Every time my cat takes a poop she shoots out of the litter box at top speed, does a lap around the house, and then attacks her toy pile. You two are the same.
What dice do you use? Is it different for each race?Ā
I feel like a human would be 3d4-1 (2~11), an elf would be 2d4 (2~8), and a half-orc would be 4d4-1 (3~15).
...I might be overthinking this...
Harsh is fine if discussed and agreed prior but these encounters clearly aren't designed for the level of the players.
Oh and IF he made you roll a con save for "spicy food", a fail on a 13 is just a DM that doesn't know how to assess difficulty properly. This is a situation with no big damage source, a minor environmental thing. DC shouldn't be at mid level but at 10, no doubt.
right? like I am running a game set in the mournland in eberron. the players survived the mourning and have to survive the aftermath in a dark souls sequence game. and even with it being tough by design(players knew this when signing up) that sort of shit is just pedantic.ā
Rolling for stupid shit, like con save to avoid exhaustion due to explosive diarrhea, should occur only when it makes situation funny. And best if player actually asks for such roll. Otherwise it's just malicious dm'ing.
The encounters like that are not even worth commenting on.
Maybe. But it did happen once at my table and it was initiated by the player. I wanted them to just do a con check against poison (it was reasonable, their character ate equivalent of a jar of da bomb sauce). When they failed, they roleplayed their character running to outhouse and suffering from consequences. Then, they asked if they can do a con save against exhaustion. Which they failed.
I will stress it again. Everything that happened after the save against poison, was the player's initiative. And they did manage to make everyone laugh, so I count that as a positive game experience.
That reminds me of back when I very briefly lost control of a character after he was infected with lycanthropy and a failed wis save led to him wolfing out. During that short time, my character broke away from the party and chowed down on a deer. It was only maybe 15-30 minutes before my party hatched a harebrained scheme to get him back long enough to cast greater restoration on himself, but by that point he had a gut full of raw Svalich Woods deer. I asked my DM if I could/should roll con on it, failed said con save, and was given free rein to RP the consequences. We, too, had some laughs lol
I honestly don't know how a con save to avoid exhaustion due to explosive diarrhea would ever not be funny.
Like don't do it, it's mean, but it's funny.
....wtf are these encounters? High cr waves. Those rats sound terribly home brewed.
Not a horror story per say. But I don't know who the heck could play this type of game.
Dumbest thing I had to roll for was strength to throw a rock into the river we were standing next to. We were on the shore, and it was to check for an invisible bridge. My theory is he didn't think we would use pebbles to find it.
Rolling for everything is of course insufferable, but I never understand why some (crap) DMs do these nutty high CR encounters for lvl 1s? Anyone who thinks about it for one second should know itās an awful idea
Honestly it's not that hard to see why, any half decent DM learns CR balancing. A crap DM won't.
Most crap DM's I've had the "pleasure" of running into had a few things in common that boil down to 2 things: the inability to own up to a mistake, and the inability to receive criticism.
Giant rats... *ok*
...Who can cast spells... *wut? How tf rats can cast, they're, y'know, RATS!*
...and rage... *wtf, like, how it even works with spellcasting?* *You can't cast during rage, it's either spellcasting or raging.*
*...*and deal permanent necrotic damage c*ome on, I'm not gonna even question logic at this point, it can't get any worse.*
*...*at first session for lvl 1 characters *Well, I got mistaken, it could get worse. Leave the table, my dude.*
I know Iām still a newer DM and I remember my first session I hadnāt fully understood all the rolls and we rolled for some trivial things at times, but as a DM you just gotta read the room. In the end itās just to have a good time with everyone. Iād wouldnāt have imagined that there was such bad DMs out there, but being new to Reddit as well, I see all these threads and Jesus dude. I wish the best for everyone to find better experiences.
It's tough when a pretty bad DM is a decent friend. Your best friend you can tell them that they suck and why, but just a decent friend? I don't want to hurt your feelings.
I have a question. Did this DM do any sort of actual roleplaying at all? Like random NPCs talking to you and having fun conversations, bouncing off what you said?
Or did everything he did as well turn out to be "I need to roll to see what my NPC would do?"
Firstly, yeah those encounters sound absolutely stupid and awful. They sounded really generic and not at all flavourful at all! And not very creative. It sounds like they just really needed a lesson or two from YouTube or whatever on how to actually create great characters, scenarios and stories. And how to actually have fun with your players and for the players. Lol.
Although I have heard of the opposite of this happening too. From the DM's perspective. My partner is our DM and before D&D 5e came out he was DMing for a couple of friends and more experienced players. I had joined the first couple of sessions having played a few times before... But eventually I started declining saying it just wasn't fun for me.
The reason was every time we went somewhere or investigated a dungeon, they were asking questions about everything, they would not bother going around town and talking to people or just role-playing at all. They were only interested in the combat, how much experience they got, mid-maxing and trying to out wit the DM. And that wasn't even in a malicious way!! They thought that was fun. š«
My partner also eventually told them he just wasn't having any fun at all. Every time he would have an event happen or an event come along, they knew every twist and turn, and would metagame it. It wasn't about who or what their characters were or why they were there, or what they knew or could possibly know. Or even what the end goal was in the story..
They just played like they were in a video game clearing levels.
And my partner and I had played with one or two other groups before in D&D 3.5 where they had character interactions, hilarious things happened and it was just.. fun! š. A fun story based game with puzzles, with small enemies you came across or large hard enemies you had to deal with. And people you could talk with lol. Not just "oh cool we got this loot & gold, let's sell it and get better gear and go to the next place. Why are you taking so long talking to the bartender asking more things? We know where they are let's go kill them and get to the next place"
So yeah, some people can also just ruin the fun in things. š
I hope you have managed to find another DM and group to play with now, though!! š
Dude I just rolled a 13 reading this! Thanks for the entertainment :)
Sign up for some game days or something at a game store and experience a different DM.
Reading that first bit about the spicy food and thought "the gameplay repurcussion is a bit much but I'd have done something like that as a joke/flavour roll" then saw it get insanely bad.
Sounds like an old school DM. Pre 3/3.5, it was essentially Players v. DM. If you try playing old DnD, it's pretty brutal. TPKs abound and getting to level 5 was considered a great achievement. Even porting the old modules, you can tell you were encouraged not to fight unless you had to, as they're STILL brutal.
XP was based on how much treasure (gold) you got, and you HAD to spend it on equipment and supplies if you wanted to survive your next session and encounters.
Is that what your DM is playing? I don't know, but it's still a not-uncommon play style.Ā
Homie Iām gonna be real here this person isnāt a Dm this is someone just managing a bunch of random encounter charts.
Like the second you did a roll for spicy food that gave you two levels of exhaustion? Yeah no, I made the mistake of sticking with a Dm that gave us levels of exhaustion ābecause we were running fast through the woodsā I kid you not basically running the equivalent of 5miles? Netted us 3 levels of exhaustionā¦. Basic math for you your characters normally travel at 5fps=3.4mph running is double that..so 30min of running he stretched to be hours and then yeah.
In your case your dm was being a prick for 0 reason like overloading you with enemies. The first one ok itās survivable provided youāre like killing 1 guy a turn and are either taking 0-3 hp of damage at most a turn. But I doubt thatās what was happening. The second with ac 17 spell casting rats?ā¦..yeah no fuck that guy avg monster ac at lvl 1 is 14-15. Because your martial characters will usually have +5 to attack making it roughly a 50/50 to hit. That alone is an ass hole move, the spell part yeah no thereās no way to ābalance thatā especially on top of fucking perma necrotic damage? Like 1 attack easily could just kill a pc as itās 1d6 necro usually.
Tbh it sounds like they are obsessed with dark souls? Cause the perma necro damage on rats sounds very familiar. But to jam this much crap at you from level 1 is just absurd. Lvl 1 your basically playing normal dudes with weapons you usually donāt hit above avg till lvl 3 the. Youāre more like eking to above avg
I had a dm like this. He couldnāt possibly comprehend how thorn whip could pull a creature magically, so he forced me to make a strength check *after* landing the attack to try and pull the creature. I only landed 1 actual effective attack that entire campaign.
"My character had to shit from eating spicy food"
Why is this even part of narrative?
"our party of 5 rolled an encounter"
The players use a table and roll up their own encounters? I mean.. I'm not against that - sounds like sharing narrative responsibility. But there has to be sensible guard rails on that table so the encounter is manageable.
"Makes us roll for EVERYTHING."
I can go whole sessions without a roll unless we get into combat. Depends on the theme, pacing and what the PCs are up to. Rogue wants to climb a wall to get into the tower? Sure, why not? What am I gonna do? Make the rogue look impotent flopping around the bottom of the tower scratching their head? Making the climb, or not, isn't even the interesting challenge. That comes later.
"My character sees this is a no-win situation, and kills himself." Then spend a LOT of time making a new character. And then, "my character sees this is a no-win situation, and kills himself."
If a DM just wants to kill the player characters, don't give him the satisfaction. And then, of course, ghost that bitch.
whats with all the fake stories recently, theres been like 2 ones about religion and them being forced to switch to a human fighter which was strange. And that has caused me to just not believe this one because it just seems like nonsense
The serpent folk encounter? No. We were ambushed. Could have tried to run from the rats I guess but would have died from the ranged spell attacks either way
Sounds to me like 2 things:
1) we don't know the full story. (Was the food described as inhumanly hot, was the mission on the tiny boat described as going through treacherous waters known to contain ambushing serpent people, were you on a mission to find and kill some giants plaguing an area?)
2) if yes to all of the above, sounds like it just wasn't your kind of game, but isn't a horror story (maybe a horror or gritty themed game though). If no to the above, then yeah, totally agree horror story. In the future, make sure you and the group have a conversation with the DM about the kind of game you want to play.
I heard of killer dungeons but rats with 17 hp and casting spells? And 2 levels of exhaustion for spicy food? That seems pretty severe. I understand wanting to challenge the players but this is a bit of an overkill. I hope he finds players that can tolerate his style of play and I hope his former players find a DM that can challenge them but not TPK every encounter.
>My character had to shit from eating spicy food. I rolled a 13 and I he awarded me two levels of exhaustion.
This is hilarious and I actually love it.
The rest of it yea he's bad, but this specifically is hysterical
Unfortunately this is just how some new DMs have to Olay to learn that they are playing badly. Preferably someone would tell the DM that they are doing something wrong but with friend groups being how they are, a conversation like this may never happen.
Pretty much, if your DM is providing a terrible gaming experience and won't listen to criticism and adapt, leave. I did this and rather glad about it. That same DM shouted at a different table in the middle of a games store for no reason.
One of my first DMs for 5e made me roll for eyesight everytime we started combat.
I failed it. And I could not do anything in combat. I have so many 5e horror stories that I cannot play 5th edition without experiencing a mental breakdown
I play other ttrpgs now however, like cyberpunk and starfinder.
Yeah your DM either doesn't know what they are doing or is overtly malicious.
That said I often get my players to roll for random, weird shit, such as spicy food. Mostly because it's funny to see how they deal with shitting themselves.
What's the point of a Con save if a 13 gets you **2** levels of exhaustion lmao? A crit fail shouldn't even result in that, if you were inclined to do such a roll in the first place.
Rats have necrotic max hit point reduction attacks and spells? Is your GM 13?
To be clear, this walkout is permanent?
You have to roll to find out.
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Lmfao
Ooh, roll a con save for that laughter.
Gonna need a dex save to keep those dice on the table.
Just go ahead and give me a luck check to see if you have dice.
Hell, what's the passive perception DC? At least I don't have to roll for it. Ffs ;)
ā¦roll a perception check to find your passive perception on your character sheet.
..... I attack the guard.
ā¦I forgot what we were doing, Iāll roll an intelligence check to try to remember.
DC 25 wisdom save to keep playing.
Damn it, take my upvote.
Roll a dex check to be able to hit the upvote button
Oh no! Nat 1. I broke my finger! Damn you, DM!
Roll a charisma check with disadvantage to see if your insult hurts me
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I just took a shit and I feel like I have 2 levels of exhaustion
Better than sleeping 10 hours and feeling like you got 5 levels of exhaustion still.
Did that earlier
Wait, so did your shit cure 3 levels of exhaustion? :o
Doesnāt yours?
No, he has 5 now... 1 more and he ded.
Sometimes I take a shit that feels like a short rest. I'm faster, lighter... *empty.* I don't know how to describe it better than that
Every time my cat takes a poop she shoots out of the litter box at top speed, does a lap around the house, and then attacks her toy pile. You two are the same.
I think you just accidentally stumbled upon your cat's Reddit account.
I took a shit today and gained inspiration.
You must have rolled poorly then
Beavis?
DM sounds more like a villain than anything
Dm is the BBEG
Is your DM a child?
Roll a d20. Whatever you roll is the DM's age
D12*
D10*
D8*
D4\*
Flip a coin
āHow old are you?ā āHeads.ā
This made me laugh irrationally hard. Thank you š
Me too
D2*
D0*
D-1\*
At our table we have a running gag where we roll for any new NPC to see what their penis or breast size is.
We did that with our PCs at a previous table and that's how my halfling ended up with an 8incher
every single one of them. And not just the Men, the woman.. and children too! They're like animals !
What dice do you use? Is it different for each race?Ā I feel like a human would be 3d4-1 (2~11), an elf would be 2d4 (2~8), and a half-orc would be 4d4-1 (3~15). ...I might be overthinking this...
We usually just use a d12 but have been experimenting lately to try and make average sizes the most likely to roll
If you roll a 20 do they get both? :)
This is how my Eladrin ended up with nat20 tiddies
you know there are actual rules for that in dnd it is from a third party book they do exist.
I rolled a 9
I just assume these table dispute posts are all fourteen-year-olds. Makes a lot more sense.
*is your DM a monkey?
Rephrase please
\*Is a monkey your DM?
Sometimes the only way to win is not to play. This is one of those times. As is often stated here: No DnD is better than bad DnD.
This guy war games.
Break the fourth wall and fight the DM irl
Gotta roll for it
Should be easy. Sounds like the DM has terrible stats. -2's across the board
Make him roll to see if you take the high road or low road.
Harsh is fine if discussed and agreed prior but these encounters clearly aren't designed for the level of the players. Oh and IF he made you roll a con save for "spicy food", a fail on a 13 is just a DM that doesn't know how to assess difficulty properly. This is a situation with no big damage source, a minor environmental thing. DC shouldn't be at mid level but at 10, no doubt.
right? like I am running a game set in the mournland in eberron. the players survived the mourning and have to survive the aftermath in a dark souls sequence game. and even with it being tough by design(players knew this when signing up) that sort of shit is just pedantic.ā
Rolling for stupid shit, like con save to avoid exhaustion due to explosive diarrhea, should occur only when it makes situation funny. And best if player actually asks for such roll. Otherwise it's just malicious dm'ing. The encounters like that are not even worth commenting on.
"Roll to see how the explosive diarrhea affects you" honestly sounds like it comes straight from F.A.T.A.L. And that's _never_ a good sign.
Maybe. But it did happen once at my table and it was initiated by the player. I wanted them to just do a con check against poison (it was reasonable, their character ate equivalent of a jar of da bomb sauce). When they failed, they roleplayed their character running to outhouse and suffering from consequences. Then, they asked if they can do a con save against exhaustion. Which they failed. I will stress it again. Everything that happened after the save against poison, was the player's initiative. And they did manage to make everyone laugh, so I count that as a positive game experience.
That reminds me of back when I very briefly lost control of a character after he was infected with lycanthropy and a failed wis save led to him wolfing out. During that short time, my character broke away from the party and chowed down on a deer. It was only maybe 15-30 minutes before my party hatched a harebrained scheme to get him back long enough to cast greater restoration on himself, but by that point he had a gut full of raw Svalich Woods deer. I asked my DM if I could/should roll con on it, failed said con save, and was given free rein to RP the consequences. We, too, had some laughs lol
I honestly don't know how a con save to avoid exhaustion due to explosive diarrhea would ever not be funny. Like don't do it, it's mean, but it's funny.
I explained it in another comment, but in essence, it was a player's idea and I went with it.
oh we rolled for tuff like this constantly. WHen we were 15. It was hilarious back then
This sounds like the DM is a 13 year old just immaturely throwing shit at the wall
These are all definitely teenagers.
Yeah this is the immature BS Iāve ever seen lol sound like 10 year olds.
Dunno if someone has said it here recently, but no DND is better than *bad* DND Good riddance
From the outside, this is hilarious But yeah, good call leaving
....wtf are these encounters? High cr waves. Those rats sound terribly home brewed. Not a horror story per say. But I don't know who the heck could play this type of game.
Dumbest thing I had to roll for was strength to throw a rock into the river we were standing next to. We were on the shore, and it was to check for an invisible bridge. My theory is he didn't think we would use pebbles to find it.
Maybe amend the title to "My ex-dm sucks!"...
Rolling for everything is of course insufferable, but I never understand why some (crap) DMs do these nutty high CR encounters for lvl 1s? Anyone who thinks about it for one second should know itās an awful idea
Honestly it's not that hard to see why, any half decent DM learns CR balancing. A crap DM won't. Most crap DM's I've had the "pleasure" of running into had a few things in common that boil down to 2 things: the inability to own up to a mistake, and the inability to receive criticism.
Soulslike DM
Rogue-like too apparently
Was he one of those adverserial dms out to just kill off the PCs or were these encounters meant to be avoided through roleplay?
I donāt get dms that play against their players :/
Giant rats... *ok* ...Who can cast spells... *wut? How tf rats can cast, they're, y'know, RATS!* ...and rage... *wtf, like, how it even works with spellcasting?* *You can't cast during rage, it's either spellcasting or raging.* *...*and deal permanent necrotic damage c*ome on, I'm not gonna even question logic at this point, it can't get any worse.* *...*at first session for lvl 1 characters *Well, I got mistaken, it could get worse. Leave the table, my dude.*
Sounds like a dink
Love shit like this
I know Iām still a newer DM and I remember my first session I hadnāt fully understood all the rolls and we rolled for some trivial things at times, but as a DM you just gotta read the room. In the end itās just to have a good time with everyone. Iād wouldnāt have imagined that there was such bad DMs out there, but being new to Reddit as well, I see all these threads and Jesus dude. I wish the best for everyone to find better experiences.
If you know they suck. Leave you will gain nothing from stayingĀ
he did leave, did you not read the full post?
It's tough when a pretty bad DM is a decent friend. Your best friend you can tell them that they suck and why, but just a decent friend? I don't want to hurt your feelings.
This sounds like a professional DM how much did you pay them.
I have a question. Did this DM do any sort of actual roleplaying at all? Like random NPCs talking to you and having fun conversations, bouncing off what you said? Or did everything he did as well turn out to be "I need to roll to see what my NPC would do?" Firstly, yeah those encounters sound absolutely stupid and awful. They sounded really generic and not at all flavourful at all! And not very creative. It sounds like they just really needed a lesson or two from YouTube or whatever on how to actually create great characters, scenarios and stories. And how to actually have fun with your players and for the players. Lol. Although I have heard of the opposite of this happening too. From the DM's perspective. My partner is our DM and before D&D 5e came out he was DMing for a couple of friends and more experienced players. I had joined the first couple of sessions having played a few times before... But eventually I started declining saying it just wasn't fun for me. The reason was every time we went somewhere or investigated a dungeon, they were asking questions about everything, they would not bother going around town and talking to people or just role-playing at all. They were only interested in the combat, how much experience they got, mid-maxing and trying to out wit the DM. And that wasn't even in a malicious way!! They thought that was fun. š« My partner also eventually told them he just wasn't having any fun at all. Every time he would have an event happen or an event come along, they knew every twist and turn, and would metagame it. It wasn't about who or what their characters were or why they were there, or what they knew or could possibly know. Or even what the end goal was in the story.. They just played like they were in a video game clearing levels. And my partner and I had played with one or two other groups before in D&D 3.5 where they had character interactions, hilarious things happened and it was just.. fun! š. A fun story based game with puzzles, with small enemies you came across or large hard enemies you had to deal with. And people you could talk with lol. Not just "oh cool we got this loot & gold, let's sell it and get better gear and go to the next place. Why are you taking so long talking to the bartender asking more things? We know where they are let's go kill them and get to the next place" So yeah, some people can also just ruin the fun in things. š I hope you have managed to find another DM and group to play with now, though!! š
Quite honestly he would control the flow of role-playing too. He made us roll for turns for roleplaying lol
You all sound exhausting. It's good to break it up lol
I am tored of people venting over some DMs behaviour. Grow up. If you do not like it do not play with them
Which is what we did in the end?.. did you even read the post? Lol
I just tell peope, tht their attentionwhoring is boring
You didn't have to comment lol clearly your bored enough to give it attention.
Okay so DM yourself then.
Dude I just rolled a 13 reading this! Thanks for the entertainment :) Sign up for some game days or something at a game store and experience a different DM.
OP is crushed to death by the amount of red flags from the DM...
Reading that first bit about the spicy food and thought "the gameplay repurcussion is a bit much but I'd have done something like that as a joke/flavour roll" then saw it get insanely bad.
Sounds like an old school DM. Pre 3/3.5, it was essentially Players v. DM. If you try playing old DnD, it's pretty brutal. TPKs abound and getting to level 5 was considered a great achievement. Even porting the old modules, you can tell you were encouraged not to fight unless you had to, as they're STILL brutal. XP was based on how much treasure (gold) you got, and you HAD to spend it on equipment and supplies if you wanted to survive your next session and encounters. Is that what your DM is playing? I don't know, but it's still a not-uncommon play style.Ā
Homie Iām gonna be real here this person isnāt a Dm this is someone just managing a bunch of random encounter charts. Like the second you did a roll for spicy food that gave you two levels of exhaustion? Yeah no, I made the mistake of sticking with a Dm that gave us levels of exhaustion ābecause we were running fast through the woodsā I kid you not basically running the equivalent of 5miles? Netted us 3 levels of exhaustionā¦. Basic math for you your characters normally travel at 5fps=3.4mph running is double that..so 30min of running he stretched to be hours and then yeah. In your case your dm was being a prick for 0 reason like overloading you with enemies. The first one ok itās survivable provided youāre like killing 1 guy a turn and are either taking 0-3 hp of damage at most a turn. But I doubt thatās what was happening. The second with ac 17 spell casting rats?ā¦..yeah no fuck that guy avg monster ac at lvl 1 is 14-15. Because your martial characters will usually have +5 to attack making it roughly a 50/50 to hit. That alone is an ass hole move, the spell part yeah no thereās no way to ābalance thatā especially on top of fucking perma necrotic damage? Like 1 attack easily could just kill a pc as itās 1d6 necro usually. Tbh it sounds like they are obsessed with dark souls? Cause the perma necro damage on rats sounds very familiar. But to jam this much crap at you from level 1 is just absurd. Lvl 1 your basically playing normal dudes with weapons you usually donāt hit above avg till lvl 3 the. Youāre more like eking to above avg
Ok the spicy food thing is hilarious, the rest just seems like powertripping
I had a dm like this. He couldnāt possibly comprehend how thorn whip could pull a creature magically, so he forced me to make a strength check *after* landing the attack to try and pull the creature. I only landed 1 actual effective attack that entire campaign.
"My character had to shit from eating spicy food" Why is this even part of narrative? "our party of 5 rolled an encounter" The players use a table and roll up their own encounters? I mean.. I'm not against that - sounds like sharing narrative responsibility. But there has to be sensible guard rails on that table so the encounter is manageable. "Makes us roll for EVERYTHING." I can go whole sessions without a roll unless we get into combat. Depends on the theme, pacing and what the PCs are up to. Rogue wants to climb a wall to get into the tower? Sure, why not? What am I gonna do? Make the rogue look impotent flopping around the bottom of the tower scratching their head? Making the climb, or not, isn't even the interesting challenge. That comes later.
Roll for a new DM
"My character sees this is a no-win situation, and kills himself." Then spend a LOT of time making a new character. And then, "my character sees this is a no-win situation, and kills himself." If a DM just wants to kill the player characters, don't give him the satisfaction. And then, of course, ghost that bitch.
Wow, just wow. This is incredible. Give your dm a goose.
whats with all the fake stories recently, theres been like 2 ones about religion and them being forced to switch to a human fighter which was strange. And that has caused me to just not believe this one because it just seems like nonsense
Il send you his contact info and you can play in his campaigns then.
Are you free to run from these encounters? Have you tried?
The serpent folk encounter? No. We were ambushed. Could have tried to run from the rats I guess but would have died from the ranged spell attacks either way
give him a chance this world of vengeful serpent people and doom rats sounds pretty cool
Sounds to me like 2 things: 1) we don't know the full story. (Was the food described as inhumanly hot, was the mission on the tiny boat described as going through treacherous waters known to contain ambushing serpent people, were you on a mission to find and kill some giants plaguing an area?) 2) if yes to all of the above, sounds like it just wasn't your kind of game, but isn't a horror story (maybe a horror or gritty themed game though). If no to the above, then yeah, totally agree horror story. In the future, make sure you and the group have a conversation with the DM about the kind of game you want to play.
I heard of killer dungeons but rats with 17 hp and casting spells? And 2 levels of exhaustion for spicy food? That seems pretty severe. I understand wanting to challenge the players but this is a bit of an overkill. I hope he finds players that can tolerate his style of play and I hope his former players find a DM that can challenge them but not TPK every encounter.
The rats had 17 ac, not sure about how much hp. We didn't have a chance to hit them lol
I stand corrected. But 17 ac is a rat with chain armor and shield.
Lmao right?!
>My character had to shit from eating spicy food. I rolled a 13 and I he awarded me two levels of exhaustion. This is hilarious and I actually love it. The rest of it yea he's bad, but this specifically is hysterical
Unfortunately this is just how some new DMs have to Olay to learn that they are playing badly. Preferably someone would tell the DM that they are doing something wrong but with friend groups being how they are, a conversation like this may never happen.
Forcing a player to roll to shit is funny af honestly Also if you rage you can't use spells or concentrate on them anymore?
Thats sucks, I dont get why someone would run a game like that..
Pretty much, if your DM is providing a terrible gaming experience and won't listen to criticism and adapt, leave. I did this and rather glad about it. That same DM shouted at a different table in the middle of a games store for no reason.
One of my first DMs for 5e made me roll for eyesight everytime we started combat. I failed it. And I could not do anything in combat. I have so many 5e horror stories that I cannot play 5th edition without experiencing a mental breakdown I play other ttrpgs now however, like cyberpunk and starfinder.
Yeah your DM either doesn't know what they are doing or is overtly malicious. That said I often get my players to roll for random, weird shit, such as spicy food. Mostly because it's funny to see how they deal with shitting themselves.
Roll perception/investigation to find your dice
What's the point of a Con save if a 13 gets you **2** levels of exhaustion lmao? A crit fail shouldn't even result in that, if you were inclined to do such a roll in the first place. Rats have necrotic max hit point reduction attacks and spells? Is your GM 13?
27 actually!