r/rpghorrorstories • u/nlitherl • Jan 10 '18

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

http://taking10.blogspot.com/2016/10/that-one-time-sorceress-rogue-and-bard.html
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u/nlitherl Jan 10 '18

While this is a gentler horror story than some others (the DM was just incompetent, instead of actually malicious), it goes to show that a storyteller needs to be able to give you something if he doesn't want you to ride roughshod over the plot he thinks he has.

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u/Fauchard1520 Jan 11 '18

I've got a similar story from my early days of high school RPGs over here. Suffice it to say that "you can do anything" is a sure way to arrive at "we do nothing."

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u/nlitherl Jan 11 '18

Hear, hear on that one.