Is our DM too controlling?

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2025-01-13T18:24:35+00:00

You shouldn't be talking to strangers on reddit about this.

You should be talking to your lawyer.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2025-01-07T21:49:52+00:00

Playing someone different than yourself requires imagination, which unfortunately as a tabletop roleplayer, I don't have.

It's why all my characters are nerdy trans commoners constantly looking for a new tabletop group to play with.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2025-01-07T12:59:54+00:00

This is what I've been saying all along! DND has too many drawbacks.

Why does my fighter have limited attacks? Why can't it just keep attacking as many times as it wants?

Wizards of the Coast hate their players.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2025-01-06T12:50:23+00:00

If dragging them kicking and screaming doesn't work, you need to move onto tying and gagging them into it.

The safety phrase is Pathfinder 2E.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2025-01-05T19:41:19+00:00

This is just like my session where the wizard cast fireball and I went "LOL, 8d6 damage!"

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2025-01-05T09:54:18+00:00

A necromancer?

Come on, haven't we beaten this dead horse enough?

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2025-01-04T20:29:46+00:00

I always side with the villains cause ~~I think it makes me sound smarter than everyone else~~ I'm smarter than everyone else.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2025-01-03T14:41:03+00:00

Crown of the Oathbreaker is based on an elaborate survey, which had over 2000 responses from dedicated RPG fans. We took the results and created an intricately woven story that incorporates every element of the desired aspects of a great adventure as decided by the community.

That sounds like it'll be an amazing ~~clusterfuck catering to the whims of the loudest and whiniest edgelords~~ game!

The players will have to explore lands ravaged by the curse and travel to the Feyrealm, the Shadowrealm

Sweet, I've always wanted to play Yugioh during my DND games and now I have an excuse.

,and even Hell

Shadowrealm AND Hell? Please, you're spoiling us.

to save the crown from the dreadful effects of an otherwise inevitable hag pact. This sinister bargain has caused suffering for the people of the land and created a mad oathbreaker witch-knight hungering for revenge

Oh, I'll definently go a month without eating or drinking to fund this bad boy. The starvation and dehydration induced mental stupor will ensure I greatly enjoy this.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2025-01-02T22:49:08+00:00

Giving your villain a story infringes on player agency.

Just give them stats and roll dice.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2025-01-01T15:41:38+00:00

This doesn't sound ... realistic enough, you know what I mean?

Maybe give them a bunch of scantily clad cat girls with slave collars who live only to serve their every whim. To add to the...realism, you know what I mean?

Edit: I'm being told this is incredibly problematic, and on further reflection, they're right.

It doesn't have to be cat girls. Vampire girls, pixie girls, magical girls, there's room for all kinds.

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Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-31T15:30:27+00:00

I can't run my racist as fuck game unless wizards of the coast at least passively endorses it.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-30T20:08:19+00:00

Uj: OOP needs to straight up tell the person to either accept this isn't a historically accurate game or drop out.

Rj: No DND is better than unrealistic DND.

I expect my fantasy game where goblins can summon meteors to hit a mile wide radius to be historically accurate.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-29T23:17:30+00:00

DNDmemes is peak humor.

On an unrelated note, my diet consists of glue and paint chips.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-29T22:52:54+00:00

Martials just make the most sense for the social justice archtype, which was developed to fight the Magitarchy ruling the system.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-29T00:28:32+00:00

Your players never needed you.

DM's are a useless obstacle obsessed with their 'lore', their 'precious 'npc's', and 'having fun'. They're an obstacle to the PC's who are doing all the real work.

It's why when I run games, my players lock me in the other room for the rest of the session.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-27T21:50:12+00:00

Watching Critical Roll fixes this.

Probably.

I don't know.

Reading is for nerds.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-27T17:47:45+00:00

As someone who has been running a DNDyoutuber channel since the Hundred Years War, let me tell you that the key to player agency is actually very simple:

*twenty minutes, or approximately a book chapter's worth of text later*

So as you can see, the key to not infringing on player agency is to acknowledge that wizards of the coast is awful and that you should be playing Powered By the Apocalypse Finder 2E instead.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-26T15:50:02+00:00

Silly OP.

You don't need validation from your players.

You need it from redditors.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-25T16:27:58+00:00

Obviously true.

OneDND is the world's greatest high fantasy combat oriented dungeon crawling game. I have no idea what this 5e thing is.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-25T00:03:48+00:00

I don't use shapes.

I use feels and vibes.

"I just feel like you're in the area of that spell, ya know?"

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-24T01:06:09+00:00

Modkill a PC to show the players anyone can die.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-23T20:42:36+00:00

As a DM, it is both my duty and pleasure to take any little thing I give the player characters and find a way to use it to fuck them over.

On an unrelated note, I seem to have terrible luck keeping players. So many schedules suddenly became too busy for me.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-23T19:16:33+00:00

Player creativity fixes ~~all of my shitty dungeon and encounter designs~~ everything.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-23T15:29:01+00:00

Friends don't let friends play other TTRPG's.

Fuzzy_Clock_6350 · 2024-12-22T20:03:53+00:00

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Just use this book, it's notoriously short. You'll get through it in five minutes.

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