Worlds Most Awful DnD Players | r/rpghorrorstories

[@RealSeanithan]

"You'd think someone would have noticed a wizard on the roof, especially with a stealth roll of 8." I don't know: ask the Secret Service.

[@kyriss12]

I was thinking the same thing. “Several people see you, but the city guard does nothing.

[@KhanjoOfEthiopia]

2nd story: laughing my ass off at the dude thinking he's an "alpha" while throwing hissy fits about D&D

[@AvatAR42420]

I think the "D&D Veterans" from the last story were either lying or they spent most of their time playing a homebrew rules light version or just hanging about the scene and never actually playing or deeply reading the content. Also the wizard seems to be both a That Guy and an idiot.

[@Jean-Luc_Renard]

The Wild Hunt is a folk legend that predates The Witcher by centuries. If you're unfortunate enough to encounter them, you're supposed to lie down, wait it out, and pray.

[@AdamJensen-c3k]

Makes me sad to see how many people think it came from the Witcher

[@SilverJ17]

20:41 Yeah, sounds like a real Alpha Male here. And here I thought temper tantrums over games in fictional settings weren't Alpha Male behavior.

[@Ratty524]

It’s very consistent behavior from those who call themselves alpha males

[@GarkKahn]

Then you're clearly a beta Every alpha male knows the way to go is doing that and also threaten wom... I mean females to assert dominance

[@MatrixRefugee]

The first story and the bit with the leeches - That's the opposite of how to repel mosquitoes. I imagine if you did, it would attract every mosquito in the vicinity (though I suppose they wouldn't be biting the rest of the party, but dude's asking to be exsanguinated via mozzies).

[@7thsealord888]

Story #1 - Yeah, Sven totally had it coming. No tears shed for him. Story #2 - Another, "WHY did the DM put up with this guy? Really, WHY?' As for the 'Real Man" stuff ...... Oh, please, his overcompensation was so epic that it was downright tragic. The DM repeatedly letting him back in should have been openly questioned - that decision reflects as much on the DM as on That Guy. Story #3 - 20 year veterans? I'm really not seeing it.

[@darby2314]

I had a Paladin that refused to allow surrender (not DnD 5e), he was a Paladin of battle and his religious laws preached that once a battle was engaged with a willing participant, it was always to the death. But I made this super clear to my party ahead of time and figured out some 'just in case' loop holes. If he downed an enemy and the party stabilized or healed them, that counted as 'to the death' since they would have died. If an enemy surrendered and threw down their weapons, he would try to force them to rearm. If they refused to rearm he would give them a strike of godly judgment. Which was basically a powerful attack using a class feature in a coup de gras, if they lived then it was determined his God found them worthy. And if it could be proved to him that they were being mind controlled, he would avoid engaging them to try and kill/destroy the mind controller.

[@brandonturner4113]

If your party was playing heroic characters that spare and redeem I give them congrats that they didn't kill your pally

[@darby2314]

@@brandonturner4113 Nah, none of the people I was playing with had any strong personality traits for their characters. They were mostly power gamers.

[@MortusVanDerHell]

08:21 min: The Wild Hunt is a phenomenon of its own in The Dark Eye. The name Geralt may even be borrowed from The Witcher, but the Wild Hunt is not. These are established demons that can be summoned to torment the player characters or just a few unfortunate NPCs.

[@MatrixRefugee]

I think there's also versions of the Wild Hunt in Celtic and in Norse mythology, though the Celtic version involves fae beings.

[@MortusVanDerHell]

@@MatrixRefugee The concept of a ‘wild hunt’ originally came from there, right. But since only The Witcher and Dark Eye were under discussion, I wanted to give the explanation without the rat-tail of real-world mythology, which served as inspiration for both works. 🙂

[@brandonturner4113]

But the ice variation though

[@AdamJensen-c3k]

First Story: Killing Sven really is one of those rare situations where dealing with the problem ingame is necessary. DM really should have reigned Sven in and its at least partially on them for not kicking them before Last story: As a long time gamer I'd say that group have been playing DnD so long they're bored and just messing around because they haven't realised they're not having fun anymore. *Maybe* a new DM who could reign them in and inspire them would be the answer but more likely all of them need to either quit or find new groups.

[@travisbishop782]

For Sven, i have no idea why the GM kept him for so long. He should have been kicked sooner. And Doge, the Wild Hunt is actually part of Slavic mythology. It's pretty interesting. As for story two, that murder-hobo was an edgy arrogant jerk. He also should have been kicked sooner. And the third story, i bet you the wizard was, or is a dm himself, and is used to having all the power to dictate the actions of the other players.

[@RdWarrior-x8y]

They're gay lovers

[@damienhailey118]

IIRC, he's DM's friend.

[@RdWarrior-x8y]

@@damienhailey118 they know each other in the biblical sense

[@krystlvines]

the wild hunt is part of a LOT of mythologies. But the ice demon version is very specifically from the witcher

[@brandonturner4113]

The wild hunt and its frost based and they have Geralt though o.o

[@nocount7517]

Story 2 reminds me of an old adage: "If you have to tell everyone you are a king, you are not a king."

[@R3GARnator]

Tywin Lannister.

[@jamesgotchall7205]

Had a half elf inquisitive rogue. I took magic initiate and hellish rebuke. I flavored her casting with her casting it with draconic glyphs, and the wizard didn't know them so it was funny until the end. I wish it could been a longer game

[@eddiedormer9045]

My current character is a literal murder hobo, he's a homeless serial killer. I made this character with the DM. He has a specific set of criteria that sets off his urge to kill. But its a dexter situation, its carefully planned and executed as to not endanger the parrty, and ofcoarse the part are exempt from these criteria. He acts like the broody lone wolf type, but will talk your ear off if the topic of sailing, or fishing come up.

[@peterwhite6415]

First story: Yeah no, Sven was getting murderered regardless if the player actually improved or not. The guy activly endangered the party and made them waste resources while harassing the rogue... he was getting kicked from the party or killed in his sleep and the player would have to make a new one. Was redemption a possibility? Maybe, but the charatcer has very "mad dog that needs to be putdown" vibes.

[@TigerKirby215]

That Guy: "I stab everyone in the party, set all the nearby houses on fire, and take a shit on the king's throne!" DM: "Okay that's cool! See you next session! 😀" I was going to say this is about the last story, but tbh this is about all the stories you told.

[@watcherofmemelords7967]

Murderhobo dm, let me break it down for you I you ever come across this, if everyone has a problem with one player, you don't keep the one player and dump the group, that's like choosing a turkey sandwich over $100 bill freshly cut and distributed.

[@7thsealord888]

Actually, to continue your metaphor, I'd say it was something that maybe had a 'Turkey Sandwich' label on it, but really really wasn't.

[@oneandonlymario659]

Re: the game with 2 veterans. It's hard to know, but the wizard sounds like he's both played older versions of the game without updating, and is a self-indulgent jerk. The DM could also be more forceful in enforcing the effects of actions and rolls.

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

I was kinda getting that Old School vibe from the cleric's description. The wizard though just seemed like an A-Hole to me.

[@AvatAR42420]

Seems like the Wizard was used to Skyrim sneaking...though it seems like all these "veterans" are playing like weird newbies.

[@solosynapse]

I get the feeling that the so-called veterans only played text roleplay with no actual rules or dice, and just called it "D&D."

[@samwhary5498]

Hearing you mention someone was chaotic neutral brought back some fond memories of me going to an out of town adventure league long ago. Got some new players into the game. Dm was a friendly small town dude. Asked what alignment my character was and i told him chaotic neutral, and i noticed he tensed up a bit. Glad i could gove him a good experience with a CN character. I was quirky but very committed to ensuring the party's success and not being disruptuve.

[@bodypiercingbytom]

Some players just need a reality check in the form of a HARD, open-hand slap, followed immediately by a second HARD, open-hand slap from the opposite direction. I only ever had to do it once, lol.

[@i010001]

DM from the last story honestly seems really chill... The trait of empowering the players and going along with their choices whenever reasonable is honestly usually a good one, though it crosses into a passivity here. In this case he's sorta getting pushed around by a lot of really domineering, and frankly-rather-weird players. I could imagine he would be quite good in a game where other people are also chill

[@jampine8268]

had something similar happen with friends when trying to break into DnD, they where twins, one was playing and the other was DMing, but it kind of seemed like the one playing would just bulldoze his way through any situation, get an obscure dice roll and win without any push back. For example, we went to an underground town to an illegal fight club, to retrieve a stolen item (Said item was a magically dagger, was was mysteriously conveniently the only side quest reward we where offered, and the brother playing was playing rouge). Upon seeing the thief, he said he was going to crash into him, causing him to spill his drink over them and blame him, getting him chucked out. Upon a honestly mediocre charisma roll, he succeeded, and was then able to jump the thief in the back alley with no opposition and steal the dagger. DM then admitted he planned for a duel in the arena to win it back, so I've got no idea why he just capitulated to a convoluted plan like that. For less of an issue, after this, we where told there is a secret exit out of town out of nowhere, which was solved by the brother declaring he was going to pay a person on the street to ask for it, which succeeded instantly. The secret exit brought us back to where we started, then I did point out we had to travel for 2 days to reach this town, how did we walk back in 5 minutes, the DM seems to completely forget where anything was in relation to each other.

[@koboldking7153]

I've heard of wizards altering reality, but I always thought it required spellcasting

[@Darkman9000]

Yea, the one guy was asking to have someone on the team turn against him after pulling that stunt. There's no walking back "hey, remember that time I basically locked you out of our shelter to get mauled to death? Good times." Definitely wild that they let the guy come back so much, since it sounded like he wasn't much better in real life. We've heard stories of people who are garbage within games, but pretty chill outside of them, Sven seemed like crap both at the table and outside it.

[@vexaria7939]

For story 1, I don’t think there was much else op could’ve done. I mean, they could’ve talked to the GM privately about this, but I’m getting the feeling that it wouldn’t accomplish anything. So, yeah that rare deal with it in character was the best option

[@marcelblock2454]

The wild hunt is something that is baked into the lore of the dark eye. Every month in that system is dedicated to one of the 12 gods and has 30days. The remaining 5 days of the year are located between two years (in summer in that system) and are called "the nameless days". During these days.demons roam the nightskies and people usually stay indoors. It's a really cool part of the lore and always fun to play out these days.😊

[@sarsapong]

Honestly I got the “oh I’m a veteran!!!” But a horrible player wayyy to many time now Especially one guy who just love to insult the character and player on how “useless they are”

[@marybdrake1472]

Sven shows that you can't always solve the problems above the table. You will have to solve the problem in and out of game at times. When you have a player like that, they need to be removed, by hook, or crook.

[@RuinQueenofOblivion]

To quote my friend Steve on the matter of the Wizard demanding the stealth thing, "Weird hill!"

[@jacksparrowismydaddy]

Sven had it coming.

[@GarkKahn]

Murderhobo: When you keep inviting people like that you end up deserving whatever happens to your campaigns Like getting food intoxication and then after everything gets better you go back to continue eating

[@scottharrop6720]

Story2: Warlock/Rogue sounds like a child. Story3: How well would wizard have been concealed with a roll of 19 if nobody could see them with a roll of 8? Would a Nat 1 have had any consequence? Wizard: Nobody can see me because I do nothing. Cleric: I've played without prepared spells for 20 years.

[@justinmargerum2559]

"World's Most Awful DnD Players?" That's a pretty competitive field!

[@GarkKahn]

Vets: They have 20+ yrs of experience, they never said they were good at it lol

[@krybling]

Sven tried killing a teamate but failed, teamate tries to kill sven and succeds, thats fair game in my book

[@Candymanic]

The second story player sounds like he's trying to RP as Soldier Boy

[@godwoken5423]

Here's my step by step guide to remove a problem player. Step1 the second a problem player does something even slightly problematic. God smite their character so hard that they and any npcs in their backstory are removed from existence. Step2 ban the player from your server and immediately block them Step3 if you got this player from a dnd discord server used to look for players and dms then immediately make an announcement to all dms in said server outing the banned person as a problem player ensuring no other dms in the server are willing to recruit them into a game and thus saving other dms from this problem player

[@KC24987]

Last story is a dumpster fire. OP needs to leave that table. DM should have not allowed wizard edgelord to do what he wanted. RAW can't cast a spell, a vocal one at that, and then says he's going to use another action he doesn't have in the span of casting a spell to roll stealth. Followed by a feather fall, which is again another vocal spell which would break stealth. Vocal component for spells means a clear commanding voice used to say the incantation. Only sorcerers with subtle metamagic or someone with the feat to gain the metamagic, can cancel out vocal components/incantations. As a fellow DM, I would have shut Wizard down right away. Correct ruling, shut down the idea that since he's sitting no one can see him on the roof despite rolling an 8 stealth. He's in broad daylight in a crowded area and expects peole not to see him, especially on a high rise spot. Guards step in after he casts his spell and arrest wizard for using a spell that not only damaged the bottles but the people within the blast radius. Capital punishment for the crime since commoners only have 5 hp and most likely won't survive, equating to mass murder and terrorism. Any other player, if they chose to aide the wizard despite not having met the guy, would also be accomplices to the crime. Wizard doesn't like it, he can leave. As for the party, better idea to get them to work together from the start is to say they are mercenaries who all saw a missive to investigate shady snake oil salesman and met up with person who put up the notice. Rag tag group of mercs who take up the job and would eventually become the heroes/antiheroes in the story.

[@zixserro1]

Second Story: On that second note, that guy didn't take exhaustion from not long-resting? If not, that's partly on the DM for not implementing that ruling, but even so, if the player is saying that healing via resting is "easy mode", then why does he feel the need to make things harder for everyone else by going out when everyone else is resting, getting hurt, and burning up the healing that others might need? It sounds like this dude's just a Souls player wanting to solo the game or something. Thinking creatively with 20/20 not-having-been-there hindsight, on that third incident with the assassin, if the DM had caught on that K was up to something, they could've done something where the assassin actually did strike and one-shot OP's character, just to see what K's reaction to that would have been, then rewound it through some twist of fate after giving him and the party time to react to the character not being humbled, but just straight-up killed. Like saying it was a vision he'd received of a future path that could occur, or some sort of spell effect that caused an illusion to occur that made it seem that the rogue had been killed. Or just straight-up DM fiat, just saying that it didn't happen that way, and the game would rewind to before OP was killed. The DM bringing K back into games sounds like it was out of fear. K wanted to go on power-trips in these games, and probably threatened the DM to let him in to play his violent murder machines. I can't think of any other reason that anyone would let someone like that into their games.

[@michaelcohen8259]

Good grief! Simba didn't get up close and mesmerize us. Is he losing his hypnotic powers? 😀

[@l0stndamned]

While the problem players in each one are certainly problems, I feel weak/enabling DMs in each game were a major part of why things got so bad.

[@Vile_Oreo]

If I were GMing story 2 i'd either immediately kick the guy after the first session or during the first session if he pissed me off enough. That or during the next session I'd craft a scenario/encounter that specifically hosed that guy's build and give the enemies an irrational hatred of "alpha males" in combat just to mess with him before kicking him out. It wouldn't be the right thing to do by any means but it'd feel great to do it.

[@godwoken5423]

We should blacklist every murder hobo from every tabletop game

[@clericofchaos1]

sounds like dude in the last story needs to find a new game. everyone else in that group, including the dm, sucks.

[@Allantitan]

Yeah I still remember one of my first games I did the taboo thing of looking up a monsters stat block (dm was trying to figure out movement speed or reach or something similar) and he nicely called me out on that

[@ivancybran]

you'll find that most any guy that describes themselves as an "Alpha" is also, astoundingly sensitive and insecure, you can damage their ego with the most delicate of criticisms.

[@Balain99]

Many years ago I was playing with a group of friends. Two would always clash. One point it got to a point where the two almost came to a fist fight during a night of D&D. I didn’t play for awhile since I would not play again with both of them were together. Wanted to have fun, not break up fist fights.

[@justinmargerum2559]

Intro: Simba! Remember who you are! Story 1: Interesting! This is probably only the second "The Dark Eye" horror story featured on this channel. Story 2: Wow. The sheer level of projection and lack of self awareness here... We may have a winner in today's contest for "Most Awful DnD Player." On more story to go though... Story 3. Hmm... Close choice, but I'm sticking with the Problem Player from story 2. Wizard was a solid contender though.

[@terratorment2940]

So when it comes to Sven the Viking I must emphatically recommend not dealing with problem players with in game consequences. Problem players need to understand that their problem behaviors STOP the game. If they are punished in game, their problem behavior simply becomes part of the game. You don't want it there. Their problem behavior should be dealt with out of game with no further gaming continuing while they are being a problem.

[@fred_derf]

As bad as the player was in the last story, the DM was just a bad.

[@M_Alexander]

So a few months ago I did join a campaign in progress at level 4. And my barbarian, as an outlander, in fact was wearing nothing but a belt holding a satchel and a hammer. However it's important to note that she is a homebrew Owlbear race so like... she'd look stranger _in_ clothes. She does have a breastplate now though. And a bigger hammer. What more does a berserker girl really need?

[@Laughingyeen-00]

why make dnd so fucking complicated to the point new people have to read like a whole ass book. Why I never got into it. You get treated the lowest because your new. Doesn't help if people don't give you a hand.

[@madvulcan8964]

That last story if I were the barbarian place would roll to grab the wizard by the jaw to rip it off.

[@vortega472]

I really like Simba - and thus I like this video. As to the first story - I guess you can say it was "Goodnight Irene." Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week tip the waitresses, not the cows.

[@Youtuubpewp]

I’m not saying I owe a like because of Simba’s adorableness… buuuuut👀

[@Svartalf14]

I suspect the wizard and cleric veterans are having e inappropriate actions because they never really studied e and DM handwaves it because they are old friends... that's still no excuse.

[@9liveslie-cat-lie129]

Welp I got my Simba fix.

[@willropa4226]

Hey, Alpha Males, you listening? Rule 1 of being a Beta Male, declare yourself an Alpha Male, no exceptions. Rule 2 of being a Beta Male, if you have a problem with rule 1, cry about it to someone who cares, because we sure as heck don't.

[@Trivial_Whim]

I’m sorry, cat. The video is at 69 likes right now, so I can’t like the video at the moment.

[@RiveroftheWither]

It's at 175 now, you can come back

[@scorch2155]

For the last story, it truelly is a terrible game when the CN Monk is the most helpful and best player to the point i had to stop myself from thanking OP should take the monk and find another game despite the Monk's proplem behavior. He at least engaged with the story and worked to be part of the party with OP deapite issues that honelsty could be chalked ip to New Player.

[@Fauxknight]

The 'Wild Hunt' doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the Witcher. My Witcher lor isn't great, I wouldn't even have known to put the two together.

[@ArcCaravan]

While the Wild Hunt was mythology first, Witcher 3 Wild Hunt was more popular so that's why people think they're automatically related.

[@TheMeatballMan420]

I'm never gonna play dnd. These stories are all really bad and I'm not subjecting myself to that. At least I have baldurs gate. It's the closest I'll get to real dnd without having to risk being in an rpg horror story.

[@krybling]

Featherfall is a reaction as the name implies, its not an action

[@krybling]

He doesnt roll 18 in stealth because he litterally just rolled stealth and got an 8

[@metalsasquatch3410]

I see Cat, I like Vid!

[@akmi1931]

I always hate the notion that “you shouldn’t solve problems in game” when those problems are in game. PVP isn’t ideal when it comes out of nowhere but there’s a certain point where NOT having one player attack another because of their issues is just trying to ignore those problems.

[@RiveroftheWither]

Um no, get out of fantasy land for a little bit and talk about your grievances like a mature adult

[@cavik977]

​@@RiveroftheWitherTHIS THIS OH MY GOD, THIS!

[@DragonClapper1855]

​@@cavik977It's really not, especially when the problem player/players don't want to act like an adult or would just escalate the problem further.

[@cavik977]

@@DragonClapper1855 That’s when you give them the boot out of the game, not stoop to their level

[@DragonClapper1855]

@@cavik977 Nah. Give em a taste of their own medicine first, then give em the boot. Sometimes, taking the high road ain't worth it and doesn't always get the point across. Besides, it ain't gonna hurt no one.

[@legendnodensetsu8423]

Story 3 dm should put his foot down.

[@vampire9545]

Ok but evil is evil

[@Wrathura]

I recommend not using lightning in your background. Quite irritating to have the flashing suddenly.

[@megatronjenkins2473]

Hey, i got Like #69!!! Gonna be a good day!!!

[@NOHTenma]

14 second gang🖤🖤🎉

[@megatronjenkins2473]

👀👀👀👀👀

[@CooperAATE]

Back to Doge!

[@therisingdaikon]

So the veteran story first the only problem was the wizard Cleric was odd but what evs number 2 shame on you for Pointing out in extreme detail your the only woman in a all guy group all the dudes were jest wating to Devour you no no no shame. And number 3rd thing. i tell all my new players is to manage your expectations. Everything is not going to be mind-blowing, and everyone will not think or play in a way that you think but orther wise that you did good op

[@PaladinLazzy]

yay :]]

[@eddiedormer9045]

My current character is a literal murder hobo, he's a homeless serial killer. I made this character with the DM. He has a specific set of criteria that sets off his urge to kill. But its a dexter situation, its carefully planned and executed as to not endanger the parrty, and ofcoarse the part are exempt from these criteria. He acts like the broody lone wolf type, but will talk your ear off if the topic of sailing, or fishing come up.