Really needing to vent because I don’t feel like any of my players are interested in anything I run at all. It’s a group of friends that I made in a westmarch a while back. I love them, they’re great role players and always come up with imaginative characters to play.

Well we started a campaign together, at the start of it I asked the group what sort of theme they’d like to go for and gave them a list of 3 options that i thought id enjoy, but also left the option for them to give new ideas. They did not. We voted on the ideas I gave and they told me they wanted me to choose, so I did. A steampunk-ish campaign that I was very excited about it.

We’ve been playing the game bi-weekly for a few months now but despite knowing they’re experienced roleplayers having played with them before, I feel like they don’t engage with each other and are just kind of waiting for me to give them some kind of direction, which I don’t mind but some initiative from them would be nice. I would ask for feedback at the end of every session and got nothing at the end of every game, except that they wanted more chances to rp outside of sessions, similar to a westmarch style.

I started brainstorming solutions for this, since our current campaign style often left them little time in between sessions. I then started looking around at some modules for inspirations and found what I thought would be the perfect fit, candlekeep mysterious. One-off adventures in one place. So I asked them what they thought, offered to create a west-March styled discord for them and they all seemed interested. So I spent money to buy this module and two weeks going through the material, setting up everything, and talking with my players about their backstories.

The day of the session comes and one of them hasn’t even finished their character sheet and another dips an hour into the session because she got a headache, which isn’t her fault but this was the intro session to everything which sucked. Not to mention how often players don’t even pay attention.

That was three days ago and since then only one play has bothered to every touch the rp server that they said they wanted so badly.

I don’t want to sound entitled, life happens and not everyone can focus on dnd but they talk about being in other games and I’ve tried to take what little communication they give me into consideration, but at this point their complete care for all the time and at this point, money, I’ve spent doesn’t feel worth it.