Has a DM ever made a ruling that instantly made you walk away from the table?  

Yes. My character ended up dying and turning undead. My party bard got the True Resurrection spell via magical sevrets and used it. Our DM told us that the soul of my character did not wish to return. No roll was made. I was not asked if my character would want to come back (and he had two big reasons to want to come back, ie. He was engaged to the party bard and was the adopted older brother of our party's barbarian). The DM simply did not want my cleric to come back because he didn't like that my cleric acted more like the classical flirty bard. So all three of us quit his game and went on to get a better DM.

Stabby the Rouge. I have never heard a better Rouge name.

Session 0, find out the DM has given the druid full plate (with proficiency) with a greataxe (with proficiency) and the dude is coincidentally also an enormous man child. Go figure.

In that purify session, I think that player watched the most recent season of goblin slayer, because that's how they used the purify spell and it turned the blood of one of the goblins into pure drinkable water. Except this was not a spell directed specifically at water. This was to cleanse status conditions. The priestess viewed the goblin as impure and revolting just before she cast the spell, and since she viewed it as impure, it turned its blood into drinkable water.

For me it was one of my first DnD games. I joined a west marshes type campain. First session was a bit of a dud as everything my Bard could do someone else in the party could do better. Anyway played another few sessions really invested in my Character. Then one session we were investigating a clearing infornt of a cave and my PC being a bit cautious decided to hang back a bit and low and behold it was an ambush !!! Well on other Character died dispite us trying to help him he was stright up ganged up on and butchered. After the session the DM said 'I was going to kill a PC today and wanted to kill my Bard but I never stood where I was a target so I killed another instead' I just thought ...what a D-head and never came back.

I don't even understand the player who got upset that purify water wasn't a one-hit kill. This isn't like the X-Men where someone with seemingly useless Powers becomes terribly overpowered with creative use. If it had worked, that first level spell would have killed every living thing instantly. Why would you even propose that, much less get upset when it didn't work?

Yeah, had an adversarial DM at one point. Played a barbarian whose class features just didnt work becuase he said so. Rage only ends if the minute duration expires, you end it yourself, you go unconscious, or you havent attacked or haven't recieved damage since your last turn. DM had us in a combat where i got hit several times and told me the damage, i said cool and because of rage that was all halved. He asked which feature specifically allowed me to do that and then said the first attack that hit me took me out of rage for some reason. I was really pissed but put it to the side because he was trying to explain it - whatever. Danger sense gives you advantage on dexterity saving throws versus effects you can see such as spells and traps and is only ever negated if you are blinded, deafened, or incapacitated. In the middle of combat, i was hit with a spell that requires dexterity saving throw and he noticed i rolled twice. He asked why i was rolling with advantage and i pointed out my ability. He said i wouldnt benefit because the spellcaster was 'behind' me and i couldn't see him to react. Should've left then but swallowed my anger down and continued the campaign for the sake of some friends that were also at the table. Feral instinct specifies that you have advantage on initiative rolls *PERIOD* and that if you are surprised, you may act normally on that round as long as the first thing you do is enter rage. Another situation of just rolling twice and the DM was asking why i was rolling initiative with advantage and i pointed out my feature again. He told me it doesnt work that way as i was surprised and i wouldnt get to roll twice. I pointed out to him the surprised state of combat doesnt incur a penalty or disadvantage on initiative checks whatsoever and that i should get to roll with my adavntage. We went back and forth on it until he said he would only let me roll with advantage if i took a -10 penalty to my final total. This was a game at a gamestore i frequented so i stood up, collected my stuff, and left the store. Why let me play a class if you are going to be negating everything i get out of that class on a whim? Another story, not dnd related, was a shadowrun 4e game at that same store. Was a newer DM and we were all new to the system. I remember we had a Technomancer (someone in tune with machine magic and hacking), a Magical Investigator (who uses magic to better their detective work), a Face and Street Racer (someone really good at the inbetween of combats and got us our first gig), and then Myself. I made a Juggernaught. In melee for shadowrun, a really popular build is an Street Samurai (chromed or not, someone who can slice and dice with the best of them aiming for a high dps and attack pool). I opted for the opposite extreme. I made a minotaur with a high body, all 4 limbs replaced with chrome, trained in unarmed combat and defensive techniques, and covered from head to toe with a shield and enough armor to suffocate any normal person. My ballistic and impact armor was insane and i could soak a ton of stun damage. Practically unkillable with conventional weaponry. But i had weaknesses to make this happen: i wasnt good at grappling or keeping footing, my resistance to magic was practiaclly nothing, any AR gear i had i kept off cause he'd get motion sick, i turned off all wireless control to my prosthetics and had everything wired directly incuring more fees if i went to get any of it fixed, and i had a mood problem. I could get set off on moments of blinding rage and just hand the DM control where i would attack anything i could see or hear nearby, friend or foe. So there was a lot more than straight damage that could incapacitate me (you could even just insult my mother and i'd have to roll or lose control). Our first mission was a milk run. We go to point A, pick something up, and go to point B. Simple. Point A was a warehouse district with a chop shop we were supposed to go into and negotiate for our goods. We rock over there in our delivery van, the best vehicle for being inconspicuous while also spacious, and the garage doors open so we drive in. On exit and talking with our suppliers, we find out that they are tweekers who are low on smack, we find them itchy - looking at our expensive hardware and pristine vehicle, and we see this simple job start to turn as the reward for killing us is slowly outweighing the risk for trying. Our Face tried to talk them down. Failure. Our Technomancer and M.I. immediately take cover in the van as guns are drawn. Our Face is ok with a pistol so they pull out their glock and fire off some shots. I myself grab a man jutting a gun in my face and tear him in half. To our left, a crate bursts open as drones fly out into the warehouse. Heres where it went south. The DM said i start getting hacked. Im like, Huh? He repeated im getting hacked and starts going into that rule section to see what to do with me. I try to correct him and let him know - im not connected to any node, I have my limbs hard wired (offline), and, at most, they could hack my phone but that wouldnt do much. He thinks he understands (after the technomacer, who learned these rules, got my back) and says one of the drones latches to my arm and starts drilling in to get a direct connection (no checks, nothing). Now the entire table is arguing that thats not a thing really. Sure, he could drill through my armor and into my arm to damage me (given enough time) but im not something that could be hacked. At this point, the DM is getting frustrated. Next round, he focuses all gunfire against me. No problem, i was built for this. He gets plenty of hits and says what would be a number that would kill anyone else in our group. But i am the Juggernaut - so i soak all the damage, taking only a single block of stun from a bad roll. He doesnt know what happened and questions me ruthlessly in the middle of the game to understand so i go over how the armor rules work for him. He tries to burn me, electocute me, make me choke on gasses, and melt me wiyh acid. I show him where all my money had gone and why i came out of char-gen with only a bow and some arrows. Im built to tank all of that and last as i had my gear custom made to protect against most of what he just used against me. Keep in mind, even one of these new attacks would have been serious if not fatal for any of our other party members. Finally, he resorts to explosives. A tweaker jumps out of cover with a rocket launcher. Excusing all the other high tech stuff that these tweakers somehow were able to get, this is now absurd and we all know it. We call him out on it but he waves his hand and says they would absolutely have this, so, whatever. Come at me. And so he fires. Going into the book, he finds and Anti-Tank Missile Launcher and shoots me with it. After dice, i said cool, i soaked it all. DM is absolutely flabbergasted and demand the math from me and so i show him how you can build a character that can Darth Vader catch rockets with his fingers. Not looking at the book right now, so im a little fuzzy on exactly 'how much damage that missle was' but for the sake of argument, lets say it was 20. Our DM, in all his wisdom, said it was actually 200 instead. Pencils snapped, everyone looked around the table worriedly, and the DM announced i was dead and to not roll up a new character. I was stunned too as i knew what had happened - it wasnt only me who just died. A player leaned over to the DM and informed him that everyone within a block was either disintegrated or seriously injured. You see, Explosive Range Drop Off is a beautiful phrase. For the sake of argument, you can say the missile loses 2 points of damage for every meter you are away from the center of the explosion. That missile, normally, would only have a chance of injuring something a max of 10 meters away. That missile now damaged everything as far as 100 meters away, still dealing 100 damage at even 50 meters away. It was a consensus at our table that he just leveled the building and killed everyone inside. The DM just put his head down for a minute or two before raising his head and telling me to leave. I said gladly and picked up my stuff and left. Miss you, Goliath, old buddy. My juggernaught who was killed with an intercontinental ballistic missile from 7 meters away.

The last DM I played with infuriated me with a BS ruling. I was a Paladin, and I got a Ring of 3 Wishes (with 3 wishes) and I wished that, once a day without expending a spell slot, to be able to cast Spirit Guardians at the lowest level, while still abiding by general spellcasting rules. I thought it was a very reasonable request. He asked me to roll for "spell effectiveness," which threw me off. I rolled pretty bad, and he ruled that I had one use of Spirit Guardians. I explained my interpretation of the rules and why I thought I was correct. He more or less told me to take it or leave. I left. He then harrys me for a week afterwards explaining why he's right and I'm wrong

How about “characters who don’t fit DnD and why”. Example: Imai Cosmo is a grappling martial artist and unfortunately DnD refuses to let grappling shine

Yes a few weeks ago a dm tried to rule that the party and I wouldn’t get surprise or advantage because and I quote “ I can’t deal with dread ambusher, sneak attack, advantage and surprise” even when we used spells and resources making sure a place the bbeg frequented in the campaign and make sure every other guard was either sleep or unalive (potion in water supply or magically) and the dm knew we were planning to do that since the session prior

"I will be writing your backstories."

We were using the army rules from Pathfinder: Ultimate Campaign. The DM decided it wasn't "realistic" enough and took away all the abilities that ranged armies had, because reasons and wouldn't listen to any arguments otherwise. Basically took out the fun of it. He'd also do stuff like tell us we couldn't fit more of our own armies into a space and then proceed to cram thousands more bodies of our enemies into the same area where he'd just told us there wasn't room. My dude. My guy. My dear brother in Christ. Nothing about this game needs to be realistic. It's a fantasy game. The more realism you force into it the harder the game becomes to play, not in the sense that the difficulty of the game itself becomes higher, but that we can't actually prepare for it, because we never know what other rule you're going to change or remove, next.

8:10 "Hmm, this player that's completely new to the group and doesn't have any rapport with the other players is kinda quiet... I KNOW! I'll make him fight two random civilians and then have the guard and other PCs kill him! That'll get him to open up more!" The next day: "Why does no one wanna join my games now?"

I was in the final fight of my Curse of Strahd Campaign the other night and we were using a different strahd stat block as per dm recommendation. The entirety of the fight was strahd running away from the party because our dm thought that he had 3 reactions that he could use whenever he wanted. ( replaces legendary actions). The entire time we are running around and strahd is running up walls and stuff and we can’t really get him down and this goes on for like 4 hours. I use an ability that knocks strahd prone while he is on the wall and instead of falling off he just is stuck to the wall. I didn’t leave but I was so close to just shutting down. We beta him eventually though so yippee.👏

A lot of these aren't rulings, just things the DMs did that annoyed them. Rulings, as the term implies, require actual... rules to be involved.

This reminds me of what had happened while I was away on holiday with ‘Ranger’ (fiancé). Because the main DM couldn’t continue with the campaign without me, (it was part of my Life Cleric’s story campaign), it was decided that someone else could do a one shot for that night. One of our newer people to join us was Scribe Wizard. He had been playing the game for YEARS, so everyone there more or less agreed to let him do the one shot. The night before on the chat, one of our players let everyone know she had lost her voice but was still able to come. Come the night, and everyone has a new LVL3 character to play as: Tempest Cleric (lost voice), Community Cleric, Bard (couldn’t remember which subclass) and I’m not sure what the main DM chose. What wasn’t realised at the time was, although we knew Scribe Wizard loved to RP as his character, he also wanted EVERYONE to RP for this one shot. Most of us are not very good with RP. Even though it was mentioned to him the day prior, Scribe Wizard still wanted Tempest Cleric to RP even though she couldn’t talk, even if it was to move a square. The boss they had to defeat was a type of demon. It was nearly a TPK. When I came back the week after (Ranger wasn’t feeling well), everyone was mulling over how the boss went after I asked about the one shot. They decided to check online and it turned out the demon was a very high setting for lvl 3 characters ( 3 or 5 star?) and everyone was shocked Scribe Wizard chose that as the last boss of the one shot.

Left a party when the DM was making enemies that were clear surrogates for people in real life he didn't like or more so (ex GFs, ex BFFs). Was not going to be a party to a pseudo-serial killer.

I know exactly where the guys at 6:40 got that idea from, they watched/read too much goblin slayer 😅😂

I don't know how much compromising on any of these would help.

I was playing a fighter who had just reached level 5, the DM told me that I do not gain extra attack because my character didn't have a background in fighting, and so they wouldn't know how to properly do it

...okay so I commented this on the "Most Unfair Thing A DM Did To You", but Imma say it here because a simpler version is fair. Basically in an RP I was invited to, there was a thing called Wild Magic. 1/1,000 for anything from "you're rich" to "you painfully mutate into something else". My characters were immune because the imagery was rather uncomfortable to risk given how many of them really were rougher results. On April 1st of 2023, the host was like "okay Im tired of your dudes being immune, from noe on its gotta be like a temporary immunity". Literally, nobody had a problem with it until now, and even after the resulting rule, the moral consensus was "dude, c'mon, nobody cared". It basically became a drama fest when my "I won't bring my characters here anymore", which led to me being rather unfairly banned from the server, and honestly, since then I've actually been able to hear myself think. The host wasn't a bad guy, but the sudden change of idea because Wild Magic was contained now is rather upsetting.

I love it when a player tries to use a spell in a blatantly unintended way not supported by rules. I like to ask the player if they understand why they're wrong, and then mention all enemy spellcasters will get to use them same effect if I rule it. Those kids trying the purifier trick would lose every character in the first round against the average mage apprentice until they either quit or got the message.

Friend was a DM in a homebrew campaign. He told us that we had to control the NPCs during combat. There were 11 of them. It took me 2 hours to get to my Character's turn. I left after that session

Started in a new group. The DM clearly wanted us to not do something to the NPCs all got perception and insight +99 and suddenly could teleport. Or so it seemed. He was a new DM running a module to be fair. Personally I probably would have just said "If you do that you break the module. Feel free to do one we reach the city as the module can cope there". Sometimes honesty is the best policy. Especially if playing with adults.

These people had their fun ruined by other dungeon/game masters. D&D is ridiculously fun, and I absolutely would play with my friends again if given the chance. I once had a story scenario happen with my character who lost access to his paladin powers because of an internal conflict. And by some freak happenstance of the party being attacked by werewolves, he is the only one to contract lycanthropy. Would have been an awesome story to play out. Former paladin doing right by another deity and forgiving himself for failing his allies, even while afflicted by the werewolf curse.

waaaay back when, an old D6 based aliens/predator/colonial marine game, i forget the name of the ruleset. we all set up our characters as per the rules, i asked to play as an android, as i was interested in playing the 'no violence' rule, GM agreed. GM had us ambushed by a predator, while cloaked, in the first encounter of the campaign... bad enough... first round, first action, pred shot at me with it's shoulder cannon, no rolls were made, no chance to dodge, he just described me getting shot and losing an arm, most of my lower torso, and both legs, then said 'you're an android so it didn't kill you'. put away my dice, handed over the character sheet, and walked out. apparently, there wasn't a session 2, and 2 of the 5 other players were killed in the first encounter, not given the option to make new characters for that session and just told to wait and watch.

Yes someone else blew up a barrel 35ft from my character and the DM said I instantly take more than twice my max hp in damage dieing instantly.

Our DM had something called the Black Chip rule. If we did good he gave us Blue, green or red chips which acted as sort of inspiration. He banned inspiration in our 3.5 play. The Black chip would allow the DM to reverse a moment or event. pretty Much carte blanche. Well to make a long story short we decimated an encounter I guess he had his hopes of sort of 'putting these' players in their place. Safe to say, we destroyed the encounter and I one-hot-one kill his squishy Kobold mage. After the fight and loot, DM said nothing. It was close to end of session and everything seemed okay. Following week he dropped the black chip on us and reversed all our progress up to the cave entrance. DM's reasoning? Oh, he is the DM that is why. And it sounds exactly how it was said. Next week, two of the five left the table. Oh and I did not explain, the Black Chips are gained when we Rules Lawyer, say stuff the DM does not like etc.

Not me but a story I read/listen In short this player left because the dm and some players were bullying him and discriminating him. The reason? Op was blind and dm couldn’t/wouldnt allow him to play a character that could see, so every perception check was made with disadvantage due to out of game impairment

11:55 I wish stories like this had a follow up. The stories that sound like the party didn't want to play with someone anymore, and instead of talking to him/her like an adult, they play through a whole set of sessions just being petty and arbitrarily targeting. It's pathetic. I want to know if these losers ever admitted that they killed off their "friend's" character just to get rid of them.

I always try to work around this as a player during session zero with the DM. I try to avoid spoilers for a campaign they want to run, but I feel obligated to ask for context so a character I bring to the table makes sense for the story. I have two examples I provide to the DM: 1) I’d hate to make an ocean-based Druid with a water-dependent familar, all decked out for deep sea exploration… and the entire campaign takes place in the Sahara desert. 2) I’d hate to make a character who is really awesome for combating the undead, like vampires and zombies, for a campaign that doesn’t feature either. In essence, I try to ask the DM for the setting and genre without having to spoil anything if it can be helped. My method is roundabout, but establishing both the setting and the genre as the DM envisioned helps me as a player build a character that I will enjoy playing as and fits into the narrative organically.

I know the feeling of campaign 1. nobody else is a good dm so you take it up yourself. My first DM's were: a pork fetishist, a power game enabler and someone who hated me and wanted to make everything hard for me. Haven't had a player walk out of my own game yet and I'm happy to report at least most of my campaigns are well received by my players.

Was playing a level 1 rogue in a sea world style game. By the time we finished the first session, we had killed an ancient white dragon, a kraken, and earned 200k gold. (not joking) Then, the DM introduced his own DMPC at the end of the session as a sneak peak into the next session. His character was level 20 while ours were level 2. He had an armada and said he would take us under his wing and teach us the ways of the world. I never returned. Another game I was playing with my wife. We were players in this game. My wife tended to get everything. All the magical weapons, all the NPCs enjoyed her presence, etc. etc. So, during a fight, my wife's character, A warlock, goes down to 0 hit points. During the turn she gets hit by some splash damage and fails a Death saving throw. When it comes to her turn, she rolls her death saving throw. She rolls a nat 1; which basically means the character is dead. The DM reaches over the table, picks up her dice, turns it some and then places it back down to a nat 20. My wife being who she is just states out right. "No, i'm dead. That is fine." The dm then stated, "But I have a lot of plans for your character in the future, I don't want them to be wasted." After some internal discussion between the two of us, we never returned.

The wondering tavern does sounds like a name of a gibly film

Made a house rule that characters not present for important conversations should leave the table as to facilitate more fun "reveal" moments when present characters choose to tell important character information. As the player for an absent character, this made me leave the table immediately.

Shadowrun 6th Edition. I made a Decker (Hacker) character and the Johnson (employer) tasked my character to get the list of current employees from the local convenience store. For some reason, the DM not only made a Data Bomb explode in my character's face, but this alerted Black IC. Needless to say, my character died a horrible death. I gathered my things, got up and walked away when the DM suggested I build a new, non-Decker and non-Technomancer character.

PANR has tuned in.

I had a dm who made a custom status effect that (Get this) ACTIVATED WHEN U PLAYED THE CLASS HOW U WERE SUPPOSED TO a spell caster would get it for casting spells, a barbarian would get it for using rage, a rogue would get it for being hidden, u get the point. I left after the first session because it was bs

The purify food and water one is absolutely obnoxious

one time a DM allowed one of the players to be a white dragon, that was literally a pancake. they had no limitations on anything except that you couldn't be over 7 feet tall, soooooo pancake dragon

You get a like for using Cave Story music for the background :3

Weird question here, but anyone remember a video about an encounter involving the use of modify memory? It was something about a bard living in a small village and villagers with weird memory loss problems. Would love to get the title to it.

Allowing seduction rolls on PCs

He had me roll a fear save against his werewolf DMPC and when I failed he had me piss myself

When the gm changes a fundamental rule of a feat because he didn’t like it. The feat in question was alert. The rule he changed was: Other creatures don't gain advantage on attack rolls against you as a result of being unseen by you. It’s like one of the core rules of the feat. The rest of that session really didn’t go well either… I really don’t remember much of it other than it felt very much gm vs player so I didn’t like it very much.

Man that purify food and water one sticks in my craw for how often it or something similar has cropped up at a table I play at or run. I'm all for creative spell use but it's so laughably annoying that everyone tries to make cantrip and low level spells instant death effects rivaling power word kill

It wasnt that I got up from the table. Or even that I eventually left the game. But one of my DMs has a history of nerfing mechanics that he doesn't understand. Early in my D&D career this DM had started a Clone Wars era Star Wars 5th Edition game with a few friends. Due to schedule conflicts i couldn't join in the first session but had my character made and time free for the 2nd or 3rd session of the game. I rolled up a heavily armed and armored aftermarket B-1 battle droid fighter that made heavy use of the "burst" mechanic (a weapon property in SW5E that lets you target an area with your weapon like a 10ft. cube spell AOE rather than rolling to hit one target while expending more ammunition.) Now, because this character was built around guns and the burst mechanic specifically I made sure the DM was aware of my plan and he okayed it. The next session rolled around and i'm ready to go. The party stops in at a hutt trading base to pick up a contract and get handed my character "13" along with it since 'we don't want him and he complains a lot' (something i approved in advance.) The party isn't too sure what to think of 13 at first but are at least happy to have him along as a bolt sponge if nothing else. Now 13 had the Star Wars equivalent of an Lmg and a backup sawn-off just incase we ran into any 'jedi scum' (It was a seperatist aligned party.) Both weapons of course having the burst property so he could make proper use of his fighting style and feats. After we get where we're going we end up in a fight against 3 tightly clustered groups of low CR clone troopers. I'm grinning as I realize 2 of these groups are within my range and I can make use of my precious new mechanic and see just how feasable it is. The rest of the party take their single attacks from cover and while a few of the clones move before my turn they stay in their groups just enough that I can get 4 of them with 1 burst attack. I start my turn, ready a suitably B-1 sounding battle cry, pop up from behind the crate i'm using for cover, take aim with my heavy repeater and- DM "Burst doesn't work like that" Me 'what?' "Burst has to have 1 square within melee range of you to work otherwise its too far away" 'Uh.. Hold on. According to the website its any point within the effective range of the weapon, which, they're in' "No burst only works if its close to you" '... Okay fine whatever' By this point I knew better than to sit there and argue with any of my DMs at the table and just decided i'd bring it up after the session. Still wanting to capitalize on my droid's particular set of skills I ended up charging the group of four like a hellfire droid that's run out of ammo and using the ability at melee range like the DM insisted. At which point... DM "okay well since you're shooting at a target within 5ft the two that are the closest to you get advantage on their DEX saves" Me 'Wait what? I thought you just said this could only be used within melee range' "Yes, but you're trying to shoot someone right next to you wich gives you disadvantage to hit, and since it's a saving throw instead of a to hit roll means they get advantage to avoid it" 'Then what's even the point of this weapon ability?' "Honestly, I don't know. I kinda thought it was weird when you picked that as your main focus" After silently pulling some hair out and nearly getting killed in the first round of combat due to barely doing anything after getting massivly out of position the session ended and I very nearly quit the game. Fortunatly between sessions I was able to find the exact text for how the burst feature was meant to work and convince him to revise his ruling. Also I feel like I got my DM back later. After we switched sides (against my will) and started helping the jedi win the war against the seperatists. Thanks to a critical deception roll I convinced the B-1 units inside of a super tank that their optical sensors were damaged and they were firing on friendly targets; prompting the commander droid inside to open the hatch only to have our mandolorian bounty hunter chuck a grenade inside from above and 1 round the boss fight. Of course that brilliant deception can't be mentioned without bringing up "Beeptonk the jawa mechanic" who cast overheat (the star wars tech casting equivalent to "heat metal") on the tank and giving advantage to my deception.

Never fall off, my dude ✌️

It ened up being fine but my dm decided she no longer wanted champion fighters meaning i needed to change and we ended up having a great decision but at the time i walked away and took probably a hour figuring it out in my head once i did that i spoke to the dm she was very reasonable about letting me being a paladin with a arc going into a warlock and i cant say a year later it was awsome

Have a fellow player who walked away from a dragon ball dnd game since taking a scale off a dragon was too gruesome. Now he has to stop my character from collecting ears for a necklace and collect parts for a flesh golem.

There was a dm that made me lose interest in session one. Started as a Druid in decent to avernus, got into the city but got into a fight in an inn. I tried to cast grasping vines (2 players already downed by this point) and he said I couldn’t cast it because I was indoors, magical vines ffs. I was then downed as casting was still my action and I could do nothing else.

DM ruled that a summoned devil had the exact appearance as a political figure that the whole party supported but he didn't. Session One. There was no session two with this DM.

Play HALO. I think I talked about this DM before in the comments section of this channel, but I'm still salty so I will always complain about this guy. XD Anyway, the DM was a narcissistic ass who liked to play puppet-master with the group. He insisted that the whole group (everybody) show up at his place at 7 PM for game, on whichever day he decided he wanted to play. I wouldn't have had an issue with that if we actually played at 7 PM. No, we all got there and he sat on his couch playing HALO for three hours while we all sat around bored. We weren't even allowed on the couch, because it would disturb his playing. We weren't allowed to talk about the game or work on our characters without his input, and he wasn't talking until he was "done" playing his game. At most, we were allowed to draw our characters because he was an "artist" and liked to critique our work. When we got hungry we made or ordered food, of course, whatever we made or ordered, we had to get some for him. When he did start the game (around 10-10:30) he would insist we play until the early hours of the morning, like 3-4 AM. We were all unemployed at the time (layoffs at our job) which meant we had "time to kill", but also, playing DnD until 4 AM on any given day of the week, made it awfully hard to schedule interviews. He didn't start out like this, and we ended up in a "frog in boiling water" situation, but when I did realize how he was manipulating us, I was done. I literally walked in, saw that he was playing HALO again and I was like "Here's my character (folder) I'm done."

My DM said that all ritual spells now take an hour to cast unless it’s for a spell a lot. I nearly left the table.

Didn’t think I would hear Cave Story music.

We're not using the lizardman kobolds we're using "real" kobolds.

Oh, I have one. Aside from the idiotic rule for getting nat 1 on attack rolls make you hit your allies with questionable physics, the homebrewed invisible status is just plain stupid. Because he insists invisible is broken (Believe you auto become hidden after having invisible status) and just make a very convoluted way to by pass it, which makes materials worse.

Woo!

I'm so lucky to have the group and DM I have...

I'm on the DM'S side with the walking around town stepping into the garden story. The player really overreacted here. Like instead of attacking the 4 hit point commoners with spells did it never occur to him to... oh I don't know, apologize?

Jeez... what crappy DMs man. I remember getting into D&D for the first time when 3.5e was the main thing. I ended up coming into the campaign mid-story, but the DM managed to find a way to integrate me into the campaign seamlessly. He was fair, if a bit sadistic. But my DM always had ways for my character to get out of whatever pickle he ended up in.

Told me I couldn't use meta magic

In an effort to make martial combat less boring, our DM bought out a list of critical hits for martial attacks, divided into separate tables to match what kind of damage the attack did, which gave the attacker an added effect based on a percentile roll. It was amusing for a while seeing these crits being traded back and forth, but then a potential insta-kill was rolled: a slashing attack that would behead the target if they weren't wearing a helmet. After hearing that, I stood up mid-session, repeating the word 'nope' several times in rapid succession as I did so, and walked off. Another in that group came to find me ten minutes later when my turn came up, and we finished out the session relatively peacefully, but it took me a couple of days to find the words to properly articulate to them that any game where a PC's life and death can be decided at the drop of a hat based on what their character class can or can't use, is not a game for me. All such insta-kills were struck from the list from then on.

11:27 ... HOW THE FUCK WAS THE PLAYER SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT AHEAD OF TIME?

I had a campaign coming up and I have the one player who uses the best classes, feats, and race, who bulldoze most of the campaign I bring up. I say we're doing a session 0 where we rely on the dice to randomize what race, class, stats, etc. And he instantly walks out and says it's not gonna be fun.

The story about purfy water not being a levle 1 power word kill, GM dodged a bullet there, i can only image how utterly boring and self stroking all their games are after that if theu found a GM that acomadated their god complexes.

You know, I hear these stories and I can’t relate. I’m glad I didn’t have these experiences.

this exchange: DM: "because you're playing as a kobold, your character has been instantly killed by the attack. no death saves because beast races don't deserve them." me: "then why did you let me be a kobold?" DM: "just because I let you pick a race doesn't mean I can't be a racist towards it whenever I want." other player: "that makes no sense." DM: "neither do death saves when you get skewered through the face by a polearm." me: "you literally focused my character in every fight so far." other player: "yeah, that's kinda shitty of you, man." DM: "well, that's how d&d works. my campaign, my rules." other player: "except you literally changed the rules just to target the kobold." DM: "because kobolds are a shitty race and deserve racism." me: "Alright then, your majesty, what race should I make my next character for you to not treat me like shit?" DM: "if you don't want to be treated like the autist you are, play an elf." other player: "THAT'S your reason!?" me: "that's it, i'm out. targeting my kobold is one thing, but singling me out over a disability is where I draw the line."

I mean I didn't walk away from the table but I had to scarp my character I was a white dragonborn who's ultimate goal was to kill all silver dragonborns (genocide) my dm didn't mind that till we got to New party members who where silver dragonborn and my dm put in the strick no pvp rule so I could not complete my goal and then because of this my ideal we I will not care for the safety of others, so when I went to caste a thunder spell in a flooded room and my dm stopped me as it will hit my party so I ended up creating a new character

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If a GM makes a ruling that makes no logical sense and explicitly violates RAW "because it's cool" I walk away. I don't respect any game in which the only rule that matters is Rule of Cool.

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