>Be a player of TTRPGs for over a decade>See all the horror stories online of GMs going insane for players defeating their content too easily/the wrong way/etc>Can maybe recall my GMs getting salty two or three times, tops>Finally start GMing myself>Realize I have a bit of a competitive streak in me>Spend weekends setting up scenarios, campaigns, puzzles and encounters like any GM would>Sometimes the players demolish it effortlessly>Never once feel my salt levels risingHave I just been lucky or do people really lie on the internet?
I have never been mugged. I bet all the people who say they have been mugged are lying.That's what you sound like, btw.
>>97086404>reddit spacingbut yeah op pretty much all the horror stories are made up
Online stories are 90% fake it's a safe bet to assume so. Irregardless, the people that real horror stories come from are the ones that normal people can usually detect and avoid like the smell of shit.
>>97086467Tbf, its harder avoid those people when joining online games.>inb4 don't play online games.
>>97086319A lot of them are made to intentionally ragebait but there's always GMs that make mistakes.I have a particularly embarrassing memory of players trouncing an encounter that was meant to be so difficult that I gave them a bunch of NPCs to act as human shields so they could whittle it down before it got close. Since I was really inexperienced and didn't know a lot about GMing, my solution was to just start spamming enemies at them.No one's perfect their first time doing anything, and a lot of potential first time GMs get paralyzed with fear that they'll fuck something up.
>>97086453>accuse others of reddit spacing while doing reddit spacingBold move.
>>97086319>Be player>Experience a moment where the GM was unprepared for whatever I had in my head>Excited>Session over>Run a victory lap on the internet>Make the GM sound insane in my retelling>Rake in internet pointsOR>Be nonplayer>Play no games>Remember stories about people playing games>Want to join in>Invent hyperbolic narrative for internet points>Rake in internet points
>>97086520You are a faggot for not continuing the cycle.
>>97086319>players beat encounters easilyYup>players skip contentMhmm>players dont read their item effectsThat's fine>players spend over an hour in the town just looking at shopsOkay>players almost wipe to an encounter that was supposed to be easyNo problem>players keep trying to attack stuff out of combatSure thing>technical issuesAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
