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2013-07-30 09:37 8003678 Anonymous (1754.jpg 534x537 56kB)
My friend wants to bring his girlfriend to our weekly Pathfinder game. She's never played any tabletop RPG in her life and she's very annoying. Should I just quit now or will this somehow not be terrible?

1 min later 8003704 Anonymous
Abandon ship and never look back.

3 min later 8003722 Anonymous
Why is she annoying? IF I GET MUTED AGAIN I WILL CRY

5 min later 8003758 Anonymous
>bringing your girlfriend to activities with your friends Why the fuck do people do this?

5 min later 8003763 Anonymous
>>8003678 Trust me. It will never work

6 min later 8003766 VĂ li
>>8003758 I would only assume to show off perhaps?

8 min later 8003787 Anonymous
Play a session, but make sure to let the group know that she's out if she hinders play. Usually when guys bring their girls to PnP games, the girl becomes completely disinterested and/or gets frustrated she isn't "winning", bringing down the experience. Now if she's the GM's girlfriend, ABANDON SHIP ALL HOPE IS LOST.

8 min later 8003796 Anonymous
>>8003758 I think it's okay if it's a one time thing. It may be important and helpful for the gf to have some idea about the different parts of his life.

11 min later 8003826 Anonymous
As someone who's had this happen several times, it's going to be shit. She's going to ruin the game, she's going to make the group uncomfortable, she's going to piss people off, generally make the whole experience shit. Quit now, don't even entertain the thought.

12 min later 8003839 Anonymous
>>8003787 >Now if she's the GM's girlfriend She is, are we fucked?

14 min later 8003857 Anonymous
>>8003839 All hope is lost OP. Say goodbye to your Pathfinder experience.

14 min later 8003858 Anonymous
>>8003839 Game over, son.

15 min later 8003866 Anonymous
>>8003839 Time to find a new GM.

16 min later 8003880 Anonymous
>>8003758 Dominance. There are ways to fuck them back but it's risky

16 min later 8003881 Anonymous (1308456124839.jpg 500x323 47kB)
My woman and I are looking for a Rogue Trader GM/group, what do?

16 min later 8003882 Anonymous
>>8003839 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, your game is going to be shit now.

16 min later 8003883 Anonymous
>playing risk >friend brought gf >she gets disinterested early on >she basically stops playing >strategic element ruined Why do I remember this

17 min later 8003887 Anonymous
>>8003881 Ask /tg/? Gender is irrelevant if you're actually interested in the game itself.

18 min later 8003896 Anonymous
How many people in your group OP?

18 min later 8003900 Anonymous
Tell your friend that this is your night to be with your bros. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX8k vd2YBVY >video related

20 min later 8003925 Anonymous
>>8003896 Six of us.

21 min later 8003942 Anonymous (1308468049914.jpg 600x600 196kB)
>>8003887 We're both first time players with the system and in my case first time PnP game period. My woman has some history with Mage but overall I feel we're both well under the level of experience that your average /tg/ GM would be willing to put up with.

22 min later 8003954 Anonymous
>>8003925 That's a lot of people to ruin a game for. Tell your friend he should leave his girl out of it.

23 min later 8003971 Anonymous
>>8003900 >big bang theory Get the fuck out and never come back.

24 min later 8003982 Anonymous
What the fuck is pathfinder?

26 min later 8004007 Anonymous
>>8003982 One of the greatest games ever made, only beaten by Shadowrun.

29 min later 8004043 Anonymous
>>8003758 Usually they don't have bad intentions, they're just pussywhipped and legitimately think their girlfriend will contribute positively. They usually don't.

33 min later 8004093 Anonymous
>>8003982 >What the fuck is pathfinder? People like you actually exist.

34 min later 8004105 Anonymous
>why can't you take me to meet your friends >are you ashamed of me >anon, we never do anything together anymore And that's how they decide to ruin everyones night.

37 min later 8004143 Anonymous
Think of it this way: Do you really want to spend all night explaining the game to some cunt that barely cares?

42 min later 8004212 Anonymous
>>8003881 I would suggest making your own group. Experienced groups will be extremely wary of your girlfriend.

55 min later 8004385 Anonymous
>join a pathfinder group >roll a ranger with two-weapon fighting >bring it up with girlfriend one night >out of the blue she pulls out a character sheet for an elven gunslinger >talk to the GM >he's leery, but we have a practice session with her, and she's totally acclimated >we all join >everyone spergs out >OMGWTFBBQ A GURL >White Knights, White Knights everywhere >her character and my character hate each other but gradually build a mutual respect for each other >she tells me that a couple of the grognards have been hitting on her >we laugh >one gaming session, we're in the middle of a temple, trying to escort the king's sister, who is a cleric of the local church, out of the temple because of a revolt >okay guys, we need to call it a night, it's getting late >one of the neckbeards asks her out >her and I laugh and she turns him down and tells him that she's in love with me >he tells her I've been cheating on her >tells her I'm a scumbag asshole >tells her to break up with me and he'll "protect her" >this happens right as I'm standing there with our coats. >what the fuck, dude, that's not cool at all, chill out. >he rages and leaves >next session he's constantly trying to drive a wedge between her character and mine >keeps breaking character to start meaningless arguments about nothing at all >all the grognards are against us >they try to player kill our characters >GM throws his hands in the air and I GIVE UP, ALL OF YOU GTFO MY HOUSE >neckbeard tries to fight me outside >I don't fight back, but I block his hits, keep telling him to calm the fuck down >girlfriend is freaking out >one of the neckbeards calls the cops on us >they tell the cops that i started it >go down to the station, fill out a report >charges are dropped >group fell apart She might be an excellent player, but just by being there she's going to change the group dynamic.

58 min later 8004438 Anonymous
Why all the hate for this girl? This is just pure misogyny, you're not even giving her a chance just because shes a woman.

1 hours later 8004484 Anonymous
>>8004438 Women ruin everything 99% of the time.

1 hours later 8004516 Anonymous
>>8004385 What the fuck, some guys are just pathetic.

1 hours later 8004538 Anonymous
She'll probably quit after 1 session to be quite honest. I would suffer through it and see what happens.

1 hours later 8004542 Anonymous
I always wanted to try tabletops but I have no friends and everyone I've met on IRC channels turned out to be underage, female or a normalfag.

1 hours later 8004563 Anonymous
>>8003678 >tabletop RPG It's like I'm in 1982.

1 hours later 8004567 Anonymous
I'm assuming it's all guys there already? Guarantee you she will derail the entire night. I won't suggest it'll be her fault though, it's just guys always divert all their attention to the sole female in the room during these kinds of things. I'd probably bail for the night.

1 hours later 8004575 hh-a
>>8004385 this. People who are into RP and the whole underculture of nerd hobbies are often terrible human beings. The best advice that anyone can give you is that it will change the whole dynamic of the group. What you should ask and gain to know is how it will affect the group. Because that post might be your future. OR if you are lucky, you actually have some cool people around you and they are capable of carrying themselves as a honorable human beings. All these /tg/ threads in r9k is making me warm n fuzzy.

1 hours later 8004590 Anonymous
>>8004385 Why didnt you just beat his ass? Fuckhead was asking for it. Filling out a fucking police report...what the hell is wrong with you nerds?

1 hours later 8004601 Anonymous
>>8004542 Me too man, I live in the middle of nowhere and nobody here plays fucking D&D.

1 hours later 8004612 Anonymous
>>8004438 They are simply too distracting. Fucking friends not wanting to understand

1 hours later 8004646 Anonymous
Time to find a new group.

1 hours later 8004749 Anonymous
>>8003678 There are horror stories out there but almost every time I've played tabletop the group was actually pretty equal gender wise and the women weren't causing problems. >>8003839 Okay, this is worse.

1 hours later 8004791 Anonymous
>>8004590 >Beat his ass >Other neckbeard still calls the cops and still says you started it >Now you can be charged with assault Excellent idea

1 hours later 8004837 Anonymous
Why would he think thats a good idea?

1 hours later 8004858 Anonymous
>>8004791 Calling the cops over that is fucking stupid, around here we handle shit like adults and don't get pigs involved.

1 hours later 8004893 Anonymous
Pathfinder a shit.

1 hours later 8005086 Anonymous
>>8003787 Dude, you are fucked. Even if she's into tabletop RPGs there's a very good chance she'll ruin it by introducing her super-special awesome character with strong feminist overtones. This actually happened to me. ...But maybe she's cool.

2 hours later 8005287 Anonymous
>>8004858 I bet you're a degenerate drug-user >handle shit like adults means violence >calling the cops "pigs" What's someone as trashy as you doing on /r9k/

2 hours later 8005359 Anonymous
>>8005086 >super-special awesome character with strong feminist overtones Disgusting.

2 hours later 8005464 Anonymous
It wouldn't be too bad if she knew how to play.

2 hours later 8005588 Anonymous
>>8003678 why don't you just let her join in, make an honest effort to integrate her, and maybe it'll be cool. fuck, you're a judgmental faggot

2 hours later 8005782 Anonymous
>>8005287 >implying the police arent scumbags

2 hours later 8005862 Anonymous
>>8003883 >>strategic element ruined FUCK. THIS. I do remember when I when to our old cottage though, the neighbor boy would usually be the one to flake out while the girl would stick it through till the bitter end.

2 hours later 8005874 Anonymous
>>8003900 >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX8 kvd2YBVY >TBBT >Ever Nice get, anyways.

2 hours later 8005889 Anonymous
>>8004093 >Being elitist about a faggy game Heh...

2 hours later 8005953 Anonymous
>implying she isnt intentionally ruining the game so he spends more time with her

3 hours later 8006008 Anonymous
How do I find a rpg group?

3 hours later 8006040 Anonymous
>>8003678 If it's an all-male activity, introducing a female WILL shift the dynamic, and not necessarily in a direction anyone will like.

3 hours later 8006053 Anonymous
>>8003758 In my circle it usually because the girl hears about how much fun we have and wants to hang with us. but many of our conversations aren't things we like to say in front of women so our group becomes No girls allowed

3 hours later 8006055 Anonymous
>tfw I'm a grill that has never played Pathfinder/D&D/etc but really, really want to try but have no friends and don't want to disrupt a group's comfy balance by butting in

3 hours later 8006057 Anonymous
Women ruin everything, especially when they're not the center of attention. Tell him not to bring her or don't bother coming.

3 hours later 8006065 Anonymous
>>8006055 >play online >dont tell people you're a girl Wow that was hard.

3 hours later 8006081 Anonymous
>>8006065 >implying you can get into a rolld20 game as a newbie >implying the community isn't flooded as fuck

3 hours later 8006095 Anonymous
>>8006081 lol lol lol /tg/ plays over IRC.

3 hours later 8006103 Anonymous
>>8005287 >implying /r9k/ isn't trashy

3 hours later 8006206 Anonymous
>>8003678 That really depends on the girl. At best, it'll be okay. At worst, you'll want to leave every second.

5 hours later 8008419 Anonymous
>>8006065 Playing online sucks

8 hours later 8010633 Anonymous
>>8006053 Why can't you say them in front of women?

8 hours later 8010982 Viking Advice Guy
>>junior year of college >>really want to get into DnD, looks like a lot of fun >>find out from a (female) friend that she's been playing for years with her high school friends >>she's not very attractive, but a really nice person >>ask her if I could join them, she asks the DM and he agrees to it >>her friends help me, since its my first game, and I have no idea what Im doing >>make a lizardman barbarian who dreams of being a knight but is far too dumb to realize it wont ever happen >>then word spreads to another mutual friend, a cute redhead >>redhead wants to join too, we all agree, because whats the worst that could happen >>first game is fun >>notice that most of the other guys are paying a lot attention to the redhead >>soon find out that all three of them (including the DM) have asked her out almost simultaneously >>she rejects two right after another, then starts dating the DM >>see them awkwardly hug before/after sessions >>a few into this, sessions are getting more infrequent >>one day, hear that DM went full-on gay and made out with six guys in one night at a LGBT party >>redhead eventually starts dating the first guy she rejected >>end up with no more DnD How do I find a local group willing to deal with a noob?

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