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Message: <blockquote data-quote="plecostomus" data-source="post: 9748769" data-attributes="member: 7040041">I killed a monster with a Toll the Dead cantrip that did somewhere around 6 damage. That was when the DM struck, I think because my cleric never gets a killshot, and he asked, "How does it die?" There were some stages to my response, starting with panic. Then I considered the spell description, which makes it seem like the cantrip does damage with an eerie sound, so I thought maybe the monster should just fall over dead. That would have been a good choice. But the panic was still there, and I wasn't sure what the DM wanted from this, so instead I said "a bunch of ghostly hands pop out of the air and rip the monster apart".As we closed out the session, the DM gently suggested that because my cleric had minced the monster to death, we might not get as much monster loot as we otherwise would have. We all said our farewells... and then about 20 minutes later another player posted in the text channel that giving us less loot because of "flavor" was unfair to me. This player did not ask my opinion before posting. I tried explaining that I was fine with it, but the player was convinced the DM would punish flavor descriptions going forward. The player was having some other stressors at the time that the table could not help with, but they never came back after that session, so I will always remember that the inciting incident for them leaving was the DM asking me how my cantrip killed a monster.(At the next session the DM said the monster's horns and fangs remained, from which we crafted multiple enchanted items.)</blockquote>

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