Everyone I know who watches Fatt Coville videos is a fucking terrible GM. I've never fully watched one and I am widely considered the best GM out of all 3 groups I'm part of. I am regularly requested to run campaigns. People borderline fall asleep in the games others run. There's also no tension because they know that these Coville acolytes will fudge rolls until all PCs survive the battle. If you're a good GM, it's an inmate talent you can hone over time. You're born that way. If you aren't, then no amount of shitty advice is going to make up for your lack of talent. It just is what it is. This idea that everyone should "try" DMing is retarded. The idea that anyone can be good at it? lolno. Its like some fat divorced on who suddenly decides he's gonna become a famous author. Fat chance. Most people fucking suck at GMing. Hell, most of them suck at playing, but at least in that case the game depends less on them.
>>97232246Everyone I know who takes advice from retards on the internet is also a retard, whoda thunk
I suspect this is bait but I fear it's genuine.
>>97232269It's any DM advice YouTuber. The entire meta discussion around TTRPGs is fucking gay and has led to this retarded concept that "DnD is cooperative story telling" and similar marxist slop meant to subtly trick you into playing by their gay narrativist subjectivism mindset. That's where you get dice fudging, fiction first, X cards, session zero, and similar faggotry. And an entire generation of RPG gamers take it for gospel thanks to beard stroking söykikes like Fatt Coville and the other GM advice faggots.
>>97232315This is genuine. It's a post by TableTopTruth, twitterfag and redditor who has been shitting up /tg/ for at least 5 years and probably longer.Evidence:https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/image/L4OVAKW4eq-dkMDsg-AXqA/His accounts:https://old.reddit.com/user/tabletoptruthhttps://twitter.com/Tabletop_Truth You can tell it's him because he uses buzzwords like "söykikes" as seen here >>97232331
>>97232246Normally I would request that you kill yourself, but it's christmas and I'm inclined to be nice. I'll even try and engage in good fait->>97232339Oh nevermind then
>>97232339lol, i looked up his youtube channelwhat a pathetic loser
>>97232246That's because Fatt Coville gives terrible advice and will either say nothing or contradict and muddle his own message. I've tried watching him and I've tried finding a point to his videos, but there's nothing there. Unless I just watched the bad videos, I have to wonder if the majority of the people who glorify him like listening to him because it makes them feel smart to listen to this seemingly experienced and knowledgeable beardoid flap his food hole for 20-30 minutes at a time. Not because they are actually absorbing anything he's saying. or forming any kind of substantive opinion of their own.For example, he did a video on how to stop being a forever GM and only playing D&D and that amounted to>Just run other systems because the players have to play (This is retarded)>Just make someone else in your group run a game. (If they wanted to run, you wouldn't be the Forever GM of the group, would you?)And that was it. 30 minutes that amount to "Don't have the problem and stop complaining about playing D&D because D&D is awesome and why wouldn't you want to run D&D all the time forever?"
>>97232339even reddit hates him lolwhat a cock
>>97232246>I've never fully watched oneyet your are an expert on his opinionscurious
>>97232339Where are the traditional games?
>>97232339He is virtualoptim, litrerally.
>>97232473Oh, that explains everything, actually. I thought he was just back doing the occasional FATAL thread, but he's also been the faggot shilling his god awful youtube channel too.
>>97232339Why did redditors like puckee and this guy come to /tg/ about 4-5 years ago?
>>97232473Wait is this actually virt? LMAO
>>97232473No way
>>97232378Yeah but almost all TTRPG YouTube slop is like this. Its some catchy title and the advice is the most obvious low effort shit imaginable. Nothing insightful or original is said. Ever.
>>97232573That's because most of the advice is lifted from reddit, who lifted it from old blogs and forums, which, in turn, was lifted from Dragon magazine and earlier publications.
>>97232339Man, now this is some classic autism right here
>>97232246>people who watch the new GM channel aren't good GMsShocker!>doesn't understand how dice fudging is employed>conflates aptitude and skill>obsessed with a niche internet microcelebSage in all fields. Kys retard
>>97232331Sorry to hear that retardation stops you from playing tabletop games anon.
>>97232673That'd be true except the advice from reddit was retarded hippie trash and honestly a lot of the dragon magazine writers were protoredditors. >>97232723My entire point is that aptitude is what matters. There is no "skill" and the vast majority of people have no aptitude to build off of?
>>97232848>That'd be true except the advice from reddit was retarded hippie trash and honestly a lot of the dragon magazine writers were protoredditors. Which is why none of it is good.
>>97232552>>97232771It's simpler than that: He's low IQ and he's trying to involve himself in culture war shit, because he thinks that will make people care about his content. He's trying to be a grifter, but he's too dumb to do it. And if he is actually virtualoptim, he's been at that shit for over a decade and still doesn't understand why everyone hates his faggoty song and dance.
>>97232490That was around the time reddit started cracking down hard on "problematic" subreddits and people started getting kicked out for saying nono words and having wrong opinions
>>97232872True, but it doesn't matter because actual good DMs figure that shit out on their own. If you have to be told it, you'll fail to apply it without seeming like an autistic robot.
>>97232246Not a shock. Most ttrpg youtubers are youtubers first and gamers a distant second. Real GMing advice takes the kind of study and contemplation that cant be shit out weekly in a 10 minute animated slideshow
>>97233025True. But even the few YouTubers who are real GMs and whose advice isn't pozzed as fuck, their advice also doesn't fucking matter because most DMs lack the talent to truly internalize it. And if you're a good DM, well, like those DMs, you already thought of it intuitively and were running your games that way. I was already a "gamemaster" at age 7 for the other kids, creating scenarios and rules for them. Never even saw DnD til I was older. If you have it, you have it. If you don't, you don't.
>>97233508Sounds more like you are a faggotmaster.
>>97233508Why do you care how others are running their games? Are you upset about badwrongfun?
>>97233643Because it inevitably ends up affecting the games I run whenever I want to join a new group, add a new player, or do anything but hide in the same basement for 20 years like you fauxbertarian subhumans seem to think everyone should be okay with doing.
>>97233675Your table, your rules. My table, my rules. That basic axiom has kept /tg/ immune to trolling since its foundation. And I shan't be letting a /pol/yp like you in my table. I screen my players carefully yet I always have new players eager to join.Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Talent is something you make bloom, instinct is something you polish.
>>97233675No group wants retards like you.
>>97232246Who the fuck is Fatt Coville?How the fuck is this a thread?I want the fourty seconds I spent skimming this thread back; you owe me sand in my goddamn hourglass. If you're going to be retarded could you at least be entertaining? I can't tell if this is some kind of ironic shilling bit or legitimate ass-pain over some nobody.
>>97233675Kill yourself, virt
>>97232723>doesn't understand how dice fudging is employedHere we go. Trying to justify dice fudging by implying you possess some unspoken understanding. If you want to force an outcome, then just force it outright. Don't waste time rolling dice that don't matter merely to create the illusion of fairness. Your players are constantly rolling their Interpret Body Language skill, and they might not say anything, but unless you are a prodigy actor or a high level psychopath, they will know.
>>97232461>TT logo into Doppelte Sig-RuneHoly faggotry
>>97232884It's impossible to stay on ribbit if you aren't some sort of hard leftist fanatic
>>97232473Man I hate that guy
>>97232246>doesn't understand how dice fudging is employedNot him, but how could dice fudging possibly be employed in a way that isn't cringe? I've only been playing TTRPGs for 5 years, but the idea disgusts me to my core.
All relevant GM advice is 1e AD&D DMG.Everything else is a pale imitation.
This is probably the best thread I've seen in years. Always a good day when virt gets completely and decisively BTFO.
>>97234266>Roll on secret table to determine X>Roll is y>Notice that in the y+1 row the result is more interesting>Declare the y+1 result instead of yIs that really such a big problem for you to in order to incite disgust?
>>97232339hahahawhat a faggot
>>97232246>hating video game jargon in ttrpgName a bigger sign of nogames.
>>97234303Yeah, kinda is. If you're gonna roll on random tables, you should stick to them.
>>97234303I basically never roll secret shit, and if i do fudge like this me and the affected player agree on it (caster gets crit, random opportunity table applies an accuracy debuff, he says roll that shit again, i do)
>>97234601I've been on this site since... '08? '07?Maybe '06??I was around for Project Chanology and met Linetrap when s/he became a thing.>fuck me why am i still here?
>>97232374He doesn't even voice his rants himself. When comment asked if his voice is that bad>It isn't, just don't want people to recognize it from another channel with 500x the subscribersHoly cope what an autistic faggot
>>97232494Yes. You can go look at his tumblr and see the exact same kind of retarded posting.
>>97232473That fucking guy is still alive?
>>97232374He seems pretty cool
I don't get why people see DMing as this arcane secret talent or club: While generally more involved than being a player, what it ultimately reduces to is to be an arbiter between characters and gameworld, enforcing rules and creating rulings whenever necessary. Overfocusing on "story" seems to have a led a generation into thinking that this is very performative and difficult, but in practice it can be learned as long as the right mindset is used.
>>97232246>it's an inmate talent>Gang Signs>Shiv-Sharpening>Hiding Drugs In Your Colon>Game Mastering
>>97234930>there were tranons back in 2006Damn. I had no idea.
>>97234761>>97232339Pathetic.
>>97234951Goddamn i hate zoomers. Trannies have been around since the 60s.
>>97234930>Oh, right, because awareness of the presence of transgenders would BRING SOCIETY CRASHING DOWNkek, if only xe knew
>>97233686>Your table, your rules. My table, my rulesNope. Your table, my rules. Forever.
>>97234295Its great when you have schizo delusions and think your imaginary friend is the cause of all your problems.
>>97232339>The fucking Twitter pfp trying to larp as a neoHoly fucking shit and I thought The Quartering was an edgy tard
>>97235005lol, nah
>>97234661How do you not think to yourself "Wow, I'm not playing a game, I'm just doing make believe" when shit like that happens?
>>97235049See >>97232339
>>97233835I'm a different anon, but here's what I can think of:1) The last enemy left, the last attack left him with only one HP, and the judge, for speed, declared the monster dead, thereby retroactively fudging his HD roll for that monster.2) The random encounter roll revealed the lair of a red ancient dragon in a location where such a lair would be extremely illogical, and the judje fudged dice, causing either no encounter at all, or the ancient dragon is still there, but flying past somewhere very high in the sky.3) The Judge messed up/forgot something, and the enemy attacked weaker than they could have, and in the next few rounds, judje fudges dices a little, to make monser become stronger compensate for the mistake, and vice versa, someone who was stronger than they already are becomes weaker than they already are for a few rounds to compensate for the mistake.
>>97235163Why not have the enemy in 1 surrender or attempt to flee rather than die for no reason? Creates a more interesting scenarioIf a lair of a red ancient dragon would be illogical to roll, why have it on the roll table? It isn't a fudge to say the dragon isn't in its lair at all, but the lair is a dungeon of its ownThat's an understandable reason
>>97234930>Year of Our League of Legends 2006+19>the right's obsession with trans cock is on the verge of BRINGING SOCIETY CRASHING DOWN.I hope someone who posted in this thread is still around to see this and laugh at the fact that, not unlike a great science fiction author, only their dumbest jokes came true.
>>97234703He's afraid someone on /tg/ would recognize his nasally voice from his original youtube channel, but the joke's on him: No one watched his first channel either.
>>97232339>OP is right about Coville btw
>>97232378>>Just run other systems because the players have to play (This is retarded)Matt Colville is right. 5e players are slop guzzlers, they may complain about you changing there slop, but most won't leave.>>97235185Man the amount of times the last goon standing is surrounded on all sides with the entire party kicking the shit out of them pretty high. Turning a goon squashing exercise into an interrogation or chase is not always an improvement.
>>97235387>Man the amount of times the last goon standing is surrounded on all sides with the entire party kicking the shit out of them pretty high.Sounds like you're playing a bad system
>>97235328>Literal proof people schizopost and that this board has been overrun by retards>YEAH WHATEVER *deflection*Kill yourself you waste of sperm
>>97234967They probably been around as long as there been humans.
>>97235005Retards like you saying that is meaningless as you can't enforce it.
>>972351851) Becouse there are mindless enemies and enemies that sucessed in all their morale checks, so refuses to run away or surrender.2) Becouse it's wildernes encounter table for whole region, ancient red dragon lair have very little but not zero chance to roll and players in that part of region where can't be red dragon lair, for example they asked trusworthy npc about point of interests around settlemed, so adding red dragon lair in next hex to settlemet is ridicoulous.
>>97235515>mad that he's penisfartanon
>>97235718>enemies that sucessed in all their morale checks, so refuses to run away or surrenderMorale rolls are for when standing one's ground is the smart move. If staying is stupid, any Int >6 creature will leave.
