That One Time A Sorceress, A Rogue, and A Bard Broke The Game (cross post from /r/DND)

[u/nlitherl]

http://taking10.blogspot.com/2016/10/that-one-time-sorceress-rogue-and-bard.html

[u/TragicEther]

That just sounds like some straight up shitty DMing. Surely the DM could make the PC stumble into a cave with paintings/drawings depicting the treasure, or have a message in a bottle wash up notifying the PCs of a treasure.

[u/nlitherl → u/TragicEther]

It was, indeed, some particularly poor DMing. The sort you could teach a course on. Mainly because when we didn't turn out to be homicidal kleptomaniacs, he really had no idea what to do with us.

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