What stunt did your D&D players pull that completely derailed the campaign? #5
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What is the smallest way your DM has driven home how "evil" a villain is? - Zábava
That Kender Crusade is hilarious. I wish my old DM would have done that instead of, "You did something I didn't like, random Demon Laser."
I would love to get if the Kender had used the Kender Taunt. If successful it makes the targets angry and Target the Kender only.
You old DM sounds chaotic good
@@Raptorus64 Nah, the dude was an asshole to everyone. I joined a campaign late, towards the end, so my character had starting gear while another party member had darksteel plate armor, and a magical talking lightsaber made to kill the bbeg. I understand that I joined late, but I was FAR weaker than everyone else. Hell, my physical attacks were doing less damage than the wizard smacking the enemy with a cane! And I was a paladin!
So lawful evil at best
@@Raptorus64 I would say Chaotic Evil. Because he was pretty much a, "Fuck everyone, my game my rules, and if someone is having fun then they are about to die." The party were also a bunch of assholes. My first character was a halfling bard. When I was introduced, I was tied to a sacrificial altar. I got off it, and was immediately chained back to it by the party.
Kender party member: [steals and sells story macguffin]
Paladin: GENOCIDE.
Yep, it's the only rational choice
It wasn't genocide. It was pest control.
Kender party member: [steals and sells story macguffin]
Paladin: czcams.com/video/HDh-g-fUmW0/video.html
Story 1: Paladin has an epiphany and deletes an entire race because of a sociopathic Thief Player and an Enabler DM (the worst kind of DM)
Except, I just looked it up, that literally is the Kender in a nutshell (the first description, not the Paladin’s ‘epiphany’) They will grab everything and anything for zero reason. Telling them ‘no’ makes it far worse.
As stated in the quick wiki entry I googled, They don’t steal out of necessity, they steal only because their unending curiosity wills them to.
So, except for selling the macguffin, Kenders wouldn’t bother with that, the player was completely on track. Looting the players weapons. Why? Because Kender.
Though, they aren’t meant to look sweet and innocent. They look like between halflings and humans (with human blood, ie a half Kender, the only thing to slow a Kender’s curiosity. Barely, by half.) it’s only in their minds to be so wild.
@@Norinia I have issue that the DM let the Kender steal other players weapons because Kenders have no interest in those things, They don't steal essential things that belong to others. weapons, maybe if it was a decorative pocket knife or something like that. a bow? Nope, too big to carry for one thing and too dull looking for the most part. Also selling the macguffin? That's clearly the player being a thief for his own sake. A kender would keep it until he lost interest in it then hide it away someplace and forget all about it.
Pure comedy
@@Norinia nah but players that repeatedly steal from the group gets annoying af, even before the mcguffin, that was just the icing on the shit sandwich. That shit had to end and the pally definitely had a good in game interpretation.
@@Norinia Well the Paladin corrected that problem.
Imagine being such a badass that people won't let you play a certain class.
Them: "He's too dangerous to be left alive"
If you are that kind of badass, you just find a way to be banned from more classes
@@lightning_11 "He's too dangerous to run this class."
Me? I feel like I might be too dangerous to run Tabaxi.
Our party arrived to a Dwarven metropolitan. A massive city, with a complex social structure, intricate architecture and a dedicated Theocracy. Seriously, our DM had put an insane amount of effort in developing this place.
So the first thing our group decided to do was to go shopping.
Being low on funds, we saw an opportunity to earn some coin when a couple of construction workers were offering 200 gold to whoever could remove a magically attached add-banner from the rock wall they were working on (it was basically fantasy spam). We figured that instead of removing the banner itself, we had our sorcerer use Mold Earth to remove the rock that it was attached to. If magic is the problem, then magic should be able to solve it, right?
...We had COMPLETELY forgotten about the huge signs at the entrance of the city that explicitely stated that casting magic is banned and is punished by imprisonment.
Less than a minute later our sorcerer was swiftly seized by the city guard after a few dozen eyewitnesses saw him use a cantrip in public. Let's just say that our group felt a little foolish. Even more so when our fire genasi fighter attempted to explain to the guards that some people are just born with magical abilities, and used Produce Flame to make a point. So he was immediately arrested as well.
This lead to the remaining Paladin, Cleric and Rogue having to speak with the high priestess of the city and try to convince her that we are lawfully stupid tourists that were just trying to help. She eventually agreed to release our friends from the clink, on the condition that we travelled down the humongous labyrinth of catacombs beneath the city to search for one of their missing clerics.
This arc became a HUGE part of our campaign. It involved our party nearly ending up in the Underdark by mistake, almost dropping one of our own in lava, and a horrifying encounter with a powerful Hag. It was an incredible bonding experience for our party, who had only known each other for a week at this point, so we assumed that this whole thing was part of our genius DM's plan from the start.
It was not.
She had in fact NOT expected her players to openly use magic in the one place on Earth where it is outlawed, and she full on panicked when half of us got arrested, so she had to pull the catacombs and the missing cleric out of her butt in a desperate attempt to not have to deal with a prisonbreak, which would force us to prematurely leave this city that she had spent months to create.
- Soo... You're saying we WEREN'T supposed to use magic on that bann-
- *I PUT UP SIGNS!!*
TLDR; party arrived at a supercool city that the DM had even cooler stuff planned for, and managed to get arrested after literally 5 minutes.
That was... the best comment on here so far. Your poor DM.
Should've made an waver fee for the sake of convince
Glorious!
That DM was amazing. Working on the fly like that!
While I do find this funny, please don't outlaw spells, most fun gameplay things in DND relate to spells.
The first story one wasn't really a derailment, it was the perfect side quest to keep things interesting. The alignment changing helm was on the DM to be honest, but since the two players are willing to to roleplay their descent to evil, it would of been an interesting campaign switch to see how they conquered the world. Better way to play the helm is to make it so that your only switch alignments as long your wearing it, and that it comes with an aura that makes it so tempting to keep it on.
3e had the helm only work once then no more magic in the item, the quest to remove the cursed item is replaced with the quest to redeem the now opposed party member.
@@marthachampagne316 that was a great use of it if you make it so your character becomes the exact opposite once theh wear it and then rendered useless upon use. I can see the helm be reworked in a way that it creates a Jeckle and Hyde situation: wearing it makes you possessed by someone else, and the more times you wear it, or how long, the more likely it would become permanent, destroying the former conscious. Like Dr. Bright's immortality necklace.
First story with the Paladin, I have to give this guy kudo's for managing to solve a problem. I have to respect the DM for sticking to the situation. Although he could have wrapped up the campaign and started a new one to get the story over with sooner.
the DM could have also rolled with the "Kender are evil" and had them as agents of the original BBEG to get it back on track for the main story if he really wanted that story to play out.
Or a callback for the main storyline, like the actual villain appears
To be honest if a DM just ended a campaign because the players decided to follow a different story line I would leave that campaign. A DM shouldn’t just end a campaign because it is not going the way they thought it would first time, let the players have their fun but make it so they choose. If it’s a time sensitive bbeg plot, give them reminders of what is happening and let them decide if what they are doing is more important, if it is not time sensitive roll with it until they get bored and want a different (the original) plot line
"Solve a problem"
To solve a problem, you need a solution.
In this case, a _final_ solution.
The most insane member of my dnd club got drunk at the pub, walked all the way up to gnomengarde, got a really high persuasion check, and managed to convince the ice gnome chef that he was a _literal god_ all in one night. They did this by themselves.
i love how the first story immediately jumps into genocide.
The last one, marrying off the party's wizard almost seems like a set-up. Things must have just fallen perfectly in place for that to happen. Kudos on everyone for rolling with it.
Instantly attacked the Young Kraken that was planning to gift us each a Lightning in a Bottle. We were on a seaward journey when the squidling came up to us shaking (seemingly) randomly. Our party instantly started wailing on it, except for our Bard, a player who just vibes with everything. They were the only one to receive the gift. I also nearly died in this encounter.
TLDR my party stopped a war from happening by going to the library.
In my campaign after a trip to the northernmost point of the content to save another PC from their home town, (another long story) the party Bard who had recently learner he had been born with two souls and wanted to try and learn as much as he could. He recruited the cleric to travel with him to the oldest library on the content, that they we're still allowed into. The cleric, and the bard teleport to the location where the ambassadors of the three main races (Orcs, Elves, and Humans) maintain a tenuous peace. The bard is friendly with the human ambassador so they are allowed in. Before they could search the library they spoke with the human ambassador just before there was a meeting between all of the ambassadors. The bard and cleric were left alone in a small dining room and decided that they didn't want to wait, they left a programed illusion in the room and turned invisible and split up to find the library. They got hopelessly lost inside the massive castle, the cleric ended up in a closet trying to hide and the bard ended up in the elvish ambassador's room and looking through his desk and found proof of an assassination plot targeting the human and orcish ambassadors. The bard found the cleric and human ambassador and brought the evidence to him. The cleric noticed the window creek open and put herself in between the ambassador and the assassin. The bard pushed the cleric and the ambassador together and said he'd take care of the assassin, so the cleric used word of recall to get the two of them out of there and the bard kept the assassin from escaping until reinforcements arrived. The two stopped an assassination plot that would have sparked a massive war.
That’s awesome. Damn impressive
how to ruin plot the dm worked on for months in 3 simple steps.
@@WillimannI mean... the elves tried to kill ambassadors so he could still had the war happen just not the way it was GOING to start.
@@boblasers2016 yes, but honestly railroading is ass, if theres the possibility of stopping the war then why the hell not
That whole kender thing reminds me of what happened to what happened in Warhammer fantasy to the halflings when they pissed of a crazy elector count.
It reminds me of that one sketch from a while ago
My party pulled the ultimate Captain Kirk move. They said "Take me to your leader!". It completely detailed all of my prep work. From then on. I was flying by the seat of my pants the rest of the night.
My thing with the Kender is "We have no concept of ownership" is vastly different than "We are incapable of the concept of ownership". They are played as physically unable to follow rules that are laid out for them then instead of being compulsion it's treated as "Don't understand."
We derailed a campaign before it even started, if that makes any sense. We were doing a one-off for the DM to introduce us to a new setting he made. We played as adventurers who would be in a different part of the continent to the adventurers who would be the 'main' party of the campaign that would follow, and the intent was to, occasionally, do a session as these one-off adventurers here and there just to mix things up. We had discovered the city we were in had a secret portal in its graveyard that lead to what was basically a purgatory-like realm with strange, shadowy but not NECESSARILY hostile creatures within it. Upon a revisit to the place, one of those Shadow creatures ran further into the strange realm and started banging on this huge, ornate, evil-looking stone door. It was doing so really frantically. The "geniuses" in my party, seeing that the creature seemed to really want to get in, started banging on it too.
That was a gate to Hell.
They opened a gate to Hell while I picked up the bard and ran my ass off.
This opening of a Hell-gate in one of the most important, populated cities in the entire continent COMPLETELY revamped the DM's plans for the following campaign to an insane degree, to the point where the intended BBEG was sidelined for the forces of Hell who broke free instead. The DM later told me that the intent was that we were supposed to STOP the shadow beast from disturbing the door, but he really didn't see that stupidity coming from half the party.
Lmao, this is the most awesome derailment I saw in these series comment section
so you're basically playing high fantasy Doom now?
@@FizzieWebb Funny you mention that, we did end up fighting what was basically a Doomguy-style demon lord wielding artificed technology. I think that campaign was even before Marauders were revealed so that was a happy coincidence.
Never underestimate the power of stupid.
okay that kender crusade one is not only badass it may be one of the funniest derailment stories ive ever heard. just straight up decapitated the problem player and starts and damn crusade. i love it
Man, I wish I had a story like that Kender Crusade one. The only roleplay I have been doing is my FF1 playthrough. Even have been making stories about it.
First story is what happens when you have a DM that don't know how to control a campaign, a murderhobo and the classic guy who steal from the party in the same group. PURE CHAOS. This story is hilarious as fuck holy.
I was playing in a game, where our FREAKING ROGUE derailed the campaign in the first 5 minutes. We were hired by the king of the realm to take down an "Evil Necromancer." You know, typical plot hook crap. To start, we traveled with a merchant caravan to a village as mercenary bodyguards. Killed some goblins, got to the town, and met up with a halfling woman for our pay. Well, the pay wasn’t very much, I think 10 gold for each of us, party of 6 or 7? Our rogue, and one of our rangers, don’t know why we had two, and our druid got greedy. They tried surrounding her, and the rogue rolled a Nat 1. She said no, so he stabbed her in the face. We went on the run. I stayed behind to tell the
guards what happened, but they couldn't catch up to my party. We eventually got to a lake where boats were searching for us. Our party murdered a bunch of innocent people, and tried sailing away on one. Somehow, the rogue fell in to the water, and I tried to freeze him with Ray of Frost, me being a Sorcerer. It eventually got so bad, we just decided to restart everything, minus stabbing a halfling in the face.
Well that escalated quickly
Im playing a centaur paladin in the out of the abyss campaign with the sentinel feat. We are in Gracklestugh and have just cornered Droki. He clicks his boots of speed and is about to run away into the cave system. I hit my opportunity attack at disadvantage and stop him from escaping us, effectively ruining two sessions of prep because of one attack
[Posting this on my husband’s behalf - I really did bug him to write this down to share.]
Hi, folks - coming into this late! My wife, a fellow Ripper fan and lifelong gamer like me, poked me until I agreed to share this story with you. I’ll try to keep it short. I might fail.
After the oceans drank Atlantis, when MTV was new, I was a teenage nerd in love with Dungeons and Dragons.
Somehow I got the D&D Basic Set, a starter box with the Basic and Expert rules (the red and blue softcovers) and the “Keep on the Borderlands” module. The classics. My brother, my sisters, and one of our cousins rolled up characters. Together we dove right into our first dungeon. Fighting monsters. Dodging traps. Snatching up treasure. We were hooked.
Then we finished “Keep on the Borderlands.” Another school year began. And thanks to homework, I didn’t have time for all the dungeon mapping it took to make new adventures. But I could get another module.
A toy store at the mall had a locked glass cabinet full of gaming stuff. I peered in, then asked the staff if I could see the modules. Like a grown-up ‘n’ stuff. I was going to blow my week’s allowance - enough for a paperback, a Famous Monsters magazine, binder paper, and some pens. I had to make this count.
A staffer laid the modules out on a counter. But the one that stood out was “The Curse of Xanathon.” A town under a curse. Secrets in the wilderness. Conspiracies, mysteries, and treachery.
It wasn’t a dungeon crawl - it was a whole campaign. For character levels five to seven. My players were level five! Their characters would become rich, powerful, and hailed as heroes! I picked the module up and laid my money down.
I told everyone in the car about “The Curse of Xanathon” on the way home, whether they liked it or not. My sisters were busy, but my cousin and my little brother were available.
After skimming the module and poring over the first adventure through the week, I set up a game session with my brother and my cousin. Through wilderness and foggy roads, an Elf and a Human Fighter (races and classes were treated the same in Basic D&D) entered the city of Rhoona. Walking through the gate, they could feel the tension in this town. Shades of Fafhrd and Grey Mouser.
The first thing they did was seek out a tavern. Awesome. We were heading straight to the first plot point. Rolling a little powder blue d20 from the box set revealed the name of the tavern. Let’s call it the Red Dragon Inn. When they got in, they overheard some local dwarves at a far table, complaining about mistreatment under the harsh rule of-
My cousin, playing the Fighter, picked a fight with the angry dwarves instead. “I tell them to shut up.”
W-what?
“I say, “Shaaaarddup! Nobody carrz about you stupid dwarfs.”
“Dwarves. It’s dwarves. What are you-”
“Whooooo cares.” Either his Fighter had an accent, or he was trying to sound drunk. I swear he was channeling Tommy Wiseau 20 years early.
Confused, frustrated, and not old enough to shave, I tried to be a fair and open-minded DM. “Okay. Are you sure you want to do this?”
“I already said shut up! What are they gonna do about it?”
I rolled a reaction check. Penalty and Charisma mods offset. A 2d6 roll. NPCs were hostile. Big surprise. Not in the mood for his BS, five dwarves got up and circled him.
My brother, hotheaded and loyal to a fault, threatened to kill them if they mess with his human friend.
What?! Where is all this coming from-
Then the Fighter threw the first punch. The dwarves dogpiled him. My brother’s Elf pulled one of them off. They fell wrestling to the floor. Bouncers dove in and clobbered both factions. The Fighter and the Elf found themselves in the foggy streets. Hungry, bruised, and mad.
They went looking for another tavern. Okay, I rolled up another one and tweaked the prices by a roll of d4 coins. So they clambered into the next tavern - and lost their freaking minds over the prices. They announced they were smashing up the place.
“Hold it! Wait a minute!” Screw impartial DM-ing. I heard my allowance going down the drain. I demanded an explanation.
And for my brother and my cousin, it was simple. They wanted to fight. That’s it. And when they saw that I was rolling up random taverns, they wanted to smash every single one in town. All night. The whole game session.
I lost my teeny tiny fourteen-year-old mind. I shouted. I screamed. I refused to play D&D with them ever again. I picked up my notes, my dice, the module, and rulebooks, and left the table. I went to my room and jammed the doorknob with a chair, a last ditch effort to sulk by myself.
This led to my cousin crying to his mother and mine, causing a political incident in our little overcrowded homestead. It ended in my father - a man who could reduce a Tarrasque to a grease stain with a look - taking my D&D books away. No more noise, not a sound, for the rest of the night. Or else he’d get rid of the books.
The next morning my father called me into his room and let me take them back. But I never let my cousin play with us again. I never got to play that campaign either. And from what I heard, it was railroady as hell to begin with. So much for twelve bucks!
TL;dr - My brother and my cousin killed an entire campaign by starting bar fights instead of playing the game.
Can't believe I am saying this but that Kender Genocide was justified.
Pretty much. Someone either didn't read, or deliberately misinterpreted, what Kender are supposed to be. It is not a licence for a PC to be a prick, especially to their own party. If nothing else, you'd think some primal spark of self preservation instinct would prevent that kind of thing (or at least at anything above prank level), because well played Kender can get into all sorts of trouble with the whole of the rest of the world, and having the PC party to save their sorry asses from the *inevitable* backlash is the only way they will realistically survive. Without the protagonist party, Tasslehoff would never have lived for the entire length of Dragons of Autumn Twilight, let alone the trilogy
The Helmet of change alignment was soo good lolol, imagine a thief in the party become the only one good now and the paladin actually vows to satan
I once played in a Campaign where one of the Players was allowed to play a Kender...That Player also had a penchant for being an Asshole and deliberately doing things that disrupted the game...
His Kender was just as much of a Kleptomaniac as the one in the story but he wasn't a Rogue, I can't remember what Class it was, but it wasn't a Rogue and he blew a Pick Pockets roll (Nat 1) on our Half-Orc Barbarian...
Said Barbarian promptly Rages and Power Attacks the Kender with his Great Axe (1D12+20 was the base damage after everything is factored in) and gets a Nat 20 to hit and a Nat 18 to confirm the Crit...
He did so much damage he cut the Kender in half vertically, the axe entered the top of his head and exited between his legs and embedded itself in the solid oak floor up to it's handle...the Serving Wench's of the Tavern we were in at the moment were NOT happy with the Barbarian until the entire Party told them we made the mess, we'll clean it up...and we did, there's a Cantrip in 3.0 or 3.5 (can't remember the name) that can be used to clean yourself, your gear or a space and it really came in handy to clean up the spilled blood and entrails...
The Kender's Player made such a fuss about his character being Murdered by a PC that the rest of us, being more than fed up with all of his crap told him to go away, he's no longer welcome in our Group...
This is why session zeros are so important. It has the group clarify their limits on what is acceptable or not, such as stealing from PCs or PvP. Almost all groups I'm in don't allow PvP unless both players are ok with it and it is in good fun.
@@h.s.6269 We did that too but the Player was an Asshole and didn't care. What I didn't mention was he and his Kender only lasted about 5-6 sessions before getting the Axe...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
So, the campaign I ran was all about the party being hired by a merchant to help persuade a barbairan tribe to trade with him, so the main objective was getting on their good side.
The party had done stuff like clear their burial grounds of undead, catch a wizard who was giving them trouble, etc.
Then it came to wiping out some fire giants that had set up shop nearby. One party member, (I'll call him ranger) wanted a belt of fire giant strength, so when they killed them, he asked to take their belts. I clarified to him that the belts of fire giant strength are made from fire giants, not an actual belt they wear. So he rolled survival to get some parts, failed, got the party to roll too, then the party agreed to have the parts held in a bag of holding one of the other party members had.
So they returned to the tribe, and ranger talked to the captured evil wizard, who gave the most obvious lie that he could make a belt of fire giant strength if the ranger set him free... which the ranger did so immediately. He was then chased through town by barbarians, tried to snatch the bag of holding from the party member that was holding it, then got captured.
While in prison that character that was holding the bag of holding called him a thief, and out of character ranger started screaming at him and not giving him a moment to speak.
Yea he got kicked from the group after that and I ret-conned the whole thing. Only then did I notice, ranger had 20 wisdom and prof in insight.
Ok, that second story is just gold. You make matriculate preparations for the summoning of an arcane entity, and it all gets trampled by a Ceratotherium Simum.
Ive been part of 3 parties that have derailed the campaign. 2 of them were almost salvaged.
1. The goal of the campaign was to create a super Iron Golem body for the Lich BBEG to inhabit. Of course, we didn't KNOW he was evil, we just thought the soul of a wizard that had just died managed to possess a skull in a box. We could only communicate with him by touching his Phylactery, so we couldn't all ask him questions. The day after he explained our objective, we entered the nearby forest to get magic wood a bard could make into an instrument. While there, we found an awakened tree that we decided to touch the Phylactery to so that we could ALL ask him some questions. As soon as the Paladin realized it was a Lich, they smashed the phylactery, resolving the main story of the campaign... on Session 4. We would have kept playing, except that 2 of the players hadn't contacted us for weeks, and the DM felt it would be unfair to bring in 2 players for an essentially finished campaign.
2. My party skipped half the campaign by trying to give the god we worked for his arm back. It was a high power campaign, and our party's Patron was the god of the moon + Magic. While traveling with him so he could test if we were worth the trouble for him, we ran into a town that had been razed by demons, and we met a Guest PC that was the brother of our patron who gave us a Deck of Many Things before leaving to do his own thing after our patron resolved a curse The Devil. Before leaving the town, the game's Devil came out of a portal wondering who had lifted the curse, and dragged our patron through with him. He came back hours later, missing the arm that served as the key to a seal placed on the Necromancer god The Devil was trying to free. Later, we remembered we had the Deck, and started pulling cards until eventually one of us got the Fates card and used it to undo our Patron losing his arm. The DM flipped a coin, and ruled that if The Devil didn't take our Patron's arm, he would have just killed him, leading to us skipping the first HALF OF THE CAMPAIGN and jumping into the war with Hell part of the story at half the level we were supposed to be.
3. Our party was working for Mystra, attempting to find out who was creating portals into other dimensions. Our 3rd time running into the BBEG, he used a teleportation circle to escape. Instead of finishing the dungeon we were in like we were supposed to, we decided to use half our spell slots to power the magic circle and follow after him and his followers. We, a party of 4 level 8s, caught up to them, a group of 4 level ~18s, and decided to, instead of fighting them, just kidnap the BBEG and bring him to Mystra. My fighter ran up and grappled him, and used an ability Mystra had given the party to teleport the both of us to the front step of her house, and began screaming for one of the 2 gods that live there for back-up. The rest of the party followed after, and after a few rounds, the god of Time stepped out and just froze him in place, deciding to just turn the BBEG into a child. We still have to track down some loose ends, so there's still a decent amount of the campaign left, but it was pretty close to derailed.
Not the whole campaign, but the first session, the PCs were at a festival, there was a prize hog, roughly 1,000lbs, based off Gullinbursti. Warlock decides she wanted to steal it. Gloomstalker helps her. Now they can do a side job to find the lost hog 😂
My dragonborn fighter would have fought with the paladin. A kinder nearly got him kill/captured on more than one occasion. So much so he bought a specialty made manacles to keep kinder always in arms reach.
I *loved* that first story. More "that guy" problems should end this excitingly, haha! And yea I've never bought into the Kender being too pure for this world; they're just a vehicle for griefing.
Though I did once throw a Kender NPC at a dragon with instructions to cut its wing off. I figured it was good either way; either we'd solve the problems this Kender's presence caused, or for once he'd be an asset instead of a burden. The Kender cut the dragon's wing severely enough to ground it. Sadly there's a sad ending to this tale: the Kender lived.
Did you kill it at some point at least
@@lazyluca1660Haha, wanted to but no, we were nicer to thefthobos back then
I have a feeling that the DM and the friend of the lender crusade ended up loving where the campaign went in the end
I'm not the DM of this story but rather a player and this story is a long one so please, grab a snack and something nice to drink as this is a really, long read. Additionally, sorry if there are any typos, this is a lot of information.
So, in order for you to get the full picture of how we derailed the campaign so hard that it literally made our DM need an additional week to prepare and apparently rewrite more than half of the story, you need some background information. The party that this story focuses around contains 3 players: Vyrtr (my character, a battlemaster fighter), Eren (a floraspawn) and Artem (A Geomancy Wizard from the Kobold Press Deep Magic Books). Additionally, up until this point there were mainly just a bunch of small quests with an overarching story that we were slowly putting together then well, we derailed it so hard that we never actually found out what we were looking for.
So this starts off with our party in city that's governed by an Archwizard who took the wizard in our party in as a student due to some prior minor exploits. During this time we had just came back and given him some information and were now just sitting in the middle of the town doing nothing. Vyrtr had business at a blacksmith due to placing a craft order for a new weapon thus he left, leaving Artem and Eren sitting in the town square. This is where the derailing begins. Shortly after Vyrtr left, both Artem and Eren were going through some of the items we had found when exploring and was identifying them. Among those items were a bag of beans, those of you who know what these do can probably already see where this is going. Eren was curious about what the beans did and Artem warned him about the beans having a random effect and that there was no telling what they could do however, despite Artem's warnings, Eren planted a bean anyways, in the middle of broad daylight, in the middle of a city and not knowing what the beans could actually do. Keep in mind, Artem also just let him, he made no attempts to try and stop him, he just let him do this. Our DM even asked "Are you sure you really want to do this" to which the player playing Eren said yes. So, Eren planted the bean and from there what could only be described as pure chaos ensued. Immediately after planting the bean, our DM asked for Eren to roll a D100. He rolled a 99. This caused a massive pyramid with a mummy lord to sprout up. This started a huge chain reaction. The pyramid sprouted from the ground destroying several city blocks, killing and injuring hundreds of people and causing a panic. Almost instantly, the city guard started to investigate and evacuate civilians, the archwizard came to investigate and asked Eren and Artem what happened and SOMEHOW despite Artem rolling a 6 on his deception check, he managed to deceive the Archwizard, claiming that it "Just appeared out of nowhere" and that "we have no idea what caused it". Eventually, after hearing the sounds of pure chaos, Vyrtr finds his way back and helps evacuate civilians as per the guards orders and eventually, the guard retreated to another city as well.
Now, you may be saying "Well gosh, that was a lot" but wait, it gets EVEN BETTER.
This had HUGE consequences for the Kingdom we were in as we not only unleashed a Mummy Lord but a LONG LOST CIVILIZATION that had extreme military might. Our party managed to contact another Kingdom and request military aid, to which, they accepted and after rallying troops, went to war. This escalated quickly, as we had TONS of troops, mass combat, dragons, dracoliches, mummies, lots of spells being cast and just overall, one hell of a story. However, I'd be lying if I said that was it. The war took roughly 3 weeks in game, lead by OUR PARTY no less and through expert leadership and a bit of luck, we managed to thwart the enemy and claim victory. Upon returning to the Capital, we were celebrated as heroes and given titles.
Eren (now Decius due to finally having his curse removed and learning who he actually was), Artem and Vyrtr became Lords because of our efforts in the war and we managed to prevent an assassination attempt on the king of the Kingdom we were in by the Kingdom whom we requested aid from. This was an attempt to take over the Kingdom when it was at it's weakest however they were deterred due to our character's quick rise to power. Additionally, Decius (previously Eren) also married the Princess and eventually BECAME the King of the Kingdom.
So not only did this cause a massive war but also our characters rise to power which lead to ascension into Godhood and also turned the Kingdom we saved in fanatics who worshipped our characters and no, they never found out that our characters actually unleashed the pyramid.
TLDR; Party used bag of beans and unleashed a mummy lord which resulted in a huge war, that we won and were granted titles, one of the party members becoming the King of the Kingdom and eventually ascended into Godhood.
My first D&D campaign was derailed when one of the characters in the party decided we should join the BBEG and the rest of the party didn't oppose. So we ended up bringing about an invasion of the prime material by Lolth and helping out with that...and then taking our places at her side. By the way, that character was a tiefling, not a drow.
I mean my character was crazed and driven by vengeance and didn't give a damn what happened to anyone, so...yeah.
EDIT: grammar
Story #1: Let's go over this again.
1.) The DM introduced a friend to the campaign who monkey wrenched the party and straight up derailed the campaign. For fun.
2.) The DM okayed his friend's character concept which was built on the one dimensional justification that all Kender are subversive and evil in practice, for the lulz.
3.) The DM and his friend were *shocked* that another character might arrive at the conclusion that the kender acting evil for all practical purposes, was in fact, evil.
4.) The DM and his friend were *shocked* that another character might respond to being betrayed and finding out that all kender are like that. (According to the amendments to world lore, courtesy of DM's friend.)
Honestly, those events could have radicalized any character. The DM and his friend tee'ed themselves up there really. It resulted in a paladin ban for OP but it should have been the DM's friend who was banned for not playing collaboratively and shifting the entire campaign through his actions. The DM should probably hang up his DM screen as well or read up on how to run a Session 0.
Hmm, I agree allowing a character to keep stealing from the party with a player who is not capable of doing this without it getting annoying is a problem that needs to be solved. I think the DM was reasonable to the extend they allowed the crusade to happen (though unwillingly).
But honestly, the people at the table should've been a bit more grown up (all of them), with the paladin/rest of the players addressing the issue that the kender player was not collaborating at all and was getting actively working against the party. Then the DM and kender player could have realised this meant the other players weren't having fun and learn something. If such a conversation didn't change any behaviours, then yes, the group should split up and continue with other people. Banning players and DM's hanging up their DM screen... not too sure about that.
1.) If the DM talked to the problem player and they changed, then that would definitely be a good solution. Though that's obviously not what happened.
Based on how the DM acted, he appeared to buy into the kender justification and barred his player from the paladin class, which is why I suggested in the theoretical that he should hang up his DM screen. Which was admittedly hyperbole. *People should get the chance to live and learn.* I think we agree on that.
2.) And the whole crusade narrative clearly wasn't collaborative and hadn't been for some time.
Which again falls on the DM and their likely lack of experience. C'est la vie.
@@FeebleAntelope It agree with you ^_^ My earlier reply was mostly intended to point out that, instead of putting a lot of blame and dislike for whatever nasty stuff happens and telling these people to never play dnd again, people should try and point out + hopefully work out the issue at hand first.
Our party fixed a robot that wasn't meant to be fixed for a few sessions... then adopted it. I may hate the robot, but I just have to laugh because this campaign was meant to follow a pretty specific plot, and this was only the beginning of how our party has made this campaign a bit more interesting lol
A kender would never sell something he thought as interesting enough to get his hands on
I played in a game where the party was invited to a mansion and had to solve a murder mystery (This is the first session btw). The 3 of us were level one, I was a rogue, there was a bard, and there was also a wizard.
It turns out, the murderer is a sword possessed by a ghost who needs to kill 6 more people to become a Lich. But, rather than kill the sword, I decided to bargain with it. I said: “If you don’t kill us, We’ll get you the souls in order to become a lich, and you grant us part of your power once you become a lich”
DM said, “No way it’s happening, but sure. Roll persuasion”
I roll a nat 20, with a +7 expertise in persuasion, and a 6 from a bardic inspiration, leaving me with a 33 for persuasion at level 1.
It turned into an evil campaign, and my character opens and runs a thieves+mercenaries guild with a flying magic sword (think Yondu’s arrow) and a Lich to back me up
The helm shenanigans was amazing.
That idea for a vampire affected by a Helm of Opposite Alignment is actually a really cool idea.
Let me tell you about my friend's ranger. So I was DMing a group of 6 and a half newbies (one of them only showed up for like a session and then left, but they weren't here for these events). Since I was still kinda new to DMing, I designed a campaign around the idea of replayability and that you could side with one of two sides of an ongoing war.
The first REAL event in the campaign was a siege on a major port town that the party stumbled into. A few minor encounters and they arrived in the palace where two of the big leaders of the campaign (with a few soldiers remaining each) were about to duel to the death. Upon the party's arrival, they each implore them to join their side. After an extended period of the party grilling the motives for both (which I just kinda let happen) the ranger passes me a notecard. And my heart sinks.
He then proceeded to roll a nat 20 slitting the throats of BOTH leaders in a single swipe. After a hard-fought battle with the remaining guards and the death of an ally, I then proceeded to craft a new "renegade" route for the party on the spot with the only motivation I had to go off being one player desiring to get a treehouse base.
After a mishap with them deciding that killing tree people to take the giant magic tree they called home was just TOO evil, I threw in a redwood forest so they could make a collection of treehouses and link them together... EXCEPT that the ranger who was acting as navigator decides to NOT TELL THE PARTY. I legitimately had no other plans for the campaign and we still had half a session, so I just had them stumble into the redwood anyway, but the fact that he threw me off twice THAT hard was insanely frustrating.
They then proceeded to avoid the war entirely and the ranger inst-KO'd my final bosses in the new campaign because he misread a rule.
Words for the wise: don't let your players get instakills unless they REALLY think ahead on it and never plan too far ahead, improv is the only way to keep up with the chaos of D&D players.
The Tempest Cleric murdered a bunch of trade guild members and civilians all to get at a corrupt villain working inside a trade hall. The villain got away at actually 1 hp and the party got kicked out of the town. I essentially had to hard reset the campaign but it’s been going on 2 years now. The cleric is now not as murderous and the party works together now!
there was this time, an evil npc we had captured, made the legal good character of the party swear that he would release her if she gave us information. the player was reluctant but my charactaer conviced him to give his word and everythign would be alright...
"I swear Ill release you", -looking at my character- said the legal good character. she procedes to give us the information we needed and then my character takes the Legal good character, close the cell and went away.... she then screams "YOU SWORE THAT YOU`LL FREE ME!!.." and my character turn around and answers,
"yeah, but we never said when...."
from that moment on the entire campaing was the Dm trying his best to kill all of us...
The evil helm story reminds me of a story i had. We had obtained a magic robe that would force the person holding or wearing it to make wisdom rolls for madness, we of course didn't know at the time we found it. After a few days our ranger who has the item in her bag keeps acting weird as they have been making wisdom checks and getting madness in private messages from the DM.
Eventually we decided to investigate and found the robes and figured it could be then as we never got it identified.
Of course since the fighter had grabbed it out of the bag they then had to make a roll and failed. This some how lead to the party playing Hot Potato with the robe giving everyone accept my wizard madness. Which lead to PvP as communication broke down from everyone going crazy.
That sounds amazing tbh. It sounds like a hilarious but serious RP moment!
The first story gave me a character idea anyone can use a Rouge/cleric multiclassed kobold that worships the Nordic deity loki that is chaotic neutral doing things like healing hands via slapping or conning quest givers into giving more gold on completing quests
Broke into Archedevil Glasya private residence. Despite me making it what I thought was an impossible fortress they ignored all the high level guards all the glyphs of warding. Ignored All the magic traps and detection magic. Stole a ton of soul coins and used them to higher a small devil army that they launched at the king and seized power. Forced a new religion onto the land with said power (you can guess who the new "gods" were). Btw it only takes about 100,000 followers to start the process of ascension to godhood. Which was how the campain ended.
This was an epic episode,all I can picture in my head is that scene from Sengoku Basara with the Lord drinking from the skull of his enemies!😆😆😆
Tldr: we (the players) didn't think the DM was giving us enough information about the "dungeon" (it was more of a basement). So we blew it up.
2nd tldr: lots of blood for bbeg...
The "dungeon" was dark and only one of us had dark vision. The dm told us that there was a (bad) smell inside of the "dungeon", and so we thought that it would be a bad idea to light a torch, so instead, we basically made a conga line with the character with the dark vision leading the line. Eventually, we got to a spike pit. We tried to get the dm to tell us about the dimensions of the pit. From what the dm was saying, we couldn't figure out a way to get around/over the pit. I, a 7.5ft tall character, suggest that I lay over the pit because I'm big enough to do that. No one else thought that was a good idea (and I pretty sure them dm was confused while we were discussing on what to do).
We Eventually came down to the conference of; leaving the dungeon and throwing a lit torch back into.
Anyway, the torch lit up the dungeon because the smell was from methane build up from decomposing bodies. The dungeon basically explode and so did a nearby house (the dungeon was underneath a city and the entrance we were at was like a basement door that was a few houses away from the was that went up in flames)
Later we learn that that dm had giving us the wrong dimensions of the spike pit, and we all could've just easily stepped over it.
We thought that the length of it was to far, for people who can't see, to jump over, but it turned at that it was only like 3x5ft (5ft wide). We thought it was 5x5ft, "a long step probably wouldn't have been enough to step over 5ft" was our thoughts (hence why I suggested laying over it as a bridge).
It wasn't really derailing, but we did basically skip the dungeon.
Later my fellow party members unintentionally (turned intentional) helped a bbeg summon a God to sacrifice the townspeople of the town that we were currently in. My character (with probably some meta gaming) figured out what might happened and left the town before the God was summoned. I did however, get chased by some undead for a bit.
I later met up with the rest of my party and we left that bloodied town asap.
My first DM, a year after ending our campaigns due to getting married + moving away, invited us to come do a campaign he was running to try to get his wife into the game. We had to make characters inspired by Disney stuff bc she loved Disney. I really DO NOT LIKE playing spell-heavy characters (too much to keep track of) but he basically strong-armed me into playing a Merfolk Wizard ala Ariel. I'm really miffed about it, so I decided to troll him.
Session 1, my character is introduced. She comes falling out of a barrel with her familiar. A parrot. They ask her name. In real life, I pull an actual parrot finger puppet out of my pocket, wave it in front of him & go "RAWK! THIS IS (ARIEL)! SHE CAN'T SPEAK. RAWK!!"
I made my character mute. I would have to talk through the parrot to communicate. A loud, obnoxious, RAWKing parrot. He huffed about needing speech to cast magic. I silently slid my character sheet over, pointing to my Feat. It was Silent Spell. All of the color drained from his face.
He rewrote the first session on the spot to the party finding a way to cure my muteness (much like Ariel, it was the result of a shell-based curse). The real lesson here is, don't make your players play things they don't want to, or risk getting trolled LOL.
My players joined the cult of Tiamat and summoned her avatar in attempt to be gifted half dragon status to over throw the kingdom that arrested them for a bar brawl they started.
That escalated quickly.
Player was RPing a detective. Got angry at a prisioner, shot him in the foot and lost her license. As the whole campaign revolved around these 3 detectives trying to solve a crime, this pretty much killed the entire thing. The DM was in shock
so in a pathfinder campaign i used to be in, the GM had his own HB world and plot that we were set in, and we had a hiatus for a few months for various reasons about half way into it.
because the hiatus had been so long, by the time we get back into things, we completely forgot what our characters had left off at so we decided to go off one player's notes that mentioned a side quest over in the dwarven country called the Ironsworn Union. This caused us to not only go in the complete opposite direction the GM had planned, but also completely outside of what he had prepared. It derailed the campaign so much that we had to retcon the whole thing the next session because the GM was so underprepared for that decision from us. so we had a gag about running off to the Ironsworn Union any time we wanted to mess with the GM for the rest of that campaign.
Dude, kender cleansing, boss af.
You have no concept of ownership? I HAVE NO CONCEPT OF KENDER!!! 🗡️
in one of my first DND games which i was GM in we had this special game where we made the characters and then randomly gave them to others (basically your character wasnt the one you made) however we decided to make it so the person which gets the character someone else made didnt know their characters flaw. So one of the people was secretly schizophrenic and you can probably guess how that went
Bluffed their way into Xanathar's lair and called him an idiot.
My players were in an underground city surrounded by skeletons. Unsure if there were more coming or what else was happening outside of the building they were in. One player convinces the other players to hand over their bags of holding. He then slams one into the other without a word to anyone else.... in the astral plane they found a way back and instead chose to go to a completely different continent giving up on the quest to stop an archdevil from being brought into the material plane to rule there... now the time is counting down
My DM gave me shadow step at third level.
He wasn’t expecting me to joke about jumping off a shady cliff with his BBEG and avoiding the fall damage by shadow stepping into the ground, and into the wall.
Ah, the first story warms my heart. Finally, one who understands the abomination that is the Kender! And yet, his Grand Crusade is not complete: for Kender might have been wiped from _his_ world, but they still exist in the multiverse. And until all Kender have been wiped from existence, *ALL KENDER MUST DIE!!!*
Kender are SUPPOSED to be as much a boon as a nuisance, genuinely not understanding concepts of ownership and having a chance to have whatever specific item the party needs at any given time not JUST stealing stuff. Stealing and selling the McGuffin is too far for a Kender, and the DM not doing anything to stop it makes it their fault too.
I was DM and my party narked on themselves after breaking into and burning down a massive warehouse owned by the man giving them quests and who happened to be on the council of elders. They were taken in and had to stand trial, ended up spending a few sessions in a coliseum fighting for their freedom.
Kinda love the idea of an Alex Jones-esque Paladin just for the role playing!
That’s genius!
That first story was great.
F***ing Kender...
God I wish my players pull something like the kender crusade. The war sounds so god damn awesome to roleplay, or maybe I am just war history nerd.
I actually started a homebrew campaign about a coming apocalypse. There was going to be this massive destroyer creature coming that is shrouded in mystery that a Seer saw in the future and warned the King about. But the Seer saw the party, in the future, fighting it and defeating it. So I opened with the King logically bringing them to his throne room, using magic to show them the vision and giving them their mission to stop it and sending them on their way. Where I had planned they would learn it's a Champion of the Chained Oblivion that the widespread cult that's been a recurring thorn in their side is planning to unleash.
My players immediately derailed it by deciding they quite liked that Cult of this deity they hadn't heard of before I mentioned once in passing as a hook to introduce them to what was supposed to be the main antagonist group. They loved it so much in fact they joined it. It's a cult of the Chained Ob-fing-livion. So now my home brew campaign went from stopping the Chained Oblivion's Champion from breaking free and destroying the world to "Let's get this really cool mysterious 'Exalted One' out of the locked magic box it's in while also climbing the ranks of this dope ass cult."
Why? Because the party didn't start with a Cleric and me making the original cell's leader a Cleric they mis-interpreted as a DMPC in the most absolutely atrocious way possible. So now every time a NPC mentions the King's mission they keep trying to guess as to what powers it actually has.
The answer is yes to all of them. I'm just adding whatever ideas they come up with to it, within the limits of D&D, because at this point the world is already kind of screwed. Also serves me right to change up the boss, from Bards which I usually run, to an Evil Cleric because it's something more traditionally culty.
And here I was expecting something along the lines of the "Wrong Tiamat Conundrum".
Mine was as instantly found the bandit hide out... I got caught in the process but made for an interesting story.
Mine was pulling the entire planet into the Astral Plane. It was an Evil campaign but never was supposed to be “that” Evil.
@@sidecharacter7165 How?
@@cooldemon5545 Bags of Holding, Portable Holes, and many other extradimensional items all mixing.
We were playing ShadowRun. Me, elf Street Samurai sworn to never use firearms, other PCs were human Commando (guns and explosives expert) and a dwarven Rigger (hacker specialized in vehicles). Hired by a government official to rescue the President's kidnapped daughter, we infiltrated the bad guys' base in an office block to find that they had stolen an armored sedan and were moving the girl to another location for the final showdown. Rigger hacked an attack chopper to follow, Commando used a phosphorus-coated round in his sniper rifle (while standing on the landing rung of the chopper) to shoot the pavement in front of the car (blinding the driver) and ricochet the bullet under the car's plating into the engine. Cue burning engine, screaming bad guys, my Samurai rappelling from the chopper and using dual monofilaments (laser whips for the uninitiated) to carve the rear door off the car and slash the goons to ribbons. Girl saved, mission ended 3 hours earlier than intended.
I've had games derail countless times during character creation. Most of my games have been improved mainly because whatever I had planned got thrown out at character creation.
Yeah when you're expecting a unicorn and you get a rhinoceros instead, you're gonna have a bad time.
We derailed a campaign on session 1, effectively killing it lol.
This was, I think, D&D 3.5, modified to fit a steampunk setting. We, the party, were a rowdy but reliable group of dwarves.
At the beginning of the first session, we were tasked with investigating and dispatching whatever monsters were messing with the navigation and systems of a giant flying ship. We go below deck and make some decent progress, but at one point encounter some monsters (I forget what) while we're making our way down some hallway with a giant hole on the side (open to the air, we're above the clouds). We're close to defeating the monsters, but they happen to whack the dwarf that we declared as our leader, and he's sent out the hole and falls to his death.
Another party member takes up the role of leader, and she calls a retreat. We all get back on deck, find the ship's captain, and she tells the captain that we lost our leader and we're not continuing this mission as it's too dangerous. We then promptly get the heck out of there.
The DM quickly scrambles together some location (I think some form of cloud city) that we end up at, and he calls the session just after we convince the city's guards to let us in so we can talk with the leader there.
At that point, the DM says he has no clue where to go from here. He was completely blindsided by us deciding to nope out of the first quest. Sooooo that campaign instead just turned into a one-shot lol!
First town, first session, they convinced the mayor to go on their adventures and got him killed right outside of town.
Players took their questgiver hostage, used magic to mentally break him, then blew a hole in the floor and then the basement in order to escape to the sewers. They've since joined forces with the cultists they were originally meant to stop, agreeing to progress the main plot so that they can focus on a sidequest.
This is a campaign with two separate groups of players, so the group that didn't blow up the home base occasionally gets to hear about how a group of terrorists have recently done X thing.
The chaotic group said they did it because "that guy was sketchy".
It's been an absolutely wild ride so far, I can't wait to see where they take me next.
I've starting my first campaign as a DM with a group of close friends & my little brother, and even after 1 session they've derailed it almost unbelievably. Through the first chunk of session 1, they ran through a gnome palace and rescued to king from a mimic. After this, they proceeded down the mountain as planned to reach the first town, Tesella. After setting up camp, I introduced them to a goblin thief character named Mitch who is integral to the story, and what do they do? They tie him up and rob him, then agree to let him take them to the town because they had no idea where the frick they were. After a bit, they almost kicked Mitch down a cliff, so I had to make him run off. What do you know, five minutes later they find mitch again and beat him unconscious, after which they turned him in to jail.
Luckily, two of the party members got drunk and were arrested, where I could continue the encounter with Mitch as planned. But this tells me I'm gonna need to prepare for some serious tomcuckery in the future.
Did this as player in a Stars Without Number campaign. GM had us meet an npc AI that was clearly set up to be the Big Bad. Big Bad threatened us and showed us a supership it had made. We're allowed to stay on its planet to negotiate what happens next. I use the time to learn a bit about the culture and set up some... deception. I sneak onto a smaller ship heading up to the supership, still in disguise. DM clearly thinks I'm here to learn about the ship or try and subvert it. Nope. I convince the crew I'm an inspector, and get them to show me around. I reach the Faster Than Light engine - we, as a group, have established that these things are crazy volatile. So I BLOW IT UP, INSTANTLY obliterating myself and the entire ship. I don't know what the original plan was for this, but I was so proud that I'd made that work.
The wizard of the party spoke with a senile orc about his ex lover
This simple fact started a chain of events that caused:
1) 2000 civilian deaths in a giant explosion
2) an epic lich unleashed
3) the corruption of the goddess of death
4) a planar undead plague
All in less than an hour
Context please.
@@aesiro1336 it's long and convoluted, also difficult to explain, do you really want to know more?
@@dude8351 Yes. I've read much harder stuff. Plus I feel like it'd give me a good laugh.
@@aesiro1336 ok then
First thing first, there's no contact with the outer planes and the goddess of death (ad iterim) is responsible for the reincarnation of souls until the connection with the outer planes is restored
Another important thing to know is that half the party was cursed with an infohazard by an elder entity: just knowing about this entity is enough for it to control you and/or slowly corrupt your mind
The wizard, that we'll call "K" had an oni lover, but she wasn't a real oni but "something else".
Months before the party had to return 50k in hard drugs and a litter of kittens to the orc cartel or face grim consequences. In that occasion, the party encountered the grampa of the cartel, a senile old orc named Kaishek that seemed to know the lover of K.
After some time, the player remembered this fact so, he went alone to talk to the old man.
K asked to much about his oni lover to the old orc, discovering that he was really the Lord of a doomsday cult the player thought in the previous campaign, and wanted to completly destroy the oni because she was the reincarnation of some kind of calamity.
This part is a bit hazy, but for a reason or another, K decided that the _reasonable option_ was to came back the day after and assassinate Kaishek. Problem is, Kaishek was level 27 lich and melted the party, so, the next _reasonable option_ was to summon 40 tons of gunpowder and blow up the neighbourhood.
K saved himself with teleport, but 2000 people were blown up
@@aesiro1336 after that, Kaishek respawned in a couple round using a trick that he learned from the previous character of the same player one campaign ago, and started "asking" question with the spell mind r*pe... and ended up cursed with the same knowledge of the party after interrogating K.
So we have an epic lich unleashed upon the world.
After that K was captured by the guards and executed... discovering that it was all a plan of the elder entity so that the curse could spread to the goddess of death and corrupt her. After that, the now mad goddess blocked the reincarnation cycle and started an undead plague that only now, after more than an irl year, the party is almost ready to deal with
All because the wizard talked too much with a senile orc
*OD&D and AD&D stories are always a whole nother level of awesome above newer D&D editions .*
The one story about the Kender...
As someone (irl) thats into cybersecurity and doesn't like my shit stolen (irl and/or in a game) I will fuck some shit up and I'll make sure you will NEVER know it was me.
I'll make sure you learn your lesson the hard way if I see the need.
I know how to research people and their assets and persuade and influence them to do exactly what I want, when I want and how I want.
I wish people luck if they do me and/or my character wrong. (I want my character to be based on me irl) They will need it.
My bad here. My ranger had fey as a favored enemy due to being kidnapped by a hag as a child. We met a hag. She was meant to be a quest giver, but I didn't trust her. I played along long enough to gain her trust, then set a trap for her. I didn't realize she was WAY out of our league. We had to book it, and she started hunting us. We kind of suspended the campaign with one party member dead, 2 captured, and 3 of us on the run in the feywild.
"The Helm of Opposite Alignment fits snug on your head"
My true neutral fighter: _Oh no! Anyway..._
I derailed a campaign by killing a dragon all by myself. This was back in the days of 3 or 3.5, so bear with me. Our party was travelling along a rather decently cleared road in a northern area, in the middle of winter on a clear day. A white dragon flying overhead noticed our party & wanted a snack (our horses). It made a pass, scoping things out & scaring everyone. While most of the party & retainers were calming the pack animals & making for the tree line to get ready for a fight, my mage dismounted his horse, jammed his staff in the ground, and cast Hold Monster on the dragon's next diving pass. It failed ALL it's saving throws, & basically became a lawn dart, slamming into the ground at full speed, killing it instantly. I got all the XP for that, some cool spell components, & only after things were settled later did we find out that particular dragon was actually worshipped by a local tribe of locals, and they were NOT thrilled with us. Our party had to make an extensive detour to leave the area alive & meet up with our actual contacts. This took several gaming sessions after a short break for the DM to figure things out.
I didn't know I needed Bloodborne Pepe until I saw it... now I need to add Bloodborne Pepe to my Bloodborne shrine
*BEING THE PLAYERS*
With Fizban now being a canonical character in 5e, the return of Kender to the lore is not far behind. We will find this Pali, and avenge our fallen brethren! 😡
Kenders suck
I found out after the session that I was the derailer.
It was a sidestory (because only me and one other PC could play that session) turned out to be a vision of the near future in a village where a tragedy (murder) will happen. We didn't know that at the time.
While we were exploring and investigating, we went to the library to find out what was going on. While there we chatted to the librarian, who mentioned that someone, a friend of the murderer, had taken out a book and when asked to return the book, the npc said they didn't have it. I had assumed it was a doppelganger or changeling (took place in Eberron) who was the culprit, as the murderer was adament he was innocent. The other player and I decided to split up. They went to chat the culprit, while I did the thing the DM didn't plan for... I went to chat to the NPC, to get him to return the book and to get info from him. The NPC wasn't a shape-shifter, he just wanted to clear his friend's name, and found a conspiracy involving a blind cult and connections to previous murders. So other player and I went to the crime scene, and after shenanigans that involved me intentio going blind temporarily. We defeated the cause of the problem (a wraith) and won... then we were told what was going on by a secret society.
I hadn't realised that I wasn't supposed to follow what was an offhand comment, which ended up allowing us to win when we were meant to be shown what would happen if we failed.
There was also the fact that this was only the the second session in the campaign.
In the first session i convinced the rest if the party to allow the mayor's daughter to marry her true love rather than being a reward for beating the arc's villain. Then in the most recent session (session 3 if the now ongoing campaign) where I decided that I was going to do a troll war with a trickster possible villain, who could kill my PC where I stood if it weren't for my character being who they are (a mysterious tortle who used to be a turtle in the Metrol Zoo, and was a symbol of hope during the war, with kids' books, stuffed animals and bobbleheads in his commemoration [was discussed and approved with DM, but I wasn't expecting in universe merch, that was the DM's idea]).
Also, I have gotten my fellow PCs to twist the DM's arm to prepare for a wedding one-shot
I love Gahla Pagous, my Tortle Spore Druid, who was only meant for a Halloween one-shot
Sidenote, trickster who might be a villain gifted some magic items to the party to try sweeten some deals
Gahla was gifted the least morally challenging one. A quarterstaff druidic focus that has permanent Speak with animals and can cause Wild Magic (this was what finally turned what was trolling to annoy into a friendly rivalry of trolling, that and being paid 1200 gold in single coins (so 1200 separate coins) after selling trickster vampire teeth and Gahla adding velvet and some splinters from arc-villain vampire's smashed coffin as a joke)
Wows. Great storys
Everyone in the party decided to kill the emperor because he hired us to kill a few people that we worked with a few years ago we fucked up the cover up and got were exiled into a completely uncharted part of the map and our poor dm had to make a new story
I was once running a cyberpunk campaign with magic where the players were supposed to overthrow the local mega Corp before they complete work on a super weapon that would make overthrowing them impossible. Turns out the government was trying to resurrect a dark god but the party instead decided to team up with the dark god to destroy the entire planet and all life on it. 50 billion human lives were destroyed.
Once had the party completely abandon the campaign to run a ferry/mobile tavern on a ship they bought
They stole a city. It is now halfway across the continent.
PANR has tuned in.
That Kender Crusade story is brilliant! This is how you deal with communists!
If Goblin Slayer only killed kender...
*Queue Goblin Slayer intro*
3 words: “begin cheese acquisition.”
I think I remember accidentally turning an enourmous tree into a gibbering mouther somehow and causing the start of a world calamity. it's been a while, and i don't remember the full details, but that's basically how the campaign went.
The Kender Ender
I had a GM who got incredibly annoyed with my Paladin's lucky Smite rolls. He began steadily increasing the number of ranged enemies in our encounters. After 2 such combats, I bought multiple whips and tied them together, giving myself a 50m ranged melee. GM protested, but as he had already allowed multiple whips to be combined in a previous session, I was soon Smiting Goblin Archers from across the map
Short and sweet…
I am the DM for a homebrew campaign I made for the six people in the group. The campaign is on going but what happened was when they were level 3.
Possibly the second or the third worst case of murderhobo I have ever seen in my time. Starting from north side of town heading to the southside of town they killed just about every person they ran across. Having preset plans for contingencies when players goes off track of the story. They made my choice of a revenant very easy. Fast-forward ingame about six months, this very same group went to the next town over where they just went full murder hobo. By this time they have dealt with the revenant two times, my plan was by the third resurrection he was going to be at full power coming at the group of six level 3’s.
DM‘s opening attack roll NAT 1!
With revenant at full run he trips and falls face first in front of all six triggering attacks of opportunity.
Players opening attack 4 Nat 20, 18, 17 A whopping 138 damage points later. We have a dead Revenant. Not one Char hit or even damaged.
Me the DM: well fuck me… see you all next month.
When the dm has to ban vials of water...
Traffic first one is fucking hilarious