More videos coming soon! I'm not leaving for several months again anytime soon hahaha.

I took the holidays off and January sucks for ad revenue so it was a good break, but now we're back babyyyy!

"Short answer: Don't. Long answer: Do Not." Love this line.

So many RPG horror stories just boil down to the DM refusing to explain to the players what he actually wants to happen before the game begins.

DM: Slavery in Waterdeep is fine.
Skullport: Wait, WTF? Since when???

Had a Paladin delete himself to my horror as a DM. He had a barely passed saving throw on lycanthropy. He was sure he failed it so I thought it would be fun to play into that. Dreams during the long rests. Letting the party know the full moon was coming up in a couple nights. Paladin offs himself night before the full moon so he doesn’t hurt anyone. Wizard player was like “we could have chained you up with silver chains or something bro!”

This reminds me of the worst DM I ever had. There was a TPK in session one because we didn't run the first dungeon exactly the way he wanted us to. So he threw a Gary Stu at us who was invincible, all-powerful, and negated all saving rolls. He was mad because "you didn't stealth through the entire thing like you were supposed to". A party with no rogues, stealthing...through an ostentatious, glittering palace made of gold. Riiiight.

He was very pouty and kicked us all off the discord server.

While scooping the gnome is a classic joke that third story was absolutely dehumanizing. Where it appears its just a DM saying yes to whatever the party wants and imagines and if it means messing with another player the DM doesn't even care

You mean to tell me that new players don't enjoy the older players having their characters bully the new character and treat them like a three-legged dog? :surprised_pikachu_face:

“Insists the players off themselves” thought it was about to get real dark… but now I realize you meant their characters. Haha

Ok on that last story, OP, you don't get to consider whether or not you should keep playing because you're already not playing. The group already decided to act like you the player aren't there, and you already don't have any control. You never started playing D&D with this group, you only started getting bullied by them and have no reason to stick around after being denied the ability to actually play the game in the first place

Leaving wasn't likely the best response, it was the only response. That DM in the first story was running a screwjob more or less.

My favorite campaign I've ever DM'd was a revenant campaign. The characters were level 20, fully established in the world, so they had full reason to defend the kingdom they were protectors of. The beast they fought slaughtered them all and each one made a cool reason for coming back, with some sort of weapon or custom cantrip tied to it. The stronger they became, the stronger their ties and their choices became. After two years we're still going and they just hit level 14 last month.

I guess my main point is you can still make it a great idea with a tpk, but you HAVE to plan for it.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how good of a sport the wizard is at the beginning? His character gets one shot before Initiative even starts, and he’s rolling up a new one without complaint. He becomes brain dead and needs to find some DMPC to cure him, and he gets into it with some roleplay. He deserves a DM who could nurture those skills rather than taking advantage of them.

At 19:14 I said WTF outloud. That last story made me exceptionally angry and I hope that OP is able to find a safe group to play with in the future. That is disgusting and horrifying behavior and those people should be ashamed. Absolutely vile.

The last story.. As someone who is playing as a robot-type character currently, I get that. If they're not a ranger or doesn't have a DMPC hobgoblin or beast, you DO NOT get a "familiar" PC, they're a PC. They don't get to treat a PC as though it were a pet, and you don't get to ruin other PCs stories, introduction, or develop features for them (like exhaust pipes or reset buttons), and you sure don't enslave or dismantle/kill PCs. 100%, leave that group, it's clear that they're all trying to meme and don't take things seriously, even the feelings of other players.

This dm did something that required forcing the players hand rather than telling the player outright, I one did a campaign where every player was undead, and they were informed of this beforehand. They could choose how long they’d been dead and what dynasty they died in as well as what condition their body was in. It’s as simple as telling the players hey you’re all gonna be undead.

I started DM’ing for my nephew a few months ago after he begged me to teach him how to play. I  am currently the DM for a table of three. I have been using these videos as a “what not to do” and it has been working very well for me so far.  It is unlikely the creator of the video will see this, but keep posting. Your content is improving the games of hundreds of players out there.

[3] Keep the revenant idea in your back pocket in case of a TPK, but don't PLAN IT, and DO NOT FORCE IT!

Short answer: “don’t” long answer: “do not” is the best thing ever.

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