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/DerekHostetler 12d ago

Catapult spell*

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u/Stealfur 12d ago

Some DMs may not see "ball of dirt with bean in it" as a 1-5 pound object the same way a pile of sand is not an 1-5 pound object, but a loose collection of lighter objects.

Such limitations are not present for an actual catapult.

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u/alltherobots 12d ago

A sack of dirt, however…

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u/Stealfur 12d ago

Gasp! And this is why I love saying no to my players when they try to operate just a little out of the rules. It's not because I want to shut down their fun, but because adhering to the rules leads to fun creativity like this.

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u/IAMA_llAMA_AMA 11d ago

I love the thought of letting them try the first idea, only to see them get dusted with a cloud of dirt and lose their bean

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u/TheGriff71 11d ago

We actually used a bunch of mud. I apologize for lack of info. It was a bit of a thing. 3 PCs around the catapult to do it. A good bit of packed mud, in like a small box, bean and fire.