I genuinely wish to someday have the confidence to join a dnd game with complete strangers and somehow bluff my way into 6 weeks of play. The man made a real life persuasion check and rolled a natural 20
Ihate Myself:D I’m sure they’d be cool but it’s having the confidence to show up to a dnd group out of nowhere and somehow have nobody realise they don’t know you that I’m envious of.
I once had a player noone knew. We were in a public place talking about starting a new game and this random guy asked if he could join. He played with us for almost a year ^^
I've only brought up "no need to roll" on a repeat check on my Rogue, because I knew due to expertise and reliable talent it was outright impossible for me to fail my acrobatics check (we didn't count crits for skill checks).
@@YourCrazyDolphin true, but failing important checks has made for the most memorable of times for me. I've gone from trying to promote anothers players smithing skills to in a town, to myself becoming a weirdly successful coconut salesmen because of a failed check. While it's an awesome feeling to pass an important check, it's just as fun to fail :P Though that's just me.
Honestly in DnD I feel like failing is kind of the point of the game. One time I had a dn who would not let us fail, it was boring as hell (until I made my character grow more and more over the top, to the point where my sorcerer was basically Neo from matrix while casting spells)
I was a wizard in a small group, we were going through a dungeon. My two buds warrior and pally ran off ahead, i tried to follow but opened the wrong door. I got pelted into oblivion by crossbow bolts from 6 gobbos. Good times
Last Friday we almost died because our monk failed a Wisdom save _(with advantage due to Hero’s Feast)_ *_FOUR TIMES_* which meant that he was off cowering in a corner almost the whole time. It was very funny, lmao.
Can I just take a moment to say how much I appreciate that you're reading these and adding your responses, instead of having a bot read it out? Thanks man.
Yeah, like this doesn't feel like a bot reading reddit. It feels like one of those mail in/call in shows where you could mail in your story and hope it got read on air. Only instead of calling into a radio station, or writing to a TV station, you can just leave a comment on TH-cam or Reddit.
Honestly at that point if he is trying to ruin the story line just tell him he can’t do that. It’s not railroading cause he is actively trying to ruin everything
Tbh, an adventure and progression attempting to build up your influence through various means and take over a kingdom and lead it onward to take over the world sounds epic. 10/10 would play.
@@kobelittle7330 I think it would have been fine in all honesty if he would have had proper back story and family lineage for his characters but I wouldn't keep giving him the stuff his previous characters had.
I very nearly became one of these "worst players" solely because of nerves and inexperience. A couple good friends of mine were part of a D&D campaign, and I ended up joining them at one point. Joining mid-campaign is complicated enough, but also note that I had rarely ever actually PLAYED before (I was usually the DM). My starting character was a rogue, and yes, he fell into all the stereotypical "brooding loner rogue" patterns, because I was nervous about actually talking and worried I'd screw up. And, because I wasn't fully aware of what was going on with the plot, my guy ended up splitting off from the group a couple of times, leading to extended sequences focused solely on me. And I HATED it, because I was FULLY AWARE I was stealing the spotlight, but it's just what kept happening because of how my character was acting. After four sessions, two of which I actually skipped out on because my anxiety was that bad, I finally decided "Alright, I need a fresh start here." I had my rogue leave the group, and brought in a barbarian instead. The rest of the campaign, I still struggled, but was able to get a better hold on things, since barbarians aren't really meant to go off solo, and I gave an actual chance to acting in character. I'm now on my third campaign with this group (playing a rogue again, but this time averting all the stereotypes, having an actual personality and going off alone only for brief periods to scout ahead when the whole group agrees on it). I am SUPER glad I was able to catch myself. If I was less self-aware, I'd probably have stuck with that brooding loner until the other players got sick of it (assuming they weren't already), and now playing D&D with this group is one of the highlights of my week.
I was that guy when I first joined my group for a White Wolf game. They were just starting to get a grasp on how things worked, and here I come, hacking my way through shit and just making things awkward and unpleasant for everyone.
When I made my first character which who I usually use I couldn’t act in his character I made him have a personality I really liked for character but I couldn’t act in his character I changed his personality and now he’s a bit easier to act as but I’m still working on it
just imagine to hear from someone something like "nah, don’t be afraid of being bad at something you have no experience at. No one would ever care!" And then you find yourself in a thread like this
There is a difference between being bad because you don't have experience, and other to be bad because you are an idiot or an asshole to others, trust me, there are many experienced players that are bad players, and I personally don't like playing with veterans, I prefer someone that is just coming into the game and learning that I can help, than someone who thinks they know what they are doing but actually don't and won't take criticism from someone younger.
I got a job at the local game store running D&D when one of the old DM's quit, I was given a group of lvl 5 players halfway through tomb of annihilation and was given about 15 minutes to prep, I was confused when the players explained they were assaulting a shipfull of frost giants, I later found out one of the players named Rusty was playing a warlock named Rusty and had read the entire adventure and had written a backstory that made him destined to obtain a magic ring that among other things made u immune to dieing...which happened to be on the finger of a lawful good character on a boat full of frost giants...he then spent the entire campaign telling me I was running it wrong because and I repeat had 15 minutes to prep where as he had memorized the entire book and built his character around the game setting, unfortunately I wasn't allowed to kick him for cheating because he was paying to play and the store refused to kick anyone that spent any amount of money.
We had a wizard who had ridiculously high intelligence and wisdom. But the guy who payed him was dumb as a stump. He was always picking cursed things up, starting fights for no reason, and just caused chaos during fights because he thought he was being clever. One time he got the bright Idea to destroy the mcguffin we were trying to get because it could destroy water on contact. He reasoned, "If someone threw that into the ocean it would destroy the world and no one could be trusted with that kind of power." Yea, that was the point... An evil sea god was trying to drown the world and we were supposed to use the object to lower the water level back to normal and then seal the sea god in the object and dump it in the plane of fire where it would have been destroyed along with the god... Instead we had to defeat a god the old fashioned way and use a wish spell to turn every living thing on the planet into it's aquatic counterpart because we couldn't stop the water from rising.
A McGuffin is an egg sandwich and I am laughing myself to death at the thought of an egg sandwich being thrown into the ocean and stopping an Almighty sea God
@@howdoinamemychannel6767 Party: "The power of the egg sandwich compels you, sea God! Begone, and never return ashore again. Live the rest of your aquatic life with an eye open for the mighty egg sandwich!" -> Inb4 the wizard eats the sandwich meant to keep the sea God away. Party: "You fool, you have doomed us all!"
There was this lady in a game of 5e that played a rogue. Her character( whose name was her name but backward) would steal right in front of essential npcs. A particular npc would always catch her and kick us all out of their shop for a while. Then there were times we were in combat and she would pretend to be a cave formation or part of the background to get out of fighting. She then would not help with any combat at all so her disguise would hold up. She became so obnoxious, that our cleric refused to heal her.
@@robinmatz6686 True. It's all funny now that we look back and tell stories but I remember being furious and wondering why she was even in our party if the cleric had to threaten her ( to not heal her) to have her do anything of value. Eh what the heck. She won't see this. Her name was April and her character's name was Lirpa.
@@NataliesRevenge That reminds me of a game I was in where the bard was doing everything he could to avoid the plot. Eventually the DM stopped, looked at the player and said "Doesn't your character want to adventure? Doesn't he want fame and fortune?" PC: "No, he doesn't want any of that." DM: "Then why the %*# is he in my game?" Got a good laugh out of that and taught me an important lesson about setting expectations before the game begins.
An invisible (ring/spell) half orc barbarian merchant guard us always an effective way of discouraging theft.... Or breathing. And in sci-fi games automated defence turrets with armour piercing heavy machine guns does the same. If they don't want the carrot, they get the stick.
The worst player I've played with (and still play with to my dismay) is a guy who can't RP to save his hide. I fell into this group of friends many years ago during 4th edition (yes, I know) and most of them were great. One of them though did not and to this day still cannot think outside the framework of the game; what I mean by that is that he rolls an ability check and asks the DM to answer an NPCs question according to his check rather than drawing on what information has already been presented in campaign or how his character would react. In fact, he played one character for over a decade and still needed us to feed him lines and think for his character because he still did not understand his character. The only reason we keep playing with him is because he's not a bad guy outside the game and because we honestly fear for his physical and mental health if he didn't have us as a social group.
One of my friends is pretty similar. Me: *Guys, come help me desactivate this trap, I've no clue of how this shit works!* My friend, to the rest of the party: *Ok wHo hAs tHE HighESt iNvesTigATiON ScORe*
@@snake698 To be fair, DnD IS a game with stats, while players are expected to roleplay it isn't a bad thing that they acknowledge the mechanics and try to optimize their play to some extent.
@@YourCrazyDolphin The question there is that you shouldn't play according to your stats, but to your character's behaviour according to the cirumstance. It's much more fun that way. What's the point if the character with the highest score wouldn't do that in that situation? Do you get my point? It's ok to optimize, but metagaming is not necessary for that...
@@snake698 True, but in many cases all the party are working together towards the same goal, so it can easily be justified for anyone to do something... And usually you will trust the person who is most reliable to do the job. Sure, there will be occassions where it won't be the same, but those are usually a minority.
As a point of reference to that "Too much Dexterity" story. Exalted is a system where player characters are, essentially, mortal incarnations of divine souls. A demigods in realm of mortals, inspired heavily by many gloriously over-the-top eastern media. Think romance of the Three Kingdoms with gods, magic and cranked up to 11. He argued that he was too dexterous in such a setting.
To add insult to injury, he himself wanted to play a charcter who was an eleven year old child with a grand daiklave. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Guy is a great friend and a great player, and he does not get caught up in stuff like this anymore. Hasn't done so for years. But that Exalted incident is legendary in our friend group.
I have one, and it's probably long. It's not like anything you've ever heard, but it happened and I'm bored so it's being released into the wild tonight. Here goes: Be me, first a player for years, then a DM through necessity. Began running DND on 3.5 in its late years. My groups typically consist of older people and some table-top war guys(they love their minis and their strategems). Our sessions were, at the time, about half table-top encounters with minis and the other half RP/theater of the mind. That worked fine for all of us(about 6 all together at capacity), and we had many sessions up to this point in this particular campaign. And by the way, I'm the type of DM that would welcome anyone new to the table, even brand new to DND, and show them how we play(knowing that many tables have many different styles of DND), no pressure to come back if its not your jam. Always welcoming, always warm, and I always make an extra effort to work in your character so that it makes sense how and why they mix in to the campaign and session. Anywho, a buddy at the table had mentioned at the start of this particular session his friend and girlfriend may show up, characters ready, the girlfriend having already played 3.5. I say, sure thats fine. We were already at 5 people, and I told everyone if we go to 7, everyone bring your A-game, know your turn, make your moves fast so everyone gets a turn. Keep it moving...bang bang bang. Well, lo and behold they show up. Boyfriend drunk as a skunk with a half gallon of Admiral Nelson, girlfriend stone-cold sober with the monster manual, the players guide, and the dm guide. Boyfriend has a fighter made up with orange skin because he eats carrots all the time. Yup, that sort of guy. Girlfriends character, I don't even remember. Do you know why? Because she had pages of things on the character. Things no one cared about, nor should they be expected to. You probably thought the drunk boyfriend was going to be the problem? Nope. I could work with him and he was joking and having fun, not pissing on anyone's parade. She hands me the pages, I go over them, realzing how much work she put into this character. I quickly do my best to integrate them into the current situation, using a brief about of info for her background as a cleric. Abandoned church with a cult operating underneath, packs of large zombie blink dogs roving the forest around, these 2 people are also travelers stuck here along the way. Something to that sort, It made sense at the time. The girlfriend sat there for two hours silent. Dead, blank face silent. We worked them in to the session, kept things moving, everyone having fun but her, just exuding a cold vibe. At some point we take a break, they both go out to smoke. They come back in, and he slurs to me in front of the whole table, "Hey bud...not me, her, not me...you understand? Her...she says...youre a shitty DM." I'm like huh? Shes standing there next to him. I look at her. She just stares at me. A silent moment passes. No rebuke. I think, wow, not only is he throwing her under the bus, but she's not denying it. I say something middle-ground like "Well, if you're not happy thats OK. Maybe our style isn't yours. No big deal." As someone who has played at many different tables over the years, I know people can be very limited on what they think DND is "supposed" to be. She half-mumbles something about needing more character development, then her BF interrupts her and says "Yeah she says you just suck at DMing. But I'm gonna keep playing. Shes going home." At which point she turns and leaves. I'm stunned. Five others at the table stunned. He then turns to the buddy at the table and asks if he can have a ride home later, and evidently a very long drive out of the way at that, to which he gets a resounding NOPE. He then leaves, and we laughed for a solid 20 minutes as to how absurd the whole affair was, and then played for another 2 or 3 hours well into the night. They later got married and divorced, I think? Evidently, she comes from a camp of DND players that uses no dice and hardcore gets into character. That's fine, but it's not my table and not my jam. If youre reading this, miss, I thank you for the story and memory. Later, one of my players even made me a shirt that says (I'm just a shitty DM).
for everyone here who is too scared to join a dnd game due to never playing, don't be. 99% of all DM's welcome newbies and would be fine teaching you. feel free to reply to this message to ask questions.
So... how would one even find a group? I have played like once, but with ppl from all around the world, different times zones led to a combat encounter literally taking (irl) months to complete and i learned maybe the basics of the basics of dnd in that time... have quite recently bought the phb and the dnd starter set, but am still looking into finding a newbie friendly group to start
Couldn't have been about me, but when the video said "Orono police," I jumped like a foot in the air. Its the police for the relatively small college I attend, super wasn't expecting to hear that lol
The lazy player Context: my original dnd group was myself and 3 others (I was DMing) and we were all new to the game. My 2 other players were fine, going along with things and making interesting characters. Then my other friend finally joins up, had no character, so I quickly made 5 characters, each with backstories and plot hooks to connect to the main plot of the story. Mind you, I only made the characters for her because she refused to actually do the work of making the character for herself. Then she proceeded to sit on her phone, lackadaisically waiting for combat, which she also didn't keep up with. Overall, if someone in the group is lazy in terms of RP or other aspects of the game constantly, it's time to replace them
Had an online game on Discord once. There were 2 DMs due to neither being consistently available, but they knew each other irl and shared notes, so story wise it worked out. They were kinda strange in and off game, as the world they made was mostly fantasy but with guns, cars, electricity, advanced medical devices, etc all while we used traditional D&D technology, save this character who bought a gun and maybe a grenade, and outside the game they were both convinced they were real life witches. Yep. Witches. But they were friendly and while the setting was odd, I figured it could be fun and went along with it without saying anything. Now, it didn’t take long for me to realize that my small town former innkeep human fighter (basic but lovable) was the only true neutral character in a party of chaotic stupids. In particular, there was one player who started off with a dragonborn barbarian who, somehow, managed to dish out enough damage to one shot my character in a single turn while we were both level 4. How do I know this? They attacked me after I tried to stop them from killing a character (who was obviously important to the story) because she studied Minotaurs. Long story short, we saved her from one, and she explained that it attacked her after she got too close to its child. This made the barbarian go NUTS because she saw Minotaurs as animals and previously ripped two men in half for a stray dog, which she kept around on her chest in one of those baby basket things, later burning down that town for no good reason. We never accomplished our goal in that town for obvious reasons. Anyways, back to present day, I stepped in front of them trying to get them to calm down and NOT kill the important NPC, and they knocked me unconscious. After this I missed a session due to real life circumstances, so they decided to have a one shot. I returned to learn that this one shot took place in their dreams, and in their dreams the dragonborn barbarian blew themselves up with a literal hand grenade, and this killed the actual character... somehow. And so they made a new character: a fire genasi (I don’t remember their class and to be honest I’m not sure they knew either) and they made sure to constantly remind everyone that they ate fire. Said fire eating genasi HATED my character for some reason, which I assumed was because I was previously the sole voice of reason with their previous character. The chaotic stupids stole some horses (that for some reason had strength scores of 30-35 and the DM saw no problem but ok) and when guards chased after them, I thought that since I wasn’t a part of the group who stole horses and had the highest charisma score of the group, it would be best if I went to speak to the guards who were rapidly approaching and tell them I saw a group on horses heading the other direction. The genasi, in character, spoke over my character, gave them a few shoves, and repeatedly spoke the sentences “You’re obviously the least charismatic here and the worst for the job. Your plan is stupid.” What happened after is a bit hazy, but I remember that at some point we ended up stopping at a tree for the night to build a fire (the genasi got mad for me telling them to not burn the forest down, which they wanted to do because the fire that they started “tasted bad because it was started with their own fire.” Yeah, didn’t make sense to me either) and because they got so mad, they decided to grab some rope from my bag (they knew I had this because I tied up our horses) and tie me to the tree while I was asleep. I didn’t wake up until they LIT THE TREE ON FIRE. At the time there was only two other players, one who, while was chaotic, wasn’t too bad and was sort of a friend to my character, couldn’t make it , and another who had just joined, who decided that instead of following the group on their first session, they’d walk to the nearest town during the night and bought 3 jumbo sized iced coffees for themselves. They came back to a burning tree and when I asked for them to help me, they just said “give me iced coffee and I’ll think about it.” I told them I didn’t have iced coffee, but if they helped me I’d buy them more. They repeated, “give me ice coffee now, or burn to death.” That was where the session ended. We never had another due to us never being free all at the same time, but to be honest I wasn’t too upset about that.
Oh boi this sends me back! I had a player who is genuinely a good guy, very nice, goes to Church, plays a guitar, is shy and a loyal friend - you know the type. But his roleplay 😂😂😂 He had a lawful/evil Khajiit (We played Elder Scrolls campaign) and we have just met a lady who asked him to take a skinny dip in the river together. He got all flustered and said:"We... we should get to know each other better first." I will never forget this. That guy was pure gold 😂😊
I've encountered 2. 1 the brick, he had to be railroaded into anything/everything including OBVIOUS personalized character plot hooks. He overlooked these (13 of them) progressively more obvious until hook 14 and DM railroaded us into it. 2 Mr. Salad who always ate salad and only played vegan druids. He took the nature stuff way too far anytime he played.
I'll be honest, when it comes to Role Playing, I'm not that good - I can be rather shy actually. But, funny enough, when I get on a roll, I'm actually hard to stop, to the point that the DM has to go "Dude, let the others have a chance." That being said, for those who complain about failing, that's actually half the fun - you can pass with style, and you can fail with style. I mean, come up with a reason as to why your guy failed his perception check - Visor closed at the wrong moment, needed to fix his gauntlet, got distracted by a butterfly.... That being said, don't cheat - it just ruins the fun.
A. I love getting captured or knocked out in-game. B. I once talked the GM into giving me hoof hands, because I'd been turned into a pig-man and it made sense. -2 DEX penalty due to my hands, but I felt satisfied by the immersion. C. When I got bitten by a space zombie, I told the group they had to cut off my arm or I'd do it myself. Spent the rest of the session with a hefty penalty to combat due to having one arm and being hopped up on painkillers. BTW, I was the tank, and the entire group (including the GM) had been trying to tell me "they're not that kind of zombie!" After I talked with the GM about making this memorable instead of easily fixed, he turned the next session into us trying to get enough money to replace my arm, and random circumstances kept making party members (including the pilot NPC) lose arms. D. We were fighting our first swarm of the campaign. Baby spiders, but we had no way to stop them, as we hadn't prepped any sort of area-of-effect kinda abilities. Then someone recalled that we had alcohol back on the wagon. Someone ran to grab it, poured it on the swarm, I leaned over to light the alcohol... rolled a 1 and fell face-first into a spider swarm. Luckily/unluckily, also set them on fire. Luckily, we had a healer around. Unluckily, we remembered that Heal is a Touch spell... ("Your healer is now covered with spiders.") E. I once tried to avoid eating hallucinogenic snakes at a king's banquet... by pickpocketing them. Turns out that snakes don't like being shoved into pockets. They bit me, and I spent the rest of the encounter not sure if the things I was seeing were real or just illusions thanks to fantasy LSD coursing through my veins. I don't understand the people who have to be on top all the time. Our infamous fails are every bit as fun and sometimes even more memorable than our successes. Who remembers all the boss battles where everything went right?
@@Arkylie I tend to create flawed characters on purpose. Because anyone can be superman. Heck, I once decided that playing a one armed character would be fun. So I built a farm boy turned fighter. Only trouble is, when he was a boy, a horse stepped on his shoulder. Had to amputate. So now he's got a stump. He was shockingly long lived, though. Went from level 1 to level 9 before eating four Scorching Rays in a single round, and three sneak attacks. Had full plate and a +2 battleaxe for a weapon.
Then there's the mixing of races and classes that don't go together, like a little kobold being an Oath of Vengeance Paladin (No bonuses to Charisma, penalty in Strength) going after some big red dragon that had decimated his tribe for some reason.
"Stone Arrow" instantly made me think of my group's "Tristar", who has at one time had an arrow theme going on. Though I still have to praise him for switching it up a bit by making that name a fake name whilst he was undercover with one of his newer Tristars. And then making it all gold when he introduced his very latest new character, Tristar, a guy who was the victim of identity theft. It was already an injoke, but rather than take it as a reason to just leave, he joined us in the joke. These stories about bad players just remind me that at their worst moments, my group is fantastic!
does it compare to Marty, creator of the Ultimate Mary Sue DMPC, denier of multiple laws of physics and elements of the periodic table when they were used by the increasingly desperate party to gain any sort of smidge of control over their own fate? I have never seen players resort to increasing complex forms of chemistry and theoretical physics just have the tiniest form of an edge on the stupidest magical realm I have ever heard of. Poor bastards they were, that Marty was the sole source of respite they had from their classes. But oh, what a god damn tale it was.
@@Wampao To tell the tale of marty and the sheer amount of BULLSHIT he put into his world requires extensive backstory. As in the original teller wrote a small book on it. That said... thinking again about the "smelled line"... the saga of Luke the unclean one, worshiper of Nurgle, is floating around these parts
@@scout360pyroz TH-cam likes to eat direct links, but if you google 'Irolledazero' it should pop right up. There's a few other stories there but the one you're looking for is 'The SUE files'
I once had a session in a special LARP club (LARP is just DnD in RL) Almost all of us were new to DnD (even our DM) and we all just wanted to play for fun and to learn the game, we all knew each other, so it was easy to start Then our “player” came, (let’s call him Bob) He was new to our club, and to our game, he would show up every second session at best and to say he was obnoxious would be an understatement 1. His voice was always on the verge of screamin (seriously, he was LOUD) 2. Was vulgar as a drunken sailor, who stubbed his toe on a table 3. Couldn’t stop eating, so we had to wait for him to finish to continue our game 4. In any situation (i mean ANY situation, even shopping), he always want ed to fight, got us into all sorts of trouble Yeah, noone liked him NOONE, even the DM
Dm here: had to un-invite a mutual friend to a group we were playing with. Let's call him Tim. 5E, homebrew world setting, monstrous races, low level adventure. Started off well enough.Tim was helpful, knew a lot of the rules, would help other newer players get to know their abilities etc. It soon became apparent that he completely wanted the spotlight to himself. Not only did he often talk about how awesome his current character was, but also PAST characters UNRELATED to this game as well. I don't mind some chit chat at my table (we are all friends) but Tim went on and on about how great his past deeds were and how amazing his current wizard really was. How smart he was, how cunning, how he would save the party from every danger. There's only so much politely humoring a person you can do before it starts to grate on you. Anyway I gave Tim some verbal warnings during the gaming sessions. I would set a scene and Tim would have something to say. Tim would argue my rulings, he would contradict me stating game rules only later to find out that he wasn't accurate etc. We would have to stop the game, look up a ruling in the book or online, and still argue about it for 10 mins. before continuing. It was breaking my storytelling flow and dragging things out for everyone. He argued with other players about what they should do as well. Here's a prime example of what Tim would be like in game. The party was going through an elven tomb. Hidden treasure, undead, a surprise attack from a neighboring clan. They get to the final area. I begin describing a sarcophagus emitting bad vibes. (They could detect magic over time but the distance was hindering them a little) This sarcophagus was hanging from the ceiling by chains and was hung about 10 ft. in the air. The party had found a secret door and subsequently, the treasure room behind it. Tim's character, going against party wishes, walks up to the sarcophagus. (They had said they would deal with it after collecting the treasure) "I walk over to the sarcophagus." I looked around. Everyone was visibly pissed but Tim's not listening as usual. "Oh i can't reach it... I know, I summon my unseen servant and carry a crowbar up to the lid and attempt to open it." A trap is triggered. It should have killed him. (It was save versus death, in an area and they had the means to dispel it) Tim starts to pout. "I died?" I rewind time to have an NPC elven rogue they just saved earlier attack him and somehow push him out of the way last minute from the trap and she takes the brunt of the magical trap effect. She crits hitting him. Tim still pouts. I am at my wits end. I even write a dream sequence where Tim's character has the Pale Lady (their version of death incarnate) visit him and sends him back saying it's not his time, etc. Tim's character wakes up underneath a charred corpse of the rogue with 1 HP. TIM STILL POUTS!!!! (It wasn't fair that he almost died and I was picking on him is what he communicated to me.) One other irritating thing was Tim wanted his character to be "unseen" as a spell caster. "You guys didn't see me cast, I am an ILLUSIONIST". I started making him roll for sleight of hand. He then tried to argue with me that somatic components didn't matter... When that didn't work he would argue that he didn't need to roll sleight of hand if no one saw him to begin with. "No one knows where that magic came from! HEHEHE!" We would roll our eyes and keep going.Everything came to a head when another player was telling me what his character would do in the situation and Tim speaks up, interrupting him, "actually you should do x and x because it's better for you, here let me do it" and he grabbed the character sheet from the person and tried to roll for them.... I had it. The player snapped at Tim and said "let me play my own character!" The player took me aside after and said he wasn't comfortable being at the table with Tim anymore. So I asked Tim to not return due to several reasons, he wasn't gelling with the group, he wasn't listening, talking over us, etc. and that it's no hard feelings we can play something else in future with a different crowd. Tim's response was "I knew this would happen eventually" and haven't heard from him since.
Man, Tim sounds like a piece of work. Hopefully he wasn't trying to be, and that he just got carried away. Maybe he knew this would happen just because things like this have previously happened to him, or he was sensing the room and not knowing what to do. Idk, but he sounds kind of like the player you do not want in a campaign.
He seems to have his own self-affirmed belief on how games should be played in his mind, and that permeates in his behavior with others at the table, which is a pretty hefty mark of the socially awkward (even among gaming nerds, and I have met others similar to that before). I may not be the most social person in the world, but I do love acting out a character while trying not to take up any spotlights as the game goes on, save for short-ish moments where plot comes into play and I have to step up for a session of roleplay and combat before getting back to the adventure and the other players have their time to shine.
We had this one guy during our earlier days in DnD, so we weren't the most knowledgeable, but we had enough of an idea to know that you can't dodge or block a direct gunshot while tied up, unconscious, and poisoned.....but this one guy tried, oh boy he tried, to convince the DM otherwise.
This was a group that was created on an online platform simply for the purpose of playing D&D. The campaing was planned to start after our party was beaten by an enemy guild. So we began the first session as the DM said, "You regain your consciousness and find yourselves lying on the dirty streets with no money and equipments except the common clothes on you". (We already knew the campaing was going to begin this way so no surprize there) But the fucking "lying on the dirty streets" got two of the players. The DM for some reason did not bother to tell these guys "It's nothing why are you stuck with this small thing". And they spent 2 fricking ours in real life discussing how they could get a bath in a medieval city for free and asking a few places if they could take a shower. They also constantly interrupted the game to start chatting about stupid unimported things in their actual lives which helped greatly make it so long for them to find a place to take a shower. The worst part is that the DM allowed all this. We literally didn't do anything except looking for a bathhouse for two hours because their bodies touched the ground. I couldn't stand it any longer and just left the game.
To be fair, I can get it with the rule fanatics. I firmly believe those rules exist for a reason, to ensure a fun and good gameplay. And while the DM is allowed to do practically anything, I do feel they should stick to the made rules for the most part. however, if somebody wants to give himself an extra point in Dex for role-play purposes, and the DM gives the green light, then I won't argue about it. While I find the rules very important, the most important part is having fun, so some rules can be bend ever so slightly, ESPECIALLY if its for some fun or original roleplay/story aspects.
Some rules arnt very specific such as stealth, but there is a vague ability that states you may now stealth in low lighting, meaning unless your behind cover or in darkness you couldnt normally use stealth. Most players use stealth like in skyrim which isnt fair in game mechanics I tell my players you may sneak if your target isnt aware of you but once you use a sneak attack you wont be able to stealth unless you can find cover but the enemie knows where you are or at least where you went to last if you move to another place before they find you then you would be hidden again.
jefthereaper I gotta agree. The rules are written because there has to be a rules to any game, it’s how you play. If a rule doesn’t make sense in a certain situation or is just inconvenient to the game as a whole (i.e. constantly keeping track of material components) it’s fine to either ignore the rule or find a simple way around it (just give the players a focus of some sort in session 0 as a part of their starting equipment like I do when I DM). The rules are important. But, with that being said, rule number one is that what the DM says goes. Once the DM makes a decision, respect that and go on, ya know?
One thing I do is create my own limiters in game. Once the DM actually sees what I'm doing and the final result (still being a badass but with drawbacks and flaws) it can help the DM to realize that flaws and weaknesses are bad for the game... in fact they add flavor.
6:56 I admit, I am guilty about occasionally bugging my DM with questions about a campaign / character actions, "is it okay for my character to have this," etc. But I'm not going to whine at my DM to give me special buffs; I just want to play the game and have fun, and I worry that if I do something like take the Mage Slayer feat in a campaign where all the enemies are spellcasters (Which a DM I know forbid her players from taking for this reason) could ruin the fun if it's over with too quickly.
You guys wanna here something that I find kinda funny? We had a "that guy" in our game who's real life name was actually Craig. True story, his name was Craig and he was a classic D&D Craig through and through. He alternated between being a rules lawyer who didn't know the rules, a spot light hog, a magic item hoarder, a "no way my AC is like 50" munchkin, you name it. Now I played with a group with a very finite tolerance for his shit so they would try to put him in his place but Craig didn't like to listen of course so my other players would often just outright kill his character, he would start fights with people who were just objectively better D&D players, lose, die and then sulk. But he ALWAYS came back for more and he never learned, ever. Miss that big dummy sometimes
The first campaign I ever played in had a smorgasbord of unbelievably bad players. Me and my buddy were playing with a rogue and a fighter, and were in a group with another rogue, a sorceress, and some kinda druid, I want to say. We were on the high seas, exploring a bunch of places, and I was trying to get interactions in with the group, all of whom were being either complete and utter dickheads, or were playing the most cookie cutter stereotype of their class. One day, we get to a kingdom ruled by Poseidon, with a bunch of monks who could manipulate water. We got an audience with the king, where it was revealed that they had these sacred swords that they used to open doors. And what does the other rogue do? Well, he thinks it's a good idea to try and STEAL these sacred artifacts, and when he gets caught, the monk nearly drowns our party, and demands that the second rogue fight for his life as retribution. He gets in a few good licks, but on the last battle, he gets eaten alive. This whole time, everyone was ragging on him for his dumbass play, but after this fight, they gave us a chance to honor him in death. Now, I was playing a pretty dickish character myself, and I thought "He wouldn't be happy with this." So, he started his spiel by pointing out that none of this would have happened if he hadn't been an idiot and tried to steal sacred artifacts. Guess what happens... Witch Bolt to the back of my character's head, and the sorceress calling me an asshole. When I point out that she was doing the same exact thing not ten minutes ago, she starts trying to cast Fire Ball at me. And instead of trying to de-escalate the situation, everyone just started trying to egg on the sorceress to throw the spell. I decided to say fuck it and leave, as playing with these guys wasn't worth it. I will reiterate, this was my first campaign, and after that, I almost didn't go to any others. But thankfully, I never had to play with that group again, and now I have a group that doesn't try to gang up on each other, and more importantly are NOT giant hypocrites.
I DMed for a guy who always played the exact same character: a drunk pirate who used a long weapon. It honestly became a joke between our play group that between different campaigns, even different settings and tabletop games, he always played a drunk pirate. Also, we were playing this one system in which players only have three stats; 3d6, no rerolls. He ended up having an 18, a 17, and a 14. He rolled the best possible in one stat (6, 6, and 6 on three six sided dice). Slightly worse in the second (6, 6, and 5) and still very well on the third (5, 5, 4). Oh, did I mention no one witnessed the rolls?
We had one in a group we played as it was his first time the DM wanted to accommodate him a bit. He wanted better stats, wanted a dragon pet, wanted more powers and magic equipment. That player didn't care about the story and tried to rush though it. He also fought both in game and out of game with players. It got so bad that more then half the group told the DM that if he stuck around they would leave. I was almost in that group myself, i know you want your players to have fun but it got to a point that none of the other players were not having fun. Well after he left we kept playing, he stopped cause he didn't get his way. The story started to get deeper but sadly the DM moved away after leaving us with a Dr who easter egg and on a cliff hanger.
We had a guy who would obsess over anything he did that he thought was cool. This wouldn't be a problem if he didn't bring them up every session several times and only had like 5 cool moments to talk about. I'll never forget about the time he used a monster as a javelin, not because it was cool, but because he talked about it every 20 minutes for the next 3 months. Not a bad player really just annoying and caught up in his own hype.
I've been using spell cards to help with that exact issue, actually! Wizards of the Coast actually makes decks of cards that contain descriptions of all the spells in the game (organized by class, and school for wizards). For my Bard I just kept a small deck of all my spells on hand, so that instead of trying to memorize everything or spending 10 minutes flipping through pages I can just look at my cards.
Had a guy that would always oppose the other players no matter what and was in no way interested in roleplaying. He just wanted to fight and imagine cool weapons.
God this reminds me of a game I joined. Pathfinder, one player made a character whose name was "Minecraft Steve", first name "Minecraft". The other player made a ranger, but didnt take any of the ranged fighting feats, and threw three notable tantrums; one when he tried to fire into allied combat and got a disadvantage, another when he tried to shoot through a solid rock wall and couldn't (still don't understand his logic), and the final was at the end of the session, when he quit because "How was I suppost to know there were caves?! I can't shoot in caves!" Mind you, the cave was just session one, and the majority of the game would be in jungles and open fields.
100% agree that new players can end up in a "oh I didn't know I needed that". At which point the GM can work with him; but in this particular case, the player actively chose to not take the basic feats for those actions so he could get smithing feats for whatever reason. I had a Half-Orc Magus named Roadkill in the game and I remember during all his whining about how he should be allowed to shoot (the gm was telling him he simply wasn't allowed to shoot into allied combat without the feat), I told them "Let him take the shot, but know that if you do end up hitting me, Roadkills comin for ya." Wasn't a threat per say, but ended the argument by making him weigh his options of wether he wanted to accidentally stick an arrow in a magical Orc's tuckas.
@@aincradonline9986 Y'know on some level I feel this is a design issue, if you *need* those feats for a viable character they should probably just be class features. ... that said you don't actually need the ability to shoot into combat to have a viable ranged combatant. Really helps though.
In my group, we have a bad player with a decent character and a good player with an annoying as hell character. And then me who's kinda mediocre in all aspects.
We had a guy, lets call him Matt, that was the top level in his “That Guy” stat. So no everyone hated playing with him. He would go into game with the intention of breaking the game for both the DM and the players. What made him worse was you could not simply not invite him to a game. If he heard someone was running/playing in a game somewhere at a certain time he would just invite himself and show up. I kicked him out of my apartment one day for just being highly inappropriate on top of not being invited. Apparently I forgot to lock my back sliding door as I did a last minute run for game snacks before people started showing up. When I got back I found him sitting on my sofa eating a sandwich he had made after inviting himself to my game and then, finding no one home, let himself into my apartment and making himself a snack while waiting. It was painfully clear at that point Matt had no concept of personal space or appropriate behavior. A few months after that I found out he joined the military and I was relieved I wouldn’t be running into him. Apparently not long after basic he was kicked and jailed for going awol. I worked with his mother and she told me in a rant of disappointment that it was true. She even told me they new exactly where to find him because he had requested leave and was denied. The thing he went awol for, Comic Con. Yes, Matt went awol from the military so he could attend Comic Con.
I got one, I wasn't a player or the DM at the time, I was an observer / peanut gallery to a few sessions of a long running GURPS campaign, I wasn't sure if D&D and the like was for me but my friends where happy to have me there all the same, even chipped in a few times for random NPC interactions... despite this I wasn't even the least active person in the discord call. Imagine if you will a player so disconnected from the game that even after a couple of sessions you couldn't figure out what class they where playing, who mumbled more then spoke and would often be asked to focus on the game instead of other things like messing with their phone or doodling and when given the spotlight at any moment would completely discard and waste it. They were even caught playing Minecraft during more then one session then was dumb enough to try and deny it even though discord shows the program you have open at that moment. The worst was when the party has set up camp and where taking turns keeping watch, when it came time to the problem player an encounter happened where a rather ragged and hungry looking nobleman stumbled into camp, begging for a meal and they had PLENTY of rations as well. Did they perhaps ask the Nobles name? The town they hailed from, Even try to strike up any small conversation or hell even try waking one of the other players up to talk with or negotiate with them? Did. they. Bollocks. ''Sorry, you can't have any of our food, now go away''. It was this that kinda tipped me over the edge and I ended up asking the DM after the game if I could actually join in. I figured if someone like that can play a tabletop RPG then I sure as hell could, Ended up playing with those same people (Bar the un-invested player who soon dropped off after some heated arguments with the other players) every week for a year or so, and recently we've all pulled together in these Epidemic days to get some games running again, 5e this time around. I love these goobers ~
"Imagine if you will a player so disconnected from the game that even after a couple of sessions you couldn't figure out what class they where playing" Being unable to figure out what class you're playing in GURPS is indeed quite the feat of disconnection... :P Jokes aside oh god that had to be a nightmare, GURPS is not a game you can half-ass. In fairness it's also a really *complicated* game so I can imagine it'd be easy to get out of the loop, but... I'm imagining thirty minute turns right now, which given how fast GURPS turns are supposed to run that is hell.
I feel like having 1 bad ability score makes things more fun. I have an idiot changeling monk and him being dumb makes it way easier to roleplay and it makes some funny moments. Very optimistic
We once played with the brother of the dm. I think it was our third session when he joined. The dm didn't know the rules all that well and he had a real "dm vs player" mentality and really enjoyed getting us into trouble regardless of what we were doing. His brother was a very experienced player who knew all of the rules by heart (but only seemed to remember the correct rules when it meant he got an advantage, never helping anyone else and never clearing up arguments over rules if it didn't revolved around him). He lied about rules sometimes, knowing we wouldn't catch him. He also had main character syndrome and he and his brother were always fighting, they really didn't get along really well... He left the game after the first session (thank god).
I should probably start with the intro it’s a little long I’m joining a dnd game that some friends already did there doing a sequel of sorts But the start is we all wake up in a prison with no idea why we are there I got the dm to allow me to have a special ability Once a day I can open a portal and something happens For all we know a space marine from space hulk comes out and BURNS EVERY THING So you know it’s gonna be interesting
There was this girl who always played as the same character every time. Tabaxi rogue, assassin subclass, after the first character died she said her next character was "her previous characters sister out to avenge get death". Now this schools dnd club had a policy that each new character has to be a different race and class than your previous character, to encourage experimentation and reduce reusing character sheets. Now I met her before I joined the club, as well as a guy who would go on to become my boyfriend, and I didn't put it together that they knew and disliked each other. The girl was a compulsive liar, she said that she knew the spirits from bleach were real, that she's in a band and beat up the scariest gang member in our city, and that she used to be a concert pianist (she and I were in a beginners piano class together and it took her weeks to get past amazing grace). One day she vented to me about her character being killed by all of the other party members, which I later asked the guy in her group about, he explained that she was loud and unreasonably violent and that everybody was done with her playing the same character again. You think that would be the end of it, but next year she happened to be in the same group as me and my boyfriend, a group which mostly consisted of people who were familiar with her. I decided for this campaign that I wanted to try my hand at being a tabaxi rogue, but with a twist. They're usually played as dark and angsty but I made mine a flamboyant aspiring stage magician and gave him a backstory about running away from unsupportive parents (he's about 17 at the time of the campaign). This girl learns about my plans and decides our characters should be brothers who are identical in every way, and the next day she brought her character sheet and had near perfect stats (like almost all 18s). The dm suspected she cheated but we didn't have any proof. So we started the first day at a tavern. She proceeded to get drunk, yell about finding her long lost brother, break another party members porcelain arm, and when people get mad at her she runs off into the woods, demanding the dms attention so she knows exactly what happens while the other party members behave civilly. We meet the mayor of the town and recieve a quest to clear out a cave of goblins or something. The next time we see her, she's been arrested for killing a sacred elk, and her sentence is to go on the mission with us but she doesn't get paid. She's a bad rogue, not because of her stats but because she legs her edginess overtake her sneakiness. After she still tried to do a lot of things like seduce my characters love interest (who's arm she broke) or try to cheat her way into being overpowered. Unfortunately, I was away from this group often because I was in a play at the time so I didn't get to witness when she was killed, but even the dm was sick of her bullshit.
The worst player I ever encountered: I was DM and he was new to dnd. He played a human wizard. I say(his first moment of dnd)"OK. A friend of you told you about a quest you can be paid for, but for more detailed informations you have to go to this adress." He:"I walk there"Me:"You see a big pyramide build on the center of a big market place. What you do" He"I throw a firebolt at the pyramide" After the city guards saw this they immediately attacked. One crit later the wizard was dead.
Hi, don't know if it would fit into your story. I don't know all the details, but wasn't a better option to just knock him unconscious. He would then wake up and had to explain to guards why he has used firebolt. Guards could then have opportunity to "correct" him on how to approach similar situation in the future. It's kind of a dm cheat to guide player to do want you want them to do. Especially useful if they are new to the game.
My reoccurring headache is when any player has a fit or gets all booty bothered because the NPCs don't do exactly as they say "Because we're the PCs and we know better."
I had a "Worst DM Ever". Eric, who spelled his name "Aeryk" was a classic narcissist. Manipulating his players and treating our emotions like they were toys for him to play with. He would call impromptu game nights and if you weren't there he would threaten your character. You were required to be at his place (or rather his girlfriend's place as he didn't have a job) at 7 PM. At which point you would sit in the living room and watch him play Halo until he felt like starting the game. This was usually 10 PM. He regularly used in-game rewards to get people to do what he wanted them to do. I complain about being treated as a drink slave, Robe of Spider Climb. I accuse him of toying with my best friend's emotions, Magical Obsidian Dagger. (also, I'm pretty sure he was pushing my character to be evil.) On top of being a narcissist, he was also just mean. He really enjoyed treating people like crap then telling them they misunderstood when they got pissed off. He actually had a henchman, AJ, who would just sit next to him on the couch (while he played Halo) and just rag on everybody for three hours. Eric would just grin and laugh about it. I finally gained some self-respect and quit that group, I kind of forced my best friend out with me. I wasn't going to leave her in that toxic dump heap.
Did that for a one-shot once; D&D 5E, played a Kenku monk, ibis species. His entire vocabulary consisted of "bin juice", "shiny", and assorted whistling noises.
One of my favorite clerics I played was a true American, and charged the party for each healing spell he cast. Party got really upset when I charged them 100 gold per level per cast at level 2, and informed them this would be scaling as we leveled up, as they are NOT entitled to my labor. I told them they were welcome to heal themselves or seek healing elsewhere if they didn't want to pay my prices. Thats how supply and demand works, though so they paid. I made bank. The Rogue tried to steal the money back, but he could never roll past my passive, and his Wisdom and Charisma saves were awful (just like the rest of the party), so when she tried stealing it back, I'd Banish her. Barbarian and Fighter tried physically intimidating me into submission, but Banishment and Spirit Guardians plus my Resilient Con and Warcaster feats put them in their place. Every once in a while, I bring this character back, mainly because it's really funny to see liberals justify forcing me into slavery just because no one wants to learn how economics works. Know your worth, clerics! Don't let the left win!
A player who wouldn’t stop talking for hours on end about how his character eschewed wealth, then refused to return a valuable relic to an NPC we were helping. He ended up yelling at the entire group and wouldn’t stop arguing until the DM ended the game and we never met up for another session again.
This happened literally about 15 minutes ago. I was playing a game with a close friend of mine who was the dm. She had invited another friend to the game who was absolutely HORRENDOUS. No matter what, he would absolutely insist by going by the rules in his books, and applied it to ALL of us, and even forced it onto the dm occasionally. Once or twice I could find multiple sources of information online that said otherwise to what he said, but no, he had the books, so he was absolutely right (which would be fine if he was the actual dm.) Moreover, he insisted on one occasion that we were breaking a "fundamental part of the game" at one point. All that REALLY happened was that I and my one friend were very used to using d20 for our stats from the other sessions we play instead of the official 4d6 drop lowest. It may just be me, but I doubt that a difference of two from the maximum stat number you can get is fundamentally breaking. But the absolute worst happened at our first session extremely recently. (Yeah, that stuff from before was before even our first session.) We had run into our first encounter. I'm playing a tabaxi rogue and I had stayed behind instead of going with the group, so when combat engaged, none of the enemies knew I was there. I had rolled a Nat 20 plus 3 for my initiative, so I was going first. I figured that if I used my tabaxi traits of Feline agility to double my speed and Cat Claws for a faster attack, plus damage from sneak attack because they didn't know I was there, I could kill one of them immediately. However, Mr. By-The-Book did not agree. He said no, because Tabaxi only had 30 ft speed, not 40 ft. (I had looked this up while making my character and several places said 40 ft.) He basically nullified my entire idea for that turn. Then, instead of letting me try something else, he told the dm "So, yeah, he just doesn't do anything." and skipped my turn. He. HE. My character and I both identify as female. I left the group and told the dm never to invite me to another game with him again.
Forgive me if I misunderstand what you meant by "a difference in maximum stats of 2", but 4d6 has a range of 4-24, whereas a d20 has a range of 1-20. Furthermore, a d20 has an average result of 10.5, but 4d6 has an average result of 12. The statistical difference between them is genuinely signifigant. If you made a player who was under them impression that they would be rolling 4d6 drop the lowest roll a single d20 for the same roll, they are effectively being put at disadvantage with a -4 modifier. It is literally the difference between your lowest possible rolls being 1's all around and 4's. Additionally, and I am sorry to say this, but if the other player was never informed of your preference, it is unfair to hold a misunderstanding such as that against the other player, let alone your DM. You almost certainly could have both had your preferences respected and your way in game if you had pursued more dialoge options IRL.
@@bodaciouschad those are both really fair points, I have no arguments against them. Either way though, the bigger point I meant to get across was that he was essentially trying to be the dm and attempting to out voice others in the party. But yeah, I never accounted for the lowest possible rolls... Hecc
@@iSheep-pd9bz Oh, I never said the other player was innocent. They were out of line trying to supercede the DM on rules interpretation. A player can offer their opinions and offer feedback, but it's the DM's role to dictate rulings. Even when the DM is wrong, players should only bring up that the rules, as they knew them, were different. That allows the DM to explain where their version came from without derailing a session. Sounds like the other player failed to present their concerns without disrupting the group as a whole. Even with good intentions, they were responsible for the hostile environment that made other player(s) at their group uncomfortable.
I just have to say, players that don't read the rules are the WORST. Sure, it's ok for a new player to get hand held for 2, maybe three sessions. But, if your on your 5th session and you STILL forget to add proficiency bonus, that's totally on you. It's even worse when they blame DM for it. Players, even new one's, have an obligation to read the rules on their own, rather than halting the game every round on their turn because I have to reteach them how to fight at the start of every combat. So, is it not reasonable to make them miss, and then tell them to remember to add the thing on the next round? Just remember on your next attack , jeez. (i'm venting here. Had a player rage quit on me for this. Rediculous. We made up but still, I was pretty frustrated when they just cut me off because of something so small)
One of the worst players I've had to deal with was when I was a DM and, to put it bluntly, he was a 'That Guy'. But not any 'That Guy', but a That Guy that fit practically every definition: wanted special treatment, an overpowered character who was stronger than everyone else's, constantly 'correcting' me about rules, thought he was immune from consequences, and tried to make his character a playboy. We play in the backroom of our local DnD shop when nobody's garage was free, so that's how we met; he was a walk-in, saw us setting up, and asked to join. I have little tolerance for these kinds of people (inherited that from my brother who DMed for me and got me into DnD), but that tolerance does extend to one session during which I subtly do what I can to make people like this leave. Here, I was tempted to just say F IT within five minutes, but I held back purely because he'd described his character's 'physic' and said 'just like my real one'. Two hours later, after dealing with what was supposed to be a short 50 minute dungeon crawl for combat, I employed my old Succubus Standby Protocol. The SSP is something I use to get rid of players who want to inflate their ego through the 'conquests' of their character, and very simply involves them finding an attractive female that responds to the player's advances and takes the character back to her place. The character never returns, and my usual players never bother to investigate, recognizing when I do this, so use it as an easy reason to get rid of the new annoyance. Here, they decided to investigate, for our mutual amusement. The investigation leads to discovering the woman is a succubus and the annoying PC dead, drained of all life essence. The succubus isn't evil, just living peacefully, hiding her nature with her shape-shifting powers, and sees herself as doing a service to the community since her victims are usually degenerates and any criminals she comes across, keeping her home safe and herself fed. She also has the same dialog every time she's spoken to: "Hey, a succubus has got to eat. Not that he qualified as much of a meal. Could barely call him a snack to be honest". As you can imagine, That Guy was furious and shouted at the other players to kill 'the b' while glaring at me. However, one of the other players was a paladin, who could tell she wasn't evil, so felt it was wrong to kill her for just trying to survive. Because they spared her, they got the usual reward I gave for this course of action: every player raises a chosen stat by 1 point and the party gets a neural winged imp helper to carry stuff, scout, and act as a sentry for them at the cost of gold and food for its services; if the party is nice to the imp, it waves its fees and assists them in combat with firebolts and low-level demonic magic. As a note, killing the succubus earns the party gold and a storage room full of loot taken from her victims, which she normally sells at one of the town's merchants. Naturally, That Guy didn't stick around long after that. I love the Succubus Standby Protocol.
Luke from "the DM Lair" (channel here on YT) has a group of "younglings" (as he calls them) but I don't know how old or young they are. I've also heard a story of a DM who "ran a session" using purely theatre of the mind without dice rolls or character stats for his 4yo daughter. A good DM will know how to adjust a game to suit the age group of the players. As for finding a game in your area, your local library might be a good starting point. Some games or hobby stores may also know a group, although your best bet is a specialist games store rather than a generic toy store or electronic games store.
Download Discord and look for a dnd server in google or reddit... There's not much more to it. I'm pretty sure that, once in the server, just tell them you're a newbie and they'll guide you through the process. Ask your parents first if you're under 14, and don't get into 18+ Discord servers if you're under 18 (or 21 in some countries, I think).
I've played with kids as young as 7 though I wasn't thrilled. You can find open games online and at local libraries, schools, gamestores, etc. or just form a group with friends.
As a player we had Rogue who would not allow character interaction unless it was with her character. she would literally have her Rogue scream at us to go to sleep if we were talking at the end of the day in our camp site. every conversation had to be with the Rogue. and she always turned it into telling us about her backstory to make us feel bad for her crappy character. we all had pretty depressing backstories. she usually had to initiate the conversation or she'd flat out ignore us. she didn't like half of our characters, refused to interact with them and would straight up bully them to the point of she forced the Fighter and Sorcerer into suicide, forcing them to make new characters that she to no one's surprise still didn't like. once the Rogue brought up something that referenced the Barbarian's past. her Rogue had said, "What you got pissed and murdered your mother?" Barbarian responds, "yes." with a dead serious face, telling us that's probably one stone that will stay un-turned unless someone really wanted to pry. the Rogue says, "oh, okay..i really don't care about the story behind that so let's not get into that." then continues talking to him about her backstory of being experimented on and kept in a cell for their entire life. we all kicked her out very soon after because the rest of us were dying for our own interactions and exploration of backstories of the other characters who had so far been a mystery to us.
We had one guy in our group, who played a Lawful good Alchemist, and his only request was he wanted a love story. That was fine and all, but when it came to adventuring, he acted so bored with it. We'd return to town and he'd play the love story like it was all he cared about. That's about the worst player I ever played with.
We had one, he was a half-orc with a negative -1 int. He was a loveable character in the beginning and we were enjoying him being this way, he watched vox machina and I get the feeling he was trying to be like Grog. But during a mission we came into way too much gold, so much the dm warned us if we bought something way to high for our level (which was 5) it’ll obviously show like we are flashing off our wealth and so on. Well we let him in charge of the money, most of the crew got way to great items, I went the middle road of good but just good enough to not be a walking target. But then he went the furtherest and basically got things that increased his stats, got an item that allows him to speak and understand all languages, and decided to be the leader of the group. He started telling everyone what to do, started changing our clothes, had a very intimidating talk with every single NPC because he refused to “owe” anything to anyone. He was making it seem like we were lvl 20, and was wasting the money too for way to much stuff. An event happened in which he wanted us to split the group so someone (strongly hinted he could do it) to go off to the main quest on a bronze dragon that we helped, and us stay behind to defend an entire port side kingdom. We had to tel him it’s impossible for us to take care of it ourselves from attacks at lvl 7! He also then alpha fuck his girlfriend in the game becusss we were arguing with him and she “challenged” him and apparently his character gets turned on by that drags her to the carriage and basically says he fucks her pc and uses her pc’s undies into the mouth of a tied up suspect we had. It started getting weird and he was just really aggressive. Luckily he couldn’t come back to game, unluckily, his gf and him were the tanks and so the game ended because the rest of the party will not be able to handle the mission were going. It was my first game too, so I’m now cautious on any game I did join after that one. We hope we can continue that old game though since we worked so hard and had such long sessions for it
Is this a normal DnD experience? I had never played DnD before this so maybe this is due to my inexperience, but I made a character, created an entire back story since I enjoy writing and got the "okay" from the DM. When we began playing we got an hour in when the DM springs upon me that he changed my back story without my knowledge. I'm disappointed since I worked really hard on it but decided to shrug it off since I didn't want to bring down the mood with the group. So after two hours of playing I barely have done anything. The two other players were too OP (I assume there was some sort of balancing issue??) where they would 1 hit KO enemies and since I was of lower speed I would never get to fight. It was basically fight after fight so we never had a chance to role play so I was getting super bored. Also within the first 4 hours one of the members got a OP Crystal Dragon, which is probably fun for the person using it, but for me, someone who barely had gotten to fight, kinda found to be very BS. A quest began and they asked me if I wanted to go as well, which I said yes. Then the DM told me, "Actually no, you stay behind." I figured something was going to happen to the tavern I was staying in, but nothing happened and I just watched as they fought some stuff. The main goal of the entire run was to get enough money for a guild hall which I assumed would take multiple sessions, but we did that within one session. Also my curse was broken within that session too which I wanted to be an overarching problem. Maybe this is a normal experience, I really don't know. All I can say is, it wasn't fun.
From my, albeit small experience, that’s not what a typical dnd session should be like. My dm has us roll the d20 for turn order, probably to prevent stagnancy, so we never enter a battle in the same fight order and everyone usually gets a chance to fight. Most campaigns aren’t suppose to be fight after fight either, unless you’re currently in a dungeon, then that’s usually when it’s more fighting less role play. Also having a dm exclude you from doing things like that isn’t a common thing either, usually as a dm you want all your players involved in the quest. Really it just sounds like you got stuck in a shitty situation and should probably talk about to your dm about your role and ways to better implement yourself, you’re a player here too and they shouldn’t be casting you aside.
That's not... exactly what I'd call a normal experience. The DM here seemed to have a particularly kill-em-all style where you definitely didn't. That said... RPGs can be an awful lot of fun when it works, but generally it will take a while to find a group and style that 'clicks' with you, which means you will have bad play experiences to a greater or lesser degree. The highs are generally worth the lows (especially if you can avoid sunk-costing a game that doesn't work.) but if you start low it can definitely not seem that way.
My group follows a rule of thumb “Stupid games get stupid prizes”. Well, during one of the campaigns something happened (it’s been forever) that leads to a death god to die. And I’m guessing the player in question thought it would give him power (why does everyone assume this kind of stuff?) if he drank the dead gods blood. He ran to the body, sliced, drank, and promptly dissolved into a puddle.
Worst player I ever Dm'd lasted 1 or 2 sessions. He was sort of a "local legend" in the D&D community, having been playing since the earliest days, and it was hard to find players who hadn't had him as a DM at some point. So, he enters into an existing group. I give him a short solo session to get him into the context and feel of the campaign, putting him into a place to meet the existing PC's, who have shared interests. In a single night, he stole from 2 PC's, insulted the party leader, and tried to kill another PC in his sleep. His defense was "I'm Chaotic Neutral." The party knocked his character out and left him behind, successfully covering their trail. When it was over, he told us we didn't know how the games worked, and told me I was a very poor DM, because I couldn't even get his character into the party.
it was my first time DMing, player rips off aang from avatar. okay, at least this will give me some plot hooks to use; like with the other player who is not even hiding that his character is just sam metalgear. but he changed the backstory so I can't tie the plot to his backstory just by doing that, also he decides that since one character is a bounty hunter he should take his pacifist monk (he said that they were himself) and turn them into a murderhobo to fit in with "the theme of the campaign" which had nothing to do with bounty hunting (though I might incorporate some of that in to add some interest/make Armstrong a more active character) the guy doesn't play at all, he pays attention to our regular DM but totally ignores me. he was in a single session that I did for just him and another player that was abandoned almost immediately after it started because I had nothing prepared, guess I just got marked off as a bad DM or something (not entirely wrong) he just has his own conversation with some other players and consistently interrupts me, the three players who are actually trying to play, and the new player who is starting to have fun with the game. Constantly mentions "oh, next session I can bring my DMing tools, someone just has to teach me how to be a dungeon master" at this point I really get the feeling he doesn't want to play the campaign I'd been working on since our regular DM had started missing sessions. yesterday he acted like I didn't even run a campaign last week. I'm definitely overreacting but I still am going to ask him to leave if he's going to refuse to play. no reason coming to sessions just to lot music as loud as possible on your phone and interrupt people. P.S. metal gear ray is very hard to balance for a 6th level party even at a limit of only 5 class levels and common weapons
There are good groups out there, you just need to give it a chance. But also, keep in mind: No DnD is better than Bad DnD. Don't put up with it for the sake of having a game.
I had quite a few - won't talk about the weirdo (he was mentally disabled, so it wouldn't be fair) or the murderhobos (too many to count) - but two that definitely come to mind are the Princess and the Knight (we actually called them MUCH worse names)... They were a couple - she was a loon that wanted to play absolute pacifists and didn't abide violence in ANY way, which usually meant that she stuck to noncombat actions, forcing the DM to cater to her every whim (which, when the Knight himself was the DM, he gladly did)... two episodes that come to mind are her doing session after session of tea ceremonies in a japanese setting (she was a young noblewoman) until I stated to the DM "Either we move, or I try killing the Emperor. Either way, we'll finally have some action." (She pouted until the end of the campaign) and (in another campaign) , playing a cleric (not to mention the only one with a blunt weapon), breaking down crying and squealing (she had this annoying, whiny cry she used whenever she didn't get her way) "We shouldn't use violenceeeeeee! We should try to taaaaaaaalk!" - fair enough, except that our opponents were SKELETONS that 1) are borderline animated objects, and 2) are resistant to ANY weapons except for blunt ones. The team had to beat them back with TORCHES while she whined and stamped her feet (she did that a lot). And the Knight... Good lord, the Knight. He was the Princess' boyfriend, and an absolute asshole. He made useless characters (or so he claimed) because "I'm so good at roleplaying games that if I play a normal character I'll step over everyone else" (he actually loved playing assholes) and only took action to inconvenience the other players. In the japanese campaign above, he played a female bard (no such thing in the setting, he had to force the DM) who hoarded spells without casting any, until he finally cast one - Hold Person. On a player's Samurai character. To remove all of his stuff and toss it into a river, because he had dared to defend himself against another character's berserk attack. And when we called him out on it, he said "My character is gonna step off the boat, and go from village to village to decry the evils of the Emperor and instigate a revolution!" (we pointed out that in feudal japan that simply would have ended with him crucified, but whatever). In the same campaign (but earlier), he played a quckin' Inkio (a lay monk - no spells, no actual powers - a Diplomancer, if you will) who he jokingly called "Minkio"; that's an italian language pun - he basically called himself a dick, which to be honest HE WAS. He made life hell for all the characters except for his girlfriend, which reached a peak when we were traveling through contaminated areas, with no way to hunt or forage, and were forced to eat my character's leather armor... and the asshole put some contaminated grass in the pot while nobody was looking. Result: the Samurai's sacred katana melted, my Shaman lost use of most of his spells, and let's not even talk about what happened to the others. The reason? He thought that it'd be fun. Spoiler alert: IT WASN'T. I finally dropped off the group when he hijacked a Champions campaign to make it all about his girlfriend. Seriously, make her worshipped as a Goddess because she has healing powers - in a freakin' SUPERHERO CAMPAIGN, where there are actual Gods walking around? Oh, and he made us all basically NPC to bring back in the characters of his old teammates (who, being smarter than we were, actually kicked HIM out when he started being an ass).
Our worst member of our group is also one of our closest friends. He played a melee warlock as a wizard, a wizard as a barbarian, and somehow managed to go down a level when we all got out XP. He also cannot figure out how the hell skill checks or how many dice to roll for anything. He’s also the reason we have to all roll out dice on camera over video instead of using dice on our phones because he somehow got 6 Nat 20s in a single hour session. God we love him, he’s got a big heart, but I’d rather run myself through a crop spreader than play with him.
When I first started DMing (pathfinder) we had a player named Dave. Dave had played dnd for 20+ years and "knew everything there was to know" so he was constantly metagaming. To the point where i'd put a mini out and he'd say "it's ok guys that's X it only has 14 HP and and ac of 16", so monsters would get random buffs sometimes. He also hated homebrew unless it was HIS homebrew. I'd occasionally have NPC's that had a nifty spell, or a quirky magic item that was unique to them. He'd constantly stop the game and dig into his rulebook and make me explain exactly how said spell/item worked. Cast time, range, effective spell level all that. We dealt with it because we needed the player. After awhile Dave brings his sons friend (16 year old kid) who wants to learn. Kid was a nice kid, really into the game and had some fun roleplaying ideas. He wanted to play a halfling barbarian that carried a large sized bastard sword and take a penalty on his movement and attack rolls because it would be too big for him. For no reason other than flavor. Kid (we'll call him Alex) eventually decides to play a monk, Alex and Dave work up a character and backstory. Very cliche "kid abandoned at a temple and found by traveling monks". Well in Pathfinder Desna is the goddess of travel so Alex and I decided the monks, since they were travelers, would worship Desna. Fast forward a few weeks and the group has finished a small quest and is fumbling around trying to figure out how to proceed, mostly because Dave has derailed every clue/hook i had thrown out. So someone gets the idea that they should go pray to their gods for guidance. I loved the idea. Alex asks about the temple of Desna. Dave absolutely loses his mind. Stops the game, grabs Alex's sheet and says this is wrong. No Monk would ever worship Desna as she is Chaotic and Monks have to be lawful and no lawful character would venerate a chaotic deity. I made the argument that it's pretty lawful to say "i don't agree with your methods but I exist in your domain and appreciate your protections". Nope, Dave threw a huge fit, spends at least an hour full on arguing with every player at the table. We were wrong, he's played dnd for 20+ years and knows all. It ended with me literally throwing my core rulebook at him (I slammed it in front of his seat not at his face) and kicking him out. The group took a month off and reformed without Dave or Alex. Still my worst experience as a DM.
My gaming group had a guy who was part of it before I had officially joined and was still subbing when a player was absent from my mom's game. I believe I've told this story before but I think it fits here too. He refused to tell the group his character' name and got mad when his character started being Ice Cream Sandwich. I was 8 when I subbed for his dude in one of my mom's campaigns.
I am my worst player, can't dm for shit even though I want to, played for four years and still have learned nothing, roleplaying is more like pulling teeth with me... Please send help
The worst player I ever encountered was actually a good friend of mine. The first time I ever DM’d I did a pirate homebrew campaign in 5e. My players were a couple of my friends, who were very inexperienced accept for one. He had been my previous DM in a campaign and agreed to play with the newbie group so that he could help them learn the game a little better and help me if I made any DM mistakes. Only, he didn’t do that. In fact he just made the whole thing more difficult. Whenever I gave him questions privately he was really dismissive and didn’t help at all and then later complained about the very thing that I asked him about and told me I was doing it wrong, in front of my players. A good example was when I explicitly asked him and the other players if they wanted more free rain or wanted me to railroad a bit with the story. They all agreed that in the beginning they would feel more comfortable if I took more control so that they could learn the basics, but later the experienced player complained that I was railroading and said I was a terrible DM. He constantly separated from the group and had his own solo adventures, thereby splitting the group and made it really boring for the other players when they had to wait while he tried to shake down a bar owner of his money. He tried his absolute best to wreck the campaign, making it difficult for me and the other players. Needless to say this really strained our friendship, because we saw a very different side of him. And he later quit the campaign because he said that we were too boring.
Oh. I have a nice story of this. Kenneth, a paladin, got mad at my cleric, Priscilla, for suggesting that we look for a temple that turned out having a overpowered sword. Basically, she was contacted by her God to find said op sword at a temple, because apparently something was coming, that being the main bad guy. And that we needed the sword to defeat him. Kenneth thought that was bogus and, while Priscilla was injured, killed her. (He rolled a nat 20 to kill her. The DM even allowed it!)He said we didn't need a cleric anyway because potions exist. He, and the rest of the party, died pretty quickly to the main bad guy after that.
My Dm's girl friend, a druid, who got away with literally anything she wanted regardless of rules yet we all had to follow strict rules. Next to that would be a player who tried to make his player a "god" or a "demi god" by design so he could do whatever the hell he wanted... which he got away with. -- so really we all had to follow strict rules except for DM's gf and the "god" and it was a pointless free for all to the point where we didn't have a story line we just had combat and would "spawn" in random dungeons the dm made up the night before. My first and last d&d group. i have not played sense. -- which is sad because i was really looking forward to playing, but two people ruined it to the point where no one showed up the next game day and we never spoke of it again.
Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. D&D can be tons of fun with the right people, but horrible when things don't work out. I hope you find it in you to try again some time, with better players to make it work :)
I've had a pretty bad one too. I often DM (although we all play simplified because we have small brains) and there was this one player. He was so sarcastic and nihilistic. While I was setting up a fantasy story that involved a *lot* of roleplaying, he was busy constantly getting his character drunk, high, or injured in dumb ways, constantly ruining the moment and interrupting others. When his character did get incapacitated and I set a timer for how long until he could see clearly, he complained he couldn't try to do something else, even if this was supposed to be a serious final confrontation. But noo he was too busy getting drunk and interrupting everyone else and me :v
I'm usually the idiot player of my group. My group is all about being tactical and strategic and I usually like screwing around, though there are times where I am serious (our current PF2 game I'm the group support Alchemist). One particular time I decided to roll up a sorc for our game, as my characters kept dying. So rolled up a level 9 sorc and didn't do as much reading as I should have. We start in a dungeon and during the session I'm reminded of sorc abilities that I keep forgetting. We eventually hit a boss room and basically the boss was 100 feet up in the ceiling of the room where it was pitch black. The boss essentially was bringing dolls to life to attack us. We eventually figured out where he was but I claimed I couldn't hit him. He was above me and I could only shoot straight (I was thinking on a 2D perspective instead of a 3D perspective ). I caught a lot of shit that night and decided that casters weren't my thing anymore.
The ‘cash and Kerry’ sounds like he thought he could pretend to be just a guy trying to play dnd with friends and assumed no one would question why a stranger suddenly joined the game.
All you really need is some dice and you can get a good set for like $5 in most places. Most of the time, folks will let you take a look at their books, at least until you can save up for your own - and you can get those for like $35 at places like Amazon, or pay $50 at the game/comic store.
I was the worst player at one point. Played a dwarven tempest cleric and was obsessed with damage for some reason. I think I was “forced” into being a healer but I wanted to do damage. One player decided to leave around lvl 5 and wanted to do a send off. In a dwarven dungeon, his character fell into acid and emerged juiced and set on killing the party (planned between him and DM). I remember getting very upset that he was going around one-shotting the party. I threw a hissy fit and I don’t remember us playing much after that. I have since watched a lot of DnD content and learned how to roleplay and enjoy story telling. I learned how to play into the spot you fill. Yay for character growth! I am truly sorry for being a petulant child during my early campaigns.
I dont get why people always want better stats, Sure it makes you look cooler and do things better. But here is no fun and no challenge in anything if you know youll be able to do practically anything. My first character i had ever made was a gnome wizard and i rolled really really good stats, 14 Str, 15 Dex, 12 Con, 18 int, 17 wis, 15 Cha for a level 1 wizard. But there was this person in my group whos stats were all crazy they had 18 Str, 17 Dex, 18 Con, 10 Int, 18 Wis, And 16 Cha. But kept complaining about how his stats we so so low and that it made him feel weak.
Depends on the game and starting level. I love high stats as a buffer so low level PCs have survivability. After all, it tends to drop off in effectiveness in later levels as (assuming D&D or similar) class levels and gear get higher. Plus, of course, you basically can't play a caster without a high primary, and the ability to survive one hit long enough to get the good stuff.
Had a player who felt that his goal was to have fun ... at the expense of other players. He regularly engaged in PvP play despite being warned that the rest of the group didn’t play that way. He also cheated regularly by rerolling missed saves and missed attacks. Sometimes he flat out lied about his rolls. He also demanded the top cut of the treasure.
I am a DM for a long-term 5e roleplay. One day, we were missing a player, so another guy from the group (i play with a club at school) jumped in to take their place. This guy had a PC who was the DEFINITION of overpowered: he couldn't die, could kill anyone, etc. Good thing that one of the characters he tried to kill was an actual angel who was important to the story. I, as you might expect, wiped the floor with him, and he left halfway through the session in a hissyfit.
That first story it sounded like he had a case of “main character syndrome” ( a term that our group used to describe a player that always wants to be in the spotlight and to be the main hero and everyone else, is the side character
1:46 - that is the moment that if I was in this campaign I would freeze Bob solid, turn into a dragon, cook him to medium-well, and then bite his head off. (I am basically always an ice sorcerer dragonborn)
I genuinely wish to someday have the confidence to join a dnd game with complete strangers and somehow bluff my way into 6 weeks of play. The man made a real life persuasion check and rolled a natural 20
jeb bryant lol I’m 15 and I’m to nervous to find a group.
As long as your not a dick I'm pretty sure they wouldn't care
Ihate Myself:D I’m sure they’d be cool but it’s having the confidence to show up to a dnd group out of nowhere and somehow have nobody realise they don’t know you that I’m envious of.
@@jebbryant6522 seduce them
I once had a player noone knew.
We were in a public place talking about starting a new game and this random guy asked if he could join.
He played with us for almost a year ^^
"Cash and Kerry" might be the greatest nickname ever.
Yes yes it is
I don't get it.
@The high ground I thought "Cash and Carry" was a metaphor for a particular criminal act?
No it is the best nickname ever
@The high ground where is obiwan?
“Bro my stats are awful. No need for me to roll though, 20 strength, I’ll make it anyway, am I right?”
Oh, that guy. We’ve all had them.
I had a 3.5 ed shadowdancer who had a +25 to hide and would still FAIL!!!
I've only brought up "no need to roll" on a repeat check on my Rogue, because I knew due to expertise and reliable talent it was outright impossible for me to fail my acrobatics check (we didn't count crits for skill checks).
Having a high stat for a check and failing it is so much more entertaining as actually passing it. Great for a PC ego destroying RP moment.
@@EvilDuckOfDoom Unless you got reliable talent.
@@YourCrazyDolphin true, but failing important checks has made for the most memorable of times for me. I've gone from trying to promote anothers players smithing skills to in a town, to myself becoming a weirdly successful coconut salesmen because of a failed check.
While it's an awesome feeling to pass an important check, it's just as fun to fail :P
Though that's just me.
Honestly though, failed rolls are half the fun of DnD.
Honestly in DnD I feel like failing is kind of the point of the game. One time I had a dn who would not let us fail, it was boring as hell (until I made my character grow more and more over the top, to the point where my sorcerer was basically Neo from matrix while casting spells)
@Cloud Strife PREACH!
it forces you to think and apreciate all the choices in the game, hahahah but of course is hard XD
I was a wizard in a small group, we were going through a dungeon. My two buds warrior and pally ran off ahead, i tried to follow but opened the wrong door. I got pelted into oblivion by crossbow bolts from 6 gobbos. Good times
Last Friday we almost died because our monk failed a Wisdom save _(with advantage due to Hero’s Feast)_ *_FOUR TIMES_* which meant that he was off cowering in a corner almost the whole time. It was very funny, lmao.
I had a guy play a gnome wizard named "Gnome Chompski" and he would try to get every npc to join his communist revolution.
This gives me ideas now XD
>:)
That is not a bad character, that is an absolutely amazing character.
@@a.morphous66 it really isn't.
That sounds like the opposite of a problem
Can I just take a moment to say how much I appreciate that you're reading these and adding your responses, instead of having a bot read it out?
Thanks man.
Yeah, like this doesn't feel like a bot reading reddit. It feels like one of those mail in/call in shows where you could mail in your story and hope it got read on air. Only instead of calling into a radio station, or writing to a TV station, you can just leave a comment on TH-cam or Reddit.
I understand "worst players" but that guy threatening people with a knife is an actual criminal wtf
I think I might know who that was.
@@TheBaconWizard We need the juice
I had a guy named Tony threaten one of the pc’s in my group over which mad max movie was better
"It was a scene to kill for" - some madmax enthusiast
@@throwitoutthewindow Why not break Tony's nose?
I was DM. First session ever, the first thing he says is "Okay, I want to conquer the world."
It took some effort to salvage the story-line.
Ainz?
@@Fanimati0n maybe?
@@gilgamesh1599 yo, Fate pfp. Nice
Honestly at that point if he is trying to ruin the story line just tell him he can’t do that. It’s not railroading cause he is actively trying to ruin everything
Tbh, an adventure and progression attempting to build up your influence through various means and take over a kingdom and lead it onward to take over the world sounds epic. 10/10 would play.
Not gonna lie tho, if the "stone arrow" character saga was done right, that could be hilarious.
This somehow reminds me of the all the Jojo
His party sounded like the dicks in that story.
Guy just wanted to reuse a character sheet. I feel bad tbh.
@@kobelittle7330 I think it would have been fine in all honesty if he would have had proper back story and family lineage for his characters but I wouldn't keep giving him the stuff his previous characters had.
this actually gave me a lot of ideas for a character
I very nearly became one of these "worst players" solely because of nerves and inexperience. A couple good friends of mine were part of a D&D campaign, and I ended up joining them at one point. Joining mid-campaign is complicated enough, but also note that I had rarely ever actually PLAYED before (I was usually the DM). My starting character was a rogue, and yes, he fell into all the stereotypical "brooding loner rogue" patterns, because I was nervous about actually talking and worried I'd screw up. And, because I wasn't fully aware of what was going on with the plot, my guy ended up splitting off from the group a couple of times, leading to extended sequences focused solely on me. And I HATED it, because I was FULLY AWARE I was stealing the spotlight, but it's just what kept happening because of how my character was acting.
After four sessions, two of which I actually skipped out on because my anxiety was that bad, I finally decided "Alright, I need a fresh start here." I had my rogue leave the group, and brought in a barbarian instead. The rest of the campaign, I still struggled, but was able to get a better hold on things, since barbarians aren't really meant to go off solo, and I gave an actual chance to acting in character.
I'm now on my third campaign with this group (playing a rogue again, but this time averting all the stereotypes, having an actual personality and going off alone only for brief periods to scout ahead when the whole group agrees on it). I am SUPER glad I was able to catch myself. If I was less self-aware, I'd probably have stuck with that brooding loner until the other players got sick of it (assuming they weren't already), and now playing D&D with this group is one of the highlights of my week.
I was that guy when I first joined my group for a White Wolf game. They were just starting to get a grasp on how things worked, and here I come, hacking my way through shit and just making things awkward and unpleasant for everyone.
Props to you for growing and developing as a player!
When I made my first character which who I usually use I couldn’t act in his character I made him have a personality I really liked for character but I couldn’t act in his character I changed his personality and now he’s a bit easier to act as but I’m still working on it
1:44 The way you say "one thing I remember" sounds exactly like Kermit the Frog.
Mr.Dr.Kaiser LOL
I heard that too!!
Hahahaha
I can't unhear it now! 🤣
Everyone does
just imagine to hear from someone something like "nah, don’t be afraid of being bad at something you have no experience at. No one would ever care!" And then you find yourself in a thread like this
There is a difference between being bad because you don't have experience, and other to be bad because you are an idiot or an asshole to others, trust me, there are many experienced players that are bad players, and I personally don't like playing with veterans, I prefer someone that is just coming into the game and learning that I can help, than someone who thinks they know what they are doing but actually don't and won't take criticism from someone younger.
I got a job at the local game store running D&D when one of the old DM's quit, I was given a group of lvl 5 players halfway through tomb of annihilation and was given about 15 minutes to prep, I was confused when the players explained they were assaulting a shipfull of frost giants, I later found out one of the players named Rusty was playing a warlock named Rusty and had read the entire adventure and had written a backstory that made him destined to obtain a magic ring that among other things made u immune to dieing...which happened to be on the finger of a lawful good character on a boat full of frost giants...he then spent the entire campaign telling me I was running it wrong because and I repeat had 15 minutes to prep where as he had memorized the entire book and built his character around the game setting, unfortunately I wasn't allowed to kick him for cheating because he was paying to play and the store refused to kick anyone that spent any amount of money.
We had a wizard who had ridiculously high intelligence and wisdom. But the guy who payed him was dumb as a stump. He was always picking cursed things up, starting fights for no reason, and just caused chaos during fights because he thought he was being clever. One time he got the bright Idea to destroy the mcguffin we were trying to get because it could destroy water on contact. He reasoned, "If someone threw that into the ocean it would destroy the world and no one could be trusted with that kind of power." Yea, that was the point... An evil sea god was trying to drown the world and we were supposed to use the object to lower the water level back to normal and then seal the sea god in the object and dump it in the plane of fire where it would have been destroyed along with the god... Instead we had to defeat a god the old fashioned way and use a wish spell to turn every living thing on the planet into it's aquatic counterpart because we couldn't stop the water from rising.
A McGuffin is an egg sandwich and I am laughing myself to death at the thought of an egg sandwich being thrown into the ocean and stopping an Almighty sea God
@@howdoinamemychannel6767 Party: "The power of the egg sandwich compels you, sea God! Begone, and never return ashore again. Live the rest of your aquatic life with an eye open for the mighty egg sandwich!"
-> Inb4 the wizard eats the sandwich meant to keep the sea God away.
Party: "You fool, you have doomed us all!"
@@howdoinamemychannel6767 That's a McMuffin not a Mcguffin.
Should have just wished the wizard was never born
There was this lady in a game of 5e that played a rogue. Her character( whose name was her name but backward) would steal right in front of essential npcs. A particular npc would always catch her and kick us all out of their shop for a while. Then there were times we were in combat and she would pretend to be a cave formation or part of the background to get out of fighting. She then would not help with any combat at all so her disguise would hold up. She became so obnoxious, that our cleric refused to heal her.
This would be funnier if her name was a palindrome like Anna of Hannah
@@robinmatz6686 True. It's all funny now that we look back and tell stories but I remember being furious and wondering why she was even in our party if the cleric had to threaten her ( to not heal her) to have her do anything of value. Eh what the heck. She won't see this. Her name was April and her character's name was Lirpa.
@@NataliesRevenge That reminds me of a game I was in where the bard was doing everything he could to avoid the plot. Eventually the DM stopped, looked at the player and said "Doesn't your character want to adventure? Doesn't he want fame and fortune?"
PC: "No, he doesn't want any of that."
DM: "Then why the %*# is he in my game?"
Got a good laugh out of that and taught me an important lesson about setting expectations before the game begins.
@@robinmatz6686 Lana :^)
An invisible (ring/spell) half orc barbarian merchant guard us always an effective way of discouraging theft.... Or breathing.
And in sci-fi games automated defence turrets with armour piercing heavy machine guns does the same.
If they don't want the carrot, they get the stick.
The worst player I've played with (and still play with to my dismay) is a guy who can't RP to save his hide. I fell into this group of friends many years ago during 4th edition (yes, I know) and most of them were great. One of them though did not and to this day still cannot think outside the framework of the game; what I mean by that is that he rolls an ability check and asks the DM to answer an NPCs question according to his check rather than drawing on what information has already been presented in campaign or how his character would react. In fact, he played one character for over a decade and still needed us to feed him lines and think for his character because he still did not understand his character. The only reason we keep playing with him is because he's not a bad guy outside the game and because we honestly fear for his physical and mental health if he didn't have us as a social group.
One of my friends is pretty similar.
Me: *Guys, come help me desactivate this trap, I've no clue of how this shit works!*
My friend, to the rest of the party: *Ok wHo hAs tHE HighESt iNvesTigATiON ScORe*
Bro, maybe he is the worst player, but is he under some psychological treatment? He sounds traumatized as fuck, or maybe he is sickly, idk.
@@snake698 To be fair, DnD IS a game with stats, while players are expected to roleplay it isn't a bad thing that they acknowledge the mechanics and try to optimize their play to some extent.
@@YourCrazyDolphin The question there is that you shouldn't play according to your stats, but to your character's behaviour according to the cirumstance. It's much more fun that way.
What's the point if the character with the highest score wouldn't do that in that situation? Do you get my point? It's ok to optimize, but metagaming is not necessary for that...
@@snake698 True, but in many cases all the party are working together towards the same goal, so it can easily be justified for anyone to do something... And usually you will trust the person who is most reliable to do the job. Sure, there will be occassions where it won't be the same, but those are usually a minority.
As a point of reference to that "Too much Dexterity" story.
Exalted is a system where player characters are, essentially, mortal incarnations of divine souls. A demigods in realm of mortals, inspired heavily by many gloriously over-the-top eastern media. Think romance of the Three Kingdoms with gods, magic and cranked up to 11.
He argued that he was too dexterous in such a setting.
To add insult to injury, he himself wanted to play a charcter who was an eleven year old child with a grand daiklave. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Guy is a great friend and a great player, and he does not get caught up in stuff like this anymore. Hasn't done so for years. But that Exalted incident is legendary in our friend group.
I have one, and it's probably long. It's not like anything you've ever heard, but it happened and I'm bored so it's being released into the wild tonight. Here goes: Be me, first a player for years, then a DM through necessity. Began running DND on 3.5 in its late years. My groups typically consist of older people and some table-top war guys(they love their minis and their strategems). Our sessions were, at the time, about half table-top encounters with minis and the other half RP/theater of the mind. That worked fine for all of us(about 6 all together at capacity), and we had many sessions up to this point in this particular campaign. And by the way, I'm the type of DM that would welcome anyone new to the table, even brand new to DND, and show them how we play(knowing that many tables have many different styles of DND), no pressure to come back if its not your jam. Always welcoming, always warm, and I always make an extra effort to work in your character so that it makes sense how and why they mix in to the campaign and session. Anywho, a buddy at the table had mentioned at the start of this particular session his friend and girlfriend may show up, characters ready, the girlfriend having already played 3.5. I say, sure thats fine. We were already at 5 people, and I told everyone if we go to 7, everyone bring your A-game, know your turn, make your moves fast so everyone gets a turn. Keep it moving...bang bang bang. Well, lo and behold they show up. Boyfriend drunk as a skunk with a half gallon of Admiral Nelson, girlfriend stone-cold sober with the monster manual, the players guide, and the dm guide. Boyfriend has a fighter made up with orange skin because he eats carrots all the time. Yup, that sort of guy. Girlfriends character, I don't even remember. Do you know why? Because she had pages of things on the character. Things no one cared about, nor should they be expected to. You probably thought the drunk boyfriend was going to be the problem? Nope. I could work with him and he was joking and having fun, not pissing on anyone's parade. She hands me the pages, I go over them, realzing how much work she put into this character. I quickly do my best to integrate them into the current situation, using a brief about of info for her background as a cleric. Abandoned church with a cult operating underneath, packs of large zombie blink dogs roving the forest around, these 2 people are also travelers stuck here along the way. Something to that sort, It made sense at the time. The girlfriend sat there for two hours silent. Dead, blank face silent. We worked them in to the session, kept things moving, everyone having fun but her, just exuding a cold vibe. At some point we take a break, they both go out to smoke. They come back in, and he slurs to me in front of the whole table, "Hey bud...not me, her, not me...you understand? Her...she says...youre a shitty DM." I'm like huh? Shes standing there next to him. I look at her. She just stares at me. A silent moment passes. No rebuke. I think, wow, not only is he throwing her under the bus, but she's not denying it. I say something middle-ground like "Well, if you're not happy thats OK. Maybe our style isn't yours. No big deal." As someone who has played at many different tables over the years, I know people can be very limited on what they think DND is "supposed" to be. She half-mumbles something about needing more character development, then her BF interrupts her and says "Yeah she says you just suck at DMing. But I'm gonna keep playing. Shes going home." At which point she turns and leaves. I'm stunned. Five others at the table stunned. He then turns to the buddy at the table and asks if he can have a ride home later, and evidently a very long drive out of the way at that, to which he gets a resounding NOPE. He then leaves, and we laughed for a solid 20 minutes as to how absurd the whole affair was, and then played for another 2 or 3 hours well into the night. They later got married and divorced, I think? Evidently, she comes from a camp of DND players that uses no dice and hardcore gets into character. That's fine, but it's not my table and not my jam. If youre reading this, miss, I thank you for the story and memory. Later, one of my players even made me a shirt that says (I'm just a shitty DM).
As a dice goblin you lost me at "she doesn't use dice"
@@xxnekonekox everyone loves rolling dice!
Great story! But I still don't understand how can you play without using dice?!?
@@benhurj 100% roleplay and theater of the mind
Break. Up. The paragraphs. Please.
for everyone here who is too scared to join a dnd game due to never playing, don't be. 99% of all DM's welcome newbies and would be fine teaching you. feel free to reply to this message to ask questions.
Same with some players. I enjoy new people. The different outlooks and decisions from a different perspective
Can confirm. My first game was a blast, though i cant roleplay and such :p
@@kenzo8096 i'm a player/dm and i can't really do voices. i do try to roleplay when i can though.
So... how would one even find a group? I have played like once, but with ppl from all around the world, different times zones led to a combat encounter literally taking (irl) months to complete and i learned maybe the basics of the basics of dnd in that time... have quite recently bought the phb and the dnd starter set, but am still looking into finding a newbie friendly group to start
Imagine watching this video and finding a story about you
It had me wincing a few times and go "yeah I did that at some point". I´m honestly not the best player it seems....
I am looking for my gnome bard who was designed to irritate the DM.
He was described as the “Justin Bieber of gnomes”. 👍😂
Couldn't have been about me, but when the video said "Orono police," I jumped like a foot in the air. Its the police for the relatively small college I attend, super wasn't expecting to hear that lol
The lazy player
Context: my original dnd group was myself and 3 others (I was DMing) and we were all new to the game. My 2 other players were fine, going along with things and making interesting characters. Then my other friend finally joins up, had no character, so I quickly made 5 characters, each with backstories and plot hooks to connect to the main plot of the story. Mind you, I only made the characters for her because she refused to actually do the work of making the character for herself. Then she proceeded to sit on her phone, lackadaisically waiting for combat, which she also didn't keep up with. Overall, if someone in the group is lazy in terms of RP or other aspects of the game constantly, it's time to replace them
Have a player like this in my group and I wish I could get rid of her but she's the girlfriend of one of the long-standing group.
Had an online game on Discord once. There were 2 DMs due to neither being consistently available, but they knew each other irl and shared notes, so story wise it worked out. They were kinda strange in and off game, as the world they made was mostly fantasy but with guns, cars, electricity, advanced medical devices, etc all while we used traditional D&D technology, save this character who bought a gun and maybe a grenade, and outside the game they were both convinced they were real life witches. Yep. Witches. But they were friendly and while the setting was odd, I figured it could be fun and went along with it without saying anything. Now, it didn’t take long for me to realize that my small town former innkeep human fighter (basic but lovable) was the only true neutral character in a party of chaotic stupids. In particular, there was one player who started off with a dragonborn barbarian who, somehow, managed to dish out enough damage to one shot my character in a single turn while we were both level 4. How do I know this? They attacked me after I tried to stop them from killing a character (who was obviously important to the story) because she studied Minotaurs. Long story short, we saved her from one, and she explained that it attacked her after she got too close to its child. This made the barbarian go NUTS because she saw Minotaurs as animals and previously ripped two men in half for a stray dog, which she kept around on her chest in one of those baby basket things, later burning down that town for no good reason. We never accomplished our goal in that town for obvious reasons. Anyways, back to present day, I stepped in front of them trying to get them to calm down and NOT kill the important NPC, and they knocked me unconscious. After this I missed a session due to real life circumstances, so they decided to have a one shot. I returned to learn that this one shot took place in their dreams, and in their dreams the dragonborn barbarian blew themselves up with a literal hand grenade, and this killed the actual character... somehow. And so they made a new character: a fire genasi (I don’t remember their class and to be honest I’m not sure they knew either) and they made sure to constantly remind everyone that they ate fire. Said fire eating genasi HATED my character for some reason, which I assumed was because I was previously the sole voice of reason with their previous character. The chaotic stupids stole some horses (that for some reason had strength scores of 30-35 and the DM saw no problem but ok) and when guards chased after them, I thought that since I wasn’t a part of the group who stole horses and had the highest charisma score of the group, it would be best if I went to speak to the guards who were rapidly approaching and tell them I saw a group on horses heading the other direction. The genasi, in character, spoke over my character, gave them a few shoves, and repeatedly spoke the sentences “You’re obviously the least charismatic here and the worst for the job. Your plan is stupid.” What happened after is a bit hazy, but I remember that at some point we ended up stopping at a tree for the night to build a fire (the genasi got mad for me telling them to not burn the forest down, which they wanted to do because the fire that they started “tasted bad because it was started with their own fire.” Yeah, didn’t make sense to me either) and because they got so mad, they decided to grab some rope from my bag (they knew I had this because I tied up our horses) and tie me to the tree while I was asleep. I didn’t wake up until they LIT THE TREE ON FIRE. At the time there was only two other players, one who, while was chaotic, wasn’t too bad and was sort of a friend to my character, couldn’t make it , and another who had just joined, who decided that instead of following the group on their first session, they’d walk to the nearest town during the night and bought 3 jumbo sized iced coffees for themselves. They came back to a burning tree and when I asked for them to help me, they just said “give me iced coffee and I’ll think about it.” I told them I didn’t have iced coffee, but if they helped me I’d buy them more. They repeated, “give me ice coffee now, or burn to death.” That was where the session ended. We never had another due to us never being free all at the same time, but to be honest I wasn’t too upset about that.
What the....? Wow.. just WooooooooooOOOOOOOw...
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What the actual fuck. I’m surprised you put up with them that long.
Hahahahahaha , ok that really make me laught.
Georgia A. Psora you and me both
Oh boi this sends me back! I had a player who is genuinely a good guy, very nice, goes to Church, plays a guitar, is shy and a loyal friend - you know the type. But his roleplay 😂😂😂 He had a lawful/evil Khajiit (We played Elder Scrolls campaign) and we have just met a lady who asked him to take a skinny dip in the river together. He got all flustered and said:"We... we should get to know each other better first." I will never forget this. That guy was pure gold 😂😊
tbf he probably felt a little uncomfortable even if he was playing a lawful evil character
I've encountered 2. 1 the brick, he had to be railroaded into anything/everything including OBVIOUS personalized character plot hooks. He overlooked these (13 of them) progressively more obvious until hook 14 and DM railroaded us into it.
2 Mr. Salad who always ate salad and only played vegan druids. He took the nature stuff way too far anytime he played.
I wonder how he'd like my druids, who are all carnivores and only eat what they personally hunt.
"How do you spot a vegan? You don't have to, they'll let you know."
I'd probably be the Mr. Salad guy if I played in more campaigns lol
I'll be honest, when it comes to Role Playing, I'm not that good - I can be rather shy actually. But, funny enough, when I get on a roll, I'm actually hard to stop, to the point that the DM has to go "Dude, let the others have a chance."
That being said, for those who complain about failing, that's actually half the fun - you can pass with style, and you can fail with style. I mean, come up with a reason as to why your guy failed his perception check - Visor closed at the wrong moment, needed to fix his gauntlet, got distracted by a butterfly....
That being said, don't cheat - it just ruins the fun.
A. I love getting captured or knocked out in-game. B. I once talked the GM into giving me hoof hands, because I'd been turned into a pig-man and it made sense. -2 DEX penalty due to my hands, but I felt satisfied by the immersion.
C. When I got bitten by a space zombie, I told the group they had to cut off my arm or I'd do it myself. Spent the rest of the session with a hefty penalty to combat due to having one arm and being hopped up on painkillers. BTW, I was the tank, and the entire group (including the GM) had been trying to tell me "they're not that kind of zombie!" After I talked with the GM about making this memorable instead of easily fixed, he turned the next session into us trying to get enough money to replace my arm, and random circumstances kept making party members (including the pilot NPC) lose arms.
D. We were fighting our first swarm of the campaign. Baby spiders, but we had no way to stop them, as we hadn't prepped any sort of area-of-effect kinda abilities. Then someone recalled that we had alcohol back on the wagon. Someone ran to grab it, poured it on the swarm, I leaned over to light the alcohol... rolled a 1 and fell face-first into a spider swarm. Luckily/unluckily, also set them on fire. Luckily, we had a healer around. Unluckily, we remembered that Heal is a Touch spell... ("Your healer is now covered with spiders.")
E. I once tried to avoid eating hallucinogenic snakes at a king's banquet... by pickpocketing them. Turns out that snakes don't like being shoved into pockets. They bit me, and I spent the rest of the encounter not sure if the things I was seeing were real or just illusions thanks to fantasy LSD coursing through my veins.
I don't understand the people who have to be on top all the time. Our infamous fails are every bit as fun and sometimes even more memorable than our successes. Who remembers all the boss battles where everything went right?
@@Arkylie those people want to be on top all of the time because they feel insecure in reality and this game is a power fantasy for them.
@@Arkylie I tend to create flawed characters on purpose. Because anyone can be superman. Heck, I once decided that playing a one armed character would be fun. So I built a farm boy turned fighter. Only trouble is, when he was a boy, a horse stepped on his shoulder. Had to amputate. So now he's got a stump. He was shockingly long lived, though. Went from level 1 to level 9 before eating four Scorching Rays in a single round, and three sneak attacks. Had full plate and a +2 battleaxe for a weapon.
Then there's the mixing of races and classes that don't go together, like a little kobold being an Oath of Vengeance Paladin (No bonuses to Charisma, penalty in Strength) going after some big red dragon that had decimated his tribe for some reason.
"Stone Arrow" instantly made me think of my group's "Tristar", who has at one time had an arrow theme going on. Though I still have to praise him for switching it up a bit by making that name a fake name whilst he was undercover with one of his newer Tristars. And then making it all gold when he introduced his very latest new character, Tristar, a guy who was the victim of identity theft. It was already an injoke, but rather than take it as a reason to just leave, he joined us in the joke. These stories about bad players just remind me that at their worst moments, my group is fantastic!
These are absolute BABY-TIER "That Guy" stories.
In my 20+ years of gaming, I've seen, heard, and smelled things you wouldn't believe...
does it compare to Marty, creator of the Ultimate Mary Sue DMPC, denier of multiple laws of physics and elements of the periodic table when they were used by the increasingly desperate party to gain any sort of smidge of control over their own fate?
I have never seen players resort to increasing complex forms of chemistry and theoretical physics just have the tiniest form of an edge on the stupidest magical realm I have ever heard of. Poor bastards they were, that Marty was the sole source of respite they had from their classes.
But oh, what a god damn tale it was.
*TELL US YOUR STORIES OF THAT GUYS*
@@Wampao To tell the tale of marty and the sheer amount of BULLSHIT he put into his world requires extensive backstory. As in the original teller wrote a small book on it.
That said... thinking again about the "smelled line"... the saga of Luke the unclean one, worshiper of Nurgle, is floating around these parts
@@scout360pyroz TH-cam likes to eat direct links, but if you google 'Irolledazero' it should pop right up. There's a few other stories there but the one you're looking for is 'The SUE files'
I once had a session in a special LARP club (LARP is just DnD in RL)
Almost all of us were new to DnD (even our DM) and we all just wanted to play for fun and to learn the game, we all knew each other, so it was easy to start
Then our “player” came, (let’s call him Bob)
He was new to our club, and to our game, he would show up every second session at best and to say he was obnoxious would be an understatement
1. His voice was always on the verge of screamin (seriously, he was LOUD)
2. Was vulgar as a drunken sailor, who stubbed his toe on a table
3. Couldn’t stop eating, so we had to wait for him to finish to continue our game
4. In any situation (i mean ANY situation, even shopping), he always want ed to fight, got us into all sorts of trouble
Yeah, noone liked him NOONE, even the DM
Dm here: had to un-invite a mutual friend to a group we were playing with. Let's call him Tim. 5E, homebrew world setting, monstrous races, low level adventure. Started off well enough.Tim was helpful, knew a lot of the rules, would help other newer players get to know their abilities etc. It soon became apparent that he completely wanted the spotlight to himself. Not only did he often talk about how awesome his current character was, but also PAST characters UNRELATED to this game as well. I don't mind some chit chat at my table (we are all friends) but Tim went on and on about how great his past deeds were and how amazing his current wizard really was. How smart he was, how cunning, how he would save the party from every danger. There's only so much politely humoring a person you can do before it starts to grate on you. Anyway I gave Tim some verbal warnings during the gaming sessions. I would set a scene and Tim would have something to say. Tim would argue my rulings, he would contradict me stating game rules only later to find out that he wasn't accurate etc. We would have to stop the game, look up a ruling in the book or online, and still argue about it for 10 mins. before continuing. It was breaking my storytelling flow and dragging things out for everyone. He argued with other players about what they should do as well.
Here's a prime example of what Tim would be like in game. The party was going through an elven tomb. Hidden treasure, undead, a surprise attack from a neighboring clan. They get to the final area. I begin describing a sarcophagus emitting bad vibes. (They could detect magic over time but the distance was hindering them a little) This sarcophagus was hanging from the ceiling by chains and was hung about 10 ft. in the air. The party had found a secret door and subsequently, the treasure room behind it. Tim's character, going against party wishes, walks up to the sarcophagus. (They had said they would deal with it after collecting the treasure) "I walk over to the sarcophagus." I looked around. Everyone was visibly pissed but Tim's not listening as usual. "Oh i can't reach it... I know, I summon my unseen servant and carry a crowbar up to the lid and attempt to open it." A trap is triggered. It should have killed him. (It was save versus death, in an area and they had the means to dispel it) Tim starts to pout. "I died?" I rewind time to have an NPC elven rogue they just saved earlier attack him and somehow push him out of the way last minute from the trap and she takes the brunt of the magical trap effect. She crits hitting him. Tim still pouts. I am at my wits end.
I even write a dream sequence where Tim's character has the Pale Lady (their version of death incarnate) visit him and sends him back saying it's not his time, etc. Tim's character wakes up underneath a charred corpse of the rogue with 1 HP. TIM STILL POUTS!!!! (It wasn't fair that he almost died and I was picking on him is what he communicated to me.)
One other irritating thing was Tim wanted his character to be "unseen" as a spell caster. "You guys didn't see me cast, I am an ILLUSIONIST". I started making him roll for sleight of hand. He then tried to argue with me that somatic components didn't matter... When that didn't work he would argue that he didn't need to roll sleight of hand if no one saw him to begin with. "No one knows where that magic came from! HEHEHE!" We would roll our eyes and keep going.Everything came to a head when another player was telling me what his character would do in the situation and Tim speaks up, interrupting him, "actually you should do x and x because it's better for you, here let me do it" and he grabbed the character sheet from the person and tried to roll for them.... I had it. The player snapped at Tim and said "let me play my own character!" The player took me aside after and said he wasn't comfortable being at the table with Tim anymore. So I asked Tim to not return due to several reasons, he wasn't gelling with the group, he wasn't listening, talking over us, etc. and that it's no hard feelings we can play something else in future with a different crowd. Tim's response was "I knew this would happen eventually" and haven't heard from him since.
He "knew" that would have happened eventually???? What nerve. If he did he should have done something about it. That is... Unless he is malicious.
Man, Tim sounds like a piece of work. Hopefully he wasn't trying to be, and that he just got carried away. Maybe he knew this would happen just because things like this have previously happened to him, or he was sensing the room and not knowing what to do. Idk, but he sounds kind of like the player you do not want in a campaign.
He seems to have his own self-affirmed belief on how games should be played in his mind, and that permeates in his behavior with others at the table, which is a pretty hefty mark of the socially awkward (even among gaming nerds, and I have met others similar to that before). I may not be the most social person in the world, but I do love acting out a character while trying not to take up any spotlights as the game goes on, save for short-ish moments where plot comes into play and I have to step up for a session of roleplay and combat before getting back to the adventure and the other players have their time to shine.
Good riddance Tim.
Wow, what a dick. Then again, that can be said about anyone mentioned for this video.
We had this one guy during our earlier days in DnD, so we weren't the most knowledgeable, but we had enough of an idea to know that you can't dodge or block a direct gunshot while tied up, unconscious, and poisoned.....but this one guy tried, oh boy he tried, to convince the DM otherwise.
This was a group that was created on an online platform simply for the purpose of playing D&D. The campaing was planned to start after our party was beaten by an enemy guild. So we began the first session as the DM said, "You regain your consciousness and find yourselves lying on the dirty streets with no money and equipments except the common clothes on you". (We already knew the campaing was going to begin this way so no surprize there) But the fucking "lying on the dirty streets" got two of the players. The DM for some reason did not bother to tell these guys "It's nothing why are you stuck with this small thing". And they spent 2 fricking ours in real life discussing how they could get a bath in a medieval city for free and asking a few places if they could take a shower. They also constantly interrupted the game to start chatting about stupid unimported things in their actual lives which helped greatly make it so long for them to find a place to take a shower. The worst part is that the DM allowed all this. We literally didn't do anything except looking for a bathhouse for two hours because their bodies touched the ground. I couldn't stand it any longer and just left the game.
To be fair, I can get it with the rule fanatics.
I firmly believe those rules exist for a reason, to ensure a fun and good gameplay.
And while the DM is allowed to do practically anything, I do feel they should stick to the made rules for the most part.
however, if somebody wants to give himself an extra point in Dex for role-play purposes, and the DM gives the green light, then I won't argue about it.
While I find the rules very important, the most important part is having fun, so some rules can be bend ever so slightly, ESPECIALLY if its for some fun or original roleplay/story aspects.
Some rules arnt very specific such as stealth, but there is a vague ability that states you may now stealth in low lighting, meaning unless your behind cover or in darkness you couldnt normally use stealth. Most players use stealth like in skyrim which isnt fair in game mechanics I tell my players you may sneak if your target isnt aware of you but once you use a sneak attack you wont be able to stealth unless you can find cover but the enemie knows where you are or at least where you went to last if you move to another place before they find you then you would be hidden again.
jefthereaper I gotta agree. The rules are written because there has to be a rules to any game, it’s how you play. If a rule doesn’t make sense in a certain situation or is just inconvenient to the game as a whole (i.e. constantly keeping track of material components) it’s fine to either ignore the rule or find a simple way around it (just give the players a focus of some sort in session 0 as a part of their starting equipment like I do when I DM). The rules are important. But, with that being said, rule number one is that what the DM says goes. Once the DM makes a decision, respect that and go on, ya know?
One thing I do is create my own limiters in game. Once the DM actually sees what I'm doing and the final result (still being a badass but with drawbacks and flaws) it can help the DM to realize that flaws and weaknesses are bad for the game... in fact they add flavor.
@@notchomomma239 Not to come off as rude, but I think you might have meant to say "aren't" instead "are"
M8 its called homebrew
He forgot to clear his search history, and i was assigned to check it...
...*sweats profusely*
(Chuckles) I’m in damger
Damn... I would like, but I wanna keep it at 69
6:56
I admit, I am guilty about occasionally bugging my DM with questions about a campaign / character actions, "is it okay for my character to have this," etc. But I'm not going to whine at my DM to give me special buffs; I just want to play the game and have fun, and I worry that if I do something like take the Mage Slayer feat in a campaign where all the enemies are spellcasters (Which a DM I know forbid her players from taking for this reason) could ruin the fun if it's over with too quickly.
This is why i just play by myself, can't go wrong if there are no other players hahahaha.... i'm so lonely.
You guys wanna here something that I find kinda funny? We had a "that guy" in our game who's real life name was actually Craig. True story, his name was Craig and he was a classic D&D Craig through and through. He alternated between being a rules lawyer who didn't know the rules, a spot light hog, a magic item hoarder, a "no way my AC is like 50" munchkin, you name it. Now I played with a group with a very finite tolerance for his shit so they would try to put him in his place but Craig didn't like to listen of course so my other players would often just outright kill his character, he would start fights with people who were just objectively better D&D players, lose, die and then sulk. But he ALWAYS came back for more and he never learned, ever. Miss that big dummy sometimes
The first campaign I ever played in had a smorgasbord of unbelievably bad players. Me and my buddy were playing with a rogue and a fighter, and were in a group with another rogue, a sorceress, and some kinda druid, I want to say. We were on the high seas, exploring a bunch of places, and I was trying to get interactions in with the group, all of whom were being either complete and utter dickheads, or were playing the most cookie cutter stereotype of their class.
One day, we get to a kingdom ruled by Poseidon, with a bunch of monks who could manipulate water. We got an audience with the king, where it was revealed that they had these sacred swords that they used to open doors. And what does the other rogue do? Well, he thinks it's a good idea to try and STEAL these sacred artifacts, and when he gets caught, the monk nearly drowns our party, and demands that the second rogue fight for his life as retribution. He gets in a few good licks, but on the last battle, he gets eaten alive. This whole time, everyone was ragging on him for his dumbass play, but after this fight, they gave us a chance to honor him in death. Now, I was playing a pretty dickish character myself, and I thought "He wouldn't be happy with this." So, he started his spiel by pointing out that none of this would have happened if he hadn't been an idiot and tried to steal sacred artifacts. Guess what happens...
Witch Bolt to the back of my character's head, and the sorceress calling me an asshole. When I point out that she was doing the same exact thing not ten minutes ago, she starts trying to cast Fire Ball at me. And instead of trying to de-escalate the situation, everyone just started trying to egg on the sorceress to throw the spell. I decided to say fuck it and leave, as playing with these guys wasn't worth it.
I will reiterate, this was my first campaign, and after that, I almost didn't go to any others. But thankfully, I never had to play with that group again, and now I have a group that doesn't try to gang up on each other, and more importantly are NOT giant hypocrites.
I DMed for a guy who always played the exact same character: a drunk pirate who used a long weapon. It honestly became a joke between our play group that between different campaigns, even different settings and tabletop games, he always played a drunk pirate. Also, we were playing this one system in which players only have three stats; 3d6, no rerolls. He ended up having an 18, a 17, and a 14. He rolled the best possible in one stat (6, 6, and 6 on three six sided dice). Slightly worse in the second (6, 6, and 5) and still very well on the third (5, 5, 4). Oh, did I mention no one witnessed the rolls?
We had one in a group we played as it was his first time the DM wanted to accommodate him a bit. He wanted better stats, wanted a dragon pet, wanted more powers and magic equipment. That player didn't care about the story and tried to rush though it. He also fought both in game and out of game with players. It got so bad that more then half the group told the DM that if he stuck around they would leave. I was almost in that group myself, i know you want your players to have fun but it got to a point that none of the other players were not having fun. Well after he left we kept playing, he stopped cause he didn't get his way. The story started to get deeper but sadly the DM moved away after leaving us with a Dr who easter egg and on a cliff hanger.
We had a guy who would obsess over anything he did that he thought was cool.
This wouldn't be a problem if he didn't bring them up every session several times and only had like 5 cool moments to talk about.
I'll never forget about the time he used a monster as a javelin, not because it was cool, but because he talked about it every 20 minutes for the next 3 months. Not a bad player really just annoying and caught up in his own hype.
4:19 what I wonder now is, how much do you actually charge from Magic Missile? What is the going rate on the Magic Missile Market (the MMM)?
Depends on if he added a Magic Missile Markup.
Worst d&d player? Me, I’m way to forgetful to play the damn game and remember the restrictions on a spell or the components it needs
No shame in that lol. You can be bad at any game and still have tons of fun if you're with friends or people who you can laugh with about it :)
I've been using spell cards to help with that exact issue, actually!
Wizards of the Coast actually makes decks of cards that contain descriptions of all the spells in the game (organized by class, and school for wizards). For my Bard I just kept a small deck of all my spells on hand, so that instead of trying to memorize everything or spending 10 minutes flipping through pages I can just look at my cards.
Had a guy that would always oppose the other players no matter what and was in no way interested in roleplaying. He just wanted to fight and imagine cool weapons.
When he cracked up at “cash and Kerry” I couldn’t help but laugh out loud
God this reminds me of a game I joined. Pathfinder, one player made a character whose name was "Minecraft Steve", first name "Minecraft". The other player made a ranger, but didnt take any of the ranged fighting feats, and threw three notable tantrums; one when he tried to fire into allied combat and got a disadvantage, another when he tried to shoot through a solid rock wall and couldn't (still don't understand his logic), and the final was at the end of the session, when he quit because "How was I suppost to know there were caves?! I can't shoot in caves!" Mind you, the cave was just session one, and the majority of the game would be in jungles and open fields.
100% agree that new players can end up in a "oh I didn't know I needed that". At which point the GM can work with him; but in this particular case, the player actively chose to not take the basic feats for those actions so he could get smithing feats for whatever reason. I had a Half-Orc Magus named Roadkill in the game and I remember during all his whining about how he should be allowed to shoot (the gm was telling him he simply wasn't allowed to shoot into allied combat without the feat), I told them "Let him take the shot, but know that if you do end up hitting me, Roadkills comin for ya." Wasn't a threat per say, but ended the argument by making him weigh his options of wether he wanted to accidentally stick an arrow in a magical Orc's tuckas.
@@aincradonline9986 Y'know on some level I feel this is a design issue, if you *need* those feats for a viable character they should probably just be class features.
... that said you don't actually need the ability to shoot into combat to have a viable ranged combatant. Really helps though.
In my group, we have a bad player with a decent character and a good player with an annoying as hell character.
And then me who's kinda mediocre in all aspects.
We had a guy, lets call him Matt, that was the top level in his “That Guy” stat. So no everyone hated playing with him. He would go into game with the intention of breaking the game for both the DM and the players. What made him worse was you could not simply not invite him to a game. If he heard someone was running/playing in a game somewhere at a certain time he would just invite himself and show up. I kicked him out of my apartment one day for just being highly inappropriate on top of not being invited. Apparently I forgot to lock my back sliding door as I did a last minute run for game snacks before people started showing up. When I got back I found him sitting on my sofa eating a sandwich he had made after inviting himself to my game and then, finding no one home, let himself into my apartment and making himself a snack while waiting. It was painfully clear at that point Matt had no concept of personal space or appropriate behavior. A few months after that I found out he joined the military and I was relieved I wouldn’t be running into him. Apparently not long after basic he was kicked and jailed for going awol. I worked with his mother and she told me in a rant of disappointment that it was true. She even told me they new exactly where to find him because he had requested leave and was denied. The thing he went awol for, Comic Con. Yes, Matt went awol from the military so he could attend Comic Con.
Any paladin, mix that with the PC having a closet drug addiction makes for almost fear and loathing moments in/out character moments thanks Lester!
I got one, I wasn't a player or the DM at the time, I was an observer / peanut gallery to a few sessions of a long running GURPS campaign, I wasn't sure if D&D and the like was for me but my friends where happy to have me there all the same, even chipped in a few times for random NPC interactions... despite this I wasn't even the least active person in the discord call.
Imagine if you will a player so disconnected from the game that even after a couple of sessions you couldn't figure out what class they where playing, who mumbled more then spoke and would often be asked to focus on the game instead of other things like messing with their phone or doodling and when given the spotlight at any moment would completely discard and waste it.
They were even caught playing Minecraft during more then one session then was dumb enough to try and deny it even though discord shows the program you have open at that moment.
The worst was when the party has set up camp and where taking turns keeping watch, when it came time to the problem player an encounter happened where a rather ragged and hungry looking nobleman stumbled into camp, begging for a meal and they had PLENTY of rations as well.
Did they perhaps ask the Nobles name? The town they hailed from, Even try to strike up any small conversation or hell even try waking one of the other players up to talk with or negotiate with them?
Did. they. Bollocks.
''Sorry, you can't have any of our food, now go away''.
It was this that kinda tipped me over the edge and I ended up asking the DM after the game if I could actually join in.
I figured if someone like that can play a tabletop RPG then I sure as hell could, Ended up playing with those same people (Bar the un-invested player who soon dropped off after some heated arguments with the other players) every week for a year or so, and recently we've all pulled together in these Epidemic days to get some games running again, 5e this time around.
I love these goobers ~
"Imagine if you will a player so disconnected from the game that even after a couple of sessions you couldn't figure out what class they where playing"
Being unable to figure out what class you're playing in GURPS is indeed quite the feat of disconnection... :P
Jokes aside oh god that had to be a nightmare, GURPS is not a game you can half-ass. In fairness it's also a really *complicated* game so I can imagine it'd be easy to get out of the loop, but... I'm imagining thirty minute turns right now, which given how fast GURPS turns are supposed to run that is hell.
Looked up FATAL after watching this out of grim curiosity. That was a mistake
I feel like having 1 bad ability score makes things more fun. I have an idiot changeling monk and him being dumb makes it way easier to roleplay and it makes some funny moments. Very optimistic
We once played with the brother of the dm. I think it was our third session when he joined. The dm didn't know the rules all that well and he had a real "dm vs player" mentality and really enjoyed getting us into trouble regardless of what we were doing. His brother was a very experienced player who knew all of the rules by heart (but only seemed to remember the correct rules when it meant he got an advantage, never helping anyone else and never clearing up arguments over rules if it didn't revolved around him). He lied about rules sometimes, knowing we wouldn't catch him. He also had main character syndrome and he and his brother were always fighting, they really didn't get along really well... He left the game after the first session (thank god).
I’m about to play Dnd for the first time so I’ll be back with a story soon
You too? Im playing for the first time in an hour
Yup dunno when it’s gonna start though
Wtgoofyboy good luck
Never played, want to play
I should probably start with the intro it’s a little long I’m joining a dnd game that some friends already did there doing a sequel of sorts
But the start is we all wake up in a prison with no idea why we are there
I got the dm to allow me to have a special ability
Once a day I can open a portal and something happens
For all we know a space marine from space hulk comes out and BURNS EVERY THING
So you know it’s gonna be interesting
There was this girl who always played as the same character every time. Tabaxi rogue, assassin subclass, after the first character died she said her next character was "her previous characters sister out to avenge get death". Now this schools dnd club had a policy that each new character has to be a different race and class than your previous character, to encourage experimentation and reduce reusing character sheets. Now I met her before I joined the club, as well as a guy who would go on to become my boyfriend, and I didn't put it together that they knew and disliked each other. The girl was a compulsive liar, she said that she knew the spirits from bleach were real, that she's in a band and beat up the scariest gang member in our city, and that she used to be a concert pianist (she and I were in a beginners piano class together and it took her weeks to get past amazing grace). One day she vented to me about her character being killed by all of the other party members, which I later asked the guy in her group about, he explained that she was loud and unreasonably violent and that everybody was done with her playing the same character again. You think that would be the end of it, but next year she happened to be in the same group as me and my boyfriend, a group which mostly consisted of people who were familiar with her. I decided for this campaign that I wanted to try my hand at being a tabaxi rogue, but with a twist. They're usually played as dark and angsty but I made mine a flamboyant aspiring stage magician and gave him a backstory about running away from unsupportive parents (he's about 17 at the time of the campaign). This girl learns about my plans and decides our characters should be brothers who are identical in every way, and the next day she brought her character sheet and had near perfect stats (like almost all 18s). The dm suspected she cheated but we didn't have any proof. So we started the first day at a tavern. She proceeded to get drunk, yell about finding her long lost brother, break another party members porcelain arm, and when people get mad at her she runs off into the woods, demanding the dms attention so she knows exactly what happens while the other party members behave civilly. We meet the mayor of the town and recieve a quest to clear out a cave of goblins or something. The next time we see her, she's been arrested for killing a sacred elk, and her sentence is to go on the mission with us but she doesn't get paid. She's a bad rogue, not because of her stats but because she legs her edginess overtake her sneakiness. After she still tried to do a lot of things like seduce my characters love interest (who's arm she broke) or try to cheat her way into being overpowered. Unfortunately, I was away from this group often because I was in a play at the time so I didn't get to witness when she was killed, but even the dm was sick of her bullshit.
This guy sounds like if Kermit The Frog drank a lot of Whiteclaw
Ok no joke, “cash and Kerry” is fucking brilliant and deserves many laughs.
The worst player I ever encountered:
I was DM and he was new to dnd. He played a human wizard. I say(his first moment of dnd)"OK. A friend of you told you about a quest you can be paid for, but for more detailed informations you have to go to this adress." He:"I walk there"Me:"You see a big pyramide build on the center of a big market place. What you do" He"I throw a firebolt at the pyramide" After the city guards saw this they immediately attacked. One crit later the wizard was dead.
Hi, don't know if it would fit into your story. I don't know all the details, but wasn't a better option to just knock him unconscious. He would then wake up and had to explain to guards why he has used firebolt. Guards could then have opportunity to "correct" him on how to approach similar situation in the future. It's kind of a dm cheat to guide player to do want you want them to do. Especially useful if they are new to the game.
My reoccurring headache is when any player has a fit or gets all booty bothered because the NPCs don't do exactly as they say "Because we're the PCs and we know better."
That seems like my dm always interrupting
I had a "Worst DM Ever".
Eric, who spelled his name "Aeryk" was a classic narcissist. Manipulating his players and treating our emotions like they were toys for him to play with. He would call impromptu game nights and if you weren't there he would threaten your character. You were required to be at his place (or rather his girlfriend's place as he didn't have a job) at 7 PM. At which point you would sit in the living room and watch him play Halo until he felt like starting the game. This was usually 10 PM.
He regularly used in-game rewards to get people to do what he wanted them to do. I complain about being treated as a drink slave, Robe of Spider Climb. I accuse him of toying with my best friend's emotions, Magical Obsidian Dagger. (also, I'm pretty sure he was pushing my character to be evil.)
On top of being a narcissist, he was also just mean. He really enjoyed treating people like crap then telling them they misunderstood when they got pissed off. He actually had a henchman, AJ, who would just sit next to him on the couch (while he played Halo) and just rag on everybody for three hours. Eric would just grin and laugh about it.
I finally gained some self-respect and quit that group, I kind of forced my best friend out with me. I wasn't going to leave her in that toxic dump heap.
I actually lowered my characters stats because i rolled too high for my liking as i wanted to play a dumb bard...
Did that for a one-shot once; D&D 5E, played a Kenku monk, ibis species. His entire vocabulary consisted of "bin juice", "shiny", and assorted whistling noises.
One of my favorite clerics I played was a true American, and charged the party for each healing spell he cast. Party got really upset when I charged them 100 gold per level per cast at level 2, and informed them this would be scaling as we leveled up, as they are NOT entitled to my labor. I told them they were welcome to heal themselves or seek healing elsewhere if they didn't want to pay my prices. Thats how supply and demand works, though so they paid. I made bank. The Rogue tried to steal the money back, but he could never roll past my passive, and his Wisdom and Charisma saves were awful (just like the rest of the party), so when she tried stealing it back, I'd Banish her. Barbarian and Fighter tried physically intimidating me into submission, but Banishment and Spirit Guardians plus my Resilient Con and Warcaster feats put them in their place. Every once in a while, I bring this character back, mainly because it's really funny to see liberals justify forcing me into slavery just because no one wants to learn how economics works. Know your worth, clerics! Don't let the left win!
Is this a joke?
@@saintcadence3751 Yes.
Whether it's *intentionally* a joke is a seperate question.
Am I the only beginner here to check if I'll be a bad player?
Nah me too
If you say you didn’t, you’re lying
A player who wouldn’t stop talking for hours on end about how his character eschewed wealth, then refused to return a valuable relic to an NPC we were helping. He ended up yelling at the entire group and wouldn’t stop arguing until the DM ended the game and we never met up for another session again.
This happened literally about 15 minutes ago. I was playing a game with a close friend of mine who was the dm. She had invited another friend to the game who was absolutely HORRENDOUS. No matter what, he would absolutely insist by going by the rules in his books, and applied it to ALL of us, and even forced it onto the dm occasionally. Once or twice I could find multiple sources of information online that said otherwise to what he said, but no, he had the books, so he was absolutely right (which would be fine if he was the actual dm.)
Moreover, he insisted on one occasion that we were breaking a "fundamental part of the game" at one point. All that REALLY happened was that I and my one friend were very used to using d20 for our stats from the other sessions we play instead of the official 4d6 drop lowest. It may just be me, but I doubt that a difference of two from the maximum stat number you can get is fundamentally breaking.
But the absolute worst happened at our first session extremely recently. (Yeah, that stuff from before was before even our first session.) We had run into our first encounter. I'm playing a tabaxi rogue and I had stayed behind instead of going with the group, so when combat engaged, none of the enemies knew I was there. I had rolled a Nat 20 plus 3 for my initiative, so I was going first. I figured that if I used my tabaxi traits of Feline agility to double my speed and Cat Claws for a faster attack, plus damage from sneak attack because they didn't know I was there, I could kill one of them immediately.
However, Mr. By-The-Book did not agree. He said no, because Tabaxi only had 30 ft speed, not 40 ft. (I had looked this up while making my character and several places said 40 ft.) He basically nullified my entire idea for that turn. Then, instead of letting me try something else, he told the dm "So, yeah, he just doesn't do anything." and skipped my turn.
He. HE. My character and I both identify as female. I left the group and told the dm never to invite me to another game with him again.
Forgive me if I misunderstand what you meant by "a difference in maximum stats of 2", but 4d6 has a range of 4-24, whereas a d20 has a range of 1-20. Furthermore, a d20 has an average result of 10.5, but 4d6 has an average result of 12. The statistical difference between them is genuinely signifigant. If you made a player who was under them impression that they would be rolling 4d6 drop the lowest roll a single d20 for the same roll, they are effectively being put at disadvantage with a -4 modifier. It is literally the difference between your lowest possible rolls being 1's all around and 4's.
Additionally, and I am sorry to say this, but if the other player was never informed of your preference, it is unfair to hold a misunderstanding such as that against the other player, let alone your DM. You almost certainly could have both had your preferences respected and your way in game if you had pursued more dialoge options IRL.
@@bodaciouschad those are both really fair points, I have no arguments against them.
Either way though, the bigger point I meant to get across was that he was essentially trying to be the dm and attempting to out voice others in the party.
But yeah, I never accounted for the lowest possible rolls... Hecc
@@iSheep-pd9bz Oh, I never said the other player was innocent. They were out of line trying to supercede the DM on rules interpretation. A player can offer their opinions and offer feedback, but it's the DM's role to dictate rulings. Even when the DM is wrong, players should only bring up that the rules, as they knew them, were different. That allows the DM to explain where their version came from without derailing a session. Sounds like the other player failed to present their concerns without disrupting the group as a whole. Even with good intentions, they were responsible for the hostile environment that made other player(s) at their group uncomfortable.
I just have to say, players that don't read the rules are the WORST.
Sure, it's ok for a new player to get hand held for 2, maybe three sessions.
But, if your on your 5th session and you STILL forget to add proficiency bonus, that's totally on you.
It's even worse when they blame DM for it. Players, even new one's, have an obligation to read the rules on their own, rather than halting the game every round on their turn because I have to reteach them how to fight at the start of every combat.
So, is it not reasonable to make them miss, and then tell them to remember to add the thing on the next round?
Just remember on your next attack , jeez.
(i'm venting here. Had a player rage quit on me for this. Rediculous. We made up but still, I was pretty frustrated when they just cut me off because of something so small)
Ok, so, i can't help but think he sounds a little like Kermit at times in this video. Anyone else?
One of the worst players I've had to deal with was when I was a DM and, to put it bluntly, he was a 'That Guy'. But not any 'That Guy', but a That Guy that fit practically every definition: wanted special treatment, an overpowered character who was stronger than everyone else's, constantly 'correcting' me about rules, thought he was immune from consequences, and tried to make his character a playboy. We play in the backroom of our local DnD shop when nobody's garage was free, so that's how we met; he was a walk-in, saw us setting up, and asked to join.
I have little tolerance for these kinds of people (inherited that from my brother who DMed for me and got me into DnD), but that tolerance does extend to one session during which I subtly do what I can to make people like this leave. Here, I was tempted to just say F IT within five minutes, but I held back purely because he'd described his character's 'physic' and said 'just like my real one'. Two hours later, after dealing with what was supposed to be a short 50 minute dungeon crawl for combat, I employed my old Succubus Standby Protocol.
The SSP is something I use to get rid of players who want to inflate their ego through the 'conquests' of their character, and very simply involves them finding an attractive female that responds to the player's advances and takes the character back to her place. The character never returns, and my usual players never bother to investigate, recognizing when I do this, so use it as an easy reason to get rid of the new annoyance. Here, they decided to investigate, for our mutual amusement.
The investigation leads to discovering the woman is a succubus and the annoying PC dead, drained of all life essence. The succubus isn't evil, just living peacefully, hiding her nature with her shape-shifting powers, and sees herself as doing a service to the community since her victims are usually degenerates and any criminals she comes across, keeping her home safe and herself fed. She also has the same dialog every time she's spoken to: "Hey, a succubus has got to eat. Not that he qualified as much of a meal. Could barely call him a snack to be honest".
As you can imagine, That Guy was furious and shouted at the other players to kill 'the b' while glaring at me. However, one of the other players was a paladin, who could tell she wasn't evil, so felt it was wrong to kill her for just trying to survive. Because they spared her, they got the usual reward I gave for this course of action: every player raises a chosen stat by 1 point and the party gets a neural winged imp helper to carry stuff, scout, and act as a sentry for them at the cost of gold and food for its services; if the party is nice to the imp, it waves its fees and assists them in combat with firebolts and low-level demonic magic. As a note, killing the succubus earns the party gold and a storage room full of loot taken from her victims, which she normally sells at one of the town's merchants.
Naturally, That Guy didn't stick around long after that. I love the Succubus Standby Protocol.
How do I join a D&D group and how old do I have to be?
Luke from "the DM Lair" (channel here on YT) has a group of "younglings" (as he calls them) but I don't know how old or young they are. I've also heard a story of a DM who "ran a session" using purely theatre of the mind without dice rolls or character stats for his 4yo daughter. A good DM will know how to adjust a game to suit the age group of the players.
As for finding a game in your area, your local library might be a good starting point. Some games or hobby stores may also know a group, although your best bet is a specialist games store rather than a generic toy store or electronic games store.
Download Discord and look for a dnd server in google or reddit... There's not much more to it. I'm pretty sure that, once in the server, just tell them you're a newbie and they'll guide you through the process.
Ask your parents first if you're under 14, and don't get into 18+ Discord servers if you're under 18 (or 21 in some countries, I think).
Thank you! I will join one ASAP!
I've played with kids as young as 7 though I wasn't thrilled. You can find open games online and at local libraries, schools, gamestores, etc. or just form a group with friends.
As a player we had Rogue who would not allow character interaction unless it was with her character. she would literally have her Rogue scream at us to go to sleep if we were talking at the end of the day in our camp site. every conversation had to be with the Rogue. and she always turned it into telling us about her backstory to make us feel bad for her crappy character. we all had pretty depressing backstories. she usually had to initiate the conversation or she'd flat out ignore us. she didn't like half of our characters, refused to interact with them and would straight up bully them to the point of she forced the Fighter and Sorcerer into suicide, forcing them to make new characters that she to no one's surprise still didn't like. once the Rogue brought up something that referenced the Barbarian's past. her Rogue had said, "What you got pissed and murdered your mother?" Barbarian responds, "yes." with a dead serious face, telling us that's probably one stone that will stay un-turned unless someone really wanted to pry. the Rogue says, "oh, okay..i really don't care about the story behind that so let's not get into that." then continues talking to him about her backstory of being experimented on and kept in a cell for their entire life. we all kicked her out very soon after because the rest of us were dying for our own interactions and exploration of backstories of the other characters who had so far been a mystery to us.
We had one guy in our group, who played a Lawful good Alchemist, and his only request was he wanted a love story. That was fine and all, but when it came to adventuring, he acted so bored with it. We'd return to town and he'd play the love story like it was all he cared about. That's about the worst player I ever played with.
We had one, he was a half-orc with a negative -1 int. He was a loveable character in the beginning and we were enjoying him being this way, he watched vox machina and I get the feeling he was trying to be like Grog. But during a mission we came into way too much gold, so much the dm warned us if we bought something way to high for our level (which was 5) it’ll obviously show like we are flashing off our wealth and so on.
Well we let him in charge of the money, most of the crew got way to great items, I went the middle road of good but just good enough to not be a walking target. But then he went the furtherest and basically got things that increased his stats, got an item that allows him to speak and understand all languages, and decided to be the leader of the group.
He started telling everyone what to do, started changing our clothes, had a very intimidating talk with every single NPC because he refused to “owe” anything to anyone. He was making it seem like we were lvl 20, and was wasting the money too for way to much stuff. An event happened in which he wanted us to split the group so someone (strongly hinted he could do it) to go off to the main quest on a bronze dragon that we helped, and us stay behind to defend an entire port side kingdom. We had to tel him it’s impossible for us to take care of it ourselves from attacks at lvl 7! He also then alpha fuck his girlfriend in the game becusss we were arguing with him and she “challenged” him and apparently his character gets turned on by that drags her to the carriage and basically says he fucks her pc and uses her pc’s undies into the mouth of a tied up suspect we had.
It started getting weird and he was just really aggressive. Luckily he couldn’t come back to game, unluckily, his gf and him were the tanks and so the game ended because the rest of the party will not be able to handle the mission were going.
It was my first game too, so I’m now cautious on any game I did join after that one. We hope we can continue that old game though since we worked so hard and had such long sessions for it
Is this a normal DnD experience? I had never played DnD before this so maybe this is due to my inexperience, but I made a character, created an entire back story since I enjoy writing and got the "okay" from the DM. When we began playing we got an hour in when the DM springs upon me that he changed my back story without my knowledge. I'm disappointed since I worked really hard on it but decided to shrug it off since I didn't want to bring down the mood with the group.
So after two hours of playing I barely have done anything. The two other players were too OP (I assume there was some sort of balancing issue??) where they would 1 hit KO enemies and since I was of lower speed I would never get to fight. It was basically fight after fight so we never had a chance to role play so I was getting super bored.
Also within the first 4 hours one of the members got a OP Crystal Dragon, which is probably fun for the person using it, but for me, someone who barely had gotten to fight, kinda found to be very BS.
A quest began and they asked me if I wanted to go as well, which I said yes. Then the DM told me, "Actually no, you stay behind." I figured something was going to happen to the tavern I was staying in, but nothing happened and I just watched as they fought some stuff.
The main goal of the entire run was to get enough money for a guild hall which I assumed would take multiple sessions, but we did that within one session. Also my curse was broken within that session too which I wanted to be an overarching problem.
Maybe this is a normal experience, I really don't know. All I can say is, it wasn't fun.
From my, albeit small experience, that’s not what a typical dnd session should be like. My dm has us roll the d20 for turn order, probably to prevent stagnancy, so we never enter a battle in the same fight order and everyone usually gets a chance to fight.
Most campaigns aren’t suppose to be fight after fight either, unless you’re currently in a dungeon, then that’s usually when it’s more fighting less role play.
Also having a dm exclude you from doing things like that isn’t a common thing either, usually as a dm you want all your players involved in the quest.
Really it just sounds like you got stuck in a shitty situation and should probably talk about to your dm about your role and ways to better implement yourself, you’re a player here too and they shouldn’t be casting you aside.
That's not... exactly what I'd call a normal experience. The DM here seemed to have a particularly kill-em-all style where you definitely didn't.
That said... RPGs can be an awful lot of fun when it works, but generally it will take a while to find a group and style that 'clicks' with you, which means you will have bad play experiences to a greater or lesser degree. The highs are generally worth the lows (especially if you can avoid sunk-costing a game that doesn't work.) but if you start low it can definitely not seem that way.
I just started playing DnD, I’ll be sure to watch for these people-
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@@diovalo5619 I wasn't trying to be first. I was trying to make a funny comment
Well u were 1 second away from first so congrats
My group follows a rule of thumb “Stupid games get stupid prizes”. Well, during one of the campaigns something happened (it’s been forever) that leads to a death god to die. And I’m guessing the player in question thought it would give him power (why does everyone assume this kind of stuff?) if he drank the dead gods blood. He ran to the body, sliced, drank, and promptly dissolved into a puddle.
Worst player I ever Dm'd lasted 1 or 2 sessions. He was sort of a "local legend" in the D&D community, having been playing since the earliest days, and it was hard to find players who hadn't had him as a DM at some point. So, he enters into an existing group. I give him a short solo session to get him into the context and feel of the campaign, putting him into a place to meet the existing PC's, who have shared interests. In a single night, he stole from 2 PC's, insulted the party leader, and tried to kill another PC in his sleep. His defense was "I'm Chaotic Neutral." The party knocked his character out and left him behind, successfully covering their trail. When it was over, he told us we didn't know how the games worked, and told me I was a very poor DM, because I couldn't even get his character into the party.
it was my first time DMing, player rips off aang from avatar. okay, at least this will give me some plot hooks to use; like with the other player who is not even hiding that his character is just sam metalgear. but he changed the backstory so I can't tie the plot to his backstory just by doing that, also he decides that since one character is a bounty hunter he should take his pacifist monk (he said that they were himself) and turn them into a murderhobo to fit in with "the theme of the campaign" which had nothing to do with bounty hunting (though I might incorporate some of that in to add some interest/make Armstrong a more active character) the guy doesn't play at all, he pays attention to our regular DM but totally ignores me. he was in a single session that I did for just him and another player that was abandoned almost immediately after it started because I had nothing prepared, guess I just got marked off as a bad DM or something (not entirely wrong) he just has his own conversation with some other players and consistently interrupts me, the three players who are actually trying to play, and the new player who is starting to have fun with the game. Constantly mentions "oh, next session I can bring my DMing tools, someone just has to teach me how to be a dungeon master" at this point I really get the feeling he doesn't want to play the campaign I'd been working on since our regular DM had started missing sessions. yesterday he acted like I didn't even run a campaign last week.
I'm definitely overreacting but I still am going to ask him to leave if he's going to refuse to play. no reason coming to sessions just to lot music as loud as possible on your phone and interrupt people.
P.S. metal gear ray is very hard to balance for a 6th level party even at a limit of only 5 class levels and common weapons
honestly vids like this just make me even more reluctant to try D&D
There are good groups out there, you just need to give it a chance. But also, keep in mind: No DnD is better than Bad DnD. Don't put up with it for the sake of having a game.
I had quite a few - won't talk about the weirdo (he was mentally disabled, so it wouldn't be fair) or the murderhobos (too many to count) - but two that definitely come to mind are the Princess and the Knight (we actually called them MUCH worse names)...
They were a couple - she was a loon that wanted to play absolute pacifists and didn't abide violence in ANY way, which usually meant that she stuck to noncombat actions, forcing the DM to cater to her every whim (which, when the Knight himself was the DM, he gladly did)... two episodes that come to mind are her doing session after session of tea ceremonies in a japanese setting (she was a young noblewoman) until I stated to the DM "Either we move, or I try killing the Emperor. Either way, we'll finally have some action." (She pouted until the end of the campaign) and (in another campaign) , playing a cleric (not to mention the only one with a blunt weapon), breaking down crying and squealing (she had this annoying, whiny cry she used whenever she didn't get her way) "We shouldn't use violenceeeeeee! We should try to taaaaaaaalk!" - fair enough, except that our opponents were SKELETONS that 1) are borderline animated objects, and 2) are resistant to ANY weapons except for blunt ones. The team had to beat them back with TORCHES while she whined and stamped her feet (she did that a lot).
And the Knight... Good lord, the Knight. He was the Princess' boyfriend, and an absolute asshole. He made useless characters (or so he claimed) because "I'm so good at roleplaying games that if I play a normal character I'll step over everyone else" (he actually loved playing assholes) and only took action to inconvenience the other players. In the japanese campaign above, he played a female bard (no such thing in the setting, he had to force the DM) who hoarded spells without casting any, until he finally cast one - Hold Person. On a player's Samurai character. To remove all of his stuff and toss it into a river, because he had dared to defend himself against another character's berserk attack. And when we called him out on it, he said "My character is gonna step off the boat, and go from village to village to decry the evils of the Emperor and instigate a revolution!" (we pointed out that in feudal japan that simply would have ended with him crucified, but whatever). In the same campaign (but earlier), he played a quckin' Inkio (a lay monk - no spells, no actual powers - a Diplomancer, if you will) who he jokingly called "Minkio"; that's an italian language pun - he basically called himself a dick, which to be honest HE WAS. He made life hell for all the characters except for his girlfriend, which reached a peak when we were traveling through contaminated areas, with no way to hunt or forage, and were forced to eat my character's leather armor... and the asshole put some contaminated grass in the pot while nobody was looking. Result: the Samurai's sacred katana melted, my Shaman lost use of most of his spells, and let's not even talk about what happened to the others. The reason? He thought that it'd be fun. Spoiler alert: IT WASN'T.
I finally dropped off the group when he hijacked a Champions campaign to make it all about his girlfriend. Seriously, make her worshipped as a Goddess because she has healing powers - in a freakin' SUPERHERO CAMPAIGN, where there are actual Gods walking around? Oh, and he made us all basically NPC to bring back in the characters of his old teammates (who, being smarter than we were, actually kicked HIM out when he started being an ass).
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MrRipper's Narrator's laugh is absolute auditory silk
Our worst member of our group is also one of our closest friends. He played a melee warlock as a wizard, a wizard as a barbarian, and somehow managed to go down a level when we all got out XP. He also cannot figure out how the hell skill checks or how many dice to roll for anything. He’s also the reason we have to all roll out dice on camera over video instead of using dice on our phones because he somehow got 6 Nat 20s in a single hour session. God we love him, he’s got a big heart, but I’d rather run myself through a crop spreader than play with him.
A D&D reddit storytime channel that doesn't use text to speech. GENIUS!!!
When I first started DMing (pathfinder) we had a player named Dave. Dave had played dnd for 20+ years and "knew everything there was to know" so he was constantly metagaming. To the point where i'd put a mini out and he'd say "it's ok guys that's X it only has 14 HP and and ac of 16", so monsters would get random buffs sometimes.
He also hated homebrew unless it was HIS homebrew. I'd occasionally have NPC's that had a nifty spell, or a quirky magic item that was unique to them. He'd constantly stop the game and dig into his rulebook and make me explain exactly how said spell/item worked. Cast time, range, effective spell level all that.
We dealt with it because we needed the player. After awhile Dave brings his sons friend (16 year old kid) who wants to learn. Kid was a nice kid, really into the game and had some fun roleplaying ideas. He wanted to play a halfling barbarian that carried a large sized bastard sword and take a penalty on his movement and attack rolls because it would be too big for him. For no reason other than flavor.
Kid (we'll call him Alex) eventually decides to play a monk, Alex and Dave work up a character and backstory. Very cliche "kid abandoned at a temple and found by traveling monks". Well in Pathfinder Desna is the goddess of travel so Alex and I decided the monks, since they were travelers, would worship Desna.
Fast forward a few weeks and the group has finished a small quest and is fumbling around trying to figure out how to proceed, mostly because Dave has derailed every clue/hook i had thrown out. So someone gets the idea that they should go pray to their gods for guidance. I loved the idea. Alex asks about the temple of Desna. Dave absolutely loses his mind. Stops the game, grabs Alex's sheet and says this is wrong. No Monk would ever worship Desna as she is Chaotic and Monks have to be lawful and no lawful character would venerate a chaotic deity.
I made the argument that it's pretty lawful to say "i don't agree with your methods but I exist in your domain and appreciate your protections". Nope, Dave threw a huge fit, spends at least an hour full on arguing with every player at the table. We were wrong, he's played dnd for 20+ years and knows all. It ended with me literally throwing my core rulebook at him (I slammed it in front of his seat not at his face) and kicking him out. The group took a month off and reformed without Dave or Alex. Still my worst experience as a DM.
Good gods. I mean, the only reason what deity your character follows should matter is if you're a divine caster. Monks, as far as I know, ain't.
@@Phantomsbreath that was basically my entire reasoning I gave him.
@@justinc882 You're in the right there. Also, way to go them for turning someone off of a game they seemed like they were enjoying
My gaming group had a guy who was part of it before I had officially joined and was still subbing when a player was absent from my mom's game. I believe I've told this story before but I think it fits here too. He refused to tell the group his character' name and got mad when his character started being Ice Cream Sandwich. I was 8 when I subbed for his dude in one of my mom's campaigns.
I am my worst player, can't dm for shit even though I want to, played for four years and still have learned nothing, roleplaying is more like pulling teeth with me...
Please send help
The worst player I ever encountered was actually a good friend of mine. The first time I ever DM’d I did a pirate homebrew campaign in 5e. My players were a couple of my friends, who were very inexperienced accept for one. He had been my previous DM in a campaign and agreed to play with the newbie group so that he could help them learn the game a little better and help me if I made any DM mistakes.
Only, he didn’t do that. In fact he just made the whole thing more difficult. Whenever I gave him questions privately he was really dismissive and didn’t help at all and then later complained about the very thing that I asked him about and told me I was doing it wrong, in front of my players. A good example was when I explicitly asked him and the other players if they wanted more free rain or wanted me to railroad a bit with the story. They all agreed that in the beginning they would feel more comfortable if I took more control so that they could learn the basics, but later the experienced player complained that I was railroading and said I was a terrible DM. He constantly separated from the group and had his own solo adventures, thereby splitting the group and made it really boring for the other players when they had to wait while he tried to shake down a bar owner of his money. He tried his absolute best to wreck the campaign, making it difficult for me and the other players.
Needless to say this really strained our friendship, because we saw a very different side of him. And he later quit the campaign because he said that we were too boring.
Oh. I have a nice story of this. Kenneth, a paladin, got mad at my cleric, Priscilla, for suggesting that we look for a temple that turned out having a overpowered sword. Basically, she was contacted by her God to find said op sword at a temple, because apparently something was coming, that being the main bad guy. And that we needed the sword to defeat him. Kenneth thought that was bogus and, while Priscilla was injured, killed her. (He rolled a nat 20 to kill her. The DM even allowed it!)He said we didn't need a cleric anyway because potions exist. He, and the rest of the party, died pretty quickly to the main bad guy after that.
My Dm's girl friend, a druid, who got away with literally anything she wanted regardless of rules yet we all had to follow strict rules. Next to that would be a player who tried to make his player a "god" or a "demi god" by design so he could do whatever the hell he wanted... which he got away with. -- so really we all had to follow strict rules except for DM's gf and the "god" and it was a pointless free for all to the point where we didn't have a story line we just had combat and would "spawn" in random dungeons the dm made up the night before. My first and last d&d group. i have not played sense. -- which is sad because i was really looking forward to playing, but two people ruined it to the point where no one showed up the next game day and we never spoke of it again.
Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. D&D can be tons of fun with the right people, but horrible when things don't work out. I hope you find it in you to try again some time, with better players to make it work :)
I've had a pretty bad one too. I often DM (although we all play simplified because we have small brains) and there was this one player. He was so sarcastic and nihilistic. While I was setting up a fantasy story that involved a *lot* of roleplaying, he was busy constantly getting his character drunk, high, or injured in dumb ways, constantly ruining the moment and interrupting others. When his character did get incapacitated and I set a timer for how long until he could see clearly, he complained he couldn't try to do something else, even if this was supposed to be a serious final confrontation. But noo he was too busy getting drunk and interrupting everyone else and me :v
I'm usually the idiot player of my group. My group is all about being tactical and strategic and I usually like screwing around, though there are times where I am serious (our current PF2 game I'm the group support Alchemist).
One particular time I decided to roll up a sorc for our game, as my characters kept dying. So rolled up a level 9 sorc and didn't do as much reading as I should have.
We start in a dungeon and during the session I'm reminded of sorc abilities that I keep forgetting. We eventually hit a boss room and basically the boss was 100 feet up in the ceiling of the room where it was pitch black. The boss essentially was bringing dolls to life to attack us. We eventually figured out where he was but I claimed I couldn't hit him. He was above me and I could only shoot straight (I was thinking on a 2D perspective instead of a 3D perspective ).
I caught a lot of shit that night and decided that casters weren't my thing anymore.
The ‘cash and Kerry’ sounds like he thought he could pretend to be just a guy trying to play dnd with friends and assumed no one would question why a stranger suddenly joined the game.
DnD sounds duper duper fun, but I'm too broke to get into it and I don't know anyone who plays anyway. I enjoy listening these stories though.
All you really need is some dice and you can get a good set for like $5 in most places. Most of the time, folks will let you take a look at their books, at least until you can save up for your own - and you can get those for like $35 at places like Amazon, or pay $50 at the game/comic store.
I was the worst player at one point. Played a dwarven tempest cleric and was obsessed with damage for some reason. I think I was “forced” into being a healer but I wanted to do damage. One player decided to leave around lvl 5 and wanted to do a send off. In a dwarven dungeon, his character fell into acid and emerged juiced and set on killing the party (planned between him and DM). I remember getting very upset that he was going around one-shotting the party. I threw a hissy fit and I don’t remember us playing much after that. I have since watched a lot of DnD content and learned how to roleplay and enjoy story telling. I learned how to play into the spot you fill. Yay for character growth! I am truly sorry for being a petulant child during my early campaigns.
I dont get why people always want better stats, Sure it makes you look cooler and do things better. But here is no fun and no challenge in anything if you know youll be able to do practically anything. My first character i had ever made was a gnome wizard and i rolled really really good stats, 14 Str, 15 Dex, 12 Con, 18 int, 17 wis, 15 Cha for a level 1 wizard. But there was this person in my group whos stats were all crazy they had 18 Str, 17 Dex, 18 Con, 10 Int, 18 Wis, And 16 Cha. But kept complaining about how his stats we so so low and that it made him feel weak.
Depends on the game and starting level. I love high stats as a buffer so low level PCs have survivability. After all, it tends to drop off in effectiveness in later levels as (assuming D&D or similar) class levels and gear get higher. Plus, of course, you basically can't play a caster without a high primary, and the ability to survive one hit long enough to get the good stuff.
Challenge is always relative. A character with flat 18s can very much still be threatened by 'slightly more powerful enemies than a normal character'.
Had a player who felt that his goal was to have fun ... at the expense of other players. He regularly engaged in PvP play despite being warned that the rest of the group didn’t play that way. He also cheated regularly by rerolling missed saves and missed attacks. Sometimes he flat out lied about his rolls.
He also demanded the top cut of the treasure.
I am a DM for a long-term 5e roleplay. One day, we were missing a player, so another guy from the group (i play with a club at school) jumped in to take their place.
This guy had a PC who was the DEFINITION of overpowered: he couldn't die, could kill anyone, etc. Good thing that one of the characters he tried to kill was an actual angel who was important to the story. I, as you might expect, wiped the floor with him, and he left halfway through the session in a hissyfit.
That first story it sounded like he had a case of “main character syndrome” ( a term that our group used to describe a player that always wants to be in the spotlight and to be the main hero and everyone else, is the side character
Kerry’ll need that speed to run from the cops
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1:46 - that is the moment that if I was in this campaign I would freeze Bob solid, turn into a dragon, cook him to medium-well, and then bite his head off. (I am basically always an ice sorcerer dragonborn)