Heh, I’ve never played League, but it’s affected my games as well. Not in a good way. Perhaps a story for another day.
RPG Horror Stories is a series where I (Crispy) read through stories from the subreddit r/rpghorrorstories and give advice on how to avoid the issues that lead to such stories in the first place.
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One-Sentence Horror Story in a D&D Group Finder:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rpghorrorstories/comments/k44o37/onesentence_horror_story_in_a_dd_group_finder/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
DM runs Curse of Strahd, claiming it is his homebrew and forces players into playing LOL characters:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rpghorrorstories/comments/n6wd2r/dm_runs_curse_of_strahd_claiming_it_being_his/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
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before listening to the story: this could work if everyone was cool with it
will edit after video also first
edit i wanna beat the dm ass
This DM exhibits sly narcissism
"Irena and Istmark are lovers now."
Aren't they brother and sister, though?
I just do not understand the enjoyment this DM seems to get out of forcing exactly 0 of their players to play a class that they actually wanted to play, even if that role is available. Like, surely they must have recognized that it would lead to unnecessary strife, right?
I'm kinda well known in my friend groups for occasionally bringing LoL builds into D&D (I literally have a Tumblr account dedicated to making LoL builds in D&D) but I always tried to put my own spin on the characters. I once played "literally Kai'sa" (of course they weren't named that and I customized the character to have their own backstory) but the DM's world was very grim-dark and did have a similar "ultimate evil" akin to Runeterra's Void, so it made "literally Kai'sa" a good fit in the campaign. I am currently playing "basically Samira" in one campaign and "basically Qiyana" in another but they have completely different personalities from their LoL counterparts, making them feel unique in comparison to the League characters and also allowing them to fit into the worlds my DMs created. (Even if the one guy I play LoL with rolls his eyes a little whenever he sees me use "Inferno Trigger.")
P.S. "No small races in my world" uh… this guy knows what a Yordle is, right? Hell there was a League of Legends supplement on D&D Beyond awhile back and it flat out recommended reflavoring Gnomes and Halflings as Yordles.
I play both League and D&D, and so I have in fact made characters from the game into legitimate PCs just for fun. Morgana as a fallen aasimar shadow sorcerer says hello! But I think placing a game’s setting in the world of Runeterra (and there was in fact a free module for Bilgewater on D&D Beyond!) versus doing….whatever THIS was meant to be is seriously worlds apart. So sad to see an idea that could’ve been fun be executed so poorly.
Also: the DM’s disparaging of the cleric Forge Domain? Smh. Ornn would be disappointed.
Jeez, this story went on for too long. XD If I had a DM that straight up denied every concept I wanted to play, I would've left long before we reached this point.
Wait a second league if legends DOES have a short race
Fuckin YORDLES.
pure cringe. league has made me a worse person, I'm glad I quit while I could!
In regards to the 1st story, all of the Bad DM stuff aside, I do want to call out the OP for asking "Can I read the ability" when his Zephyr Strike plan didn't work out like he wanted. Monsters and NPC's don't necessarily operate under the same rules as PC's and may very well have abilities that can counter player tricks, but that doesn't entitle a player to getting to see even a portion of the monster's stat block. You discover those things in play when they become relevant.
Forces people to play LoL character, doesn't allow small races.
Cue yordles.
Because let's be honest, the little ones are adorable and perfectly adaptable to D&D (Tristana is an artificer, Poppy a paladin, Gnar a barbarian, Lulu a sorcerer, and so on and so forth). As for the races, well, make the females halflings and the males… well, small sized tabaxi.
"WE must become friend" -> run ….
One thing being "ok" – not allowing ranged ttack to be not-lethal.
I'm still bothered by the "nobody plays halflings except powergamers" comment. I have loved halflings ever since reading The Hobbit way back in elementary school, but I usually play gnomes because of their tinkering and intelligence. The lucky racial is not powerful enough that anybody would take it over a variant human. People who play variant humans tend to be powergamers more than other races, but that doesn't matter. People shouldn't be bullied for what race they want to play (as long as it is an official race that fits the campaign).
Railroading is boring. Even if I have a party play a "Romeo and Juliet" game, "R&J" will be the setting, and if they don't care about politics and want to leave Verona, so be it. That's how you can end up with Rome on fire and players dealing with a Vandals invasion 🙂
By realistic, he meant realistic in terms of a league game:
-No one got to play what they wanted
-Everyones fighting in and out of the game
-The game lasts 3x as long as the average game and everyone loses.
Sounds like League to me.
Wait…. if I remember correctly there are Monks in LOL, lots of them. I don't know their names off the top of my head but I know there's like 4 or more so and I'm including Ninja atm. Also you can reskin Halflings and Goblins and Gnomes as Yordlings (or those tiny cat things) and DMs don't "assign" PCs that's not their job, they are the game engine/narrative not the railroad that forces people to do stuff like this and certainly has no excuse to criticise others characters especially to minors. This DM is like the pettiest douche in a server
See this is what I don’t understand; why not build a homebrew based on the world of League of Legends if you love the lore and story telling that much? You could even still use the dnd 5e format (as long as you’re not doing a rift style game i mean). And then you wouldn’t have to force people to play a crappy copycat character, or lie and bully around your players into being your friends. In fact; if you advertise “homebrew that takes plays in the world of League of Legends” you might attract people who love the game lore as much as you do and then you could ORGANICALLY become friends through mutual interest.
kind of remains me of a game that I join in,the dm said that my character was fine,but then after I join voice chat and he explain the lore,he demmad that I change my character race or else I don´t play. I joined at first but left the server after realize that don´t need more manipulators like that in my life.
Neeko….doesn't blink normally, unless it suppose to flash which isn't unique to her. Really I don't see what any of this has to do with League, outside of the DM praising it, unless I hear specifics about the other characters.
He listens to player A's idea/s, with a character in mind for them to play already.
Then he researches what league character/s he could make from that/those ideas, & insists it on player B while denying their idea/s.
Neeko is the most druidic character in lol…why feylock?! xd
2:46 this is putting aside that Barovia and the domains of dread connect to all realms and therefore can snatch up any poor unfortunate soul. Ah… The hater dm.
“No no no, you’re all WRONG, I did not FORCE you to play my characters!
I would have left the moment this chump insulted halflings. Dude, just let people play what they want.
The fact that DM play LOL is a massive red flag in itself
I can’t imagine d&d without any small boys or Dragonborns (restricted character classes can be ok but it’s really hard)
i will never understand outside of the notion of a low magic realm if its a subclass fromt he books why not let someone use it.
Yikes. This whole story was a train-ride without a hand-break. As for pre-generated characters, I feel they are good for only a couple scenarios:
1. Brand-new players in a Oneshot. It's good to have some lying around so you can quickly give a newbie something to run without over-whelming them with Character Creation.
2. Back-Ups for Players Death. Some players might have an unlucky roll or two early on in a session, and it sucks to spend the rest of the session working on a character. If they don't have a character ready to go, go ahead and give them a temporary character till after that session (or, if they enjoy the character, let them keep running it).
I find this story fucking hilarious because I'm making a pathfinder league of legends campaign for my friends. And I told them not to just make league characters. (Cuz i might use them as npcs and that would be awkward.)
Just stubbled to this video cause i like stories and i see some rat with a pleague doctor mask as someones persona and I'm just like…. Why 😂 good read tho gonna stick around
OK I'm confused about how to pronounce artificer, have I been doing it wrong all this time?
Hephaestus would smite this DM where he stood. Dont harsh on forge clerics if you don't want to take the big iron sideways.
If that cm assigned me a character, I'd go out of my way to make the character have the personality I want to have. Do complains, he can kiss my sweet ass
Trinston was here.
imagine playing League
– a normal functioning member of society
Was there anyone in this story the GM didn't try to gaslight?
ah yes, a nordic tiefling barbarian is SUPER similar to a tiny chameleon girl…
I know its not the point, but… "I have some neurotic problems with coming in places I wasn't personally invited"… The guy telling the story might be an actual vampire.
Hello its me again, the red guy.
About the nordic blink character; This can be one of the DMs pre-prepared storylines that he/she reuses, doesnt need to be someone elses story. Even sounds like its just a pre-prepared arc that he/she likes. Nothing wrong with that in principle.
And NO! you shouldnt be allowed to read the ability that an NPC have! I've seen this a few times now, and its never right! You, as the player have 2 options. Play, or Not play. Thats it. You dont get to call what abilities the NPCs have, you dont get to question the NPCs stats. You dont have a Right to know. The DM on the other hand have EVERY right to change NPCs, add or remove benefits, tell you what races/classes are available, what feats are on the table, if the players should have their Feets on the table (Might have a weird but awesome reason for it, you dont know) and all you can do as a player is to Play or Not Play. Thats it.
The NPC ignores your ability and uses an opportunity attack despite you haveing an ability that stops it? Fine. Please read the two first rules or Roleplaying. And then choose wherther you want to, you guessed it; Play or Not Play with that DM.
Can this lead to DMs bullshitting? Yes, of course. And that is his/her right. Not a good thing, but still the DMs right.
You can play with a DM who as the very first thing that happens in game is a meteor stiking down the tavern where the party is, killing everyone, and then call it a day. Was it a good adventure? No. Will you play with that DM again? Probably not. Did the DM do anything Wrong? No. Exept running a shitty, meaningless adventure. That you chose to play in.
Is it ok for the DM to plan the death of 2 characters before the game starts? YES! How is this not getting through?! (Because you are writing a monolog you idiot, not having a conversation)
But yes, it is entirely ok for the DM to pre-session plan characters deaths. Its even Good Sportmanship to prepare the group for it beforehand so that the players can make back-up characters, or quit the game. the DM might have a bad reason for wanting to kill off the characters, yea, but also there might be an exellent reason that wont be obvious unill 4 sessions later.
Look, the DM needs not follow ANY rules, roll ANY dice etc. DM/GM = The Game Master. The Master of the Game. the DM can by definition NEVER CHEAT! It can be a bad DM, but it cant cheat.
Hmmm now I'm curious as to who in this LoL party the DM wanted to make. OP already said he had a FeyLock as Neeko (horrible choice of class). Though nordic, tiefling, ranger with a blink ability. That's hard since the blinking makes me think Ezreal, but nordic ranger clearly means Ashe. That's a tough one. Paladin = Garen? Bladelock could be Riven, Trynd, Aatrox, or Yone; but since she's the sister of Paladin then I think he wanted it to be Lux, if Paladin is supposed to be Garen. Artificer is anyone from Piltover, take your pick.
Edit: I just got it! The DM DID make OP play Ashe, he literally just gave her Flash as a feat!
Aw I feel bad for the kid. Drew up their cute character and everything and was super excited to play. Just to be ruined by some ass hole. That makes me sad.
Sometimes, I listen to these videos, and think about if the problem players or problem DMs ever saee these videos, and see what people in the comments are saying about them. It's amusing to think of.
I love how you read "still don't feet" (most likely still don't fit) as "still don't have feet in this world."
Praising the writing of LoL characters? Seriously? The characters barely exist! Most D&D characters have longer backstories, even the ones with only a paragraph on a napkin!
No short races but league of legends has even shorter races than halfings, called yordles. Funnily enough, I made a halfling wizard character based on one of them, named Lulu (league name, not character name).
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9:58 Randy Feltface: "…and that's where the story should end…"