DM Turns D&D Into An AWFUL Romantic FanFiction (+ More) - RPG Horror Stories

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

Pro tip for all DMs out there: if you don’t want your villain killed, don’t have them come into direct contact with the PCs.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

Or have them crit with every attack and make them succeed on every single saving throw.

[@Camber126]

DH boss gets one shot? Body double. Fixed it

[@mattcoyle1876]

just put a suspiciously unbreakable plane of glass between him and the party

[@chazzwozzio]

Agreed

[@MrFurro-uu7je]

Fr just make a back up plan or somthing

[@PMbarbieri]

OK, did the DM in the last story read My Immortal? Harry Potter themed setting, blatant sexualization of gay men, love triangle between the main characters. All that's missing are the homophobic professors and the emphasis on "goff" culture.

[@chazzwozzio]

WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU MOTHER FUCKERS???!?!

[@superschnitzel4440]

Did I hear him right, saying „are the allos ok“? (21:00)

[@moonlight2870]

@@superschnitzel4440 yes

[@revan7383]

Thats exactly what I was thinking tbh. It reeks of that era of tumblr and shit

[@superschnitzel4440]

@@revan7383 Well, right after writing the comment I looked on his Twitter. He Ace.

[@gelbadayah.sneach579]

The first story is a perfect example of why someone running a game should never rely on things going a certain way. I once had a story arc centered around a series of antagonists, and the players were up against the penultimate BBEG. I had an epic battle planned out with multiple angles for strategies and victory conditions. It was the culmination of no less than 8 game sessions. They wiped her out with a single spell. One action, and it was over. What did I do? I laughed and let it go. They were so elated with their success, and it would have sucked to take that away from them. The whole event became a meme in our gaming group. So what about all that prep and planning that went to waste? Well, it didn't. I just reflavoured it for another game. Their one-shot kill saved me prep down the road. Everyone wins!

[@demonic_myst4503]

Especialy warhammer where things are soo op at times that a one shot kill isnt out of the ordinery this is a possible and moderatly likely scenario

[@Homiloko2]

That's what I always say. Oh no, the super cool battle which took a long time to plan just ended in 1 turn? Just reskin it and reuse it later, it's not like the players would ever figure out. If anything, that's even better for the DM because the players had a lot of fun and you got out of the battle without even using your planned "encounter".

[@wolf1066]

"Their one-shot kill saved me prep down the road." THIS! So much this! You put it away for later and then grind off the serial numbers, give it a rename and a quick lick of paint and it's a boss fight for a different boss.

[@wolf1066]

@@Homiloko2 Yeah, they've never had that fight before, so how are they going to know you originally planned it for a different BBEG?

[@SampoPaalanen]

@@demonic_myst4503 What is even more stupid is that the DM could have easily had both the epic moment from the player and the boss fight, just make it so the corrupt priest was a servant of one the dark gods and they bring him back (either as is or as Daemon of some sort) that is something that can happen and still remain within the lore of WH40K

[@StarrChild.]

If people are just clear from the start like "hey, i want the campaign to focus on social relationships and romance more than combat" we'd avoid so many stories.

[@ArcCaravan]

Ain't that the truth. Honestly plenty of stories happen because players or DMs aren't honest with what they want and planned.

[@starbird3939]

Story 1 - I hate it when DM’s just… waste players one special thing. We seen this story before with an asshole DM wanting to fuck with a player’s wish spell, and another where a Dm fucked a clerics diety call. It is a call of “Just them have this one”.

[@zergylicious]

i agree. i had 3 boss fights just straight up ignored by my players in my star wars game and you know what? it was great. she avoided one with sleep gas and just snuck by, another they talked the guys into forming a union to get better work environment and stuff, it was always silly like that but the rolls worked out so who am i to take away their ingenuity.

[@albertinstan5090]

@TUNE PDhe is talking about the spell wish not a wish fulfilled by a creature

[@firstnamelastname7244]

How tf do you "monkey's paw" a cleric's divine intervention??

[@johnoneil9188]

Not all DMs are good at rolling with the punches but that Dark Heresy DM really just stonewalled the entire thing. And took glee from it from the way it sounds.

[@shadiafifi54]

Dark Heresy: The DM seems to be a complete asshat in retrospect, given what the "discussion" revealed about them. A good GM would have made the end boss fun regardless. Like having the preacher be a body double and the real guy be hiding behind the scenes, telepathically feeding the target their lines. Or have the body erupt into a demon (it's 40K, it happens). Or have a very frustrated Word Bearer wait for the PCs for ruining decades if not centuries of planning. If the DM didn't want the PCs to succeed, they shouldn't have let them roll for it. Fanservice HP: Yeah, she should have stuck to fanfiction. God knows there's worse out there.

[@bellumdorf3360]

I don't know anything about Dark Heresy but why was I thinking of being able to salvage the boss fight with something like RE5's things that occasionally come out on headshot(thinking of something like that happening to salvage that boss fight, since you kill the priest but whatever was controlling it would hop out and fight but again, I know next to nothing about dark heresy aside from what is given in a few RPGhorrorstories)

[@bellumdorf3360]

didn't say I'd do it(fanfic or otherwise), just saying if you are going to be that upset of your BBEG getting 1 shot you might want to make a reason as to why they survived the attack, rather than stating it missed, cover is blown etc.(even then now re-listening to the story, probably just state they died and make an underling the new bbeg or something, they'd have a reason to continue their work if nothing else.)

[@WarmLusamine]

Would Plagas fit in WH?

[@TearDownGenesis]

I feel like a lot of games are run where players just say "I do something" rolls, hits they say the result before the DM can even say something.

[@Matt_Wildcard_Webster]

It happens a good bit that I've seen too

[@LostFoundling]

Our bladesinger wizard does this. He tends to just roll for investigation/ arcana and asks what he can get with the roll. Most of the time he tries to yada yada giving the information to the rest of the party. I miss the actual rp and I've brought it up to the DM, we'll see what happens.

[@TearDownGenesis]

@@LostFoundling Yeah, I'm more of a "I'm going to roll for ......" and then wait for a response from the DM, at least an "ok" then I actually roll.

[@firstnamelastname7244]

But doesn't the DM set the DC of the check? How would they even know if they passed?

[@xaldrortenderofthevats8948]

That Dark Heresy story reminds me of a campaign I played in where we got to the BBEG in his throne room, and just laid into him after winning initiative, and the DM ruled he nulled all damage because the node didnt have him die yet until later or something on his pet dragon, and Bullshitted something about dragon scale armor. The most bullshit part of that reasoning was that I was playing a *Dragonborn Paladin* and was covered head to talon in dragon scales, and this was after a Black Dragon boss.

[@soultpp]

That sounds like it could have been interesting if it had been handled better. Coming up to a boss that is protected by a barrier, then having to take out the barrier before you can fight him directly could be an interesting trope to use if played right. Sounds like your DM didn't know how to play it right though, and it ends up sounding almost as bad as the one in the story. I'd argue that the story one is slightly worse though, mostly because at least your DM TRIED to rationalize things even if it was all obvious BS.

[@xaldrortenderofthevats8948]

@@soultpp yeah, it sounded like the node planned for us to have some dialogue or smth, it's been a few years. All I remember is that it was based on the Dragonlance "Dragons of Autumn Twilight" book

[@starbird3939]

Opener You always ask before taking an item and you always inform your Dm. Otherwise it is a “No you do not.”

[@starbird3939]

Story 2 Not every bad game is bad at the start. Sometimes one bad thing after another bad thing until the game is drowning in a garbage ocean, and you feel too invested to leave.

[@kcollier2192]

Negating the actions of a player's hero just because it ruined the DM's plans or because the DM feels the player is 'winning' is total BS. The heroes should win, and if they win in a dramatic fashion, so much the better.

[@dragowolfraven3806]

As someone who reads fanfiction I have read some great ones and some terrible ones. I have no problem with romance but it should be built up slowly.

[@cosmicsatan2046]

I joke with my husband that if he TPKs my party, we're getting a divorce. But its always a joke, and we all laugh about it.

[@SirXer]

I love your point that D&D is also about losing, not just winning. You made these stories even more entertaining, good job!

[@tillerzeit]

Had a boss fight get circumvented by a roll...how'd I handle it. Congratulations you unlocked part 2 of the campaign as he was the one holding back the real storm. Prepare to fight some demons.

[@ZedMazaus480]

SMOOCHING?... The only way that last story's campaigne was dark was as dark cringe for our poor host to read. You have our sympathy man..

[@waywardwatcher2053]

“I want this campaign to be dark. Dark like the rooms where the smooching happens”

[@michaelleader633]

The moment your anti-murder wrestler piledrives an enemy fighter so hard his ribs crack and he receives a skull fracture because the wrestler made his build absolutely lethal and the dice love him too much can be, a plot device for the DM if he's clever. There is town in a friends homebrew that the wrestler will never enter, because the time after the above mentioned fight he kept hearing about a warrior who'd been badly injured. The townspeople had nursed him back to health as best they could, but it was painfully obvious he'd been turned into an idiot with breathing issues that prevented him from doing physical labour. Having heard of this man the wrestler decided he would go to him and ask him what monstrosity had harmed him so badly. Finally talking the group into it, the wrestler lead us to the flophouse the idiot was staying in. See, the wrestler was sure he'd found a new side adventure, but when he found the man kneeling in the shrine of the goddess of Mercy, his day was wrecked. The man in question turned to see the wrestler and started to laugh nervously, it was the fighter he piledrove into the flagstones a month back. The man pleaded through coughs and increasingly pained laughter. " Gods need souls. Please help head smasher, help Bing find his god!" The wrestler shook his head and fled the flophouse, with the young priestess behind him looking concerned. When the group caught up with her they asked why she was chasing their friend, and she shrugged and said "He was crying," Trying to get her to go back to the flophouse desk was no easy task since she demanded answers about the event and saw through our bluffs easily. Eventually the truth came out and she nodded sadly before offering two forms of merciful restitution. One was to kill the imbecile thus releasing his soul to the afterlife, the other was to help her goddess by way of deed or contribution. She then said in a wavering voice. "My goddess brought Bing to my care, he is hers now, as to why she brought your friend to him..." We offered her 200 gold from each of our pockets, but she refused saying. "Your friend must deliver mercy, by gold or death, it is his responsibility and burden," she then said in a voice nearing sobs. "It is not my right to choose, but I will say Bing is the name the town has given him because that's the sound the metal plate in his head makes when he has seizures in the street..." So, rather than enter the town the wrestler waits for us to get supplies and gives us 500 gold to give to the priestess every time, she tries to seem grateful and even cordial, but in her eyes is a hint of sorrow each time she sees the wrestler is not among us. Now that's some "Actions have consequences, inaction has devastating ones" deep, dark, nocturnal, need a damn shower crap that always leaves the table wondering if it's better to finish off a foe or pay for their care. :(

[@PoliusPlays]

This isn't a horror story, but that first story reminds me of the time I ran a game where the players were being chased by Selkie pirates across the Feywild over several different battlemaps. The chase was going great they they just barely got away from this terrifying, giant beserker-looking warrior, climbing up a cliff and cutting the rope behind them so he couldn't follow. "Nice job, y'all." I said, "Shame though, he was going to be a fun boss fight if he caught you." Player 1: "Wait, that's a boss fight? Let's go back, we're fighting him." Player 2: "Hell yeah! I jump off the cliff at him." I was so happy with how willing to do the exciting stupid things that I even let that one player split his fall damage with the beserker. Good times.

[@BGrimoire]

I'm pretty excited to hear a story happening in Tormenta (the system from the DM GF story). Even if the horror story takes it a bit back, I'm still happy to see something about the scenario I've played the longest

[@wolf1066]

I Don't Like That Roll - players often do stuff that spoils the "plans" and/or surprises the GM - takes a flying carpet to the top of the tower rather than fighting their way through all the monsters from the ground floor up (as we did to our DM) or taking a moral quandary situation - armed mugger is a small child - and recruiting said child as a partner in crime (as one of my players did to me). The correct response for the DM is to go with it and follow on with the *natural consequences* of the actions - not punitive "consequences" (a.k.a. "throwing the toys out of the cot") and certainly not taking away player agency by ruling "that never happened." We were told by our DM *after* we'd entered the top of the tower, snatched the McGuffin and annihilated our way down through the tower (approaching all the traps and ambushes from the *_inside_* 🤣) and made our escape, that she'd carefully planned every trap and monster so it would be a gruelling slog up from the ground floor that would take at least an entire session... but she didn't get pissy with us for "not doing it right" and suddenly bring in overpowered monsters or flat out rule "you can't do that because reasons". Likewise, when the player responded to my "what do you do when the lethal threat is a minor?" problem with "I like your style, kid. How'd you like to earn some *_real_* money?", I decided that the fact that he RP'ed the scene *and* it hit straight to the motivations for this character was enough that he successfully defused the situation *and* gained a willing ally... (whom he subsequently used to drive all the other PCs *insane* over the course of the game and provided some of the most memorable and enjoyable "War Stories" we've ever had). Sniper blows the head off your corrupt priest with a single shot? FUCKING AWESOME! Even if it does bugger the planned "boss fight". So, right... *chaos ensues* - there's a religious service full of panicked people who are not going to want to be in a room with a sniper, there are loyal followers who are going to want to kill the sniper and anyone who helped, there are guards... there is now utter pandemonium and the PCs have still got to get safely away - *PLAY ON* So glad they all just called the DM on his bullshit and shut down the game. That DM didn't deserve players - hope he learned from this and *grew up* eventually.

[@Aja-e5j]

in a level 20 oneshot the dm didn't expect that we would meteor strike a hydra, so he kinda buffed its health pool we didn't really mind though, it was still an easy fight, especially since we had a lot of damage output and several fireballs to spare I think my bladesinger never used her 9th level spell because I was stingy and wanted to save it just in case

[@ArmadilloAl]

Smooching? In MY Dungeons & Dragons?!?

[@soultpp]

That intro story reminds me so much of one of the players in my group. Contantly doing things that just make the rest of us facepalm (mostly from the sheer lack of common sense and not in a zany this will be funny way), mis-interpreting what the DM says, occassionally trying to pull stuff out of his a$$ (running gag is that he's got an AK-47 up there) and it's often like pulling teeth to get him not to split from the party. One of his most recent wtf moments was where he got his brand new character killed almost before the campaign had began. The DM had literally just started to introduce the game, and he said his character was sleeping under a boat at Westgate (Faerun). The party was never intended to start on that side of the continent, since two of them were travelling south from their home in Firesheer near Icewind Dale. Being alone, he of course is accosted by thugs and robbed/killed. Even if he wasn't killed his character was like 2k miles away from the party and so doomed to never have a chance to meet them. Lucky for him, the DM was nice enough to allow the same character with a quick rename, but this isn't the first time, or even the fasted he's gotten a character of his killed. He's so notorious for character deaths from senseless desicions that our other friend in his campagin gave him an amulet that revives him from death. Nicest guy you'd ever meet but the way he plays is... Well chaotic at best and insane at it's worst. The 2 second detonator (not remotely triggered mind) on a thermonuclear device is a legend in our group.

[@lisliaer7999]

On the fate point story: 1. that's what fate points are for. 2. There's 2 SIMPLE "fixes" to the party blowing up your boss fight. 2a. Body double. Be careful with this because it still kinda feels crappy to the players. But MUCH less so. 2b. Welp boss fight is now a CHASE. They gave away their position and need to get out before being caught. A chase is still a great way to have a boss fight its thrilling and engaging for the players trying to find ways to help the escape that aren't combat and using combat tricks in interesting and unusual ways.

[@Meanlucario]

Intro: Not much for me to say or add. Yeah... I Don't Like THat Roll: Refusing to take into account the sniper doing his job, removing player equipment, and DM NPCs are a recipe for disaster. DM Runs World's Most Irritating Game: Likely went after new players because experienced players would likely have called him out for his actions. Makes more sense than wanting harder fights but only grabbing newer players. Yet Another DM GF: Threatening to dump someone for treating everyone equally in a game about imagination is a very bad sign. OP needs to talk to his friend and explain why he's leaving at least. When D&D Becomes Riverdale: You know Crispy hates a story when he swears. And other than the skin-walkers, it wasn't very "grimdark," but romance-focused. Those are two very different things. The DM did a terrible job setting expectations. Hopefully someone else in the group is willing to DM the setting for the group and do a better job than that DM.

[@jblask2]

Definitely my favorite video thumbnail so far!

[@philipgriffiths9686]

All story facepalms aside, Crispy always selects some damn good appealing art for the thumbnail. Can always spot a Crispy vid even while speed scrolling.

[@cuttlefist]

So the Yet another DM GF story teller is obviously playing Pathfinder 2E, and are describing it just as a game similar to D&D. Is Pathfinder really that unknown that people don’t think they can mention it by name without confusing people?

[@shroudshift9969]

And since OP was a druid, regenerate is also on the table later on, so, infinite fingie food for Thor as long as he's facing the right direction.

[@darko-man8549]

Easy fix for DH story: Ask the group “would you mind if I kept him alive on a sliver of health and now he is trying to flee to maybe come back later?”

[@ArcCaravan]

Honestly just saying he barely survived should help. Better openly admitting to ignoring a crit to preserve a boss fight.

[@ms.riflespiral]

That first story is pure oof. Take it from me, a DM who is infamous in my own friend group for having bosses that die way too easily, I know that shit can suck, but outright wearing a shit-eating grin and telling them “Nah I decided your roll ruins my game so it’s a fail actually” after seeing the roars and cheers at the table everyone was reacting with to it? You had an amazing moment of victory right there that those players could’ve looked back fondly on and you barely had to put the work in, and you decide to take that away from them just because it wasn’t what you intended? There are some DMs who struggle to make such a scene happen at the table, and you got that moment without any effort, and you tossed it in the bin because “but my story!!!!”. I hope that DM never finds another gaming group, there’s no DM sin I can’t forgive more than being the table’s resident buzzkill

[@phenjaws569]

Smooching? Shapeshifters frenching to deal with stress!?!?! And all the pcs are nine!?!?! What was that dm thinking!?!?

[@nvfury13]

I’ve had most of a dungeon and even multiple sessions of story skipped due to lucky rolls or quick player thinking, never got me mad.

[@HoplooWare]

Story 1: Hot take, 'boss fights' don't work well in TTRPGs. Even good GMs who plan boss fights have still have a lil voice in the back of their head telling them to shut down creative solutions by the players so that their precious 'boss fight' won't be disturbed. GMs should just make a strong NPC with a lair, not plan out some scene that involves the players going directly toe to toe with them. With this mentality, lucky crits, unexpected combos of player abilities and good planning will let the GM let it happen and be glad that it does instead of feeling dour that their precious boss fight got "Wasted" by players playing the game. The only thing making a quick villain death anti-climactic is the game master salty that players did something cool instead of describing the moment in an epic way.

[@draconicfeline6177]

You gotta do them cinematically, give them phases, or make them "combat puzzles." 5e boss fights are horrible.

[@HoplooWare]

@@draconicfeline6177 You might wanna reread my comment lol

[@MrAwesomeone]

I mean if dudes gonna make a bs ruling mid game to keep his boss alive just lie and say priest was a body double so at least the players don't feel completely cheated. Still dishonest and bad but it's less likely to completely sap the fun from the party

[@Stevelover0267]

Fun fact, I actually run a Harry Potter esque d&d game (it's sorta Strixhaven meets Harry Potter). We are part way through year 1, all the party is 13 and while there is some school gossip about crushes and what-not (as kids will be kids) romance isn't a huge theme. All my players seem to be enjoying the game. I make an actual weekly school paper for them, give them lessons, and even mini quizzes. I even had 2 players write an essay about a topic their characters were actually assigned (I gave them inspiration as they did not need to go through all that work ❤)

[@jas-c3610]

I Don't Like That Roll: I hope this DM is get punished by Great RNGesus himself for eternity of his RPG career rolling nat 1's. What he did was the greater Heresy than in name of game he ruined.

[@PistolPackinGrandma]

Actually the missile one was one of our players He was busy playing games on his computer between rounds, pretty sure it was playing stalker

[@marcusreading3783]

Honestly, I'd love to play a Harry Potter style game like that. Well, not like that because I'd want it to be...well, Harry Potter and not a bad fanfiction version of it. And this is coming from someone who both enjoys reading AND writing bad fanfiction.

[@ratboy2]

the last story… if you dont know how to write a story about kids, dont write a story about kids? please? and communicating about expectations is so important. argh. from the fetishization of queer men to the “11 year old forced to make out with a copycat of her fiancé” situation… blegh.

[@williansnobre]

Taking away the player victory just to "humble" them is extremely petty. Our group defeated enemies in many ridiculous ways and ou GM would just roll with it and find it amusing. From putting a Brand of Truth on an enemies forehead, which caused damage if he lied or refused to answer a question and taking 90% of his hit points through questions alone to rolling a perfect persuasion to convince the guards of the big bad to to join us he would just let the dice decide. The surprise is part of the fun.

[@M_Alexander]

Had an idea after hearing about that boss encounter. What about offering it as a sort of bonus encounter? Like, obviously the dramatic stakes aren't there but maybe it would be fun to run it as a non-canon bonus round and offer a little extra reward? Everybody wins

[@jasons8746]

Had a group of players who cornered a powerful necromancer who they needed info from, newest player, an oread barbarian (pathfinder 1) named Brock Slide, put the weakened necromancer in a choke hold while the more experienced player asked questions. Fast forward, the party has asked the questions they know they needed, and are mulling over any other potential questions they may want to ask. I was planning on the necromancer taking this opportunity to have summoned enough of their power to cast random bullshit and escape, as they were meant to be a recurring antagonist that the party would chase back to their lair. Brock however was bored of asking questions, and asks to roll to break the necromancer's neck. After a back and forth between Brock and the rest of the party, Brock points out it seemed like they didn't have anymore questions of merit, and Brock didn't want to risk the necromancer escaping. The party agrees, and the meta conversation is over. I've decided to see how it goes, as the necromancer is still powerful, and would pretty much require perfect rolls to kill. A few perfect rolls later, and the party is looting the necromancer's corpse. I ended up just having the necromancer come back as a wraith... and the party enchanted Brock's gauntlets so he could "break" the ghosts neck too. The wraith ended up filling the roll I had planned for the necromancer, but the game fizzled out due to people moving away before it could go anywhere.

[@hellpenguin3031]

What exactly was the dark part of the last story? The mood lighting?

[@boooo13]

The players being forced into being npcs in the dm's fanfic.

[@MogofWar]

For the Harry Potter type campaign, the easiest way to do that one is Just start them in the appropriate age group... But that not withstanding, if you HAD TO start them at ages 10 or 11, it's a pretty simple process to speed run the first 5 years and have the campaign proper begin in later years.

[@wolf1066]

Last story. Less a "Dark Campaign" and more like a "Dork Campaign", with the DM being the titular dork.

[@devidevil888]

I kinda feel for the barbarian, I've played for over 6 years and I still ask what I bonus I add to attack rolls lol

[@SaintofM]

Opening: amazing what bag of holding can have First story: this is something most GMs hopefore. Yeah, we have all been there where we thought a boss would be tougher than it was, but even Dark Souls has moments that can make it easy for the player if they choose to exploit it. If it was me, i probably have the church fight from Kingsmrn, ot hay surprise the marty with an elderitch god comeing out of the target like in Hellboy if you wanted a bossfight, and then have people in the church trying to flee now they know what they have been worshiping Second story: sounds like an inexperianced players and an inexperianced DM. The pets need to be something from an experianced DM Third story: there are Lattin Armican Dart Frogs less toxic than DM's girlfriend DMpcs: the PCs are playing 11 year olds. They know as much about romance as That Guys know about being decent human beings. This just cring upon cring upon cring. I thought JK Rowling being a Turf was a problem

[@halcyonterror]

Smooching? In MY CRISTIAN MINECRAFT SERVER?

[@bradwolf07]

One of my groups started a Homebrew Harry Potter campaign. I made a dumb character (Int was the dump stat) that was obsessed with Dragons. It fizzled out in the second year. I was sad

[@kronosshadow1554]

Oh gods, they’re SMOOCHING!!!!

[@angryfroggo6394]

Another day, another video catching the moment that crispy.exe stops functioning because of cringe erotic story points.

[@marybdrake1472]

I'm fine with romance in D&D so long it's either off to the side or well integrated, but that last story was cringe AF.

[@zerolucksgivenzeroluckstak1763]

Yup had my fair share of games like that

[@squids-s1h]

Not gonna lie I've been tht player that forgets plot points xD

[@rat_mikey]

same lol ADHD and memory loss certainly don't help either

[@shroudshift9969]

Why I now carry a nice binder filled with story notes from campaigns, of course only things the players/characters would know.

[@Camber126]

I lost two characters in 10 sessions of the same campaign. Neither time was combat based. I goofed, not the dm's fault. My boys died as they lived.

[@Cosmik60]

What? They fell down stairs or something?

[@Camber126]

@@Cosmik60 my rouge did fall in a pit exploring ☺️. Chronomancer(homebrew version before the official class) rewound time to pull a card from T.D.M.T and stop another charcter being erased. Dm allowed, made awesome lucky rolls, and pooof i no longer exist. It was fun

[@NeoVault_]

The DM being passive aggressive with the ranger was the worst. Having the shopkeeper slap them for unblockable damage plus instantly removing medium armor (yay no agency, favorite trope) was definitely targeted. I would've gotten into a huge argument and likely left. You don't just drop a sudden "You lose + no counter" cutscene onto your players.

[@vodostar9134]

Too tired to think of anything to say today, so "smooching" lol.

[@Sellesion]

Woah, never heard of someone else playing a Nymph Ranger character. Sad that it was a problem player.

[@toastthemost2473]

Does the rat wear a plague mask because r/rpghorrorstories is so toxic?

[@cursedalien]

"that kind of thing just means you're refusing to learn" Me, with menory issues: ok. guess I won't engage with this hobby anymore, because I learn slow :(

[@davidspring4003]

Smooching? Also, sexualixing minors! This alo is DEFINITELY not ok!

[@kikiblair5132]

I don't care for playing with new players as much. Probably because I've taught so many new people to play and nowadays I just prefer the fluidity of playing with who understand what they're doing already.

[@pLanetstarBerry]

Smooching?! But in all seriousness, NPC drama can be fun to run, but only if the players and DM are on board with it. Hell, I have a campaign I run where my players love that my NPCs have lives beyond the player shenanigans because it makes the game more immersive for them, and if they can help or aggravate an NPC's problems, that makes it fun for them too. Although, their matchmaking shenanigans threw me for a loop. Like, they sometimes see how two NPCs interact with each other over a few sessions and go "omg, these two would be so cute together!" But we keep that part of the game wholesome, that's probably why I'm fine with it.

[@demonheart13]

If you wanna run a cringey cutscenes as a DM, do it after the session when no one is around. Have I thought about what an NPC was doing after the characters left. Yeah, have I thought about the going on of my world right before ean adventure, heck yeah. Because that actually helps if your NPCs aren't static to you then that will come out in the session. If you kill X and the PCs don't realize that X is dating Y, well then there's a nice surprise for the next time they come across Y. Yesterday I was looking at Medusa and male Medusa and their children cause drama reasons and the idea of having a male Medusa attack the party and the female Medusa go on an enraged rampage if they succeed was amazing. But more importantly, the fact that Medusa lay eggs and those eggs are human except a slim chance one of the eggs is a male Medusa. And the only way to find out is that the Medusa is immune to petrification (which I won't tell them unless they roll a nice arcana or nature check) Now they have to figure out what to do with these toddlers who could be human but could also be a two steps away from murdering something. (A good nearby orphanage might help, but if the PCs do leave the kids, I'm definitely going to bring them up in a future campaign, two human teens protecting their monster bro who's "not evil they promise" just from the one cringey fanfic in my head of two Medusa finding their own love off screen. I've got some nice battles and story threads to bring up later side quests. (I could also have a preist kill the male Medusa and the party just deal with a really angry widow. Then the kids can be less there fault and more everyone fault. But I'll flesh that out more later.

[@DespairDoctor]

This sounds similar, but worse to what my friends and I are doing. It's like Hogwarts, but not. Moral of the story, don't do this.

[@zerolucksgivenzeroluckstak1763]

Had a game where the DM had a huge crush on one of the PC. She (the PC) of course didn’t want to date anyone and is here for school… yet he ( the DM) was persistent… after her fifth time rejecting the DM ( he messsge me that he wants to TPK the party…) like dude…it’s dnd… why you bringing your personal crap into our game…. What did he end up doing? The PC had a back story with a romantic interest…. And guess who that Romantic ended up being, yes you guessed it, the DM turned that romantic interest into his DMPC, since he couldn’t get her IRL, he was determined to romance her Character ingame and kiss her romantically in game… to her cringe she refused to go for that story….so he EMOd out and had us fight 2 legendary creatures at once on a 40ft square on top of a mountain, one of those creatures was a dragon… guess we are going to get home brewed fireball forcing players to make 3 different saves… while the other legendary creature, A GOD and the first official BBEG was doing 3d12 damage in its attack roll… yup forced TPK…. Keep your love life away from dnd ….

[@2fortsmostwanted]

(Ignoring the fact that the DM was the one who gave everyone a 20 AC in the first place) Why have a shopkeep break combat and time rules to steal a PC's armor when you could have just thrown a grey ooze at them and reduced their AC a couple points?

[@bunny-bear3224]

Smooching 😳 in our tavern 😳

[@Logitah]

No, the allos are NOT okay!

[@dallasshumaker6148]

Smoochy Boochies! or whatever. Nice video

[@KushlukVonShimazu]

Smooching?!? Also, I live under a rock, what does the term Riverdale mean?

[@MrBillywkd]

That IS a dick move (giving the flow chart). It sounds like OP from first story was just at the wrong table.... they seem to not really have much patience for new players... (Just got to the part where OP says they are using a CUSTOM CLASS in a new player campaign... that's a red flag)

[@cursedalien]

Yeah, and as someone with memory issues the tone of "forgetting means you don't care" makes me feel really unwelcome in the ttrpg hobby.

[@joshuabengston9746]

Honestly, the headshot could have opened a hole to the warp and let it possess the body. Cool, body horror, still get your boss battle. Or something else at least

[@Ryan91487]

Or have a bunch of weaker mooks pop out of the warp, or even the temple winds up being a massive hive of heresy as a number of the clergy wind up being heretics. So you wind up facing other humans who are corrupted by chaos too. DM should have taken a page from Tzeentch. It WILL happen either way, just some factors will differ.

[@toupeiradautonica4402]

Sistem 12:34 tormenta 20 made in brasil

[@llswol2]

I think the game similar to DND is the Brazilian game Tormenta

[@Chaosqueenngami]

It seems like the 2nd story DM was one of the DM vs players kind of people.

[@StateBlaze1989]

Okay, I gotta ask: what is an aylo? I've heard you say it in other videos before, but I don't recall ever hearing what exactly it is.

[@360entertainment2]

Probably a Nigerian singer!

[@flipacoin570]

Allo is short for Allosexual, opposite of Asexual. It just means anyone who experiences sexual attraction (Crispy is Ace)

[@sean.chiarot]

Smooching!

[@17joren]

I must say with the irritating game story, despite everything else that was crappy of the gm, a legendary reaction being “not a thing” is not really a strike against them. A DM is allowed to make new mechanics a thing in 5e. Yes, having it just rip off the pc’s arm was part of the bs railroad, and I don’t think it makes much sense for a werewolf to get it, but I can see other powerful creatures getting one or more extra reactions in a turn. A hydra gets one for every head, limited to opp attacks, why not a quickling duelist that gets like 3 parries?

[@kovuska2749]

Now I feel interested in trying to play a garbage Riverdale campaign. Or maybe coax my friends to play a Harry Potter one .

[@aidenhughes2472]

WTF is the last story

[@MakiPcr]

Are the allos okay? No, we're not

[@demonic_myst4503]

Forst stoey not the starter, its bloody warhammer everythings op a boss fight endong in one hit is a tealistic outcome for warhammer and apart of the setting in genral

[@AntheanCeilliers]

Probably for the best the Harry Potter game died so the OP and their friends can find better things to like.

[@Blackmuseops]

A LOVE TRIANGLE!

[@jonathanfenton8695]

20 AC? That's it?

[@Thedragonlover95]

That last story,,,,,just no

[@draconicfeline6177]

Are the Allos ok No No we are not

[@realrealwarpet]

My brain decided im gonna need to vet DMs before using anyone who isnt a cishet male.

[@flexiblenerd]

Smooching?!

[@Rayshaadjackson87]

Smooches

[@tdmrebel9818]

I love how op just casually throws in transphobia and doesn't elaborate but we're supposed to trust that. I mean being a shitty dm is one thing but you can't just go "he did all these shitty things... Oh and he was transphobic" just seems odd to throw that in and not elaborate on it seeing as you're listing all the other stuff he's done

[@MathewPatrick]

Smuching!?

[@binarydark4811]

Smooching?

[@juanjorodriguez6211]

smooching?

[@rowanbarnfather7776]

I might be like OP in the third story, but how does one go about saying homophobic/transphobic things without another person noticing? Because that is pretty much the definition of a “dogwhistle”

[@dashinyboi2947]

With the sniper and the priest. That is an absolutely amazing point to have the corpse burst into a demon or something. Breaking free extremely wounded OR The real fight happens

[@kerridwynntheacegoblin6465]

No, the allos are never okay XD