D&D 5E (2014) Real Emotions at the Gaming Table

[Burnside]

Swallowed by giant frog I think is objectively funny. I would not be upset at all. I think the fact that the situation ended with her summoning a horse and killing the toad would be great moment in most campaigns.

I have gotten a bit upset/sad when a long-term character of mine - or another player's character - gets killed. I'm also not crazy about a character getting permanently, unilaterally altered in some way without a conversation about it. I don't like it when a DM tells me how my character behaves or feels about something. And I don't like any adventure where I am feeling like "okay, what button do I need to press to make the plot advance."

A few rounds of abject humiliation does not bother me and is kind of inevitably going to happen to most characters at some point.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"This is triggering my Village of Hommlet PTSD."

 

[Cruentus]

Early on in my playing days (Ad&d, maybe earlier) I had a fighter who fought Slicer Beetles. If they rolled well enough they could lop off a limb. Well, it did, severing my first level character's hand. After we killed it, I took my hand with me back to town, and asked around "Do you have a cleric handy?" (While waving the severed appendage). We still reference it today.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Early on in my playing days (Ad&d, maybe earlier) I had a fighter who fought Slicer Beetles. If they rolled well enough they could lop off a limb. Well, it did, severing my first level character's hand. After we killed it, I took my hand with me back to town, and asked around "Do you have a cleric handy?" (While waving the severed appendage). We still reference it today.

That story made me face palm.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

"This is triggering my Village of Hommlet PTSD."

And this is triggering my memory of the cruelly underrated Troika Temple of Elemental Evil CRPG.

 

[Maxperson]

That's a good question. I've only played with her for about a dozen sessions, but if I had to guess it would "This is cool."

I've been playing for too long and gone out too many different ways for me to feel anything other than a combo of this is hilarious and this is really embarrassing.

 

[Maxperson]

I once had someone do exactly that, only inside a very magical teapot rather than a toad.

The resulting explosion scattered blended bits of the horse, character, and teapot all over the room and its other occupants. We still laugh about that one today, and it happened in about 1987.

I was in this position as a player not all that long ago. Lanefan-the-character (a tank Fighter) was my PC at the time, face to face with a demonic toad - roughly the size of a city bus - that wanted to swallow him. So what did he do? Thinking (correctly, as it turned out) he'd be able to kill it way more efficiently from the inside than from the outside, he charged straight into its mouth and down its gullet!

Perhaps needless to say, the DM didn't see that coming.

I once got swallowed by a purple worm way back in the day. I had nothing to even be able to cut my way out, so in desperation I pulled out my Wand of Wonder and prayed. The first round I got Stinking Cloud or something and made the thing vomit. Yuck. The second round I got a bunch of butterflies. The third round I got lucky and turned it to stone. Then a bunch of butterflies and myself(covered in vomit) emerged from the stone mouth.

 

[AlViking]

I don't take the game, or potentially losing characters, very seriously. About the only time I might be a bit miffed is if I thought the DM was being unfair in some way, fortunately that's something that hasn't happened for a long, long time. A while back in a DM's first 5e game he killed my character with a lucky crit when I had already taken a bit of damage. He was super apologetic and I just laughed. Crits happen.

 

[AlViking]

I once had someone do exactly that, only inside a very magical teapot rather than a toad.

The resulting explosion scattered blended bits of the horse, character, and teapot all over the room and its other occupants. We still laugh about that one today, and it happened in about 1987.

I was in this position as a player not all that long ago. Lanefan-the-character (a tank Fighter) was my PC at the time, face to face with a demonic toad - roughly the size of a city bus - that wanted to swallow him. So what did he do? Thinking (correctly, as it turned out) he'd be able to kill it way more efficiently from the inside than from the outside, he charged straight into its mouth and down its gullet!

Perhaps needless to say, the DM didn't see that coming.

I suspect the demonic toad wouldn't have expected it either.

 

[Tonguez]

Noo Not Blackleaf!!!

But giant frog heh, thats hillarious and hopefully is a good story and not just the DM being a dick