Narrated D&D Story: The Player Who Managed To Outsmart The Dungeon Master And The Entire Party 

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And they didnt expect an evil aligned character to get back at everyone after treating them like trash?

Damn, when I played D&D, we did it for fun and just fucked around. This party sounded like a forced group project.

By “weeding out the weaklings” he actually meant they did normal people a favor by not letting them play with such a wholly unpleasant group of people.

I've literally never played dnd but this man just pulled off a 1v7 with rules created specifically to nerf him

Doesn't get progression items, doesn't get loot, doesn't get heals, doesn't get xp... But by god, he will get REVENGE

"The bard died, I hate bards so yay" *mandolin time stops*

He literally survived long enough to become the villain. Good show, THAT is the proper way to be evil. Don’t show your hand, and don’t actively attack the party. Help them long enough to serve your own ends, than wow everyone with your evil plan forfilled at the very end.

I see. So they discluded people who had difficulties memorizing rules & singled out new players. So the guys who get left out of normal groups for being rude.

"That guy is evil" 'Well darn, now that you've said that I gotta kill everyone' "Wait, no-"

Isn't DnD about having fun with friends? What's the point in playing if you're just going to hate it?

For those of you that say the ending was way too drastic, let's put this into perspective: Given the description of the group, every single player, and especially the DM, were capable of and entirely willing to do things just like this. The fact that the DM was treating OP like this, if this isn't a warping of the truth, and the other players did nothing to protest, but rather joined in on this unfair treatment, meant that OP was pretty much the lesser evil. If this story is entirely true, then both the DM and the other players got what they deserved.

This reminds me of the story of a guy on an rp server, when a character is killed they die for good and you have to justify it if you kill someone. The guy made notes of every slight against him and then as a tavern owner killed everyone in the server and managed to justify every single death.

dm needs to not be bias..bias dms ruin games.

And that is what we call a “self fulfilling prophecy’’ you treat someone like they’re going to be evil so they be evil ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Assassin: everybody i have an announcement *PUMPED UP KICKS PLAYS* Party: mercy?.........

This sounds like the kind of group that anyone I know wouldn't like being in. Like, asking for help gets you alienated? No thanks. Targeting one person? Yeah no Entire table sounds like it's full of a-holes being overly rude under the guise of being 'hardcore'

Party: *steals from assassin* Assassin: "Omaewamu Shinderu" Party: "*NANI!?*"

What a terrible and toxic group this is probably one of the worst parties and DMs i have ever heared from it sounds like at the end of the day everybody would just go home hating each other. If this was my group i would rather just not play at all

I should probably just be grateful that my "bad group" wasn't nearly this awful, but it reminds me a little of the time I joined a friend's campaign partway through- they'd keep losing new players a few sessions after they'd join and needed some new blood for a fight against one of the medium BBEGs coming up. They were each level 7 and I joined up as a level 6 bard- apparently, they'd had a session the same day the dm asked me, leveled up, and didn't tell me they'd all leveled and it was "too late" for my character to do the same. While this definitely annoyed me when I came to the session the dm asked me to come to and found out, I decided to move forward and make the best of things. After being robbed and left for dead in the middle of the woods, the party came upon my character and that's where I joined the story. Immediately, their barbarian decided his character would consider me to be bait for the BBEG's trap and (with my one hp left from the bandits) attacked me on sight. Thank god for cutting words, my shield, and half-plate armor. Turning invisible and running off to heal in peace and decide what to do only served to convince the entire party and not just the barbarian that I was working for the BBEG. As part of my character's hook for joining the party, I'd been en route with a special gift as a surprise for my character's wife, who'd only barely given birth to our first child a week before. The bandits made off with this gift and I was to hire the party to help get it back, ultimately joining forces against the BBEG along the way. So I go back after recuperating a bit, and with the promise of gold and a rare item they decide to trust me provisionally and allow me to tag along as I search for the bandits and my gift. I should note at this point how the players were getting angry in real life that I was making the session drag on for so long; complaining that I should "just be a team player". So we find this underground fortress and it turns out the BBEG had since taken the bandits and turned them into undead slaves for his army, something the DM said could have been prevented and gained us more allies in the fight if the party had gotten here sooner. I kidd you not, someone kicked me in the shins under the table when he said that. But hey, at least it meant my reason for joining was probably in here with the BBEG and some undead thieves. We explore a bit and the party starts insisting on bardic inspiration with each check for a trap, only to get annoyed when we get to an actual obstacle and I have no more inspiration dice to give. We go through a few encounters, kill a miniboss the party had been dominated by once before, and I end up having to cast revivify (thanks, College of Lore's magical secrets) TWICE, once on one of the two clerics and once on the barbarian. Yeah. I decided to keep quiet about how those two diamonds were my only diamonds and what I'd intended to pay the party with, but thank goodness the dm announced that for me [/sarcasm]. It became apparent the party had written my character off as dead weight now that I had nothing to pay them with and was useless without inspiration or revivify. Still, I wanted to at least finish out the session like I said I would, and amidst angry glares from the others, I began searching for my gift. Ultimately, we find the BBEG, he sicks his army of zombies and wights on us, I heal the entire party more than both the clerics combined, work with the barbarian and others to hold the army at bay at a choke point while a cleric casts magic circle, and then cast tinyhut inside the magic circle so we can get a long rest. The final straw was when my character overheard the cleric (the one I resurrected) telling the sorcerer during their watch that they'd found my gift and decided to keep it, with which the sorcerer agreed strongly, and gave it to the sorcerer to put in the bag of holding. The other players around the table burst out laughing and said I wouldn't be in the group long anyway, so it didn't matter. Long story short, we find the BBEG and I receive 0 help or support during the fight, all the while healing others and doing support/negate magic for the party and against the BBEG and his minions. The final straw was when we got the BBEG down to just a couple hits from death and the sorcerer, because he thinks it would make him look cool to snake the final blow from the barbarian, drinks my gift (some one of a kind homebrew potions with effects to combat the challenges of new parenthood, like getting the benefits of a short rest, missing a long rest without getting exhaustion, doubling one of your stat's modifier for one minute, getting the benefits of haste, gaining 4d4 temp max hit points... really good stuff) in an attempt to use his regained sorcery points next round to do this. So, I did what any reasonable asshole would do: used my Instrument of the Bards as a spellcasting focus for Hypnotic Pattern (Instrument of the Bards gives its targets disadvantage on saves against charmed), hypnotized the whole party, and said to the BBEG (who was undead and therefore safe from charm) that the party was a gift in exchange for letting me leave with my life and a reward for saving him. He agreed, and between my cutting words and lucky feat, they remained hypnotized for the full ten minute duration of the spell while the BBEG set up magic bindings, recovered health, and marshaled the rest of his army to surround them as I walked out the door with 50k gold and their bag of holding.

This people: ah, we have an evil guy, let's just annoy him... Me and my party: ok, so we're an evil rouge (normal), an evil ranger (not that weird), an evil monk, (wait, what?) and an evil paladin/cleric (wtf, are u ok?)... So, yes, this is chaos guys

"I hate bards, so yay!" really takes me back to my days of EverQuest.

Nerve agent... Sounds like someone slamming a WAR HEAD candy into all of their mouths and then using magic to keep them shut.

That's why you never single out and piss of a single person in you DnD campaign. They might literally tpk the entire team besides themselves

*walking out after killing everyone* *That's Life starts playing in the background*

this is the story that got me watching dnd stories. not once in the campaign did anyone in the party endear themselves to this guys fighter or try to make friends, they made it very clear from the beginning that they all saw him as expendable cannon fodder. No heals from your party is usually a death sentence, to make it out of the campaign on just your own heals is nothing short of miraculous. in the end they all got what was coming to them

I'd have a problem playing with that DM ever again.

The closest I ever got to this was when I(a cleric of Tiamat) and a tiefling rogue were not really team players but were. Though the paladin didn't know we were evil until later... We would help in battles but if either of us found hidden treasures we only split them between the pair. We had been expecting a split in the party you see. So when we reached the capital the dm used our organization as the main villains, so we had to choose between a paladin that would string us up for just being alive or our employers. We did just that and the whole road instantly became a mountain. Instead of a large organized unit there was one rather incompetent guy. In the end we managed to ambush and kill the king's advisor in an alley(we were level 5s, he was a level 22 sorceror), gain the loyalty of an illegal sorceress, and managed to kill the king despite having the party and the royal guard working against us. We had aimed for using poison and had paid off the chef but the paladin just so had happened to walk past the kitchens and was curious about what the main chef was putting in the soup he was making for some reason.

It is a DnD variant of “I am not trapped in a room with you, you are trapped in a room with me!”

Not gonna lie; everyone at that table sounds insufferable.

I'm so glad that guy was able to end that campaign with a great ending, The DM and everybody else were complete jerks, but mostly the DM was doing it all.

Why is Dad-Sonic telling me D&D stories?

In the immortal words of Socrates "I drank what?"

Don’t you just love it when your dm makes your move for you?-¿

I think this might be one of my favorite stories. It's got rpghorror, malicious compliance, AND pro-revenge in one awesome story.

The dm is there to tell a good story. Not pick on one person. good on you for running that into the ground.

I'm two minutes in and I absolutely hate this party... You do you but yikes

This is actually why I picked up Magic: The Gathering, despite yearning to play more D&D. When playing a game that deals with lore, character-development and imagination, a team of self-righteous and toxic... people (Can't really just say kids. Adults count too)... can really kill the mood.

ROLL A SAVE VS POSION OR GET THE CLAP I'm rolling!

Geeze! Talk about an A-hole DM and player group. At least he was able to have the last laugh in one of the most clever and awesome ways.

I had a GM like that, kept punishing my character because he didn't like me personally. He once had my character thrown from a high floor of a ridiculously tall skyscraper because the NPC pushing my wheelchair (which I was stuck in from having my leg broken and then my other leg blown off by a party member accidentally, the party all failed to stem the bleeding and I crit passed doing it myself, then the GM made them roll to see if they had noticed me doing so and if not then they would have to use a flamethrower to try to emergency cauterise the already closed wound... yeah there was a lot of that) was killed by another NPC, and then a third NPC decided to blame my character for it for no logical reason. The party was great though, they did everything they could to help me survive everything that was thrown at me (which included a poison that tanked all my physical stats permanently, being semi-executed, being dropped in powered armour into a horde of people who then immediately blew it up, being teleported onto an ice cliff with zombies climbing towards me, and when I used magic to make it so they would lose their grip, I was told they were zombies with climbing gear... yeah). When I met the GM again several years later, he had seriously mellowed out I am happy to say.

That was to be expected. When the DM let's everyone know the alignment of a character something's gonna give. However that being said I once got bonus XP from playing my alignment so well that my DM thought I played it so well ;)

All of these types of stories make me really grateful for having the group I play with

Wow! What an asshole DM. Good for this guy. Way to legally get revenge.

This vid is the biggest reason why i order my own fancy tea and not drink from others

"We're were a very unforgiving group" that's a funny way to say assholes

I suppose they fell for his great deception now he shall use there loot for the purposes of evil such as rescuing me from the harp-seals of Mount Celestia

Jeez man, you guys run a tough crowd. But you really outsmarted that DM that had it out for you. 👍

Dangggg how the hell did you just make me watch a video with only audio and still be Amazingly entertained

What's better than any of the payoff is that the DM didn't actually read the entire note and figure out that they were all being poisoned until it was too late to snitch to his cousin.

I'd have mic dropped, walked away and never came back for good measure after burning their character sheets leaving only my own to take with me.

An evil PC would not be a huge problem for the party. The Lawful Good Paladin may have some hostilenes, but the others would probably just keep half an eye on him. And a DM should NEVER try to kill someones character

This is quite possibly the best betrayal ever. Of all time.

"That how he went form a basic assassin to the Legendary Drink Assassin" Here have a drink, I assure it is not poised.

Last session I used the true names of 40+ liches to control the BBEGs army and turn them against him.

No amount of antidote could get the toxicity out of that poisonous group. I genuinely hated everyone from the DM to the OP.

Nicely done, they sounded like jerks but you showed them what happens. I might use some of the stuff mentioned it sounds like a lot of fun

Wow this whole story is just an awful table, including the OP.

holy crap. that was the the most clever and funniest move a player can make in d and d

If my DM pulled this crap, I would never play with that group again

A party of kicked out party members

"Nerve agent" that's how I'm gonna call my coffee from now on xDDDDDDD

I once was in an online d&d group in discord, everyone were using their abillities normally until my madlad ass decided to enclosure the enemies in magic barriers and squeeze them on it

Dafuk was this table? Even on AD&D I'd not see such horrible players and DM in a table. This is totally not the D&D I know and knew in my 20years playing

Seems like they were trying to bully him hard.

Guy: If the guy who told everyone my alignment (again) doesn't come out in five seconds, y'all are doing another save against poison at -10. DM: I'D RATHER CONFESS NOW.

You may have outsmarted me, but I outsmarted your outsmarting

You'd think pissing in the sewer like that DM was doing wouldn't matter much, but he forgot about the rats that live there.

I had a group like this! *I don’t miss it*

I am surprised the smoke dececter didn't get set off because 8 or something character sheets got burnt

Couldn't do shit like that in my current games first part I was playing as a criminal so every time I was like right I grab the map and announce the chest was empty. One person in the group would roll perception to see if he seen me swipe it he wouldn't and then he'd tell out he's rolling insight like every time I spoke he'd roll insight and it just got to the point that even the other player who was suspicious was annoyed at the one guy for always rolling against me

Man that sounds like such a toxic atmosphere! Holy crap I'm sorry you had to deal with players and a DM like that.

Me: *hits enemies with weapon until they're dead* This guy: *does that*

Toxic party gets killed by poison: * Palpatine; * Ironic

Karma at its finest. That’s why you don’t try to off someone with a jar of poison, and let him walk off with it when he survives

I seriously question the authenticity of this.

One time in a Pathfinder group I played in, there was a highly toxic player(Who occasionally GMs). Whenever he's a player, he builds a character that is specifically designed to step over our weakest link at the time. Whenever he GMs, he blatantly disregards some of the rules just to get at certain players (Usually me). An example of his toxic play style, we were playing a Pirates campaign, everyone started out with pre built characters of his, so not much of a choice in character building, I ended up being the big brute (Would prefer being the heal-bot, and everyone else is usually adamant about their choices), In encounters, he 100% of the time goes after me first because "I'm the big dumb brute, I'm the most threatening" even though we had a sorcerer who can control the seas, a cleric who keeps everyone alive, a crow man rogue who can fly and use magic, and a fencing ace. Of the entire party, I'm the most NORMAL of the group, and it doesn't stop there. He also breaks certain rules of monsters making them more overpowered, ignores certain conditions because of a particular spell (Freedom of Movement vs Stunned), and he uses a spell that allows mind reading (Retroactively uses it 1000+ times per player just so he can say he knows our plans). Long story short, he always has at least 5+ encounters to counteract my builds specifically. As a player, the other GM (Our main GM) usually makes a rule that, if your character dies and you want to try something new, YOU CANNOT USE A CLONE!!! This guy finds a way to write off a character to bring back an older character from the same campaign every 3rd Session since building the character. At one point, player asked GM if he could use 3rd Party content (We never use 3rd Party Content). GM Told him if he uses 3PC then everyone else can use it too (Including GM in terms of encounter building). In the end, this lead to at least half of the group leaving because it was no longer fun and it was caving in on the one toxic player.

What made me sick is that everyone went along with what the Dm was doing

I mean... that is like a teacher who hates you because of reasons. Honestly, that DM had that coming and it is nice that you were able to pull that off. But I am sure he made your character die shortly after this because... well... that DM hates you.

this story lost me when I heard that they pass notes in secret, to simply say that need to go buy more arrows

It annoys me when alignment give focus as to how the party interact with each other, because a character is evil it doesn't nessecarily make them bad, they might just disregard the rules more. Example: Evil cleric, heals his party, in order to maintain good terms with them and thus increase his odds of surviving, he sees a crime being commited and turns a blind eye, not seeing it as his problem. Then there is the other side of the coin, the noble paladin sees a petty crime being commited, decides that for honour and justice the criminal must be punished, the poor thief having no chance to defend himself, gets called out, and in the name of whatever God is being worshipped, is promptly executed. The paladin being judge, jury, and executioner of lawful good, his intent noble and pure, but commited an act without thought or remorse, they also choose to not heal the party due to the fact their cause is less noble than the paladins and thus his healing is for himself. Alignment is simply a basis for how you regard the law, it is not your character, and does not make you a good or bad team member.

Massive "Frick you" moment

That is a terribly toxic group and DM

The only thing i like about this group is the passing notes. Seems fun if you're tying to be sneaky in a dragon's lair or nighttime village where you'd need to be quiet. Seems like it would keep everyone on their toes. But then again I would hate if this system was being used for the whole game.

we had a necromancer in one of our games and as far as we knew at the start he was a cleric. none of us were into religion or much magic, so we didn't pick up on it for quite a while. my character figured it out before the others, but she didn't really care. she actually liked and trusted him more than most of the other party members by that point. it eventually came out in a very big, very public way. a couple of the other party members weren't too pleased with this revelation and he eventually left the party to go into hiding. from a anti-necromancer organization and because those party members were becoming hostile. My character is the only reason he wasn't straight up attacked. they eventually regained contact and were on friendly terms until my character died.

Very nice way to deal with dirt bag dm

Outstanding move...seriously while everyone here was toxic and dickish, can't deny that is an impressive power play

When people ask you why your playing an evil character, THIS IS WHY!!!

I probably would have punched out the DM before the end of that game. Certainly wouldn't be playing with that group ever again after that bullshit.

That DM pissed me off but that is the best come back ever

damn dude, how da f does anyone even continue to play with such a group?

Can't help but think this is some made up edge lord murder hobos revenge fantasy... "And then I burned their character sheets right in front of their moms!"

Good for you. Next time a similar situation arises, have your second character be a paladin who defends everybody even if they're evil.

*OP:* "What do you get when you cross a evil™ alignment PC with a GM and PCs that abandons him and treats him like trash?" *DM:* "I think we should stop a this *OP:* "I'll tell you what you get, you get to roll a -10 save against poison"

When a party gives someone a reason to use the Evil part of their alignment and still be he still ends up being the good guy.

Did something similar in a group, except without the poison. The DM was nice, but the players weren't. I'm going to skip most of what happened, but in the end, I got ahold of something with the explosive power of a tsar bomb. Only thing is, the other players didn't know I had it. So when our thief pick pocketed me, they didn't know about my item. The DM passed me a note (like he does to everyone during some parts of the campaign) and told me what happened. So when we were at a tavern, I announced my item, and activated it. Killing me, my party, and the whole country. told the players to suck it up, and laughed my ass off while they were complaining to the DM. best session ever.

I'm not going to spend another 9 minutes listening to this story when the culture of the table sounds so toxic the players probably needed to roll Con saves each session.

DMs. I can tell you from experience that they are not the nicest of peeps. The thing is, you upset them, you're dead. However, you can still fight against them, as I do A LOT with mine.

I don't understand the point of DnD if it's not fun. Why would you even play if people in the group were being jerks?

EVERY player at the table sucked