I had a really weird session and tonight I thought I'd share a couple of weird and awful stories from over the years.
To start, I ran a session a while back where the level one fighter who's been basically a simple farmer all his life in a little village that left for grand adventures with a party. The very first creature they encounter? A Banshee by accident. He suddenly yelps out "Oh, we better run because our normal weapons can't hurt a cursed undead Elf!" Not verbatim but both of those things. He's right on the second but wholly wrong on the first (afaik normal weapons can hurt a Banshee they just have resistance) and he would almost certainly not know either of those facts. This guy was even older than I am I think in his 40s and he gets mad and argues with me that because he owns the books and read it, he should be able to know it. The others stepped in and tried to help me before he Pterodactyl screeched practically and quit.
Tonight, I went to do a recruitment run on reddit. I did find a possible diamond but the others were coal. Had a guy basically be a yes man until as soon as he got into our server, then begins making demands. I limited the group to four core books and none of the additional setting books like Ravnica or Eberron as we weren't playing there in those worlds. Everyone else in the group had already agreed to it and this guy was not only new to the game but new to the group who've already had a couple sessions. He read and agreed but said it was mandatory he had some spell from one of the books we didn't allow because it was his 'main attack' and I'm asking well why do you think I should give you special privilege when I didn't allow anyone else? The thing is if he would have explained why it made sense for flavor or whatever, I would have allowed it after checking in with the party. He simply and literally goes, "Because it's a spell attack, duh? I have to have it so I'm putting it down." He lasted all of 30 seconds in the server. lol one does not simply argue with a DM in his own server.
So, do tell! Given the pandemic and popularity of D&D recently and moving to online methods, some of us are playing with many new people. Do you have any horrible and toxic horror stories from people you've met lately? :P
Too many Toxic stuff from pre 3E. Randall good friend until I was DMing. Then Player from Hell. I tossed him from my table. But If I was not the DM he did not give the DM back talk.
The monks take no damage on a save. In 1E Monks could fall some distance with out damage if they were x feet near a wall and made a death save. This group rule a monk could no damage from anything if they saved. So Thor could nail them with a hammer for either 100 HP or on a save 0 HP because Kung FU Theatre was cool.
Various toxic players in group were allow because toxic person was also a member in another hobby most of the group was in. Bad behavior allowed due to toxic person having bad childhood.
And one couple I quit gaming with because I brought home cockroaches from their house. These experiences and others is why I created my signature in 2002.
So, I do enjoy a good horror story, but you might not know it, there is a subreddit for this as well if you want more to read. r/rpghorrorstories it's not just limited to D&D though.
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I had a really weird session and tonight I thought I'd share a couple of weird and awful stories from over the years.
To start, I ran a session a while back where the level one fighter who's been basically a simple farmer all his life in a little village that left for grand adventures with a party. The very first creature they encounter? A Banshee by accident. He suddenly yelps out "Oh, we better run because our normal weapons can't hurt a cursed undead Elf!" Not verbatim but both of those things. He's right on the second but wholly wrong on the first (afaik normal weapons can hurt a Banshee they just have resistance) and he would almost certainly not know either of those facts. This guy was even older than I am I think in his 40s and he gets mad and argues with me that because he owns the books and read it, he should be able to know it. The others stepped in and tried to help me before he Pterodactyl screeched practically and quit.
Tonight, I went to do a recruitment run on reddit. I did find a possible diamond but the others were coal. Had a guy basically be a yes man until as soon as he got into our server, then begins making demands. I limited the group to four core books and none of the additional setting books like Ravnica or Eberron as we weren't playing there in those worlds. Everyone else in the group had already agreed to it and this guy was not only new to the game but new to the group who've already had a couple sessions. He read and agreed but said it was mandatory he had some spell from one of the books we didn't allow because it was his 'main attack' and I'm asking well why do you think I should give you special privilege when I didn't allow anyone else? The thing is if he would have explained why it made sense for flavor or whatever, I would have allowed it after checking in with the party. He simply and literally goes, "Because it's a spell attack, duh? I have to have it so I'm putting it down." He lasted all of 30 seconds in the server. lol one does not simply argue with a DM in his own server.
So, do tell! Given the pandemic and popularity of D&D recently and moving to online methods, some of us are playing with many new people. Do you have any horrible and toxic horror stories from people you've met lately? :P
Too many Toxic stuff from pre 3E. Randall good friend until I was DMing. Then Player from Hell. I tossed him from my table. But If I was not the DM he did not give the DM back talk.
The monks take no damage on a save. In 1E Monks could fall some distance with out damage if they were x feet near a wall and made a death save. This group rule a monk could no damage from anything if they saved. So Thor could nail them with a hammer for either 100 HP or on a save 0 HP because Kung FU Theatre was cool.
Various toxic players in group were allow because toxic person was also a member in another hobby most of the group was in. Bad behavior allowed due to toxic person having bad childhood.
And one couple I quit gaming with because I brought home cockroaches from their house. These experiences and others is why I created my signature in 2002.
No Gaming is Better than Bad Gaming.
So, I do enjoy a good horror story, but you might not know it, there is a subreddit for this as well if you want more to read. r/rpghorrorstories it's not just limited to D&D though.