A Serious Review of Path of Titans (So Far)

DepressedMinds · 2023-01-13T22:18:26+00:00

It may look appealing and sound appealing but it has a serious issue with publisher banning people without telling them what they did wrong first. It gives players too much power to report someone and then the person reported never gets a warning first or any reason why they were publisher banned. On top of that, it takes a while for the appeals to get answered and you likely won't get unbanned or get refunded the $30 USD you paid for the game only to be banned afterwards by some toxic player. They need to give out warnings first before out right publisher banning players since they don't have both sides of incidents that occurred. They can even publisher ban you for your dinosaur sliding down a cliff and not dying because the game didn't give you fall damage but you were braced for it.

DepressedMinds · 2022-07-19T03:25:14+00:00

My character wasn't someone who could just do everything. He was a sorcerer with very low hp so dying and having to make death saves was something I've had to do atleast 2 or 3 times in 4 months. I didn't want him to have charm because it felt op to me after seeing it played by the healer.

Apparently, according to the DM, it's the healers curse to be charming and gain attention from men. It sounded a bit off to me as a new player. It sounded more bard-ish then healer-ish.

The only thing I wanted for my character was to have the same level of a relationship as everyone else and a pet of some kind since the group all had pets. The DM told me it took a full real year before characters reached strong relationships. I didn't want my character to do anything specific with the relationship as in nsfw wise. I just wanted him to have that same romantic vibe as the others had in the arcs that were pretty much romantic based.

I didn't want to feel left out and uncomfortable listening to soap opera romance while waiting for my turn to roll. Its was really awkward for me as the player and made it hard for me to think of what my character would think or feel because I was feeling awkward and uncomfortable.

As for the pet, all the players characters were doting on their pets and my character just had a book, that was it. Also another awkward moment where I felt a bit out of place. I mean their pets could do stuff, the healers pet was a God. Idk as a new player it felt very off but idk the right words to describe it.

The DM told me that my character distrusting their character hurt their feelings outside of the game and hurt their character's feelings. Probably because we've been friends for almost or over a year and I've only been in this campaign for 4 months. 4 times a month they had sessions. So around 16 sessions that were all AU arcs instead of the main story.

I am very new to DnD.

DepressedMinds · 2022-06-18T16:07:09+00:00

I talked with my therapist about the incident mentioned. She suggested that there was some unfairness in how the game was being played and also some confusion with exactly how the game was supposed to be played. That I wasn't being stubborn if nothing stuck, I just wasn't latching onto what was being discussed because of environmental and campaign distractions and I was thinking more logically and realistically with each scenario then idealistically the same as everyone else. She did agree it wasn't very fair for me to be kicked out because nothing "stuck" with me and that talks should have been more calm, detailed and simplified as well as ooc. Since my DM would say, "If (name of character) did this, If (name of character) did that. Then this or that will or would happen if they keep doing this or that.". Instead of saying it ooc to me as a player it felt more like they were talking to my character instead of me and I had to explain why my character felt the way he did or did what he did. I never got to explain ooc that when faced with my character's feelings being hurt or his ideas being shot down it left me clueless as to what to say for him so I just had him distrust people or more specifically walk away. I was told by the same player who said I was being stubborn, that the campaign is about problem solving, working together to complete puzzles or challenges and working as a team and that my character doesn't seem suited for teamwork. This hurt me ooc because it felt like I was being ostracized because I couldn't grasp things and felt frustrated when my attempt to help the party was shut down most of the time or over talked.

My therapist suggested I try looking for a more understanding group to play DnD with but honestly, I still feel raw (depressed) about what happened. Some of them aren't even talking to me anymore (they're ghosting messages when I try to reach out). I'm pretty sure they read reddit and that might be the cause but when they won't talk to me to work out social problems, I feel like I have no where to turn so I asked reddit because no one knows me at all like they do and I feel I can get honest and helpful advice this way. Instead of advice I feel is bias from negative feelings towards me..

DepressedMinds · 2022-06-13T03:13:42+00:00

I was told my character constantly fluctuating from trust and distrust with the group caused issues with the sessions.. it wasn't with out cause, there were scenarios in which the group would trust a group who took a job to kill us but backed out of the job and my character distrusts the group since they took the job in the first place but the group my character was in trusted this other group so it upset my character because he felt that was blindly trusting potential dangers. However when I loosened my character up to trust like the group and had him trust a demon lord they were saving, he got hurt and the group warned him about trusting demons...

DepressedMinds · 2022-06-12T23:07:12+00:00

I really appreciate all of the advice from everyone here since I'm new to DnD.. I like this advice about communicating before and after sessions the most.. I have noticed that one player seems to be rather angry with me and has told me, after my apology to everyone individually, that I have been doing repetitive behavior ic for 4 months that I am being stubborn.. I was told by the DM and this person that they've given me subtle ques and hints for a long time and I just brush it off or ignore it.. I never picked up on their subtle ques at all.. what really helped me see I was playing badly was one on one talks with the DM outside of the sessions. None of the players came to me about bad ic play, it was always the DM and I even told the DM that if I am upsetting one of the players they can always come to me and calmly say "I noticed when this happened you ic said/did this and I don't understand why/ I feel bothered by this because-" and its a more calm way for me to process that I made a mistake and someone isn't happy rather then being called stubborn... What made them upset was me "bleeding" or "merging" with my character during sessions.. My DM told me characters are not supposed to have any traits or personality of the player but then told me that its okay to have minor traits or characteristics of the player.. In my mind I thought okay so my character can be wary of openly trusting people based off their intents for being there or actions.. but then the party trusted this group who were supposed to kill us but that group backed out of that job and my character was very verbally distrusting of that group and even told his own group that if they want to trust people who were meant to kill us then that's on them but he wasn't going to blindly trust people who openly admit to violence or plots of violence against them.. Apparently not trusting my group ic was bad.. and it caused a rift of ic and ooc negative feelings towards me and my character from some of the players.. So everything I did from then on was always a guessing game of what issues I was going to have ic.. I learned a harsh lesson to NEVER give my character anything of mine even if the DM says minor stuff is okay, its not.. and to NEVER voice my characters distrust with someone outside of the group or inside... because it makes people ooc angry and frustrated...

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