"Hey guys, I killed your characters- some of them twice over- so you could all marvel at my most favorite OC in real life! Best oneshot ever, am I right? Wait, where are you all going?"

When it rains, it pours. And yeah that DM was being a creep. And even if he didn't mean to be a creep, that was a pretty unacceptable breach and just another on the long pile of his lack of awareness. Bad news in either case.

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Okay I have to say this I learned the game mostly by myself at age 9 or so, with some help from my first table.

remembering the olden dnd days, like 1e and 2e, where it was a race if you could get the cleric high enough for revival spells before to many people died. there was no 'do characters die?' only 'do we have the level to afford death?'

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I've actually had the opposite problem of this so far. I'm playing a bastard bard in a game that has been going on over two years now, my first ever real pathfinder character. As it was my first I tried to make them interesting with the help of the dm by picking a subclass and swapping out a few bardic performances with others and in the end I am now a level 10 slapdash liar with a bluff so high I can lie to mind readers and a character that simply WILL NOT DIE somehow. For the last year and a half I have been expecting this fat drunken liar to die from any of the crazy things we have fought so I could try any other character and somehow he just always has a solution to a problem. I imagine I will be torn when he finally does drop, though he is a silly design with a made it up on the fly kind of backstory I have never been one character for so long.

I suspect after dozens more failed assassination attempts Mickey will retire to live to a fine old age!

"BRTRAING" That reads like a sound effect. Like someone dropping a cymbal.

Haha, it sounds like they've accidentally walked into the plot of The Ladykillers! Not me specifically but the most dramatic character death I ever witnessed was our party ranger: We were infiltrating a ship and she elected to stay above to keep watch. Upon finding a crate of weapons the ship was transporting we decided to blow it up to create a distraction not knowing that in the next room was the ships gunpowder store... The resulting detonation caused the ship to split in half and sink, resulting in one of us drowning while making our escape but as the ranger was directly above the explosion she and her and her animal companion were instantly obliterated before their remains were launched several hundred feet into the air. We all agreed death saves were not appropriate in this case

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Sounds like the kid wanted to play Skyrim with how much he wanted to be the main character. Kids get used to the freedom of main character perspective from video games where you are always number 1 and then can't understand that ttrpgs are not exclusively from a single character point of view, everyone playing has a say and the world the dm crafts reflects all of them.

Unfortunately if a player insists on having main character syndrome, spotlight-hogger, murder hoboism AND disrespect for the gm's authority after being told many times to not do so. He either learns from his mistakes or you kick him out. There are not many other solutions

Congratz! I'm really looking forward to the livestream art. Your little rats are absolutely adorable too :) As to what to do with that ball of absolute chaos? I think maybe he just isn't mature enough to play yet

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DM pitted the players against each other. He's a hypocrite for being upset. Something tells me he wouldn't have been as upset if his preferred side won the fight. Did the DM also tell the Cleric and Paladine to withhold God’s miracles? That's not the way the Prophets of the Old Testament or the Apostles of the early Church proselytized the faith. If they had powers borrowed from God and they wanted to convert people, they SHOWED IT... And they didn't quiz people of their faith before using their gifts to help people. So this fictional religion that's basically Christianity with the serial numbers filed off is what the Holy men are supposedly practicing, so why is Calamari head with the Hellspawned powers the one acting like he's actually read the Bible? I cannot help but think, the DM's plan he whole time was for his holy men to win the fight and set the players straight and he's jusr pissed because they rolled all their dice in the open and his highly competitive friends were honorable enough let the dice fall where they may. (And maybe he assumed the Cleric and Paladin were more min-maxed than the other two.) Anyway if the DM really wanted this to be the moment Druid began yo doubt his religion, he needed to take a different approach entirely. Like not telling the Cleric it's a good idea to piss on the rock... If I were the DM and I wanted the Druids's religion to be a false one, I'd do two things this DM failed to. I'd have the "Forces of nature" that gave the Druid his powers randomly switch out prepared spells and cantrips, replacing said spell with one from the Warlock spell list. Every time he gets a prophecy and obeys the voice, would be trigger for when this, he could of course change his spells back at the spell preparation phase of his next long rest, or he could choose to keep the spells he's not capable of preparing himself, with the exception of one, he'll wake up every morning with Eldritch blast... The second thing I'd do is create little sites where the Druid perceives good spirits but the Paladin would perceive the ground as deseecrated rather than consecrated. Either Detect Good or Detect Evil will detect their respective alignments when cast on these sites. So the if the Paladin chooses to detect good presences as is in the Paladin's, he'll also detect good, but he'll by default detect the evil presence and will only detect the good one if he chooses to look for it. Not expecting that he will... If the Cleric desecrates or vandalizes the site, I'd tell him he senses the evil of the site growing. Or I might even go "Roll a Wisdom save" and if they fail a DC of 15 I state "At the very beginning of your attempt to desecrate this site you suddenly feel the impulse to do so completely leave you... as if taken from you, the evil presence grows slightly stronger." And, continuing this theme at the great rock, there would be a boss fight... See, with or without the kind of build up I would have gone wirh, a large holy site for the Druid's religion needs to have some kind of event that evidences what the DM is trying to convey. For me, some kind of Lovecraftian monster stepping in from the 5th dimension to beat the shid out of an impudent Cleric who just pissed on his stone, would do the trick. Also, when the Cleric pisses on random "unholy" objects, that's when I'll randomly replace spells on his spell list with Warlock spells. Also I would make the monstrosity self-evidently evil and make sure the Druid knows that something is very wrong. But anyway DM was full of it because he didn't have any kind of bossfight or supernatural event planned. He just thought that there just not being any supernatural occurrence would be enough to convince the Druid that his religion is jusr hooey I guess, or the DM was just a jerk who was engineering the half-wipe of the party and was going to blame it on the players no matter what happened and that would be the end of the campaign because every possible outcome was to be contrived as having "Ruined it."

I once had a large pet rat named George, he liked to climb the bars of his cage. At night. When i was sleeping. Miss that lil guy. He was a good rat.

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500! Very well done, comgratulations. Also, pet rats! I love those little guys, very cute pets.

Now you're 2 subs away from 500 great job

Ouch, what a crapshow! I agree with you, DM is an ass for nuking the whole group even worse for claiming "Skill Issue" because that's plain insulting, but Wizard is just as bad for dissing the DM so badly after making a mess of the order. A simple "Sorry bro, I screwed up but I'll make it up to you next time" would most likely have defused the whole situation If they're both gonna behave like this and neither can find the courage to apologise I think the rest of the group are better off without them. *Edit* pet rats? Ooh! Rats are adorable!

Sounds like a great character. Last VtM I played was LARP before the pandemic. Love playing Lasombra.

I love to play a gnome with a silly name that's very serious

I'm glad you are doing these horror stories. Please, don't become a cringey attention seeker like the other youtubers, I used to like Crispy's Tavern but he began to make a lot of cringey acts and dumb jokes, now he is unwatchable for me. Stay as you are, like a calm friend gossiping.

Welcome back! Good luck with moving. I moved last year AND the year before that and it was the wooooorst, so I feel your pain. And, I mean, as a DM I get keeping secrets from some players while other players are in the know, but the way it was handled in this case was so so so bad. There's ways to do it that don't dissolve your entire campaign.

Looked up that big funny word! I got no results, so you probably nailed it

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Welcome back! DM really is an ass for only telling Cleric and Paladin the backstory, he turned them into problem players without their knowledge. Shame they lost Paladin over it This could have worked really well if nobody was in the know and Cleric and Paladin had been allowed to be nicer

Personally I'm glad that cleric and paladin we're just causing problems with their party members for no reason

I didn't base the character off it, but I did borrow names from a TV show. Leading up to the game, my fellow players kept warning me not to give my D&D monk a family because the DM would just kill them. Talking to the DM, it sounded like the families had died in previous campaigns because the players had hidden plot important items that the villains were looking for at home with their commoner families. So a week before session zero, I asked for permission to expand my family. Gave my monk cousins, childhood friends, and added more complex relationship dynamics between my monk and her sister. I borrowed the names, but everything else was original collaborative work between my DM and I...and in the end, most of my family lived.

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Fells like what happened after the sessions is the bigger horror story

0:23 "Your besht? Lozers whine about their besht, winners go home and fukk the Prom Queen!" Sir Sean Connery

Came across here by chance by reccomendations list. I do watch/listen to a lot of rpg horror stories so that probably has something to do with it. This video gave off some quiet and relaxing vibes. Very nice.

Out of all the familiars and magical creatures I am still partial to a crow or a raven familiar.

Mage the ascension without other books like werewolf, vampire or the mummy, was probably the most fun I ever had in an RPG game.

Gnomes in folklore (If i remember it right) were minor earth spirits that could freely move through soil or something. Gnomes went from monsters to playable race (species), to monsters, and back to a playable species. Previously relied on spells or stealth because of small size and less dexterity than the hobbits. Now the DM of the story would probably make them exclusively inventors and alchemists.

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Nice! A dnd friend of mine (we have played at many tables together now and still are in multiple tables together) and I decided to make a sibling pair of characters. We really have been wanting to play as siblings because our irl dynamic is pretty much like that and so the banter would be fun to do in game too. Recently we got the chance to make them. They are a brother and sister set of fairies. Both are clerics but one is of the order domain and the other is of the trickery domain. Really looking forward to playing them soon! They were made for the occasional one shots our regular dm runs in his homebrew world during special events and/or when groups are going too long not being able to play their regular game (adjusted tyranny of dragons module). Basically we put a call out on the server to find out who is available and the multiple tables mingle and we run a one shot with who can. Good system! But yeah, this friend and I finally managed to have sibling characters. Looking forward to being chaotic! lol (can you tell which domain my cleric is of?)

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