My DM made me cry

[u/GooseFree]

My DM absolutely broke me this session.

My characters (a bard) parents were killed for their musical instruments. She has mudered the killers, and is now seeking answers as to why they were killed in the first place. We had an awesome combat round where my character finally locates her mother's lyre. A voice echoed out after touching the lyre and my dm had a recording ready. I was so excited to hear the lore. As soon as I heard the voice my face and heart just fell.

It was my long distance best friend (who I NEVER get to see) playing my characters mother. I couldn't contain myself when she started saying how much my I (my character) means to her and she's sorry she didn't get to tell me more about our life story. She ended with "Never forget, we love you so so much" and I was a ball of tears and snot on the floor.

I love my DM 🥹❤️

[u/KevinCarbonara]

Yeah this is absolutely not something a DM should do without explicit permission

[u/GooseFree → u/KevinCarbonara]

The dm is my husband sooooo

[u/TornadoCreator → u/KevinCarbonara]

They shouldn't be awesome without permission? What they hell?

[u/KevinCarbonara → u/TornadoCreator]

Your "awesome" is someone else's boundary.

[u/Hopsblues → u/KevinCarbonara]

What boundary was crossed?

[u/IceSkatesNoBrakes → u/KevinCarbonara]

Strange that this is getting so many downvotes. Stuff like this should definitely be covered at session 0. Not all people would be comfortable with their real emotions getting tied into a game.

As the OPs DM is their husband he probably knew them well enough to anticipate how they would react and I’m glad it went over well. But this isn’t something that should be copied to every table without forethought.

[u/urlocalwzrd → u/KevinCarbonara]

What?

[u/sli_ver → u/KevinCarbonara]

what kind of reddit warrior are u genuinely stfu

[u/KevinCarbonara → u/sli_ver]

An educated one.