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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Miccc" data-source="post: 9862397" data-attributes="member: 7056211">I have been playing 2024 lmop with a party of 6 members for about 3 months now, using discord. This was a very homebrew edition of the module, with a "very competitive" DM who would throw big enemy numbers and sometimes overleveled npcs at us. I was playing a wizard, the rest of the party was mostly composed of melee characters and we had no cleric, so, to compensate, I took magic initiate (cleric) to be able to cast healing word and spare the dying.Due to backstory reasons (my pc was a wiz who was kind of bad at magic) DM offered to apply a homebrew mechanic called "dangerous magic" which added a chance to harm myself whenever I cast a spell. It felt bland, but I took it since it made sense for backstory reasons and I demanded no buffs in change.Over the course of the campaign, there where several times the party almost got wiped out. My character often ended up wasting his slots casting healing word, acting as a cleric, or stabilizing incapacitated teammates. We ended up surviving, since the enemies never attacked downed teamamtes. This felt like a precedent set by the DM, and the rest of the party members never cared to aid downed teammates since it is was implicit that they would get aid after the combat ended. I guess you can see now where this is going. Fast forward to the final battle with BBEG. This was a heavely modified BBEG with invisibility, legendary actions, fireball, spider summons, non concentration spider climbing and such. At this point I was heavly invested in the campaign and the character, and the master had said that he intented to continue with the icespire peak module after finishing and we would be able to continue with our characters if we wanted to.BBEG casted a fireball at us and my PC barely made it alive with 1 hp. I casted fly on one of the melee party members so he could get him down (he was climing above us, out of melee reach). In the next turn I casted lighing bolt and used one of my portent rolls to make him fail the saveThe spiders focused me, and I went down, while the main baddie was being now focused by the rest of the party. In his next turn, he ordered the spiders to eat my character while he was incapacitated. I had passed the first death saving throw, but with two attacks, I was instantly kiled. No chance to give last words, or maybe make a last action. The fight just went onI feel targeted and I believe this DM wanted my pc out, or he killed him just to make a point to the rest of the party members, or create drama. There was silence when it happened and the fight went on and I left the voice chat when I saw they were about to reach the ending without me.Next day the DM sent me the ending and he had my pc revived by some deus ex machina. It felt cheap. He said BBEG targeted me because I was a mage (same as he) and thus knew my capabilities. I decided to leave the table. Accepting the deus ex resurrection would make my character feel bland, and I don't think I could play a new character. The ilussion was broken, for me at least. How would you feel?</blockquote>

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