• Asafum@feddit.nl
    46·
    8 months ago

    I have a strange type of social anxiety that keeps me from playing multiplayer games online with anyone other than people I know in person because I feel like I’m going to group with one of these weirdos and then get stuck with them following me around or messaging me constantly lol

    I know it’s an irrational fear, but my brain is dumb.

    • the_joeba@lemmy.world
      33·
      8 months ago

      It’s not irrational, you aren’t dumb. I feel the same. I still don’t want to play with you.

    • Ilflish
      6·
      8 months ago

      Weirdly I have no problem with being left with people I’ve never met as long as I know someone and they introduce us. If a friend trusts us together, we can skip the awkward feeling out steps

  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
    44·
    8 months ago

    Kid with machete? Totally normal.

    Dude in a robe waving guns around? Also normal.

    Biting a face into a pancake and wearing it on your face so you can chug maple syrup? Totally understandable. But I would go with the real stuff personally.

    BUT! Why does the person in a furry mask have someone tied up under a table in what looks like a basement though? Is this a new sex thing kids are into?

      • Wandering_Uncertainty@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Or maybe it’s a joke on a kid pretending they’re an adult and ready for a TTRPG with adults? Because that is definitely annoying. I haven’t played random online pickup games in forever, but I was extremely opposed to playing with kids, for many reasons. Teaching them how to play is one thing - I helped run a DnD club at the school I work at - but that’s definitely sharing the hobby rather than games that I actually enjoy for myself.

        • timgrant@ttrpg.network
          2·
          8 months ago

          OP is getting advice from Mom on what to do with his spare time, which isn’t exactly exuding mature grownup adult vibes.

          Maybe the pic should instead have a picture of a grownup who’s extremely opposed to playing with kids for many reasons?

    • The_Vampire@lemmy.world
      9·
      8 months ago

      Yeah, as a DM if these were player characters I would be ecstatic. I always have trouble pulling creative ideas out of my players, even if those creative ideas are borrowed.

  • deft@ttrpg.network
    151·
    8 months ago

    tbh best groups i played with were through roll20

    playing with your friends, coworkers, etc is worse. people often only join cause 2-3 of us wanna play but they’re halfway in mentally and not actually motivated to play.

    on roll20 everyone is here to play

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    8·
    8 months ago

    Second kid looks like he’s a creative thinker that knows what he wants and how to achieve it. Seems like an asset for a D&D group if he’s not also an asshole 🤷

  • SUPAVILLAIN@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    8 months ago

    Shit I gotta vibe-check other players as a player; if your table gives me Elder Scrolls racist vibes, I can’t be fuckin with it

    • sammytheman666@ttrpg.network
      3·
      8 months ago

      I mean… its possible to play a character that is racist, but like evil characters I wouldnt trust a first time player doing it.

      Even Gimli and Legolas were racists after all

      • SUPAVILLAIN@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        8 months ago

        Oh no, I think you misunderstand my meaning-- when I say “elder scrolls racists”, I mean like-- have you ever seen how the comment sections for those AI voice Dagoth Ur videos always end up bleeding to a point where people are saying Stormfront-level shit but swapping “jews” for $pickAnElderScrollsSpecies? The people who always seem to have a lazy fill-in for a fantasy race that sounds like it was lifted part and parcel from the things 4channers like to say about existent minorities? That. If your table feels like that, I ain’t fuckin with it.