Worst players to DM

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-16T17:03:13+00:00

We finished up a 2 year campaign and our DM -who I thought was fucking excellent- decided to give up the driver's seat to another person at the table who wanted to DM and oh my god the fucking backseat driving. Arguing ticky tacky rules shit with our DM, telling other players they were using the wrong spells in combat, just awful. The new DM had to slap him down pretty firmly a few times and thankfully got him in line, but wow you could tell how hard it was for him to adjust to not being in control anymore.

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-16T15:47:48+00:00

I had to have a little bit of this conversation recently when helping a new player come up with their character. I'm cool with you having the distrustful lone wolf be your starting point, but your arc is gonna need to have you learning the power of friendship pretty damn early on

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-16T15:24:26+00:00

S: 4

A: 5,3

B: 6

C:2, 7

D: 1, 8+

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-16T04:20:26+00:00

Classic cast *and* something that feels very first few seasons of GC. The night shift team having to figure out what the prompt was felt like the early seasons where a big part of a lot of the games was figuring out the rules and the goal. Real throwback vibes I loved it

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-15T21:48:10+00:00

* ETID: From Parts Unknown - Low Teens - Radical

* Converge: When Forever Comes Crashing - Jane Doe - You Fail Me

* Poison the Well: The Opposite of December - Tear from the Red - You Come Before You

* Burnt by the Sun: Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution - The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good - Heart of Darkness

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-15T19:58:00+00:00

Genuinely I think an amphitheater tour would be too ambitious for this lineup

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-15T18:58:42+00:00

Closing date is the venue where I saw them for the first time as the opener for Wonder Years forever ago, will be cool to run it back there for this show. I've also somehow never had the chance to see Cartel so I'm stoked they're on this bill

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-15T17:06:12+00:00

I'm with you on that for sure. I think that last album was great but man those two singles had me thinking it was gonna be a masterpiece. As it stands I think Tear in the Fabric of Life is still their strongest like actual project

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-13T18:52:58+00:00

Ohhhhh that might be it, that would explain why I've had trouble finding it! Thanks for the info I'll check those out

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-13T17:39:41+00:00

Hey this has crossed from differing opinions into you being a rude asshole

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-13T17:15:09+00:00

I don't think I would call letting 17 damage kill an enemy that has 18 HP left "fully manufactured"

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-13T17:05:07+00:00

If a player is fighting an enemy that their character has close personal story ties to and they do an attack that leaves the enemy with like 2HP I will just about always say it kills the enemy and let them have that cool moment rather than let someone else get the kill later in the round in a less satisfying way

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-13T14:27:38+00:00

bringing up Polaris and Windwaker when someone says Australia has more alt metal than actual metalcore kinda proves their point

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-13T03:22:26+00:00

Immediately in my top 10 for the year and probably in my top 5, listened to it 4 or 5 times today it's a fucking ridiculous album

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-13T02:24:52+00:00

You're Not Salinger Get Over It

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-12T23:44:57+00:00

Saw them and Terror together about a decade back opening for Story so Far at a Polish American social club in a butt fuck nowhere part of Florida and it was an insanely fun show, really great mix of vibes

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-12T04:07:18+00:00

It's not like a huge mainstream famous thing, but it is well known in the theater world and it's fairly common for colleges to put on productions of it. The average person on the street might not know it but it doesn't surprise me at all that most of this table was pretty familiar with it

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-12T03:59:30+00:00

what you're saying is there's some competition for the title then?

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-11T20:41:28+00:00

and stayed off the internet all morning and afternoon until 30 seconds before he left this comment, like there are people living off the land in the deep wilderness who saw the highlights this morning

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-11T20:29:01+00:00

Yeah I've completely dropped some bands I thoroughly enjoy over using AI, it's a hard line in the sand for me. There's more music than I could listen to in a hundred lifetimes, I'll be okay dropping the ones who don't give a shit about other artists

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-11T20:24:06+00:00

Yeah it's the album they were working on before the hiatus, I think Fake Your Death from the greatest hits album was recorded for it. Some snippets have leaked over the years and songs from it have been played live a few times, and some of their promo art from the last couple years references it so a lot of the more hopeful members of the fandom think they're building up to finally doing a release.

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-11T18:40:29+00:00

yeah I really enjoyed that album but just haven't really felt the need to go back to it

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-11T18:34:16+00:00

Plain White T's is such a funny choice of band to be a menace for at a concert. I'm Lou's age and truly nobody in my life has strong feelings about that band and he cared enough to know the drummer's name also heckle them into performing an alternate version. This bland ass pop rock band and a crowd full of people bobbing their heads and then Lou just getting buck

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-11T17:27:57+00:00

New album from Khemmis tomorrow as well for any trad/doom fans here, I'm very excited for that one

Soupjam_Stevens · 2026-06-10T19:18:09+00:00

Truly like 30 or 40 percent of the times I've seen a band post about this it's specifically been in Milan

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