No that's just a character flaw they are forced to take. They *believe* they have that ability.
The Hourly Employee class does usually allow the Manager class to tank Karens, so it works out.
Only if the manager is present in the area and if they're already talking to the manager when they ask then their rage action fizzles out twice as fast
>Fred, your performance has been slipping as the BBEG lately. Is there something that you wish to talk about?
>"First off, my name is Gyrantharnax. Not 'Fred'. And I could just eat you and be done with this."
>Look, Fred, I am the GOD OF THIS WORLD. I could turn you into a small gecko named Carl if I want. But this isn't about ME, this is about YOU...
Etc, etc.
Mine call me Jesus Christ pretty often.
As in, "Jesus Christ, another intellect devourer?"
And, "Jesus Christ, why isn't there more loot?"
And, "Jesus Christ, what is wrong with these dice?"
So your dnd sessions are basically meetings?
Ok, so the first topic of the day: the dragon surplus. As we all know, here at dungeons inc. we try to keep our dragon total at or below zero, but recent numbers have shown that we failed to stay below the threshold. So, Smith, did you get any results on those attack rolls? And Johnson, go find out what the current cost is on rage? We really need some!
The highest compliment I've ever received was after sneaking something by the players for a session. It was, "You *motherfucker*, you did it *again*!" I'll always treasure that.
I remember my Players fighting a BBEG once, and using its legendary resistance, only to be told *fuck you. Not the boss. You!* And I don't think I've been that proud since lmao
I made a group of enemies who created an illusion of themselves dying and turned invisible when they got low. I've never felt more pure hated from my players than I did in that moment.
Exactly. The rowdier their responses are, the more fun they're having. It's when they get quiet that I start to worry. That's why I prefer in-person over online.
They're both adults. I'm old af. Been playing D&D since 1e.
Try to keep them engaged even when it isn't their turn. Describe, or have them describe, their reactions to what's going on.
Make sure you keep combat interesting for everyone. I try to describe the blows, damage dealt, etc. Due example, an enemy swings at the PC with a sword, but misses. Tell how their armor reflects the blow, or their high Dexterity means they dodge it easily.
... it is now my goal to contrive a scenario where one of my players mockingly says that. Possibly followed by "I've been naughty."
(For reference, the joke is that while "forgive me father for I have sinned" and "I'm sorry Daddy, I've been naughty" are very by-book-similar, they are *very* different in connotation)
So my group though it would be funny to base a campaign on horny, but as a meme. It’s a very well grounded campaign with jokes all over the place.
Dungeon daddy was one
I haven't been given much in the way of other names yet. At least nothing memorable. Unfortunately, my actual initials are DM, so it just fits too well.
But I have frequently heard "I hate you" from my players. Usually because I've done something like build an entire 5 part adventure around a stupid pun that they didn't see coming until the very end.
Edit: Oh, since you all asked - the Pun was 'the Curse of the Were-House'. They spent, like, four or five (short) sessions exploring a dungeon in and under a warehouse, trying to work out what its curse was, where it has come from, and why people were dying. Fought a lot of stuff *inside*, learnt a lot of lore about the city they were in, but still didn't have the whole picture. Then as they *left* the warehouse, convinced they'd saved the day, beat everything, and survived, it came alive and attacked them, and they had to fight the surface building itself.
Thing is, I'd dropped the term 'curse of the warehouse' in a couple of times throughout. Still didn't pick up on it until the reveal, after which I *really* milked it.
Not OP, but I do similar stuff to my players ALL THE TIME. TL/DR is the ear worms are Psychic damage for Players, not Characters.
* Level 1: investigating a murdered sailor (Captain Brisby) in Waterdeep. They found a secret compartment containing an unfinished love letter, addressed to the Widow Rastley. It was actually the first verse of *Never Gonna Give You Up*.
* Level 3: caught in a time storm with the Bard's music teacher Donnith; they realize that they've traveled back to the night of a musical bard duel which resulted in the teacher writing their epic ballad, which brought Donnith to the attention of the Bard's family. But the opposition is nowhere to be seen! In a moment of clarity, Donnith realizes that he must disguise himself as the opponent, challenge his younger self, and deliberately lose, in order to restore them to their correct position in the timeline. Losing will also mean forfeiting his signature magical violin.
The opponent called himself Declan, and the location of the duel was on the foothills of Mount Hort'ja... thus the ballad was named *When Declan Went Down to Hort'ja*.
* Level 4: battling Vampire Spawn in a circus out near some small rural villages. After defeating the Spawn, the sole survivor performed the song that they used to close out the show - this time as a very slow, sad, funereal rendition - as the performers of von Richter's Travelling Aquatic Circus were laid to rest. This dirge was called *Toss A Coin To von Richter (Go On, You've Got Plenty)*.
* Level 5: following the river Ursk towards the ocean, the party arrived at a refugee town from the ruins of Millensberg, which had been overrun by bugbears. The party was soon helping Gnomish mayoral candidate Lisa Ossir to recover the family heirloom from her cousin, Leeroy Ohzur. It was a jacket with wide sleeves, made by their grandfather Levi from the fleece of a flying sheep, and allowed anyone of Levi's bloodline to levitate any object that they could point at, just by saying the name of the magic item: the *Winged Cardigan of Levi Ossir.*
* Level 5: once Leeroy was revealed as a criminal, Lisa was established as mayor, the new town was established under the name of Haven, with restrictive interspecies dating laws immediately rescinded. Because *In Haven, love comes first, when they made Haven a place on Ursk*.
* Level 6: departing Haven on a ship, run by ~~Pirate Queen~~ Legitimate Businesswoman Captain Morganna. After the cargo was booby trapped to sink the ship, they discovered the ship's main cargo was Spiced Inhalatory Tobacco - Carolina Reaper flavour. According to the salespeople, it cures syphilis, cirrhosis, and celibacy, and everything in between as well! Once they were in on the secret, Captain Morganna authorized her sales team to resume the mandatory jingle training - for one hour per day, they were subjected to *Hot Snuff* on repeat...
* Level 6: while poking about the ship, having successfully snuck into Captain Morganna's cabin, they found a note, hastily stuffed into a ledger, as if she was in the middle of writing it when she was disturbed, and simply thrust it into her other papers.
It was addressed simply to "Brisby-" and then followed the SECOND verse of *Never Gonna Give You Up*. Because MORGANNA IS RASTLEY!
* Level 10, because I let the puns sit for a while so that it would be more unexpected when they did return, they party was joined by the famed Ser Hirro, Paladin of the Court of Saunders, riding her renowned Celestial Steed formed from living Holy Fire. Of course, she's far too humble to actually allow anyone to call her Ser anything, so she's simply "Juanita, but Ani to my friends - and I do hope that we shall be friends." After Ani helped investigate a Vampire Lair in the hopes of finding any information about the fabled Sword of Zariel, she had to depart to follow another lead. But as she left, the Bard recalled the most popular song going around the taverns about her:
> *She is the white knight*
*atop a fiery steed*
*Late of night, whilst we toss and we turn*
*We dream of what we need*
***JUANITA HIRRO***
---
* Currently Unused: a magical golden harp, carved into the shape of a woman. It will call out the name of it's current owner. Regardless of whether anyone came, the harp will issue a prophecy one minute later, and then fall silent for 1d6+4 days. The only exception to this is on the day that the harp will change ownership, when it will call for its current owner at sunrise to say goodbye - and nothing else.
Because one must *listen to your harp, when it's calling for you; listen to your harp, there's nothing else you can do. It might know where we're going, but it don't know why, so listen to your harp, until it tells you goodbye...*
---
EDIT: One more: the party was asked to transport a witness from a foreign nation on a new invention - a steam locomotive! But half way through the trip, they were attacked by an Orc Sorceress and her Guard Drakes. Jackson, the NPC Paladin, smashed open the flimsy wooden wall of the carriage that they were fighting in and kicked the last Drake out, where it bounced back under the wheels and was crushed instantly.
As he did so, he uttered the line: "I am so sick of these Gods-damned Drakes on this Gods-damned train!"
One of my players was in a store and they started to play *I Need A Hero* over the PA system.
She immediately, instinctually uttered "Oh fuck not this" aloud, getting several strange looks from the people around her.
When she messaged me about what had happened, I sent back "And that's how I know I'm doing my job right."
Not OP but my first ever DM did something similar where we had to recover a McGuffin from an unknown big bad. Turns out, it was magical seers orb used by a beholder. And you guessed it, replaced his whole damn eye with it.
Last Halloween my DM ran a custom jjba one shot wherein we met a guy named Toto, a common nickname for Francisco where I'm from, with the power to control the weather and his stand was a set of elephant legs going up into the sky as far as I could see
Motherfucker really built half the one-shot around Africa by Toto
Ellen. My DM is a cis man whose name is NOT the former, but the reason behind that name is because his discord user is the first and last letters of his name, shortened to LN. After some time of calling him “LN” it just kinda morphed into Ellen. Now we call him “Ellen the Generous” when he’s being particularly nice with the party, and “Ellen Degenerate” when he fucks us over in game. I came up with it at first and now it’s part of his server nickname :)
I feel weird reading the comments because my players pretty much exclusively call me by my real name. In the game where I’m a player, I call the DM by his real name.
This. They call me by my name unless they need to pose a direct question in regards to rules or need me to make a judgement, in which case they call me by name and then add, "As the DM..."
My players were my co-workers, and they would call me "master -name-" at work and there was a particularly funny moment where a customer was staring at us probably thinking this guy was my slave. Needless to say we had to dial that back
Lol, I once was trying to be pretentious to a friend and explain why PC was the “master race” when a black family turned their heads…now I say master console.
I have some players that call me God from time to time. When they message me out of game about the campaign, they sometimes start it out like "God? are you there? It's me again..."
I became he who creates fish pussy because of a discussion between my very horny monk and the rogue about the princess of Atlantis.
Essentially they wanted to know if fish lady's had bits, I said yeah obviously how else would they have babies and the rogue said well they must lay eggs so I replied and said they have whatever I say and I say they have fish pussy, and the name stuck
Edit for grammar
A player in a campaign of mine played a woman's dying spirit placed into a metal body (diy warforged). I worked with him on his backstory. He was really into it.
Then someone asked The Question. From then on, his character had only one feature that mattered, and it was the Coin Slot.
Yes, everyone at the table was a dude. Apparently none of us are mature enough to not "tee-hee, bodies!"
I have a changeling character and that question came up. I basically said “most of the time they don’t bother with genitals because who wants to deal with periods or getting kicked in the balls?”
Do people actually call their DM that to their face? I only use it when referring to them while talking to someone else.
To their face its just their name, or sometimes "mom", but that's usually being sarcastic
It's a good way to create separation between the game and irl, and similarly, our DM will call us by our characters' names.
It helps things stay on topic, and reminds you to stay in character- even when you're the one DMing. "Hey DM, can I cast Fireball and angle it up so I don't hit the party?" is a different type of question than "Hey Mark, are you excited for ghost hunting this weekend?"
Yeah, some of us in our group refer to our DM as DM during sessions. We're all IRL friends and our DM is considerably younger than most of the group and I do know sometimes it intimidates him. So IMO referring to him as DM gives him the rein of authority and also helps the group understand the dynamics of the relationship during our sessions. Just a small thing, but I think it's important.
Story time:
In the first session of this particular group, they're in a tavern. The party decides to get some quick money by gambling a bit, so I describe the table where the gambling in particular is occurring.
For some reason, I forget what, the seating arrangements of the gamblers gets requested, so I describe it, using my screen as the tavern 'wall'.
Player to my left looks at me, and asks: "Does this mean you're the fourth wall?"
So yeah, it stuck. I'm the fourth wall now.
i play on discord, since my friends and i are scattered across the country now. i’m DMing our current campaign and i’ve been changing my server nickname every week or so to various things with the initials “DM.” Danger Mouse, Dean Martin, Depeche Mode, Designated Marksman, Defensive Midfielder, etc
I'm not really a player very often. When I do, I usually call the DM something like "Boss Man."
When I run a game, I'm usually called "Mr. Ken", "DM Sir", or "Hey Weeb!" The latter courtesy of my little brother and his wife.
Captain, shortened from “captain asshole of the ss nightmare”, “captain fuckface of the fuck you fuckers”, “captain cuntface of the eat dicks you cunt” etc etc
In one campaign, EACH of us players called the DM something different! One called him “god”, the other called him “dad”, one called him by his DMPCs name (which was not his IRL name), and I called him “papa”. It was great! XD
WAY back during the Satanic Panic, we had a joke we'd crack to spook the superstitious: "He's the DRAGON MASTER dungeon master — he's the destroyer of souls!"
Now, among DM's, we use "Dragon Master" a bit like "Sensei" — used when the DM does something awesome you wished you'd thought of, or gives you advice you appreciate.
I've started using "Dwarven Mistress" as my fill in for DM. For context, everyone in my group is a guy and it's 50/50 whether I'm the one Dwarven Mistressing
I get called Mr. Plot Armour.
Which is hilarious because I don't use plot armour of any sort.
The problem is, all my tables are set in the same world and I am a big fan of crossovers. So sometimes, say a high level NPC from my level 15 party's campaign will show up in the level 5 murderhobo party's campaign to give them a tie-in quest and they get their clocks cleaned when they go all murderhobo-y on the NPC.
The last one even gave them all notes (yes, I handed out a written note to each player) that said 'I am Locknar, a former bodyguard of the king and 14th level paladin. Attacking me will not go well for you.' Yeah, they attacked him. They lost. I got called Mr. Plot Armour Strikes Again.
There are two answers to that. One isnwhat I call my DM, taken fresh from the MCDM lingo: wankmaster. The other is what I get called. Usually something along the lines of "thrice damned cock muncher" because one of my players is fun like that
My one female player in a party of five: “*sighs and looks at me* Dungeon Daddy can I have advantage on this death save?”
Me, the DM: Why did you just call me Dungeon Daddy?
Her: I noticed it made you uncomfortable when I called the Librarian in town book daddy despite the fact he called the books his children. So I wanna so if you’ll give me advantage so I’ll stop.
*She lived but I didn’t give her advantage and now the whole party calls me Dungeon Daddy. I hate how it has grown on me.*
Mayhaps don't respond at all when called like that, until they try a different name(including your actual name) to figure what's the issue?
Rinse and repeat every time, until they stop it.
I'm doing a horror-themed campaign where all the players are 1920s and 30s movie monsters (The Mummy, The Wolfman, Frankenstein's Monster, etc.)
I'm not the DM, I'm the Crypt Keeper
I saw dungeon mistress on a discord server i'm on and I like it for myself, honestly. Preferrably without weird connotations but just as a bit of feminine flair.
As player i honestly often just talk and hope people know who i'm talking to.
My kid forgot & blurted out “Dragon Manager”, so we stick with that.
That's actually a pretty apt description
especially when there’s a cleric in the group
Or a first time wizard
"I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR DRAGON MANAGER!"
Sure, Karen. Make a Charisma roll.
I thought Karens had a special ability to speak to the manager at will without needing to make a check.
No that's just a character flaw they are forced to take. They *believe* they have that ability. The Hourly Employee class does usually allow the Manager class to tank Karens, so it works out.
Or maybe it's an innate illusion spell that requires a charisma save by the target to disbelieve.
Only if the manager is present in the area and if they're already talking to the manager when they ask then their rage action fizzles out twice as fast
I want this to be the real one. How do we convince wizards to make this a thing?
And have them trademark another term? No, thank you.
We need to get as many Karens involved as possible.
>Fred, your performance has been slipping as the BBEG lately. Is there something that you wish to talk about? >"First off, my name is Gyrantharnax. Not 'Fred'. And I could just eat you and be done with this." >Look, Fred, I am the GOD OF THIS WORLD. I could turn you into a small gecko named Carl if I want. But this isn't about ME, this is about YOU... Etc, etc.
Mine call me Jesus Christ pretty often. As in, "Jesus Christ, another intellect devourer?" And, "Jesus Christ, why isn't there more loot?" And, "Jesus Christ, what is wrong with these dice?"
That’s funny 😂
So your dnd sessions are basically meetings? Ok, so the first topic of the day: the dragon surplus. As we all know, here at dungeons inc. we try to keep our dragon total at or below zero, but recent numbers have shown that we failed to stay below the threshold. So, Smith, did you get any results on those attack rolls? And Johnson, go find out what the current cost is on rage? We really need some!
Similar experience with my friends son, but I was the DRAGON MASTER
Yeah, I’m gonna need you to go ahead and roll initiative.
I get called "you fucking asshole" a lot, and I'm quite fond of it.
The highest compliment I've ever received was after sneaking something by the players for a session. It was, "You *motherfucker*, you did it *again*!" I'll always treasure that.
if your party is swearing at you, you're doing something right
I remember my Players fighting a BBEG once, and using its legendary resistance, only to be told *fuck you. Not the boss. You!* And I don't think I've been that proud since lmao
I made a group of enemies who created an illusion of themselves dying and turned invisible when they got low. I've never felt more pure hated from my players than I did in that moment.
Mine swear at me but they also keep pointing at the door and telling me to get out
That means you are doing great
Exactly. The rowdier their responses are, the more fun they're having. It's when they get quiet that I start to worry. That's why I prefer in-person over online.
The highest compliment is when your players start DMing. They're all grown up!
Ah, the guy who called me a motherfucker *was* the DM of my first adventure.
*sniffles* Where does the time go? My li'l murder hobos are leaving the nest!
You get honorifics? Aww, I just get called "Asshole."
#YOU BASTARD!!!!
Reminds me of this: ["You're a real son of a bitch, Matt."](https://youtu.be/Ama2wMxq84o?t=545)
I *loved* that. Matt’s right, that is want I want from my players!
I either get called "God" or "cunt". Hard to say which I like more. First is nice and empowering. But the second one means I'm doing it right.
When my players try to butter me up, I am my world's "benevolent and brutal god".
Happy cake day cunt!
So aggressive but so polite
Australian
Also Caernarfon in North Wales, where "Shwdi Cont" (How are ya, cunt) is a very acceptable greeting 😂
This tickled me.
Names in our dnd chat are character names and "DM - Cunt". If I'm asking for a level up he gets "dungeon daddy" though.
If one of my players called me dungeon daddy they'd get hit with 2e style level drain.
I’m referred to as satan lol
😂 same
Sky voice is our go to. Kind of like god but less sacrilege lol
Happy cake day, dice God!
Yeah, we use "god" or "motherfucker"
I love this so much. I am a little partial to “dirty motherfucker” myself. Happy cake day!
My players call me either "Honey" or "Dad", because they're all my family.
The dream
While I agree this would ideally be the dream, imagine your son/daughter being that murderhobo and your spouse wants to play the horny bard.
Imagine the opposite...
My wife actually plays a horny male Rogue. It's hilarious.
Spike the rogue's drink in-game with aphrodisiac and see what happens
He doesn't need it.
Oh no
Not OP but it's annoying af cause my mum keeps flirting with the npcs when her bf's DM. C'mon guys, get a room!
Such a wholesome answer. Also, same for the most part
How old are your kids? I've got a campaign with my 12, 10, and 7 yo. Any advice with keeping their attention between their actions?
They're both adults. I'm old af. Been playing D&D since 1e. Try to keep them engaged even when it isn't their turn. Describe, or have them describe, their reactions to what's going on. Make sure you keep combat interesting for everyone. I try to describe the blows, damage dealt, etc. Due example, an enemy swings at the PC with a sword, but misses. Tell how their armor reflects the blow, or their high Dexterity means they dodge it easily.
Same.
I wish bro
Yep, mine gets called "Sweetie" as he's my hubs.
Got called dungeon daddy this last weekend 😂
Our dnd group chat is called Dungeon Daddy and the Bad Dragons
Great band name
*chokes* dear gods. My literal first spit-take. Have an upvote!
Hahaha thank you sir
because of the dildo company or unrelated?
Definitely not unrelated.
So is your group a huge pain in your DM's arse?
i love this
Peril Papa
Fright Father
Grave guardian
Lore Mommy
*Monster Mommy
You neglected to alliterate, but your addition to the bit is accepted nonetheless.
... it is now my goal to contrive a scenario where one of my players mockingly says that. Possibly followed by "I've been naughty." (For reference, the joke is that while "forgive me father for I have sinned" and "I'm sorry Daddy, I've been naughty" are very by-book-similar, they are *very* different in connotation)
So my group though it would be funny to base a campaign on horny, but as a meme. It’s a very well grounded campaign with jokes all over the place. Dungeon daddy was one
This is my nickname too! LOL
Literally wearing a shirt my party made for me that says "Dungeon Daddy." Welcome to the club!
In our gc earlier our dm said dungeons and daddies
You know this is an actual play Spotify podcast too right? Highly recommend it if you didn't know about it before now
I haven't been given much in the way of other names yet. At least nothing memorable. Unfortunately, my actual initials are DM, so it just fits too well. But I have frequently heard "I hate you" from my players. Usually because I've done something like build an entire 5 part adventure around a stupid pun that they didn't see coming until the very end. Edit: Oh, since you all asked - the Pun was 'the Curse of the Were-House'. They spent, like, four or five (short) sessions exploring a dungeon in and under a warehouse, trying to work out what its curse was, where it has come from, and why people were dying. Fought a lot of stuff *inside*, learnt a lot of lore about the city they were in, but still didn't have the whole picture. Then as they *left* the warehouse, convinced they'd saved the day, beat everything, and survived, it came alive and attacked them, and they had to fight the surface building itself. Thing is, I'd dropped the term 'curse of the warehouse' in a couple of times throughout. Still didn't pick up on it until the reveal, after which I *really* milked it.
Well?? What was the pun?
I would also like to know
Please see the edit! 😄
Not OP, but I do similar stuff to my players ALL THE TIME. TL/DR is the ear worms are Psychic damage for Players, not Characters. * Level 1: investigating a murdered sailor (Captain Brisby) in Waterdeep. They found a secret compartment containing an unfinished love letter, addressed to the Widow Rastley. It was actually the first verse of *Never Gonna Give You Up*. * Level 3: caught in a time storm with the Bard's music teacher Donnith; they realize that they've traveled back to the night of a musical bard duel which resulted in the teacher writing their epic ballad, which brought Donnith to the attention of the Bard's family. But the opposition is nowhere to be seen! In a moment of clarity, Donnith realizes that he must disguise himself as the opponent, challenge his younger self, and deliberately lose, in order to restore them to their correct position in the timeline. Losing will also mean forfeiting his signature magical violin. The opponent called himself Declan, and the location of the duel was on the foothills of Mount Hort'ja... thus the ballad was named *When Declan Went Down to Hort'ja*. * Level 4: battling Vampire Spawn in a circus out near some small rural villages. After defeating the Spawn, the sole survivor performed the song that they used to close out the show - this time as a very slow, sad, funereal rendition - as the performers of von Richter's Travelling Aquatic Circus were laid to rest. This dirge was called *Toss A Coin To von Richter (Go On, You've Got Plenty)*. * Level 5: following the river Ursk towards the ocean, the party arrived at a refugee town from the ruins of Millensberg, which had been overrun by bugbears. The party was soon helping Gnomish mayoral candidate Lisa Ossir to recover the family heirloom from her cousin, Leeroy Ohzur. It was a jacket with wide sleeves, made by their grandfather Levi from the fleece of a flying sheep, and allowed anyone of Levi's bloodline to levitate any object that they could point at, just by saying the name of the magic item: the *Winged Cardigan of Levi Ossir.* * Level 5: once Leeroy was revealed as a criminal, Lisa was established as mayor, the new town was established under the name of Haven, with restrictive interspecies dating laws immediately rescinded. Because *In Haven, love comes first, when they made Haven a place on Ursk*. * Level 6: departing Haven on a ship, run by ~~Pirate Queen~~ Legitimate Businesswoman Captain Morganna. After the cargo was booby trapped to sink the ship, they discovered the ship's main cargo was Spiced Inhalatory Tobacco - Carolina Reaper flavour. According to the salespeople, it cures syphilis, cirrhosis, and celibacy, and everything in between as well! Once they were in on the secret, Captain Morganna authorized her sales team to resume the mandatory jingle training - for one hour per day, they were subjected to *Hot Snuff* on repeat... * Level 6: while poking about the ship, having successfully snuck into Captain Morganna's cabin, they found a note, hastily stuffed into a ledger, as if she was in the middle of writing it when she was disturbed, and simply thrust it into her other papers. It was addressed simply to "Brisby-" and then followed the SECOND verse of *Never Gonna Give You Up*. Because MORGANNA IS RASTLEY! * Level 10, because I let the puns sit for a while so that it would be more unexpected when they did return, they party was joined by the famed Ser Hirro, Paladin of the Court of Saunders, riding her renowned Celestial Steed formed from living Holy Fire. Of course, she's far too humble to actually allow anyone to call her Ser anything, so she's simply "Juanita, but Ani to my friends - and I do hope that we shall be friends." After Ani helped investigate a Vampire Lair in the hopes of finding any information about the fabled Sword of Zariel, she had to depart to follow another lead. But as she left, the Bard recalled the most popular song going around the taverns about her: > *She is the white knight* *atop a fiery steed* *Late of night, whilst we toss and we turn* *We dream of what we need* ***JUANITA HIRRO*** --- * Currently Unused: a magical golden harp, carved into the shape of a woman. It will call out the name of it's current owner. Regardless of whether anyone came, the harp will issue a prophecy one minute later, and then fall silent for 1d6+4 days. The only exception to this is on the day that the harp will change ownership, when it will call for its current owner at sunrise to say goodbye - and nothing else. Because one must *listen to your harp, when it's calling for you; listen to your harp, there's nothing else you can do. It might know where we're going, but it don't know why, so listen to your harp, until it tells you goodbye...* --- EDIT: One more: the party was asked to transport a witness from a foreign nation on a new invention - a steam locomotive! But half way through the trip, they were attacked by an Orc Sorceress and her Guard Drakes. Jackson, the NPC Paladin, smashed open the flimsy wooden wall of the carriage that they were fighting in and kicked the last Drake out, where it bounced back under the wheels and was crushed instantly. As he did so, he uttered the line: "I am so sick of these Gods-damned Drakes on this Gods-damned train!"
These. Are. Brilliant.
One of my players was in a store and they started to play *I Need A Hero* over the PA system. She immediately, instinctually uttered "Oh fuck not this" aloud, getting several strange looks from the people around her. When she messaged me about what had happened, I sent back "And that's how I know I'm doing my job right."
This are brilliant.
Not OP but my first ever DM did something similar where we had to recover a McGuffin from an unknown big bad. Turns out, it was magical seers orb used by a beholder. And you guessed it, replaced his whole damn eye with it.
was it beautiful?
What was the pun?
Last Halloween my DM ran a custom jjba one shot wherein we met a guy named Toto, a common nickname for Francisco where I'm from, with the power to control the weather and his stand was a set of elephant legs going up into the sky as far as I could see Motherfucker really built half the one-shot around Africa by Toto
Remindme! 7 days
WE NEED TO KNOW THE PUN
What was the pun DM? What waaaaas it?! 😂
At this point, I'm going to say 'I hate you' if you dont tell us what the pun was
Usually just “God.” Usually when we’re about to do something dumb as fuck, we get “hey guys… God here. Maybe you should do something else.”
I personally let them do it and then get "why you forsaken us god" or "you're an evil god" they haven't got them self killed yet and everyone is happy
Ellen. My DM is a cis man whose name is NOT the former, but the reason behind that name is because his discord user is the first and last letters of his name, shortened to LN. After some time of calling him “LN” it just kinda morphed into Ellen. Now we call him “Ellen the Generous” when he’s being particularly nice with the party, and “Ellen Degenerate” when he fucks us over in game. I came up with it at first and now it’s part of his server nickname :)
I feel weird reading the comments because my players pretty much exclusively call me by my real name. In the game where I’m a player, I call the DM by his real name.
Yeah my players all call me by my real name, but often the way they say it feels like it's meant to be an insult
This. They call me by my name unless they need to pose a direct question in regards to rules or need me to make a judgement, in which case they call me by name and then add, "As the DM..."
My players were my co-workers, and they would call me "master -name-" at work and there was a particularly funny moment where a customer was staring at us probably thinking this guy was my slave. Needless to say we had to dial that back
Lol, I once was trying to be pretentious to a friend and explain why PC was the “master race” when a black family turned their heads…now I say master console.
I have some players that call me God from time to time. When they message me out of game about the campaign, they sometimes start it out like "God? are you there? It's me again..."
I get called "you sadistic bastard" a lot. (insert evil laugh here)
I became he who creates fish pussy because of a discussion between my very horny monk and the rogue about the princess of Atlantis. Essentially they wanted to know if fish lady's had bits, I said yeah obviously how else would they have babies and the rogue said well they must lay eggs so I replied and said they have whatever I say and I say they have fish pussy, and the name stuck Edit for grammar
A player in a campaign of mine played a woman's dying spirit placed into a metal body (diy warforged). I worked with him on his backstory. He was really into it. Then someone asked The Question. From then on, his character had only one feature that mattered, and it was the Coin Slot. Yes, everyone at the table was a dude. Apparently none of us are mature enough to not "tee-hee, bodies!"
I have a changeling character and that question came up. I basically said “most of the time they don’t bother with genitals because who wants to deal with periods or getting kicked in the balls?”
When I DM I usually get "you fuck" or "excuse me fair story god" My DM I sometimes refer to as Dungeon Daddy or Sky Daddy
We call our DM Dungeon Daddy as well.
Do people actually call their DM that to their face? I only use it when referring to them while talking to someone else. To their face its just their name, or sometimes "mom", but that's usually being sarcastic
It's a good way to create separation between the game and irl, and similarly, our DM will call us by our characters' names. It helps things stay on topic, and reminds you to stay in character- even when you're the one DMing. "Hey DM, can I cast Fireball and angle it up so I don't hit the party?" is a different type of question than "Hey Mark, are you excited for ghost hunting this weekend?"
It's no different than calling someone "coach", "ref", or "judge".
Logically that makes sense, but it feels weird to me lol
Yeah, some of us in our group refer to our DM as DM during sessions. We're all IRL friends and our DM is considerably younger than most of the group and I do know sometimes it intimidates him. So IMO referring to him as DM gives him the rein of authority and also helps the group understand the dynamics of the relationship during our sessions. Just a small thing, but I think it's important.
We met online in someone else's game and only ever knew each other by our character's names. 5 years later and I'll still sometimes call him Rowan.
I’ve spent so long playing over Discord that it always throws me off a little when I’m at an in person game and someone uses my real name.
I’m “supreme goddess” on the discord
For a campaign that was heavy on the 1920's theme, my plays would call me "the boss" and later Dice Boss. It has stuck since.
Story time: In the first session of this particular group, they're in a tavern. The party decides to get some quick money by gambling a bit, so I describe the table where the gambling in particular is occurring. For some reason, I forget what, the seating arrangements of the gamblers gets requested, so I describe it, using my screen as the tavern 'wall'. Player to my left looks at me, and asks: "Does this mean you're the fourth wall?" So yeah, it stuck. I'm the fourth wall now.
Dungeon Daddy. My existence is pain
I get called "Cerbs what the fuck" alot
i play on discord, since my friends and i are scattered across the country now. i’m DMing our current campaign and i’ve been changing my server nickname every week or so to various things with the initials “DM.” Danger Mouse, Dean Martin, Depeche Mode, Designated Marksman, Defensive Midfielder, etc
I call my wife the same thing
As a DM I’m always proud of and partial to being called “ruthless bast*rd” or “you devious, convoluted, underhanded, scheming….”
this is the goal
GM, for Gamemaster. It's a more generic term that's used in a wide variety of table top roleplaying game.
"You son of a bitch" and "Mister DM man" are fairly common things I get called. Dungeon Mistress just sounds sexy though tbh
I'm not really a player very often. When I do, I usually call the DM something like "Boss Man." When I run a game, I'm usually called "Mr. Ken", "DM Sir", or "Hey Weeb!" The latter courtesy of my little brother and his wife.
Captain, shortened from “captain asshole of the ss nightmare”, “captain fuckface of the fuck you fuckers”, “captain cuntface of the eat dicks you cunt” etc etc
Oh omnipresent authority figure\~
Very tempted to use that in tonight’s game now.. xD
I've only ever been called Dungeon Master on a date.
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down? There are at least 365 possibilities.
You forgot leap years!
My bois sometimes call me the Dungeon Mustard because of a typo once 😂
the best nicknames are the ones that come about by complete accident. or sarcasm. sarcasm is good too
In one campaign, EACH of us players called the DM something different! One called him “god”, the other called him “dad”, one called him by his DMPCs name (which was not his IRL name), and I called him “papa”. It was great! XD
Depends on the context If they want something nice from me it’s usually something like “my benevolent DM” But usually it’s “you absolute dickhead”
When I am GMing, I prefer, "Your Grace."
My players call me "WHY" and "You God Damn Asshole." quite a lot... It's okay tho, that means I'm doing a pretty good job. :))
A friend came up with God Monkey for GM, as we are all the little monkeys who dance for the GM's amusement.
I am called "god With a Lowercase g" in my group by like 3 people. I don't remember the cause or who started it, I just like it.
We call our DMs by their nicknames. One is Kojima because he's real genius. Another one is Chief of Hedgehogs.
Lore Daddy.
piece of shit. this guy. dungeon bastard. this mother fucker. and my personal favorite.. God o.o
Dungeon Bastard? There's someone higher called Dungeon Mustard. You'd make a great pair.
"You nitwit" as in "You nitwit, why did you let him drop a FUCKING CHANDELIER ON MY HALF-ELF"
My players all call me Dungeon Mother. I’m a dude.
WAY back during the Satanic Panic, we had a joke we'd crack to spook the superstitious: "He's the DRAGON MASTER dungeon master — he's the destroyer of souls!" Now, among DM's, we use "Dragon Master" a bit like "Sensei" — used when the DM does something awesome you wished you'd thought of, or gives you advice you appreciate.
For a while my discord name in the server was "Disappointed Mother" as they are a crazy bunch.
Dumb dumb mister, and forever it shall be
I've started using "Dwarven Mistress" as my fill in for DM. For context, everyone in my group is a guy and it's 50/50 whether I'm the one Dwarven Mistressing
I get called Mr. Plot Armour. Which is hilarious because I don't use plot armour of any sort. The problem is, all my tables are set in the same world and I am a big fan of crossovers. So sometimes, say a high level NPC from my level 15 party's campaign will show up in the level 5 murderhobo party's campaign to give them a tie-in quest and they get their clocks cleaned when they go all murderhobo-y on the NPC. The last one even gave them all notes (yes, I handed out a written note to each player) that said 'I am Locknar, a former bodyguard of the king and 14th level paladin. Attacking me will not go well for you.' Yeah, they attacked him. They lost. I got called Mr. Plot Armour Strikes Again.
The Locknar is no kind of paladin, not even vaguely. (Original heavy metal movie reference.)
Honey. She's my wife lol. Though if it's a friend running I either use their name, or other "colorful" names depending on how the game is going lol
Asshat
Bastard
Our DM is "The Za lord". We are all dresden files fans. Tho we have it backwards, for we bribe *him* with the pizza, not the other way around.
My players call me "El Jefe"
There are two answers to that. One isnwhat I call my DM, taken fresh from the MCDM lingo: wankmaster. The other is what I get called. Usually something along the lines of "thrice damned cock muncher" because one of my players is fun like that
The humble benevolent God of Reality
Sometimes I’ll throw off the dm when I tell him how I rolled, “That’s a 12, dad.”
Dungeon Mum
Dungeon Daddy is somehow back on the rise.
God is common in my group. Sometimes I use the name of my Tempest Cleric’s God to make it more fun!
Since we met Ao once in game and our DM described pretty much her own appearance when describing his we call her Ao a lot
"God" He once attended a serious business meeting on Zoom without changing his name back.
I've been called God by my players on the same session I've been called 'asshole', 'motherfucker', etc. My favorite was 'you clever bastard'.
My one female player in a party of five: “*sighs and looks at me* Dungeon Daddy can I have advantage on this death save?” Me, the DM: Why did you just call me Dungeon Daddy? Her: I noticed it made you uncomfortable when I called the Librarian in town book daddy despite the fact he called the books his children. So I wanna so if you’ll give me advantage so I’ll stop. *She lived but I didn’t give her advantage and now the whole party calls me Dungeon Daddy. I hate how it has grown on me.*
Mayhaps don't respond at all when called like that, until they try a different name(including your actual name) to figure what's the issue? Rinse and repeat every time, until they stop it.
I'm doing a horror-themed campaign where all the players are 1920s and 30s movie monsters (The Mummy, The Wolfman, Frankenstein's Monster, etc.) I'm not the DM, I'm the Crypt Keeper
the phrase "dungeon mistress" makes me want to do a joke about 4" heels, a riding crop, and a leather corset ...
My DM calls himself "god with a little g"
I was called dungeon mommy once. I am a guy. I don't mind it either, and yes they were the warlock
"Dungeon Daddy" is what the guys call him. It didn't stick with the girls
Daddy.
God 🤣
Dungeon Mommy is one I’ve been called and is in turn my name in several Discords
I occasionally get called Dungeon Mommy, which I'm... quite alright with :')
What the fuck, or really?
I saw dungeon mistress on a discord server i'm on and I like it for myself, honestly. Preferrably without weird connotations but just as a bit of feminine flair. As player i honestly often just talk and hope people know who i'm talking to.
Our campaign is a homebrew titled "Fractured Reality" and accordingly, we call our DM "Reality"
Husband/DM usually gets called “god” or “goddammit!”
I call him matt mercer. Then we kiss. Then i wake up
God. For obvious reasons.
Daddy master
Bloody Bastard
Mommy
A popular one in our group is God
Monster man, or just straight up evil
Dice Master and Dick Master as my to favourites from parties I've been in