Me as a DM:
this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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Where did you get all that confidence from?
I get a panic attack merely by thinking about DMing a one shot.
By watching everyone else fuck it up and going "There is no way I can be worse than that..."
Seriously
That's how I started. I got so pissed dealing with so many half-assed DMs that I said fuck it I'll do it myself.
Simple, by bearing witness to multiple terrible DMs that have been in my group, while also seeing people actively enjoy when I DM after I started a campaign on a whim after a DM quit our group. I just went "Well, I can't be worse then That guy right?" and ran with it, jumping into a homebrew campaign with a homebrew world, both of which had 0 planning and about an hours worth of thought put into it in advance. Even the map was something made in MS paint about 10 minutes before the session. Everyone had a blast and I have been Forever DM ever since, even though I still barely know what I am doing.
I am a theater kid that acts, plays music and sings on sage since i was 5.
Sooo thats my story
Quite the raconteur on display here
Adhd and autism hyperfocus on theologie, history, culture aso helps
I'm just joshing. You don't have to mention the neuro stuff, the mundanes don't know about this place yet m'dear
Me as a DM: "I want to get it wrong my way!"
This scene had me tearing up. I had found Mordin so grating and unpleasant at first, but his arch of redemption (for him and his species) ended up making him one of my favorites by the end.
I didn't even know until much later that there were variations to this scene without this shot and I'm very greatful I stumbled blindly into this one because it's by far the best.
I have a fondness for the version where he screams "I WAS WRONG!" when confronted about why he is trying so hard to undo his work while you try to convince him to let the cure fail. I never got that scene naturally, but it hits hard.
I let one of my players DM for once and she railroaded it. Me walking away from the party because my character litterly just met them and doesnt know them. Her constantly: "you run into a cliff. Cant walk there there is a huge hedge"
Then when i did just say fuck it. Basicly forced my character to go to a town. And then she said "a portal opens up underneath you and you are back with the party in their Dimension they are in right now"
No the party didnt summon me, no other magic was involved from any NPC or me.
I left that exact session and returned on DMing
Bro, you let her DM for the first time in your group and then you decided to not engage at all with the storyline. She panicked and wasn't sure how to bring an argumentative player back into the fold so she prevented you best she did.
I'm kinda with her, man. It's your responsibility as a player to engage with the story. As a near forever DM, this type of shit from my players is exactly what would get you removed from my table. We're all here to tell a story together. Part of that is the willingness to tell that story together. It is not the DMs responsibility to play to your characters specific personality to get them involved when the DM is running it for everyone. That is asking way too much from your DM and is, honestly, really self-centered of a way to go about things.
YOU designed your character. It is YOUR responsibility to design them in such a way that they're interested in the story. NOT the DMs.
So you were actively refusing to engage with the game? I sure hope you're a better GM than you are a player.
Would you go deeper into a forrest where this goblin that was clearly maliciouse and can not be damaged went into as well as you found traces of a owl bear herd, with some people that you just woke up next to in a cave? My characters goals was collecting cooking books and books about ingreedients plus finding the rarest one and to get back at the mafia that cursed him to become a skeleton.
Im sorry i must have missed the part where in a TTRPG ROLEPLAYING isnt the center core point anymore
Yes. Because I just woke up in a cave, surrounded by strangers, and was given the opportunity to either walk into the forest on my own to try and find a way back or to go with these people to find out what the hell happened to me.
Its your responsibility as a player to get involved in the story. You designed your character. You decided to have them be argumentative and hostile to the story as a whole. That is on you, not the DM. The DM did the best they could with a player who refused to engage with the story that you all agreed on.
This is some heavy main character syndrome shit...
I don't think anyone's going to tell you not to roleplay in dnd. I'm just wondering why you aren't role-playing a character that wants to play with the characters your friends have made
The centre core point is collaborative storytelling. Which means working with the others at the table, not going off to do your own thing.
Would I go into that forest? Sure, why not. Either it will be a fun adventure, or a TPK (which can be fun in its own way, and hopefully also be educational for the GM).
Was it her first time DMing?
I dont know. But she said she created a whole world and stuff. She also had a DMPC named gobo that was "tihi so random funmy haha lol xd rofl"
Preach!
I hate feeling like this. A: I feel like a massive dick with a huge ego problem when I think about how I am the best DM in the group. B: It makes me feel like I am a poor player because I should be trying harder when someone else DMs. C: I know I'm not even that good of a DM, so thinking this makes me feel like I am insulting the others in my group.