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[chronicallyeccentric]

Made a plot for my current DND campaign:

"hmm i think I nailed it, an original story about ancient tribes of serpent people with different abilities, being revived after thousands of years in a tomb deep underground, and they want to revive the big serpent god with a cool name"

"Wait a fucking second, that's not an original story, I accidentally reproduced Lego Ninjago S1 Lore..."

[chronicallyeccentric]

Can't take another one of those situations where i give in my all and it falls apart because of other people, "oh I've worked really hard on this campaign and made a bunch of stuff, no way we don't have a nice table right?" Wrong, the players arrive late as hell/don't come, or come and refuse to do good roleplay or just think they're playing skyrim.

"oh i spent the day prepping for a school project, and I really immersed myself in it, it's gonna be nice!" No. Fucking. Way. Of 4 people in your group, 2 don't know shit about the project even though you explained it multiple times and gave material for them to research, 1 is missing and the other outright refuses to even try and wing it.

[chronicallyeccentric]

I really wanted a cool RPG group to play with, one who shows up consistently and has a sense of joy for my tables other than combat, who make cool characters and all, but it seems everytime I assemble a team they either: don't show up for the table, or show up and drag their character's roleplay, no passion whatsoever. As a DM it's increasingly difficult to push forward a story when these kinds of problems surface, and over the years, I learned that no matter the work I put in (custom maps built from scratch, select soundtracks, hand-drawn portraits, etc) it is ultimately up to the players to engage and to make it enjoyable, so the only options you have are:

Find new guys

Lower your expectations

Stop playing altogether