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I thought Unseen servant can only lift up to 20lbs?

My turn.. Im bringing it back old school to a time when I played a little game called "rifts"

So we decide to raid the bad guys hideout and take care of him once and for all, but I know this will not be an easy battle so I do some prepwork batman style and create a zipline off the mountain into a very thin forrest with very little tree growth below just in case things got hairy.

We made our way into the bad guys camp only to find out that we had been.. AMBUSH!! I yelled and out from the buildings jumped a s#+# ton of bad guys that we had no chance of victory against.

We RAN like any sane person would in the face of total defeat. We used the zip line as intended and barely escaped, but we knew we had little time to think of a plan. The enemy would be on our trail shortly. My friend played a wizard type illusionist character at the time. He also is sort of a genius.

He came up with a plan to create a rain forrest for us to have better cover to hide in. He could create basically anything he wanted if he made max rolls.

We did everything we could to help him. Made his abilities as high as we could get them. We used all of our resources for this last ditch chance.

He rolled to create an illusionary rain forrest to hide us, but it wasnt just one roll it was 10. Each roll would count as trees, creatures, rivers, ect

He rolled critical success after critical success to the point he had impossibly made an entire forest including wildlife, rivers, all of it seemed real to whoever saw it. It was literaly the coolest thing i have seen happen ever. He pulled off a miracle.

Genius mixed with some miracle rolls.

The GM got so frustrated that he rage quit. Yelling at us saying we ruined his campaign and that he was quiting. He promptly took all his things and went home.

Later after he had calmed down i have found out that we were soposed to be captured. His entire story depended on us being captured.

rOFL

"Didnt know who was f$+!in with!"

I believe To have it any other way than a Collaborative process would just feel like I was gaming under some fascism regime.

Adamantine Dragon I disagree with you, but we are not that far off from each others viewpoints. You seem to be an exception because you brought up the consistency issue.

If the GM needs to change things to make some cool scene happen that just wouldn't go with the rules as written than that's fine... That is story telling. BUT changing things is a slippery slope my friend.

When does it stop?

If you just flip flop rules whenever it suites you how am I so posed to feel like I can control a situation?

And how am I not going to feel Like I was somehow cheated a victory.

This is just my feelings on it.. s@%+ I could be wrong. lol

So I started this thread because I have a terrible DM. I am now at the point where I want to just quit. However there are no other games that I can get into because I dont know anyone else here in Mesa AZ.

So, I figure if i hear other people stories about their crappy DM(or players) I wont feel as bad. lol

My DM does not know the rules.. what dm doesnt know the rules to his own game? He does not control the players attentions. If you do not have precise shot and you fire at an enemy fighting a friend and you miss.. you hit your friend. (cant stand this.) He makes any NPC the most annoying thing in the world. They all can do impossible things never die or have any consequences for stupid decisions .. also Constantly fluffs the dice rolls to go against you.

Then I got the players.. They do not think, they are not serious about the game, they also do not know the rules. i have one dude that cheats on his dice rolls like crazy and the DM never says a word.

They also have no idea how alignment works so they just pick a chaotic neutral, neutral or lawful evil or whatever evil they think they can get to pass and alignment that seems to allow them to do anything they want. then they act like douche bags taking nothing seriously then point to their alignment to cover whatever stupid idea they thought of.

I could go on and on.

they are good people, but man.. I cant stand it sometimes. Makes me cringe. Maybe they are just how younger people play the game.

i don't know guys.. maybe im the asshat here?

Tell me your stories :) thanks