u/Independent_Alps9744

Dm keeps changing his mind about my character

I've been a forever dm since I started playing dnd back in 2019. I had been asking my players more recently if one of them would be up to trying to be a dm even if it was for a one shot since i had a bunch of ideas for characters i would want to play and have never gotten the chance to, since i have the dm curse.

One of my players came to me and said one of his close family friends was a dm and had asked if he knew some people who wanted to start a campaign. I jumped at the idea of finally getting to play the game from a player perspective and got me in contact with the dm who said he'd be glad to have me. I asked him if he had any restrictions on character creation since he did not do session zeros, he said he doesn't really have any but he'd let me know upon making my character if something was wrong. I end up making a level 1 Firbolg warlock, write my backstory and send it to the dm, he sent me a thumbs up emoji so i figured everything would be okay.

We arrive at the first session and dm has us describe our characters, when i tell everyone I'm a Firbolg he interrupts me saying they don't exist in his world. Not knowing what to say i sit there for a second before asking why he didn't say anything when i sent my character sheet and backstory, he just shrugged and said he didn't pay too much attention to the race i chose and would have to change it before we could start. That annoyed me a bit but wasn't a huge deal in the moment because i was more embarrassed in the moment than anything and being a Firbolg wasn't a game ender for me, I just thought they were cool. i wasn't expecting to have to make a sudden change to my character, especially change its race, so i didn't have a backup and ended up just choosing an elf to make things quick. The rest of the session went alright, we leveled up to level 3 during the first session and I overall enjoyed playing with everyone.

3 days after our first session I guess the dm decided to read my backstory I wrote and he messaged me saying it needed some changes to "fit the world better." He wanted my character to have a wife and child(ren) since my character is older, presumably to kidnap/kill them at some point to create drama for my character since his campaign is more "gritty", although i dont know if this is the real reason or not but im just speculating. I told him a family wouldnt make sense for my backstory given the reasons he chose to sign a pact in the first place and that, most importantly, I have no interest in roleplaying a relationship in dnd, that i was playing for the fantasy aspect and have fun with friends. He didnt really care about what i had said and told me i have to have a family anyway because it fits the campaign setting. I didnt really reply to him after that, between the first session making me change my race and now trying to "force" my character to have a relationship and family i had a bad taste in my mouth and in the moment decided i probably wouldnt want to play the second session but didnt tell the dm yet.

Fast forward about a week and i get another message from the dm telling me he had another person that would be joining in the second session and she wanted to play a warlock and had the audacity to ask me to remake my character so there wouldnt be 2 of them in the party. the real icing on the cake is he wanted me to start back at level 1 since it would be a "new" character. If I wasn't sure about leaving this definitely was the final nail in the coffin for me. i immediately replied and told him to not worry about that because i would be leaving the campaign indefinitely. i messaged the friend who got me in contact with the dm, who was also in this campaign, that i wouldn't be playing anymore. when he asked why i told him about the backstory change and then wanting me to make a new character. he told me he wasn't surprised because the dm made someone change their character at least one other time before to someone else in a campaign when a girl he was dating wanted to try dnd.

I'm not really looking for advice just to vent since this happened pretty recently and needed to get it off my chest lol i guess its back to being the forever dm

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u/Independent_Alps9744 — 16 hours ago