruptive" to the campaign
>mfw

Platinum Mad.

Started playing recently. It's a bitch to find everyone able to come when the gm asks for, anyone else have this issue? We normally set it 1 week in advance but there's almost always one different guy missing they have to RP for.

Yes that will happen in literally every campaign.

That blows, specially since I'm the only one without experience but the only one not to miss a session yet, feels bad being even more lost.

True that, combine the two and you might as well just say fuck the campaign and just have a fucking social get together with drinks and music in the background.

Fuck that shit, I'm here to slaughter kobolds by the hundreds as a barbarian with an irrational fear of the color orange, not hit on some chubster in the corner who can't even roll a proper character.

I had one party where the girl was actually the best fucking player at the table. Considering one was an edgy, up-his-own-ass necromancer (whose previous character in another campaign was literally Arthus), one was a retard That Guy who always fucked everything up by attacking or stealing from people with zero provocation, and me (not a bad player but somewhat introverted and not prone to taking the lead in social situations) she was the best.

Girl Gamer was the player whose character (a female fighter who was basically a Landsknecht) once challenged an Orcish war chief to single combat, and after beating him in a fair fight by the skin of her teeth declared herself The New Chief and claimed his tent as her own. Who once protected our river barge from being attacked by Lizardmen by bellowing from the bow of the ship at random intervals and looking imposing with her sword over her shoulder...for around 12 hours (two nat 20s; 1 intimidate, 1 constitution to stay up all night). Who, when the Dick-ass wizard tried to betray the party to become a lich, said "NOPE," broke his nose and beheaded the Lich who had made him the deal.

If I ever manage to gather a D&D party again, I resolve to play as over the top and boisterous a hero as she did.

I play a weekly d&d campaign with ex coworkers using 3.5. We all have our own campaigns we dm, and we switch up every few weeks. It's fun

have a similar story. Had a girl who was a teifling ranger with a lion pet. Through a long series of events, she had become an Aesemere, and was not happy about it.

Imagine this angelic being, who is constantly trying to pretend to be an edgy badass and is getting admired for it. Her roleplaying this was fantastic.

Then she dragged us along on this quest to restore her demon blood, which created the fantastic situation of us taking on an arch demon who was the rangers 'father', and then her drinking the blood to become a half fiend.

Kinda sad she moved overseas, was hella fun to play with.

>It's fun
count me out

I hate fun

Wish I had a group to play with, oh well.

Before Spoony turned into a bipolar embarrassment to himself and everyone around him I was persuaded to give D&D a chance after hearing all the awesome stories from his Counter Monkey videos.

Been playing for over a year now every wednesday with some dudes from my friendly local game store

Did you ever play with Sup Forums? I'm scared of doing so with /tg/, or Sup Forums for that matter.

i like video games but d&d is the most fun i've ever had. the reality is that it's a lot harder to find 4 other people who are willing and able to devote hours to playing make believe though.

although finding video games worth playing seems increasingly hard as well.

>join pathfinder game
>play cavalier
>charge all day every day for 3-5x everyone else's damage
>special snowflake mages in the party constantly assblasted to oblivion
Shit's comfy, and it's the only game other than Mount and Blade that makes me feel like I can be a real champion.
I fear the day I have to step inside or enter a narrow walkway.

Yeah my first campaign was a series of feeling lost from the getgo.

Don't worry, after this one you can just take charge.

MAYBE IF I COULD FIND PEOPLE TO PLAY WITH

I've tried playing tabletop rpgs a few times and i always enjoy them when i do the biggest problem for me is the fact that all parties involved are adults with real world responsibilities and conflicting schedules so it's almost impossible to get a campaign going and finish it.

Go to a card shop or a hobby shop and meet people there. Usually you can find enough people there to make a group.

You gotta remember, different boards have different "culture" (if you can even call it that). Just because Sup Forums choose to be shit with the motto of "we hate games" doesn't mean the rest of Sup Forums is also shit. Seriously, if you haven't explore other boards then I highly recommend you to do so. /tg/ on that note is a high quality board and have a good rep for a reason.

>not daring to enter my magical realm

is there seriously NO digital version of D&D.
>dragndrop map squares
>automatically calculate all that horseshit
>doesnt take hours to set up
>no waste of paper.

>implying we have those in the shithole i live in

I do browse others, but /tg/ itself has mostly awful tales of playing with other fa/tg/uys

Yeah, many programs can do that. roll 20 is a popular site but you gotta pay for features, and you can look for less known ones.

play some Pathfinder and Pokemon Tabletop United with some pals every now and then, fun stuff both playing and GMing

It's worth it to find one if you really want it.

>too nerdy for my tastes.
I'm sorry but do you have any idea where you are?

>awful tales

You mean great tales. Do you... Catan?