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So I was speaking to one of my players the other day while organising they're character sheet & explaining a bit about the campaign and what to expect from it alongside the starting village etc etc.

I mentioned that I was coming up with extra things to make it more fun for my players such as Tavern Games & Strange Tavern Foods, because I know players often love to go to a Tavern so I really wanted to give them fun experiences at the taverns by giving them something to look forward to.

My player then responded saying "You are probably one of the best DMs but new players would never realise it because they don't know what a bad DM is" And I genuinely just felt so touched that someone would say that to me.

Really made all my effort worthwhile.

Do any other DMs ever feel like anytime they're starting a campaign with a new group, and their characters are just extra-fantastical that you kind of groan and roll your eyes because you know this is going to be a dumpster fire.

Like someone just asks if their character is okay for a medieval setting and it's a half fairy half tabaxi artificer that uses a gun and I just want to be like "look, I know you've been watching critical role and dropout shows and were like 'wow I wish I was funny and interesting' but you don't know how to be so you're trying to fake it with what is essentially a costume, but when you drop off this scrappy doo with a gun cardboard cutout in my world that I cherish and worked really hard on, I'm gonna be pissed off."

Like I dunno maybe I'm just burnt out and turning into a cantankerous old man, but so many new (to me) players just always max out the fucking zany nonsense on their characters, but barely bother with a backstory and ask no questions about the setting beyond "can I" and then can't roleplay worth a fuck and like every session just stalls out repeatedly as I carry every conversation they enter and they do the kubrick stare into their webcams like they're hoping dialogue options will pop up.

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Hello! So I'm a player in a roleplaying campaign that is very centered in politics/war/etc... That's cool, but since there's big battles with A LOT of NPCs, battling can get extremely boring.

For example, the other day as a PC i didn't play for a whole 2 hours because a single PC was fighting alongside a lot of NPCs which all got their turns, while I was trying to get to the battleground. The battle ended before I could even get there, and it was very boring and a bit frustrating honestly.

I would like to talk to my DM about it and offer some ideas on how to make NPCs allies fight but with much quicker turns, cause our DM spends around 10/15 minutes every turn with making NPCs fight against other NPCs.

Any ideas? Any apps/webs some of you use? I want to talk about this problem before it becomes a dealbreaker for me but I don't want to go there with only complains and not any solutions. Thanks! <3

This is a post just to vent. As the title says: We are about to start a campaign. It's a short story original by the DM. We already have another table with him and its cool, he's great. Stern but fair and usually notice details about characters and decisions. But in this new table, with other people, he seems different. Very strict and rigid. Anyway we were supposed to be beginning at level 5 and he asked characters backstory, previous adventures, and explanation as to how we were a party and why we had experience. Last week the players (we) had a call and we agreed on relations, personalities and shared experiences. I like writing a little and so offered to put all that on paper. I made a big effort. We're understaffed at the moment on my job, im on a couple of seminars and overall I'm exhausted and mentally overloaded, but still I found time and energy and wrote.

Last night the DM reaction was "ok... This is all? That won't be enough for a level 5, all of you didn't take the chance i offered so you'll be starting with less level".

Honestly I was pissed. I get that maybe we didn't kill a dragon, but the adventures and background were funny. The characters took down a stone giant, a whole group of bandits, saved a town, helped one of the party with his tabern, resolved the mystery about dissaperances on a mansion and county, took down a necromancer with N number of skeletons, and with interactions and cool stuff happening between them. The reaction was so... Flat. Very jarring and underwhelming.

So yeah :( Not having the best vibes atm towards this new campaign.

Edit: thank you for your comments guys. This is the first time i have so many reactions. I wrote to my DM, who's also my friend, a while ago and told him I was sad and disappointed by the reception of the effort. I wrote but the adventures were planned together by all of us players. He apolgized, acknowledged the effort and content, and said he was frustrated because he couldn't communicate clearly that we needed several milestones and reputation so his story could work. So he will have to make several adjustments because our characters will be starting with lower level. So we cleared the air and hopefully it will be a great campaign :)

So I am a relatively new player, played barbarian once in a short campaign and now I have decided to give Warlock a shot. Next session we are definitely going to be fifth level, and that is where warlocks get another Eldritch invocation

My current invocations are armor of shadows for free mage armor and book of ancient secrets. On fifth level I was going to take Devils sight because that invocation sounds very cool. I was also going to take Hunger of Hadar as my 3rd level spell, as its a really cool sounding spell. Especially flavourfull for a great old one warlock.

One of my players however informed me that the combo of Hunger of Hadar and Devil's sight is way too meta and broken, and that it will completely shut off the rest of the party. I personally don't think so, but I have never even used the spell so I am way too inexperienced to make a decision if that is true or not, vut it doesn't seem that strong to me.

The DM agreed with the player at my table which is a bit sad, as they said that I either cant take Hunger of Hadar or that I cant take Devils sight invocation. But he heavily implied the it'd be best if I didn't take Hunger of Hadar.

What are your experiences with this spell/combo? Does it really lock out the rest of the party? Is it really that good?

basically, we each agreed to do a heist on a tavern, but instead of stealing the wine or the coins, they literally stole the glass pane windows and tables before selling them to a merchant who later just so happens to sell them to the same tavern. This happened no joke, 10 times. genius or stupid?

I had a bit of a polarizing boss fight. Group of 4, we've all been playing like 10 years. They show up to BBEG, last session of the campaign, who has an amulet that sets off an illusion spell which made the players swap bodies. Mechanically I told the group to give their character sheet to the person on the left, "dont tell anyone how to play your character". 2 of them loved it. Their jaws hit the floor, they got all excited etc. The other 2 got upset because I didn't have them make a saving throw. Under normal circumstances I'd have done the throw, but the whole swap was kinda the gimmick of this entire encounter. Else it would have just been a standard fight with an orc with flaming swords. I told them my rationale, and to just roll with it and have fun with it, but they spent the entire boss fight irritated.

I guess I could have deceived them with an impassable saving throw but that's not really my style.

I dunno what do you guys think? Was I wrong?

EDIT: I just wanna clarify the campaign wasn't very long. About 5 sessions. So I wasn't expecting a ton of attachment to their characters. I would not have done this in a longer campaign as the final boss fight. We've been playing as a group for a long time, but this specific game was short.

I've got a new player joining the party; she'll be playing a life cleric. She wants to make it one of her character's convictions that the character will not kill 'people'. That would apply to all playable races, but she obviously can't have her elf say: "I will not kill playable races."

She also can't say 'humans', because that applies to only one race, or 'humanoids', because there are humanoid monsters. So, what would you have her say?