>On session one we make orphan characters>DM has our adoptive parents murdered by former 6 students>I make this my character motivation for the main campaign set 7 years later>Cool setup since we are all together and back for revenge. >The fucking DM has 1 killed offscreen, the rest of the three are killed by third parties away denying my character his main motivation for returning to the setting of the campaign despite him knowing that what my character wants. Why do DM's sabotage their own stories? Why is it so hard to join a different campaign.
>>97879618Put me in le epic screenshot hello internez XD
>>97879618>former 6 studentswhat students? Learn to tell a damn anecdoteDid you tell your DM that's what you wanted out of the story as a player? I symphathize though, I have a GM who is incapable of holding onto his own storythreads, much less anything going on with the PCs
>>97879618What did he say when you asked him this exact question?
>>97879824It was the 6 former students of the orphanage they ran, I thought it was a good plot hook but its trash now considering whats been done. Yea I really don't think my DM takes good notes of his own story and just AD libs most things. I have to remind him of things that happened on previous sessions constantly.
>>97879618I had a very similar thing happen to me OP.Was there a hot woman just recently introduced to the table?
>>97879618I'm convinced that there needs to be periodic session 0's well after the games are going. It's far too easy for DMs to get tunnel vision after weeks and weeks of play.
>>97879618Even good GMs make these mistakes >>97882460https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kl45GB_tBE
>1 killed offscreen, the rest of the three are killed by third parties away denying my character his main motivationYour character doesn't seem very motived if that was all it took to stop him.
>>97880024Replying from work but yes actually.
>>97882460I don't think you need an entire session for it, at the end of every session your should do a little post mortem, and the players should answer truthfully. I think a big problem is that people are too afraid to proffer useful criticism.
>>97882493Video unrelated?
>>97882460Yea I agree I think DM player check ins are important.
>>97879618>6>1>the rest of the threeHmmm.
>>97879618>>On session one we make orphan characterswe make orphans every session
>>97890359Everyone eventually becomes an orphan. It is a fact of life.
>>97890374not necessarily, some just die first
>>97890359I remember Alpha Protocol has an actual counter or score of how many orphans you left behind with your onslaught through the story. Amusingly, it takes into account if you kill someone in China (one orphan due the one-child policy) vs an Arab terrorist (dozens of orphans).
>>97890410It gets really sad when you realize that by killing only 15 people you managed to make 80 orphans.
