DM Worships pERFeCT Main Character and Ruins D&D Game (+ More) - RPG Horror Stories

[@ogasnor]

He named HIS character "Viagra of Stiffwood," and somehow is upset that other players aren't taking the game seriously?

[@strawhatoverlord9184]

Problem Player: *angrily demands the game be taken seriously* Also PP: *is called Viagra of Stiffwood*

[@Bluhbear]

I'm about 112% sure he didn't actually name his character that.

[@sebbonxxsebbon6824]

Bad players attack without asking the group, he deserved to die.

[@pink_parade2900]

Honestly the "I throw his heart into the fire" moment just seemed awesome and so satisfying.

[@Pachitaro]

Right!

[@lockstepsavior]

To hubby and wifey? Yeah, awesome. To everyone else that just had their game go away? I imagine they have very different feelings about the awesomeness of that situation.

[@eugenideddis]

@@lockstepsavior It mostly falls on the other guy for overreacting to character death, but depending on how Wifeys character was connected to OPs, she may have broken a few taboos

[@battyrae1398]

@@lockstepsavior depends on the group. that sort of thing is WAY more acceptable in vampire LARP than in other places. my character wound up buried alive for a minimum of 20 years in my first vampire game. (honestly the prince was a real good sport abt it i deserved worse haha) honestly, to some being outmaneuvered is part of the fun. but yeah its for sure something you gotta discuss ahead of time.

[@juliamavroidi8601]

If you play a Prince in a V:TM Larp, you should expect characters to plot against/try to kill you. Hobestly leaving that role to a player rather than an NPC is kind of a red flag itself, because of the sheer power imbalance

[@CaesiumTree]

That last story is summarized as, "GM desperately wants to go out with player but is too afraid to try"

[@George_M_]

To be fair that probably covers 40% of Crispys videos.

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

Viagra: D&D is a serious game and everyone has to take it seriously! My party: *Gets in trouble with the nursemaid specter in the Death House for teaching Rose and Thorn the ghost children to swear*

[@johnoneil9188]

Most of the big monsters our party fights are various forms of water fowl. Super serious though.

[@rayanderson5797]

You know what's really serious and dramatic? Not wanting to go back to your hometown because you're not sure how to tell your mom that instead of becoming a maid you ran away from home to become a necromancer. Actually, when I write it like that it does sound kinda serious, but trust be it played out a lot sillier than it sounds.

[@seabass819]

My brother once had a warforged bard who tried to teach a couple of pigs to "sing" a song, failed his check, and spent most of the long rest poking their noses and patting their heads saying "good pig, good pig."

[@Exodiant]

Oh we ended up adopting them. They "possessed" two of the party so they could experience the outside world. It's been interesting so far XD

[@mentok1]

My players: *discover rock candy exists* GUYS, DROP EVERYTHING! WE'RE GOING ON CANDY QUEST!!!!

[@alexinfinite7142]

The moment, and I mean THE MOMENT, someone thinks the other party members are "jealous" of their character 99% they're the problem. No one with half a brain is jealous of your character. They're too busy minding their own characters. Even the players with bad characters that they are planning to ditch aren't jealous. The level of mental immaturity of these man/womanchildren is staggering lol

[@Lechgang]

At best they might be jealous if said character gets a lot of cool moments, in that case they might want some too.

[@ettaetta439]

​@@LechgangYep, and even in the case that someone is jealous of your character (ie "dang, I wish I'd thought that up myself, that's so cool") it's not going to be all or even just a few people at the table. If you think EVERYONE is jealous of your character, you need to work on orienting yourself and your inflated sense of importance.

[@BlinkingEldrichRoses]

"The dragon asked to be his mount" In the distance a very faint scream could be heard followed by an ancient red dragon shouting "DONT YOU DARE" and the distant clicking of a switchblade

[@REfan2002]

Crispy: "The dragon asked the Main Character to his mount" Imagine Den of the Drake hearing that! Drake: Who dafaq said that!

[@AneitaLT]

He'd pull out a switch blade to that; threatening anyone who dares to mount him.

[@animeotaku307]

@@AneitaLT I think he even did when he covered this story.

[@AneitaLT]

@@animeotaku307 that was what I was referencing 😉

[@roarshach13]

For the kind of players in the last story I have the same piece of advice: just play goddamn Skyrim. That way you get your chosen one who saves the world and gets all the bitches power fantasy without your allies secretly plotting to poison your Mountain Dew when you're not looking.

[@jessicapalmer3455]

I choked at "poison your Mountain Dew," that's hilarious!!

[@soulevans6203]

I love how unanimous it is that "The Airship Story" is so traumatic that almost every DnD horror story content creator I see knows of it, and it's infamy due to how awful it is

[@kcollier2192]

The DM in the last story sounds more like someone desperately in love than someone showing favoritism.

[@huntclanhunt9697]

Ngl if my DM told me they'd been paid I'd be upset that they didn't demand more than $20.

[@LvXGameMaster]

Not a lot of people are talking about the vampire LARPing story. I have an important question: Was the wife's character married to OPs character? So far the Prince made a good call. There was an Anarch making vampires leave the Camerilla, of course he's going to send hitmen to not only take care of the problem, but show the vampires in his rule he still had power. If the wife's character was married to OP, then the Prince is an idiot and the horror story makes sense. If the wife's character was not married to OP's, then the wife did something her character would have no reason to do.

[@felinemage8285]

Thats honestly what I got from this. That she just did it because," You killed my husband irl so i will kill your character."

[@marcmielke]

That's exactly how Vampire larps should go. The Prince was to live short anyway, based on his trusting a child of Set with his heart.

[@thunderflare59]

To the OP of the Crystal Phallus story: Roll your colored rocks and take the fantasy game seriously! LOL

[@hollowblaze2320]

I am waiting to see what Den of the Drake thinks about him being a mount for the protagonist.

[@ShyBiiteVT]

He actually read that story a number of months ago. He pulled out a switchblade and said he would cut anyone that tried to mount him.

[@hollowblaze2320]

Oh. Well then. We all know what to do. Let's give him his wish and mount him.

[@nyxstyx388]

I had a DM throw in a random magical item shop in one campaign and he let the whole group comb through the handbook to pick out items to buy. I didn't have a lot, but I saw this staff that looked really cool and I was playing a druid. Looking at the stat block I mentioned that I would like to have it, but it looked a little OP for my level and maybe it could be a quest item or could be tied into my backstory later. The DM looked at the page and told me to roll to see if it was in the shop. I got a nat 20, so it was there. Then came the problem of gold. I had the least amount in the group (18gp, everyone else took the noble background or something else). I rolled a nat 20 on persuasion and got the price within range. I didn't even get to use the staff before the DM started complaining that maybe I shouldn't have it and trying to get it taken away from me (after I had spent all my gold on it). I offered for him to nerf it. He refused. He got mad and quit the campaign a couple sessions later because he didn't know how to deal with an OP group of players. I still never got to use the staff.

[@StateBlaze1989]

Funny thing about Viagra's whole elf/tiefling concept is that it technically exists in dnd as the fey'ri, the elven equivalent of tieflings. Though they were in the older 3rd and 4th editions.

[@JosephKerr27]

The Masquerade is my thing, so I really enjoyed that LARP story. OP's wife should be a legend! That campaign ended because she won! lol

[@ArcCaravan]

The larp destroying story felt like the wife was in the wrong, not establishing a reason to kill the prince she allied with beyond her husband's player character getting assassinated. It didn't establish any lore or relationship between the in-game characters that'd motivate the wife's character to betray her boss over another clan's member.

[@NINJAfries07]

I’d really like to see what kind of chaos would ensue from a ttrpg campaign, or even just a one-shot, where all of the players, including the DM, have severe main character syndrome

[@iamaunicorn1232]

I bet we would see x number of suspiciously similar posts on reddit about how each OP was "oppressed in their roleplaying by the other members" and a DM that was "disrespected by all of their players". XD AITA clusterfuck.

[@soultpp]

For that last story I almost feel that instead of "protagonist" it should have been "antagonist". He definitely acted more like the latter than the former.

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

That's a good point that applies to most of these stories. "Main character syndrome" always seems to result in a sort of "helicopter antagonist" in all but name.

[@whensomethingcriesagain]

"Double bladed scimitar"? Okay, so, double swords do exist, but generally thrusting weapons, since they're wholly impractical for slashing, so a weapon like a scimitar makes absolutely no sense for this kind of thing. Go watch Shadiversity's video on the Thanos sword for more on that

[@Homiloko2]

Honestly, it's just a fantasy game, if they think it's cool and the DM is fine with it then I see no problem lol

[@BRKirne]

It's not so much a sword as it is a bladed staff. Think Darth Maul's weapon instead of a regular sword. Still probably impractical as fuck though...

[@juniawetmann1311]

Second story actually reminded me of the time I ended up playing a half elf tiefling. You may ask yourself "don't you mean half elf half tiefling?". But no, no. Her mom was a full demon. Her dad an elf. Now before someone starts to think I was just trying to be edgy this was actually a plot twist to me that the DM came up with (I gave him permission from the beginning to come up with an incident my character forgot because of trauma and he ended extra). But since I had already created the character as a tiefling and I didn't want to make her unbalanced, mechanically I kept her a tiefling and just changed her character description a bit to joke that "now she knows why her ears are pointy". And since the character was 21 and both elfs and demons live a lot, the table came to the consensus it meant she actually was way younger than she thought and once in a while we would joke about how she was underage actually at 21. It was funny.

[@bryantspears119]

Hey Crispy. I recently started my first D&D Campaign as a first time DM. I was partially inspired by your Tabletop Tavern Tips videos, as well as RPG horror stories as for what not to do as a DM.

[@Pachitaro]

HECK YES! NEW DM! I'm casting Good Vibes on your campaign at 9th level. Have fun!

[@bryantspears119]

@@Pachitaro Thanks for the good vibes. We’re going to be having our 4th session this Saturday. If you or anyone else is curious, it’s a home brew called, “Tales of Ebonia”

[@roxsauce7862]

How are things going? If your campaign is still running 2 years later!

[@bryantspears119]

@@roxsauce7862 Unfortunately, scheduling and burnout got in the way of the campaign, sadly.

[@tylerwashington5625]

At the last story, like, power fantasy aside with protagonist, I don’t see the fun in like. Playing an ultra powerful demigod Angel or whatever the fuck that always gets what he wants unless it’s an extreme parody character meant to make fun of that trope. Does he like, expect the party to just go “wow you’re so cool and strong and muscular! I wanna be just like you!” At his amazing character

[@quiestinliteris]

Right? That just sounds so BORING. It could be fun for an NPC in a goofball campaign, say, if the party meets Squarejaw McMaincharacter, who somehow succeeds instantly at everything he tries by sheer Rule of Cool, but everything he does just screws things up for the party and you slowly realize he's actually the bbeg... But, like, when your protag is instantly good at everything and nothing ever goes wrong for them, the story ends up being pretty short.

[@ZyroShadowPony]

Same. Every character i ever make in dnd has to have a flaw. Current ranger? Racist to elves due to childhood bullying and doubts his life choices. Character for the next campaign? A bard who lost his voice due to trusting the wrong person. Having a flawed human(or humanoid) character is sometimes more exciting especially when youre building them up alongside the other players

[@novasiri7809]

@@ZyroShadowPony Same, I love flawed characters. The one I'm about to play is a Kobold Artificer, Battle Smith, modeled their steel defender off a rhino beetle.. She's smart, sure.. But good lord she's got a 4 in charisma, low wisdom, no social skills and talks so fast you'd think she was on a constant caffine high. Absolute chaos gremlin who wants to try and make her way as a 'great inventor'... When most of her 'inventions' are jury rigged death traps....

[@Homiloko2]

"Please note that not all was clear from the beginning" Followed by "His character was a demigod knight with the blood of an archangel that allowed him to use magic, he also had magic items and extra abilities at level 3". That, my friend, is exactly when you quit the table. When it starts like this, it can only get worse.

[@mikec1222]

Not sure I'd call bandits shaking down people via checkpoint as 'non-hostile,' even if the gold is trivial to the party. Otherwise yea, screw that guy

[@johngleeman8347]

Just once I'd like to see two or more crummy players with Main Character Syndrome have to play in the same campaign 'together.' Let them get a taste of what they do when they are isolated with average players.

[@gabrielrognon6238]

wife in the first larp is one badass treasur that should be preserved at all cost^^

[@wyvern723]

Yes, wife is absolutely bad ass. 10/10

[@Meanlucario]

Intro: I think a conversation is needed with OP, the DM, and the player who's character is anti-OP. I also hope the DM is new and just learning as the group plays, because those are red flags if this is how he handles all his campaigns. We Destroyed a LARP: I wonder why Prince didn't just jail OP for information. It's another player, so Prince should have made some attempt to not cause unnecessary player conflict. Paying the DM to KICK a Player: If Viagra simply made a mistake and left to join a more serious game, than that would be one thing. However, other than lying about how the party feels to OP and the DM (and trying to bribe said DM to kick OP), he was also being a spotlight hog. Also, it's nice to hear a horror story involving an ex and said ex wasn't the problem. Military Man-Child: It's always the problem players who hide that who are the worst. At least someone bad right out the gate is a swift end in most cases. And the DM being a yes man was just a horror story on a timer. Awful DM + Main Character: DM favortism and main-character syndrome. Name a more iconic duo. Jokes aside, this DM and player sound miserable to play with. I feel like I heard of this story before, but I can't remember where.

[@theinquisitorisamage1653]

Paying the DM to KICK a Player - I agree with this for the most part, but dude; as soon as this guy tried to bribe the DM to kick someone, they should've been booted.

[@Meanlucario]

@@theinquisitorisamage1653 Agree.

[@awesomesauce8216]

Awful DM + Main Character - I'm pretty sure Den of the Drake already covered this.

[@Meanlucario]

@@awesomesauce8216 Thank you.

[@juliamavroidi8601]

Destroyed LARP: WoD, ESPECIALLY Vampire LARPS are all about PvP. Which makes the Prinve's reaction to getting offed even more uncalled for.

[@sherylcascadden4988]

Protagonist "Just like the airship story". Well, not quite, but the parallels are more than enough to make me quit early on. My rogue, mage, whatever hasn't been given permission to eat, so I'm passing out from malnutrition over here.

[@Midnight3Wonder]

Anytime I feel like I'm getting too much spotlight or am stepping on anyone's fun, I ask the others if I'm being a spotlight hog and want me to back off even just a little. I'm genuinely worried about causing trouble in my D&D groups as I don't want to end up as one of the many horror stories I enjoy listening to even before I began playing. As much as I want to enjoy the game, I also am aware that I am not the only player and that the others should be having fun as well. I do tend to play characters who are heavy on support/healing and have personalities that make them easy to approach for help on things and like to offer up help if they see someone struggling with something, so I do often find myself getting into quite a bit of roleplay. I don't do it on purpose. It just happens that my characters tend to be very helpful and get quite a bit of spotlight helping out others with their issues. Example: I am currenting in a Legend of Zelda D&D game where I am playing a Zora bard who is studying the many stories of Hyrule to learn the truth behind them and have a brother who is an artesian. Because of my character's sagely background and insight on history and mythology, my character was asked to help another character figure out some dark secret. When our Hylian fighter lost a lot of their equipment and armor during a particularly nasty fight, I offered to send a letter to my character's brother asking for help. This is how my character ends up getting quite a bit of spotlight. Because she's such a flexible character who has a lot to offer as a support, she tends to get into a lot of roleplay with others. I don't seek out this attention, I just enjoy being able to help out the other players. After the session where this all happened (yes, this was all in one session), I asked the others if my character was taking up too much attention and if they'd like to step back a bit so that they can also shine. They all assured me that I'm fine and that they enjoy roleplaying with me. I'm glad that no one has any issues with my roleplay so far, but I'd still rather be safe and make sure I'm not stepping on anyone's toes than accidentally upset others for getting too involved.

[@TheZMage]

Sorry, but I think you meant “morally reprehensible”. Apprehensible just means “capable of being understood or perceived”

[@CrispysTavern]

…whoops. Mental note made.

[@jefferyschroeder3104]

NEEERD

[@TheZMage]

@@jefferyschroeder3104 “Nerd” only has one e

[@pyrrhicvictory6707]

@@TheZMage NERRRRD

[@TheZMage]

@@pyrrhicvictory6707 okay, you see now you’ve put in too many “r”s. Nerd is a four letter word. One N, one E, one R and one D

[@Psykolord1989]

6:40 "The DM worked hard to provide this experience, so take it fucking seriously" ~Viagra of Stiffwood, Serious Roleplayer.

[@dadanny187]

I got my own horror story about a player in my first time DM game. He turned into a cult leader, essentially.

[@exikat]

One time I had a character that met a Balor. She was a level three Cleric Bard, convinced it to let her meet it's demon lord, and managed to avoid dying. This same character later came face to face with a Barghest and managed to not die there either. In both situations she was alone (For the Balor she had drank something that sent her consciousness to the infernal plane and the Barghest she was just being fuckin stupid)

[@wingsablaze8386]

5:59 there was actually a tiefling elf back in 4e called the Fey'ri, i love the race to bits and pieces but even will admit they didnt have all the perks that half elves and tieflings got, they were just really interesting and fun to play as

[@inkwellarts325]

I hate it when groups get sidelined by someone with main character syndrome, if you don't care about the other players in your group, why did you even ask to join a cooperative Tabletop RPG? You're just wasting the other players' time and yours, stick to single player video games.

[@magmaferret636]

For many of Those Guys, the other players are an important part of the power fantasy. They NEED the others to "witness" how great their "Main Character" is.

[@Homiloko2]

Worst part is when the DM collaborates with the protagonist to the detriment of everyone else in the table

[@leila13dnd]

That last story was borderline emotional abuse and textbook gaslighting, wtf.

[@BlackRainRising]

I'm sorry if that was what was going on in a game I was in, I'd be out faster than the overpowered character could kill a goblin, no one should force themselves to endure and feed into mentalities like this, doing so enables it to keep happening and it's sickening

[@ryanjohnstone8957]

Honestly I've been in and out of TTRPGs for 20 odd years and it's soooo sad that such "That Guy" DMs and players are still a thing at all!!!

[@DiktatrSquid]

A player character becoming a balor. A balor that has the potential to deal an average of 59 damage per turn with its weapons alone, 10 more to anyone standing next to it or hitting it up close, with a fly speed of 80, 120ft teleportation at will, throws the damage dice THRICE instead of twice when critting with its other weapon and dealing avg. 70 fire damage on everything within 30ft upon death. That on top of a lvl14 PC, op class or not... Yeah, how about no :D

[@iamaunicorn1232]

The last story. Thats not just favoritism, thats simping. I don't care about the genders involved thats textbook simping. Don't do that for *anyone*

[@azealiabanks5969]

OMGGGG U HAVE COVEN ZYRA AS THE THUMBNAIL OMGGG I LOVE HER!!!!!?!?!?!?!

[@CrispysTavern]

I have no idea who that it is. But hey! Glad you like the art. Check out the artist in the description and support their work.

[@MageMinionsOP]

In the comwdy game, Chloe the DM sounds like the embodiment of chaotic neutral 😂

[@confusedcabal342]

That man gives us warlocks a bad name. For shame!

[@starbird3939]

Opening - What a nightmare. Just leave, get out, and never return

[@biffwellington6144]

I don't understand this desire some people have to make the game "all about ME." Sure, I like to have my cool moments, but I also like to kick back and be entertained by the other players having their own cool moments.

[@Hand_Appreciator]

Viagra is so Humble, they told me themself

[@silentmagician9386]

Why do bad players expect help when they start fights? Honestly, this was the most sensible group letting him fight his own battle and let him suffer the consequences of his own actions.

[@PTp1ranha]

I bet if everyone except Protagonist and DM dropped out of the game, the two of them wouldn’t even notice.

[@shadiafifi54]

The Sorceror of the Crystal D*ck campaign: Yeah, that sounds like a blast. Maybe not my cup of tea, but certainly sounds fun. Too bad That Guy was a stick in the mud. But seriously?! Who the **** dumps _Constitution_ in a D&D game? Hell, who dumps Constitution or equivalent stats in _any_ game?! That's just asking to get killed by a stiff breeze. Did he think his amazing AC (for a lvl 1 character) would save him? And then when his whole party refuses to step in, he thinks he can force them into combat? Yeah, he got what he wanted; a fight. His mouth wrote a check his PC couldn't cash.

[@JoshtheOverlander]

I'd say that it depends on the class you're using and the perks that come with it. If you're working with a class that gives you a higher dice to roll for hit points and higher AC to work with, you might dump Constitution in favor of other stats because you're still getting respectable amount of hit points per level due to the dice rolls, but that's also assuming that your rolls are turning up good numbers or the DM just says "fuck it" and has the party just increase their health with the best dice results every time to make character sheet adjustments move along quicker.

[@Yoxiv]

Bet ya a dollar that protagonist's name was Eric Cartman

[@ruecumbers]

Lol, if player A ever has the gall to venmo me money to kick player B, I'm going to take it, split it with B and kick A instead. Keep that goofy shit out of here.

[@buzzkill980]

Everytime I never understand how these people play with these problems for SO long. "Here's the worst player that has ever played D&D. It was the shittest, most boring, annoying experience of my entire life. Yea I'm glad I got out of that after a YEAR of weekly 4 hour sessions." So stupid.

[@iamaunicorn1232]

I agree. "I stayed because I liked talking and interacting with the other non-problem players." You know you can do that outside DnD right? Chat with them. Play something else together. These people aren't phantoms that only exist when someone breaks out some math rocks.

[@Ruler_of_Tired]

I did comment here, saying I paused to take a breath when I heard WoD... But the narrator was right in that situation. It didn't seem to be lotta other choices, really. Ps.: And I also like WoD... I made friends playing Vampire... and I had talking about Demon The Fall, playing a world building with them. I am just bit traumatized with really bad people playing the same ttrpg I like.

[@brandywales8200]

I feel this but with 5e. Our problem player insisted that we try it so we did and he was dming it and it was so bad

[@ChaosCounseling]

Kneel before Zod I mean the main charter

[@GuardianTactician]

The last story has a DM who was simping for the protagonist player character.

[@dudeist_priest]

I find it weird when people brag about how cool or strong characters are. I have attachment to some of my characters, too... but why would anyone be *jealous* of a D&D character?

[@iamaunicorn1232]

Ikr? This is a "pen and paper" TTRPG, you just wrote him up that way. Even if you are playing within the rules of whatever game you just filled in the blanks. Its like bragging about your Elden Ring build but all you've done so far is character creation.

[@deepseastonecore3017]

Thanks 4 all the hard work.

[@Mrepright]

Half Elf/Half Tiefling ... wouldn't that be a Fey'ri from the Forgotten Realms setting?

[@edwardramos4591]

Story 1: On one hand, one of your characters getting One Ringed because of IRL relationship dynamics sounds like a pretty frustrating meta moment that very much warranted that rage quit. On the other, props to the wife for standing by her other regardless of their PCs' minimal affiliation. Story 2: When the ex isn't the problem. Also demanding the campaign named after junk be taken seriously; Johnnie Cochran can't fake the evident inability to read the room (and that's coming from me). Story 3: Name checks out, That Guy was a donkey. Story 4: Cue the Skyrim opening with Den of the Drake replacing Alduin. On that note, GM should be more open about his feelings and Protagonist's time would be better spent going on N'wah speedruns or hoarding all the cheese.

[@ketrava0425]

To me it sounds like the 1st story the player wasn't upset that their character got killed they were upset their character got killed because of out of Character bleed. It doesn't sound like the wife's character and the original OP were in character related at all and so would have no reason to off the leader of the city over the action he took toward a rival faction upstart. Also vampire larp is Very player kill heavy

[@SampoPaalanen]

That last story reminds me why I have rule when it comes to my character's backstories that their effect to the world should be due to their actions not their existence. As the character here would have huge impact on the game world if the player and GM were even semi competent merely by existing within the game world and that's just the backstory the actual game gets even worse. A generic backstory isn't bad in fact I'd say those are superior to hyper detailed power fantasy backstory as with a generic backstory you can build the character you want thru actions and those can evolve in ways you weren't expecting, where as the power fantasy characters have exactly 1 way of being played and no room for character growth.

[@brianjohnson1509]

Don't know 5e but pathfinder tieflings can be any race as long as it's medium or small in size, the only thing this changes is their size, they get the normal tiefling stats regardless of if they're a dwarf or an elf or whatever.

[@Tytoalba777]

How does one even use a double-bladed scimitar? The whole thing about them is that they're curved, so that using the backside would be awkward as all hell.

[@naarelservs9713]

they're basically a staff with scimitars on each end so I can kinda see it working

[@Tytoalba777]

@@naarelservs9713 ahh

[@DoomsdayR3sistance]

think Darth Maul's Double Sided lightsaber but even less practical than that. And I'd never allow it for two-weapon fighting since it is specifically one weapon. If somebody wants a weapon which can bonus weapon attack, polearm master exists and actually can work really well for hexblades.

[@soultpp]

@@DoomsdayR3sistance I've actually liked the concept of double bladed swords since 3.5. The only thing is that I as a player OR a DM would assume/insist is that they would be treated exactly like dual wielding for mechanical operation. Bonus action attack, no stat mod to dmg without fighting style. Might allow finesse property with the dual wield feat too. Doubt I'd allow more than 1d6 for each blade though, so effectively no stronger or weaker than 2 scimitars/short swords.

[@DoomsdayR3sistance]

@@soultpp it will always be mechanically different too two sabres. If you are a spell caster, you can let go of a 2-handed weapon with 1 hand and spell cast, grabbing the weapon with the 2nd hand using no item interaction at all. With 2 sabres you need to drop or sheath on of the sabres and need to be using item interactions. I might allow it as a reskinned polearm if the user gets polearm master, but definitely NOT two weapon fighting. If you want two weapon fighting, you need to use two distinct weapons or you face issues like the one I pointed out.

[@brianvance1178]

Part of the reason why I created a succubus necromancer character is because I thought it would be fun to play a sex demon that rarely if ever had sex, and instead did something else such as studying necromancy and other dark arts and eventually becomes a warlock patron who works as a criminal defense attorney, who then forced her warlock to become her secretary in between quests taken with their party in exchange for gaining the powers of a warlock. The pact would be a literal signed contract that is both magically and legally binding, and will include an escape clause for the warlock in case they decide they want out. The catch is that the warlock, as per the escape clause, will be absolutely incapable and ineligible for another pact with any other Otherworldly Patron for the next 10 years

[@ReiOfSunshine05]

In the last one I feel like the GM likes protagonist

[@CyanideSlushie]

I feel like unless the husband and wife’s characters had some sort of established connection/ a reason for the the wife’s character to react that way it is totally reasonable to be upset by what happened. It ruins the spirit of the RP if the action is driven by IRL motives rather than in character motives especially if it results in the death of a character i assume they have been playing for much longer than the husband and wife have been involved.

[@clarehidalgo]

Scimitars are backswords, they are one edged cutting swords.

[@johnbgoode1605]

Hehe Sir Loin 😊

[@littlegiantj8761]

Firbolg Beef industry DAMN YOU, MATT MMMMEEEERCCCCEEERRRRRRRRR (/s)

[@dudester6442004]

The one w the double blade, I think his fix for that is great, two weapon fighting and two swords flavored as a double blade. Why would they be annoyed by that?

[@shadowscall7758]

Probably because of his attitude about it. The fix itself is fine.

[@HowToPnP]

In my experience most Vampire the Masquerade LARPS are just a bunch of goths sitting around and smoking, playing rock-paper-scissors and sticking post-its all over the place.

[@tech-priestmr7824]

My DM banned the spirit guardians spell because our cleric dealt 140 damage in a dungeon with just that spell at lvl 6 and literaly made everyone else feel useless

[@rossnorris2351]

In the LARP story, both the Prince and the wife were in the right and acting as should be by their characters as their positions. Settites (I'm guessing that's what the wife was) are not friendly toward the Camarilla, so torching the Prince's heart when he showed to be a bit of a tyrant (also expected of Princes) is understandable and The Prince killing an Anarch recruiter is also understandable. The only thing questionable is The Prince trusting a Settite to remove his heart, that was the player's bad call.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

Why are the reasons to deny a double bladed scimitar, especially in a non-serious game, somewhat obvious?

[@johnoneil9188]

Good question. I did not even know that was a thing. Aren´t scimitars by design one bladed?

[@schwarzerritter5724]

@@johnoneil9188 I think he means a double weapon like Darth Maul.

[@soultpp]

@@johnoneil9188 It's a weapon from the Eberron setting. As others have said double ended like Darth Maul's lightsaber. It's a 2d4 base attack weapon with a bonus action attack for 1d4. There is also a half-feat for it as well that makes it finesse and gives +1 AC.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

@@soultpp Honestly, the only homebrew required is that a Glaive with the Polearm Master feat deals Slashing instead of Bludgoning Damage and you have your Dual Scimitar right there. At level 3, Hexblades can use two-handed weapons.

[@soultpp]

@@schwarzerritter5724 I was really just explaining what this specific weapon did here for John. What you say probably would work as an alternative though, sure. 🙂

[@FlCl3000]

If you ever run into a main character syndrome at the table just find a reasonable in game reason to kill them It’s always fun

[@quiestinliteris]

I feel like these people usually have a very different idea of what constitutes a cool character. I've bragged about some of mine before, but that's when I'm really excited about coming up with a cool CONCEPT, maybe a backstory twist that subverts a common class stereotype or a race/class/background combo that don't directly support one another and will be a challenge to play. For instance, my rogue whose highest stat starting out was actually WIS, because he's in his sixties and is slowly re-learning all his old skills after an injury. He's actually not all that effective as a rogue just yet, and I feel like that would just totally throw some of these Main Character players for a loop, but I love my Party Grandpa. Building in your own mechanical weaknesses just gives you more opportunities to play creatively. Not that there's anything wrong with minmaxing, but if you want to do it to the extent we always see in these stories, D&D probably isn't really the right pastime for you. If you're in it to win lots of fights, play a video game. If you're in it for the adulation of other characters, write a book.

[@JoshtheOverlander]

There's a fine line between pride and arrogance. Plenty of players can feel proud about a character concept they created for a recent campaign, I for one feel very proud of the characters I've created for my D&D group personally. Then there's arrogance, which is the side of the line that a lot of main character syndrome players typically play on, creating absolutely broken messes, or even just creating characters that are over touted and full of themselves and the player thinking that they really are the shit without real evidence to back it up, or in worse cases, when their character is allowed to be broken and to do whatever they want by bad DMs. It's an utter mess =∆= My character Bats, Tabaxi Fighter/Bard/Ranger Multiclass got to this state because he loves adventure and exploration and wants to see and experience loads of new things, picking up whatever skills he fancies. He's also surprisingly patient for an excitable, emotional cat man, but even he would probably tear his fur out over some of these *almighty* protagonists.

[@breegrimm7142]

PROTAGONIST!

[@anitagabrielle9293]

Thanks

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

You know, not everyone agrees that D&D is a collaborative storytelling game. There are numerous other RPGs that are described from the ground up in terms of storytelling (Vampire the Masquerade was the first really famous one, and since then it's become increasingly a trend, to the point that the majority of new systems take this approach). But D&D started out as a miniatures wargame, and some people really do just want to play it as basically a miniatures wargame; there's nothing wrong with that. And, while I don't begrudge WOTCO the amount of money they're making off of 5th Edition, I think a fair argument can be made that the "pure" D&D experience deserved to have its own space, and that the modern push toward everything being freeform imagination theater has kind of "ruined" that space. Imagine if you had a book club, and a bunch of people showed up who just wanted to play video games while you were trying to discuss the books you read, and more and more video gamers kept showing up at your book club, and talking about how it isn't a book club at all but is a competitive video gaming arcade...wouldn't you be pissed? If you want a collaborative storytelling experience, I really don't think that D&D is mechanically optimized to cater to you; it's just trendy and popular, but that isn't a good reason to change its identity to something that it isn't, just so you can have an easier time finding players to play it with.

[@This_Is_VeryNotFine]

Coven Zyra

[@mrroboshadow]

Ya know i think that DM in that last story sucked....oh and he was also a bad DM

[@SanteeDakota]

"Protagonist" is what I say

[@neysadoescosplay]

Ugh. Those dayum protagonists...

[@picses76]

Protagonist!

[@robbietheweirdo]

honestly i'd take the dudes 20 dollars and run

[@tepetkis]

So the larp - the wife takes a meta action and the player of the prince is the bad guy? Like nothing stated suggests the wife has an in character reason to retaliate for the murder of some anarch.

[@Brenden.smith.921]

It's not a meta action. The wife's character didn't like the action of the prince re: killing someone doing their job.

[@tepetkis]

@@Brenden.smith.921 nah - there is some vague oh it was cruel - as someone who is well versed in vampire the masquerade - setites aren't nice, and they don't really act as judges. And even that is a thin excuse. Hubby died because he decided to be an antagonist to the largest political faction in game, and his wife took a wildly out of setite genre meta action - with no clear valid reason.

[@tepetkis]

@@Brenden.smith.921 example setite morality paths, like a flat mechanic path of Typhon - failure to take advantage of someone's vice. They aren't the kind to do this. And as the character had serpentis 5 the heart of darkness - odds are good she had used it herself and thus couldn't have empathy - like it straight up removes the empathy ability.

[@lockstepsavior]

@@Brenden.smith.921 Citation needed.

[@marcmielke]

If I did allow a balor in the campaign, I would take levels in ANY character in exchange.

[@tylertheultimatebadass87]

Deuteragonist

[@ghost3337]

half tiefling?

[@Pachitaro]

1:18 She so real for that 💪🥺

[@sherylcascadden4988]

Re "morally apprehensible". I don't think that means what you think it means. Maybe morally reprehensible?

[@marshallkendrick8247]

Protag

[@bryanday7570]

Astan... Astan the boy is named astan and yall didn't expect this jackass behavior? Name alone screams "Imma be a prick"

[@soultpp]

It does? 🤨

[@ArcCaravan]

I thought the name was fake, given so readers can track people in their stories/experiences.

[@jadyndenys7736]

I was genuinely expecting Chloe to cuck OP for Mr. Viagra but thankfully she didn't.

[@marybdrake1472]

Protagonist.

[@CalamityCanyon]

In regards to the LARP story : I think that since OP specifically mentioned that he did not instruct his wife to exact revenge upon his character's death, perhaps he'd have been fine with losing his PC. As drastic as it is for the prince to send a hit squad after an anarch, that kind of a blood hunt doesn't come out of nowhere. Those factions are basically in a forever war against one another, since the Camarilla considers all Kindred as members (for the purposes of prolonging the Vampiric species through traditions) and the Anarchs reject their forcibly imposed rules in favor of an unlife worth living (or rules that seem better to them). They might not go head to head as much as either faction goes against the Sabbat (often in self defense), but if a Prince finds an opportunity to get rid of a rival leader, it's just as well that he'd take it, so I'm not convinced by the justification of 'he only did that because he was winning too much'. There are consequences for actions like that, certainly, but I think the Prince's player might have felt it unfair that OP's SO decided to be the arbiter of said consequences because of her out of game relationship with OP, but we lack the context necessary on that front. To be Independant and to be an Anarch is not the same ordeal, and the two factions are not allied, so for an independant Setite to utilize leverage as important as a prince's heart for something so drastically individualistic would have put her own life and the safety of her clan's independance in jeopardy. This sounds like something that needed a very good in-universe reason and there feels like there may have been none, or else it'd have been written in. These things happen, and y'know, tough beans for everybody involved since the campaign ended on that note, but I'm not as keen to put all the blame on the Prince's player in this instance.

[@tepetkis]

Oh my thing - I don't think anyone at that larp believes op that he didn't tell his wife to do that, and op provides no evidence that their spouse made that choice in game and not completely meta. I staff a larp and would have put the kibosh in that shit so fast - because wife would need a serious and valid in character reason. Not he killed hubby.

[@Pachitaro]

Nah. Screw prince player lmao. He gave his heart to someone else. That alone is dumb enough to deserve death 🤣

[@tepetkis]

@@Pachitaro that's neither here nor there - but that doesn't negate the wife making the meta game choice to retaliate for her husband's PC death.