DM Loses EVERYTHING to Petty Discord Admin | Reading D&D Reddit Stories

[@OneShotQuips]

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[@5sibROBLOX]

How come this one isn't on Spotify?

[@zarthemad8386]

DM... should have had the socerer roll a spot check.... dc 20+4(unaware) and have a demon cleave through his arm/broom and leave him crippled. I am a fan of maiming chars below lvl 3 .... it adds flavor for their survival

[@MitchBurns]

I think the discord one is actually recoverable. Discord stores all your message logs and you can request to get them. If everyone in the group does that and they all piece together the info they should be able to get everything back, although it might be kind of a pain in the butt to do.

[@gekolvr0734]

Yes! I was about to suggest this. I've used it to recover conversations from people with deleted accounts and it worked fine

[@codydees9681]

I hope someone who read the original post also knows this and tells OP.

[@itsgenguy7275]

Hey Duke, hey Wife, I'm the OP of the first story you read, and yeah there was a ton of stuff that got cut out of my story. The first few drafts were too long to even post. To put it into perspective, I was expecting to release them into the new world about 1 and a half to 2 hours into my 4 hour session. It took almost 3 and a half with how long the multiple arguments and interruptions went.

[@shawnwolf5961]

Nice to see that some of the people who post these stories also watch his channel. I know I sure would lol. I agree with them that you probably should have been more on top of the CS; as a DM, I also let people start off with a common magic item--but I am always asking them to directly send me the items. I also make sure to tell them what source materials they are allowed to pull from. You handled the situation well, but as someone who's been DMing for a few years now, definitely make sure your players are clear from the start on any source material allowed, and before the first session, make sure you've looked over their character sheets and items. Your story is precisely why

[@LordMekenshi]

Never DMed, so not sure what the consequences would be, but my first thought when he left the group was the artifacts being together provides some sort of cover for the party. By going off alone, BBEG can find and smite him. In world reason for him to be out of the game. Can't blame ya for just saying nope and kicking, though

[@dylantd9189]

Just curious if the problem player was a new player (it might have been said, sorry if it was). Cause I think his reaction is somewhat justified as a new player, coming into a homebrew session with an inexperienced DM is a recipe for disaster. If he's a regular player then I don't believe his reaction was justified at all

[@itsgenguy7275]

@@dylantd9189 He knew Leomund's Tiny Hut by heart, so if he was new he memorized all the spells before he ever started DnD

[@dylantd9189]

@@itsgenguy7275 some people do their own research like this, but yeah more than likely an experienced player.

[@lauraw2526]

Man, that second one... I've been an admin for various games/discord servers. I hated several people that I had internet power over and wished they'd leave. I had one guy threaten to come to my house and beat me up. But I would NEVER, to ANY of them, delete their work. That's so cruel and petty.

[@miketheyeti9711]

We were in the middle of a campaign, and my hill dwarven was about to take out an enemy dog. Then I stopped the attack and asked the dm if I could try to tame the dog, he said ok and since I gave the dog a ration, I got an advantage roll, and also I had bonus points for animal handling (+3), long story short I got a dog named Barkspawn.

[@KnightsRealm98]

I see that Dragon Age reference ⭐️

[@miketheyeti9711]

@@KnightsRealm98 u know it hahaha

[@ZombieDireWolf]

This is why you ALWAYS make your own Discord server and let no one edit it

[@TheSpoonyCroy]

I mean you should follow a normal 3 2 1 backup plan. 3 copies, 2 locally stored somewhere in different places and drives/devices, 1 offsite backup (cloud being the most common). Discord is not a permanent thing and all those things you have there can easily disappear as easily as they appeared.

[@midnightzgamer20k]

I've been doing Rps on Discord since like 2016.. and that statement is the truest statement i've ever heard

[@rachdarastrix5251]

This is why you should never have a plan that requires you to assume you will be on a discord server for very long before joining it.

[@ferretrewhan]

As I explained to my mother one time: "Discord is like IRC, if IRC had a graphical interface and instead of being hosted on some guy's file server in Bangor, Maine, it's beholden to a corporation that can make arbitrary changes at any time."

[@jrytacct]

To this day I still deal with people who say "just put it on a cloud drive." Sure, I'll put a *copy* on the cloud, but all originals will be stored locally and backed up.

[@Spooglecraft]

@@ferretrewhan except this change wasn't at all brought about by the corporation, but by the salty server admin, aka another user who's not affiliated with the company

[@soulsavior2037]

This is why, while I am in a server with people that like DND, when I run a campaign, I create my own server for that particular campaign. Not to mention meticulously (almost) sorted folders that are backed up 3 ways to Sunday

[@jrytacct]

@@soulsavior2037 Exactly. Very wise choice here.

[@weezact7]

The server admin didn't lack empathy for those people because he didn't know them. He lacked empathy cause he was a shithead who wanted to act tough and petty. Being the Discord admin is probably the only thing part of his life he feels like he has any power or control in. But it doesn't take an incredibly empathetic person to feel bad about a stranger losing two years of their hard work. That's not something you do unless you are deliberately out to hurt them. So, in a way, he did feel empathy. He knew EXACTLY how that was going to feel.

[@TheFireMouseYT]

What the DM tells his/her players after one of them rolls a nat 20 insight:

[@nickmillar999]

There's something so special about a party's first ever dragon encounter. A few months back I, the DM, began to introduce a dragon into our game when the party found themselves heading towards a mountain range to dispose of a giant that had been polymorphed into a chihuahua before the spell's duration ended (I imagine they wanted to hurl it off of a cliff in order to kill it outright). Within the mountain range, the party found the way forward blocked off by a tribe of Kobolds that were living within one of the peaks. The Kobolds were servants to a green dragon who had left its lair some time ago, but ordered the Kobolds to stay behind to protect the dragon's egg that hadn't hatched yet. This ultimately culminated in the party Druid tricking the Kobolds into allowing her access into their inner sanctum through what I thought was a very clever combination of Wild Shape and her Disguise Kit, as well as a high Deception roll, where she promptly shattered the egg and torched the baby dragon. Needless to say, mama dragon came for blood a couple sessions later

[@kinagrill]

My first GM-ing Dragon Encounter for players were quite special for me... cuz my setting was a high-mystical fantasy one of my friend had semi-written out for D&D potential... so I ran with it. Thus magical forests with pixies flitting through them, grand castles, wyvern-knights, etc. So I wanted my players to experience a very unique dragon encounter as their very first encounter.... so as part of them playing very well, I allowed them to enter a very special forest area usually only permitted by ancient elves (whole specific non-player character subtype), and in that area where micro-dragons galore flitting about like messenger pidgeons, all of the curiously adorable and whatnot. Everyone was very enamored with the cute dragons (basically more magical Pseudo Dragons for size, just actual dragons and unique ancient-fae related). I still miss that, what now... 10 years old campaign I ran.

[@incitingariot9925]

It sounds like that admin knew he was coming to collect the information. That makes it worse.

[@DaddyHensei]

A game that big had to have had a fair amount of the active members in it. Bet the server was talking how great that a part 2 was going to be made and the admin pretty much went mad with jealousy and just couldn't hold back anymore. Not liking a person is one thing but for the admin of a community to do that, meant it was a very weak spot on his ego. The admin harmed his own community to hurt this one guy.

[@lamichka]

@@DaddyHensei Nothing that few hits into the face cant repair. People online have too much ego when IRL admin is a little coward.

[@mrtech6167]

As someone who makes stories and makes their own worlds just for the fun of it, I would have been genuinely pissed if someone had basically erased it. For the person who absolutely erased the whole world, I hope that you don't get a good sleep at night, I hope that you have the most terrible of terrible days, I hope that this person does not have a slight bit of luck. If you are genuinely mad at someone, say something at the end of the day, communication is always key when it comes to human beings, we need to communicate, yet people do not understand that we need that fact. This genuinely pisses me off because it's person erase all of this persons, hard work over a miscommunication or something involving communication, if you have that power, don't if you have issues with someone, talk it out, but then again, it seems like a lot of people in this world don't talk things out do they

[@DaddyHensei]

Admin prob had a serious ego. That game had to have a lot of the active players of that server. As a result the DM would have been very popular in that community and when word got out that a part 2 was going to be made, Admin boyo just couldn't take it. Some admins in the end just want to be the idol at the end of the day. Anyhoo that admin will end up paying for it in the long run. He only ended up hurting the community he devotes his time to.

[@AuntLoopy123]

I have to say, in that first story, the first-time DM handled it REALLY well. He spoke up, right away, clearly identified the problem, used his words to tell the player to stop it, gave multiple warnings, and then BOOTED the problem, before he could ruin everything for the whole party, forever, in one of those "Well, you let me stay this long, so now you can never kick me out" situations. WELL DONE, DM! I don't know about the rest of your game, but I bet the other players looked at that DM, and thought, "I feel safe and secure with this one. I'll keep him through his learning curve of figuring out the technicalities of mastering. He's handled the most important aspect."

[@demetrinight5924]

I had a laptop with several years worth of notes and characters break on me. I was able to recover the information eventually but for a while I thought everything was gone. That was the worst feeling ever.

[@Takisan111]

My barbarian once became a father to a baby wyvern after he gave it a hug so firm and loving that it decided to stop fighting back. It helped us defeat the big bad of the one shot and went with my character back to his village where it became a beloved guardian. My dm will still sometimes bring up Bartholomew the wyvern in conversations of the weirdest things to happen in one of his campaigns. That and the incident where my character mistook a gorgons dark cellar full of petrified people as her personal art collection.

[@macman32579]

That admin story hits hard. That happened to me once

[@lamichka]

same

[@thefrank2364]

I never would have thought that Ad-barian would be used to foreshadow a story. I guess you could call it foresh-AD-owing

[@sadrock6014]

16:52 I’m a lover, not a fighter, but I wouldn’t hesitate to risk going to prison over “dealing with” that guy.

[@cylith5627]

For the admin one I'm confused. For having that amount of materials, OVER 2 YEARS, how is NONE of that in your possession? Whether digital or written out, how does the building process of ALL of that and not a shred of it is on your own devices or notepads? I don't understand how EVERYTHING was 100% in Discord channels only. Like the artwork for example. You either needed it commissioned, which then it would've been sent to you digital in an easy way, OR you did it yourself so you would absolutely have the original. I do feel for the group 100%, but I just don't get the circumstances. And I'm a guy with a TTPRG group of 5+ years that has spread around the US for their work so we play regularly through Zoom + Discord. NONE of that info of our games is ONLY on Discord.

[@funkymunky7935]

It's just irresponsible to leave all of that content in Discord

[@Yattien89]

That story had a lot of holes in it to be honest, was very iffy and seemingly a lot going unsaid.

[@Norinia]

Because you trust in a system and it feels safe to leave your work there. I did the same with my fanfiction work on a site called MyCandyLove, and I got smashed with the same shit. By the time you realize your work isn’t so secure, you generally have so much of it on the site that it feels like a wall of awful, thinking of how you’ll reassemble it back into your own systems. And as you’re still looking at it, you just can’t believe it could all be gone, all that work and effort, blood sweat and tears can’t ever turn into nothing, right? Wrong. Painfully wrong. But there’s the mindset on why.

[@DaddyHensei]

Prob a mix of a lot of things. They all prob had back ups or bits of notes and stuff but over time, they had to get new ssd's or other new equipment that lead to data loss, etc. In the end it reached a point to where they all trusted the server admin because they were there for so long. Everything seemed safe, they had a major accomplishment on the server. They all were active and brought content to the server, surely while there may have been disagreements or some tension the admin and others must like them to keep them around for all that time. If there was a major problem, the admin would surely talk to them right? In the end, the group didn't realize that depths of human pettiness. I doubt any of them will make that mistake again. Considering that campaign 2 is still being worked on, the Dm prob still has some bits still and human memory while not perfect can still be a powerful tool, especially with something you devoted so much time too. They may not be able to recovery everything but I'm willing to bet they all could connect enough scraps to make something again, maybe it would be even better for that matter. Human ingenuity is a funny thing. Being an aspiring author has taught me that much, I've lost data a few times and had to do many rewrites just in general of the writing process as well. I just hope if it's all this important to the dm and players that when they do get something, they shove it in that admin's face. haha.

[@testerwulf3357]

A several year long rp pretty much took place in one private server for me..I no longer have access to it sadly after a falling out happened. It’s really possible for all of your work to be in one place you don’t own 😅😭

[@AuntLoopy123]

"I take my artifact and fly away!" "You drop your artifact and crash into an active volcano, which does 14 d20 damage to your level 3 character, leaving no trace behind, so that resurrection is impossible. BYE!" "Well, according to the PHB, TRUE Resurrection doesn't require any remains." "As you said, you don't know these guys. Nobody who can afford it, or who has access to the spell, knows you, and even fewer people actually WANT to bring you back. GOODBYE." "But..." "BANNED."

[@semperignotus]

ALWAYS BACKUP IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Constantly save, double save, and make backups.

[@imayb1]

THIS! Everyone who uses a computer should know this! Yes, the admin was horrible, but I would never be caught out without backup data.

[@xordep2]

The deleted campaign story gave me a sinking feeling in my guts, that's terrible

[@santawithaflamethrower2758]

I have never DMnd but I felt that in every inch of my storytelling soul

[@monkeyme]

according to the Player hand book you get equipment OR gold when creating a character Pg143 of the PHB "When you create your character, you receive equipment based on a combination of your class and background. Alternatively, you can start with a number of gold pieces based on your class and spend them on items from the lists in this chapter" so in that aspect the player was completely wrong

[@CronaTheAwper]

The equipment of the backgrounds usually include a pouch of like 10 gold

[@kamilkowalski7035]

The discord story was heartbreaking. I once had a similar situation with losing months of short stories as a result of admin let's say unpleasantness. And yeah the the lesson of the story was the same. Always back up anything that you would regret losing. And also don't ever give someone you don't fully trust power over anything you would regret losing access to. Another thing that I've learnt the hard way is to always make sure to add people that I like to friends on discord. So that if anything happens I can still contact them. I've had a case back in the day when I lost touch with someone because I didn't think of that.

[@Polikaize]

off topic, but i honestly can't imagine just how many plushies is lying here and there around their house

[@artjomsonin7438]

12:45 The oneshot (?) we're playing for at least 5 sessions now got derailed at minute 0. Our party of lvl3 characters was supposed to wait for an npc in Arabel before heading to Thunder Peaks, where the actual adventure was supposed to take place. And the DM asked what are we doing these days. And we were like "let's explore the town shall we?". 10 minutes later we're fighting some corrosive slimes in the sewers, ancient ruins start coming into play etc. At the end of the session DM says "I've seen people derailing, sure, but you guys are the first party running this adventure who didn't even leave Arabel". So we spent those 10 days exploring sewers and ruins, getting into tavern brawls due to middleschool-comedic use of prestidigitation (which we now call 'magical fart'), smoking bongs with local merchants, double-crossing the government and the organized crime and only now are we getting close to starting the actual 'oneshot'. Our rogue messed with some cursed vial and is now of questionable sanity, while his shadow's acting funky. Our warlock even managed to die - luckily we had a scroll of revivify, but it was a very close call. And we got ourselves some coin and some magic weapons.

[@JN-se4ok]

I joined a oneshot and since everybody vibes with me, I was invited for the ongoing campaign. Now I was invested in my random messily-made oneshot character and decided to keep it for the campaign (checking if it was OK with the DM and they were). And after half a year of playing, the DM dropped a story "bombshell" about my character, tying up my character with stuff that the DM had already worked into their story before I joined. So me joining with my character was something DM was so happy about, because they could use that more directly towards the players.

[@asumax8]

In the first story, it is on the DM to check over character sheets but it is proper etiquette to let the DM know what item you pick when they let you start with a magic item. The DM is new, inexperienced and still learning, so it sounds like a player trying to takr advantage of that

[@firesong7825]

3rd Story: Wait for the admin/mods to go offline, post the Admin's DMs calling him out and telling others to be wary about the server, then leave the server.

[@billbishop6109]

My half orc barbarian had to make use of his relentless rage once. If you drop to 0 you have to roll a DC10 con save to end up at 1 hp. If you continue to get hit, the DC increases by 5. I made my DC10, then the DC15, the DC 20, and the DC 25 before I got healed up.

[@foxoninetails_]

The story of the DM's archive getting deleted was heartbreakingly close to home for me. My sister's vice-DM for our sci-fi 5e game was a constant problem player, and after months and months of everyone getting perpetually more frustrated with him, we finally decided it was time for him to go - but since my sister has historically not been especially mentally stable, he was the owner of the campaign discord server to prevent her from deleting it during her occasional breakdowns, and so he deleted it in his resulting petty tantrum. We lost literal years of messages, memes, art, lore, and more. Thankfully, my sister had enough of her campaign prep saved locally that we were able to start a new server and pick up where we left off, with me taking over his role as the vice-DM to keep things running smoothly, and we still play weekly in that very same campaign to this day. But I can't even imagine how much it would have destroyed her if we hadn't been able to recover from it; this world is her baby, to the point she's outright said that she plans to leave it to me in her will when she goes (she sadly has a medical condition that roughly halved her potential lifespan), and I don't know if she'd have been able to recover from losing it like that.

[@brimetcalf]

If I was the DM that lost everything I 100% would have gone to someone higher up in the system to try and get stuff back or get the admin in trouble

[@angramainyu4599]

I hope the Admin gets a day he has earned

[@aDivineDragoness]

Regarding the notes stuff, I highly recommend the 3-2-1 Backup Strategy: It means having at least three copies of your data, two on different media (read: devices), and at least one copy off-site. A single copy, no matter where, is never enough.

[@-vanguard-2900]

Story 3 is the exact reason me and my other DM friends make our OWN discord servers for whatever campaign we're personally running, just so that at the very least we as the DM have majority control of those archives and bits of accumulated stuff, because you never know when someone online is gonna just wake up and decide they don't give a shit

[@Stephen-Fox]

With that intro I'm scared Wife is slowly turning into a Pokémon. (...I literally wrote that before the Pikachu impersonation before the second story, heh) First story - Attempting to steal spotlight during other players intros, using homebrew without running it past the GM (though... Yeah, ideally the GM should read the sheet), rules lawyering the intro, and making a character that wouldn't work with others in a group game. Eeesh.

[@genericname2747]

Her evolution tree goes Girlfriend -> Fiancée -> Wife.

[@furiyamu]

@10:55 🎵 “Lookit ma son! Ma son is amazin!! ….” 🎶

[@Spooglecraft]

first story: the dm was absolutely right in kicking that player, no question. the clarification that the portal was intentional was interesting, thought it was just clunky handling at first. still, it was the guy's first dm session and he did a great job with it. second story: that's amazing. reminds me of my dm who sometimes, when we ask for doing crazy stuff like this, to roll against a high but possible dc or for a nat 20, depending on how unlikely it actually is. somehow, those rolls still manage to succeed quite often and it's always a little celebration in the voice chat. third story: discord is horrible for data storage and recovering deleted data is basically impossible. i noticed this when i was part of the team of a server and we wanted to reorganize the channels. iirc we lost everything in a channel during that, which really sucked, as it was some rather unique perspectives and expert knowledge that then needed reassembling. my group uses a private discord only admined by the dm, so something like in the story happening is far less likely. even so, we don't really store anything in discord, especially since we started using world anvil. that one ended up holding house rules and character stories, which used to go into discord before, but everything else is in cloud storage with edit histories or used and stored by individual group members, including the dm's notes. even the character stories that were written on discord have been archived in a google docs. backups, backups, backups, and never put someone in charge of your data you don't know. fourth story: that's so dope, teamwork and giving characters their spotlights!

[@hayashiii2717]

cant express just how much I love this series and you two ❤

[@GamerGrovyle]

12:05 Well at least you didn't tell the Necromancer player they could "hack" the abandoned Flameskull on a Nat20.

[@auburnkeyblade2491]

There is evil in this world, and that admin proves it

[@PumpkinHead108]

"Who are you and who hurt you as a child?" is probably being used three times tomorrow before lunch. Thank you!

[@dragonreaper9288]

Thanks again to Duke and Wife for this amazing series! Some wonderful heartwarming stories this time also. I wanted to also mention my fiance who is addicted to plushies and squishmallows which makes me smile every time I see your plush of the day, Wife! You guys are killing it and we love your stories!

[@jacobb9236]

The Discord story was throwing up some yellow flags for me. Something about the way it was written and the idea of a whole server hating someone just because he was "straightforward"or they were feeling protective of others seems off. Doesn't mean what happened was in any way justified, but something tells me it didn't just come from nowhere.

[@KidarWolf]

It can happen. Unfortunately for me, it has happened to me, and the only issue was a communication style mismatch caused by differences in neurotype. They took my being straightforward as me being forceful, and assumed I used a rude, haughty, or superior tone in my communications with them (not the one I read in my messages at all). If they had asked, instead of assuming, we all could have been spared a lof of unnecessary stress headaches, because we could have learned better how our communication styles differed, and worked toward a common ground. I hold no ill will against most of them at this point - their brains work their way, my brain works my way. There are two in that server whom I will never be able to find common ground with at this point, in large part because I have no desire to even try, simply because of how badly we burned the bridges between us - it is too much work for too little reward to rebuild those bridges.

[@ChandlerBaze]

"Look at me, I am the DM now." This reminded me a lot of the "Look at me. Look at me. I am the captain now" moment from the DougDoug LinkedIn video. Don't comment a whole lot, but I really enjoy the comedy of this channel. May this comment also help fuel the algorithm.

[@cassidysilver]

Also me: "I'm gonna pick the most absurd thing I can possibly pick."

[@YTNFSCC]

The DM I play under usually lets us get both gold and equipment, and in our current campaign he let us start with a common magic item. And I was like "yeah I grabbed this weird key off our attic and it's supposed to unlock any door with a 5% chance, and it just never worked for my dad so I took it" And then never used the key until my character left the campaign because he wasnt fitting the group anymore.

[@nreed200]

The second story, I know it's plugged everywhere, but I love Worldanvil for this kind of thing

[@greenhollyknight4846]

For the DM Lost everything I hope they found their old motherboard so they can recover their notes that were on it.

[@piecewisefunctioneer]

The last campaign I played was from a oneshot. The premise was the first John wick film except we were gang members. It then led us to playing a long campaign of playing the John wick film series. However, it continued to after the 4th film where john survives and now our orders from the high table was to keep John out of gang life forever as the high table can't afford for him to continue how he is doing 😂. We stopped assassin's trying to kill him, took out muggers in the park. His pet cat died so we did a heist to replace the cat without him knowing, his new gf got a disease so our spellcasters had to try and find a cure. As a campaign it was great

[@divinita6012]

That one story actually reminded me of an issue I had where I lost everything for a campaign I was building. I had a bunch of stuff saved on a discord server that had only me in it so I could organize it better but my account got hacked by someone posing as a friend needing help with another friend's game. After a week they deleted everything on the account. I was basically starting from scratch with it.

[@Sky_demoness]

Never caught a video before it premieres before so this will be fun also just recently got into dnd

[@KidarWolf]

May the admin of that Discord server forever be cursed to step on lego 1x1 wedge blocks and d4s, and all food to taste like bin juice.

[@Mariewolf_94]

that admin is such a petty, immature AH. even if the DM caused problems and/or rubbed ppl the wrong way, that gives you no frigging right to nuke someone's hard work. it doesnt matter if youre the admin, that work isnt yours, and youre not only "punishing" the DM, youre also wrongfully punishing his players that built so many memories w/ their characters, the NPCs, the world, their respective arcs theyve had, etc. i hope that admin's Discord server completely fell apart and he has no one to play DnD w/. such a douche move he pulled, and anyone who supported his decision are also AHs

[@tobb50]

I can tell you this, I have worked on stories, maps and sessions for 2 years now. If all of that was suddenly just gone, I would be so absolutely devastated.

[@Anduril74871]

DMs, here's a way to prevent the second story from happening to you: DO NOT JOIN SOMEONE ELSE'S SERVER TO PLAY D&D. Create your own! That way you're the admin!

[@tomykong2915]

tbf, with the starting gold thing, you do often get a bit of gold from background too, which could be worded as starting gold, but also, base dnd5e doesn't actually have rules for purchasing magic items

[@ChasingDeathbeds]

The discord admin one sucks, but it’s still recoverable if the group individual reaches out to discord to get their indivisible chat logs

[@AuntLoopy123]

"I make it about me, while I give you a reward for not making it about you!" HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

[@amygilmore5806]

That is what you call power trip

[@thaddeus3648]

I cannot express how many times I have had a player do something and I let out a heavy sigh and say, "This guy," quietly. Don't get me wrong, I roll with it and we have a great time, but it always takes my original plans and story plot, set it on fire, and I am improving a new story because a player had a cool idea and it's time to strike while the iron that is the party's inspiration is hot.

[@weezact7]

I've had one-shots turn into multiple-shots because our group was slow, but never into a proper campaign or beyond what was originally planned.

[@Warblaaster]

When I started playing DnD my DM let me pick one uncommon item. I a looter in any RPG, wanted a bag of holding cause I saw it once in an anime and wanted it. It was mega handle mostly for carrying corpses XD. One player had to quit the game due to time so we decieded to put the body into it. My Dm warned me that you could only keep someone inside fo 10 in game minutes (due to lack of oxigen). I asked, could I just keep the bag open ? To which he said yes. From then on if we needed to carry bodies we just put them in my bag (which we did again when we found a bunch of goblin slaves and my character didn't want them to die alone without their master).

[@jondw]

12:44 unfortunately while I've played many one shots, only 1 was intentionally a one shot and it stayed that way.

[@TheRavenLord1]

Love the Adbarbaian song. We need more of it.

[@jay2thedub]

Backups withing backups withing even more backups.

[@baconbagels5475]

12:53 me. My first campaign, which I'm still running.

[@darklazulie]

Man i felt story number three because that actually happened to me on an mc server i was apart of because an admin hated that we found out they were hacking and cheating items so they deleted over a years worth of progress (luckily we got the server back but very far back)

[@Triezu]

Our group is physically incapable of doing one shots amongst ourselves. We can successfully play a one shot run by a DM outside our group, like you, Smoking Barrel, etc. But the last time our group attempted a one shot internally it got us hooked on Shadowrun and is going on 3 years.

[@bakuiel1901]

I don't say much on here but got to say I love hearing your advice in thimese situations

[@fred_derf]

To the third story: They're called backups people! If it's important you *must* have a backup, if they're really important you should have multiple backups. This isn't 1980, storage is cheap, there is no excuse for not having a backup of your important information!

[@lordgeneralmilitantdeezy7550]

Me and my group tried changeling the dreaming and it became their favorite.

[@EternalShadow]

The second story makes my heard ache Oh my gosh Hugs to that dm and those players

[@cloverhoofs7249]

DM here had 8 years of notes disappear filled Lore, Character, Maps, And own hand made Custom RPG System Rules just be going when the google drive servers caught on fire

[@genericname2747]

My condolences.

[@Roadkill3333]

That admin is so immature, I actually hate people like that. Those players and the dm should have done something about the admin, I don't know what but they deserve justice

[@judahsmyth5398]

i feel horrible for the DM from the "DM loses EVERYTHING" story, as well as all the people who were part of that campaign, how do you even try to rebuild from that? do you try and restart the first one and hope you manage to stick to relatively similarly? that seems impossible, especially for 100 sessions

[@zearrak5704]

Wife's intro just made me think you two were gonna do a pokemon joke

[@Kirbicle]

“I don’t trust these guys” Dang that’s crazy. If only there was a tool for those situations (glances at insight), too bad no such thing even remotely close exists to see through lies or anything

[@thewolfstu]

someday you two are just gunna intro this like Duke stares directly at the camera and nods "Husband" Wife stares directly at the camera and nods "Wife" Both at the same time "Story :)"

[@dannyjaye]

While I sympathise hugely with the DM who lost all that data on the Discord server, this is why you should ALWAYS have local backups of anything like that, or at least be stored on a cloud that YOU have sole access to.

[@TheCart54321]

You haven’t experienced asshole players until at one point in your life you got players LITERALLY mocking and laughing at you for saying what an enemies AC is, or because you screwed up the measurements for but a moment on a baby dragon egg that they found….at the start of a session, and then proceed to just up and leave on the spot altogether over it. WTF These are things that actually happened to me.

[@natski_t]

Imagine DM makes it so later on, the dragon baby finds out that "father" killed their actual father/mother before it hatched.

[@turkinator1375]

You MONSTER

[@Torqegood]

You know for the discord deletion story..at that point you should all pool up your memories and continue a campaign from that. A lamd shattered and reconstructed from what everyone recalled.

[@amandahakes2226]

Dm “If you don’t come to me with a problem then I can’t fix it” Chat“We’ll I’m too intimidated now, I’m not going to come to you I’m just going to gossip and hold grudges” There’s some toxic mindsets in that conversation and it’s not the moderators.

[@8.6GivenAdqVacSysm]

Yeah, I think it would have been good for the DM in the first to have checked everyone’s starting info before the start of campaign, which could have nipped it in the bud. That aside I would have wanted to just asked them to verify their actions when they wanted to run away from the party, then narrated them disappearing back in a portal, then just cut them from the feed, and went on with the remaining members without saying anything further 😂😂. And then rewrite it a bit so the item wouldn’t be needed or could be regained. As for the whole campaign files, always backup and save copies for yourself of anything you do on electronics, but yeah it really sucks to lose all your time and work, especially if it wasn’t avoidable/unstoppable accident! Good on the DM in letting the player try to walk through any door they want. And for building a campaign that (I assume was pretty fun) from a one-shot

[@yungo1rst]

for the dm who loses everything. there is a possibility to ask discord to send their backups over. especially with the conversation with the admin saved i am sure they could argue to get it back.

[@stuartmcclurey9926]

I once had a player try a sending to his family in another realm (god power stuff) and he had a tantrum and ended up quiting the game. His room on the magic flying ship was still there for a future party member. One of my players raised a Red Dragon to. I keep hand written and typed notes backed up to several hard drives and USB sticks.

[@McWeefreemen]

There is no way i believe that last horror story. No way you type it up on discord? Thats so incredibly stupid....honestly a good life lesson 😂

[@CaseyWilkesmusic]

Discord admin made himself a bbeg memory eater in the next campaign!

[@Schyzofrenic87]

to the sad story of the discord DM let me share a saying we sysadmins use "if it doesn't live in 3 places it doesn't exist" so keep backups , local , cloud and portable for instance

[@Jadex56]

Lol the idea of a one-shot is so foreign to my group. We’ve tried but we can’t do anything quickly

[@SamBrockmann]

Is the baby dragon named Luke? ALWAYS control your materials.

[@PunkerTrottzEltern]

The second Story would have bin perfect for a World Anvil sponsorship.

[@calvinecker5969]

I have 3 YEARS of hard work (hundreds of sessions some months we played daily)... if somebody would delete that (Hand drawn maps, calendars, artworks, homebrew classes, lore, builds...) I would go damn postal... That is my D&D Lifework, basically. I would be really angry.

[@ogurasyn2354]

As a DM, I didn't know players get either starting equipment or gold, so I always was giving them both

[@DutchChick94]

"You are my wife, I apologise" this had me dying 😂😂❤

[@Thatzer]

Man, I love dragons; ; in my current Campaign (a war setting), I gave my players a Baby gold they had to save, as it's the child of the Gold allied with the Shogun they work for. They love it; it loves them. There's is a Black Dragon that tried to kill the baby gold ,and I Gold to have a few others playing different sides i just don't know which colors i wanna make them yet.

[@K4RN4GE911]

Power hungry admins were bottle fed as children.

[@yunajager6268]

Wife is turning into a Pokémon! She can only say her name! 😂😂😂

[@MrGreenElephantN]

Keep up this content it’s really fun

[@henryhere]

As for that first story, NO, you do NOT get both starting equipment and starting gold. No matter how exactly the phb words it, you can confirm this by simply making a character on D&D beyond where you see that you choose either starting equipment OR gold. You do probably start with some gold, but only as stated in your background. for example, if you're playing a noble you start with a pouch of 25gp. Even if your starting gold was enough to buy a magic item as per the rarity-based prices in the dmg, you would still need to talk to your dm to confirm whether or not you get any magic items, and you should never just start with a magic item without talking to your dm first.