Listen, I don't wanna hurt anyones feelings, and I get that there's a complex reason things are as they are, you're valid even if you struggle with this, but

You are making art. You're contributing to a human story millenia old.

Take some pride in that. Take confidence from it

These aren't "just games", even the silly, small, pointless, meaningless, or duplicated. It's part of a grand journey and an enormous canon, it's a conversation with a million readers, half of which haven't been born yet.

Lemme hear you shout about it. Puff out your fuckin chest

I wanna see the moment in my lifetime when TTRPGs go from being a meek and quiet and tip-toeing community of nervous mice to the loud and brash and overconfident punk rock badasses I know we all are. I wanna see y'all shine like fucking stars.

so many games get promoted on here with a sort of "please like my game :(" tone and I download the game and holy shit it kicks ass, it's incredible! Put just 1% of the power that's in your games into telling me how fuckin' cool it is and we'll be set for life in no time

mfers telling you to play it cool are people who already got theirs by pretending they knew something you didn't. Be loud, be brash, & proud of every word you write. The universe is watching, in a thousand years your biggest fan will have to defend your ass. Make it easy on them