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Me and a few buddies play D&D together around twice a week. We‘re all in high school and good friends. I am the DM.

We‘re currently playing through The Lost Mine of Phandelver module, as it’s two of my buddies first time playing.

In a dungeon underneath a manor in Phandalin there is a room where a few villagers are being held captive.

I describe that there are three NPCS in the cells chained to the walls, two females and a male.

Player says ‘I do have a rapier.’ And laughs. As a ‘joke’ obviously referring to raping the female NPCS.

I shut him down immediately at this disgusting ‘humor’. And so did the other players.

Later that night I messaged him that I wouldn't tolerate jokes like that again. And that if he made any more, I would be inclined to no longer play D&D with him again.

Am I overreacting? Or was this a proper response to the gross joke he made last session?

I have not posted in this sub before, and I‘m sorry if my flair is incorrect.

EDIT: He made it clear that he was referring to rape.

Update: Me and player have spoken, and all is well and resolved. I am very confident he won’t be making jokes like this again. And we‘ll continue to play D&D together. I would like to reestablish the fact that I would not have cut off ties with my friend because of this, as he doesn’t act anything like this normally, I would just no longer play D&D with him.

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It always bothered me a bit that during our (far too infrequent) DnD sessions, my players had various soda cans sitting on the table while I tried to create as much immersion as possible (lights, music, talking like a goblin, etc)

But I recently got into CAD and 3D printing, so why not solve this problem?

Am I the only one having an issue with soda cans on the table? :D
Whats your solution to snacks and beverages on the DnD table?

Exiled from her homelands, Valera used her talents of the blade and magic to locate the lost twin swords Grief and Lament, once wielded by the cruel Empress of Roses. She pledged herself to the cursed blades to become a new Thorn Maiden to smite her enemies and reclaim her birthright.

This is just a small backstory for a hexblade warlock with a grudge. I do have a contrasting, spell-slinging, good two-shoes older sister for her as well who is a lore bard but I won't post her here. Some day I'll play them both as an NPC or as alternating characters in a campaign if I can ever find a decent group online.

So one of my players does not roleplay at all. He only cares about making his character stronger by gathering powerful items or magic scrolls.

Imagine this: the party goes to a city library searching for clues about what happened in the past that caused the current state of the world. They're investigating, interrogating civilians and criminals, you know, actually playing the game. Meanwhile, this guy wants to search every closet and bookshelf in order to find valuable loot, constantly interrupting other players while they’re roleplaying.

Whenever I make an NPC talk to him or interact with him, he either ignores them or tries to avoid them completely. Yes, I understand that his backstory explains why his character acts that way, but it was getting more annoying with every session.

One day, while they were in the city library, he snuck into the grand librarian’s room hoping to find some “OP items,” but instead he found an ominous-looking book. I described it like this:

“The very existence of the book disturbs you. The closer you get to it, the stronger the feeling becomes.”

Of course, he ignored the warning and opened the book.

He immediately teleported to another dimension where he was greeted by a giant spider almost as big as an adult dragon — except the spider was actually friendly. But he immediately decided the spider was dangerous and attacked it, thinking he could take it down. (He was a level 4 wizard, by the way.)

The spider absolutely obliterated him.

The thing is, he couldn’t die. That dimension simply did not allow death. As the spider filled his body with poison and melted his innards, he could feel everything, but he couldn’t move or speak because the spider had also eaten all four of his limbs. He was just lying there in endless agony while being consumed by a dragon-sized spider.

After a while, the spider left the area, and the rest of the party found a way into the dimension, healed him, and rescued him.

I told him that his character had suffered immense trauma and that he should roleplay accordingly afterward.

And surprisingly… it worked.

His character started bonding more with the rest of the party because they risked themselves to save him, and he actually started roleplaying more.

Am I weird for coming up with something like this?

Just started Session 0 a few days ago as player few days ago, very excited to finally play again after a few short experiences with other RPGs. We play in the Warcraft universe, 15 years after the second war, pre third war and as this is set at the start of Warcraft 3 a few of us are quite knowledgeable about the lore but thankfully the DM has hid own set timeline which REALLY helps since Warcraft lore can be a bit all over sometimes. I'm very excited about the game cause I've loved this universe since I was very little!

Now, two big problems

- One player keeps co-dming with him, talking over him and DM has to interrupt him to correct him a lot and even heard a "haha I have to 'well actually' you now" by the player. It's very annoying. I feel bad for the DM, even though he's good at what he's doing and imagine will set boundaries privately as he said we should all do if needed, it's very discouraging to have this first session.

Personally I do know quite a lot about canon lore but there are so many nuances and details that he's thought of that I just love hearing him get into that, also - I love when my friends are happy and passionate about their favourite things!

- Another player is very full of herself better then thou kind of American🦅🏜 that says "I hate Europe" a lot which as a European is annoying as heck - she hates ALL of Europe because of a bad ex (this is how she introduced herself to us), thinks she's gonna be the main focus probably of the story.

Should I bring this to my DM or just see first if he checks in with the players himself ? I'm not sure since he just came out of the hospital and I try not to bother him too much.

PS: I know, "average Warcraft players, what were you expecting", at least there's no general chat vibes happy to report

Just a quick preface: this isn't a “should I leave the table?” post. I already talked to the DM, made my peace with it, and left on good terms. I just thought the actual table interaction was funny enough to share.

I joined a campaign being run by a friend I’d played with before. Immediately, I thought it was a little odd that one player wasn’t going to be at session 0. We were told she “doesn’t take the game as seriously” and didn’t see the point of it.

I used to DM, so I’m always a little hesitant to tell other people how to run their tables. I figured it probably wasn’t a huge deal and let it go.

Session 1 starts, and things get weird fast.

The missing player is a Wild Magic Sorcerer who appears to just be… a normal girl from Earth transported into a fantasy world. During combat, she starts announcing spells I’ve never heard of and calling Wild Magic Surges completely at random, including during other people’s turns.

I thought it was strange, but it was the first session and I didn’t want to start drama in a new group.

Session 2 comes around and the same stuff keeps happening, except now she’s using spells I do recognize, but with completely different effects.

Shocking Grasp incapacitated someone.

Sorcerous Burst exploded midair for AoE damage.

At the end of the session, I finally asked the DM what was going on.

She explained that since she “doesn’t take the game as seriously as the rest of us,” she never actually bothered reading the rules. Apparently she made her character in D&D Beyond by choosing things entirely based on names and vibes, then just decides what they do in the moment.

The DM then explained that D&D is a cooperative game, so it’s not like anything overpowered she does hurts the party. In fact, she said we should probably be happy she can freely warp reality however she wants.

By session 3, the Calvinball energy had become fully unhinged.

Apparently the sorcerer player had started playing BG3 and now had a vague understanding of the rules, which somehow made things even worse.

In a single combat, she:

used Sneak Attack

healed a downed party member

cast Witch Bolt

then had the Witch Bolt chain lightning around the battlefield

I looked over at the DM.

She just nodded at me like this was all perfectly normal.

After the session, the sorcerer player started talking about Rule 0 and how this was totally fine because she was having fun.

And honestly?

The worst part is that, despite my overwhelming nerd rage, in some horrible way… she’s kind of right.

I'm writing this in part to vent and in part to see if others feel the same and how they deal with it.

First, I want to clarify that I'm an adult with big boy pants and I can handle my feelings without engaging in antisocial behavior, but the feelings are there and I want to address them anyway.

I've come to realize that homebrew tends to seriously piss me off. Of course, I don't mean lore or worldbuilding. I'm talking about playable content (species, classes, items, etc.) and rules. Mostly rules.

This happens to me both as a DM and as a player. I think it pisses me off more as a player because there's little I can do about it other than making a choice of accepting it or leaving. As a DM, I don't reject homebrew stuff outright, but I seriously review it and usually make adjustments and try to work with my players when they bring stuff to me. As I said, I think I am well-adjusted adult and can behave.

I've been meditating over this and came to the following conclusions:

What pisses me off most about homebrew stuff is when it adds steps (specially dice rolls) to processes. For example, RAW, a nat 1 on an attack roll is an automiss, end of story. Some homebrew add a negative rider to the roll that can go from a funny nuisance (friendly fire, allowing an attack of opportunity on a nearby enemy, etc.) to really shitty outcome (your weapon breaks, you lose a turn, etc.). That can be bad, but if it's just an immediate outcome, I can stomach it. What gets infuriatingly insane is when you add more steps to it. Roll on a table? That's bad enough. But have all nearby allies make a contested roll to see who gets hit with the attack? AM I MADE OUT OF TIME? Have you roll a d8 to see in which adjacent square the hit lands? AM I FUCKING CODED IN PYTHON???? When I am faced with this as a player, I usually contemplate just leaving, and more often than not stay because I usually like the rest of what's going on.

And when I am approached to approve a homebrew something that is a rulebook by itself, I daydream with extreme violence. I don't even mind that much anymore if stuff is ridiculously overpowered because I just say "wait, let's tone it down a bunch" and it works out. The problem is when I have to read a whole mess of a thing, understand it, figure out the intent, quickly map it out against the whole D&D content in play to find exploits, and then give feedback and a veredict. Like a "Glitch" spell that you cast on an unoccupied space you see within range and choose a physics law, then for 2d3-1 (WHY???) rounds, that physics law no longer affects creatures of a type depending of your spellcasting ability (Fey for Charisma, Elemental for Intelligence, Undead for Wisdom) and have to make a Saving Throw of an ability depending on the law you chose to change. If they fail, they take 11d7-4 dmg and whenever they have to make an ability check or saving throw, they have to roll three dice and keep the lowest roll but add half of the highest roll rounded up if the middle roll is even and down if the middle roll is odd. Then for the next 24 hours whenever a humanoid says a word chosen from a table depending on the humanoid's species (Balloon for Human, Shitfuckles for Dwarf, etc), they gain Truesight for 3d17-20 hours.

And of course, it really fucks me up inside dealing with homebrew that clearly goes against game design convention or intention. Like stuff that lets you concentrate on extra spells, have additional reactions, etc.

But the worst part of it all is that I actually like making homebrew myself. Not too much, not anything. I don't like making spells and items. I like making subclasses every now and then, classes not so much, I feel like it's a lot of work. I couldn't care less about species. But what I like the most if making homebrew rules. Not any rule, but mostly tweaks here or there that I feel are worth trying to fix some perceived issues.

Or small tweaks to content, like adding a bit of text at the end of the lvl 5 Extra Attack feature that says that levels of all classes that have this feature at level 5 counts towards it. Or giving the psi blades of the soulknife the light property and the nick mastery (probably replacing vex). Or changes to rules like separating Feats from ASIs and getting a +1 every odd level except 1, and removing all ASI from feats and keeping them at the current pace.

But all these changes are never for me, but for my players. So I basically end up playing with homebrew that pisses me off and running rules that I wish I could use with other players.

Anyway, sorry for the long rant. I feel a bit lighter now.

I'm making a Boss that steals Senses when they touch a target; things like "Sense of Time" or "Sense of Justice", and the normal 5 senses, of course. I've got 12 right now, but was wondering if anyone could help me think of some more I could add to the outcome table. Here's my full list, just so no one recommends a duplicate:

1. Sense of Self
2. Sense of Justice
3. Sense of Sight
4. Sense of Hearing
5. Sense of Proprioception
6. Sense of Pain
7. Sense of Time
8. Sense of Touch
9. Sense of Direction
10. Sense of Taste
11. Sense of Smell
12. Sense of Fashion

EDIT: Alright, I think I've got my 20 (and I don't think I want to try and make a 100). Thank you everyone for your help!

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There's something that happens in these games that's hard to put into words. People show up, inhabit a character, and somewhere along the way something clicks - socially, personally, sometimes in ways that carry over into real life. I want to know what that something is.

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