>be me , three years ago >be a homeschooled autist who must do his gaming online because social anxiety >sign into giantitp because it was the only gaming forum i knew at the time. >find an interesting campaign idea. Nothing special now that i look back at it. >it was an all evil campaign where the characterstried to become the villains of the next campaign. >join in make character, so on so on. >Dm is a fucking wizardfag. >makes our wizard star of the show >does everything in his power to make everyone second fiddle. >my warrior had higher intelligence. Because eldritch knight >dm calls the subclass class retarded and nonsensical, proceeds tell me to change to one of the purely martial ones or leave
Rest assured, i left
Michael Anderson
>be me why do people keep starting their greentext stories with this shit these days? is it a reddit thing?
shit story FYI you could've started at 'dm is a fucking wizardfag'
Xavier Perez
>tl;dr >Rest assured, i left now if you would kindly do the same again
Parker Ward
>Join random game over interwebs >Unusual format, each session is a one-off for the sake of universe-building >Turns out GM is shit at doing this
>First session >Told we'd be clearing out the sewers due to infestation >Make prissy elf who is only doing it for the promotion >Apparently a bunch of gang kobolds live in the sewer for poorly explained reasons >Try to arrest their leader after fight begins for no particular reason >Also get attacked by allies for dumb reasons, basically end up ignoring it >Final boss is a bunch of slimes >Try to kill them early but GM will not let me despite it being very obvious that statues are disguised slimes >Session kinda boring but okay
>Second session >Told we'd be helping escort a paladin around town so he can cure people afflicted with some sickness >Given ridiculously overpowered armor by GM for some reason >Campaign is extremely boring, literally just following paladin from house to house >wtf is this >Final boss fight occurs for no readily apparent reason, don't even remember what it was >No one is even close to being in danger >Hurray the paladin cured the town >Player actions all felt entirely inconsequential
>Third session >Exploring haunted house >This apparently means killing everything in it with no exploration at all >My character's main ability is basically removed by GM fiat with no notice right before the game starts >Characters decide to play chess >I'm sick and this session was sprung with minimal warning >Leave because this isn't fun, combat isn't even interesting >Kicked >Whatever
I cannot remember a single thing he did to build up the universe's lore other than the paladin in the second session being a raven for some reason. Nothing seemed to have a cause or any consistency, and looking back I should have left a lot sooner.
Hudson Cook
Honestly at this point I just do it to annoy autistic Veeky Forums elitists. >You do something different than me? >You must be from reddit, no other explanation for someone not being identical to me in every way
James Scott
>join a game a while back >all is good for a few sessions >NPCs in our party aside >after an adventure, my character approaches one of the NPCs who hated him because he was a prick >want to talk shit out to understand what the fuck his problem is >NPC goes on a rant about how everything bad in the party is [Character]'s fault >after NPC finishes monologuing, GM mentions how the NPC had his dagger on the artery of my Character since the start of the rant >no perception check, no reflex check, no nothing to notice or do anything about him, stop him mid-rant or anything >I object >I leave, because GM thinks that he was right and seems to like his GMPCs a whole lot more
So much for that shit.
Samuel Wilson
That sounds really shitty.
Dylan Gonzalez
>Friend runs a Game >Asks me to join, why not >Of the other people there, DM lets one guy fudge nearly every god damn roll he made >He never failed any of his checks >He never rolls a 1 >He gets 20's every other time he rolls >Let the DM know that I'm not up for any more games >Asks why >Spew to him everything I just wrote >"Oh, I let him do that because he's in a rut, the game is the only power that he really has" Yeah, but what's the point of playing a game if the chance for failure doesn't exist?
Ryan Walker
That mentality is shit. It's especially bad when GMs manage to convince players to believe this sort of shit, while they would be better off just writing a novel or some shit. I don't know if you could tell from the story, but it was also fairly heavily railroaded. GMs who think that story comes before player choice are the absolute worst.
Thomas James
Unless youre new to gming you really should avoid railroading at all. Take a more minimal approach to questmaking.