Old D&D Dump

Hi! This is my first ever Submission!

I love d&d and have been playing for about 5 years

I am the DM for my group and always have been

Self taught but I have learned how to "rules lawyer" with the best of them thanks to my players

Almost all of my players are engineering students or graduates and they LOVE to power game

Which makes for really interesting encounters when it's time for combat.

I've managed to keep them from being murderhobos thankfully.

Mostly because I've given them their own kingdom thanks to a Deck of Many things I VERY foolishly gave to my players early on. Thankfully it sorted itself out by killing the greedy players.

But, every now and then I do something to remind them that yes there are consequences to their actions. Like above.

My world is pretty sandboxy, I let the players go where they want and do what they want and just give an overall goal that needs to be accomplished at some point.

I've learned to improvise pretty much everything on the spot these days, I rarely get prep time unless i set a specific event on the calendar.

It really does help that we play nearly every Sunday.

Oh, did I mention there are on average 9 of us? Crazy, I started with just 4 players.

I'm really just trying to keep ads off here so I'll tell a few amusing d&d stories to pass the time

My players decided the best way to destroy an secret enemy base in a city was to destroy it. It leveled ten city blocks. Thousands died. It was a realm tragedy.

My Dwarf Barbarian has, through sheer murder, death, and intimidation /strength checks, managed to become the Emperor of the Dwarven civilization.

My Druid has managed to bring about an apocalyptic event on the world that my entire group is currently fighting against.

My Paladin started off as Neutral, then went full Evil, then did an arc of Redemption and now is doing the Redeemed Leader. So... the opposite of Arthas I suppose.

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One of my favorite nat 1s was a player shooting off another's testicle because they were shooting through their legs.

I have only had 1 TPK (yea I know I'm not mean enough) and that was pure accident when I was first learning to DM.

My Rogue Assassin has two legendary blades that she so aptly named... Meat & Potatoes. To this day it remains a crowning achievement.

I haven't had a gnome character yet, which is kind of disappointing.

But boy do I have Dwarves. A Dwarven Emperor and the Dwarven Engineer

My group once spent an hour investigating an empty room with no traps, no gimica, nothing. Simply because they didnt trust me. Well... I deserve it.

Having 9 players at levels 9 through 11 means a LOT dice and monsters.

Combats take FOREVER.

Our Druid, see above, was possessed and my group came VERY close to executing him. Thankfully they managed to find his soul and restore him.

My group definitely has done this

And this

Thanks for reading! I also write a blog of my adventures (although it's about 2 years out of date, if people are interested I'll throw the link up)

But.. not this

My Wizard after having a minor mental break decided to enchant his hand with every magical object he could find to create the ultimate in magical hands.

But in the end, I love my players and my group

Even if they drive me crazy

And give me headaches

And message me at all hours of the day and night

And have a never ending stream of questions and comments and rules

Despite all that though, D&F has become a favorite pastime of our group and has really started to spread through the local campus thanks to many of my group

I love to let my players create their own enemies

I haven't had a true charisma based character

Yup. Been there. Done that. Left a crater.

True. Oh so true.

I swear that is when their die betray them.

Yup. Couple of these

I've let a few Homebrews in, but after HEAVY negotiations and rules.

I thought 4 was bad. 9... is so much worse.

Dog tax, although this was supposed to be lower.