Syntax-Takes

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do people actually play tabletop games or is it an elaborate gaslighting attempt

I find myself easily frustrated by talk about TTRPGS because in my life I've only had a handful of good moments in otherwise unmemorable sessions and never a good campaign, much less a campaign that finishes, and then I have people who tell me "no, that's just normal, that happens until you find a good group and luck out" which just, makes me question why anyone bothers to do this at all.

Also moreover much as I would LOVE to get into the Cool New Indie Tabletop Of The Week, I don't have the fucking money or time to learn a new system. Can we please just play 5e or Lancer or Pathfinder, y'know the things I already have access to and have barely gotten to familiarize myself with?

Also the fact that so many queer-made indie tabletops that people want to try are WHOLLY FOCUSED around sapphics makes it a little uh, awkward when my partner, a masc-leaning nonbinary, does not want to center their character around being sapphic. There's more than one kind of queer who wants to roll dice and make their own kind of socially maladjusted gay idiot, you know.

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I think the lesbian bent is just a problem with being in very transfemcentric circles, there's plenty of other RPGs out there trying to do interesting things, it's just we don't get exposed to them because it's really hard to Branch out of the networks we're in and trust that people aren't going to be shitty.

And like, I dunno, I've had a lot of good experiences even in campaigns that don't finish, it all comes down to the group you're with. Hell, I can think of two campaigns that both changed me and made me cry (either good or catharsis) because of the meaning they had, and both of those fell apart. Personally whether or not a campaign gets a resolution is not what I find enjoyable about playing tabletops, and it really is just a matter of finding a group that clicks for you or getting lucky. Mostly the reason I'm not in campaigns now is that between working full time, being the only one who has a car in my household, and an often-shifting work schedule, it's harder to commit to the time. I could go on a long anti-capitalist anti-work rant here to explain why I think it's harder to get table tops off the ground now but I'll spare you because we don't have 6 hours to throw around.

I get that it's not good for you, though, and I don't necessarily think it's inherently a TTRPG problem and more that the medium is not (and in some ways Cannot be) conducive to everyone's needs and expectations.

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@Syntax-Takes

realtalk my complaints boil down to the fact that I have not found a good group that sticks with the game and I dislike jumping systems all the time. I would rather learn one and explore that and create a story with it once I'm familiar enough. The transfemcentric shit is a different problem and has reasonable solutions, but the challenge is finding the time that will work for everybody (which as you said is going to mostly be impossible). I would love to have good experiences in an unfinished campaign! but I can count the experiences I've had on one hand! Motherfucker why's it so hard to find people to play with!!! Part of the frustration is just seeing lots of people who DID luck out and I am jealous, I guess.

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