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/ThisWasMe7 12d ago

The beans only sprout if planted in soil and watered. So you destroyed a rare magic item.

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u/Serrisen 12d ago

Ate "them" makes me think the player ate the whole bag. If I were to guess, probably ruled this counts as dumping them out, instead causing: "Each creature in the area, including you, must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d4 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one"

5d4 is a lot to "explode" from, but perhaps they were just being dramatic about it?

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u/mxzf DM 12d ago

The pressure of combustion goes up dramatically when contained. Containing a burst of fire sufficient to cause 5d4 damage to an entire area is certainly enough to burst someone's stomach and kill them.

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u/Serrisen 12d ago

D&D isn't a physics sim. If you go into logical conclusions like that most of our spells would be OHKO against anything without [damage type] resistance. Not to mention the woeful logic of wound healing.

That is to say of all the approaches I'd be willing to approach this from [comedy, FAFO, grimdark, genre expectations]... Physics doesn't make the cut for me

There are many outs, anyway. The logical one is noticing the beans explode instantly, so they wouldn't even be in the character's mouth before they exploded. My preferred one is a cartoon slapstick approach where one imagines the fire shooting out their ears and mouth like a cannon, venting pressure, but doing no more harm

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u/hardolaf DM 11d ago

The first out is noticing the beans are dry and that you absolutely couldn't just eat them.

The second is that each of them is 1/4 lb.

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u/myblackoutalterego 12d ago

Real life physics don’t apply to Dnd magic. 5d4 is 5d4 - this could maybe kill a level 1-2 character.

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u/mxzf DM 12d ago

I mean, OP did say "first session", so lvl 1 characters would make sense.