He still hasn’t gotten over being kicked from the group because he made the other players uncomfortable, one of whom still works with him, and he blames me because I wasn’t willing to kick the rest of the group instead. (Yes, he actually suggested kicking every other player and just finding new ones who would, and I quote, “agree with me more”)

I have a fondness for the version where he screams “I WAS WRONG!” when confronted about why he is trying so hard to undo his work while you try to convince him to let the cure fail. I never got that scene naturally, but it hits hard.

Simple, by bearing witness to multiple terrible DMs that have been in my group, while also seeing people actively enjoy when I DM after I started a campaign on a whim after a DM quit our group. I just went “Well, I can’t be worse then That guy right?” and ran with it, jumping into a homebrew campaign with a homebrew world, both of which had 0 planning and about an hours worth of thought put into it in advance. Even the map was something made in MS paint about 10 minutes before the session. Everyone had a blast and I have been Forever DM ever since, even though I still barely know what I am doing.

I hate feeling like this. A: I feel like a massive dick with a huge ego problem when I think about how I am the best DM in the group. B: It makes me feel like I am a poor player because I should be trying harder when someone else DMs. C: I know I’m not even that good of a DM, so thinking this makes me feel like I am insulting the others in my group.

I know a guy who is the opposite of this in a way. I, as a joke, decided to remind him that he owed me $7 for pizza that he never paid me for back when he was part of one of my DnD groups. He got mad, insisted that he already paid it, and then blocked me and started telling coworkers that I was trying to steal from him. (We used to work together, no one believes him but he keeps trying to tell people that, but only to people who knew me for some reason which is how I know.)

Go for it. For more info: He was fairly young, considered wise and intelligent, and beloved by his people. He spoke softly and struggled to stand on his own, and died sacrificing himself for his people. When he was told that his advisor had been shown the future, where the king dies because he stood against the forces of a dark god, he was fine with that future because to him it was better to die standing for others than to live cowering on his throne.

My players favorite ruler they ever met was a crippled, emaciated dwarf king who could barely sit up right while wearing his crown because it was too heavy for his weak neck.

One of my players almost cried when that ruler died at the end of the campaign.