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A worthy sacrifice
(lemmy.world)
"I am in this photo and I don't like it."
I let one of my players DM for once and she railroaded it. Me walking away from the party because my character litterly just met them and doesnt know them. Her constantly: "you run into a cliff. Cant walk there there is a huge hedge"
Then when i did just say fuck it. Basicly forced my character to go to a town. And then she said "a portal opens up underneath you and you are back with the party in their Dimension they are in right now"
No the party didnt summon me, no other magic was involved from any NPC or me.
I left that exact session and returned on DMing
Was it her first time DMing?
I dont know. But she said she created a whole world and stuff. She also had a DMPC named gobo that was "tihi so random funmy haha lol xd rofl"
Me as a DM:
Where did you get all that confidence from?
I get a panic attack merely by thinking about DMing a one shot.
I am a theater kid that acts, plays music and sings on sage since i was 5.
Sooo thats my story
By watching everyone else fuck it up and going "There is no way I can be worse than that..."
Seriously
That's how I started. I got so pissed dealing with so many half-assed DMs that I said fuck it I'll do it myself.
Simple, by bearing witness to multiple terrible DMs that have been in my group, while also seeing people actively enjoy when I DM after I started a campaign on a whim after a DM quit our group. I just went "Well, I can't be worse then That guy right?" and ran with it, jumping into a homebrew campaign with a homebrew world, both of which had 0 planning and about an hours worth of thought put into it in advance. Even the map was something made in MS paint about 10 minutes before the session. Everyone had a blast and I have been Forever DM ever since, even though I still barely know what I am doing.
Me as a DM: "I want to get it wrong my way!"
I hate feeling like this. A: I feel like a massive dick with a huge ego problem when I think about how I am the best DM in the group. B: It makes me feel like I am a poor player because I should be trying harder when someone else DMs. C: I know I'm not even that good of a DM, so thinking this makes me feel like I am insulting the others in my group.
This scene had me tearing up. I had found Mordin so grating and unpleasant at first, but his arch of redemption (for him and his species) ended up making him one of my favorites by the end.
I didn't even know until much later that there were variations to this scene without this shot and I'm very greatful I stumbled blindly into this one because it's by far the best.
I have a fondness for the version where he screams "I WAS WRONG!" when confronted about why he is trying so hard to undo his work while you try to convince him to let the cure fail. I never got that scene naturally, but it hits hard.
Preach!
this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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