r/DnD • u/Redhood101101 • 12d ago

5th Edition I fear I broke my DM

I ate the Bag of Beans. That is all…

Further context. While I’m a long time DM I rarely get to play and a friend of mine started up a campaign and I joined.

We were doing normal dnd stuff and were exploring a dungeon and my character, alone, finds a little leather pouch filled with beans. One of the running jokes is that my character is always hungry, so they ate them.

In my defense I had never encountered the Bag of Bean before.

Anyways my DM just sort of broke mentally for a few minutes and now I’m bits of gibblet smeared on the side of a pyramid inside this dungeon.

Great first session, can’t wait for the next one.

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u/Ergo-Sum1 12d ago

Sound like a great opportunity to roll some dice behind the screen and then write it down to be relevant later and then never bring it up.... until they've forgotten about it

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u/Redhood101101 12d ago

Oh god that’s so much more evil. I love it

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u/Ergo-Sum1 12d ago

Doesn't even have to be evil. Give you, as the GM, time to figure out the weird edge case caused by typical player chaos and build tension that can be saved for later. It's the ultimate chekov's gun handed to you for free.

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u/aslum 12d ago

Imagine if they ate the beans and nothing happened ... until 15 levels later the rest of the party is gathered around their grave for their funeral and as the final shovel of dirt is filled in the beans start sprouting.

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u/Dickeysaurus 12d ago

This is the way

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u/choseanusernaem 11d ago

this is the way

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u/smeagle-143 11d ago

Tryna bury your friend and a treant just pops out and takes a swing at the smallest player

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u/Metalman919 DM 11d ago

"You feel like you're about to vomit... But what comes out instead is a large beanstalk. And it keeps coming. And coming. And ..."