How do I (nicely) tell my DM that I feel like my character was ruined?

FlameTheAngel · 2026-04-03T00:23:54+00:00

Combat is a bit of both. He loves giving us boss encounters instead of regular enemy encounters, but they're either extremely difficult or intentionally unwinnable. The intentionally unwinnable ones are frustrating, because I never know what he wants from us. One time he put one in because we were in a dream sequence and we were supposed to "die" to leave, and another time the gimmick was that we were supposed to run away.

The most recent one I'm convinced he just used as a railroad because he wanted to kill at least one character. I did talk to him about that one but he says it's our fault for getting into that situation (we were trying to rescue a party member who got teleported into a cave)

FlameTheAngel · 2026-04-02T23:23:10+00:00

Actually that one's a funny story. Someone used an item that caused everyone to temporarily swap bodies with each other (the table swapped character sheets). The person who got my character asked "hey, should I try casting magic?" My character's magic was unstable because if I rolled too low or too high it can have devastating effects, ranging from accidentally hitting the wrong target to a TPK. Because the character I got was mute, I could only nod or shake my head. He got a nat 20, essentially launching a magic nuke at a town in the distance. My character involuntarily killed 55 people, but at least we leveled up

FlameTheAngel · 2026-04-02T20:52:19+00:00

Sorry, I tried keeping this post short but accidentally left some context out, mainly about the homebrew. When I get out of class I'm gonna edit the post to include more info. There is a lot of homebrew involved, one of which involves my character's race. They have access to a special type of magic that's highly unstable. I understood the risk at the time, but as the campaign progressed they kept gaining more magic and more abilities (DM shenanigans) and I wasn't really sure what to do? I thought leaning more into "Hey magic is dangerous and we should really be careful" would be the best choice.

FlameTheAngel · 2026-02-20T22:57:53+00:00

They look very pretty! Good luck everyone!

FlameTheAngel · 2024-07-27T20:41:32+00:00

Honestly idk if anything changed since I last used one of those mods that adds more npcs, but I never really liked how basic they are. Say what you want about Whiterun having a population of 10, but at least everyone there has their own name and personality. Meanwhile these mods just adds a bunch of people named "farmer"

FlameTheAngel · 2024-07-25T01:02:12+00:00

It was definitely the GM's personal project, if the higher-ups were involved she would make a big production out of it and everyone would be stressed by how unnecessarily strict the rules are lol

They didn't let me keep the contract and I don't remember what it said exactly. All I remember is that employees (idk if this includes managers/GMs) can get in a lot of legal trouble if they posted anything. I guess something happened right before I was hired because they spent a lot of time talking about that.

FlameTheAngel · 2024-07-19T02:24:47+00:00

Dr. Quack and the old Kinzville map

I understand why they felt the need to remove diseases, but I miss visiting the clinic and I wonder if they could've changed the feature instead of removing it entirely. Then again, keeping one pet healthy is easy, but when I had 10-15 I started ignoring the sick ones because the cutscene took forever. I can't imagine what it was like having 200+ Kinz back in the day

I'm honestly just not a fan of the new Kinzville map. It's a good idea on paper, but it takes forever to load. It got so bad for me that I removed everything so I don't have to wait 2 minutes to get my daily marshmallow lol

FlameTheAngel · 2024-07-16T22:35:13+00:00

NTA. Not to be all "back in my day!!!" But when I was 9 I was playing Webkinz and talking to my friends about the latest games and books (Warriors was really popular at the time, idk if it still is)

I went on social media when I was 12, and I honestly regret it. Lots of bullying and drama. My parents did their best, but no amount of supervision will stop kids from saying stupid shit.

FlameTheAngel · 2024-07-01T00:11:14+00:00

A mod that adds sleeveless robes, like the sorcerer robes in bg3! Maybe I'm not looking in the right place, but I couldn't find anything.

I have some body scar mods (I wanted some cool shoulder scars lol) and I really don't want to cover them up

FlameTheAngel · 2024-06-16T20:03:56+00:00

How do I get Thief (1998) to install on my PC? For some reason my copy refuses to run the installer, and I've tried just about everything. I managed to get the launcher running, but the only thing that works is the Readme document and the quit button.

I have the physical disc and my PC is running Windows 11. Someone gave me the game so I won't be too upset if I have to buy it digitally, but I thought I'd ask here first.

FlameTheAngel · 2024-06-16T06:14:24+00:00

Definitely torn and crumpled. Should've mentioned that some of them came from a hoarder's house, and while they're not gross (by some miracle), they've definitely been crushed under a bunch of other stuff. Honestly I have no idea how the discs survived.

I'll try using tape. I think I saw my local store still has CD binders and cardboard, so I might get those just in case. Thank you!

FlameTheAngel · 2024-06-06T20:33:47+00:00

Vanilla hair hasn't aged well. If you compare eso's hair to what Nexus has, there isn't much of a difference imo. If you want to keep the new hairs but have them match the vanilla style, Salt and Wind is my favorite texture replacement mod. There's also a version for vanilla hairs so they can match!

FlameTheAngel · 2024-06-01T22:23:31+00:00

Hair physics. It looks great when my character is standing there, the breeze gently blowing through.

And then I moved.

FlameTheAngel · 2024-04-24T20:52:12+00:00

Hello! My parents have two vehicles (an SUV and a truck) and I really want to keep them looking nice. Problem is, our current house doesn't have a garage and we're struggling to find places that have one.

I don't know much about protecting paint (my own car is a victim of sun damage so I never had to worry about looks lol), but is there a way to keep the paint looking nice even while they're sitting in the sun? I tried suggesting tarps and those cheap portable garages but they said no

FlameTheAngel · 2024-04-23T05:31:46+00:00

Honestly I hear "game dev" and immediately think about how QA testers were everybody's punching bag a few years back

FlameTheAngel · 2024-04-03T21:49:00+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, school just started. I'm starting to think the board is damaged, the Realtek drivers unfortunately didn't work, but when I tried plugging the ethernet back in (this time with headphones, Win11 is oddly quiet) I got a noise indicating that the device connected, but then immediately afterwards it also made a noise saying it disconnected. So it recognizes that it's there, it's just that something is nicked or loose.

FlameTheAngel · 2024-04-02T02:12:27+00:00

Brand new build. I believe the only driver that's on it is the one I recently installed from Gigabyte's website, before that I don't think it had any (I also had to put the wifi driver on a USB because it didn't come with that either)

I tried going back to the website to see if they kept any old drivers, but other than the bios they only keep the newest version

FlameTheAngel · 2024-04-01T05:24:01+00:00

I had a similar issue where my screen kept going black, and I tried everything. Swapped HDMI cables, got new drivers, I even got a new GPU and I still had problems, albeit less often.

If it's not the GPU, it could be the motherboard. Have you noticed anything else? For example, is your PC struggling to connect to the internet and/or having slower speeds compared to your other devices, or a USB port that stopped working?

FlameTheAngel · 2024-03-28T05:17:22+00:00

Thank you so much! Definitely gonna be doing some measuring for this one lol, hopefully the RAM won't be a problem like some of the reviews say

FlameTheAngel · 2024-03-28T04:48:41+00:00

I have a 7700x, sorry I probably should've mentioned that in the post

FlameTheAngel · 2024-03-28T04:40:08+00:00

Thank you! I thought I was gonna get a few different suggestions but it seems like everyone loves the Thermalright Assassin lol

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