DMs Girlfriend Takes Control Of Group, She Destroys It.
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2024
- This is the beginning of a new saga, the Sierra saga. Finally some female representation in the world of those guys.
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Sierra: "I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new empire!"
OP: _"Your new empire?"_
I'll admit, when the OP mentioned about the character who "went from a Paladin to an Anti-Paladin", I completely misinterpreted that in my brain to "Anakin".
@@Zombiewithabowtie "correctly interpreted"
Child Murderer to Child Caretaker
“And yes, her character’s new name became that of a bladed melee weapon.”
THIS IS KATANA. SHE’S GOT MY BACK. I WOULD ADVISE NOT GETTING KILLED BY HER. HER SWORD TRAPS THE SOULS OF ITS VICTIMS.
COULD also be Saber!
Do you know how little that narrows it down? Seriously, I can name several super heroes and villains named after their weapon/weaponized gimmick.
-Big Wheel
-Condiment King
-Green Arrow
-Swordsman
I could go on and on.
@@luigiboi4244 Hell, I have a pair of chain-weapon-wielding supervillain OCs called Grimchain and Deathflail- the latter is a fangirl and copycat of the former. But at least they’re not called Chain and Chainette… though one of them is named Cheney Mace, so… >.>
I almost forgot about that movie, damn you.
Now I want to play a PC named Samurai Sword. Not a samurai named Sword, but a guy actually named Samurai Sword.
He's an artifacter.
Keep in mind, Matt Mercer treats Marisha like just another player while at the table, even making her worry he'll kill her character during a live show like anyone else would.
My fiancé plays in both of my groups and I have heartlessly murdered your PC with no hesitation.
I find he's a good deal more critical of her, whereas with someone like Ashley he's a little more forgiving when a mistake is made.
"We're Golden Gods!"
Gets me every time.
Doesn't mean he wouldn't like to.
In fact, SPOILERS: he DID kill her character very recently.
"If she's not leaving in tears, You're a failure to your peers!"
-CritCrab 2022
Your*
I was just about to comment this 😂
CritCrab for president
@@WobblesandBean wrong
@@LordSeal7 "You're" = "You are". So, you're wrong here.
That weapon solution was absolutely brilliant. She's starting to become childish in a power fantasy and he basically pulls a "nuh uh, didn't happen" from elementary school.
He's fighting her on her level
It was SO cathartic to hear the OP say that.
He did exactly what she asked of him.
He competed with her at her own skill level. xD
GOOD
She must have been absolutely livid that OP dared to oppose her so openly.
mfer got an irl anime power boost out of her sheer pettiness
I love crustaceans my favorite part is where they say “it’s crustacean time” and they crustace all over the place
Last time I crustaced horseshoe crabs evolved
Crustaceans gonna crustate.
@@WobblesandBean what a coincidence I just booked my crustate exam
This is completely unrelated to the point of this story, but now I’m imagining a polycule playing D&D together. Imagine-a game where every player has DM’s partner privilege!
"when everyone is privileged, no one will be"
-Polycule D&D, probably
The one who isn't part of this: *if I am to be the bad guy then so be it let death flow like a river, let blood rain from the sky's, you all shall learn to fear and to survive*
wouldn't be immune to favoritism, sadly
"I roll to seduce the dragon" "Oi, save some for us"
You mean The Dream?
All I'm hearing regarding the Steel Fist is: "I have brought peace and justice to my new Empire"
Your new empire?
And then a whole lot of: "If you're not with me, then you're my enemiiiiiiiieeeeeee...!!!"
Only sith deals in absolute
You were the chosen ones!!! It was said you would destroy the Sith, not join them!! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!!!
I was thinking of a Charlie Chaplin imposter making isane speeches in Europe.
My partner DMd a game i was a player in. There was no preferential treatment and my character got stabbed in a back alley. Relationship goals.
The destruction of that bone blade was poetic. It wasn't a powerful weapon or relic, but rather a symbol of understanding and the DM/Player pact of trust made manifest, and Sierra let it get destroyed. Nothing of major value was even destroyed, but it was what her intentions clearly were. Without actually saying it, she said "I'm going to do whatever I want and you will get punished if you oppose me."
It’s exceptionally ironic;
“Here’s this blade, it symbolizes how I shouldn’t abuse my power as a DM.”
*Sierra, abusing her power as a DM:*
“SMASH!”
To be honest, in any other circumstance, I think the plot laid out in the story is awesome and, in the hands of a good writer, would of made an epic story.
I am working on part two right now and you're absolutely correct. The lore becomes genuinely cool.
I think it's cheesy trash, and I love cheesy trash. No need to sully it with good writing.
It just sucks that it was imposed on a group when not everyone was on board.
Murder hobo power fantasy and pvpfest, perfectly acceptable when stated up front
@@CritCrab It sounds like a WH40k campaign going chaos side. The "moral ambiguity" take seems on character on that setting idk
@@CritCrab I must be one of the luckiest players alive. I've been playing for 45 years. While I have had campaigns die due to life events moving people away from each other, or causing insurmountable schedule conflicts, I have never personally experienced anything approaching most of the stories you cover. At most, we would have someone create 1 bad session, after which they would get a 1-on-1 with the DM. Their behaviors would be listed, along with ways to correct it, and they would be given the choice to either shape up, or ship out. It's a system that, to my direct knowledge, has never failed. 🤠👍
I'm surprised how many of the other players were willing to become Edge Lord murder hobos so quickly.
Yeah, it's suspicious how out of sync the OP is with the campaign where, supposedly, someone else is the problem.
It depends on their age, honestly. They sound like young college brats, perfect timing for the OP anime fantasy to kick in.
Given all of the rewards and free levels they were offered by Sierra...
And it make perfect sense when you keep in mind that Sierra sounds like she was just vindictive as hell.
@@solarchos4352 Or they were just down for the idea of their characters forming an evil stomp-circle around hers
@@MrMViceroy Which sadly seems to be an occurrence that's NOT uncommon based on all the stories CritCrab and others have narrated.
'You gotta bully your partner'
This is why i come here. Quality advice
I may have autism, but even I can register that this is sarcasm.
Along with the quality advice part
@@luigiboi4244 The extent is was taken too was sarcastic but it's not wrong. The only way to prove that you're not showing favoritism is by treating your SO as any other player and sometimes that means. Sicking their characters childhood friend on them while the rest of the party is dealing with their own shades of the past. Bully the whole party during game and no one thinks you're playing favorites.
We only hurt the ones we love.
"Violence is never the answer... Violence is the question, and the answer is FUCK YES!"
-CritCrab.
Using radio code for character names in these stories is at least better than using letters…
All exept Adam (instead of Alpha), but it still works honestly.
I hope "Mike's" real name is Mike.
@@merphul kid named finger
@@klodpraisor Waltuh
@@poppy4155 waltuh, put your dice away
we're not playind dnd right now waltuh
The Bone blade thing is awesome, my signature gameplay mechanic is "Find a sentimental mundane item and treasure it" with the hidden benefit being that this will be turned into a legendary item based on the story of why it is important.
Save a girl from a burning building by holding up the support of a house as it crashes down around you? Carry the support you held up and it will be made into an epic fire staff that if wielded by you can selectively burn only the things you want.
That sounds absolutely metal.
Bard loves their guitar? They're on a journey to enchant the strings with different magics
@@tatersalad76 That sounds fun. Take the hearts and guts of beasts as trophies and use those as strings. Take them get enchanted have the cords enchanted with fire, water, air, earth, light and void.
Now you have the Cromacord now when you cast a spell you can change the damage type or perhaps you can split the damage into opposing types and have a fireball now deal half fire and half water damage.
@@n0etic_f0x half fire and half water damage? Sounds like a home insurance nightmare
i have a player in my current campaign who took their bow as one of their bonds. she's a...relatively standard...wood elf ranger, archer. the bow she made herself (only superficially like vex. but the character was formulated long before the player knew anything about critical role.).
anyway, they just got to a big city that has a magic shop in it. Im sure that she won't want to replace her bow (she's already demonstrated, in character, actual loyalty for it) , but im hoping i can bait her into submitting it for examination to, perhaps, be custom enchanted. All so i can reveal that its actually developed magical properties as a result of her loyalty and bond with it.
How to counter the problem of "One of the players is dating the DM" - Be polyamorous and just date all the players. Now nobody has an advantage!
This feels like the worst possible answer and completely brilliant at the same time. XD
I was thinking you were going towards -date her dad. And I was very onboard with the idea
Dnd *is* the date
How to actually counter the potential issue of "one or more of the players is dating the DM": *_treat them like the other players._* To do otherwise is to not just disrespect the other players, not just disrespect the art of storytelling in general, but to disrespect them.
players in my games: leave because they'd rather spend their free time on tiktok
players in horror stories: will literally subject themselves to torture if it means they get to play more dnd
both love and hate have Incredible magnetic power. but the opposite of love is not hate - it's indifference.
'Bully your partner, it's the only way' - okay that made me laugh. My husband tends to be a very generious DM, and that extends to all of his players. Same with me when he's my player in my games. Giving people things they want mean you can just make the challenges you throw at them even harder!
that's what my husband does in our game. his philosophy is: you get cool stuff and so do the enemies.
Yeah! Give the enemies the cool stuff. IF you manage to beat them, then YOU have the cool stuff, and you've EARNED IT.
My niece likes to design home-brewed, special-for-you items, but it's, like, ONE per PC. One special thing that is JUST for them. So cool! But it's also fair and even, because EACH PC gets one special thing.
Even when it got called out several times that Cierra is trying to bully op and his character I can’t believe it went unaddressed this whole time. It seems like some people where on board for this and the others felt it didn’t involve them.
I think it was more of a case of either A.) the others were new and didn't have much of a stake in things, or B.) they were intimidated by her. The "DM GF" card is a powerful thing.
You better use Sierra from Total Drama for the saga's next thumbnails lol
Hmm....
Brian gang, rise up and treat your loved ones with respect, and try to be aware of your actions!
Brian ganger for life
Being a critcrab fan is forgetting he exists and then getting mildly happy that he posted.
My group tends to have a simple method to keep a "main character" in check, since someone will inevitably catch fire when their concept gels with a setting: make them earn it. They're interacted with more, tested more, actually have to lead the action directly rather than by coincidence, and by the end of any campaign, they're naturally the ones we all rally around, and end up making sure we interact more exactly to keep us from all just being side characters. Legends are made, not born.
Finally! An OP that actually stands for themselves and actually throws that BS back at the problem players.
I physically shivered upon hearing Fate/Stay night heard.
Knowing how.. crazy that series can get, I feel sorry for everyone.
The Fate series crosses SEVERAL lines, but its writing and characters pull a lot of it off. I shudder to think what a...less practiced hand did with it.
"If she's not leaving in tears, you are a failure to your peers!"
CritCrab, you're gonna need to calm it with these one-liners. My face hurts from laughing.
14:36 is poetic, destroying the reminder that symbolizes that no DM should trample on other players and not expect consequences.
Well, if I was dating my GM I wouldn't want him to give me special treatment either. That would just be weird, and it'd ruin the game for me as well.
Yeah, for example if you're "innocent" your partner just gives you unwanted bad attention even if the intentions are good and doesn't mean any harm
Like in school when someone becomes the "teacher's pet"
this is giving 'I have brought PEACE, JUSTICE, FREEDOM and SECURITY to my new empire' vibes
There are 2 ways of seeing this:
1) OP is right, and this thing is terrible
2) OP is the real problem and we have an extremely one sided story, maybe he was envious of sierra and bravo relationship
You know, my husband has turned into my weekly D&D groups main DM, and I am super self conscious about taking a leading role in the game, biting story hooks, even role playing, because I don't want the guys to feel like I'm getting special treatment. The one short lived game I did take the leader position in dissolved after three sessions. I was having a blast, hubby was, and I thought everyone else was too, but they voted to start a different game and I have stayed firmly in the backseat since.
Maybe have a talk with them. I'm in a similar position in that I was once a player in my BF's game and became co-GM, then main DM. worried about eh same issues as you, I practically hamstrung my poor character in my desperation to avoid both being 'the dreaded DMPC' and any accusations of favouritism. After YEARS of this (long-runner game), I finally explained all this and the players told me they wanted my character to do and guide MORE, not less. Relief combined with "Yes, I'm an idiot!" ensued.
The weapon destruction/recovery part reminds me of a fantasy-themed forum I used to be a part of 13-ish years ago. We had a hierarchy based on contributions and activity on the forum which was mirrored by power levels of our PCs/avatars. It was not D&D based but you could compare, say, newcomers to lvl 1-2 characters, veteran active members to 10-ish, and so on up to admin (AKA Grand Master in our setting) power level of 20.
At some point we started doing co-op writing of our adventures with each of us obviously writing from the POV of their respective avatar. One of the few rules was: you couldn't be more powerful in those adventures than your forum rank indicated.
One of our members, a relative newcomer was also the baby of the bunch. He was 15 or 16 when the vast majority of members were in their 20s with a few odd 30-40 yo's. He was a super-anime-otaku obviously molded by shonen genre (hey, I'm a fan too just not obsessed with it). So whenever he was describing his PCs competence in combat you could expect a Bleach/SAO level of fencing mastery whereas his PC would at that point be an equivalent to a level 3 fighter (sorry, samurai, duh!). It quickly became a running gag amongst our group that after each paragraph of his stock-shonen-protagonist shenanigans someone else's character (whoever's turn was it to write) woke him up from a dream on a claim of "you were again shouting and twitching through your sleep, seriously dude get some calming herbs!" before getting the story back on track.
Sure, initially the guy was annoyed that we invalidated his feats just like that but eventually he did get the message and started asking me (I was always on good terms with him despite being the biggest "wakener" and mocker of his achievements) for writing advice that I happily gave him: I explained the importance of hero's journey, power scaling, and all the good classic tropes (hey, you need to know your basics BEFORE you start subverting). Eventually he grew both as a writer and as a valuable member of our community.
When the forum imploded because of a bunch of toxic assholes taking over as admins and their lackeys (I'm no snowlake so I don't throw that word lightly but I draw the line at provoking self-harm to someone with crippling depression, crazy, IKR?) he was one of the few I kept in touch with for several years afterwards. Eventually, as it's common in life, our ways parted permanently, but I still treasure this guy's memory and growth from a hopeless teen fanfic-maker to a blossoming writer with some hidden potential.
He was my apprentice if I ever had one (even called him a padawan both IC and jokingly OOC).
Okay, some of the edge lord transformations could work with tweaks.
The righteous Paladin could have faced an enemy that honor alone was impossible to defeat, the fact that he held to his morals meant many died a needless death. That fear of weakness was exploited by the entity, and cruelly morphed into a mindset of total victory at any cost.
The freedom loving character could simply be turned chaotic evil, where they desire to spread "freedom" no matter who it may harm. Essentially becoming an avatar of pure anarchy.
Basically, make the antagonistes be very clearly corrupted by a higher being. There deepest desires and fears used to twist them into something unrecognizable. They think they are the heros in their own twisted way.
Also remove the targeted attack on OP.
This
Me and the group I play with have just finished our first campaign together, it started off with me, DM and Artificer, but then another person joined a few sessions in, Paladin, and they soon got into a relationship.
It changed ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the game other than adding an extra character arc and after this week of rest and we have another campaign lined up because we loved DMs DMing so much, playing together and our personalities bouncing off eachother like a rubber ball in a space station...
Our group is strong, friendly and equal and it's fantastic. When a group works, it really works.
I saw the person at the beginning of the video and thought it was a face reveal
Never.
Crab reveals his face to us every episode! Crab is crab! I mean, he may use a filter or two to get his shell JUST perfect and sparkling but he's still crab! 🦀
The DM GF’s story might have been actually pretty cool, if the ‘corrupted/amoral’ characters had been NPCs instead of PCs.
I really want to know what happens next!
The changes to Lima and Echo are when I would have walked out of the campaign on the spot. I can see a cleric of love getting manipulated in that direction but adding on Echo’s changes…just nope. I don’t care if a character is designed with scars and sado-masochism, but turning a free spirited character into that overnight, even with the player’s approval, goes well beyond simple manipulation and possession would bring, especially without a half-decent explanation. And the biggest joke is how the already free spirited character becomes less free spirited for the sake of….freedom.
The, "Steel Fist," is such a hacky name... A poor hacky substitute for, "Iron Fist."
Whenever I've dated a gm I've always ended up being a support character focused on keeping the group together and making the gms life easier (this did backfire when we played together because he would complain out of sessions that he was important enough (he had major mcs) so I had to sacrifice my whole in character purpose to him to keep him from throwing a hissy and he expected it because I'd always done it to help him out when gming
"We think that it's good to be entirely liberated and free to do whatever we want even if it's self-destructive... NOW WE WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF CONTROL"
Well, people do legitimately think like that nowadays without realizing the cognitive dissonance...
I dated my dm for a short while (we ended up splitting up with a mutual decision for unrelated reasons), but we absolutely made sure that I as his partner and I as his player were two different entities, and players called us out of things seemed unfair
Ah yes, the start of a new Saga. Always good to see one. Wonder how well Sierra would play with Craig.
"If she's not leaving in tears, you've failed your peers" -Ancient crab aphorism.
If my husband doesn’t treat me like the rest of the table, I don’t want him. I want to be just as bullied as everyone else
I'm so glad my S/O DM breaks my character's back the same as they do to the rest of the party
Nothing better than seeing Critcrab upload after a test
"If she's not leaving in tears, you are a failure to your peers." Something my husband and I live by when we play anything that puts us on opposite teams.
I refuse to let him actually use one specific model when we play warhammer, always nuking it in the first turn, and then he turns around and just wipes my battle sister squads off the table. Any game of cards, you can bet we're going to pick on each other. Hell, even when we're on the same team in shooters we sometimes turn and shoot each other up a little bit. He straight up got me kicked out of an among us lobby after also having me shot into the vacuum of space during the game, just for kicks and giggles.
"If she's not leaving in tears, you're failing your peers."
-Critcrab
having the DM's SO playing is a very common recipe for catastrophe, I've been witness to it.
She demonstrated exactly what happens to those who don't earn power. But she probably considers herself immune or exempt.
So only sort of related but this story got me thinking it might be interesting to do a few sessions in a campaign with doppleganger bizzaro counterparts to your party. It would have to be done properly and respectfully of course, you'd probably have to plant the seeds of it early on maybe even in a session zero kinda thing, but I think there might be some potential there. I might just be thinking this because our DM recently introduced some of our previous campaigns characters as NPC's since they left off in the same place our new party started.
When i was watching it...I was constantly remembering injustice,god among us...shame the GF weren't creative...
The (playful) rant at about the 6:00 minute mark would be a lot funnier to me if that wasn't exactly what my husband did to me the last time he DMed a table where I was a player. XD
He was so worried about showing me any kind of preferential treatment that he veered HARD in the opposite direction. It got to the point that I would have panic attacks before sessions. Took me over a year to realize I should just bow out from that campaign.
“I WILL BRING PEACE, JUSTICE, PROSPERITY, AND SECURITY TO MY NEW EMPIRE” 11:30
YOUR new empire?
Eat goose
Worship crab
This is good advice
This is a reason why I absolutely avoid having a dmpc character in a game and avoid bringing a RL relationship late into a game. It undercuts the expectations and experiences of the other players as well as your partners. When you make it easier for them to enjoy.
The entire idea of pitting players old characters against these newer ones I’d admit does sound appealing if it’s done correctly and have some thought put into the previous characters backstories (like having a character fixated at bring back a loved one and willing to go down that darker path to accomplish it) but my feelings is Serra didn’t much care about that and wanted this huge power goddess trip that the simp of a dm was oh to willingly provide. To have characters simply be edgelords or take a complete 180 in their character is just terrible writing and just makes it feel cheesy if that’s not the tone everyone was going for.
Half this party seems to not understand what amorality is and be on a moral crusade. I’m feeling most this party is just fawning over what ever hill Serra is soapboxing about and just going far out on left field.
Plus I’m going out on a limb as why is the party so fixated at bringing down ops character and the just toxic us vs them mentality Serra has is terrible. Destroying a player’s items just to prove a pissing contest point of this being tuff and ooooh it’s serious bruh. Just makes you look like an insufferable ass. But yes the best response if godmodding is off the table and your dm girlfriend is getting all high and mighty is just tell them No.
What kills me is that a dragon ball esque DND campaign, especially maybe adding the fun goofiness of OG dragon ball, would be awesome
God, love that "You did not destroy this bkade" moment
I watched my entire groups jaw hit the ground as my axe struck her head from her body during an uncontrollable rage from am NPC barbarian she thought she could calm. They and her were in disbelief
When my boyfriend DM’s he goes harder on me 😂 I swear. My friends? Dead. My HP? Constantly at like 2. My sanity? Gone.
Bully your partner? 10/10 dat is da best way to learn how to never know the tender touch of m'lady.
Sounds good!
So far, definitely some red flags and rookie DM behavior here, and yeah, it’s shitty to sideline players in favour of a SO, but honeymoon periods do end.
Hearing this, I am super aware that this is only one side of the story. I actually kind of like the idea of splitting a massive party and have half do a heel-turn, especially with a party of what? 10!? And edge-lord stuff can be fun if it’s done with self awareness and especially since they became the literal bad guys. And their issues with OP’s character? That just sounds like fun conflict to me, does OP suddenly not want the attention? Yeah, their moral logic is flawed but they are literally being the bad guys. I don’t really get OP’s issue with this.😅
Right now, it seems like a lot of the players were having fun, and OP was being a bit of a stick in the mud and getting IC and OOC stuff confused.
But I’m only through 1 of 4 videos about this issue, so I will reserve judgment until the end.
You should probably mention that things like the “leave her in tears” thing was a joke. Some people honestly won’t be able to tell.
I would like to have faith that people are smarter than that.
However... You're probably right.
@@CritCrab Keep the faith! Twas a hilarious joke and any disclaimers that shouted it out as such would have harmed it! Anyone who would take such a joke as legitimate advice was just looking for an excuse to be awful already. You are epic! You are crab! You rock! 🦀
@@CritCrab soul TTP might have a point. I am rather cynical with little faith in humanity. And people who couldn’t tell that is a joke, or be aware of that problem and take things with a grain of salt, will be a problem regardless.
@@CritCrab Have you MET people? Especially geeks like us. Parsing sarcasm is not a skill many of us have.
Wait, it was?! I think I might owe my girlfriend an apology...
Nah, I'm sure she's fine!
i was worried i wasn't doing well dming my first campaign. then i watched this. and i went "welp. at least it's not that"
Im hysterically laughing at king crab saying that the only way to maintain the power balance is to bully your partner. My partner and I run a guild and take turns DM-ing for the same group and honestly, to an extent this is kinda what we do to make sure that fairness is maintained. We've talked about it and agreed to like safety-tool-like terms for it so it doesn't ruin us but we antagonize eachother more than we do any other players and make sure to share time, resources and attention equally with everyone while playing the respective games. If we wanna be all lovey dovey and gross we can do that in our free time. Nobody wants to be the third wheel and subjecting multiple people to that at once is gross.
I know that everything can happen in life, but this story feels kind of made up or at least altered to make it more interesting to read. At least with the dagger situation, there should have been more interaction with the DM or other players, it probably got boiled down to the main conflict, between op and the gf, to make it look like op won on his own, but he was probably not the only one not ok with the situation or he would have been over ruled.
I totally agree that the DM/GM should never show favoritism, especially not to a SO, I will say though that as the partner of a DM it's just as detrimental to your group to straight up bully your partner.
I've been there, of course that isn't what they ment to happen but one extreme is just as bad as the other, and it sucks for all involved.
All of these people, OP included, sound exhausting to play with.
Lmao "if she's not leaving in tears you're a failure to your peers" yoink stealing that
I think CritCrab is far too trusting of these posts. This story sounds like utter nonsense.
I want to say this after mulling The Steel Fist's motives. They're basically the defense of Megatron's morality from Transformers in the Aligned Continuity. If no one knows, the Aligned Continuity was meant to make a streamlined Transformers Universe. In this universe, Megs was morally grey and leaned more to the dark than light. But this is flawed because Megatron chose violence because he "felt betrayed by Optimus (Orion Pax at the time)". There's a hypocrisy the Aligned Continuity makes when trying to adapt the ruthless Megatron we know into a morally grey person.
If she's not leaving in tears
You are a failure to your peers
~Critcrab
Man this line made my day xD
yes, 100% bully your partners. My characters are annoyed but his characters presences 😂 that’s our dynamic in game
Strangely I have never had my romantic relations go poorly (to my knowledge) I tend just to give my husband incredibly awkward encounters that would be rude if we did not know each other. We are gay so of course, all the women love him. A night hag that just revealed she was a night hag to be with him as "The real her" kicking off a boss fight.
Ok, you need to tell this story. I wanna know more about this bound to be incredibly hilarious campaign, and story.
@@T-verseTrevor To preface this my whole table is gay guys, and the table is very hospitable to adult themes and we are all 24/7 horny on main, so yeah the table is *very* NSFW.
So the Hag is leading our players along and pretending to aid them but long story short she is actually just having them kill some dark fey she is at a major disadvantage against but is also a threat to the town. One of these dark fey turns out not to actually be evil and is thankful for them slaying these creatures.
The saved dark fey is a kind of satyr, so he is magically attractive and they have the gay tryst and the Hag guide is none too happy about this and they have the whole “Let’s just be friends” argument. The Hag in desperation show off her power and drops the guise, in the middle of an inn, with the satyr still there.
The fight becomes keeping both the satyr and my husbands PC alive the satyr is able to grossly debuff the Hag if they just took her in a straight fight it would be a TPK easy but they get the fight and slay the Hag who just want from making lewd advances to my husband to trying to destroy the town that she was terrorising.
So yeah this is how I put my husband in the spotlight, he is not an OP god he is the catalyst of nearly getting the party killed in some way they tend to be hideously awkward.
@@n0etic_f0x That's hilarious.
🤢
Man, when I played games where I was dating the DM, I always got shafted in everything, my character could never succeed at anything and they were prime target for being attacked. My bf claimed 'didnt want to show favoritism'. I dont know which is worse..
When you put Zack Snyder to do the sequel of your light hearted movie.
I am the partner of a dm, in our current ongoing game we had a few sessions where we went through a large dungeon and pretty much every enemy we encountered would usually have a focus on my character. My character gets too close to something out of curiosity? Bam! Its a slime, she gets enveloped and now is suffocating. Walking innocently? Bam! Face hugger bats attack her and one other player. It got to the point where we had a running joke of 'Hey babe, did i do something?' in a light hearted way, it was all in good fun
Same, he's great at it and I'd never ask to shoehorn myself into his campaign like this.
this idea for a story where the PC's of a previous campaign being hyper evil versions of them selves could be a cool idea for a one shot or mini campaign in like a Transformers: Shattered Glass type way where the Autobots were evil and the Decepticons were good. You just have to make sure everyone is down for it and it will have no effect on the other versions of their characters
They literally pulled an Attack on Titan with that one lmao
This is sounding like Rings of Power. 🤣
"more free and do what you want"? That sounds like a villain to me.
There is a curse upon my games, if the damned words "It's what my character would do" are uttered, their character would be transformed, irrespective of level or class, into a Level 1 Life Domain Cleric
As a DM, when I get a girlfriend, she's gonna play just like everyone else. If she takes too much damage and falls to 0 hp in combat she is knocked unconscious same as everyone else
Ngl, I feel like OP is probably more at fault than he lets on. First red flag is playing 40k Batman in a fantasy setting. It's just about as cringe as playing an anime character or a S&M body modder. A lot of his mentions of being "specifically targeted" by Sierra, just seem like roleplay scenarios that he fumbled. Like "Oh no, the villains of this campaign destroyed this largely symbolic dagger that my character didn't need for combat and specifically singled me out as the their direct ideological counterpart. This is godmoding and I'm going to immediately retcon it at the table." Like, that's a real softball plot hook that he just whiffed completely. For a guy who goes onto say that he was more concerned with story than minmaxing, that makes me raise an eyebrow.
Also "railroaded their relationship at my expense" is real hater energy. Reading some subtext here, it seems like OP was initially trying to create a partnership in game with Sierra and got pissy at her when she decided she wanted to RP romance with the dude she was actually dating. Just saying. Don't think OP is that much better than the girl he's dunking on.
"If she's not leaving in tears, you're failing your peers."
-CritCrab, 2022
Best "bros before hoes" alternative I have ever heard.
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Her campaign idea feels like the Fate franchise on crack.
How did this get recommended to me 2 minutes after it was posted
I'm the GF of my groups DM. He does not give me any special treatment. He tells me my ideas are stupid if they are stupid and the party splits loot fairly. The only thing I get is some insider knowledge after games and I have ownership of the discord. This is fine because i dont know how to use discord and couldn't lock it down or anything if I wanted to.
omg they use YU-GI-OH logic. i'm just waiting for someone to blow up the moon! lol
My partner and I became friends through DnD, and from the beginning he made it clear to me and everyone else at the table that he will not play favorites as a DM. He's been true to his word, and I think the games are way more fun for it
So basically Sierra made the Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel of their campaign.
7:13 This is literally just the plot of Mother 3.
...when I heard the description of the group's "new ideals" I simply sighed hard, made a quick right hand flip that ended in an open palm forward, and said "Sieg Heil".
Bet you can guess why.
they were mocking the guy for not selling out, LMAO
That uno reverse card though lol
In the end, this is mainly Bravo’s fault.
1. He had a DMPC. NEVER use DMPCs.
2. He brought OOC into IC. There should be almost no parallels between you, and your character should be different people, even if they look and act similarly.
3. If your “main character” is overpowered, they should face exponentially harder challenges then they could handle in order to gain more power. Extreme challenge = extreme rewards. That is balance.
"You gotta bully your partner... to show you're not a simp." Move over Tate, we got a new top G in the house
So a group destroyed by the DM's favorite person. How ironic
The only advantages the DM's SO get are seeing how hard they work, maybe contributing a bit more to world building than others due to proximity, and maybe designing the occasional npc for a game you're not part of. It is the responsibility of the DM's SO to make sure they take care of themselves, don't over work, help them through burn out, be their critic and their cheer leader.
You don't get special treatment in game. You can can joke about it, but it should never actually happen.
this sounds like the story to a certain anime where all the "good" guys are actually horrible people, starts with a A