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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 3245664" data-attributes="member: 198">In the same vein as the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=155240" target="_blank">Stupidest Things PCs Have Done</a> thread, here's one for the really dumb and hopefully amusing things you've seen a DM do or even done yourself. I'll start things off with the one that made me have to take over DMing and start the campaign in my sig.The group, consisting mostly of people who had met through ENWorld and didn't know each other, was about to start play in a homebrew campaign. The DM sent us lots of campaign info, and it quickly became clear that (a) he'd spent a lot of time on it and (b) really should have been running a grim and gritty GURPS campaign rather than trying to shoehorn it into a D&D game (mainly because he couldn't find people to play GURPS with him).The problem was that he wanted all sorts of flavor elements without being able to match the mechanics to it. Like when we encountered undead and he described it as "the realization crashes in on you that all those horrific stories about the existence of the living dead are actually true, and you are paralyzed with horror for a moment." And then the PCs got to attack, killed the undead with one hit each, and had a nice in-character about how these things weren't so bad.And the best was when he, trying to make the obtaining of food extremely difficult, gave us prices for rations that made us reallize a steel shield cost less than a day's worth of rations. Leading to the moment when we defeated a group of bandits, took the gold and very fancy equipment they had, and then found their incredibly well-stocked larder and started throwing away our treasure just so we could stock up on food. In short, the poor guy just hadn't paid enough attention to mechanics before wanting to tweak them. He's also the DM who said "WHAT?!" when my 2nd lvl raging barbarian hit someone for 17 pts of damage, and made me look at Power Attack when I was about to take it at 3rd lvl and think, "Damn - I'm going to make him cry if I use this!"I never did see 3rd lvl, however, since the DM just gave up on the campaign and the group, and I took over since someone had to. Which led to the Eberron campaign in my sig, which I've had a grand time running and is going strong and heading for its 3rd year. Plus I met this group due to his campaign. So I owe him for that, as well as for never being able to look at a steel shield or rations the same way again.Okay, that's mine. Your turn...</blockquote>

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