The players in our D&D group have slowly lost any good faith in the DM’s hooks. In the last session, the players adamantly refused a lucrative out to a troublesome delivery quest.
DM (OOC): Guys! That was your out!
Players: It seemed pretty suspicious. Too good to be true. We couldn’t trust it.
DM: You were going to make more than you would’ve with the delivery! Why don’t you guys trust me? I’m your DM. I want you to have a nice time!
Players: You giggle while murdering our characters.
if you read in a frog paper “specimen was released in the field immediately after capture” chances are very good that what it actually means is
“i dropped the damn frog and despite the fact that we fell all over each other no one could recapture it”
sometimes when i am sad i go read through the tags on this post, because they are 70% other biologists saying things like “AND ALSO FUCK FIELD MICE” and “THAT CRAB ALMOST BROKE MY FINGER” and I am reassured that I am not the only one who has bobbled a wood frog right into their cleavage.
plus six or seven people who just….can’t figure out what a frog paper could possibly be. (guys it’s…a scientific paper. about frogs.)
and this one
which made me laugh despairingly because i mean
bro you don’t even know.
what is the code entomologists use for “i stepped on it, i’m so sorry, it was dark out and the specimen was very small”
“Impromptu dissection was performed under less-than-optimal lighting conditions.”
‘impromptu dissection’ is an alarming phrase in any context and i thank you for it
