The elf women enslaved by orcs part sounded like something straight out of a hentai plot. I honestly don't understand why these types of DMs don't just write erotica instead of forcing their fetishes on players.
My guess is "interactive". The same way as girls, women get harassed in PM-s for intim photos, when there are free intim photos everywhere on the internet. Same type of creep.
@@Starflower731 homosexuality is unnatural I don't give a damn what you say and alot of those ancient cultures that imbraced those practices they fell apart and got conquerored by there enemies say what you like I don't agree with gay lifestyle it's wrong its against nature and God.
I disagree. Im running a campaign now where the colors matter but they wont know until they collect the armor. They are learning a little bit as they adventure. Some things need to be kept secret.
@@coreyrose5875this has nothing to do with you tho lol. The dm clearly was hiding it just so he could make sure that no matter what the female elf character picked, it would always be creepy.
Okay but "Prismatic" is literally the coolest term I've heard to describe LGBTQIA+ people? Like. Anon is an awful person, don't get me wrong, but I *ADORE* "Prismatic" as a descriptor for the community, I've never heard it before.
I'm sorry to say, but it's highly likely that that's not the word he meant to use. He was likely attempting to use the word "pragmatic", which approximately means "sensible". It's a commonly used word in similar situations. My guess is he heard it used verbally, and was attempting to quote someone, but didn't actually know what word was used, and so he used a word which sounds similar.
@@Mewman115 I think the asshole was referencing our flags. They are very...rainbow (i.e. "prismatic")-flavored, I'll admit. Or maybe you're just joking, in which case, sorry. But that was my guess on what he was thinking with that word.
I'm a straight white guy, and I've never had trouble finding people to play D&D with. Just saying. I'm amazed at the number of DMs out there who try to trick players into acting out their wank fantasies. If they would be up front about the kind of game they want to run, they could probably attract players who were into the same things, and everyone could have fun. But I suspect that making people uncomfortable is actually part of the appeal for these creeps, like some kind of power thing.
My guess is that this guy is trying to join groups mostly composed of women, because these groups tend to overlap with also being LGBTQ+ safe spaces, where random "straight white men" applications are indeed generally not prioritized for obvious reasons.
I'm a straight white dude as well. My last character was a changeling who'd go from androgynous appearance to female to male on a whim. Completely asexual and just interested in adventure and knowledge. It's called roleplaying because you....and I know this is an unorthodox interpretation.....play something you aren't. It's telling they can't tone down their trans- and homophobia even for a game. If you want to projectile vomit, look at the steam discussions page of Baldur's Gate 3. Every other thread is about how gay representation is destroying gaming.
Honestly, im surprised when i find a straight person playing dnd but its mostly cause my friend groups are all super queer. Nothing against em, and im good friends with those i play with
4 years, he had 4 years to self reflect in, and either didn't or came to the conclusion it's not me it must be the LGBTQIA+ (although lets be real he probably uses slurs instead of saying the acronym)
The funny part about the guy being pedantic about leather armor vs padded armor is that padded armor was actually something that was used widespread and leather was not. Gambeson, which he is talking down about, was actually pretty effective armor, and probably outdid what leather armor actually existed, both in cost and protection.
I know right? xD. Hilariously, Padded and Leather armor both give the same AC in 5e, (11+dex mod) so I was almost about to say "shure whatever" but it was just........the timing of it all. The fact he was just so....focused on the appearance of the armor just clicked the wrong way with me. I actually ended up changing the heroforge token and sending it to him, but by the time I did, the age argument had started, and I went "naw. This isn't fun."
@@TheXanderGrim I've been in plenty of campaigns where my sexuality didn't come up until the DM tried shipping me with straight characters I didn't want to, and all of those situations were solved by letting them know that I'm not comfortable with that. Also, didn't realize existing was the same as shoving it in your face but ok.
@@TheXanderGrim If that's the case then I apologize. I'm used to dealing with nut jobs that actually do think that way, and it's turned into my default expectation when things are phrased like that.
Exactly. Every one of those groups in the Americas was their own civilization. And every group bases who is civilized on what they consider civilized. After all there were quite a few Native American Cultures that didn't think Europeans were civilized at all.
@@davidtherwhanger6795 Its the same in the discourse about slavery, people treat Africans as though they were one group you know? Its really fucking stupid when they say "oh but Africans were also selling them" like... wtf this supposed to change now??
@@Just_Ava They also act like lots of Southern and Eastern Europeans weren't kidnapped sold to the Ottoman slave traders for hundreds of years, Ukrainians being particularly desirable for example. Not to mention the Barbary Slave Trade even enslaved people from all the way up in Iceland, up the British Channel, and along the south of England and Ireland
@@Just_Ava I think a lot of people pull this out because most if not all the discourse is about slavery in the USA and people feel they are being singled out as the only slavers in the history of the world.
I'm always deeply curious how people who consistently have trouble getting into D&D groups never consider that the problem might be them, not everyone else. Common denominator and all.
The root cause of the problem is the same reason they can’t see it. Arrogance may not be the correct word, but anyone who writes like that is clearly full of himself. The irony of introspection is that those in direst need of it are so often incapable of it.
@fukyomammason Textbook narcissism. Some are so full of themselves they honestly can't believe there's anything wrong with them, so it must be everyone else's fault.
As I've heard from someone: If someone is being an asshole to you, they're the asshole. But if everyone you meet is an asshole, you're probably being the asshole.
"I dOn'T mEeT tHe QuOtA" I mean... is that guy only looking specifically at lfg posts that specify they are running a game for LGBT+ players? Because I feel like there are a LOT of games out there catering to basically every and any demographic. And a lot of them are varying degrees of phobic. Some genuinely don't care either way so long as there's good table dynamic. If he starts every lfg interview by telling them how oppressed he is as a white heterosexual man, there is still a WORRYINGLY LARGE percentage of the d&d community that would respond to him with "I feel you, brother." But if he does that with games labeled "lgbt+ friendly" then... yeah. The dm would probably see that as a red flag. I'm in two games right now where the lfg had "lgbt+ friendly" as a part of the game description and/or as part of the pre-game interview. One table has 8 people, with 2 of us being on the ace spectrum and 1 of us being NB. The rest of the table are straight white guys. (The only player who isn't white is also the other player on the ace spectrum.) The other table has 5 of us, and I'm the only queer person. The other players are 2 straight white guys and 2 straight white women. Like... if you can't find a table because you're "being oppressed and discriminated for being a straight white guy" maybe you're looking in the wrong places. Either that or you're such a genuinely intolerable person that even the homophobes and racists don't want you. Which is really saying something.
Nah, he ran into groups that level the asinine assertion that "You can't understand the lived experiences of people who aren't of the same race/sex/class as you, so your desire to play a gay character though you're straight (although the OP does not seem to recognize that, from his own description, he appears to be on the aro-ace spectrum) makes you so insensitive that you're obviously a bigot." It's *that* camp of contemporary LGBTQAI+ discourse.
oh so would it be ok for a group to be for straight people only and refuse to invite people if their not straight because this game is being run for straight players or does it only work the one way?
@@johnlong572Don't think people would be too opposed that, sort of like the 4chan effect of all the trash piling in one bin instead of being strewn about everybody's collective yard.
We gotta teach new players not to accept bullshit from their DMs regardless of whether or not they think it could be “normal” in D&D. Even if the behavior of that one gross DM was common, it shouldn’t have to be. I feel like so many of them get taken advantage of by awful DM‘s and then it ruins their experience. We can’t stop them from being awful but we can encourage and empower players to leave as soon as they feel like there’s a problem that’s not being fixed or addressed
I feel that experienced players definitely should step in during a newbie table if anDM is acting out. And we also need to make our stances clear to not accept bullshit players or pc’s.
@@AllyOJustice Now, see, I agree with you on victim blaming, but you're obviously twisting the phrase. It's clearly referring to people with bad attitudes who are assholes on their own and are confused about why they get treated as such by others. Not people who are actually being abused.
PRobalem is, someone adds the DM to the list because they didn't accept their homebrew race that's totally balanced I swear and has +10 to all stats. That's how those sorts of anonymously crowdsourced lists tend to go
Agreed, the last DM not only belongs on such a list but needs jail, therapy, or both. Getting therapy might be the only thing that can save him from jail if he hasn't been already But like Cheesebucket points out, preventing salty chuds like the second guy from attempting to abuse or troll such a list would be constant struggle.
@@magnarcreed3801 A little bit of both, in my opinion. I think portraying entire human cultures as a nonhuman races can call back to racist propaganda that portrayed many races as monstrous. If a fictional race is a replacement of an actual culture, at least make them human, in my opinion.
@@andreavasquez4355 I see what you mean but disagree. Animals for as long as we’ve been humaning have taken up different meanings and forms. Not to mention there’s no reason not to. Most animals are amazing and fascinating creatures capable of love, hate, sacrifice, and some even recognize they exist. Granted I think humans as a species are highly narcissistic and narrow minded.
I'm tired of the young farm boy trope and as a disaffected elder millennial I'm now creating characters more like myself. I have a wizard that grew up in a fishing village and was part of the family business and hated it. He found an arcane focus and studied magic while on the sea. He decided to leave everything behind because it couldn't be much worse being eaten by a troll or dragon than the slow death he was facing in his home, never getting ahead and always struggling.
Honestly, that was basically the pitch that DM gave us. "Oh your all young people, because this is the middle ages, and anyone with any actual skills has a proper trade and/or is dead by 30. Even though that this was in the FR. Lol.
@@DM_Acethat's factually incorrect about the middle ages though. The avg life expectancy was low because so many people didn't make it out of childhood. If you made it through puberty you had a decent chance of living til your 60's, the plague years being a major exception.
Yeahhh, calling them "barbarians" after claiming to have a "deep respect" for the cultures was icky. And then they called them Indians when people of Native descent don't refer to themselves that way. It really came across as a "bring civilization to the savages" fantasy that they tried to justify by saying "Well it's okay cause I have distant ancestors of those races even though I'm like 90% white." Glad Crispy clarified the satire Personally, I have various animal themed races in my own fantasy world that are viewed by certain people as "savage" but I put a lot of love and effort into their development and cultures. There's even been a significant push in the world lore for them to be more accepted and to abolish treatment of them as "lesser." I wanted a degree of realism in the world rather than making everything wonderful and happy all the time, but that's kind of a background political thing and not the main focus or a "civilize the barbarians" story
@@Amayawolf_01actually certain native americans do call themselves indians, they have their own personal reasons but know they exist and their opinion is valid. but yea most people would probably prefer native or indigenous.
I sort of understand the appeal, on some level, of doing like osr-ass first edition d&d "roll each stat in order left to right" character creation... but the whole point of that system was you rolled BEFORE picking your class because your stats dictate what you can specialize in. Making you roll AFTER picking a class is just miserable.
As a straight man, i'm not ashamed to say that i play characters from all groups: male, female, gay straight, and bi. It's fun to diversify what characters you play.
In my case I don't actively tag my character's sexuality at all, the girls I play probably swing both ways, being interested in cute ladies as well as cute guys or cool charismatic guys But I guess my male chars are technically straight? Irl I'm not entirely sure I'm straight either tbh, it's kinda just the "logical" conclusion based on the fact that I didn't have any crushes on guys yet There are some cute/hot guys in games, mangas and other such stories though >w
Agreed. I've never done this but I've been curious about this method as a way of "discovering" your character. I mean at that point if if roll low in INT and still choose to be a Wizard it is on you then.
@@ShepardCommander That's cool. Just don't go on any crazy rants that would make anyone uncomfortable at the table and you'll have a lot better luck finding a game than the guy in the story.
@@dubiousinformation1756 Story sounds made up to be honest. Know a bunch of straight white males that are into D&D that can easily find games. Heck I would even believe it if someone told me D&D is "straight white male" dominated. Even Critical Role, an lgbtq+ table representation in media is still straight white male majority if you look at it. If we were to believe him, either the guy stuck to toxic groups of people that are actually rejecting him based on him being a straight white male which I doubt or the story is made up. Never seen someone be rejected based on their sex and ethnicity. Doubt they even ask that on roll20 though never tried looking for games there since 100% of reddit true dnd horror stories come from there.
Quota guy sounds like the weirdo my friends and I have had to deal with in our writing group, where he threw a public hissyfit about how we were racist against him because we told him not to be so rude to us.
I had an idea for a super-duper Mary-Sue DMPC character that shows up in the first session, shows up all the players, is kind of low-key a butt about everything, and then the stinger is...the PC's finding said DMPC quite dead. Stone dead. An ex-DMPC. Pining for the fjords. Complete with comedic horrified expression and dagger through heart. After that, players can try figuring out what he was up to, solve his murder, whatever. No resurrection, either, he gone.
There was a guy in my DnD group who thought that the reason why he was cracked down on harder than others was because he was the only “real man” man in the group. He: 1) used attacks on player characters to “punish” them in narrative interactions 2) quoted scripture about burning in hellfire for sodomy at gay characters. His character was a priest. 3) used hentai tags to describe situations. “Mind break” instead of hypnosis, “roll for NTR” instead of charisma… … annnd the DM is a trans man, so that “real man” statement was very intentional.
“The Worst Among Worst” If this is how you start your campaigns, you should be BANNED from DM’ing. Like… picking uo a DM screen will result in psychic damage in the same way that Wizard story has it.
Apparently it’s an older way of doing stuff, though usually you only get to pick classes your stats qualify for like the multi classing table after rolling, but it’s not a way I’m particularly fond of.
Even beyond the random stats being excused by an abandoned rule set, not getting to know what dragon you're agreeing to worship definitely feels scummy. Hiding the gameplay bonus might be fine, but not the thing that affects the player's personality.
@@ArcCaravan Especially since the characters would know what all the dragons stand for if it's a major part of the religion. Unless making major parts of a character's personality effectively random was part of the theme of the campaign, but it doesn't sound like that was the case. (And pushing sexualized backstories on female characters is on its own several red flags. Had a campaign fall apart before the first session when a DM tried that.)
This is RPGhorrorstories. It's all horrible. Most RPG sessions aren't like these. Honestly, I'dd say like, 99% of the games I've ran/played in are super fun. It's just that the crap 1% are the ones people post here, lol.
That opening you delivered was a stirred cocktail of shock, anger, and morbid curiosity. Then you mentioned it was satire... 📣 *LEAD with that important detail next time!*
While that last story was... disgusting on so many levels, I have to admit that Crispy's excitement over the term "bawdy house" made my day better all by itself.
also what would happen if he upgraded his weapons and armour? Would he consistently have to go out and buy new mini's that perfectly reflect how his character looked at that time?
Oh man, you don't know the half of it. He was so with his nitpicking. I wanted to be an illiterate rogue-bard who grew up lisening to storys. He went "naw you have proffiency in history, your not illiterate". Wat.
I knew him for a total of probably about two to three days. I applied to the game on Monday. By the time of my own session, Thursday nights, I was done with his nonsense. Hell, on the vods you can even hear him pokeing me on discord -in the middle of my session after I specifically said I had to go DM my own game. Suffice to say, I was outa there by Thursday night. >< On the plus side, it was most entertaining game I've joined in a while. Even if I never ended up playing a single session, lol. @@marybdrake1472
I had a similar instance of story one where I was going to play a yuan-ti because the way their emotional nature is described in Volo's just screamed out "this is me" well... minus all the "this is why they're evil" injected after each neurodivergent coded description. Anyway, was talking to a GM and getting a bit animated about the challenge and the GM came out with "Maybe your couatl patron (celestial warlock) fixed your emotions when you made your pact." Me: "....."
Oh my god, the second story happened to one of my characters in my old dnd group- my character was a single father, whose son was devastatingly sick with the same necromantic disease that killed his wife. On his quest to find a cure, he joined up with the party who found a dragon in human form. Legit the next session later, the dragon cured my characters son from his disease and the son became this draconic sorcerer god-child. My character had absolutely no reason to stay with the party after that and the campaign ended up falling apart as a couple other players had some falling out and was sick of the dm just taking away any motivation for the story.
There are a lot of LGBT-only groups out there, and it's possible that one guy just kept accidentally applying to only those groups, but I think the more likely reason is that he comes on stronger than a bottle of Sex Panther. There are plenty of games out there that accept people of all gender and sexual orientations; you just have to be willing to shell out a bit. Also, that yellow dragon crap is shamelessly stolen from Naruto's dad, Minato.
I love Heroforge, but if you’re not making the figure first you’re never going to get a perfect match to you vision. With them “close enough” is still pretty awesome.
Yeah. I have my players use Heroforge all the time. Was gonna make a token on heroforge even before he asked me too. But willingly makeing your dude on heroforge and enforced token apperence are two very different things.
Yeah. It's one of the better "mockup a good enough sketch of a character with 0 artistic ability" tools, but unless you can draw the only real way of getting a character 100% spot on is to have the budget to hire an artist.
@@sootythunder3111 hah. It's okay. As I said above, I refer to the fetishization of black men and violent-themed cuckoldy. I could go on a deeper explanation if you want.
I watched a lot of NCIS in the past; one of the characters said this line once "If you're going through Hell, might as well keep walking. There's nothing else to lose." For the people in the last story, I'm just happy they got a net positive in the end. However, I mean what does it take to step out of the way of a freight train for goodness' sake?
They probably don't consider bad DnD to be as horrible as a freight train barrelling at them or whatever the context of that NCIS quote. "Sticks and stones", "It's just a game", and all that.
I get that when people are new to something they can not notice a lot of red flags... But that last story. I feel like anyone, once you got to the back room of the brothel and had that said to you... I have hope that 99% of people would get up and never talk to this person again.
Yes, player, your token must be 100% accurate to your character's actual appearance. Plus you need a token for every other outfit they would possibly want to wear. 🤦♂
"I'm getting refused entry to/kicked out of games because I'm straight!" ...no, pumpkin. It's because decent, civilized people don't want to be around bigots.
Why do I feel that the last DM is a teenager? Or at least in the realm of a younger adult. The amount of overly s3xual content of that game screams it.
the dramatic recreation was giving the same energy as laganja estranja doing a dramatic reading of her stand up routine from rupauls drag race season 6
My regular gaming group consists of three straight men, two gay men, one straight woman, and one gay woman. It ain’t that hard. Just respect each other and have fun.
I'm actually in a Wild West campaign. DM really enjoyed RDR2 and wanted to run something like that. I feel like it's pretty respectful. I'm playing a halfling Artificer and our party leader is a Kenku Gunslinger with legendary gear from Paul Bunyan. The native tribe we're interacting with is the Potawatomi, (they're all humans) and we're helping them defeat the evil werewolf town of Wolfwood. Our season is wrapping up, and next up is the futuristic setting Adaraxia, set in the Divine Sector. A mix of Cyberpunk 2077, 40K, and Mass Effect.
I reunited with an old acquaintance from high school who ended up integrating really well with my current friend group. Turns out he's a DM and most of us haven't played before so he convinces us to join a homebrew campaign he's had on the back burner for a while. Anyways, campaign starts, within session 1 we get the "call to action" in the middle of the night, 1 player leaves immediately and the rest of us scramble to prepare some before we leave. He keeps asking us along the lines of "are you sure you want to leave now? Don't you want to prepare more?" but won't elaborate. We leave, first player who ran off nearly dies (despite DM swinging things fairly hard in her favor) and over the next few sessions spend very little time sleeping, a lot of it traveling, and more or less fumbling through our first encounters with creatures and situations alike. He repeats over this time "i cant believe you left so fast" and implies we took a path he didn't expect. Not mad, just surprised. Several sessions in after we've completed some pretty important tasks, we happen across a new op chara we're all pretty sus about. Turns out this is the DMNPC--his self insert, to help us along. Tldr: we left behind our babysitter character AND several key items in our very first session and our DM had to frantically change things around so we didn't die.
OP here from the Control Freak story. It was definitely a weird ass game from the start. It was the first time I tried to get into a game outside my current group of friends for over a year. I almost didn't apply to the game since they had 5 players on roll20 already, and "one only slot" but I shot my shot, and was almost surprised at how fast I got a response. Dude must have had players droping like flies. I kind of feel bad for the guy, honestly. He did seam like he knew his rules. He just had a ......very solid vision of what he wanted to accomplish. I felt he was was just chainsawing through players until he found the Gygax-esk group he was looking for. And yet, there was nothing indicating as such on the LFG page. Honestly, Im surprised he wasn't just advertising for 3.5 if he hated 5e so much.
@@DM_Ace ill run any game as long as the campaign meets the system (Meaning adnd/2e games that are heavy roleplay are a no just because the system is bad for it)
Crispy, I'm glad you're able to explore and enjoy the hobby. I was kinda worried that reading from r/rpghorrorstories so much that you'd end up with PTSD or something of that nature.
I was in a group that was audtioning new players after having a falling out with one, and we had a pretty nice showing of people, but we got one guy who was in his 50s and straight, but he was A Straight. Most of the group is queer, so we were quite uncomfortable with his "oh, I guess we're stating our pronouns now?", it set off some red flags of stuff we'd rather not deal with in the future. (The person we did end up picking was very sweet, so we made the right choice.)
Third Story> I wonder if he celebrates straight pride or not. Also, more positively I figure, I do like the use of 'prismatic', even if the guy in the post was using it negatively. I kinda like it better than 'rainbow' (i dont have anything against rainbows, other than never having seen one on fire), especially in context to LGBTQ2S+ gamers
If you've been kicked from multiple dnd games with different people for 4 years... then sorry but the only consistant factor in this equation is yourself.
That Wizard Came From the DM Story. I've heard this a few times now. Simply put the DM was only interested in HIS story. Years ago I fell into this same trap, though perhaps not as hard. But it is a trap. To all new DM's and those thinking of DM'ing, don't do this. You will have enough on your plate as is trying to handle literally every interaction outside of player on player in the game. And if you do have an old character you want to use, keep them in a support/ patron roll. You can still be doing cool stuff, just in the back ground. In this case as the party patron the wizard could have asked the party to come to his place to discuss how to thwart the BBEG. The party could lay out their plan, it won't take much to get the party to divulge this plan. Then the patron states that because of (insert reason here you just came up with why it won't work) that the BBEG has waiting for them because the patron has used their powerful magic to scry the fortress. The patron then says they need (insert item/ potion here) to give the party an edge, either a way in the BBEG can't stop or more importantly a way to get every one out the BBEG can't stop. But the patron lacks a particular item/ component to finish making it. Patron tells party to get item/ component while patron makes all the preparations to craft item/ potion. This puts a time crunch on this as well. Party then goes to get item/ component, all on their own. Patron finishes the item/ potion and gives it to party, but states "I can't help you further as rushing the completion of this (item/ potion) has drained my power (heavily fatigued). I have told you all I know of the fortress and this should help. Good Luck." And party goes off on rescue. Party will still be grateful to patron for the information and edge. Party still gets to shine. Everyone happy. And that new and prospective DM's is what needs to happen. Everybody being happy with the game.
Sorry for my English, is not my first language. I will start saying that I am not a player of DnD, just an spectator and a crpg gamer that tried to learn the rules back in the day. Maybe that is why I feel this wouldn't have been a problem if the party agreed to run the game like this from the beginning. Imagine a scenario where a group of friends are playing together in a campaign with another DM, but for health issues, or just life in general, that mage had to stop playing and the campaign went on without him. The group of friends that remained enjoyed already their campaign as heroes, and when the mage could play again, they felt interested about the mage's character potential and asked with melancholy "what could have you wanted to do if you kept playing with us?" They found the answer interesting and said, "ey, that sounds cool, so how about you run a game with that character as a protagonist, and we just tag along?" If it was like that from the start, I don't see anything wrong with it, since the expectations are already set. But again, that is my approach is as someone who doesn't play DnD: I am a consumer of stories, not a creator of stories. Edit: Grammar, sorry for the ones I am missing.
@@Ilwenray85 Even if every word of what you think may have happened before this story started did happen, the DM running the game did not tell that unusual arrangement to the new player to that game. And because it would have been an unusual game set up, new players must be made aware of it before they join so they can decide if they want to be a part of that or not. Instead the new player got blindsided.
@@davidtherwhanger6795 In that hypothetical case I made there was no new player to begin with, it was only a scenario where playing a game like that made sense. English is not my first language, but I understood your post as if *under no circumstances* a character the DM creates, can have more protagonism than the players, because _it removes player agency_ and is not his story, but the player's. And that interpretation (correct or incorrect, it doesn't matter) made me gave you an example of why such a game not only *could* happen, but *should* happen more often in my opinion. Of course making clear the point that I am not a DnD player, and that makes my opinion irrelevant all things considered. I get sensitive because this topic is similar to something I care about. I have a friend, that when we were young, wanted to create a videogame. Like a tactical jrpg, focused on the story in a railroaded way with only two branches, but with great characters, plot and political turmoil. Didn't realized the scope of it, and how hard it is to create a game like that, so even after studying something related to programming (I never remember the words in my own language, don't expect me to translate it) I told him to write it as a book instead. A decade later, we lost contact and in the meantime, he was in writer's block, and shared what he had (like fourty chapters) with his girlfriend before giving up on it... And she asked permission to share it with a few of her friends, that coincidentally played DnD. They asked him to DM a campaign based on that. They wanted to be those characters in the story he was writing because they were so cool. They wanted to know what happened to them, didn't want that story to end in the garbage bin. He refused, because he lacked knowledge of DnD and his insecurities got the better of him. But I want to believe that if the game happened, that idea was not a mistake in any kind of way, and it would have been awesome.
@@Ilwenray85 Fundamentally a single person writing a book or making a video game is completely different from a collective group doing so. And most every TTRPG out there is a collective group writing a story and not an individual. In these kinds of TTRPG's the group itself has no idea how the story is going to turn out as each member of the group has different ways they wish to accomplish things and different goals. Where as an individual writing a story has some idea of what they want to happen to accomplish a particular goal. As such your friend would probably not have liked the direction some of the others who, however interested in the story so far, would have a different "vision" of how things would happen. This happens in every fandom of every book, series, etc. ever so it would happen in your case as well. Simply put I have heard over a hundred times something like this has been tried. But never once have I heard it succeeding the way you want it to.
@@davidtherwhanger6795 _Sigh_ Again, I see things differently because I don't play DnD to begin with. I enjoy watching it. *Feel free to use this as a horror story that never came to be, Crispy,* because the DMs where intelligent to avoid it, and even if I got a bit hurt by it back then, I agree with their assessment. The only character I created was when I was a child/teen, had the backstory as an elf bard trapped in the court of Titania for two centuries (time dilation, the rest of the world passed even more time) that was released on the condition of collecting more tales before her obligatory return. She had no motivation to feel part of the party, more than safety between place to place. Until the party would do something that would sparkle the idea, that what they did was interesting enough to deserve writing their adventures as a chronicle that maybe Titania would enjoy. She was designed as a 16 int 14 cha bard and I wanted to play her like writting stuff in a paper, giving it to the DM, and roll for it without others knowing what I am doing. That stuff could be maybe roll if I suspect a betrayal, but not saying anything because that would make the story (and chronicle) more interesting, and therefore Titania would be happier with the result. The same in choosing helping a party member with something or let them solve it by themselves would be a coin toss, as my interaction would interfere with the story/destiny of the party if I did. 4 DMs rejected it the mere idea with: "even if the premise sounds interesting... she (and you) don't have a place in a DnD table. You seem to want a story writen for you by the other players and tag along, not write one yourself with the other players." And that is correct, as I said already I am a consumer of stories, not a creator of stories. What I wanted (and still want to some extent) is a customized interactive book that keeps evolving, let me choose between 10 options, see what others choose, see where the story goes from there, repeat. But I don't want to think about what those options are myself, I am a reader of the book first. And when this stories of DMs wanting to just tell their own story appear, I think is the most similar thing to that interactive book: limited participation in someone else's story.
That last session was by far the worst thing I read, and I have been reading horrorstories for months now. I hate when people implement sexual themes in Dungeons & Dragons. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure there would be some that are implemented right. However all of the ones I've seen in RpgHorrorStories are implemented so wrongly that it just exposes how horrible the Players/DMs are as people. It didn't help either that the Dm also "don't believe in male rape", because that shit happens and it's cruel to see idiots say "oh, well he's just lucky". THAT CAN LITERALLY LEAD TO SO MANY BAD PATHS THANKS TO THAT, and don't get me started on the fact that the DM even stated that he tends to do this often in Session ones where they have the female elves dance then have it be the cause of no one playing. Like, dude. Nobody liked the scene because of how fucked up it is, and yet he plays it like it's not his fault and should do better. I could go for so much more and I'm just 2/3rds within the story. Smh, they should have just pack their dices and go when they had the chance.
I was once in a campaign where humans et,al were the civilized colonizers and orcs were the tribal natives. Our party took the side of the orcs (as the DM intended).
Hah. The problem player from the title of this episode was probably such a pain even the homophobic tables didn't want him lol. (And yeah those exist, a GM I had a few years ago now selfdestructed an entire group because he was homophobic. (A fairly quick and spontaneous relationship between a gnome and halfling PC didn't work out, the gnome's player and I talked about some things to make sure we were both ok with it OOC, then the gnome had a bit of a rebound relationship with my Dryad PC (A leshy fae sorcerer, this was PF2e). The former relationship was completely fine, but the GM went off on a tirade about the latter one, and when the entire party was like "What's the problem, it's the same as the last thing" he deleted the discord instead.)
Honestly the opening story made me think of an idea i had. Tribal elves, like the native Americans. Break away from the whole graceful look with long robes and fair skin (something i learnt recently, fair means pale skin)
so ive added what could be called a dmpc to all my campaigns. he was my first ever pc and i decided to use him once when i started dming and he became so useful that i made him a mainstay! his role is to serve and a black market type of character who can sell info and other less acquirable stuff to the party for a hefty fee. it meant players could buy what they wanted and made them wanna save up gold to afford them. by the end they were well equipped and my black market salesman who goes by the dragon of the sewers has become a beloved sight at my table.
That story felt a lot like the DMPC story at the end of Crispy's marathon but instead of DMPCs mistreating player characters its a DM not allowing players to make informed decisions for their own PCs. About as horny, though. Definitely feels like I've heard at least 20 stories worse than that, even excluding examples with disgusting behavior IRL.
“i don’t meet the quota” I think the dude is never invited because the DM’s can sense this guy is not good. We had a player that just… did not understand being queer and would say all kinds of homophobic stuff-despite most of the group at the time being queer. She even got mad at a problem player for being bisexual (despite sharing a discord space with me, a bisexual woman). The fact she never learned was one of the reasons she was kicked. The Op is definitely one of those weirdos who would make being queer a BIG DEAL for no reason, and make people uncomfortable. We want a game that is safe and fun for us-and sadly dudes like OP do not make it safe.
I've engaged in the infernal art of using one of my previous PCs as an NPC. In my defense, it was a character who had definitely finished his arc and who I had decided was going to spend the rest of his career doing some trading, smuggling and light adventuring as a ship's captain -- so I had an already-fleshed-out character who was disinclined to participate in major conflicts ("sorry, I have a husband and kids back at port to think about") but could just happen to be available when the party needed to travel by sea. Also had to let go of "this character is a hero" and let him be a bit comically ineffectual at times. I still had to be extra-careful that it wasn't becoming The DM's Old PC Show. The DM in the video, though, using the other players' campaign to try to center his own character and finish an old arc? That's just evil.
The guy who has somehow never gotten into a DnD group for being a straight white guy reminds me of senior year when all of the white students swore up and down that universities sent them letters saying "sorry, we're rejecting you for being white". Usually, when you're actually being discriminated against, you don't have to lie about it.
The funny part about the guy being all anal over padded vs. leather, saying that it won't provide the same protection as proper armour... Padded Armour and Leather Armour both have an AC of 11 + DEX, their defensive properties are identical.
Except that Padded gives disadvantage on stealth checks, which makes no sense. Really padded armor (Gambeson) is in reality usually superior to the leather armor that is traditionally envisioned in fantasy.
@@KevinDPomeroy I'd be tempted to just reflavor one of the medium armors as "heavy gambeson" and call it a day. Or try light homebrew and make it AC13 with stealth disadvantage, but making it faster to don heavy armor (since it would be the first layer of that heavy armor already being worn).
I told him that! He still threw a fit over it! I think it's because he comes from 3.5 , where padded is +1 to AC and leather is +2 AC. In 5e it''s identical. Hell, I didn't even have stealth proffiency!
@@KevinDPomeroy I've never understood that. If anything, leather should give disadvantage, if one was needed. Have you ever worn leather? That stuff's noisy as hell!
That "I don’t meet the queer quota" guy reminds of this person who was trying to get their book published through a publishing house that specifically said they focus authors of color. They were white and when they were rejected, they complained that there was "no spaces for white authors anymore". Like, maybe you're barking up the wrong, clearly labeled tree, bud. I wouldn't be super surprised if our DnDless friend here has, at times, attempted to go into spaces that very much are not for him
I have a sickening feeling that that devirgining of Brim was an attempt by the DM to drive an emotional wedge of distrust between him and Yazzie, so that Yazzie would have fewer qualms about engaging in increasingly raunchy acts.
That opening is something I've absolutely done without even thinking about it untill my native friend asked me "Hey man, are the tribes like... Monsters to you or something?" "No, why?" "You keep using native traditions for your mostly villainous orcs." "...Oh!" So yeah turns out I pulled a Bright without even thinking about it and just made all my orcs native coded, as a monolith. Needless to say, i went about fixing this and with my buddy's help we were even to make a better representation of his culture in this game. Using a race even a "monstrous" race is good so long as you treat the culture with respect, and not make them entirely evil.
The elf women enslaved by orcs part sounded like something straight out of a hentai plot. I honestly don't understand why these types of DMs don't just write erotica instead of forcing their fetishes on players.
Part of the fetish is forcing unwilling participants into it, at least that's the best guess I've got
My guess is "interactive". The same way as girls, women get harassed in PM-s for intim photos, when there are free intim photos everywhere on the internet. Same type of creep.
@@Eric-md3mp To does who don't have a healthy relationship with said fetish, yes, very much.
Yeah that’s what I thought was going on too. Dude got into elf erotica and forced people to play it out in DnD. Just why man? 😅
There's an entire community who wants the sex stuff. Seriously if these guys just got into an ERP community we'd save countless players from them
IDK man, I think "The DM doesn't believe in male r***" crosses into IRL horror
Completely
Amen.
“Alternative lifestyle” 💀💀 good lord, hope he grows up sometime.
He would actually get into a game if he did 💀
You know if people ask about his sexuality, he responds with "I'm normal"
@@genericname2747 And then he wonders why queer people turn their noses up at his presence. What an obnoxiously arrogant character.
If your gay that is a alternative lifestyle you know why because it's not the norm so it's alternative.
@@Starflower731 homosexuality is unnatural I don't give a damn what you say and alot of those ancient cultures that imbraced those practices they fell apart and got conquerored by there enemies say what you like I don't agree with gay lifestyle it's wrong its against nature and God.
Final story:
The DM who won’t mention what the colors represent for the dragons is obviously making it up on the spot
@@BlueTressym 100%
@BlueTressym oh yes. That was definitely an 'on rails' choice.
I disagree. Im running a campaign now where the colors matter but they wont know until they collect the armor. They are learning a little bit as they adventure. Some things need to be kept secret.
@@coreyrose5875this has nothing to do with you tho lol. The dm clearly was hiding it just so he could make sure that no matter what the female elf character picked, it would always be creepy.
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Had to physically hold myself back from throwing my phone during the opening.
Crispy is much too good at portraying this sort of person
I was dying of cringe until that satire note
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I've never wanted to reach through a screen like the Ring and find someone so much till now.
Okay but "Prismatic" is literally the coolest term I've heard to describe LGBTQIA+ people? Like. Anon is an awful person, don't get me wrong, but I *ADORE* "Prismatic" as a descriptor for the community, I've never heard it before.
I'm sorry to say, but it's highly likely that that's not the word he meant to use.
He was likely attempting to use the word "pragmatic", which approximately means "sensible". It's a commonly used word in similar situations.
My guess is he heard it used verbally, and was attempting to quote someone, but didn't actually know what word was used, and so he used a word which sounds similar.
@@Mewman115 but i think queer people are prismatic cuz we arnt squares
For a second I did a double take because Prismatic is the name of my current comic series with an lgbt+ cast lol
@@Mewman115 I think the asshole was referencing our flags. They are very...rainbow (i.e. "prismatic")-flavored, I'll admit.
Or maybe you're just joking, in which case, sorry. But that was my guess on what he was thinking with that word.
I was thinking the same thing. Like “prismatic” or “chromatic” sound cool as hell. Go figure that a giant douche came up with it
I'm a straight white guy, and I've never had trouble finding people to play D&D with. Just saying.
I'm amazed at the number of DMs out there who try to trick players into acting out their wank fantasies. If they would be up front about the kind of game they want to run, they could probably attract players who were into the same things, and everyone could have fun. But I suspect that making people uncomfortable is actually part of the appeal for these creeps, like some kind of power thing.
My guess is that this guy is trying to join groups mostly composed of women, because these groups tend to overlap with also being LGBTQ+ safe spaces, where random "straight white men" applications are indeed generally not prioritized for obvious reasons.
I'm a straight white dude as well. My last character was a changeling who'd go from androgynous appearance to female to male on a whim. Completely asexual and just interested in adventure and knowledge.
It's called roleplaying because you....and I know this is an unorthodox interpretation.....play something you aren't. It's telling they can't tone down their trans- and homophobia even for a game. If you want to projectile vomit, look at the steam discussions page of Baldur's Gate 3. Every other thread is about how gay representation is destroying gaming.
Honestly, im surprised when i find a straight person playing dnd but its mostly cause my friend groups are all super queer. Nothing against em, and im good friends with those i play with
@@FinckelsteinOnly every other thread? Hey! That's less than I expected! Progress!
Whenever i come across a group that says i can only join if im in the lgtv community, i just say i cant get enough of that 🐓 and call it a day
4 years, he had 4 years to self reflect in, and either didn't or came to the conclusion it's not me it must be the LGBTQIA+ (although lets be real he probably uses slurs instead of saying the acronym)
"Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong." energy
What slur comes to mind hm?
"It's all o' dem gotdamn queerosexuals"
LGBTQIA+ unironically.
"This is how he always starts any female elf character in this campaign" 🤢🤢
"huh, wild west sounds cool, wonder why it's in here- OH."
oh my god it keeps getting worse
IT'S SATIRE. OH MY GOD. THANK GOD
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The funny part about the guy being pedantic about leather armor vs padded armor is that padded armor was actually something that was used widespread and leather was not. Gambeson, which he is talking down about, was actually pretty effective armor, and probably outdid what leather armor actually existed, both in cost and protection.
Exactly! Gambeson was so easy to repair and reinforce if it got damaged
Stuff some metal plates locked in places and boom now you have “Brigandine”
Very effective in some cases , actually enough layers will stop a 22 or 9 mil
I know right? xD. Hilariously, Padded and Leather armor both give the same AC in 5e, (11+dex mod) so I was almost about to say "shure whatever" but it was just........the timing of it all. The fact he was just so....focused on the appearance of the armor just clicked the wrong way with me. I actually ended up changing the heroforge token and sending it to him, but by the time I did, the age argument had started, and I went "naw. This isn't fun."
Good on you, my guy. He sounds like a dick@@DM_Ace
I'm a straight black guy and I've played D&D since 2014. I hate when people dehumanize each other. We are all human beings with the same basic values.
yes we are and I dont throw my straight lifestyle in their face why should they do the oposite
@@TheXanderGrimthe straight lifestyle is all over media and culture and shit it gets forced down your throat from infancy
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I've been in plenty of campaigns where my sexuality didn't come up until the DM tried shipping me with straight characters I didn't want to, and all of those situations were solved by letting them know that I'm not comfortable with that.
Also, didn't realize existing was the same as shoving it in your face but ok.
@dubiousinformation1756 no they are not the same but thank you for putting only words in my mouth
@@TheXanderGrim
If that's the case then I apologize.
I'm used to dealing with nut jobs that actually do think that way, and it's turned into my default expectation when things are phrased like that.
That first story hurt me as someone working on a double major in anthropology and history. I hate it. Thanks Crispy.
Exactly. Every one of those groups in the Americas was their own civilization. And every group bases who is civilized on what they consider civilized. After all there were quite a few Native American Cultures that didn't think Europeans were civilized at all.
@@davidtherwhanger6795 Its the same in the discourse about slavery, people treat Africans as though they were one group you know? Its really fucking stupid when they say "oh but Africans were also selling them" like... wtf this supposed to change now??
The mention of the "noble savage" myth made me cringe so hard
@@Just_Ava They also act like lots of Southern and Eastern Europeans weren't kidnapped sold to the Ottoman slave traders for hundreds of years, Ukrainians being particularly desirable for example. Not to mention the Barbary Slave Trade even enslaved people from all the way up in Iceland, up the British Channel, and along the south of England and Ireland
@@Just_Ava I think a lot of people pull this out because most if not all the discourse is about slavery in the USA and people feel they are being singled out as the only slavers in the history of the world.
I'm always deeply curious how people who consistently have trouble getting into D&D groups never consider that the problem might be them, not everyone else. Common denominator and all.
The root cause of the problem is the same reason they can’t see it. Arrogance may not be the correct word, but anyone who writes like that is clearly full of himself. The irony of introspection is that those in direst need of it are so often incapable of it.
@fukyomammason Textbook narcissism. Some are so full of themselves they honestly can't believe there's anything wrong with them, so it must be everyone else's fault.
Well, they are probably really bad at math, too.
As I've heard from someone: If someone is being an asshole to you, they're the asshole. But if everyone you meet is an asshole, you're probably being the asshole.
You could say the same thing about Jews instead of blaming anti-semites
"I dOn'T mEeT tHe QuOtA" I mean... is that guy only looking specifically at lfg posts that specify they are running a game for LGBT+ players? Because I feel like there are a LOT of games out there catering to basically every and any demographic. And a lot of them are varying degrees of phobic. Some genuinely don't care either way so long as there's good table dynamic. If he starts every lfg interview by telling them how oppressed he is as a white heterosexual man, there is still a WORRYINGLY LARGE percentage of the d&d community that would respond to him with "I feel you, brother."
But if he does that with games labeled "lgbt+ friendly" then... yeah. The dm would probably see that as a red flag.
I'm in two games right now where the lfg had "lgbt+ friendly" as a part of the game description and/or as part of the pre-game interview.
One table has 8 people, with 2 of us being on the ace spectrum and 1 of us being NB. The rest of the table are straight white guys. (The only player who isn't white is also the other player on the ace spectrum.)
The other table has 5 of us, and I'm the only queer person. The other players are 2 straight white guys and 2 straight white women.
Like... if you can't find a table because you're "being oppressed and discriminated for being a straight white guy" maybe you're looking in the wrong places. Either that or you're such a genuinely intolerable person that even the homophobes and racists don't want you. Which is really saying something.
Nah, he ran into groups that level the asinine assertion that "You can't understand the lived experiences of people who aren't of the same race/sex/class as you, so your desire to play a gay character though you're straight (although the OP does not seem to recognize that, from his own description, he appears to be on the aro-ace spectrum) makes you so insensitive that you're obviously a bigot." It's *that* camp of contemporary LGBTQAI+ discourse.
Right??? Like, I need to know how this man is getting rejected from every single game he tried to play!
oh so would it be ok for a group to be for straight people only and refuse to invite people if their not straight because this game is being run for straight players
or does it only work the one way?
@@johnlong572Don't think people would be too opposed that, sort of like the 4chan effect of all the trash piling in one bin instead of being strewn about everybody's collective yard.
@@johnlong572Who would have a problem with the trash taking itself out? 💀💅
We gotta teach new players not to accept bullshit from their DMs regardless of whether or not they think it could be “normal” in D&D. Even if the behavior of that one gross DM was common, it shouldn’t have to be. I feel like so many of them get taken advantage of by awful DM‘s and then it ruins their experience. We can’t stop them from being awful but we can encourage and empower players to leave as soon as they feel like there’s a problem that’s not being fixed or addressed
I feel that experienced players definitely should step in during a newbie table if anDM is acting out.
And we also need to make our stances clear to not accept bullshit players or pc’s.
It's not like every new player can be found and told "you're not obligated to put up with garbage players".
A wise man once said "if everywhere you go stinks like shit; check your shoes."
I want to use that phrase one of these days.
If everyone you meet is an asshole, then maybe you're the asshole
@@EarthPhantomTS just find a victim of continued abuse and let them know it's all their fault.
@@AllyOJustice Now, see, I agree with you on victim blaming, but you're obviously twisting the phrase. It's clearly referring to people with bad attitudes who are assholes on their own and are confused about why they get treated as such by others. Not people who are actually being abused.
or your pants
There really needs to be a universal blacklist for DMs like the first and last.
PRobalem is, someone adds the DM to the list because they didn't accept their homebrew race that's totally balanced I swear and has +10 to all stats.
That's how those sorts of anonymously crowdsourced lists tend to go
Agreed, the last DM not only belongs on such a list but needs jail, therapy, or both. Getting therapy might be the only thing that can save him from jail if he hasn't been already
But like Cheesebucket points out, preventing salty chuds like the second guy from attempting to abuse or troll such a list would be constant struggle.
Tbh, people dehumanizing other humans just show how far they're disconnected from being human themselves.
For What story?
@@magnarcreed3801 The satirical opening. People do dehumanize other humans a lot.
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The whole clearing picking more aggressive races for one group or the fact they did at all?
@@magnarcreed3801 A little bit of both, in my opinion. I think portraying entire human cultures as a nonhuman races can call back to racist propaganda that portrayed many races as monstrous. If a fictional race is a replacement of an actual culture, at least make them human, in my opinion.
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I see what you mean but disagree. Animals for as long as we’ve been humaning have taken up different meanings and forms. Not to mention there’s no reason not to. Most animals are amazing and fascinating creatures capable of love, hate, sacrifice, and some even recognize they exist.
Granted I think humans as a species are highly narcissistic and narrow minded.
"Because teenagers do that all the time." If JRPGs have taught me anything that sounds like just another Tuesday for your average teen protagonist.
Would erase a ton of backgrounds that assume player characters had lives before adventuring.
I'm tired of the young farm boy trope and as a disaffected elder millennial I'm now creating characters more like myself. I have a wizard that grew up in a fishing village and was part of the family business and hated it. He found an arcane focus and studied magic while on the sea. He decided to leave everything behind because it couldn't be much worse being eaten by a troll or dragon than the slow death he was facing in his home, never getting ahead and always struggling.
@@KevinDPomeroythat's a cool backstory.
Honestly, that was basically the pitch that DM gave us. "Oh your all young people, because this is the middle ages, and anyone with any actual skills has a proper trade and/or is dead by 30. Even though that this was in the FR. Lol.
@@DM_Acethat's factually incorrect about the middle ages though. The avg life expectancy was low because so many people didn't make it out of childhood. If you made it through puberty you had a decent chance of living til your 60's, the plague years being a major exception.
As a person that is of Native descent, that opening was more than a little bit disgusting (obviously the real post, and not the satire)
Yeahhh, calling them "barbarians" after claiming to have a "deep respect" for the cultures was icky. And then they called them Indians when people of Native descent don't refer to themselves that way. It really came across as a "bring civilization to the savages" fantasy that they tried to justify by saying "Well it's okay cause I have distant ancestors of those races even though I'm like 90% white." Glad Crispy clarified the satire
Personally, I have various animal themed races in my own fantasy world that are viewed by certain people as "savage" but I put a lot of love and effort into their development and cultures. There's even been a significant push in the world lore for them to be more accepted and to abolish treatment of them as "lesser." I wanted a degree of realism in the world rather than making everything wonderful and happy all the time, but that's kind of a background political thing and not the main focus or a "civilize the barbarians" story
@@Amayawolf_01actually certain native americans do call themselves indians, they have their own personal reasons but know they exist and their opinion is valid. but yea most people would probably prefer native or indigenous.
I Don't Meet the Quota Story. My guess is that OP's problem is they are angry... a lot.... and blame other things for why things go bad for them.
Sounds made up to me, although some people are this cringe and I can see why GMs wouldn’t want this much cringe in their game.
@@hayuseen6683 God I hope he's just lying for attention
I sort of understand the appeal, on some level, of doing like osr-ass first edition d&d "roll each stat in order left to right" character creation... but the whole point of that system was you rolled BEFORE picking your class because your stats dictate what you can specialize in. Making you roll AFTER picking a class is just miserable.
The DM in the 2nd story must be thinking: "Bet you didn't expect that!"
"Yeah, I expected the story to be good!"
As a straight man, i'm not ashamed to say that i play characters from all groups: male, female, gay straight, and bi. It's fun to diversify what characters you play.
In my case I don't actively tag my character's sexuality at all, the girls I play probably swing both ways, being interested in cute ladies as well as cute guys or cool charismatic guys
But I guess my male chars are technically straight?
Irl I'm not entirely sure I'm straight either tbh, it's kinda just the "logical" conclusion based on the fact that I didn't have any crushes on guys yet
There are some cute/hot guys in games, mangas and other such stories though >w
I just don't tag my characters' sexuality because I'm not looking for sexual/romantic rp
Roll stats in order can be a fun way to play if you want a challenge, but when you do that you choose class (and maybe race) AFTER rolling.
Agreed. I've never done this but I've been curious about this method as a way of "discovering" your character. I mean at that point if if roll low in INT and still choose to be a Wizard it is on you then.
Stating "I'm a straight white guy" in that particular tone makes me instantly put his application in the trash. Lol
I'm a straight white male 😮
@@ShepardCommander
That's cool.
Just don't go on any crazy rants that would make anyone uncomfortable at the table and you'll have a lot better luck finding a game than the guy in the story.
@@dubiousinformation1756 Story sounds made up to be honest. Know a bunch of straight white males that are into D&D that can easily find games. Heck I would even believe it if someone told me D&D is "straight white male" dominated. Even Critical Role, an lgbtq+ table representation in media is still straight white male majority if you look at it.
If we were to believe him, either the guy stuck to toxic groups of people that are actually rejecting him based on him being a straight white male which I doubt or the story is made up. Never seen someone be rejected based on their sex and ethnicity. Doubt they even ask that on roll20 though never tried looking for games there since 100% of reddit true dnd horror stories come from there.
Quota guy sounds like the weirdo my friends and I have had to deal with in our writing group, where he threw a public hissyfit about how we were racist against him because we told him not to be so rude to us.
I had an idea for a super-duper Mary-Sue DMPC character that shows up in the first session, shows up all the players, is kind of low-key a butt about everything, and then the stinger is...the PC's finding said DMPC quite dead. Stone dead. An ex-DMPC. Pining for the fjords. Complete with comedic horrified expression and dagger through heart. After that, players can try figuring out what he was up to, solve his murder, whatever. No resurrection, either, he gone.
Make sure to lock the door so the players stay until the end of the session.
There was a guy in my DnD group who thought that the reason why he was cracked down on harder than others was because he was the only “real man” man in the group. He:
1) used attacks on player characters to “punish” them in narrative interactions
2) quoted scripture about burning in hellfire for sodomy at gay characters. His character was a priest.
3) used hentai tags to describe situations. “Mind break” instead of hypnosis, “roll for NTR” instead of charisma…
… annnd the DM is a trans man, so that “real man” statement was very intentional.
“The Worst Among Worst”
If this is how you start your campaigns, you should be BANNED from DM’ing. Like… picking uo a DM screen will result in psychic damage in the same way that Wizard story has it.
Apparently it’s an older way of doing stuff, though usually you only get to pick classes your stats qualify for like the multi classing table after rolling, but it’s not a way I’m particularly fond of.
Even beyond the random stats being excused by an abandoned rule set, not getting to know what dragon you're agreeing to worship definitely feels scummy. Hiding the gameplay bonus might be fine, but not the thing that affects the player's personality.
@@ArcCaravan Especially since the characters would know what all the dragons stand for if it's a major part of the religion. Unless making major parts of a character's personality effectively random was part of the theme of the campaign, but it doesn't sound like that was the case.
(And pushing sexualized backstories on female characters is on its own several red flags. Had a campaign fall apart before the first session when a DM tried that.)
Literally 20 seconds in and I'm already agitated,angry,and in pain from what i just read, i don't know if i can continue this one
Seriously, I've never skipped the intro story before this one.
Sounds like the purpose of an intro story. Shock the viewer awake to the horribleness of tabletop horror stories.
This is RPGhorrorstories. It's all horrible. Most RPG sessions aren't like these. Honestly, I'dd say like, 99% of the games I've ran/played in are super fun. It's just that the crap 1% are the ones people post here, lol.
That opening you delivered was a stirred cocktail of shock, anger, and morbid curiosity. Then you mentioned it was satire...
📣 *LEAD with that important detail next time!*
agreed! i nearly clicked off it was that bad!
methinks the DM of the last story basically wrote his campaign with one hand, if you know what I mean
Giggety.
While that last story was... disgusting on so many levels, I have to admit that Crispy's excitement over the term "bawdy house" made my day better all by itself.
God, I love these live skits he's been incorporating lately. They're so fun.
Story 2: "Oh get off the cross, we need the wood."
That is a fun quote.
@@ArcCaravan Its from "Letterkenny"
@@legomaniac213 Thanks. I heard it on Atop The Fourth Wall.
Intro story:
"There's only so much cringe someone can take." - Crispy
The cringe hoarding dragon might disagree. :)
Yeah but i think even Drake would blacklist that from his hoard
That DM was not only a control freak, he nit picked all to hell and back. At best.
also what would happen if he upgraded his weapons and armour? Would he consistently have to go out and buy new mini's that perfectly reflect how his character looked at that time?
@@sandrasnow-balvert7766 Possibly.
Oh man, you don't know the half of it. He was so with his nitpicking. I wanted to be an illiterate rogue-bard who grew up lisening to storys. He went "naw you have proffiency in history, your not illiterate". Wat.
@@DM_Ace I could not have tolerated that guy for more than five minutes at the most.
I don't think I would lasted half that long.
I knew him for a total of probably about two to three days. I applied to the game on Monday. By the time of my own session, Thursday nights, I was done with his nonsense. Hell, on the vods you can even hear him pokeing me on discord -in the middle of my session after I specifically said I had to go DM my own game. Suffice to say, I was outa there by Thursday night. ><
On the plus side, it was most entertaining game I've joined in a while. Even if I never ended up playing a single session, lol. @@marybdrake1472
I had a similar instance of story one where I was going to play a yuan-ti because the way their emotional nature is described in Volo's just screamed out "this is me" well... minus all the "this is why they're evil" injected after each neurodivergent coded description. Anyway, was talking to a GM and getting a bit animated about the challenge and the GM came out with "Maybe your couatl patron (celestial warlock) fixed your emotions when you made your pact."
Me: "....."
Oh my god, the second story happened to one of my characters in my old dnd group- my character was a single father, whose son was devastatingly sick with the same necromantic disease that killed his wife. On his quest to find a cure, he joined up with the party who found a dragon in human form. Legit the next session later, the dragon cured my characters son from his disease and the son became this draconic sorcerer god-child. My character had absolutely no reason to stay with the party after that and the campaign ended up falling apart as a couple other players had some falling out and was sick of the dm just taking away any motivation for the story.
I'm usually not one to get offended but god, as a native that first bit actually kinda got under my skin until i realized it was satire
Sorry, the wizard put a magic shock collar on someone? Thats so fucked
There are a lot of LGBT-only groups out there, and it's possible that one guy just kept accidentally applying to only those groups, but I think the more likely reason is that he comes on stronger than a bottle of Sex Panther. There are plenty of games out there that accept people of all gender and sexual orientations; you just have to be willing to shell out a bit.
Also, that yellow dragon crap is shamelessly stolen from Naruto's dad, Minato.
I love Heroforge, but if you’re not making the figure first you’re never going to get a perfect match to you vision. With them “close enough” is still pretty awesome.
Yeah. I have my players use Heroforge all the time. Was gonna make a token on heroforge even before he asked me too. But willingly makeing your dude on heroforge and enforced token apperence are two very different things.
Yeah. It's one of the better "mockup a good enough sketch of a character with 0 artistic ability" tools, but unless you can draw the only real way of getting a character 100% spot on is to have the budget to hire an artist.
The last one becomes even worse when you think of what IRL fetish ORC assault on elven women is meant to stand for
which one would that be?
@@MassiveKreutz Fetishization over black people and violent-themed cuckoldry
I have no idea what it stands for…..this isn’t me being disingenuous I really have no idea
@@sootythunder3111 hah. It's okay. As I said above, I refer to the fetishization of black men and violent-themed cuckoldy. I could go on a deeper explanation if you want.
@@Beto_Serrano ?
Gotta love it when a DM uses a game to force evryone into acting out their fetishes. Super cool.
I can't remember the last time I made a character under 21
Sending teenagers to die in jungles doesn't sound fun. I wanted to at least be an -adult-.
"I wanna be respectful to the 'savage Indians'" wtf? That has to be satire
I watched a lot of NCIS in the past; one of the characters said this line once "If you're going through Hell, might as well keep walking. There's nothing else to lose." For the people in the last story, I'm just happy they got a net positive in the end. However, I mean what does it take to step out of the way of a freight train for goodness' sake?
They probably don't consider bad DnD to be as horrible as a freight train barrelling at them or whatever the context of that NCIS quote. "Sticks and stones", "It's just a game", and all that.
I get that when people are new to something they can not notice a lot of red flags... But that last story. I feel like anyone, once you got to the back room of the brothel and had that said to you... I have hope that 99% of people would get up and never talk to this person again.
The one thing I like about that homophobic rant: The term "prismatic" as a euphemism for being part of the LGBT community.
Honestly we should steal that shit and use it, Prismatic is fucking rad.
2nd Story: Who knew the concept of Incel could translate into playing D&D? 🤔
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 I can't play because I'm straight 😢😢😢😢😢😢 I'm so oppressed 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
That's the whole story
@@genericname2747 main character syndrome in carnet.
Yes, player, your token must be 100% accurate to your character's actual appearance. Plus you need a token for every other outfit they would possibly want to wear. 🤦♂
You joke, but you sound like him saying that.
"I'm getting refused entry to/kicked out of games because I'm straight!" ...no, pumpkin. It's because decent, civilized people don't want to be around bigots.
Why do I feel that the last DM is a teenager? Or at least in the realm of a younger adult. The amount of overly s3xual content of that game screams it.
I know I shouldn't enjoy Crispy whispering "Danger" but it's just a funny way to warn us of triggering things.
the dramatic recreation was giving the same energy as laganja estranja doing a dramatic reading of her stand up routine from rupauls drag race season 6
Crispy I almost had a stroke from that first story.
My regular gaming group consists of three straight men, two gay men, one straight woman, and one gay woman. It ain’t that hard. Just respect each other and have fun.
I'm actually in a Wild West campaign. DM really enjoyed RDR2 and wanted to run something like that. I feel like it's pretty respectful. I'm playing a halfling Artificer and our party leader is a Kenku Gunslinger with legendary gear from Paul Bunyan. The native tribe we're interacting with is the Potawatomi, (they're all humans) and we're helping them defeat the evil werewolf town of Wolfwood.
Our season is wrapping up, and next up is the futuristic setting Adaraxia, set in the Divine Sector. A mix of Cyberpunk 2077, 40K, and Mass Effect.
Padded armor being referred to as not "proper armor" triggered me stronger than it should've
I reunited with an old acquaintance from high school who ended up integrating really well with my current friend group. Turns out he's a DM and most of us haven't played before so he convinces us to join a homebrew campaign he's had on the back burner for a while.
Anyways, campaign starts, within session 1 we get the "call to action" in the middle of the night, 1 player leaves immediately and the rest of us scramble to prepare some before we leave. He keeps asking us along the lines of "are you sure you want to leave now? Don't you want to prepare more?" but won't elaborate. We leave, first player who ran off nearly dies (despite DM swinging things fairly hard in her favor) and over the next few sessions spend very little time sleeping, a lot of it traveling, and more or less fumbling through our first encounters with creatures and situations alike. He repeats over this time "i cant believe you left so fast" and implies we took a path he didn't expect. Not mad, just surprised.
Several sessions in after we've completed some pretty important tasks, we happen across a new op chara we're all pretty sus about. Turns out this is the DMNPC--his self insert, to help us along.
Tldr: we left behind our babysitter character AND several key items in our very first session and our DM had to frantically change things around so we didn't die.
I'm gonna call the DM from the last story Dragon Freak!
OP here from the Control Freak story.
It was definitely a weird ass game from the start. It was the first time I tried to get into a game outside my current group of friends for over a year.
I almost didn't apply to the game since they had 5 players on roll20 already, and "one only slot" but I shot my shot, and was almost surprised at how fast I got a response. Dude must have had players droping like flies.
I kind of feel bad for the guy, honestly. He did seam like he knew his rules. He just had a ......very solid vision of what he wanted to accomplish. I felt he was was just chainsawing through players until he found the Gygax-esk group he was looking for. And yet, there was nothing indicating as such on the LFG page.
Honestly, Im surprised he wasn't just advertising for 3.5 if he hated 5e so much.
Why do 5e haters not just run a game they enjoy
People love pathfinder 1e ffs
@@V2ULTRAKill Not a clue! Some people are just really picky. I don't much care about the individual system that much.
@@DM_Ace ill run any game as long as the campaign meets the system
(Meaning adnd/2e games that are heavy roleplay are a no just because the system is bad for it)
Crispy, I'm glad you're able to explore and enjoy the hobby. I was kinda worried that reading from r/rpghorrorstories so much that you'd end up with PTSD or something of that nature.
He did not open up with the noble but savage people! Lmao, this is a red flag speed run my guys
I was in a group that was audtioning new players after having a falling out with one, and we had a pretty nice showing of people, but we got one guy who was in his 50s and straight, but he was A Straight. Most of the group is queer, so we were quite uncomfortable with his "oh, I guess we're stating our pronouns now?", it set off some red flags of stuff we'd rather not deal with in the future.
(The person we did end up picking was very sweet, so we made the right choice.)
Yikes that first one. Post-Watch Edit: What the fuck is wrong with people? That last one... Yikes-er.
Third Story> I wonder if he celebrates straight pride or not. Also, more positively I figure, I do like the use of 'prismatic', even if the guy in the post was using it negatively. I kinda like it better than 'rainbow' (i dont have anything against rainbows, other than never having seen one on fire), especially in context to LGBTQ2S+ gamers
If you've been kicked from multiple dnd games with different people for 4 years... then sorry but the only consistant factor in this equation is yourself.
That Wizard Came From the DM Story. I've heard this a few times now. Simply put the DM was only interested in HIS story. Years ago I fell into this same trap, though perhaps not as hard. But it is a trap. To all new DM's and those thinking of DM'ing, don't do this. You will have enough on your plate as is trying to handle literally every interaction outside of player on player in the game. And if you do have an old character you want to use, keep them in a support/ patron roll. You can still be doing cool stuff, just in the back ground.
In this case as the party patron the wizard could have asked the party to come to his place to discuss how to thwart the BBEG. The party could lay out their plan, it won't take much to get the party to divulge this plan. Then the patron states that because of (insert reason here you just came up with why it won't work) that the BBEG has waiting for them because the patron has used their powerful magic to scry the fortress. The patron then says they need (insert item/ potion here) to give the party an edge, either a way in the BBEG can't stop or more importantly a way to get every one out the BBEG can't stop. But the patron lacks a particular item/ component to finish making it. Patron tells party to get item/ component while patron makes all the preparations to craft item/ potion. This puts a time crunch on this as well. Party then goes to get item/ component, all on their own. Patron finishes the item/ potion and gives it to party, but states "I can't help you further as rushing the completion of this (item/ potion) has drained my power (heavily fatigued). I have told you all I know of the fortress and this should help. Good Luck." And party goes off on rescue. Party will still be grateful to patron for the information and edge. Party still gets to shine. Everyone happy. And that new and prospective DM's is what needs to happen. Everybody being happy with the game.
Sorry for my English, is not my first language.
I will start saying that I am not a player of DnD, just an spectator and a crpg gamer that tried to learn the rules back in the day.
Maybe that is why I feel this wouldn't have been a problem if the party agreed to run the game like this from the beginning.
Imagine a scenario where a group of friends are playing together in a campaign with another DM, but for health issues, or just life in general, that mage had to stop playing and the campaign went on without him.
The group of friends that remained enjoyed already their campaign as heroes, and when the mage could play again, they felt interested about the mage's character potential and asked with melancholy "what could have you wanted to do if you kept playing with us?"
They found the answer interesting and said, "ey, that sounds cool, so how about you run a game with that character as a protagonist, and we just tag along?"
If it was like that from the start, I don't see anything wrong with it, since the expectations are already set.
But again, that is my approach is as someone who doesn't play DnD: I am a consumer of stories, not a creator of stories.
Edit: Grammar, sorry for the ones I am missing.
@@Ilwenray85 Even if every word of what you think may have happened before this story started did happen, the DM running the game did not tell that unusual arrangement to the new player to that game. And because it would have been an unusual game set up, new players must be made aware of it before they join so they can decide if they want to be a part of that or not. Instead the new player got blindsided.
@@davidtherwhanger6795 In that hypothetical case I made there was no new player to begin with, it was only a scenario where playing a game like that made sense.
English is not my first language, but I understood your post as if *under no circumstances* a character the DM creates, can have more protagonism than the players, because _it removes player agency_ and is not his story, but the player's.
And that interpretation (correct or incorrect, it doesn't matter) made me gave you an example of why such a game not only *could* happen, but *should* happen more often in my opinion.
Of course making clear the point that I am not a DnD player, and that makes my opinion irrelevant all things considered.
I get sensitive because this topic is similar to something I care about.
I have a friend, that when we were young, wanted to create a videogame.
Like a tactical jrpg, focused on the story in a railroaded way with only two branches, but with great characters, plot and political turmoil.
Didn't realized the scope of it, and how hard it is to create a game like that, so even after studying something related to programming (I never remember the words in my own language, don't expect me to translate it) I told him to write it as a book instead.
A decade later, we lost contact and in the meantime, he was in writer's block, and shared what he had (like fourty chapters) with his girlfriend before giving up on it...
And she asked permission to share it with a few of her friends, that coincidentally played DnD.
They asked him to DM a campaign based on that.
They wanted to be those characters in the story he was writing because they were so cool.
They wanted to know what happened to them, didn't want that story to end in the garbage bin.
He refused, because he lacked knowledge of DnD and his insecurities got the better of him.
But I want to believe that if the game happened, that idea was not a mistake in any kind of way, and it would have been awesome.
@@Ilwenray85 Fundamentally a single person writing a book or making a video game is completely different from a collective group doing so. And most every TTRPG out there is a collective group writing a story and not an individual. In these kinds of TTRPG's the group itself has no idea how the story is going to turn out as each member of the group has different ways they wish to accomplish things and different goals. Where as an individual writing a story has some idea of what they want to happen to accomplish a particular goal. As such your friend would probably not have liked the direction some of the others who, however interested in the story so far, would have a different "vision" of how things would happen. This happens in every fandom of every book, series, etc. ever so it would happen in your case as well.
Simply put I have heard over a hundred times something like this has been tried. But never once have I heard it succeeding the way you want it to.
@@davidtherwhanger6795 _Sigh_
Again, I see things differently because I don't play DnD to begin with. I enjoy watching it.
*Feel free to use this as a horror story that never came to be, Crispy,* because the DMs where intelligent to avoid it, and even if I got a bit hurt by it back then, I agree with their assessment.
The only character I created was when I was a child/teen, had the backstory as an elf bard trapped in the court of Titania for two centuries (time dilation, the rest of the world passed even more time) that was released on the condition of collecting more tales before her obligatory return.
She had no motivation to feel part of the party, more than safety between place to place.
Until the party would do something that would sparkle the idea, that what they did was interesting enough to deserve writing their adventures as a chronicle that maybe Titania would enjoy.
She was designed as a 16 int 14 cha bard and I wanted to play her like writting stuff in a paper, giving it to the DM, and roll for it without others knowing what I am doing.
That stuff could be maybe roll if I suspect a betrayal, but not saying anything because that would make the story (and chronicle) more interesting, and therefore Titania would be happier with the result.
The same in choosing helping a party member with something or let them solve it by themselves would be a coin toss, as my interaction would interfere with the story/destiny of the party if I did.
4 DMs rejected it the mere idea with: "even if the premise sounds interesting... she (and you) don't have a place in a DnD table.
You seem to want a story writen for you by the other players and tag along, not write one yourself with the other players."
And that is correct, as I said already I am a consumer of stories, not a creator of stories.
What I wanted (and still want to some extent) is a customized interactive book that keeps evolving, let me choose between 10 options, see what others choose, see where the story goes from there, repeat.
But I don't want to think about what those options are myself, I am a reader of the book first.
And when this stories of DMs wanting to just tell their own story appear, I think is the most similar thing to that interactive book: limited participation in someone else's story.
So, would the Control Freak DM require their players to change their token every time they change their equipment?
Probably. Same might apply for any weapon changes too.
Yup. He was adamant that tokens must 100% match what your token looks like. The things we do for immersion. Lol.
The first story has to be a masterfull trolling - he hit all the targets with it :D
That last session was by far the worst thing I read, and I have been reading horrorstories for months now.
I hate when people implement sexual themes in Dungeons & Dragons. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure there would be some that are implemented right. However all of the ones I've seen in RpgHorrorStories are implemented so wrongly that it just exposes how horrible the Players/DMs are as people.
It didn't help either that the Dm also "don't believe in male rape", because that shit happens and it's cruel to see idiots say "oh, well he's just lucky". THAT CAN LITERALLY LEAD TO SO MANY BAD PATHS THANKS TO THAT, and don't get me started on the fact that the DM even stated that he tends to do this often in Session ones where they have the female elves dance then have it be the cause of no one playing. Like, dude. Nobody liked the scene because of how fucked up it is, and yet he plays it like it's not his fault and should do better.
I could go for so much more and I'm just 2/3rds within the story. Smh, they should have just pack their dices and go when they had the chance.
That last one was ... disgusting and insane! Talk about "deeper problems"! Marianas Trench, in that DM's case.
I was once in a campaign where humans et,al were the civilized colonizers and orcs were the tribal natives.
Our party took the side of the orcs (as the DM intended).
9:02
i like to imagine him saying this with a loud dramatic
anime voice as the camera swirls around him and he
makes dramatic wide arm movements.
Hah. The problem player from the title of this episode was probably such a pain even the homophobic tables didn't want him lol.
(And yeah those exist, a GM I had a few years ago now selfdestructed an entire group because he was homophobic. (A fairly quick and spontaneous relationship between a gnome and halfling PC didn't work out, the gnome's player and I talked about some things to make sure we were both ok with it OOC, then the gnome had a bit of a rebound relationship with my Dryad PC (A leshy fae sorcerer, this was PF2e). The former relationship was completely fine, but the GM went off on a tirade about the latter one, and when the entire party was like "What's the problem, it's the same as the last thing" he deleted the discord instead.)
Ive been playing DND for a few years now and ive never had anyone's sexuality come up at any time with any group ive played with
@@pierluigi1412 exactly
YASHA AND BEAU!!! Sorry, I just really love them, the art in your thumbnail is SO good!
The original artist is linked in the description! I think she's done similar art for every Critical Role couple. Please show her some love!
I always love when Crispy is reading a story and subtlety switches voices when he starts to realize the writer is actually a creep
Honestly the opening story made me think of an idea i had. Tribal elves, like the native Americans. Break away from the whole graceful look with long robes and fair skin (something i learnt recently, fair means pale skin)
so ive added what could be called a dmpc to all my campaigns. he was my first ever pc and i decided to use him once when i started dming and he became so useful that i made him a mainstay! his role is to serve and a black market type of character who can sell info and other less acquirable stuff to the party for a hefty fee. it meant players could buy what they wanted and made them wanna save up gold to afford them. by the end they were well equipped and my black market salesman who goes by the dragon of the sewers has become a beloved sight at my table.
The "i cant find a group cos im straight" guy really ought to try BG3.
(The joke is BG3 is super gay)
mother of gods i was listening to you in the background while working like i usually do and get physically jump scared by that opening i was reeling
That story felt a lot like the DMPC story at the end of Crispy's marathon but instead of DMPCs mistreating player characters its a DM not allowing players to make informed decisions for their own PCs. About as horny, though.
Definitely feels like I've heard at least 20 stories worse than that, even excluding examples with disgusting behavior IRL.
“i don’t meet the quota”
I think the dude is never invited because the DM’s can sense this guy is not good.
We had a player that just… did not understand being queer and would say all kinds of homophobic stuff-despite most of the group at the time being queer. She even got mad at a problem player for being bisexual (despite sharing a discord space with me, a bisexual woman). The fact she never learned was one of the reasons she was kicked.
The Op is definitely one of those weirdos who would make being queer a BIG DEAL for no reason, and make people uncomfortable.
We want a game that is safe and fun for us-and sadly dudes like OP do not make it safe.
I've engaged in the infernal art of using one of my previous PCs as an NPC. In my defense, it was a character who had definitely finished his arc and who I had decided was going to spend the rest of his career doing some trading, smuggling and light adventuring as a ship's captain -- so I had an already-fleshed-out character who was disinclined to participate in major conflicts ("sorry, I have a husband and kids back at port to think about") but could just happen to be available when the party needed to travel by sea. Also had to let go of "this character is a hero" and let him be a bit comically ineffectual at times. I still had to be extra-careful that it wasn't becoming The DM's Old PC Show.
The DM in the video, though, using the other players' campaign to try to center his own character and finish an old arc? That's just evil.
The guy who has somehow never gotten into a DnD group for being a straight white guy reminds me of senior year when all of the white students swore up and down that universities sent them letters saying "sorry, we're rejecting you for being white". Usually, when you're actually being discriminated against, you don't have to lie about it.
Where's the original video from the "I don't meet the quota" story??? I am fully prepared to watch that 40 minute video
Its attached
The funny part about the guy being all anal over padded vs. leather, saying that it won't provide the same protection as proper armour...
Padded Armour and Leather Armour both have an AC of 11 + DEX, their defensive properties are identical.
Except that Padded gives disadvantage on stealth checks, which makes no sense. Really padded armor (Gambeson) is in reality usually superior to the leather armor that is traditionally envisioned in fantasy.
@@KevinDPomeroy I'd be tempted to just reflavor one of the medium armors as "heavy gambeson" and call it a day. Or try light homebrew and make it AC13 with stealth disadvantage, but making it faster to don heavy armor (since it would be the first layer of that heavy armor already being worn).
I told him that! He still threw a fit over it!
I think it's because he comes from 3.5 , where padded is +1 to AC and leather is +2 AC. In 5e it''s identical. Hell, I didn't even have stealth proffiency!
@@DM_Ace Jeez, I guess the old addage is true; no D&D is better than bad D&D.
@@KevinDPomeroy I've never understood that. If anything, leather should give disadvantage, if one was needed. Have you ever worn leather? That stuff's noisy as hell!
"I'm afab and identify as a straight man, and I'm not white, I'm Jewish" Job done boyos get those groups.
I could immediately tell that the initial post was a troll. But, seriously: the original post (which I managed to dig up) was _not_ far removed.
Please, where did you find it
Your skits are my favorite parts of your videos!
There always has been deeper problems.
That "I don’t meet the queer quota" guy reminds of this person who was trying to get their book published through a publishing house that specifically said they focus authors of color. They were white and when they were rejected, they complained that there was "no spaces for white authors anymore". Like, maybe you're barking up the wrong, clearly labeled tree, bud. I wouldn't be super surprised if our DnDless friend here has, at times, attempted to go into spaces that very much are not for him
Dude sees games advertised as Lgbtq+ friendly and thinks that means he's not allowed to join
I have a sickening feeling that that devirgining of Brim was an attempt by the DM to drive an emotional wedge of distrust between him and Yazzie, so that Yazzie would have fewer qualms about engaging in increasingly raunchy acts.
That opening is something I've absolutely done without even thinking about it untill my native friend asked me "Hey man, are the tribes like... Monsters to you or something?"
"No, why?"
"You keep using native traditions for your mostly villainous orcs."
"...Oh!"
So yeah turns out I pulled a Bright without even thinking about it and just made all my orcs native coded, as a monolith. Needless to say, i went about fixing this and with my buddy's help we were even to make a better representation of his culture in this game. Using a race even a "monstrous" race is good so long as you treat the culture with respect, and not make them entirely evil.
god the control freak story i'd be wanting to reach through his screen and backhand the stupid out of him. x-x'
I unapplied to that game so fast man. Like right after that banger of a responce, I went "yeah, sorry, this game isn't for me, peace"