Players Ruin DnD Over One Female Player | r/rpghorrorstories

In today's episode of RPG Horror Stories, we have a tale of a dungeons and dragons group bringing in a female player, only for over half the players to conspire against the other players, and turn the girl against them.

[@seto_kaiba_]

Those three incels would be rolling death saves irl if I was in this position.

[@sharkjumpingwalrus6744]

This is a horrific story. Text book manipulation, isolation tactics, and the complete 180 in personality when the desired pillow talk happened. I want to hit these guys, but I am legit freaked out at the idea of being in the same room as them. Nope. Nope. Nope. The Land of Ten Thousand Nopes.

[@ThatWTVGuy]

Wizard lost teeth? Man, I love stories with a happy ending.

[@dalejhunter1]

I'd call this more bittersweet, since this whole thing heavily affected Ranger to the point of not going back to the TTRPG hobby. As far as any of us know anyway.

[@marchmonarch1684]

I know most people don’t condone violence but I’m glad op dm and others pulled up on those three to give them a real life consequence to their disgusting actions

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

This event gets my approval. These effers were begging for it. And I'm glad they got it.

[@rynowatcher]

I mean, this is a white knight fantasy, so there were no real world consequences. Op thinks knuckles get cut from punching people because they hit teeth. I doubt he ever punched a person.

[@WTFisTingispingis]

Some guys deserve to get their fade run.

[@saverofthehumens]

Would've been treat to watch. Though nothing of value would've been lost if they got a bit carried away and.. didn't stop until the three of them stopped moving completely. What a shame that would've been, woe is me and all that.

[@rynowatcher]

@@saverofthehumens I mean, they are a fictional construct of op's minding a creative writing exercise. They died when the story ended, so I guess you got what you wanted? Did they have to say the words, "and then they all stood up and clapped" or was "15 of us got suspended for a random girl no one was close too" enough to tingle the spidey sense on this one?

[@raptoress6131]

Wizard is IRL like an evil charicature. What a psycho.

[@MusMasi]

glad he is missing some teeth.

[@travis7746]

The power of ✨talking about things without just making decisions based on information you received from one group of people✨is something I’ve seen almost nobody in any dnd horror story have

[@Karajorma]

I'd love to know what part of being an actual villain Wizard thought would work out well for him when hanging around people who spend their free time imagining hitting that sort of person.

[@paulman34340]

I know Karma will get that POS one day! It always does! This shits only going to make him more arrogant and assuming he's "Eric Cartman" immune to Karma! Thing is trying to be him in real life is a BAD idea because life isn't a TV SHOW! Status Quo will NOT reset at the "end of an episode!" Instead you have to "live with the shit you've done" and he will RUE when he "crosses the wrong one!" Sad that in order for that to happen...."another victim will have to happen" which is why I hope a victimless. And OP was too nice on the others! Even if they were influenced, they were still shit heads close to his level! I was once an easily lead around the nose idiot like "those younger guys" for a year when I was 13 and still look back at that point in my life with Cringe and "never again" so I'm not going to "go easy" because I knew what I was doing and had no regrets till the shittiness was SCARED OUT OF ME (Almost suffered CONSEQUENCES that scared me straight! Happy at least it happened BEFORE I SERIOUSLY hurt someone as I'd have NEVER forgave myself if I did BEFORE the shocker)

[@TheScorpion0081]

The worst thing about it is not only that thoose fatherless bastards kill Ranger's interest in TTRPGs, but also killed a good friendship between her, DM, and OP. More or less lumped the entire hobbie and all involved in the same boat, with the shit stains as the norms despite KNOWING OTHERWISE! I'm with OP. If I met them personally, I'd likely be in prison for life.

[@AmaryInkawult]

I already planned the burial

[@retaliaterguitar2]

​@AmaryInkawult don't waste the wood or the dirt. Plenty of gator out yonder boys, let's make it happen cowboy

[@WTFisTingispingis]

​@@retaliaterguitar2Nah fam, find a pig farm.

[@AmaryInkawult]

@@retaliaterguitar2 I never said it was for their deaths. 😈

[@retaliaterguitar2]

@@AmaryInkawult I did

[@dracone4370]

Something I think could be fun would be fun to see is Doge putting up character sheets for each of his cats, as Taboxi, and showing them off as basically an entire party, complete with images of the actual cats as the profile images for the character sheets. We already know Lucky would likely be a Bard, but what about the rest of Doge's cats? What classes would they be? What class archetypes would they be? I think Doge might have a bit of fun with it, and he could show them of around Christmas, if doing so for Halloween would be too soon.

[@afunnymans]

Simba would definitely be a cleric

[@dracone4370]

@@afunnymans Would Ziggy be a Paladin or a Monk? Doge often likes to use him as the introspective one, so I think Ziggy would be a Monk.

[@BlackRainRising]

Lucky would be the bard

[@swallowed103]

Lucky and Alice would be Bards I feel, Simba I think a Monk for his "Meditations" and Ziggy... a Wizard he's such an intellectual. Nipsy is the mystery one to me... given he sounds like he's speaking in Eldrich languages I'll wager a warlock.

[@dracone4370]

@@swallowed103 That is so fun; Lucky and Alice could be different kinds of bards, for more coverage and diversity. It looks like Doge is going to have plenty to work off of once he gets down to actually making the character sheets for each of his cats.

[@corrinbielawski8035]

Wizard seriously sounds like the sort of guy that's going to end up as a news story.

[@mentalrebllion1270]

I am noticing a lot of skepticism. Let me tell you something from a female perspective then. This shit? It happens and the scary part is that it can happen just like this. Could this still be fabricated? Sure! Does that make this story less likely to have happened exactly as op wrote? No. Sadly it doesn’t. I’ve had guys who tried to pull this shit on me. I’ve also had guy friends that are as good as the OP in here, who go out of their way, once they are aware of it, to beat the crap out of the bad guys and protect their friend. There is guys just as bad as the ones here in this story, but luckily, there is guys just as good as the ones in this story. I do hope the girl eventually allowed herself to play dnd again. Who knows, maybe with the pandemic she took it up again online like a good chunk of us did. I can only hope that she was able to recover and eventually maybe enjoy the hobby she once had so much hope for.

[@mojpiesto]

The reason why this seems fake is not because a woman was taken advantage of, it's the strangely satisfying happy ending, the assholes getting stitches, having to move out etc. It also has serious internal consistency issue - wizard knew the barb and rogue were interested so he got them involved, but suspected op and DM may be as well but THEY get singled out? It just makes no sense and reads too much like a revenge fanfic. I don't think people doubt such people exist, but the story itself reeks of bullshit

[@fernan2342]

​@@mojpiestothe good guys were even fighting bullying at school to defend kids outside the group. The wholesomeness, then injustice from the clearly bad guys, the OP that didn't even noticed that Ranger was attractive and a catch, the happy end...

[@belgarath6388]

@@fernan2342 I'm sorry what? Why the heck would Op "notice that ranger was attractive and a catch"? And what the heck does that have to do with the validity of the story? Also he has (i presume still) a GIRLFRIEND, and the GM had just got out of a bad relationship. Maybe, just maybe that could've had something to with them not getting clued in on Wizards and co scheme? Not to mention that THIS exact story is literally the strategy of predators and groomers, isolating the individual from their friends, convince them they can only trust the predator and ultimatly control them.

[@fernan2342]

@@belgarath6388 I don't know about you but from the moment I lay eyes on someone, I can assess if someone is attractive or not (even with me being straight and the other person male). I like how he can classify the other people as "alpha" and one others as susceptible but he can't see that the Ranger is charismatic, social, artistic, easy going and other characteristics that would impress anyone. in the meantime, the good guys are doing nothing wrong, being super nice with people who betrayed them and even putting money of their own pockets to these events. I'm putting too much energy into this by writing all these shit, maybe I'm just an asshole skeptical to reddit stories. Anyway, you're right about manipulation method.

[@belgarath6388]

@@fernan2342 That's not what i asked. The question was, what does her attractiveness have to do with the validity of the story? Whether Op mentioned her attractiveness or not would'nt change the story. And as far as i see it, happy endings to stories like these dont often get told because they're the exception. In most cases when situations like this happens it dont end to well and who the heck would talk about that?

[@RagnarokAvatar]

Violence isn't the answer. It's a question, and the answer is F-CK YES!!!!!!

[@laraprisma6381]

Bro, my sister was talking about this just now!😂

[@Spartan135]

You can't spell slaughter without laughter!

[@Jakepearl13]

Violence? YES.

[@witchhillgames6194]

I can't count how many shit heads I have run into over my year of Running games. Shit like this happens. I don't know if they really beat the dudes up or not, I hope so but dudes getting girls into games for nefarious reasons, was a real thing when I was growing up in the 90's. Maybe not to the point of a cabal or horny dudes trying to pass a girl around, but a conspiracy to help their friend sleep with the 1 girl in the group. At least one of those instances is a horror story of its own involving tricking a girl into getting pregnant so that "She could never leave him." using a sabotaged condom.

[@brittanyrevia2542]

I was lured into my first 2 games for nefarious reasons. The first DM wanted access to my little sister (who was 7 years old at the time). The second DM wanted me to join his cult harem. It took me a long time before I played again.

[@BiigBean]

Things like these always piss me off in a way nothing ever can. I don’t understand how other dudes can just use a living being like that? It genuinely breaks my heart that some people have to go through such horrible things.

[@morgandollar73]

Men and women use one another all the time to get what they want it's sad and enraging but it's a truth of humanity in the end some of us strive to be better others are just pieces of shit

[@brittanyrevia2542]

I have so much empathy for Ranger. Ranger likely felt like she couldn't go to OP and DM. Consider it from her point of view: She had 3 trusted friends saying the same thing; if what they're all saying is true, she's at significant risk. Best case scenario, OP and DM deny everything; worst case scenario, they drug and assault her. I don't blame her for trying to stay safe with the information she had at the time; she couldn't have known that these three "witnesses" who approached her to warn her about her safety had nefarious intentions and a vested interest in destabilizing her ability to trust her support system. I'm glad things were handled in the end, but I'm so sad she was put through that first. That's a trauma that lingers.

[@v1de0gamr23]

Now, consider it from your own point of view: if three people that you only recently befriended started telling you, out of the blue and with no evidence, that somebody who's been a trusted friend of yours for years has "intentions" with you, would you just instantly swallow it hook, line, and sinker, without a moment's doubt, like Ranger did according to the story? If the answer is yes, then you don't deserve to call that person your friend 👍

[@Floweramon]

@@v1de0gamr23 Ranger and OP weren't friends for years, they were acquaintances and classmates and only started becoming friends shortly before she joined the game. It was OP and the rest of the group who had been friends for years, which makes what Wizard and the others did even worse. EDIT: Also she didn't immediately believe Wizard, this was after months of Wizard, Barbarian, and Rogue all simultaneously gaslighting her.

[@מעיןצבר-ה9מ]

such a cruel thing to do to someone else, isolating her like that

[@gr_pillar]

Those guys have Self- control. I'd be in prison.

[@supercoolmaniajon265]

These creeps sound like the kind of people Drake would take great joy in tearing into. Verbally AND physically. I kinda wanna see what he thinks of this now... Considering how he is he'll probably be suspicous of OP too.

[@cgathunder2]

So for all the skepticism. Take note this was clearly in the 80's or 90's and took place in New Jersey or New York... Honestly, pretty believable at that point. And it seems like this was e-mailed directly to Doge from someone in their 40's/50's with a fairly eloquent writing style. Just sayin'

[@CmdrRenegade]

From NJ here. Very believable.

[@v1de0gamr23]

Den of the Drake has a video on his channel titled "The Worst Story I've Ever Read." At the end of that video, he discusses a formula that fake rpg horror stories seem to often use. This story checks off a lot of those same boxes.

[@Thepopcornator]

What epic-level scumbags. They literally saw ‘woman’ and thought ‘toy for me.’ Glad they got what was coming to them.

[@blesper3415]

After thinking about this during a break at work today, I've changed my mind from it's probably an embellished story to it didn't happen at all. Sadly, the only realistic part is some scumbag taking advantage of a woman. The rest is just too fictitious to be true. The MC's crew were all attractive and great at art, but specifically different styles to make them more unique. The villains irl physical descriptions matched the class they were playing and were not attractive looking. OP couldn't talk to Ranger despite sharing art classes with her. OP bought minis for the other players and dm while also performing vigilante justice against bullies on the side. 13 strangers fighting someone they don't know after overhearing a conversation in the school parking lot. A perfect ending with an amazing decade long game consisting of rotating dms being established by op and dm, but dm being transferred elswhere and falling out of touch so you can't collaborate the story with him.

[@Kanaleah]

The aspects of the girl being manipulated, being taken advantage of and made to distrust her friends are all believable and the inevitable spiraling out of control that followed for her, but there are a few points in the story I find odd in addition. The best lies are truths with missing information, and that is the easiest way to manipulate someone. I think there was some truth to the OP and DM actually being attracted to and wanting to sleep with the girl. I think it's probable they made comments behind her back about it. I don't think the OP actually ever conspired to take advantage of her, but I really doubt OP and DM were totally innocent in that regard. Then the ending, as others have commented, has a "and then everyone clapped" feel to it. The Ranger comes off as having zero sense of responsibility for herself - she chose to have sex with the manipulative guy, after all. He betrayed her trust but wasn't worthy of her trust to begin with. It's extremely unwise to escalate to sex that quickly with someone for exactly this reason, but maybe she was young and stupid, I know I was once upon a time. I've literally never heard of or seen a guy getting beaten up for taking advantage of a girl like that without the ones committing violence being blood relatives of the girl.

[@REfan2002]

The council of incels became the council of wimps.

[@MusMasi]

usually both go hand in hand.

[@tylercoddington1990]

I kinda miss you covering glory stories, have you thought about doing them again?

[@manegirl93416]

*checks calendar* It's not Friday yet.

[@ZamielVanWeber]

I have glory stories I should share on the subreddit just in case he does GSF again.

[@vampire9545]

Wow not only AHs but sexual predators

[@vortega472]

Oh, little Lucky, so handsome and such a voice - he's a charmer our Lucky is. No wonder only a single story today, poor Ranger. I've heard similar stories of guys acting like this to girls. And I have to admit I was out of line with one of my female players (not like this) and I regret those actions. Hope she is happy and has a hobby that she can enjoy.

[@Danielmontalvo88]

This is such a mastabatory good-guy manga-esque fantasy.

[@v1de0gamr23]

Totally

[@loomingdeath1758]

Im glad allot of us know this story seems to be fake. If drake would have read this he would've tore this story apart calling out how much bullshit it is.

[@mikeyfisher4256]

Ngl, shame Wizard, Barb and Rogue survived the ass whoopin.

[@dalejhunter1]

Feel like this story wouldn't be shared (unless prisons allowed computer access, which at least in my area, they don't) if OP got sent to prison for three cases of murder.

[@Xylarxcode]

This is not gonna be a popular take, but fuck it. Stories like these always wake the skeptic in me. It just all sounds so... onesided. OP and friend are the obvious awesome good guys who can do no wrong while Wizard and friends are so evil, it almost veers into cartoonish levels of villainy, while Ranger plays the helpless damsel in distress and the general layout of the story as it's told here just sounds like a paint-by-number story of good guys vs bad guys. I don't question that parts of this story are real and that the gist of it is true, but the details don't really seem to add up. It's all too neat and convenient. In real life, situations are almost never this black and white and definitely don't wrap up with a satisfying ending like that. Sure, the friendship between OP and Ranger is ruined, but the beatdown he put on Wizard just sounds so farfetched. Like I'm watching a cheap, poorly made lifetime movie that wants to impart the lessons of rape, mistreatment and bullying on us, but in a very heavyhanded way and I'm having a hard time buying it. It feels like OP exaggerated the story to make themselves and their friend look better and cooler than what they likely were in the real scenario and Wizard likely wasn't as bad as they're painted out to be. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe every word of it is true. But it doesn't FEEL true, from how it's written. It feels like a glory piece that strokes the author's ego, more than anything. I'm calling it exaggerated and made up in parts, with only some of this happening as described, but most of it was probably nowhere near as dramatic. I'll never know for sure, but that's my take on it. I imagine it won't be a popular one, but there it is.

[@greeninja5991]

The part about "recruiting more toys" and passing her arround sounds made up, also if she was convinced that op was lusting after her is hard to believe unless op had some shady behavior that he's not admitting, people don't change opinions about their friends just from hearsay

[@rollanddev]

But duuuude! The OP ended up getting like, stitches. From someone's broken teeth! That's gotta be real, how do you fake stitches?! Seriously though, most of these stories are exaggerated at the very least. As they say, history is written by the victors. Or nowadays, history is written by whoever has a reddit account and a fragile ego that needs bolstering. I'm looking forward to hearing a story where the OP did some dumb shit as well. You don't ever really hear about "I'm the one who ruined the campaign" or "I wound up kicked out of the group because I was the dickbag, not them". Not even "I wasn't the person this story is about but I also acted like a jerk". Always "He was racist and homophobic and got violent and physical with everyone plus he was like a total neckbeard with a natural armor of cheeto crumbs AND I heard he drowned a puppy once. In-between our donating to the homeless and building a new orphanage for the local kids after the last one burnt down (we suspect it was problem-player's doing!) we HEROICALLY confronted him and SAVED the local populace from his evil, nefarious, TWISTED intentions! May the bards sing of our heroism for ages to come!"

[@icecreamnoodles3742]

Could be fake. Sure. But could also very much be real sadly. This isn't as unlikely as you guys seem to think. There is another comment explaining this really well from a womans perspective. She put it way better than I ever could and I'm really glad she did because I felt the same way hearing this retelling.

[@Xylarxcode]

@@rollanddev I do take most of the stories on here with a grain of salt, but most of the exaggerations and grandtalking is usually confined to a certain limit, so I don't bother to point it out. This one is overflowing with it and I'm not sure I buy most of it. I believe the core of the story. There are a lot of details and it reads like something that could have happened to a real person, at its core. The main events either really happened or he spent a good amount of time making sure enough details lined up to make it look like a real story, before he blew it out of proportion. Since the former is easier, I'm inclined to believe the main parts of it really happened. But the details sound very exaggerated and blown way out of proportion. In my experiences, life doesn't work that way. This is how people act in movies; not real life.

[@Xylarxcode]

@@icecreamnoodles3742 See, I wanna believe this is real. Honestly, I do. But the way it's written raises so many red flags in my head and triggers a lot of my 'hold up, this doesn't check out' warnings. I believe the gist of the story. The core of it is probably true and sadly probably did happen. The surrounding details, maybe not so much. It's written like a self glorifying puff piece and reeks of white knighting. There is always the possibility, however slim, that everything happened exactly as described, but based on my own experiences and having seen some shit, I rather doubt it. Everyone has seen shit and it's different for all of us, so it colours our views and makes us see the world differently, but I'm putting a lot of question marks and doubts on a lot of the details here. The fight, the cry session, the blatant 'we did nothing wrong and we're cool guys' reassurances that he keeps smacking us over the head with, the almost over the top evil way the villain of the story acts. It just doesn't feel like a real thing. I believe parts of it actually happened and parts of it are greatly exaggerated either to make the story more engaging and entertaining or to boost the author's own ego and I'm inclined the believe the latter, due to the excessive way he wants to make use believe he's the good guy. It comes across as so excessive that he needs us to think he's the hero who valiantly fought for the girl in need that it borders on unbelievable.

[@gazblackheart4596]

She was a dumbass for listening to people she just met over a long time friend that had never shown any signs of being that way before the campaign especially with absolutely no proof besides their word. Thats probably the most unbelievable part of this story. Also how could the original group not ever have noticed any signs of the other guys being complete freaks before now? None of this makes any sense to me.

[@jamesgotchall7205]

Nobody should have to put with this kind of abuse. If players are acting like this in my games, I'd outright kick them out as soon as someone informed me this going on. DnD for me is clean, and safe for everyone.

[@monikasernek1177]

How was the wizard guy raised? Did offbrand corroded his brain? What the hack was wrong with him?

[@rollanddev]

He suffers from I-am-posting-a-story-on-reddit-and-need-to-embellish-details-to-make-myself-sound-better-odds-are-there's-both-more-and-less-to-the-real-story. It's a debiltating condition that mostly manifests in storytime channel stories.

[@monikasernek1177]

@@rollanddev I remember one reddit story where a woman asked for help because the neighbors adult daughter was yelling at them with a megaphone when their baby was crying and nobody believed her - until an update came and it was revealed to be a real thing.

[@rollanddev]

@@monikasernek1177 I was told once that there are only grey squirrels in my town. But then I saw a black one. It is clear my town only contains black squirrels. My point is, what's yours? We're talking about this story. Your story turning out to be true doesn't make every story on reddit true.

[@monikasernek1177]

@@rollanddev I want to make sure there is a possibility that SOME stories are true. Your comment made it sound like you don't believe in anything posted online. Which can be a dangerous mindset, but on the other hand - some people make up shit.

[@rollanddev]

@@monikasernek1177 I mean, we are talking about the story we're talking about here. There's a difference between "So, this thing happened..." and "I fought off the bad guys (who are TOTALLY into torching kittens and orphanages!) and everyone applauded me and the mayor gave me the keys to the city." It's far more dangerous a mindset to consider everything valid and correct. Taking what you read online with a grain of salt and keeping a decent amount of skepticism when a story sounds sus is important. Don't get me wrong, I get where you're coming from, and I agree. But there's a flip-side to that coin, too. :P

[@markmayhew9259]

All I could think at the end was "And everyone clapped" 🙄

[@mark9960]

Glad I'm not the only one.

[@theimperviousfirecracker7934]

I felt a rupture in my very sanity when you pronounced Manga like "Main-ga"

[@thedungeondelver]

Did any of you ever see the bugs bunny cartoon where a character falls for something so unbelievably dumb their head morphs into a giant sucker? Anyone buying this, that's you right now. Think about this being said in Doge's (terrible) "deep" voice. "I GOT TEN STITCHES ON MY HAND. THE COPS WERE CALLED. FIFTEEN SUSPENSIONS. TEETH WERE KNOCKED OUT FOR M'LADY'S HONOR."

[@travis7746]

As someone from Jersey, hearing Doge say “Po-keepsee” was really funny

[@ivancybran]

And then everyone clapped. Can't help but get that vibe from this story

[@Violenceinmind40]

Same

[@akmi1931]

Yeah, always confront people, if just to get both sides story on the record.

[@nothing_82]

I want more songs from Lucky, such a lovely voice. He shares his name with my 8 year-old clover plant.

[@robertdirenzo1827]

This is the worst horror story I've ever heard, and it has very little to do with D&D.

[@thephantomspectator407]

So, Lucky is a Bard, I'd guess Simba is some kind of Paladin, with the "Super Simba Close-ups" plus chanting, but what are Nipsie, Ziggy, and Alice's player classes?😸 (Only discovered the channel recently, and been subscribed and obsessively binge-watching ever since!)

[@shadiafifi54]

So does that mean Doge should stat up his kitties as a D&D party? I fully agree!!

[@thephantomspectator407]

@@shadiafifi54 A full party of chaotic "Tabaxi" players?! Look me in the eye and tell me you can think of a better recipe for highly entertaining, madcap DnD shenanigans!😸😂

[@hunterkessell6070]

The more and more this story drags on, i am becoming quite suspicious that this story is very reversed. OP (and possibly DM, but likely the DM is a made up character so that op isn't the only "hero") was the creep. The story likely ended when Ranger and the others formed their own group and everything after that is just a work of fiction to discredit everyone else.

[@philip1557]

If it weren't fornthe fact that people headed them condescending to it then it would sound like OP and the DM, and the others were manipulated by her

[@DragoRaRaRa]

Honestly im with OP on this one. Nothing teaches a life lesson like a few missing teeth.

[@nekomancer47]

Bullying is never okay. Unless it’s done to assholes like these.

[@mellsc9412]

Doge, I love you, but I disagree with you on one point; While it’s good to bring up rumors and the like to clear them up, in that situation Ranger most likely felt physically unsafe. As a woman/AFAB person, it can very risky to be confrontive at all with people who see you as an object, especially if you’re outnumbered. Sometimes the safest and/or best thing to do is just remove yourself from that situation entirely. If Ranger had brought it up with them, she very well may have been afraid that they’d hurt her.

[@ElishaFollet]

But wait, wasn't it stated that the ranger and the dm were long time friends? And that the three incels were noobs that she just met? I get she might not have felt safe being around the three incels before hand but why would she be so skeptical of her own friend whom she knew far longer than she knew the other guys? If she was smart she would have tried to talk to her friend first about those three, doing so probably would have prevented her from being in danger

[@mellsc9412]

@@ElishaFollet the person who hurt me I knew for years and was a family friend. I felt safe with him up till the point that it happened. People who have tried things are people I’ve been friends with previously but turned out to want more. Sometimes the best call is just to get out.

[@ElishaFollet]

@@mellsc9412 just because it happened with you doesn't automatically mean that everyo should just abandon a long time friend the moment three strangers start saying crap about them, if anything I think you made the right choice to check things out first instead of just insta bailing like a crappy person because now you know for sure that the dude you trusted is no longer trustworthy and should be avoided

[@mellsc9412]

@@ElishaFollet well, I agree bailing on long time friendships sucks, and I wouldn’t do it lightly, but in this situation she had multiple people verifying the story. It was different for me, because I was a child, but I used it as an example. However, 5 AFAB friends/family members of mine have had experiences like that as teens/adults, and many more acquaintances have mentioned harassment in passing. These are things you just have to be aware of and keep in mind. There are too many stories of someone not listening and being assaulted. Edit to add that the trauma that can come from being assaulted can cost more than the grief of losing a friendship. To me, the lingering feelings of betrayal and struggle to trust are very much not worth sticking in a situation like that.

[@johnnnysaint01]

Hope you and your family are doing well

[@rynowatcher]

It kind of had an "and then everyone stood up and clapped" ending... 👏 out of 5.

[@AnimalDelos]

Hearing that the one story took place in Poughkeepsie just makes me think of the Poughkeepsie Tapes horror... movie? film? documentary? Whatever it was...

[@MatthewCenance]

0:11 "...over half of them become disgusting pigs..." have you heard of the term "pigroach" yet?

[@EJFF.]

Men do much worse than this yet somehow people think that this story is fake 💀

[@AN6_Miro]

Thats not why people think its fake. 3 seemingly normal dudes turning out to be misogynistic scumbags is believable. "15 people, most of which had no prior involvement in anything before that, got suspended for heroically beating the shit out of them" and "girl has more trust in said 3 dudes she barely knows outside of DnD than her actual friend and the DM she bonded with prior to the campaign" that feel... questionable at best. The latter alone i could potentially see depending on the circumstances, but in combination with that "And everyone clapped" ending it reads more like a dramatised narrative than an actual real account of events. The story is, at minimum, puffed up to be more entertaining and/or make OP sound like a cooler guy than he actually is, and at worst entirely fictional. The fact that incels exist doesnt mean that every reddit story that invokes the word is actually true lol.

[@MiracleMomo]

This one made me cry.

[@saganmantis1699]

My cat orbit heard Lucky's song and joined in

[@Masenken]

OP had a missed Batman opportunity to rearrange some bones

[@shadiafifi54]

Well, he _did_ break a few of Barbarian's teeth, and who knows if he landed a few blows on Wizard. Plus, these guys seem like high schoolers, not badass martial artists.

[@MusMasi]

he got some teeth though

[@Masenken]

That he did, and it's rare to read about a group of nerds throwing hands, so it was satisfying, all said, that they dealt with the problem

[@BalbazaktheGreat]

Well, that was quite the story.

[@davariusjessup3943]

The game was brought to a swift and sudden end even though you, OP, provided space, paid for snacks, defended the weak, and were all around saints. Yet strangely no one wanted to be around you or play in your game. At the same time you thought Ranger was just suddenly no interested in your friendship. Didn't you ever question her SUDDEN change of heart? The entire time. It was I. WIZARD!!! And in this mask off moment I will monologue to you both how I orchestrated all of these events and show you just how evil I was and will tell you of my unfinished plans...

[@loomingdeath1758]

Welp this story coming from reddit. XD hard to believe. So we all have to make our decision whether we believe it happened or not. Edit: If you take the word of strangers whom you just met over your real friend whom you known years for. Yeah you are just as bad as they were. I can't 100% feel bad for ranger if the story is true cause in a sense she did bring that on herself. Also this really does scream fake sounds like op watched too much anime when he wrote this.

[@greeninja5991]

I have a hunch that op has embellished the story At first is believable up until the party splits but it's kinda sus that she changed her judgment on op based solely on what the other players told her, made me feel like there was something more that op wasn't saying then the whole second part is downright cartoonish, the line about "Recruiting more toys" is just soo Cliché, and then the bad guys get beaten up by arround 15 people and the only damage that op takes is from the broken teeth of one of the beaten guys, the protagonist doesn't get hit but still gets a cool scar (also 10 stitches? Did he slice his foreman?) My theory is that op was a creep and wrote this fanfic after they dropped him

[@blesper3415]

I even have suspicions about the start of the story, with how op described the villian's players as real world stereotypes that perfectly matched the class they were playing. Barbarian was huge and dumb, rogue was quiet and plotting, Wizard was the masterind etc.

[@Pyrrha312]

Yea, the story claims 3 incels, when it's either one or four of them.

[@isotetra1912]

OMG YOUR CAT IS SO CUTEEEE WTF

[@tmacm2237]

Wizard got what he deserved.

[@lessoriginal]

Lucky rolled a nat 20 on their performance check x)

[@commonskoomaenjoyer]

Something about this story feels like a fabrication

[@v1de0gamr23]

I love how the majority of the comments section is basically just this over and over again: Random Person: "This story sounds made up, or at the very least embellished." Random Other Person: "Uh, women really do get treated like sexual objects all the time! How DARE you imply that women are never, ever treated this way by saying that this story might not be gospel truth! You must be just as bad as that trio of bad guys in this 100%-factually-true story!" Y'all do realize that, according to that same (complete lack of) logic, Amber Heard must have been telling the truth all along, because there really are women out there who get beaten by their husbands. You *do* realize that, don't you?

[@1kokokala10]

I'venever so deeply hated someon that I've never met but damn if Wizard and his friends didn't accomplish that. I hate people that ruin D&D for others but this takes it to a whole other level becasue they also ruined a good friendship. I wish nothing but the worst for those 3.

[@WaveShock007]

No joke I rolled a d20 after lucky's song and rolled a nat20

[@TigerW0lf]

Hope they got arrested after this bullshit for another incident

[@v1de0gamr23]

...and then everybody stood up and clapped 🙄

[@mariusien5366]

I likes that cat. It said mjau!

[@auralynpaisley-ellis6505]

The more I listen the mroe terrified I get about what’s going to happen…

[@Shredius]

They got what they deserved. But that girl wasn't an amazing friend, since the took the word of 3 guys she barely knew at face value and put herself in danger. I hope she learned from this.

[@lorddreemurr]

Bruh, that twists my stomach

[@BlueTressym]

Ranger probably didn't confront DM and OP because after what the Three Bastards told her, she was SCARED! Does anyone really think that in her position, if they were a woman, confronting two dudes when you'd been told they had plans to do awful things to you would seem like a good plan?

[@ElishaFollet]

Considering the fact her and the dm were friends and they barely knew the three incels, yes, because I would have far more trust in a friend I've known for a while then some word of mouth from a bunch of strangers I've just barely met.

[@DarthRic_]

I wonder how many people believe this work of fiction actually happened.

[@cryptopsyrin4425]

Story seems fake af

[@greeninja5991]

Feels like op was being creepy to ranger and when his players dropped him he wrote this as some sort of revenge

[@MusMasi]

@@greeninja5991 pretty pointless revenge unless hes satisfied to have revenge only in his imagination.

[@rollanddev]

@@MusMasi You're... new to the internet, aren't you...? :P

[@vegeta002]

@@MusMasi That's generally how fanfiction works; it doesn't have any real effect except to make the writer/readers feel better. At the end of the day, reality is still real and the fic will simply fade away with time. That said, there _are_ people in real life who think and act the way the antagonists of the story are portrayed.

[@ShinyAvalon]

@@greeninja5991 - Here's a more realistic (therefore sadder) possibility: it all happened as OP said, _except_ that wizard never had his villain monologue to Ranger. He just seduced and abandoned her, and bragged about his scheme later to other guys. OP informed Ranger, but she never trusted _any_ of them again. It wasn't the three aggressors who left the school, but Ranger, who still believes OP and the DM might have been just as scuzzy as the three chuds. There might have actually been a fight, but it was much more even-sided, with no satisfaction for anyone. The fictional parts, then, would be Ranger learning the real truth (real villains seldom actually admit it), and the mass school attack on the douchenozzles - OP only _wished_ he could have arranged such a suitable punishment. At least, that's _my_ fanfiction reworking of the story. None of us will ever know the truth, and I really _hope_ it happened just as OP said, but anyone who feels too cynical to trust it can have this version free of charge.

[@Deadbird4242]

That story is so fake. Way too ‘clean’ in its execution. Also the end, 100 percent the cops would be involved. I mean this is way beyond just a normal school fight. This would mean 100 percent it would have made it into the newspaper. Great story, just total bs.

[@Gaymer53497]

I don’t know if you know this but I have a friend

[@Gaymer53497]

What I did back there was using word suggestions

[@TheonlyMaskedMime]

​@@Gaymer53497tricky tricky

[@Nomorehero07]

That is one of the worst DND horror stories I've heard.

[@informitas0117]

This has to be fake.

[@GuiPaim]

Geez, this one was tough.

[@GoranAkuto]

As bad as that story was. I still love it when people misuse the word incel and continually throw it around as if they know the definition of the word inside and out. The 3 in the story sound like scumbags. But they were not incels by far. 1st off they would have to have been in online websites or messangers or some kind of online community. Which is not the case. 2nd they would they would have had to consider themselves unable to attract the other person sexually or even romantically. And clearly that wasn't the case since one of them dated and got in her pants. And 3rd would have been hostile towards men and women who are sexually active. This is textbook definition of the word incel. As for the 3rd part of the word confuses me a little if it means the incel is hostile to the people who are sexually active, or the incel is hostile and sexually active to the other person, or hostile to the other person who is sexually active. I have no idea. The 3rd part of the definition in my opinion was not clear thoroughly clear enough for me to understand. But clearly the scumbags in this story don't hit at least 2 of the 3 marks for the definition for the word incel. However these people did have very foul and manipulation manners here. I did enjoy hearing the part where the fight broke out. THAT sounded like D&D come to life against a trio of bandits and made sure never to return again.

[@swallowed103]

I'm not usually the kind of person to lose temper and get angry... but listening to this story made my blood boil in my veins. The Fires of Avernus would have felt cold. The treatment of the Poor girl was absolutely appalling. It's downright criminal. I don't Condone violence... but in this situation the three Sociopaths got what they had coming to them. And frankly I feel they deserved soo much more. Expulsion, jail time, small town justice maybe but damn... woman should never be put through something like this. They are precious people. Not toys, not conquests, not someone's hand-me-down... Grrr!

[@moonfolkrapid]

Yep, this is a fake story. Stuff like that happens, but not to the author of this fanfic level story.

[@psyivy9169]

as a woman that has dealt with a lot of creepy guys and abuse in my life, this story reeks of fake karma bait. it flows like a completely fabricated story, invented by a teenager. yes some women deal with stuff "like this" that doesn't do anything to change the fact this reads like fanfiction. The people arguing that it doesn't matter if its fake or not, because "this happens all the time" are huffing copium, and need to get some experience with real world interactions. not everything you read on reddit is true.

[@jc-9188]

People be high on that copium 😂😂😂

[@Kanaleah]

Definitely agreed. The most believable part of the story is that Wizard was a dirt bag. The OP makes himself suspiciously more innocent than I would expect if it were real, and throws around terms like "incel" to describe a guy that... manipulated a girl into sleeping with him. The OP also says it happened over a decade ago from when it was originally posted, so OP feels a little too old to be casually throwing that word around. If it did happen, my first guess is OP is a bit less innocent than he's letting on. He says he had a girlfriend but she figures so little into the story that it strikes me as suspicious in conjunction to how he talks about the girl in the story. My second would be that no way those three boys were attacked and beaten by a dozen guys on purely hearsay at that very moment. If the Ranger's 6'6" football-playing brother came down and beat the crap out of the Wizard and his friends, that would be considerably more believable. Unless the guy was doing something really horrible in public in the moment (something that would get him in prison for years or decades), there's no way it would end the way OP described.

[@kamildebosz1336]

Thse guys, ye, thos are real Incels,

[@CooperAATE]

Hello, Doge! 1st

[@isthatyouman09]

Never played D&D before but I am hooked on these stories. I might give the game a go if I get the chance!

[@ieatpeopleand]

Same.

[@lyudmilapavlichenko7551]

I've been playing/ DMing for over 30 years and the best advice I can give is find the right group to play with. Nothing can kill your enthusiasm like starting with a crappy group. Good luck adventures.

[@alarkhar]

A little word of advice, if I may: don't necessarily stidk to D&D - there are tons of games out there, and you might find one that you like even more than it. For example, I'm a die-hard fan of Champions, while a friend of mine is 100% for Call of Cthulhu and another won't even consider anything that is not Warhammer Fantasy... just to name three.

[@isthatyouman09]

@@lyudmilapavlichenko7551 wow, that many years of experience would most likely make for a fun campaign! My most practical option at this point would try an online session for the moment. Still need to see if the game shops near me run DND Nights. Thank you so much.

[@isthatyouman09]

@@alarkhar Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to do some research and see what is out there. Maybe one of them will help me understand mechanics easier. Though different game to game- I'm sure there are core mechanics most share.

[@Bladezeromus]

I can't ever condone violence in response to a situation where violence isn't being threatened against you or being inflicted on you. Wizard an his cronies are scumbags, but running someone down and throwing hands over this is such Captain- Save- A Hoe energy that if one of my boy's called me up over this id have to tell he's on his own with that.