Spencer Agnew
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394 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
Spencer Agnew’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, I wish. Okay. DM kills my character for no reason. This story happened a couple of years ago. Basically, it was me and I think three or four other friends. Typically, I would DM, and after my campaign fizzled out for whatever reason, one of my players wanted to try DMing. I helped him set up a campaign. The time comes for him to start DMing the campaign I helped him build.
I think we started at level one or two. I was playing a tiefling bard. The other players were, I think, a druid, a barbarian, and an artificer. After a couple of sessions, it was going pretty smooth. We were having a good time. At one point, I had to miss a session, but it was cool with them continuing without me.
The next session, I was there, and I joined back with the party before we went into a dungeon. We went into the dungeon, and we were going through it like normal, just some puzzles. But before our first combat, the DM decided to tell me that since I was rusty after missing a session, I had disadvantage on every role in combat. That annoyed me, but I just went with it.
I had taken some damage but figured I'd be fine because I usually play backline support. Eventually, we approach a big door, and I decide to enter the room and suddenly get attacked by a big bird, and it takes me down to one hit point. The rest of the party makes their way in to try to help me, but DM decides that despite my teammates wanting to protect me,
and attacking the bird, the DM decides that the bird continues to attack me, obviously downing me. I'm a little baffled at that decision, but it's whatever. So I just start rolling my saving throws on my turn, but DM says the bird continues to attack me because it hates you. So it hits me again. And I don't know if this is a real rule, but he said that it's an automatic two failed death saves.
That's true, but... Oh, that's real.
If you get hit in melee and you're making your death saves, it's two failed death saves, but... I had succeeded my first death save, and I succeeded the next one after the attack. So I was hoping to hold out for one more round to survive, but for some reason this bird takes a legendary action. Despite this not even being a boss, not meaning to be a tough encounter, just a creature in a dungeon.
This is the SpongeBob, I don't know, I guess he just doesn't like you. And it kills me for this, I would hope understandably, pisses me off because there is no reason a DM should fish for a kill like that. I was just stuck spectating afterward and sat there for upward of an hour. After that session, I was barely invested in my character or the story. You could read a visual novel.
You could play four of my girlfriend's visual novels. After that session, I was barely invested in my character or the story because the DM set the precedent that he could just kill me out of the blue and remove my story from the rest of the campaign. I think the campaign ended fine, but I just had zero agency for the rest of the campaign. George, can I ask a question? He hates you.
Yeah, like a floor-dwelling bird. Oh, a floor-dwelling bird. So like an ostrich?
Without flight. I don't know, maybe eggs that don't like the sun. Yeah, that's good. That's the best thing I can think of. There's like burrowing owls. Sure, an owlbear would be a perfect example of a cave-dwelling bird creature. So maybe they were set up and the guy just didn't clock it.
The funny thing is about that story is that it's all kind of fair game except for the first thing, which is insane, where you're just like, you're rusty as a heroic adventurer. Disadvantage, if people don't know, if you have disadvantage on every roll, you're not gonna do anything. It's not gonna be a fun game. There's a reason that you only have disadvantage a little bit of the time.
So that's basically the DM giving away the game there of like, you're not gonna be able to have fun today. There's no official rules in D&D of if you miss a session, your character now sucks. The it hates you is one of the craziest things I've ever heard. Could the DM have done everything they did there? Technically, yeah.
Technically, if they hate someone. Yeah, that sounds. So that one is not legit. And then so it takes a legendary action. That is a thing, dude. Technically, they used the full might of the DM's toolbox to kill him.
Technically, they've broken no rules except for that disadvantage nonsense. So overall, fair game, but it is... Do you think this person, because the verdict on this one on D&D Horror Stories is, is it a bad DM or not? Is it a bad DM or not? It's fair game, but it's shitty DMing. Out the gate.
This bird that just saw you hates you.
As I will say, perhaps the better choice there is to go after the other threatening party members. Yeah. But hey man, secure that kill if you gotta, I guess. Just maybe you don't give disadvantage to everything. That's basically, you're rolling two dice and taking the lower result every time. So you're gonna roll poorly. That's so funny. That's incredible.
That shit's really funny.
You would like Paranoia as a game. It's a great TTRPG. But yeah, that is cuckoo bananas. That is amazing. Comments. Yeah, this DM is an immature child. If the DM had a problem with you missing a game, they should have talked with you about it like an adult. You don't punish people in-game for real-life issues. OP said, not to mention the session I missed was little more than a shopping episode.
Oh my God. We learned a lot at Macy's though. Someone said, unless you are constantly late or a no-show and that was the reason your own campaign fell apart, then this is seriously egregious. I wouldn't have even gone back, just packed my stuff and left right then and there. Lastly, someone said, as the bird furiously claws and pecks at you, it squawks, you shouldn't have missed the last session.
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