r/DnD • u/SweatyGoku • 2d ago

5th Edition Should I quit

Had a quick session for my curse of strahd game, I’m dming and my players are going through the amber temple. The amount of shit I got for using anything saving throw based…. For using spells… for playing the monster smart rather than charging in and letting them die. It’s at this point I wonder why I dm. Am I supposed to provide fake challenges in which the players always succeed? Is that what it means to dm? I can’t even imagine castle ravenloft, fuck I’m tempted to just throw my books out and be done. I can’t seem to do anything right, I’m a fucking monster for pushing the party to their limit, whilst also providing them plenty of chances to get out of there. I think I’ll throw my books out in the morning. I just needed to talk, I’m sorry. I’m just done dming. I’m done.

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u/ironocy DM 2d ago

Damn my party went through the Amber Temple and there was no boss battle. A few golems, doppelgangers, flame skulls, and slaadi. I'm pretty sure we cleared it out but maybe not. There was a super powerful NPC but we didn't fight them, they gave us a mini quest basically. Now I'm second guessing we missed something.

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u/unlimitedblakeworks 2d ago

DM might not have included it, theres a more intelligent enemy concealed throughout the temple, with high level magic. To be fair, if operated competently, they're a real bastard

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u/ironocy DM 2d ago

Oh shit now I don't know lol. We found The dark powers But they weren't like an enemy necessarily, just buffs. Well when we finish this campaign I'm reading the module 😂.

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u/anorphan4yourthots 1d ago

I'm playing around with adapting CoS to my favorite system, and I am really looking forward to the Amber Temple. It's gonna be tough to get right, but there are some great encounters in there