D&D Players, Tell us about the time THAT GUY freaked out over nothing!
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2024
- If you’ve been playing TTRPGs for very long, it’s likely you’ve met… That Guy. Hell, it’s probably That Guy was in your first, or one of your first, DND parties. For those of you who share my pain… know I weep for you, and our support group meets on Sundays. Still, despite how obnoxious they are, we can still remember them at laugh at their dumb asses. So, those of you who witnessed some idiot have a TOTAL MELTDOWN over something innocuous and ordinary, share your stories!
Tell us about the time THAT GUY freaked out over nothing!
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Don't forget, the Wish spell allows you to turn the BBEG into pasta if you specifically say "I wish [BBEG's full name] would permanently turn into [pasta of choice] 5 seconds from the time I finish this sentence."
Oooh i had a guy try something similar once. The bad guys name was "Alexandrite Oxnord Deluvia Saphri Auroras", known congenially as king or queen "Adessa". They were part demon so finding out their true name was important to the plot. They tried to turn him into, specifically, a chicken (they were going to make chicken wings of evil).
That particular player didnt know it was also a lineage name for demon-touched elves, where **every** demonic elf who takes the throne has this name as their true name during their century rule and until they die thousands of years later. The player turned hundreds of very old, very powerful, not evil demon-touched elves into chickens and started a major war between the races i was using at the time and the demon-touched elves. Completely derailed the campaign with a much more interesting plot as it became a maneuver through active war to A) Find another wish spell to undo the last wish and B) Find the correct magic chicken.
@@SorrelYT the whole chicken thing there reminded of Tak & the Power of Juju, but the villagers were sheep instead of chickens lmao
I really think Wish at its full power is supposed to be a macguffin. The "9th level" spell should only be able to cast an 8th or lower level spell with no components necessary and make the effect permanent until another Wish is made.
But ALSO remember that, one component of the Wish spell is that the DM can decide that ANY Wish just doesn't work. No reason required.
If your players are trying to break your story, you have every power to not let it happen. It's part of the spell description itself, so there's no arguing about it.
But talking it out is still recommended, of course.
Maybe compromise by making the stupid thing happen in an AU oneshot in a session in the future, just for fun; or just briefly describe how stupid and anticlimatic the Wish ends the campaign, and as soon as anyone asks if 'something that ridiculous really happened' in any way answer them 'of course not, the Wish didn't work'.
I love it when idiots accidentally improve the plot@@SorrelYT
Had a guy fail a save in a swampy area and as a result it... counted as difficult terrain. He disconnected from discord, blocked all of us on it, left the campaign on roll20, and blocked us all there too. 😅
The last sentence of that first story was not on my bingo card of things I’d hear today.
Definitely not. The RP was amazing though!
PANR has tuned in.
That guy was T***. They.....destroyed a city, didn't care about the characters because it's just a game, argued any basic functions, and complained when I told him how fast the dry grass caught on fire. When he got tired of a character, they tried to drown it in the harbor.
Yeah... current campaign. All the way back to the beginning, before the name Arson Hobos was famous across the lands.
Session three, we have a Dragonborn cleric in the group. We play over discord, so everyone submits their sheets. Except the dragonborn still hasn't submitted his sheet, I've prompted him again, and he says yeah soon come.
Anyway, so session three, the AH are fighting bandits disguised as vampires, and they have a cleric that has raised a few zombies as good measure. Now the vampires just got their butt kicking, and the remaining zombies are so far away that it will take 2 rounds of full sprinting to reach them and the cleric.
The dragonborn calls an attack on the zombies. I tell him too far away. He rolls, I ignore it and say too far away.
Then he goes to his sheet and claims "I can jump 18 feet and breathe fire for 20, I roll to hit."
The barbarian says, "Dude, too far away."
I again state the zombies are over 50 feet away and call for actions, informing the dragonborn he is now caught in a web spell he refused to roll for because no one else did. Except he's now 38 feet away from everyone on his own. He attacks with his pole arm. At this point, everyone is telling him he's too far away.
He starts complaining I was ignoring his turn, going on about his ability to jump 18 feet, and yeah, if not for the web spell, he would have maybe been there in his second round. But he refused to roll to save, so he is automatically caught.
Except now, the party is questioning why he can jump that far, and now everyone wants his sheet posted.
His response was to rage quit and defame us because I ignored his attacks and turn.
Not exactly in line with the video, but close enough, perhaps.
The extremely low roll one at the end reminded me of my session last week. I'm the dm for the game and the playets went somewhere I told them they weren't prepared for(bbeg's lair). I show them 12 guards in plate mail with fighter levels(lvl5)amd ask them if they're sure they want to do this, that it will likely be a tpk. They want the smoke, so I give it to them. There were 4 of them, all lvl8, and I proceeded to miss every attack roll I made against them except for 3. They beat the encounter, using almost all their feautres and spell slots, and walked away with only their hp left. One of them managed to do over 100 damage in a single round. I was dying laughing the entire time, their ac wasn't even that high and I just kept missing. An average of 20 attack rolls a round from me and them all missing.
4:02 I can't believe this sentence is real. Story was hilarious though.
6:43 LOL at the zombie voice.
7:40 What? Why not kill the charlatans?
9:38 Aasimar are in Pathfinder? Huh.
8:05 I agree that the player didn't handle it well, but I don't fully agree with "sometimes the whole session sucks for you because dice decided so". "Sometimes your PC can't get what they want because dice decided so" is perfectly valid, but I'd say if the game is straight-up unenjoyable when you are unlucky, there's something wrong with it
Agreed, if i was to see my players suffering like that, I'm not against fudging rolls as DM or adjusting things on the fly.
It's one thing to roll badly a handful of times, but when your otherwise competent character starts acting more like a burden due to rolls? That takes you out of the game significantly, I've even questioned retconning character backstories over that.
For context, our DM plays with a "changing orientation" like you could go from Lawful Good to Neutral Good for breaking a few laws, for example.
Anyway. We were sent on a mission by a head priestess to go and find a rogue priestess who was decimating a small town by taking "sacrifices" for their vampire god. Normally, the sacrifices are consensual, they're people who want to be sacrificed for their god. But this priestess had left the city and went to a far out town and started taking random townspeople to kill. We go in and find the sacrifice chamber, with 14 sacrifices, two dead the rest alive, but barely. While I, the cleric, offer to heal some of the injuries and hang back with them while the rest explore the temple a bit, our Articifer suggests "putting them out of their misery.". Most of them would be fine after a cure wounds and some food. So, immediately after that suggestion, the DM says their alignment will change, and asks the party for suggestions. All of us (5) say Chaotic Evil at the same time. The DM agrees, saying thats what he was thinking. Our Artificer FREAKS THE FUCK OUT, going from Neutral Good to Chaotic Evil in one moment. But we all said it was fair, as that aas pretty fucking evil to want to kill 12 people. We argued for about 45 minutes until he gave up, said "whatever" and barely participated in the boss battle against the priestess, saying he already figured out the puzzle to her weakness after we spent ages trying to get it.
I feel for the guy in the last one. I was in a one-shot where I couldn't roll above a fucking 7 still missing the enemies. The DM [a fellow player in my campaign] tried to do everything to let me get a fucking hit in but the dice gods said no. Gotta say the worst one-shot I played only due to the rolls
Once had a "THAT GUY" get pissed off that I the DM had the audacity to have the town guards arrest him on a failed pick pocket.... here's what happened. He the bard, wanted to pick pocket (and I quote) "the richest guy in town." This was in the dead center of town. He rolls a nat 1. His modifiers put him at a negative 2 or worse. Before I could say anything he wants to do a dex check/save to save. Fine. Again after mods he's got a negative number. I tell him in his attempt to pick pocket the mayor/Mr. Rich, THAT GUY ended up tripping and de-pants-ing the mayor. I then had to explain why the town mayor would be the richest guy in town and why literally getting caught with your hand in the dude's pants trying to take the wallet is not legally acceptable. I had even tried to get the guy to go to the tavern like everyone else in the party. But, no! He wants a life of crime...with no stupid consequences!
I mean, he chose who he wanted to pickpocket (he didn't just "sense" the reachest guy in town - unless he had an ability that does that, depending on what you played, - he decided on it somehow, so he could not choose mayor if he didn't want to mess with them). But I would expect it to go exactly the same with any other reach person in the town
5:01 that dude got SHREKT! It was all OGRE for their character at that point!
Ha!
Call me confused but you DO have to pass a check for spike growth... every five feet. I mean that's a pretty common mechanic to the point it's even in BG3 if you're sitting in an area of effect for something like that you're just sitting there either passing or failing checks.
Yeah, it's how it actually works, so DM was wrong and it pissed off the player because probably has used the spell that way every time up till this point
Pathfinder 1e, not dnd 5e. Similar but different effects.
I don't know if I can say That Guy freaked out in my group, but my brother has had an unfortunate history of somehow getting murked by That Guy for no reason.
His Druid was poisoned and axed by the Barbarian because That Guy didn't like his choice of having a velociraptor companion. An entirely out-of-character disagreement with his choice of companion led to the Barbarian just killing him for no reason.
His Monk got killed by a different That Guy when the GM put the lake of shrieking eels (from Princess Bride) in the game, and That Guy decided to just pick up and throw a character who had not said a single word yet, just to see him get attacked by the eels. Someone else reacted by throwing That Guy's character in too, and he pouted about it like he didn't do the exact same thing seconds ago.
I had a player grab another player by the throat because he caught him and called him out for cheating, I broke up the fight and told the violent player to get out, then he blew up on me and called be racist because me kicking him out was apparently racially motivated
was intructed by the dm to roleplay a convincing shady guy leaving the party for his own reasons. ended with me accidentally killing a member (temporally) by sheer luck of dice rolls and they mistook me for being the actual traitor in the party instead. they freaked out for a while over me and the dm for doing so and making the game more complex. the traitor in the party was forgotten and achieved overall victory, but the table didnt care.
me and my character were branded as unwanted chaotic saboteurs of the story although just going after a certain wizard tome in game in secret. there was no sabotage from my side, even support with food rations, but the table banished me for a while. the traitor was allowed to stay at the table and struck with overwhelming success of course but was congratulated for good roleplay.
Have you discussed that characters would have conflicting agendas and possibly work against each other before starting the campaign? If it appeared out of nowhere, I'd say it's not "nothing"; it doesn't justify other players keeping grudge on you out of the game for this though
@@nabra97 dont underestimate peoples pettiness. they probably all had a script in their minds how the story should develop and me and the dm just happened to "ruin" the constellation at the one time they would take it very personal.
maybe my rather unlikeable unwashed trenchcoat wearing wizard investigator attacking/defeating the tables favourite character the attractive cleric scholar/teacher lady was the part where it went wrong. even if it was the case that my character was driven in a corner and pursuing his own personal goal, going against the majorities special snowflake might just create these consequences.
@@ReinaSaurus so... Was it discussed beforehand or not, after all?
@@nabra97 the game was started with the expectation of characters within the party intriguing against each other. my character being just the suspicious loner guy was prepared with only the dm and me knowing without announcing that he wasnt a traitor.
I once had a player rage quit just because I didnt undo 6+ enemies hp calculations when I misunderstood the area of a spell.
It meant that it hit wider than it meant to, but didnt really have a negative effect.
It did hit an ally but I allows that to be undone.
They got mad that I didnt fully fix the mistake and left on the spot.
God damn that mace story was ducking hilarious 😂😂
You mean macing hilarious?
Not me, but a friend of mine met a "That Guy" in their server and showed me screenshots. Basically, every time someone had actual sourced quotes from Gary Gygax himself to debunked one of his arguments, That Guy would make more unsourced claims about how TSR and WoTC both lied, that Gary Gygax only ever supported his stance on what D&D is and that, in his exact words "if you wanted story in your game, then it's not D&D, it's a pen and paper videogame with a railroading DM". That Guy eventually crossed a line and started using actual, real world slurs in his rants at the DM and other players, so he got kicked for the bigotry, his character became a case of "separate the art from the artist until we can kill him off", and last I heard they had his character piss off the Lady of Pain. And you know it's game over for That Guy's character at that point, because death by her hands is a death that even the almighty Wish spell can't undo.
Who, dare I ask, is the Lady of Pain?
@@jonathanmarks3112 from what I know, she is a person with powers equal to gods but isn't exactly a god (she doesn't need, or won't for that matter, anyone to worship her, and maybe there are some other differences), and players can interact with her in some campaigns, but not necessarily should
He probably should have looked at the OSR scene. I mean, it's not what these games are all about (and the concept of OSR itself is extremely stretchy), but I'm pretty sure you can find both systems built on exclusively hostile interactions with the dungeon population with little to no justification and tables that tolerate bigotry (to clarify, nothing wrong with the first one, and for the second - whatever makes you happy as long as you keep it within your group)
@@jonathanmarks3112 The *WORST* of the "worst news".
You *_REALLY_* don't want to run into her.
She’s the lady of pain for a reason. She’s probably gonna do much worse than killing him.
The guy with a "Dyslexic memory" is probably a trauma survivor. This variety of brain fog is common among ppl witg CPTSD mlre so if they are feeling overwhelmed in life / don't have coping tools.
Got a spicy one and a long read. My "that guy" experience was a DM for a Star Wars 5e game I joined. Safe to say the red flags made themselves known from the moment I attempted to apply for the game.
The first thing that had me concerned was the fact that the application process for the game included, to my dismay, a consent form with SAFETY TOOLS. There are plenty of videos on CZcams about how bad they are to use in campaigns, and safe to say that should have been when I left. I had hoped it wasn't as bad as I thought, as there can be exceptions to the rule. Boy, was I wrong. It was gonna get worse.
After a bit, he got back to me and started asking me questions (which probably should have been apart of that consent form as a whole application, but that's just me being nitpicky.) Either way, what kinda confused me and made things a bit strange is the oddly specific questions about certain favorites, which caught me off-guard.
Now, I'm not a big Star Wars fan, and my knowledge on the setting is limited at best. But to ask me my favorite Droid model? When I don't even know my droids that well? Why does this matter now? I literally had to get a random type of Droid model off Wookiepedia to move things along. He even harped on it for a bit, and I responded that my memory of the franchise is limited, which wasn't untrue.
I also find it funny how, during this process, he asked about my biggest pet peeves with DMs, as I replied: "I'd say one pet peeve I have is when a DM acts confrontational to its players in response to even the smallest things and arguing with their players. Basically, I don't like when a DM creates or enables a hostile environment within the group itself. We're all meant to have a good time, and if the referee is being problematic, I don't wanna be in that group."
Remember this, cause it'll come up later.
And that's only for the vetting process to get in, which I did in the end. But the problems didn't stop there. They only got worse going into the session 0.
Now, my recollection of what happened fully is blurry, but I do recall another red flag that kept being brought up.
I was going to play a Half-Human Fighter who was a Foundling Mandalorian. The campaign took place in 4 BBY, when the Galactic Empire had a tight grip over the galaxy. I went the route of playing an amnesiac with a lost past that might lead to a shift in perspective. The intention was that he was formerly a Jedi who survived Order 66 with a massive head wound and would be brought back to health and trained under the Mandalorian Protectors.
After being sent off Mandalore as it was taken over and strip mined of its resources, he was meant to fend for himself in the greater galaxy and find out who he is, mainly to get retribution for what the Empire has done. Years would pass and he would find out he had some sort of connection to the Force, and wished to seek out more answers. without drawing a huge target on his back by the Empire. All seems fine, right?
Wrong. The DM constantly harped on certain details about my character that he thought shouldn't happen, even if them happening is intentional. There was one thing he repeated ad infinitum: "You're either a Mando, or you're not." He even made it clear that I "couldn't" just let other enemy clans live, even if I wanted to. This irked me constantly, as all I wanted to do was play a character who had a constant inner conflict. And he took that personally somehow.
This even bled into the first two (and only) sessions I ever got. A lot of thing went over my head as at times, I had gotten so frustrated I was brought to silence. Throughout my time in that game, he was constantly being disrespectful in all sorts of ways, and it just didn't stop.
Another red flag that came up was when I realized this guy didn't even know how certain rules in the system worked. He didn't even know how Lair Actions worked, despite him reading what was said and still having it take place after my turn, which was LITERALLY before it happened. Not a big deal, but something that baffled me. When I looked up a certain rule and tried to explain it to him (like I said I would when he asked about disagreements on running the game), this was his response:
"Yeah, well, I don't care."
This did not sit well with me, and left a sour taste in my mouth even into the second (and my last) session.
But what made this worse, was that the DM was apparently autistic (I am as well, for context), which explained a lot of his tendencies. This isn't ableism or anything, just showing that even I don't like that some people like me could be such assholes and don't get help for it. He would get set off for things that really weren't a big deal (at least to me), among other things I can't recall anymore, and both sessions were total trainwrecks.
Even one of the other players didn't like how he was being treated, and he was NEW to D&D 5e as a whole. So at least I know I wasn't alone. I just felt bad for the guy.
Oh yeah, and the second session didn't start for a WHOLE HOUR after the start time. All to perpetuate these issues and argue over insignificant stuff, but my patience was running thin for sure.
It didn't matter in the end, because the guy would even contradict his own rule about only keeping loose to the lore. He literally said to my face that the group isn't meant to be a "have a fun goofy time" kind of group. He told me that it was a bad defense to say these games aren't that serious. To him, the group is here to "adhere to the canon for the sake of fun".
Again, I baffle myself wondering why I didn't leave at the session 0. I tend to be desperate to join a game and not wanna leave cause I feel like I might never get another chance to play the system. But I'm glad I didn't try to make it work for any longer than the second session.
It was either on the day of the third session or the day before, but I sent a lengthy message to EVERYONE in the server about the issues I had and peaced out immediately afterward without letting anyone else say a word.
Probably the worst experience I've had throughout it all. Definitely didn't have much of a meltdown, but more like a slow toxic burn. Always remember folks: No D&D is better than bad D&D.
Some of these could be considered Darwin award incidents.
It's the D & D equivalent of the Darwin awards!😂😂😂
I'm surprised that there are no "the player dared to get uncomfortable with something in the game" or "the player got uncomfortable with something and didn't handle it as a responsible adult" stories
I actually quit ttrpg's for a whlie, because i realized i was a That guy.
The moral of these stories?
_Pay a little attention to statistics in math class_
spike growth: When a creature moves into or within the area, it takes 2d4 piercing damage for every 5 feet it travels.
So yes, every 5 feet. DM was wrong, and probably a real asshole.
He specified Pathfinder 1e at the start of the story. Spike growth in pathfinder is one save to prevent getting slowed, then 1d4 points of damage per 5 feet.