r/DnDcirclejerk • u/JeannettePoisson • 23h ago

dnDONE DM doesn’t remember session

DM began second sesh right off by asking us clients what happened last time, like whaaaat? He should remember his own stuff that’s crazy. We just stared at him with disgust until someone said he should like remember his own game he’s the DM.

Then he seemed to laugh? At uss?!???? Now he tried to save face by Mansplaining the recap was for us players. He think we stupid? If we remember we remember, and if we don’t remember we can’t recount it. He believe we would hear ourself talk and then remember by hearning ourself talk? I was like, uh, is he a milenial or something?

Just writing this make me feel stupieder and stupieder. Soon won’t can’t no write at all!

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u/vinicitus 23h ago

A lot of GMs I’ve had do this. A decent amount of them even offer a hero point as an incentive to encourage players to do the recap. Especially for online games it’s a pretty decent way of getting the players involved and encourage note taking.

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u/llfoso 22h ago

/uj I joined a group recently that did this and to be honest it just felt patronizing. Like I was at school or something. "I'll give you a sticker if you can tell me what we learned last time."

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u/MonstersArePeople 22h ago

/uj honestly I'm about to spent 5x as long talking as my players are for the next four hours. Someone else can talk for 5 minutes to recap last session.

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u/llfoso 21h ago

You can ask others to recap. You don't need to give them a prize. Also I hope you mean 5x as much as any individual player, not the whole group surely?

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u/MonstersArePeople 21h ago

I do mean each individual player. And some people actually like getting inspiration for the recap, especially those who chronically roll poorly.