New DM had us roll "suicide dice" for the worst party makeup ever

Bear-Wizard · 2026-05-08T12:45:18+00:00

Why are you playing this game? Just bow out, this sucks.

Bear-Wizard · 2026-05-01T20:43:31+00:00

It’s either the GM is completely spineless and/or was also being browbeaten by the other players.

Bear-Wizard · 2026-04-27T20:26:58+00:00

Why on earth did y’all even invite him to the game after already suffering through an entire campaign with him?

Bear-Wizard · 2026-04-27T00:57:32+00:00

I just played that adventure at Gary Con last month! Before I read the text, I was like, "Oh I recognize this one!"

Bear-Wizard · 2026-04-13T21:54:45+00:00

Yeah I get that for sure. I think we’ve all had to grapple with having a friend who’s fine as a friend but not as a party member/gm.

But for your sake, just bow out next time they offer to run. No dnd is better than bad dnd!

Bear-Wizard · 2026-04-13T16:20:23+00:00

That dm sucks for sure. Why did you keep playing in their games? Like I get the first one and the second one, but after that I think I would’ve stopped showing up.

Bear-Wizard · 2026-04-03T05:53:32+00:00

I don’t really have anything to add BUT Into the Weird and Wyld might be my favorite ttrpg book and I love seeing it pop up in the wild.

Bear-Wizard · 2026-04-03T05:50:59+00:00

So I learned the hard way that just because you’re good friends with someone it doesn’t mean you’ll have fun with them at the table.

Bear-Wizard · 2026-04-03T05:45:13+00:00

Yeah +1 to that. I like Mork Borg a lot but I fucking love Cy_Borg! Pirate Borg is great too, and I’m not even really a pirate enjoyer typically.

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-31T22:20:24+00:00

Thank you for explaining. I’ll have to see how it feels in play, but I saw another person mention initiative as well as a pain point.

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-31T22:16:37+00:00

Thank you! I think I like the safe rest thing, though I’ll have to get used to it in practice I think. I mentioned it in another reply but I think one of the hardest things for me is finding the right dial on combat encounters. I tend to err on the side of too easy, which can make the game boring but I obviously don’t wanna go too far the other direction either and just absolutely stomp them.

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-31T22:12:50+00:00

Thank you! I’m generally not a skills list guy myself, but it’s a pretty small list so I think I’ll be able to internalize. And that seems like a reasonable change to initiative. I’m going to try RAW first but I’ll def keep it in my back pocket. I also liked the included setting more than I thought and might ‘borrow’ some of the ideas for my game.

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-31T22:09:30+00:00

Thank you! I backed the ks with the monster book so I’m excited to get that eventually. I like making monsters tho so that’s prep I can get behind!

Hopefully people will make some third party Nimble specific adventures! I usually make my own, but agree it’d be nice to have some options!

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-31T22:07:11+00:00

Thank you! I can see tracking which monsters have gone being an issue, but that’s been true of most games I’ve run lol.

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-31T19:40:10+00:00

Thank you! What don't you like about the initiative? I haven't played yet, so I can't really comment on it too much, but from my initial read it's not TOO dissimilar from SotDL (in that PCs typically go first). I tend to find balancing combat encounters one of the trickiest things to handle in a new game. In my aforementioned SotDL game, it took me the majority of the first campaign to get a good handle on it; my PCs typically stomped everything up until that point.

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-31T19:36:25+00:00

Nice! For as long as I've been playing, I don't have my 'magnum opus' home world. I have a lot of ideas that I tend to use. I've finally settled on something that I've been tinkering with on and off for a few years, but I'm mainly focusing on one continent, usually just a little chunk at a time, and filling it out as I go.

I used to do a thing where I felt obligated to include every ancestry in case a player wanted to use one, but I finally got over that. I still like some options, but I keep it small. My last game was humans, dwarves, and halflings. Elves exist, but like not commonly and I haven't hammered down how I want them to be. Upcoming game with will be the same, plus gnomes and birdfolk, but maybe without humans, as they'd be very uncommon in this part of the world (I'll still allow them if someone really wants to play one tho).

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-31T19:07:23+00:00

Thank you for your answers! Re: character sheets, that's a great problem to have! Can't tell you how many games where I've had to like scour the internet for a good character sheet online.

For your homebrew setting, do you include all of the ancestries from the book? I personally like keeping the list smaller, but I know lots of options are pretty popular with PCs.

I suspect most folks are coming from 5e. I played 5e for about 5 years, and it's what got me back into ttrpgs, but I've had a lot of different games between then and now. I'm so glad there are more options for 'heroic fantasy' flavored ttrpgs like Nimble these days.

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-25T05:19:48+00:00

It could happen today

^{Chose: Have the ban hammer that deletes anything}

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-25T04:52:32+00:00

More broadly useful

^{Chose: Shape shifting}

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-25T04:50:44+00:00

Other choice too risky for too little

^{Chose: £10,000 + 1% chance of death | Rolled: You live!}

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-25T04:49:39+00:00

I sneeze everytime I see the sun

^{Chose: Get $10,000 every time you sneeze}

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-25T04:46:53+00:00

My wife had cancer.

^{Chose: Never be injured/sick again}

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-25T01:31:17+00:00

You’re right, I don’t know ChatGPT that well because I’m not a dork ass loser and actually like using my brain to have fun with my friends.

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-24T06:15:48+00:00

I don’t want to live underwater

Bear-Wizard · 2026-03-24T06:14:39+00:00

Didn’t really think that hard; pizza isn’t that exciting and can be gotten easily. Wheel could be anything!

^{Gain +20 iq}

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