When Two Players Retaliated Against A Horrid DM | Narrated D&D Story
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2021
- He got what he deserved, definitely
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This DM was like "You only have two options : Become like us, or leave us", and Napalm Cleric and Rat Sniper were : "We'll make our own option : Break the game"
I like that option
Nah, they became them only they did it better than they did which only POed them more.
@@morgantaylor84 Eh, debatable, they did not come across as 'that guy' to me.
so they did a old man henderson, nice.
@@mr.killwolf6667 seems so, yeah. Not the worst ending for a DnD horror story for sure :D
"cause he had a temper in real life."
nothing an assbeating of legendary proportions wouldn't reign in
I cannot imagine how just taking control of their characters during the "chased by essentially pyramid head" scene could've possibly be fun. I get he's "that guy" but like, it's a gritty horror campaign, your players reactions are the fun of that! Especially when they're willing to be like "yeah, this character has been through a lot, they're dealing with trauma now." (I've definitely had players who never wanted flaws or any kind of 'negative' reaction)
Here is how you respond to a dm who says "you don't have a choice"
"Yes I do. Bye" and just leave. No players no game.
"You don't have a choice." Yes I do and it's violence
Thank you so much for reading my story! Filled my day with 10 minutes and 56 seconds of pure smiles. Also, thanks to everyone in the comments for the support and fun comments!
Was a fun listen, not every horror story has a happy ending, glad yours did. :)
Now I want to play a game with you and warforged just to see how far your teamwork has come. I never got the chance to create bonds like that since I and they moved so much after just getting to know good players and DM’s.
I'm glad I'm not the only DM reacting with a "wtf dude, no" with this DM's behavior. And to answer your question, it wasn't me but our forever DM that got a "That Guy" DM to say, in a broken, done-with-our-nonsense tone, "The bandits believe your illusionary rum ham."
Edit: and now all I can think of for these mechanically OP builds is my partner, who excels at that. I can see this sort of "OP player-to-player communication" look happening between him and the previously mentioned forever DM, since neither of them would tolerate that DM's edgelord shenanigans.
Burn it all down, boys.
"Rolled up what I can only describe as a napalm cleric"
"he believed the only way to save this world was through holy fire"
Brother! Get the flamer! ... The heavy flamer.
With fire be purged!
Burn it all down, boys!
HANS GET THE FLAMMENWERFER
WE ARE THE ANGELS OF DEATH
PURGE THE HERETICS!!!!
Bruh these horror stories keep me on the path of being a good DM, and its simple, just don't be schmuk
Amen!
be a GMensch and everything will be fine.
Yup, stories like this are a good way to teach how not to be a DM
@@misakitakazaki8951 I wish I could super like this lol
Ayyep. I make sure to try not to railroad. (Does getting the party captured count as railroading? Eh, probably not. I had reasons) but always make sure the party has a helluva time.
stories like these makes me apreciate my DM, only real rule he has is you always have to roll for stats when making a character, other than that the dude is super dedicated and permissive with us, Vic if ya ever read this you're super cool dude!
You're lucky you haven't run into a That Guy who walks over such a dm.
Yep I have met that guy not as a DM but as a player one one the reasons I don't play in open groups anymore such as the games at my local game shops it's like playing the lottery you never know what you're going to get going to those places unless you go there with a group of friends
Always great to see players showing appreciation for their DMs :D
@@EcthelionOTF i just watched another one of these vids from this channel about a horrible DM named Lucas haha
Was not me ^_^
4:08 HE GODMODDED THEIR CHARACTERS FOR A WORTHLESS CUTSCENE?! bahhh I neeed a not wretched story after the streak we’ve been having YIRBEL LIVES!
Warforged and writer sound like the best type of people you want at a dnd game.
Can confirm, they are! They always come up with what we call "best bad ideas"
@@KNStills that's just the greatest things ever.
@@KNStills Nice!
If the character doesn't fit with your world, you tell them that the very moment they say "I wanna be a warforged" don't let them write their whole backstory, get invested in their character and all the cool things they might do in the future, and then just railroad them into a grave :/
This. I mean, it's possible that a player might be *really* insistent on having their way in terms of characters (as we all know well, you get that type of 'that player' fairly often, though that clearly wasn't the case in OP's story) or that the GM might start out thinking they can get an idea to work and realise later that Nope, it doesn't, but in those cases, you talk to your players like a grown-up, rather than just screw them over.
I’ve had DMs like this before that seem to want a power trip and completely forget that it’s not a player vs DM game. But then these DMs forget that if they do “beat” a player they are reality itself. Rocks fall, everyone dies. Not very impressive. Impressive is letting a murder hobo character play himself by letting him set off the obvious trap the rest of the table sees, tells him it’s there, and he sets it off anyway and dies after fails two saves.
Edited for auto correct fails, thanks iPhone and ADHD for failing to proofread.
Mortar hobo will be my new character. He's fantastic with cement.
My problem is the exact opposite. My players seem to think of it as players vs dm. They get upset with me whenever they fail, or an enemy succeeds. What am I supposed to do? Not roll well ever?
@@shadowhawkrine1947 Anyone who comes into it with a 'vs' mindset is already sus in my mind, whether as player or as DM
@@willparry530 True that, it sucks
Murder hobos are usually pretty easy to deal with. Just let them play there character and 9 out of 10 times they'll kill them selves.
I had a DM like this: everything had to go the way they planned, even by randomly adding game-breaking things, like areas where class abilities didn't work unless there was a combact, or by removing things like a race's traits because they were too perfect for the setting. Another player and me had to either accept those changes or make simple characters, unable to explore the full concept we initially had, because we were the most creative/explorative of combos for races and classes. For that, we retaliated by exploiting the most of every single thing we could use.
Be more specific, this sounds obfuscatory. What did you do that was not allowed? Are you talking about not being able to fully realize your aarakocra archer or flying and resistance tiefling?
@@II-wu7mx A good example could be one 3.5 campaign we did. It was an aquatic setting, with many underwater sessions, so we had to choose a race with an amphibious trait. I was going to make this Human Archivist (the Divine version of the Wizard), with a couple of templates to make a good backstory about a curse from a Sea God and the search for redemption, even if the complessive LEP was +3. These templates were from Bestiary of Krynn, Child of the Sea, and the derivative Accantus. The first was for the underwater breathing, the second for the backstory and to get some defensive abilities (I was the true Healer of the party, so I had to play it safe). The DM would accept my choice, but only if I would lose most of the abilities of the Accantus template, leaving me with only a fire and acid resistance, everything else was gone, not even giving me a plausible in-game reason for why my character had to be like that.
I tried to appeal, or even changing to another, simpler race, but anything that had good defensive abilities was either nerfed or refused. At the end, I went for a Warforged Fighter, with a full Tank build, progressing to Warforged Juggernaut, with spikes and shield combat, basically untouchable to spite them. Then it got worse, but that is unrelated to them not allowing stuff.
@@megaspoiler A backstory isn’t good if you need to be +3 to accomplish it. A large part of determining the quality of a backstory is whether it fits into the story it’s supposed to be feeding in to, part of that is being able to be relatively equal strength to the party, an LEP of +3 argues against your ability to do that. It lists in the source book that children of the sea can become accantus, why was it so pertinent that you be allowed to already have done that in your backstory other than to be stronger than other people? You can do that as a thing during the game as a personal goal, and earning it in that way is much more likely to confer the true benefits of it from the dm.
A child of the sea as your go to for amphibious already speaks to what your goals as a player are, that’s a +2 right there, and the dm was totally willing to give you every one of those bonuses and even some of the accantus abilities, that’s not tyrannical or stifling bud.
I also find it interesting that you downplay what the accantus does for you defensively, combined with the +2 con your already getting with the child of the sea to buff the duration of your defensive abilities every hour. 5 dr slashing, effective immunity to grapple or restraint, and true immunity to critical hits paralysis and polymorph spells or effects. You’re upset because you wanted this at the start of the game and the dm said no. The reason you needed such an elaborate backstory to justify it is because it was an improper design for the goals.
If you’d like a legitimate in game reason you aren’t that it’s because that character you’re trying to be went off with a higher level party he was just about equal strength to before the party of level ones he would be a dominantly strong force in, to the point of being a hinderance to what he could do with a stronger party, showed up.
@@II-wu7mx An excellent point. Problem was: the party was already at level 5 from the start, my character would be level 2 to compensate (justified by being a later addition to the rest of the party, because I couldn't join from the start because of work), and I would only get the resistance to fire and acid from Accantus and liquid form. The 5 dr slashing, immunity to grapple or restraint, and true immunity to critical hits paralysis and polymorph spells or effects gained by liquid form, all these were negated.
@@megaspoiler It’s a more reasonable request then, though I’m still team no go on the full suite for an aquatic themed campaign.
The way you speak about the abilities leads me to think you believe they are only good when they are insanely strong. Baseline resistance to two damage types is good, +2 con from your template is good. The ability to become literal water in a game all about water is good. What you were offered were good defensive abilities. I understand the thought process because I do it too, the top tier is good, second tier is alright and everything else is kind of not worth considering. I’ll ask again, for what reason was it good or healthy for the campaign and not just for your dopamine?
It was printed material and you wanted it, this created the expectation it should be allowed; this is not true. Much the same way it is explicitly not the job of the dm to trivialize the players efforts by arbitrarily putting insurmountable tasks in front of them, it’s explicitly not a players job to trivialize the campaign the dm is trying to run.
Not gonna lie. Sillent Hill DnD version sounds great, but this DM actions and way he tried to use this theme unfortunetly hurts me.
Right? There's so much potential in that, but the DM just ruins it. Like this could've been so cool if the DM gave the players any agency.
It was all about satisfying the DM's ego. He didn't care about telling a good story.
@@R3GARnator It's more like he cared about just telling a story and not letting anyone else dictate how it goes. At that point he might as well have quit and just write a book :P
I actually ran a campaign where there was a secret area on a peninsula of a continent. It lead to silent hill. The way the secret was opened was by completing a puzzle to open the door to this dimension. It was a pretty fun segment and eventually left because they felt under prepared but they plan on returning later. Them being chased by pyramid head was hilarious. Nobody wanted to be in the back and everyone was hoping someone would trip so they could be in front.
@@BraveShowBoys lol, nice
Another heart warming tale of Players taking the game away from an overbearing and craptastic DM.... well done...
I will admit i was once a DM much like this. in fact it was my first game. worst part is i committed the sin of having the pcs be the assistance to "The hero" and not the heroes themselves. i basically ignored the half the party's pc builds and only gave them what i wanted to give them. not what they could use. one player was a swashbuckler, a duelist. i kept giving him flintlock guns in my mind to turn him into blackbeard but he was trying to be Zorro. One pc when i was writing my "script" went from a swordsman to a beastlike berserker but i refused to change my bloodline quest for him the mcguffin sword, only to later learn that the tank of the party wanted the sword as he loved the "Chosen one's sword" thing but i refused to let anyone else use it as it was "Bound to a bloodline" and the berserk was the only one of the right player race to be a hidden member of that bloodline. lastly the healer was a pacifistic monk who was only on the quest to gain enlightenment. i more or less forgot this pc existed outside of a healbot. Almost gave up the game when i put the party in a "holy vault" to their saint of their god, made the goal to "Enlightment" a magic book that was bound by a puzzle. well only the berserker figured it out by being direct in guessing the answer and i though i was being clear with my hints, but turns out it was a "loony key to logical lock". Only one player had their pc be "Fulfilled" at the games end. When given the feedback at the end, i emotional turtled up when criticized and never gmed again for years. now i am currently running fallout game with the same players. thankfully propped by videos like these i took the time to see where i went wrong and laugh at how dumb i was back then. so far my players now tell me that I've improved and avoided the old pitfalls i used to make in my old game. that's why i am thankful for videos like these as they really helped in "Dos and don'ts" of Gming a game. anyway sorry for the bad grammar. just wanted to quickly confess my dm crimes before i got to bed at 2 am in the morning...
It takes guts to admit to mistakes and resolve to do better. Also, being a GMing is an endless learning process; I've made some gods-awful mistakes and will probably make more.
I wish I could say I have triumphed over these DM's before, but when I was on a DND Discord server and playing the highest level character I have ever played, which is my level 18 gnome wizard Prinkseth Inquis, the narratives that the administrators continued to put out restricted my character's magical options. They felt that he was making the server too unbalanced with his high-level magic when no one else had brought over characters from the previous server of their own choice. He was constantly being forced to not have Arcane means of travel outside of the island on which the server was centered, and when there was a threat of invasion from the Winter Fey, he first had to ask permission of anyone before he could scan them for illusion magic. It got to the point where he could not even cast Detect Magic on himself to check because the administrators believed that others had to express consent before he could check them. It was a state of emergency, and I was not only appalled, but angry that they were limiting my options out of fear of having their railroad campaigns be derailed. That is why I left the server and I never intend to go back. I will just make a new variant of that character, one for each class, in every new campaign I play.
when i was younger we played star wars rpg, my older sister a jedi, myself a cyborg bounty hunter like General Grievous, and a friend of the GM who was a General of a fleet....our GM who we thought was a friend tried hard to kill us throughout campaigns, these were actually both my sister and I's new characters, as he had succeeded in killing our first ones off....angry we sought revenge...he liked to play his own character, a sith lord who always was after my sister's character's death, he succeeded killing her character again, on to her third character, a queen of a star system, i somehow survived the attempts to kill me and joined up with her, together we planned our revenge....first it started when his friend took over as GM so he could focus on his sith, we called the new GM and told him of a plan we were hatching, we didnt know how we were going to do it but we knew we wanted his sith lord dead....enter our "friend" storming into my sister's palace and demanding her system build him a death star or suffer many deaths...we had our means now....contacting the GM again we told him our plan....a few weeks go by as we secretly pass notes to and call the GM, hatching our plan, then the day came, we told him it was finished and he made his way to her capital world....in the meantime we evacuated the entire world and sent them to a different one, leaving the death star hovering near the capital...then we waited for him.....he arrived walking in like he owned the place, seeing it empty he walked into her thrown room and sat on her thrown, which is where we called him showing we were not there, then told him how we were sick of his ways and that we wanted out...then proceeded to press a button that blew up not only the death star, but the planet he was on as well....our "friend" sat there in shock...he tried to protest it but the GM picked up a folder and took out all our notes detailing the plan to kill his character....he took off his hat, and walked out the door...the last time we ever played rpg........turned out our so called friend was a megalomaniac and a narcissist...so turned out we needed to part ways anyway
Silent Hill in a role-playing game? That actually sounds interesting...
If done right, that is.
For best results, the DM should research the deepest fears and regreats of the whole party and put that into the game
As much as I love D&D, I'm thinking that a "Silent Hill" kind of campaign would be best run through either Call of Cthulhu or one of the World of Darkness games, of which Hunter: The Reckoning would probably be the best fit.
And as far as researching the deepest fears and regrets possessed by players and/or their characters, another World of Darkness game already has _that_ device covered: Wraith: The Oblivion. The downside to trying to fit "Silent Hill" into a Wraith campaign is that the Player-Characters in Wraith are _ghosts_ (and therefore, they're already dead). But Wraith is _huge_ on psychological horror, so if you can make the Restless Dead work with the Silent Hill setting, then more power to you!
@@BloodyBay Or, if you’d like to move away from dice, “Dread” would be a good system to run a Silent Hill game.
Stories like this makes me enjoy my dm, he listens to your consepts, works with you on making them work and all around a chill dm. He makes it fun to come to session and enjoying for all of us. Not to mention he’s not afraid to shake it up some when he wants and challenge us. We switch between point buy and rolling and have had some wild misadventures like our fighter trying to kick a dragon in the face a few times or stopping a corrupted alternate magic us government, but these are memories that we all will take till the end and honestly made this last almost 2 years amazing and bareable ☺️💜
these dm burning vids are oke, but i would really like to hear more stories like oogy the blacksmith, ashtoshan the necromancer or onyxia the black dragon. some good roleplaying stories
Hey in college I was part of a group of legendary individuals known as the Nerds of the Round Table. The break room had these large circle tables and we had like 9 of us and we all were nerdy in diffident ways. Fun times 😂
Ah Spite, The one thing that Unites all people!
I mean, I'm a fresh DM. I am very unexperienced and make loads of mistakes. But at least I'll never be that guy. It's not hard to understand that D&D should never be DM vs Players, but the DM taking his players on an amazing fantastical journey showing them foes and hardship, but in the end letting his players have (depending on how fitting it is storywise) complete and utter free imagination about their situation. I aspire to be a good DM, and I already know that that, is not the way
6:59 at that point, (if I had even made it that far without exploding from all the bullshit) that dm would have become very acquainted with my opinions, and would get no leniency from me. 1. Machines don’t get sick, they get worn or rusty. 2. Removing a character because you “don’t think it fits” is the lamest excuse in the world. And 3. He was just plain being a dick at that point.
I like the idea of making a mortal creature that would instantly die if you get a critical success on an attack that would be a really interesting idea for horror games I believe
A natural +5 bonus to AC (-5 for all the Friends of THAC0), 1d4 for Hit Dice, and 1d4-1 HP. The Minion template from 4th Edition works really well for this sort of thing.
Man this DM was a douche. Lovely story, and listening to the helps me be a better DM myself so thanks for sharing! :D
Our characters were level 4. For the first night of the campaign. Due to one poor roll. And the monster being immune to debuffs in the first battle of the campaign. My character was scooped up and carried away and eventually devoured.
I learned right quick that backstory wasn't what this DM was after. And he quickly discontinued the campaign. When he found how devastating a javelin rogue can be in a 3.5 campaign.
That sounds like my friend Ryan Betcher, any time he ran a game for us. It would be railroad city. Till we took creative means to break his "iron hold" on our characters
Interesting and congrats on defeating the evil DM that take away your character and Warforged's character.
Oh man, those types are a nightmare. I had one from a pathfinder campaign who wanted to play a level 30 incubus god or whatever pretending to be a lvl 1 half elf sorcerer. Shows me his sheet, hands me a separate lvl 30 sheet, and I notice in neither case does he have appraise, umd, spellcraft, or knowledge arcane. This is where I accepted the character and the plan formed. Early in the campaign, I let him find a hat of disguise. He rolled appraise, rolled average. Now, the deal was if he rolled something mental based he'd get an impression of something feeling off if his lvl 30 stats succeeded. When I said everything in him says this is a hat of disguise, he smiled and said he puts the hat on. Now, the moment he did, I told him to roll a willsave. He started panicking at that, said blah blah blah immunity. Then I said, " *physically* you're a lvl 1 half elf." He relents and rolls a 1. That, of course, is when i start laughing, and say, "as you wear the hat you begin to feel different. You remember your history, not with fondness, but with disgust. Your alignment is now NG. When he sees me erasing and writing, he demands I give him his other sheet, and when I do it not only has his alignment switched, but his domains as well. He is now a good boy incubus god who is celibate and a legitimate white knight. After that, he screams at me, (I think he was going for banshee?) Says I won't get away with defacing him. He then starts flailing at me. Only problem there is *my* black belt is in judo, rather than his which is just for cosplay, so I flip him over the table and put him in a sleeper hold till he's not a danger to himself and those around him anymore.
This has strong "that happened" vibes.
@@TheMightyBattleSquid I'd like to say I totally just went ninja on the guy out of pure reflex, but I heard from a friend that Mr. Incubus had a temper and poor impulse control. I was *absolutely* ready and waiting for him to go off on me.
@@TheMightyBattleSquid Come down here to Aus, where when you play DnD or any tabltop game. Everyone is either drunk of drugged up, or a combination. Fights happen sometimes, hell I've seen someone slap a kid at a 40K tournament once, tis why I became a Security Guard
These two when full henderson, and it was glorious.
As frustrating as my DM can be at times stories like these remind me that she has always been remarkably fair to us, generally prioritizing a fun gameplay environment for everyone over whatever vision she has for the campaign. Often, it leads to a bunch of stupid fun that has contributed to a ton of really fond memories, for me.
badass rat with a sniper that wrecks the whole game
I love it
*RODENT REVOLUTION RODENT REVOLUTION RODENT REVOLUTION RODENT REVOLUTION*
This isn't just railroading.
This is... *advanced railroading.*
I'm just imagining the "Napalm Cleric" as a 40k Chaplain with a Flamer.
"BURN IN HOLY FIRE!"
"This DM would constantly invite me back to games, making it no secret that his goal was to beat me in playing DnD, pretty much trying to get me to quit." - that is petty. And stupid, because he isn't the only DM in the whole world.
Totally scary badass level 25 demonic DM not to be trifled with, or pathetic railroad conductor with an overactive but completely unoriginal imagination, you decide.
Bro I just got an ad before this video with your voice work. 😂
That's good to make friends and that DM deserved to have face shoved in it. The Napalm claric and Warforged did everything perfectly
I prefer to think of the rat sniper as a Skaven, not a Nezumi. That seems much cooler and a more apt description of the terror the guy wrought on the shitty DM.
I just herd you in an add. Congrats on the legitimate voice acting job.
i love how this dude just casually rips off silent hill and nobody seems to bat an eye.
Napalm cleric. "Peace through superior firepower." :-D
We have an astral trait in the RPG I play. It is rolled for your emotional stability as well as the wisdom rolls.
DMs like this guy is why the Vanveron family exists. Mobster gunslingers, made to do damage and see/hear everything and amazing at reading people’s intentions.
Again, thanks for making me feel good about my worst players and DMs... while being really entertaining. The only cloud to that silver lining is I almost feel like I owe some of them an apology because I see them as being not nearly as bad as I saw them then.
I really enjoyed the great stories that used to first appear here. They were inspiring or wholesome and I had loved the paladin grandma. This was a channel I shared with others, but, lately, I'm not really sure where else to find that kind of goodness in D&D stories anymore. I feel as if this channel would love to tell tales about the good days again, except there are not many examples of those. Instead we have an exceedingly growing amount of horror stories. These stories, whether they are representing the gaming community or not, still, whenever D&D is mentioned, they will bring these tales to mind. Am I to believe there are really that far less pros and more cons on the variety of D&D games to speak of? :(
5:38 This warforged in this alternate reality is General Grievous before he became General
It’s a story about two great players meeting with a bad DM. Greatness meeting pettiness.
Give a man a sword, he'll wield it by your side.
Place a man in chains, and he'll strangle you with them.
Always remember that the DM is god, and never forget that there's always someone up for deicide.
I like the napalm cleric and sniper because you knew what would happen and the world became a place to burn and cleanse
if the dm doesn't want the players to do what they want, then they should just write a book
This story sounds like a DM my bros played with back in the day. Looking at you Matt.
CLEANSE! CLEANSE THE WORLD IN HOLY FIYA!
This story felt good to listen to. Much better than people leaving and being done after telling a horror story about a game gone wrong. This story felt empowering, and I'm glad the warforged and op are still friends to this day. But, I will give props to the dm for not just going "no because I said so" to the counter-measures the two came up with. There might be hope for him, if someone can convince him he's not a demon irl *rubs brows*
New DMs need to be careful. Players have the power to break games if you tick them off.
one thing is that the wrforged canot cough and the dm overlooked the fact that warforged canot get a disese magic or otherwise
Great vid
The next video in the queue was 'How our terrible DM totally lost his shit and got hospitalized'. At 0:24 I subconsciously mashed the two videos together, and my brain was all 'railroad your players and they'll hospitalize you? Shit got dark.'
When the video said the town resembled silent hill I didn’t think it was literally stolen from Silent Hill complete with Pyramid Head. Honestly I doubt the DM played the games and only knows of the games second hand as otherwise he probably would have a used a more obscure monster.
This is just when u roll a halfling divination wizard with the lucky feat and control all the dms rolls
Two bros-pros looking to each other: lets breack this mot*****
When mid-maxing saves the day
It’s not so much about player choice as the illusion of player choice for example if I intend for the party to end up at the Mayors abandoned manor for the climax of the story there’s plenty of ways you can get the party into the manor no matter how they go about getting the information or exploring the town I usually even have something planned for if they start going murder hobo 😂
all about the subtle railroading instead of the heavy-handed stuff, I see :P
I'm reluctant to railroad my players (since I take pride in my ability to improvise and work on the fly), but when I must, Schroedinger's Plot is my favorite device for clandestine railroading. The party leaves town by the North Gate? The refugee peasants who warn them of Lord Bigbad of Evilguy (and thus hook them into their next quest) are at the North Gate. The party leaves town by the East Gate? The refugees are at the East Gate. The party tries to sneak out of town through the sewers? I turn the refugee peasants into refugee _outlaws_ hiding from Lord Bigbad in the sewers. They buy a magic carpet and fly out of town? The refugees are now migrating avariels. They decide "screw travel" and decide to hang out at the local inn for a month? The refugees come to stay at the inn and meet them over meat and ale. The party decides to spend the month at the Mages Guild instead? Now the refugee peasants are a single wizard driven from his homeland by Lord Bigbad.
If it works, it works!
@@BloodyBay Lol, I like that...Schrodinger's Plot XD
Pfft, I think those players did the coolest thing ever. I'd love to play a game with them.
When the world is clearly overrun by demons, scorched earth is the only way to be sure
When I started dming I was apart of this group, I won't mention their names and stuff, but these guys abused my lack of knowledge of dnd, and would tell me how things worked wrongly, like the "Wish" spell, it wasn't fun.
I hate the Dms that take choice away from the players
Dum Dum: I wanna play a level 25 demon, in a level 1 campaign.
DM: LOL Nope. Here's a level zero halfling farmer.
this is why i rarely play RPGs anymore as a player. good DMs are very hard to find in my area these days.
Do you want to play a level 1 game?
-Sure, can I be level 25?
...what?
Honestly sound like great characters too.
I had this happen to me in a west March server
Amazing xD well done both players xD
I wish I knew where this was. I was also in a gamers guild in college that played similar stuff, but I graduated and moved on many years ago.
Should had told the players restrictions ahead of time, if you don't want Warforage, then tell them so.
Yeah. Rats have natural spacial awareness. So making one a sniper is more broken than Humpty Dumpty in a mayonnaise factory.
DM: "Hey, wanna listen to my Silent Hill Fanfiction where I'm a level 25 demon?"
Player: "Um... no?"
DM: "Okay, wanna play D&D?"
Player: "Sure!"
DM: "Cool. It's set in Not-Silent Hill. Meet my DMPC, he looks just like me and is a level 25 demon. Also please be quiet while I tell you what your player is thinking, feeling and doing."
Sounds like when in doubt murderhobo
When you want Mat Mercer and get Ahole
Nice story 😁
That’s not how Pyramid Head works.
Stories about shitty dms are my favorites
I would of would of walk out way before this story came close to completion
Lol, time to break the dm via hardcore meta!
You know what you get when you decide to cross some players because you can as a DM? You get what you fucking deserve!
I see they decided to go the Henderson way after the bullshit
The sad bit, is that the part where the world changed could have been a switch into a dark world where they could have emerged as heroes, but the railroading was awful I've seen railroading work, but horrible muppet was an idiot.
To be fair, Warforged aren't robots, they're living constructs, but the coughing also shouldn't have happened because Warforged don't breathe, as they don't have lungs.
Balanced as all things should be.
That DM sounds like such a schmuck. My current DM is a friend. He was new to DM'ing (though he did have player experience) when I first joined him. It took some smoothing out, but it ended up fine. We've had our disagreements. At his worst, he was LEAGUES better than this A**hat.
What text-to-voice program is he using to narrate his text?
I will never understand the idea of 'winning' at D&D.
when you are such a bad dm that people have no choice but to murder hobo thats not good
Damn this one is Super Fresh I've never actually been this early I cannot stand awful play anyting with it I'll run the other way but this no way I'm not even playing!!
DM: Tells the players what their characters do, instead of allowing them to choose for themselves or even make rolls. Spends 30 minutes describing what the characters do, while three of the players just play with their phones.
Me: "Well, clearly I'm not needed here, as you just turned my character into a DMPC. Bye!"
my DM midway through the first session decided to turn my character a rogue/artifacer into a necromencer because of an old book and a random dice roll, long story short we entered a cargo caravel fought an evil necromencer who wanted the book, we killed it, the crew all died and we were even attacked by a giant shark that we also killed, castaways in the middle of the sea, i have to admit two natural 20's in a row and some random BS on my part the DM let me use my magic powers of my classes to fuse the boat with the skeleton of the shark, now we have a pirate ship with a skeleton crow and I couldn't be more pleased
Would have played the session though and made an excuse never to come back. The fun of dnd is having freedom of choice and action within a fictional world.
I think this is the first time that a player ruines a campaign for a DM, and I don't feel bad at all for that DM, people this narcissistic shouldn't be DMs or even ttrpg players in general.
I'm kinda ok if a DM sometimes tries to railroad a campaign, because he spent actual time planning everything and seeing it everytime being shattered or ignored is kinda a bad feeling.
Did this Dm-ing bastard dare beseech the Great Pyramid-Head?!
He is not worthy...