seen from Belarus
seen from Germany
seen from Israel
seen from United Kingdom
seen from France
seen from Russia
seen from United States
seen from Italy
seen from Malaysia
seen from China
seen from Germany
seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany
seen from Spain
seen from Maldives
seen from United States
seen from Spain
seen from Germany
seen from Malaysia
seen from China
Games night in two hours and I suddenly realise, I haven’t prepped for if the players abandon their current quest line when everything goes wrong at the beginning of the session.
Awful oversight given their track history!
Like I have a temple to a dark goddess, a bullywug king who collects honourifics, a lost NPC who they made friends with. But no plan for the players turning around to rest!
If you like dnd and are on the lfg Reddit do not join a game with wartimeblues/jediblues.
As a DM he introduces triggering content with no warning, is heavy on the railroads (and not in a good way), is vindictive and petty when he thinks the players are wrong, and far to liberal with “no”. I felt like I was playing with a child that would tell me if I had my doll say the wrong thing. A lot of play time is wasted in him waiting for you to say something when you thought your words were sufficient. He does not listen or compromise or attempt to problem solve.
If you want specific examples, I can provide them.
My thoughts on cr episode 111
.
.
.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I just left a homebrew dnd campaign I've a message for new DM's
If your running a campaign for 2 ppl and there level 3 do not throw cr 6 and 9 monsters at them. For the love of the divine do not.
Extremely fustrating and deadly. And dont use the monsters from a homebrew forum bc it just sounds cool. Bc that "cool" cr 6 hag going against a lv3 party with multiple attack. Multiple spell cast and spell immunity and able to polymorph into any creature it wants at will is devastating.
Just to rant here. I lost 3 characters in 1 hour. My lv 3 barbarian (minotaur zelot). My battlemaster (centaur) and my wizard (yuan ti)
To be a dm ya have to balance and make sure every fight isnt designs to just upright kill ppl at the start bc. 5d12 worth of dmg with multiple attack on a hag or any creature. Is friggin broken.
There no way in hell a monster for a party of 2, level 3 adventures should hit for 5d12 (3 times) and be able to cast 2 spells (at will without using a spell slot) EVERY ROUND. And on top of that have a movement speed of 90 and an ac of 23. (I asked the dm to let me see what he was using and thers more. Swim of 30, fly of 300 ect this is pretty much a god with its stats but the cr says 6. It dosent even feel like a 6. More like a lv 20 broken sack of crap)
This is the reason there are tutorial guides in the book(s) and youtube to show you why you should look at cr then your players levels b4 u design an encounter.
I cant describe how fustrating it was to see my barbarian. Who I spent 5hours making just get tapped lightly and die. Bc 48 hp at lv 3 and taking well over 10 pts of dmg bc apparently she crit me on all attacks and only did like 1 attack to our female player (for 2 dmg with a level 6 scorching ray [its bs] ) was "Fair bc your a barbarian and should be able to tank this EASILY" (quote the dm.)
If there is a way to piss off players it's this and having a game were you get railroaded so hard it's a traveling trip with skill checks with a minimum of 18-20 to notice something like a bear on the road when the weather is CLEAR and everyone is PAYING THE HELL ATTENTION ON A BANDIT HIGHWAY. Not to mention the SCREAMS OF A CYCLOPS AS IT LITERALLY SMASHES INTO THE CARAVAN ACROSS A PLANE WITH A FEW TREES ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
Oh and let me not forget the NPCS WHO WANT TO SLEEP WITH EVERYONE BC THEY THINK THERE HOT AND DESERVE A NICE HOT MEAT ROD FOR THEIR SERVICES OF INTRODUCING THEMSELVES.
*Facepalm* my god....oh and if your thinking
"GEE-WILLY Mr. Person surely it couldnt be that bad?" This guys campaign was pretty much parappa the rapper, jojo bizarre adventures, bloodborne, Resident evil and memes.
I had a character who came in and apparently they caused the world to have wormholes? (Somehow) and referenced it everytime we played even when that character died. In session one. Bc apparently a company named (I kid you not) Shoe Rack was the equivalent of resident evil's umbrella cooperation. Complete with a drow leader and a litch bookkeeper who turned everyone into zombies to work for free while they apparently made diamonds to sell for millions of gold and keep the workers working g for 1 copper every month. Only giving gold to ppl that would sleep with them.
Not to mention apparently everyone in this world had magic resist or spell immunity to everyone except to females. And when I made a female char apparently that rule became I valid and it was just a straightforward
Me: does a 17 hit?
Dm: well it would but .... *they grin*
Me: but?
Dm: they use a special ring to catch the spell and cast meteor swarm on you point blank.
Me: well they get hit too I just stabbed them with a dagger.
Dm: no you see it's a SMALL METEOR THAT ONLY HITS THE PERSON THAT HIT THEM
Me: so they and my teammate. Who has literally been stabbing them are fine?"
Dm: yes
Me (takes like 589 pts of dmg and is ded)
Dm: the litch turns to you and asks if you want a cup of coffee.
Female player: umm sure?
Dm: whoo-yeah. Combat over you get 500 go and a date with the litch.
Me: I'm sorry what?
Female player: umm...ok. awsome.
Me: ......ok cool so I'll just bring in-
Dm: no that's cool the litch revives yorubas a female zombie slave.
Me: why?
Dm: and you need to have sex to keep yourself alive.
Me: yeah no. I'll just bring in my centaur battle master
1 hour later
Dm: you take umm..let's see *rolls dice.*
Me: (waiting)
Dm: *rolls a shit ton more dice*
Me: (waiting)
Dm: oh oh no *grins*
Me: (takes 40 dmg) I'm still up
Dm: how?
Me: I have 48 hp....I'm still up
Dm: ok it's your attack I guess.
Me: rolls a nat 1 "ok I guess I have disadvantage on my next att-"
Dm: rolls a d100 and a d10 (the percentile)
Me: what are you doing?
Dm: rolling for severity of your fail. Btw how much dmg does your lance do?
Me: it does 1d12 dmg and why are you using severity. That's not in 5e and you said we-
Dm: as you fail you accidentally stab yourself in the throat as your spear hits a rock and you take *rolls dice* 35 pts of dmg
Me: ok I'm out that's bs. Number one and two I have a lance and thers no way I can do 35 dmg. I get about 24 dmg on a crit and 28 if I use my racial feature to kick a person at max with a crit.
Dm: oh your just being salty, you dont play fair!
Me: excuse me?
Dm: ALL YOU DO IS PLAY SPELL CASTWRS AND THATS CHEATING!
Me: bc everyone has spell immunity for some reason or only takes 1/4 the dmg. I'm pretty much useless and am being fored to play melee unlike our LOREMASTER BARD who got an item to DOUBLE HER DMG AND SPELL SLOTS AND CRIT ON A 15 PERMANENTLY (this is the female btw)
Dm: well maybe you should have slept with the litch
Me: she literally found that item in a store for like 3 silver and when I looked (with a 17 arcana check) I found a rusty dagger and a flask of poisoned potion.
Dm: well maybe roll higher?
Female player: umm I rolled like a 10 and found this that's kind of cool but I dont think it's fair. But o wanna keep my items
Dm: ugh fine. You keep yours. Ummm (to me) I guess you get a potion of greater healing for....umm 500 go.
Me:.......nah I'm good, FUCK IT. I'll just make another spell caster Oops. Cant do that. How about a nope. Cant make a barbar I'm going to make a artificer
Dm: cant do that
Me: why?
Dm: they're broken its not good.
Me: *with the book* not broken..ulyou know what why dont you make me a character and I'll use that.
Dm: hands me a sheet
Me: reads "Zonia the sexy zombie elf sex slave that gets stronger every time she has sex?" *Looks at everyone* ok I'm out enjoy the campaign.
Dm: we cant have a dnd adventure with only 1 person.
Me: yes you can you've been doing it since session 1. I'm out goodbye. I'm still running my campaign on sunday. I wont hole anything against you. But I will not sit here and be shit on bc I refuse to kiss yur ass and make a slut of a character. Pull your head from your ass. I'm taking my stuff and I'm out.
Dm: but I need the dm screen and the mat and the markers.
Me: then buy your own or use theater of mind. I'm out.
Like how bad is it to want to be a dm to shit on ppl. THIS, THIS IS NOT OK. and no one wants a zombie sex slave that can only have sex and has a str of 0 a con of 30 a dex of 1 a cha of 40 and so on. Its friggin stupid!
Anyway that's my rant. Im....I think I'm just done with dms and crap I just want to play a dnd game I can be happy with. And not always be the Forever dm. Who has players challenge everything. Like why as a monk they cant use sleight of hand to CATCH A FRIGGIN FIREBALL AND/OR AN ARROW AIMED AT ANOTHER PERSON.
Anyway leave a comment or add on I'm just burnt out and glad I could get this rant off my chest
My awful D&D experience
And the dangers of having a really bad GM.
Warning, it’s quite long. So my apologies!
So picture this. I’ve just arrived in college and am making new friends that are on the same page as me. We all love art and making characters so I suggest “Hey why don’t we form a D&D group together?”. Most of them had never played before, but that was fine, we could teach them.
One of my classmates, a guy who loves drawing big muscular men and women, offers to be the GM. All good all good.
I already had my little cleric character, named Elio. He came from a city in the desert, his large clan worshipped a home-brew Goddess. Yna, Goddess of the sun. His devotion to her granted him powers, he can materialise crystals with his mind, but he can only do it during the day, at night it didn’t work. Elio in particular was so devoted to her, that he vowed to become the next High Priest. The High Priest had to have long long hair, and a perfectly preserved body (aka a virgin), because they would be the perfect vessel for when Yna returns to the earth. Elio was also the son of the Queen of said city, but kept that little bit of info a secret.
All that seemed to be random info, but it’s important later.
The other members of the team were: Delaine, a upperclass woman who was a total tank; Seera, an alchemist who likes to bugger off and not contribute a lot; Brise, a wind sorceress with a split yandere personality (not a fan); Kalisie, a nudist black elf; and Elias, a witch who manipulated threads of fate.
So fast forward to our first session. We’re all in a circle, eagerly waiting to begin our quest. At first, this are well. But one thing was weird to me. Our DM was having us use a 100 side dice. Weird, I thought, shouldn’t we be using a 20? Our first session was actually pretty okay. I mean Elio got stabbed in the shoulder and bitten by a snake, but I figured it was fine.
Later our GM asked to see all our character sheets. Elias’s creator and I were the only people who’d played before, and both had very detailed and extensive character sheets. Well, the normal kind for any D&D character.
Our DM looks them over for a few days, and at our next session pulls out some sheets of paper. He said our sheets were ‘not appropriate for this game’ and had photocopied our original sheets, and removed everything he didn’t want. We were left with: Strength, Wisdom and Social stats, two abilities, and 2 spells each. We were not happy. According to him “detect good and evil” was a spell only a level 10 and up could use. We called bullshit and he said “it’s my game, I can make the rules however I want”.
And from that point on he became crueler and crueler to my character in particular. Got into a fight with some bandits? All lunge on me. In a torture dungeon (he liked those a lot)? Guess who got put on the stretcher and whipped again. Walking along the street and cross paths with a beggar? Stabbed in the side.
At this point I was getting annoyed. I’d been keeping count on how many hitpoints we were all getting per game. 3 sessions in, and while I was on 20 per session, Kalisie on 19, Elias on 16, Seera Delaine and Brise were all on 0. So I began to think, is this personal? Did I do something wrong? Or am I just playing like an idiot?
But then it hit me.
Elias, Elio and Kalisie were black.
It couldn’t be a coincidence.
I talked to my GM about this, but all he had were excuses and ‘it’s my game, I can do what I want’, and said that if I kept questioning him he’d destroy my character’s home-city and kill his family. That, I was not happy with.
Elias’s creator and I realised that our GM had lied to us when he said he’d “GM’s for countless other campaigns”. OR he’d only played with people who’d never played, so would believe everything he said. I’d start making an understudy for Elio (as GM had said multiple times that his goal was to kill all of us, except for Seera because he had plot armour) and I wanted to either make a dragon-born or a tiefling. I text DM to ask if I could, and the guy didn’t even KNOW what they were. After I explained them, he said “no those don’t exist”. This guy seemed to believe that the only civilised people in D&D were humans, elves and dwarves.
This guy would change the rules, spells, meta-game the shit outta us. And this was an extremely dark, racism universe. You couldn’t talk your way out of a tough spot, you HAD to fight to the death. And through some eavesdropping, I discovered that team White characters were the “main characters” of the other, and we were nothing more than minor, disposable, waste.
So Elias’s creator and I started calling him out on his bullshit. We’d use spells were were meant to use right from the start, bring our own 20 side dice, and actually play the game the way it’s meant to be played. GM was not happy.
And on our last session, he starts things off by brutally murdering Elias’s husband (despite her asking him beforehand to NOT DO THAT), and ends it with Elio getting kidnapped by the bandits we were investigating. You see in the town we were at, Elio discovered some of his clan members lived in the slum part of the city (because of fucking course) so goes to ask them for info. Our DM decides to play them using a very racism voice imitation, racist slurs and has Elio’s distant cousin attempt to sexually assault him. Wonderful.
Elio follows a seemingly trustworthy kid to his house, and tells the kid of his royal status, before SURPRISE! The bandits were waiting in the kid’s house to jump Elio and kidnap him. Meta-gaming at it’s worst.
Our GM then describes the 10 bandits tear off Elio’s clothing, and proceed to brutally torture and sexually assault for 5 hours. He then says “roll a social” to see if he’s mentally damaged by this. (I rolled a 99, critical failure).
At that point, I was done. Elias’s creator had to leave early, so I KNEW he’d waited for her to leave to do this.
I said “You can either take all that back and actually fucking play fairly, or I’m DONE with your game.” He was shocked by this. Like someone being disgusted by rape was news to him. He said it “wasn’t so bad” and that I was “over reacting”, so I said I was done. The session was over and I’m not playing anymore.
So moral of the story? Idk if there really is one. But for any aspiring DM’s out there, here’s some advice: -Communicate with your players. Actually take some time to lay down the rules to them and STICK TO IT. -If you’re letting people into your fantasy, try and find out what people will or won’t be comfortable with. -Be respectful of your player’s wishes. -Don’t be racist. -Don’t pick favourites or main characters. This kills everyone else’s want to play.
Side note, after I left, so did Elias and Delaine’s players. Kalisie then left too, and I think Brise’s player’s gonna leave too. I’d feel sorry for our DM, but I really don’t.
Thanks for reading, and I hope your D&D sessions go a lot better than mine!
Most of us who know what it's like to sit in that big chair at the head of the table have experience one of those moments. Whether it was j...
Another of those public service messages for DMs who aren’t sure if they’re crossing the line or not.
So...my DM has watched Moana. How do I know this? I just received a text message that reads as such:
“New villain.. Dire Crab with 10 levels of Bard.”
Well, so much for my character being alive. -_-’
Perhaps one of y'all have a suggestion on how I can my GM is final boss is fixing stupid. It's an enemy we've fought twice before and he's boring as shit and unfun, the last time we killed I cannot physically emphasize how dead he was, we splattered across a 30 ft area then scrapped up the goop and incinerated it. I even said I said pretty directly said "don't do this again, this guy is boring and not fun to fight, figure out something else if you really want a recurring villain" and we made jokes about how secretly it's one character who showed up once and then just never got resolved. He said he had planning this for months and was starting to get kinda upset. Like, sorry your secret bbeg that wasn't actually a secret and you didn't really ever allude being as such is ass, maybe try get better at writing? Maybe don't try to shoehorn a poor JoJo's reference in at the very end? Maybe actually work on yourself as person and improve your skills instead of blaming your mental illness? The final session is next week so I don't know, whatever I guess.
