What's the craziest "MURDERHOBO" incident you've witnessed or enacted? #1

what's the craziest murder hobo incident you've witnessed or enacted part one i play adventurer's league and i have a tendency to spin my characters as pacifists who want to end each encounter without death however adventurers league really isn't geared that way which often creates conflict with other members at my table who are there to kill stuff and feel powerful my best example of this was when i was playing as my first character a dragon born rogue yes i'm aware that it's a sub-optimal race for a rogue a phantom thief as a part of his code of honor would never kill anyone unless it was absolutely necessary around level 3 i sit down for a module with some new faces at the table and we open up with a bar fight where a pirate captain is trying to capture a thief woman everybody immediately goes into hyper violence mode with splash area spells and arrows but since i'm high on the initiative order i'm able to quickly dart from my hiding place on the balcony and knock out one of the lower ranked pirates coming up the stairs with the flat of my rapier on my next turn i decide to leap off the balcony and bravely engage the pirate captain the dm makes me roll for acrobatics net 20. i don't even take any falling damage i try to do a non-lethal attack against the captain though not one i then use my bonus action to hide stealth check nat 20. so basically i'm leaping around this guy like legolas with boots of speed but i can't land a hit and his ac isn't even that high meanwhile one of the party members still on the balcony of fighter decides that instead of engaging the active hostels it would be more fun for him to kill the guy i had already incapacitated you know the one that wasn't a threat he rolls an attack with advantage against his motionless corpse and still manages to only succeeding on the second turn and chopping his head off with his axe the dm describes how blood begins to trickle down the stairs but my rogue's too busy making attacks against the pirate captain to notice my second attack also misses and i literally start pleading with the pirate captain to let me knock him out because i can tell at this point that literally anybody else in my party is going to kill this pirate who may have totally justified reasons to catch this shady halfling who probably stole from him finally finally my third attack connects i guess the pleading helped however i rolled the absolute minimum attack and sneak damage two ones on a d8 and a d6 for a total of 5 points of damage leaving him at 1 hb literally one more point of damage would have incapacitated him our party warlock whose turn came immediately after mine simply grins and says i eldritch blast him in the face the dm describes how the pirate captain's head is blown clean off his body and arcs through the air as i shout you should have let me knock you out traumatized my rogue turns with a saddened sigh and says well at least i saved that one man cue him spotting the river of blood spilling down the stairs now you'd think that after getting their fill of violence that would be it for my murder hobo companions but no to investigate a suspicious bath house they decided to shrug off the receptionist and bring all their blood-soaked weapons to the bathhouse cue the entire occupancy beginning to panic then of course as one of the women tries to stealthily attack the party with a knife the barbarian decides that the best course of action is to seize this nearly naked woman with both hands and pin her against a pillar with his body causing all the bath house's patrons to think he's trying to have his way with her and begin rallying to the assassin's aid my character also fails his perception check so he assumes the same thing and has to spend a turn hampering the party to save this assaulted woman later in that same encounter mai rogue disguises himself as one of the cult leaders to confuse the assailants and reduce the violence by ordering them to back off but the party decides that with his new distraction the assassins are in an optimal position to be killed and instantly murder them dying the bath water red with blood but that wasn't even the worst part it gets worse later as we are traveling through the secret dungeon in the catacombs we spy a cult member a dark priestess torturing a prisoner shackled to the wall we decide to ready a surprise attack on the priestess and then the warlock says i read the eldritch blast to strike the prisoner i blink once in confusion and ask uh you mean the priestess right no he replies i'm going to kill the prisoner his rationale the prisoner's already suffering so much now this is a more merciful death than if he dies from the torture and here i assumed that we were attacking the priest in order to save him from a horrible death well that was the end of that plan yeah i don't know what alignment the people at the table were but it definitely wasn't lawful good yeah i think i can help you out with that one rolling a d20 in my own brain i got a nat 20 and found out they're all chaotic dumbasses my story is also from the same module also from adventurers leak spoilers below in the section right after your story we were heading to a boat bar with the intent to capture the brother or kill as a last resort our party heads to the lower deck to begin talking with the brother while our rogue sits at the bar one deck above everyone else not wanting to completely separate i stand at the top of the steps same level as the rogue heading deeper into the ship we converse with the brother a bit and he begins to pack up to leave our rogue meta gaming to hell says screw this and stabs the bartender the bartender who has no connections to the brother who has only been serving drinks peacefully well that single attack make a simple 3v4 to a deadly 10v4 as all her bouncers and her join into the fight we ended up tpking which the dm mercifully waved off as the burning fist paid off the tavern to save us as a one-time deal however the brother got away and we never met with rhea i ended up leaving that table next session when my character was unfairly targeted and killed again could have been avoided if not for the rogue well since i have only really been involved in two campaigns that were relatively short i only remember one incident we were a party of three a dwarf fighter me a human cleric and a human wizard the humans were siblings irl and their father was the gm that smells like trouble already this campaign ran an ad d second edition so the leveling was uneven but we were about level five or six now the story we had traveled for about two weeks from waterdeep to a small town named locke where we were going to rest me and the wizard went for drinks at the pub and the cleric came to have some juice me and the wizard who were quite frankly in a bit of a mischievous mood and thought it would be fun if we swap drinks with the cleric she had no idea until the third drink and after that we ate and drank with almost i say almost no funny business after we had slept in our wagon for a while i was awoken by my dog growling i woke the others took my axe and went with the wizard after looking around we heard clashing steel and ran to see one of the guards fighting three bandits i ran as fast as my dwarf feet could carry me and was about five feet away from the attacking distance the wizard however had other plans i cast fireball the gm now harold are you sure about that i want to cast fireball the gm shrugged and just said okay harold isn't the wizard's real name he cast his fireball hitting me the guard and the three bandits charring everyone but me thank god for high dexterity and blowing up a wagon that four other guards were sleeping in thus killing them too the worst part was his reasoning i didn't think you or the wagon would get hit as i tried to target the bandits the bandit stood three feet away from the wagon we were sent into the wild west in order to finish a contract and extract ikera dirk a war criminal who was a psycho sorcerer tiefling our characters were getting used to the modern technology and a salesman offered us a set of wondrous wands dm never gave us the complete description of the wands he just said that they were metallic shiny and with a six spell slot capacity per turn at its best but they were quite powerful spells [ __ ] got messed up while we and at least two dozens of townsfolk were inside a mine and the light from the torches suddenly disappeared the youngest wizard of the party a 16 year old human tried to cast light the new wand and shot a man in the skull and we heard someone scream traitor you all are servants of the witch i casted wall of force and protect my party and after a couple of seconds they were all dead druid casted produced flame and we saw the scene like well [ __ ] the sounds of footsteps coming from the corridor startled us it was icora who was walking towards us with the classic slow clapping of villains when she was like 30 feet in front of us she said and they call me a madman or is it a mad woman screw that you fetched yourself a very nice wand boy but i'm more like a staff person if you know what i mean and she loaded a musket apologies for being long but i think it can tell a story of knowing when to stop being compassionate and when to pack up and leave a group my worst murder hobo came from adventurers league let's call him finnian because that's his name finnian was weird one thousand mile stare tall and lanky like a bean pole and was the most infuriating 14 year old i've ever seen he was kicked from three tables before he joined ours because he intentionally killed important npcs hopped between modules for three loot and cheating at the tables but given his age and his dad being an on off again dm he was given slaps on the wrist but i'm here to recount his murder hobo shenanigans we were playing o-o-t-a in case anyone is wondering on his second to last session he used entangle to entrap my cleric who was bleeding out so no one could revive her she bled out i gave the kid the benefit of the doubt about him wanting to keep my cleric safe until i heard the infamous phrase i loot her body for what i asked my healer's kit my amulet my that nice he screeched i had picked up a magic mace that was instrumental in killing the various monsters that were immune to normal weapon damage and given my pc was the only character with a positive strength modifier you can see why i feel into my possession finnian's character had a strength score of 8. the table was pissed up until this point no one had made a death saving throw and the character was instrumental in the survival element of the campaign you could feel the daggers that these guys were shooting at him i initially felt bad for the kid clearly this was a mental health case or so i thought so i wrote him a note and passed it to him it roughly said dude knock it off people are getting pissed at you the [ __ ] stain laughed in my face and described how he picked up the mace and kicked the corpse to see if she was dead i didn't want to cause a scene because it wouldn't look good given our age differences him a kid and me a young woman for the 30 minutes left in the session i calmed myself down with writing up a new character no one could afford a revivify and no one could cast it either so the character was super dead i came back next week with a new character and sat down i described my character after being freed as thankful then immediately worried as she began searching the boat she was on for something after finding what i was looking for i presented it to the party in a small satchel sat a gray rat like creature upon further examination by the party i revealed what it actually was a dog gray furred toothless and cataracts over its eyes it was very clearly in the last few months of its life i had described in character how the dog was the only thing i had left of my family and my travels into the underdark were because he fell down a mine shaft you can see where this is going do i have to go full john wick because i will go fool john wick oddly enough it was phineas who asked me these questions i thought maybe a dm gave him a good talking to or maybe his dad heard of how much of a [ __ ] he was being we were talking about our animal companions and character him boasting out of character about their stats i stepped away from the table for a few minutes and the dog was dead finnian had killed it cooked it and was drinking my character's wine i asked the dm if he was allowing this and he turned around and said i'm sorry what's going on finnian killed my dog i didn't use his character name because i knew he was doing this for his own jollies i asked the dm what is my recourse he stole from my character my means of theft of the wine and by killing my dog finnian overhearing our discussion said i pointed her with my flying snake instead of saying no or that's against ale rules he instead asked where did you get the flying snake from toa he rolled a handful of dice 16 points of poison damage did that kill you i turned my sheet into its back and said yup okay sweet i love the buddy he took my character sheet and said why don't you have any luna on here because i am level one and the dog and the bottle of wine were the only thing i had of value on me i told you this the rest of the session was a blur the dm tried to continue on with the session but everyone was either unwilling or unable to continue with the session the next week he was kicked from the league but this kid and the ineptitude of the dms just left a bad taste in my mouth i left al for a few months before coming back then finally swearing it off again due to the same problem popping up and i am deeply sorry that you or anyone has to put up with little snot-nosed kids dumbass dms and shitty parents who can't even sit down to discipline their child correctly hey everyone brian von va here back at it again checking in after the vid make sure to leave a like subscribe and ring the bell so you can be notified when we post or go live also if you can leave a comment as the algorithm gods demand a blood sacrifice and if you'd like to share a story with us the best spot to do it is on our subreddit r slash mr ripper and of course for more content check us out on twitch and twitter links from the description below using a help action you can come say hi to me as well brian over on youtube where i voice your dmd characters make voice acting memes and stream tons of games near and dear to my heart with mass effect being the forefront for a while as of this video as always i try to leave everything off on a positive and i think after that one story that i really wanted to go john wick mode on i wanted to say one thing i respect every single one of you and i want you to know that there are respectful and happy people out there sure you might get screwed over at an adventurer's league game but that should not deter you from trying to make friends online like on discord such as our discords either mr rippers or mine because we are good people there are good people out there who are respectful and kind and patient and even if you run into someone out there like that one person's character who is basically a animal abusing piece of crap they're not gonna define the majority of people murder hobos exist people who are bloodthirsty in games will exist because they see it as a game they don't get an attachment to it but from me to you i want you guys and gals and everyone in between to get that attachment to feel good and to find a party that really resonates with who you are inside and don't worry they are out there so please never give up on your dreams of playing d and d with some good people they're out there you just gotta come to us all the love everybody be happy be safe and we will see you next time bye for now

Channel: MrRipper

Views: 77,913

Keywords: MrRipper, Dungeons and Dragons, dnd stories, reddit stories, please sub for nat 20s, BBEG, dnd encounters, askreddit, r/askreddit, tabletop games, tabletop simulator d&d, dnd, dungeons and dragons, dnd 5e, dnd stories reddit, dnd campaigns, dungeon master screen, tabletop rpg games, dungeons and dragons how to play, family friendly gaming, ask reddit videos, homebrew, reddit funny compilation, dnd 5e character creation, dm tips dnd 5e, dungeon master 2, murderhobo, hobo, murder

Id: y-yV0r8Tq8Y

Length: 17min 18sec (1038 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 04 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Fit_Championship7535]

Don't know if this is exactly murder hobo since the DM joint in butt me and my group were doing a evil campaign step place in the underdark while the DM was having us go from one place to another holding our hand because I broke the campaign again. yeah I have a tendency to do that a lot. So he was bringing us to the next city via Magic Carpet we went over a cave tunnel and he had a little bit of flavor text that we could see different groups of humans leaning over a pit chanting setting up different people tied off getting ready to throw them into said pit for sacrificial purposes we assume. I can't quite remember what my character was it was a female neutral evil drow but the party member started this was a githyanke psionic ask the DM how close is the person leading the ritual to the edge. DM looked at him and sad like within a foot. They said okay I use my tk the pull him off the ledge into the pit. Couple rolls later all right he's falling into the pit and you can hear growling and screaming from further below as he falls. Everyone who was watching him rushed over to the edge to see what happened. My draw looking at what happened just smiled ear-to-ear. And ask how close are they to the edge now? The inside with a couple inches all peering over. Me and character and out of character start laughing and say I'm going to use Mage hand and start yanking them off the cliff. DM looked at me and just said okay roll and we'll do a blanket. Now my Christmas character is quite High cuz I normally play Sorcerers and stuff I think I have like a + 3 + 4 modifier that time and I got like a advantage 17 Bass roll he did a blanket save roll for them they fail. Then he rolls for percentiles twice. First role as I was guessing to see how many he would let me pull down into the pet the other one I guess was to see if his control character with join in. My character just started laughing gleefully pulling people off the cliff I think I pulled like 60 70% people off the cliff down myself his character joints in pulls down a couple more. As my character is enjoying herself DM rolls in describes to us as more and more people fall down screaming in your growling and munching some kind of beasts I don't remember what sort of clawing its way up out of the pit course this clip pulling people off of it just destroys an entire down that we were supposed to go to. Needless to say the other party members weren't impressed and we're just rolling their eyes but they were evil and didn't care so they weren't going to try to stop us but here I am again derailing the campaign once again while enjoying being a murder hobo as the DM let's me. It was fun times.

[u/WindedHades]

I recently got one of my friends to play D&D with my group and I. Me being the DM, I helped him roll up a life domain cleric, and my group was playing a homebrew beholderfolk wild magic sorcerer, a kitsune rogue and a water genasi fighter, along with the previously mentioned cleric. The rogue and cleric began in a tavern and the fighter began on the local beach. After hearing terrified people screaming and seeing guards rushing towards the entrance of the town, these characters rushed to see what the commotion was about. They see this beholderfolk at spearpoint and the rogue trys to help defuse this situation by accusing the guards of racism. The beholderfolk casts shocking grasp on one of the guards and they all book it out of town, with the guards giving chase. They manage to run for a few hours, seemingly loosing the guards in the dust. After a few minutes of discussion amongst themselves, a carriage came rolling up and the beholderfolk looked and walked towards the horses pulling the carriage. Needless to say, the horses freaked out and veered the cart off the road. The cart tumbled over a few rocks, flipping onto its side and crushing the man who was driving on his head. The man who was a husband to the now screaming woman, and father of three children in the back of the carriage. The group rushes up to see what happened, and without hesitation the fighter killed the screaming woman, and the beholderfolk killed two of the kids in the carriage. The fighter then comes to the back of the carriage and polishes off the third child. I definitely made some adjustments to their alignments after that session...