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Was playing a session where we were in the Fey and rescued some highbrow Autumn court person and, while they were out of breath and dishevelled - and the DM was a little distracted - I said,

Oh my gosh, are you ok? What happened here? Oh, wait, where are my manners, I am Okrahm, can I have your name?

AND THEY GAVE IT TO ME! IT IS NOW MINE! I HAVE A NEW FEY NAME!

Probably the nth tiefling in this subreddit but anyways here's mine!

Keira is a one horned tiefling sorcerer from House Voughn, she's of noble background, and in this drawing you see her using her ceremonial gown.

She's been my character for some years now and since I draw, I gave her a huge redesign.

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I feel like I’ve hit a bit of a dead end in my D&D campaign and would appreciate some outside thoughts.

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One of our friends is leaving the country soon, so he won’t be playing with us anymore. In tonight’s session, we faced a dragon, and it became apparent very quickly that he had planned some kind of heroic final moment where he would sacrifice himself to kill the dragon and save the party.

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The problem is, he has never really been that invested in the campaign. He has missed months at a time before, and when he does play, he often seems like he is trying to leave at the earliest opportunity. So this big heroic exit didn’t really feel earned to me.

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What made it worse is that his suicide attack also killed my character.

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I’m not going to lie, I was livid. It felt cheap and dumb, especially because we had the dragon almost beaten anyway. It didn’t feel like this grand sacrifice was actually needed. Instead, it felt like my character got killed as collateral damage in someone else’s self-created farewell moment.

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The DM then made part of the dragon’s loot a scroll of resurrection, which was used on my character and succeeded. But honestly, that also felt cheap. It fixed the mechanical problem, but not the way I felt about the situation.

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So now I’m in this weird place where my character is technically alive, but I’m still unhappy with the outcome. I’m annoyed at my friend for getting my character killed, and I’m also annoyed at the DM for solving it with what felt like a very convenient resurrection scroll.

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At this point, I feel like I’ve lost motivation. Maybe motivation to play this character, and possibly even motivation to keep playing D&D with this group.

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Am I overreacting here? How would you handle this as a player or DM?

Edit: I'll add for context, this is my first year playing and my first character. I have no experience in this situation thus my thinking in asking the community. Appreciate everyone's comments.

Edit 2: very much appreciate everyone's comments coming in. A couple who suggest that D&D isn't for me. This isn't true. I have thoroughly enjoyed getting into the game but, as previously stated, it is something new to me. I'm sure we've all had moments we've struggled with when playing.

To add some further context, the "heroic moment" was an orb that he had acquired in an outside discussion with the DM that unleashed fire and necrotic damage within 20ft causing 75 of each damage type to anyone that failed the save. This also destroyed everything I owned with the exception of any magic items, my Bag of Holding was swiftly looted by the one surviving member of the party.

Gave my players a few items that were high risk high reward. One of which was the Potion of Maybe. When drunk, player flips a coin, if heads +2 ac permanently. If tails, instant permadeath with no death saves.

I thought it would be a fun risk to take in a high pressure situation.

My humble level 5s find themselves fighting a level 12 Sorceror they had no business messing with. Huge story player. In the scene, he is actually attacking a different NPC, strangling him in a bed, and the players get the option to intervene, let it play out, talk it out etc. instead, someone fireballs into the room, starting the combat. My level 12 NPC rolls last in initiative with a nice nat 1.

The player just before him uses his turn to talk, and convinces my NPC he will help him kill the man in the bed. He promises the sorceror something he desperately wanted. He rolled a 19+5 on the persuasion check. And so in character i told him “well then strike the body in the bed you fool!”

And he says “okay, but here first drink this healing potion you’re getting teamed up on bad and this might not be good for you”

I INSTANTLY realized the plan, and yet didn’t want to shoot down his idea so I asked for a persuasion check with disadvantage to drink the flask. One was a 17+5, the other was a 16+5.

And so I let it happen, I removed the big gold coin that came with my dice, and we swelled the music as I flipped, inevitably landing on tails.

I made the level 12 Sorceror melt into a pile of goo before their eyes.

It was such a fun moment and although it threw a massive curveball into the story I really hope it was a moment my players will remember forever.

But also, be careful of the items you give your players lol

I’ve been playing in this game for 2 years. It’s online and the DM has become my friend. Since then, I’ve joined other games and realised what kind of D&D works best for me.

This game is… fine, I guess. I think it’s gone on way too long, but that’s a separate issue. The bigger problem is a mismatch of style and energy at the table. I spoke to my DM and said I wanted to step away, but he said they wouldn’t have enough people to play anymore.

He spoke to the others and (as I told him) I am definitely the odd one out. I think as a compromise they are sort of just letting me do my thing which I think has resulted in a game that isn't amazing for anyone. It feels hard to see a way out of this without just ruining everyone (especially the DM) else's fun.

For example, When my character died, they just cast Revivify and the party barely talked about it. My paladin is a gruff, PTSD-ridden veteran and we had this big moment where we found out the people behind the war where he lost all his comrades were secretly working together the whole time. He started confronting the king about this betrayal and the sorcerer just interrupted with, “OK, so what did you need us to do?” Then nobody really discussed the revelation afterwards.

It is even small things like last session, the fighter rolled a Nat 1 on an attack at a crucial moment and I exclaimed "No!" because it was a tense moment and we needed him to succeed. The DM was just like, “Calm down dude, it’s just one attack.”

Meanwhile, I’m in another game where the table roleplay and energy is so, so good. In that game, I am playing a walking pile of anxiety who just wants to make his parents proud and in a quarter of the time there’s already been much more character and inter-party growth. The characters genuinely support each other and feel like they have a reason to care about each other. My guy is building a sibling bond with the hermit druid, becoming best bros with the barbarian, and bonding over family trauma with the bard. The table just has so much more energy.

I get the DM has worked hard on this game and I have sympathy as I know he wants to stick the landing. I am just rapidly reaching the end of my tether on this campaign.

Shiro, the Terrible Mage, or more widely known to the general public as Shiro the Kind, is the court mage for my evil faction, the Asta Nation. He is a diviner wizard who hunts specific warlocks who are enemies of the Asta Nation and steals their eyes to add to his body.

He is titled the Terrible Mage because he both sucks at magic and is genuinely evil. He is comparable to a third-level wizard if not for his insights into the laws of equivalent exchange, allowing him to sacrifice things and people to temporarily empower his magic abilities. That's a reason he is an active partner of the cult led by the Asta Nation. He uses the zealots as fuel for his magic, along with using tactics like drawing the fireball spell on children and using them as bait. That was actually how the party met him the first time; they tried sneaking into one of his towers and were quickly met with an orphanage fireball.

He is insane, and has one of my favourite tactics I've ever done. with a homebrew spell as a reaction when attacked before the attack is even rolled he makes another party member make a Charisma save against his own, if they fail he switches places with them then uses his diviner ability to cause the attack to be a critical hit, making one party member almost kill his girlfriend lol.

I'm the DM. I don't know why they did this. They found a coffin full of dirt in a dungeon, took a bag full of dirt because they heard something about vampires and dirt. Then they fought a troll, during the fight they plucked an eye out and after the fight they decided to plant the eye in their bag of dirt.

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As a DM what do I do with this?

Once the Right Hand of Queen Orianne Delafose of Aswien, Étienne had been both blade and bulwark to the crown. He was renowned not only as a formidable warrior, but as a disciplined wielder of battle magic, precise, devastating, and unwaveringly loyal. On the field, he was indispensable, a constant presence at the Queen’s side. So when war flared with the neighboring nation of Godrye and a sudden assault threatened Aswien’s right flank, it was Étienne who was sent to hold the line. He did so with brutal efficiency, steel and sorcery driving the enemy back amid smoke, screams, and broken ground.

When the clash finally subsided, Étienne returned to the royal position expecting to report success. Instead, he found a nightmare. Queen Orianne lay dead among her shattered guard, her blood darkening the earth, and standing over her was Isaara Lightdancer, the Queen’s Left Hand, blade still drawn. For a heartbeat, Étienne could not move, his mind refusing to accept what his eyes saw. He demanded answers, fury and disbelief choking his words. Isaara gave none. She struck him down without hesitation with a single merciless blow that sent him into darkness.

He awoke hours later beneath a cold sky, surrounded by corpses and silence. Left for dead and disgraced by survival, Étienne buried what remained of the Queen and her guard with his own hands. Whatever he had been, champion and protector, Right Hand of the crown, died with them. With his purpose shattered and his loyalty turned to ash, he wandered the continent, selling his sword where he could and avoiding banners and causes alike. Eventually, he drifted to the small village of Formiae, where he spent nine long years as a sellsword, protecting caravans, breaking bandit lines, and refusing to speak of his past.

Formiae might have remained his quiet grave had the bandits not come for its children. When the village pleaded for aid, Étienne volunteered without hesitation, something old stirring despite himself. He tracked the raiders to a cave in the nearby hills and fought his way through them with a ferocity that surprised even him. At the heart of the den, he faced their chieftain and froze. The man wielded a familiar shortsword, its balance and markings unmistakable. It was the weapon that had slain Queen Orianne.

Rage long buried ignited in Étienne’s chest. He fought not as a hired blade, but as the Right Hand once more, and the chieftain fell beneath his wrath. Broken and dying, the man confessed that the sword had been given to him by a witch dwelling on a distant island, payment for services long forgotten. That knowledge was enough. After returning the children and bidding farewell to the people of Formiae, Étienne set out once more, this time with purpose. The past had finally caught up to him, and he would no longer run from it. Somewhere beyond the sea lay the truth behind Isaara’s betrayal and the death of Queen Orianne, and Étienne swore he would see it unearthed, no matter the cost

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