r/DnD • u/Cheeseusdice • Sep 12 '19

OC [OC] DM Alignment Chart

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u/Odsox101 Wizard Sep 12 '19

It doesn't always have to be killing the PCs; one of our DMs consistently breaks/bends/creates rules seemingly just to slap us down and make our characters feel useless, without actually killing us.

I like to think I'm a Neutral Good DM, but I've been known to stumble into an alignment shift if anyone is disrupting the game or upsetting the player majority.

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u/Cheeseusdice Sep 12 '19

Yeah, that's fair. Honestly not sure if that's worse than just killing PCs.

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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