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fandomsecrets2019-04-20 03:34 pm
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Re: Question thread
(Anonymous) 2019-04-21 01:51 am (UTC)(link)That said, as a player a few of your gripes stood out to me. You're looking at it from the POV that you're running a your first mini game and the playets should respect that and play your storyline the way it should be played. But they're looking at this as a fun, argely irrelevant break from their main game - kind of like when a tv show does a goofy alternate dimension episode. It's a fun diversion, but has little to no effect on the larger storyline. So they would be expecting their DM to let them have fun.
Frankly, it's the fucking worst when the DM tries to tell you that you're not role playing your own damn character right. Like, excuse me? What is the point of RPing if you can't do what you want to do? Let them justify it however they want, and let their character evolve how they want. If they wrote lawful good on their character sheet and end up RPing chaotic evil (even for just your mini campaign) it doesn't really matter to the game, at all. Rules lawyering alignments is a sure-fire way to piss off your players.
Also, murder hobo-ing is often a sign of the characters being bored of the story. Shoe-horning the story in when the characters are choosing not to look for it is also a good way to piss people off. If you gave them a bunch of super hard encounters I imagine they'd also be not that excited about continuing to explore lest they meet another mini-boss the DM was unwilling to adjust the stats for.
Plus, at the end of everything is it so bad for them to do social RP in a room for two hours if that's what they want and it's not even your campaign? Like, throw in a few bar games, a few sexy wenches/ male patrons, chuck in a barfight they can get into. Think about their character's personalities and play stuff off that. Let them do what they want to with the world you set up. And if that's having fun RPing with their friends, so be it.
Plus, if you're running a side campaign you have a responsibility to not do anything that fucks up the main storyline without the main DM's permission. Which includes not killing characters because your encounters are too hard. If they don't do a whole lot one session, that's practically a plus.
So yeah. Your main DM sounds like a bit of a POS who could have handled it way better. It's only for a few more sessions, anyway. But that doesn't mean their aren't ways you could improve your DMing in the future, either. I probably would have been annoyed and frustrated playing in your campaign. But I certainly wouldn't gave written you a crazy letter about it, and would have accepted that you're still learning.
I hope the rest of your group is less crazy than your DM.
Re: Question thread
And I guess the encounters were hard, but no-one had to make a single death save, so I wouldn't have called them super-hard? Everyone walked away with health left, I think only one character was in any real peril and she was a druid, so her AC was shit anyway. So IDK.
Re: Question thread
(Anonymous) 2019-04-21 04:48 am (UTC)(link)Big, fat, NOPE.
If you follow any major D&D community, stories like this about players like this are extremely commonplace. It's never because they're bored. Some players are just people that want to murderhobo and treat D&D like they would a hack'n'slash video game. Because it's a "game"! That's what they do. They're the heroes so they're automatically the good guys and if the DM tells them they're evil for threatening innocent people, they call the DM a dick for ruining their fun.
If you haven't seen them, this user has posted stories about their group before, and nothing about this group sounds like it's either a good group or a good match for them. When you set up a scenario and the players' idea of RP is to sit there and literally do nothing for hours, there's not much you can do with that. If D&D is a two way story building activity, only one side is doing the building, and the other side accuses them for railroading for it, that's not fair.
Re: Question thread
(Anonymous) 2019-04-21 05:27 am (UTC)(link)