>be me>DMing a Hunter the Reckoning campaign >cell finds abandoned warehouse>small group of punk teens inside >players suspect they're ghouls >They hatch a plan to take them out non-lethally so they can interrogate>one player is half paying attention to game due to doom scrolling on Instagram >the cell gets into position and triggers combat by chucking a can of soda at one of the suspected ghouls>distracted player's turn now >pulls out gun and domes closest person to him>chaos ensues>players panic>go weapons hot>slaughter everyone but one suspected ghoul >interrogate him >they weren't ghouls>tfw the cell just murdered a innocent group of teens
>>97977504If this did happen you're a terrible ST and your group is full of antisocial retards. Which explains why you call yourself a DM.
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>>97977654Yeah, the story is fake and gay.
>>97977675>game master bad cause he let funny thing happen also fake I forgot people on this board are a bunch of fart sniffers
>>97977700You've never played a game in your life if you think this is real.
>>97977735What's it like enjoying the smell of your own farts? Also do you remove the stick and smell the stick how does that work?
>>97977788Do I have to explain it to you or are you just going to have a tantrum like a toddler anon? This isn't even a good fake story.
>>97977804No tantrum just not taking the conversation seriously but go on explain it.
>>97977821The use of the word "DM" when discussing a non-D&D game, while not damning, is a red flag that OP doesn't know what he's talking about.A player isn't paying attention. That's fine. Believable even. But you mean to tell me that he not only didn't listen to the plan at all, not only did he not catch the player before him clearly using non-lethal means, but nobody spoke up when he said 'I shoot them with my gun'? No argument, just resolution? And after that there was no discussion about it? The group just gives up subduing them and kills all but one?And all this for the silly epic twist that they were just random human teenagers. So even if this all happened which is stretching my belief pretty damn far, OP just had this group of teenagers that add nothing to the campaign other than a 'gotcha' for his players.This is either fake, or a group so bad it needs to be documented.
>>97977864>Herm you're using the term DM but not playing D&D is akthully a major red flag Oh no I used a widely recognisable term to describe my role in the story you got me >there was no argument What did you think I meant when I said "chaos ensues"? There was plenty of arguing and yelling
Why didn't the random teenagers run away after first blood?
>>97978333They probably tried and that is why the players tried escalating.Honestly the "unbelievable" part is the player saying I shoot him and the Dm accepting it despite the rest of the players objections. Which happens (and bugs everyone else at the table).
>>97978431I find the whole thing unbelievable, especially the part where a DM ran something that isn't D&D.
>>97977504>be OP>trigger some troll>get trolled instead of ignoring itNow that's a fail.
>>97977504Player paranoia leading to killing de facto set-dressing flavor NPCs is always a good time, the other anon's gotta be trolling
>>97978333Anyone who fights is a ghoul. Anyone who runs is a smart ghoul.
>>97977864all what this anon said
>>97977952>I used a widely recognisable termnta It's one that is reserved for D&D. Not because TSR trademarked it and 4chan respects trademark even when used in a non trademark situation but because the culture of this board is that GM is used generically, not DM. Even when the game uses narrator or referee or story teller or arbitrator GM is the most common term used.>What did you think I meant when I said "chaos ensues"?I thought you meant there was fighting in the game. It seems you're now trying to cover up implausible holes in your scenario because when you look at what you wrote>>pulls out gun and domes closest person to him>>chaos ensues>>players panic>>go weapons hotaround "chaos ensues" all of it, even "players panic" is describing the PC activity. unless you're now going to say that the distracted player literally drew a gun and pointed it at the actual human being sitting next to him. There have been stories where that happened but if that's what you meant you didn't express it well.
>>97977864>OP just had this group of teenagers that add nothing to the campaign other than a 'gotcha' for his players.Anon, do (You) play non-D&D games? NPCs don't just exist to advance story beats and pad out sessions with combats.
Put me in le screenshot of le epicest throod on le 4chanz XD hahaha hello redit! Very xd of you kind sir.
>>97979911Why would you create an encounter in your campaign that serves no purpose other than to waste the players time?
>>97982080NTA, and OPs story is fake and gay, but..."Place where PCs need to go has civilians nearby" is a super common complication in any urban setting. Not all challenges fight back.
>>97982109It's also commonplace to respect your players time when you're meeting up at best a few hours every week.
>>97982183The actual problem is that I cant believe someone is so dense they do not understand the situation at hand.So you are a real idiot/autist, or a troll.
>>97982191Tbh, even if OP’s story is bullshit, the lengths the gen alphas in this thread are going to “disprove” it are also really funking pitiful. People used to just call OP a fag and move on with their lives, not this “weh weh nothing stooped ever happens in a real game” nonsense.
>>97982209I thought the most glaring one was when the guy "called out" op for using the term "DM" as opposed to whatever super special terminology NWOD insists on that is a synonym for DM.Shit, I mostly play Runequest, and I still use the term "DM"I mean fuck, every two-bit system going has their own insistent but ultimately irrelevant terminology.DM/GM are LONG genericized.
>>97977864>nobody spoke up when he said 'I shoot them with my gun'That would be metagaming. By the time any of the other characters have a chance to react, one of the teens is already dead.
>>97977621it obviously didn't happen because in any actual game the players, or better yet, the GM (who are all living people) would simply explain to the offending player why what they are doing is wrong and assuming that player is also a living human being, they would likely take back the action.
>>97982643Yes but /tg/ wouldn't know that, apparently.
>>97983082Because it’s not worth commenting on. Nobody is giving anyone here upvotes for picking apart green texts, the smart ones just ignore the thread.
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