Is a solo gamer a "no games" type of individual mentioned often on this board?
Don't use the "no games" terminology. It was brought up by a group of tourists, bots and paid shills trying to change board culture. You can play whatever you like or play nothing at all. And there's a general for solorpg players.
>>98100089No, "nogames" is about vague daudreaming with surface fantasy themes and the lack of basic comprehention of how people play TTRPGs in real life. As a rule, it is also malicious, fishing for replies and reactions.
>>98100089Solo guys play more than the majority of posters on this board and it's not even close.
>>98100089Is a person who only masturbates no longer a virgin?
>>98100089Solo players play a game. So no. Also, "nogames" is just retards trying to stop other people from having conversations about the stuff they don't enjoy. Not uncommonly because they're autistic screechers who can't handle that traditional games is a hobby that overlaps with / blends into other hobbies like arts and crafts, storytelling/writing and worldbuilding. They want the board to be changed into a place that only talks about rules systems, components and the literal playing itself, rather than the wider scope that includes fantasy fiction thanks to the presence of it in TTRPGs. Consider that the story and setting are game components of ttrpgs and the fact that this board has plenty of room for threads on world building to exist next to threads about pregnancy rules in gurps. The autistic screeching can be ignored easily, and you can just have any conversation you like that roughly associates with tabletop games.
>>98100089I gay ranted we have more games than groups
solo gamers are the type to know about some crazy ass games that will knock your socks off but they can't play them more than a few times a year because all the board game groups nearby just play catan or basic euro games.
>>98100089I wouldnt say so. Nogames are people shitting up the catalogue with genreslop non-questions that are fundamentally and inherently answered by existing game mechanics. >is a dragon or a lich stronger?Check the challenge rating. Anyone who has ever so much as seen a game book knows how to answer that question, but the nogames doesnt understand that these are trivial mechanistic questions that dont even merit a google search, let alone discussion. A solo gamer at least understands that a game has defined rules and reads them, which is very respectable on nu-/tg/
>>98100818>They want the board to be changed into a place that only talks about rules systemsWhich most of the time happen to be DnD and Warhammer two of the biggest corporate products. What a coincidence.
>>98100818See >>98100696While the term does get thrown around by retards trying to win arguments, the majority of "nogames" are people who display a total lack of genuine understanding of what TTRPGs are actually like to play. They engage with this board purely in extremely vague, incoherent hypotheticals. They talk about fantasy fiction in really broad terms, but never seem to be able to talk about a specific system or established setting or even a series of books. They have a normalnigger's understanding of fantasy in the most indistinct, meme-like context. Not quite an ironic detachment from genre tropes, but more like an outsiders barely functional understanding of goblins, dragons, knights, wizards, dungeons, etc.>They want the board to be changed into a place that only talks about rules systems, components and the literal playing itself, rather than the wider scope that includes fantasy fiction thanks to the presence of it in TTRPGs. See, this is where you tip your hand too much and reveal that you've been called a nogames too many times for being a nogames. You're not here to talk about your campaign's story or events that happened to your character in a game. You're here to pretend to be a vague fantasy-aware riffer. You expect people to talk to you about nebulous stuff, without any actual purpose. You're not even worldbuilding. You're not creating a setting. You're not adapting the rules of a real game to evoke the fiction you have created. You're only here to be pissed off at /tg/ every time they ask "what system?"
>>98100979>this is where you tip your hand too muchPfft. Its bumpfag astroturfing again. Watch, he'll go off about how his spam threads are owed replies and how bad generals are any second now
I play solo because I like being alone.
>>98100089You are playing games. By definition you cant be nogames. Solo play has always been a part of the hobby. I sometimes do it to learn a new system or for prepping stuff for a game "there was another party before you" type stuff.>>98100098>>98100696Nogames instant seething.
Have a look at the biggest faggot to walk the face of the earth, youtuber “monsters and mazes” who films himself talking condescendingly to no body while he plays games games alone. He is exactly the type of person everyone thinks of when they think no-games/solo gaming faggatrons. Can’t even bring myself to make fun of him he’s just sad
>>98100979Calm down fantasy isnt some nerdy insider knoweldge anymore, every normalfag knows what a dnd or a wizard of an elf is these days.
>>98101466he looks like he knows a thing or two about basic chemistry and indexing systems, which is more than what i can say about you.
>>98100089solo gamers >plays the fucking games >shares their game session greentexts with like-minded people >sticks to their containment thread >has a meticulously crafted fictional world that completely immerses them >quick to improvise: learned all the tricks from hundreds of hours spent improvising clever solutions>knows their preferred system by heart from arbitrating their own sessions "no games" accusers >never played a single game >posts disgust-provoking slop, asks irrelevant time-wasting questions >perma-tourists from gamergate >has disorganized folders of shitty memes and incomprehensible slop that makes sense only to them >quick to shitpost, elicits hollow responses from other no-gamers, never visits the thread again >has piecemeal notions about how D&D works from hate-watching CR, knows nothing about other systems
>>98100089Have hobbies. Spend your time as you enjoy. Be concerned less w/ what people on 4chan think.
>>98101171I play solo because there are tabletop games that I really want to play that no one else does.
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>>98100089No friend, it's the opposite.Solo players are ABSOLUTEGAMES.
Solo gamers are sad, but they stay in their containment thread unless you rouse them which automatically makes them better than the spammers, vagueposters, culture warriors, or OSR cultists.
>>98101559>looks like he knows a thing or two about completely unrelated irrelevant bullshit only he would bring up Hi monsters and mazes fag, your dumb and gay and every gaming group has kicked you out for a reason
>>98102056What's sad about them doing the exact thing they want to do? They know what they are doing and have no delusions that they are engaging in something that is the same as group play.>which automatically makes them better than the spammers, vagueposters, culture warriors, or OSR cultistsThis part is true, though.
>>98100900fuck i think I'm a nogames
Solochads and vidyachads talk about gamesOthers just gossip about "muh group" and "muh players"
>>98102056>Solo gamers are sadThis is the equivalent of "You shouldn't eat at a diner alone"-normie bullshit. If you think that way, you're a ruhtard.
>>98100089Yes. "Solo players" are functionally nogames in ever conceivable way that matters. CYOA and personal writings are not by any meaningful definition games, nor do they involve roleplaying any more than the vivid hallucinations of a schizophrenic or the masturbatory writings of a wannabe author does.>>98100760Perfect analogy.
You can tell when the discord found the thread and started shitting it up.
>>98105175That's a retardedly pedantic way to try and assert a point that makes no sense.>people who play games aren't actually playing games because the games they play don't meet my arbitrary and unknowable criteria
Apparently, games only matter if other people are involved. They act as authenticators of play and thus decides if you're doing it right or wrong..
>>98107072And what if you play a game incorrectly with a group that doesn't know any better?
>>98100979>Total lack of understanding of what ttrpgs are like to play>Normie understanding of fantasy>Talk about things in ways that I dont like to engage withIt comes down to you screeching "stop liking what I dont like". The hobby isn't the sole property of bitter ubernerds. And instead of shouting "nogames!" every 5 seconds in threads that clearly just aren't meant for you, you could either keep lurking or actually consider what you can add to the thread. Not everyone has to get a doctorate in repelling pussy before being able to talk about ttrpg and pulp fantasy on an imageboard. The fact that many people engage with the hobby in this manner is evidence that its part of it. If you dont want to engage in that thats fine. Just keep to yourself, or make a thread you enjoy or introduce things you think add value to the discussion. Also consider that the nature of an anonymous imageboard is such that you:>Have no clue who is who This means you actually dont know if people are as you say they are.>Will see a ton of shallow and/or repeat content.Due to the fact that in the end most people end up at the same or at least similar thoughts. When engaging with the same concepts.>Cant stop them from doing what they're doing.No matter how much you scream nogames at people, all you ever can achieve is that threads are turned into flame wars. Sure the thread may derail and die because of it. But people seem more than willing to just make another one.In conclusion; if you want the board to be better, make an effort to add something to it rather than subtract from it. Otherwise you get into pic related.
>>98105175When faced with the decision of playing with you, or playing alone.I will play alone every time.Solitaire is objectively a game in every sense of the word. From there, extrapolating to single player TTRPGs requires no effort. You are entitled to your personal definition, and the rest of us is entitled to ignore it. Meanwhile. Solo players are talking about their games, while we are here doing this.
Most Soloplayers are foreverDMs.Sometimes you just want to play a character.
>>98108131Hmmm no, i would rather scream nogames than participate in daydreaming with posers.
>>98100089He's more of a "no friends" type of individual
>>98108927Maybe. Creative writing is easier when you have many prompts like oracles and random tables. Plus, in a group you don't really decide what the story is on your own. I'm in this because I like writing FFS. I don't like personal attacks about that stuff because writing is a cool thing to do and I think RPGs have untapped potential as a hybrid between gaming and storytelling.
>>98108131>It comes down to you screeching "stop liking what I dont like".No it doesn't. It comes down to faggots like you not playing games and thinking that /tg/ is a board that exists to asks pointless questions about things you don't genuinely care about and that you aren't going to do anything with the answers.
