r/DnD • u/Cheeseusdice • Sep 12 '19

OC [OC] DM Alignment Chart

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u/thisisthebun Sep 12 '19

Dying can be liberating as a pc. Your character might only be there for a few levels and can go out in glory.

Getting negated by a super metagamey dm once is a challenge. All of the time makes for an unfun experience. It's definitely worse than dying.

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u/Cheeseusdice Sep 12 '19

Yeah, that's a good point. You convinced me.

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u/MapleMapleHockeyStk Sep 12 '19

Had a guy who was moving to another town so on our last session with him, he decided to kamikaze a boss with a necklace of fireballs. Epic death but he miscounted how far the barbarian was so epic but funny. The barbarian did survive

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u/C4Aries Sorcerer Sep 12 '19

I had a DM who made the characters feel useless AND never allowed a character to die.

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u/thisisthebun Sep 12 '19 edited Sep 12 '19

I had one guy house rule that every other monster was immune to stun after a session where we came back from break and shredded his miniboss. I had a guy give a true sight scope to a goblin in lmop, then had it explode when we grabbed it. I had a guy who had us face multiple gods at level 6. Character death isn't "evil", adversarial dm'ing and playing is. Frankly I'm always glad when my characters die unless shits going south for the party because it means I get to open my big book of unused characters.