"She's been leading me on and pretending to be my friend" is incel for "I knew this girl who considered me her friend and was nice to me, but I was only being friendly to her to get her to sleep with me, and she refused"

@trillionbones89

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't it funny how they complain about being friendzoned all the time but that is literally their strategy? Buhuu she only sees me as what i pretended to be and doesn't share the feelings i kept from her to trick her into a friendship...

@magonus195

2 жыл бұрын

Ehhh, sometimes. Often? But certainly not always. I saw tons of girls lead guys on in high school, church and college. Hell, I led girls on. The motivation is obvious: it's fun to be flirted with and it's nice to have options open if your current crush doesn't work out. That said, TTRPGs do seem to attract an above-average number of emotionally unstable guys.

@starbird3939

2 жыл бұрын

There is this recent AITA/BestOfUpdates of a incel contacting OP TWO DAYS before her wedding to ditch her fiancé and run away with him, the incel. This incel had a crush on OP and was her and her Fiancé’s friend for TEN YEARS. OP rightfully told him no way. Cue the incel lambasting OP with “I hope you get divorced” and “I hope you and your husband are infertile!” And “You lead me on!” That is your own damn fault to hold a crush for 10 years, even after OP’s been dating and engaged and about to marry. And also, crashing a wedding is a great way to get beat up by the family.

@alexanderrahl7034

Жыл бұрын

They're so starved for healthy social interaction and so deep into loneliness that they have lost sight of what that even is. In their minds the only way to alleviate their problems is sex and a relationship. Problem is, if they even get it, they'll be so afraid of going back to being lonely and pathetic, that they become toxic and possessive as fuck like their life depends on it.

@joannamonique707

Жыл бұрын

@@alexanderrahl7034 exactly. They're essentially putting the entire weight of their happiness on one person and around the context of on relationship and I can only imagine how batshit they'd go when the relationship doesn't work out.

How often do l make jokes about chemistry? Periodically.

@ilajoie3

2 жыл бұрын

I think we can bond over this joke

@ilajoie3

2 жыл бұрын

Whoever doesn't get these jokes are definitely out of their element

@aldahesu28

2 жыл бұрын

Hope all the jokes are made at the table?

@darklord884

2 жыл бұрын

I H⁸ this joke.

@questerousmaximus8110

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard these before. I guess all the good chemistry jokes argon

Once when playing DND with a kid, his character stole a crown and would put it on and say "bow down, puny mortals". The difference between him and King is he did it as a joke. When a literal child is a more mature player than you. 😂

@ZyroShadowPony

2 жыл бұрын

I would kneel because unlike king the kid worked for that crown xD

@PaladinGear15

2 жыл бұрын

If the party decided to go along with that joke, how far do you think that player would have taken it? Cause I'm betting it'd be "You have to give me all the magic items, I'm Tha King". If I was the DM in a party where the players just went along with it, Tha King would soon end up thrown in the dungeon or executed for treason xD

@ZyroShadowPony

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaladinGear15 well if the players were smart and still want to be in the joke they could go "my liege may i borrow x for y reasons"

The First and Last DND Story Either the GM was trying to set OP up to get raped and chickened out, or he was trying to make OP quit by boring them to death. Either way, it does sound like a targeted action because OP identified as a girl.

@Michaeljack81sk

2 жыл бұрын

I got a really creepy vibe from that dark figure in the alleyway too, makes me wonder if the rest of the group did too and that was why they suddenly all insisted that the party get brought together. I Dunno about rape but I got the impression that at the very least the DM had a humiliation fetish and he was using the player to live it out, either way eww!

@ebty4969

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it sounds like the DM was taking advantage of the fact she was a new player just for kicks.

@nickbrothwood1238

Жыл бұрын

Regardless, DM was an ass.

@michaelamaya9032

8 ай бұрын

I think, most likely, he was just trying to play out an Embarrassed Nude Female (ENF) and Humiliation fetish.

in the reddit comments about the second story, OP mentions they were the only female player ad character in the group.... sends chills down my spine as to what that dark figure in the alley would've done to OP's character if the rest of the group hadn't told the DM to knock it off and stop being creepy.

That first story is absolutely 100% some guy inflicting his humiliation kink on someone.

We had a player cut off a henchman's arm and the henchman died. The rest of the party was basically good aligned and when we protested, he said, "I didn't kill him - I just cut his arm off. It's not my fault he bled to death." Yeah, that excuse didn't work too well.

@theangryholmesian4556

2 жыл бұрын

Tis but a scratch!

Oh that first and last session story made me sad, so so sad. From the sounds of it that DM just wanted to be a piece of shit to a new player for their own amusement, if I were a character in here I'd go "I'm gonna go take a walk and on my walk find a poor clotheless woman wandering aimlessly and help her out and have her join the group"

@inky5574

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, there's nothing that saddens me more than relentless targeting against a player for little to no reason. Even the other players were getting tired of this BS and told him "Quit fucking around and get her to join us!" I hope that at the very least, they called him out and never allowed him to DM ever again.

@shadiafifi54

2 жыл бұрын

I think it was an attempt at gatekeeping. The old guard DM not trusting a newbie to the group and just making the game as unpleasant as possible without getting called out on it.

@tangoyankee9881

2 жыл бұрын

That DM guy got serious problems. Hopefully he had himself checked with a professional. He literally wasted the player's time, trust and self esteem for no apparent reason. Psychopath.

"My character's name is The King so they should think he's the king!" I went to school with a kid named Jesus. We didn't think he was the messiah lol

Good on the first DM. Finally someone with the ability to say *"no"* to a potential problem player, and stopping a horror story before it happens if they joined. Often many DMs come off as too shy or desperate, and can't just shut down the problematic players.

@dudemcguy8949

2 жыл бұрын

That’s especially an issue with new DMs, me included in that group. You just don’t know any better

Sounds like Lois just needs to hire a DM. Pay someone to help them play out their character and story with private sessions. 1 on 1. Surely someone somewhere would be willing to do it if paid.

@thunderflare59

2 жыл бұрын

That's a level are narcissism even a therapist wouldn't touch for money.

@hiro4344

2 жыл бұрын

This is the kind of person in roleplay games as opposed to ttrpg I might play with using one of my handsome charismatic characters, and then proceed to have them thwart any attempts for romance and not do what her character wanted when she asked unreasonable things. It's cringy but kind of fun to see where things go when you won't have your character become interested or feel any sexual tension, maybe even wind up more and more turned off instead, or they just move along totally unaware of how the other is feeling and all the progressively more and more blatant signals they're trying to put out.

@frostfyrezero1830

2 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly, but then again, she'd be better off writing a book.

@asteriondeltoro124

2 жыл бұрын

Somehow, I get the feeling that Lois was treated this way in a previous group and remained blissfully unaware that this is not normal and the DM was probably trying to get into her pants.

@TwighlightLugia

2 жыл бұрын

I have known of exactly ONE 1-on-1 session in the 3 years I've been playing, ever, and that's because the fighter in question got ahold of the MacGuffin and was TALKING TO A GOD. And it was played out on a lunch break during work. I cannot fathom the audacity in *requesting* 1-on-1 sessions, and I'm *dating* my DM.

2nd Story, Oh Jesus, again what is it with toxic veteran players with the "Get the newbie" mentality? Like I never understand, are the TRYING to turn people off from the hobby because "it's suppose to be a secret game that no one else can play because newbies can't understand?"

@Bman1939

2 жыл бұрын

It’s the equivalent of people who get mad when their favorite band gets popular. They only want to have their own private thing. It’s that mentality that ruins things for everybody.

@realdragon

2 жыл бұрын

And rest of the group doesn't like that either, they just want to group up together

@thunderflare59

2 жыл бұрын

The kind of person who should never DM.

@BGrimoire

2 жыл бұрын

He's obviously asserting dominance as the alpha he definitely is!

@jamiekamihachi3135

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve had less toxic experiences in online first person shooters.

Ignoring everything else, the torture story reminds me of a group I used to play with. They had played many a 40K Inquisitor/Dark Heresy game so their go-to method of getting information was to inflict pain. Regardless of setting/system. One time, when I was DMing, I refused to reward this behavior and gave them as many lies as truths. They bought it all and were convinced that a mass conspiracy was in play and they couldn't trust anyone. Sort of broke them of the habit of torturing for info after that. :)

@karldehaut

2 жыл бұрын

👍👏

@basedeltazero714

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, I'd also do this in Dark Heresy. Have the players spend all their time murdering their way through the populace chasing an increasingly vast cult until they've killed billions over shadows. Congratulations, now do it again!

@ArawnNox

2 жыл бұрын

@@basedeltazero714 Lol, yeah, but I wasn't running those games. They were used to getting what they wanted that way from whoever was running those games.

@danguillou713

2 жыл бұрын

Funny. And surprisingly realistic! That’s how witch panics worked.

@360entertainment2

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant 🫡

Sheesh. DM from story three should have just made that character concept into an NPC. Make it an escort mission to help the automaton escape their corporation.

Story 1: “You won’t agree to my unreasonable requirements? Then that means your sexist!” Edit: He chopped off HIS WHOLE ARM!!!

"the King", for a time, when Warcraft RP lost its charm for me, I declared one of my characters the "King of Goldshire", and portrayed him as absolute mad-man, trying to raise an army of way too horny horned goats honing horny horned swords of various species to 'reclaim' the throne of Stormwind under the rightfull rule of Goldshire. Thing is, people engaged and for a few evenings, Goldshire was actually less horny and a tiny bit crazier. Good ol' times.

The way people keep repeating "It was his whole arm." "Makes me thing of the video "...And they were roommates." "Oh my god they were roommates." In that same tone of voice. "And it was his whole arm!" "Oh my god, his whole arm..."

That second story makes my blood boil. It'd be nice if she found a better group to give D&D a second chance with, perhaps one about assassinating a mad king who forced his subjects to repeatedly humiliate some poor woman who just wanted to learn about magical objects.

On the second story, I would have straight up asked the DM, " why are you doing this? Why can't my character just join the party already?"

In life, I hope to gain the confidence to stand up to the DM in the First And Last Session story and ask them "what the actual fuck is your problem?" either for myself or on behalf of another player. After the 2 hour mark of that BS any in-game solution is moot. Its time for getting to the point.

Intro: I guess that the guy's "joke character" wasn't funny enough when a basic intelligence stat was all the other players needed to see past the player's BS. A List of DEMANDS!?: Considering the rest of the demands and her general attitude, I'm guessing that "kicking out sexist/homophobic players" actually means "kicking out players who annoy her and/or called her out." Harsh, but she sounds too entitled for me to think that wasn't a real possibility. There is nothing wrong with talking to your DM about background and starting gear, but keep it reasonable and have it be a two-way conversation and not a monologue disguise as a dialogue. First and Last Session...: The fact that even the other players were sick of the DM's BS and the DM still continued speaks volumes about how bad of a DM he is. I'm guessing that he had it out for OP for some reason, and saw this as a way to "get back at them." Sad that people like him are more interested in ruining their player's fun than giving them (especially the new players) a good time. They are killing TTRPGs because they are scaring away newcomers who will help the games continue and thrive. "nO! You Can't Have Ideas": Yeah, the DM shouldn't promote "open to ideas" when he's demanding new players to fit into his pre-made character and refuses to listen when they don't want to. I wonder if the kicked player was a problem player, someone who wanted more creativity than the DM liked, or even existed in the first place (with the DM thinking that players would be more open playing another player's character who was kicked due to the player than his own created he wanted the player to fit into). The Incel's Fantasy: It sounds like Incel wasn't acting like this before the interrogation, so it's him suddenly shifting the tone unnaturally and suddenly. And as OP pointed out, the DM seem to have been hinting at how persuasion was the way to go with this prisoner. Base on what we're told, my guess was that Incel was upset that his "friend" wasn't into him and wanted to hear that "persistence pays off" when he talked about it to his group, and/or wanted to lash out at NPCs for being rejected.

@theangryholmesian4556

2 жыл бұрын

The sad thing is, kicking out bigoted players is a reasonable request. But when it's mixed in with bs like that? Yeah...

@Meanlucario

2 жыл бұрын

@@theangryholmesian4556 That's when it's a real possibility that her idea of "bigot" players means "anyone who disagrees with me," especially after calling the DM sexist for not craving into her entitled behavior.

"Thaking" acctually reminds of A LOT of players I have been DM:ing over the years. They have all had som over-powered idea that only worked in their own heads and got upset, because it did not work in the game-world. The latest incident was when a couple of players thought that they could steal a steam-ship in the docks of a city, by killing the crew, who was ten times more than themselves.

I was shaking my head by requirement #5 and legit said "holy shit" out loud when IT KEPT GOING. Because holy shit. As to the girl who didn't actually get to group up...wtf is wrong with that DM? I thought maybe when she got to the dark alley that he was about to play out a porn fantasy, and maybe he was, but of course even the group was fed up at that point. There's not much of a problem with throwing out a few small misfortunes out there as obstacles right from the start; it can make things interesting. Even the girl thought "hey, now we get to have a miniquest to get my stuff back" and that would have been a great introduction. But this just went on way too long and was just...vindictive, I guess? Mean in general? But Idk what the DM had to be vindictive about, as everyone seemed cool with everything prior to the game. Also, I've been streaming GoT (never seen it before, now up through S6), and I totally got the Lannister reference. XD

That last story when the name Ardyn was mentioned I verbally went: "Nooooooooooo."

Intro Story: The only acceptable way to play a character called "Thaking" is as an Elvis impersonator.

I just bumped into your channel and I'm lovin' it already! Also, "Wizard with student debt" just sent me LMFAO -ing hard for no reason. Edit: HIS WHOLE ARM!

intro: player was simply a idiot 1st: sounds like a Karen 2nd: DM was a asshole, why? Because it's a new player if you keep that up eventually you'll have nobody to play with. 3rd: I want you to play this! no exceptions! (WTF) 4th: umm wtf. Question did he cut off his left arm, to prove he's all right? (ok that's a dumb joke, but really why would you do that?)

Sometimes I doubt the gimmicks I come up with for my characters. Edgy lady who feeds on pain, gentle plague doctor, avian who speaks purely through mimicry, reptile with an egg fixation, deaf girl who communicates through a mind reading familiar, But they’re all leagues ahead of The King*

Just the other day I created some drama between my character and the party. My paladin of a CG god wanted to execute a bandit whose gang had slaughtered an entire tavern and the cleric inside. The party jumped at that saying he's repentant and could be redeemed. My paladin washed her hands of it. This caused a large discussion about what it means to be Lawful Good, if a paladin can follow a Choatic Good deity, enchanting prisoners and the rights of goblins. Our party having killed a few villages worth of goblins by this point but the rest of the party crying over one Human bandit. The party then killed this bandit in the next room after burning the bandit's bother to death in front of him.

That last story, that was something.

@thunderflare59

2 жыл бұрын

Van Gogh: I cut off my ear for the woman I love. Incel: I can top that!

@marybdrake1472

2 жыл бұрын

@@thunderflare59 Pretty much, yeah.

My friends and I joke about how many war crimes one of our players committed in our first campaign but Jesus Christ it wasn’t torture porn! It was just a little bit chaotic and whenever one of us would say “or we could try this instead” he’d always say “yeah that’s probably a better idea”. Wtf was that guy trying to achieve exactly?

"First and Last session" - Bruh if dms be doing you like this just ignore them, veto, and meet with the group anyway. if they are not going t respect your character then why should you respect them? "The Incel's Fantasy" - Yeah once the arm comes off the first time I'd just have my character leave his behind in disgust and refuse to work with them. Actions have consequences.

That last story. If the guy cuts off his own arm. Que Saitama "ok" and then walk away.

Story 2: ....poor OP,seriously though WTF is it with some veteran players/DMs and having unprovoked hostility/hate boners for newbies?! Kinda need old and new players alike for gaming to thrive just throwing that out there. Imagine having such an inferiority complex you take your revenge fantasies out on a player who just wants to live her best life as an artificer. Crap like this drives new players away and makes the community look like gatekeeping asshats like my guy,who the fuck hurt you?! Story 3: If the DM has a narrative he should have made this character an NPC and a plot hook and let the players he's trying to get to play make their own characters or here's a novel concept....write a fucking book. Story 4: Hits every note on the THAT GUY bingo card: edgelord,incel neckbeard,derails a campaign if they don't get their way,etc. Hope OP finds a group that better suits them and is free of problem players.

@inky5574

2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely hate people like the DM in Story 2, as someone said in their replies to my comment, it's like those people who get angry when their favorite unknown band gets popular because it was suppose to be their thing and so they could flex on people that they have superior tastes. Or, more accurately, a gamer getting upset about girls not playing video games and then being a total asshat towards women who play video games and continues to wonder why not a lot of them play video games they play.

@WyntheRogue

2 жыл бұрын

@@inky5574 Yup, it's a catch 22 damned if you do, damned if you don't I say this as somebody whose played video games since I was a wee lass of 9 and tabletop mid high school. There's alot of cool dudes out there akin to the group I've been with almost 4 years now [it'll be 4 years in 3 weeks] but the jerks in these horror stories are sadly of the vocal minority that makes the medium and community look bad and continue to push the negative stigma developed. :-/

I wish there had been an Oath of the Crown paladin in the first story's party just so they could smack The King's player with that.

"The first and last session" story trigger me so hard, I have been playing D&D recently and I know the feeling of start playing the game, kinda give me anxiety but I start enjoy doing it. Listening what this guy did with this player make me feel the desire to slam my hand on the table and ask him what the hell is the problem with him? we don't know the reason why he did it but for sure this guy deserve a punch in the face for being such a mean A-hole like that! >: l I bet he wanted to do something terrible when the player enter that narrow alley but he probably hold back because he probably would lose the table if he did it.

I chuckled when the character borrowed from Final Fantasy "escaped to Morrowind (???)" It kind of reminded me of all the Sephiroths and Vegetas I used to see on the MSN Gaming Zone playing Age of Empires and Jedi Knight. The edgelord characters of their respective lore.

These horrible first experiences solidified me choosing my cousin as the person to DM my first session. I've never played before and neither has my partner and my cousin has so I asked her and I'm glad because I know that she's going to make it fun for a bunch of first-timers. Update: she has now dmed for us twice, and will be dming again for us today. we are having so much fun

Yikes.... that last one.... it channels big "what the hell is wrong with you" energy.

At this point Lois should just write a book.

I guarantee that "piece of tech" DM was going to sit all his players down and read his pre-written story to them while they don't get to do anything.

Van Gogh with his missing ear: "Dude... what the fuck?"

Rule #8 Whenever Louis’ character isn’t with the rest of the party they have to look sad and say “Where’s Louis’ character?”

Oh man the Intro. It inspires me. Check this. A character named "The King" inspired by Yakko Warner from the animaniacs. Have him as a wizard with a special Lvl 1 spell "Summon Anvil" which causes an anvil to appear 10 feet above the target (does get a DEX save) within 30 feet that falls onto target for 2d10 damage (no damage if successful save). This spell is scalable with each higher level adding an anvil that can target the same target or another target with in 5 feet of last target. Yakko: "Factory direct to you! No middleman! I am the KING!"

HIS WHOLE ARM😐 And I thought my finishing moves in Dnd were brutal.

@ZyroShadowPony

2 жыл бұрын

How brutal we talking?

@carterkingdom1253

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZyroShadowPony I cut a Goblin in half and shoved my twin Swords into the shoulders of an Owlbear.

@ZyroShadowPony

2 жыл бұрын

@@carterkingdom1253 the worst ive gone is stab a vampire thrall in the stomach and continued to plunge the sword deeper. There was also stomping a orc's kneecap after beating him in a fight (context: he shanked one of the party members while we were showering)

@carterkingdom1253

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZyroShadowPony Damn, that is awesome!!!

@ZyroShadowPony

2 жыл бұрын

@@carterkingdom1253 i do plan to go a bit further because in the current campaign my character feels he is stuck going with the party. Originally going with them because they had the legendary blackrazor but after it was taken by a 17 year old and very rude king he wanted to leave but now they were escaped prisoners who had a shard of the orb of annihilation. Worse part is throughout their journey things feel like he is targetted (artificer shoots him because she saw him look like the hag who hexed them, said artificer's mothers gave him food that blackened his entire mouth and made him lose being able to taste things for 7 days, lost all his gold for the benefit of the party but turned out it was for nothing which pained him because he needed the gold for some important books, the pixie threw water at hin that removed all his makeup which revealed elven like tattoo marks which caused him a lot of childhood trauma and lastly it turns out his fiance is being taken hostage by a queen who is hunting them down) There is a lot more stuff but that is the main reasons he is getting brutal. Which is funny since he is a brawler/throwing weapon build. So trying to multiclass into barbarian is needed if i want to dislocate a enemy's arms or shoot out their kneecaps before firing at their head kinda like erren black

Lois story - Played the sexism card even before the game - that is called showing your hand way too early. A walking pile of victimhood. Bullet dodged.

First story is crazy... Like i have a Dragonborn fighter that has a pair of Flame Tongue longsword as heirlooms from his tribe. But the thing is... he doesn't know the command word. His ENTIRE QUEST is a pilgrimage along the way he will learn this command word inscribed on the blades. And it'll be a big important thing as it's his path to learn about the world and get a better perspective than of just his little village. He has to grow as a character and the fact he cannot activate the swords is motivation for him. Like powerful items can be done right but THIS? 2500 gold? I'd have laughed them outta the chat.

"I'm the king" "Well i didn't vote for you"

The dm in the first story: why can’t I get people to join?

First, I guess. Edit: Will make comments on the stories when I finish watching lol. Edit 2: Story 1: The demands are just… ugh. It reeks of main character syndrome and unearned self-importance. That’s all. Story 2: What purpose does it really even serve to alienate a player in this manner? The only thing I could guess is that the DM just wanted to be a dick for no good reason, or he just wanted to fulfill some sick power fantasy. Story 3: WHY? WHY RESTRICT CREATIVITY LIKE THAT? FOR WHAT REASON IS THAT NECESSARY? Story 4: The subject of this story is clearly maidenless. But in all seriousness, this incel clearly needs to go to therapy for his serious socialization issues.

@blizzardgaming7070

2 жыл бұрын

“Clearly maidenless” I see you are a tarnished of culture as well.

@blurobin3993

2 жыл бұрын

No maidens?

@Maeven617

2 жыл бұрын

@@blizzardgaming7070 Haven’t even played it unfortunately

@blizzardgaming7070

2 жыл бұрын

@@Maeven617 so man of culture

I dont think Ive ever forced a situation on a game before. I HAVE startled a DM by responding to a threatening/hard to intimidate NPC by offering some sketchy threats of "advanced interrogation" that got them to question my moral allignment as a player lmao To be fair, I generally play shadey or loose moral characters for the wiggle room to be "a bad guy/gal" if the party ends up too good-allifned (which seems to happen heavily and I believe can halt self-sufficiency to overcome obstacles.) But definitely never attempted to have a full on SAW scene.

Lois sounds....geez. In my current group i have a noble ranger who is richer than the entire group not only because of his background but because he thought ahead. The monsters they would kill he would scavenge off them and sell them to merchants. The last haul of giant crab kitin got him up to 300 gold while the rest of the party i believe have less than 50 each. This is mostly due to the campaign having long time skips spent on traveling and we had just recently found a city which has us stuck there due to bbeg shenanigans. Hopefully this will be a blessing as we barely made it with our starting gear and our magical items arent that useful or more for roleplay scenarios rather than combat So if you want to be the richest one of the party then use your brain for possible business propositions

@hiro4344

2 жыл бұрын

I started in a campaign where the DM had us roll for background stuff to build our characters from the book which I guess is like so new DMs have some easy plothooks like "Roll this and you had so many family members. "you had a fight with one and think they are dead." "Someone from your past is out to get you" odd stuff like that to build off of including my character winding up crazy and having a difficult time resisting suddenly trying to kill people when alone with them, so I was excited to play this evil oddball and her finding redemption from being practically a murderhobo. But I had to roll every time to see if I resisted or not. But my character wound up with "A Prince's Ransom." when I rolled for her starting cash, so she was Riiiiiiiich. I made up that she was a pirate for a while and the crew had a whole hiding place for their loot and then died so she had it all. She carried quite a bit of money on her but also some sewn into her coat lining and hidden in her boot heels just so she would always have something if she got robbed. I was really looking forward to her being like "I got this" on multiple occasions paying for things or bribes and everyone wondering how I have so much money. But sadly it didn't get past session 2 due to scheduling conflicts. I really want to play her again some time, just don't have a group anymore..

@ZyroShadowPony

2 жыл бұрын

@@hiro4344 have you tried the lfg reddit? Thats how i found both my groups. First group lasted for like 6-8 months i think? But ended because personal stuff was going on with the dm. Current group we have been playing for over a year now. Current dm may have to stop dming for personal stuff too or probably to give him a break. A player is going to do campaign 3 which will be a fantasy 1920s setting. Very hyped because i have my character and backup character ready. If I and many others can find that long term group im sure youll be able to as well and play this awesome character of yours

@hiro4344

2 жыл бұрын

Hey! Much appreciated! I just got onto roll20 and cast my lines to join three or four groups looking for players and see if any catch but no luck so far. I'll try your suggestion. Man fantasy 1920s sounds awesome!

I love how often people associate your level with your age and experience, don't get me confused with XP you gain from leveling but experience as a person, if I am a scientist, that just so happens to be an artificer as a scientist, I know a lot of stuff, for example making technology so if I've been studying this one thing for my entire life and then just got into being an artificer how does that make it to where I can't continue studying my science being a scientist is not a class occupation like owning a Tavern

"Tis but a flesh wound." That guy, probably.

Quality content as always sir. Also want to credit your video thumbnails for introducing me to the incredible art of Dao Trong Le.

0:43 - TIL that characters knowing whose head is on the setting's currency and the species of the local monarch, is "metagaming". LOL

That first GM keeping the player away with "missfortune" is just baffles me and boils my piss (and i fear i've heard too D&D horror stories because i reflexiveley clenched my fists at "the man at the end of ally", 'specially after all her clothes and money were stolen). 2ndly, tho less bad and not OP's fault at all, how anoying is this for the rest of the party, just having to wait because the GM is farting around with this bullshit and you can't start the gane.

His WHOLE ARM!? Is a great band name.

As a DM, I'm very okay with the idea of characters having the spotlight for a time. Maybe because I've done it twice with the same player, but there were some special reasons they happened. The first time was using his character from a failed campaign (which didn't take off due to scheduling after several sessions) who was going to be integrated to another group I had, so we wanted to wrap up his character arc after defeating the BBEG from his campaign before he officially joined the other group. The second time happened with a different character (different campaign, same setting) and it was a 1-hour, pre-session side quest where his goal was to ultimately help the party with his connections to the black market. It's certainly possible to give each player time in the spotlight, but the DM should only do what they can according to their own limitations. Clearly, Lois had no respect for that. Last story: I won't add to what the rest of the comments say because I am in full agreement, but once I realized OP was padding this story, I mentally checked out as well. Seriously, there's no need to "repeat for emphasis"; we're all reading the same story and can go back and re-read the wtf portions.

Awakened tech concept, I love reading stories featuring that.... (Or watching movies.) But I don't think the concept at all fits a tabletop campaign.

That potential problem player should count herself lucky. The kind of DM who would acquiesce to a player's demand to be given the moon, would only do so to blow it up in their face.

I stumbled into you channel by accident, and your content is really good. I’ve never played DnD, yet I enjoy listening to these horror stories because this sort of stuff can happen in any roleplay in general. Out of all these stories, the second one really infuriated me. Not only was it cruel, but since the OP was a woman alongside her character, the DM’s behavior kind of came off as misogynistic.

2:19 Requirement 3 alone should be enough to instantly ban her.

I can see Thaking to actually be a cool and funny character if built properly (high charisma and persuasion, and possibly some illusion spell he would keep applying on himself), but that would require the player to not be a moron but rather someone like Puffin Forest. Yes, i immediately got reminded of the story of him playing as a highly charismatic bear who kept successfully pretending to be human.

It's The Bad Bunch (of DMs).

Cutting off arms is how we do greetings here in my group, but that was uncalled for given the context and the premise.

Theres a difference in working with players to create cool characters that fit youre created world & shoo-horning youre ideas to make people be what you want (write a book if thats the case). I like to create my worlds & i give my players options for things that exist there (different species & nationalities), they then choose 2 options; play a character from one of these nationalities (& we work together to fit them into the plot) or create a unique character idea that we work together to weave into the existing world. Its not hard to work together & sometimes we bounce ideas until the players is really happy (& i can now create scenarios for that player). Its a two way street tho, as ive had players not want to work woth me when i suggest a tweak or offer an alternative (or outright argue cos i wont let them play an OP background that wont fit them as starting characters...)

I wanna play dnd. Friend tried to hype me up n it didn’t happen. Covid came n i got into dnd podcast. Then i wanted to play, even backed a few kick starters (just got those rewards this week). But still haven’t played a single game xD ill keep listening till then.

This was supposed to be Elderscrolls themed and he had a 2000 year old elf? Does he know what ES is? One specific in universe books suggests that Mer can live for about 1,000 years, but goes on to say almost none of them make it anywhere near that length due to violence or disease. Queen Barenziah was 430 years old and considered extraordinarily long lived. Your average elf probably won't even reach 300 years old.

That second story makes my heart hurt. Why do I so often hear about groups of mostly younger people inviting a newbie to the group just to bully them and treat them like shit? As an older player I remember pretty much every group I played in during my youth being full of the outcasts and misfits who were ready, willing and eager to accept and welcome anyone wanting to join. Now it feels like there are lot more assholes and bullies in the hobby :(

That last story had me laughing I couldn't help it. 🤣

I just asking ,how would a group of people living in a land not know who the king is?

I'm genuinely confused as two why the first guy thought that would work logic would indicate that people would know who their king was

If we are being completely and utterly fair Zone of Truth only forces the speaker to speak Truth, it doesn't stop them from not talking or omitting details they would lie about meaning you MIGHT still have to force them to talk.

Epic video

The 2nd storey I would have told the dm to take a long walke off a short peir

In hindsight, I feel a little mean about a thing I did. A players character got horribly lost in session 1. Thing is: her character arrived newly in town and didn't ask around or have a map, so she just described the way she walked about. When she finally asked someone, she legit went the wrong direction xD. Had her own little side-adventure(with a couple hints to her backstory) bc she never followed the instructions of 'turn right at the third'

"His WHOLE arm." Some people... smh

For the guy who won't let his player make their own character, just write a book, DND is a kind of collaborative story telling, but if you have a GM character and won't change anything so the player will enjoy playing it, just write a book

Not entirely a horror story but this encounter always makes me laugh and is a great source of irritation for my friend. Characters are myself (genasi necrobotanist), a dark elf rogue, a tiefling bard, a Dwarf monk and the DM. Back story: rogue and I had met each other for almost 4 years previous when he was 12 and I was 25 when we were in the same guild on WoW. During the story he was 16 and I was 29 almost 30. The tiefling was rogue's irl high school friend and we ended up finding a D&D group on discord. Neither the DM nor the monk knew any of us outside of the game and no one was exactly forth coming with any irl details. We were about 6 sessions in when we were tasked with retrieving a magical ring that a sorcerer had dropped down into an ant hill to which he shrunk us and down we went to hunt for this ring. Now rogue had a bad habit of being quite flirtatious and about halfway through a fight against a small army of magical ants he mouthed off something about relaxing with my character after the battle and of course I jokingly replied he needed to shove it and focus on the battle. The DM decides at this point to cut in and with an entirely serious voice and grumble about the two of us needing to "hook up" already and quit causing distractions in the game. Everyone goes dead quiet in chat and bard pipes up about how he's only 16 and that I was quite a bit older. The DM got the most mockingly disgusted sound in his voice and told rogue he needed to quit messing around with women twice his age, then laughed it off and we all thought things were okay after that. Oh no. The DM managed to separate rogue from us in the many spiraling ant tunnels and allowed him to find the ring on his own which ended up causing the rogue to fight his worst fear, which happened to be himself. He didn't survive. We ended up never playing with the DM again after that as he admitted after the session that the only reason rogue died was because he thought he was teaching rogue a lesson about his amorous antics.

My current character - human barbarian tank - would definitely cut off someone's arm, but only in combat.

Ardyn wasn’t an edge lord dude was forced to be evil by the gods he kept tryna be good but the gods in final fantasy were shitty and wanted drama for no reason

Meanwhile the tiefling in my last campaign got the DM to put her character in the situation where she'd lose an arm cause she wanted a mechanical prosthetic

I like rats but my mom thinks they're gross. They're soft and tiny and there's a lot of history behind them.

I remember Foxy reading this one. I could not stop laughing.

For the story involving Lois, as someone who has been in private sessions with DMs before, that should be something the DM decides on and the player agrees to. Also, if I does happen, it should be for something that enhances the experience for the rest of the party too.

That last quip from the last story reminded me suddenly of a horrid thing I can simply dub "The Incident." In fairness, the adventure was petering out at the time, though I won't go into any more details. Just that it broke the back of a camel who...probably already had a busted back. Can't say I have any jokes or stories about disarming a man, but man...I'm not gonna judge or question, but dunno where he thought self-mutilation would get him points.

So lemme get this straight. This guy’s D&D character is a copy/pasted Ardyn Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy XV with the exact same backstory except instead of Nifelheim he escaped to Morrowind? From the Elder Scrolls? Forget Infinity War; this, THIS, is the crossover event of the century.

I don’t think I need to say it, but I want to. It’s pretty obvious that Thaking just wanted to control the party and use the meta gaming accusation to maintain it.

@360entertainment2

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Most likely!

HIS WHOLE ARM

@CrispysTavern

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Hey! My friend enjoys your Splatoon stuff, happy to have you here

0:35 What is Thaking to Thagod!?

Entertaining and oddly soothing. Suddenly my own worst moments as GM doesn’t feel so bad. As for the No U Can’t Have Ideas! story between 12 and 17 min I have two intuitions. First, that other player who had created the character concept and then vanished obviously didn’t exist. No one is gonna be that invested in a concept someone else came up with. Second. This ”highly advanced and experimental piece of tech that gained sentience and ran away from evil creators” … we never did find out what it was, exactly. The source makes it out as if the GM would allow her some kind of input into the design and functionality of this tech, but judging from the rest of the story, that design would have turned out as set in chrome as everything else, right? Right. So what kind of tech are we talking about? I’m pretty sure we can say it together: It. Would. Have. Been. A. SEX-BOT! Just a thought, cheers

Man, I have had a few problem players but nothing ever this bad.

Story 3: I get not wanting to come off as the "unreasonable one" or "the villain" in some interaction, but sometimes you just have to be firm in your stance. After the first or second attempt to reason with DM about your player prefs, and DM is *clearly* not listening to you, you don't couch your concerns in soft language. You simply say "No, I will not be playing that on any chance." If you get booted/blocked, you wouldn't have had fun in the campaign anyway.

his whole frigin arm...wow, just wow

It's like I want to do RPG because I miss it, but all these horror stories are making me wonder if it's worth it. 🤔

@CrispysTavern

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It’s worth it. These stories are just for entertainment and learning, helping you to know what to look out for. They are a vast minority. Go out there and have fun playing some TTRPGs!

His whole arm! How did he even do that?!

His whole arm... wow, I really hope that dude isn't into LARPing O_o

His WHOLE ARM!!!

"This isn't even the story in the title." Oh no.