How The Terrible DM Creates The Most Annoying Doom Vortex

03/16/20 • 23 min

Oof. So many red flags and terrible decisions were made by the DM. Have you ever been caught in a doom vortex? Was I perhaps a little too over the top with the stringent matter-of-facts, and an annoying player to deal with?

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how the terrible D M creates the most annoying, doomed vortex. Part one. Let me spend you a tale of the most shockingly overbearing railroading I've ever been exposed. Thio offensive not merely in its scalp but in its cruelty and foolishness, especially for having been purported by an experienced GM and player. This was years and years ago, and ever since then the term which I coined midway through the second session, the Doom vortex has become a term which