Murderhobo Ruins DnD For New Players | DnD Horror Stories

[@AdmiralBlackstar]

The backstory one would've left me livid. Backstories are my favorite part of character creation.

[@Kepora1]

The first REAL red flag was him drinking White Claw. I still can't believe they got rid of Henry's Hard Soda for stuff like that...

[@kristianthe1st859]

Is that what happened???I loved the rootbeer

[@Kepora1]

@@kristianthe1st859 I never got to try it, only the grape and orange. But a bunch of city elites and zoomers cried about *CaRbS bAd* so they stopped selling the hard sodas, now we got all this HaRd TheLtThEr (typing a lisp is hard) bullshit.

[@ThugShakers4Christ]

Or you could quit drinking like a girl and just have scotch, like a real man

[@Tomha]

The sad thing is that killing a child is a valid option in my old group. The DM liked to mess with us and bully us by having something horrible happen because we forgot a detail or spared the wrong person. You will always mess up. In 1 game we had beaten a Boss in the campaign, barely...and then his kid saw us do it. My very first thought was "End the bloodline! I'm not having some revenge bullshit happen later! I'm True Neutral and this is for survival!" And were it not for our tight ass druid who has to help EVERYONE he can, I would have plunged my blade into the child. The campaign didn't continue long enough for us to see if the kid amassed a dragon strike force for revenge. Looking back at it, that just really speaks volumes on how fucked up the campaigns got. No matter what choice we made, it was always wrong. Killed a spellcaster who was blasting your unarmed friend with her best spells? You just murdered a sick young woman. Picked Left? Oh, sorry, should have picked right. Every. Single. Time...

[@biggiouschinnus7489]

Sounds kinda toxic. I'm really sorry you had that experience with your DM.

[@dougmartin2007]

I have to say, I have never found the person who "is not afraid to let you know their opinion" is never the charming guy. Its because shoving your opinion at everyone comes off as bossy and critical, not charming. That person is also usually too busy telling their opinion to hear anyone else's.

[@NewTypeDilemma01]

The minute I heard "cracks his first White Claw", I knew it was going to go to Hell...

[@CaseyWilkesmusic]

Drunk boyfriend was clearly not interested. He should have just said “hey, I’m not too interested but I’ll hang out and watch maybe.” DM should have just made a list of pregens for a new-player one-shot and skipped a THREE HOUR CHARACTER CREATION.

[@GarkKahn]

It seems we can't get enough stories of the "it's what my character would do" type

[@pippo17173]

And it's learning to *I want to do shit that is considered illegal in the real world.*

[@filipebarroqueiro7262]

Video on my birthday contains Lucky being adorable as always.... my lucky day!

[@vortega472]

I like that Doge mixes it up, sometimes we get the kitties in the beginning, sometimes in the middle, and sometimes at the end. Keeps 'em guessing and wanting more I say. Ah, we got little Lucky, he's so charismatic (at least an 18 on his stats) so of course I like, and as you can see I'm commenting.

[@spectrelead]

Uh, Doge, it sounds like they TRIED a Session 0 and the blue-falcon didn't even absorb from that

[@lifeofhonour]

yeah the whole character creation session seems to have been a session 0 from what i understood, the guy just didnt give a shit until it was game time and even then...

[@Psycopathicus]

It kind of sounds to me like that last guy may just not have quite mentally processed the scheduling issue. Like, he'd worked out in advance that Saturdays would work for him, 'cause it was his day off,, and it's only after he'd brought it up and someone pointed out that he's saying this ON Saturday at someone else's game that the puzzle piece clicks into place and he's like 'oh. Oh, SHIT'. I mean, he still should have apologized and so forth if that were the case, but that sort of socially awkward 'I got it all figured out; this'll totally work, OH WAIT' moment does happen from time to time.

[@Karmasu_L]

And suddenly there was a NPC working for the BBEG trying to convince the players to switch sides. Or maybe just a poacher in the wilds that gets into trouble and needs saving from the party. (Maybe even more than once.)

[@F632-s4x]

I think the analysis on the first one is right. Either the guy wasn't interested in playing but felt like he "had" to be there because his GF and friend were interested, or he just didn't understand how to play and feel into the "you can do whatever you want!" trap new TTRPG players often fall into. Since the story isn't clear on whether anyone talked to him about his behavior before the game wrapped up its hard to say.

[@alleosussquirt8041]

Am I crazy? Like, we had 2 goblin kids in one of our campaigns that we were tasked with finding a new home for. I adopted them both and they became an integral part of my new character and of our party. It also let the DM play so everyone was happy.

[@AuntLoopy123]

Awww! That's sweet!

[@AtelierGod]

The Phalanx has incredible physical defense but poor magic defense, there is weapons in certain maps you can find that deal magic damage instead of physical which can shread the Phalanx or if you start as a noble you can kill it with magic

[@TigerW0lf]

That 4th story was clearly targeting the op. All signs point to such behavior

[@sn0wb00ts]

I suspect it’s the most relatable to a lot of people. I don’t think it’s too hard to play that kind of character without strife from the party or the DM.

[@K_i_t_t_y84]

Commenting to support you doge!

[@professorsponge1554]

1st story: So new player didn't want to share with the group, not accepting help and clearly treating the game like a competition. He somehow got directed to some bootleg site that confused him. He didn't finish his sheet, and then proceeds to drink at the table. Alcohol and D&D don't go well. A lite beer or two over the course of a 6 hour session? That can be fine, but anything more than that and you're asking for trouble. He then goes off to be a lone wolf, then whines when he doesn't magically get included or rewarded for being there. If I'm reading between the lines here: Boyfriend honestly sounds like he didn't really want to play, but got dragged into it by his girlfriend. Maybe he was trying to be nice, but it sounds like he was bored with it from start to finish, and was likely elated when he was told not to come back. 2nd story: Honestly I have played the prissy character before and loved it, but my Paladin/Bard Cassicus was meant to be the butt of jokes and I played him as such. Here I see wasted potential from the get go. Ah, the classic 'I'm frustrated, I start some fires' fall back plan of any poor roleplayer, been a while since I've seen that. Interesting idea with the berry bush. I do wonder if the group was made aware of its nature before consuming them. Otherwise, it could easily be seen as the DM screwing over Meme. Wait, dude tableflips over getting poisoned once? God I can't imagine what Meme would do if he was actually hit in combat. 3rd story: That's a BS excuse, spells have a DC to resist if you don't want them and they're usually harmless if resisted. That is, unless 5e just did away with that feature. That's also not how haste works. Now if the DM said 'that's how it works in my setting' or 'its not really haste' then I could excuse it maybe but... And the other story actually makes sense. If monsters have any intellect they tend to have priorities when attacking. Dragons for example go for the dudes dressed like wizards first, then clerics, then attack anyone with ranged weapons and finally smash melee fighters into the dirt. If the dude was making a big show of his magic, then it makes sense why he'd be a big magnet for monsters. 4th story: So DM admits to only skimming OP's backstory. This could mean a few things. 1. that OP wrote an overly long backstory that was simply too much for DM to devote time to (reminder: they game nearly every day. that's insane. Only comedy or improv games that don't focus on story can run like that.). 2. DM has a grudge against OP for reasons unexplained. 3. DM was just being a dick. 5th story: So this dead-ass, brainlet openly tried to poach players, in front of the guy who was forming a group. I have to assume this moron would be the kind of guy who thinks DMing a longform campaign is easy.

[@AuntLoopy123]

I'm torn between "Boyfriend was not interested in D&D" and "Boyfriend was not interested in his girlfriend, and wanted to make her so unhappy that she would dump him, so that he wouldn't be "the bad guy" who dumped her. Thus, he became the bad guy who needed to be dumped, which, in my opinion, is worse. But some people don't see it that way.

[@DarthRic_]

We saved the kid from being stabbed...by throwing him in the river. 😂

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

10:33 HEY-STrong joke!

[@AuntLoopy123]

I's one thing to be in a campaign for a while, with a ROTTEN and TOXIC DM, and say, "I'm starting my own campaign at the same day and time. Who wants to leave this campaign and join mine?" But to try to poach the players BEFORE THE GAME EVEN STARTS?! That's ludicrous AND cruel, and definitely uncool.

[@CheetahFoxx]

Am I the only one who want's to try that idea? A Good aligned character who is neurotically afraid of authority so they flee before anyone can give them a reward or learn the name of their hero.

[@keybladewizard49]

White Claw Man is why I don't allow booze at my table

[@bbureau12]

I had a DM who constantly inserted his old PCs as OP quest givers and deus ex machina. He'd even make the female PCs roll against his char to see if they found him "hot."

[@alarkhar]

The DNPC shilling DM reminds me of an old ex-friend of mine (we went our separate ways because he was an egomaniacal a-hole who ruined every campaign with useless .- actually optimized for PVP - characters and "do what I say, reality is my bitch" GMing). The story I refer to was a Champions campaign. He was half-GMing (basically, he and I alternated GMing), and while I did my best to make a fun and enjoyable campaign, he... didn't. Aside from favoring his GF (a "pure purity" player who literally threw a tantrum every time anyone used violence) and sending in heavy hitters on our newly made characters (Black Seraph AND Black Paladin on my character while he's out of his custom power armor and has only his emergency gadget pack? REALLY? ...for those who don't play Champions, Black Seraph is a Total Party Kill level supervillain, who tends to call 18D6 lightning as a way to start a fight, and Black Paladin is bad news as well), he kept sending in weird heroes who he insisted everyone knew, the StormBoyz, to "help us along". Turns out that the StormBoyz were the heroes from his PREVIOUS Champions campaign (with his GF's character - a Sailormoon expy - being an ex-StormBoy) and he was planning on playing a StormBoyz campaign, with us being side pieces and/or sidekicks. I wish I could say that was when I left, but I didn't call it quits until he started doing what I call "Let's join all our powers we are Captain Planet" endings - basically, no enemy could be defeated unless we all did some sort of weird combo attack that let us ALL deliver the finishing blow, because "if a player finishes, the others get jealous", up to and including inventing powers our characters never had to make those "friends and love" super-combos. I told him Legion (my character, a gadgeteer with multiple power armors simulaing other heroes - thus the name) was bailing, taking the team vehicle (who I paid with my XP, by the way) with him. When another player told me he was STILL using Legion, I told him that Legion was, in fact, using the vehicle's dimensional rift engine to move to an universe without the StormBoyz, taking his family AND the Impressionist (a villain I created, a friendly and kooky reality warper with an artistic twist) with him, and he told me that he didn't believe I was serious. He canceled the campaign after he tried to turn the nemesis of another player into an ally, "ascending" him into Godhood, despite the other player repeatedly describing the nemesis (his father, an elder vampire) as a disgusting, soulless monster, and making him "good all along". The player described how his character took advantage of the "extasy of ascension" to rip daddy's heart out of his chest and eating it so that daddy dearest could NEVER be revived. Cue GM's GF howling and screaming, stamping her feet and throwing the mother of all tantrums because "We have to be all good and friendly! Love conquers AAAAALLLL!" (imagine that screamed with a nasal, whiny voice... did I mention that she's almost my age, and I was THIRTY YEARS OLD?) and GM canceling the campaign. I guess she never got the memo about said character being a freakin' dhampir who sneaked out while not on hero duty to drain small criminals dry leaving their dead bodies around (he was okay with our characters eventually finding out and putting him in the slammer, btw).

[@ZacharyOsterman]

Our game had child murder as a major plot point. Our party needed this land to produce "medicine." But a tribe occupied it. Combat started when our cleric moonbeamed a tent with the Chieftains wife and infant in it. This triggered PVP between our 4-player party. It was a Evil Cleric and a dealer alchemist artificer vs. me a Pirate rogue and beast barbarian. The cleric and alchemist killed our characters. Dark session but one of our best.

[@ChaosCounseling]

I am sad to say that my early campaigns fell into the trap of having too many past character cameos

[@TheLevantin]

Poaching other players is relatively normal in the MMORPG Star Wars The old Republic. There are people who come into your RP guild only to spam everything with ads for other RP guilds. If you don't intervene immediately because you're offline until now or don't spend every second of your life on Discord, then everything can be trashed. hundreds of messages. I've had to delete and recreate two discord servers because it's less work than deleting all messages. And then there are people who are only in the guild to take a screenshot of the member list and write to everyone personally. I've also heard rumors that people are being poached with real money. Or in-game items etc.

[@evolution031680]

You don’t need to know RPG etiquette to have pleasant social interactions. Boyfriend was rude as hell from the start.

[@Arudon117]

I love you Lucky!

[@marybdrake1472]

Seriously? Going to someone else's D&D game just to try an poach their players? How freaking dumb can you get?

[@TigerW0lf]

Yeah, there are few things that I can genuinely hear and think: "Are you actually that r$%#@%&^d?" Me thinks that this guy doesn't really use his brain as often as he should

[@marybdrake1472]

@@TigerW0lf Probably not.

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

I'm surprised he "admitted it" (sort of). Whenever I ask someone, point blank, if they really just did the thing they are currently doing, they'll say "No."

[@marybdrake1472]

@@Wendy_O._Koopa Yeah.

[@august3787]

Session 0 aint helpin that first story. That guy sounds like'd go around what he wants and game the system just for luls especially while DRUNK.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

It is also possible the DM just expected the new player to just guess how the game is played and the player got frustrated, because he kept guessing wrong. You know, like in those old point & click games that don't tell you that you needed an item until the last chance of getting it passed an hour ago.

[@Aja-e5j]

I had a character once who mistrusted guards after some bad experiences with corruption and racism But he would just be on his toes around them and maybe be a bit rude and ready for combat at all times Definitely not run away from the party and the general action

[@slagarcrue85]

Dm is partly at fault for the events in that first story:

[@GarkKahn]

The 3rd story isn't horror but i can relate to that Person A forces me to turn right and when i finally do Person B shows up and says that's bullsh1t demanding to make me turn left There's an old saying "You can't make everyone happy" right? *Sigh*

[@SillyEwe]

I hear dinosaurs in the second story and now I want a copy of the module. Which one is it and where can I get it?

[@TrueDarkSparda]

The haste-skip actually sounds like an interesting way to use the spell. Like, trying to convince the target that the spell isn't being cast by you, but your other magically inclined party members. Maybe caster's deception vs the target's insight or arcana?

[@PancakemonsterFO4]

Hahaha that was the dumbest poacher ever like he wasn´t even subtile about it

[@ketrava0425]

I always remember to like in comment because of the Like and comment kitties.

[@snappie4180]

Sorry to ask, but what is a "white claw"?

[@TornadoZX825]

it's a type of beer

[@AdmiralBlackstar]

It's a brand of hard seltzer from Canada and is the most popular brand of hard seltzer in the US. It used to be classed as beer, but the US' Customs and Border Protections petitioned to reclassify it as "other fermented beverages" due to it being basically in no way a beer and had been listed as such solely due to imported beer not having any tariffs on it.

[@GarkKahn]

I was wondering the same

[@garuelx8627]

I believe it's one of those sweet alcoholic drinks similar to wine coolers or hard soda.

[@rynowatcher]

2nd to last one (with the dm that skimmed op's back story): unless otherwise stated, the dm is not really obligated to tie in your backstory, or read it. The back story is to tie down into what they are about; it is for the player to make a personality. This is not a back door method to have pc's write a campaign... As someone who has been running games for years, a back story for most players boils down to a list of cool things they did and some implied powers that they have, ie their level 1fighter being the formal general of a nation. Most players do not really think about making a good story so much as getting to the next level as fast as possible, so I am going to side with the dm in this story that there was nothing there to make a reasonable story hook given that he did it for all other pc's. Op was just a terrible writer here.

[@Trauson]

In the end there is no good DnD story whidout feeling like people should massively chill with this game. If you want your perverted fantasies to be exposed write a book xd

[@thomasferris1905]

First red flag and the first story is a dude drinking white claw

[@spoonge6682]

The thumbnail reminds me of Alex Jones. “Kill the child, corrupt them all”

[@devcrom3]

How do you get drunk on White Claws?

[@slagarcrue85]

I would not want to be poisned our have really unstable bowls.

[@Spartacus547]

Do People really play d&d with strangers at their house? Why would you invite a potentially deranged psychopath possibly violent person you don't know to your game session just to fill a party slot?

[@cyberspinosaur1145]

I would die for Lucky

[@therealmaizing5328]

How on earth does casting Haste cause the target to lose their turn?

[@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong]

If you caste haste on a creature, then immediately end concentration on it (which you _can_ do RaW) the creature you cast it on automatically suffers the debuffs of the spell ending, which is being unable to move or take actions until after your next turn.

[@therealmaizing5328]

@@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong That's messed up. It shouldn't be possible to use beneficial spells that way.

[@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong]

@@therealmaizing5328 TBF, it's an extremely unintuitive way to use the spell that is mostly gonna be limited to trolling friends, since it requires the consent of the creature it's being casted on, and as mentioned in the vid, most people won't consent to a hostile party casting spells on them.

[@therealmaizing5328]

@@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong I haven't played D&D since 2nd edition, and haste never worked that way then. These days I play Pathfinder, and haste *still* doesn't work that way. It has a duration. Was this changed in 4th edition or 5th?

[@firstnamelastname7244]

@@therealmaizing5328 I think it was 5th, since that's when the concentration mechanic was introduced.

[@soullacerations]

Hey all. BRAND NEW TTRPG want-to-be player! I've come upon this channel, and some others, and I've REALLY wanted to do some on-line TTRPG, I was told PBP is what it's supposed to be? I have no clue. If anyone wants to help me, please message or something. Thanks!

[@FordPrefict42]

Sorry, Lucky! I will Like. I will Subscribe. But, there is no way you can get me to Commen... Nevermind

[@tobiaspause1775]

Nah, jugleburner wasnt that bad. I can totally see a character fed up with the jungle trying that. And the story was too short and the teasing too equil to really draw conclusions. Calling that player trash because of that is too harsh in my opinion. 3rd story (haste drama) is soo stupid. Skipping someones Turn because of some stupid rule technicality.. that would never work on my Table. If someone casts haste on an enemy here, that enemy says thanks and doublestrikes your balls. Because that is what makes sense. Change the Initiative stuff (or whatever started this) at the End of the Turn.

[@robertwildschwein7207]

🐈🐈

[@themadhacker9376]

comment for kitties!

[@ronturner3598]

Changeling is annoying AF for a PC.

[@aguyithink4119]

Why?

[@talkingwithadam812]

Doge

[@shirofokkusu]

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