What’s the most UNFAIR thing a Dungeon Master ever did to you? #2

brian von va here back at it again with another narrated set of dnd slash ttrpg stories today's is a whopper what's the most unfair thing a dungeon master ever did to you part two question mark most unfair thing a dm ever did to me was more of a chain of events made it so weapon effects that trigger on 20s vicious sharpness or vorpal would instead trigger on crits gave me a vorpal sword i was a champion fighter and then made every single enemy immune to crits i got tired of it so i threw the sword away and took up a flame tongue so every single enemy was suddenly immune to fire damage ho ho so i picked up a boss and threw it out of a window killing it instantly since my weapon did almost nothing to it after that he told me the others in the group didn't want me around anymore and kicked me out i then learned from the players who all contacted me to ask why i wasn't coming anymore apparently the dm told them i didn't like the group despite the fact i was friends with all of the players from outside dnd that he retconned the fight so the boss threw my character out the window and killed him well ain't that just fun my first dm purposely killed my human fighter then had the medallion he'd given the party at the beginning of the campaign disappear then my body got burned by the horde of orcs where we were hiding from he did this because i knew some of the rules better than he did this was a high schooler dm who was running a game for an after school program and i was in the seventh grade i didn't join the follow-up game next year neither would have i this was when fifth edition first came out and me and my friends were just getting into it me and my friend made our characters be high elf twins playing lawful neutral paladins we were starting at level 2 and we were going to battle some easy to fight goblins to get us into the system of 5th edition i rolled really low before initiative and every single enemy was only trying to attack me and my friend the goblins didn't mind that they were getting destroyed by a barbarian and a fighter too they only target us so at the end of the fight me and my friend are bloody and weak while no one else even got hit in the fight later that night we got into another fight with a few more goblins and they didn't kill me and my friend instead they beat our characters till they were unconscious and then literally cut off both of our hands and then left me and my friend were just sitting there so confused and had no clue of what to even do anymore what you could do is just leave the group because that's a really toxic group and no one deserves that okay so first game i ever played back in the dark days of second edition a d and d in the year of dale reckoning 1997. the dm decided that since his girlfriend didn't like me on a particular day that all enemies targeted me and that our only copy of the player's handbook didn't need to reach my end of the table and that if i didn't act immediately after my turn came up then i'd lost my turn in initiative this was only made worse since he decided that my dice didn't count since oh those diets are loaded which they weren't and he had his hands on the only other set of dice at the table when by some miracle i survived a combat encounter he decided i wouldn't get experience since i was fighting using a bow and not in melee combat what the heck all the while his dm pc was stuck like flies on to his girlfriend's character who never got targeted let alone hit by anyone in spite of her being a mage in melee combat for those not in the know that meant she couldn't wear armor if she wanted to have use of magic so ac 10 and looking very soft and tempting as a target under any other circumstances either way soon my character was killed stripped of his equipment by the girlfriend and her appendage aka the dm i was told the character was unable to be resurrected and that i'd have to make a new character fine by me i kind of wanted to use another character for a while anyway so i started rolling using his dice in front of him not exaggerating i rolled a 16 three 17s and two 18s one of which i ended up putting into strength and as a fighter had to roll on the extra strengths table as a result i think i got a 91 or something like that either way in spite of using his dice and doing all of this directly in front of him with two other people watching he decided the character wasn't able to be used since it was too powerful needless to say i got the message pretty loud and clear fast forward two months and i'm running a very popular campaign and he hasn't gotten a single session in that time life is good the most unfair thing a dm did was when we were playing a one shot he'd made up we were a group of six or so level ones with a human fighter my character a gensai monk an undead bard and honestly i don't remember what else the others played it's been like two years the only prompt we'd been given by the dm was we just got back from a dungeon where we got our asses kicked and we're at a tavern that was it so we spent the next four hours screwing around the town resulting in some drinking dead rats a tavern patron being beheaded in his own bed and the undead bard biting and turning several people into zombies at this point the dm asked why we hadn't gone back to the dungeon we asked why should we go back if we've been beaten so badly he said we were supposed to get supplies and go back to the dungeon that was the point but we were level one with no money so how were we supposed to buy anything and he had never given us any incentive to go back he said he was done and had us all roll a constitution saving through we all did and only one person passed the dc-19 con save a dc he got by rolling a d20 so the dms said we all went back to the dungeon and died and the one who passed survived and fled the now entirely zombified village tldr dm didn't give us a clear goal we screw around then he kills us with a bs con check my worst experience was a dm pretty much getting upset with me for making a character that fit a specific theme i was a shadow magic sorcerer and i basically built my character to deal necrotic damage and psychic damage and that was pretty much it that's actually kind of cool i didn't think many other damage types would make sense flavor-wise and i wanted to make a themed specialized character also really cool a few sessions after we reached level 4 we're hunting down two cultist brothers who cursed our druid we end up in a fight with one of the brothers and some giant snakes and i learn after a few rounds of combat that every single enemy in this fight is immune to both necrotic and psychic damage then the other brother teleports into the fray he's a cross between a rogue and a paladin dealing upwards of 30 damage per hit reminder we were all level 4 with no tank in the party and for some reason he also is immune to necrotic and psychic damage so i'm completely useless in this fight and yet every enemy only attacked me until i was dead i dealt zero damage for the encounter yet somehow i was perceived as the biggest threat and my sorcerer was killed next character i made in that campaign was a barbarian and every single enemy we fought from then on was immune to damage from unenhanced weapons oh and the kingdom we were in had a strict governmental control over enchanting so i couldn't get a magic weapon that paired with some very racist and xenophobic themes in this guy's homebrew world was enough to get me to quit the group i've had a few over the years but the most memorable one involved someone who would show up occasionally at our games and liked to be an ass no one really liked him i can't imagine why and somehow he managed to get us to let him dm a a d and d 2e which is advanced dungeons and dragons 2nd edition session in dragon lands during the session i acquired a magical pendant that was some kind of plot macguffin so are you going to put it on hell no i don't know what it is and it might be cursed i'm going to wrap it in silk and stuff it in the bottom of my backpack until i get a chance to identify it that evening i go into town and do some shopping and i leave my backpack in most of my gear at the end as i'm walking down the street i'm told someone in a hooded cloak walks up to me grabs the pendant and rips it off of me so hard it deals two points of damage i'm a male wizard with a 4 hp i'm told i'm not allowed to do anything or try to stop him and then i remind him that i'm not wearing the pendant and it's back at the end he gets pissy says it happens anyway and that's that after the guy is walked off and i'm allowed to go do stuff again he implies i should try to go get the pendant back because it's important at this point i have no f's left to give so i just look at him and say if he wants it so badly he bends time and space to take it he can keep it i'm going back to the end to sleep and tomorrow i'm going on to the next town so that night the dm had a drunk guy trying to rape me while i was sleeping the next day a kinder steals a bunch of my stuff again with no chance to stop him then tracks me through the wilderness and tries to murder me thankfully after that session no one was willing to let him run one again he still brings it up every few years and about how great he did how much fun we all had and we need to pick it up again and finish it yeah he's one of those people who ignores what you say and turns it into good things in his memory the most unfair thing a dm has done to me was the whole first campaign i ever played in summary my first character was a female cleric of the domains of travel and luck pathfinder first edition yes and the dm argued that i could not recharge my spells after a long rest anywhere that was not a temple or similar there were anti-magic fields everywhere most monsters had a special quality to sense auras or i kid you not smell magic and magic items i and the paladin had to constantly make will saves to control our natural urges every time we met an npc the dm considered hot they didn't need to talk to us or anything if the npc was hot he could you whenever he she wanted and if you failed to save the dice were good to me in all those roles but the amount of times the paladin was in uncomfortable situations due to this roles were more than i feel capable of remembering the dm didn't know the rules of combat and he made them up on the fly always favoring the dmpc's of course for example he didn't know how to calculate appropriate cr so we faced against a pit fiend at level 7. we runned a lot in that campaign the barbarian became an unreasonable beastial killing machine that didn't recognize friend from foe each time he entered a rage he almost killed us the first time and he only entered rage two other times in the whole campaign the rogue didn't ever use his sneak attack not because he didn't remember to but because the conditions were never right at one point he introduced a group of npcs named sam battlehammer brunor battlehammer half the halfling regis gary stew i mean drizz jordan drizdid de ordon scarlet caddy brie and ragnar wolfgar and made it abundantly clear that the campaign was about them not us there was a lot more but you get the point as first-time players it took us more than what we should have to realize what was happening and me and my friends are currently in the process of removing this person from our lives on the other hand i am preparing curse of strawd and we will have our first session on the 31st of october this year i hope it goes okay we all deserve a better experience with roleplay and hey i hope it goes okay for you too [Music] hey everyone brian von va here if you liked today's video then slap that like button whereas if you aren't subbed already consider rolling a d20 and subscribing and if you roll a one burn that die and roll a new one because that one's cursed if you're interested in sharing your story or experiences we actively 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Length: 14min 5sec (845 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 16 2020