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[grifstar]

..... Yeah, I can't do this.


Dungeons and Dragons = Boring. As. Fuck. Taking notes on 50 billion names or locations(half of which being impossible to pronounce) is not my ideal term of fun. Let alone trying to you hear you rant on for 5-10 minutes about these said things. In fact, I probably understood nothing you just said.

And of course, there's the whole fact I hate the immense feeling of gay trying to voice out characters on the fly IRL. Not to mention it usually takes me a good... oh I don't know, at least 15 minutes or so sometimes to think of a good decision on some things... Depending on what it is of course.


Which is all pretty sad, I was thinking maybe I was a little wrong about this game when character making. But nope, had to prove me I was right before >.>

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[zrana.livejournal.com]

Gah. Sounds like you also don't have the right people to be gaming with to even make it fun. Sucks. ;_; I've almost always managed to do the D&D thing with people that make it fun and amusing. I suck at talking in character, so I just saw what I'm TRYING to do/talk about with my characters, and that's perfectly valid from what I understand.

I think it helps that my first official D&D game was with several veteren players who were more than helpful in making it simple for me and made it fun to just watch them play. One of them had a couple dice from first edition D&D, and they all liked playing characters that weren't stereotypical, and they played up the humor level. (Like describing their battle. The epic fail die rolls that end the end was like dropping a great sword to miss the first guy and yet decapitate the second to become an epic win move.) Or my friend's brother taking out two guys in the shadows before the rest of the party even realized they were there. Or my friend's character who got so tired of combat being over by the time she got to her sword (tavern hid it away from us when we entered) that she said screw it when another fight started and just kept drinking her tea.

Really, it becomes more like a chat room rp with dice with the people I tend to game with.

... How ironic I use an RP journal for this XD

[drift4memories.livejournal.com]

Well, part of the problem is... it's just not my style, at all. Secondly, I really hate the person who's running the game at it is. Even though amazingly enough, she hasn't done anything to piss me off in general... yet. >.>

The other thing is I'm just bad at speaking in general. I don't like having to explain things, let alone having to do it in this "prim and proper" medieval-ish sounding voice like everyone else right on top of it. Combat is pretty much the only thing I like doing, and that's only because it's just taking turns beating the shit out of things.

I just... handle typed roleplays much much better. My moods seem to be less of a problem. Because I'm always making retarded jokes at stuff happening or something, and I STILL can write to fit the scene even though I might be hysterical elsewhere. I also like how text RPs are more of a collab of MANY ideas rather than one person making up BS that everyone else has to follow...

And also, could also just be that pretty much all roleplays I do know are all from actual fandoms and using canons. As most OCs tend to be annoying as all hell because people can't possibly use them right. Practically everyplace I been to with them as been a trainwreck, except for one(and I dunno if that one really counts)

Re: ... How ironic I use an RP journal for this XD

[zrana.livejournal.com]

Prim and proper? Ye gawds, even if it's not your thing in general, that's horrid. I'm HORRIBLE at any attempt of that stuff--I trip over what I'm saying enough as is. We're able to joke at each other and the characters constantly and even if it takes longer to get the tasks done, it makes it FUN. Just friends together goofing off.

Also we gets "mods" (not a moderators) that are officiall sanctioned that the GM uses to keep the story straight and not HAVE to make up stuff on the spot. (Unless people "break the mod" by choosing to do something not thought possible--like the players having disguise potions to look JUST like the people gaurding the jail to release this captive while the player who IS the same type nationality as the guys running the jail is playing buddy buddy only to take down the guy when things go south. A 4 hour mod taken down in less than an hour. Of course, that only works if the GM isn't such an ass as to not let you do anything if it's not a possible scenario IN the mod.) Mods are like a choose your own adventure deal. The current ones my group is doing (we only game MAYBE once a month if that) ones from Forgotten Realms, so if I knew anything about those books, it'd probably like being able to play around in my fandom.

I guess I lucked out and learned D&D from mellow people that new how to make it fun for the non-table-top gamer, and didn't mind if some people couldn't speak for themselves what the character by allrights can say with ease.

But in the end, what's not your thing is not your thing.

[grifstar.livejournal.com]

... I tried doing another game too, not D&D but pretty similar. Same person was GM, but basically I decided to be this sort of weird... mage... person. Don't even remember what kind it was anymore but the skills they had sounded awesome(which I don't remember anymore either but one of them was thought reading, basically). And anyway, she just made this long bullshitted story of how I was traveling with some other group that was viciously killed, belonged to this academy/house/thing, and apparently, KNEW something bad that was going with that rest of that kind. Uhh.... the fuck? No I don't.


It's sad, because they were all bitching at me to play with them for this D&D one for like 2-3 days. WOULD NOT shut up until I agreed to it. I basically said I'll play for as long as I can stand of it, which apparently was.... about 10 minutes >.>

Next time they ask me to join again, I'll just throw the damn book at them.

[zrana.livejournal.com]

Yeah... anytime someone is coerced into smething they don't want it's just NOT going to be pretty.