There's 2 Levels of Fucked up on the first story : - The fact that he basically states that "All female characters are subjective to SA" in itself is already horrible enough, basically establishing "Women get SA'd in a realistic world". - The implicit message that since it only happen to female characters, "Males can't be SA'd in a realistic world". I know that it's probably because the DM is only interrested in women and therefore would apply those plot only to them, but the implicit message of "Men will never get SA'd" is also gross and invalidating.

@SinnerChrono

12 күн бұрын

I was going to go to a club with a female co-worker. (This was 17 years ago) we were waiting on a buddy of mine to get off work and all 3 of us were going to go. When my buddy canceled I called off the night as I didn't want to go without my buddy. The female co worker tried to get me to still go. When I refused she left. The next week at work I was talking to a mutual friend who knew her very well. He asked me why I didn't take her home that night etc etc. I said I wasn't interested. He was shocked and said that she was expecting me to try and sleep with her and had even planned on getting me drunk while at the club. And if that didn't work she had brought drugs to get me fucked up and drag me home with her. I never spoke to either of these 2 people ever again. Men can be raped and assaulted. I got lucky.

@Thundarr100

12 күн бұрын

​@@SinnerChrono And what happened to you was women SAing men (rare, but it happens). The even more frequent occurrence being men getting SAed by other men. Just look at what happens in HBO'S Oz. Or the movie Pulp Fiction. Or The Shawshank Redemption. American History X. The list goes on and on. And that's just in Hollywood fiction. In real life? It can be even worse. Just look at all of the Catholic priests who had sexually abused the altar boys under their supervision for years. And when the Church found out, instead of reporting him to the police, they would ship him off to a different congregation, giving him a whole fresh batch of new victims to violate. And you notice how those priests always targeted the altar boys, never the Catholic school girls (who are part of many a straight man's sexual fantasies).

@frankficcle7081

12 күн бұрын

That honestly sounds like an ERP situation. It was very responsible of the DM to be upfront before the game even started.

@Juju2927

12 күн бұрын

@@frankficcle7081 They advertised it as a normal game with hint of NSFW. "Hints of NSFW" doesn't mean "Chose your gender : Male or R*peable !"

@rynowatcher

12 күн бұрын

@@frankficcle7081 that was my take too. He is up front, asks for consent, and gives the player a way to participate without taking part. I am not sure why this is on a horror story thread. Not my kettle of fish, but there is a lot of truth in advertising here and dm's wife seems really into it. Not sure what more wou would want.

"gritty and realistic" is always a red flag for me. 98% of the time I've run into it as a descriptor, it _actually_ meant "edgelord r*pe land". If a dude says that r*pe is a big part of his game, he's a creep, red flag, do not play with him.

@monikasernek1177

12 күн бұрын

Also I would add homophobic to the the list of the description of gritty and realistic™

@alanbear6505

12 күн бұрын

If he wanted to be truly “realistic” then it could happen to male characters as well. Since males are safe it’s about his fantasies not realism.

@rynowatcher

12 күн бұрын

I mean Warhammer Fantasy and Age of Sigmar are gritty fantasy without expliced SA. It can be fun to play the game on "hard mode." Dark Souls and Elden Ring type fantasy is usually what people mean by gritty. They can be fun. The satanic panic happened because conservatives thought people played games with demons in them was Satan worship and caused suicide and violent crime. Just because you like killing orcs and taking their stuff in game does not mean you are an irl murderer and theif, so inclusions of SA does not nessicarily make a person a bad person. I think the gm approached this as above board as possible, so I am inclined to think they approached this the right way. At least one player is also confirmed to like the sa, so it seems like a kink that the dm is, ironically, asking for concent and warning op about what she is on for. The sadistic player in the last story seems worse to me and had no lead up.

@draconicfeline6177

12 күн бұрын

@@alanbear6505 Yeah that's the key here - when it's always LOL FEMALE RAPE it's a fantasy. And usually framed in a "sexual," not "horrific act of violence" way. It's hard to describe "described as titillating fantasy" versus "described as brutal reality of violence" but you know it when you see it. Historically, males have been victims of SA. It was brutal, done for many of the same reasons (dominance, control, entitlement to get rocks off...)

@monikasernek1177

12 күн бұрын

@@rynowatcher Good point, but the problem still is that this non-con (that's the name of this specific kink) game is still aiming only at women characters. Of course the dm's girlfriend likes it and it's probably her kink (I'm not kink shaming her), but it's also a sensitive topic and it effects a lot people in real life. They should have tag it as NSFW and immediately told that is a game with kinks.

Trigger Happy: if your 'good' GM not only has a bad habit of killing off characters, but keeps a list of characters he's killed, your GM is not exactly good.

@ArcCaravan

12 күн бұрын

The "good" that DM did is worth nothing when the character dies off pointlessly.

The story with DM wanting in-game consequences for real-life lateness sounds like DM and Cleric were junior high 'mean girls' who never left high school

@davidtherwhanger6795

12 күн бұрын

I agree with you.

@bgdowns10171

12 күн бұрын

and then..... I was sucked into a wormhole. Consequences!

About that second story: a GM who keeps a list of dead PCs to make himself feel good is a big red flag in my book. It’s kinda like a child keeping the bodies of flies that they’ve ripped the wings off of.

@rynowatcher

12 күн бұрын

I actually thought that was a joke more than literal the way he phrased it, but it is more funny if it is not. It depends on your playstyle if this does it for you. I am blanking on the name of the game, but there was one in the 00's that you would gain a level when you died as the only way to level up as if you are surviving the challenges and not too hard for you. Kind of a reverse dark souls, so it was a thing to finish a campaign as low level as you could. Good beer and prezzle game.

@chelonianmobile

12 күн бұрын

Have you heard of "The Binder of Shame" stories? Named after a DM doing exactly that.

@scratch7971

8 күн бұрын

Idk, doesn’t seem too far off of ranking up in CoD by k/d or something, just weirdly personal in that they would keep track.

@rynowatcher

8 күн бұрын

@@scratch7971 I have met people at cons that kept character sheets of characters they killed in the con game. That was back when competitive games, though.

"If you played a boy, r#&e wouldn't happen to you" if you want to be REALISTIC then yeah, this would happen to boys/men too. And I'm sure if you'd say that to the DM, he'd get pissed and boot you

Obsession Story. R@pe can happen to guys as well. And has happened. To me it sounds like this DM was going to make sure it did happen to each and every female character. R@pe is not a natural consequence of ones actions as I believe this DM was trying to imply, but a deliberate act chosen by one to inflict on another to establish dominance or illicit p3rverse pleasure. But now I must turn to the DM's GF. As a Navy sailor I can state with firm confidence that for everything under the Sun, and much that is not, there is a person out there with a f3tish for it. And I have met one girl that did have a r@pe f3tish. Which is what I believe the DM's GF has as well from her reaction. And with a combo like that all their games will turn into a s3x fantasy. Not a might, but a when.

Gritty and realistic has got to be the biggest red flag ever.

@gimok2k5

12 күн бұрын

Certainly on the GM-Side of things.

I don't understand how a crappy player killing DM can feel any sense of pride when the bulk of their kills boil down to "poof you're dead". It's like a whole other level of pathetic for this flavor of DM.

Re: the kill happy DM. Personally, I'd drop the DM. He wants to feel like he's winning. He doesn't want to collaborate. Even if you like the rest of his DM'ing style, he still sees what he's doing as more important. I'd walk.

@jordanhunter3375

12 күн бұрын

The DM needs players more than the players need him. So sad power-tripping DMs like this whelp always forget that.

Story 1: Ah, yes. The "Gritty and Realistic" world which is full of a blatant double-standard towards one gender. aka "Edelord world", which is not realistic at all. My recomendation to OP: Keep looking for games, and if anyone ever mentions "gritty and realistic", just expect "edge and unrealistic" and don't bother. Story 2: I would just go with the most petty approach here at first, creating "Bob the Fighter". His backstory is "he's a fighter", his hobby is "being a fighter". And when interacting with NPCs, he goes into "Sierra Adventure"-Parser-Talk and goes single-word-conversation, while T-Posing (in-universe while aggressively staring at the other person, if someone asks). And if he dies, I then "roll up a new character" (read: pull out a photocopy of the previous sheet), for the character "Bob 2 the fighter", who's backstory is "he's also a fighter"... until the GM gets the message.

@R3GARnator

12 күн бұрын

The world IS filled with double standards though.

@gimok2k5

12 күн бұрын

@@R3GARnator Ah, are woman raped exclusively, and men never? Because last I checked, both are.

@DunantheDefender

12 күн бұрын

"Gritty and realistic" or "historically accurate" are the DM version of "its what my character would do".

Simba has an aura of "yep. . .enjoy my face" and so I did

@KentaroMiyamoto21

12 күн бұрын

The majestic sounding music helps.

If its not a r*peland, then the gritty realism setting is gonna be mud ore where every npc is needlessly hostile. Id say, even if the op played a boy, she would have not had fun either way

@gimok2k5

12 күн бұрын

Usually, it's both.

Kicked: A good lesson I've learned in life is when someone accuses you of planning to do something, that thing is usually what they would do in the situation.

"Gritty and realistic" are literally the reddest flags for any D&D campaign

Regarding the r*pe happy DM: I haven't encountered a DM that energetic about it. And he's got some misogyny issues if he thinks males never encounter SA.

@stoneharvey1017

12 күн бұрын

That would be a misandry problem, not a misogyny problem.

@LadyDiskette

12 күн бұрын

​@stoneharvey1017 It always reminded me of those guys who are so "protective" of other dudes being hit on by gay men, but if that same dude came up to them and told them a woman SA-ed them they would be like "High five buddy! Was she hot?" to their shock traumatized face.

Something fun just happened. Doge had finished reading the "trigger happy" story and was starting his comment, but after the very first vowel KZread fired up a commercial. Basically, he went "ah", then a short pause as the commercial loaded. For a moment, I thought our canine narrator had been struck speechelss by the story.

@jordanhunter3375

12 күн бұрын

Timestamp?

giggling may be a self defence method so her giggling could be how she handle things she think is uncomfortable. Also i dont know the power dynamic is in that relationship so she may not even have an option to protest and say she was uncomfortable.

Murderhobo Story. Honestly most of those bandits would have been forced into manual labor for a period of months or years. Life may have been cheap back in the Medieval Period of Feudal Europe, but no ruler was giving up free labor without good reason. There was always some job that no one wanted to do. And sometimes that was being forcibly relocated to a border region or far off colony as an exile from your native land. Heck some of them could have been conscripted into the army to serve as cannon fodder. So the idea that the bandits would be executed anyway is just false. Sure some were to make an example of them. But not every last one of them. Not to mention that once the town guard saw what the murderhobos did for kicks, those guards would probably bar them from entering the town again. You don't let psychos into your home after all.

@DarnHyena

12 күн бұрын

Also of note they specifically picked out one of the female bandits to torture

Gender Reveal Story. Some people just see a hill and think to themselves, 'THIS IS THE TIME! THIS IS THE PLACE! TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE!'

Trigger happy story: Bring this concern up with the group and then confront your DM about this. Come the game, if the DM doesn’t keep them alive, leave as a group

that second story i'd be tempted to roll up saying "This is my character. He doesn't have a name, He will die anyway. Do you want to kill him now or wait until later, DM?" then just tear the DM's ass out on why their pride in randomly killing player characters is stupid.

I'm starting to shy away from DMs that advertise their games as "gritty and realistic". Too many times I've found out "gritty and realistic" are just code words for "r*p* and torture".

@sandpiperr

Күн бұрын

Yeah and "historically accurate" is often code homophobic and white supremacist.

in the last story, i'll never understand people that hear the dm's rules for a game and instead of moving on and looking for a different game, they try to find "loopholes" in the rules and then complain when they get the boot

I watch these videos on the big tv sometimes, and my mom stops whatever she’s doing just to marvel at the fact that there’s a wizard dog on the screen telling stories. She knows nothing about DND.

Just starting the video now, but the title alone made me wary and think this could be a former DM of mine. He wrote a story of how one of his characters was killed and it involved the R-word, and then shared it (I know I read it, still unnerved, but I am HOPING he didn’t show it to other players cuz, that was explicit and gross). Edit: the story is not the same DM, so that’s good. But time to experience the horror. Edit 2, the Kicked story: a fellow former player actually reached out to me sometime last year or in 2022 about the DM I mentioned above. Said player is one we were all told rage quit because they suffered consequences for their actions finally (albeit to an extreme cuz theybwere thrown into a jail cell in the 9 Hells). Well, I came to learn from that former player thst they were actually KICKED. After their character was thrown into the Hells, the DM told the player that no one liked them and that everyone wanted them gone, then removed them from the server. This other player is in a better game last I heard, and I wish them the best. I know that there was times it did get a little frustrating to play with them (most of us were new, and they tended to do some weird and petty things to anyone they didn’t like in game), but I know all I wanted was for them to tone it down a little, cuz other than those petty actions, they were fun to play with.

I will never get tired of kittys communing with the cosmos.

The DM getting blackout drunk and later cutting all contact saying the won, sounds like he is having real problems outside of the game. Someone needed to check up on them.

DTT is here! "Was he jealous of how I made my characters" is a super pretentious thought process.

Your "that guy" voice is top shelf

First time I say I´m gonna DM a realistic rptb, get DM by the discord owner that say "Dude, Did you really say that Karen pc is gonna get SA?" and of course my answer was "What? No, I never say that, and also, Who the f*ck is karen?" then proceed to tell me that karen ask me to join and I told her that, bc my game is gonna be realistic, her character is gonna be r*p*d multiple times, told him to go to my house and chek my DMs, that lady NEVER talk to me, obviously when the owner ask her why did she say that, she have the balls to say that "Every realistic game I participate ends the same so I told you to get rid this leech"... She got banned of course, bc my realistic game means that you can starved to death, get sick, don´t have all the equip in the world in your backapack and critical hits can amputated your hands or feet

7:50 If I were the OP, my next character would be named Kenneth McCormic, and my next character would be named Kenneth McCormic, same stats, same skills, same inventory, no memories of his previous death, and so on ad infinitum.

If I mean gritty and realitic than I would go the route "your character can die from gangrene and food poisoning".

The fact that "that" can happen to girl players and not boy players makes me think that it is DM's fetish, not a desire to be realistic.

"Bigoted gender reveals" player is... eh. As a bigender woman myself, I completely understand the perspective that the whole concept of 'gender reveal' is socially performative and actively harmful for the children who may grow up to have differing identities than the ones forced on them... but so is gender roles as a whole and whether a family has a party or not typically isn't going to be the determining factor behind their strict views of gender, but rather a symptom of the pre-existing indoctrination of the parents. This doesn't weigh on the scenario, though. The scenario is your fellow player can't come for a family obligation that has nothing to do with that player, of which the player of the family doesn't get a say in whether it happens or not, and is not some insidious or clear sign of future abuse or harm to the child or laws broken. She's just too deep in virtue signalling online to recognize the forest for the trees, that you should be kind and considerate to different perspectives, and that this was the opportunity to educate your friends about the patriarchy and the harm of gender norms without calling anyone names, saying anyone was going to do something harmful or evil, and just not be a jerk and belittle the people who had liked you. Nobody has ever changed their mind by being shouted at or belittled. The online concept of 'canceling' someone does not translate to reality nor to actually doing any systemic good in the world for it. Really, it makes you the bigger asshole for not just explaining your perspective in a mature way and accepting the fact someone else may still live a different life. They're way more likely to listen to you and maybe someday adjust their perspective to understand, if you treat them kindly. TL;DR: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Yes, it is possible to play an evil character in a really well done way, I have done so with a Lawful Evil Vengeance Paladin in a Punisher/take no prisoners style of roleplay, but I got the OK from my DM to do so beforehand, and it didn't interfere with the party or the story at all. The issue is, most people do not really know how to play an evil character in a well done story way, and just use it as an excuse to be murderhobos. If someone has to argue about being allowed to play an evil character when the DM says no, they were planning to be a murderhobo, full stop, and just got pissy that the DM said no.

I did a gender reveal with tannerite once, but it wasn't done the stupid way that everybody seems to do it: I was on my in-laws' property, and I just taped a bag of blue powder to the top of the jar, then I got back 100 yards to take the shot, and everybody else got back another 100 yards behind me.

@RealSeanithan

12 күн бұрын

That was for my first kid. For my second, my wife just sent out a mass text that said "boy"

I have a different take than everyone saying the DM thinks men can’t experience SA. I think it’s actually worse than that. I think the DM doesn’t want to roleplay SA’ing a male because in his mind he’s the wicked monster and he’s not gay. That’s why the girlfriend was giggling - they’re doing their kink together in front of the rest of the party. I mean, she could also be giggling because she’s uncomfortable and he is a bad guy to her as well, to be more charitable, but either way, he did NOT need to describe this to OP for her to understand that she was not a good fit. He could have just said “we roleplay SA in my group, FYI” without an example. Even if there’s no more detail than in the story, and I’m pretty certain that there was, it was too much to make a survivor sit through. Gross.

I understand having the SET UP to that situation for your characters to swoop in and be the hero and stop such actions from happening, but making it a main mechanic and actually showing/describing this is disgusting, especially how these people describe it, its never a heart breaking or serious moment either, its just a way for these individuals to get their sick fantasies out. cannot believe people go through this playing this game

The story about the DM being upset about timezones and assuming that they weren't being respected is kinda bs. Bro, timezones cannot be helped, and neither can work schedules. Work is a very important thing in anyone's life, and it's not so simple to put off just for a DnD game. I don't understand how this has anything to do with respect.

Hi Doge: You continue to give a lot of entertainment to this non-player, and sound advice to the youngsters. Thank you for both. Did you know that when your Patreon shoutout overlay is showing, there's a random black "C" under your chin? I've noticed it just in the last 2 or 3 uploads!

Simba's gonna make us an offer we can't refuse.

Kicked: It's pretty clear (to me) that the DM was a self-involved tyrant and OP was either going to be driven out or was going to be kicked for some reason or other as soon as OP said they went to public chat and had the hypocritical 'punishment for lateness' rule thrown out (by popular vote or player uprising against it). You don't step on the toes of a tyrant and come out unscathed. It's kind of surprising the DM didn't have OP's character 'mysteriously fall off a balcony and die' before then. The DM was probably too busy seething that OP dared to question them to formulate a calculated revenge. That game was never going to end well. Murderhobo: That story reminds me of another horror story I heard 6 or so months ago about a pair of guy friends where one was a psycho-brained murderhobo edgelord and his friend seemed otherwise normal but was edgelord's steadfast stan and constantly argued for anything the twisted edgelord wanted. They were kicked out of that game but the group found out they had been kicked out of a lot of other games as well. I wonder...

I've heard that first story before, and I'm still 100% convinced that the GM in that story and his girlfriend had a CNC fetish.

The op from the Rage Quit story sounds like he is as bad as the DM with how he phrased how he optimizes characters and almost sounds like the dm was tired of dealing with op's bullshit, guessing villager railgun stuff or coffeelock nonsense lol.

@ArcCaravan

12 күн бұрын

It was mentioned DM did the same so it'd be hypocritical to rage quit over optimization.

This DM in the first story sounded like he played WAAAAAAY too much Monster Girl Quest

Reminds me of Jarhead. DM: "I wanted the pink mist"

Intro: Simba! Cats = Likes Obsession: Nope; definitely not normal. Kudos to OP for helping keep it that way. Find a healthier group. Trigger Happy: "The problem is, besides this, the dm is really good." Seriously? Random arbitrary deaths kill investment and immersion while killing trust. That's a big "this" to dismiss. Rage Quit: DM vs player mentality? Maybe. It could also be a substance abuse issue. Kicked: Red flags abound. It immediately appears that Cleric and DM have a pathological codependency, with Cleric enabling DM. And the story played out exactly as that theory would predict. Untrue Romance: Player agency is a thing, so OP shouldn't feel compelled to submit to an unwanted "ship." Gender Reveal: It was a family thing, so it should have been enough to just respect that. June needs a talk but her removal is definitely on the table. Murderhobos: "I'm not entertaining anyone's murderboner." That's a good line. I'm stealing that one.

Story 1 sounds like Goblin Slayer, which does contain a bit of that (and it is **not** done as fetishistic). We may generally not want that kind of game, but i will give credit that DM was upfront about it.

I think June had the mindset that the baby should chose its own gender and the perents should not be assigning the baby a gender.

@ArcCaravan

12 күн бұрын

The "it's not your baby" comment makes me doubt that and think she's just looking for an excuse to blame the player for delaying the story.

@K_i_t_t_y84

12 күн бұрын

June definitely had the right mindset, but since political discussions were not allowed, she should have kept it to herself, as right as she was. Honestly, it's good that they removed her because she needs to be with people that have similar political leanings so that her discussions won't be unwelcome.

@jamesscheurich6006

11 күн бұрын

@@K_i_t_t_y84 there is too much us vs them mentalaty in politics today. It will only lead to disaster.

Characters keep dying? File off the numbers, repeat. “Oh, no. Todd the Clone the VI died? Good thing Todd the Cline the VII is nearby. Yes, same stats, spells, equipment.”

Ugh 😩 I have encountered the rape happy DMs. Its horrible. They wouldn't just say that happened. It would be described in graphic detail. I was the only girl in a group if guys too. I have encountered it more than once and get out quickly. Sometimes I was not warned at all. I've also encountered a DM who was determined to murder the characters in some pretty terrible and gross ways. Toxic people can be found in any game. Just got to keep looking until you find the right fit.

I wonder what the "particular anime world" was. Because if you sign up for a game based on something like Goblin Slayer, then yeah... you can expect those things to happen. To add: I wouldn't count it as a horror story. Nothing was sprung up on OP. The DM was very open about what would be in the game, didn't throw a fit, didn't insult OP for having different comfort limits, and it seemed like the people in the party had no issue and even enjoyed the darker content of the game. OP is just mad that other people like other things than them in their fictional no-consequences game they don't force OP to join.

Do people think it's the dms job to mediate between pcs and babysit them cause they can't talk things out themselves? I guess a new thing to add to my session 0 is I'm a dm not a baby sitter damn Edit I should add cleric and dm were wrong and assholes on literally every other aspect though

I've played and DM'ed a lot of games and have always lived by 2 rules: The Prime Directive and General Order 1. Prime Directive: Have fun! If you're not having fun, there's no point in playing the game. General Order 1: NEVER rape a PC. Use an NPC if needed for the plot or backstory but don't sexually assault PCs. That's basically how you got Half-Orc PCs in 1st edition. It's NEVER something that "might" happen because your character is female or low level, or .

Thoughts on revised material for D&D coming later this year that has already been revealed?

The first story is disgusting lool, poor girl trying to look for a game. :(

Stories 2 and 3 both have the "DM vs. Players" problem, which means they both have the same solution; Ditch the DM. Of course, in Story 3, the trash took itself out.

There comes a point where you can have too much realism

While it is possible that some people may enjoy "consensual" non-consent, that really is something to keep to your intimate partners, not your friends.

The DM in the second story sounds like he should be playing a Warhammer ttrpg, not Curse of Strahd 💀

So as far as "the bandit is getting executed anyway" goes... that's just evil. It's not justice or even a "necessary evil," it's just evil. Heck it's something a lawful evil character would try to avoid. I play an outlander barbarian, a monstrous race (awakened owlbear), lawful (personal honor code) neutral. She will absolutely slaughter aggressors without mercy and will chase ot strike retreating enemies because of a predator's instinct to pursue fleeing prey. Once ate alive an uncooperative shapeshifter while the party interrogated a group of them after a battle. However it would never occur to her actually torture someone, especially not for kicks. She can be vicious and merciless but outright sadism is just Evil and I worry about anyone who thinks otherwise

The only time I have had that dark a material in a campaign, was a game of Kult, which is usually very heavily involved in dark material. We usually avoid that stuff in DnD campaigns.

You really have to wonder, how people like this are not on a registry of some kind...

@nerdyogre6683

12 күн бұрын

They don't do anything illegal.

@gimok2k5

12 күн бұрын

@@nerdyogre6683 yet.

@Michaeljack81sk

12 күн бұрын

For running a NC kink game with fully consenting players?

Gritty and "realistic" to me means death is quick injuries take time to heal, and anyone who dies is dead for good. But honestly, that game sounds like a kink game.

nah why do simba look so goofy XD

So Dm sounds honest and straight foward, if you want that sort berserk/goblin slayer vibe go for it i guess. But it's a green flag that they don't drop it on new players without consent if thats worth anything.

There's this random C imposed in the last of the video on Doge and I cannot take my eyes off of it. . . . . is Doge haunted?

"Killed outside of session" Wot

While I don't believe in the concept of gender reveal parties either and I agree that they are stupid, if you were invited and your whole family will be there, it doesn't matter. That's a social obligation you have to keep that takes precedence over a game of DnD. Gender reveal parties may be silly, but they aren't bigoted, though. Just a bit pointless. The group was right that she should have just let it go and move on. If he has other priorities, he has other priorities. What they are is not for others decide. They can decide their own priorities and they may differ from ours.

Funny how despite this dm wanted to make the campaign realistic said that only female characters had a chance of being sa

Story #1 - "Gritty realistic home--brew". Uh, oh. As a long-time TTRPGer, that description ALWAYS gives me an Extremely Bad Feeling. Then there was the interview ....... Yeah, not if it was the last group on Earth. I don't believe the creeps have taken over the hobby, not even close. But they ARE more open than they used to be. OP finding out where things would go BEFORE joining that game was in itself a very good thing. Move on, there are other groups out there, this was just the worst possible march-up. Story #2 - For certain RPGs, killing off Characters is actually part of the theme. There is a game called Paranoia, where each Character begins play with several clones of themselves. But that is a strongly satirical / comedic game, where you might reasonably expect to suffer casualties just walking to the mission briefing. If you get to the actual adventure, and still have most of your clones, you are doing very well. You KNOW what to expect when going into a Paranoia game, or at least you should. RPing is a vital component of "good " DMing, but isn't the only thing.. How much proper RP can you do with any Character, when the DM might just arbitrarily kill them five minutes later? This alleged DM is just a sadist with a God Complex. They tried talking, got promises that weren't kept. WALK. Story #3 - Don't Drink Or Do Drugs When DMing. Or Playing. It's that simple. So, if this DM had TPK'd the Party, he would have "won"? Was there a trophy or something? Completely wrong attitude. Killing off the Party is not an achievement, since absolutely *ANY* DM can easily do that at any time ("Rocks fall, everybody dies ......"). If the Party is clever enough to completely nuke the DM's scenario, then they should be congratulated ..... and there is always next time, anyhow. It's a GAME, dammit. Players did nothing wrong, this was entirely on that DM and his issues Control being one of the latter, I'd guess. Story #4 - The notion of punishing Characters because their Players have IRL concerns was just petty sadistic BS. . DM and Cleric were on a power trip, and I wouldn't want to be in any game with this pair. Story #5 - Nothing wrong with saying "No" to any RP you are uncomfortable with and/or doesn't suit the Character. What I don't understand is why the Party was pushing this specific thing so much. Story #6 - August had a family gathering to attend. Normal thing. June was a self-centered opinionated AH. Boot June, totally. Story #7 - They were repeatedly warned, but pushed their luck anyhow, and the DM did things exactly right. I think a lot of murderhobos go into the game with a video-game mentailty - kill everything, blow off some steam, collect stuff.. But if you WANT to murderhobo, then find a murderhobo DM and run a private game. Do not try to impose it on someone else's game, least of all one where that kind of behavior is discouraged upfront.

Look I know people have their reasons but... Please don't play D&D with random psychopaths you find online. You are not likely to find some mythical hermit DM who is somehow SO amazing that they have nobody to play with. I tend to wonder if people wade into these situations just to see the slow mo car crash that follows. I struggle to understand how anyone could be so patient/forgiving/naive that they'd keep trying coming back session after session. Every time with these stories its like "On session zero he had all the girls describe their measurements in great detail..." "... by session 78 we REALLY started to wonder if something was up..." How many red flags you need to see! X D Alright alright PSA over.

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Trigger Happy Story. Ok, the DM is sick. But hear me out. What about a campaign where the Player's Characters have 9 lives. Like on their first adventure they find a magic item, a small statue of a cat made of quartz or some other material like silver, something that would attract their attention loot wise. That night the statue begins to glow and without the players knowing it, it grants them 9 lives. They don't have to keep the statue after this and it looses it's magic afterwards or takes a really long time, like decades, to recharge. The players only find out something is up if one of them dies. They then resurrect within 10 minutes of dying, fully healed. Or as another campaign idea, the Party gets a mortal enemy, a rival Tabaxi adventurer that has 9 lives. So this rival will keep coming back time after time no matter how completely destroyed they are.

@gimok2k5

12 күн бұрын

Pretty sure the PARANOIA TTRPG got that even as a default game mechanic (as a PC dying repeatedly can happen during a single session. Usually also over the top stuff like being run over by a stampede of cleaner robots)

Non con in online games it's extremely common. Have had it happen to a decent chunk of my characters. I'm thankful for my dnd group, been with them for years now and 0 of my characters have been raped (:

I can understand the DM wanting not only gritty realism, but that type of explicit content as well. And if all the players are fine with it or enjoy it as well, it's honestly fine. Some people like horrendous and dark shit, I like LISA the Painful, Fear and Hunger, and I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. But this type of content should have been layed out before OP even had to fill out the form. The description of the campaign should have stated it would feature such content and that it should be 18+ to prevent people who are obviously underage or uncomfortable with that type of content from even attempting to join. Side note, stating that men in the game can't be SA'd is inaccurate and doesn’t sound like dark gritty realism to me.

that cat looked high or tired, or both

I mean In the 1st story, at least everything was honestly discussed before the game, like grown people and everything. Yes, some people are into weird stuff, but this one understood their weirdness is not for everyone to enjoy, and didn't try and convince the player everything was normal after it would already be late

@Michaeljack81sk

12 күн бұрын

Exactly! They just should have advertised what kind of game it was in advance to avoid uncomfortable situations like that

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(4:19) No, they're not overly sensitive. It doesn't matter how realistic the DM pretends their game will be. They allow explicit simulations. And whats more, said material would not add anything remotely constructive to the game. Its just there to promote some sick fetish. I dunno what the girlfriend was giggling about.

“Is this [rape] common in campaigns?” After listening to this channel and a few others for the last year or two, apparently yes. /sarcasm

Gender reveal parties _are_ stupid but having reasons for families to celebrate together is nice

truth is many things come into play when its female x male rape rp's a lot of rape roleplayers fail to see these in their rp's things like strength are in place to overwhelm a person thru strength high willpower allows you to mentally fight back anyone who is trying to warp your mind high char is required to warp a persons mind that or high darkness powers with a lot of mana basically to rape someone you need to have a way to do this so example a succubus cant rape a male with high willpower but a succubus could do this to a high strength with low willpower as willpower is the only counter to those who have high mental screwing sadly a lot of roleplays have failure in details like these I personally love roleplays that have high details like armor and items with simple roles like guard over block dm is damage from monsters and block for enemys while players role for damage to enemys and block from enemys with armor providing buffs idk I always giggle at hearing these story and how stupid some of these are

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Is that an actual screenshot of all might for the thumbnail? Or is that just an art piece?

Why would you have the act of a:s In your campane

Where are the DMs obsessed with ropes? Think Japanese shinto setting with rope-worshipping priests and stuff!

To be honest, I’m not 100% against the first DM. He was thorough, had a full-on interview process to ensure everything involved would be expected and ok with whatever players were to join. Sure, it’s iffy as fuck to almost guarantee women get raped in-game while men never do, I can really only see women with rape/domination fantasies being willing to play, but that’s the point. No kink-shaming, but it really seems like that’s the only demographic that would be genuinely interested in his premise. Which, if it works with everyone else involved, go for it. Rather have it remain a fantasy than letting them indulge (using that term insanely loosely) in the real thing. Both the men and women.

ur cat* looks stoned

Probably a hot take, but anybody who says "I have optimized characters" is just finding a more polite way to say "I power game/minmax" Well yeah the reaction was kind of childish and Petty, not going to lie the way I've seen some people who "optimize" just negate entire stretches of what a DM has planned because "lol spirit guardians + twilight sanctuary + bird flight" or the good old tortle Eldritch knight with a shield and the shield spell, I can say from both sides of the screen that they are infuriating and their own version of spotlight hog.

1st story: I suspect this was part of the DM's fetish rather than anything storytelling-related. OP was right to ditch them. 2nd: DM sounds power-tripy. Best solution is to learn to DM. 4th: I get the impression that there's a bit of the cult-of-personality going on there, and OP questioning stuff is undermining the DM's ego-trip. Good for OP. 5th: Shippers ruin everything. 6th: Not saying the problem player wasn't a jerk, but gender-reveal parties are very stupid. Saying they're bigoted is daft however.

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Story 1 was the anime the world was based on goblin slayer if you know you know

Yeet June.

Story 1: if you have the stomach turn it in reverse. Play a dude who r words other dudes, tell him ‘you said it was gritty and dark, this happens deal with it’. Also the dm’s gf giggling isnt unlikely. 1/3 women asked in a study said they did have a r* word ‘fantasy’. Which in itself is pretty gross

@draconicfeline6177

12 күн бұрын

I know some people who survive R* will have it as a fantasy as a way to reclaim control, but it's obviously very... different... to what's going on in the story. When they act out the fantasy, there's been consent given beforehand and it's done... differently... than when it actually happens. Dimes to dollars, outside of the fantasy, no one wants that.

@BlueTressym

12 күн бұрын

With respect to the last part of what you've written here, having r-word fantasies is extremely common among survivors of IRL SA (men, women, and enbies alike). Calling it 'gross' is victim-blaming so please don't condemn people for their coping mechanisms without even trying to understand them. Also, even without that, people like what they like. Kinks and fetishes aren't a choice. What the GM and GF were doing was gross and handled badly but not solely for having that content exist in their game. Some people enjoy those kind of scenarios and don't deserve to be shamed for that. That said, NSFW games need to be advertised as such so people don't apply for them unknowingly. Don't lie in game ads, folks, and yes, that includes lying by omission, and especially includes using 'grity and realistic' as a cover for what you really mean. Don't even get me started on them claiming their world was 'realistic' when playing amale chaartcer would grant immunity to rape; THAT's truly gross and an insult to survivors.

@lamiahunter

12 күн бұрын

@@BlueTressym NGL chief it IS gross. If my coping mechanism was to eat living chipmonks u dont go 'well its how he copes' you go 'get your ass to therapy. If you think its 'okay' for people to have an r word fantasies or fetiches just because of trauma is a terrible thing to say.

Oh, wow, I'm early for once.

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I mean tons of women like Redo of Healer, so i can believe DMs girlfriend being into that stuff.