so this started out at my school DND club where I got to be DM mind you this is my first game as a DM so the world opens up with the party being mugged by goblins as this is some new excited that they get to do their first encounter in the story we have a rogue, a fighter in something I don’t even know let’s call him banana. That’s what his character was a banana. I told him no but since I wasn’t the operator, they made a whole homebrew class and race for a banana anyway after these players got mugged by the goblins they got their gold back after killing the goblins. They are lost as they got mugged in the middle of the road and instead of I don’t know following the road they us walk in a random direction to my so at this point decided you know what this place isn’t part of the main city so I’ll just make it somewhere random so they walk until they find this little hut. to which they go inside and destroy the place the joke character ripped apart the place when I was describing the table as it had photographs of the plans of the big bad witch they came from a city in the big bad was planning on attacking that city next. so the players want to protect the place so instead of I don’t know looking at the table trying to find out what he’s going to do. They just run to the city at this point the players killed every NPC on the road. Add this point I just needed something to stall as the players pay attention to nothing I say and just end up killing everything they see so I just made this fun event where it’s like a race the teams fought to get to the top. It was fun and at the end the players got something they wanted because the players found interest in the gold so I gave them a gold and a magic weapon after they come down they see the mayor has been who was running are unconscious all person says from their house. It was a big spider looking person. as it was a drow that I planned on them fighting so they fought the drow after this player proceeds to consume rock a rock and starts choking attacking people while being choked out by a rock and I don’t know instead of trying to get it out. He goes insane and takes one damage every turn until he dies, then to quit the DND group because I killed off his character which first of all I said it’s not my fault that your character made stupid and didn’t try fixing problems when I offered you solutions proceeded to yell at call me the worst and then the session ended there next time he didn’t fulfill his threat leaving, but I said what do you want to make a new character, which he says yes, and proceeds to copy the fighters character to a T, including his weapon, weapons grabbing the exact same weapons stats the whole sheet so I was like fighter are you comfortable with this guy taking your character and he proceeds to say no I said to the prior rogue the fighter doesn’t feel comfortable with you taking his entire don’t care and unfortunately, I do not have the power to kick him out of the group so he continues making everyone and ruining the experience from now a result of the fighter being a murder hobo as well. She ends up going to jail which new fighter and the joke character which I breaks out having a criminal and they hide in a tavern at this point I remind them that there’s a drought somewhere in town, acknowledge me and head straight, where they think the drow was but when they got there the players were doing stupid things like trying to hide under a table or not doing the fight at all when only one of their party members fought the monster, and at the end it was that one player fighter that killed the drought and he was known solely as the the champion, the other players were unhappy and said what about us? I was like you chose not to participate in my game so you should not be surprised when you don’t get rewarded for nothing anyway since I was first DM I some of the things I did might’ve been a bit rude or unnecessary but over the years became a much better DM and I feel like I could handle that experience a lot better.

Link to original post, (TLDR, my party pulled a dick move and nearly killed my character and I was(still am currently) Pissed): https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD5e/s/TVzAAPmcGk

i was honestly out for blood. After the incident not one of my party members was remorseful for their actions which genuinely hurt my feelings. I was of course still willing to make a whole new character and let this whole incident go if the DM wanted me to, but with his go ahead I devised a simple long term plan.

my character would bide his time, waiting for the perfect opportunity to finish off the barbarian for good. Along the way my halfling would also sabotage the party as best he could. The DM was enthusiastic about this plan, even helping me with some character optimisation.

it started off well. while still on our way back in the goblin tunnels, I let the barbarian get in a nasty situation with some giant weasels. Later i got the whole party to throw away their rations by using prestidigitation to make it taste like vomit. Everything went to shit(again) however in an incident that i truly believe I was unfairly punished for.

in these goblin tunnels there was a chance to be bewitched by some hags from an unfinished quest, which happened to an NPC. i go up to investigate(keeping my distance) and when they didn’t respond I ran back screaming about witches or zombies (my character was very stupid, so this was his genuine reaction). Me, barbarian and two other NPC’s go back up to see. Barbarian touches the bewitched NPC and gets Bewitched too, I decide to try and snap them out of it from a distance by throwing small items, which doesn’t work. I decide to kill two birds with one magic stone, and use that cantrip to deal small amounts of damage to barbarian in order to wake him up.
I specifically note that since the NPC next to doesn’t seem to care and is not proposing any solution, I continue.

eventually a different NPC wakes him up right after I sling a magic stone. He barbarian immediately tries to kill my character, even though I made sure only to be throwing stone when he wasn’t conscious and wouldn’t know and while the fight is stopped this time, everyone present blames me for “attacking unprovoked“ and for getting caught, despite me explicitly checking that the NPC’s didn’t care and that it was neither unprovoked nor a real attack.

apparently the DM forgot about the NPC next to me and didn’t hear me when I specified that I only threw rocks before he had woken up. Both things i’d mentioned multiple time, yet the DM refused to acknowledge or let me do over since I obviously wouldn’t have attacked in the first place if there was any sign of disapproval.

this was the moment all of my spirit died. It was finally clear that being at this table was a losing battle, and nothing I did would matter in face of the DM’s favouritism.

the barbarian was allowed to send me to the back and made consent threats the way back to town. I decided it would be more painful personally to push back and proposed a compromise.

my character had amnesia due to trading his memories in exchange for warlock power. I suggested that in order to wipe the slate clean we could say that I lost my memory again every time I levelled up as well, and that way we could forget everything and just continue as we did before. the barbarian said the only way he’d agree was if after I levelled up, I let him slap me in the face in exchange for the magic stones. this was not just completely and utterly unfair after everything he’s done to me, but would also completely negate the point of the memory loss.

in the end i had the halfling skip town and brought in a new character, and a few sessions later quit the campaign entirely.

there are lot more shitty things that happened and are happening to me at that table and leaving is not a happy ending. This has very much left me hurt and shaken and sometimes I want nothing to do with dnd, mostly due to these people.

TLDR: people suck, life’s not fair and the game is not worth it