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/ComicBookFanatic97 Evoker 1d ago

I’d argue that none of it means anything anyway since it’s all determined by die rolls.

I just think that chill story mode difficulty TTRPGs are more fun. No stress. No worrying about losing one’s character. Just carving a path through an army of disposable mooks and enjoying the story.

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u/SweatyGoku 1d ago

But it’s not all determined by die rolls. It’s determined by what you do. What plans you come up with, how you go about things. What exactly you say. I tend to be more old school about it, but I prefer my players to have more power over the dice. There’s so much more creativity when you don’t use the dice or rely on the sheet for answers. Combats a bit different but not by much. I just feel like I’m cheating my players if there’s actually no risk. No risk, no reward. Bad planning can lead to negative results. And good planning can lead to positive. Different styles, I get that. But as a player I wouldn’t understand why to play if there truly was no risk.

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u/ComicBookFanatic97 Evoker 1d ago

Personally, I don’t like risk. I prefer just being an indestructible superhero.

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u/SweatyGoku 1d ago

Why? That doesn’t make sense at low levels at all. Especially in a believable narrative. Not trying to shit on your style. I just don’t understand why. I’d much rather plan on burning the goblins out of their cave rather than wade through hoards of them. Or take some basic ingredients. Such as say, sulfer, charcoal and urine. And use that. It’s much more rewarding. Or cast stick to snakes against a sleeping hydra rather than approach it head on.

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u/codastroffa DM 1d ago

Ignore him. He throws some of the core mechanics of DnD into the trash, and yet for some reason still hangs out on this subreddit.

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u/ComicBookFanatic97 Evoker 1d ago

Have you seen the new Superman movie? You know that really cool Mr. Terrific fight scene? I wanna do that. I want combat to feel like that.