Insane DM RUINS D&D Campaign for his... Fursona DMPC? - RPG Horror Stories

[@deathtocheetos]

"this is dnd and you could be literally anything" I just want to play a financially stable human with a decent sleep schedule....

[@kevinewer1914]

Well, that sounds like a fantasy I want to live in.

[@samiamtheman7379]

That phrase makes me wonder if it's the same group from this one CritCrab video.

[@Orphin]

That's animal crossing. But AC also has " friends that act as a support system and invite me to do stuff even if I'm feeling down"

[@realdragon]

"You can be anything why are you human?" Because I can be anything including human

[@1bucketcrusader834]

infinite iq

[@TheNormExperience]

Right? Like the answer is in the question...

[@numanuma250]

Bingo. If I wanna play a human fighter with the soldier background, I can do that. How "normal" or lacking in fantasy elements my character is doesn't indicate my creativity

[@samiamtheman7379]

That phrase actually makes me wonder if it's the same furry group from one of CritCrab's videos.

[@thunderflare59]

The DM could not have been human to reject snuggles from a cat girl.

[@ArcmageZaln]

"if its not MY DMPCs turn, then I don't care about it. lets just get the backstories out of the way so we can get back to ME." This is how i feel like he was thinking.

[@semi_systematic_vods]

"Why is he human? This is dnd and you could be literally anything you want". Had my own partner ask me something similar as when I get to play (forever dm), I enjoy playing phb races or phb-adjacent races, excluding like dragon born. I don't really have a reason. I just enjoy it. And that's okay.

[@lordinquisitor6233]

Agreed, Any character irrespective of race can be compelling as long as the character is interesting. While I personally always go either elf or something, sometimes I just make stuff depending on what art I find

[@allenyates3469]

I only allow humans lol. Everyone freaks out a little when they hear that but then we start playing and they get it. I lean into the trope of mortal humans struggling in a world of magic monsters rather than magic monsters flying, teleporting and shooting lasers everywhere

[@DrPluton]

@@allenyates3469 I've always wanted to run a game where everybody plays one race. My thought is mountain dwarves who have lost their kingdom in war and decide to adventure together to someday afford enough mercenaries to recover their birthright from the orcs who conquered it. I could also see it done with humans.

[@allenyates3469]

@@DrPluton check out the movie "dwarves of dragon mountain". It's slow and cheesy but it's about dwarves trapped in a mine with a monster so it's cool lol

[@tuomasronnberg5244]

"Anything you say? Very well, my character is a sea urchin floating in an aquarium filled with piss and propped up on four ten feet poles. He's an awakened construct and the sea urchin is just for show. It's what I've always wanted to play."

[@jacobwurst6335]

Potchka sounds like he should have been a sloth bear instead of a polar bear, considering the lazy choices he made. (I've been learning from the Bear Bard.) Out of character, I'll let you know that the Tarrasque likes the taste of hypocritical DMs.

[@chazzwozzio]

So mountain dew and prejudice? Gross

[@theuncalledfor]

@@chazzwozzio Well, flies enjoy eating fecalmatter, so just because you find it gross doesn't mean some animal can't like it.

[@wyvern723]

My first big campaign had a DMPC. He was actually decent, and filled in a role that the party lacked (battle cleric healer). He was great support and didn't hog the spotlight and was a lot of fun to romance. I wish more DMs would run them like that.

[@kyuven]

Your DM sounds like they ran them as an "accessory" rather than a main character, which is what DMPCs should be. Players are often recommended to create a character that supports the party in such a way, but for a DMPC it's a straight up requirement. The DMPC should never be the face. Healer, tank, damage dealer, or support? Cool. But face? NO! The DM would literally be talking to themselves for hours. It's why my personal policy now is that DMPCs should have CHA as their dump stat unless they're a paladin or bard. Sorcerer too but if I need a DMPC to be an arcane caster, I go with Wizard since i can double them as a knowledge monkey to keep the plot moving as needed.

[@felipelopezlima2196]

Some of the groups I GM for are pretty small, so I have more than one DMPC. I usually just use them to fill a gap in the party or for a specific section of the plot (almost like temporary guest characters). I take care to never overdo it too much and always try not to outshine the players (to the point of fudging rolls so I wouldn't get the kill of important enemies). That being said, I do try to have fun with this and play some character concepts I'm curious about, but not really interested in playing them as a PC for a long campaign. My players are aware of this and don't mind it (in one of my games, they're "demanding" I keep the character around cus they like interacting with her.... lol)

[@old_manclearwater3438]

My last DMPC only stuck with the party for the first story arc. Now he's a senile NPC that hangs around their hub.

[@Xokoy]

You talk about naming mounts. I let my paladin choose the picture for his steed since we play on Roll 20, I gave him a few suggestions but he ended up googling the image of Donkey from Shrek 2 and that has now been his steed's token's image for the past few months.

[@TheNormExperience]

Please tell me at some point he yells, “You daft, irritating, beast of burden!” at his steed in a thick Scottish brogue.

[@Asset80]

That's Hilarious 😂

[@eintorpid9101]

Paladin players doing god's work as usual.

[@kyuven]

That's how you know your paladin is a keeper. So long as your paladin has a sense of humor, the campaign is probably much happier than...if they don't.

[@YouKnowPipes]

Give the party a way to awaken it and work on an Eddie Murphy impression

[@TheNormExperience]

First story - Mayor of the town, secret room to kill people, whole town being taken out....why is this sounding so familiar? Oh yeah, the Walking Dead.

[@risingdawn6510]

I will forever be traumatized by the"out of character, I will let you know.." part. Its so painful to what that dm did to the players. As a dm myself, seeing all that potential story and character developement go to waste for what? To literally speedrun an imaginary game of dnd where you can just imagine yourself winning it and just declare becoming a god in the end. Despite the other players being somewhat rude, I still feel bad for them as AT LEAST they care about their character and tries to rp unlike this very egotistical, lazy jerk of a Dm.

[@cgdavidson]

In my campaign, our horses are named Lynyrd and Skynyrd.

[@usxxgrant]

If I ever play again with 2 horses, I vow to name them Penn and Teller!

[@nondescriptcat5620]

"why is he a human?" the same reason anyone else is a human. free feat.

[@oxylepy2]

Him: "I came up with this epic background for my character" DM: Cool Also DM: Not gunna use it

[@HardlyBardly]

“Out of character, I’ll let you know” quickly became as infuriating as having a passenger sing “The Song that Gets on Everybody’s Nerves”.

[@WayToVibe]

I left my last D&D group after the "downtime session" lasted SIX WEEKS. Then we finally get to do something and the dragon DMNPC one-shots the mob. I had specifically built a fighter and wanted to fight stuff. After that, I was out.

[@AuntLoopy123]

I think the DM wanted to play Icewind Dale III: Rime of the FrostMaiden, and since it's only out in book form, for TTRPG, rather than computer game, he gathered some people together to "be the computer game" for him.

[@byronsmothers8064]

Ah yes, the un-bear-able gm who wanted an audience, not a playgroup

[@dudemcguy8949]

*Teddie has infiltrated the comments section*

[@kainslegacy78618]

(Points at DM) "Here it is, Tarrasque! There's your dinner!"

[@WarmLusamine]

Please tell me you at least deep fried that thing. No telling WHAT kind of diseases it has.

[@kcollier2192]

it puzzles me why folks think they need a certain number of people to play D&D. While 10 could be too much for a single DM it's perfectly fine to play with just 1 or 2 others.

[@CompletelyNewguy]

Seriously a 1-on-1 game is alot of fun. Don't underestimate a game that's just you and the DM (or You and the Player)

[@jaysonklein6018]

Honestly, being part of a 10+ party... I'd rather have a smaller group. All we did was run away, most of the time, and there was too much chaos (the BAD kind) amongst all of us players, in a VERY sandbox-y homebrew world (too sandbox-y, imho, for 10+ people).

[@kyuven]

A 1-on-1 game can be quite boring, since it necessitates either DMPCs, re-evaluating the very idea of CRs, or giving the other player multiple characters. I honestly prefer a minimum of 4 people (DM+3) since encounter design is much easier and you have more personalities to work with. But then again I also prefer Larian and Owlcat games to Skyrim soooo...

[@BGrimoire]

@@jaysonklein6018 last time I played with more than 7 players (12) we had a battle scene of almost 8 hours because of how much time took to get a full turn done.

[@K_i_t_t_y84]

RE: The first story? Don't surprise your players with an evil campaign. Let them know UP FRONT if you're going to go down that path because not everyone wants to or feels comfortable playing evil people.

[@etcetera1995]

Sounds like the other crappy players weren't surprised.

[@xionkuriyama5697]

why is he even DMing, he clearly isnt enjoying it lmao

[@jamesmahon6788]

"Add some flavor" 😂😂 that don't work buddy when the only spice you know is salt

[@johnoneil9188]

I am somebody who goes for more exotic races because DnD gives me the ability to and I would not just play a human but I would never ask anybody why they choose to be human. You can choose to be almost anything you want, as long as it works with the rules.

[@Arlesmon]

In my case, i tend to go for humanos because feats, and because it helps me immerse a bit more into the World. And because humanos are indeed cool, but not many People want to see that

[@ratboy2]

every episode of this series i watch makes me want to play d&d more. sounds weird considering these are all horror stories, but man! i get character inspo and stuff from these lmao. good series, thank you crispy

[@CrispysTavern]

Hope you can play soon!

[@theuncalledfor]

I like how morbid curiosity is the OP's reason for staying in that sh!t show of a furry campaign. That is the only valid reason for staying in a dumpster fire of a campaign, any other reason can be summed up as "I was too stupid to leave". (I'm a furry myself, but I despise people who idiotically discriminate like they did. There was once a time when the furry fandom was about inclusivity and tolerance, but that has been betrayed in not-even-all-that-recent-anymore years. People like them, who harass others for being human in a game, are the kind of people that brought undue ruin and turmoil to the fandom.)

[@shadenox8164]

Speaking as a furry you need to be cautious of any furry who says "There was once a time when the furry fandom was about inclusivity and tolerance." or "ruin to the fandom" because nine times out of ten what they mean is that they're an asshole and other furries are less inclined to put up with them being assholes these days. I was around for those mythical times of "inclusivity" it just had a lot more rampant sexism, homophobia and racism because people felt like they had to put up with it due to not having a lot of people to share the interest with. I'll take present day thanks. Inclusivity and tolerance doesn't mean someone can do whatever they want and expect people to want to hang out with them if they find what you did awful or are just genuinely unpleasant. That being said, this group does sound like dicks but they sound a lot like the furries who would be rueing that you can't be an asshole anymore.

[@theuncalledfor]

@@shadenox8164 How long ago was that? I don't remember encountering any racism or sexism in the furry fandom. Or at the very least none that is accepted. That would go against the very values I was talking about. I'm talking about shaming and ostracisation of "unhealthy" fetishes. Mind-boggling hypocrisy, considering the fandom is specifically about something that is seen as weird, and judged by intolerant jerks that would throw you into a mental ward, or worse, for any deviation from what's considered "normal". Though I think a bunch of the non-sexual furries have always been judgemental pricks that have condemned the sexual side of the furry fandom in order to be considered less "weird" by others, or worse, genuinely bought into that kind of putrid, prudish ideology.

[@JenniferFuss]

Hm, the avalanche is actually in the Rime of the Frostmaiden module. Though I don't think it drops the pc's all the way down, and it happens after the companion npc sets up a tent way down at an earlier point on the mountain @.@ Yet, I am fascinated that they killed the Yetis, instead of negotiating with them. Considering they are quite furry and got a Tyke ^^;

[@Bugbite0656]

My DM also said he was "surprised we killed the yeti instead of negotiating" and we confused as no one speaks yeti and it was literally playing with a head it ripped off of one of our npc friends

[@PsycoTurnip]

We came upon the Yeti's attacking a pair of griffons, we chose griffons and they allowed us to sleep in their cave while we recuperated, among other things.

[@TrackerRoo]

As a furry, with a fairly furry D&D group, we have a human, a half elf, an eladrin, a dwarf and the two non furries in the group are the ones playing a dragonborn and a kenku. The dragonborn player thinks dragons are rad and the breath attack is spiffy. While the kenku went with it because it lends to the whole assassin thing he has going. Being able to mimic voices of other people, super handy. So while yeah, it is D&D and you can play whatever race you want, sometimes you just want to go with a race for the bonuses or the backstory idea you have.

[@shadenox8164]

Yep, I usually play tieflings. The most furry trash I've been was reskinning tengus in pathfinder as a jackal people from Orsrion because I had this idea for a bunch of jackal people adherent to Anubis that guarded tombs, but less in the "stopping grave robbers" sense and more in the "making sure the dead remain dead". I went with tengu because I could swap in for a really neat carrion sense ability which allowed my guy to be able to smell bloodied people or dead bodies. So he could tell by smell if someone was badly injured or dead and he was pretty decent at first aid.

[@cursedalien]

Honestly that story is making me embarrassed that I prefer to play animalfolk races...

[@binarydark4811]

"The time is actually now." Honestly had me cackling.

[@RAClaus3]

This sounds like an old DM of mine, probably just a coincidence though.

[@nextdoorneighbour]

"There are no coincidences" Master Oogway - The Art of Quote

[@RettySpaghetti]

The back story of the first guy also sounds like 40k warrior lodges.

[@angelofdusk13]

As a fellow warlock, I LOVE that warlock backstory!

[@bryantspears119]

The very second you said Icewind Dale, I immediately knew which horror story this was. Good lord. This is the story that spurred my distaste for DMPC characters oh so long ago. If you are gonna have a DMPC in your campaign, for the love of god have them be in the background, and not the main focus.

[@EmeralBookwise]

Seriously. The only time I ever ran a DMPC was in a campaign where no one in the party wanted to run a "healer", and so in the second encounter of the game I had them rescue one who proceeded to follow them around for the rest of the campaign. She was there to restore HP as need and otherwise stayed out of the way.

[@celiand2618]

This story never gets old. I am afraid I have been almost as unbearable once as a DM

[@celiand2618]

@Naukumaija Mau-mau Took me some times as I was already close to a decade of DMing. I robbed the spotlight from a PC with a DMPC designed after a helper template (added muscles/heal for very small parties or solo beginner aventures) because I grew bored of the player lack of initiative. Did not figure out it was due to him being very new and not really getting into acting rather that not involved. Only figured it out when he litteraly exploded at the table. That fuck up still haunts me 20 years later as it ruined it for the player.

[@Redtail45044]

I...huh. Well. That was something. I'm not able to voice-act anymore due to past illness, but I do still try and make the characters distinct and interesting for my group. ...And that's definitely not a way to do a DMPC. The only one I have is a background fella they can talk to that lets them stand tall, and I treat him as I would any other character, really-they see any rolls I make with him, and if he fails, he fails. Kind of funny, really, and the only time he goes anywhere is if the team asks him to offer some backup. (So far the most impressive thing he's done was manage to grapple a wolf just long enough for someone to kill it.) Even with good stats (the party is better) everyone appears to have the perception of a lead brick when it comes to even social cues. It's made for entertaining moments, at least, including our rogue attempting to perform the temple of doom stunt with a giant stinkbug where you try and rip its heart out, and failing badly enough he got his hand stuck in the creature's back and ended up knocking out the fighter as he waved it around in a panic and, I kid you not, the fighter failed so hard that the creature not only still managed to parry him, but retaliated hard enough to stun him twice before the rogue decided that smacking the creature into a wall would do the trick. As everyone else laughed. Before starting to gag as its dying act was to fumigate the area with its ungodly stench.

[@biffwellington6144]

Your character doesn't sound like a DMPC. He sounds like a proper NPC companion. A true DMPC is basically the real protagonist of a solo campaign, run by the DM for the DM, and the actual PCs are pretty much his NPC companions. That's not a fun situation to be in as a player, because the DMPC gets all the best gear and gets to have all the cool moments in and out of combat. The story here is all about him, not the players. A proper NPC companion, like what you described, is there to fill a role that the GM thinks needs filling because no player chose to do that. Such a character will take a backseat for the players and let them have their cool moments whenever possible. The story here is all about the players, not that NPC who is just there to support them in their coolness.

[@Redtail45044]

@@biffwellington6144 Hm, didn't think about it that way. I figured since they like him so much and try dragging him into danger so often I might as well call him one. Granted, he's just a foodie and skilled at making explosives...which...ironically...none of the team are good at. And punching things. It's...sadly amusing, but he's just as lacking in the ability to spot things as everyone else. I mean...heck. I have him leveling more slowly than they are to keep it balanced, alongside a minion one of the other players acquired where they have the fun game of learning what that one can do through testing the teeny wererat on things. So far they've found she's good with a bow, horrible at anything involving strength, and through a few absurdly lucky rolls better at lockpicking than I'd originally intended. Still, somehow, with horrible perception rolls however. I swear they're going to obliviously fix everything and not be the wiser at this rate.

[@biffwellington6144]

​@@Redtail45044 He sounds like a great NPC! Helpful and memorable, without overshadowing the PCs. Nice work!

[@Redtail45044]

@@biffwellington6144 I hope he stays that way! Or he's going to somehow kill them all with delicious, volatile rations. Honestly not sure which yet after the last incident where they found a wrecked spelljammer (no way to repair, so...scavenger run!) and he mistook some naptha for cooking oil. Really. It's a miracle anyone in the party's alive. Like. At all, and I'm not even trying to kill them.

[@unluckyone1655]

That first story reminded my of my first Deathwatch campaign. The game plan was that eventually our characters would eventually fall to Chaos after our GM got the new Dark Crusade book, something that i was okay with, but i wanted it to play out like it was a gradual fall from grace. Some other players in the party just wanted to play Dark Crusade noooowwww so they always went out of their way to try to join the other side. It wound up with me and another player more or less babysitting the other players and DMNPCs coing in to stop us from trying to execute them. Unfortunately at the last battle against some Dark Legion, all but two of the players died so THEY got to play their characters as fallen Chaos marines while the rest of us had to play squishy Chaos worshipers. It was ok, the campaign was still pretty fun, but i really wanted to play an evil version of my Deathwatch character who had very good reason to lose their faith in all they believed in, still a little salty about that.

[@mustardreams3334]

The polar bear dmpc story reminded me of a recent rpg horror story. So, the DM, we’re call him Nick, and I were on rocky ground because I’m the artist of both the dnd groups and he kept asking me for more and more pictures, and taking the physical forms, without paying for them. Please note that I wasn’t charging anything because I didn’t think a friend would do that to me, but after having to draw two barbarians who had ‘Roar!’ as their only personality trait, I started considering charging for my drawings and was asking other people for input on the prices because I have a bad habit of undercharging myself (do to past trauma that makes me think less of myself). It was after I suggested doing this that I noticed Nick got more and more jerky, even saying hurtful things to me in the dnd session calls he was running. He had a female aasimar paladin character named Sister Ariana who was the group leader and had the last say normally. (Though everyone thought that he was playing a cleric after he left.) Anyway, he was running a world that he was improvising on the fly, so we couldn’t derail the plot. But the thing was that Nick was running his campaign and not the other dnd game we were a part of. The dm who ran the other game was a kind man, who we’ll call Drake. Drake had a co-dm, his son, who we will call Jake. Drake let the group know that he had a one shot campaign set up, if we ever didn’t have enough players to play the main campaign, and to make character for it. I wanted to make a leonin, and asked Drake if leonin were allowed in the campaign. Nick proceeded to start ‘helping’ while never stopping his help even after I told him that I would make the character later twice. (Because in real life I felt like crying from how his helping seemed more worded like talking down to someone.) I then vented in a safe place and got comforted by Nick’s friends and family, who had experience him doing this before. The safe spot was in a server that had to be made in a hurry because Nick thought that dming was too much work and that online dnd was boring. I took the reins of the campaign, even though my dming is not the greatest. I’m forgetful of monster traits or abilities, can’t prepare too much or I lose interest in prepping, and I’m a bundle of nerves. I just didn’t want the campaign to die and wanted everyone to have fun. I constantly worry about making the campaign not fun and worry about doing a terrible job, but I’m willing to try, even if it looks like a pixie trying to carry a batch of bananas. But Nick left all of the servers I’m in. Unfortunately, he came back to Drake’s server and I’m half wondering if he’s trying to get back in the campaign he left that I’m now running, because he’s being nice to me again. Unfortunately for him, I don’t have the ability to give invites to the server, because Marnie (the player who made the server to help me) couldn’t figure out how to change what the people can do in the discord server. I don’t know what to do about Nick, and I half wonder if I’m the asshole in this situation.

[@360entertainment2]

You don’t sound like the asshole based off what I’ve read!

[@sanguinemde5031]

As a Furry myself, I am very sorry that this guy, had this experience with some assholes that call themselves furries. This is not how we are. We are kind and welcoming and its a fantasy RPG, you can be whatever you want that there are rules for, or you can make up your own races. Thats the beauty of it. I hope that he reads the comments here and accepts the apologies of the REAL furry community for this poor experience. As to DMPCs, I have a regular one that I use when the party lacks healing. Kerrick the Kobold Cleric. Well loved character that just heals, cuz he does bugger all damage. :P

[@shadenox8164]

Some on dude we don't need to do the no true Scotsman shtick. Furries are people, like people some of us are just assholes. It doesn't make them not true furries and it sure doesn't obligates us to apologise for them.

[@rachdarastrix5251]

"But I don't want to live out my mammal fetish alone, its more fun with friends." ~Some Furrysonia DMPC.

[@1bucketcrusader834]

**laughs in knowing humans are also mammals**

[@rachdarastrix5251]

@@1bucketcrusader834 Ah good, this is one of the channels there was a glitch keeping my comments from being visible on to any but myself. Looks like its been resolved. How are you?

[@theuncalledfor]

@@rachdarastrix5251 It's not a glitch, KZbin just hates free speech.

[@rachdarastrix5251]

@@theuncalledfor Oh I am aware, the glitch I am refering to is that the people who are attacking free speech haven't been at least fed to wasps.

[@theuncalledfor]

@@rachdarastrix5251 You FOOL. Don't you get it? THEY ARE THE WASPS! THEY WERE THE WASPS ALL ALONG!

[@graveyardshift2100]

Thank you for not using a clickbait title that makes it sound like furries were the big problem in this story. Not going to name them, but a couple channels read this story and did that.

[@cursedalien]

Yeah, the problem was the spotlight hogging DMPC. Fuck spotlight hogging DMPCs.

[@kyuven]

I never play humans and rarely play males (usually dwarves or orcs if I do) because I like to play something as different from myself as possible. But I wouldn't begrudge someone playing a human. Mechanically they've got great stats.

[@oldhatAN]

This sort of thing is why I don't use DMPCs and I think that they should generally be avoided. People naturally become tied up with and invested in their PCS or they do if the game is working anyway. The DM should not become tied up with or invested in an NPC that way. That's what a DMPC really is. They are an NPC that gets too much focus. NPCs should be supporting cast. They shouldn't be part of the main cast. That role is for PCs.

[@Coolitsme12]

Honestly, truth. You can be anything. I could be a half rat bastard of a man that raids the towns people cabinets and maybe pockets the party's change. But sometimes you might just want to be a human paladin that believes that he's a holy knight, but ends up just being some guy who stole his uncle's armor and sword for a good time.

[@rachdarastrix5251]

Rollplaying as a group is the best part. Once you have the cookie dough the cake mix the brownie mix and the chocolate chips mixed together with wild honey put in a pie pan and roasted over a dried apple wood fire next comes frosting it. Rollplaying as a group is the frosting. You should never take it for granted to just, have people with free time, who care about you enough to just, listen to your perspective, just as much as you love to listen to theirs, and take shelter from all the stupidity out there under the shelter of a mutually created imaginary world, mutually interacting with it and each other. Why would you try to ruin it by doing TO that group of people what you can just as effectively do alone next to a bathroom mirror for 11 hours, with no one suffering because of it?

[@mayalewis2956]

polar bear dm sounds like hes one of the furries that give the normal furries a bad name and is HATED by them

[@sweetiebun1840]

New Crispy vid, today is a good day

[@Nathan-ti9pm]

I tend to play more bestial races and will have in-character my pc refer to more humanoid races (Elf, Dwarves, Gnomes. Etc) as simians however I never give the actual player any flak for playing a human, yes it is D&D and just cuz you can play more fantastical races doesn’t mean everyone has to and anyone can play anything they want to

[@cosmicsatan2046]

We have a horse polymorphed into a donkey with his name "Shrek" pained in green on his side pulling our wagon. So I can't say anything about a bison named Appa.

[@DrZombieMoogle]

Tarrasque That said, while I don't advise coddling players, gotta give some rope to anyone new to the group. They're still getting a feel for the play style

[@michaelbaker3868]

I love the blatant stupidity of the argument behind "why is he a human? You can be literally anything you want." While ignoring the fact that anything you want includes human ans anything you want also applies their feelings and opinions are pointless. So clearly he meant the exact opposite of what he said

[@Zeromegas]

"Dedicate to Realism" aka fuck the rules, I am in charge!

[@WarmLusamine]

It's funny how many people say they're going for "realism" yet constantly fuck it up.

[@OneLilSpark]

"You can be anything why be human" i mean I'm also an arcane spellcaster. Why does my dnd character have to check every single box of "not like our world"? Im already playing something impossible. I rarely play humans but ffs I hate that whole argument

[@jtramelli5464]

The minute I found out everyone was playing zoo animals I would have yeeted right tf out of there

[@Eric-md3mp]

But can't you just get a coat to wear over your armor for cold conditions?

[@marybdrake1472]

I have played a lot of different types of characters in time with D&D. Humans among them. A situation doesn't always call for a more exotic option.

[@firstswordcorvus7368]

Another DM that should just write a book and not drive other people crazy. Have heard some stories of DMPC played right, which is have them fill a role the party is missing like a healer or tank for example and have them interact and mingle with the party and not try to do anything against them until maybe near the end of the campaign or to act as a plot twist after recruiting a player that can fill the role the DMPC was filling. Maybe have them be a stay-at-home spouse if one of the players successfully romanced them when the new player joins. Or could even have them keep traveling with the party in case you want to increase the campaign difficulty a little bit, so many options that don't involve making them an OP Mary Sue dragging the poor party around kicking and screaming

[@Normaschthewanderer]

Thing is, if he did write a book, nobody would read it. And on some level knows it.

[@SamWeltzin]

Oh, heard this one some time ago. I guess I'll just listen to your commentary, since it's usually good.

[@nanotfound1042]

Jesus the dm with the polar bear dmpc makes me think of onision with just how cringe everything they did is

[@chaosbringer82]

Oh my god Karen you can't just ask people why they're human.

[@mrdeer111]

great!

[@Zezepo]

Oh yes, step on me Tarrasque daddy ÚwÙ. Let me feel that sweet 1d20 bludgeoning.

[@cursedalien]

Oh my god, you can't just ask someone why they're a human

[@PrincessShiloh21]

Terask?

[@starbird3939]

“Why is he human?” For awhile I was boring and said I wanted a feat. But now we homebrewed that everyone gets a feat because feats can be interesting and build unique characters. In one of the games I am a reborn elf with shadow touch. In life, she was this Victorian-esque aristocrat who was seen as weird because she could commune with the dead-only to die of mysterious circumstances. And now she’s this quiet caretaker of a crypt and voice for a goddess of death.

[@theuncalledfor]

If everyone gets a Feat, Variant Human should get two. Since that is _the_ reason to play Variant Human.

[@ZedMazaus480]

Oh vy all that is cringey its these kinds of DMs that just kills games! I have ran into newbee DMs that want to run, but are so lazy to actually do any real work. Grant it it's a very young kid so you can give them some leway because of their age. But this guy is all sorts of messed up that you could write a book on how not to be this guy. Final verdict: Gamer license REVOKED!

[@pillmitchell1429]

I know the author was suffering but wish he stuck it out for a little longer for my benefit.

[@geneticemo]

The outfit excuse doesn't even make sense, as in the icewind Dale campaign book, pcs are assumed to have a set of cold weather gear on them upon creation

[@Key-jc8kw]

I'd tell the dm to write a book, not host a game.

[@GoblinWife]

Oh my god, Karen, you can’t just ask people why they’re human

[@LaylaSpellwind]

I hope the other players didn't stick with the group too long. They didn't sound like they were having very much fun. Being a human in a fantasy session can be really cool. While I prefer more unique choices. A human is the easiest to relate to as a player. For better or worse, you're human in real life. Making a human initially the easiest to play, but also easier to write detailed backstories for.

[@DirkLoechel]

Tarrasque ....?

[@ohioguyz8466]

Terrasque?

[@gamefreak2383]

It's weird that it's not okay to touch a woman without consent in the game but when this guy has a problem with it he is horrible for some reason?

[@Meanlucario]

I feel like I heard of a group like this in either a Crispy or CritCrab video. Shorter story, but they mocked the OP for playing a human and the DM was a dick to him and gave him much less exp than the others, who were playing anthro/anthro-like races.

[@Meanlucario]

@@SodaPopBarbecue At least a different DM. Thanks.

[@Meanlucario]

@Naukumaija Mau-mau I feel like the timing and setting doesn't quite fit, as well as the DM.

[@Meanlucario]

@Naukumaija Mau-mau The one in the CritCrab video was less lazy, but more anti-human (to the point of making the game not fun for the OP playing a human).

[@picses76]

Tarrasque?

[@robinarmstrong685]

DM: Okay, what do you want to do? OP: What? You don't remember my backstory?!? Well, I'm cetainly not going to try to advance it on my own! Only I can ignore my backstory, not you! Not trying to gaslight, but there is some blame for everyone in this case, IMHO.

[@sarsapong]

THE DEVIL IS THE DM !!!!!!!

[@Ubernerd3000]

Terrask...?

[@coyotegamer348]

terrasque?

[@samuelreese1816]

To be fair, icewind dale is pretty harsh, but this is rediculous

[@MrGreensweightHist]

DMPCs are always a red flag for me.

[@Simkitty]

Tarrasque?! 🙀 =^..^=

[@Kintaro316]

TARRASQUE!?!?!?!

[@miscellaneouslurkler4623]

Tarrasaque?

[@Thedragonlover95]

I have friends who are furries, and I will say this,,,never like this.

[@josephmatthews7698]

This whole thing sounds more like a super minor disagreement on the type of game each enjoys rather than a true horror story. Sure the GM sounds cringey but not the worst guy in the world. This guy's attacks on him sounds a bit overblown.

[@ThatNewZDude]

Good lord. I think this was covered by another channel. But the group was just a jerk (Besides the Tabaxi really from what I can tell.) If anything I probably have tried to get along with the Tabaxi and friended them if I was the OP since they were about the only one that OP got along with.

[@ravvij9643]

Damn furries. See, this crap is why I left that fandom. "They're not all like that," isn't a good enough excuse to excuse their horrible attitudes towards non-furry *anything*. That being said, I am still friends with several furries, but I want nothing to do with the fandom, which they're understanding of. So yeah. Won't play games with furries.

[@WarmLusamine]

Don't condemn the whole orchard because of a few rotten apples.

[@ravvij9643]

@@WarmLusamine In my experience it's more than a few. And, they've caused me enough problems that it'd take a miracle for me to think otherwise.

[@flameloude]

What the fuck is going on at the end? Was that a mistake of editing or on purpose?

[@restionSerpentine]

Tarasque!

[@LordMephilis]

So OP is complaining that there is not enough RP, but also complaining that the downtime RP takes too long...

[@Zathurious]

This is the first time I heard a horror story born of the campaign being boring.

[@dogf421]

honestly as a furry it kinda bothers me when people hate on human charachters for no good reason. humans are a perfectly acceptable species even if they are mid uwu

[@EmeralBookwise]

It can help to think of them as poor unfortunate apes struggling with full body hair loss :-p

[@kikiblair5132]

I've heard this one so many times.

[@jamirwhite2377]

Tarrasque

[@VampireBatLord]

ter ask? :3

[@Antdevamp]

The furdoms are fun, but a link to Icewind Dale would be more popular. You know this to be true.

[@CaptainFoofoo64]

DMNPCs needs to banned from D&D.

[@AtrusOranis]

Depends on how they are played. I accidentally found myself with a DMPC because the party decided to ask the local magic shop owner (a retired level 12 Sorc) to join them on their quest. That said, I found ways to make sure that he could be relied on in certain cases, he was not ever the central focus (and all but useless in combat). He could hold his own or help, but he never drove the story or would take action without direction from a PC.

[@kohinonion1794]

How terrible this GM introduced RoFM. Is it really so difficult to read a short paragraph in a module before playing and do everything as it is written there, and not do crap.

[@kohinonion1794]

Tarrasque? Seriously?! The scroll of his summoning is at the end of the module, and it is also written there that he will destroy the Dale if summoned, and then go south due to hunger.

[@frankalphonso268]

If you’re not a furry don’t play with an all furry group you really don’t want to

[@Normaschthewanderer]

Don't think that's what we should take away from this.

[@frankalphonso268]

Normaschthewanderer my dude I am a furry if you aren’t down with the furry weirdness but play with all furries you’re gonna be uncomfortable and they wanna indulge in furry weirdness. So expecting them not to indulge in furry weirdness and then being uncomfortable and complaining is just as bad a situation as feeling subjected to furry weirdness just avoid the situation altogether.

[@fusionspace175]

I can think of a comment, but it's not nice. I'm not a tabletopper, I'm a video gamer. And I'll take all the b.s. with dlc, nerfing, lag, patches, and the rest over human interaction any day, because there is nothing more broken than human beings. At least I'm only at the whim of malevolent gods I knowingly sign up for, and whom I pay for the privilege.