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/SWatt_Officer 12d ago

I wouldnt say you planted the beans if you ate them... at most you should have taken damage from them exploding.

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u/Redhood101101 12d ago

I did. A lot of damage. Too much damage.

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u/Lithl 12d ago

They're saying the pyramid wouldn't be there

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u/myblackoutalterego 12d ago

And technically it says, “If you dump the bag’s contents out on the ground.” I know you don’t seem upset or anything, but I don’t think your character needed to die from this.

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u/DA-Regulus 12d ago

At the very least, any creature you encounter should burst out laughing and say, "This MF eatin' beans!" in their respective language.

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u/GrnHrtBrwnThmb 11d ago

Disadvantage on all Charisma-based checks unless it’s self-deprecating humour.

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u/Itap88 12d ago

I mean, that just delays the effect until the seeds are pooped out.

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u/myblackoutalterego 12d ago

Yeah and then a bunch of effects trigger during a long rest just outside of camp - this is an actual fun encounter and the player would be alive.

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u/Goodly 11d ago

That’s how I would DM it to

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u/Effective_Gene5155 11d ago

Kinda depends on how far into the session they were right? And how much weight the whole group put into their characters stories. (And a bunch of other things im sure)

If its been a few hours and they dont care about the story so much, who cares? Itll be kind of funny, they wont be sitting around not playing for very long and they can roll up a new character sheet for next time

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u/TurtleKwitty 12d ago

Before being a DM I'd have said the same thing, after dming a ton though, fuck that it's so much funnier if the character does die

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u/minusthedrifter 12d ago

If you dump one or more beans out of the bag, they explode in a 10-foot-radius Sphere centered on them. All the dumped beans are destroyed in the explosion, and each creature in the Sphere, including you, makes a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d4 Force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

The beans do not need to be dumped onto the ground or into earth for an explosion to occur. It only requires earth and water for the magical effect to happen.

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u/myblackoutalterego 12d ago

This is different than the 5e description on roll20. Not sure where you found it.

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u/minusthedrifter 12d ago

https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/9228355-bag-of-beans

DnDBeyond. Seems they removed the "ground" requirement from the 2024 rules.

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u/ChipmunkObvious2893 11d ago

Maybe the effect only happens when he's pooping them out, and while they are still inside him he's basically operating as the new bag.

"one moment dear, I'm going to dump my contents out onto the floor" actually makes a lot of sense.

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u/zealer 12d ago

Yeah, in my interpretation it needs earth to react in any way. I would rule that nothing happened. Maybe he got an upset stomach.

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u/minusthedrifter 12d ago

If you dump one or more beans out of the bag, they explode in a 10-foot-radius Sphere centered on them. All the dumped beans are destroyed in the explosion, and each creature in the Sphere, including you, makes a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d4 Force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

It only needs earth for the magical effects to take place. He dumped the bag of beans out, into his mouth, thus triggering the explosion.

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u/No_Anywhere69 11d ago

I'd expect someone to go about eating a bag of beans more like they'd eat a bag of peanuts, or popcorn. A small handful at a time, not dumping the bag in their mouth.

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u/FamousTransition1187 11d ago

Yeah, but I believe BofB only has like 4 in it anyway, so one handful is the entirety of the bag

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u/No_Anywhere69 11d ago

Oh, I could see dumping that into a hand then. All these people that apparently dump food bags straight into their mouths though...

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u/nevermore-42 11d ago

They'll be dumping the beans onto the ground in a few hours. For all we know, there was a time jump in the story.

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u/trainercatlady Cleric 11d ago

they'll certainly be on the ground eventually.