No.415322
tfw you spend 60-70ish hours beginning to flesh out a setting, commission an artist out of pocket and provide literally everything your players need only to have 75% of the party cancel last minute on the first scheduled session. I am so fucking angry right now.
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No.415324
Why would you commission art when there is so much available on the internet? I think you just set your expectations up way to high. It's like imagining yourself looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime and getting frustrated that you don't look like him after one outing to the gym.
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No.415328
I feel for you, anon. However,for future reference, commission art at the end of the campaign.
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No.415329
>>415324
A: They approached me to DM B: I do good work, C: Creating a unique setting and wanted a decent world map, I wasn't getting all of my art through commission.
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No.415345
But why would you do all that before the game starts?
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No.415378
It happens to us all, hopefully you've learned a lesson in regards to the folly of unbridled optimism and will be wiser for it from now on. Thinking everything would just go right because you believed and put the work in... If only that were how it worked.
But even more so, hopefully you'll power through it and draw strength from the experience rather than wilt in despair. Yes, the world will disappoint you at every turn, but that's no reason to give up. If anything, it's all the more reason to fight harder. Turn the frustration into motivation, do a better job in the future by applying the lessons learned from failure, and force things to work out. Or at the very least, keep at it and you'll find a non-flaky group eventually. We all had to work at eventually finding the right group of people through trial and error, and that's if we ever got there at all.
And on a side note, you commissioned art? Dang, now I feel even lazier for never drawing more than a world map for my campaign.
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No.415425
>>415378
>But even more so, hopefully you'll power through it and draw strength from the experience rather than wilt in despair. Yes, the world will disappoint you at every turn, but that's no reason to give up. If anything, it's all the more reason to fight harder. Turn the frustration into motivation, do a better job in the future by applying the lessons learned from failure, and force things to work out. Or at the very least, keep at it and you'll find a non-flaky group eventually. We all had to work at eventually finding the right group of people through trial and error, and that's if we ever got there at all.
I think "turn frustration into motivation" is dangerous advice. I would say that if you get frustrated, you should sometimes stop and reconsider whether you are hurting yourself on some level, and whether you need to drastically change.
Sometimes the story ends in tragedy. I was in a very toxic codependent friendship with a narcissist. He used tabletop games to manipulate everyone in his circle of friends. Most of them figured out that he was a megalomaniac early on, and thus cut ties to him. I was stupid and kept getting suckered along for years. My horrible personal decisions wasted years of my life and have impaired my emotional health severely. For years, I tried to keep gaming with that guy and his former friends because I was trying to "power through" and turn frustration into motivation.
I eventually found some non-flaky, non-crazy tabletop groups, but I didn't have a strong connection to them and I stopped doing much tabletop gaming. Tabletop games are a huge part of my past - I spent years of my best creative energy on them. But I feel my creative energies have been mostly wasted, because most of my efforts served to lock me into toxic relationships.
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No.415483
>>415329
For future reference.
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No.415492
> 75% of the party cancel last minute on the first scheduled session. I am so fucking angry right now.
Nothing you've made is lost. Sooner or later you'll gather another group and re-use the assets.
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No.415500
>>415483
Say fella, if you're tossing around PDFs you got anything for making maps of a more Urban environment? I want to make a city for a modern RPG but dont really know how to approach the issue.
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No.415504
>>415425
>toxic
>emotional health
>toxic relationships
Are you a girl? You're getting your undeserved self-pity and psychological buzzwords everywhere.
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No.415519
>>415504
>undeserved self-pity
Aren't you feeling pity for yourself? You're complaining about it, so you must feel sorry for yourself.
So your self-pity - is it "deserved" or "undeserved," in your opinion?
And who other than you gives a toss about your opinion?
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No.415523
>>415504
So you're a big manly man who gets triggered when I type "toxic" in your safe space? Sounds pretty legit.
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No.415529
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No.415530
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No.415548
>>415523
>>415519
he's pointing out that you're using tumblr jargon, and that you should probably return to where you belong.
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No.415611
>>415548
In other words, your delicate sensibilities are so fragile that you just can't bear to read any post that doesn't limit itself to your pre-approved list of words.
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No.415614
>>415611
Rule 1
Stop being a faggot. You're not impressing anyone here with your whiny attitude after your blog post about how your (((Significant Other))) hurt your feelings by rolling dice and hurting your character to hurt you. The fact you went off on a rant after someone told OP to find the positive in the situation and to learn something from the event tells us something's off with your head. Your point of example didn't stem from "turning frustration into motivation" at all. Your DM sucked, and you insisted on sticking with them despite knowing better. That's you being retarded, not motivated.
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No.415615
>>415614
>your (((Significant Other)))
You fail at reading comprehension, but that's okay, because this thread will eventually get an anchor, just like the thread at:
https://8ch.net/tg/res/406001.html#q406042
>We make them pull their e-peens and then bully them with our massive four-headed nerd-schlongs to assert dominance and establish a pecking order, and impress 2D girls to become our potential waifus. I, as the current Alpha, will of course get first pick and establish a Harem, as is proper.
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No.415616
>>415611
>In other words, your delicate sensibilities are so fragile that you just can't bear to read any post that doesn't limit itself to your pre-approved list of words.
>It's another "You're just like the SJWs you hate" episode
Getting picked out of the crowd because you speak differently isn't intolerance, it's pattern recognition. I'm not saying you have to adhere to the cultural mores of the places you visit, but you probably shouldn't act like a dry, sandy cunt when people realize you're not a native.
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No.415618
>>415616
> I'm not saying you have to adhere to the cultural mores of the places you visit
Well, yes, he has to. That's how we spot salty fags like him. And boy is he salty.
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No.415620
>Caring this much about 5 words or so
The amount of energy you're putting into this thread because "oh I don't like the words they used" is a little silly. And faggoty too, but that's besides the point.
>>415492
Yeah, I agree. Say, if it's an online game I'd be up for it if you're looking for a new party. Been looking for one.
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No.415624
>>415620
> And faggoty too, but that's besides the point.
The faggot-tier of any of us individually is outclassed by the faggot-tier of all of us collectively. We're toxic in that way.
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No.415630
>>415624
>Did someone say be a toxic faggot in this thead
Op can't even map not sure what she was expecting coming here.
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No.415631
>saying "stranger go home" is caring too much
well, some of us believe borders are good
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No.415635
>>415500
>Take an RL map of a foreign city (one your players don't know)
>Trace the road plan and boroughs
>You now have a bunch of districts to use in your new city
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No.415665
Might not be the place to ask as I'm fairly new to DnD (playing it, live in Alaska, can never find a group,would spend a lot of time reading up on the books I could get my hands on, etc) and I was curious what my GM is thinking with rules like cantrips being able to heal 10+ because he uses the "heal" skill and Con modifiers on top of the 1 point it would usually do. Not to say the bard casting touch healing spells through the air isn't annoying either or the cleric being able to pray to his god as a bonus action every round and summon lighting to smite like 4 full health fuckers at once isn't annoying, but yeah. At level 2. Meanwhile I can summon a spooky ghost hand
Do I embrace the bullshit and keep playing or talk to him and try and see if there's anything salvageable here. Had fun a few times and not many groups for me to choose from.
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No.415668
>>415665
That's an exceedingly generous way of handling healing and extra actions. I don't think everyone else at the table would be happy if you argued to take away their cool toys, but you should at least ask your GM to give you a similar opportunity. Cite the fact that everyone else has some powerful bonus on their side. You're not asking for special treatment, but if your GM is going to run things this way, it would be fair to give you something too.
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No.415670
>>415500
You should probably do as >>415635 says. If you want a more disorganized sprawl, like the kind you get with really old cities, you could probably make a brush shaped like a rectangle buildings are usually shaped like that in urban sprawls and set the jitter and angle tilts pretty high. There's a guy on youtube that describes the full process here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQL2hK2O5aA
My most effective advice is to be as lazy as possible when making maps. Intelligently designed and planned urban environments do not feel lived in.
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No.415721
OP: was this an online campaign? Cause if so I am afraid that you have no one to blame but yourself. Actually, no, they are still dicks, but you cannot put that much effort into a campaign with randos online. Even people you know IRL that's a big risk. Online randos? You might as well post your credit card number, you'll be fucking yourself over less.
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No.415833
>>415631
>>saying "stranger go home" is caring too much
>well, some of us believe borders are good
Let me explain. This type of Internet community requires enthusiasm from its participants. This can be positive energy like cooperation or negative energy like flamewar drama.
(if you are not a mod) when you say "stranger go home" you are feeding the drama. You are handing out free subsidies of emotional stimulation to bored trolls who will latch onto any stimulation.
The mod on this board does not often lock threads or ban users. Even if the mod tries to ban users, 8ch.net has a porous architecture and it is hard to keep people banned. (Many people evade bans unintentionally because the system does not keep them out if they accidentally change their ISP or physical location.) If you want "strong borders" you need to ban problem users. Since only the mod has the power to ban, you need to get the mod to want "strong borders."
If you really want to be able to ban users, you need a forum more like rpg.net, which enforced usernames and logins and stirred up ungodly levels of drama so that users would fear the "banhammer." (Of course, that drama attracted trolls and radicalized ordinary users into trolls.)
8ch.net is a very tough territory to defend, even when the mods are willing to expend time and energy on banning.
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No.425830
There's online map generators and a few downloads that will do the cartography for you in an attractive way.
For characters there's Heromachine.
There's not much you can do when flakes bail, just write off the ones that didn't show, and re-use the material for a different party who aren't assholes. Or maybe a novel or something.
75%... that's three out of four, or six out of eight? Either way that sucks.
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No.425963
Being in a three man party. One kills every npc he sees. Other supports him, as that is what his chaotic good character would do.
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