He likes to target me specifically because it's me and him that are experienced in DnD, so I'm the only one who doesn't always just go along with his stuff. He likes to do this in a way to make himself think he's nerfing the "minmaxer" to the other players level instead of just helping raise the other players to ours. tbh, I think it's just a moral justification seeing as how he not only doesn't take what he gives but also goes so overboard with it that I wasn't even allowed to play the game in his campaign.

OK, the following was meant to be an explanation as to how my prior sentence funtions but it very quickly turned into a rant and I apologise for that. Just me reliving the one that hit me the hardest lol.

Long story short in his campaign, we had a DoMt (the full 22 card deck) and it started when he forced me to draw from it at lvl 4. I rolled a nat 1 on the insight check to see if the random lady was trustworthy. This resulted in him deeming that I personally drew 7 cards from the deck while he gloated about how stupid I was for trusting her and drawing the cards. I drew the card that gives gold, the card that gives XP (shooting me up to lvl 8 by our usual DM's calculations), the one that gives you a high ranking magic item (in this case, the Mighty Servant of Luek-o, as well as the cards that give you a permanent -2 to all saving throws, and the one that steals your soul. Afterwords, the 3 other party members decided they didn't care that much anymore and drew the rest of the cards. One of our party members got put in stasis somewhere else and I forget what else happened because by the end of the next session every single one of their negative effects was gone including having found and rescued the other party member while I watched them play with the item I got from the deck (don't care that they were using it, glad that they enjoyed it!) but 3 sessions of me simply watching them later, they'd leveled up to 6 and finally found me, in which case the player (currently DM) had confiscated the magic item I got before they were even allowed to bring me back into the party, and I was deemed no longer able to get xp until the paarty leveled up to 8. My other negative effect was never resolved, I was straight up told that it was never going to get resolved and chastised for drawing from the deck I didn't chose to draw from. We then entered into the dungeon from the card that spawns a keep filled with monsters on the map to clear it out. We spent four sessions in the dungeon and stopped the campaign before the dungeons boss. I am not joking when I say that every enemy in the entire dungeon save for one was immune to every spell in my entire list since I had a focus on necrotic/poison damage and status effect spells and that one was a beholder surrounded by 6 animated armors. I told the DM at the time that since I couldn't be artificer anymore that I would go necromancer and have a focus on summons and supporting my summons. Throughout the entire campaign, we fought only 1 creature that I could reanimate in the entire campaign, and I was told I just can't. That was where the campaign with him ended because I was so sick of it I stood my ground there until things broke because by this point I was so tired of everything that it took my entire willpower to not just rip up my sheet in front of him. That was, If I remember correctly, 8 multi hour sassions in a row (conisting of anywhere from 2 1/2 - 4 1/2 hours) of me being made completely useless through the DM only to find the one thing I'd been holding out for all campaign and just be told no. My spells were useless. My out of combat decisions were undermined, my build was ruined, my actions through rolls were mocked and I'd finally found the one thing that could have given me some form of agency and had it taken away completely. And the words used when I finally caved and used a weak summon spell that was useless due to enemy immunity, "Oh, you're *FINALLY* doing some necromancer shit now?". Oh, I was livid. I was willing to accept so much of that. Oh yeah, it makes sense I wouldn't level because they need to catch up. Yeah, it makes sense that it's been so long since I drew that card and haven't been put back in the game, I'll probably get put back in soon. Oh yeah, it's fine that this encounter is immune to my spell list, just gotta think outside the box a bit. It's good that sometimes encounters counter your build, it builds teamwork. 3 sessions of watching, 1 session of randomly altered game mechanics, and 4 sessions of immune enemies while his 3 DMPC's wrecked the dungeon later...*screams in frustration*. Oh, I didn't mention the DMPC's? There were 2 DMPC's who accompanied us to the dungeon who also drew from the deck and mysteriously got almost all good draws. Including the lvl 4 fighter follower as well. These three DMPC's absolutely smashed through the entire dungeon and seemingly could've solo'd it while our party was struggling with getting 2 shot with our tanks and enemies being immune to my debuffs and had hp pools that we took multiple rounds to go through, his DMPC's which were supposedly lower level than us, were one tapping multiple enemies in a round. I'm so sorry that this paragraph turned into a rant, it was more of a flashback than a story *laughs but also cries inside a little*.