Me and my party are doing an old setting called "the tomb of the lizard king" that has been revamped for 5e. when we were all level one {level 3 now} we stumbled upon a naga in the tomb and almost got TPK'ed when our wizard used fireball when we were right next to him. And then the naga also casted fireball directly toward us. By the end of that fight we were down to two party members who were at 3 hp each. me and our cleric were knocked after the second barage of fireballs hit.
I had a player who consistently took Minor illusion and had to have it explained to him multiple times how limited it is and that it couldn't create phantasmal terrain, movement or anything involving animation or multiple senses.
He did this multiple times on multiple chararacters.
Also said player consistently made what I can best describe as "Cartoon characters" who were ~to his mind~ allowed to be silly and irreverent and not appear to care or understand what the hell was going on at any point and that reality was something that just sort of intruded on him. As you might have guessed he got really mad when he was made the butt of a joke like when a magic item wound up with the negative property of "Your appearance changes as the GM see's fit" and his Kenku
molted
Gained stork legs while his torso contracted thus giving him the same height but ridiculous proportions
Grew a peacock's set of tail feathers.
A toucan beak
Those three little poms that quail have.
Also Said player switched characters multiple times in Dungeon of the mad mage and finally settled on a samurai that did nothing but the push action... in a party of like 4... in the bottom third of that dungeon... even against target's that were multiple size classes larger then him.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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Had a party where nobody took proficiency in any charisma-based skills had a particularly good charisma score but would insist on trying to bluff their way through every social encounter by telling ridiculous lies. They never seemed to understand that the GM sets the DC of the check based on what you're trying to convince the NPCs of, and when you try to claim that you're secretly the king traveling incognito and don't even know that the city you're in is ruled by a council of nobles, not a king, the DC is "automatic failure."
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
We found this hut made of sticks in the woods near Triboar Trail. Our cleric cast detect evil and the hut reeked of evil. So we readied actions and fire bombed the hut with alchemist fire to flush out the creature…
well half of us failed our wisdom saves and Agatha handed us our collective arses on a plate. We grabbed our unconscious companions and legged it. The DM was kind enough to let us get away after learning our lesson.
My party tried to mask a huge (2x2 tiles) metal robot from people, who were literally in the next room and coming to them, using horsemane hair they cut from their druid.
All to make this robot look like a Leonin.
They were surprised when i told them it's hasn't worked.
I have a very silly group of teenagers as my party and most of what they do is stupid. From hiding behind a singular mop, rizzing up fire snakes, to jumping into the mouth of a purple worm is always interesting. There is one that takes the cake though.
In my first campaign the players had to defeat a group of goblins pestering the local town. Little did they know that the goblins were serving a warlock who was responsible for the possession of a beloved NPC. They really liked the npc, so they brutally killed most of the goblins. One of the characters (he went by the name Shrek McQueen) wanted to really show the goblins that he was superior. Keep in mind that he was an oath of devotion paladin. He captured one of the goblins and took it back to the town and called a meeting. In front of everyone in the town he decided to “assert dominance” on the poor goblin by making an animal handling check to ride it. He failed and the goblin clubbed him. Shrek McQueen didn’t consider the fact that he was at 3hp and that the party didn’t have a cleric at the moment, so yeah he died.
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When in doubt throw the naked, fingerless, thief that you’ve been keeping in a sack and feeding rotten squirrels to into the fireworks tent hoping that it causes an explosion.
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Me and my party are doing an old setting called "the tomb of the lizard king" that has been revamped for 5e. when we were all level one {level 3 now} we stumbled upon a naga in the tomb and almost got TPK'ed when our wizard used fireball when we were right next to him. And then the naga also casted fireball directly toward us. By the end of that fight we were down to two party members who were at 3 hp each. me and our cleric were knocked after the second barage of fireballs hit.
I had a player who consistently took Minor illusion and had to have it explained to him multiple times how limited it is and that it couldn't create phantasmal terrain, movement or anything involving animation or multiple senses.
He did this multiple times on multiple chararacters.
Also said player consistently made what I can best describe as "Cartoon characters" who were ~to his mind~ allowed to be silly and irreverent and not appear to care or understand what the hell was going on at any point and that reality was something that just sort of intruded on him. As you might have guessed he got really mad when he was made the butt of a joke like when a magic item wound up with the negative property of "Your appearance changes as the GM see's fit" and his Kenku
Also Said player switched characters multiple times in Dungeon of the mad mage and finally settled on a samurai that did nothing but the push action... in a party of like 4... in the bottom third of that dungeon... even against target's that were multiple size classes larger then him.
Hey, at least you didn't hug a hydra.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
How I'm posting based on text formatting: Mod Hat Off - Mod Hat Also Off (I'm not a mod)
Had a party where nobody took proficiency in any charisma-based skills had a particularly good charisma score but would insist on trying to bluff their way through every social encounter by telling ridiculous lies. They never seemed to understand that the GM sets the DC of the check based on what you're trying to convince the NPCs of, and when you try to claim that you're secretly the king traveling incognito and don't even know that the city you're in is ruled by a council of nobles, not a king, the DC is "automatic failure."
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
We found this hut made of sticks in the woods near Triboar Trail. Our cleric cast detect evil and the hut reeked of evil. So we readied actions and fire bombed the hut with alchemist fire to flush out the creature…
well half of us failed our wisdom saves and Agatha handed us our collective arses on a plate. We grabbed our unconscious companions and legged it. The DM was kind enough to let us get away after learning our lesson.
My party tried to mask a huge (2x2 tiles) metal robot from people, who were literally in the next room and coming to them, using horsemane hair they cut from their druid.
All to make this robot look like a Leonin.
They were surprised when i told them it's hasn't worked.
I have a very silly group of teenagers as my party and most of what they do is stupid. From hiding behind a singular mop, rizzing up fire snakes, to jumping into the mouth of a purple worm is always interesting. There is one that takes the cake though.
In my first campaign the players had to defeat a group of goblins pestering the local town. Little did they know that the goblins were serving a warlock who was responsible for the possession of a beloved NPC. They really liked the npc, so they brutally killed most of the goblins. One of the characters (he went by the name Shrek McQueen) wanted to really show the goblins that he was superior. Keep in mind that he was an oath of devotion paladin. He captured one of the goblins and took it back to the town and called a meeting. In front of everyone in the town he decided to “assert dominance” on the poor goblin by making an animal handling check to ride it. He failed and the goblin clubbed him. Shrek McQueen didn’t consider the fact that he was at 3hp and that the party didn’t have a cleric at the moment, so yeah he died.
When in doubt throw the naked, fingerless, thief that you’ve been keeping in a sack and feeding rotten squirrels to into the fireworks tent hoping that it causes an explosion.