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Cleric Wants To Axe My Warforged Fighter Cause
“Its Robot & Its Against Rules”
Hi everyone.
All Things DnD is back with another story.
To set the record straight, warforged are
not sci-fi.
Apparently this player was a little confused
by that fact and lost his mind.
Tell us about some misunderstandings in your
games after listening to this:
I have played D&D and other tabletop RPGS
a good bit.
Mostly as the DM but this tale is from one
of the rare times I get to play as an adventurer.
(names have been altered)
Our cast of characters:
Ed, our DM
Mandy, Ed's GF and an elven wizard named Lin.(name
might be wrong cuz bad memory)
Joe, friend of Ed and mine, playing a halfling
bard named Slash.(yes The Slash)
Gabriel, our player in question, playing a
human cleric named Theogard.
Me, playing a warforged fighter named G15-0,
or Giso as he was called.
The setting was homebrew, the plot was very
cool but doesn't really matter to this story.
A little backstory is important to understand
what happens next, both in the game's universe
and in real life.
Gabriel was Ed's and Joe's friend and they
invited him to our table.
They seemed to be good friends and I was happy
we'd have another player with us.
He seemed a bit awkward and shy, it was cute
at first but the cuteness quickly faded.
It began to become a pretty big issue the
more the sessions went on and it became increasingly
clear that he was just pretty unlikeable and
downright controlling.
He would tell Ed what to do instead of just
letting Ed do his thing, and then proceed
to sigh in the most dramatic and condescending
way every time Ed chose to not listen to him.
Alright.
Let's get to the important part.
Or more specifically, important character,
Giso.
Giso was a warforged who deserted from his
military grounds after developing free will.
He adopted a human identity and the name,
Giso.
He used a mask to disguise his face due to
the fact he was wanted by the kingdom that
built him.
I made him pretend to be deformed and a mute
after time as a soldier, and he would speak
through writing on a paper and passing it
to the players.
It justified the mask and it was a pretty
fun gimmick that helped hide his identity.
During a battle against one of the big bad
evil guy’s generals, about eight sessions
into the game.
A giant, heavily armored Minotaur with a magical
prosthetic hoof who was about to put that
prosthetic hoof through Giso’s skull.
The Minotaur reeled back and punted Giso against
the wall face first.
The mask shattered on impact.
Giso lay there, dying, face completely revealed
to the world.
The rest of the party finishes killing the
boss and comes to help Giso who is down and
teetering on the edge of death.
"I take off his metal mask and pour the greater
healing potion into his mouth."
Gabriel said.
"No, no, you can't.
That isn't his mask.
That's his face."
"What do you mean that's his face?"
Gabriel asked dumbfounded.
"That's his face.
Giso's face is made of metal."
Ed clarified.
Gabriel just looked confused and leaned back
in his chair for a second.
He stays quiet for a moment, obviously trying
to wrap his mind around what Ed has just said.
Ed asked Mandy to roll a history check on
me.
She succeeded and then Ed explained what a
warforged is to the group.
Everyone seemed pretty excited.
Except for Gabriel who just looked confused.
That look of confusion turned into burgeoning
anger and a grimace.
And I don't think I will ever forget the next
words that came out of that guy's mouth.
"Ed, can I talk to you for a second?
In private."
Gabriel said rising from his chair, red faced
and visibly angry.
Gabriel and Ed left the room and went to talk
in the kitchen.
Joe sighed deeply and both Mandy's and Joe's
expression of excitement faded.
I asked what's wrong.
"Gabe is being Gabe...again.
I don't know why now."
Joe said.
Apparently this wasn't the first time that
Gabriel disliked another player's character
choice and complained to the DM.
The two came back after about 10 minutes and
Gabriel looked furious.
Ed looked like he was seconds away from jumping
off the nearest bridge.
Speaking in character now Gabriel petulantly
stated.
"I refuse to heal an unnatural being."
For the next hour or so Gabriel is mostly
silent and just stares at Ed and I from time
to time with this livid look on his face.
Giso is helped by Lin and Slash and we continue
the rest of the adventure and loot some stuff.
Gabriel in particular jumped to grab the greatsword
the Minotaur had dropped and blocked me from
getting any decent loot.
The next day after this session Gabriel texted
me.
I feel it is very important to point out that
I had never given him my phone number nor
did I have his.
Brace yourself.
He was demanding that I retire Giso and roll
up a new character under the excuse that warforged
were just robots and that was breaking the
fantasy setting and the game's rules.
Obviously I refused.
Then the unbelievable prick had the audacity
of threatening to kick ME out of the game
if I didn't do so.
Just so we are clear.
He was NOT the DM.
I arrive for the next session at Ed's house.
Lo and behold Gabriel was already there.
He glared daggers at me, just seething with
anger.
Ed would later tell me that Gabriel had shown
up early just to ask him to kick me out of
the game.
Surprisingly the session was going relatively
smoothly.
It was a bit hard to ignore the elephant in
the room, especially with how passive aggressive
he was acting, but we progressed through it.
Up until a certain point in the story.
Giso, Lin, Theogard and Slash all return to
the tavern to talk to the employer who had
contracted them to kill the Minotaur to get
their payment.
Slash put on a show to entertain the folk
while we talked to the employer.
Here’s the rub.
This particular NPC was part of the kingdom
that built my character.
When it was revealed to my party that I was
a warforged I told them my actual backstory.
I revealed the maker’s crest branded on
my chest which identified which kingdom I
had belonged to.
It also happened to be the same crest that
the NPC had.
Let's just say that when Gabriel put two and
two together things went south really quickly.
Gabriel had explicitly told the NPC that I
was a warforged.
More specifically, a wanted warforged that
had abandoned his kingdom.
Ed was pretty much forced to follow up with
what Gabriel was doing and I don't blame him.
He unmasked me in front of the NPC and blew
my cover.
All of the town's guards converged on Lin
and I, while we were trying to escape.
Unfortunately, we were caught.
"Well, I guess now that they killed you, you
are going to have to roll a new character.
Hopefully you pick one that fits the game
you are playing."
Gabriel said.
His words oozed with sarcasm.
Ed, my lord and savior, sweet sweet Ed.
"Oh, actually, Giso, you weren’t killed.
They shut your motion down but you’re still
alive and you are now being carried to a prison
alongside Lin."
I wish I was able to take a picture of Gabriel's
face at that moment.
He looked like he was about to pull a knife
and stab Ed and myself on the spot.
His little tirade has been censored and changed
due to the sheer number of obscenities but
use your imagination and put one after every
other word.
“Are you kidding me?!
Are you going to let him run around as a robot?
We were supposed to play real DnD, not this
sci-fi crap!"
Gabriel shouted.
Everyone tries to keep their cool.
Ed grabbed Gabriel and pulled him into the
kitchen.
We only hear some muffled shouts of "Bullshit!"
and "Screw you!" coming from the kitchen.
Joe loses his mind at some point and begins
to laugh hysterically at the situation while
Mandy just looked concerned.
After this session Ed announced that Gabriel
would not be joining us again.
He also told us that if we wanted to, he would
retcon the events of the guards taking us
to the prison and he'd write that after completing
the mission Theogard got his payment and left
the group.
Unfortunately that wouldn't be the last time
we heard from him, but that's a story for
another day.
We had to stop the campaign due to real life
stuff and sadly we never got back to it, and
sadly I don't think we ever will.
In hindsight I think I should've seen this
coming.
He was kind of a jerk once he started to get
along with the rest of the group and he did
get creepy with Mandy and some NPCs a few
times.
Gabriel was also very much a control freak
and would act a little similar to this whenever
he got nerfed by the DM or when Ed told him
that he couldn't do something.
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