Played D&D for years but they removed monstrous races which is my favorite thing so now I need something that isn’t gay to play. I don’t have any friends someone please help me!
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Imagine not playing a human fighter.
I liked playing as an orc that left the orcs. I expected people to hate my character or at least react with fear. Most people play monster races but don’t want to deal with the fact that they are monster so I’ve no idea why they’d pick monster races unless it’s to subvert them by crying about how they picked a monster and NPCs react like they’re monsters.
I've just straight told all my players to expect open discrimination and hostility.
"I'm going to be a skeleton"
Okay, well, then you better wear a fucking mask.
That was one of the things I really liked about Divinity Original Sin 2, you could play as a skeleton/undead race of each race, but if you went out in public in town you were attacked on sight.
To work around it as long as you wore armor covering your face, or had a special disguise mask you could still play those characters. But if you wanted to not hide your face you went through the game fighting most city NPCs all over the world.
I don't make it "ENEMY = ON", but there's definitely consequences, even with people affiliating with you.
Play d&d with old/your rules? Or I guess you mean you don't have a group and were playing with randos, but there are lots of players who don't like new editions.
I really want nothing to do with it since the current owners hate me.
Buy used books (or pirate), don't spend money on D&D "the lifestyle brand" slop like clothing and plushies and that kind of garbage, so you're golden.
I personally play OSE, but to round it out a bit I did pick up a used copy of the D&D Rules Cyclopedia (BECMI) that was in great shape within 10% of the price of the hardcover Print-On-Demand version that has a woke disclaimer on it's page.
I don’t know what the point of your first paragraph is. I have no interest in D&D anymore old or otherwise, I’ve never bought pushies or D&D clothing.
Hmm...
Autarch.
They make Adventurer Conquerer King, an old school fantasy RPG. They also make Ascendant, a superhero RPG. I've played both and they're both excellent.
Their discord channel is FILLED with helpful, friendly people.
Can you give me a link to the discord?
I found it by using a search engine, I don't know how to issue invites to servers I don't own tbh. I just typed in Autarch discord.
Adventurer Conqueror King is what you want. Have a link: https://autarch.co/adventurer-conqueror-king/
As for the groups, good luck. D&D's been overrun by leftie theater kids who would have looked down their nose at Gygax back in the day.
Critical Role ruined an entire generation of TTRP.
What do you mean "back in the day" those wankers look down on him anyway, especially as he's no longer here to defend himself
Macris is one of the good ones.
RPG Pundit, one of the guys that worked on dnd 5e, makes a lot of cool OSR stuff that I like.
He's ok in most respects but he definitely has his own TDS against anyone he regards as too far on the right.
Definitely. I wouldn't recommend listening to his political takes, but at the very least his products won't be infested with gay woke shit.
If you want actual far right TTRPG stuff, there's always Myfarog, which I have also enjoyed using materials from.
Thanks
Finding groups is hard to resolve, but I'd recommend going back to the people you were playing with before and see if they are open to new systems, or checking game stores in your area (if there are any) to see if there are people who might want to play with non-D&D settings. (This has the advantage of filtering out a ton of the tourists who think it is just D&D - if they can't get beyond that, then they were probably worth losing but if they are willing to give other systems a try there's a good chance they are worth playing with).
As for other systems, it depends on what type of setting you want. If you have more specifics about that, might be able to recommend some systems but on a general note I'd say anything that has the potential for more of a horror vibe tends to be avoided by explicitly woke companies, and a lot of the woke players will tend to want to avoid them either (even if the more horror-focused elements aren't used).
It's the group, not the system. I strip most of the canon out of any ttrpg I play and I've done D&D 5th, WoD, Exalted, WHFRP and loosely tried shadowrun. Of all systems, I find exalted 3rd to be the best system I've ever played. But I'm also a DM with the GOD TIER group that people would die to have and I also spend months writing my own campaigns from the ground up with my own custom antagonists and settings. Actually the setting is a 20 year evolution of an original one that, at this point, is probably bigger with more canon lore than all of middle earth.
It’s 100% the system and I don’t have the time or energy to create 50+ different monsters and conflicts. I already got annoyed how much more in-depth older lore was but the system has removed what I like and replaced it with ugly Aiart slop. The taste left in my mouth is so bad I have no desire to use the stuff from yore that I liked and dropped a game I was exited about dming because I was so angry about the left taking another thing away from me.
Geeks and Gamers YouTube Channel has a group on the Guild social platform (Discord Alternative) a Private Discord Group The Black Pants Legion has a public connected group known as the Auxiliary which does a lot of Tabletop game stuff and are pretty chill about it.
TTRPGs are a waste of life once you are adult. I enjoyed Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay as a child. As a child. As an adult it is a futile endeavour. Spend the same energy improving your actual life! Not playing a sad fake one in a sweaty basement or online.
CRPGs are different insofar as there is graphics, musical and story content as well as some objective challenge, but they get samey in the end and find myself losing interest in recent years. Wrath of the Righteous is the only one I have spent much time on recently, and also the Rogue Trader CRPG.
I remember when TTRPGs died for me. I was listening to this woke dude at university lecture on how he had, 'enlightened' his little school friends back when he was at school.
These kids had been playing Dungeons and Dragons, getting the rules wrong and having a blast. For example, they allowed healing potions to take you over the hitpoint cap so they could have hundreds or thousands. The guy corrected them and turned their childish but fun power fantasy into the joyless, humourless, pompous crap that is mainstream TTRPG. The woke dude thought he was impressive. It felt to me like the day I put my Transformer toys away for the last time. Sad on so many levels.