Hello everyone I was watching a lot of D&D horror stories and remembered that I had one to share myself. For context this happened many years ago when I was in high school and most of those people were good but had small problems and I don’t see them as often except for one who’s was my brother. Into time and names changed to keep people from harassing anyone. Me, a good paladin that was working to destroy the evil around the continent. My brother, the DM that worked really well most npcs were done with the rule of cool in mind (one was a necrodancer which raised the dead through dances). Ring forgot his class but got a teleportation ring so when the party was in trouble should teleport away. Chaos, a chaotic evil wizard looking to gain as much power as possible. Finally there was Wrath, he changed from a ranger to a summoner because of an event here that will make sense.
The plot This was a while ago so some details are fuzzy but this is what I remember and a few things were sent to me because of my close nature with the dm. For those who are going to say that I was the favorite the other players were close friends of my brother and he told me the details when everything was going downhill to fast. So the story to my knowledge was that the players were bounty hunters looking for the cash and help an order with these people who were a problem for the order. Things were going smoothly until the third or fourth target. These were normally three sessions ending in a final boss and a level up. We did not want to deal with exp tracking so we leveled up after 3 or 4 sessions. We ran into the necrodancer and a gnome that was unkillable but we got that out of the way according to the order. This one which was an oathbreaker we encountered on the first of the three sessions by himself in a closed room. This was weird since he had to get away at some point until an explosion happened and legally distinct Darth Vader comes in and Chaos betrays and sent a fireball in the middle of the group killing Wrath’s character which was a ranger I think. Ring teleports away to save his character, leaving me down and bloodied against him our wizard and other troops by myself so I turned myself in and had to work under Darth Vader and ring did also switch to his side as well in all the commotion. Wrath made a support summoner hopping to betray them also the dm looped me in since he thought that it should be in the best interest of my character. Do I basically said sure but that whorls be at a specific target with a siege to blind the rest so that was chosen by the head.(We had no say since we were not as high in choosing as when the campaign started. One more session was done before the siege and the campaign got canceled since wrath wanted to turn on chaos for killing his old character by killing his wizard then was looking at turning on me because he wanted to be evil? That would not made sense to me and shown that the first turn was just a grudge and that is where the campaign died. Forever to be a mystery and the siege never happened.
Hopefully some people will see the signs and stop these vengeful players before they become that angry since I did not see this at the table. I hope someone got entertainment from that because I was let down because the last session was not a bloody battle or a total party kill, but a training test to join him.
Have more to get off your chest? Come rant with us on the discord. Invite link: https://discord.gg/PCPTSSTKqr
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.
A truly horrifying read.
Thanks I just hope that the concept gets picked up by someone else because that is great it just ended for us catastrophically die to a turn and a bad roll. I also only agreed to betray because the player that lost a character plan was to make a mole character and turn on Darth Vader because I wanted to stay with the party as much as I can.
This isn't a horror story it's a near unreadable fever dream
It was just a bad roll with more anger that needed to come out, because the campaign was going great until then and I just wanted to stay with everyone. We did not think too much on the alignment chart at the time which I look into now more.
I'm glad I'm not the only one immediately thought this.
What are these character names?
I am unsure since it has been more than 10 years and we did not save the character sheets. And this was in 3.5 or 4th edition. I can check with my brother when I see him but don’t get too excited since I think most of those small details are lost to memory and time. Sorry for not being able to answer.
I mean, I get what you were doing
Thanks fore that there are some things that go crazy due to emotions and we did learn from that. I agreed since I was supposed to work with wrath on switching. He mostly wanted to avenge his dead pc than role playing the new one.
There were more betrayals than commas in this story.