"Maybe my character likes strong, dumb guys" I need a himbo I'm holdin' out for a himbo till the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast and he's gotta be dumb and polite

@Geth-Who

2 жыл бұрын

Literally used this as a valor bard to inspire our himbo pally against the BBEG in our last campaign. Smite plus valor-bard-inspiration-to-damage-dice on a crit is a glorious thing.

@realrealwarpet

Жыл бұрын

Summing up my barbarian very well. Bad news though. He’s gay XD

"Yeah, I wasn't interested at all. Didn't find him attractive in the least. But he gave my character a cool item in DnD, and I immediately fell in love" - A 100% real and totally accurate thing you can expect any girl to say.

I don't get why crappy DMs get all prideful and smug when they make a DMPC super overpowered. It's like they think they've accomplished something "look I wrote a 50 on every stat in the sheet, I'm so skilled!"

@draconicfeline6177

3 жыл бұрын

Some people see building OP characters as a sort of puzzle, and think that everyone will like them if they are cool and op.

@PaladinGear15

3 жыл бұрын

@@draconicfeline6177 It's not any kind of puzzle for the DM, when he can literally just write whatever he wants on his character sheet.

@draconicfeline6177

3 жыл бұрын

@@PaladinGear15 they like to think they are taking advantage of the most obscure rules. It's not usually just writing it in.

@PaladinGear15

3 жыл бұрын

@@draconicfeline6177 I doubt he did any looking through obscure rules and sneaky broken wombo-combos to get a strength of 30, the tarrasque has a strength of 30. Even the most powerful strength amplifying legendary magic item can only put it up to 29.

@LaylaSpellwind

7 ай бұрын

I can get if it's a puzzle or picking the right skills.@@draconicfeline6177 But if it's literally just putting every stat to max, then it's not a puzzle, it's just like using console commands to max out your stats. Very silly. If it's minmaxing, I can get why they might think it's awesome, because they think it's a game, and not a roleplay game.

That NPC had the STR of an Ancient Red Dragon, what the actual fuck.

@jrepra

3 жыл бұрын

They must have been an ancient red dragon in disguise.

"I moved 29 feet so I'm 6 feet away" Yeah no XD

@cam4636

2 жыл бұрын

Must be that _new_ math...

I make a point to ask everyone specifically what they are doing. If a player doesn't speak up for a while, I always ask them what they're doing or thinking about.

@Screwjump

2 жыл бұрын

Where do you guys play? I've been trying to get started but can't find any groups or anything

@kikiblair5132

2 жыл бұрын

@@Screwjump we rotate between my house and my brother's place.

Human fighters are great, you get to be just some person trying to get a grip on this crazy world of fireballs and and shapeshifers and shit.

@pepekovallin

Жыл бұрын

Literally my first character, a human fighter in the middle of a paladin Aazimar, a barbarian tiefling and a half-elf bard, the concept of a normal dude just hanging out with bunch of people from different races is funny to me

I'm going to take a maybe controversial stance and say that using gaming to flirt isn't that bad, *but* with the caveats that: - crush should be single at the time, and - if crush doesn't reciprocate/rebuffs any advances, the flirting stops, and everyone moves on DM in story 2 made the mistake of not letting it go.

As someone who picked a wizard for a first character, I firmly recommend people build a human fighter for their first character.

@nvfury13

2 жыл бұрын

My first character (made in the Basic Box set) was a Magic User. First Edition, a Human Fighter/Mage. Second Edition, a Half Elf Ranger. 3E Warforged Fighter.

@DannyMakesVideosIGuess

Жыл бұрын

My first character was a high elf wizard! Loved that planewalking disaster

@jimmyliddell2072

Жыл бұрын

Rouge is another great starting class. That was my first, loved it

I think OP maybe said "lol of course" because Arthur had just finished a contract with the army, so it was a fitting choice for your first character

You should sometimes have NPCs that over shadow the party, especially when the party is low level. Those NPCs should not be traveling with the party, however. My group are currently lev 3, about to hit 4 at our next sessions. They met the kingdom's high priest of Helm...Lev 20 life cleric. He VASTLY over shadows them in terms of power....but that's ok, because they have only talked to him 3 times for 10-20 minutes each time, so he isn't there long enough to steal the spotlight In Forgotten Realms, you character might meet Elminster, or the Blackstaff...they will be vastly over shadowed, but neither of those characters would trow on their pack and follow the PCs out the door to adventure.

The DM in the second story was so petty, cowardly, and pathetic I honestly feel bad for them. I get the sense they’ll be alone for a long time.

"I hope he has grown and changed as a person" is unironically one of the best parting insults my feeble mind can think of

I know why DMs make overpowered DMPCs - it can be super scary to have a NPC fail. If you make them tough, or put in some plot armor to keep them from dying/getting found out too fast, that's one thing. If you make them about PC or Below level, that can help get your "What if this character was played" out of your system - if they are temporary party members, or filling a role that the party lacks, or the party has decided that they like an NPC so much that they want to bring them along, that's fine. If you make them OP, no one else at the table thinks they are cool or special or fun.

I mean, if the monsters target a tanky character it means they aren't targeting the squishier characters so it makes sense.

First story reminds me of a game of Star Wars I was part off. We had a new player for the game, he decided that he would play the bodyguard of my own character, I was playing a force sensitive noble woman. The quest involved some big gala party or something, and that player just followed me around and refused to do anything every time the DM tried to get him more involved. Then he started complaining he was being ignored… So made me wonder if this guy is as innocent as he pretend to be. Maybe he is. But had bad experience like that…

@theuncalledfor

3 жыл бұрын

_Every_ story could be exaggerated or completely made up. Unless something in the story blatantly doesn't make sense, there is no point in doubting any one story more or less than another.

@bluedragonfly8139

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the fact that OP claims that *everyone* ignored them, and then complained that the other players 'didn't accommodate them' makes me wonder if they just did nothing the whole time/barely interacted, and then got angry that no one went out of their way to include them.

Chad fighter vs incel DM

I had a DM try to hit on me when I was already dating someone else who was my transportation to the game. My character was one that had come out of a campaign with serious emotional baggage, and DM tried to set her up with his DMPC, which had the effect of making her emotional baggage that much worse, while saddling her with a whole lot of responsibilities she wasn't ready for. During down time, other players and I would joke about how much DM was misjudging the situation and how desperate he was... My character went on to "resign" her official (in game) position and flee the entire toxic situation. I really liked that character, but not the downright s#17 she went through. She came out alright in the end.

The dice gods blessed this man named art. Lolololmao!

"Guh-hur. I only moved 29 feet!" on a grid that works in increments of 5 feet. -_- Congrats, by the games own rules you're sitting pretty at 30 feet smart-Ash

Favoritism is one of the worst thing that can happen during D&D.

First Story: One thing I'm picking up on that seems to be going over OP's head. The DM was a player in OP's previous group, which makes the OP being frozen out into two red flags instead of one. The DM friend is clearly taking his angst from OP's game out on him with DM's own game. He is inviting a friend to play, just to freeze him out. This is clearly retaliatory to something the OP doesn't remember or something the OP is simply leaving out. OP could be leaving those details out because actually went over OP's head and his DM friend never brought it up out of game. He merely retaliated in game. It's also possible he brought his DM over simply to get more of DM's group into his own group and worked to freeze the DM out as soon as the players he really wanted had either moved over to his group or confirmed that they wouldn't. Or to lay it all out in simpler terms, Had this been a friend he had never gamed with before, I would be most inclined to take OP at his word, but because this was someone he had already gamed with for years, this situation could only make sense in the context of an out of game problem that went unaddressed, and perhaps unnoticed by OP. OP was too dense to notice, and his friend was too passive aggressive to bring it up directly. Second Story: LOL! The DM did everything in his power to guarantee the girl ends up in the arms of brave meat head at the end of it. He basically took a heroic archetype played a player with a similar description and personality, and made him into the Underdog of the Story, right in front of his crush. Of course OP is the real MVP keeping his new friend's HP topped off, buffing the tank, just doing the teamwork s good team player does. Of course this is no surprise given that this is OP's telling of events. He was also basically being the perfect wingman for his new friend at that point. So was the DM, by engineering the situation that made the Fighter able to shine. I mean this was a person who had faced real adversity playing a character designed to face adversity, with the support of a decent party. DM never stood s chance to get the girl, but maybe he'll have the self awareness to realize he unintentionally played wingman, and be happy for that rather than just being as bitter and spiteful as he was at the time.

Criticism comes from being right and wrong, from all perspectives in life. If DM cannot handle constructive criticism, they may need to step away from the dm seat and broaden their horizons a bit.

So awesome that you like Ginny Di too!

I hope that Art and Jenny are still together. What a fantastic way to meet. =D

Thanks for video :D. have a good one.

Trinston was here...

@snowydasher6994

2 жыл бұрын

Snowy was here...

First story sounds a lot like the poster is self-biased. If they were actually playing with "friends", there is no reason they would just ignore the poster UNLESS the poster is actually meek and doesn't actually know how to speak up. It's a common thing when people don't understand how quiet they are and assume people can hear them when they genuinely cannot. I don't believe the GM "blew up" just because the poster communicated his feelings in a calm and concise way. This smacks of trying to make everyone else appear like the jerk when it's really the poster himself. This is provable by the way the poster never actually communicated with the other players when they seemed to "also" be "ignoring" him. Just the GM. This is also proven by how the poster pretends to be diplomatic at the very end by saying "I might have needed to be more engaged somehow" but that's not what he just got through saying. He said he "tried to assert [himself] in game," so was all that a lie? Probably. It's common to lie on the internet, and it's painfully obvious this "horror story" is just the poster trying to get others to validate him. A GMPC with 30 strength is pretty bullshit though.

Why did you to repeat yourself in the beginning

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1st story has me suspicious. I would like to hear the other side of the story. Could be DM ignored them, could also be they were the quitest player and expected every one else to give them time to shine instead of engaging with the story as it came up. Hard to say but at the very least the DM and party did not really sound malicious.