DM and Dickhead Are Practically Synonymous
I knew a guy in college who was playing a session involving a mage that the DM had spent an entire week working out. The guy thought that they would at least get a couple weeks worth of playing out of trying to navigate the maze. Unfortunately for the DM the party worked out an easy solution by only making right turns or some other such nonsense and ended up making their way out of the maze in a matter of minutes only to find themselves on the edge of a large underground lake. One of the party threw a stone in the lake, the DM got a nasty look in his eyes, and a moment later the entire party had been killed by a small army of underwater monsters that they’d disturbed.
Was that small army always there and the party would have defeated them had they gone through the maze and raised their levels like the DM intended? Is it possible that the DM just made it all up on the fly to punish the players for throwing away a weeks worth of campaign work? Either way, everyone can agree that the DM was being a huge dick and effectively ruined the game because the players acted in a way that he didn’t expect, something that no good DM would ever do.
It’s Wednesday, which means that another episode of Zero Punctuation should be up at this link if you click it later in the afternoon. Yahtzee is hilarious, even if you haven’t played the games that he’s talking about.
The figures in this week’s comic were copied and pasted for the first three panels, but that was mainly to illustrate the point that they were going through the same crap with a different background, another hallmark of a terrible DM. I’m trying to improve my drawing ability as I go through this thing, and as a result I’ve promised myself not to copy and paste unless it serves the story’s purpose or it’s just a background that’s being reused within a strip. And I’ll be the first to admit when I have done it.
Anyways, see you all on Friday.
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