Adrius

If I was a player in this game I would stop going. It punishes committed players to put them at the mercy of the uncommitted.

I'll send you an update once it's done. My group rotates GMs and systems but within a few months I'll have them doing Gradient Descent.

I'm prepping a one-shot with Fangelsehala and a longer campaign with Mothership.

They'd need to be able to boost our morale with the litanies of hate. I did play in the Deathwatch RPG though which has a Chaplain class.

Wow yikes. You sound like fun at parties. Go find someone to care about.

For the record, I think there is a loneliness epidemic for both genders.

The worst part of this is the "This is part of the story"

This is just a toxic gender wars meme. Go outside, touch some grass, meet someone nice and move on with life. Memes like this come from and perpetuate the loneliness epidemic.

Sounds horrible tbh. A big part of the hobby is meeting new friends. This sounds like a good way to become socially isolated and depressed.

In my personal experience that's much more difficult

If this happens, the RPG is too complex for that player. Play a simpler system.

I ran a game of "Index Card RPG" with the setting "Blood & Snow". The setting includes an adventure seed where Cavemen have to search for ancient relic pillars every generation to stop an Ice Age. I never told my players, but in my mind we were playing a Warhammer 40k game and this was a world a space marine chapter used to recruit those who were strong enough.

B/X is good. When characters have d6 hp and it's instant death at 0 the combat becomes way more serious and tense.