Oh wow, that's me! Haven't been checking in on Reddit or Youtube lately. Thanks for choosing my story! So... for a little clarification.
We would have 12 characters in the campaign but due to work, life, etc, we would have around 6-8 a week. The characters had a flying ship that was like a home base and normally sessions would end back on the boat. Think West Marches meets the old Marvel Ultimate Alliance game (where you could swap out characters between missions). Honestly, it worked for a long while.... aaand then everyone's schedules cleared up and i had 12 consistent players. Hence the burn out. So that's why Sean took over. So yeah. Would not recommend.
Also, several folks got some red flags before Sean's game began so he only had 6 to begin with. Shows how oblivious I am when literally half the group immediately goes "nope" and somehow I don't see it coming.
Also also. To this day, we still use two jokes from that time. When someone (especially Jack) drinks a health potion. "Woah, woah! You didnt add any sand to that, my guy! Who knows what its gonna do!" And any time someone mentions corn, you do what our resident farmgirl did when she realized she was completely right to be honed in on the crop. All she did was raise a hand up with the 🤙hand, proceeded to shake that hand while yelling, "COOORN!" Still cracks me up to this day.

My crowning moment as a DM is when I had an NPC cast a knock spell......and 1 second later the pizza guy arrived and knocked on the door

Having a store owner bring over a stranger and expecting you to include them in a current game has the same energy as your Mom inviting over her friend and the friends child who is five years younger than you and expecting you to keep them entertained while the adults chat. “Just make it work ok?”

bros so far in the closet that he's exploring narnia

The moment the DM said that my rolls wouldn't matter, any self respecting player should have walked.

The store owner in this story is enabling this fractured nutcase. He's either going to get shut down or go out of business if he doesn't get a handle on things

Wow, I actually love how the farmer character noticed that the corn was in out of season. I should find a way to use crops to show that something weird is going on in one of my rps.

DM: jack be nimble, jack be quick, jack jump on my candlestick

I think this guy was lashing out at the women because he rationalizes his lack of attraction to them as being because they're just too stupid or something. Like, instead of accepting he just isn't into women, he'd rather insist women are just doing something wrong and that's why he is never interested in them. I think once he accepts he's gay his sexism will die down a lot

the health potion was estrogen all along...

I had a DM who wanted to include everyone. He really was trying. But not everyone was there to play, some just wanted to hang out. 17. 17 players, combat took 2 hours, not for the whole thing, no, to get back around to one person's turn. It was a nightmare. He never did it again, but I've experienced it firsthand, and its bad

I feel like the very second the store owner is actually trying to mess with my dnd game, I'm out. We'll play elsewhere. I'm not there for the store owner to be my kindergarten teacher. This is very similar to an older story you did, basically same thing happened.

As to that shop owner being like "Actually,y ou are the bullies for complaining about Sena" I would have pointed out the guy was defending what could be seen as sexual harassment by this point. Not a good look for your games shop if word gets around that the owner defends sexual harassment.

"and begins massaging Jack's shoulders" JFC
Sean is 100% related to the shop owner some how.

Bro's as straight as a scimitar 😂

Bloody...that shop owner literally kept radiating "you exist here only to bring in money and more customers😕" energy in would make a geiger counter red line

That's actually a really interesting, i wouldnt even call it a rant, just a good talk to have. But man, I hope to never meet a DM like Shawn in my life.

It's weird to me when DMs or even players randomly say with absolute confidence "that's how this works in every dnd game, it's in the rules" then you look for hours and can't find a single example showing that rule anywhere. Played with a sorcerer who claimed to be a necromancer who would do that constantly, usually in ways that nerfed everyone while buffing himself.

I know some people play D&D as a form of therapy, but he needed actual therapy.

12:15 The implication that everyone is selling potions before adding the salt is hilarious. Like oh no! I forgot to add the salt and now i have stage 3 cancer, guess I'm not buying from that guy anymore since he clearly doesn't pre mix his potion salt.