#this DM just wants dnd to be A String Of Events Happen With No Ongoing Effects and it makes me crazy | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

blujayonthewing · 3 months ago

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hand on me face sometimes I really can't believe elyss's campaign has had so many situations where some unseen entity was manipulating the party behind the scenes and/or surveilling us and judging us against some inscrutable standard and/or there was An Enemy Disguised As A Friend AND YET not only are themes like fate vs free will, agency, surveillance, and paranoia clearly not being intentionally explored, the DM gets not-explicitly but nonetheless almost tangibly annoyed when our characters attempt to engage with any of those themes in a meaningful way

#'it's so frustrating that elyss is so paranoid all the time'#[because now she's hypervigilant and keeps foiling the DM's plans to TRICK US INTO A TERRIBLE SITUATION. AGAIN.]#you did this!! you did this to her!!! WHY DO YOU KEEP ACTING SURPRISED LIKE ELYSS IS JUST WEIRD FOR NO REASON #this DM just wants dnd to be A String Of Events Happen With No Ongoing Effects and it makes me crazy #because like. it's ALSO not actually that! we HAVE throughlines! we HAVE overarching plots!#but if we as PLAYERS attempt any kind of intellectual or emotional continuity ABOUT the disparate Things That Happen--#he always gives the impression that that's inconvenient or tiresome like omggg WHY are you traumatizeddd by the unrelenting horrors godddd #WHY won't you blindly trust this NPC after the last six separate situations you've been in involved trickery and backstabbing! god!!!#why are you always overpreparing after I keep trying to bamboozle you into catching you flatfooted!!! god!!!#like he's not considering Themes or Character Motivations he just wants to do stuff because he wanted to do it #and then if we try to extrapolate meaning out of the stuff that happens he's like 'I guess :I'

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