>>96563430
Have you tried not playing dnd?

>>96563561
I wasnt.

I was DMing this game once and there was this guy who just kinda showed up, I don't recall who invited him but he was ornery and talked shit for a while before the game began, and then once it started he just started sucking everyone's cock and bouncing his fat flabby arse on it. It was pretty disgusting because he'd obviously let himself go and was burping and farting on it. And then he said his name was OP

>>96563430
My last table feel apart because of one player's total lack of self-esteem. He's one of those guys... you know the type. Chornically underemployed. Everything is always someone else's fault. Defensive all the type, and always first to blame someone. Constantly seeking affirmation and praise, but he'll make semi-innapropriate comments offhandedly because any attention is better than no attention.

Well, my group was two men and two women. And sperg-boy couldn't hold his spaghetti until one of the female players lost it after a number of attempts to talk to the player about "Hey, be respectful of other people." And she was done. And the other woman said "yeah she's right and it's annoying, bye." So the game fell apart. The other guy (longtime friends with the sperg) confided that the sperg was kicked out of their last D&D group, too. The two women and I will start up a new table and find a couple more people, soon. But I really liked that game, so I'm bummed about it.

>>96563430
You first.

>>96567621
>My last table feel apart because of one player's total lack of self-esteem. He's one of those guys... you know the type. Chornically underemployed. Everything is always someone else's fault. Defensive all the type, and always first to blame someone. Constantly seeking affirmation and praise, but he'll make semi-innapropriate comments offhandedly because any attention is better than no attention.
I'm exactly like this fucking guy buy im self aware enough not to even talk to people bc i know id be annoying

>>96567654
Be kind and positive. That's all it takes, anon.

>start new group
>have scheduled on discord the correct time from beginning
>ad used hammertime to show correct time of schedule
>made a post 24 hours ahead of time reminding everyone of session time.

>people still bitched about lack of communication when they showed up at 5 am my time for session.

How do other online DMs do it to ensure a lack of scheduling mishaps??

>>96567759
No can do. Ive tried but im just buckbroken mentally into being a pest.

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>>96563430
Haven't been here since the data breach months ago but I've got a story that brought me back. Happened a grand total of 10 minutes ago:
>Group wants to get back into Pathfinder and I don't have the time to make an entire campaign like usual, so we all settle on playing the Ruby Phoenix adventure path
>Give the players all the info they need to start out, tell them not to read the sourcebook because they're bound to run into spoilers
>I also just don't want to metagame the shit out of it
>A week later (AKA right now)
>The one annoying faggot known for minmaxxing and metagaming sends me a message
>"Hey, can I start with the Butterfly Blade Archetype?"
>Said Archetype is only introduced at the very end of Part 1 of the adventure path
>Prod around a bit, ask some very specific questions
>From the way he answers them it's obvious that he read through the whole thing
God fucking dammit. Reminder that he got annoyed at me for having meta knowledge on fucking Curse of Strahd, a 40 year old campaign known by literally everyone who's ever played a TTRPG, back when he ran it. I didn't even use that knowledge, I just mentioned it OOC in passing.

>First character is a grave robber when I told people I wanted heroic good characters
>I tell him to remake his character
>New one has literally no personality except for being a catfolk
>Just acts like a cat
>Shows up to less than half the sessions
>Cancels last minute every time
>Plays the board game version of the campaign and gets spoilers
>Shares spoilers with the group
I should have kicked him out but I knew he was just going to quit on his own after he missed 3 sessions. He's on my "do not DM for" list now and won't be invited back, what a cunt.

>>96567621
No, I don't know the incredibly specific person you described

>>96567773
Stop running synchronous games

I just vented about this in another thread, but here we go.
I'm absolutely annoyed by my players use of AI portraits. I get why you would use them, but ever since it seems that my players absolutely stopped giving a fuck about their characters appearance. Before slop they would cobble together their characters in Heroforge or pick a particular piece of art they liked. Now I'm always presented with uniform generic slop blobs. We used to describe the appearance of each character at the beginning of each adventure. The last two campaigns these descriptions (which have gotten increasingly generic and lacking) have been thrown right out of the window by session two, when each of the players had generated their tokens which all looked completely different. It's not even good slop, but the shit you get from easy diffusion with settings stolen from reddit and picking the best of ten.
They even forget those few details they still bother describing about their characters. For example the system we play has a comeliness stat and one player rolled a 5 on a d100, he even started making jokes about how ugly his character was and told us about how he needs to wear a hood to not get chased away. Same player is two sessions later huffy because he scared kids that they wanted to rescue until I told him to just look at his damned stats. Dude did actually forget he was supposed to be ugly (his portrait looks like a boyband lead wearing leather armor (he's supposed to wear mail)).
Worst of all, I've been getting into drawing for the past two years and offered them to each give them a character portrait. This has lead to nothing so far because none of them could be bothered to give me even a basic description of their characters (e.g. hair length, color of their tunic, are they wearing a hat etc.).

>>96571088
>telling players what characters to make
Jesus Christ.

>>96571359
How general are their AI prompts? When making a PC with AI, I usually try to include necessary details.

>>96567621
>my table fell apart
>we have this guy who [autistic ranting nobody cares]
>... and two womans!
Buddy, your table had a completely different problem. Two in fact.

One of my players is a tranny(cute) and i have to actively stop myself from giving preferential treatment.

>>96571366
>DM: "All right. So I finished setting up our Vietnam War game. You are going to be a squad of rough and tumble jarheads separated from your unit deep in Cambodia on a secret mission."
>Player: "I made a magical girl named Sailor Pansexual who uses the mystical power of the her femininity to punish the wicked."
>DM: "Make a new character that fits with the game ."
Oh no, what a tragedy.

>>96573019
Shoot your shot. Tell them you will give them magic items if they let you rub your feet against their soft, hairless girlballs under the table during session.

>>96571366
You make a character according to the parameters I have set out, or you don't get to parasitize my hard work, you entitled pile of wank.

Just had to deal with a horrific player who couldn't end a sentence without guffawing like a retard, then making some obnoxious verbal tic noise. Didn't help that he was constantly wrong about the rules while being endlessly confident, and doing about 60% of the talking in the group overall. Whatever the fuck makes people like that feel they're fit to interact with other human beings is beyond me.

>>96571421
Honestly, I have no Idea. I tried to get their prompts as well, when I offered drawing their PCs myself, but I couldn't even get that out of them. Guess part of the problem is that they also stopped giving a fuck.
I know from their LLM usage that their use of AI is overall terrible, though.

>>96571366
Found the shitty player.

>Goblin who hated goblins and didn't think he himself was actually a goblin
>Refused to talk in character to the other PCs, he would just give them "a knowing look" and expect everyone to understand him.
>Other players refused to play along and interpreted his 'looks' however they wanted
>His character finally started talking but it was in a Rick Sanchez voice

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>running one shot for some nerds at game shop
>players have captured hostile spies and want to interrogate them
>leave one martial player to guard them bound up while the rest do some ritual bullshit
>"I slit their throats in anger"
>what
>"I kill them while everyone is distracted"
>why
>"they attacked us, they should be punished!"
>party pleads for him not to, I tell them to shut up they're busy, ok grug kills all of them, you find an encoded message stained with blood that none of you can interpret

2
>playing at same game shop with guy and his goth gf
>players are bedding down in a farmer's barn for the night
>guy: "I have sex with (gf)"
>uhhhh okayyyy, everything fades to black and the rest of the party is shocked at your weird behaviour
>all the other nerds look jealous that his imaginary warlock is getting pussy

3
>playing cyberpunk short homebrew irl
>give every player a secret they might be able to use later
>make one guy a meth (or whatever it's called) addict and give him info on a couple dealers he gets it from
>story comes to involve a meth cooking operation, need information on local criminals involved
>BOY I WONDER WHO HAS SOME INFORMATION ON LOCAL METH DEALERS
>"hmm, this is so hard, can we start asking random people?"
>yeah man you know, you're actually an addict, remember?
>"ohh so I'd probably know other addicts we can ask?"


4
>playing on vtt with a group of people from my country, and one american
>I try to vet everyone but it's only a short adventure in beta that I want to test
>everything goes well, the american is not super active and sounds a bit young for "21" but whatever
>an hour into first session he says he he'll brb
>disappears for 30mins
>his mother called him for dinner and he was supposed to be doing homework
>"sorry guys, please continue, I just need to be really quiet"

>>96573470
2 ia suicidefuel and 4 is just funny as fuck.

>>96573157
I think ill just ask her out but then i'd have to either DM for a gf or for someone who rejected my advances and both of these are no good.

>>96573479
I thought it was hilarious in retrospect, in the moment I was taken aback that he went there, the other sweaty virgins who were eying his prize jealously from the start were not amused

>>96573556
bussy would be more enjoyable than pretending you're an orc in imagination games

>>96573019
>>96573157
>>96573556
>>96573748
these were all made by one poster

>>96573739
Its suicidefuel because i myself am a sweaty virgin loser so i understand the position. Can you imagine meeting someone whos as autistic but looks good and can make people laugh? I'd kill myself immediately.

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>>96571359
I have no qualms about AI slop (I use it myself) but I have three simple stipulations.

>You must tell me the prompt, this is so I know you did something more than type "Fantasy art fighter wearing leather armor" and hit enter. Doesn't even need to be a good prompt, I just want to know you put some backbone into it.
>No text generation for your backstory. Don't even try to pull a fast one on me with this.
>The image must be consistent with the in-game character, much like your note on comeliness.

I also expect the images used by the players to have a consistent style among them, though I don't particularly care what it is as long as it's consistent. Beanmouth, neo-cubist, painterly, don't care I will fucking KILL you if it's alegria though

>>96563430
>Player makes a flying character
>Proceeds to die to an entirely melee-focused ground-based enemy in an open space after taking on alone what was meant to be a minor group encounter
This happened twice in one campaign, on two completely separate occasions, with two completely separate players.

>>96567621
>My last table feel apart because of one player's total lack of self-esteem.
Self-esteem, self-awareness, or something else ESLanon?

>>96573894
>much like your note on comeliness.
now that's some subtle trolling

>>96573994
Not trolling, anon.

>>96571271
>I don't know the incredibly specific person you described
Ish. Anon if you don't know that type? I've got some bad news for you...

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>>96571359
Sloppa in some intrinsic way seems to fail to spark imagination like real art. I find that art you make, find, or commission tends to feed back into and elaborate on characterization in a way sloppa almost never does. Coincidental evidence for the human soul, I suppose.

>>96574259
Just recently I had to deal with a real asshole. It was like he was trying to be as condescending as humanly possible every time he opened his mouth, but he seemed mortally offended every time he was questioned. And he kept confidently making completely wrongful statements about the game we were playing. It sucked.

>>96571359
I generally don't love character portraits. Having to find a picture that kinda fits my character and when you put them together they all look so different it makes no sense. At that point just describe them, you're gonna describe NPCs and locations too, imagine how shitty it'd be if each new location instead of being described had a picture in a different style that wasn't actually representative. I don't like when people have a character in mind before rolling or knowing anything about the system, but I don't like wasting time getting a random picture when we could be playing.

But AI slop is really weird. People just get whatever, I've told them I don't care for character portraits and they'll still waste time generating something that says nothing or even fits what we're playing. I don't get it.

>>96573154
>Sailor Pansexual is conscripted midway her journey of understand what love is
Not in tone, but not a bad pitch. I could see a bizarre small dark comedy game around this.

>>96573784
>and can make people laugh? I'd kill myself immediately.
he's making his gf show off in front of some nerds and got called a retard but the whole table in the previous story. I'm not gonna pretend I understand peak sexual frustration, but the stories don't make him look like a badass.

>>96574716
The character art thing sucks but terminally onlines want to use those images they've spent years collecting and will get really mad if you don't.

>>96569116
>reminder he
I'm sorry, did you tell us this before anon? You both sound like annoying cunts I would never share a table with

>>96567621
Your post made me feel asleep
>two borginas in my group
and everybody crapped reddit-san

>>96571359
An over reliance on technology makes people stupid, and causes them to lose imagination and creativity. What a surprise.

>>96573894
why do you have a problem with women's sneakers?

>>96574218
Yes, I don't know any unemployed people, and I'm not unemployed.

>>96574716
I love a fitting token or portrait, but yeah the description is more important. Doesn't really have to be in depth. Just enough so everyone can get an idea if he's got an ugly nose, is particularly handsome or what colour and state his clothes are in. A former player of mine had a talent for short prose when describing his PCs.
I'm also happy with simple symbols for characters. Like you play a barbarian - you get an axe, a ranger - bow, thief - dagger etc.
It's my default option for particularly abstract NPCs

>player proven retarded in nongame-related argument
>goes on a break
>becomes radio silent for an entire month and suggest that return might be unlikely
so sad, I've got used to bigger than usual party, guess I'll need to find someone to take his place

there's about 5 people in the discord server i play on that i cannot stand. 1 only pays attention half the time. the other 4 never shut the fuck up. 3 of them are always trying to be the center of attention and the other 1 pushes people to play in exactly the way he thinks is correct. the worst part is the attention deficit and the backseat gamer are both also DMs for that discord. i refuse to play under them, but i can't choose who is joining me for sessions otherwise i'd never play with these asshats again

>>96567773
You made a post saying this?
>Hey, the game starts in 24 hours
Boot the retards.

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>>96563430

>Playoid who comes up with some kind of excuse to pump the brakes every time I prompt the group if they want to "fast travel" to the end of a trip or the next morning or whatever. Complains of boredom.
>Playoid runs in the opposite direction of plot hooks and gets mad that he doesn't get his own private improvised adventure in the woods outside of town. Talk to him later and apparently he was trying to push the game into an OSR/sandbox type campaign with hex-crawling and random encounters.
>Old guy who cut his teeth in the 80s era of insta death traps insists on poking every square with a 10 ft pole, mage-handing every door and chest, etc. Should probably also be wearing a hearing aid but is too proud to. Almost nothing gets done as a result.
>Friend is running a 3.5 campaign in the 00's. One guy is always missing his attacks and saves. Turns out that he was rolling a D12 instead of a D20 for months. Other bro makes fun of him for this and he storms away from the table in tears.

>>96574259
>Don't believe in souls
>See LLM slop that "should" appeal to me but I feel nothing
>Start believing a little in souls
I don't know what it is, but it's something. Don't know why people tolerate it in their games but different strokes for different folks, I guess.

>>96581973
I feel bad for the last one but I'd probably make a BIT of fun of him too. The 10 foot pole guy is based though, he's a survivor.

>>96581973
>playercel states he wants to cut the rope holding the prisoner
>heh
>begin chuckling quietly
>you fool
>you didn't tell me you unsheathed your knife, your hand moves back and forth across the rope uselessly, take 1d4 rope burn damage