General Discussion

I haven't played much d&d but i've dabbled in other tabletop rpgs.

Most of my experiences are less 'crazy' and more 'crappy gms'

Like my first gm who was running a pokemon tabletop united campaign and showed blatant favoritism to his wife, letting her play a half angel, half mewtwo child of giovanni who had three legendary pokemon. I was allowed to start with my beloved ekans, but it died. like two minutes in. that sucked

My next gm was running a soul eater game who kept trying to force the characters into romantic (hetero) relationships and punished a player for not 'sacrificing' themself for their partner. this made some people Uncomfortable Oh, also, the gm was somehow convinced that immortal beings can't be knocked unconscious?

The gm after that was running another pokemon game, but his world was build pretty much on memes and pop culture and if you didn't get a reference your character would suffer for it. And also tended to make rulings based on what he felt does and doesn't work. example: my character had fallen into a trap and was sliding down a massive chute, heading for an incinerator. I wanted to throw a rope to my friend, who had fallen into the same trap and was literally like two feet behind me. Instead of letting me roll like a dexterity check or w/e, the gm was like 'no, that doesn't work'. okay, can i make a lasso and catch one of the hooks you've told us line the wall down the chute? 'no, that won't work either'
okay i guess i'll just be incinerated then :/

and my most recent gm who actually was running a d&d game, but i didn't stick around very long. my character was a half-orc cleric of gruumsh and during session zero we were discussing character creation and personal expectations and limits, i mentioned that my character is solely dedicated to her god (even as she struggles with doing the Right Thing™) and because of Soul Eater gm and my own personal life experiences, i would very much appreciate it if any and all romantic advances were directed anywhere except at my character. First actual game play session my character gets hit on by at least three unrelated npc.

i'm actually gearing up to run a d&d game for some friends this friday though, so maybe i'll have one or two funny stories from that. I just really want them to have a GOOD TIME and not feel uncomfortable bc of me

@Greenwolfkate surely you have some fun stories to share?

I once stayed at a friends house in another country and he invited me into their d&d group. The GM gave curses to all playable characters, and mine was that my character would automatically attack anything that was the color red.... which, coincidentally, was the color OF THE SKIN of my hosts character. (It was a perma-death campaign bdw. The GM was evil.) So, my burly manly barbarian loincloth dude apologize profusely while attacking his skinny little mage-build tiefling lady with a two-handed axe and roll a 19, bringing her health down to like... two hitpoints.

So another character comes to try and save us from a very unfortunate situation and start chanting a spell of paralyze on me, and then rolls the dice.. only to turn into a penguin because she rolled on her abysmally small curse condition, leaving nothing to stop the axe of my next blow from killing the character of the guy who had been kind enough to LET ME STAY IN HIS HOUSE FOR A WEEK and PAID FOR MUCH OF MY FOOD, like GOD WHY.

Luckily, the thiefling lived with those two remaining health points and was saved by ridiculously lucky dodge rolls. My character was incapaciated and we solved the curse problem by giving him ridiculous-looking tinted glasses from the 60's.