The Weaponizing of expressions like "Triggering PTSD" or "It's my Authism acting" is really hurting the cause they pretend they're in.

@bandwagonbuzzard1617

17 күн бұрын

Keyword: pretend. It's always some "self-diagnosed" case that uses it as an excuse instead of something you live and deal with.

@kou7191

17 күн бұрын

@@bandwagonbuzzard1617 Yeah, they're either a troll, or someone who was never said no.

@dwaynejackson551

17 күн бұрын

I will jokingly use the phrase, explain that for the autistic kid when someone explains something over my head. I have autism, so do a few of my friends. They just give me a look and I feel like it means something but no-one explains it to me. The look to me.

@WTFisTingispingis

17 күн бұрын

Weaponizing someone's condition is fucked up and I hate it.

@fmor2779

17 күн бұрын

I have autism, and every time I here someone "Its my autism acting" when they are clearly misbehaving and expect people to coddle them or just forget what they did I get second hand embarrassment. I worked so hard to adjust to society and be independent that seeing people like me who could be better just acting like literal children, or worse, people who claim they are autistic but in reality they haven't even been diagnosed by a psychologist, they just "feel" like it, I just want to scream.

Any time I hear of someone threatening to self-delete if they're not getting their way, I hear in my head "Ah, the problem will fix itself."

@alphons1456o

18 күн бұрын

"Oh, I'm feeling suicidal! I'm gonna kill myself if I don't get my extra magic item!" Me: *suddenly becomes LTG*

@AmaryInkawult

18 күн бұрын

One of my friends has suicidal ideation (and nearly succeeded once, tried to jump in front of a moving train but we caught him before he could reach the tracks. Literally feet away from it, if we didn't catch the signs he was plotting his death he would have succeeded), so anytime I see people use their life in an ultimatum I just get incredibly pissed.

@AmaryInkawult

18 күн бұрын

​@@alphons1456oCity Wok called, they want their joke back.

@DellikkilleD

17 күн бұрын

I usually respond with 'Promise?'

@CanIGetANumber2

17 күн бұрын

Saying out loud is a lot more effective

Healer sounds like a real crybully, claiming victim status to use as a cudgel to get their own way. Honestly I don't see Necromancer did anything wrong at all. How could they have "handled it better?"

@AmaryInkawult

18 күн бұрын

Yeah, manipulators do this shit because it worked in the past. It's essentially the abuser's "I'll die without you" excuse for wanting to entrap people in the toxic relationship.

@Juju2927

17 күн бұрын

@@AmaryInkawult It became even worst ever since Mental Health issues had been finally recognized. Now it gives more amunition for manipulator to use and try to escape consequences.

@DunantheDefender

17 күн бұрын

Hmm... never heard the phrase "crybully" before. I like it.

No Doge, the healer had a supemassive overreaction. TH DM/GM couldn't have stopped this at all, the healer is whole problem. What a thin skinned fool.

On the literacy thing, many medieval people could read, but they were described as illiterate because they couldn't read Latin. It's nuanced. General illiteracy is not unreasonable as a game design feature, but good game design requires that a work-around exists.

@alchemicalvapour8950

17 күн бұрын

i was actually just about the comment this

17 күн бұрын

I'm the opposite; I can read Latin, I just won't understand a word I'm reading. ;-)

That first story really hit home. I had a relative basically use the same kind of emotional blackmail but saying “I’ll have a stroke if you do x” all because I wanted to do something that would help someone else. Such an f-ed up thing to do.

1) OP is not at fault at all and shouldn't feel sorry. OP is not responsible other people's personal problems and definitely not obliged to do their every bidding. 3) Pregnant? What should they do? Run away. Now. 5) Look for a completely different group of people. Don't show up for session zero? They won't show up for session 2 or 3 or 10. These people aren't worth your time.

About the "surprise pregnancy" story - I would have said "My character walks outside, grabs a wolfsbane plant and starts chewing." Now, the average player would think "oh, she is trying to ward off lycantropes". Nope. Wolfsbane, also known as aconite, is a powerful poison - and if ingested by a pregnant woman has a VERY high chance of terminating the fetus. ...and the mother as well - but sometimes DMs need things to be put up as clear as possible. To make an example, in an old 3.0 campaign the DM gave us all the Toughness Feat, then told us "You have been paid in advance, now do what the DMPC says.". My dwarf monk pulled out a knife, amputated his pinky finger and gave it to the DMPC. "Here, a full refund.". Then I told the DM that I was removing the 3 extra HP given by the feat. He... didn't take it well. He had this nasty habit of using Deus Ex Machina, DMPCs and cursed items to railroad like there's no tomorrow.

Story 1 as someone who has been down that dark terrifying place it incites an unnatural rage in me whenever someone uses self-exiting as an emotionally manipulative tactic.

Riding out a hurricane to watch Doge

@sailorsloth8183

18 күн бұрын

Stay safe, fellow Doge enjoyer!

@davidtherwhanger6795

17 күн бұрын

Good luck.

I've only brought up PTSD with a tabletop group 1 time, and it's because I didn't realize I had a problem until it happened; related to being held at gunpoint with no ability to fight back. It's a boring story, and nothing happened, so I won't waste time with it here, but the point is that the only time I've ever played that card was when the entire group noticed I was acting unusual, and we figured out that the in-game scenario had set off my fight-or-flight from a real encounter where I was held at gunpoint. We all worked through it, and carried on. When anyone gets dramatic and upset, and says that something is 'triggering their PTSD', but they choose to keep going anyway, I generally just disregard anything further they have to say. The trash will take itself out in due time. Bonus points if they announce that they're going to off themselves; they won't, they're just saying it for attention. I do not care. "But what if they really do take their own li-" I do... not... care.

17 күн бұрын

Being held at gunpoint is something I would agree can be traumatizing. Unfortunately, these days people claim PTSD for reading a bad Twitter post. I even have a friend who claims "severe PTSD" from his ex giving him insulin without permission at one point.

@ZeroFighter

17 күн бұрын

To be very lenient, being given insulin can actually kill you. There have been cases of people in hospitals being given too much insulin, and it poisoned them, resulting in their deaths. If he'd already had his insulin, his ex giving him even more could have been life-threatening. This also assumes he was on a high enough dose that two doses could be dangerous, which isn't very likely, but plausible. Even if it wasn't lethal, it could still throw his entire system out of wack. Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) is just as big an issue as hyperglycemia (high blood sugar). Common effects of hypoglycemia include dizziness, physical weakness, seizures, and comas.

@ZeroFighter

17 күн бұрын

So, I actually replied to your comment several hours ago, before going to bed, but KZread just loves deleting my comments. To be lenient, it's possible your friend might have issues of extreme paranoia regarding his inulin due to how dangerous OD'ing can be. If he'd already had insulin before his ex gave him some, this could put him into a state called hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Effects of hypoglycemia can include loss of strength (collapsing, falling, dropping things, etc...), fatigue, dizziness, seizures, and falling comatose. In extreme cases, death is a possibility as well, as has happened numerous times in hospitals.

The Curse of Curse of Strade continues on I see.

Healer making light of PTSD, autism, and alcoholism all in one fell swoop… I think I’d rather just let the necro be the “healer”

@calvinmcneil9824

17 күн бұрын

I mean a Necromancer is kinda a healer just late

@nickmillar999

17 күн бұрын

@@calvinmcneil9824 sure, as long as you don’t mind losing a bit of flesh every now and then. Should be great in the summer

@calvinmcneil9824

17 күн бұрын

@@nickmillar999 it was actually a joke that I heard on another DnD channel

17 күн бұрын

@@calvinmcneil9824 Delayed Healer.

-Can't Read The illiteracy rate in the Middle Ages has been greatly exaggerated in pop culture. When we say, "people in the Middle Ages could not read or write", we mean they could not read or write Latin; the language you needed to know to be considered educated. Martin Luther translating the Bible into German (or Common in D&D terms) would have been rather pointless if nobody could read that either. Yes, I know Martin Luther lived in the Renaissance, but that was still way before than what the story says. 150 years ago? That was way past the French Revolution.

Number 1 reminds me a lot of Chrischan, when everything doesn't go their way, they accuse people of discrimination. Also like 99% of the time, they started it, then lost.

Story #1 - Healer attempted emotional blackmail to get her way, and then made a dramatic exit to try and reinforce this, undoubtedly hoping that people will chase after her begging for her to return. If she tries to come back, DO NOT let her back in - Block immediately. Story #2 - Generalized reading goes back A LOT further than 150 years. Illiteracy might have been more common prior to then, but a lot depended on the culture. In certain instances, nobles couldn't necessarily read, and that was why they had scribes and so forth. OTOH, some cultures were very big on having all their citizens be able to do at least simple reading, if only so they could read whatever edicts and commands were being handed down. Sounded to me rather like this DM watched less than half of something on the History Channel, and just ran with that. That he came up with this idea during play and secretly implemented it ON THE FLY is a Great Big Red Flag all by itself. It makes no logical sense, impedes the game and should be revoked, without question. Story #3 - Yup, feeling uncomfortable about whatever the DM was narrating, but saying nothing, is always a big mistake. This is not acceptable. Openly call the DM out so the other Players know what is going on, then leave and Block. Story #4 - Setting up a Character to betray the rest of the Party might sound really cool, but often leads to recriminations and ill-feeling. Fine for a one-shot, not at all good in a mid or long-term campaign. I put all of this on the DM, whose idea this was AND who clearly lied about consulting his GF. Probably he is lying still, because it sounds like OP is taking all the blame for what happened. Story #5 - Three complete no-shows; and one person joined the session for a minute, then bailed without further explanation. I could be wrong, but it sounds like something more is going on here. The DM's message, on the face of it, is not at all objectionable, it seems reasonable, but explanations needed.. Story #7 - Sounds rather like Bard's done nothing wrong, actively contributes to the Party, and that Artificer just wants to be the Main Character. I think it's a case of keeping the DM apprised of what is happening, and not putting up with any more #### from Artificer - if he says or does something out of line, call him out on it immediately.

8:01 I keep my History degree in a fire-safe box out of concern that exposure to such “facts” as this DM gave would cause it to spawn phlogiston, a supposed molecule whose presence would allow fire, per one of the 4 people racing to understand oxygen (2 men working solo, one married couple who were an actual working team). Was illiteracy high? Yeah. There were middle class people who could read and many levels of semi-literate individuals (could recognize individual relevant words for the trades on signs and that marked containers of everyday items, and sound out simple phrases, say)

The Scene of Simba Dominance was amazing

As far as the last story goes: the DM should do something, actually. If a player makes extremely rude comments towards a player and they feel targeted, the DM should exist as an intermediary on the discussion. Especially if there's a power dynamic on top of that (IE the one player having more experience than the other.)

First - If I get a nickel for everytime a DM wants to give Strad an heir - I would have two nickels. Second - I'm pretty sure it's possible to OD on alcohol, but I don't want to tell anyone. Three - What did the necromancer do to healer? Walk away from them? That's abandonment issues not PTSD.

@rowantheuhhh8734

17 күн бұрын

You could get alcohol poisoning, which ig could be an OD?

@monikasernek1177

17 күн бұрын

@@rowantheuhhh8734 Yeah, but you have to "drink" the alcohol in a specific way to reach alcohol poisoning.

Healer should call themselves Noah Kahan because they "like to play the victim"

Intro: Simba heard that everything the light touches is his kingdom and has taken that to heart. I love how the other commenters so thoroughly covered everything I wanted to say; huge time-saver! It's also encouraging to know so many people are spotting the same things. For example, seeing so many other people get angry over the crybully Healer manipulator means I'm far from being alone in this; this is a normal reaction. I'm not necessarily a horrible person just for thinking, "I wouldn't miss a person who would take one's self hostage." That feeling being vented, it's possible to move on to the practical (and more responsible) way to call Healer's bluff by calling it in for a wellness check. If threats of self harm only draw attention from authorities and mental health professionals, genuine cases will get help while manipulators will abandon using these threats.

U and Crispy are literally my fav DnD horror story YTers rn and I love the kitties

Man Simba was straight staring you down while seeming to sit still like Hypno-Toad and just tell you how it is

Its pretty amazing how so many of these horror stories can be solved with 'you need to talk to each other'. A lot of these conflicts are barely conflicts and appear to be misunderstandings at best that get blow out of proportion.

17 күн бұрын

Nice way to look at this, sadly most people dont care about communication, so many That Guys and such just do not care.

A new one! Keep up the good content, plus the kitties. :)

Last story has the same energy as those stories where the wife/gf gets mad at OP for something "they" did or did not do in her dream

Simba is Best Dominant Kitty! That doge is less furry than expected, though. ;-)

Veteran player is definitely trying to flex some unhinged authority

At this point, if i hear someone mention pregnancy in a ttrpg, i'll take that as a signal to nope the hell out of rhe campain. If that have that kink, either keep it to themselves or find communities that are into that, don't force it into unwilling people Also, i've been watching your videos lately and i wanted to leave a comment to give some appreciation. Thanks for the stoeies

In the first story I don’t think Healer’s problem is their autism, they’re clearly paranoid, something they need to seek help for. As somebody with autism who also used to suffer from a mild paranoia (not to this degree mind you) I understand that if you’ve had some traumatic experiences with people it can be scary if a response isn’t what you were expecting it to be and easy to misinterpret that as hostility, I used to do it myself (but again not to this degree) but I’ve since learned more about social interaction, social cues and the like, and it’s helped me to come out of that mindset. Now obviously I don’t know Healer or what they’ve been through, but again to me, from the little information I have from that story, it seems they need some kind of professional help, and I hope they get it.

Re: the reading issue. While that DM may have good historical knowledge, what part of D&D is historically accurate? The dwarves? The magic? The dracolichs?

@fred_derf

17 күн бұрын

Are you implying that DracoLiches aren't real? Then what have I got chained up in my basement?

Lord simba demands all the attention.

characters in the second story: let me just take a look at this real quick... *surprised pikachu face* I CAN'T READ?!?!?!

Trusted dm: I dunno man i mean doge, something tells me dm was the culprit of that bullshit and the trash took itself out

'one of my big things as a dm is communication but i didn't put it in the rules' ah irony.

The "not being able to read" story really set me off, because while free, formal public education is a new thing, the concept is very much not, *especially* not when you're talking English-speaking countries. The first "endowed" school, which would later be called public schools, was opened in 597 in Canterbury, England. Not 1597. 597. These were elementary educations, not full university degrees obviously, but "reading the Bible" was pretty big back then, not to mention you'd need to keep accounts for your household, write letters, etc. In the early US, elementary education was so widespread that John Adams commented that finding a native-born American who couldn't read was as rare as seeing a comet or experiencing an earthquake (and he lived in New England. Not a lot of those there). The Puritans started compulsory public education in Massachusetts in 1642, with most of New England following closely behind. Heck, the father of English literature himself, Geoffrey Chaucer, was the son of a wine merchant. Hardly a scion of nobility! Even leaving aside that it's a fantasy setting with different histories, not even bothering to skim a Wikipedia page just makes me so mad.

Can't Read: What? "Up until 150 years ago only nobility could read/only people who went to college or university could read..." I'm the descendant of a farmer (NOT nobility) from England to emigrated to North America back in 1683 (that's 341 years ago), and none of them attended a college until my father's generation. With rare exception, they ALL could read and write, as evidenced by the fact so many did! Disallowing something so mundane from a fantasy setting where characters routinely have extraordinary abilities is just ridiculous.

Who is playing the Healer? Andrew Ditch? Dont look him up...or do, I'm not your dad

@sailorsloth8183

18 күн бұрын

Necromancer should get proficiency in playing the trumpet to chase Healer off

@wtichery

18 күн бұрын

​@@sailorsloth8183lmaoo

If a DM decides to add a ruling like "Nobody can read" or "Roll to see if you can walk across the unobstructed room without tripping", ask the DM and other players: Does this make the game more fun? If not, dont do it.

Healer needs to see a therapist urgently.

"You cant read because reading was only common 150 years ago" Dude, common people were commonly reading by the late 1700's. He just didn't want wizards it seems.

Hey Doge, I hope you had a great July 4th and a well-deserved break. Oh cute little Simba, yes I know - you got the like little man.

Story 1: Karen Healer

If someone feels "attacked" for being criticised for non-attendance then that's usually a clear sign that they're in the wrong. Flakey players can really ruin a game.

CoS story: D&D is not historical Earth! Stop picking and choosing what you do and do not want to be "historically accurate!"

To the _Session 0_ OP... Drop four of the players (you should have just ghosted them) and find four others and start again. If your players are skipping the first session without notice, they're going to continually skip sessions without notice, regardless of any promises they may make.

Whenever someone holds themselves hostage saying "do this or I'll X.X myself" they probably aren't going to off themselves and are doing it to emotionally manipulate people so I can't take it seriously unless there are more signs of them actually having self harm tendencies.

Story 3: the Southern Baptists were right! Flirting leads to unplanned pregnancy!

@ArcCaravan

17 күн бұрын

American Dad said the same thing about holding hands or kissing.

1st story: Screw Healer with an iron spike, I hate those who use the phrase "discriminating against me" when they really mean "you don't give me my way whenever I scream, cry, and pound my fists into the floor". Using any kind of disorder, whether it be physical, mental, or otherwise, to bully others to get your way is just disgusting. They are no different than those that scream racism/homophobia whenever they act like a brat and people won't take their nonsense. I feel nothing but sympathy for those that get caught in the webs of these douche canoes, mostly because I am a guy who would give the shirt off his back to his own detriment (it's a thing I am working on, I just like helping people...), because the ones who have truly good intentions get screwed by bullying abusers who dig their claws into them and it becomes hard to rip away.

Trusted DM Story. AUSTIN 3:16 "DON'T TRUST ANYBODY!"

"Do it then"

For Simba!

Can't Read Story. We literally have books written by peasants in the Medieval period (cook books for one) that had no formal education. So WTF?!

@evanwarren1010

17 күн бұрын

i get where the perception comes from but taking it to that extreme is barely even accurate when you're talking about the dark ages. tons of artisans wrote manuscripts. fucking tons.

17 күн бұрын

Also who does he think all the signs were for in small towns? The odd rich person who wanders in? Of course not, the locals named the Tavern the Rusty Duck and by god they will have a sign saying that!

This Cleric seriously using their autism as an excuse to be a douche? I hate when people do that. It places a bad reputation on people like me

Overdose on alcohol? Odd choice

Ok, I gonna ask, WHAT THE F*CK HAPPEND WITH STRAW AND PREGNANCY?! I mean, is like the 14th story about that campaign ending the same way, with Straw make pregnant a pc, Can someone please explain what in the module give the idea of "Straw wants to f*ck every woman he meets"?

Suicidal person: "I'm fine..... really." Fake suicidal person: "WAAAA I'M GONNA KILL MYSELF WAAAA"

If I understand history correctly, there were periods of time when the nobles were frequently illiterate and had subordinates that would do all the reading and writing for them. In any age someone has to keep the records. And if that was tedious and annoying, why wouldn't nobles hire someone to do it for them? I think universities and colleges weren't really a thing until the Renaissance and private tutoring or church teaching novices was the primary way of teaching literacy. If I'm wrong, I'm sorry, but that's the impression I have. And it's a fantasy game, so DM has final say. And players can leave if they think that's appropriate.

@elvacoburg1279

17 күн бұрын

For information, some universities predated the Renaissance by a good while. University of Bologna (Italy) established in 1087 or 1088, University of Paris established around 1150, University of Oxford establish in 1167. To become a pupil, a person had to either come from a wealthy family (not necessary noble) or have someone with wealth sponsor them.

@sherylcascadden4988

17 күн бұрын

@@elvacoburg1279 thank you. I stand corrected.

@elvacoburg1279

17 күн бұрын

@@sherylcascadden4988 No problem, it was just by chance that I remembered that the University of Oxford had been established in the reign of Henry II of England. So I looked it up to find the actual year, and from that found the the University of Bologna and Paris predated it.

for the last story, sure it would be nice to stick it out and try to solve this but you gotta add that they don't have to stay in if its a total out of game antagonistic, but can only hope this is all in game rping, but if not "no dnd is better then bad dnd" its better to get out of something toxic then it just power your way through it

Over Reaction Story. Healer sounds like a manipulator. So OP shouldn't feel bad at all.

3rd story has joss whedon vibes

The phantom C is gone YAY!!!

Healer seems to be a master at making mountains out of molehills. Necromancer is just trying to be helpful and I think Healer thinks they are insulting their intelligence. I could easily be in Necromancer's position and yes there IS such a thing as being too sensitive.

I've said this in other d&d comment sections. But whatever. I don't play d&d or any TTRPGs. But the one where the DM decides to just drop a plot point in the middle of the game is BS. Could you imagine that happening in any other game? You're playing Pokémon you go to use flamethrower on a grass type Pokémon only to see in the description It's not effective? Then to get hit with I move that's not effective against yours and it does super effective damage? Or if You're playing a legend of Zelda game. And you're slashing at enemies who earlier in the game died to your sword now all of a sudden it doesn't work? Or if you're playing any Mario game and you go to jump on the goomba but it doesn't work in Mario dies. Despite the fact earlier in the game you could jump on the goomba and it dies. Another thing is the DM should have brought this up to them when he had the idea. And not just leave them in the dark about it.

Face reveal! Lookin' good, Doge.

I would like a vacation at Cosmo Canyon

On the pregnancy thing. Isn't cursive straud a dark mod? Forcing an heir kind of sounds like something straud would do. Don't know if you should join dark games and then get upset when they're dark.

If illiteracy is normal in DND, how do casters cast spells with verbal & somatic components (they must of READ it somewhere) The last story is actually up to the DM to take over not op

From my understanding, lots of people could read in medieval times, what they 'couldn't' read was latin which is what the bible was written in at the time. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I am not.

the story about forced pregnancy rubs me off the wrong way.. If OP is uncomfortable then DEFINITELY talk to the DM. DMs dont just assume your player will be okay with so and so. It could have been handled way differently if they talked beforehand, that always gives the players chance to play out scenes and RP. Worst case, remember no DnD is better than bad DnD or feeling uncomfortable and not having fun

On story 2, wasn't the definition of illiteracy different back then? I'm fairly certain it used to be that someone unable to read MULTIPLE languages was considered illiterate.

Yea... fumb ducks who lightly threaten to "uninstall" themselves are why I rarely have sympathy for people who go through with it. The fact that some people have done it simply for attention is appaling. Oh, and the "muh PTSD" crap, I seriously doubt anybody has developed trauma from being in inane arguments 🙄

My friends want me to play DnD again, I just reply with DnD Doge vids and say "no"

So... a lot of hard drug users doing d&d nowadays? I knew there were plenty of drinkers and potheads, but all these stories about meth and cocaine and I'm like "well... I'm not playing d&d with strangers again".

For the betrayal story it kinda seems like it was too easy to put the blame on the girlfriend, the dm lied about taking to her because he wanted op out and the best way was a “valid” excuse to kick out op and cut ties with them and for the last story, it feels like the party wanted op gone, doesn’t sound like it’s for role play sake

Did you change the thumbnail of this video? It was definitely Taiga from Toradora, but now it's Bakugo from My Hero Academia.

I haven't had any relevant horror stories myself but I intend to adopt the policy that when I join a new group (playing a female character), it will be of an egg laying species. I mean if there's an unexpected pregnancy, even from divine or abyssal sources, it's less of a dilemma if you can lay an egg the next day and then decide what to do with it

@sailorsloth8183

18 күн бұрын

Hey, free breakfast!

@M_Alexander

18 күн бұрын

@@sailorsloth8183 it hasn't come up in my current campaign but I _am_ playing an owlbear and I understand those eggs are both nutritious and valuable. Though mine's an old lady so I could explain it away as she's past her laying years

@monikasernek1177

18 күн бұрын

Small issues with the idea: 1) An egg needs time to form inside the body. So your character would be looking pregnant. 2) Laying eggs is a f*tish too.

@M_Alexander

17 күн бұрын

@@monikasernek1177 1) depends on the size of the eggs and the clutch. Afaik an owlbear would lay only one or two eggs the size of footballs which is pretty small compared to the creature (and even the meals it eats). And looking it up, it only takes a day or two for chickens to lay fertilized eggs, a week to ten days for an ostrich, and three weeks for a platypus. I didn't look at reptiles since my example is a bird-mammal hybrid but you get the idea. I don't imagine it'd be that much longer for a tortle, grung, or lizardman. 2) Everything is someone's fetish. People fetishize _owlbears_ somehow. I've run across that stuff while looking for reference works

@monikasernek1177

17 күн бұрын

@@M_Alexander I think I have somewhere homebrew rules about sex in dnd and there is an list of clutch size for egg laying races in dnd. Also - Owlbear nsfw? Was the owlbear at least anthro? Or was it a TF?

the charakters not being able to read whould be a nice idear for a plot hook like they meat a deamon or something like that and than they are cursed to be unable to read any languages till the curse is broken or the demon kild 🤷‍♀🤷‍♀

Re: the forced pregnancy DM The DM took it too far, in my opinion. The poster needs to talk to the DM. If you don't communicate when you have an issue, there's less of a chance to resolve an issue that taints the game for you.

17 күн бұрын

These sorts dont care about communication, they want their fetish and kinks out there an imposed on others. Talking to them would be as useful as talking to a brick wall.

Doge, actual little check on ya bud--you doing okay? the way yer pausing between words so often, just making sure you're not having some respiratory issues going on, etc. (please take care of yourself if so. lots of love for yer wellness bud.) still have no clue how so many folks keep getting into the creepy preggo themed fetishists as their dm. D:

8:31 did road signs just not exist in ye oldy times?

Illiterate rules I would only add such rules if discussed at creation and if the players agree I could make interesting role play moments

"A heartbeat you know isn't yours..." For all their obsession with pregnancy, these guys never seem to know how it actually works.

Ok do it. This is what everyone said to me anytime i talked about ending it. So thats what im going to tell others. Do it. If your so serious about offing urself do it. Dont waste time talking. Do it.

Hi Mr. Doge. I watch your videos all the time, and you actually read one of mine before :) I no longer have Reddit, and was wondering if you had other ways of submitting stories?

Assuming Doge's kitties are Tabaxi, or a similar race/species, what class (and class archetype) do you think Simba would be?

Yo you should NOT change rules as written midgame without telling the players and giving them a chance to revise. Ever. It's a dm sin straight up. If someone has a build around body slams and midgame you decide "aCtUaLlY yOu CaN oNlY gRaPpLe SmAlL cReAtUrEs" then you just ruined their entire build retroactively.

Story 5: DM is a passive aggressive dolt with that message.

Urgh... another pregnancy fetishist that can't not make their players uncomfortable with non-consensual pregnancies... makes me feel bad for sharing that kink. Player comfort is the first and most important part of D&D, even above having a fun game. Unless your table has expressed that they are ok (and enthusiastically so) with having such things in the game, then don't include them.

Second one: two players purposefully chose to be illiterate and seem to be enjoying "memeing it." The only one who seems to have a problem with it is op, so it seems like op should just play a literate character. The dm seems open to change, so rather than forcing literacy on the world, maybe they can just change the "stringent criteria" for literacy. It is not used often, but raw, you can learn a language or tool proficiency with two weeks of training. I would expect the same applies for learning to read if they are using that rule. Not being able to read means you cannot open up a book and understand it; in earlier editions you had illiterate characters as default (like barbarians) because you generally could get along in society without picking up a book. You could recognize street signs, understand words like "Wanted" and a picture with some numbers underneith was a bounty posting, the sign with a mug means a common house, and you would be able to understand numbers as you have to know how to buy and sell. Some current game systems have that as the default, so it is not that big of a deal unless you are playing a wizard with a spell book or something. Clerics should be able to read too, need to understand religious texts and read their version of rules and such. Paying people to read to you was also a thing; a town would buy a book and have someone read for entertainment in the common house or the post office would have a literate person to read or write letters for you. It would be a normal service, like paying for someone to connect your internet today. Not really that troublesome, and it gives people a good reason to go back to town and role play with npcs.

Most of the people who claim to have PTSD don’t have any real trauma like fighting in a war or surviving something horrific like rape or attempted murder. No, most of them have just grown up never having been told “no” by their parents. Change my mind

Rule number one, if you ask for someone to be kicked from the group, its you. it will always be you.

@Evoker23-lx8mb

18 күн бұрын

No, not always

@DellikkilleD

18 күн бұрын

@@Evoker23-lx8mb Yes always. Never humor cry bullies.

@solosynapse

17 күн бұрын

I'd say 95% of the time. I've definitely seen people demand players be removed for things like being racist & constantly using RL slurs, or one that I was asked to kick from my old game because he kept DMing unsolicited 🍆 pics & SA threats to both of the female players. They had proof, and he admitted (well, bragged) when confronted about it. That said, these are definitely exceptions to the norm.

@HiddenWindshield

17 күн бұрын

@@DellikkilleD That's an idiotic stance. That kind of thing _is_ a red flag, but it's not damning evidence by itself. You should listen to some other DnD Doge videos, there are _plenty_ of examples of people making other people legitimately uncomfortable in a way not visible, or not _as_ visible, to the DM.

@DellikkilleD

17 күн бұрын

@@HiddenWindshield If you are uncomfortable, leave, You dont have the right to demand the removal of someone else because you are uncomfortable. manage your self, or remove yourself. Fuck these cry bully entitled twits.

In the DM's defense (pregnancy story), I very much take my wife's acceptance of my flirting as the ok and go ahead to make her pregnant for plot reasons.

@ArcCaravan

17 күн бұрын

Except DM wasn't OP's wife/girlfriend and there's a huge difference between flirting and impregnation.

@RealSeanithan

17 күн бұрын

@@ArcCaravan You got me. I had no idea there was a difference in the connotations between behaviors I may exhibit to my wife and behaviors two friends/acquaintances may exhibit to each other. Further, I didn't know there was a difference in the expectations in the relationship between two persons playing a TTRPG and two persons who are married. I very obviously was not making a comparison that was so absurdly different that it didn't even function as a proper comparison, and I actually thought it was a fair 1:1. You outsmarted me and beat me soundly. Well done to you.