SOB Evil DM

[MasterLich]

I just needed to rant!!!

We had our gaming session a couple o days ago and our DM pull one of the biggest piss offs on us. For the past 6 months (one day a week) we have been trying to get one of the most powerful heros resurrected to help battle the growing storm. Well now, i the cleric got to resurrect him after finding the 4 keys to unlock the door to his crypt. This guy was the most revered heros of our religion. The resurrection tool that we used was a staff of resurrection (once a month) that was an artifact given to our god as a gift from another. Now, when i resurrected him the staff crumbled (not supposed to happen, first clue). We thought that it curmbled cause of the hero's power. Now he wakes up and wala he is back. An NPC tried to give his sword back (we found that a while ago) then the guy starts laughing. He removed a Mask of Deception and he was the second in command for the forces of Evil that our hero killed, he died as well. This guy laughed at us and told we will never find the true body. The sarcophogus had a contingency on it that teleported the true body of our hero to a secret place and brought the other here. No one noticed.

We lost the staff and our hero. I almost threw my d20 at him. Now we gotta get stronger and then look for the true body.

AH!!!!!!!! Had to get that off my chest.

 

[Henry]

You can take two lessons from this experience:

1) You can make one awesome epic story from this experience. Think of the tales of the evil deception of the enemy, how bleak it looked in the darkest hour, before you beat back the forces of darkness.

2) Now that you know the true depths of rat-bastardliness that your DM can sink to, you can be better forewarned and prepared from now on. Learn to check and DOUBLE-check your sources. Learn to prepare for every contingency, and think of the most horrendous thing that can possibly outcome from your plan, because it may very well happen.

Look at it as a learning experience, and take your preparations from it and use them for the good of the party for the next session.

 

[Cedric]

I don't mind this sort of DM underhandedness. Sure, at the time, at the table, it may irk me a bit, but only because I was bested in the battle of wits by clever DM.

I remember fondly when our party had been avoiding this red dragon in a big dungeon, but gathering intel about it. We were going to take it down.

Course, before we could, we ran afoul of an evil Arch-Mage who didn't feel like bothering with us, so he just wished us 500 years into the future.

We lost our friends, family and everything else (wishes being almost impossible to come by), and we lost our keep.

So we needed money to get everything back...so we make all of our plans and preparations, we are taking down this Red Dragon and rebuilding our fortunes from his hoard.

We thought we had covered all the bases...then we find out (too late) that the Dragon is now a Dracolich...we lost bad.

Cedric

 

[MarauderX]

Wow... I thought I had some paranoid players after some of the tricks I pull, but that is just reaching new levels of frustration.

Have fun beating back the BBEG and getting robbed of any useful artifacts that you may get!

 

[Agnostic Paladin]

Sweet! Nothing like the internet to give us RBDMs new ideas... My player's are going to hate your DM

 

[s/LaSH]

Take heed - DMs are not the only ones to plot. Keep your plans secret - discuss possibilities outside the game with your fellow players. Prepare for contingencies. Never tell the DM what you are thinking! If you play it casual, and suddenly pull out an awesome combo trick that the DM never saw coming, you'll be able to crack evil plots right open. If a deus ex machina renders your contrivances moot, your DM is just evil and you should beat him to death with his own spleen.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Take heed - DMs are not the only ones to plot. Keep your plans secret - discuss possibilities outside the game with your fellow players. Prepare for contingencies. Never tell the DM what you are thinking! If you play it casual, and suddenly pull out an awesome combo trick that the DM never saw coming, you'll be able to crack evil plots right open. If a deus ex machina renders your contrivances moot, your DM is just evil and you should beat him to death with his own spleen.

Blasphemy!! Never reveal our weakness to them!! Plans within Plans! *chants Plans within Plans while plotting*
And I really like this Evil DM.

 

[F5]

I feel for you. Truly, you are the victim of a world-class rat bastard. But, at the same time, what a GREAT use of the Resurrection spell...

 

[kilamanjaro]

Actually, that plot is very similar to an old Rolemaster adventure called Norek, City State of Jaiman. A very excellent adventure.

 

[Ulrick]

I suggest you read this book

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_2/102-0501355-9093731?v=glance&s=books

and apply all the techniques it teaches.