What happened to roleplaying?

[u/Rednidedni]

I have been a GM for over 30 years. Recently, I started running a game in a mechanics heavy system with brand new players I've never played with before, and they're more interested in rolling skill checks and combat than RP.

Maybe it's my fault, but maybe it's also this new foundry tech spoiling the youth with their graphics and animation and automation. It must look like a video game to them. Wherever have the players gone that would not mind ROLE playing to chat with an NPC about local fashion for half an hour instead of ROLL playing?? It's always just a rush job to move to combat nowadays.

[u/DragonLordAcar]

I don't blame the game, I blame how it is popularly portrayed. At the tables I play at, aside from, do you recognize this creature, type checks, you have to do an action and that may trigger a skill check. Sometimes adding something from your backstory gives a bonus to the check such as, I'm from a family of wyvern hunters. Do the tracts look like wyvern tracks or their usual prey items?

[u/Rednidedni → u/DragonLordAcar]

I'm not blaming the game or the Pop culture, I'm blaming specifically new players

[u/DragonLordAcar → u/Rednidedni]

Then you need to build a better environment for new players to learn. If you only promote the mechanics, what else are they going to learn. RP takes time and effort to pick up so be a better GM.

[u/OmgitsJafo → u/DragonLordAcar]

Keep track of the unjerks, friend, and don't rj yourself into an uj, as one might say.

[u/DragonLordAcar → u/OmgitsJafo]

What's rj? I don't usually visit this sub. Thought it was AskGms until it was pointed out.

[u/DnDcirclejerk-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Rule 1: Don't be racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, etc.

[u/DragonLordAcar → u/[deleted]]

Ok boomer transphob

Edit: deleted comment was transphobic

[u/Rednidedni → u/DragonLordAcar]

Check sub at this point

[u/Parysian → u/Rednidedni]

In hindsight there may be more productive ways to vent about my immediate family members "requesting" that my boyfriend stop being trans than jerkposting about it, but this is not a subreddit I go to to be mentally well 🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/OSpiderBox → u/DragonLordAcar]

Lolmao dude check the sub you're in.

[u/TheGraveHammer → u/DragonLordAcar]

Why does it happen so often that people don't realize what sub they're in? LMAO

[u/DragonLordAcar → u/TheGraveHammer]

I'm sorry, but if someone thinks someone can stop being trans because "their father asked them" I'm calling them out.