Your #1 source for Geralt Hot Tub Soak on the web

Call me Connor or PG, 30s, they/he/she/whatever, I like goblins, skeletons, ttrpgs and video games and shit. Also I'm an anarchist.

[thepleasuregoblin]

Reminder:

[imsobadatnicknames2]

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Comments like these seem extremely disingenuous to me, sorry. Like yeah, there are ways to translate the general concept of "elf druid" into VtM. And yes, it's generally a good thing to try to meet your players where they're at, especially if they're new to the game, but also I don't think you have a responsibility or moral obligation to go out of your way to do that to acomodate a player who clearly has no interest in doing the tiniest attempt on his part to meet the game (that HE signed up to play) where it's at.

Like if I as a player signed up to someone's D&D game after years of playing, say, Troika, and then showed up to the table wanting to play my favorite Troika background in their D&D campaign regardless of how well it fits (or doesn't fit) with their setting fluff, I think it's a totally reasonable expectation that I as a player should at the very least have done the work myself of converting that background into something that can work in D&D. If I just show up to the game like "I'm going to play a Zoanthrop" expecting the GM to figure out how to accomodate it, that is nothing short of a complete refusal to even attempt to engage with the game, the campaign, the setting, the GM, and the other players on their own terms, and it would be completely reasonable and not indicative of any personal flaw for the GM to refuse to coddle that by not going out of their way to figure out how to make my background from a completely unrelated game work in D&D.

TL,DR: Why should the GM "meet the player where he's at" when the player is completely refusing to even try to do the same from his side?

[valtharr]

You're glossing over something important here: The player signed up for a game. Then, the player was given information about the game he signed up for. And then, the player actively ignored that information to make something that does not at all work with the information that was provided, heck, not even the system being played.

...and those tags are painting the GM as the bad guy for "explaining a bunch of setting fluff the player wasn't interested in"?

If you sign up for a game, it's reasonable to assume that you want to be informed about what kind of game it is. And if you aren't... just fucking say something? Like, there are these things called words, that adults use to communicate their thoughts to each other. Like, obviously, the player here thought OP would be running D&D. If he had actually listened, he'd have noticed that it isn't D&D, and could have politely declined. Instead, he obviously didn't listen, and that's somehow the GM's fault?

[thydungeongal]

Yeah, like treating Vampire: the Masquerade's (a game that is not D&D) lore as "setting fluff" instead of like the whole premise of a different non-D&D game kind of betrays this point of view that D&D is the default and every other RPG is just a weird quirky variant of D&D, an extremely ignorant and myopic point of view which we should just meet with derision. Like, sorry not sorry, but this is not a case of the GM spouting some fluff that the player didn't care about, and the fact that this person thinks so is frankly embarrassing.

[tenleaguesbeneath]

Also, even for 5e games, why is the expectation that a GM "meet the player where they're at" while the player tuning out "setting fluff" they "don't care about" is acceptable, when the player brings a build that explicitly does not work with the setting?

[silvergryphonart]

That “setting fluff the player wasn't interested in” is the game. The player isn’t interested in the game. That’s okay, but it’s not the GM’s job to try to entice an uninterested person by completely changing the game they and the rest of the players are looking forward to

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Also, and I'm not a TTRPG person myself so I might be wrong here, but I'm under the impression that it's a medium that relies heavily on players working together within the structure of the game to create a story and have a good time enjoyed by all.

So when someone shows up and then demonstrates overt disinterest in the structure of the game, the story being told, the other players, or the basic concept of working together, I think it's a good idea to maybe hit the brakes on ushering them into your circle of trust.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Short answer: Yes

Long answer: A couple months after I posted this screenshot here, someone screenshotted this post and posted it on reddit (making the reddit post a screenshot of a tumblr post featuring a screenshot of a comment in a facebook group). OP of the original screenshotted comment found the reddit thread and commented on it to clear up some questions, namely:

This incident happened in 2006, so the current edition of D&D at the time was 3.5e

Both the GM and the player in question live in Kazakhstan

Yes, the player did indeed literally send the GM a D&D 3.5e character sheet for his Vampire: the Masquerade game set in modern-day Kazakhstan

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Also in hindsight I should have been meaner to the person who left those tags lol

"Let him cook" the guy wasn't even in the kitchen. He was in the bathroom trying to bake a lasagna in the toilet

[grawly]

throwback

[grawly]

i love how easily clockable this image is as coming from 2016 even to someone who had never seen it before

[captain-price-returns]

BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen?

BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests.

BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool?

BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it

[captain-price-returns]

Meanwhile: the Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn

Trump Admin acknowledges that "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

[chips1977]

The worm kids have invaded secret mountain

[littlegooguy]

Baby mode

[burins]

thinking fondly of this meme I made for a coworker years and years ago

[burins]

this is going around again and the tags are full of people talking about printing it out to put in their breakroom or cubicle or sending it to their coworkers, which fills me with great joy. vast diversity of professions represented also. zoos. labs. summer camps. restaurants. garden centers. libraries. schools. many reports from the brave warriors of assorted retail. a truth universally acknowledged: if there is a sign a customer will not read it <3 and they don't read emails either <3

[snekdood]

but have you ever even heard of the fynbos biome ?!!?!?!?!

a biome so unique in south africa that it's earned an entirely new biome classification for itself. so many plants are endemic to this area, and ofc it's under threat of extinction.

[anim-ttrpgs]

ANIM - Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mystery

The official YouTube channel for The Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mystery (A.N.I.M.), a small independent TTRPG studio, creators of Eure

look at our freaking youtube channel. subscribe to our freaking youtube channel.

[arctic-blade]

漁(すなどり) on X: "天幕の魔女ファーティマ https://t.co/aq9DfdznNt" / X

[fravery]

Sunset and Super Moon at Arcadia Lake. Jef Bourgeau

[captain-price-returns]

Reporter: There’s some reporting that came out about your son-in-law posting white nationalist and antisemitic content. Do you want to comment on some of the things he said in those videos?

Mike Collins: Jon Ossoff refuses to disavow these Democratic Socialist movements!

Another Reporter: Can you address the question?

Mike Collins: Why has Ossoff supported these anti-Israel extremists?

Reporter: What role did your son-in-law play in your campaign?

Mike Collins: *leaves*

[captain-price-returns]

GOP Senate candidate has close ties to White nationalist influencer, his son-in-law | CNN Politics

Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins has built a national profile as a combative, Trump-aligned online provocateur — a style that has re

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[finalgirlianthe]

it's scary the amount of people who wholeheartedly believe that men and women are fundamentally different creatures

[patchoulism]

Evangelion fans after hitting 21 years of age.

[handsomeboymodelingschool]

[kirikomamura]

whenever the conversation about difficulty and accessibility in games come up i want to slam my head into a wall because noone thats speaking has anything more than a surface level understanding of what "difficulty" even is

[kirikomamura]

your game should have accessibility options, but if your only accessibility options are "turn off central game mechanics" then you have made shit accessibility options.