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.

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.