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Does anyone remember when games were supposed to be fun? Where you just sat down at the table with friends, laugh it up, stereotype yourselves with Cheetos and Mountain Dew, roll some dice, and role play instead of roll play? I mean, I've heard of this. Never actually experienced it myself. Or I might have, but all of the bad stuff has just completely wiped all memory of the good stuff. I've been gaming for nearly 25 years. I've played in over a dozen groups, and had so many characters that I can't even try to count. During that time I think I've enjoyed myself a handful of times. At the very least I've been indifferent. I'm honestly debating if gaming is even for me at this point. And I don't play video games. Too broke for that. Haven't touched a game or console since the PS2 came out.

This actually happens to me every 15 days, when I GM my OVA campaign (two players, best group I had in a year). I encoutered various and various sick and poison people and the best decision I could make was to go away from those groups and never look back. Hell, my first RPG group ever was FULL of That People; they didn't liked me, and used my characters as cannon fodder when they wanted to kill someone. Some times they received exp points in secret.

The second group was more of a "I'm intruding you world and fucking it by using the rules right", as they didn't had the 3.5 DMG since they started playing. Poor people, not their fault... but their personalities, ew. After that I noticed they ALL were That Players too, talk about bad luck, eh.

Then I got to GM and see by my own eyes how things worked out and... I'm stuck in this position ever since. That's not actually true, as sometimes I got to be a player again, but the "power" of being able to improvise an entire scene without being held by "I'm just a player here" condition is the groundbreaker.

Nowadays I only GM (and rarely play) online, text-based games, with people that really wants to be around me and talk about things and the weather. Maybe it's your luck, or your own choices that bog you down to shitty people.

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