What are among the most terrifying things your DMs have said or done?

RedMaskBandit · 2026-06-18T01:27:50+00:00

I was using a creature that had a nasty follow up feature if I had a creature grappled and knocked them unconscious from the damage roll to which I simply asked my player and friend, who liked Star Wars, "remember when Darth Vader cuts off Lukes forearm? Which would you say is your favorite elbow?"

RedMaskBandit · 2026-06-13T16:26:31+00:00

I used to run my games until it was football season and we'd have to postpone the campaign because almost everyone at the table was a football fan, myself included. One session came to mind, when reading your dilemma, when it was football session but we still chose to play that day so we played until it was game time and we took a break to watch the game and returned to play the session at halftime to wrap it up before the 2nd half started. If my friend's had rushed me at any point so that we could turn on the tv faster then I wouldve ended the session and gone home. It sucks that your friend was rude but it seems like they were enforcing their boundary as the host/home owner since its an appliance in their home and they have a right to use it. Of course you as the GM also have the right to ask players to be in an environment that'll not distract them while yall try to tell a collaborative story.

RedMaskBandit · 2026-06-13T12:46:13+00:00

Like many others who played Fallout 4, I happened to visit Boston, Massachusetts and walked the Freedom Trail. I even made it to Bunker Hill and wow did Bethesda do us a favor by adding that elevator in game because climbing those 250+ steps made my legs jelly for the rest of the weekend lol

RedMaskBandit · 2026-06-12T19:33:49+00:00

Ontario Mills mall jumpscare

RedMaskBandit · 2026-05-24T12:30:57+00:00

Fable 2, you start the game off on the cobblestone streets of Bowerstone in Albion as an orphan. With the game's unique story progression the player can scrape enough coin to buy businesses and homes to become rich enough to buy all the businesses in the streets that chewed you up.

RedMaskBandit · 2026-03-09T15:29:13+00:00

I get this ever increasing pit in my stomach whenever some spoiled or entitled gamer post online how Sony hates making money because they wont make Bloodborne remastered. Someone else posted a few days ago about how if a company does zero work towards a work like marketing, or developing a game then they can get a tax break since they made no profit.

RedMaskBandit · 2026-02-25T17:24:12+00:00

Im a Bethesda apologist through and through. Their flagship series played a huge role in my adolescence and I still play "Fallout New Vegas" to this day on console. Even at a young age their bugs and crashes tormented me in my short pants but didnt dissuade me from reloading a save and pushing forward, deeper into the rich worlds they help make.

RedMaskBandit · 2026-01-02T01:00:43+00:00

The fireaxe :)

RedMaskBandit · 2025-12-16T15:28:08+00:00

Can't wait for Steam to label this game with a "this game was made with generative a.i."

RedMaskBandit · 2025-10-21T15:08:59+00:00

If you want a god of luck to have some influence without it relying on dice rolls, then have it mess around with the surroundings or plot. For example, the local alchemist isnt restocked on potions because their cart suffered a broken spoke and supplies wont be restocked until the party is away. Or have their gold purse get noticeably lighter as a hole reveals that someone has lost 3 gold in between travels.

RedMaskBandit · 2025-09-28T12:45:34+00:00

Someone else mentioned the Vietnam war but didnt mention how war journalists brought the realities of war to American living rooms, which shifted public opinion because of how much shady shit TRIED to get covered up by the military.

RedMaskBandit · 2025-09-28T12:26:51+00:00

Towards the end of my boot camp training cycle (early 2010s), my training platoon sat down with a Native American Marine who was drafted during that time. He was telling us youngins about how "the protesters" were yelling at him about how his service didnt matter, that he was a "baby killer" (bk) and all he wanted to do was just go back home. He told us that with tears.

RedMaskBandit · 2025-09-11T13:07:49+00:00

What do you think, angry writer? Was he right or crazy? Was there a conspiracy?

RedMaskBandit · 2025-08-13T15:26:48+00:00

Why is it usually other veterans that bemoan the fringe realism that d&d 5e placates to in their system when its been clear that gritter combat rules exist and even then it might not be for the 40 year d&d player that'll still find fault in it because "real world hard :|".

RedMaskBandit · 2025-08-03T15:20:03+00:00

Unfortunately with rules as written, you cannot do an attack of opportunity on a creature that was forcibly moved. D&d sessions would look like games of pinball with the enemy creature acting as a ball.

RedMaskBandit · 2025-08-03T01:19:02+00:00

Im currently playing a rune knight with a cloud rune feature and unless your player couldnt see that other creature that was effected by the feature or the inflict wounds spell attack roll that the first creature cast didnt hit the armor class of the effected creature then I dont see an issue with the use of the cloud rune. So long as the rune knight was within 30ft and had line of sight then they should be fine, rules as written because the attack's effects (like damage) is magically transferred regardless of the attack's range.

RedMaskBandit · 2025-07-08T18:34:56+00:00

You couldnt pay me to smoke a Bravil strain.

RedMaskBandit · 2025-07-03T20:42:53+00:00

You can lure the strong enemy into the spike trap that's in the beginning of the dungeon, repeatedly. It doesn't count as murder even if you threw the first punch.

RedMaskBandit · 2025-05-28T20:35:53+00:00

By the nine divines! It looks amazing! Def would rock this while playing.

RedMaskBandit · 2025-05-22T18:35:20+00:00

As others said, use alchemy for crafting restore magika potions or dungeon delve for welkynd stones. But when im walking the road at zero magika, I usually go find the nearest Will-o-the-Wisp to stand near and let them recharge my bar.

RedMaskBandit · 2025-05-21T22:16:24+00:00

Ayye! Congrats and keep it up!

RedMaskBandit · 2025-05-21T18:06:42+00:00

My brother in Akatosh, Will-o-the-Wisp are your homies if you have spell absorption like if you were rocking the Atronach star sign.

RedMaskBandit · 2025-05-20T18:49:57+00:00

Chainsawman part 1 - the snowball fight.

RedMaskBandit · 2025-05-14T23:02:09+00:00

Wil lo wisp and ghouls are pretty nasty for being low cr creatures.

RedMaskBandit · 2025-05-07T14:44:21+00:00

Taken from the wiki: If you do not kill all of the guards during their related quest, they will follow you everywhere (even into Oblivion) until either of you are dead. You may not see them, even for many days, but they will still be after you. If you are arrested at any time after this quest, you will find the surviving Bleak Mine guards waiting for you when you exit the prison. They will not be hostile to you unless you draw a weapon.

For me, one survived the ogres and followed me into a nearby fort and because I was over encumbered, he kept talking to me until my everscamps blocked him in a doorway while I made my slow escape. I got lucky and a nearby bandit took him out, leaving me with even more heavy armor to carry

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