The D&D thread

These short skits they do are fucking great. Mann Shorts

Any recommendations for dnd podcasts? Have just finished 80 episodes of Roll to Hit and looking for something new for driving.

Nope, cheers for the tip - roll to hit and tabletop adventures are the only ones I've gone through, I'm a new convert to the joys of playing and listening to dnd.

Aquisitions Incorporated is some genuinely funny stuff at times, and it has Wesley Crusher before he became a giant douchenozzle.

We added a 5th player, whom we all (our group) know, to our every other Sunday game. I let the DM know my concerns when he told us about adding the 5th. Because of his work schedule, the 5th player only gets 2 Sundays a month off. It has been a few months with #5 now and the issues are starting to appear already. We have had to skip games because he gets into a situation with the character/party and then we wrap up that day, only to have him miss the next game, or "forget" that we had a game (which happens to coincide with sportsball season starting).

The crappy thing, really, is that we need 4 of 5 people to play now, instead of 3 out of 4. So we have played only 3 games in three months when we normally would have played 6. This sucks in my opinion. I may be selfish, but with a family, I have to plan out this shit way in advance and this guy is really grinding on my attitude. If it wasn't such a kick-ass game with a phenomenal DM, I would have found something else long ago.

So, I know this is not isolated to me. How have you dealt with it. Was there ever a way you came up with a solution to this in the past? The asshole part of me really wants to push to bounce this guy, but he is a friend and I want to instead take everyone to coffee and have adult conversation about it. The DM and I both have wife/2 kids each so we know how important time is, the other dudes are all 30 somethings and single.

You already know what you need to do.

Be an adult and talk it out with the group. If the day/time doesn't change or the group composition doesn't change, then look to find a different group/hobby/family time to replace/supplement your addiction. Sulrn was my DM for a large part of college and was pretty consistent about putting together some great one shots, but the few times we tried actual campaigns he always invited this one guy that was a complete sketch (similar to yours) and would sometimes just drift out of sessions as they were going on. As someone that wasn't into console gaming and had given up PC gaming after DAoC, DnD was my only geek outlet and the sessions were important to my de-stressing at the time. I brought the issue to the table and the group was fine with the status quo, so I ended up having to find an alternative for when those sessions fell apart. It sucks, but I'm a better person for it and have since met and done more random shit than I would have otherwise.

Something Sul did our second go around was set up our 'Guy' as more of a recurring mysterio and limit the impact he had over major decisions so as long as we had majority 3/5 + DM we'd play on. He also had a folder on his laptop with something like 400 prebuilt campaigns and would periodically pick out parts of stuff he thought was cool and run a one shot for me and a different group.

Jalynfane said:

We added a 5th player, whom we all (our group) know, to our every other Sunday game. I let the DM know my concerns when he told us about adding the 5th. Because of his work schedule, the 5th player only gets 2 Sundays a month off. It has been a few months with #5 now and the issues are starting to appear already. We have had to skip games because he gets into a situation with the character/party and then we wrap up that day, only to have him miss the next game, or "forget" that we had a game (which happens to coincide with sportsball season starting).

The crappy thing, really, is that we need 4 of 5 people to play now, instead of 3 out of 4. So we have played only 3 games in three months when we normally would have played 6. This sucks in my opinion. I may be selfish, but with a family, I have to plan out this shit way in advance and this guy is really grinding on my attitude. If it wasn't such a kick-ass game with a phenomenal DM, I would have found something else long ago.

So, I know this is not isolated to me. How have you dealt with it. Was there ever a way you came up with a solution to this in the past? The asshole part of me really wants to push to bounce this guy, but he is a friend and I want to instead take everyone to coffee and have adult conversation about it. The DM and I both have wife/2 kids each so we know how important time is, the other dudes are all 30 somethings and single.

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Hatorade should have more recent experience from seeing it in his online sessions. But from my limited experience I would say if you don't address it it's only going to get worse. If the group doesn't rally with your solution/compromise then be ready to cope with it.

Sulrn said:

Hatorade should have more recent experience from seeing it in his online sessions. But from my limited experience I would say if you don't address it it's only going to get worse. If the group doesn't rally with your solution/compromise then be ready to cope with it.

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Shouldn't "need" 4-5 people, any GM should be able to adjust encounters, but yeah address it early.

I'm currently playing in a D&D group for about a year, once a month, 5 players + DM.

The group consists of College of Lore Bard(my gf), Druid of the Moon (me), Barbarian (our main tank and damage dealer), a Sorceror obsessed with not keeping secrets and giving lectures to anyone he meets (can put whole crowds to sleep in under two hours) and a Ranger/Rogue, who misses more often than not.

We play a homebrew campaign conjured up by our DM and it's been fun so far. There's a lot of roleplaying even though the Barbarian and Sorcerer are more in the line of "kill first, interrogate corpses in pieces if any are left later", but it was fun being a bunch of people taking advantage of negotiation. Like doing a missiong for supposedly holy church, finding out the chief magistrate is actually a pit fiend, who sent us down into plane of fire to kill his competition and we told that guy everything and he bribed us to kill the top guy and we repeated it a few times, ended up killing one of them.

But we should be drawing to a close. The "end boss", some majestic Shadow Dragon who has been killing us for half a campaign in our dreams every night will need to be faced.

Should be interesting. Ofcourse, we still have to find the cleric elf chick. I guess the whole thing could go sideways.

Basically, the plot was, that we're random people who have been having dreams of some insanely evil Shadow Dragon who wants to collapse the current plane of reality into his own, coincidentally killing everything on this one and gaining more and more power. So.. there we are, getting slain by a Shadow Dragon, whence comes some Elf priestess, that saves us and tells us that we might be someones who defeated the Shadow Dragon on her plane of reality, so the whole quest is getting buffier and better to one day face that guy. Including facing off shadow puppet doubles, whom we still don't know which were the real ones and chasing after the Elf Priestess, since she apparently died or faked her death well. So we end up in the mountains this last session defeating an adult dragon (there was two, but one teleported out after one died), gaining some eye device to find the missing priestess..

We're level 18 atm, so.. level 9 spells already rock the world.

These two series are pretty good to watch-
Episodes 18 and 19 with Felicia Day and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as guest players are especially hilarious.

So I've definitely been enjoying Drunks and Dragons, 15 episodes in and really entertaining. It's played with the 4e rules but its not hard to pick up the differences if 5e is your only experience like mine.

Sadly the game I was a part of seems to have fallen apart, mainly due to the scheduling conflicts caused by the DM insisting on having 6 players as he didn't want to leave anyone out. Now someone can't make it anymore and the DM insists we can't carry on until we have a session to write her out and she never can seem to make it.

I voted just kill her off screen but those nerds are too soft on chicks. Frustrating shit.

Seananigans said:

Wow, that's a bad DM :/

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Yeah, one of the worst thing a GM can do is be inflexible.

Bad DMing. All they have to do is say, "Soandso decided that adventuring was not for her, and wanted to live a simple life. She took up farming instead." to which he could then add, "You find out sometime later that soandso killed your dear friend who took up farming." leaving a goal of avenging said friend.

The campaign I'm running right now has eight different players. At any particular session there's three to seven present and that's fine with me. Getting a bunch of adults together in one physical location for a few hours on the same day is tough and it's no trouble for me at all to scale things up when everyone can make it and scale things down when it's just a couple guys. Heck, as the guy running the thing I like having the different experiences. An elite squad of three heroes can do things a herd of eight can't and vise versa.

Dalven's story is completely alien to me. It sounds like the underlying problem is the DM is full of himself and is more interested in his personal story than the quality of the gaming experience. That's just backwards.