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Even the DM's girlfriend wants to quit this game | D&D Horror Story

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@theDMLair Ай бұрын

@Stormageddon571 Ай бұрын

This reminds me of little kids saying, "I stab you with my sword." "Nuh, uh. I have sword-proof armor." "My sword goes through all armor." "My armor is enchanted."

@darklordsatan4383 Ай бұрын

"My sword is anti-enchantment." "It's a hologram."

@nrais76 Күн бұрын

Which can be fun, but in jest, not when we're actually trying to play the game.

@robertevans3173 Ай бұрын

Knowing when to leave a game is a skill that is never spoke about.

@duncbot9000 Ай бұрын

"These are your friends? I wouldn't even want these as enemies"

@craigjones7343 20 күн бұрын

If they can’t be your friends without the game they are not your friends with the game.

@andreifrolenkov513 Ай бұрын

A mushroom person cleric who uses mind control spores to make people worship the Shroom God. Sounds like a decent villain.

@Buzzkilljoy1248 Ай бұрын

Ironically, the mere concept is a great parody/satire of the whole "Mary Sue/Main Character Syndrome" thing. With an ability that basically mind controls/hypnotizes people into loving and worshipping you like a god, you become the de facto (cult) leader of any party and the center of attention in almost any social situation.

@christophersanders3252 21 күн бұрын

His name is Mike Onid.

@andreifrolenkov513 21 күн бұрын

@@christophersanders3252 Mike O'Nid? Is he Irish? 🤭

@christophersanders3252 21 күн бұрын

@@andreifrolenkov513 When Irish spores are floating it is like the morn in spring! When mushroom souls converting, you can hear the angels sing, When Irish spores are floating all the world will fall sway, When Irish spores are smiling, They'll steal your agency away! The song of Mike O'Nid the Irish Spore lord

@JKevinCarrier Ай бұрын

Well, you were right when you predicted this story would be about favoritism...it just wasn't towards the person you expected!

@anionhero Ай бұрын

If I was OP in this situation, when I asked the Cleric to stop trying to use his spores on me and he said no, I would have asked him what his next character is going to be. Then proceed to kill the cleric character. If he made another equally bad character, then I would nope out of the campaign.

@nrais76 Күн бұрын

DM should have stepped in and done this, perma-banned the player from the table, and possibly the friend group.

@emessar Ай бұрын

In my opinion, mind control constitutes an attack. In that situation if it doesn't work, we're now in a fight. If the cleric dies, problem solved. If I die, problem solved. If the mind control works, I hand over my sheet as an npc and leave since I'm no longer playing him.

@nickm9102 Ай бұрын

I'm not sure what the cleric was thinking? This doesn't sound fun even from his position. Once I realized that the cleric's spores influenced people I would have pointed out that the use of the spores is a evil act and as a paladin I must oppose their evil for the good of the people. Then started swinging that oh so favored great sword that paladins carry.

@MorenaEvensong 28 күн бұрын

Yeah, I kinda wonder where the cleric thought his character's story was going to go. 'You're worshipped by everyone far and wide' seems kinda like an endgame goal not a starting point. Tiefling fighter's backstory and goal might've been basic and not particularly original, but at least it had a path of progress... or at least a potential path of progress.

@Cyberfender1 Ай бұрын

As IRL so in playing a fictional belief. It is up to the PC to ultimately decide what their faith will be. It must be voluntary. It can be discussed freely, challenged, tested too(IMHO) but No DM should force a PC do that. That is a recipe for disaster. Foolish DM. No wonder his players want to leave.

@Nesseight Ай бұрын

Faster than anyone can react, a goatse beholder appears and swallows the mushroom cleric into its gaping brown eye before floating off into the distance, neither to be seen from again.

@andrewt3768 Ай бұрын

A different character changed my character's faith once. We were playing in a homebrew world where there were no gods, but one guy wanted to play a Paladin. He convinced the GM to let his character to truly believe in Bahamut, even though he didnt exist. So we are playing with this crazy paladin preaching about this dragon god thing constantly. I finally told him in character that I didn't want to hear this craziness anymore, and I would believe it when I saw it. A few sessions later the GM introduced a huge metalic dragon (set up to be a baddie) and I rolled for intelligence. Got a 1. Joined the Bahamut cult. Lol

@musicamusica2651 Ай бұрын

Now this is dnd 😂😂😂

@andy10121984 7 күн бұрын

So guessing the paladin is an average Christian raised on stories of the satanic panic.

@andrewt3768 7 күн бұрын

@@andy10121984 🤣 oh boy can I relate to that

@corbinwalton9996 Ай бұрын

You have offended at least 1 twelve year old being me

@WayneBraack Ай бұрын

I have no problem offending 12 yr olds. I can outrun you!! Neener neener neener!!!

@darktimesatrockymountainhi4046 Ай бұрын

Do you have your parents’ permission to troll adults on the Tube?

@andy10121984 7 күн бұрын

@@darktimesatrockymountainhi4046as a parent of many plants, cats, turtles, and a singular human i give them full permission.

@CountAdolfo Ай бұрын

That's not a D&D game. The DM doesn't know how to DM. The Cleric player doesn't know how to play. If they're not willing to learn... they don't belong at a D&D table, at all. They ruin the experience for everyone there.

@Mr_GoR_ Ай бұрын

Just a note for when you read these in the future, Luke, but to preserve anonymity, people will often refer to the persons involved by their character class regardless if the drama happens in or out of game. Sounds like a new or weak DM and a toxic, bully of a player (Cleric). It's a hard read, but I think the Cleric player bullied the DM into letting them have this op homebrew bullcrap -one of those "well, if I don't get my way, then I'm not playing" type of situations. I think the DM just wanted to play some D&D. They tried to give the characters some space to cool off with that shopping interlude, probably hoping the Cleric would give up on trying to control the other PCs. At least, that's the impression I'm getting. In any case, OP is definitely NTA.

@craigjones7343 20 күн бұрын

My response to ultimatums, ‘if I can have my way I’m not playing’ is always ‘ok it was nice playing with you. I hope your next group is a better fit for you.’

@Mr_GoR_ 20 күн бұрын

@craigjones7343 yeah, that sort of thing is a serious red flag, and if you give in to them once, it'll never end. They'll keep doing it to get their way.

@bretthamelin8974 Ай бұрын

Sounds like the cleric had an idea that might have been interesting, if only he had discussed it with the other players first.

@MorenaEvensong 28 күн бұрын

Hm... yeah, that could've been an interesting idea if done right. Though it does make me wonder what level these characters were supposed to be, 'cause that spore thing does NOT sound like a level 1 ability. UNLESS. Maybe the cleric wasn't actually a cleric. Maybe he was actually a warlock and the spores were an ability granted to him by his warlock patron, who was actually a powerful demon, but pretended to be a holy, peaceful god in order to get the cleric to follow his religion. :P

@feferson492 23 күн бұрын

@@MorenaEvensong not a level 1 spell either way. If a warlock's patron could mind control crowds at will I'd be hella impressed, let alone the warlock

@gaymerknight3726 26 күн бұрын

The Cleric is a classic Narcissist

@houseatlantic8973 Ай бұрын

Every time I think about trying to join an online session with “randoms” I hear these stories and strongly reconsider lol jeez

@kraziecatclady 25 күн бұрын

We've had PVP at the beginning of a campaign which actually went quite well. To be fair, one of the PCs was actually our prisoner starting out and he convinced one of the other very low intelligence PCs to let him out of his cell. As soon as the cell was opened he fled and we spent the next few sessions trying to find/catch him which involved several PVP battles and almost destroyed the ship that was carrying us. When we docked, he fled the ship and led into a high speed chase into the city. It took several more sessions for us to find him and a lot of difficultly figuring out how we would actually end up on a team together after that, but it was still a lot of fun. As a result, I put him down on my character sheet as both an enemy and an ally.

@Svartalf14 Ай бұрын

My second adventure ever, back in 1981, the DM forciblu changed the faith of my CLERIC character

@RealSunic 27 күн бұрын

“Dont worry about being original” then proceeds to nit pick the character not being original for 3 minutes 😵😂

@ADT1995 20 күн бұрын

My first character was somewhat similar actually, granted this was about 10 years ago (geez has it been that long?) DM said half orcs in that world were frowned upon more than usual, so naturally I rolled up a half orc fighter that wanted to become a knight, to prove to himself and the world at large that he was worth something, meanwhile struggling with his inner demons (especially the anger that is all too common with orcs), died failing to protect the Queen but was knighted posthumously. I had a lot of fun with that character and would do so again. Not original at all, wasn't trying to be.

@SkywalkerOne1977 Ай бұрын

Players need to stop assuming they belong at every table, and dungeon master's need to stop believing everyone belongs at every table.

@martinburgess3304 25 күн бұрын

If this was pitched in a session zero, no one but the cleric would have signed on for the s show

@taka7369 Ай бұрын

Paladin should have murdered the cleric in his sleep and raised him as zombie using lay on hands when we're already making up stupid rules... or turned him into mushroom soup like in Delicious In Dungeon.

@joshuafarshid8630 Ай бұрын

This story was pretty awesome! We need more like this. That DM doesn't deserve a girlfriend.

@feferson492 23 күн бұрын

a bit overreacting, arent you

@nrais76 Күн бұрын

Geez, you were NOT kidding when you called it a "horror story." I feel traumatized.

@jamesrizza2640 Ай бұрын

What a nightmare of a story that was. Sounds like someone needs to read the DM's guide and watch some youtube videos on how to be a good DM.

@gaymerknight3726 26 күн бұрын

The Cleric was the BBEG all along, and the Dm was just letting a player be them. how it sounds to me lol

@drasticdaniel4906 24 күн бұрын

I've quite literally had a player who joined the game for the very first time, tried to act like he knew how things worked, and did not want to allow me to explain how the game actually works. His constant outbursts ruined the experience for everyone. It was the first time I ever entered a DM role. It's been seven months since I last played the game and now I'm just starting a new campaign.

@ADT1995 20 күн бұрын

I would have warned the cleric that he needed to roll up a character that would act as a team player, that DnD is a team game, and that messing with other players agency is very frowned upon before the first session... Knowing players like this I would have probably still had to kick him sooner rather than later but that character would have never made it to the table Side note this just reminds me of how amazing my DnD group is, we've been playing almost a decade and never had anything remotely like this.

@lulluf6392 27 күн бұрын

This story was really frustrating. I had some thoughts about "why x might behave this way and how y might salvage the situation" but if someone is playing like this there's no salvaging to be done. Especially when the DM is enabling this kind of bullshit. Not every hobby can be enjoyed with all your friends. If you're in a situation like this find a different group.

@HivisoftheScale 24 күн бұрын

Bacon is delicious! I was figuring this was drama caused by the Venom Troll! I remember my group nearly rage-quitting after I pit them against two of those buggers!

@AttackCop 20 күн бұрын

I would have waited till the cleric went to sleep and then critted him over and over. Spores sounds more like Druid.

@jonsaucy8440 Ай бұрын

Huh imagine that, a player trying to subvert the agency of other players (who would prob fall over dead if another player tried it on them), and for some reason being supported by a weak willed DM. A tale as old as time. Seriously though, dnd is not a system built for PvP scenarios. Even something so simple as pickpocketing another player can cause “the feels”; and so I don’t allow it. I have a world full of NPCs you can rob til your hearts content (til you get caught at least). While many players in my experience do not choose to follow any gods (out of RL distaste for religion) or simply choose a god and forget about them, I would never allow anyone to subvert deep seated beliefs of a fellow player. I do allow in character “challenges” to a PCs belief because that can be great RP. I even study their god as the DM to present “challenges of faith”, interesting opportunities for the PC to either strengthen or reconsider their faith; but I force nothing, just merely present in world. I’ve even created a world where gods no longer exist narratively because my players didn’t want anything to do with “that crap” (again RL views entering into the game world); and that’s fine after everyone agreed to it. It was even interesting to create a setting that has no view on the after life, a purpose to life, or even an overarching moral “code”. So, while I think gods and such in a dnd setting are really freaking awesome; the trend lately has been to remove/ignore them, at least in my own micro-sample experiences lol. /shrug

@ryanadshead4809 Ай бұрын

Truth. DnD is meant to be a group working together which falls apart if each player isn't able to let their guard down to the group since they are competing for treasure/power/magic etc Once they start stealing or attempting to end/control other unwilling PC's at moments that one or more players are severely weakened it all implodes and nothing is accomplished. You'll see conspiring or just right out abandoning party members in times of need, some players will start maxing all builds (if they aren't already) and/or getting creative with grammar gymnastics or loose spell definitions to use spells like Control Water to effect another PC's blood somehow or conjure a Mage Hand inside another PC's mouth to try to suffocate them. Ive seen people argue that they can summon one on a targets heart to stop it pumping since it is summoned at a point you choose. Most TTRPGs aren't meant to be played competitively against other players.

@matthewesch8758 28 күн бұрын

4:52 - Modern day Drizzt-clone.

@yannickjoyal5592 Ай бұрын

The Cleric is the villain of the story. I would have use my character and made a pact with the wizard to kill off is character right there.

@craigjones7343 20 күн бұрын

Uh oh. That title sounds spicy and I’m here for the Carolina Reapers.

@chaosheaven23 26 күн бұрын

I want you to know, that you are the asshole this whole niche (reading RPG horror stories) desperately needs. You are my voice. I love these videos.

@ryanadshead4809 Ай бұрын

So cleric has what seems to be an at will (command, geas, charm person etc-but not really just worship me and do what I say without question) spell like ability, which seems like he was not very effective at (but being at will does it matter). No one would be excited to be subject to this ability unwillingly even with the so call bonuses/benefits. Maybe a couple players at a session 0 could maybe play some kind of very watered down version together if they want. Definitely no forever worshipers, and probably with increasing hostility when ever the cleric does his "thing" (eg. how the Friends or Charm spells work and when the duration runs out). One last thought too is if the cleric wanted to control multiple characters why not just play with just the DM instead of pretending the other players had any real control of their PC's. The clerics play for control over other PCs and to be worshiped not just by NPCs but by the PCs too sounds like a deeper psychological problem/red flag that probably should be addressed.

@RicoCorreiaUP 20 күн бұрын

So the DM thinks ITS ok a player has mass suggestion without concentration, without a range and umbreakable...at lvl 1 ? What could go wrong?

@iron_rush_theater1246 Ай бұрын

This made my head hurt. I sometimes forget there are really people like this out there in the world.

@donwebster9292 Ай бұрын

Thought you were going to blow a gasket.

@Clem68W Ай бұрын

Honestly, I'd let the other players "convert" and use their spore cloud from this fog-based deity to sugjugate the cleric. All the time. Like, con checks 5v1, let's go.

@philh8259 10 күн бұрын

I play a Yuan Ti Cleric of Life that actually has an appetite... Regenerating limbs is a good thing right?

@Ironic_daemonic Ай бұрын

If the wizard is the dm's gf what is the cleric doing for the dm🤔😬🤮

@wanderdragon1075 Ай бұрын

They keep saying “company” instead of “party” And actually I think this should be normalized. It sounds way more classically fantasy. I like it

@Priestofgoddess 22 күн бұрын

Is the DM secretly in love with 'another friend'? This 'another friend' has a crazy MC-Syndrome and the DM was in for it for whatever reason.

@NuttySquirrel_8 Ай бұрын

I love watching your reactions because they match my own! Hahahaha

@jierdareisa4313 Ай бұрын

I love ALL the DM Lair videos!!!! ❤

@RyuuKageDesu Ай бұрын

If the players came to me, saying they wanted their characters to convert one another, it would be a different story. This is absolute BS.

@xychoticbreak5198 Ай бұрын

Why does it seem like you don't know what a myconid is?

@Clem68W Ай бұрын

Conversion, by definition, mostly depends on consent. I can say I'm sufi now. I'm not sufi.

@nrais76 Күн бұрын

My kids were much better than this at 5, actually. When my kids were 5 and 3 they started gaming with us. That stopped for a little while after the divorce, and then i got them into wargaming and then re-introduced them to roleplaying later. Went through the phase where they just like to make characters and roleplay with each other and NPCs, not so much kill monsters. Now thyre a regular part of my group. But i digress. Point is, they were better than this at 5 and 3. Ironically, when my okdest was 14 the worst she did was mess with an NPC and get not only reined in by the NPC turning her into a newt (she got better), but also my buddy and veteran ganer let her know in no uncrrtain terms we dont mess with ither party members, and your Dad isnt running a game where he ecoects you to murder hobo. We need information from this guy, and hes done nothing to warrant this. So its good youre not messing with the party, but nessing with undeserving NPCs also gets the whole party in trouble and derails the whole plot, and our ability tonget information here. Plus, he's also pretty powerful, given what he just did. Pull it again, and I am not savig you. She didnt donit again, and has jever kessed with fellow party members. It hasn't lesseened her fun any - she's just as crazy and chaotic as ever. You can reapect other people and still have fun. Of you can't, you've obviously got problems and probably should seek professional help.

@shadowpsykie 24 күн бұрын

Tieflings aren’t evil. They are treated as such because of birth but they are a neutral race

@stevenmorgan4758 24 күн бұрын

I've been watching a lot of your videos lately to help me learn more about ttrpg's and I gotta say, crapping on someone's backstory like that just seems too douchey. I at least understand talking about how bad the game is going and how many mistakes were being made, but a person doesn't deserve to be crapped on simply for having an unoriginal backstory. Especially when you've been playing for so many years, with so many people that you've probably seen just about every backstory someone can come up with

@scottburns5049 Ай бұрын

If its rolled played and mutual

@rafaelvargas3259 2 күн бұрын

Sounds like the GF should leave the DM and not just the game.

@Killjoy357 29 күн бұрын

I feel like this is what you get when immature new players try D&D but all they've ever played is is MMORPG's.

@kilersocke Ай бұрын

19:20 how he tryd not to say Bitch at that point 😂. Not a nice human being. Well done bro. For real: Why did the DM allow such a bad idea of a spell and PvP in the first place? You have to be the referee between the world and the players. And if your cleric says he casts some shit with spores I'll just would respond he has to shut up because he's not a druid. There is not even one god in the pantheons of DnD you could have a spell from which is based on nature. At least not on plants and trees to be precisely. So there can't be any spores at all! Only if your Charakter ia a mykonide or something, which is not the case here.. so not the roleplay itself is an absolute shit show, also all the technical rules are non existent on this situation. She is absolutely right leaving that Circus at this point.

@kenashworth7672 Ай бұрын

Well, that sounds like a thoroughly horrible introduction to D&D. The fear of this happening to me is what gives me pause when looking for an online group to play with, but at least it would not be my first experience (I've played for decades, just never online). Please know the game can be really fun with the right people - and these are not the right people. And - my God - the player's boyfriend is complicit in this fuckery... at the risk of sounding judgemental - this really sounds like a shitty partner, too. I think while considering elsewhere to play, you may want to consider dating someone else - because I think you may have kissed the wrong frog (something I can relate to).

@Roadvoice 27 күн бұрын

That doesn't sound like a real game session... looks more like someone that had bad experiences with religion ranting... reddit if full of those.

@scottburns5049 Ай бұрын

at this point, It’s written in a book. You just put it together completely silly.

@JacintoDeSousa-bq2wp Ай бұрын

LOL, wtaf lol.

@Barricade706 Ай бұрын

I hate reddit "dnd horror stories" so much. The one sided accounts of the people that write them are incentivesed to make it seem as horrible as possible to get featured by a KZfaqr. The KZfaqrs that cover these stories are incentivized that they be as horrible as possible for views. All this does is damage the perception of the hobby to outsiders because people like this guy want to make outrage bait content. This is not somebody that cares about Dnd. And the community shouldn't support this kind of nonsense.

@lmao_zac Ай бұрын

Leave the rpghorrorstories videos alone, find another topic to do long form content about. These past few videos have been hugging the line on cringe and it’s starting to make you look like a “that guy.” Normally I love your content, but this new trend you’re on is a miss for me.

@Barricade706 Ай бұрын

Thank you, this kind of nontent isn't healthy for the hobby and is only made to farm clicks

@Nariasan 25 күн бұрын

I normally love D&D Horror stories, but this is insufferable to listen to when it comes to commentary. Please look at One Shot Quester and Crispy's Tavern for better models on how to tell a horror story.

@HoffaFett 26 күн бұрын

You were just talking about how this person should play a character that they want to play no matter what anyone else thinks, and then you immediately start picking apart their backstory and sounding really judgmental about it. The OP wasn't asking for input on their backstory, they are telling a horror story about their second D&D experience