My friend is currently running a campaign with a couple of other friends, and they gave the party a Bag of Holding and a Bag of Devouring. Most of the party wanted to leave the BOD behind, except the Half-Orc Barbarian... He kept it and is using it as a 'pet', and to get rid of bodies.
Be nice to your DM. Else he may start putting you into 2ed encounters rather than 5ed. "Your party crosses the bridge. The rogue realizes, all too late, that it's an ambush. You are surrounded by 40 lizardmen." "You enter the room. In it is a mighty warrior grooming his hieracosphinx. Coming out of a peaceful sleep nearby is a worg. A bloodhawk in the window lets out a warning cry. None of the inhabitants look pleased to see you."
I've had a DM try to start a campaign by literally dropping a demon on my character and our party's druid. It was supposed to be really tough he had a great sword that did like 2d10+2 and he had a str score of like 24 i think, if he had hit either of us it would have taken our characters down to zero in one go. It was supposed to knock us down and take off then we would have to adventure and level up to beat it later. But we rolled high initiatives and the demon rolled low, it was my fighter, the druid, the demon, and the druids wolf companion. In the first round my fighter crit with his bastard sword dealing like 23 damage then the druid also crits with a dagger, then the demon goes it tries to charm my character and failed, then the wolf tripped the demon which fell on the wolf. We all got attacks of opportunity on it we both hit, the druid crit again my character didn't. Then the next round we continued to wail on it, it tried to frighten us only got the wolf. Then at the end of the demons turn he finally draws his sword but he couldn't attack because he used his action to frighten us, and the top of the round my character crits and rolls max damage which for my characters bastard sword, with two hands, is d10+6/x2 which killed the demon. My DM had the demon brand this magic rune on my character which acted like catnip for other demons, my character also got the demons sword which my DM told me after i couldn't use until 3rd level at minimum, tunlrns out we were supposed to face this thing again at about 4th level and get it then but our rolls broke the encounter, and our DM had to rework a portion of the campaign because we killed it. It was supposed to be a tpko to drive the story but the dice were on our side that night
One day, i tried to kill a PC because a new player came some sesions ago and all he did was just kill NPCs and even tried to kill all the party. So i made him to fall into another plane of existence. Asked him for a natural 20 to escape from there, Only one opportunity. And... He failed so i killed him. It was funny and he has never come back to my campaigns. The whole party praised me for that.
Perhaps you could have been mature about it and talked to the player outside of session about being disruptive and how its bad for everyone at the table....and ask for their help in creating a cooperate and cohesive story building with the party and DM? THEN if they continue kick them from the game and do what you wish with their character. Sorry but being a dick shouldn't be the normal response to a player being a dick. I know most people are introverts but being a DM isn't a power play to make up for an introvert bullied person to feel powerful. most who play D&D may be introverts but try talking things out in a constructive mature manner....might be surprised at the results.
@@benjaminfrost2780 well watch all things dnd. He got bullied by other pcs because he was a half drow rogue and eventually when they killed a half dragon but before he died the sorcerer asked why was he trying to kill them and who sent him. Unfortunately his last words were drraaa. And the paladin pointed his sword at the drow rogue and thought that it was him who hired him and they alp started fighting him and thankfully an npc allie called on the guards. He told them what happened and the guards told them to prop their weapons and the fighter refused and was instantly killed. The sorcerer and the bard were arrested and the paladin was already dead.
Two lawful neutral characters decided to test their fancy new items on my town, robbing and killing citizens. They are now in jail and their fancy new gifts have been confiscated indefinitely.
one time i bribed my dm 300 platinum cause we killed an anchient red dragon and he gave me 1 wish that wouldnt fail... i wished for all other wishes to not fail
I have straight up left a group I was DMing for because for one night I couldn't be there, and instead of doing something else for one night, they decided to just take the campaign and steer it in a direction they wanted it to go in. This not only ruined the flow of the campaign, but they took the story basically to the end, doing an encounter that wasn't supposed to happen until way later, and blamed me for the difficulty of the fight. It also gave players who should not have known what was going to happen have insider information, which ruined any story being built. There is respecting your DM, then there is respecting the campaign, and that group did neither, it was worth ditching for another, better, group.
Uh was there any way for the players to know the trap was there before setting it off? If not its a terrible trap that is nothing but a punishment and no one plays a game to be punished.....
They knew the mage owning the tower didn't like trespassers, and they'd already run into a Symbol Of Fear. So - yeah, there was indication that magical traps might just be around.
If you say so....there are ways to give warning of the specific trap individually if the DM is worth his/her salt. Doesn't mean the players will get it but should be offered still. Just because the place itself is trapped and the mage doesn't like trespassers.....that's to imply you just didn't want the players there and are making it ridiculous to punish them for going somewhere you didn't want them to. Sorry but its the story of the players that the DM is suppose to be narrating. Not being a vindictive or malicious deity over the players. D&D isn't for a DM to power trip its creative group based story telling. So again.....punishment for the sake of punishing or failing to give proper signals or signs that its trapped is a failing on the DM's part not the players part. Good DMs root for the players to win while trying to make interesting and challenging content for them to support their players' stories in an engaging and entertaining way. Saying this as a DM not a player.
uhm. no. don't know why you're bent out of shape about this, but it was not punishment, nor was it some out of the blue thing. Establishing that this wizard used runes and traps (Symbol of Fear reference?) was done early and Explosive Runes is a fairly commonly known about spell. Now if you want something that they didn't see coming - i once hit them with a wizard who was known for experimenting with golems and they didn't know about the Tar Golem ahead of time...
I understand this list is a bit of satire as well as seriousness, but in all honesty, the most serious reason to respect your DM is that usually your DM is an acquaintance or friend who has taken their time to support you and your group's fantasies. Also, your DM is usually more inclined to make sure that you and your group are having an enjoyable time anyway, so they should just be treated with respect in kind because they generally respect their player's wishes and enjoyment.
I also had the party once laugh at the idea thaat the local village was plagued by kobolds. They laughed so hard on their way to the kobold lair. Shame they never made it out alive. The kobold dragon master didnt even have his sleep disturbed.
The party pissed me off enough once that I had the party do a retrieve a magic stone side quest during the Out of the Abyss whilst the party was on downtime. Unfortunately, the magic stone was the maguffin from the Armageddon Stone campaign from AD&D End result, they kill lolth but inadvertently caused the end of the world They all die, you lose, goodday sir!
In my games I don't allow the "leadership" feat (pathfinder) so if I have a player that is really roleplaying well and getting invested in their character/the game they may get a follower. I had a player that really roleplayed hard when his character met some traveling bards. One of them fell in love with him and suddenly the party had a level 7 bard (right around their level) that was willing to follow them around. Also if people metagame in my game monsters get buffed. I had a player that at level 2 when they got attacked in a tunnel just yelled out "it's ok guys it's just duergar they only have 8 hp" he was a rogue who had made no knowledge checks. Those duergar suddenly leveled up.
Tony the Bulbasaur did you know an entire party ( 5 characters) can be killed by it , I found that out 2 weeks ago when we were ending a campaign instead of getting a glorious heroes ending we we're trapped in a room that filled with it till we suffocated ( our wizard wasn't there that day )
i personally think you should NEVER kill your whole group just bc you feel like it. they're fun should be your fun. As a dm you have so much more power. You shouldnt miss use it. than you get fights and unfun games. but thats just my opinion
You are right. There are the ways you can do them worse. Kill NPC they are attached to, kill animal companions, make them see how horrible consequences of their actions are.
leveling people separately seems a little iffy, especially if you wanna keep CR in consideration. I've never liked passive aggression within a campaign, instead I've always preferred speaking to the problem players and getting them to cooperate. perhaps a future video topic?
Sounds like an idea. Honestly I wasn't 100% serious about that comment. We've always played with milestones rather than experience points, but I have seen characters leveled ahead of the party in the past for story reasons or as boons/rewards from deities, and characters leveled down/not leveled up as punishments. There've never been any hard feelings in these cases though.
is it bad i actualy did a "rock falls everyone dies" well only one person. the player i was dealing with was refusing to see my and any one else's logic. the party was inside a gnomish cave. where everything was suited to the size of gnome. one of the players (the magic user) wanted to cast "enlarge object" on the door so he could fit threw without having to get his precious cloak dirty by crawling. after about 5 mins of arguing that it couldnt work. and more to the point why it wouldnt work (destroying the structural integrity of the cave and its roof) i just said. "fine. go ahead and do your thing" -as he cast it and the door got bigger. i made the roof fall down on top of him killing his char
1.) I'm a bit more lenient to nice players, but that's really my only bias. 2.) Reason number 6 to respect the DM: they put in a lot of work to do it, so, you know, be nice.
There is also the Ban Hammer and the Quit playing route for when they get seriously out of hand. The games run smooth when you literally snuff out some players.
My DM decided to put us next to a level 20 Tarrasque when we were all level 1, of which our bard accidentally woke up trying to cure her endless anxiety with song. The idea was to test our ability to, well, do something besides roll a D20 by quite literally making it extremely clear there were hiding holes everywhere and even going so far as to have a NPC straight up tell us to. Of the far too many players, 2 died, one trying to run away (when it literally can take a single step and go triple the distance he can move) and the other one kinda failed to notice the giant screaming monster glaring right at us wants us dead and did absolutely nothing. We are now two wizards short, but half a party of wizards, every single one of which probably got by mage college via sheer luck guessing all the answers. So nothing of value was lost that day, AND I, THE KOBOLD, LLLLIIIIIVVVEEE (d by running like a little bitch, then pissing it off on us, then doing it again into the hiding hole). Also our Bard is now undergoing a moral crisis, and is one of literally 2 people in the whole over-sized party to actually care 2 wizards died.
I've wrote up a semi cursed item, it's the Exsphere from Tales of Symphonia It gives +2/+1 or +1/+2 to Str/Dex (can send it above the normal player max for those stats), allows for another bonus action and reaction in the round, and gives them +5 to walking speed But if they don't have a Key Crest with the Exsphere, they get -2 con and disadvantage on saving throws against exhaustion, poison, and diseases. And if they remove it without the Key Crest, they have to make a Con save or turn into a monster. But if they succeed on the save, they take damage and if the damage drops them to 0 HP, they turn into a monster anyway
Like when my dm (who we here having fun talking to him and playing) has the corpse of the enemy knocked over the tower that kept a mindflare from trying to kill us. (We killed it in the end with 17 daggers in a burst)
A person in our group challenged our dm to a fight(stupid) so he obviously lost and he punishment was he slept with a doppelganger on accident.That showed him
I hope this is all meant as a joke. A DM should never punish characters because of player actions. You have to keep interactions with players separate from interactions with characters.
I once did a one shot with a bunch of inexperienced players, and a couple of veterans. Needless to say, a bunch of level ones had to go up against a Beholder because they were disrespectful. I really set the tone when one of them was disintegrated.
You really showed how immature and how big of a dick DM you are by doing that. If you have an issue...especially with new players for god's sake TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT. Have an out of game discussion and try to set the expectations and goals in a session 0......if problems happen after that then between sessions talk to the problem players about what the problems are in a constructive manner to try and work it out. It was a one shot so you have no between sessions but you could have worked out a talk of expectations and goals before starting the campaign ESPECIALLY WITH HAVING NEWER PLAYERS. I wouldn't brag about what you did. I would never want to game with someone if I found out they did that and were proud of it.
I remember the first time my Dm pit our group ( me and 3 others ) against a beholder cause we were getting cocky , it wiped the floor with us but didn't kill us
In my last campaign, this was an actual conversation: (within a minute of entering a cave) Ranger: We should split up Me (the DM): What? Monk: Yeah, that's a good idea! Me: No, wait- Bard: Yeah, let's split up! Me (they're all loudly talking over each other so no one hears me): There's only one path! You can't split up! Ranger (after about two more minutes of talking): It's agreed, we're splitting up! Me, sitting up after banging my head on the table repeatedly: You know what? Fine. There's three paths, which one do you all want to take? This little adventure lead to them getting attacked by displacer beasts while they were split up. I think they learned their lesson, both about splitting the party and not listening to the DM.
"You have encountered some Kobolds" "What do you mean?" "You're right. Now they're Goblins" "This is absurd!" "Now they're Bug Bears." "What's this crap!?" "Hill Giants. I could keep going." "ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT! Just don't do that again please!" Imagine what that would look like. XD
Loving the channel! Great job guys! You had a poll a while back on patreon to decide what books to make next. Are the numbers there definitive? What books will we be seeing next?
John Hoffman We usually don't have much of a release schedule in terms of our subclass posts, but new subclasses for our base classes are generally introduced when we make the "complete" version of the class.
So do you guys have any projects for the Warlock coming up? I love what you guys've done, and I'd love to see more! :D More fighter and cleric stuff would be cool, like a fighter who specializes in daggers, or a cleric focused on manipulating emotions and charming people - like the Enchanter Wizard.
Stormbringer sounds like a combination of Stormbringer and Orb of Light from Dungeons And Randomness’ lands of Theria. Is it originally an official DnD item?
Hey RFED, this is not really a question concerning thus video but I would like your opinion on the 5e optional rule on page 269 of the DMG. The rule is on plot points and giving points to players to fundamentally alter the plot of the unfolding story. I thought it would be an interesting idea to play with but cannot think of a way to really use it in game without just destroying a campaign before it even starts. What do you think?
My DM got mad at me for talking so much so he made an NPC that kept throwing chickens at me that i kept failing to dodge or block due to it being an trap not a attack i could use my shield to protect myself. Lets just say my character is no longer fond of chickens or drow
once i was running a campaign with one guy and he was fighting a huge amount of goblinodes and he and his npc friends got swarmed so as being rouge and then he got surprised attacks by bug bears got nocked down to 1 HP and got captured and he might be saved from the gallows ;p
PoTato Head PokéMario sometimes you have to fudge the rolls. For example I once had an encounter where the enemy rolled three critical hits in a row against the same guy and just rolled a fourth. I fudged the roll.
Sometimes when my players annoy me like to look at them for a bit, roll a d20 behind my screen and then move on without saying anything. Sorry guys, just keeping you on edge lmao
DM's and players should respect each other cause there is no game when either acts like asshats. To many times have I seen a game go to crap and end because of a overly emotional dm or player ruined the experience.
I always got into shenanigans and almost caused a tpk BC my DM decided due to a critical fail on my roll for a dumb decision he had an ancient roc fly over as a spear I threw at a goblin hit it instead of the goblin (party lvl 2) I suspect he was tired of me another time I decided to cut down some unknown trees and got chased by a treant I was level 3 I was slaughtered
I was playing with a guy that was a complete idiot. He told us he had played before and come to find out he had the books had read the books but had never actually played. No big deal right? Well he might have read the books but a total of 6 times in one session almost got all the players killed. The final straw was when we in a cave system and got our healer killed by a kingfisher. The player that was the barbarian went into a bezerker rage grabbed the guy and threw him into a hook horror nest and blocked the exit. Barbarian only said well thats that and we left him there. He was screaming at the DM and the DM was going to give him a chance to escape until he told the DM he didnt know how the hell to run a game. Well DM looked at him and said roll. The guy rolled DM said he got his leg stuck and attracted the hook horrors. He never played with us again.
This is all well and good when its done in the game. If a player does something to taunt or piss of the DM in the game, sure, these are fine. But for instance one of our DMs will literally threaten people when something bad happens to him in another campaign (we run multiple at a time). If he acts like a jackass and the current DM punishes him for it, he will turn around and in his campaign do something far harsher. You should respect your DM, when they are the current DM. But when they lord it over you that they can screw you over next time they are the DM, thats where the problem arises. This is even more true for outside campaigns in general. If you do something that annoys them out of context of the games in general, those personal feelings should not carry over imo. Its a very petty way to DM.
well, my group got under my skin, so the weapon i WAS going to give that the boss took a bunch of bonus damage from(basically her phylactery) is not going to be available... and i am not changing anything else about the fight, aside from removing their checkpoint system going in. they are so screwed... in this case i designed a campaign, and they ALL decided that they wanted to play an edition i have no experience with... so i also had to port every creature to 5e. so i spent about 3 weeks of all my free time being put into figuring out how this crap worked. and then my players also came in and took adv of the fact that i was tired AND trying to answer 8 peoples questions, and got ridiculous gear(IE Mithril armor at level 1). so yea, they pulled a fast one on me, but i doubt they will get past the first leg of the story, let alone the final boss. if you have played Dark Alliance, you know what it is... and they wont have the onyx sword. in my campaign, i specified i am keeping a "party level" to make it easier to track, and partially so a level 1 doesn't get dropped in headfirst to a 21 zone i will also say the campaign is designed to be hard, and i will almost never bail the party out - i have bailed one player out of a death, and its because their previous character had died the meet prior, and i didn't want them to feel too explicitly targeted. but if i get a window to pick someone off, i will always take it if possible and feasible to the scenario - the guys first character died to an ooze. i agree with DMing being much harder. the most difficult player time for me was being a dedicated healer character - one of my abilities allowed me to see to more hp thresholds, so i became the health tracker for all 9 pcs. and i still had to track my own abilities, and passives, while also making sure i wasn't in the line of fire. that was alot to track, but DMing is its own level. especially if the group stops following your planned route - which they haven't yet, thank god
When I meet a new person who's interested in D&D I just say this. "Don't Fuck with your DM. He is GOD. Him willing can summon a lvl 100 thousand dragon and smite you. And not just you, get him or her mad enough they can kill the entire team then everyone hates you." lol
Only 5 levels higher? My dm has a general rule that if it's not at least 8 levels higher, at the very very minimum, it's too easy. We learned very early to specify and inspect *literally* everything before we just go waltzing through the dungeon, even stuff that would be common sense to even the newest of players.
polleyb6838 depends on the situation, as always. If the team is just being a bunch of selfish, inconsiderate assholes, TPK is a fair way to end the party either to make a point, or just quit the game. But if the party is being justified in reminding the DM of certain rules or voicing valid opinions for in-game mechanics or realism or whatever, then yeah the DM committing TPK merely out of anger or spite is pretty childish. But your mileage will vary based on personalities, play style, and any number of other things.
I remember in one of my D&D campaigns the DM absolutely DESPISED me and took the time to fuck me in particular over at every turn. For example, he gave the party 3 wishes for us to use at any point in the campaign due to its difficulty and us being the champions of some "Super-God". Important note for the next bit is that he declared that if a single member of the party dies and remains dead for 1 hour: we all die. Knowing this and seeing that we did not have a SINGLE party member who could revive and also knowing I was one of our front lines, I used a wish to reclass into a druid because 1. They are thematically awesome 2. They have some sort of revival or healing spell 3. Circle of the Moon provides quite nice front-line capability. For some reason, he was really vindictive of this and designed the entire next dungeon specifically to render my presence null & void. He made the place littered with 1 tile-wide corridors and didnt allow wildshapes to squeeze through those corridors even if it would make sense (Like a direwolf going through, because wolves are slender enough to be able to fit in that kind of space.) Or not allowing me to summon elementals because reasons etc etc. The one time I found an opportunity to shine, we ran into a Fellforged(or was it Hellforged?), which is a construct you can find in one of the third party monster manuals. I summoned 8 lightning imp-like creatures of CR 1/4 from the same manual to fight while I tried to actually get there. When they attacked, he apparently was resistant to lightning damage(at the time I thought that was just my unlucky choice of summon). I learned the monster actually WASNT resistant to lightning from one of the other players, who was PM'd by the DM saying that he made it resistant to spite me for summoning a bunch of creatures at once. He proceeded to do that kind of shit for pretty much the whole campaign, so it really fucking sucked for me.
@flannel pillowcase I strongly disagree your suggested reasoning is still immature. Either talk to your players outside of game and get it straightened out or find a new group of people to game with. TPK doesn't solve anything it is just vindictive, immature, and pisses people off. It solves not a thing. Players shouldn't be "in fear" of the DM. They should respect the DM. part of the problem of this video is it was why to fear an asshole DM not why to respect your DM.
I was playing a game where I was dming and my sister was a player. well she pissed me off earlier before that session and she was lvl 2, and I threw a wrath at her and almost one shot her player character.
I throw 2 wraths at my lvl 2 party because it fit the story and mood of that dungeon but nerfed their health and damage down to avoid a tpk. One of the perks of being a dm is you can make the monsters fit your setting and not the other way around. How ever had two party members try killing each other last time instead of the gelatinous cube devouring "important npc" right infront of them. They think they have avoided my wrath but no I'm just waiting for next time they to feel entirely safe and relaxed...rocks fall... :)
One way I screwed with a player that crossed me was to have the phylactery of a lich be an item that protected against vorpal strikes that eventually turned that character into the lich itself over the course of 1d10 days. Buahahahahahaha
DMing is hard I understand that but without players you're an author not a DM just as players shouldn't piss off the DM the reverse is true. No one wants to play with a jerk on either side
Or maybe a vampire... according to my dad vampires really suck (HA literally) in D and D. or maybe a certain five headed dragon named tiamat. yeh i would be an evil DM to people who made me grumpy.... i'm creative that way XD (i'm pretty sure they take away your levels }:D)
Yuck. That "fudge the rolls cause someone made me mad" is such a shitty and gross DM quality. Your players know you're doing it and they don't respect you for it.
Five reasons? You telling me that you need more than one reason to respect DMs? The only reason you need to respect me is this: I. Am. God. You live by my whims alone. You exist because I say you do. That chest has gold and a magic weapon because I am generous and chose not to make it a mimic waiting to devour you.
mwahahahahahahahaha my friends call me the mimic king nothing like watching that weary party greed that sweet loot box after a grueling battle just to find out there is nothing in it and they have more fighting even funnier when they are level 1 and there are three mimics, or they totally ruin your first chapter so you toss a lich at em in a graveyard
Demonic Leo13 I DM for my little brother and his friends, and they found a cehst in an abandoned dwarven mine sleephall. my little brother was smart enough to first check the chest for being a mimic, but it wasnt the chest. it was the beds.
As soon as you started talking about DMs taking a personal vengeance, you've lost the point of teh game. It's not about the Dm versus the Players, it's always about the players.
I was hoping for a video showing all the hard work DMs have to do. Instead I got a video with a bunch of things a spiteful DM can use to punish their players. Keep your grudges with the people in the real world. Leave it out of the game. Talk to them in real life. Kick them out of the group. Don't just manipulate the game to punish them like you're an angry child changing the rules of the playground games so you win. A bit disappointed with this video.
Ironic that your description is accurate but not the title of the video. List of reasons why you should fear a dick immature DM would be more fitting....logical explanation below. Most of the things in this list are VERY BAD DM methods of handling things. Being Vindictive is not ok and KILLING YOUR PARTY IS NOT WINNING. D&D or table top in general is not the DM vs The Party. Its the DM and the Party of players cooperatively creating a fun experience and hopefully cooperative and great story telling. Sorry but this video is setting a terrible presidence for DMs who watch your videos. You should respect your DM because they put in a lot of time of their own outside of the game to make the game sessions fun. Because the DM has chosen to take on the role of guiding a number of other people through a fun enjoyable experience. Because the DM is a person not your slave to give you fun. Not a top 5 list but there are 3 reasons that don't involve the DM being a dick DM that I would hate playing with. If you have a problem with a Player you don't take it out on their Player Character. You talk to them like an adult outside of the game......if they are causing problems in your game you give a warning outside of game and try to get it fixed and if it continues to be a problem you might need to ask them to leave your game. If you had a bad day......DEAL WITH IT. Its not the Players faults that you had a bad day. Don't take out bad days on other people like an immature child. Maybe let the party know you had a bad day so they can take that into consideration and might be less teasing or whatnot.
there is no reason to respect a dm if they are an ass. a dm should be fair and impartial and not pull crap out of their ass just to screw with one or more players. if the dm has an issue with a player then they should handle it outside of the game and talk that crap out. if the party members are being asses then i could understand doing something to shut them down, but being vindictive is not the way to dm a game. if you don't like how they are embracing the adventure such as being murder hobo's, purposefully attacking each other, or otherwise making the game a mass of crap, then talk to them about it, establish certain rules, or find other people to play the game with.
My friend is currently running a campaign with a couple of other friends, and they gave the party a Bag of Holding and a Bag of Devouring. Most of the party wanted to leave the BOD behind, except the Half-Orc Barbarian... He kept it and is using it as a 'pet', and to get rid of bodies.
Be nice to your DM.
Else he may start putting you into 2ed encounters rather than 5ed.
"Your party crosses the bridge. The rogue realizes, all too late, that it's an ambush. You are surrounded by 40 lizardmen."
"You enter the room. In it is a mighty warrior grooming his hieracosphinx. Coming out of a peaceful sleep nearby is a worg. A bloodhawk in the window lets out a warning cry. None of the inhabitants look pleased to see you."
I've played 2nd ed. for 25 years, and never played 5th ed. I would gladly welcome such a DM!
lol
I've had a DM try to start a campaign by literally dropping a demon on my character and our party's druid. It was supposed to be really tough he had a great sword that did like 2d10+2 and he had a str score of like 24 i think, if he had hit either of us it would have taken our characters down to zero in one go. It was supposed to knock us down and take off then we would have to adventure and level up to beat it later. But we rolled high initiatives and the demon rolled low, it was my fighter, the druid, the demon, and the druids wolf companion. In the first round my fighter crit with his bastard sword dealing like 23 damage then the druid also crits with a dagger, then the demon goes it tries to charm my character and failed, then the wolf tripped the demon which fell on the wolf. We all got attacks of opportunity on it we both hit, the druid crit again my character didn't. Then the next round we continued to wail on it, it tried to frighten us only got the wolf. Then at the end of the demons turn he finally draws his sword but he couldn't attack because he used his action to frighten us, and the top of the round my character crits and rolls max damage which for my characters bastard sword, with two hands, is d10+6/x2 which killed the demon. My DM had the demon brand this magic rune on my character which acted like catnip for other demons, my character also got the demons sword which my DM told me after i couldn't use until 3rd level at minimum, tunlrns out we were supposed to face this thing again at about 4th level and get it then but our rolls broke the encounter, and our DM had to rework a portion of the campaign because we killed it. It was supposed to be a tpko to drive the story but the dice were on our side that night
One day, i tried to kill a PC because a new player came some sesions ago and all he did was just kill NPCs and even tried to kill all the party. So i made him to fall into another plane of existence. Asked him for a natural 20 to escape from there, Only one opportunity. And...
He failed so i killed him. It was funny and he has never come back to my campaigns. The whole party praised me for that.
Perhaps you could have been mature about it and talked to the player outside of session about being disruptive and how its bad for everyone at the table....and ask for their help in creating a cooperate and cohesive story building with the party and DM? THEN if they continue kick them from the game and do what you wish with their character.
Sorry but being a dick shouldn't be the normal response to a player being a dick. I know most people are introverts but being a DM isn't a power play to make up for an introvert bullied person to feel powerful. most who play D&D may be introverts but try talking things out in a constructive mature manner....might be surprised at the results.
@@benjaminfrost2780 well watch all things dnd. He got bullied by other pcs because he was a half drow rogue and eventually when they killed a half dragon but before he died the sorcerer asked why was he trying to kill them and who sent him. Unfortunately his last words were drraaa. And the paladin pointed his sword at the drow rogue and thought that it was him who hired him and they alp started fighting him and thankfully an npc allie called on the guards. He told them what happened and the guards told them to prop their weapons and the fighter refused and was instantly killed. The sorcerer and the bard were arrested and the paladin was already dead.
Two lawful neutral characters decided to test their fancy new items on my town, robbing and killing citizens. They are now in jail and their fancy new gifts have been confiscated indefinitely.
one time i bribed my dm 300 platinum cause we killed an anchient red dragon and he gave me 1 wish that wouldnt fail...
i wished for all other wishes to not fail
haha nice!!
I have straight up left a group I was DMing for because for one night I couldn't be there, and instead of doing something else for one night, they decided to just take the campaign and steer it in a direction they wanted it to go in.
This not only ruined the flow of the campaign, but they took the story basically to the end, doing an encounter that wasn't supposed to happen until way later, and blamed me for the difficulty of the fight. It also gave players who should not have known what was going to happen have insider information, which ruined any story being built.
There is respecting your DM, then there is respecting the campaign, and that group did neither, it was worth ditching for another, better, group.
putting that page of explosive runes in the spellbook they just found and are flipping through. ah, good times. yeah, traps can be amusing.
That is awesome, ill keep that in mind :D
Uh was there any way for the players to know the trap was there before setting it off? If not its a terrible trap that is nothing but a punishment and no one plays a game to be punished.....
They knew the mage owning the tower didn't like trespassers, and they'd already run into a Symbol Of Fear. So - yeah, there was indication that magical traps might just be around.
If you say so....there are ways to give warning of the specific trap individually if the DM is worth his/her salt. Doesn't mean the players will get it but should be offered still. Just because the place itself is trapped and the mage doesn't like trespassers.....that's to imply you just didn't want the players there and are making it ridiculous to punish them for going somewhere you didn't want them to. Sorry but its the story of the players that the DM is suppose to be narrating. Not being a vindictive or malicious deity over the players. D&D isn't for a DM to power trip its creative group based story telling.
So again.....punishment for the sake of punishing or failing to give proper signals or signs that its trapped is a failing on the DM's part not the players part. Good DMs root for the players to win while trying to make interesting and challenging content for them to support their players' stories in an engaging and entertaining way.
Saying this as a DM not a player.
uhm. no. don't know why you're bent out of shape about this, but it was not punishment, nor was it some out of the blue thing. Establishing that this wizard used runes and traps (Symbol of Fear reference?) was done early and Explosive Runes is a fairly commonly known about spell.
Now if you want something that they didn't see coming - i once hit them with a wizard who was known for experimenting with golems and they didn't know about the Tar Golem ahead of time...
If you piss the Dm off too much, he quits and you all lose
I understand this list is a bit of satire as well as seriousness, but in all honesty, the most serious reason to respect your DM is that usually your DM is an acquaintance or friend who has taken their time to support you and your group's fantasies. Also, your DM is usually more inclined to make sure that you and your group are having an enjoyable time anyway, so they should just be treated with respect in kind because they generally respect their player's wishes and enjoyment.
Please for the love of God dont do anything that these people are saying.... Never let your personal feelings get into your game....
I couldn't agree more.
6. You couldn't play without a DM.
I also had the party once laugh at the idea thaat the local village was plagued by kobolds.
They laughed so hard on their way to the kobold lair.
Shame they never made it out alive.
The kobold dragon master didnt even have his sleep disturbed.
Kobolds... with slings... They are little devils :)
The party pissed me off enough once that I had the party do a retrieve a magic stone side quest during the Out of the Abyss whilst the party was on downtime. Unfortunately, the magic stone was the maguffin from the Armageddon Stone campaign from AD&D
End result, they kill lolth but inadvertently caused the end of the world
They all die, you lose, goodday sir!
In my games I don't allow the "leadership" feat (pathfinder) so if I have a player that is really roleplaying well and getting invested in their character/the game they may get a follower. I had a player that really roleplayed hard when his character met some traveling bards. One of them fell in love with him and suddenly the party had a level 7 bard (right around their level) that was willing to follow them around.
Also if people metagame in my game monsters get buffed. I had a player that at level 2 when they got attacked in a tunnel just yelled out "it's ok guys it's just duergar they only have 8 hp" he was a rogue who had made no knowledge checks. Those duergar suddenly leveled up.
Hey guys, loved the first vid. As you do more, you will find your rhythm more, but honestly a great start! I'm looking forward to more!
The dust of sneezing and choking is the most hilarious cursed magic item.
Tony the Bulbasaur did you know an entire party ( 5 characters) can be killed by it , I found that out 2 weeks ago when we were ending a campaign instead of getting a glorious heroes ending we we're trapped in a room that filled with it till we suffocated ( our wizard wasn't there that day )
Nice work, guys! Informative, and funny. Bringing back some fond memories of our sessions
(By the way, this is Josh W.)
i personally think you should NEVER kill your whole group just bc you feel like it. they're fun should be your fun. As a dm you have so much more power. You shouldnt miss use it. than you get fights and unfun games. but thats just my opinion
You are right. There are the ways you can do them worse. Kill NPC they are attached to, kill animal companions, make them see how horrible consequences of their actions are.
leveling people separately seems a little iffy, especially if you wanna keep CR in consideration. I've never liked passive aggression within a campaign, instead I've always preferred speaking to the problem players and getting them to cooperate.
perhaps a future video topic?
Sounds like an idea. Honestly I wasn't 100% serious about that comment. We've always played with milestones rather than experience points, but I have seen characters leveled ahead of the party in the past for story reasons or as boons/rewards from deities, and characters leveled down/not leveled up as punishments. There've never been any hard feelings in these cases though.
is it bad i actualy did a "rock falls everyone dies" well only one person. the player i was dealing with was refusing to see my and any one else's logic. the party was inside a gnomish cave. where everything was suited to the size of gnome. one of the players (the magic user) wanted to cast "enlarge object" on the door so he could fit threw without having to get his precious cloak dirty by crawling. after about 5 mins of arguing that it couldnt work. and more to the point why it wouldnt work (destroying the structural integrity of the cave and its roof) i just said. "fine. go ahead and do your thing" -as he cast it and the door got bigger. i made the roof fall down on top of him killing his char
Honestly not going that route would of been wrong , hell not having rocks collapse on him would be some kind of ( Al be it small ) favoritism
this is why i supply the snacks
1.) I'm a bit more lenient to nice players, but that's really my only bias. 2.) Reason number 6 to respect the DM: they put in a lot of work to do it, so, you know, be nice.
Fifteen really buff really healthy kobolds. They'll die humiliated by tiny lizard men.
There is also the Ban Hammer and the Quit playing route for when they get seriously out of hand. The games run smooth when you literally snuff out some players.
Our DM was slightly sadistic.He put in a talking cat that always gave us bad advice.We usually did the opposite of the cat's advice.
My DM decided to put us next to a level 20 Tarrasque when we were all level 1, of which our bard accidentally woke up trying to cure her endless anxiety with song.
The idea was to test our ability to, well, do something besides roll a D20 by quite literally making it extremely clear there were hiding holes everywhere and even going so far as to have a NPC straight up tell us to.
Of the far too many players, 2 died, one trying to run away (when it literally can take a single step and go triple the distance he can move) and the other one kinda failed to notice the giant screaming monster glaring right at us wants us dead and did absolutely nothing.
We are now two wizards short, but half a party of wizards, every single one of which probably got by mage college via sheer luck guessing all the answers. So nothing of value was lost that day, AND I, THE KOBOLD, LLLLIIIIIVVVEEE (d by running like a little bitch, then pissing it off on us, then doing it again into the hiding hole).
Also our Bard is now undergoing a moral crisis, and is one of literally 2 people in the whole over-sized party to actually care 2 wizards died.
I've wrote up a semi cursed item, it's the Exsphere from Tales of Symphonia
It gives +2/+1 or +1/+2 to Str/Dex (can send it above the normal player max for those stats), allows for another bonus action and reaction in the round, and gives them +5 to walking speed
But if they don't have a Key Crest with the Exsphere, they get -2 con and disadvantage on saving throws against exhaustion, poison, and diseases.
And if they remove it without the Key Crest, they have to make a Con save or turn into a monster. But if they succeed on the save, they take damage and if the damage drops them to 0 HP, they turn into a monster anyway
have you guys , ever gone too far and had any of your players rage quite , due to your killer DM antics ?
Be Nice to your DM he holds your characters life in his hands XD
Like when my dm (who we here having fun talking to him and playing) has the corpse of the enemy knocked over the tower that kept a mindflare from trying to kill us. (We killed it in the end with 17 daggers in a burst)
A person in our group challenged our dm to a fight(stupid) so he obviously lost and he punishment was he slept with a doppelganger on accident.That showed him
I hope this is all meant as a joke. A DM should never punish characters because of player actions. You have to keep interactions with players separate from interactions with characters.
You have given me the best ideas
I once did a one shot with a bunch of inexperienced players, and a couple of veterans. Needless to say, a bunch of level ones had to go up against a Beholder because they were disrespectful. I really set the tone when one of them was disintegrated.
You really showed how immature and how big of a dick DM you are by doing that.
If you have an issue...especially with new players for god's sake TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT. Have an out of game discussion and try to set the expectations and goals in a session 0......if problems happen after that then between sessions talk to the problem players about what the problems are in a constructive manner to try and work it out.
It was a one shot so you have no between sessions but you could have worked out a talk of expectations and goals before starting the campaign ESPECIALLY WITH HAVING NEWER PLAYERS.
I wouldn't brag about what you did. I would never want to game with someone if I found out they did that and were proud of it.
I remember the first time my Dm pit our group ( me and 3 others ) against a beholder cause we were getting cocky , it wiped the floor with us but didn't kill us
Use a deck of many things with only bad stuff in it
Cromwell the Conqueror that's honestly cruel and amazing
In my last campaign, this was an actual conversation:
(within a minute of entering a cave)
Ranger: We should split up
Me (the DM): What?
Monk: Yeah, that's a good idea!
Me: No, wait-
Bard: Yeah, let's split up!
Me (they're all loudly talking over each other so no one hears me): There's only one path! You can't split up!
Ranger (after about two more minutes of talking): It's agreed, we're splitting up!
Me, sitting up after banging my head on the table repeatedly: You know what? Fine. There's three paths, which one do you all want to take?
This little adventure lead to them getting attacked by displacer beasts while they were split up. I think they learned their lesson, both about splitting the party and not listening to the DM.
"You have encountered some Kobolds"
"What do you mean?"
"You're right. Now they're Goblins"
"This is absurd!"
"Now they're Bug Bears."
"What's this crap!?"
"Hill Giants. I could keep going."
"ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT! Just don't do that again please!"
Imagine what that would look like. XD
Lookin' for more archetypes for your homebrewed classes, any idea when they're coming?
Loving the channel! Great job guys! You had a poll a while back on patreon to decide what books to make next. Are the numbers there definitive? What books will we be seeing next?
Grand Moff Xela I believe we will be doing the books in order of most votes to least votes, and we will eventually do every one of those books.
John Hoffman We usually don't have much of a release schedule in terms of our subclass posts, but new subclasses for our base classes are generally introduced when we make the "complete" version of the class.
Friend of mine wouldn't show up to a session. So our DM sent his character to the astral plane.
MOVE INKSPELL UP WITH INKHEART AND INKDEATH!!!!!
We were nice as could be to our dm but he still threw an ancient legendary orange dragon at a level 6 party
Storm bringer reminds me of a sword my party has gotten which was called cravenedge
Great episode
So do you guys have any projects for the Warlock coming up? I love what you guys've done, and I'd love to see more! :D More fighter and cleric stuff would be cool, like a fighter who specializes in daggers, or a cleric focused on manipulating emotions and charming people - like the Enchanter Wizard.
Get on Patreon and check out the All Patrons Eve book. It's all warlocks, beginning to end!
Stormbringer sounds like a combination of Stormbringer and Orb of Light from Dungeons And Randomness’ lands of Theria. Is it originally an official DnD item?
Your Party ist a jerk? Throw a tarasque at em
Stormbringer AKA the Sword of Elric of Melnibone from the Elric novel series written by Michael Moorcocke. Can't get anything past me. :p
Hey RFED, this is not really a question concerning thus video but I would like your opinion on the 5e optional rule on page 269 of the DMG. The rule is on plot points and giving points to players to fundamentally alter the plot of the unfolding story. I thought it would be an interesting idea to play with but cannot think of a way to really use it in game without just destroying a campaign before it even starts. What do you think?
A+ guys. Thats was fun when I was in your alls game as a guest. Good times. I remember my little lightning dog. Haha
My DM got mad at me for talking so much so he made an NPC that kept throwing chickens at me that i kept failing to dodge or block due to it being an trap not a attack i could use my shield to protect myself. Lets just say my character is no longer fond of chickens or drow
once i was running a campaign with one guy and he was fighting a huge amount of goblinodes and he and his npc friends got swarmed so as being rouge and then he got surprised attacks by bug bears got nocked down to 1 HP and got captured and he might be saved from the gallows ;p
Personification of the DM, if the party kills them the world crumbles around them or it’s a tpk
Fear the DM, they are literally omnipotent and control fate, time and RNG
Out of a fluke one of my players went up a level higher than the rest. Everyone else went apeshit. It's still fun
portal opens. nuke comes out. world is dead
I was in a game playing my character badly one player had Stoprmbringer (it was called something else) and the sword made that player kill me
I feel that if you are going to fudge the dice don't even roll them
PoTato Head PokéMario sometimes you have to fudge the rolls. For example I once had an encounter where the enemy rolled three critical hits in a row against the same guy and just rolled a fourth. I fudged the roll.
the best uses for purple worms are as meta gaming deterrents.
Sometimes when my players annoy me like to look at them for a bit, roll a d20 behind my screen and then move on without saying anything. Sorry guys, just keeping you on edge lmao
DM's and players should respect each other cause there is no game when either acts like asshats. To many times have I seen a game go to crap and end because of a overly emotional dm or player ruined the experience.
I actually pulled a d20 out and rolled i got a nat 20 but liked and subscribed anyway
I always got into shenanigans and almost caused a tpk BC my DM decided due to a critical fail on my roll for a dumb decision he had an ancient roc fly over as a spear I threw at a goblin hit it instead of the goblin (party lvl 2) I suspect he was tired of me another time I decided to cut down some unknown trees and got chased by a treant I was level 3 I was slaughtered
I was playing with a guy that was a complete idiot. He told us he had played before and come to find out he had the books had read the books but had never actually played. No big deal right? Well he might have read the books but a total of 6 times in one session almost got all the players killed. The final straw was when we in a cave system and got our healer killed by a kingfisher. The player that was the barbarian went into a bezerker rage grabbed the guy and threw him into a hook horror nest and blocked the exit. Barbarian only said well thats that and we left him there. He was screaming at the DM and the DM was going to give him a chance to escape until he told the DM he didnt know how the hell to run a game. Well DM looked at him and said roll. The guy rolled DM said he got his leg stuck and attracted the hook horrors. He never played with us again.
But.. What is the purpose? I demand a purpose for this video!
My dm broke our legs if we went all rule lawyer on him
This is all well and good when its done in the game. If a player does something to taunt or piss of the DM in the game, sure, these are fine. But for instance one of our DMs will literally threaten people when something bad happens to him in another campaign (we run multiple at a time). If he acts like a jackass and the current DM punishes him for it, he will turn around and in his campaign do something far harsher. You should respect your DM, when they are the current DM. But when they lord it over you that they can screw you over next time they are the DM, thats where the problem arises. This is even more true for outside campaigns in general. If you do something that annoys them out of context of the games in general, those personal feelings should not carry over imo. Its a very petty way to DM.
I think the best RUclips personalities are two best friends. Are you guys actually best friends and how long have you known each other?
well, my group got under my skin, so the weapon i WAS going to give that the boss took a bunch of bonus damage from(basically her phylactery) is not going to be available... and i am not changing anything else about the fight, aside from removing their checkpoint system going in. they are so screwed...
in this case i designed a campaign, and they ALL decided that they wanted to play an edition i have no experience with... so i also had to port every creature to 5e. so i spent about 3 weeks of all my free time being put into figuring out how this crap worked. and then my players also came in and took adv of the fact that i was tired AND trying to answer 8 peoples questions, and got ridiculous gear(IE Mithril armor at level 1). so yea, they pulled a fast one on me, but i doubt they will get past the first leg of the story, let alone the final boss. if you have played Dark Alliance, you know what it is... and they wont have the onyx sword.
in my campaign, i specified i am keeping a "party level" to make it easier to track, and partially so a level 1 doesn't get dropped in headfirst to a 21 zone
i will also say the campaign is designed to be hard, and i will almost never bail the party out - i have bailed one player out of a death, and its because their previous character had died the meet prior, and i didn't want them to feel too explicitly targeted. but if i get a window to pick someone off, i will always take it if possible and feasible to the scenario - the guys first character died to an ooze.
i agree with DMing being much harder. the most difficult player time for me was being a dedicated healer character - one of my abilities allowed me to see to more hp thresholds, so i became the health tracker for all 9 pcs. and i still had to track my own abilities, and passives, while also making sure i wasn't in the line of fire. that was alot to track, but DMing is its own level. especially if the group stops following your planned route - which they haven't yet, thank god
When I meet a new person who's interested in D&D I just say this.
"Don't Fuck with your DM. He is GOD. Him willing can summon a lvl 100 thousand dragon and smite you. And not just you, get him or her mad enough they can kill the entire team then everyone hates you." lol
Divine intervention. Strike em with lightning ^^
Only 5 levels higher? My dm has a general rule that if it's not at least 8 levels higher, at the very very minimum, it's too easy. We learned very early to specify and inspect *literally* everything before we just go waltzing through the dungeon, even stuff that would be common sense to even the newest of players.
i think tpk because youre mad is immature........
polleyb6838 depends on the situation, as always. If the team is just being a bunch of selfish, inconsiderate assholes, TPK is a fair way to end the party either to make a point, or just quit the game. But if the party is being justified in reminding the DM of certain rules or voicing valid opinions for in-game mechanics or realism or whatever, then yeah the DM committing TPK merely out of anger or spite is pretty childish. But your mileage will vary based on personalities, play style, and any number of other things.
I remember in one of my D&D campaigns the DM absolutely DESPISED me and took the time to fuck me in particular over at every turn. For example, he gave the party 3 wishes for us to use at any point in the campaign due to its difficulty and us being the champions of some "Super-God". Important note for the next bit is that he declared that if a single member of the party dies and remains dead for 1 hour: we all die. Knowing this and seeing that we did not have a SINGLE party member who could revive and also knowing I was one of our front lines, I used a wish to reclass into a druid because 1. They are thematically awesome 2. They have some sort of revival or healing spell 3. Circle of the Moon provides quite nice front-line capability. For some reason, he was really vindictive of this and designed the entire next dungeon specifically to render my presence null & void. He made the place littered with 1 tile-wide corridors and didnt allow wildshapes to squeeze through those corridors even if it would make sense (Like a direwolf going through, because wolves are slender enough to be able to fit in that kind of space.) Or not allowing me to summon elementals because reasons etc etc. The one time I found an opportunity to shine, we ran into a Fellforged(or was it Hellforged?), which is a construct you can find in one of the third party monster manuals. I summoned 8 lightning imp-like creatures of CR 1/4 from the same manual to fight while I tried to actually get there. When they attacked, he apparently was resistant to lightning damage(at the time I thought that was just my unlucky choice of summon). I learned the monster actually WASNT resistant to lightning from one of the other players, who was PM'd by the DM saying that he made it resistant to spite me for summoning a bunch of creatures at once. He proceeded to do that kind of shit for pretty much the whole campaign, so it really fucking sucked for me.
@flannel pillowcase I strongly disagree your suggested reasoning is still immature. Either talk to your players outside of game and get it straightened out or find a new group of people to game with. TPK doesn't solve anything it is just vindictive, immature, and pisses people off. It solves not a thing. Players shouldn't be "in fear" of the DM. They should respect the DM. part of the problem of this video is it was why to fear an asshole DM not why to respect your DM.
Why? because they can make and destroy worlds at their command
I was playing a game where I was dming and my sister was a player. well she pissed me off earlier before that session and she was lvl 2, and I threw a wrath at her and almost one shot her player character.
I throw 2 wraths at my lvl 2 party because it fit the story and mood of that dungeon but nerfed their health and damage down to avoid a tpk. One of the perks of being a dm is you can make the monsters fit your setting and not the other way around. How ever had two party members try killing each other last time instead of the gelatinous cube devouring "important npc" right infront of them. They think they have avoided my wrath but no I'm just waiting for next time they to feel entirely safe and relaxed...rocks fall... :)
One way I screwed with a player that crossed me was to have the phylactery of a lich be an item that protected against vorpal strikes that eventually turned that character into the lich itself over the course of 1d10 days. Buahahahahahaha
My friends were talking trash about me behind my back I was dm I sent dragons and dogs but mainly dragons
and sometimes you just make up the magic items.
DMing is hard I understand that but without players you're an author not a DM just as players shouldn't piss off the DM the reverse is true. No one wants to play with a jerk on either side
Aka How to get kicked from the group for being immature.
imagine the demogorgon agenst a lvl 1 XDD
Anyone else notice they skipped 2?
Or maybe a vampire... according to my dad vampires really suck (HA literally) in D and D. or maybe a certain five headed dragon named tiamat. yeh i would be an evil DM to people who made me grumpy.... i'm creative that way XD
(i'm pretty sure they take away your levels }:D)
Y’all are funny
slip the dm a twenty dollar bill
he wont tpk or screw you over
Yuck. That "fudge the rolls cause someone made me mad" is such a shitty and gross DM quality. Your players know you're doing it and they don't respect you for it.
Five reasons? You telling me that you need more than one reason to respect DMs? The only reason you need to respect me is this: I. Am. God. You live by my whims alone. You exist because I say you do. That chest has gold and a magic weapon because I am generous and chose not to make it a mimic waiting to devour you.
mwahahahahahahahaha my friends call me the mimic king nothing like watching that weary party greed that sweet loot box after a grueling battle just to find out there is nothing in it and they have more fighting even funnier when they are level 1 and there are three mimics, or they totally ruin your first chapter so you toss a lich at em in a graveyard
one of my favorite traps is mimic doors
your welcome
Demonic Leo13 Someone's touchy
Demonic Leo13 I DM for my little brother and his friends, and they found a cehst in an abandoned dwarven mine sleephall. my little brother was smart enough to first check the chest for being a mimic, but it wasnt the chest. it was the beds.
As soon as you started talking about DMs taking a personal vengeance, you've lost the point of teh game. It's not about the Dm versus the Players, it's always about the players.
I was hoping for a video showing all the hard work DMs have to do. Instead I got a video with a bunch of things a spiteful DM can use to punish their players. Keep your grudges with the people in the real world. Leave it out of the game. Talk to them in real life. Kick them out of the group. Don't just manipulate the game to punish them like you're an angry child changing the rules of the playground games so you win. A bit disappointed with this video.
Ironic that your description is accurate but not the title of the video. List of reasons why you should fear a dick immature DM would be more fitting....logical explanation below.
Most of the things in this list are VERY BAD DM methods of handling things. Being Vindictive is not ok and KILLING YOUR PARTY IS NOT WINNING. D&D or table top in general is not the DM vs The Party. Its the DM and the Party of players cooperatively creating a fun experience and hopefully cooperative and great story telling.
Sorry but this video is setting a terrible presidence for DMs who watch your videos.
You should respect your DM because they put in a lot of time of their own outside of the game to make the game sessions fun.
Because the DM has chosen to take on the role of guiding a number of other people through a fun enjoyable experience.
Because the DM is a person not your slave to give you fun.
Not a top 5 list but there are 3 reasons that don't involve the DM being a dick DM that I would hate playing with.
If you have a problem with a Player you don't take it out on their Player Character. You talk to them like an adult outside of the game......if they are causing problems in your game you give a warning outside of game and try to get it fixed and if it continues to be a problem you might need to ask them to leave your game.
If you had a bad day......DEAL WITH IT. Its not the Players faults that you had a bad day. Don't take out bad days on other people like an immature child. Maybe let the party know you had a bad day so they can take that into consideration and might be less teasing or whatnot.
You guys are awful I would never want to play at your table
there is no reason to respect a dm if they are an ass. a dm should be fair and impartial and not pull crap out of their ass just to screw with one or more players. if the dm has an issue with a player then they should handle it outside of the game and talk that crap out. if the party members are being asses then i could understand doing something to shut them down, but being vindictive is not the way to dm a game. if you don't like how they are embracing the adventure such as being murder hobo's, purposefully attacking each other, or otherwise making the game a mass of crap, then talk to them about it, establish certain rules, or find other people to play the game with.