D&D Players, What’s the WORST mistake you’ve made in a campaign?

D&D Players, What’s the WORST mistake you’ve made in a campaign?
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[@Egalia_1]

Any monster with a time stop ability is actually the most hilarious and terrifying thing I’ve ever heard of. Definitely doing this

[@battlemapbrawl]

have you fought a creature with time stop before? if so, how was it?

[@jesuschrist2268]

Remember to recreate DIO Stairs scene

[@jakethegreatest473]

It pants people

[@battlemapbrawl]

@@jakethegreatest473 LMAO!

[@greenapple204]

ZA WORLDO!

[@Attaxalotl]

"So you reach the ravine, only to see that the bridge has been destroyed" *"I attempt to use the chain gun as a jetpack"* This went exactly as well as you'd expect.

[@KertaDrake]

Just didn't use enough gun.

[@Attaxalotl]

@@KertaDrake Sometimes you just need a little less gun.

[@lechking941]

Talk about the chain gun of stupidity as it gave a -3 to intelligence.

[@Attaxalotl]

@@lechking941 He had played Jetpack Joyride a bunch back in the day.

[@lechking941]

@@Attaxalotl oh no, no wonder he tried it XD wish it worked ngl

[@lukescreepedout]

The worst mistake I have made was when me and my team where helping on a school field trip to the zoo and the teacher was wanting some adventures to help watch the kids so they won’t die, so we went to the zoo and everything was going good until a kid put his hand in on of the cages and a OWL BEAR BIT OF HIS HAND, so me out of panic destroyed the bars of the cage to fight the owl bear and get the kids hand back, but little did I know there were 2 more owl bears in there hiding, so they escaped and killed almost all the kids leaving only 4 out of 23, and that’s when my DM lost all trust in me.

[@Linkolnverse]

Lmao, Asmodeus teleporting to gloat to you that Tiamat ate the Tarrasque sounds hilarious.

[@Spelladon]

first campaign i had ever DM'ed for. Had players fight a bunch of giant bees and after climbing down a hallow tree they find a giant honey comb. The honey coats anything dipped into it in gold. Party immediately left, went to closest town, liquidated all assets into copper pieces, and then gold plated all of them. Rest of campaign had them rolling deception checks every time they tried to use the gold plated copper, and they ALWAYS wanted to use it.

[@an8strengthkobold360]

Orc redemption paladin, we where dealing with a tribe of orcs, due to his oath he wanted to oviod killing them out rigth. So he barged into the orc occupied strucure and revealed his title (and how he earned it) to scare them off. The problem. I forgot the elf ranger was watching through a window. Paladins title and reason for seeking redemption: Ruinok the elf hunter. The ranger was not aware of this and was now aware my character participated in the genocide of his tribe.

[@cooldemon5545]

Did the ranger ever attempt to kill the paladin after that?

[@an8strengthkobold360]

@@cooldemon5545 no, considered it, did get a long bow to the chest, it was just incredibly stupid on my end (I'm the paladin player).

[@lechking941]

@@an8strengthkobold360 but tbh your arupidity can easily turn into a plot point in party interactions

[@an8strengthkobold360]

@@lechking941 it was, it lead to some really intresting rp but it was just incredibly dumb on my end.

[@lechking941]

@@an8strengthkobold360 yep but the end goal of dnd is always the rp and fun. As if everyone has a story from their pc and of the game than everyone did good

[@fantasywritertenten6618]

I was listening to this while i was unloading the dishwasher, and just as you began talking abouy Happy Accidents, I was literally putting the silverware away and accidentally dropped the spoons and forks into where their assigned drawer. Upon picking up one of the spoons, my brains' response was "... Bard who plays the spoons like drums." ... So thank you for your advice and the inspiration for a Bard :) (no I dont think this one will be seducing any dragons. I mean, they might want to play a show with spoons for them. But thats about it.)

[@dizzydial8081]

My biggest mistake was trying to run a semi-serious one-shot with a group that tries to make everything into a joke and let them used the characters from a game someone else was running that had items waay OP and abilities that break everything.

[@SamWeltzin]

Gave my party a meteorite of adamantine. They did the math and started a mining operation and became obscenely rich beyond imagination.

[@lechking941]

Never let the party use calculas because it's gonna backfire the dm.

[@landervanlijsebetten4527]

Shooting a blunderbuss in a dungeon. The whole dungeon was alerted. One member died (they're was a big dragon)

[@lechking941]

Now that's dumb as fuck

[@MeenahPeixes]

Mine is easily putting my hand in the hole in the single mysterious tree in a clearing. Turns out it was a black hole-

[@Otatsuke]

Spaghettification.

[@wamlythecrabgod2199]

Wait if that was a black hole the entire goddamn planet would have collapsed into itself on it

[@MeenahPeixes]

@@wamlythecrabgod2199 Idk all I know is that i got sucked in like a noodle-

[@lechking941]

@@MeenahPeixes so insta kill?

[@spartanhawk7637]

*insert Mario falling into a black hole*

[@connorthemintyyeen9793]

Trusting on my DM on letting him take control of my PC because I didn’t want the other players to die in some random fight. (I was tired and we get into a resting spot, so I leave with permission of the DM) My character died outside of my control, another character died and the blame was put into me.

[@intangiblematter_misc]

Oh my god- I’m the bard in the first one.

[@motheroffrogs]

IM THE DRUID LMAO, HI

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

With over 30 years in the Hobby... well... what can I say??? There is no "worst mistake ever"... just lots of dubious calls, miscalculations with HORRENDOUS consequences, and some of the most hilarious and longest lasting running gags to come of my (and other Players') antics... One of my favorites was from my dubious habits around Naming PC's... I keep a notebook around, where I take every opportunity while the inspiration is "on" (as it were) and write down ideas for names I can use later on in-game... Many of these are relatively regular names, just with interesting results depending on how you'd combine a surname with a given name... Some gags like "Robert 'Robby' Banks" are obvious classics, but a little more obscure (though no less ordinary) might be naming a Female Character "Rae Gunne"... This particular naming disaster started back in the earlier days of my serious experimentation with "bad Hollyweird Accents" and the "Cheesy Russian" was kind of an ongoing favorite about the group. I had been developing a habit of dropping English words in certain turns of phrase to make it a little more comically unintelligible whenever such a Character gets excited... (think dropping "up" from "F***ing stuff up"... and I had the Table rolling with the "You f*** my sh*t!" argument, when the NPC {GM} misunderstood it as an insulting Euphamism and repeated it back accusingly, instead of realizing I'd just "forgotten" the "up" bit)... ANYWAYS... THE "Mistake"... I named such a PC Vladimir Von Synobavych... pronounced "Sigh-No-Bah-Vitch"... THIS was the obvious setup. If you say it too fast or get excited, it's TOO easy to screw it up as "Son of a bitch"... SO oncoming (running gag) RP, AND I get to repeatedly explain the whole last name thing, obviously acting a bit incredulous as he WAS quite proud of his family name and was obliged to take offense to it being "mutilated" (mispronounced)... All goes fine according to plan for a short time... AND even I screw it up, occasionally "correcting" one or another Character IN the Game with "NO! NO! NO! It's SON OF A BITCH... WAIT! What?!" AND of course, the whole Table is rolling all over again... and again... and again... Consequences??? Lands and Titles were earned and the Regal Barony "Von Synobavych" became legendary across the lands!!! I continued RPG's with that group relatively regularly for more than ten years, and there was pretty much ALWAYS a Synobavych or Von Synobavych (or some derivative) SOMEWHERE in every Campaign... Some were just shop keepers or other "window dressing" NPC's, and others had long and storied tales of tracing their family lines back to the ORIGINAL Synobavych somehow or another... AND yes, it seemed to become disappointing if we didn't ALL just dogpile, even with the regular mal-enunciation in our enthusiasm... Baron Von Sonofabitch... and his whole Sonofabitch family... AND of course... steal away... Doesn't matter how you spell it as long as you can create the general effect when you "sound it out"... Delivery is best "dead-panned" if you can manage, so I do advise a bit of practice alone before you take it to the Table, but be proud. All Synobavych's are quite proud of their name and family (though Gods only know why)... ;o)

[@DBArtsCreators]

Listening to the DM, honestly (and unfortunately), when it comes to what classes to choose. I'm new to D&D; twice for twice now, I've listened to the DM recommendations for classes in their campaigns (3e/3.5e blend). It's resulted in me being unable to play the character I intended to play because I simply don't have the levels & skills put into what I wanted to use. No fun outcome unfortunately; just frustration.

[@lechking941]

That's how my paladen dwarf was made. A real. Goodie two shoes. And he are dirt for it( and I'm not joke I even had him comment on how shotty the dirt was, like it's not even a fucking usable cave dirt) hehe I may dof his personna out some point if I make another, as they was a straight up lawful good.

[@100dfrost]

Some years back I was DMing a Gen 1 campaign and I told my brother-in -law that challenge was a matter of setup rather than how "bad" the monster actually was. That I could take a tribe of orcs and make it challenging for the party. He said I should give that a try. That party was about 6th lvl, so I designed a cave for defense, armed my "reaction force" with runkas, a polearm that in Gen 1 could be used to disarm troops with simple hand held melee weapons like swords. As a result I was facing a TPK, although we didn't have that term back then. I sacrificed 2 of my favorite dm npc's to cut a path for the party to escape. As soon as they were out of the cave my brother-in-law wanted to go back in to rescue the dm npc's. I told him that if they waited much longer the orcs would have a pursuit party together, and he would be wasting the lives sacrificed to allow them to escape, and I meant that. They went back better prepared at 8th level and slaughtered my poor little orcs.

[@anxietyarchfeypwincess]

My only mistake as a DM in my first campaign was not saying “no” to my friends who were DnD veterans when they asked to join my group of more novice players. The more out going veterans, made the newbies feel outshined and not having fun. Had to cancel and redo the campaign with just newbies. Nothing yet in the reboot campaign.

[@bullfrogjay4383]

Did you redo the campaign ? How did it go ?

[@botsboy4086]

Constantly having to remind my friends to check for traps whenever we find something interesting

[@battlemapbrawl]

It's true. It never seems to be what it actually is.

[@lechking941]

@@battlemapbrawl unless its is a training room. I plan seeign if a dm os fone throwing a training room in with the trap being the dude who is training the folks in the room. Hm now I want that as a Player base, a old dungeon that happen to be well kited for adventures and some bound demon cursed by gods so he is basicly a trainer and for lols a fitness nut :P evil look place but really good for party as it's oddly close to main town.

[@kurroshin750]

Not giving my bbeg an emergency counterspell, so my players wouldn’t just plane shift away and start a new life in a completely different area of the world. It was a really anticlimactic ending. There was a huge battle up a mountain fortress. Once they were in the temple, they had him to one shot, started to see his point of view and just left...it wasn’t an evil campaign either.

[@lechking941]

HAY plot point! The dude hated the party but maybe changed by wereever the fick we was stuck was able to let time kill them, new part arises and he learned his mistake :P (also you as DM did as well)

[@TaranAlvein]

Why is that a bad thing? He won. The party changed their minds and decided to live and let live. Why would he stop them? That's like having the goal of your quest in-hand and then accepting somebody's wager for possession of said object. You already have it, why would you play them for it unless they have the power to just take it from you?

[@lechking941]

@JustDev well not entirly if everyone leaves satisfied than its a done game, plus the world has more to be story arched into :P

[@Nostripe361]

Did it last week. Group landed in a desert. My character has a high perception so I spotted a random hole in the sand. Another player jokes about possible giant ant lion which gets me nervous so I chuck the a rock in it. Roll a nat20. Angry Cyclops comes out with an injured eye

[@lechking941]

Lol now that's no easy mistake because you was worried about ant lions.

[@fiercestpond4722]

Our dm gave my character a staff that applies a random effect to anything it hits. Everyone got hit mostly by accident but now she turns into a crystal golem once she drops to 0 so she effectively can’t be killed.

[@dandanni1010]

Not a DM, but wow did I end a campaign quick. I was playing as a Rogue character with some skill in metallurgy, mainly so that I can appraise the worth of whatever metal thing I managed to steal. I was part of a party that was summoned by a king, who was planning to send us out on a quest for several holy artifacts in order to destroy a powerful arch demon. Me being me, I decided to roll to see if I could find anything worth stealing. Rolled a 15. Found the kings very ornate necklace. Got a 17 on my sneak check and managed to sneak up behind the king. Rolled a 14 for my metallurgy check, which was just barely enough to tell me that this necklace was worth the kings weight in gold. So, obviously, I decided to steal it. I got a nat 20 for my theft check too! Turns out, the necklace was a holy seal that kept the Archdemon in question sealed within the king. Now freed, the demon possessed the king and went on a rampage. We were under-leveled as fudge. Total party wipe. Moral of the story, don’t steal. You’ll literally will get killed for your trouble.

[@lechking941]

That's why you take some form of magic knowing even if you have to gut the bank for it.

[@dandanni1010]

@@lechking941 XD. You have a point. If I had that, I probably would have gotten an early warning. At least it makes for an awesome story to share, even if it is about my epic fail.

[@lechking941]

@@dandanni1010 yep.

[@TABarkeep]

As a Druid/ ranger I once killed an owl pissing off a druid god posing as a deer and causing almost myself to be sacrificed and the bow used (a purple rarity bow don't remember name tho), took a whole session to mend the relationship with the owl and pissed off my party for killing the owl.

[@Genshin21]

My friend running a homebrew pokemon dnd. Short version we are fighting a legendary and it gets to one of our turns. It being a bit of a light hearted dnd our dm asked what do you want to do. My friend is thinking and me being a bit of a joker says. "Oh god dont throw a pokeball." My friend smiles and says hes going to do it. Our DM said while trying not to laugh, because there was no way in hell he was going to let us catch a legendary. Dm: "Okay roll for it.".......... Friend: "Nat 20." Dm:"Roll again to confirm". (Mostly because of it being a legendary and the capture chance was low, and we really were not supposed to have this) Friend with girlfriend now wife next to him: "Nat 20" Needles to say all of us were laughing because of this. It sucks that we stopped playing shortly after that and didnt get a chance to see where this would take us but still a good memory.

[@pravus9769]

My worst mistake was when I was playing as a homebrew earthbender with a metal bending focus from Avatar: The Last Airbender and I "cast" a spell called fissure that splits the ground in a line....when we were fighting guys on a walkway connecting a small ravine lol. The kicker is I was the only one to fail the dex save to fall in, along with an unconscious ally. I managed to salvage the situation since I was basically one of the Republic Police Force metalbenders that uses metal cables to get around. It was a fun character to play.

[@lechking941]

I see that show worthy mistake. No regreats

[@KelbPanthera]

3e game. We needed to get across the continent in a hurry, like "no ability to teleport is a problem" fast. I'm a shaman though, so I come up with the bright idea of asking an elemental weird if we can use the portal in the bottom of her elemental pool to take a shortcut through an elemental plane. She agrees, after giving us the typically cryptic clues her kind are known for. Seems good right? Small hiccup: the weird is an air weird so her portal leads to the elemental plane of air. No one in the party has reliable flight. This detail occurs to me *after* I and one other party member have already jumped through. The portal is one way. Whoops.

[@malphas6670]

I like how the "cute doomer" In the thumbnail is using real medieval armor and not just some super exagerated fantasy shit.

[@cgavinhutson]

I had written a horror based campaign that had 8 separate mini stories that all come together to form a bigger campaign. One of my work friends asked to join for a session so I came up with a separate one shot to throw them into, I had them read from a magic book that transported them to a separate dimension so for this one shot it stays out of the Canon of the main story, long story short they have been using this magic book in the main story to transport random NPCs to different dimensions whenever they think it's funny, which it ALWAYS is, but it makes it hard for me to get them on track of the story bc every npc that talks to them gets teleported somewhere else, usually straight to hell

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

Should've had it as a one use kind of thing.

[@CyColt]

My brother had/has a tabaxi bard named Snowball. He used this character to play with his friends over the internet. The mistake in this imo was allowing Snowball into existence. Why? Well, between having a libido that would make Succubi, Incubi, and several other deities of lust jealous, having a goal to bed at least one of EVERYTHING (yes monsters included), and a criminal record that he only escaped proper punishment for (which i believe him mentioning it being death) by having info on an incoming invasion by another kingdom and being subsequently stuck with the party, he was textbook chaotic something.

[@bullymaguire7282]

So it started with me trying to steal candy, and it ended up with me having my own cult and thousands of people dead and traumatised.

[@alexsnightmare]

My mistake was making the solution of a puzzle be a powerful ring (Ring of Fire Elemental Command btw). The solution was to put the ring on a statue in order for it to move to reveal a door so the party could leave the room. Any time the party tried to take the ring, the statue would move back into place in front of the door, trapping the party. The party wanted that ring. Desperately. So in their attempt to get it, the wizard decided to take it off the statues finger and run as fast as possible to get through the door before the statue would block it. The barbarian said he would use his strength to hold open the door for the wizard, pushing against the statue as it closed. Okay sure, i thought. Let them try that. Barbarian rolls a nat 20 strength check to hold the door open as the statue closed, allowing the wizard to quickly run back through the door with the ring. So thats how a level 3 party got a magic item that's about 10 levels higher than them.

[@lechking941]

I mean you can always make it so the item may not react tillits used "by a sucisent magic user" sks it's a weak fire

[@alexsnightmare]

@@lechking941 well it doesn't activate all its powers till the user kills a fire elemental, which the party can't do until level 9, and they're level 5 right now, so we're good for the time being xD

[@GustavoGplay]

Had a DM that constantly required the players to describe what they were carrying whenever they left a location. You're leaving camp with your equipment (weapons, potions, etc)? You must describe each individual thing and keep track where everything is. Imo, it sucks, but we rolled with it. This one time, we were all so excited to finally fight the BBEG, me and one other player forgot to describe ourselves grabbing our weapons. The result? We came to face the BBEG with nothing but our bare hands.

[@compositeembryo7186]

playing a home brew as a changeling bard where me and my teammates had to save a town from a group of raiding bugbears, hobgoblins and regular goblins. I formulated a plan to attempt to get them to fight each other, because I had seen and killed a big tough looking bugbear, and so decided to impersonate him in order to manufacture a civil war. unfortunately, I failed to realise how important communication with the raiders would be to my plan, and sort of forgot about the language barrier. I did not speak goblin, so when I was confronted by the true leader of the raiders, a freakishly tall hobgoblin, my only response was to throw a rock at him. I had left a sniper nearby, but they didn't really like my character, so he basically left me to my own devices, the traitor. I did get saved, but I'm definitely not letting a language barrier ruin any future plans.

[@TheMARSHalMELLOW]

Our DM had a habit of creatures coming through every crack. We had heard of shady happenings at a grave yard, upon investigating the hands of every open grave were missing. Things were adding up. We cam a cross a crack in a wall, our druid used mending before anyone could check. Post game it turned out that was the loot haul.

[@lechking941]

Oh dam. Oh well I guess it's rhe dm for uver use of that.

[@axios4702]

Going to the bathroom. Literally. We were playing a feudal japan styled low fantasy game. We were two samurai, a monk and a ninja (me) and I was pretty much the only person in the group with both common sense and some back bone to say no to the two samurai. One night, while spending the night in a city, nearing the end of the session I have to leave for the bathroom. We decide that my character has to go too and the others keep playing. As I leave, I hear one of the samurai saying he wants to visit the red light district, I remembered them to stay out of trouble and close the door behind me. I wasnt gone for more than 15 minutes. And yet, somehow, some way, in those fifteen minutes they had managed to find the red light district, find some girls and piss off the yakuza who owned the local they visited to the point it scalated into an outright sword fight. I spend the rest of the session in disbelief as I see them lose, and run away while leaving the poor monk (who they bullied into going with them) behind to be captured and taken hostage by the yakuza. When they return to the inn we are staying at I see them coming back covered in wounds and blood and lacking a monk. I just face palmed and we ended the session there.

[@lechking941]

Tell me you strigh smack the 2 before saving the monk.

[@axios4702]

@@lechking941 Yes I saved the monk at the start of the very next session. And it was the monk himself that sucker punched them both after we left the city. They havent dared to bother him again.

[@lechking941]

@@axios4702 hahaha good. Those 2 idiots got what game to em. Don't pay the yakuza youre getting fucked.

[@TheMath0o]

DM in pathfinder, the first ''homebrewed'' item I've introduced was a wand that alternated between cure light wound, nothing, and inflict light wound. The ''nothing'' being there so they suspect the wand isn't normal, along with a well-described cracked catalyst embedded in it. Rogue rolled a nat 20 to find anything useful in what was a wizard garbage bin so I figured this piece of junk would be interesting. They used it twice to test its effect. the third time, a few sessions later, they used it to cure an unconscious guard to prove they were friendly after sneaking up and being caught, in a guard outpost, without reason, at night after the outpost had been attacked by beasts hence the wounded guard. The inflict wound did enough damages to finish off this poor man. They were a party of 3 level 3 disarmed characters. There were about 12 cr 1 guards with undivided attention, witnessing the party murdering their comrade. The initiative was rolled and that's where campaign 1 ended.

[@seanengelgau5496]

I just finished a 2 shot my best friend created and we certainly got the bad ending. I was an Orcish wizard who excelled at giving himself high AC and close quarters magic. The two other players were a blood hunter tiefling and a dwarf fighter grappler combo. My character was often too busy trying to keep the 7 intelligence dwarf on track to pay much attention to the tiefling who was kinda quiet and competent. We had a mission to retrieve two pieces of a contraption that was said to grant a single wish. A great hook for a short campaign. When we finally got the two pieces and assembled them our dm tried several different ways to warn us it was evil. The NPC was begging us not to let them connect and anyone who succeeded arcana would have felt great evil from the thing. I hand off my half to the tiefling as we fight and tell her to secure the other piece and if things went south we would use the wish. She grabbed the piece off the floor and immediately connected them and began summoning a man through a portal. Turns out it's a phylactery for a lich who is pure evil. I fire my spells at the phylactery but the tiefling starts chanting in abyssal and dodges the attacks. We are unable to stop it and me and the fighter just run. I am shot with disintegrate but I drop to 1 hp because of my orcish resolve but the dm says my character is nearly falling apart after so much damage. I roleplay it as in extreme pain as the dwarf burns his action surge to sprint away, the tiefling goes through a portal with the lich and I lay there dying on the ground (dm said I could survive but I chose to play this out) I crawl outside and with my last breath I pull out the magic bean my father gave me. I put it in the ground and cover it with dirt. I pull put the table and roll a magical effect for the beans. 1d6 +6 shriekers. I rolled a 6. That was the end of my orc wizard. And I couldn't be happier about how it went.

[@ShandorDavies]

I had to get my party from point A to B and prepared an airship encounter. They paid for their passage, everything was going well. Then it became apparent that there stowaways on board, and they attacked the airship crew and the party. A quick conversation with the stowaways revealed that the airship crew were actually slavers and the stowaways were there to rescue their friend. So the party help the stowaways to take over the ship. They were basically another adventuring party with their own agenda and things to do so they didn't stick around at the port. So, with the original crew dispatched and the stowaways safely dropped off, the party just kind of went "...so, I guess the airship is ours now." I have no idea why I didn't come up with a better resolution for the airship encounter that didn't involve just giving them a freaking airship! I hit the random generators for the ship's cargo (that wasn't slaves) and ended up generating silly amounts of random herbs, spices and potatoes that they just sold for money. A lot of money. So that's the story of how I oops accidentally gave my players a ton of gold and an airship. The lesson I learned is get some sleep before running half thought out encounters so that you can actually improv a solution that doesn't break the game.

[@renzonunez6046]

Not me, but we have this bard in our group. Tbh he is kinda useless in combat, all he does is spending all his spell slots in turning invisible or teleporting away when combat starts, we don't really care because the party is big enough that we don't need him at all. Anyway, one time the party was transporting the princess trough the desert to a diplomatic mission, but we were attacked by some really tough bandits. The combat got rough when the bandits entered the princess tent and attacked her servants, so our genius bard had the amazing idea of casting the only damaging spell he knows: Shatter. Not only the bandits passed the save because of course he doesn't have a high charisma score, but the spell destroyed everything the princess was had in the tent, including expensive dresses, jewels and offerings for the diplomatic mission. So the party not only didn't get paid, but aquired a huge debt and we haven't been able to afford any magic items in like 6 months of campaing.

[@roberttschaefer]

I once decided to cast counterspell in order to stop a mass suggestion spell, totally forgetting that the party was on a heroes feast and already immune to the effects!

[@greydragon1849]

my greatest mistake as a player: we met a talking, angry mammoth who accused us of murdering his friend, I pass a perception check and spot the dead body of a giant "did you kill that giant?" and my bard was brutally stomped to death in what I have in hindsight realized was a fair response given the situation greatest mistake as a DM: include a dragon in a level 1 dungeon expecting the new, RP loving player to run away like everyone else didn't help that when talking to the dragon, it was intentionally vague about why it was angry, and I failed to express just how murderous the intention was second mistake was underestimating the damage output of a young Emerald Dragon

[@WileyBoxx]

This is Mutants and Masterminds, but we stole the batwing and crashed it into Bruce Wayne during a speech because we all rolled extremely low to roll it.

[@dominicmusgrove3203]

we were in a drow base to try rescue a child of a party member. there were crates in the office of a now dead mage. I, lizardfolk barbearian, choose to smash them open as you do, intending to simple destabilise the crate so it crumbles. both crates i had broken the contents of were eggs intended for the mage to sell (the barbarian is now scarred for life around eggs). The third crate that *didn't* have its contents broken? empty. never got to complete that campaign but boy was it fun while it lasted

[@sarndt8281]

My party was put up against a fungal dracholich that they had fought before in one of our former campaigns. We had a player who was always salty that they never got a chance to kill it properly so for his last game I allowed him to bring back his favorite PC and have a one on one battle with it. He warned the rest of the party not to use any fire attacks against it as it causes explosions and where ever the explosion goes leaves behind a layer of the fungus. The first PC used flame strike directly on the dracholich despite being warned not to.....after a lot of math, my party effectively dropped a dirty bomb on my game world, unleashed a plague on the world, and basically caused an apocalypse.

[@entertainingchaosandconver4880]

I was the DM. Yep. I let my players have a ring where you can shrink stuff to a carryable size and weight, and they shrunk Tamatoa, that crab from Moana (I like using movies and books as inspiration and my players wanted gold). My one player had the ring owner shrink Tamatoa and stuff him in a bag of holding until he suffocated. I failed to put a size or weight limit on the ring, so i gave them the loophole. Plus i love the weird stuff they come up with and try to allow their *ahem* more reasonable shenanigans because that’s why i play D&D anyway. Thanks for reading!

[@derp24lordz]

One of my party members ate a demon and gained its powers, but qt the same time it slowly corrupted his mind. After a while, my ranger realizes something is off about him and mention it to the party, the rest of the party realized it to but passed it off as just a one time thing so we let him go check out a village, uhhhhhh, he killed all the villagers and destroyed the houses

[@lechking941]

The mistake was him EATIGN A FUCKING DEMON like who is that hungry?

[@ryuunana]

Agreeing to a paladin's suggestion to prank around and burn a bandit's stronghold after managing to negotiate a hostage situation. We ended up indirectly causing a massacre in the nearby city as the bandits want some blood.

[@MitchellTF]

This is also why you prepare to emergency fudge rolls...

[@cooldemon5545]

Shoot a firebolt in a dark room full of gunpowder. I was a human without darkvision, and I followed the enemy into the room, and the door closed behind me. I rolled with dis, and next thing I know, half the building is destroyed, as well as everyone in the party. This is why you should really think about it when the DM asks, 'Are you sure you want to do that?'

[@robertenyart9982]

The Deck of Many Things. Sooner or later, the party is so screwed up that the next member to pull a wish inevitably "Wishes we never found this expletive Deck".

[@williamwalrus9473]

So the first story is just the creation of X-men’s Cypher and a lizard Dio going on cool adventures

[@ThatRoundFops]

Wyrmling: "ZA WARUDO-!"

[@blaqice5075]

Well so far, in the "Nine Portals", the new guy; his character is a female tiefling sorceress, says that to explore these doors to break up the party. I'm like wait...what did you just say? Look, so I'm the DM. I know breaking up the party is the worst idea for any campaign. So I had all four players roll wisdom. He got nat 20. Before heading on with the campaign (and thanks for a question answered in Sunday's live DND) I pulled the guy to the side and told him that breaking up the group is a bad thing and wanted to know if he wanted to keep going on with this idea or stay with the group. He wanted to go with his idea, break up the group. I nodded and we went back playing. With his nat 20, his tiefling told every character to go which door he chose to go through. I hope they make it through to the next room, but this may be the worst thing this group made. I did try to earn him.

[@Magicka24]

1:51 holy shit i think this was one of my freinds lmao, that was a interesting campaign

[@qxmdeadeye6170]

How did that one phrase ruin a campaign?

[@colossaltitan3546]

@@qxmdeadeye6170 I too am curious to know

[@neooblisk0084]

Tell us

[@Magicka24]

@@neooblisk0084 all ill say for my own embarrassments sake is we where all really horny, some very problematic lewd things happened, and the story got side tracked so hard by erp i dont think we hit a single plot hook before we all had a falling out

[@_TobiasR_]

My biggest mistake: playing under a DM that kinda hated me, 10/10 wouldn’t recommend

[@cacofany1]

My biggest mistake was to cast prestidigitation to create graffiti on the BBEG’s warning sign, just to spite him. Gargoyles attack us as a result, and with a few nat ones, we miss and hit the sign. Turns out, there’s a extremely powerful demon that was bound to the sign for some reason and it’s now free. All this happened, because of graffiti, and my fellow players never let me forget it. Now we will have to do a one shot to undo the deal I made with it to spare my character and our party from a wipe.

[@shadowmyst9661]

The biggest mistake I’ve made as a DM was a giving too much Gold and Magic Items too soon, and easily. And making some of my own Homebrew Magic Items too powerful for the levels they where given. It really makes it a lot harder to balance fun and challenging encounters for my players without them being too weak or too strong.

[@Wolfphototech]

*The closest Table Top RolePlaying Game to Skyrim is RuneQuest roleplaying in glorantha .* *This is due to the fact that the mechanics and world of the Elder Scrolls was heavily inspired by RuneQuest .*

[@CandleWaxwell]

Not me, but one of my players. I was and am still Dming a Japanese mythology - demon hunting campaign where I take all my monsters from Japanese mythology and make them more dangerous in some way. Anyway, there's a creature known as a Binbogami that basically looks like an old man that lives in your house and brings misfortune to anyone else who lives with you. This player who's character was named Kayaku, decided that the Local lord of the town they were staying in was a Binbogami. Alas, after 2 fateful hours of invading the lord's manor, two very human and very fleshy slices of non-binbogami meat dropped to the floor, marking the beginning of a fugitive-style story arc :)

[@kbairwolf]

Yeah not a DM but i do have a funny story: 2nd ever campaign as a half elf rogue. We were in a fight as lvl 2s and as a group of 6. I "shot" my bow at the for critical failure, cool crit was a nat 20 max damage. DM decided to say loosed my arrow deflected off my barbs axe and crit me down to -2... Stabilized and wizard burned a heal to rez me next shot was another critical failure. And i was down again. That was my luck throughout the campaign. So i wasnt much help for my party most combat times. I did pick a few locks and eventually just took up herb picking as a way to atleast offset the shear number of health potions used on keeping me alive.

[@theworldstoryteller1197]

That gives a whole new meaning to a 'gas bomb'!

[@DinoGrape]

happen last week, Paladin woman is drafting everyone for a war as we enter town. we get drafted but get to have a face to face with her, she has a scepter that is pretty Among Us, its obviously magical/cursed and I can hear it whispering to her. I cast Dispel Magic on it, spell fails. Paladin Woman screams "assassins!" we get bum rushed by her men at arms as they rip us apart in one round, nearly dead i make a deal with a devil to GTFO. no one dies but the devil basically owns me and we were teleported to a City that's basically being held ransom by a guy with a dragon. easily the biggest mistake ive made, Near TPK. Felt so bad dude

[@youtubingjaguar5082]

Starting the robot apocalypse in Eberron because we wanted to stay loyal to *one* of our employers. ;)

[@jeezuhskriste5759]

Worst mistake I made was not correcting the GM before it was too late. We did a massive time skip, and killed some dragons. It seemed like a reasonable amount of dragons, but then I looked at the dragon loot tables. It took 4 real life hours to finish rolling loot.

[@dr.bentenjaminoctaviusocto1658]

the dragon wormling just like: ZA WARDO!!!!!!!

[@katherinpendragon6446]

when it was my turn at the table to DM a long campaign, i made the mistake of using random (and not level appropriate) magic item tables for bonus stuff the PCs could find and/or buy (we were in a magic college town, so you know student made stuff). they got some pretty random and potentially OP things, that they kept trying to use to break the game. the one thing that saved me though was the rule of "if you don't write to down you don't have it", and seeing as when i'm a player at the table i'm always the record keeper, the other players weren't in the habit of remembering to write down and transcribe loot lists between character sheets. so they lost a lot of stuff (that they only realized/remember half the time), and i was saved several big headaches.

[@michaelraymond510]

My biggest mistake was thinking a bard, an old man, and a child could hold off an army of skeletons attacking at the city gates, it resulted with the old man dying of 15 spears piecring him, the child sold into slavery and me being stranded outside Of The city gates and escaping with numerous injuries that should have killed me. Injuries included burns, stab wounds, lacerations and body littered with swords, arrows and spears.

[@Xarestrill]

I've got one that I'll try to keep brief. It was a combination of a DM who could be a bit of an asshole when the mood took him and an idiot player who thinks he's much smarter than he is. We're around level 10-12 and are in one of the major cities of the DMs homebrew. The idiot decides to go shopping for magic armor and the DM randomly rolls for what's in the shops. He rolls up a set of armor with a negative (first time you put the armor on you're irreversibly gender swapped) and the ability to cast a Wish spell once a week (with a 10% chance a piece of your rots away and fall off every time you use it). He spends all of his money and borrows a bunch from the rest of the party to get this armor, puts it on, and then starts complaining how he's broke and owes everyone money. He comes up with the "smart" idea to use his first wish to fix this. He intends to wish for someone to come and buy his old armor for 100 gp more than he spent on the new armor. What he ACTUALLY wished for was someone to come buy his new armor for 100 gp more than he spent on it. DM gives an evil grin and has the BBEG appear in a puff of smoke with a sack of cash. The idiot, busy being smug about how smart he was isn't paying attention to the description or anything, and hands over the set of wish granting armor to the guy we've been fighting for the last 6-8 months. That was basically the end of the campaign. BBEG could now do a wish every week, we had no way to counter this or stop him. The idiot got permanently gender swapped and doomed us all for 100 gp because he's "so freaking smart."

[@beowulfodinson9230]

Easily the biggest mistake I ever made as a DM, was home brewing a 1d10 “misfortune table” for a hexblade warlock, and very good friend of mine. It was full of weird and random things that could be directly harmful, or indirectly helpful to the party. But it also had some absolutely gamebreaking potential that I didn’trealize until it was far, far too late. Thus far they had rolled and made random volcanos in the world erupt, random sky ships fall from mid flight, and even summoned a swarm of angry bats that attacked the party in the middle of active combat. I should probably elaborate that this was my first game I had ever run, and didn’t really understand the potential repercussions. Flash forward a few months of playing, and the party meets the king. They immediately don’t like and deeply distrust him do to some poor insight rolls and admittedly cagey explanations on my part. The next morning the warlock rolls on his table, and rolls an effect that, due to my lack of understanding of balancing and inexperience, allows him to pick a place that he has seen. When he does so, a tear in space opens up and sucks in everything within 15ft of the space it originated from before it disappears again. I then roll to randomly determine which plane of existence whatever was sucked up gets dropped in, then I roll again to determine how long it’s there before it reappears at said players feet. He chose the throne. Which then sucked the king, and captain of the guard, and spymaster, into avernus. For a full month. TLDR: dude didn’t like the king and was jumped at the chance to hurl the king into hell which plunged the whole city into absolute chaos.

[@starfirei3356]

Trying to melee attack a dragon. That’s the worst one because my character didn’t really do much in the campaign, plus the group started falling apart near the end.

[@dagoblin1]

I was having a *little* bit too much fun with the deck of many things, and ended up drawing 1 too many cards, and got our entire party sent to the 4th layer of hell.

[@3xm-draconic676]

in session 1 I started a forest fire thinking I could flush out the werewolves we were fighting but insted I nearly burnt down the whole forest and nearly killed my cleric buddy...oops

[@marcusreading3783]

Think thats bad? In my last campagne, someone (not me) managed to set of a wild magic surge while trying to find some werewolves that were stalking us and managed to summon and Ancient Black Dragon. We were level 4

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@MrRipper]

Hiya Buddy

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

@@MrRipper good evening my friend! How do you do?

[@WhydTheyChangeOurNames]

The biggest shock in this video is the guy rolled 8d6 and his highest 3 rolls still only came out to 6.... this man rolled 3 1s and 3 2s

[@CRYOKnox]

Worst mistake i did as a DM. Telling my Paladin player tgat a white dragon tumbles torwards him backwards and if he doesn't get out of its way he will be a PITA for that Dragon but death... He had a divine favor for being very true to his gods ideals... He didn't made the dex save and than asked if he coulf made a con save with that favor on top so i thought well let him go with it he had allready plus 4 on consaves and i thought a plus 6 would make up a good boon. Whatcha guess? Nat 20 he made a a weird gesture standing up looking like he was doing yoga and said my character moves like this preparing for the impact. He had his hands high above his head making a cone form. This was the day we refraised PITA to Paladin in the ... At least the paladin became the rearend if every buttjoke in the group.

[@atlanticfury]

I made the mistake of letting my barbarian have infinite rage even outside of battle. he single-handedly destroyed an entire fortress city.

One time, at the final chapter of my friend's campaign, our 12th level party was trying to discover where one of it's previous members was, after he got possesed by wielding a demon blade. After an encounter with some pale kobolds which almost resulted in the death of all our characters, we were lucklly saved by an demi-behyr NPC, which coincidentally was the love interest of my character, a warlock dragonborn. After a couple of minutes after we were rescued, two adult dragons, one white and the other one green, started chasing us while we ran through some grass plains. Somehow, the demi-behyr was able to momentarilly stop them, telling us to continue running. Again, as he was my character's love interest, there was no way I'd let him fight two full grown dragons all by himself, and as I was confident in the serious amounts of damage that Eldritch Blast could deal, I was pretty confident It'd be fine. The plan was for my character to enter combat and help the NPC, distrating both dragons while the rest of the party kept running. However, I wasn't literal enough with my words, and when I entered combat, all of my party joined alongside me. After some initiative tests, both dragons ended up going first, and all players, except for me, failed both Constitution saves. This resulted in the end of our campaign, as most of our party has been obliterated in only two rounds. From that day forward, I always try to be as literal as possible when discussing plans with our group.

[@phoenixcierebiej9763]

I took the liberty of making a version of the Fart Ring The Ring of Ass-Ripping This ring has 6 charges. As an action, you can spend 1 charge to cause any creature you can see within 60ft to rip the loudest, longest, wettest fart of its life that lasts 1d4 minutes. The creature can not hide or benefit from being invisible for 24 hours. If farting during combat, the creature must pass a DC 15 Con save to be able to end the fart and use any abilities. When all six charges have been used, roll 1d8. 1. You rip the longest, wettest, loudest fart of your life that last 1d20 minutes and cannot be hidden or stealth for 24 hours. The ring is destroyed after your fart. 2. Regain 1 charge. 3. Regain 2 charges. 4. Regain 3 charges. 5. Regain 4 charges. 6. Regain 5 charges. 7. Regain 6 charges. 8. Regain 6 charges, and until the next recharge all farts now last 1d12 minutes.

[@briankenney9528]

I used intimidate instead of violence so i scared away a person we were trying to capture

[@TheFinagle]

I just stopped a party member murdering a random person we rescued by making them invisible and telling them to run. Why was it a mistake? That character wants to multiclass to wizard and the DM says he needs to find something in the world to give him access like a wizards spell book. That charecter he was about to murder was goign to be the wizard who taught Mr murderhobo how to make his first spellbook.

[@tomreid6797]

Accidentally killing the entire village we were trying to save

[@ericb3157]

oh, one story reminded me of an anecdote in a video called "what was your most overpowered character, and how did he get that way?" a homebrewed monster with random effects resulted in a Warlock getting Permanent Haste. the 3.5 edition version, that gives an extra ACTION every round! so he could cast TWO spells EVERY round in EVERY battle!

[@xMaugrex]

My worst mistake as a DM is always waiting until 2 or 3 days before the game session to plan and build (I do 3D maps on Tabletop Sim) everything, when I have 2 weeks to do it between sessions.

[@yeetamusmaximus1308]

My level 1 monk threw a dart. At a extremely powerful and prominent gang of vampires. And then threw another at a flesh golem. Multiple flesh golems.

[@blakeetter280]

Not me, or necessarily the worst for the player but definitely the worst for the character. Long story short we were raiding a castle on a cliff that was haunted and needed a quick escape. I was working on that while he explored. I broke open a hole in the wall with shatter and he ran back in. Seeing an escape he jumped out. Except, cliff. So he died instantly.

[@crispymongoose]

I've mentioned before about my monk Willow and that she died and was later resurrected for me to continue playing her. What I haven't mentioned is HOW she died. The Warlock traitor in our party, and one of the people we were fighting against in that battle, cast Armour of Agathys on herself early on. For those who don't know, this spell in 5e is a 1st level spell that gives you 5 temporary hit points for the duration (1 hour), and anyone who hits you with a melee attack will take 5 cold damage whilst you have these hit points. Upcasting adds an extra 5 temp hp and 5 cold damage for every higher level. The Warlock decided to cast this at level 4, meaning she had 20 temporary hitpoints and dealt 20 cold damage for every melee attack. You can probably see where this is going. In my infinite wisdom, I didn't read the spell properly and missed the part about the cold damage being sent back at the attacker. I had Willow charge in with both her regular quarterstaff attacks, her unarmed strike, and for good measure, a Flurry of Blows. Four attacks, and the combined damage (as I rolled fairly low for that) didn't deal enough to take out those 20 temp hit points. All four attacks hit though. My poor Willow took 80hp worth of damage for minimal gain, more than enough to down herself, and then the Warlock targeted her with everything she had to kill her outright next turn. Poor girl didn't stand a chance, all because I didn't read to the end...

[@JacobL228]

The fart descriptions left me in tears.🤣

[@Scorpious187]

Yeet. Also the Source Material links to the wrong Reddit post, just FYI.

[@MrRipper]

Opps, I will fix it :) cheers buddy

[@MrRipper]

Fixed

[@movespammerguyteam7colors]

I have to admit that teleporting a chunk of the Tarrasque into the 9 Hells is just hilarious to me, the one in the Underdark might end up causing serious terrestrial damage due to being underground, and I’d like to see what happened to the one in the Abyss because technically the Tarrasque has a higher CR than Demogorgon.

[@goldsushi9003]

The worst mistake I made was tell everyone to go onto the bad guy’s side (we didn’t know who was good/bad) so yeah.. *sad player noises*

[@_asleep9164]

For 15 gold me and my first level party went out to survive in the gnoll infested wilderness outside town. We didn't last a day.

[@danielgarrison3435]

1:51 been there done that

[@captainpolar2343]

"Roll for d size" Nat 1 pp smol, much people laugh

[@N3oArcadia02]

Not my mistake, but a friend of mine. After a tpk against some basilisks I made a ghostslayer bloodhunter. Knowing this my friend decided to make a vampire lord rouge. TLDR: vampire didn’t last 2 sessions after trying to kill bloodhunter

[@defcon3596]

Not the dm but my character put a signed a windego's contract that resulted in getting a wish spell but eaten afterward.

[@alexoliver4264]

So in the campaign, the Cure of Stahd, in right now, my PC, a halfing ranger. We're in a dungeon to rescue are other halfling rogue, and introduce my character as well, because I was just dropped in the middle of this campaign. So our DM made a sideline story, so I was have to dropping my bow to fight in close combat enemy with my shortswords. Well this is going on a party member was rolling death saves and the monster through the party member into a portal. The party jump after the wounded party member in the portal. I thought it was going to a different part of the dungeon. No, end up being in one of the tower in Ravenloft, and then Stahd took our wounded party number, enchanted the whole party to go after a vampire that was messing up his plans and sent us to a different portal in a different cave. If you guys haven't figured it out the rangers left her bow behind. Next session, go going to be interesting for my PC.

[@cosmic_kittee1077]

I picked up a soul stone not knowing what it was, and then proceeded to roll a Nat 1 on my con save.

[@captaincobalt2111]

I wasted a wish on the fake lich in "Tomb of Horrors". Got a 1 on the d3 roll to keep the spell.

[@DustyTheKitty]

4:48 Mistake? nah. that's a happy lil accident if anything.

[@scsasquatch7426]

I just about died when you were describing the ass ripper ring I was in the middle of drinking water