Player Brings Home Made Drinks To Game... It GOES BADLY! | DnD Horror Story

[@sunzi42]

The "friend" in the first story MUST be clinically insane. Call in a person JUST to exclude this person from the game AND blame the person?

[@elmerthiendoesgames9061]

As if you needed OOC knowledge to realize that the jolly halfling holding up a pint of cider and singing a drinking song isn't an edgelord.

[@An_Actual_Rat]

Come on now, there is nothing more tryhard and edgy than a wholesome, happy, and drunk midget.

[@Barakon]

@@An_Actual_Rat Maybe if said midget is every’s 1# salesman 1997

[@dougmartin2007]

yeah, the person clearly mixed up player knowledge with character knowledge just so they could cause a problem. My question is what was the "friend's" plan? 1. Force the party to another tavern by purposely using player knowledge and claiming it is character knowledge. 2. Deny that my character knows something from the description of what my character sees. 3. DM admits they were wrong and let's me do whatever I want. (totes realistic plan!) halfling 5. bask in the glory

[@starbird3939]

Story 1 Player: (out of game) Ugh, an edgelord. DM: The halfling is singing and dancing. (Later) Player: my character doesn’t know the halfling was not a edgelord. METAGAMING Yeah… something tells me this girl… probably lost a friend and a table

[@chaos4654]

Even wierder cause Halflings are image-wise, are so hard to imagine as a brooding edgelords. All funny and little. XD

[@Sofus.]

Ended a friendship after a "friend" vomited in every room of my house except down the toilet, he was empty at that point. He whined like a child, and didn't want to help with the cleanup "too sick". He managed to call a friend, who picked him up while I could wipe vomit off the walls carpets and my bed for several hours. After that I couldn't get hold of him for 2-3 days, and when I finally did he couldn't understand why I was angry.

[@alleosussquirt8041]

I dunno about you chief but I don't exactly see someone vomiting to death and my first thoughts "Fucking help me clean up." It'd be call 911.

[@Sofus.]

@@alleosussquirt8041 You won't be hospitalized for drinking too much unless you're almost passed out. He certainly wasn't, he was a adult man with the maturity of a child.

[@thereseemstobeenanerror1219]

@@Sofus. It sounded like your friend has a real issue. I think I'm with squirt on this one.

[@Here_is_Waldo]

To be fair, you didn't say it was due to drink. I thought it might have been illness as well, regardless sounds like he might have a drinking problem.

[@Here_is_Waldo]

Not to suggest you're not right to be angry about an alcoholic throwing up everywhere, but maybe could have led with that.

[@JoeKerr019]

Homebrew absinthe, check. Bad idea from the internet. Check "we were playing mage the Ascensión". Hard stop, Oh Boy. As someone who did the same thing but with real absinthe, this shit is gonna get wild

[@kurtwagner4663]

Bruh if you brew absinthe the wrong way it can kill you pretty quickly.... They got lucky.

[@starbird3939]

Seriously. Homebrewed alcohol is no joke. I have heard horror stories of moonshine that could make you go blind.

[@kurtwagner4663]

@@starbird3939 I actually worked as a chemist for a food company in quality control and yes. Alcohol can be freaking dangerous if you not know what you are doing.

[@starbird3939]

@@kurtwagner4663 I have family members who used to (maybe still do) to make moonshine. I might bave met them during the big family reunions where GENERATIONS of people would be together. Appalashians. I only tried a sip of illegal moonshine-tasted like paint thinner-and decided I will stick to the LEGAL stuff.

[@diego2112gaming]

So that last one was likely less the "mystery packets" and more the "slamming 4 cups of 190 proof grain alcohol mixed with Sprite," since Angie didn't start losing hers until the smell got her. That's just my take as a former college kid, prolific drunk, former bartender, and someone who's made his fair share of moonshine (like the actual "copper still and pipes" moonshine, not that "mix a packet in" stuff).

[@mondenkindqueen]

My hypothetical DMPC? A wizard that used to be an adventurer that got permanently turned into a dachshund. Sweet, little bit goofy. Can do some minor earth spells.

[@LucyBean42]

I made a DMPC with a simple clause to leave the party to become the BBEG (in secret). I made her weird and crazy and the wrong party alignment (she was LE in a party mostly CG) to encourage the party to throw her out after her job as a teaching tool for new players was done. She is silly and embarrassing so they could get over the initial hump of talking in character. The players liked her so much despite being so oil-and-water against the party, they didn’t want her to leave to go become the BBEG. I still run this game, and it's going very well. It's one of the most fun characters I've ever run.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

My first thought was: "How do you make absinth at home?" The answer was worse than what I was expecting.

[@AdmiralBlackstar]

"exorcist all over the place" is my new favorite euphemism for vomiting.

[@jaredthehawk3870]

Angie should have just brewed a batch of mead. It's much safer and easier to make. Not to mention it's likely to be more people's tastes than whatever was passing for absinthe. Mind you quality absinthe is the good stuff. Also you never drink the green fairy straight. You dilute it with sugar and cold water using the absinthe spoon method.

[@maximusdork3336]

Me, an emetophobe (vomit phobia), listening to the last story: dear God, why am I still watching this?!

[@erindunn6689]

Ah, a literal homebrew tale. This is gonna be good…

[@gamereaperoz]

The only time I made a "DMPC" was when I ran a game where none of the party wanted to play a healer. After getting sick of placing potions of healing everywhere I decided to make a cleric with next to no combat ability and a timid personality (so that she wouldn't spend much time with social encounters).

[@Engineofwarr]

Only DMPC that I employed in my campaign was a Dwarven Artificer/Life Cleric named "Garrim", who the group hired for the use of his Submarine mech to get to an underwater dungeon. (Long story). He was the Medic/healer (group didn't have one). Alot of his lines were things like "quit yer winge-ing!" or "I got ya! now stop cryin' and I'll get you a lolipop!" as he would heal the group (the Paladin complained alot when he got hit... When he was the tank. As oddly, did the Barbarian). The group loved Garrim, as he had character and wans't just a Healbot or a chaufer but since he was DMPC, he stayed back from the spotlight and let the players work/RP (unless they directly spoke to him, which he would talk plenty). He survived to the end of the campaign to help defeat the BBEG. Helping the group by piloting his "G.E.T.R" (the submarine mech thing), healing (mostly) and transporting the group around at the 3rd act of the campaign. I'm proud of him but was nervous and terrified if he talked too much. The many tales of bad DMPC's in the back of my mind.

[@RuinQueenofOblivion]

I don't have any DMPC Horror stories so I can't really post them to the subreddit. But I am a DM who utilizes them without making it a horror story, so I will share my wisdom on how to do it without being problematic. The most important thing to remember is to cut your ego out of the equation. The best way to play one is to fill a role in the group no one else wants to, but you can do it just to have fun as well. You are doing this to HELP your group, so your ego should never enter the equation, focus on helping them have fun. I keep my characters at the same power level as the rest of the group and don't give them anything special. I have fun, my group has fun, and they are okay with me playing a character because I do it right. If you can do it right, it can be a rewarding experience all around. I agree with another RPG Horror Story KZbinr Mordekai who differentiates between the good and bad uses with different terms. He uses the term DMPC for any instance of this, but he uses the term Dungeon Master Mary Sue (DMMS) to describe the problematic ones.

[@Xebelan]

My DMPCs tend to be unobtrusive usually either a cleric or rogue, because frequently people don't like being the healspam or the lockpicker. They're hired as needed by the party. My stock healer is Samme Argyle, itinerant Dwarven pilgrim. My go to rogue is Pip the Almost Human.

[@PaladinGear15]

Metagaming is kinda a difficult thing to deal with, cause there's two extremes to it. I've seen DMs just let players metagame like crazy, like to the point where they're looking up monster stats and reading ahead in the module, but I've also met DMs who are like "You can't just KNOW fire elementals are immune to fire! You didn't roll for it, that's metagaming, you spend this turn attacking with fireball, it deals no damage, next time don't try to metagame!".

[@dylanfrancis5996]

So… Common sense that a being of fire might like fireball snacks = metagaming? Yeesh…

[@GodOfPlague]

@dylanfrancis5996 but fight fire with fire right? Lol no

[@GarkKahn]

So you can't even guess things? Like putting off a fire using water?

[@Mrnoob951]

@@GarkKahn Nah if a DM goes that far it's time to find a new table.

[@asioca1992]

At that point the gm is just punishing you for having common sense.

[@Sanodi21]

I mentioned this in another video with the first story, that's the kind of friend you call an ex friend. Calls up OP who's looking to play only to use them in malicious compliance against the DM who *rightfully* has been calling them out in meta gaming. Who then proceeds to have a 20+ minute argument with the DM once she's called out again. OP is better with her in his life and the party is too.

[@pippo17173]

She pulled a petty revenge style reddit post only she ended up showing her true colors.

[@Sanodi21]

@@pippo17173 Would it be considered petty revenge/malicious compliance if it blew up their face? They lost their game and lots of friends.

[@johnschroeder163]

It would seem that our budding brewmeister should have ALSO researched the proper way to SERVE absinthe, not just the recipe. It is a rather elaborate ritual involving a perforated/slotted spoon balanced across the absinthe vessel with sugar cubes piled on top. Then a slow trickle of cold water is delicately poured over the sugar into the glass, mixing with the absinthe. This causes it to change color. The concoction is then flamed. After a few seconds, a quick puff will serve to put out the flames, and THEN you drink. This process not only cuts the alcohol by the addition of water, but the partially caramelized sugar cuts the bitterness of the original drink. The flaming further reduces the alcohol content. All rather silly I suppose, but it can look really impressive when done right.

[@nobodyimportant2470]

I was going to post the same. Several traditional spirits are meant to be diluted in some way before drinking because certain oils key to the flavor will stay in suspension in the distilled product but need to be brought out of suspension to awaken the flavor. This greatly reduces shelf stability though which is why it is done just before serving.

[@PrideOfFantasy100]

We've actually been using DMPCs in an alternative way. Specifically, they can be called upon as needed and in some cases when the party splits up between jobs (being in completely different areas) the players not in the current group take over a DMPC to play so that any session has everyone playing, even without their character. Granted, we've only been doing it here and there but it's been fun so far. And the DMPCs we use are usually weaker than the PCs but with one special ability to make em interesting.

[@nobodyimportant2470]

That is a great way of using them. And I agree that DMPCs should almost always be weaker than the party. Almost because of the exception of getting a group of players new to the game and trying to figure the system out. Then a stronger DMPC takes on the role of a trainer or exam proctor(test to join adventurers guild) who stays back and advises the group only stepping in if shit hits the fan. The group will quickly graduate and leave the DMPC behind. If they refuse to learn because of the training wheels the DM tosses something to strong for the DMPC who tells the group to run while distracts it for a heroic death.

[@PrideOfFantasy100]

@@nobodyimportant2470 oh man, hard agree. I've done that and I've also made them cause more problems than they ever solve. Like one DMPC had to be saved because he was possessed essentially, turning him into a boss that they couldn't outright kill. It's just a massive amount of possibilities when done right that can really help make situations. Plus if you have no one in the group who can do a specific thing, I don't think it's wrong to give them help on their terms (as with the DMPC allies they can call upon) to fill a gap.

[@dionnejinn3789]

The last story was SOOOOOO gross, but it was told in such a fashion that I just couldn't stop laughing... Thankfully my groups have never been too keen on the alcohol during games (we have sometimes had "after game" parties, though) because usually at least half of us are there by car, and drinking and driving is bad...

[@starbird3939]

Story 4 Oh noooooo. “Homemade absinthe” OH NOOOOOOOO Look, I have had family members who made moonshine (most of them live in the Appalachians and chances)-but I will never drink “homemade” booze. ESPECIALLY booze made by newbies. Please, folks. DRINK RESPONSIBLY.

[@flexiblenerd]

Mage: The Ascension sounds AWESOME.

[@dylanmahaffey8920]

It's a fun game, best played with creative people.

[@supremegodemperorpalpatine4872]

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder... Thank you, I'm here all week. Try the buffalo wings.

[@angiep2229]

It wasn't me. Some other Angie. Though I did once bring a neat prohibition-era red wine called "Riddle Bricks" to a Call of Cthulhu game, since the game took place during prohibition era.

[@blueboxy21]

The Homebrew got so good the universe hit him IRL-

[@ethankaryadi37]

This is probably why I’m not touching any drinks besides water, Thai tea, and Ice Choccy. Moonshiners and home brewers can stiff it.

[@marybdrake1472]

They are very lucky no one had to go to the emergency room after drinking that crap. Just wow, just wow man.

[@starbird3939]

Story 2 I had a guide DMPC that ended up being cool and powerful-a little too much so I quickly sent her away to “escort the party goers” while the party ventured deeper in the castle. I read the room and sent her off so I could focus on the PC’s like I should have

[@phobiawitch835]

The closest I have to DMPCs were a Cleric I played in a small game I was running for my little sibling who was playing alone, and an NPC that my party adopted in Icewind Dale, a wolf named Danak. Other than that, maybe you can consider the Duergar ranger, who was an NPC I made a slightly lower level than the party. For reference, all I did was change the stats of a basic duergar, and give him a nervous personality, so the party had a way to get information they were after, as literally no other npc in this duergar group would be willing to talk according to the module, even with crazy high checks. He joined the party as a guide temporarily, leaving after they killed his former king, so he could help his fellow Duergar while they fought a dragon. This duergar was Gramdus, and he became INFAMOUS real fast as he was somehow a CRIT Machine. At least one crit rvery single round, sometimes a crit on every attack. And I was rolling stuff on Roll20 at the time, so the entire party was seeing this, lmao. He never rolled a single natural 1 in the 5 or 6 sessions he was around. When he left, I had him give the party a magic item that I decided to come up with to try and explain why this one npc somehow crit more in a few sessions than the entire party had in the entire first year of our game, lol. They still have this magic item.

[@mentalrebllion1270]

That’s so cool! I’m playing Icewind Dale myself and already on the duergar part. We have a kobold we adopted as part of the party, one who is of 13 total we adopted but this is the only one that joined the party. We needed to fill space at that far into the module. But yeah! The duergar situation for us was we used my character’s disguise self spell, I disguise myself as a duergar youth, and my party pretended I was another prisoner and threw me in with the real Duergar prisoner. Between my characters outlander knowledge, doing well at just convincing the duergar they really were just a duergar youth who was disoriented and lost, they got enough clues to narrow down the area they needed to go for the next part. As for how we convinced the duergar, well my character is a drow and knows undercommon as one of their languages. We took advantage of that to get the information and the duergar prisoner is still none the wiser. It was a shining character moment for my normally very shy character but hey, that’s what they played up! Isn’t his fault the duergar assumed he was just a sympathetic youth of his own race. (Went the round about way of information gathering by simply letting the Duergar assume and talk and only giving some prompts as he bragged. It was more to follow up on information as I already had the journal with some information already, just not the location I needed to go, got high investigation to find that).

[@phobiawitch835]

@@mentalrebllion1270 Thats awesome! Hope your group is enjoying the module! And I remember the Kobolds, lol. The Reborn Warlock of my group was a kobold for a bit (he was, for a while, a parasitic mask, until he finally got a body of his own from his patron, made from Chardalyn). As a result, the entire group has a love for kobolds. Though they, recently blue up a few friendly undead kobolds by self-fireballing themselves lol

[@mentalrebllion1270]

@@phobiawitch835 oh those undead kobolds for us got petrified by a basilisk. Took it out though. Dm is trying to keep the party from adopting all the kobolds though. The numbers are growing. And they all have names and personalities we gave them. They mostly run the inn, you know the one I’m referring to, that we own. The group laughs and says we should give our group a dragon themed name just to round out the hilarity of us having so many kobolds we are responsible for but having nothing remotely dragon about us. But hey, in that module, the greatest treasure you can own is consistent food and shelter and we got both. So I suppose we are dragons sending kobolds to protect our “hoard.” Actually we asked the kobolds, since they were done repairing the inn, and we have way too many, to start building a survival bunker under the inn. The kobolds are now having a blast trapping it last I heard. Told them they better have a guide for the townspeople when it’s needed ready to go when the word goes out that something is going down. And yes, we also have that one item from that cave around Easthaven. We successfully snuck it home to the inn. Lots of good rolls.

[@DavidWright1138]

"Greasy layer of sick." 🤢 Eff you, Doge. And eff OP. That was vile. Keep up the good work (but that like was hard to click on this one) 🙂

[@WolfHreda]

This is why I'll never brew any alcohol myself except mead. Mead is simple and straightforward. If I want absinthe, I've got most of a bottle left of some good French shit.

[@etcetera1995]

I've got some plans for a DMPC who I've gotten leave *from my players* to join in on the adventure, but my plan for her is to let *them* decide how her story goes. They're going to be the ones who decide how she develops, not me. ... And she's only ever gonna take point if my players are completely stumped and ask for a nudge lol

[@Barakon]

Y’a could have just ordered Shiba aka wormwood & mix that with the everclear? But make sure it’s the living plant.

[@Rani-bv7hw]

I'm my last game as a DM, I had a bard DMPC. My party didn't have a support character. I only made her interact with players if they interacted with her and she didn't have a single damaging spell outside of vicious mockery. Later on in the campaign my brother joined the game with a sorry character and my bard took her leave and became an NPC that my party enjoyed visiting.

[@thefruitsong]

This was the *second* mysterious drink DND story I've heard that ended in disaster. (The other involved the other orifice projectile exploding) Was not expecting them to accidentally make lean, tho. Don't order mysterious packets online children.

[@RiveroftheWither]

The first warning that something wasn't right should have been the smell. Actual Absinthe smells like licorice.

[@92mx3]

Mystery packet, schmystery Schmacket, it might have had more to do with the 4+ glasses of Everclear. ;)

[@bryantspears119]

The title alone drew my attention. Let’s see how this homemade beverage situation goes.

[@Anhellsin]

I'm sorry but shouting I'm a mage and don't watch me do magic or ill get paradox points while drunk sounds epic

[@damienhailey118]

I have used a DMPC exactly once. We were running Starfinder for the first time, so I wanted a taste of it on the player side as well, so I rolled up a simple Android Soldier. I made a point of trying to be as unobtrusive as possible.

[@Kaiser8513]

I never thought I had a stomach weak enough that I'd feel the need for a warning on the detail for vomit. Enjoyed the video either way but really brought awareness to myself

[@slagarcrue85]

4 stories I 21 minutes. Ahh your best doggie. Who’s a sweet dog.

[@yannickluecker3983]

Aaah, DMPCS... My first campaign, as emberassed as I am to say this, was a DMPC filled railroad like you've never seen. Fortunately, the experience was so miserable for me as well that my modern style as a GM is basically the opposite, with no DMPCs at all and almost exclusively player led events. ...Although, I currently have a game of Hollow Earth Expedition running where I made something like a DMPC again: Caipirinha, a native guide and part-time bar owner who was hired to guide the party to an ancient temple deep in the Amazon jungle. Built with slightly higher stats than the characters starting out but not leveling with them, she is a jack-of-all-traits designed to competently cover her own A** in a pinch, as well as conveniently disappear into the treetops unnoticed whenever the party could actually use her help for anything other than navigation. Oh, and she always acts like everything shocking or exotic to the group is, like, the most normal thing ever. Trying to cross the territory of a cannibal tribe? "Hey, my uncle lives there! He's a really great chef~"

[@DahLekKnight]

Some homebrew just makes you sick to your stomach.

[@letsplaysvonaja1714]

the first story doesn't even make sense the edgelord impression is the meta gaming, while the nice halfling impression is the character knowledge not the other way around

[@amberkat8147]

My last notable DMNPC was an incubus pretending to be an elf. He knocked up the bard because he wanted a child so he could learn about love. But he never betrayed the party, and had no intention of doing so. He viewed it almost transactional- he got to observe some interesting people and further his own personal research, so he helped them out because they were interesting and useful.

[@lasmirandadennsiewillja9435]

So, less The Exorcist and more Team America.

[@DnDDoge]

That's pretty apt

[@nemanjajovanov]

Honestly, the 'mysterious packet' could've just been legit ingredients for absinthe prepared badly. Kids, don't drink over four cups of absinthe if you're not REALLY GOOD at holding liquor - or better just don't to be safe.

[@HarukaLPs]

Oof, not only is there a DMPC, the DMPC is also THAT guy

[@l0stndamned]

I feel your example of a DMPC is more a case of a tag-along NPC. I feel the correct response in the first one is to call out the "friend" then and there. I've know gamers who homebrew booze. They've thankfully always been the sort who know they're doing and don't trust random internet packets.

[@SirXer]

Wooooo, was so excited to see your first video of the year posted! Wonderful kitty content and narration as always Doge :)

[@Redtail45044]

Mn. The only DMPC I have isn't very active-he's an innkeeper they're helping on and off with his business, in the hopes that it'll take root and they may get some money out of it. Otherwise he offers them discounted food and drink, and a place to stay, so long as they're willing to help him with what work is to be had...ergo, the standard chores an inn would have to keep things running smoothly. So far? It's gone well. He hasn't done anything to take the spotlight, and even given them some jobs they've liked so far when they ask him for work in the area. Worst thing that's happened was when giant spiders were driven into the area and wrecked some of the building. As to that last one? Dear gods.

[@starbird3939]

Story 3 Cheaters gonna cheat. Glad there were no kids involved but feel bad for the injured parties.

[@FedericoVetencourt]

My first game as a DM I was EXTREMELY inexperienced a DM (since we lost our DM barely 5 months into the hobby) and it was entirely made up system and yes, I wanted to play. So my character was some sort of "sempai" to the party, he had multiple skills (good in game explanation I swear) and would spend most of the downtime teaching the party how to wield their powers, almost never got involved in fights and the social interaction was to act as a creator of a love triangle between two of the PCs (though he was supposed to lose that romance in the end, but you know, dramatic tension and stuff)

[@ErdriedDeirdre]

That last story was hilarious. 🤣

[@heatherharrison264]

I wonder how long ago the absinthe story was. Absinthe used to be illegal in many countries due to a moral panic that took place early in the 20th century. It took roughly a century, but governments finally decided that absinthe wasn't any more dangerous than other booze, and they legalized it. I wonder if this story happened in a time and place when absinthe was illegal. Otherwise, I would think that it would be easier to go to the liquor store and buy some absinthe.

[@Dragons4Dummies]

I have a ton of "DMPC's" but my world is post apocalyptic and relies on the services of many adventurers to stop the various threats that exist outside of and inside of the few humanoid settlements. So, did I build 12+ player characters to involve in the story? Yes. But they are all in the background, and all doing their own quests except the times the party joins with them for major quests, where the npc's still tend to go off and do a different path to effectively lower the difficulty of ambushes, and not actually join them on screen most of the time. Also the "high level" party works directly under the king and sort of doesn't have time for them. While the lower level party always intersects with them before potential party wipe situations show up.

[@MrChainsawAardvark]

Admittedly, the people I play with don't like beer - but I have in fact safely made Kvass (a Slavic near-beer made from dark bread. Life of Boris on KZbin has a good recipe.) Nor have we combined harder substances with gaming. Worst thing to get on one of my books was grape soda, and we started keeping our books on the buffet table behind us after that.

[@amberkat8147]

Home-brewing is great, I know someone who makes mead and I'm thinking of getting into it myself, But you don't make anything with everclear- it's far too strong. And never add mystery powder to anything! I think cheater absinthe would be vodka plus some wormwood and maybe a few other herbs, left to sit a while then strained. Or brew it like you're making mead but add the wormwood and other herbs at the start instead of cherries, apples, raisins, black tea, orange peel, or whatever else you'd add to add flavor to it.

[@vortega472]

Look at all them kitties - Two Baby House Panthers and a orange Tabby Baby. Oh so cute. And I say the fake Absinthe is actually a Paradox attack! Also I'm sure the Absinthe had nothing to do with the *ahem* repeat - it's the Everclear base - you don't guzzle 4 glasses and expect to stand tall unless your Ron Swanson.

[@breadwitch4355]

"I would of sent him a episode of my little pony friendship is magic" should of been what was said, lol

[@asioca1992]

1st Story: Nobody this petty about being called out for bad behavior deserves neither friends nor a table to play D&D at. I bet she thought she was going to catch the GM in a gotcha moment worthy of r/maliciouscompliance and get all kinds of pats on the back for "putting the GM in their place" only to trip at the starting line by metagaming to assume that OP was playing an edgelord, and then doubling down shortly afterwards by getting into an argument with the GM. I'm glad OP saw a lost cause and just left, they deserved better than this though. 2nd Story: I've been in several campaigns with a GMPC and it's really a scale based on how forced the GM makes them within the campaign vs. how much the players want them to be around. I'd prefer a game without a GMPC than with, but as long as the GM isn't egregious with it, it's not necessarily the worse thing in the world. 3rd Story: Not sure why people use ttrpgs to find dates or cheat on their SO. Feels like there are easier ways to go about it, though M and W deserve one another if they're willing to cheat on their SO this easily with another player at the table. 4th Story: This honestly feels like less of a horror story and more of a comedy skit centering on a series of unfortunate events. It really should go without saying that drinking alcohol made from mystery packets is something that one shouldn't do, especially if you're mixing the drink in with soda that masks the taste and tricks you into going far beyond your safe alcohol tolerance. At least he threw it up rather than getting alcohol poisoning or worse, so there's that at least.

[@bradymenting5120]

one of these days I'm going to play a character whose appearance is dripping with EDGE, but is actually a jovial, happy go lucky fellow.

[@vampire9545]

Here's how I would of handled that rogue story - ok ur in another tavern, and describe what was supposed to be. And they do that again. I just repeat. If they go somewhere else, the rogue is still there being a halfling dancing n drinking 😆

[@K_i_t_t_y84]

Commenting to support you Doge! ♥ love your kitties!

[@0bliviance]

Perfect afternoon with the doge.

[@broke_af_games9661]

For dmpcs, I just run them a "tutorial guides" for the setting to piecemeal lore dumps

[@doingoloingo2905]

I don't know what bro thought was gonna happen with literal absinthe

[@jacksparrowismydaddy]

I ran a game which I basically had a second group of DMPCs... I had my players temporarily use them like henchmen.

[@richardlott5580]

I have done DM PCs in the past. But they are NEVER the driving force in quests. when i have done them it is because the group is particularly small 2-3 PCs and need backup. Generally a healer and they go about their own business once the current quest gets completed.

[@GodOfPlague]

I'd have been puking as well by the descriptions of the smell

[@Nyrufa]

"homemade absinthe" - OH SHIT!

[@Zolanark]

"Can't use ooc knowledge cuz I left the tavern before you explained they weren't an edgelord, haha in your face DM" My response would have been "As your character in-universe would have no idea what an Edgelord even is, I'm ruling that your choice to leave the tavern before realizing you were staring at a *drunkenly singing happy midget* is not only stupid, but metagaming, now shut up before I toss you out of my table"

[@Nikodraws149]

Local non dm, dmpc defender here. I am a rabid defender of dmpcs because in my experience they've been a great way to let the dm also play along and not just narrate and lifeguard the herd is cats they've been given. But even I have to say. 3 dmpcs from one dm in one party is a lot??? Sounds like a recipe for just watching the dm talk to themselves for extended periods of time. Usual our dms will place around a few dmpcs and let us one or two, or none of that's how it plays out, to take along with us on any given event and that works out pretty well. Having too many dmpcs in one party seems like it wouldn't even be fun for the dm at some point?? When they are managing and rping so many characters that are just them, especially if there's not a very large party of other players.

[@chaos4654]

a homebrew, ruined by a home brew. XD

[@rocketprime]

I'm not sure the last story counts as "RPG" horror. Yes, what happened was horrible, but it had almost nothing to do with the gameplay.

[@SquirrelGamez]

"Friend", my ass. Also, I'm proud to say, I don't do DMPCs. I do NPCs that that my players actually *ask* for and are disappointed when they part ways. Pro Tip: if you make a DMPC, don't give them the spotlight, use them to give the PCs spotlight. Have the DMPC be the follower, not the leader. "DON'T WATCH ME DO MAGIC! YOU'LL GIVE ME PARADOX!" Best drunk line ever.

[@leekonze7441]

I was in a Shadowrun game where the GM brought in a GMPC. The GMPC started as an employer, the turned into one of our antagonists. After being our antagonist for awhile and killing off a party member, the GM tried to insert the character into the party as our leader. We, as the players, went against this notion, so our characters refused. The GMPC then mind controlled all of the party to follow his lead, and then used mind control magic to force one of the women in the party to sleep with him. We told the GM to go f himself, and we all left

[@DaZebraffe]

Tch. "The rogue is now AWOL." So many people use that abbreviation incorrectly. "AWOL" does not simply mean "not there/missing." It's a military acronym, and it stands for "away without leave." It means that you had an obligation to be there, and chose to abandon that obligation without sufficient cause. NO player has ANY obligation to be at the table.

[@solarchos4352]

The RPG Hell series (i.e. the Sierra Saga) has one of the WORST DMPCs I've ever heard of. Critcrab had a field day with that series. Also...MICRO-PANTHERS!!!!!

[@tenchraven]

You concerned me at "absinthe", terrified me with "everclear" and "packets". Mage includes transmutation, but this is alchemy most vile. The books are more important than the drunk. What college allows drinking in a common room/lounge? This is... nope. Everclear is only good for fuel, and should never be taken internally.

[@ShiruKitty]

i love that last story.

[@slagarcrue85]

Ahh I love your 6 kitties doggie.

[@gabrielmajere8852]

I had a player who was super flaky and constantly at least an hour late. If shs wasn't the party's only rogue, I would have kicked her. The party was entering a trap heavy cavern. I had a back up plan. As usual Player A was late. Entering a room the group heard someone calling for help. There was someone hanging in a net. The party helped her down. She extended a hand and said, I'm Teeli Then said, we just met, and this might sound crazy, but I'm on this quest, so help me maybe. She wasn't over powered, in fact I made her under powered and gullable. The party fell in love with her. And because they did help her with her quest, she considered herself part of their party, actually, she considered them joining her party, herself the leader of the party.

[@jusstyno]

cringe dms: DMPC that is the only main character and omnipotent. me: a funny lil goblin lad who shows up every now and again to gamble with the group.

[@slagarcrue85]

Only in dmd horrors stories do reruns never get stale,

[@balazsvarga1823]

If that is 4 vodka shot glasses of absinthe, okey. If he drank 4 regular glasses of the stuff, he was lucky to be alive.

[@littlegiantj8761]

First mistake...homebrew *liquor* Second mistake...homebrew liquor *at the game table*

[@hayden1351]

could have used an emetophobia CW for that last story Doge my guy, I was eating chicken wings and literally could not hit the pause button 😭

[@mariequeerie4645]

I kinda wish there had beer a trigger warning for that last story. I got a strong gag reflex and kinda struggled there

[@vatatheoanonymous3705]

I am enjoying the video.

[@Ironbattlemace]

Don't blame the absinthe if your friends can't handle it :D There was nothing wrong with the alcohol, it was just your dumb friend that decided to slam gazillion drinks of it.

[@REfan2002]

The title, I'm in.

[@Jermbot15]

Okay going to say the obvious thing first. That player doesn't need to be in that game. That being said if I were the DM I would have just dropped OP's character in the next place they checked. Given the problem player only stuck around long enough to hear halfling and there is almost certainly more than one halfling alive in the world. If she calls me on it I explain it's a different halfling, since the first halfling she saw was wearing black, scowling from the corner and had a prominent scar over his eye, but this second completely different halfling was cheerfully dancing on the bar with a smiling round face.

[@evanbrown7325]

Because if you order something online, then it's automatically weird and untrustworthy right? Absinth is just botanicals steeped in a high proof alcohol, so it wasn't the 'homemade absinthe' that did the player in, but the high alcohol content of the everclear used to create it. Wether it was a homemade drink or not has literally ZERO to do with getting alcohol poisoning.

[@destinymcintire2188]

The last story is why I'll always be the sober chaperone of any friend group I'm in. Alcohol never appealed to me, even when I turned of legal drinking age, and with this it's only solidified my disdain for the Devils Nectar. To those who like booze more power to you just don't let it consume your life. Or anything else for that matter.

[@nezumijinnai3945]

"the Devils Nectar" 😂😂😂😂😂

[@AlexanderTF]

That whole Friend story, in the 1st part ... just makes me confused as to why their friends if the said friend treats them like crap ... cringiest ones I ever added were Jay and Silent Bob for a joke, the players chose who to approach so that developed a town full of reocurent npcs but I kinda am proud to have 1 DMPC a dog that is a Doguss Ex Machina that saves them if theres too much bad luck and the story spins out badly...

[@shadiafifi54]

First story: Yeah, you used OP like a pawn in your games, were you really expecting them to stick around for more shitty treatment? Especially after they trusted you? And the player wasn't making a point about metagaming; if anything, she was trying to get back at the DM, because he constantly warned her against metagaming. Since he tried to stop her from metagaming, she's now enacting malicious compliance, effectively holding up the game just to piss off the GM and the other players. Naturally, it blew up in her face when OP ditched the game, and according to the comments from the story, she's no longer their friend, and has been kicked from the group after that shameful display.

[@lalunafate]

Sheesh, story 1. That person is not a friend at all.