*Important context for the first story* I instantly recognized this quest as one of the starter quests from Dragon of Icespire Peak (Essentials Kit), and I ran this particular quest only a couple months ago. My interpretation is the DM was trying too hard to run straight out of the book and not capable of responding to player creativity. This quest is meant for a level 1 or 2 party, and the goal is to return the apothecary to town because she is the only one who makes and sells potions. I see no reason the DM didn’t explain this. She is trapped in her old windmill by a manticore (perhaps injured and driven from its home, wanting healing potions). I don’t recall the manticore being rumored to be a dragon, but only a winged beast or something like that. The book suggest the PCs can either fight the manticore or bargain with it to leave (give it treasure or food). I don’t think this is particularly well written, but the DM in the story utterly failed to communicate this. Your players most likely don’t know that manticores can speak Common, so you as the DM need to have the manticore speak and set up a potential bargain encounter to avoid combat. Despite the DM’s failure to demonstrate this, the players still tried to pursue a non-combat route to do the quest, but only got shutdown; super lame behavior
I was about to say the exact same! I’ve also ran this exact quest for level 1 players (literally only a dm pc of mine and my husbands pc) and it obvs went completely different because I didn’t run it as brutal as it is written. Iirc the module suggest for TWO manticores instead of one 😅
Oh man I relate to the cursed dice thing so so much. I think my current record for nat 1s in one session is 10? In a different campaign I was once told by my dm " if you roll another nat one this session i'm writing a curse into your backstory". I think I was at 6 then in that one. To be fair that seemed to scare my dice enough to stop rolling ones for the rest of the session. A secret curse in my lineage would've been cool though.
So that first one, with the DM vetoing the players racial abilites. Been there done that, not with a racial though. I had a charecter that had Devil sight as part of her back story, Only found out the DM changed how it worked about 15/20 sessions in. He decided it didn't work against someone with Umbral sight. (Hint it absalutly does) This resulted in the Dm having his 'super sneaky invisible rogue with umbral sight in a dark cave' almost oneshot the Wizard and very nearly got away scott free.
Horror 1: That second rule is nonsense. You get disadvantage on ranged attacks if the target is within, like, 5-10 feet of you or something like that. If they're further back, but within the first range set by the weapon, the weapon deals full damage; if they're within the second range of the weapon, they take half-damage, as the force of the arrow/dart/whatever has been decreased by traveling through the air for that distance and slowed by the air. So for that weapon, its range is 50/100, which means that if the target is within 50 feet, it takes full damage, as the arrow hasn't been slowed by air resistance to lessen its impact, and if they're more than 50 and less than 100 feet away, the damage is halved due to that resistance having lessened the speed of the arrow. This is explained in the book, and this house rule is insane nerfing based entirely on the DM's misunderstanding of RAW. Also, willing to bet that if they did that encounter the "right" way by sneaking around and getting the drop on the manticore, the result would've been, "Well you took too long to get to the woman, and now she's dead. You failed the mission and get no gold, ha ha." I'm sure there was literally no winning that encounter at all. This DM just sounds like a weird power-trippy fuck. Hope that OP got to find another group to play his tiefling fighter with.
Boy, if those first two stories aren't just perfect mirror images of each other: A DM who does everything they can to thwart and frustrate their players, versus one who bends over backwards to accommodate their players' ideas and wishes. The first campaign immediately peters out, while the second one thrives. Go figure.
I joined a group online High Level D&D. Thank God the first session was free. In 3 hours I rolled 1 persuasion check. Most of the session was the DM and his girlfriend roleplaying an NPC and her character dancing in a red lace outfit. She did not have a sexy, nice voice either. I left before the 4th hour. They were insulted.
the first story it sounds like the DM is ruling that you have to be at 6 feet away to 49 feet away to shoot normally. At 50ft or greater is at disadvantage which... is a weird rule given that most tables play with 5' grids.
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*Important context for the first story*
I instantly recognized this quest as one of the starter quests from Dragon of Icespire Peak (Essentials Kit), and I ran this particular quest only a couple months ago. My interpretation is the DM was trying too hard to run straight out of the book and not capable of responding to player creativity.
This quest is meant for a level 1 or 2 party, and the goal is to return the apothecary to town because she is the only one who makes and sells potions. I see no reason the DM didn’t explain this. She is trapped in her old windmill by a manticore (perhaps injured and driven from its home, wanting healing potions). I don’t recall the manticore being rumored to be a dragon, but only a winged beast or something like that.
The book suggest the PCs can either fight the manticore or bargain with it to leave (give it treasure or food). I don’t think this is particularly well written, but the DM in the story utterly failed to communicate this. Your players most likely don’t know that manticores can speak Common, so you as the DM need to have the manticore speak and set up a potential bargain encounter to avoid combat. Despite the DM’s failure to demonstrate this, the players still tried to pursue a non-combat route to do the quest, but only got shutdown; super lame behavior
I was about to say the exact same! I’ve also ran this exact quest for level 1 players (literally only a dm pc of mine and my husbands pc) and it obvs went completely different because I didn’t run it as brutal as it is written. Iirc the module suggest for TWO manticores instead of one 😅
Not gonna lie I thought Mags said “a pocket fairy” when she said “apothecary” and I was INTRIGUED!😂
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Oh man I relate to the cursed dice thing so so much. I think my current record for nat 1s in one session is 10? In a different campaign I was once told by my dm " if you roll another nat one this session i'm writing a curse into your backstory". I think I was at 6 then in that one. To be fair that seemed to scare my dice enough to stop rolling ones for the rest of the session. A secret curse in my lineage would've been cool though.
So that first one, with the DM vetoing the players racial abilites.
Been there done that, not with a racial though.
I had a charecter that had Devil sight as part of her back story, Only found out the DM changed how it worked about 15/20 sessions in. He decided it didn't work against someone with Umbral sight. (Hint it absalutly does)
This resulted in the Dm having his 'super sneaky invisible rogue with umbral sight in a dark cave' almost oneshot the Wizard and very nearly got away scott free.
Horror 1: That second rule is nonsense. You get disadvantage on ranged attacks if the target is within, like, 5-10 feet of you or something like that. If they're further back, but within the first range set by the weapon, the weapon deals full damage; if they're within the second range of the weapon, they take half-damage, as the force of the arrow/dart/whatever has been decreased by traveling through the air for that distance and slowed by the air. So for that weapon, its range is 50/100, which means that if the target is within 50 feet, it takes full damage, as the arrow hasn't been slowed by air resistance to lessen its impact, and if they're more than 50 and less than 100 feet away, the damage is halved due to that resistance having lessened the speed of the arrow. This is explained in the book, and this house rule is insane nerfing based entirely on the DM's misunderstanding of RAW.
Also, willing to bet that if they did that encounter the "right" way by sneaking around and getting the drop on the manticore, the result would've been, "Well you took too long to get to the woman, and now she's dead. You failed the mission and get no gold, ha ha." I'm sure there was literally no winning that encounter at all. This DM just sounds like a weird power-trippy fuck. Hope that OP got to find another group to play his tiefling fighter with.
Boy, if those first two stories aren't just perfect mirror images of each other: A DM who does everything they can to thwart and frustrate their players, versus one who bends over backwards to accommodate their players' ideas and wishes. The first campaign immediately peters out, while the second one thrives. Go figure.
I joined a group online High Level D&D. Thank God the first session was free. In 3 hours I rolled 1 persuasion check. Most of the session was the DM and his girlfriend roleplaying an NPC and her character dancing in a red lace outfit. She did not have a sexy, nice voice either. I left before the 4th hour. They were insulted.
I still wince when I see mags fling around the fidget toy. 🤣😂
the first story it sounds like the DM is ruling that you have to be at 6 feet away to 49 feet away to shoot normally. At 50ft or greater is at disadvantage which... is a weird rule given that most tables play with 5' grids.
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