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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dog Moon" data-source="post: 6717240" data-attributes="member: 23023">Sometimes I feel like I come to the Hivemind and all I have are complaints.  Sadly, I haven't sleep well tonight.  Just chillin while on the computer right now.  Supposed to get together with friends tomorrow to play boardgames.  One is fine with it.  The other... is unsure because apparently he might have to cook something... it just doesn't make any sense to me.  Anyway, whether there's two or three of us, I'm sure we'll have fun, just seems weird is all.  Although I think I've complained about him in the past as well...Sadly our gaming on Sundays seems to be more and more frustrating for everyone.  Our DM added in way too many house rules and did a fine job at limiting our power in the campaign.  So there are five players, though usually we seem to only have 3-4 people.  We are on low point buy, are a level behind where we're supposed to be, items that increase stats, AC or Saves do not exist.  Our group has been struggling this entire campaign and we've already had numerous deaths and without a way to increase AC, enemies are becoming more and more dangerous.  So far two people have died to Phantasmal Killer, which normally almost never sees anyone die because it allows for 2 saves, but without bonuses to saves or stats, our saves aren't very high.  And one of the players is pretty much ready for the campaign to end even though we just started the third book in the AP.  It seems like almost everything annoys him now.Sadly, the DM is just not that great either.  So I have a smuggling business and I'm a membership of a thieves guild.  An NPC killed someone in this combat that I didn't really want killed, but I was unconscious and no one else stopped him.  So then the DM was like "The NPC says that we have to hide the body" even though the DM is the one that killed him.I thought I was using my character perfectly.  I said "Easy, we'll just take him from here, hide him and then I can smuggle him out and his body will just sorta vanish somewhere far from the city".  The DM wouldn't let that happen.  So we had to think of another way.  I don't even really know.  It seemed like something so inconsequential, something that should have just sorta been handwaved, but unfortunately we didn't have anything to easily dispose of the body... except apparently there was a chute into a furnace.  However, it was too small, so the DM says "After a couple hours of chopping up the body, the last piece gets shoved down the hole.  What do you do about the blood?"  Fortunately, a caster said "I'll use prestidigitation to get rid of it all".  Finally, problem solved.Nothing like a DM creating a problem by usage of an NPC and then forcing us to come to a gruesome way to get rid of the problem.  Thanks, DM.Watching a bunch of clips from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver apparently made me into a foul mood.  Somewhere as I grew older, I just see the world and the greed and it disgusts me and watching Last Week Tonight pointing out so much wrong with the world just makes those feelings stronger.  As humorous as the show is, maybe I should stop watching it...Anyway, hope everyone is doing good.  Looking forward to boardgaming today.  Woohoo!</blockquote>

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