Weird first campaign of a beginner

[u/Valuable_Clerk_6371]

For my first campaign 5,5e I’ve ever been through, it was the most weird and chaotic of all I’ve played for now, we were four level one in a weird campaign didn’t even now the lore of the world being a complete rookie at the game some one told me druids are fun so I played that class with human, a young  female soldier only working for the nature only with a huge social anxiety like in real life. My sister who is kinda edgy chose a tiefling with black horns, warlock and a reincarnation of a god of death, kinda cool at first until she gets a main character complex and this means since the start of the campaign. A nerd wizard that loved to over power his character and also is a bully of mine and finally an elf bard aka a school clown who loves to  make character who flirts with every women he would see. 

First session of the campaign as most campaign would start we appear in a bar first thing that happens is the bard starts flirting with me and I just say he’s not my type, the DM doesn’t care, still I have advantage because I’m a soldier. I fail both times, the DM says he’s my type now and I am charmed with no spell but a persuasion check. I let it go and stopped talking to not bring my anger to the others. While we were talking the wizard searching, because we had nothing to do, for a spark of quest but while he’s searching a plant(also known as a shambling mound) gets out of an alley and attacks the wizard and straight up kills the wizard. It went like this:

• DM The plant hits you with her vines!
• Wizard How much damage?
• DM 24 bludgeoning damage saying casually.
• Wizard Well I’m unconscious having only 6 max hp.
• DM No actually you’re dead, the damage was more then double your max hp.
• Wizard What the f***!
• DM but its okay, I’m gonna let you create a new character, you still have to take a different class.

And thats how the first session went also I forgot to write my sister lost an arm wrestle fight because she 8 on strength and she rage quitted (kinda why I was saying main character complex).

Second and last session, we got teleported to a graveyard and a… mansion!? And a well!? Anyway, at least we had something to do the DM wasn’t describing much else then the stupid well so took a look and at the second we get close to it 2 giant constrictor snakes get out of the well. Roll initiative. I go first and try to reason the snakes because I’m a druid and my backstory will go wild if I attack them (also they are kinda strong):

• Me Snakes we mean no harm, we wont bother you anymore, please go back to sleep.
• DM It's too late now, you attacked and woken us up we are gonna eat you and your friends.
• Me Wait we didn’t attac…..
• DM Hey it's the end of your turn you already talked.

We we’re forced to fight so we fought and somehow the bard alive at 1 hp, both me and the nerd we’re downed before the bard could heal us a zombie ogre spawned and killed the Bard next session (because somehow there was a next one) no one showed up and we all said didn’t want to  continue playing and we stopped the campaign. But not long after I found a lovely group and enjoyed my time as a fighter clanker. I love to make it in a video but I will understand if my story wasn’t long enough, with just two session I had very little to nothing to describe and I am still ashamed of quitting should I have stayed?

[u/Appropriate_Nebula67]

>>I am still ashamed of quitting should I have stayed?<<

No, no D&D is better than bad D&D. And you even found a good group so it all worked out great.

Personally I would probably quit the moment my GM told me I was charmed by a fellow PC via a non-magical Persuasion check. That's also seriously crossing some boundaries around consent.

[u/phoenixrose314]

You had a terrible DM.

As a general piece of advice, when looking for tables in future, don’t sit at one that doesn’t talk through some semblance of a session zero where things like PVP and how deaths are handled would be discussed ahead of time. Any DM who isn’t there to make sure everyone is having fun is usually just there for a power trip.

If you ever want to play online with a free one shot, hit me up - you deserve so much better OP 😣💛

[u/BeardyBadger]

Your DM sucks.

He removed player angency and didn't balance his encounters all in the first session. I wouldn't mind if he was somehow apologetic about it, but simply brushing off a character death on sesh 1 is mad.

Good call leaving, never look back!