Have a session after two weeks of not playing

>Have a session after two weeks of not playing
>Another PC and mine have in-character tension, so I try to resolve it in character
>He is a cleric, so I come to his dreams as his deity telling him to lighten up essentially
>Both our characters got introduced in the last session
>Me: "Ok, uhh, what was your characters name again?"
DM and Player: "You don't remember his name in Game now either. I've forgotten people's names in real life before, so your character did too."
>I spent all last session with this character, using his name
>Have to make an INT save and a percentile roll just to remember his name
>pass, to which the DM replies "Looks like you whined enough to let the DM give you what you wanted"
>Player drops all rollplay during the dream sequence and acts like I kicked his puppy

Hot diggity, I sure do like it when trying to do anything other than going along with the DM's story is met with harsh resistance. What are some other times when something so absurdly dumb has happened to you at the table? How did you react?

One time I read the OP.

>go into his dreams as his deity

I'd say drop it at that point - if the GM wishes to act as if remembering the name (which you actually remembered rather than badger him for the answer to) of a person you've interacted with heavily recently is something terrible, you're not there to be interesting characters or at least you're supposed to be to him, you're there to be blenders for him to throw monsters into or to force a barely held together narrative that is only possible if things go exactly as he wishes. That, or he's out to see you fail.

oh boy are you in luck today boi, I've played several campaigns with shit in it

>first dnd experience
>dnd 4e
>roll up tiefling fighter
>DM doesn't explain how attacks work or that I'd probably need strength to be good
>everyone else is in the same boat of suffering with terrible stats
>DM calls us retards
>we start the thing by going into a dungeon
>other player, warlord, jokes about pushing me forward because I'm tank man
>DM rolls and says that I'm pushed down the stairs
>while falling down the stairs some goblin shoots me with a crossbow for half my health
>take an assload of falling damage
>fall into a room with a slime
>the DM has it auto hit me without any rolls
>die due to an acid DoT
>rest of the party gets critted to death by the goblin
>later find the manual he is using and see that it's meant for level 5 characters

>next dnd experience was with the same DM
>same character but actually kinda roleplay
>no idea what's even going on
>the world is just boring and grey as the DM gives no time to what things look like, it's just enemies
>the DM refuses to use a map so we're stuck trying to use theater of the mind
>he and the warlord are at odds with each other because the DM is using the errated rulebook which he refuses to share with anyone so he's enforcing rules we don't know about
>at some point in combat warlock gets poisoned and he's taking that DoT poison damage
>supposed to be a save but the DM gives no save
>and every 6 seconds irl the player takes damage whenever we start getting even slightly off topic
>eventually gets a save and passes it, which makes the DM angry
>we return to town and the ranger goes off to buy a sword
>since we're new he doesn't know that swords aren't that expensive
>DM overcharges by 30 gp because "lol ur character doesn't know either!"
>don't show up to the next session forever

don't worry there's more

>the DM refuses to use a map so we're stuck trying to use theater of the mind
This is the worst. OK, maybe the second worst. The real worst is making your maps with Donjon's random maze generator.

Damn, that's worse than me

He's a pastafarian, so I got to be a wriggling mass of spaghetti

Yeah, our characters feel like interchangeable pieces that make no difference in the world, because they kinda are. I think he is out for me, cause we don't see eye to eye on certain dnd topics and my characters are strong so he has a hard time dealing with them (properly). Also, other party members can paralyze and modify memory and be praised for good rp, but I make someone dream something and I'm a villain in and out of game.

Geez, that's some bad GMing. I hate how some GMs just houserule things radically different and don't mention it until it happens and you get fucked over because of it. I would like you to keep posting more, but I have work for the next 8 hours. Tommie some "good" stories to come back to!

Theatre of mind can be ok in my experience, but I can see why people wouldn't like it

>hear there's another dnd thing but the DM is different
>there's also free food so I show up
>the DM is still the guy from before
>whatever atleast I get brownies and a ride
>it's tomb of horrors as I find out later, but he calls it "the dungeon of rewards" or whatever
>we start it in a different dnd edition with generic characters rolled up for us in advance
>I'm a rogue or something
>we find a tomb with 50 trapped tiles
>30 minutes of fucking rolling to check for traps in each tile
>we tried to do a general check but he said it's less fun
>we take no damage after all this misery
>eventually we get to the end and there's a face on the wall
>I throw something at it to see what happens
>I get sucked in and die instantly
>there's no doors in there so the rest of the party runs away
>they go into another tombish area
>the DM starts to count down irl with irl seconds
>the players leave before he finishes
>he choices that one of them is stuck behind and is sealed in the tomb
>the last alive player runs away to get help
>DM says the rocks fall on the sealed player so he dies anyway
>me and the sealed player call the DM out as this being super shitty and boring
>he says "I hate you guys anyway" and leaves, never to be seen again

>later warlock friend finds him on gmail, flirting with a young boy, calling his feminine voice cute
If I still knew the email I'd find it and share


Theater of the mind is pretty awful in most cases, the exceptions being like a slug fest between two melee people

I'll make sure to post all of the shitty experiences

>after that nightmare the warlord player was still up for more dnd
>we get some guy to do it
>he doesn't show
>we tell him to fuck off
>we get another guy
>he's a gronard
>whatever, hope he can learn 4e
>things are going well
>playing a wizard with a group of diverse classes
>pretty fun
>we're in a trade caravan and we find out that there's some pony from my little pony locked inside of a cage
>my character doesn't like slavery so he lets it out
>it melts the people who were paying me
>whatever, I guess I can loot them
>we get +3 shit at level 2
>things go smoothly for awhile
>I've forgotten a lot of what has happened because a lot of it was a little boring
>the DM has to go off and get surgery so other people step up
>i'll talk about that after this

>brony DM returns
>things are going slower because pain meds and all that, but I'm willing to wait
>never really speeds up
>at a certain point we're stuck in a spooky hospital
>not like a hospital with like bonesaws and plague doctors, but like a modern day hospital
>there's nurses who are just flesh golems several levels above us
>we get knocked out because they just attack with syringes that make us fall asleep
>eventually we all have to crossdress as nurses to escape
>but oh no, the elevator to escape is spooky
>there's a floor full of fetuses
>and a floor where there's some guys who throw up black hair at us for some reason
>and then we get stuck inside a cabin that's spooky
>it's actually creepy but then it just causes everyone to lose their minds
>except for me
>I detect illusion and dispel it using dispel magic
>we then get stuck in the elevator but now it's inside of world where we get anything we want
>whatever dispel after I sleep in the elevator while the entire party gets their dicks wet
>it starts to fall apart after that, the campaign
>it's just wandering around
>all of it's charm has washed away into a dark ocean of shit just happening
there's more

>it starts to infect the players
>friend drops out because he's bored
>fighter reads about what chaotic neutral means and just starts murdering people like a slasher villian
>ranger does that to be edgy then quits campaign
>rogue starts trying to seduce everyone
>then gets self conscious so he makes another character who has PTSD
>he actually says "I have PTSD, please don't shoot fireballs"
>then a pony fucks the PTSD so hard he dies so the rogue comes back for some reason
>we go off to shoot some guy for some reason
>we kill him super fast
>but killing him was a trap card because it means that the way we got in magically disappears nonmagically, so we have to go through hell
>it's just boring at this point
>start to dissolve in the black sea and start stealing whatever I wanted
>combat rarely happens anymore
>the fighter has started to make convoluted killing devices
>it takes up most of the sessions now
>eventually he starts only showing up for half the session so a new campaign is made in 5e
>I'll talk about that later because it becomes a shitshow
>fighter starts a campaign even though he can't show up
>we play it

>it's 5e and I understand the mechanics of it, so I make a better character
>we're told that it's about roleplaying so our group doesn't have a lot of investigation
>we start inside of a large room that's not lit right
>we were warped there or something
>there are some rooms, most of them pointless, except for one
>there's a room with a fucking dragon siting in it
>there's also a box that, no matter what you put in it, it spawns something
>there's a small chance for a gun
>that does (1d6+dex mod)x10 damage
>most of the session is just rolling stuff up because there wasn't anything interesting or to do
>we somehow get out of the area to some bridge in a fake world to shoot normal bandits
>after we shoot the guys we get warped back into the shitty area
We all quited and never saw the fighter again, never responded to my emails

>while brony dm was sick everyone except for ranger and fighter tried to run a game

>warlord and warlock decided to co dm
>I didn't have the heart to tell them that wasn't a good idea
>the notes we got for what was going to happen was that there was a monster city
>make monster PC that's unoptimal but atleast I'll have fun
>find out we're not allowed to play as monster races
>and that there's not a monster city
>it was all lies
>just make a more optimal build as a different race with no understanding of the setting
>whatever it works, it's just "go find some fucker and gank him fuckers"
>warlock says "Welcome to Die" and talks about how hard things will be
>whatever I made a good character, I deal with this shit
>we go off to gank bandit
>there's some loser who's guiding us because we wanted to ride in a cart instead of walking
>some goblins run over to stab us
>fighter, who's playing a rogue, decides to shoot at goblins without combat advantage
>misses all shots, never succeeds anything
>me and ranger, who's a psion or something, destroy the goblins because minion rules
>DMs were really mad they didn't kill off the loser guiding us
>we capture a goblin
>the DM roleplaying as him is making lots of fish out of water noises
>laugh because it sound stupid
>he gets mad at me
>rogue stays behind with the cart while me and psion go explore to find some tracks
>we get trapped without any perception rolls
>an entire goblin army runs up to shoot us
>we kill them all
>DMs are fucking furious that it didn't even manage to kill either of us
>we come back with some wounds
>heal up and head out to shoot bandit
>we go the wrong direction and we find a door that leads to an area where the dms haven't planned
>we go back to shoot bandit
>they walk off into my kitchen, because I was hosting, and talk for over an hour about what to do
>when they come back I tell them dual dms is a shitty idea
>they get mad at me

>we see the bandit camp and it's night
>rogue decides it's time to be good for once in his life and sneaks in
>gets a good roll too
>while walking around, a elfguy who was inside of his camping tent steps out, magically knowing where the rogue was somehow
>he alerts the entire camp
>rogue runs back to us with entire camp on his ass
>session ends there
>dms decree that we lose 20% of our max HP to make the game harder

>next session of the DMs becomes a PC
>despite coming up with a majority of the story and shit
>rogue from earlier is now assassin class, and rogue who was fighter disappeared because he wasn't there that day
>we all go over to shoot elf guy
>elf guy uses his bow to shoot me with arrows that hit against reflex instead of AC
>I get infected with aids or something
>elf guy dies
>he wasn't supposed to but I slaughtered him
>DM gives up
>campaign dies there and then

>Assassin decides to DM
>not really much to mention besides it's full of references
>we encounter shrek, McGuiver, Moonty Pythoon, Donkey from Shrek, Obama, Geralt of Rivia, and homer simpson
>otherwise it's just a rip off of brony campaign because it follows direct elements
>the combat sucks and the boss of some place kills himself so we don't get XP
>it all tumbles down the stairs and ends

The brony's 5e campaign I feel like is bad because after the surgery the DM was never really the same

>not a single player is human in my upcoming game
>closest is either an aasimar or a tiefling
>this part of the setting is mostly dominated by humans

Not that guy, but I had a good experience in a game similar to that. We were a bunch of misfit special snowflakes who bonded through circumstance and became a makeshift little family.

Until the GM let some character bickering derail into straight up character infighting, and the party crumbled and ended up going their separate ways as a result. That was fun for different reasons though.

the 5e campaign was just really bad
>combat at low levels was fine
>it was hard sometimes but fun
>later it become more and more apparent the DM was just winging it and not in a skillful way
>he used more and more weak monsters in small numbers, making combat a walk in the park
>to make things "hard" he decided to make his own monsters and traps
>with powers that don't get saves, it just works
>me and warlord got into fights with the DM over this because of how bad it is to do that
>whenever my character passes a save the DM cites that as a source to do more attacks with no save
>custom enemies don't get pluses to damage, nor prof added to hit
>no good saves
>overtime combat has just become a rarity

>narratively the campaign is about a man's quest to slay a god, with a group of people behind him to help him do it
>it's pretty fine and all
>but it's gotten bogged down in hideous amounts of filler
>stupid shit everywhere that we need to deal with despite being 20th level
>most NPCs are dumb unlikable retards who only exist to waste time
>we have to do the most boring and stupid side quests for reasons I can't even remember
>several sessions (roughly 7 hours a piece) doing what could done within mere hours

>the DM has an obsession with not letting us feel powerful despite 20th level
>won't us fight demon lords because he says they're not powerful enough
>we encountered a demigod once who just instakilled us without a save or action
>we have to get more powerful people to deal with shit for us
>eventually at some point we have to fight a giant piece of shit that has resistance to all damage, 500 HP, is immune to magic of 3rd level or lower, and does barely any damage
>just there to get shit on us
>DM gets really pissed when we say that's awful

So what? Adventurers are not ordinary people, they don't have to reflect the general population demographics.

We're all friends out of game. Our last attempt at an RPG didn't go well, but that's because another friend we aren't including this time was the DM. He's still our friend, but he doesn't mesh well with RPGs, honestly.
True, but they certainly are going to be getting some weird looks in town (especially the tiefling, since there was a massive war with demons just a little while ago in my setting)

I know the feeling of not feeling powerful; our party is all level 18, but everyone and their mother has some ability to negate spells, abilities and cool stuff we could do, so there's no real point we feel like we're actually level 18. Also all his story npcs are usually condescending, super powerful and always have a way to one up us

Have you ever been part of a sane campaign?

I had one GM who wouldn't give us any gear whenever we beat an encounter and would always describe how we destroyed the enemy's equipment somehow whenever we beat them.

He also had a terrible habit of equipping enemies with loot that's way above the level we were supposed to fight them too just to make the game more difficult for us, except that it was never really all that difficult since he was shit at tactics and barely had any idea how the system worked.

>>the DM has an obsession with not letting us feel powerful despite 20th level
Having players feel weak even at level 20 was an intentional design goal of 5e.

Oh boy I've got a good one.

Whenever we struggle with an encounter, which is to say, most of them, because we are constantly outclassed, outnumbered, and our intel is always bad regardless of how much we investigate, scry, scout, etc both in character and with skill checks, our GM will bust out his pet DMPC to "save us."

It's getting fucking old and it's humiliating that he keeps jerking off this NPC, but I don't have any other game options IRL so I tolerate it even though it's shit. I've brought it up to the GM before and he just brushes it off, like it's not a big deal and to "do better next time," even though he is constantly fucking us on rolls and logistics father transparently.

Now, one of the other players loves this shitty, awful DMPC, to the point where I suspect there's something more going on under the table, or after hours. Now I'm not gonna judge but keep this fetish assplay shit out of my dungeon romp. I tolerate it, because I have no other choice.

Even worse is this one faggot in the group who gets mega angry every time the DMPC shows up. I'm on his side of course but because he's so undiplomatic about the whole thing and the DM knows it pisses him off, I suspect that that's half the reason this little shit gnome keeps showing up. So I resent this cuck too because he's playing himself and I'm the one getting caught in the crossfire and I just want to fight dragons and RP my flawed but valiant knight. I'm getting real sick of the "Gnome of Poor Decisions" or whatever the fuck the DM calls this dumb bitch. The worst part is the DM insists everyone likes this joke character that completely defuses any tension or investment in the game and that we don't get mad or resent him for it when we have clearly expressed that we do and only his buttbuddy likes it. I guess we're just too broken to fight back anymore.

Next time he shows up I'm gonna run him through and take his fucking rod of wonders, because it's what "my character would do."

>gnome
>rod of wonders
>assplay?

M-macaroni, is that you?

TEE HEE HEE

MACARONI MACARONI

How many fucking variations of Macaroni pasta are there?

>Until the GM let some character bickering derail into straight up character infighting
How is it the GM's fault that the players bickered until they wanted to fight each other?

>his story npcs are usually condescending, super powerful and always have a way to one up us
yeah that's the true pain right there, I fucking hate it when it doesn't matter if we could explode all the demon lords in a boss rush marathon without death, because there's always something more narratively powerful

I've played a kinda sane campaign, it was shitty, so I guess I'll post about it in after this post.

good fucking lord that's fucking awful, in the 5e one I forgot to mention that a lot of enemies had scrolls of high level spells so they could be weak (meaning no xp) but could blast our shit in

Yeah but at 20th level, with a party of 4-5 (including good casters) you could pretty easily take out the toughest thing in the game, with some proper planning of course.

What the fuck is wrong with donjon

To be fair, it's not the fact that there exists people who are stronger than you, it's the fact that the GM is artificially scaling the overall level of the setting so that EVERYTHING you come across is stronger than you.

Like I'm in several campaigns ATM where our characters are past the "halfway point" as far as character progression goes and we've had moments where we both curbstomped the shit outta people who challenged us and were under threat of being curbstomped because we encountered someone who was vastly beyond our level of skill.

Yes the artifical scaling is what hurts it, when fucking ants get psychic powers just to be threatening it's gone to far

Sane campaign was run by the warlord, who irl I like and stuff, he's a good player when playing with or a good player when DMing for him, just this campaign was maybe the worst campaign I've played
>basic premise is you're in a city
>it's special because it's floating and tethered to the earth by magic chains that don't really matter narratively
>I'm unsure of how this happens, but another guy, who's playing a sorcerer, and the DM work together to make a vengeance plot
>but the way he's going to do it is by starting a shop so he can rip off the guy he wants to gank
>alright that sounds dumb but I'm sure they worked together enough to figure out how that'll work
>we got a guy who can sing good for sales and a robot guy who can build anything
>perfect team set up for this
>the first session is almost pretty good
>we just go over to the trash pile to steal metal for supplies
>we find some magic items that we have no idea what they do, besides a sword that can charm with the word "mikey" and a heart on it
>though inside of the trash pile we encounter a slime that does 8 damage on a miss with an AOE
>when our characters had 13 to 16 hp
>we manage to slay it despite this set back
>afterwards on our return to the shop we encounter a guy selling soap for most of our budget
>it might be magical but I can't check to see if it's magical or not because it takes awhile to do that
>Whatever we don't buy his maybe!magic soap and leave
>next session is when everything starts to burn a little

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>the start of the session starts with detect magic getting nerfed so it can't detect which school things are
>make joke about how I could start a business with skeletons and no one could tell if it was just animate object casted on bones
>DM tells me that people could tell whether or not it's necromancy by look
>the sword detected as being enchanting before the session I made some comment about making the user a wiene instead of being worth a damn
>we start the shop accounting shit with prices and profits and all that shit
>irl I love accounting and making spreadsheets so it's kinda fun
>other players look like they would rather be eaten by a horde of meth addict wombats
>if it was all automated without having to roleplay each customer it'd be fine
>because that'd be really boring
>but we do
>so it's like a real job without the pay check, the ability to steal staplers, or being able to goof off
>after two customers two orcs come in demanding money
>sorcerer has the magic sword, so he pulls it as the only person with prof with it
>has to make a cha save
>he fails
>the sword makes him a wiener so he gives the orcs all of our money
>we're fucking penniless now and my character thought he was legit scared because he didn't expect the fucking thing to do that
>everyone's fucking mad
>eventually I just destroy the sword by transmuting it into pure gold
>since it's a magic item it should be worth a lot, because transmutation in the game works like 1:1, but with a 100 gp limit
>DM says since I can only get 100 gp, so not the entire thing, that I only get 3 sp because I'm just only able to break it
>whatever, atleast the sorcerer is free
>next time we see orcs we just beat the shit out of them
>get back 1/3rd our money
>enough to kinda live
>after some more customers and the sorcerer falling asleep on the sofa, two thugs come in
fucking character limit

>these thugs are narratively badass, one of them is carrying a super huge pole thing
>they say something about wanting protection money
>sorcerer, owner of the shop and apparently guy who's lived in his town for most of his life narratively, doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about
>we tell them to fuck off because we're adventurers at a desk job
>they leave, annoyedish
>whatever
>at some point guy who can sing for customers goes out to sing with some shit
>he sells some and sees something
>it's a fucking worm that's rampaging
>singer gets ready with his sword to stab the worm
>but then some NPC jumps out and kicks the worm, without any rolls, and it auto pacifies
>singer is cucked out of being cool
>coolnpc shows up and says something about being cool
>some guy walks up and wants payment for punching the worm without consent, saying it wouldn't fuck up the streets
>demands a jewel that coolnpc has
>coolnpc explains that it's super rare and his mother gave it to him, so it means a lot
>somenpc wants it anyway
>singer yells at somenpc, calling him a "fat richbitch who can't control his own worm because his dick is too small that his wife fucks the worm"
>the sorcerer laughs in his sleep
>DM ignores singer and continues with the agruement over the jewel
>eventually it's lost and the singer is just angry
>leaves
>sees coolnpc is actually a homeless man and is a drug addict
>invites coolnpc to live in the shop
>he says sure
>in the shop it's completely revealed that coolnpc was only cool because of drugs and has no interest in doing anything to improve his life
>doesn't want a job, food, or to be decent
>eventually he disappears from the shop
>like he doesn't leave, the DM just stopped talking about him

>singer is out on the town at some point
>random man invites him to a party
>singer goes to the party
>me, being burly transmutor warforged, gets sent to make sure he isn't ganked by orcs or something
>at the front of the party there's an in joke
>which is fine I guess but it's just a sign of "nothing important will happen here"
>which comes true, as the party is only there for a possibility for drugs to be taken
>singer no wants drugs and neither does my character so we just leave
>to this day the singer says that we were supposed to take drugs so the story would happen

>the singer goes to the rich part of town to the magic acedemy to sell magic learning tools
>he's rolling cha checks right, left, and center, always high numbers
>he even gets a 20 at some point, but it was so draining no one gave a shit
>not even the DM
>despite all this, the usage of some spell that charms people and compels people to buy shit, no one there wants to get anything
>the DM has a guy walk up and call the singer vane because he was offering the service of getting a sword with your name put on it, with like a carving of something cool like a naked chick or a horse
>this was basically the revenge plan, to sell magic learning tools so we could become a supplier to the magic school so we could gank the villian who works there
>and it won't work ever
>the DM told the sorcerer it would work
>so now it just makes the sorcerer, in character, look like some retarded homeless man with no idea what's happening
>the story is broken now, the entire plan won't work, we have nothing but a shop and some gold
>we don't even have the drive to continue
>but we do because we're dumb and were afraid to quit

>at some point a necromancer asks us to find some skeleton weed from the sewers
>we go because need money
>first we need to get someone to watch the shop so it doesn't get burnt down by orcs
>we have to get a gang to watch it for us
>great, we go find a gang
>they say we have to take to the mob boss
>we have to go to an italian restarent where he is
>I stay behind because our shop would get destroyed otherwise
>the guy is willing to do it, but he's so mad over us not accepting the first offer, that he doesn't want money
>he wants us to become a generic shop that sells nothing special because he wants all the special shit
>he wants the magical learning aids
>this is all taking a long time and the DM interrupts people to say the guy cuts steak
>I'm asleep on the sofa now
>eventually I get awakened because the singer is yelling at mob boss, calling him a faggula and all that
>DM ignores this and the mob boss demands the learning aids
>eventually the sorcerer gives in and just plots to rip off the mob boss and shoot him if he tries anything
>now we're able to go into the sewers
>we see a troll that's kinda hurt that violently attacks us
>we're underleveled for it so it almost murders me and the sorcerer
>but thankfully a janitor armed with a bottle of sprayable acid appears to shoot the troll
>he finishes it off and says "it was my privilege" then disappears
>we find a town of misfit monsters that are an injoke
>none of them want to do anything more than be bored
>we eventually find the skeleton weed and return to the surface
>except we're attacked by violent lizardfolk who only want to murder us
>we murder them and we're barely alive

>we find some guy who's dead
>we report it to some civvies because we're barely alive and carrying skeleton weed
>the civvies say we have to go the police station
>we do for some reason, I don't remember anymore
>the police waste irl time and do nothing
>there's a reference to some other campaign that we ignore
>we give it to the necromancer and he reveals he's a necromancer
>we don't even care and we get our paycheck
>we quit it after that

>at some point in this mess several things happened that won't ever leave me
>after the slime fight and several days, my character (warforged) starts to get rust on him because he didn't bathe
>but he did, he showered
>everyone in the party vouches for me
>after 20 minutes of arguing the DM decides there's still rust
>he says the magic soap would get it off
>just scrap it off with a rock
>it works
>it was all pointless and anger inducing
>same thing happens when we need to hold onto a secret document, so I just keep it inside of my mouth
>no salva or anything to ruin it
>oh apparently it melted anyway
>say if my character knew this shit I wouldn't have done this
>still happens anyway because the DM is stubborn

>sorcerer is some hexblade/sorcerer multiclass so he can just be cha/con man
>hexblades have a power source that's like a magic sword
>or something related to fighting
>instead he gets a dream
>where a frog comes out of the toilet and gives him magical powers so he's a hexblade now
>he also got dreams from the cursed sword, of some guy saying "lol I'm gonna haunt u" and then getting crushed by rocks
The reason this annoys me is that we (the party) were able to see how perfectly this could've worked, just make the sword the patron and that it's an intelligent item that could lead us to revenge, but instead it was just was just a joke.

there's some more

>singer originally wanted to be a gladiator fighter type
>DM says sure, they'll be fighting pit and cool shit
>it never fucking shows up in the campaign, ever
>the player spells out what he'd like and shit, but the DM fails to give anything even close to that
>just nothing

The main issue with the campaign was just that there was no story and it was just sitting around in a world that had some details, but not fun ones.
There was a setting notes document that I was hoping to find to see what else there was in the setting, but he deleted it.