The DM that made his terrible OCs do EVERYTHING
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Step aside, Tim. This DM did everything you did, and then some! All with this terrible OCs.
"I'm really sick of you guys bringing up this 'not having fun problem"
This video was entirely shot and recorded in one night. Someone please help me.
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But wait, there's more!
Part 2!
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should i be scared of a part 2 of an absolute nightmare the first part was?
We need more videos of games actually going perfectly, that ending got my hopes up
Oh Jesus fuck
Yeet
I would have just killed my PC and quit. I would have given the DM two sessions to get the game right then quit and tell the rest of the players to call me when somebody else took over as DM.
"Since it is relevant: I am female"
Oh no.
The moment that gets said, you know things are gonna be bad.
Hugh Mann A fellow Hugh! We are few and far between my friend.
@@hughirvine826 pssst, it's a joke name. "Hugh Mann" = Human
Hugh Mann An imposter!
No but in all seriousness I must be illiterate because I didn’t even realize.
I always cry a little when I see this. Damnit, my fellow nerds, we're fun, we're likable, we're interesting, we don't have to do this shit!
"Okay, I do walk off the ship"
"We're in the air and you will die."
"Most likely, but after my time on this ship I've come to appreciate the thought of sweet embrace of death."
I'm certain one of his NPCs would be able to resurrect them just to lecture them tho
What if a boss in the new 5e campaign was a sentient airship?
that's how you get a party to wanna kill a villain
@@getthegoons [During the many DMNPC "lectures"] What? Aaron is evolving...
Congrats, Aaron The Cleric has became Aaron The Braindead Cleric (Due to not-thinking for way to long)
@@getthegoons uhh no they wouldn't. apparently the players can't be revived because of how the bard died... WHY DOES GLOW HANDS NOT WORK WHEN YOU ACTUALLY WANT IT TO?!?!??
Yea, all I could think of during this entire thing was how inviting the sweet embrace of PC-death must've been to any player at that table.
"So if I leave the ship I die?"
"Yes"
"Cool. I jump."
"One of the others saves you."
"I jump again"
"They save you again, and tie you up."
"Alright, I take out my pistol and shoot myself."
"One of the others revive you"
"I refuse."
"What?
"I refuse when they try to bring me back to life. They can't force my character to be revived if I don't want to."
"Well, their so strong that they can override that. So they bring you back to life."
"I shoot myself again."
"They stop time and take your pistol"
"I escape the ropes."
"Well they let you out so it's fine."
"I grab some gunpowder and blow myself to smithereens."
Did you have fun reading all of that? No? Cause I have a feeling this is how that game felt. Appreciate the good DMs you guys have.
The problem here is that I liked reading that
Oh don't worry, I've lived this kind of shit for a year, I appreciate being in a good group with a great DM.
I had a DM who pulled that shit once. I took my character sheet, put it in my binder, gathered my things, and left. No D&D is superior to DM fanfic shitshow D&D.
"i leave the campaign"
"they bring in their Necromancer to revive you regardless."
Sorry I had to.. :'D
DM: "Pocket Dimensions cannot tether to relative objects."
Bag of Holding: "Am I a joke to you?!"
Bag of holding potatoes
General Skalinera // Neon Silver What else would you fill a bag of holding with beyond COPIOUS POTATOES?!?
Is that a jojo reference
Something something Portable Hole...
Friggin idiot DM declares pocket dimensions impossible.
This wasn't a D&D game... This was a hostage situation.
Literally, and on multiple levels - the characters were literally being kept against their will (one of them didn't even sign. Someone else "signed on her behalf." Meaning no consent). And the players were being held hostage with emotional blackmail. So a hostage situation on multiple levels.
Lord Fuzzle So you'd think, but I think the DM and the inventor of the SUE system is even worse: irolledazero.blogspot.com/p/properly-ordered-posts.html
For some random highlights, the players are given a mission briefing consisting of ten minutes about how useless they and their mission is before sending them out without even teaching them how to use their weapons. A wizard that telepathically sees the players plan and instantly destroys their secret weapon as soon as they think about it. A group of futuristic high-tech engineers unable to do anything because in the future knowledge of things like hot air balloons has been delegated to computers. And as a cherry on top, the only characters that matter are a trenchcoat-wearing, katana wielding DMNPC, and DM's literal self-insert as the most powerful being of the multiverse.
Oh, and the DM himself is literally the definition of highest possible intelligence. As in, if your intelligence is less than 20 you're unable to do the things he can, and if he doesn't know something, literally no one can. Not the DMNPC but the DM himself - if he doesn't know how to do something, no one in his game can either.
These kinds of hostage situations are much worse the setting and world-building are interesting with good rp, especially amongst the party.
This just sounds like slavery with extra steps
Fuze the hostage. You'll be doing them a favor.
"So if I leave the ship I'll be killed?"
"Yes"
"Ight Imma head out"
So if i jump out of the ship do i take fall damage or die because of the contract first?
And what do i roll against?
*proceeds to jump off the deck of the ship and take massive fall damage*
@@dimsum3329
Then Craig teleported u back to the Ship cuz shitty Dming
@@dimsum3329 Fucking swandive off that shit.
Bosun Bill I call out to Tiamat and summon her to eat them all she’s a greater goddess and will murder stomp them
For about 20 seconds the plot was amazing. A group of errandboys who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, leaving them to be the only ones left in the world who can fight against an evil god-like maniac with a doomsday device!
And then deus ex glowy hands happened.
Alcachaz That honestly sounds like a great idea for a movie or something.
@@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527
Eh sounds kind of cliched
Even that would have been fine, if only *one* of the crew could be revived (the souls of the others stolen by BBEG), and heavily weakened. After effects of a curse applied by the attack (or given the twisted insta-kill curse contract, by the very obviously *EVIL* Captain through a contract all crew signed), forcing them to only be trainer/mentor to the group as he guides them through what needs to happen for them to get the means to defeat the BBEG.
@@nvfury13 That would have been a simple way to do it. I woulda just sent them on foot on a wild goose chase racing against time, cutting through shortcuts to stop a psycho with a dangerous weapon from activating a doomsday device. Also maybe throw in some interesting headhunters to act as rivals and stalk you like Team Rocket once they've failed to kill you once. Idk
@@nvfury13 I was thinking of glados-potato-ing the main npc, having them lose their body and their consciousness alone being contained inside a stone of far speech
He was basically forcing the party to read his bad fan fiction
worst, it was forcing his party to hear his bad fan fiction with the POV of the secondary character of a fan fiction.
Correction, he forced his party to LIVE OUT his bad fan fiction. Whenever I hear or read about something like this all I can think is, why would anyone stay for this type of shit and why the hell would any DM ever think this is a good idea.
@@ButterBoyism Same, they must have the patience of saints.
@@mazzpsykoziz It's beyond patience my dude, imagine sitting there for hours session after session and just twiddling your thumbs while a DM tells you his story. All you have to do is clap, smile and do what he tells you to do - you are not even playing.
It's literally like going to a book story to sit down and listen to a great storyteller reading an excerpt from his new book - only this is neither a good story nor a good storyteller, and it definitely isn't a fucking bookstore!
@@ButterBoyism Oh listen, I would've walked right the fuck out. What I was trying convey is that them not doing so earlier was nuts.
The best advice for Dungeons and Dragons I've ever heard is: "Remember, no one 'wins' D&D. As a GM, your victory isn't a TPK, it's your players having a good time. As a player, victory isn't beating all the encounters or being better than the other players, it's going on a memorable adventure."
as Magnus The Red once said:
"you cant WIN an RPG....just like you cant win at LIFE..."
As a DM you succeed by giving the players a fun time, not by killing them
The problem about this DM is not he want a sadistic time for his PC.
It's he wanna be praised as a god
You can win DnD
The victory condition is having fun as you beat the BBEG especially if it's after a long difficult campaign with many hardships and maybe even a few characters dying epically
Kyle Kautz I meant in a competitive sense; victory over an opposing team. And before you “actually” me, it’s clear the teams are implied as DM vs Players, not ‘group vs challenges’.
DM: “It’s not a railroad if it’s in the sky herp dee derr!”
Okay, I love this comment way too much.
@@CritCrab Rest in peace to this story, I actually almost thought the beginning of the story sounded like me, I did make crazy DMNPCs, and I did start in airships, but I soon diverged from this horror story, never once had them locked up on the ship (in fact I almost immediately booted them off to a village) and I actually haven't progressed very far (Even though my players want me to continue, i've been rather busy, and we never set a schedule). This story kinda felt sad to me, since even my first session of DMing seems to have gone better than whatever this mess became.
In that case its a Maglev.
@@CritCrab Choo Choo Plane
Hey! But, it...I mean...as a matter of fact...listen here you little...[sigh] just...shut up and take my fricken like...
"I tried over and over again to get him to improve. I sent him resources. I WROTE FEEDBACK ON UNSATISFYING SCENES."
This honestly sounds like a dream player and its such a shame this guy didnt realise how amazing she is. As a DM im constantly wondering if what im doing isnt working or if my players are enjoying certain aspects etc. having a player sit down and talk this kinda stuff over with me is amazing anytime it happens and always leads to better fun at the table
That's the one thing I have as a DM, when the session is over I'm like "Did it go ok? did people enjoy it? What could I improve?" and I get the responses of "No dude it was fine, don't worry." I can't help but have that nagging voice in the back of my head that I'm doing a crap job and they're only putting up with it because nobody else wants to DM.
I had a DM who _said_ he wanted feedback to help him improve, as he was new.
Turns out that no, no he did not want feedback. He just wanted fellatio. I left the game soon after that realization.
If I Was A DM & Someone Told Me They Have A Problem With My Homebrewed Campign. I'll Explain That "My Campign Is Based Off Final Fantasy. & If You Have A Problem With The Magic & Level Up System, Then That You Do Not Like Final Fantasy & If You Don't Like Final Fantasy, You Have A Problem With JRPG's."
I have DM'ed a couple of games with strangers, mostly I just set the stage then let the PCs chime in and just build a satisfying campaign from there on out.
@@777Plushy You sound like a nightmare to play with. Learn to take criticism; you didn't do it right the first time, and there's more than just you in the game.
Also, that's not how capitalization in English works.
I think that having a ship full of overpowered DMPCs that *actually* die would be an amazing start to a campaign
Yeah. I agree.
The DM should have had the characters discovered that the DMPCs were all evil and they needed to figure out how to get free from them without dying
I also think that’s if the Dm didn’t make them die when they leave the ariship a story about adventures trying to escape powerful enemies that’s are on a airship and using smart tactics while trying to do the main quests while having the story in the background would be a cool campaign
That's almost like the first episode of Invincible. I woulda been down for that
Ooooh what if a PC was a low level stowaway, who only survives by hiding in a bucket. All the while, OP NPCs are getting dropped like a oil-slicked baby and the other PCs are getting their shit slapped.
The battle ends, the baddies leave, the NPCs are dead, the PCs are dying. As the stowaway, do you take everything you can and bolt? Do you revive a PC just to get info out and then leave? Do you revive all the PCs and take over the ship with them? Do you toss all the corpses overboard and yeet into the heavens in your ill gotten ship? So many options for one seemingly insignificant PC to make that can impact an entire world.
“Rogue signed the Mage Up-“
OBJECTION
(Slams hands) Everyone knows that unless you are a parent or legal guardian, you can not sign someone else up with a contract. That makes the contract null and void.
Rouge: uhh in case you didn't notice I am a *ROUGE!* I am a simple person who independently works for the benefit of my beliefs, I don't care if my party doesn't want to come and even if I did I certainly wouldn't bind their life to something they don't want to do!!!
Lady Phoenix? more like lady phoneix WRIGHT
This is why nobody invites Phoenix to dnd parties
The fact that your name is Phoenix helps this comment immensely
🤣😂🤣 though after hearing this cringe story you know that would get over ruled in the most basic boring way by the DM.
This legitimately frustrates me the DM had a stroke of genius bringing a big bad to murder his OP cast of NPCs giving a sense of terror and scale, until he decided to resurrect them and derail the game.( I could have saved this DnD game)
Yeah, while reading I was thinking. 'Hey, this doesn't sound so bad after all'... You can guess how I felt one sentence later.
Don't know why, but as soon as I heard the word "resurrection powers", I suddenly noticed the palm of my right hand resting firmly on my forehead. I don't even remember putting it there. Really weird.
If he kept them npcs dead he could have had the pcs take over the ship and given his players some freaking agency. I'd say he even could have kept the sort of "dungeon of the week" thing going but I even wonder if he could properly scale a fight.
@@Phaserdragon Yeah, after getting rid of the super special awesome pet NPCs, I get the feeling he still wouldn't have scaled those battles properly. Ugh, as someone who GMed, it's not that hard
Tell me about it. The start of a truly great story promptly shattered and thrown into the trash. That was painful to hear about.
if your DM *ever* decides what your character does while you're sitting at the table, leave.
Nerobyrne Unless you agree like “I want too punch him in the face” and the dm goes “(character name) rears his fist up and slams it into the guys face, breaking his nose”
@@gorillaenjoyer871
well that's not really like the dm forcing you to do something
that's the dm describing what you do
which i actually think is pretty cool
Well, not a DM forcing a player to do something; I had a similar instance.
We had two players in this game I'm in. Both of them can't speak and will not want to learn common. Always during games, one of them flakes out so the other takes control on what they do. I don't know the relationship the DM has with those two players, but they don't really contribute to the story.
Most of the time, the two PCs just cause trouble and follow eachother around, throwing wrenches into the DM's plans, "for funs sake" I guess
@@gorillaenjoyer871 It's okay if you have consent from the player, like you ask them first.
What I mean is that a GM just basically mind-controls your PC.
Think of it like someone just doing your turn in a board game because they don't like what you're doing.
It's a massive violation of personal boundaries and just ruins it for everyone
I would beg to differ, failed Wisdom saves against dominate person and the DM should be allowed to decide, though it's usually more fun if the DM gives a vague order (like betray your party) and the player does with that what they want.
Fittingly enough, the Reddit post is called "How I developed a pathological fear of airships"
I mean the part with the guy slaughtering the whole airship sounds basically like the opening to Infinity War so that is fairly reasonable.
I honestly love airships. They can be so cool in a globe trotting game. But this...is like the anti-airship game.
Damn, i love airships. An airship fight can be a lot of fun, especially when a pc gets an opportunity to take the wheel. So sad this dm ruined this potential experience.
@@hh-ck6ko ikr airships are the ship
@@skirk248 I see what you did there.
Based on the title, that DM would have more fun playing Skyrim, Witcher, Dragon Age, etc, and you know why? They're single-player!
EDIT: Skyrim with mods even had an airship!
Really? I need to find this.
@@CritCrab a Dwemer airship at that. Another one let's you become Jarl of a rebuilt Helgan, and a Lich. Mods are fun.
@@feralchangeling97 (Bruh sound effect #2s aggressively)
@@CritCrab you can become a walking apocalypse with some mods and not just because it destroys the frame rate on small computers.
You can also wield oxiclean and talk to jaarl dogruff of whiterun or even become the emperor with another mod.
But the ones by chocolate milk are still the best mods.
player: I'M NOT SIGNING A LIFE BINDING CONTRACT!!!
DM: someone signed on your behalf
player: YOU CAN'T SIGN A LIFE BINDING CONTRACT ON SOMEONES BEHELF!
DM: you all sign the contract now let's move on
player: I would like to send an S.O.S
DM: the wisard senses your intentions and grabs you firmly
player: THIS IS S0 FU*KING STUPID!!!
IT IS!
@@CritCrab Critical Crab give me strength...
you can sign a life binding contract on someone's behalf...so basically you can write contract for all of your sworn ennemies, sign for them, and basically turn them into slave to your will without having them knowing. Is the guy who designed these contracts a god or something?
Not gonna lie, I will absolutely steal the "ship full of powerful characters gets decimated by the bad guy" bit. I just won't revive anyone.
Yeah that kinda reminds me of the opening to Arcanum
Tanner Barnes yeah That Honestly had so much opportunity but of course he fell into the trop of doing something that could’ve change the story but instead reverse it turning it into surprise factor material
Might also be better if there was actual reason the big bad doesn't kill the PCs, like maybe they're hidden and he doesn't see them or something. I always find it odd when villains choose to leave people alive cuz they "aren't worth their time". Like, really, you're gonna jeopardize your master plan just cuz these characters don't *seem* like they could pose a threat to you? Hell you could just tell one of your minions to do it if you're feeling lazy. I usually would only do something like that if the villain was either insane or particularly dumb.
Will it have NPCs having an orgy during the time their airship does a Hindenburg? If so, send me the transcripts. I had to do budget cuts and my online streaming service had to go.
ngl it reminds me of the start of Bravely Second
Except they weren't even given the chance to get up and try to change their fate this time.
As someone on the spectrum, that DM sounded self-diagnosed. I ran a one-shot a week ago and one player was arrested. The other players left her there because she pissed them all off and she had to escape on her own. Sounds bad but they were laughing their way through the game. She managed to break out and catch up with the others and demanded why they left her there. She couldn't even keep a straight face for the role play because the reasoning was too funny "Because you scare us.". In all fairness her character was pretty scary.
PFFFT. You and your friend sound awesome.
@@CritCrab all of them are. One thing we do if a campaign isn't going well is to cut our losses and run with the next being affected with the outcome the antagonist was seeking but with mitigated results. Any ideas that seem promising get recycled into another. The player that got her character arrested was trying to hide a drug stash in the players' base and they willingly moved it out and framed her. The world ends up screwed more than once because of them but they survive. That Skyrim video playing in the background is the kind of thing their characters THINK they can do but as soon as the spider shows up, they nope back down the mountain. The drugged out player tries to fight it alone and gets injured. She has more scars than Geralt of Rivia.
Agreed. I have several diagnoses and so does one of my GMs. We both have a smorgasbord of crap and the group is aware. We hold each other accountable. Instead of "oh it's because of this!" it's more like, "shit guys, I'm sorry. I'll try to be more mindful." It's never an excuse with our group, it never should be for someone else. no one deserves to walk on eggshells.
I actually had something pretty much exactly like that happen in my last game session as well. The character was arrested for trespassing on temple grounds though, not for drug dealing. She's an outspoken atheist in a world where the existence and active interference of Gods is a demonstrable empirical fact, and the character leaves out no opportunity to piss off every religious authority she runs into in every city we come to. Oh yeah, did I mention that she technically also belongs to a religious group herself?
For a second I thought a player was arrested in real life.
Thankfully I reread shit
I can’t deny, it I were this group’s new DM, I wouldn’t be able to resist having an airship pop up at some point just to freak them out.
Make it a Ghost Airship with formerly high level deceased characters in different states of undress travelling soundlessly through the planes.
the villain should own an airship
Have A BBEA(Big Bad Evil Airship) instead of a BBEG
I'd have an airship show up just so they can blow it up for no reason.
Kinda late but just have the BBEG have a plan to conquer a big nation or maybe even the world with an armada of airships, but these have yet to be completed so they can after defeating BBEG destroy all the incomplete airships in a blaze of glory
Look, just because your DMPCs are super-powerful doesn't mean that the level one characters CAN'T save against mind-reading, it just means that it's HARDER to save against mind-reading.
Reading someone's surface mind with Detect Thoughts doesn't trigger a save.
@@nickwilliams8302 And when the DM said that I don't get any saves against the "probing" that's when I would say fine, then all that they are reading of my mind are of my Character playing chess, a card game, or even become trapped inside an inescapable ever expanding maze
@@Altyrell Depends on whether your character knows someone's trying to read their mind. If so, I'd definitely say you'd get a CHA (Deception) check.
But then again, I wouldn't be pulling the crap in this story on my players in the first place.
That depends on the DM. It's valid for even a nat 20 to not be able to stop it. Nat 20's may automatically succeed the check but that doesn't mean the check ever had a chance of stopping the mindreading (though a good DM should at least make it have some tangiable effect otherwise it just feels shitty for the player). And of course it's always valid for a DM to rule that you don't get a saving throw, but again, doing it arbitrarily is going to feel bad for the players.
Remember DM is basically god as far as rules and the world goes. They should be a benevolent god who is out to make you have fun, if they're a shitty god then leave the realm of their god powers and don't look back.
You get to read surface thoughts, beyond that REQUIRES a save, however, as Dm, you are allowed, and actually, forced, into producing homebrew. Homebrew, of course, is anything not within the official books, and dnd, dm, by definition, is someone who interprets the books his own way, using them as tools, and bending the worlds rules to fit his narrative. Dms are 100% allowed to homebrew and make shit up as they please. That said, give a reason.
I would say that, if you're not allowing a save, then either theres something about the air ship that enhances psychic powers greatly, like Cerebro from X-Men, or , it casts enfeeble mind as an aura, reducing everyones mental capacity unless they are resistant/immune to psychic, giving them either disadvantage on saves or no save. Or, simply announce your dmpc took a feat that allowed that specific spell to have no save. Granted, if you're doing this, allow the players the same option. IE, if you created feats, the players are allowed access to the same feat pool. Do whatever you want as dm, but be fair about it. Theres a lot of ways he could explained away this, but he didnt because he doesnt have empathy, he is not capable of seeing from their point of view, this is because of his mental illness no doubt, he is literally, autistic.
This does give me an idea for a Campaign, same idea with them being stuck on an airship with DMPC's but the goal is to escape and run as far away from the Plot as possible.
ZapBlast9000
Interesting, how would that play out?
There’s a book called Redshirts which this is literally the plot. To defeat the narrative
Hey had the same idea except I want my PC to kick the DNPC asses in the process and take the cool ship for themselves. Some revenge for being treated like shit :P
@@HearthFlow Well after they escape from the ship (Just go with whatever the PC's want to do) they start heading to smaller towns for work with the realization that if they gain to much fame the DMPC's will notice and they will have to ditch town. Do this one or two more times till the plot catches up with them in the form of the BBEG, who captures them and after some dialogue with the PC's reveals that he's not truly evil but just wants to get back at his former party (the DMPC's). If you've played the DMPC's as massive jerks throughout the game then the party should have no qualms joining the BBEG. Thus the journey begins to save the world from its saviors.
This sounds exactly like things me and my bros do to every plot LEL xD, our DM learned to improvise anything basically
Me: is on spectrum
Also me: is a decent DM
*being on the spectrum isn't an excuse to be an asshole
Same, I hope I’m a good DM, despite not knowing any rules, but my players (family) have fun so I’m at least better then him
Also, @UNKNOWN : 0, DIO pfp? Niiiice
I am on the spectrum too I am a dm for my family. I am also improvising the Champaign too so I am putting a little stress on my self. And I know all the stuff the dm did in the story are a major no go in Most If not all dnd dming
I am also on the spectrum and I’m not an asshole
I'm also on the spectrum, a decent DM and not a narcissistic asshole.
Dear dms
STOP PUTTING SPELLCASTERS IN UNREMOVABLE CHAINS OF ANTI MAGIC
YOUR TAKING AWAY THE ONLY THING WE HAVE!!
Sincerely SPELLCASTERS.
That's like magically cursing a fighter or barbarian so they don't have arms or legs
DMPC: YOU ARE SELFISH, UNGRACEFUL, MOTHER FU-
(one annoying pep talk later)
DMPC: UNDERLINGS!
Bard: ... SPEAK FOR YOURSELF YOU ABUSIVE PRICKS! WE HAVE BEEN DRAGGED ALONG FOR WHATEVER BULLSH*T YOU GET YOURSELVES INTO! THE STUFF YOU PUT US INTO SITUATIONS THAT WE PRETTY MUCH CANNOT POSSIBLY HANDLE!!! AND THAT'S NOT EVEN THE WORST PART OF IT! YOU JERKS CONSTANTLY INVADE OUR PRIVACY BY READING OUR MINDS *CONSTANTLY!!!* YOU SPILLED THE BEANS ON OUR SORCERERS *PERSONAL* SECRETS, YOU DON'T EVEN TELL US WHAT'S GOING ON, YOU ALL DISRESPECT US, YOU DON'T ALLOW US TO HAVE ANY PRIVACY AND YES YOU DO BAIL US OUT OF SITUATIONS BUT WE WOULDN'T NEED YOU TO BAIL US OUT IF YOU WEREN'T PUTTING US UP AGAINST IMPOSSIBLE ODDS!!! WE ARE BASICALLY SLAVES! HOW ARE WE THE SELFISH ONES YOU PRIVACY INVADING FU*KERS!!!
(one year later)
"and so the fighter got married to an underage NPC"
fighter: NO APRUEBO NINGUNO DE ESTO!!!
DM: nO tHiS HaPpEnEd aNd YoU hAvE No sAy In ThE mAtTeR dEsPiTe ThIs BeInG yOuR cHaRaCtEr! i aM a WrItInG gEnIoUs!
I only put in anti-magic fields if 1- there is a way to exit the field, or 2- the party foolishly went into an un-winable situation
I made a half giant (DM's home brew race I selected) who's entire backstory was they were previously a slave and their greatest fear is being forced into servitude again. First encounter he attempts to throw my character in chains with a bag over my head as a railroad to meeting some crime boss and got mad when I didnt accept being chained so he killed my character in the combat that followed my escape attempt and then expected me to show up for 10 more sessions and not play to keep up with plot till he could fit in a new character for me. I just left
*laughs in wizard against magic-eating demons*
I've never DMed before, but I got to be better than that joke.
Yes, you are.
I've barely begun being a player in D&D
But i can tell you that if you have a functioning imagination, you're better than the DM in the video
I could go on and on describing scenery or characters, Hell i'm writing a story and characters for a video game i hope to make or be part of making
I've never played DnD before, but even I know that you would
Oi same bro
I think most people would be better. Mainly because new DM's would start by using pre-built scenarios and such. Also Never insert OP Gary sue GM self inserted PC's. Having an GM PC is ok enough if it's a small party or the DM was forced to DM :P But never the genius knows everything type. More the, Party can't figure it out. So nudge in the right direction type.
"Why is no one having fun? I specifically requested it." - the DM, probably
I can imagine making this airship a dungeon/boss area in a campaign. A ship full of OP characters that are shanghai-ing innocent adventurers that the players need to free.
An ex-party of adventurers realized that by managing quests, they could reap the most reward for the least effort. They go into various towns, collect all the quest posters, and go back to the ship. This is where they then send out the runts they gathered- who then complete the missions. The ship-crew then "reward" the party with a minimal reward, turn in the quest to the real authority, collect the main reward, and if anything is "sub-standard" (but too bothersome to sell) give it to the party as a "bonus" after "reviewing their efforts in the quest.
Basically, most stories where a clever person who used to play a game wakes up as an NPC and knows about the players.
See "The Legendary Mechanic" (great story, I'm up to chapter 260.)
I'm going to link to the story, if you make a WebNovel account, please use my invite code- *Nxe0YE6i* -so that I can get some more spirit stones to continue reading...
www.webnovel.com/book/8662546605001405/The-Legendary-Mechanic
As cool as that would be, I don't think I could design a story like that, having just aquired some brand new feelings about this particular situation.
@@DraconicDuelist the airship of latestage capitalism
I take my own personal one and hope if I ram it instead we avoid it as a dungeon and instead loot the dead from the crash site.
Acquisitions Incorporated?
9:40 Like I can think of ways to salvage this _so easily._
Ship Captain: You survived because he underestimated you? We can work with this! Here, take these extremely powerful magical items from us that will even the playing field. He won't expect much of a fight from you! If you can just get the Macguffin from his posession, you can defeat him!
Boom, set, plot. Dang, maybe I should DM.
I suddenly feel much more confident starting some DnD with my bf after listening to these!
I feel like anyone could do a better job as player or dm than this guy :p definitely a confidence boost
@@artemisameretsu6905 i feel the same with voice acting, i got a huge confidence boost after listening to some bad voice acting that made the part.
MegaChickenfish that sounds SO awesome!
yea but that isn't the game that the DM was running. he would not do something like that!
You sir, are creative
"because it's releveant, I am female"
Ruh-roh Shaggy!
I actually really like the airship idea as a story angle, it has a very dark tone to it. Everyone is a prisoner on this airship, bullied by people more powerful and with more standing. It's pretty much the exact situation that's in Rule of Rose.
It sets you up as being super put-upon and makes it so you feel vindicated when you finally have the power to stand up to your oppressors.
I think you could really make that work.
:: Basically, everyone is the Sith Janitor
It really could work if the goals are actually level appropriate for the PCs despite having super powerful NPCs around. Don't send the low level PCs on missions they can't accomplish, instead maybe send the high level NPCs away to save the world, while the PCs deal with smaller problems locally: a rodent infestation, a mysterious stowaway, cleaning up after a magical accident which animated some household objects that then went on a rampage,...
Even just removing the dms meta control high level nocs as the opressors can be done well if you alow the players to outsmart them and maybe a large prision break like scenario less powerful but out enohisis on planing and preparation
I think it would be unique if these NPCs tagged along to give pointers or tips, but tried to stay on the sidelines unless someone was suffering a lot of damage or a dangerous monster showed up the group couldn’t take on. Instead, the NPCs do all the work and make the player characters feel like weaklings.
Ha yeah that story was great (sith janitor). But unless that is actually done on purpose by dm, the game is poopoo garbage
Exactly! The setting _could_ be amazing and work really well but so far (i admittedly havent finished the video yet) it sounds like the DM doesn’t care if anyone has fun or not.
Those players had the patience of SAINTS to put up with all that for a year. I'd have noped the hell out within the first month.
TalkingRevolver it was cowardice not patience unfortunately
I woulda chicked out by the first time the DMNPCs were introduced
It's a freind in real life they humor because of his mental illness and lack of additional friendships. They really wanted to give him every possible chance
The second they enslaved my character he would have leaped out of the airship flipping off everyone as they fell to their death like Baldur in God of War.
To harp on a bit of a nitpick here, the DM had OP’s god “descend from the celestial heavens,” on Eberron of all worlds. The setting where the gods’ very nature, and even existence, is deliberately kept very ambiguous by the author. That alone makes me think the DM never knew the lore he was demanding the players look up themselves, himself.
what, the fact the chaos god was forcing the characters to just do things against heir will wasn't a hint enough?
Also the setting generally emphasizes that high-level good-aligned npcs just aren’t very common. The highest level npcs described are a Druid that’s an immobile awakened tree and a cleric who’s powerless outside her temple.
The whole purpose of this is to avoid this exact scenario where player characters have to play second banana to the “real heroes” of the setting
this is the creepiest fantasy mass effect fanfic I've ever heard of
Dm: "We'll bang, okay?"
Player: "what? No!"
Dm: *Narrator voice* "We banged, okay?"
this is like an episode of black mirror where you're stuck in a show/series being an irrelevant side character that's usually relegated to the background.
I use these vids as a checklist not to do when i start dm'ing
Kinda like that one were they are forced into this star trek like game to be pawns for the creator of the game.
A friend of mine has literally NEGATIVE respect for those who use mental illness as excuses to do bad things
Your friend knows what's up.
As someone diagnosed with three mental illnesses, I COMPLETELY agree with you. It makes me angry when people do that.
On behalf of all of us in the Autism community, we agree with him.
Illness is illness. Asshole is asshole.
My character would of jumped off the air ship to his death with a DM like this.
Don't worry the dm would have made up something to get you revived and have you brought back to the airship
"why do we exist just to suffer"
If a DM took over my character, i'd say that'd have broken the barrier of control this game had, and then say that i'm now a level 486 wizard and nobody can stop me unless *_I_* want them to
@@spartanwar1185 They should make that an official rule. If the DM directly controls your character (not including control spells with saves) then you no longer need to abide by the rules as the DM obviously isn't. If I was the sorcerer I would just say I blow up the airship with a massive fireball and say I have anti-anti-magic at my disposal. If your not following the rules then your imagination is as important/powerful as his. I would then start writing random powers on my character sheet.
I think I'd just piss off one of the god NPC's to off me for the crimes committed, then promptly leave the table.
I would throw one d20 for jumping. 1 is a jump and 20 is a jump. So either way I die. Therefore I use that to escape
When I have a DMPC in the party, they "Are not sure what to do, but will support you in combat." I try very hard to have them do simple roles, like tanking an enemy, or sitting in the back and tossing out heals and buffing. If a creature gets low on HP, and I think the next attack(s) will kill it, I intentionally don't get the last hit on it, so the players can get that bit of glory. The reason I have a DMPC is because we have Co-DMs, and when the party crosses certain lines in the world map, the DM changes. Then I will start playing the now PC as a normal player would. But when the party goes back to my DM area, the characters switches back to the passive attitude.
Listening to this story physically is grating on me, I think I have a headache now. This DM is the worst. He is doing EVERYTHING wrong.
TLDR: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I’m doing a small campaign that is just me and two other people, including the DM. DM is my best friend and other player is his friend. The DM has his own character in the story that is not any more powerful than the rest of us, and doesn’t play like he’s omniscient. It works out really well too! This dude, however, is the worst.
My DMPCs are all incompetent drunks who are incredibly good at one thing and one thing only (and sometimes not even that). It really makes for more memorable encounters and characters.
I never force a DMPC on my players unless it's crucial to a mission they're on - I had a Ranger offer to help the party get through a pretty thick forest, as that was his favored terrain. He was a level lower than the players and had one magic item. His stats were rolled the same way I had my players roll. I wanted him to be helpful, not steal the spotlight.
Holy shit its vechs davion
The only dmpc I use is boblin the goblin who has base goblin stats.
God, I hate when GMs can't handle when they aren't a player, having to insert themself into everything the party does between them
Honestly, if you just want to be a player, just be a player. Don't DM.
I do this, but the NPCs don’t do anything, like they don’t investigate, they only help in combat and they are the same level as the party. I see the problem with that, but if you play it right it can work. This is a case of a DM who didn’t care about his campaign. DMNPCs are terrible and I only do this for fun. My players don’t mind because it’s awesome for my npcs to interact with the PCs and makes for good Roleplay.
Yeah, it might work in certain groups, but that would be an exception more than the rule. I can see it for the rp reasons, not so much the help in combat thing
@@olavapedersen6049 they only help in the sense that some act as blockers and healers so that way the players can be a bit more reckless. I like when my players are reckless and come up with outlandish ideas in combat.
@@astracrits4633 Man, if only it were that easy. I see you haven't encountered the Forever DM yet.
The group: Lets have a fun adventure to build our friendship
DM: You're all my NPCS prisoners
The group: Uh what
DM: You also have orgies regularly and you have no say in that
The group: But we've developed relations between our characters and that would completely go against what we've established
DM: Prudes...
seriosuly what is it about DnD that makes peple think they just be goddamn perverts in front of random people, or that they cna be assholes without consequence?
Ah fuck. I recognize some of this from my current group. What the fuck do I do?
Pinned for visibility! Someone please help a fellow crabbo.
just bring it up with your fellow players, but make it clear you want things to change, rather than just complain about any issues
I think the author of this nightmare scenario had the right idea. It just took them about a year to follow through and end things...
Try a one on one with your DM. Feedback is important, positive or negative. It's up to the DM on how they take your criticism. If they flat out ignore your pleas, then individually ask your fellow party members how they feel. This will help a lot in validating your concerns and prevent mob mentality if your reasoning is logical.
I recommend not ganging up on the DM all together as that can create hostilities almost immediately. Be respectful, because they're still a human being and probably don't want to feel attacked by the people they've been hanging out with.
If you're not having fun, then you should not feel obligated to stay.
Fun is why you signed up. And if the DM remains stubborn, bail. The other players can see your example and hopefully have the courage to do the same. Maybe that will finally be enough to open a stubborn DM's eyes.
No D&D is better than bad D&D. (If only I could give this advice to myself 6 years ago.)
Or start your own campaign.
With Blackjack.
And hookers.
@@Dude523 Are the blackjack and hookers combo npcs or players? I'm down for either.
@@supacreator9103 why not both? An npc hooker falls madly in love with a pc hooker, and they realize that their combined skills could rake in twice as much gold!
But in all seriousness, it's a good rule of thumb to sit with your players before they even make their characters and ask what they expect out of the game. Some players love combat and avoid RP. Some thrive in RP and have that reflect in their combat.
My number 1 favorite thing about D&D: World-building is just as much a player's right, as it is a DM's.
If someone says their character lived on an island, I have them tell me everything they can about it. Are there other islands? Do people also live there? Are they all at peace with each other? The players now feel part of this world that you helped them build.
D&D can be a beautiful experience. Some DM's feel they need to wield all this power. But at the end of the day, it's just a game. Let people have fun.
wait. antimagic on the ship?
the magic of the contract can't kill you for quitting if you quit in an anti migic zone. and because it's trigger happened, it wouldn't trigger again, it's magic would have been expended.
yeah i know i'm an arsehole, but thanks to being a DM i'm forced to think about that kind of stuff. never put a magical instakill on trigger nxt to a dead magic zone, that's DMing 101.
yeah this DM is suuuuch a good writer, he ttally didn't make up random shit to force people to go along with his dumb ideas, and these things totally don't contradict each other and make senses. Let alone how this makes the NPC's look like evil slavers rather than heroes.
Wait, are you trying to tell me that a DM who gives his IRL crush's level 1 character 10 bonus levels for lycanthropy while enslaving all the other PCs ISN'T a circumspect and well read DM???
Meh, he would have just had the magic of the contract be "oh so powerful that it can pierce anti-magic fields". Because yeah that's how magic contracts and anti-magic fields work. e_e
@@mr.n0on344 well its not tho. Antimagoc fields disable all magic within them. Even true polymorph becomes their original form until they leave the field
@@charmedrools1 was being sarcastic. Should have made it more obvious, my bad.
This DM clearly likes to play by himself. Read as much into that as you like.
if you make a level 20 NPC then have them be a town NPC! have them be there for hire such as high level clerics that can remove curses or a necromancer who let's you hire out his skeletons or something like that. don't just make them stand in for the party
I read into that using a Black UV lamp. What I read was not pretty, it was on the walls, the floors, on the mattress, all over the computer an even on the ceiling. I mean how the hell do you get it on the ceiling?! Well there is only one thing left to do, pull an arson insurance fraud job.
Yeah and he got his wish at the end when all the players walked out on him.
With the orgy moment, he probably likes to play with himself
"Uh, because you should want to save the world?"
Holy hells, the number of things wrong with that answer... First off, you should never assume investment on the part of the players. Yes, they do want to play as characters in D&D, but that doesn't mean it has to be *your* campaign they play in. They could be doing literally anything with their time, it's on the DM to make players want to spend time in their world. Second, yes. They *should* want to save the world. And yet, they don't. Again, who's fault is that?
My DM has us trying to save the world, but has all of our backstories tied to it. Even my character, who I made as just a streetrat cleric who is tagging along with the party because she has nothing better to do, has been thrown story hooks like being tempted by different patron gods and hints that a random trinket that comes with the Urchin background actually has some greater importance than my character realizes. Sure, we have met some super powerful NPCs (one was working for the god of death and essentially saved us by nuking a town of undead we couldn't hope to kill) but it's usually up to the party to either ask them for help, hope they accept, then get the hell out of the way or else get whomped by them too. They're also usually too busy with more important things to be Ex Machina devices.
@@ashes2steel As long as you guys, the players, feel more invested as a result, that means the DM is doing their job. At least on some level.
I remember DMing what was effectively a one-off for my friends, and I had them do a lot of one-on-one roleplay with the town's NPCs way before they saw any sign of combat. Everybody loved it; I even let the Cleric give a short sermon about a god we'd homebrewed together. It's all about taking the time that's needed to let your players feel like they really inhabit your world.
@@berserkercapitalist1231 well the DM has made me cry several times while role playing so... Yeah I'd say I was pretty invested! XD
@@ashes2steel Nice.
I feel this is tantamount to the skybeam superhero movie trope. Some of the best stories have nothing to do with saving the world.
Dungeons and Dragons: Escape From the Flying Bang Bus.
Im here for the interview
Inaccurate. You made that sound really fun, and this isn't at all
@@MsOdale7 That's how they get you.
Dungeons and Dragons: Escape from the Evil Magic School Bus
Ironically, this sounds like a decently fun idea.
"Am I that out of touch? No, it is the players who are wrong."
_Every NPC on the ship said in perfect, creepy unison as they fucked..._
DM: why do you hate having fun?
OP: ... uhh when did we say that?
DM: your attitude in the game!
OP: dude you need to introduce us to an element before you judge us on it
Right, adding this DM to the "Not Invited to Out Of Touch Thursday" list.
I'm not a violent person. It takes a lot to get me riled up, but even I wanted to punch this DM about 3 minutes into the story.
You and me both.
Also, is your pfp a Fire Emblem character?
@@alexanderticonuwu7591 It is! Forde from FE8.
@@calar8 Huh, never used him.
Is he a good cavalier?
I like Amelia for the challenge, Franz is way earlier, and Seth is Seth. So, I hardly used the other 2.
Let's face it EVERYONE wants to slam him to the ground WWE style because of his stupid decisions
@@alexanderticonuwu7591 Forde's a pretty good cav, but every cavalier in FE8 at least falls into the category of "pretty good" anyways. I think Franz is the better cavalier, and assuming you're using 2 cavs you'd ideally just run Franz and Seth, but if you're doing a no-Seth run Forde is a good choice as your second cav. Unlike Kyle, he doesn't hit especially hard and isn't that tanky, but he's fast enough to double reliably, making semi-consistent ORKOs possible (especially given how hilariously weak enemies are in FE8, even on hard mode.)
I can see the "powerful NPCs hiring level 1 characters" thing working as a "those jobs are too menial for us, and besides, everyone has to start somewhere" type idea and the group eventually becomes legendary and well-respected in their own rights. Too bad the DM wanted his DMPCs to be super heroes except when it would actually be interesting!
"we want to leave"
"You can't, monsters will attack you"
"Not if do this"
*The players proceed to stand up and walk away from the table, good ending*
*Que: Don't You Forget About Me, The Simple Minds*
I was thinking this lol
"They can't stop me if i leave." "What--" "gets up and leaves"
The saddest thing is this sounds like a fairly talented party of new players. Being able to forge in party relationships in such a stagnant campaign. I can completely understand the sorcerer being so frustrated. They tried their hardest to just have some fun, but the DM would never be able to deliver. Glad they found a good DM and really discovered how fun the game can be. Yes I just discovered you and am binge watching year old videos.
Damnnnnnnn this is really a horrorstory
Seems this DM wanted to plat FATAL rather than DND
Player: I’m not having fun.
DM: Too bad it’s my game now get railroaded.
Me: I jump off the airship and find a real DM.
DM: if you do that you will die
PC: okay time to find a drunk level 6 wizard who can sing karaoke
@@liamdalemon1525 is that a mothafockin' dingo doodles reference
@@Wampao ua-cam.com/video/a6pNNNe53Fw/v-deo.html
You know, one of these days I'd love to hear a story about a bad DM who knows they're a bad DM but is actually trying to improve and everyone has fun anyhow.
This story reminds me of the adage "The beatings will continue until morale improves."
"because it is relevant, the rogue and myself are female"
oh boy, i can smell the incel nonsense coming already
@Lance Clemings ...???
Sorry but listening to this story, i can’t help but see the DM wearing a fedora.
Is it because you yourself wear a fedora?
Perhaps...
That part was confusing becuse they said eveone else and the dm where male but the dm isn't a character
I would just like to say, as someone who has a close friend who is very much "on the spectrum," I know he would kick this DM's head in for daring to use "the spectrum" as an excuse for outright horse-shit like this. This isn't the behavior of someone "on the spectrum." This is the behavior of a man-child who manipulates his friends into doing what he wants when he wants and pitches a drunken temper tantrum when he doesn't get his way, then blames everything on his "mental illness." I'm glad that group told him off and got away from him. Speaking from experience, if someone's being an outright dick to you and your friends and it pisses you off, set your desire for a better outcome aside, throw your soft feelings for that person into a safe, lock it, and throw away the key. The minute something like this begins to physically affect you, it's time you put your own feelings and well-being above your supposed friend.
Also, the guy OP drunkenly ranted to is a TRUE friend the hero of this story. He, literally, saved her and her friends. So good on him. He's definitely a keeper.
As someone who is very much "on the spectrum", it is very, very difficult to avoid using it as an excuse. I'm not defending the guy, but I'm reasonably well-adapted and sometimes even I still have to make a conscious effort to keep myself from using it as such. Also, it doesn't sound to me like a man-child, so much as it sounds like a severely mal-adapted aspie who never got the childhood support necessary to have even a small semblance of emotional maturity. It's a subtle difference, but, in my mind at least, "man-child" sort of downplays the severity of the narcissism and machiavellianism that's going on.
@@TimmyCutts22 You're not wrong about the narcissism and machiavellianism here. As far as "on the spectrum" is concerned, I guess it depends on the person. My friend has Asperger's and he gets pissed off whenever he sees anyone use "on the spectrum" as an excuse for stuff like this.
I have a friend with schizophrenia and Asperger's, the latter being an underlying cause of the former, and, as a contractor, he informs his clients about both.
The schizophrenia doesn't cause problems, as the understanding of mental health has improved massively from where it had been, and it is properly treated and well under control.
Thanks to guys like the one in this video, when he mentions the Asperger's, the response he gets is "Isn't that a self-diagnosed pretend condition that whining assholes use to excuse their shitty behaviour?".
@@arfived4 (facepalm) I actually have another friend with Asperger's who was diagnosed by his Boss (he's a Care Worker so he was diagnosed by someone legit in the medical field).
This! I have a mild form of Asbergers and ADD, today diagnosed as ADHD, and I would never accept someone using their diagnosis to excuse repeat abuse and manipulative behaviour akin to what that DM did subject his players. Sure, at times it is difficult to not point at my double diagnosis to explain why I have issues in social situations, which do affect my job performance at times, such as not understanding non-verbal cues or interrupting someone trying to explain how to do a specific task or refusing to ask for help since I wish to not be a burden. What this DM did falls beyond what is acceptable to be excused by the motivation that he is suffering from mental and developmental issues.
In a case like this, I'd argue that the best course of action is to show the DM how it is done by simply forcing a change in whos DM and campaign down his throat. Tell him explicitly that he won't be doing and DMing before he has been playing a character and paid attention to how DMing is done, only then one should give him a chance to DM. If he fails by being a manipulative and uncaring asshole then a secondary break in his DMing is enforced, repeat the requirements for him to DM in the future, later allow him to DM again - repeat a reasonable amount of times until he improves or ban him for life to DM ever again. If he throws a tantrum then threaten to walk out on him. Easy peasy.
That sounds like the DM was a munchkin player that never got his cheesed out characters allowed in any game so he just made a game where he could play all of them... as the DM.
"The DM was young, 20". That.. that is not young. At that age you know better.
I’m a teen and my dm is 16 and he knows better than this baffon
I'm 14 and Most of my players have fun on my sessions (by most all except one)
Well the guy mentioned he had some mental illness
Can't remember being young enough to think 20 was old.
Well DMing attracts a variety of people and unfortunately sometimes that includes the wannabe author DM who doesn't get the point that it's supposed to be interactive storytelling. This guy was granted a very extreme case with the DMPCs, but you see a lot of DMs that just want to put the PCs on rails and get very uncomfortable if they try to step outside the bounds of his plan of how he thinks the plot should go.
This went on for a YEAR?! Session 3 at latest my character would have jumped off the airship.
Same, would not have allowed this to happen.
@@MasterGhostf these people are socially inept, all of them. I posted another comment calling it all out, but it really might just be a plea for attention, no normal person would go through this, let alone a group of people involved in a social event with others.
Also, friend or not, spectrum or abnormally smart, i'd curb the hell out of this guy, probably in the first session
@@mcthuggin9803 To be fair, they were new players and were friends with the "DM". Not saying I don't agree with you, new player or not... ship orgies??? Nah fam. I understand they are all adults and all... but bruh this is DnD.
Yup. If players stick around that long, they're giving implied permission for the dm to continue their bullshit. They need to stick to their guns and leave if the dm doesn't fix shit
My first dnd game was EXACTLY this one, i tried rolling diplomacy trying to take advantage of my aura as a PALADIN, the DM claimed that every guard starts attacking me because I was a drow and to them i was a monstrosity, not even letting me roll. Turns out the guards were level 10 rangers with drow as a preferred target. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
His excuse? "Yeah bro, my settings are like, ultra dark and really hard and realistic".
That physically hurt to read
I hope that the guards were fired/demoted for being racist
well, depending on the setting (some having drows being actual monsters indeed), a group of guards attacking a drow at sight without letting him a chance to explain (could be spell-casting) could actually makes sense. Problem is a drow PC would know about such behaviour and hide accordingly. Or at least the player should know about this before making the character. Plus that's some d* move and obviously cheating from the dm.
"...bUt'S iNsPiReD bY dArK sOuLs!"
@@alnu8355 is there enough living people for racism in dark souls even?
Would love for the second dm to just say, “You see an airship, all of you begin to experience ptsd. What would you like to do?”
"We were playing 3.5 with everything allowed." I found the problem.
Honestly. I mean talk about clunkly RP. Especially with no session zero. A DM sets a campaign up for total failure doing that.
This DM did the impossible. He made airships a detriment to the story.
There is another story about this DM on Reddit now, uploaded 4 days ago, not sure if it is as interesting, but it may be worth a read.
Will check it out. Thanks for the report crabbo! 🦀
@@CritCrab Your welcome, I cannot leave a fellow dnd player without the end of the story.
Lord's work!
@@davidmagyar4521 I just found the story. You monster. Press F to pay respects to CritCrab.
Link?
Having DM'd for a REALLY long time, all I can say is: don't be that guy.
As a fan of Eberron, I’m pretty sure he pulled that “nearly all changelings are sexual slaves” out of his extremely tight and twisted arse. Pretty sure none of the humanoid factions have slaves and that ship ought to have gone three times farther than that nation’s size. Eberron is made in a way that it’s only a 3 to 5 day travel time from one side of the continent to the other. He might as well have made a new world altogether.
Gunna get buried but god I hate my story
So not exactly tabletop game but me and a few online friends joined a discord server. I Roleplay a LOT in my free time so when I noticed this server (which normally just did a lot of talking and fanart) had a Roleplay section, I was all in. I had two interested in the beginning, dubbed H and N, and they were great. They took suggestions and were happy to flesh out these awesome characters. They got really good at it when some other people joined. I was chill with them because they were very eager to learn as well. I stepped back because at this point they could learn from the three of us interacting pretty easily.
That out of the way one day I decide to start a new Rp. This one set in a sort of magical/old west time. The plot is we all live in the same town were people are going missing. All our characters team up to solve the disappearances. My character is a tall buff teddy bear who loves hugs. The two ogs play a friendly slender caring girl and a short pile of social awkwardness. I can’t quite remember the others (they were only able to Rp some of the time) but god was it fun. They restarted a few times to fix things, but the banter and interaction was worth it.
Enter the server owner. She was happy we had begun using the Rp section and asked to join. We had restarted awhile ago and decided sure, why not. Then she took hold of the Roleplay and ran with it.
The Roleplay thus far had been driven by whatever we came up with. Thing taking people went from cult, to magic, to shadow dragon. But now that she was here? Demon. It was a demon. She played I think 5 or 6 characters for this, and they were overpowered as HELL. It pissed me off to oblivion and back. I eventually got tired of it and messaged one of the ogs about it. H responds relieved and says it’s pissed her off since the start. Well as this continues Server Owner decides this Rp is a branch off a book she’s written (not kidding) and this demon was from it.
(She literally said one of her characters wrote a book someone else was holding on demons)
So as this wears on my character has a panic attack as she finds out her older sister has disappeared. I’ve made this character very emotional unstable, flying from punching a log of wood and breaking her hand to swimming and laughing (with the ogs of course) And What does Server Owner do? She uses one of her characters powers to instantly stop the panic attack.
What.
The.
Hell.
My plan was for H (who had requested healing power, which I was all for because she played the weaknesses and strengths SO well) to put MC to sleep. I decided to have her pass out anyway, because screw you SO, and N carried her to the couch to sleep it off. SO’s overpowered fricks then plan how to take down the demon, never consulting anyone else, when I decided. Screw this, we’re doin things my way.
My character begins shifting in her sleep, quiet mutterings turning into cries of fear.( I speedtyped most of this) And before SO’s fricks can do anything, she bolts upright and disappears out the front door. (Don’t reveal where she’s headed so the fricks don’t suddenly get the power of teleportation) Smoke curls around them as they round a corner to see her launch into her families burning home. Again, before SO does anything, she reappears carrying her youngest sibling. Her mother takes the little kid and MC sways a bit before she hits the deck. She’s got burns galore, as do a lot of her family. H works on MC while one of the fricks proceeds to insta heal the rest of my family. (Healer og actually fought for that one, telling the frick to heal other people instead of two healers in one person) When MC comes to, she’s immediately engulfed in a hug by her mom.
And here’s where I got royally dicked.
The mother tearfully tells MC that the one who burned down their home was none other than...
Her older sister. I had dropped hints EVERYWHERE and I was so happy to see my friends in shock.
But guess who wasn’t happy with that?
SO. Who dicked my whole reveal with this
“The demon was here to, it must have done it. Not her”
I lost it. I stopped trying. I started going with whatever she said after that. Then my healer friend finally told SO what was up. SO blatantly denied that her characters were overpowered. She tried to show us all their faults.
(Only fault I saw in one wasn’t her fear of hurting the other fricks SO, it was the fact she knew necromancy yet had an artifact of life.)
Then SHE got pissed. Shouting that “MC IS EVERYTHING I WILL NEVER BE” and shit like that. Well screw me sideways with a chainsaw. These fricks were literally a fanfic for a fan fiction writers life. She got so pissed she refused to listen to a damn word. I wrote a (surprisingly) calm paragraph to her about how she needs to make one character just for Roleplay if she wasn’t going to change her old ones. She agreed (surprisingly) and then said something about her family or something. I haven’t talked to her about it since but I thing she still doesn’t realize how upset she made everyone. I know from now on whatever Rp she joins it will be extremely tense.
I still haven’t revisited that setting or plot because of the fricken Roleplay ptsd.
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Crabs are people clams are people legit or quit
Genetically engineered crabgirls when
What about hungry box's crab
Sweet this is the fabled skyship orgy story I have heard so much about. I feel I have checked off something from a bucket list. Yes I have such low standards for what gets put on bucket lists.
I am honored
@@CritCrab well one of my friends plays the game casual and I am kind of interested so I been watching so many channels. When I heard about the skyship one I just had to find it. You got a sub from it.
"This went on for a year or so..." WHY!? Please ppl grow a spine! XD
"regular orgies" As someone who consistently tries to play a kobold that wants to bonk a dragon, let me be the first to say "I wanna die"
My halfling and gnome characters have to take CON saves whenever they boink anything bigger than a human/elf. Some have succumbed to the sweet embrace of death between the sheets.
one of the NPCs is under 18.... WHAT THE EVER LOVING FU*K IS WRONG WITH THIS DM!!!
So this... this is the Airship.
My condolences
Just found it too. It really is a combo platter of some of the worst D&D horror story tropes...
Being a relatively new but a pretty good DM, this is extremely heartbreaking. Also the "mental issue" excuse is very relatable and infuriating. The very end of the video matches the description of the guy with the "excuse" I earlier referred to. 🤬
This is why restraint is an important as a DM.
I have my level 20 DMPC's introduced when they're level appropriate, you see. And freely available to murder as the party sees fit.
if your going to introduce level 20 NPC's in an early level game then just make them OBI1 kenobie instead of someone who is constantly carrying the team!
I come back here every once and a while to remind that self that no matter how much I beat myself up as a DM, I'm still better than SOMEONE.
I love how you break character at 19:00
So the players were pretty much considered the npcs while the npcs were considered the players?
what if the rouge player never revived the NPC's?
DM: you have an urge to touch the dead bodies
rouge: uhh no I don't
DM: you revive the NPC's
fighter: OH SH*T IT REVIVES THE NPC'S! I ATTACK THE ROUGE!!!
rouge: I put up no resistance
DM: you revive the NPC's before-
rouge: am I being possessed or something?
DM: no
rouge: then I don't do anything
DM: well you still can't leave the ship
rouge: well then our next objective should be steering the ship towards a city and sending an SOS so hopefully a high level wizard can dispel this death effect on the ship or something
That's how I read this. This goofball didn't want players; he wanted spectators while he ran what amounted to a solo campaign. I would set my character sheet on fire and walked out.
17:13 you know something's wrong when the dm says the bards doesn't seduce ENOUGH
eh I guess it's like if a wizard isn't casting enough or if a ranger isn't shooting enough arrows?
I hate when bards seduce at all. I have. Never seduced anytime I have played a pard
@@depressedeboy dude, the subduction trait is real! You cannot escape it! I tried to make a bard who doesn't use suction and I failed! THERE IS NO ESCAPE!!!
18:20
I know this is a big story, but I can't help but love on that. I love just running a shit ton of enemies into traps in *their own lairs.*
I know right? I felt like a level 3 god
Dat feel you get when the tard is hoist by his own petard.
I realize these are just drops in the bucket at this point but...
The DM got pissy over his players not reading the setting cover to cover... And then screwed up the alignment of one of THE GODS ONE OF HIS PLAYERS WERE ACTIVELY FOLLOWING.
The DMPCs plan hinged around the BBEG not murdering the party out of spite of the DMPCs, but also hinged on the fact that he didn't know about the rouges revival hand, yet somehow some random cult does? How did he get so strong if he's too stupid to do basic information gathering? Or leave a bunch of witnesses who could PAY PEOPLE TO RESURRECT THE HEROES?
How did the BBEG find them? The ship had multiple psychics and magic users. Someone should have noticed had they been tailed or if magic was used.
Just pointing out a few more hypocrisies and plotholes.
HAH, How didn't I notice these!?
I guess when there are more plot holes then there are stars in the sky you just kinda overlook them.
how did they no the magic glow hands would revive them??? the thing doesn't work at will after all!
Why does the revival work on the DMPCs and not the PCs?
@@rpgkingx3629 you know this is the worst superpower ever! it only revives people who you don't want to bring back!
Liam da Lemon! Woah! Did not notice that!
God, that could actually end up being an interesting story about a group trying to get rid of those people and escape that ship full os narcs and abusive people
But NO, it's just an DM forcing them to stay because he said so
Jesus Christ they dealt with this for over a year?
After the magic jazz hands that shoulda been it.
bard: now I should have some privacy without-
(NPC bust's in like the kool-aid man)
NPC: WE NEED TO DISCUSS THE-
Bard: AHHHHHH
(punches him back with burning hands)
Bard: DUDE PRIVACY!!!
19:05 WHAT IN THE NINE HELLS!?
IKR!?
What in the infinite layers of the abyss!
Just scrolling comments ATM, oh this is gonna be good lol
What The Hecc Is This ATB BS?
What in Tiamat's beautiful name?
The orgies part made me think this ship sounds like a cult that traps it’s people by abuse an manipulation
This story is literally how I became a DM.
Used to play with some buddies and had a decent DM, until the guy went of to College.
Some friend of a guy in our party offered to DM.
Things ended up going down hill because either encounters were too quick and easy or they were too OP and resulted in constant screaming.
The guy eventually shoved in his own PC who was 5 levels higher than us and just used it as a reason to marry sue and shit on us.
If we had any problem with the way he acted he'd just tell us, "Well you run your own game then.",
which is what I did.
I ended up getting "Seekers of the Ashen Crown." at a comic shop and held a DnD Game at my own place.
Been DMing ever since.
Yup...
never played a PC again...
not in the last 6 years
Thats a nobel sacrifice brother
roll a temperance check to avoid inserting a DMPC in your game.
Nat 20
the Bible says no cussing
@@thepeemachine8992 No it doesn't
You know you've escaped hell when this whole story gives you flashbacks to a campaign you and your friends bailed on.
21:08 "This all went on for a year or so"
WHYYY?!!
Because people let themselves get controlled by others WAY too easily. Shit like this is why I find it's better to be an asshole than to be nice.
@@xryeau_1760 the Bible says no cussing
@@thepeemachine8992 A N D ?
@@thepeemachine8992
Your username seems unholy enough.
I really love how you actually had to stop halfway through to process the massive cringe on the orgy part, and then talked yourself into continuing on. Thanks for the effort. Much appreciated
8:34 For just _one_ frame you put "Goddamnit. _Goddamnit."_
Ah, as perceptive as you are quick. Rogue?
@@CritCrab Perception is an underrated, but still highly valuable attribute to have, atleast in medieval or other real life scenarios
My brother is on the spectrum and DMs wonderfully. He has a hard time expressing his feelings and being able to tell a story and get feedback immediately through D&D just brightens up his day. He has never really had friends until D&D and he has made many, all whom are sweet people and absolutely cherish my brother. It makes me really happy that he has a game that he loves and other people love him, and they don't judge him for stuttering sometimes or not freaking out when he told them that he had autism. And they didn't make fun of him. I love D&D and so does my brother, and he has never used his autism as an excuse to be a prick.
DM says he's very familiar with the setting
Setting is Eberron, where Divine Magic comes from faith, not a direct tie to the gods, because the gods are so aloof and distant that even celestials (such as angels) don't actually *know* that they are real.
DM has an ACTUAL GOD descend during the campaign.
DM also gets mad at players for not knowing enough about the setting.
This detail alone annoys me alot. I almost missed it though, since it came shortly after the "regular orgies" bit
I'm more concerned about Crab's Skyrim playing ability
Yeah some of that was....interesting from a tactical standpoint...
All I know is that the background video game is super distracting. I'm really enjoying the stories, but the background video games are so distracting that I have to keep rewinding to find out what was just said.
As an avid Eberron DM, hearing him say that the Cleric's god appeared to talk to them directly made me physically recoil. I literally had to get up and take a break
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
the session zero for the new game: anything you guys dont want to be in the game, are uncomfortable with?
everyone: "NO AIRSHIPS"
I was watching this near my parents and when the orgy part came up I got yelled at
Ouch, sorry dude.
Oops. Make it worse by saying it's for roleplaying :p
Gay
point and lough at this person's parent for being that prudish
That’s rough buddy
First video I found on this channel and I’m staying hearing stories like this is fun.
Ah thx! ^^
The DM turned them all into anime side characters lmao
Yamcha had more dignity than this. *Yamcha.*
the Bible says no cussing
I lost it when I heard him move the mic away to shout "THERE ARE NO AIRSHIPS!" lol!