Ok before somebody says "DMing is a hard job and you should bear with him." i have been a DM before and i would never do this to characters
1) He plays a character in the game. This is fine, except he picked his alignment to be different and doesn't roleplay. He gives his character more gold/experience/items/mounts/story involvement than any other character. He also gets up set when the monsters attack him (see point 2).
2) He makes the players do some of the encounters. This is fine because i understand how hard it can be to flip through the MM for a monster with a CR 9. But when I lead an encounter he always trys to change things so that his character and his pet (see points 1 and 3) can handle any encounter.
Example: We were captured by some drow and forced to fight in the arena. He asked me to run the first arena match so put us against two greater shadows knowing that me and the cleric have ghosttouch weapons and everyone else has spells or psionics. When I was asked how tall the walls were I said "I, dunno, let's say 50 feet high" no one opposed this and i had asked him previously if there were any special requirments about the arena b/c ge also made me draw it. So when they got their first two points of STR damage (which was to my wolf, not even him) he decides to jump the wall, he rolls a 30 which i tell him isn't high enough. To which he replies "Yes it is, the walls are 15 feet high" then I say "No, I said they are 50 ft. high earlier, you should have spoken up then." to which he pulls the "I'm the DM" card fortunately the party is on my side so that we, as a group shoot him down. To this he tries to unlock the gates using mage hand. I tell him that you can't use mage hand to open locks w/o the ranged leigenderman ability to which he says "There's a switch on the other side of the gate that opens the door. I made a spot check and saw it when we were thrown in." I continue under the idea that he should have told me when i asked him "What do i have to include in this dungeon?" Eventually, after the entire party, exluding his pet agrees with me he erases the arena from the dry-erase battle grid we use. and Re-starts the encounter, under his control
3) He has a DM's pet as a PC. This destroys any semplance of balance in the game. His pet is a race he made with LA +4 but the character has 22 dex and 26 cha, when roling the highest number he got was a 12.
4) He doesn't understand how to talk to women/ how hot women interact with the world. The Dm's pet(see point 3) is a woman with massive breasts. The DM thinks that every male character (including non-humanoids) loves her on sight. He also thinks all women (in this case only humanoids) hate her on sight keep in mind 2 members of the party are not straight so deviant sexual orientations exist in this world. The character playing the DM's pet doesn't understand how women work, however this is a sperate matter
5) Non-enforcement of alignment. The Dm's character is a CE gnoll who was tasked by some diety to watch over the Dm's pet, a CG homebrew race that looks like a playboy bunny. The CE gnoll must keep the DM's pet "pure" however the Dm's pet often will strip for money and on several occasions we have prostituted her for party money.
6) Poor experience handouts. we started the campaign at level 6, and there was one party member who was using another homebrew race (based on some moth people from metroid) this race has LA +9!! Normally over five levels this would average out, however the character playing the moth race often says "I am really close to leveling, can i just get a bonus 800 XP" and the DM says yes
am i right in hating this DM?
1) He plays a character in the game. This is fine, except he picked his alignment to be different and doesn't roleplay. He gives his character more gold/experience/items/mounts/story involvement than any other character. He also gets up set when the monsters attack him (see point 2).
2) He makes the players do some of the encounters. This is fine because i understand how hard it can be to flip through the MM for a monster with a CR 9. But when I lead an encounter he always trys to change things so that his character and his pet (see points 1 and 3) can handle any encounter.
Example: We were captured by some drow and forced to fight in the arena. He asked me to run the first arena match so put us against two greater shadows knowing that me and the cleric have ghosttouch weapons and everyone else has spells or psionics. When I was asked how tall the walls were I said "I, dunno, let's say 50 feet high" no one opposed this and i had asked him previously if there were any special requirments about the arena b/c ge also made me draw it. So when they got their first two points of STR damage (which was to my wolf, not even him) he decides to jump the wall, he rolls a 30 which i tell him isn't high enough. To which he replies "Yes it is, the walls are 15 feet high" then I say "No, I said they are 50 ft. high earlier, you should have spoken up then." to which he pulls the "I'm the DM" card fortunately the party is on my side so that we, as a group shoot him down. To this he tries to unlock the gates using mage hand. I tell him that you can't use mage hand to open locks w/o the ranged leigenderman ability to which he says "There's a switch on the other side of the gate that opens the door. I made a spot check and saw it when we were thrown in." I continue under the idea that he should have told me when i asked him "What do i have to include in this dungeon?" Eventually, after the entire party, exluding his pet agrees with me he erases the arena from the dry-erase battle grid we use. and Re-starts the encounter, under his control
3) He has a DM's pet as a PC. This destroys any semplance of balance in the game. His pet is a race he made with LA +4 but the character has 22 dex and 26 cha, when roling the highest number he got was a 12.
4) He doesn't understand how to talk to women/ how hot women interact with the world. The Dm's pet(see point 3) is a woman with massive breasts. The DM thinks that every male character (including non-humanoids) loves her on sight. He also thinks all women (in this case only humanoids) hate her on sight keep in mind 2 members of the party are not straight so deviant sexual orientations exist in this world. The character playing the DM's pet doesn't understand how women work, however this is a sperate matter
5) Non-enforcement of alignment. The Dm's character is a CE gnoll who was tasked by some diety to watch over the Dm's pet, a CG homebrew race that looks like a playboy bunny. The CE gnoll must keep the DM's pet "pure" however the Dm's pet often will strip for money and on several occasions we have prostituted her for party money.
6) Poor experience handouts. we started the campaign at level 6, and there was one party member who was using another homebrew race (based on some moth people from metroid) this race has LA +9!! Normally over five levels this would average out, however the character playing the moth race often says "I am really close to leveling, can i just get a bonus 800 XP" and the DM says yes
am i right in hating this DM?
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