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You might want to check out the Game Parlor in Woodbridge. Lots of tables and a bulletin board for connecting with other players/GMs.

Unfortunately Game Parlor in Woodbridge closed down last year.

Hey everyone. A group of friends and myself(about 4-5 of us) have started/wanting to start a Pathfinder group.. However I'm the only one who knows the rules to any sort of degree(or remembers over half of them), which has put me into the GM role for our new fledgling group. However, as I am not an expert on the rules by no stretch of the imagination and I am not big on GMing.. I decided I would see if there was anyone in the area who was more excited about GMing and would like to GM with my friends and myself?

We are all in the age range of 19-23 and we would prefer someone near our age group and who might have a place/know a place on hand where we could all meet up(we are pressed for space in our current environs). So if anyone was in the area and interested please let me know and we can work something out?

@Cranewings - I would hardly consider myself aggravating out of game or in game. I never argue with the GM and hardly ever argue with any of the other players. Of course this is my side and yes there will be some bias as I feel like a victim, and quite frustrated about it all too. And if I was I don't see why he can't just contact me outside of the game or after a session and talk to me about it.

@Lord Snow - The closest I recall to any other player making any comment about it was the other night when I made an off hand comment about it which the GM ignored, but our Bard just commented "Yep". The others of course could just as easily not notice what is going on.

@Everyone - I will try to talk to the GM when I can. It's encouraging to receive some support and hear some similar stories.

Hope this was the right place to put this. Anyways.

Hey everyone, I've come into some conflict recently with my GM in our Pathfinder campaign and was looking for what other people thought as this is really bothering me.

So some quick background. We've been playing this Pathfinder Campaign since the Summer and I've been friends with the GM for a few years now. For the most part the campaign was fine, and a lot of fun. Eventually the character I was playing(a Paladin at the time) had a bad run in with a Ogre and a club and died.. I suppose I can live with that.. So I made a new character.. I decided since Ultimate Combat had just recently come out to play a Ninja. This was fine at first.. I had even more fun as this character to be honest, sneaking around.. Having invisible without being a spell caster, and plenty of fun Sneak Attacking. As time went on my GM would complain about both the invisibility and the sneak attack.. And this is where the problems begin.

Just to put it out there.. The rest of my group is a Sorceress, a Barbarian/Rogue, and a Bard.. All three of them can do some of the skills if not most of the skills I am good at.. Just as good if not better than me at times.. And even with that said.. Our GM doesn't put a whole lot of opportunity for me to really make use of skills I would be good at such as Disable Device or Stealth.. So I pretty much have come to rely on my Ninja tricks to go invisible to deal damage. So.. What's the problem?

Over the past few months my GM has effectively neutralized the only thing I really had going for my character in this campaign.. Which was my moderate(compared to the Barbarian/Rogue) damage potential.. I have not been able to sneak attack more than once in the past 3-4 months because our GM constantly throws monsters that are immune to sneak attack(and are not specific to the campaign's story, just random encounters), have some way around my invisibility/stealth... Or makes up some random excuse for why I can't get my sneak attack bonus.. "Oh you are invisible and you rolled really high for your attack roll? Well this guy somehow jerks out of the way!".. The real problem? He let's the Barbarian/Rogue sneak attack.. Heck he doesn't even try to nerf him at all like he has to me even though the Barb/Rogue hits for over 35 damage before sneak attacking on just one hit(At levels 8-10) something I couldn't even dream of without having any Sneak Attack damage.. Not to mention he is also a far more durable character.. I've had a near death experience because of some of these things in almost every single sessions(and as I said about my party composition we have no dedicated healer class)because I am a squishy melee character... and seem to get hit more often than anyone else..

Normally I was fine with there being some logical excuse for why I can't.. But now it has gotten to the point where for some tenuous(at best) reason I can't do jack squat.. And when I bring it up in anyway to my GM he just ignores me.. Then.. whenever something I get excited about happens or I acquire due to leveling.. He always likes to make offhand comments like "Oh well there are plenty of ways around that." Making me feel like an idiot for getting my hopes up that I could 'ever' actually start being useful.. It has gotten to the point where all this is absolutely ruining the game for me and I can't even bring myself to RP(which the other players have begun to comment on).. I'm not really having any fun anymore and I am now purposely trying to get my character killed just so I can play something more useful or quit the campaign because I feel so worthless to my party and have no hope of it getting any better.. He doesn't do anything like this with any of the other characters and it's frustrating me to no end..

Thoughts? Is it just me?

I should also add.. As with all my near-death experiences.. My GM also won't let me die. In fact the session we had the other night I died.. But the GM felt the need to nerf the damage enough that I was barely alive so he wouldn't "feel bad" about killing a player.

TL;DR - GM nerfs me specifically, but no other characters and it has gotten to the point where I am trying to commit suicide in combat on my character because I feel so useless to the party and the setting at large.