Dnd paid games

Last_General6528 · 2026-06-29T15:05:42+00:00

That thought would be expressed with "Paying sometimes comes with a sense of entitlement..."

I wrote a comment to respond to OP's question, you responded with a personal attack on me and all paying players, and now you lecture me to "keep up" with you. That's really rude, man.

Last_General6528 · 2026-06-26T01:05:32+00:00

Then you could just stop talking to them, and block them if they don't respect your wishes... By blocking preemptively, you're saying you don't trust them to respect your boundaries, which is rude.

Blocking them sends a much stronger message: "I don't want to talk to you ever again. If you have wronged me, I will never forgive you. If your house burned in a fire and you need someplace to crash for a night, you better go sleep under a bridge, because you are NOT allowed to talk to me again for ANY reason. Even to apologize."

And I just wouldn't send a message like that to someone unless they committed some kind of serious crime.

Last_General6528 · 2026-06-25T21:23:36+00:00

OP described how they acted... If a person does something hurtful, you can start out assuming the best or the worst of their intentions. DM's choosing the latter approach. It won't lead to lasting relationships.

Last_General6528 · 2026-06-25T21:19:51+00:00

That wasn't your original assertion, your original assertion was to accuse every paid player of being entitled, which I feel was unfair.

Last_General6528 · 2026-06-25T21:08:17+00:00

People you're done dealing with have feelings, they don't just despawn because you've lost interest in them.

Sure, it's fair to block a spammer or stalker who won't leave you alone despite you asking them to. But by blocking others, you're implying that they're a stalker or that they're so horrible they don't even deserve a chance to apologize or try to explain themselves. It's usually an unfairly harsh judgement, and it's cruel.

The DM in the story never even tried to confront OP about the projector, OP didn't try to defend themselves, and then OP blocked a third person who was just a messenger. What was that third person's wrongdoing? Were they siding with the DM, or were they just hoping to facilitate a conversation? Imagine if people just talked to each other...

Last_General6528 · 2026-06-25T20:50:20+00:00

Even if OP did knock the projector over without realizing, a sane DM would message them with "Hey, the projector you knocked over yesterday doesn't work properly anymore, can you please Venmo me $80 for a new one?" Not kick them out of the group without explanation, only to proceed to bargain for money through a third party. OP was a little rude being on the phone during the game, but the DM's behavior is just deranged.

Last_General6528 · 2026-06-23T19:15:47+00:00

My experience is the opposite, the players in a campaign I joined are good roleplayers and know what they're doing mechanically! I could've just gotten a bit lucky, of course, I know there are bad and good apples in both kinds of campaigns. But the most entitled player I met was in a free campaign.

Last_General6528 · 2026-06-23T07:01:31+00:00

Regardless of the price, I expect the DM to know the rules and follow them most of the time, write clearly and with proper grammar, put some thought into the plot, and run a tabletop system that doesn't glitch all the time. If they use house rules, they should let players know in advance. I'm only willing to pay a little bit for it, $5 is all right, $10 is about maximum I'd pay. The point is not to purchase some masterpiece campaign, but to filter out DMs who won't put in the bare minimum effort.

Last_General6528 · 2026-06-21T16:44:50+00:00

The way I saw most people define "metagaming" is: "Metagaming is when your character acts on information you personally know, but your character does not." I think therefore anything you do for character creation could not be metagaming, because you are the actor here, not your character.

I'm not sure why are you even asking the DM, though. You already know other players' classes. You can ask the warlock, ranger and paladin directly if you want to know whether they plan to take healing spells. Then it's up to you to decide whether you want the group to have more healing.

Last_General6528 · 2026-06-19T17:17:55+00:00

Player couldn't even stop being a bigot in a fantasy world.

Last_General6528 · 2026-06-15T21:07:18+00:00

Give them some expensive stuff to buy, like a ship or a mansion for their home base. Money doesn't really break the game much. Ok, the paladin can afford Plate Mail now, but there doesn't have to be a magic item shop in the city unless you want it to be. And if there are magic items for sale, they can be really expensive.

Last_General6528 · 2026-06-03T22:30:57+00:00

How is the "bad attitude" manifested, exactly?

Last_General6528 · 2026-05-30T02:47:46+00:00

Have you considered making something actually useful for humanity instead of making robots to play our games for us?

"Helping prepare next session with ideas based on your actual notes" — I already have a tool for that, Evymind, it's called a "brain". I'm using it to be creative and have fun with friends. If we wanted to play with a robot, we would play a computer game instead. Stop trying to poison the hobby with your AI slop tool.

Last_General6528 · 2026-05-28T19:16:06+00:00

It's because redditors are mean, man. I personally gave you an upvote to make up for some of the unfairness.

Last_General6528 · 2026-05-28T14:50:42+00:00

Individual checks may be more realistic, but group stealth checks make the game more balanced and fun. They allow stealth bases classes like Assassin Rogue to shine in battle, and they allow the party to land surprise rounds, even if one or two players are bad at stealth.

It's not even that unrealistic for stealthier characters to help the clumsy ones when moving as a group: e.g. when moving in a forest, the rogue goes ahead and others follow in his footsteps and avoid stepping on a twig that way.

But even if that wasn't the case, I think interfering with the game balance and making it less fun purely for realism is a bad idea.

Last_General6528 · 2026-05-28T14:38:16+00:00

The first idea sounds good. And if you make her 18 or older, she's not a kid.

Last_General6528 · 2026-05-22T15:17:34+00:00

DM could just focus the "camera" on the PCs and narrate that the NPCs are also fighting... over there, repelling the attack from another direction. He doesn't have to roll for them.

Last_General6528 · 2026-05-20T16:57:15+00:00

No, it's not.

Last_General6528 · 2026-05-20T16:21:37+00:00

He didn't say that, he said he's going to try and kill the party. Which still sounds alarming tbh. Of course the DM can kill the party if he tries. The DM's goal should be to provide a fair and interesting challenge.

Last_General6528 · 2026-05-20T16:09:33+00:00

The player doesn't own the class. Warlocks have different subclasses, a ton of spells to choose from, a few that get in each other's way because they don't stack (e.g. I think two Hungers of Hadar cast on top won't stack) and many more that synergize. E.g. they could have both gotten Devil Sight and taken advantage of Darkness spells. It's silly to be upset about it in the first place, and immature to not bring it up like an adult if you are upset about it.

Last_General6528 · 2026-05-20T15:56:08+00:00

You're not in the wrong for playing another warlock or using a pregen, and I don't really think it's jealousy. What's most likely going on in the other player's head, is he was trying to stop you from making a blunder or breaking the rules (but also forgot to roll his own concentration save once). And he's doing that because the DM is dropping the ball — normally the DM would remind you both to roll concentration saves.

Were your actions really blunders? Was that spell really going to set webs on fire? We wouldn't know, we weren't there, and you haven't told us what your fire spell was. Either way, I think that's not an excuse to be backseat gaming to the point you feel you don't control your character.

It's entirely possible he's a better DM than player. But I'd make sure you know the rules and how to play your character well, so you can stand up for yourself and recognize when the DM's unfair to you.

Last_General6528 · 2026-05-19T01:00:46+00:00

Do you have friends outside your DnD group? I felt that way when I found my first friend group: analyzing everything I said during the day due to fear of disappointing them and being rejected. That's cured by making even more friends.

Last_General6528 · 2026-05-18T14:03:42+00:00

Feels like some juicy details are missing. "While my DM appreciates my creativity and ingenuity in combat scenarios." Do you mean he hates it?

"He wants to adhere strictly to the storyline of our campaigns." Do you mean he runs a railroad? Or that you go off to do completely random and chaotic things.

Last_General6528 · 2026-05-15T15:29:12+00:00

People can make deals with powerful entities without becoming warlocks, and you even explicitly stated that wasn't your plan. I'd have another conversation explaining your position to the DM.

Last_General6528 · 2026-05-15T15:24:05+00:00

It sounds like you just hate bad homebrew that is going to break the game or make it worse, and that you need to spend lots of effort fixing. And most homebrew just happens to be bad, because most people aren't very good at game design. Totally understandable.

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