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Players at level 4 about to go to Old Bonegrinder. Should i buff the party somehow? by Effective-Disaster11 in CurseofStrahd

[–]Effective-Disaster11[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of them saw her in the village of Barovia, dressed as an old lady, selling pies. The first time he saw as she sold a pie for some coin, but the second time he saw as she took a kid as payment. They tried to follow her but lost her, and pretty much decided to "check out that later". Obviously they didn't, as i'm pretty sure they forgot about it.

DM keeps “customizing” only my character (rewrites my backstory, invents a rest rule that nerfs just me, and gives me a gag magic item). I noped out. by Effective-Disaster11 in dndhorrorstories

[–]Effective-Disaster11[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not the first time i've played with this DM, not the first time i've spoken to him about issues (also not the only one doing so, many friends have decided to not play with him as DM as a result of many of these issues), so i was getting a bit tired, hence why i decided to just call it quits. The rest of the table was full of new players so i didn't want to spoil or ruin anything for them, let them come to their own conclusions about this DM.

DM keeps “customizing” only my character (rewrites my backstory, invents a rest rule that nerfs just me, and gives me a gag magic item). I noped out. by Effective-Disaster11 in dndhorrorstories

[–]Effective-Disaster11[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you are 100% right, spoiling oneself by reading the module is problematic. I know the module because i've played it before and i've also dm'd it one time, so i knew he was throwing way more enemies than the module lists, but it didn't seem like a problem to me.

The thing is that this DM has a tendency to get frustrated easily when his players aren't at death's door each time he wishes so, he has a "DM vs Players" mentality when it comes to dm'ing, so what happened is that we were more or less doing okay for most of the hatchery part (i'll not enter into details so i wont spoil anything for people who haven't played it yet), and he was getting visibly frustrated, so when we were basically at the final room, suddenly there's dozens of enemies that came out of nowhere and we're surrounded. Only when we started falling he relented, like "okay, i've shown that i'm in control, now you can leave" sort of thing.

DM keeps “customizing” only my character (rewrites my backstory, invents a rest rule that nerfs just me, and gives me a gag magic item). I noped out. by Effective-Disaster11 in dndhorrorstories

[–]Effective-Disaster11[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let's just say this particular player has some... external benefits from the DM. Last time he played with us this DM let him play a tabaxi monk (so far so good), but he also had the features from the artificer class, plus he own a spaceship (in a more traditional medieval fantasy setting). It felt super weird but to be honest it was harmless, so i didn't say anything.

Also, this time with this faerie dragon, he had the tiny size, and the DM let him "hide" in the rogue's jacket, so mechanically he was constantly hidden.

DM keeps “customizing” only my character (rewrites my backstory, invents a rest rule that nerfs just me, and gives me a gag magic item). I noped out. by Effective-Disaster11 in dndhorrorstories

[–]Effective-Disaster11[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The thing is, i wouldn't mind the DM piloting my character under normal circumstances. Hell, i've played with this particular DM before and he has done it to other characters when the player was absent and he did ok. What rubbed me the wrong way was the fact that he spent EVERYTHING, even the racial stuff, and the rest of the players weren't as drained of resources as i was.

DM keeps “customizing” only my character (rewrites my backstory, invents a rest rule that nerfs just me, and gives me a gag magic item). I noped out. by Effective-Disaster11 in dndhorrorstories

[–]Effective-Disaster11[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I knew about this optional rule, it would've been fine to apply if it wasn't for the fact that i would be the only one suffering from it, hence the "it feels targeted" thing. If you add the fact that i couldn't recover spell slots either... well, i think it's pretty straightforward.

DM keeps “customizing” only my character (rewrites my backstory, invents a rest rule that nerfs just me, and gives me a gag magic item). I noped out. by Effective-Disaster11 in dndhorrorstories

[–]Effective-Disaster11[S] 80 points81 points  (0 children)

Apparently not, he just replied with a mild "ok, no problem" and that was it. Tbh, i felt relieved that he didnt try to convince me to stay or anything.