What's the worst thing a player has ever done in your game? #1

[@ShadowDude6488]

Was DMing Storm King's Thunder, and the party finds a clearing in the woods, where they see goblins dancing around a stump that seemed to have a flame on it, but they couldn't see what it was and didn't understand Goblin. One player decided to cast Fireball centered around the stump to get the maximum number of goblins. I asked them to just roll the damage as they may not survive even if they succeed the dex save. They rolled high enough to where dex saves didn't need to be made and were happy with themselves, until I described the aftermath. "Surrounding the stump are nothing but piles of ash, and atop the charred stump, you then see a now burnt sweet roll and a candle wick slowly burning out, and next to it is a small pile of ash with a burning pink bow." It was then the players realized they incinerated a goblin child's birthday party. The player then had to make a wisdom saving throw with disadvantage, resulting in them becoming chaotic evil, losing friendships with several party members, and getting targeted by goblins whenever they showed up.

[@zachmansfield6640]

Nooooooooooo

[@kaimagnus5760]

Since when does Goblin Slayer know Fireball? Lol

[@henrymcbark7337]

Since when did goblin lives matter.

[@user-fe2ne7qx9z]

Delta Green is a Call of Cthulhu setting where you play as the paranormal CIA.

[@uberspaz7484]

Yeah, pretty much. The game even describes your players in the Program/conspiracy as "quasi-intelligence agency and quasi-military".

[@UltimateAkuma]

Two words: Silver Tongue... Need I say more?

[@you_are_being_judged]

Yes you have

[@liathedoll]

Bard?

[@UltimateAkuma]

@@liathedoll Yup, its painful

[@otakubancho6655]

I think Sheogorath has been rather busy with these characters!😂😂😂

[@Doctor_Doom_Of_Latveria]

Why todd WHY

[@otakubancho6655]

@@Doctor_Doom_Of_Latveria why not,Todd says!😋😋😋

[@Somemidwestcomedian]

I lost a friend of suicide about 8 years ago and it's never stopped hurting. Only have any friends like him anymore. I don't really have many friends in general these days. But I can guarantee you if you think people won't Miss you, you're wrong.

[@uberspaz7484]

I just got into Delta Green! It's a d100 rules game where you act on behalf of a clandestine conspiracy to stop incursions of elder gods while you also have to balance your 9-5 day job as an "ordinary" government worker. I haven't had a chance to actually *play* it, but it seems like it'll be a ton of fun as my first DM (or "Handler") thing because the combat is as unforgiving as the consequences for not paying attentions thinking of little details during an investigation.

[@aiodensghost8645]

Sounds like Persona on steroids

[@uberspaz7484]

@@aiodensghost8645 I don't know what Persona is beyond a video game and psychology vocab.

[@Brenskii101]

I'm working on a delta green campaign to play with some friends and my two brothers. I'm using D&D rules, stats skills, etc, so that my players don't have to learn a completely new rpg system. I am tweaking it a bit so that things like guns work with the D&D system and also feel fun to use.

[@FizzieWebb]

@@uberspaz7484 Persona as a series nowadays is more "Teenage kids learn to control their inner darkness and use it to fight against the end of the world while also going through typical highschool drama." A more apt description might be stuff like Soul Hackers, where life as a whole is pretty standard, but there are people who have devices that let them see and talk to and summon daemons, leading to stuff like CEO's, office workers, cashiers, and just ordinary people, balancing their everyday lives with being part of an underground society where with government and corporate organizations working alongside organized crime syndicates to prevent wild daemons and entities from taking over power plants and stuff to wreak havoc.

[@trueblade39]

Five people were perfectly okay with letting my character's young, naive, impressionable siblings be taken in by the notorious Victoro and Ammalia Cassalanter (the ones who sold their own kids' souls to the rule of the Nine Hells to restore their wealth) and let them get gaslighted into believing they were being adopted into a loving family. And walk out on my character instead of helping her convince her siblings of the danger they were in. And then basically say "we have other priorities than your siblings". And one of the other PCs even decided that was a good time to tell my character he "just wanted to be friends" since it was established by that point she had a crush on him. Also, that "priority" was "invade the former Archduke of Avernus' forge to rescue the DM's girlfriend's character's adoptive dad by making a plan that wasn't a plan, had no back ups or contingencies, no exit strategy, and was based on putting all of our eggs in the basket of "let's assume we can trust this devil to help us" when that devil was my character's personal nemesis who was under no contractual obligation NOT to stab us in the back. DM's girlfriend was ready to lead us all into the lion's den thinking her plot armor would save her, and the rest of us would make do or whatever. Also, how everyone was willing to gloss over the fact that they straight up lied to a unicorn about delivering her safely out of Avernus only to send her to Mordenkainen himself, who snapped off her horn, dumped her in the Avernian wasteland, and told her it was all our fault for her predicament. That unicorn came after us later and legitimately tried to kill us until she got banished to hopefully a better place, but my character never trusted wizards again and was horrified to see that DM's girlfriend still thought Old Mordy was a stand up guy even after we learned of his lies

[@myricae_6305]

God damn, that party sucked. I hope you've found a new players group ://

[@gasmonkey1000]

Jeez, at least tell me you got revenge

[@lukemartineau490]

4:50 Who...has the AUDACITY...to side WITH someone who cheats?????

[@EstherNewell]

i know that story broke my heart.

[@yarion4774]

Propel a narrative in which they weren't happy, he was the bad guy and you simply stepped in to help her and things got more serious. It might have been wrong but he was abusive, a liar and overall terrible for her. Etc etc. People are easily swayed and if they had some reason to dislike a certain aspect of the husband that might be enough to pry open a hole in their trust to that person.

[@calebowens693]

With interpersonal conflicts, morality often gets sidelined due to other factors. People siding with the wayward spouse were probably better friends with them than they were with the faithful spouse. It's extremely unjust and shouldn't happen, but it's how people tend to make decisions. At the end of the day, if someone wants to do something, they will likely find some means of justifying it. The means for doing that vary tremendously (cheating on your diet by eating a slice of pie is very different from murdering someone for the money in their wallet). The Nuremberg Interviews was an excellent book with psych interviews from war criminals awaiting trial at Nuremberg. The book is full of people who did horrifying things, but are determined to not acknowledge their actions as deliberate choices.

[@crusader8102]

Not necessairly the worst, but for sure the funniest and making me consider why I spend time preparing for sessions. Low level PCs, our paladin wanted to buy a chain shirt to get better ac, but was lacking like 25gp. Decided that the best way to earn that money is selling another party member into slavery to then rescue him and run with the money. He sold our dwarvern fighter into slavery for 30gp. And the dwarf decided it's a great idea. Cue, the 4 hour session used like 10 minutes of what I had prepped and then I had to make everything on the fly as we went. Still think it was the funniest session I was a part of, but also was slightly mad that I didn't get to use basically anything I prepared for the session.

[@dizzydial8081]

Save it for later.

[@crusader8102]

@@dizzydial8081 dw, managed to use it later on, but was still slightly annoying that I spent a bunch of time making sure I remember everything important and stuff just to not use it at all. But mostly I was laughing my ass off at the absurdity of the whole ordeal.

[@blakeetter280]

In this same vein, I’m running a campaign centered around pirates and owning a ship yada yada. Inciting incident was supposed to be them fighting the guard, fleeing, and having their ship sunk only to wake up on a mysterious island and start the actual plot. HOWEVER the captain managed to talk down the guard using logic and reasoning and leave unharmed. No inciting incident, no sunken ship, just straight on to the boss. Of the campaign. At lvl4. So yeah just had them sink because the boss controlled the weather (I got lucky this was actually a feature) and I managed to BS them back onto the right path. But yeah, that’s how my party almost derailed the entire campaign and died in session one by being calm reasonable adults.

[@kotzpenner]

Feel you, 2 weeks ago, first session of a new campaign with a few new players and a few experienced ones. After 3 hours of walking around and almost murdering each other and a party split into 4 v 1 the one alone player finally met the first npc (they somehow missed every monster and npc up to this point) who takes him in and starts explaining the countryside and his story. I couldn’t even finish the second sentence when the PC says „I draw my sword and attack“ Completely out of left field by then. Cue being almost murdered and begging for my life (as the NPC). Now it went from a shipwrecked story with Scandinavian setting into a revenge story of this lone random fisherman. Never would have guessed.

[@Playradise]

​@@crusader8102thats the big part of being a DM bro you cant really control what players will do, if u cant handle stop being a DM

[@vernandsockey8611]

I had once had a player who tried to refuse to show me his character sheet, threatened to poison another character, argued that I was nerfing his character for denying him seven actions in one turn, said "The DM makes the final call is some weird home-brew thing" (after asking for a myriad of home-brew things for his character by the way), and then skinned the (sentient) Lizardfolk they had just killed so he could "get it made into armor later". He ended up leaving after claiming "no one would let him role-play". He chose to make this statement while interrupting another player, who was currently attempting to role-play with his character. He's kinda the most infamous player I've ever had, and since we were playing online and he never gave any of us a name, we still don't even know who he was! Edited as I remembered a couple of his crimes I forgot to put in originally.

[@silverlight6074]

I haven't experienced too much tabletop depravity, but I will always remember one particular session with a group of about 7 players. On one end of the table, we had two players who did not care about the actual campaign, they'd follow along with the group but they were always trying to kill each other's character for out-of-game reasons. One of them had a stupidly powerful artifact weapon, so it was kind of one-sided, but the other player kept making assassins and trying to backstab him whenever the whole party wasn't in another fight. But the real worst thing in that campaign was when we encountered a Wizard's camp outside of a cave. After the session, we were told that this evil Wizard was trying to steal a dracolich's phylactery, and his purpose in the session was to convince us to help him, he would fire off lower level supporting spells while saving his highest level spells for when he would betray us. It was an interesting setup. However, the party's Paladin obsessively used Detect Evil on pretty much every NPC, and he knew off the bat that the Wizard was evil. Standing out in front of his tent, the Paladin essentially threatens him because he's aware this dude is evil, and instigates a fight. Everyone else in the party (including the two squabblers) goes along with fighting the Wizard, *except for the Paladin* who decides to stand back like 30-40ft. I don't think he even used any throwing weapons or anything, he just stayed out of the fight entirely. That Wizard managed to instantly kill one party member and lethally wound my Bard from single digit HP, with a kamikaze Maximized Quickened Fireball scroll. My Bard was then finished off by another player's Orthrus companion (which was under the DM's control) after no one healed him. The Paladin coward took no damage and the plot hook was demolished, and that's where the session ended. Thus started my journey to find online tabletop groups.

[@jasonroberts7558]

Curse of Strahd spoilers ahead... We had a player that had a habit of doing things just to do them. She got her hands on an immovable rod for some reason (unimportant where or how). We came across Rictavio's carriage in Vallachia and surprising no one, it was locked. We tried to pop the lock but no luck resulting in the majority of the party to shrug and try to be on our way. Notice I said try. She decides to try to use her immovable rod as a gymnastics bar and bust the door open by kicking it. Imagine the raptor kicking scene in Jurassic Park: The Lost World. Annnnyhow, after her first attempt, something moved in the carraige. By the third try the carriage is rocking back and forth because something inside is piiiiiissed. We finally convince her it's a lost cause and leave. We see Rictavio and let him know that his cart is acting up. He runs toward his carraige so fast a little dust cloud formed behind him. Next time we saw Rictavio, it was as Van Richten now sporting a makeshift leg brace and several burns along his body. Apparently the player in question upset Van Richten's pet tiger causing his alchemical ingredients to spill all over. He barely managed to get the cart out of town before it cratered a the equivalent of a city block. He barely managed to dive away before the explosion but the tiger was not so lucky. So our most useful NPC is now nursing crippling injuries and kind of hates our asses. You best believe I threw her under the bus when the verbal ass whoopings were handed out.

[@TubaHorse]

Recent but also pretty minor, half orc druid drank a homeless, displaced, and traumatised druid's soup that was given to him by a temple.

[@DarthKilaj85]

Cutting off a dwarfen males beard is an act of war to all dwarfs everywhere.

[@zeddwulfen7737]

Damn right it is.

[@spartanhawk7637]

Ehhh might've been me last session of Pathfinder, though I will say in my defense we were WAY in over our heads and things were getting way down to the wire unless something happened. Long story short, Kingmaker game where we'd long since established our barony (now a duchy) and the DM realized he'd been calculating food consumption wrong. As it turns out, the entire kingdom was actually STARVING when we'd thought it was flourishing (DM wasn't being a jerk, he did the math out in the open, it checked out.) I kinda had to steamroll a bunch of other players' plans to expand the kingdom cause some of them weren't paying attention to the numbers side of things and were quite literally going to starve our kingdom otherwise. Good thing is it ended well. I was able to find ways to lower consumption to a manageable level, and the Viceroy's player was able to convince the others to lay off purchases for a while while I managed that issue. Out of game, I explained my reasoning, it's water under the bridge now. Still not something I enjoyed doing...

[@murgo2938]

Delta green is basically call of cthulhu but you're a black ops government agent

[@allenpollack3514]

Delta Green is like call of cthulu. Except you work for a secret organization that works to keep the world safe.

[@supercuban3000]

Delta green is what you get when call of cthulhu is brought into the modern day men in black style. Think SCP the rpg.

[@RedScar-Nova]

I offered to GM a PTU game for my friend group. One of them the moment we got through the intro arc kept making stupid and illogical decision despite the entire party warning them not to and essentially sabotaged the rest of the party's progress constantly. I finally had enough and told him he needs to start being more mindful because his dismissive attitude was starting to put a damper on things. He left the game the following week with what he thought was a socially acceptable excuse (it wasn't) Find out later that he had realized the game was much more "serious" than he had assumed it was going to be and instead of being an adult and leaving the game maturely, he was trying to get me to kill his character. That had been going on for like 5 months. Sessions were more or less weekly on the same day and time unless this guy specifically said they couldn't come last minute to watch the Xbox Direct or something.

[@Serperior-Deoxys]

Their Chaotic Good character pushed a child into a well because the player wanted attention.

[@pupsicle5345]

Retconed his own brother for more power under the pretence of protecting the party.

[@Halberds8122]

The worst (or funniest) thing a player ever did was charge at a blue dragon while our dragonborn sorcerer was persuading it to spare a human village. He took a bunch of damage but he survived (by mercy of our DM) and nobody else was hurt. We were at level 3.

[@kotzpenner]

Almost ate a baby. Had to ask him in person if he really wants to cross this bridge. Thankfully refused and threw it instead.

[@j_e23]

well gee wilikers my favourite man named brian did a thing again

[@nickcampbell5626]

Once a player used True Strike

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@billcox8870]

The Soul Survivor is slowly making his way towards some sort of place named after a beverage. Just a moment, some sort of giant rat has appeared... pew pew pew. That was close. It looked like it wanted to take a chunk out of my leg.

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

@@billcox8870 interesting. We have nothing akin to such a beast in our records. Though there are reports of a beast, three times the size of a man with a telescopic neck. Typically spotted on moonlit nights.

[@billcox8870]

@@postapocalypticnewsradio now that sounds disturbing. I will keep an eye out for something like that in my travels

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

@@billcox8870 I'll keep you updated on any new information we receive

[@cloudfair2]

To be fair, this was a small one month campaign where I encouraged selfish play but they sacrificed another player to save their own skin. This party of level 5 found themselves in the domain of an adult black dragon just as they were about to reach the goal of the campaign. It was VERY generous and would allow them to pass if they provided a suitable offering. One player lost his arm after offending the dragon and the dragon said that would be HIS offering (again VERY generous dragon) but not everyone else’s. One player was disguised as a crocodile and the dragon believed this ruse. So the dragon said he’d like them pass if they offered their pet crocodile as a snack and the party agreed. So the player was sacrificed for the rest of the party to live. To be fair the party only met the character all of 5 minutes ago so they felt no sense of obligation towards him.

[@realwazdakkadakka]

Had a homebrew monster that breathed toxic gas that was also highly flammable. It's highly resilient to physical damage so the idea was that you could throw a lit torch or a fireball from a decent distance away to ignite the gas and cause a fiery explosion to deal a ton of damage to the monster, who was naturally, immune to the gas and liked to stay in it during combat. My party of 3 were fighting it and all 3 were close by when the monster spewed some gas on them. The fighter stepped back and lit a match while he was only a step or 2 away from the gas. He throws the match, instantly killing the other 2 players who were still in the gas, and dealing enough damage to himself to drop to 0, he didn't instantly die but had no way to get himself up so the monster just finished him. I still have no clue what he thought was going to happen.

[@Ilias2]

I ate people. I had other options. My character is just a serial killer cannibal. He ate these people alive, by the way.

[@blakeetter280]

Running my first campaign, as in I’d never ran or PLAYED a campaign before. Went as well as you’d expect. General plot was that that we could clear out a castle, take it over and build up our little fiefdom. We’re all noobs except one guy who’s a dnd veteran. He’s playing a hombrew demi lich race (weakened lich?) with a “adapted” summoner class he made. Should have been my first clue his wizard subclass gave him a Minotaur skeleton minion from lvl1. Yes, a subclass has a lvl1 feature, idk how that works. I was new shouldn’t have allowed this, not the bad part though. We get to the boss and it’s a whopping 11 characters between five people including my two DMPC (don’t ask). So I figured out that was a problem and to make it dramatic decided to kill off characters so everyone had one. Sorta worked and we ended up burying five of our comrades, only me and one player had both left and I just had my DMPC leave. We wake up in the morning and the veteran has REVIVED THEIR CORPSES TO USE AS MINIONS. Without asking anyone. Have a classic “it’s what my character would do” answer. Everyone got mad but we were new and the characters had been around two sessions so… not super attached. We move on and go back to the plot, exploring the world and fixing up our castle. Veteran DMs me and says he’s replacing himself with a wight, apparently something he can do at lvl5. Gives the wight a bunch of spell casting two and makes him a wizard just below his main character. His main character stays behind at the castle without anyone’s knowledge. When we eventually return the gates are barred and we can’t enter because “a castle is too good a reward for a party this low level”. I was a new DM and very insistent that I not interfere with free will as I saw it so I didn’t stop this. My theory was that I didn’t want to take away player agency, I see my mistake now. Dude continued to abuse magic and his homebrew crafting (plus many inaccurate interpretations of rules I was too new to realize were wrong) to basically create a one man empire. He left his wizard class at lvl8 and still had a succubus secretary and a SOLAR as a gardener permanently summoned. He then multiclassed into genie warlock to get wishes. Which he accomplished by crafting a ring of three wishes in two days because he had infinite magic help (again, too new). And after he did all this, made his castle fly, refilled the water table of the local desert, and armed 1500 wights in +3 gear, he decided the game was boring and left because “you’re just not a good enough DM honestly”. Like yeah, I let you get away with all that clearly I wasn’t a very good DM. Dude basically ruined my entire campaign in session two and I had no idea how to fix it. Spent the next year ripping off other books, mainly Drizzt, and hoping my party never noticed. They didn’t. Bonus story, for two sessions before he left he had his characters ‘daughter’ join our party as a paladin who wouldn’t allow anyone to start a fight ever. Like she would attack our group for trying to defend ourselves from orcs. And the said the campaign wasn’t fun. Wonder why.

[@zinmaster24]

So one of the worst things i can think of is we had a "That Guy" take a magic item we got, and destroy it by stabbing it with his great sword. Nearly tpking the party within the first session of the campaign. And 3 sessions later tried to set an npcs house on fire with the npc still inside to set burn him alive. His excuse? "It was a mercy kill because he was clearly insane." That Guy metagamed knowledge he had no business using as his character wasn't there for the conversations with the npc. As far the worst thing I've ever done? Put the Necrocomicon inside a Bag of Devouring. We survived the black hole it created. But our angry Barbarian Client we were escorting home didn't. I might have accidentally created the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse.

[@brandontsosie4514]

A player tried to eat a tavern owner's silverware, steal fruit and food by walking into the kitchen and then get a party memeber to get in a fight with the tavern owner. He left the campgain without a word sfter he cause that havoc.

[@Blaze-primeYT]

I havent been the best lately. i just got to the story where a gm got cheated on. i just hurd the end and what you sead so thankyou for the sentanment.

[@MinorLG]

That priest fireball story.. it sounds oddly familiar. I was a monk/cleric. Things were going wildly out the window, and not looking good. One of the other party members was half dragon thing. We did roll the session back, and the game *is* on hiatus. Very very similar, except I was chaotic good

[@HomelessWarfare]

I was a clown dwarf barbarian and the party was going into a town of only kenku so we fight some guards outside of town. I skin them and try to convince the town I’m actually a mythical creature of there culture.

[@calebowens693]

With the title of the video, a few things came to mind (my groups have always been made of really nice people, so it just would have been worst things anyone did in character, like murder or war crimes). Then the story about the infidelity/suicide came by... I don't have anything remotely in that category, not even a "that guy" or something. The story where a player demanded more politics, but wanted those in power to not be nobles and landholders when the game had a medieval setting was odd. I'm not sure what is taught about medieval feudalism in schools now, but getting elected by peasants wasn't something that happened. The ragtag army being slaughtered by a professional army (good training, proper equipment, and well-organized) sounds a great deal like the Peasant's Crusade in AD 1096.

[@dominikjohnson5656]

I made a similar post on reddit and someone replied with making a vampires bones silver.

[@Bigal3031]

Playing Mage player brakes another players focus. Basically the thing that lets him do magic. Making that player usesles.

[@gasmonkey1000]

Ran a Dungeon World game (very basic game system). Homebrewed a setting that's basically post-Bronze Age collapse. Admittedly there was a ton of fucked up shit in that game, (ie child soldiers, drug addiction, kidnapping) but honestly I was surprised how callous my players could be. One of them, who to be fair was playing an evil character, killed a toddler. As in one year old who was praying. She then killed the kid's dad. There was also the time my players let a thousand women drown when they could have saved them. As for myself? Same system, different setting. Was trying to negotiate a deal with a mob boss. Botched a roll so he wanted proof. He wanted us to kill a kid. My character, a half-orc rogue, decided to do it so they could do so. Her operating logic was that because they were trying to stop rebels that the sooner it was done the fewer people would die, and to do that they'd need underworld help. So she killed the kid. Cleric revived the kid but her life is halved. And since we've apparently turned coat for the rebels it's made my character a bit down in the dumps.

[@snow-cheirus]

This is rather tame, but the That Guy of our party once tried to (unprovoked) assassinate several party members by attempting to persuade us into following him into a dark alleyway. We are not stupid. We refused. He stormed off into a bad part of town and bartered with a barkeeper so passive aggressively that he got stabbed with a poison dagger and one shotted. He woke up in a cultist encampment and basically just joined them. In a spin off evil one shot we did where we were all cultists, we were attempting to assassinate a lord of waterdeep. That Guy got to play as the same character. Our plan was to enter the Lord's chambers through the use of shadow monk magic. However, during the process we were caught by a guard. Given that we were level 9 and it was just a 1/4 guard, we weren't really worried about blowing our cover, but That Guy got the highest initative roll and elected to levitate the guard. The guard began screaming. Our cover was blown. We ended up having to fight our way through a multitude of guards and animated statues. Twas hectic. However, during this chaotic brawl That Guy's character walked to the bathroom and squatted there for the whole battle. After the escapade, our characters, who were mutually toxic, elected to beat up That Guy and left him for dead in the burning house. He survived, and starred in a variety of other one shots with usually ended in him receiving grivous injury. A lot of odd decisions, but he was fun.

[@paultheleg6229]

Delta green is PBTA ttrpg iirc

[@DICEBOY22]

A Barbarian at a Local Comic shop turned a DMs game into his own personal Bethesda style game because he want the freedom to just do anything. Went mask off in later sessions and Killed plot relevant NPCs and set halfling family house on fire. The game and mood at that point for me and DM was just ruined.

[@aviowl]

Honestly 7:00 just seems like a fun game. If the sudden twist doesn’t ruin it

[@danadnauseam]

3:00 Someone has been watching too much Critical Role

[@carlosbaroni1158]

To be clear the player meant well and we all use this as a joke to tease him. There’s 5 godly figures at one time,one of them is always against the other 4. Players meet the 5th godly figure and talk to him. He reveals that in a few days a prison will send various prisoners to the hospital to be treated and he’ll go there to slaughter only the prisoners, and asks the players to not get involved. The face of the party agrees and they part ways. A day before the slaughter another player tells the cop about what’s gonna happen and because of it not only do a lot more people die but two important npcs also die. We never let the player live that down lol

[@jdxanadu872]

Not one specific thing and not one player, but some of the players in my game treated one of the other players terribly. The worst of it was probably this: the character was a rogue named Willow who was essentially double royalty (it's a long story but essentially she was the daughter of a prince and when she was young got lost in the feywild and was adopted the king of a country there.) I introduced a plot hook involving an assassination attempt on her and immediately another player hijacked this and got the prince of the nation she's from to pay him to protect her. This led to Willow basically not being able to do anything without this other character's permission. Of course this unfortunately led to Willow's player not showing up anymore as they weren't having any fun. While that's the worst of it, it's certainly not everything. Eventually that other player left and Willow's player came back. One thing I need to mention is Willow's player gave me a lot to work with when it came to her. I mean a lot. I probably could have made an entire campaign out of the stuff he gave me on its own. So when the player came back it was perfect because I had been losing steam on the main story and the party was a lower level than I wanted them to be to fight the BBEG so I figured a big side adventure in the feywild would be perfect, one that I told the party would be like a mini campaign (basically I wanted them to know it was going to take awhile.) This was fine at first but at some point the party wasn't enjoying this anymore and was taking it out on Willow's player. They wanted to be done with the story in the feywild, they wanted to go off and do other things and threatened to leave Willow behind and basically didn't care about her. A certain player would be fine with other players asking me if they could do something that wasn't rules as written, but as soon as Willow's player wanted to do something that wasn't rules as written they'd go rules lawyer mode. Willow's player and I did a small roleplay session between Willow and a DMPC two times because it was stuff only between the two of them and we thought we shouldn't make everyone else sit there and watch the two of us roleplay with each other for 2 hours and that they'd complain about this. They complained we were doing these sessions. The player's thought I was giving Willow's player special treatment when really I was just given a lot to work with and I ran with it. I didn't really have anything else to work with from the other players. In the end this wound up killing the campaign.

[@primordial-chaos00]

Dnd bring out the worse in people sometimes. Why is always the elf put in dangerous situation.

[@dizzydial8081]

The worst a player has done is look up monsters I was using in the monster manual he brought with him. Guess I got lucky.

[@thewolvesden7098]

Ran a game where I made an NPC called "magic item Andy" ran a roulette game. You pay 5 gold and roll a d20, on a 1 you get a bad/useless magic item and on a 20 you get a good item, anything else you get nothing. The party had enough gold that one of the players got so many rolls he ended up with 10-15 magic items (most were good but not for a magic user) and when I devised a way to get them back, he wouldn't give them up to save the party so soft TPKed everyone. The characters are alive but trapped in ageless comas in a temple

[@snow-cheirus]

You probably just should've just said Andy ran out of items after enough wins.

[@AeronHale]

Well I ain't the DM in this case but uhh... We had a dude who would have "me time" with the bodies after combat often times... He got set on fire by salamanders not too long into the campaign and I left not long after because the DM was kinda a prick... There have been arguably & definitely more evil things that I've personally done and other people I've played with but that one sticks with me because it's just really gross.

[@sarahcoleman5269]

I have a dear friend, I love her, but she absolutely LOVES animals. Every character she makes has one or more animal companions, and even our mounts become NPCs because she will pull them into the game. Usually, this isn't too much of a problem, but it can be a bit disruptive when she thinks every passing animal the DM mentions can be turned into a new awesome companion. We're playing Temple of Elemental Evil (With a little homebrewing to make it interesting) and we walk into a room that has theoretically been shut up for a few hundred years and we find a cat. A living cat, peacefully sitting on a couch for no reason... Nothing suspicious here. My friend instantly shouts that she runs up to the cat to pet it. As you would probably expect from a cat who is suddenly being rushed by a stranger, it scratches her and immediately runs out the window. Turns out the cat was a shape-shifted Vampire Lord and if we didn't use (destroy) the most powerful item we found in the mansion to "cure" her she would end up a thrall and lead the Vampire Court to take over the mansion we were trying to clear so we could use it as a home base for future shenanigans.

[@Cassapphic]

I've always had good players I've run for tahnkfully so I can never relate really to rpg horror stories (its been mostly very close already years long friendships which I think helps), in character though, we had a sorcerer who was trying to negotiate with the captain of a band of goblins to let go of their hostage, they came to an aggreement, went to shake hands, and right as he did that he said "I cast burning hands" the burning handshake of doom became an iconic part of that character that when I "how do you wanna do this" for a boss fight involvving fighting out the dragon spirit that was possessing his unconscious son's body, he choose to do the handshake again. Alternatively, I was in a one shot which at first seemed perfectly normal, aside from the DM each giving us a secret on our character sheet we were told to use as we saw fit, we got to what was clearly meant to be the final boss of the one shot, a luggage, and after rolling initiative, the fighter who was going first got up and asked the DM about their power, upon announcing what he was about to do we all turned and looked at each other. Every enemy in this one shot had been a mimic until now, and now we learned, we were also... all secretly mimics. I did what was in hindsight somewhat of a dick move but near the end of a one shot that was already derailing and kinda messy, I do not regret doing, the party tried to tame the luggage as if it was a pet dog, and then I said I truned into a boulder and tried to push the luggage down the pit in the center of the cave, I failed and ended up falling down there myself, out the rear end of a gigantic mountain sized mimic.

[@planig24]

I've got a player who's bored out of combat and cares little for story. I try to balance it for everyone, so to throw him a proverbial bone, I let him massacre 29 innocent peasants and 6 towns guard. He slaughtered them like animals, the men, the women and the children. Is it any surprise he plays barbarian? His story involvement is now they're wanted criminals and this was one of the worst attacks on innocence in recent years. They'll be entering Neverwinter next session :')

[@kevinthomas4064]

Insulted the corn grown by Steven He's Dad

[@LEWS316]

Game was Dark Conspiracy our mission this time, our team of Covert agents had to find and recruit a rogue Darkling assasin (my sisters new PC/DMPC as we swpped between player and DM from time to time) We do research while the "that guy "goes and buys a REALLY REALLY BIG GUN. We infiltrated a crime lords party where we knew the character we were looking for would be operating. In fact I had through dilligent research and asking the right questions had pretty much determined who "The Ghost" actually was. So my blood pressure irl and and my PC's bp raised quite a bit when (remember we are covert govt agents) openly in a room full of mob bosses and the like states to the person I had identofied as the most likely to be her "We are DARPA field agents looking for The Ghost". Massive firefight breaks out (considering we only had handguns for this) but we looted shotguns etc from the guards as the fight went on, We ended up arresting over 30 career criminals, but the new PC got away. SHe joined us later after first of all chewing out that that guy in character for being so stupid and nearly getting the team killed. He said "Well Alex (my PC) thought you were the right person to recruit so I went for it" His PC died next mission, killed by a police drones laser rifle for breaching firearms restrciotns in a city

[@tatempe]

That happened to me… we were both players and she decided to cheat with other player on my birthday 😢

[@funnyblog100]

One of our missions came from the local guard some teenagers were forming a gang and our job was to scare them straight. We were under strict orders not to kill any of them. Now my bard who was from the college of whispers went to the local butcher and got a bucket of pigs blood and told the party to hold it while he went to talk to the young teens. He convinced the teens he wanted to join their gang and was led to their hideout where he cast sleep on them and took the bucket of pigs blood and got to work. He made it look like they were dead using the bucket of blood and left a little note which he stuck on the wall with a knife. Their friends arrived shortly after he managed to get a good distance away. Panicking they checked the bodies at which point my bard lifted the spell. Then he went to report to the guard. Didn’t kill them as ordered but those kids need a lifetime of therapy now.

[@elhornio5408]

Someone in my game (not dm) pretended to be an old couples kids

[@remingtonwright6796]

I had a "That Guy" whose first and last attempt at DMing was sooo bad (not giving details but TL;DR: Trigger warning), that almost the entire pantheon of my world showed up personally and Thanos snapped his campaign and characters so hard that it created residual ripples in the fabric of space and time that are known as "The Bloop". Which has since been used to explain discrepancies between the present in-game canon and the past the players remember. I used this to let a player retire a character, shift things around in the favor of a character or two, and revive an NPC that was killed in a one-shot.

[@harrymee3ep724]

9:21 he’s luck he didn’t leave it post mortal

[@matthewlee8032]

Players begin campaign in a small town. Players discover mayor is into some shady business and decide to break into his office to see whats going on. Use a distraction to lure away mayor but obviously he leaves guards behind. Stealth mission fails immediately because the druid somehow thought giant spiders crawling up and down a building wouldnt attract attention and the "chaotic good" evocation wizard casts web on guards then burning hands, instantly melting these cr 1/8 guards. Justify that the guards were "probably corrupt" Rinse and repeat like 3 more times, killing 12 more guards and burning down the mayors office... except most of this town is made of wooden buildings. Fire spreads and like 4 other buildings burn down before volunteers start putting out the flames. Players attempt to flee but are easily caught. Had it not been 2 other players first campaign i would have executed all of them. Instead they manage to escape and i demote the wizard to chaotic neutral.

[@leekonze7441]

Played in a 2 player Shadowrun game, i had a Gunslinger Adept and the other player had a Combat Mage; job was to rescue a couple of kidnapped college girls. We fight through the kidnappers and rescue the girls, who the GM describes as being starved, dehydrated, and beaten, one being blonde and the other with black hair. The GM asks what we do. The player of the combat mage says that he shoots my character in the head, and then shoots the blonde in the head. I protest, but the GM lets him roll, and he executes both characters. The Combat Mage then says that he mind controls the black haired college girl into having sex with him. I argue that's r@pe, but the Combat Mage player says that magic removes the need for consent and the proceeds to tell us the things that he does to the woman. I just get up & leave

[@MitchT97]

The situation was probably my bad to be honest. The party had just recovered the crown of neverwinter and had found out that in fact one of them might be the soul heir as legend says the door would only open for one and in fact if you wore the crown and were not of royal blood you’d die a death of ice and fire. Not knowing if the legend was true the character put the crown and to their delight hadn’t died. Only thing was it did not kill one of the BBEGs either when a player forced it on his head hoping the legend was true as to kill said BBEG. So they decided to test it again. This time on a cultist that had been caught killing animals and hunters to power a ritual. I made sure that’s what thats what they wanted to do, but they all agreed it was the only way to be sure. I’m not sure if I should go into detail as to how gruesome his death was, but to give you an idea think Raiders of the lost Ark, but if they were being freeze dried at the same time over the course of a minute and you’ll have a toned down idea of what happened in that room. It was after that session I brought to their attention that in fact if they really still wanted to know the specifics of the crowns power that identify was an option.

[@DellyDelDelmor]

I had a player who did something pretty bad. THIS IS YOUR WARNING FOR DISTURBING STUFF One player begged me to let him roll deception to convince a gay npc and his boyfriend that the two of them weren’t in love and actually liked women. When I declined, he pouted for a few minutes and claimed I never let him do anything. Worst part is, the player in question is my brother 😑

[@LovingMadman]

That's weird, your brother dealing with something? Also good on you for stopping that dead on

[@effervescentapricot7522]

Bloody hell that's insane. I take it your brother doesn't know what conversion therapy is?

[@baconboi4482]

That’s not disturbing, it’s just cringe

[@ConnorElzaim]

The political players aims sound like they could have been fun if 1) the player hadn't clearly been doing it because their textbooks said "royalty bad" and 2) if it hadn't been so ham fisted. Sounds like the Thief was the more enjoyable player in that regard playing the long game.

[@lewismehaffey04]

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[@OvenGlobalDomination]

Hi

[@TheAccumulation]

yay I'm 4th