D&D Players, What was your worst experience with a female player?

[@evilauthor9953]

When I joined my first table, there was another girl in the group, so I didn't really notice anything big. She was the girlfriend of another player and I didn't notice any issues until it was my turn to DM. Apparently, she had gotten used to getting a level of special treatment from the male DMs, treatment I wasn't giving her. I called her out on things she normally never got called out on and towards the end of the game she was getting pissy with me a lot. In the final fight, she got hit with an attack and said she was still up. Still being up wasn't the problem, but I was confused as to how quickly she said it, didn't even look at her sheet. I asked to see the sheet, which she got upset about, but when she finally handed it over, it didn't have health. She hadn't been keeping track of her health the entire game. Came to find out, she never tracked her health in any game. She'd roll her HP dice with everyone, would ask for healing spells, but she hadn't ever written any of it down because no one had ever checked before. For who even knows how many years, she'd just been rolling her HP like everyone else and had figured out that no one would ever question her health. She'd just ask for heals when other people were doing the same and would get knocked out when she felt it would be appropriate. Next game we played, I was no longer the DM. She started hating me because I was keeping track of her health FOR her.

[@fearzila]

Good on you

[@d-emprahexpects]

😂 wtf that's the basics of the game without it what's the point

[@sugartoothYT]

How do you come out of that, why was she still allowed to play? Sure, there's more to people than just their nature as a player, but for me at least that would leave a huge social dent and make me not want to involve her at all in any game. I don't care if they were my bestie or gf, that is a pretty unforgivable lie in the context of the hobby.

[@Foxtail190]

@@sugartoothYTI wouldn’t call it an unforgivable lie by any means, that’s just unreasonable, however, continuing to be pissy about being forced to abide by the rules? Really bruh…. That’s just fucked

[@sasukedemon888888888]

​@Foxtail190 uh, kinda is an unforgiveable lie. And should be kicked out of the group. Because from what it sounds like, She is just a roleplayer and doesn't want to actually play D&D... and isn't either. So why bother trying to play with someone who doesn't want to play in the 1st place.

[@totallynotaneel_8216]

Got the entire table involved to her and her husbands divorce (both were players at our table). While seeming to be trying to hook up with another player at the same time.

[@ailinfergan]

😳

[@jaxe8321]

WTF

[@LegosR4Adlts]

I can sense the facepalm you had remembering this. Were the three able or at least the first two able to reconcile after it was over or was that just completely gone?

[@jkl1110]

happened to me too. wild

[@totallynotaneel_8216]

@@LegosR4Adltsboth were booted and the other guy stuck around. He didn’t intend to get involved in the disaster just roped into it. Group still goes on.

[@sanctissimus1]

Had a female player who had drank the man hating femenist coolaid, she was playing a wizard who hated our artificer who was played by a male. She would use the excuse that her wizard found his artificer's magic to be an abomination to insult him about things both ingame and out of game. It came to a head when she burned a tome, now this tome was a lost tome of techo sorcerery that the god Gond (god of invention, magic, and knowledge) had sent the artificer on a quest to find. He had really played this part of his character up ingame, it was part of his backstory and the culmination of his personal story arc. The book itself described how to create Mithril Golems (iron golems made of mithril and with a radiant breath weapon instead of poison). The artificer had just found the tome after a grueling fight against a Hell Smith and was about to put it in his dimension cube (a cube that acted like a bag of holding which he built just for this occasion) when the wizard asked if she could see it because she had 'seen the error of her ways and wanted to understand how his magic worked'. The artificer let her see it and she threw it into the lava river that was in the room they were standing in. There was dead silence at the table as she said in character that 'abominations of magic didn't deserve to exist'. That tome was key to stopping the army of the BBEG and she just destroyed it out of spite. At this point as the DM i was about to have Gond smite her dead when the fighter roared both in and out of character and attacked the wizard, he was followed by the cleric, paladin, warlock, and the artificer who was done being nice. They killed her wizard and i kicked her from the group, she left saying we were a bunch of 'misogynistic, woman hating, pigs' I told her to fuck off and banned her from the discord server.

[@TheONLYFeli0]

I have no words. This game can get crazy.

[@thebutterlegion9263]

Can I get a tldr please I'm lazy

[@frostbite0707]

@@thebutterlegion9263 Sexist feminist created an in-game reason to harass a male player's character. After a long series of quests to obtain the male character's holy book that can help defeat the final boss, she "borrows" it and tosses it into the lava.

[@אריאדמולה]

Annoying female wizard bullied male artificier, burned his lore relevant tome and basically thrashed the campaign because of bs lore she added to the game, got killed by the group and kicked from server while calling everyone misogynistic pigs​@thebutterlegion9263

[@Foxtail190]

Can’t believe people like her exist bruv. Acts like a complete asshole and as soon as you retaliate: “Misogynists!!”

[@TristanSykes1994]

I was DM at a table with 3 female and 3 male players. Started running Curse of Strahd. First 3 sessions went fine, players cleared the death House with a few close calls but otherwise did pretty well. My first mistake was I introduced the party to Strahd as they stumbled coughing and bloodied out of the Death House after it went evil. I described as the party looked up from the dirt to see a devilishly handsome black haired man staring down at them with a contemptuous but bemused expression. The party begin to warily talk with the stranger whilst one female player passes me notes asking various questions about the man. I answer based on what she can see and she begins to pass notes explaining how she creeps in closer. I have Strahd stride authoritively through the party to move away from her and to impress upon the party that he has little fear of them. Once again, she creeps closer, This time I have Strahd charm her and force her to go back to her comrades, stating that courtship was beneath him. I then made the second mistake of having Strahd end the charm effect on her, believing that she would get the hint... she didn't. She proceeds to take the encounter to the next level and announces she is going to strike Strahd for insulting her honor as a noble woman. I have Strahd strike her back non-lethally and declare that if she was of noble heritage, she would know better than to act in such an unladylike manner and attempt to court monsters. This was the point at which things spilled out into real life as the female player starts losing her mind and starts calling me several names and insulting me because I won't let her have this romance because I have no girlfriend (Said in a much more explicit way) before packing her stuff and storming off. I ended up having to speak to the manager and have several of the other players back me up that I hadn't done anything wrong as he had threatened to ban me for mistreating players. With a free spot open from her leaving, another player hopped in and took her place. She tried to come back the next week only to get angry that she had been replaced and that the manager had added her to the ban list because of her outbursts of abuse.

[@molacarthy9173]

Someone getting thirsty for a D&D NPC is a new one for me.

[@Foxtail190]

Thank the Force the Manager had the decency to ban her after almost banning you.

[@Take5JLW]

Two female players, though probably not nearly as bad as the stories listed. One was sort anti-male, always trying to strike out from the rest of the dudes and never actually committed to roleplay except for one time, in which she grew incredibly suspicious of my character. My character was a Fey trickster, who, while technically immoral and evil, had no interest in killing or derailing the party. She would constantly belittle ME in particular, no matter the setting or character. Later turned out that she had been dating the DM for a while as she turned out to be a manipulative asshole. We don’t know for sure but we theorize she targeted me because I was telling him that the things she did were not alright in a relationship. The second player was basically mentally a child, and I don’t mean she had a mental handicap. She would constantly complain if things didn’t just go perfectly her way or if she couldn’t have a menagerie of pets and abilities. The DM (same guy) would baby her a little too much to the point that before I and another player convinced him to nerf it, she had a 19 AC pet with a gatling gun, hydraulic jaws, a multiattack tail, high movement speed, a defense form, and the ability to understand other languages. She also ended up inadvertently trying to steal everything a character of mine had. I tamed a giant spider? It was hers, so she trained it to only know a language that she knew and refused to teach me. DM didn’t see a problem here until I pointed it out and change it so that the spider could speak telepathically. She was also playing a warforged in a campaign the DM had said warforged weren’t going to exist in, but I guess enough pouting and she got her way there too. Edit: Yes these two were in the same campaign together. Only semi-recently have we kicked them out for good. I can’t blame the DM at the time because he was being led around on a leash for sweet nothings and because it was his first game, but still, very shitty all around.

[@thedreamer6930]

Never let a femi-nazi join your game. Marisha Ray and Aabria are two such examples. They actively try insert their ideology into the game, often heavy handedly and awkwardly. This goes for all other types of idiots. Racists, bigots, sexists (both ways), political retards and anyone that will actively try to destroy you and everything you are because you got the pronoun they choose for today wrong. Do yourself and all the other players a favor, have a zero tolerance for drama bs at the table. No D&D is better than no D&D.

[@DantesTyphoon]

Had a woman hardcore flirting with me and making a lot of sexual 'jokes' toward me our entire campaign and trying to play footsy till I moved spots. I had no interest and told her that. It's awkward when guys do it and it's also awkward when women do it. The really awkward part was that her daughter was playing with us as well.

[@rikkimaru4]

I was DMing a custom villain campaign loosely based on the Worm web-serial using the HERO System. My best friend Bill was playing a mind-controlling womanizer (think the Purple Man from Jessica Jones). His ex-girlfriend Donna was also one of the players and got extremely jealous any time Bill flirted with a female NPC. Midway through the campaign, when Bill tried to hit on a named NPC in an upscale bar to get info, Donna hit her limit and started actively trying to disrupt the session. After hearing her complain about how "Ridiculous and Misogynistic" it was, I reminded her very pointedly that this was VILLAIN campaign. She clammed up for the rest of the session. Then Donna spent the entire next session doing EVERYTHING she could to undermine and sabotage Bill's character. The best moment was when she tried to break into his room at night to steal a mundane guitar that Bill's character had found and had been practicing with for most of the session. The feud ended when Bill literally called upon his God of Chaos to put a restraining order on Donna's character to keep her away from him.

[@prehistoriccreator9600]

She sounds toxic af

[@chubbyanimalenthusiast70]

Dear god I know I don’t talk to you much and sometimes I’m not sure you even exist but I really need a restraining order against my girlfriend

[@adrianhebreros]

Ngl even if it's a villain campaign mind controlling women for sex is a weird fantasy to want accomplish

[@rikkimaru4]

@@adrianhebreros In the HERO system, you pay points for your abilities. Adding limitations such as "power only works on men/women" gives you a discount on the ability. He chose women. Would it make it less uncomfortable for you if he had chosen men?

[@adrianhebreros]

@@rikkimaru4 no, it's still weird, but there's usually this weird fetish that men have of mind controlling women for sex, which I rarely see on women on men or women on women or men on men

[@bloodangel777]

Worked for a vtuber for a hot minute and at one point we had started a dnd campaign. Within a few sessions it was noticeable the favoritism that was been shown her not only because of the "streamer privilege" but turns out she was also cheating on her bf she was living with and banging the dm. Never bothered to learn anything and didn't understand why she had to pick a deity being a cleric. Cried about wanting a dragon so the dm baked some dumb reason she magically had one automatically in the middle of waterdeep . Whole situation blew up in glorious fashion. No longer worked with her after this mess...

[@bodaciouschad]

Hm... That honestly sounds like half a story. If she wanted more dragons in her D&D, the DM could have been a bit more transparent about the lack of dragons in the campaign she was stepping into. It sounds like the DM might have just been a simp and she was along for the ride to give D&D a try, or maybe she had established a quid pro quo.

[@EPICSAWIKI]

@@bodaciouschad true, but that doesn't exactly excuse her behavior?

[@dimsum3329]

@@EPICSAWIKI yeah, there's a difference between dragons not playing a bigger role in the story, then begging and whining for a dragon...

[@uber693]

We had a girl in our group, lets call her Lynn. So our group discovered each other over campaign listing on a dnd discord, most of the group was fine, except Lynn, at first she just seemed a little odd and a little attention seeking, not too big of an issue. Her character was a ranger beastmaster (typical for these stories I guess) but she got special treatment from the dm, fudging rules in her favor and all the such. anyways first campaign ends up falling apart before things got too bad. So the second campaign same players happens, basically a reset, DM is a bit more strict with her which is all good, but she then started hitting on another player ooc, who was 16 when she was 22, which was a pretty big red flag if you ask me but we pressed through. Then when she started to get her way less and less she threatened suicide, which at this point we were having none of, like we couldn't do anything about it, and a random dnd group you found online shouldn't be your therapy group.

[@supersnizelz]

Threatinging suicide over dnd is new the planet earth never ceases to amaze me

[@anthonyd.1428]

I avoided a big mess when I joined a group that started the session with a trigger warning time that gave everyone a chance to voice their triggers. One lady said she detested violence, harm and that was a trigger for her. I promptly got up and looked for another group. It's not DnD if you force everyone to not attack because you don't like violence.

[@Astropeleki]

What a smart lady, playing a TTRPG system that is so combat centric people complain about it not leaving enough room for anything else. Also I would never play a game where people need trigger warnings: I cannot be bothered to play, or worse DM, for a group that would make me walk on eggshells all the time. I'm supposed to be having fun, not worried about social shaming because some chick is upset about slavery existing in a game.

[@anthonyd.1428]

@@Astropeleki I also experienced a time that had a lady cry because someone said a name. That name just so happened to be the same name as her recently departed grandmother. I consider myself rather sensitive to others struggles, but some people really do need to address things before they interact with others. The group became ocward after her crying session.

[@Epic_747]

you should have made a character based on constant violence

[@sugartoothYT]

​​@@Astropelekiumm, sexual assault, intensely erotic/violent narrating to name a few "triggers" that many people would be justifiably uncomfortable about. "You lose the grapple check and with several other orcs assisting to tie you, your barbarian is securely incapable of moving. The orc chief rips your leather pants off, while undoing the belt on his own, pinning you under his bulky figure and ****"

[@ceejay1476]

​@@sugartoothYTsex stuff including assault is the one thing that people consistently feel awkward doing and that's normal. Everything else, though? You're an adult, aren't you? You can see people getting decapitated and having their guts pulled in any hollywood movie nowadays in graphic detail, I wouldn't want to dm a game either if I have to be careful with even description about thing getting killed in a game about killing things

[@mlionheart101]

Friends story. Girl in the group got pissed that her charater died, most pissed when she was told sorry you need to make a new one. Got up and stormed off out. Few hours later, police knocked at the door as she called them claim assault and emotional abuse 0_o. Luckily nothing occurred because of this, but she was extremely confused to why no one wanted to talk to her anymore

[@Foxtail190]

Crazy how that shit happens.

[@unnameduser5647]

I am someone that always trys to see other peoples point of view to why they do what they do, but here I am just confused.

[@eechee2979]

I had a similar result with a misandrist female DM calling the cops on us because we didn't want to play her obnoxiously man-hating campaign, and the player homeowner kicked her out. Same as you, nothing happened because the cops started taking statements and realized she was just crazy. I like to think they arrested her for filing false charges or whatever but I'll never know.

[@Forever-GM-Dusty]

Man, uh, she was a piece of work. So I was running an open-world seafaring campaign as a pbp with a co-dm. When she joined, I didn't see any red flags. She honestly seemed great. A little picky on certain things, but not a big problem. Her character concept was excellent too, the rare character that used her background feature. The character was secretly a devil worshipper (the one of lust, I think Fierna) who secretly posed as an honest nun. In hindsight I might've seen what was coming, but the way she presented it was awesome. Now here's where things fall apart: the execution. I introduced her to the party and almost immediately she started making the occasional flirtatious comment or innuendo. The party was on their way to investigate some strange unholy occurrences, and she joined up as was her duty, if you believed her disguise anyway. They ended up finding it was a death knight raising some hell, but not just any death knight. Not long ago, a player had died in a horribly tragic way, and this death knight was formed from that bitterness. Well, everyone else is extremely emotional, especially the player who played the death knight in life, and taking it super serious. Everyone except her, that is. She kept calling him sad, telling him he needed a boyfriend and to stop being lonely and doom and gloom, and generally pissing him off. Now, the party is like level 7, and couldn't fight this guy. I had him try to let them off the hook due to his bond to them in life, but she decides to attack. She died the first round. After that, she gets mad at me for trying to have a serious and emotional scene where I set up a villain for them later I guess? After some back and forth, she left the game and I never saw her again.

[@SlayingtheGloom]

This isn't nearly as bad as any of the examples in this video, but I've had a couple of female players who were unbelievably terrified of their character getting hurt, to the point of being disruptive to the game. They would have one bad defensive roll, and would then complain endlessly to the DM about how they "shouldn't have to take the roll, because the dice hit a cup" or something like that. Both of these women would also try to go back on their decisions when those decisions didn't end up going their way. Both of them were great players otherwise, and they've both since grown out of this kind of behavior. I've also been guilty of this behavior once or twice, especially when I was a lot younger. I suppose I'm lucky that's the worst I've ever dealt with.

[@samaamas9729]

Forever DM'd for a group; pretty even with the sexes - 3 guys, 2 gals. We knew each other from associated friend groups and I was able to setup this one from our common interest in ttrpg's. My DMing isn't the strongest but when we rotated dms for a bit, I guess we settled on me; they said it was because I was the most fun, able to roll with situations well, and my "BS mode" was the best (those moments where the game has gotten so derailed, you put everything you planned on the backburner and just have to spitball for about 4 hours until session ends and you can plan how to try and get back to the critical world events next session). One fateful day, female player wanted to dm. She had been thinking about a home campaign she'd been building since last she rotated into the dm seat and had had enough time to flesh out an entire world of hers she wanted to submerge us in. I, having forever DM'd for awhile, took this opportunity to pull out some pc's I wanted to play but didn't feel right doing a dmpc of. I submitted 5 of them I think and all 5 were rejected. Her reasoning was I hadn't made backstorys for any of them (yet, but I was going to) and she wanted me to start with backstory first rather than "starting with what I could do or could provide for the party." Fair, or so I thought. So I made a backstory, like a page or 4-5 some paragraphs; structured it as where I grew up, what my aspirations/hobbies were, significant event that moved me to adventure, what my goals are now, and what family/friends are alive and a few quips about them. We went back and forth over my background and I ended up sitting through 5 before game meetings so that she could talk to me about what she didn't like and what I needed to change. Finally, got greenlghted to make make mechanical decisions on my character like race and class (yes, was told to still be race-less at this junction) the night before game day. I just wanted to play and didn't have time so I asked if human fighter was taken and was told it was fine. Human fighter it is. Character ended up like a poor man's staff sergeant that while gruff and confronting was just that way after losing a brother to a skirmish gone wrong and came off uptight instead of a carrying and concerned man. Finally get to session. First alarm was that a buddy of mine was also human fighter. I didn't know he was going to be one since the DM was shying away from revealing things like that. Second alarm, no one had a backstory 4 pages long like I did. In fact, one person showed up with a playable character but no story to go along with it. I was irritated as all hell, but.... I just really wanted to be a player. Third alarm. The entire party gets introduced in town but I'm not there in the introduction. We didn't discuss this beforehand but apparently my LN human fighter had sided with a group of mercenaries to pillage the town. I... I tried to run with it - it was played off as though I had been misinformed about what was taking place in town and instead was told it was a nest of drugs and criminals that had recently taken in a big haul from a raid on some villages. Ironic. Midway through Fog of Pillage, I realize I'm on the wrong side of this battle. Party had been fighting the good fight as we had an asynchronous combat going on (honestly, the one pretty cool thing that happened). After I turncoat, I figured I'd know where the merc leader had run off to and was setting up an ambush, waiting for the brave citizens I saw fighting (AKA, rest of party) to field upand head towards him to. Party enters as I've been lying in wait, watching the person who had lied to me walkabout the square in front of the townhall directing his goons in the chaos. My friends rally, combat starts, and I charge forward sword in hand to hit him hard from the shadows... wherein he heel pivots, draws his own sword and Gallaghers my head quicker than I can have a new thought go through it. We're not talking decapitated, we're talking head is now a bloodspray amongst the carnage. She rolled for it all which seemed even more ridiculous in hindsight now knowing that that guy was a lvl 20 fighter who was supposed to be a thorn in our butts throughout the game. She thought we all would have met up and ran away to figure out what was going on and play 20 questions with my character to see who's side I was really on. But, because we didn't leave and I didn't make contact with the party, hoping to dish out some damage to the guy I thought didn't suspect me yet, she full blown killed me to dissuade anyone else from fighting this guy until much much later. I was asked to make another character but ended up not after that spectacle. I finally was told why I went through so many hoops when it looked like no one else did. It's because she thought I had a huge edge as I had serious DM experience and wanted things to be much harder for me like a sort of handicap. I didn't return to play in that game. That game went on for only 2 more sessions until the game died and I was brought back in to take up the forever dm chair.

[@theuncalledfor]

Being murdered without a chance to defend yourself isn't "hard". It's just stupid and unfair.

[@legendgames128]

That gal clearly DOESN'T know how to DM. You don't get advantage from being a player who had DM'd before, at least, not the advantage that she portrayed.

[@Daniel-Strain]

I'd be curious to know what happened in the two further sessions to bring the campaign to a halt.

[@eechee2979]

So many pre-game meetings and not one of them included the DM's preconceived notions? Odd.

[@eechee2979]

@@theuncalledfor Three of my characters were killed this way in the same Rifts campaign. One was penalized for being altruistic. One was penalized for being cautious. The third was penalized for existing. I left that table.

[@trueblade39]

One woman in a group with six other men, including the DM and myself. She needed to assert herself at all costs, involve herself in every social situation, force every plot point and backstory development when SHE wanted it to happen, metagamed all the time and passive-aggressively put me down when I didn't want to do things according to her plans, which often involved endangering the other characters or forcing them to make sacrifices for her own gain. Worst still, the other simps in the group let her get away with this behavior, even the DM. Eventually the group used my increased and repeated expressions of frustation to kick me out, but only after I accused the DM of favoritism. The level of hypocrisy displayed was intense, as the group accused me of being a control freak when in reality I couldn't so much as sneeze in game without this player's say so

[@SuperAnimeFever]

As someone who has aphantasia, i have a great sense of awareness. i just dont see images in my head (for me its like putting a cotton shirt over your eyes in low light,) but usually if you pay attention to what the dm says you'll be fine.

[@LiamLimeLarm]

same lol, I was questioning if I even had aphantasia throughout that story because my dm just sets up a whiteboard and minis and i get along just fine lmao

[@kingdragoonmk10]

Had a classic GM Girlfriend once (Luckily the DM in this story stayed true to his allowing player actions to have consequences), had given herself the typical Privileged Royal BG etc. I believe she was a Sorcerer and didnt always keep track of Friendly fire... It was clear she didnt fully understand the game, which we were initially cool with until it became clear she was treating it like a one player game like Skyrim often refusing advice from the party, one such occasion was when a Ally of her BG gave her a Entire Crate of healing potions which she decided to horde all to herself (party was somewhat annoyed but allowed it) Her selfishness and inexperience finally caught up to her though when we were sent to deal with some Duergar in a mine , funny thing Duergar... With their ability to turn invisible... you never know how many are actually in a room ... When we entered the mine we found a tight tunnel leading to a open area DM girlfriend charged into the open room convinced of her survival do to the potions she selfishly hoarded only to be quickly slaughtered by a Duegar ambush. When the combat started and she started taking damage she learned you can only drink 1 potion per turn due to the limited number of actions you can take on a turn which did little to counter the 8-12 Duergar's turns of Attacking her , learning the hard way that action economy and teamwork are king as the rest of the party took advantage of the choke point and our front lines skills to heavily restrict the Duergar's ability to attack us until they were forced to flee seeing the odds turn against them. She shortly afterwards stopped playing and for reasons that were none of my business broke up with our DM and Frankly had no complaints to her not playing with us anymore.

[@Jake-ky4yj]

I had a work group DnD session and it was a bunch of dudes, we kept inviting the one girl from work cause she always said she wanted to try it out, finally she comes one night and plays and we all had a pretty good time..... But then the group fell apart like 2 sessions after that because she started making fun of the group... Because she was trying to impress some hot dude in a different department. That's probably my worst experience. Other than that I haven't had any other issues other than having to remind my mom of rules like 383526 times.

[@tymoore2117]

Maybe 411789 is better

[@1stCallipostle]

@@tymoore2117 You saw a number and felt the need to not only check the nuke code, but post a related one as well

[@jaybofa617]

Your mom, that you work with, was crushing on some hot dude in you d&d campaign?

[@RaginCanadian-gx2zl]

That girl very clearly hid the disability so she could use it later for attention and an entitlment rant.

[@GreeboDeCat]

I may simply be unlucky but every female player I have encountered has suffered from main character syndrome absolutely everything has to be about them always wanting me to bend or outright break the rules so they "win" and on several occasions if I said no they would pull the sexism card saying and I quote "you just don't want a girl to be the strongest" but the truth was I was trying to at least vaguely follow the rules and occasionally let the other players do things now I'm sure good female players must exist but I've just never met one

[@Ailieorz]

The worst part is the victim card. Like no, I don't dislike you because you're a woman, I dislike you because you're a selfish greedy asshole

[@talia1628]

thats really unfortunate i promise there are a lot of good and fair female players

[@shawermus]

Welp that's what social media makes to woman today. I'm more than sure that they had 29 mental illness diagnosed by tiktok, wasn't straight and probably weirdly dyed hair. It's hard to find good female players because most females in internet are like this... Basically if you're online then no surprise. And you probably are from what I got. It's easier to find good female players in real life than internet.

[@GreeboDeCat]

@@shawermus I could not agree more social media and online feminism have convinced them all that the world revolves around them and that everyone else's especially men's feelings are completely irrelevant

[@shawermus]

@@GreeboDeCat also literally old traditions like "you can't hit a girl", " Men should protect woman" And etc makes some girls in young age threat themselves as superior and untouchable. Which I think it's one of the reasons why modern internet turned out like that... Same with blm, LGBT and etc. People want to feel superior or special so they make all this canceling crap. And idiots are always attracting more idiots. (Also that's why teenagers love to prescribe themselves 9999 mental illnesses)

[@_.volume_ash._]

Oh the aphantasia case is really interesting; Purely because how differently it can go if things are talked trough. I recently started a campaign with my classmates, so the DM and players have good insight on our mental and physical capabilities. Now I struggle with mental images and paying attention to such for a long time unless I already have a picture, I've mentioned this briefly before when it was of topic. As we were starting the campaign the DM was trying to lay out the area/situation; Now, I didn't really say anything but I assume he noticed my confusion and lack of ability to keep up as he was talking, to which he quickly remembered: "Oh shit right you don't see images, sorry Ash", and proceeded to draw a quick prototype so I could have a general idea of what's going on. Just a really nice thing that happened, usually I just ignore my confusion and make decisions based on others', or take notes of what the DM says, so it was nice to have a map looking out for me :)

[@TheSimpleMan454]

She showed up absolutely wasted, tried repeatedly to snog our DM, offered "favors" for in game advantages, then puked across the table before stumbling off to the living room and passing out on the couch. Wasn't fun for anyone involved at the time. Funny as hell looking back, in a trainwreck sorta way.

[@13thMaiden]

I never had a direct problem with a female since my friend and I were the only females in the group I played with, but the story of the 'don't bring your problems to the table' rule would fit I guess: A couple had entered the group (way prior to me joining) and were playing like couples do, their characters were all lovey dovey, they did little cute things with each other, just the usual sickeningly sweet stuff that new couples do that tend to annoy most people. About a half a year into the campaign (apparently this was really long epoc one.) the couple had _seemed_ to settle and were in a routine, and not that sickening sweet phase anymore. But the DM noticed that the girl of the couple had started to get her character to act flirty with another male character in the campaign, run by another guy at the table. The DM pulled her aside and asked her about it, and she claimed she just wanted to inject some fun romance love-triangle thing. DM wasn't into it and told her to ease off on it, as it could cause jealousy issues and might derail the whole campaign. Girl agrees. But she didn't lay off. If anything she got more overt in her flirting, to the point other players were feeling weirded out, and it was clearly affecting her boyfriend. What FURTHER made it uncomfortable was that the guy she was trying to flirt with was _also_ in a committed relationship of like...3 years or so? Something like that (I got this all second hand mind you). Well, this continued, despite the DM trying multiple times to tell her to knock it off and threatening to kick her out. Each time her boyfriend would beg for him not to, and DM would cave. It all came to a head however one day when the girlfriend of the guy who that girl had kept flirting with came stomping into the play session (a garage) and started to unload on her boyfriend and the girl. They had been cheating with each other, and the girlfriend had just found out, and now other boyfriend found out what his girl had done. It turned into an all out brawl that scared the hell out of the DM's kids and wife, and a book smacked into said DM's head. The cops were called and the 4 of them were escorted off the premises and told never to come back. Due to the players being so far along and now down 3 characters, the DM decided to kill the campaign since there was no way the 3 remaining people could be able to defeat the BBEG. And that's when they instituted the 'Don't bring your problems to the table' rule. He still allowed romance and marriages, but warned if any of their real-world drama spilled over into his house, they'd be kicked out instantly before it got worse.

[@charlesrobbins5683]

I went to a gaming convention in east he 90s …. My buddy called me up to play in his game. He said make whatever you want I know you’ll be fine. This was just after the book of humanoids came out 2e adnd . I made a Grippli bard He got a conference room. I was a little late so when I showed up everyone else had started but were still in ye olde tavern etc. I come in and walk up the whole time this troll if a woman watched me from the moment I entered to handing him my sheet. He looked at the sheet and giggled said ok in that weird drawn out way. He strikes up with just them someone enters the tavern and you see a and then she interrupts yelling i seduce him and rolled a bat 20 my buddy laughed and said I want you to handle this. The scene went like this…… You see a voluptuous drow assassin flirting with you intensely and you are overcome with emotion what do you do. I shrug …. (Acting this part out a bit) I drop to all fours and make frog noises. I grab her around the waist dragging her to the horse trough and throw her in grabbing her tightly . Then there’s a pause as she tells what the hell. Me you gonna release you’re eggs or what? Grippli are frog people

[@georgeclinton4524]

Had a girl who basically destroyed that gaming group. She either couldn't or wouldn't differentiate between something someone's character did in the game and the player. She wasn't roleplaying, she was using the idea of roleplaying to IRL treat the other players shitty. We had a session 1 where her character refused to associate with the rest of the group and just stayed in town being a blacksmith because she was mad at the other players.

[@TaraTHESecretONE]

The worst experience I had with a girl at the table was when in a homebrew campaign a close friend of mine was running, the guy who was playing our kobold rogue decided to get his girlfriend involved in the campaign since "she was curious about what he played for hours on a Thursday night". I was, at first, excited to have someone new get into the game. She rolled up a tabaxi monk with help from our DM and was set up to play at our next session. She was into it, at first, but as we trekked into a dungeon to retrieve a lost something for an NPC (I cannot recall quest details due to what happened) the new girl got bored with the fighting and trap checking, and the usual dungeon crawl experience. Instead, she kept snuggling up with her boyfriend, getting all kissy with her boyfriend, when he did ask her to focus she got huffy and would take to stepping away to get snacks or go talk on her phone to some friends of hers. I began to wonder if she only joined in just to keep an eye on her boyfriend when she repeated the behavior of not sticking around the table in the following session as well. We had two other female players at the table, so I couldn't help but wonder if she was insecure about her boyfriend being around them, which was her loss because neither of them was single or interested in other players at the table. It was due to her not being at the table so often that made our games go from 3-6 hour sessions to 5-9 hour sessions or have to have one-session dungeons now take two sessions to complete. It was really frustrating for most of us at the table.

[@marklinck6729]

I was playing with some people she was a druid and we was going to a magic spring and I had a steath spell, it was an obvious trap so I was like you stay back and the other guy and I will go to the spring so we don't get clustered together. Then she started complaining about how "she's a poor defenseless female" I was like are you stupid, first I never said that and secondly you can turn into a bear 3 times whose hit points are higher than both of mine and the other guys. But oh " she's a poor defenseless female" after that I lost all respect for her By the way it was a trap. We did get clustered together and with the way the movement was she went last and trapped us together

[@Grundini91]

Wasn't D&D but my gaming group in college had a female player have a psychotic break and start thinking that Vampire: The Masquerade was real. We immediately called for those nice young men in the clean white coats for her. She did get the help she needed and last I heard she was married and a functioning member of society.

[@Hit_by_a_Parked_Car]

Good job stifling a breach

[@thegeneralvilla2784]

Was that girl perhaps called Tom Hanks?

[@tenchraven]

WoD always brings out the nuts, I've never seen a table where there wasn't one person who was not mentally ill with a propensity for violence. And at least half of the table weren't delusional narcissists.

[@robotdude2206]

I appreciate the words of encouragement at the end. I'm gearing up to make a big move out of state soon to a place where I have few to no connections. The trepidation keeps nagging at me, but I've put off making this kind of move for too long. It's time.

[@kenkubard]

Online play through roll 20. She was the DM, and she enjoyed killing PCs. We were a party of four first level characters, and she put us up against six wolves with higher AC and HP than normal, and that were fighting suspiciously smarter than a wolf (which is still pretty smart) should. She described the way the enemies attacked with lots of detail, but when it was our turn it was always a "You hit, roll for damage" or "You missed". I had made a lizardfolk monk that was pretty tanky and strong, but I still dropped pretty quickly still. We almost went into a death spiral because of that, but I got lucky nat 20 on my death save, came back into the fight, and we managed to survive. You could tell that she was pissed off we were catching a break. After the fight she excused herself for a bit, and a different DM from the same Discord server came in, said she had to bail, and that since there wasn't much play left he would end the session instead. He said "So, you have just finished the fight and are trying to catch a breath aaaand... Yeah, as usual. You can hear something huge knocking trees aside, when you turn to look you see a giant wolf. What do you do?". "We run away, sprinting at full speed" "Okay sooo... Since you are not in its territory anymore, it loses interest and you escape safely. You go back to town and pick up the gold you were promised for dealing with the wolves. That's the end of the session" The second DM was pretty chill about the whole deal, but it was very clear that the other DM pulled that type of "they fight something that would be level appropriate had I not changed anything, and if they live something that will definitely kill them shows up" shit all the time, and that the rest of that Discord community kinda got used to it and let it pass. All of this was without the DM explicitly telling us that the games she ran were character meat grinders, I had to get that information from other players in the server that had also played games run by this girl. Me and the friend that got me into that server played one other game with another DM, which was a pretty fun experience, but ended up leaving. The vibes were off since that first game and we really didn't want to cross paths with that DM again.

[@bodaciouschad]

So she runs hardcore mode games and gives her setting a grim atmosphere? Is she building up an in-universe reason for the wildlife being so deadly, or is it just vanilla "These ones are blue and deal extra damage"?

[@kenkubard]

@@bodaciouschad We asked at the start if there were signs of anything weird about the wolves, NPCs said no. When they were being so deadly we asked, "they are wolves, they're supposed to be tough". I later heard she set up a game with 3 or 4 level 1 PCs, in which they had to go on a small boat through a part of the sea. Two sharks jumped onto the boat from the water. They had no problem staying outside the water. She just homebrewed every already hard encounter into ridiculous territory. I'm up for that, as long as we get any sort of heads up from the DM. There wasn't. To her, that was the natural way. DM vs PCs

[@greatgallade]

Basically she is joyless in real life

[@shanigreen9925]

DM from first story here. That was my first ever campaign and first player I needed to kick out.

[@ST0AT]

One girl in my current group just can't shut up and constantly shouts over everyone, and when I finally tell her it's my turn to speak, she acts all offended. Also, she forced our characters to have a romantic relationship, which was one of the reasons I cannot even think about playing as this particular character without the urge to vomit. An insufferable chatterbox *and* some kind of BL fanatic? Hell no. Then again, I only have this group to play with so far, so I will probably just put her on mute (we play via discord)... ooor I could heed her "advice" to out-shout her and give her a fucking tinnitus.

[@HYPERYoshi5]

Gonna give the most important advice about DnD here; No DnD is better than bad DnD. Take the problem up with your DM, or leave the group-- maybe ask other players if they're also having issues with her? Hope for the best for you

[@thahirshibu5042]

Volume all the way up and get a funny Mic

[@informitas0117]

As for the issue of not being able to picture locations and people in your mind, I got that too as my schizophrenia developed. When I suffer from visual hallucinations I cannot see things in my mind, its like the inside has moved out. This got so bad I had to stop playing long before I got diagnosed. Didn't help my behavior got a lot worse as well, I understood I ruined the game for my, then, friends. So I understand the girl in the story, but it doesn't make her outburst more acceptable. I tried to get the ability back by painting and drawing but only managed to capture my illness getting worse. Now I don't really have anyone left in general. If you think something in your mental health is slipping, seek out help, the sooner the better.

[@anonimo2932]

if i had a nickel for any time a female player ask me to implement a brothel in my game i would had 2 nickel Witch isn't a lot but it's weird it happen twice

[@_vlpin]

You mean, You didn't have a brothel implemented from the get go? For shaaame!

[@xtxownage]

what-why?

[@anonimo2932]

@@xtxownage the second one wanted to have a cove where to refuge and it was the brothel of her aunt. Why the specific of the brothel... i don't know... but i didn't say no.

[@xtxownage]

@@anonimo2932 Eh. I suppose if they weren't weird about it that's fine.

[@thispincer8404]

Witch.

[@rauth8228]

A girl in my old gaming store was hanging out with 10 to 15 of us as the last table was finishing up. They had abour an hour left. A dm said if we had some level 1 characters he could run a quick 30 mini module. So i turned to the table that had a couple girls and asked if they would like to join us so we would have enough people. She stated " you have no idea how intimidating this is." Stopped making eye contact and looked away. So i went "okay, anyone else wanna play?" Then i got a full 10 minute f*minist rant from the two women. Honestly i dont even know why. After they were done with their rant to which i just stood there and smiled. They were out of breath and looking at me to respond so they could start again. I just said, "no thanks, would have been an acceptable response." Then i turned to the table and played the minimod. They followed me to the table and were trying to get my attention so they could start again. But everyone was like, it was just an invitation leave him alone. Glad my fellow players had my back.

[@brianmorris364]

I guess I'm lucky I've never really had a bad experience with a female player. The half dozen or so that I've played in campaigns with have been pretty good, even exceptional at times. The worst I've seen is a few who weren't that into it and were basically just there because their boyfriends were.

[@TheRawrnstuff]

I've DM'd for something like 50-ish players total - never really kept track - and maybe a dozen-ish of them were women. Haven't really witnessed any "bad player trends" within a certain sex or gender. Murder-hoboing, favoritism, these problems seem to me be very universal just among people in general. Maybe there are more subtle differences, like if a player is very controlling, maybe a male player gets upset that they can't take control of other people's characters, and a female player gets upset that the other characters don't do what the player wants. Not sure.

[@spartanhawk7637]

In one of my groups a girl tried to flirt with me by making her character a yandere, basically that weird anime trope of the insane girl in love with the hero/main character/whatever. Problem is first of all, IRL I couldn't care less and like her only as a friend, and second of all she tried flirting with my chaotic good character by acting crazy and evil. We basically wound up in PvP over it cause quite frankly, my character at the time would not care! He's an inquisitor, crazy people are the norm! She came back later with a better character and it was all fine after that, but sheesh tabletop time is for tabletop games, not weird indirect flirting.

[@TheDoughnutBlues]

Aphantasia isnt even a mental disability, also you can still enjoy a dnd game with it

[@disableddragonborn]

I was lucky enough to have girls in my group who were pretty good players. This is one question I don't have a story for.

[@jonathanmarks3112]

Same here for one of my groups. No stories here.

[@scottburns4458]

Never had problems until recent years with players but two of the worst have been females, both oddly teachers and both not only had main character syndrome but got super aggressive and abusive when things don’t go there way destroying sessions. I would talk and get promises of changes in behavior but as soon as someone in the party didn’t agree with them on something out came the abuse. The first didn’t last long and the current one has had her second and last warning

[@TheMemo659]

The worst female player I have ever experienced was just the worst player I have ever experienced. Gender had nothing to do with why she was terrible.

[@kylebeardsley6200]

During character creation, GM asked for no seduction based characters due to his general discomfort with it. Only female player decided to make a seduction bard specifically to make him uncomfortable, and told him that to his face. She didnt stick around long.

[@firstnamelastname7244]

Yeah, that's the kind of thing that warrents an instant ban. No "rocks fall, you die, your god laughs at you, the party loots your corpse," no "please make a new character," just an automatic ban from your table for life.

[@kylebeardsley6200]

@@firstnamelastname7244 For reasons I'm not entirely sure about, this wasn't enough to kick her out of the group. The GM already knew her, and apparently suspected she'd pull something like this, so what the GM did instead was to create an entire flowchart for what it would take to seduce someone, including modifiers for marital status, alcohol consumption, and sexuality, all with the goal of making it as difficult as possible for a seduction to work. Probably could have been better ways to handle it, but GM knew her better than I did. The reason she left is just because she stopped answering anyone on Discord, so the GM wrote her out.

[@Astropeleki]

"The all powerful narrator of this game told me not to do something? I'll show him by doing it: I'm sure I will win this confrontation." I'll never understand players who try to compete with the guy at the table that could have a tarrasque, Tiamat and Asmodeus show up and annihilate their arses twenty times over.

[@Ailieorz]

Pretty hard to top the selfish princess who just has to manage the 'party loot' (ie she takes everything and only gives it to other people if SHE thinks it's a good idea), pouts whenever they don't get their way and playing the healer but not actually healing people unless they do what she wants... oh and with a healthy dose of main character syndrome!

[@oligb1469]

Had a lass try and simp for Strahd (we were in session 2 of this so a good 6/7 hours in our DM really wanted her money's worth), she up and betrayed us all and got a tad angry when we decided to kill her after she failed at said betrayal and Strahd dipped and it wasn't like miffed I'm talking full blown yelling, we all agreed except from her she left the call, that bbeg's should not be date approachable in the future

[@Astropeleki]

This girl is literally the meme of chicks getting wet at the idea of being raped/butchered by evil NPC's. Didn't think they would do something as stupid at try to betray their party in a game all about being in one, but oh well

[@ajh22895]

Not as bad as some of the other examples, but one of my players brought their gf in and she was passive at best. At worst, actively disruptive with her phone calls in the middle of the game. I normally don't celebrate a player leaving, but I had to make an exception. Also, PSA for guys: do not force your gf to play, it's super obvious when they literally want to be anywhere else and it brings down the table.

[@briaormead4239]

5:52 that'd be the last day that dude ever sees me. Unless he sees me again in court. She took way too long with "not much longer".

[@stephenmoore1541]

Luckily, I've never had a "that girl" experience. 2 of my friends I'm playing with are girls, one is actually my girlfriend. But we are running into a little bit of a "that guy" situation, I think people are talking to him about his shenanigans cause he's chilled out a little but most of his comments are directed at me. I think I need to talk to him, cause I'm honestly not sure why he'd have an issue with me. We're legit all friends who came together to play D&D. I suspect he might have a crush on my GF.

[@TheBirdManOfAzkaban]

My current ranger doesn't do bows either. He's a centaur that took thrown weapons as a fighting style, and I gallop around yeeting tridents at people because why the heck not? 😁

[@Mogura85]

we had a friends girlfriend join us but half the time she took just selfies... turns out she all did only for more likes on social media hashtag nerdstuff hashtag gamergirl ecetera. she ruined a year long campain and got pissed we didnt invite her to a third session since she never payed attention. didnt even brought dice (i lend her) or even finished her sheet. got extra pissed since when her now exboyfriend postet proof that all that was just faked

[@SeismicViking]

Worst experience with a female player, she joined our group because she was long time friends with the DM at the time and another player whom was friends with the DM for 20+ years, both guys long standing pillars in our D&D community. They both convinced her to join and soon her at home issues seeped into our group and we had to witness all of her issues with her divorce not only play out and stop our game nights almost every night, but a couple of her meltdowns had gotten so loud that the Magic tournaments being held in the same shop would stop due to her screaming and shouting. We had her removed and we had to move our campaign to one of the member's homes out of shame.

[@UltraManager]

Man, that mermaid and poet quest is a gem.. Too bad that girl bard ruined the flow of the game.

[@penguinmaster7]

i think the worst experience i've ever had with a girl in d&d is someone who expected them to be treated like they were special because they were a girl. she would constantly whine in battles when enemies would target her, she would complain to the DM when she wasn't the spotlight, and eventually just yelled at the DM that "i'm a girl so you must treat me better than these things", referring to the rest of us. she also played a literal princess (repurposed bard) who did NOTHING in fights but stand around and look pretty, act innocent, and pretend she was commanding an army. and because my DM is a spiteful bastard, we were thrown into an encounter against black dragon. did i say we were thrown in? Sorry, i meant SHE was thrown in. the dragon immediately snatched up her character and flew away. the DM described that she had become the black dragon's slave, and she had to roll a D20 every session to escape, and if she doesn't roll higher than a 10, she gets attacked and has to fight on her own. she rolls a nat 1. the call became a cacaphony of what my DM called "womanly emotions" as the DM rules a nat 1 is death. She is immediately banned from the group. bonus: she tried to cancel d&d on social media and engaged in some very sexist remarks. needless to say, that didn't get very far. :P

[@kaiia7365]

For the most part, my experience with girls in my campaigns were pretty good, with the sole exception of huge rates of not understanding the rules and being flakey. The girls who were not either of those were great to have, but man some of these other girls were really something else. Like no sense of respect for a schedule or value for the campaign, expecting the group to wait like a month for them when almost all their reasons for not playing is that they made plans with other friends… I would say the specific worst time was a girl who was both of these things and then also tried selling her onlyfans to two of my players, both of which were 17 at the time.

[@impurity7027]

Thanks for saying that at the end, helped a lot

[@BrianVaughnVA]

I try my best mate!

[@annoyanceking]

This made me realize that, despite playing for nearly 25 years, I've only ever been in a single all-male campaign, and it had one of the most annoying players I've ever dealt with. Actually, come to think of it, I've only ever really witnessed other men cause problems in the campaigns. Then again, the majority of campaigns I've been in have been at least half fellow queer people, so that might have something to do with it?

[@jimmatthews6973]

I played a campaign with a woman who was married to the DM. The DM would bend over backwards to save his wife from herself.

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@alexharris6808]

I would say that I've never really had any bad female players, but that implies that I play with a lot of people. I think the total number of unique people in my D&D games is probably about 15, across around 4 or 5 campaigns. Only 2 of those people are girls, but that's more because I just have a really small group of friends than anything else (and I prefer playing D&D with friends where I can at least attempt to guess at their chaos). I wouldn't say that those two were particularly bad, just kind of weird, though most of my players do weird stuff with their characters. One of them was kind of a murderhobo, not truly trying to kill everything, but they would barely interact with NPCs and be prepared to kill literally anyone while the party was talking. This player did DM a few games that I was in, and the semi-chaotic murderhobo mindset definitely influenced that. I once had reflect ability on my character kill a dmpc of hers because she dropped a 5th level fireball on the boss... that we were all actively engaging in melee with. That boss then proceeded to be defeated with a cooked turkey, and I mean it ate a cooked turkey and exploded. The other one was fine, I've had much weirder characters, and ironically their character was the voice of reason and telling the rest of the party to not kill everything... and they were the horseman of death (This was a 4 horsemen campaign). I would never actually complain about these players, since they don't ever actually cause problems as players, but I just wanted to give my 2 cents on the topic.

[@Grizzdrop]

I feel bad for anyone wanting to play dnd who has that 'inability to picture things' aspect. I kinda have the opposite.. any sound I hear gets turned into pictures without conscious thought.. it makes bathrooms nightmares for me

[@feralart]

I had played a session with a female player who was entirely used to browbeating until she got her way (as I learned from others who played for years with her), as well as pulling the same BS to let her son (then just entering his teens) have his way, even though it went against the rules or especially common sense. In one instance she attempted to poison mine and her husband's characters because we were focused on the game and not her antics. In one battle, caused by her son, I used non-lethal damage to render him unconscious so I could relieve him of the magic item that was the cause of much strife. She took offense and passed a note to the DM claiming she had rolled an attack against me while invisible that was both critical and at max damage (with no witnesses to either attack or damage rolls, if they were even tossed to begin with) and stabbed my druid in the back with her rogue sneak attack to murder him. They brought me to a priest to be brought back, but the next time she needed healing badly (as a result of jumping out and scaring the barbarian while holding a stuffed and mounted mindflayer head she had found) I cast Contagion on her instead.

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

I know she acted badly, but I'm sick of in-game consequences for things that obviously have to do with the person themselves and not the game. You and the DM should have had a talk to her about this.

[@doclee-odinkar9679]

"I'm a true advocate for gender equality"~Kazuma

[@notmuch_23]

Goes to show that crappy people come in every size, shape, age, color, and both biological sexes...

[@alexandersigworth9333]

amen

[@dougsauceda1805]

I had a pretty bad DM once at a convention. She wasn't prepared for any of the games, didn't know the abilities of the enemies we had to fight in the module, wouldn't even move the monsters, wasn't very descriptive, and looked visibly annoyed when we would start roleplaying. We eventually got tired of it and hijacked the epic module we played and roleplayed the shit out of it. Our table was cracking up by the end, having a great time, while she facepalmed as if we were messing up the adventure. But we had pretty much already done everything needed, which is why we went into a roleplay free for all

[@NathanCotrill]

Just make all the NPCs ugly. Problem partially solved.

[@anthonyd.1428]

Or make them all the gender that player isn't interested in or have all the NPCs extremely undesirable or eunuchs.

[@maximilliansummers3725]

Not D&D, but close - Earthdawn. I was asked to play a social character to fill in a gap in the group that I was joining, so I played a Swordmaster, and for the first time ever I actually got to roleplay, and not just hack and slash. He was honorable, ostentatious, chivalrous. After 5 or 6 sessions, the GM's girlfriend, who had an extreme case of Main Character Syndrome told him to kick me out, presumable because she thought I was stealing her limelight. Which he did, by lying to me about sessions being cancelled until one of the other players told me the truth.

[@kronoslastnamenotimportant492]

Hey... not early very often, and i just wanted to say i always enjoy your narrations.

[@vikrambal6247]

Yo good job being early!

[@BrianVaughnVA]

Love narrating for you mate!

[@jasonedgar7954]

Love your work Brian. And the kind sentiments. Much appreciated

[@ninjabladechannel8680]

I'm just gonna ask... why is the "h*rny bard" trope so *looked down* on? I think it sets up for some pretty insane plot twists, like... what if you sleep with a robber that takes all your equipment during the night? Or better yet, a BBEG that gives you a vampiric disease like a femme-fatale? As a DM, I love when players give me juicy stuff like that to work with and add additional conflict.

[@Insanity2thePrawn]

Literally ran into a black market weapons dealer that turned out to be a vampire. Drank my blood after we did business and left me alive because "I had been respectful and my blood was exotic" (I was a Coastal Elf from another continent) and the Paladin finds out what happens to me and says he needs to kill said merchant and would like to borrow my nice magic sword to do so...and she immediately dominates him and he TPKs the whole party while Im sleeping in an inn regaining my blood through digesting steak dinner.

[@willwarner9059]

I failed my wisdom save against her suggestion and that caused us (me, the cleric, and the wizard) to lose the snowboarding contest in the dungeon, we were in first place after we used some spells and my racial ability to nail a jump after we went a separate direction than the other sleds to avoid that exact scenario, I'm still a little salty about that, I failed with like a +12 :(

[@NessaEllenesse]

DM's wife, did everything she could to screw over my PC and only my PC. It got worse after I got pregnant.

[@NotEpimethean]

My worst experience is probably the wife of one of the players that quit the game after about 3 sessions, then joined back super late into the game, then quit again right before the BBEG fight

[@wulfila99]

Just a guess: The Ranger obsession of the "That Girl" player might be related to Critical Role...

[@philipbabb]

She claimed to be a noble paladin, but when one of us asked her to donate to charity she dragged her dragonborn tail all the way to the bank.

[@Forgotten_A.I.]

I should start a DnD campaign with only toxic players just for the entertainment.

[@nafereuskortex9055]

Because ranger is probably the most widely used archetype in media

[@ChonlachuTheSaviour]

Fun fact about rangers, when i furst started dnd a friend asked me to play ranger ‘for the memes’, i didnt know much about dnd yet so i was like sure. When i made my character with my dm i told him i wanted to be a ranger, he told me that he prefered i wasnt a ranger cuz those were basically summoners. I then told him i understood and would play a different class but i did ask him if it was possible for me to still shoot things. Now i have a sorcerer which fires magic like arrows from a steel bow.

[@Renkaru]

We had these 2 gals join us, and they were cool/friends before we invited them to play. No one was left out who asked to play! But that's beside the point. They essentially derailed the whole campaign in session one by burning down an inn with a player character in it still sleeping, which killed him (bad saving throws all around) and an important NPC. As the edgy junior high school student vet of DnD, I made it my mission to get my revenge. Sadly it never came, they didn't come back to play. The DM at the time, had a pretty cool way of bringing them back into the story, having them being agents for this chaotic evil god, never panned out though.

[@walcorn.]

We had a "Lawful Good" paladin in our party who kept murderhoboing her way through every conceivable encounter, even the social ones. She was constantly getting the party into trouble. Our party was barely tolerated as it was, and was only allowed to keep existing due to an intricate web of lies, making us seem essential to the local authorities. She openly and blatantly would perform actions that completely exposed our manipulations, further threatening the party as a whole, and, in addition to other unrelated reasons, would have us flee the city. She then flipped out at the DM after, during a rest, she saw her deity in a vision, in which her goddess was pleading for her to stop killing children, or she would be stripped of her paladin powers. According to her, the DM had no right to do that. The game quickly fell apart shortly after, as she, along with her best friend, just stopped showing up without notice.

[@Ailieorz]

Ugh, The bane of my existence is people claiming to play "good" aligned characters that are anything but.

[@bodaciouschad]

@@Ailieorz IRL people commit atrocities "in the name of [ insert god here]" all the time. They justify it by calling the victims "non-believers" and "heretics". Allignment is what the character *believes about themself,* not what the character actually does from an objective and impartial observer's perspective. It really depends on the context, but she might have been able to make a compelling philosophical arguement against a deity staging such a "petty intervention" when their loyal follower had been strictly "following the tennants of their teachings". Were the children vampyres? Of a different pantheon? An enemy nation? Had they offended some aspect of her deity by slandery, tresspassing on sacred grounds or disrespecting a holy symbol? I'm not saying any of those things *would morally justify* any of her actions, but I am saying that they would have been *logical justifications* for why her deity would have been all aboard the killtrain. Remember- "good and evil are relative terms. What's good for you might be the highest order of evils to somebody else."

[@HamWeildingTank]

There is a common thing where 2 female players try to kill my character for just doing things he would do, once they tried to seal him in a cave for violently cutting of a magic gator’s head after it was killed, and one that is still ongoing, with different characters, is they are trying to use weapons, magic, or even other people to try to kill(they failed all 5 of the rolls they did) my dwarf for yelling “ELVES ARE SNOTTY PRICKS” while on glitter beer(basically weed mixed with beer), they broke a guy’s same leg twice while trying to do so.

[@davidaward82]

context out first... i'm 6'4, and have looked older than i am for most of my life... early into my time playing dnd, 2e, back in the 90's, we were clearing some dwarven mines that had been overrun, pretty basic adventure premise... one of the other players, (i think there were like 8-9 of us at the table at this time) took an interest in my wizard, and started acting like a lost puppy, staying near them, trying to block monsters etc... being around 12 at the time, my brain went 'oh, useful shield' ... yeah.. being utterly oblivious and naive about things was probably a good thing, as i don't think she realised that there was a 6 year gap between us.... though i could have done without being slapped and screamed at for ignoring her flirting... Bullet Dodged.

[@davidaward82]

to clarify, while crazy, she was utterly mortified when she found out i wasn't at least 16, (legal age), at the time, and disappearred from the group for a few weeks before coming back and apologising, but still, bullet dodged... the crazy was strong with her.

[@TheNoobRapter]

I have had two female players that where terrible in the same game. It was a cyberpunk 2020 game I ran that had a drug dealer that looked like a wolf. One of the female players would be very distant on any combat or interaction but when that drug dealer wolf was mentioned that player would due anything to get in its pants. It started to get disruptive when their was a double cross where the wolf showed he was a bad guy but not only did that player not care but out of game got mad that this drug dealer was attacking her and the party. The other female player was better only due to only coming for a few sessions. This player was both obsessed with red pandas, and D&D, keep in mind they would treat cyberpunk like it is dnd and get angry that a whole different system and setting is not like DND. When the player learned you could skin graph their character to look like a red panda, they spent all of their eurodollars to due that, only for that to be their entire personality. Any action would just devolve to "I should pass because I am a red panda". They quickly stopped coming to games because I clearly do not know how to run a D&D game, in a cyberpunk 2020 game. It just sucked the fun out of GMing.

[@VidelxSpopovich]

Our party was a Lawful Good Cleric, a Chaotic Good Wizard, a Neutral Good Eldritch Knight, and a Chaotic Neutral Rogue (The Girl). She begged the DM to let her become a vampire, in a campaign where the BBEG lich can control all undead unconditionally. She threw a fit when we all agreed we needed to cure her. She was also a horrible person in and out of character, constantly insulting and threatening to attack NPCs for minor things or perceived slights.

[@stepgamerdad]

The worst experience I had with a female player was, sadly, with my own wife. Back when we had been dating for only about a year, I invited her to join a TRPG session with me and my friends; I was DMing. We planned and built a character for her, but come the day it was clear that my wife was straight up not having a good time. I don't need to go into the details of what happened, but while I could see she was making an effort to be involved, it was clear that she was not having the fun I had wished she would have. We talked it out afterward, I asked if it was my fault or if my friends made her uncomfortable or something else I could improve on, but all it came down to was that she just wasn't interested in TRPGs as a passtime. She said she had wanted to try it out for my sake, but she really didn't think it was all that much fun. Luckily, we have things we both enjoy doing together, and things that are wholly our own, and we encourage each other to pursue our individual hobbies.

[@Lorvay]

She was drunk all game long... and she didn't stopped drinking. She was the girlfriend of my best friend so we tolerated that. It was for one game, but it was a game specially made for my birthday.

[@alexwaddington9808]

Apologies in advance, I do plan on my next character being a Ranger, however I am a forever DM so it's going to be a long time before I get that opportunity.

[@KeyserSoze1972]

Worse was trying to teach a girl the game when all she wanted hang with guys and did not learn anything. Wasted our time

[@Lord_Lube]

DM told party to stock up on ammunition (Star wars setting, they were commandos of some sort) and insisted that once they go to face their target, they would not be able to buy anything. He warned them to stock up good and prepare for it! She ignored that, and realized she had no ammunition after the boss fight's first few rounds - when she said out loud that she was buying ammo, the DM said no. She began to cry. It killed the mood and ended the campaign; the social circle was quite large and word spread quickly. She cried again when the event was brought up as if she had been traumatized by the experience. After that, the social circle decided that D&D night was 'for the boys' and no females played with us after that.

[@connormacleod1237]

Don't blasters have something like 300 hundred bolts?

[@Lord_Lube]

@@connormacleod1237 yeah she just decided not to ever pay attention to that

[@leekonze7441]

I played a couple of campaigns with a group where one of the women that played with us HAD to be the leader. Normally, that wouldn't be an issue for me, but her way of leading was to have her character use a mixture of mind control magic to control what the party could or could not do. Or, her character would be apart of violent organizations and would threaten our characters with death at the hands of her friends if we didn't do what we were told. I invited her to join a game I was running because I was told "she's gotten better," and I unfortunately bought it. Within 30 minutes of Session 1, her character had convinced the party Fighter to try to unalive the party Rogue because the Rogue refused to make her, and only her silver bullets, and convinced the Fighter to unalive the party Scout because the Scout was carrying demolition charges without her express permission.

[@michaeltotman1411]

FEM.DM let me role on the Royalty chart and I got a Nat.20 and was the Crown Prince She was lived She had to give me an Army to protect us Lol

[@bukharagunboat8466]

Other than the one who dumped me? She went on to dump an editor of White Dwarf too, and it was over 30 years ago, so all good.

[@thefinalboss4471]

So that first one was just the female version of Beavis from Beavis and Butthead

[@fixed2113]

Not my story but my friends: For some context- I have a friend from College who during the summer was apart of 7 campaigns. Today on his SC story he did one of those “She’s a ten but..” & friends could send in suggestions. One said, “She’s a 10 but she ruined 2 DND campaigns.” I messaged him asking what happened. Turns out 2 of the players were married & one of the players decided that she wanted the husband & got in the middle of their marriage. Due to the awkwardness of the group the 2 dnd campaigns they were doing (switching DMs) had to disburse.

[@askreddit3021]

They didn’t like my terracotta gnome role playing as a god shtick the way everyone else did.

[@Iianator]

We were in a weapons depot/warehouse and we had to sneak through. My gunslinger had left his guns outside since I didn't want to blow the place up. The female mage took them and when we were spotted she used the guns and rolled a nat 1. The entire warehouse detonated

[@kiulloa6491]

She kept trying to hit on every npcs mom

[@kiulloa6491]

She said it was a joke to be honest she was fine to play with

[@jonathanmarks3112]

I played with a player like that once.

[@derekeastman7771]

That’s actually a funny bit, if you ask me

[@AlekThink]

I was always afraid of dnd players, who pick oposite gender bard to seduce both genders in game. Want they have such a bard irl as partner, become transgender bisexual or just seduce the dm? Sometimes that is usefull, but why f"cking every living or undead creature? Luckily my players do that rare and only to steal items

[@warmmilk9480]

My worst powergamer was female. Built a character around summoning practically unkillable reptiles. And getting me to adjust rules in her favor. Just "character" tweaks. When I said I'm not going to allow them to be actually unkillable. And she said "Fine, I'll just make a new character since you won't let me play what fits my character" (it didn't btw, that's one thing I pointed out) and she made a bard despite me saying I'd help her rebuild her original concept. She claimed it was 'ruined now' if she couldn't do that. Then when I said she couldn't convince the fancy tavern to let her perform as a very unknown an inexperienced bard (she also didn't roll that well) she pressured me to let her like "Oh it's fine, if you don't want me to play this character, I can just make a new character again" ...I was kinda shaken up after that session honestly because I just didn't know how to handle it considering everyone in the group was like "Oh we have such a good dynamic between us. I like everyone in the group" and I just... couldn't keep playing with her. She also originally claimed to hate powergaming. But also, she kept insisting there was no reason her first character should've been a problem.

[@fabiansuckfull9446]

Curse of Strahd, I played as a snoody noble and the girl in question played as a dragonborn barbarian. We got to the vinyard and a misplaced shatter spell destroyed most of the wine. Except one really exclusive bottle. My noble, being an ass as always, wanted the bottle for himself because he hadn't had good wine in forever. The barbarian took the bottle from him and put it in her backpack. And that was that. Tl;Dr: Worst experience playing with a girl was that she wouldn't let me have imaginary wine

[@lucapiemonti9767]

She did you a favor. Your PC was walking the road of an imaginary alchoolic. Which is just extra problems you don't need in a CoS game. =)

[@fabiansuckfull9446]

@@lucapiemonti9767 Bro alcoholism was the least of his problems. Between an overinflated sense of self-importance, a short temper and a deep hatred for anyone who mistreated kids, this characters therapist was able to buy a summer house in Baldurs Gate.

[@s--h1584]

Once a girl sat for 8 hours at my table playing on her switch and only talked to make combat rolls without doing anything more relevant than using basic abilities. That was an interesting oneshot.

[@pelicanofpunishment6]

Oh, I could write a very long one here. Once we'd become a party after the first session, things were going reasonably well. DM played kid gloves on her death at level 4 because it was her first TTRPG and basically multi-classed her rogue to Warlock to make it work. Y'know a "serve me and you will live" type deal. Then her character finds out her IC step-mother may have kidnapped her IC daughter. We hire a ship and sail after them. When we catch up, fighting happens. Step-mother, as it turns out, is a succubus and kidnaps the daughter to Avernus. We find a portal into Avernus inside the ship and the player playing her husband's character was dragged through it. This is because he'd made the character liking the idea, but having to constantly be a very negative person was effecting him IRL. No biggie for anyone but her. But that comes later. Through all this, my Barbarian had been doing well with the Elven ranger and they'd started being a couple. We all follow the Succubus into Hell and we get warned to stay together or in groups. Any straying may lead to being captured and enslaved. She wanted to immediately go after this Succubus, who we had no idea where she was, and we were gathering info, trying to figure out where we might GET info etc. Anyway, this pissed her off and she stormed off alone. You see where this is going. She ran into a Chain Demon who captured her. My character, being the only one that can afford to, buys her. She's now bound to him. Now we need to break the contract, too. Which becomes a plan we can pursue later. She's NOT thankful that I avoided her having to roll a new character or anything. So me and Elf in our alone times in a tavern in Avernus enjoy activities couples would (all fade to black) and she gets pissy because she has no partner IC that she can do that with. I explained that we're working on that. Even if the guy's character becomes an NPC, we might find him AND her daughter there. Nope. Not good enough. Anyway, trying to nip it all in the bud, I ask what her ideal situation is going forwards. Then I was hoping to take that info and try to find compromises where necessary and see what I could maybe keep to minimise her loss of enjoyment without having to completely change my character's personality which nobody but her had an issue with. Well, her issues were also OOC for some reason. Yes, I made crude jokes with the others. Something we all participated in. Something SHE participated in. But was somehow a problem. But only from me, not anyone else. Anyway, in all of this I was talking to the DM while working and trying to sort it out and he was letting me until he got fed up and kicked her from the group. He'd warned her multiple times and explained repeatedly but she had an inability to grasp that either the setting either wasn't for her or that telling someone they had to change EVERYTHING with no compromise wasn't good. I think her personal issues with me (which likely caused everything else, she said she struggled to keep her IRL feelings separate from RP and any issues in RP towards her, she translated as a personal attack. Every. Time.) stemmed from a short-lived CoS campaign where my Ranger had an issue with people that didn't at least help with fights (standard flaw in PHB) and so he was very cold with her Bard for running from fights, constantly needing to be protected and offering NO help in them besides a SINGLE cast of Bardic Inspiration. So because I was cold an insulting IC, but having no issues with her OOC at all, she took that as me hating her, when I was just playing up to my flaw, which I DID mention during character creation so was no surprise to anyone.