Hi
My boyfriend (with AS) and I (DX bipolar but then had further testing and AS is now suspected but I gave up on testing as it’s too much social interaction. One session would have me hermit for a week) so basically both AS. We decided to get into D&D, typically for us we play with just the two of us and his 8 year old daughter. He DMs the game. We usually have a heap of fun and the small group isn’t an issue on quests. But we have only been playing a month but of course, it consume most of our life since it became his new special interest.
However, he wanted to have a go at being a warlock with me DMing and just the two of us. Not much of a problem except for his inability to just let fantasy be ‘unrealistic’ by his standards.
By that I mean, he makes mistakes DMing. He comes up with things that don’t make sense except in his head. His 8 year daughter also as autism and some of his mistakes drive her nuts but he doesn’t see it. I worked in disabilities for 25 years with people who had autism from low to high functioning so I have a few tricks up my sleeve to help me deal and I give her pointers. So we just let it be.
I spent days working out a quest that would fit one character, whose player try to control every aspect of the quest. He did picked the quest. Told me how it should be. Told me what special weapons he should find. Told me everything! But as he researched the warlock character he would change his mind on how the story unfolded and what his character should be like.
So, 5 minutes into the game and it’s not good enough. I hadn’t given his character the motivation to accept fiends deal. When I said we had talked about it all day and had decided that power lust was his motivation he said he hadn’t decided anything. And that I couldn’t control his character. Let’s just say it ended with me doing my usual ‘I’m sorry I’m a failure and it’s all my fault’ routine because I can’t deal with conflict. And him telling me how it wasn’t my fault I just don’t understand how D&D works.
So, long story short. Help please.
I need a quest for a warlock level 0 who could be good or could be bad. Wants his fiend to be a succubus but also doesn’t want the succubus to have the advantage they do in that you are in awe of them due to the whole dream popping in thing. Starter quest. Moving towards dragons heist (because I’m not allowed to do any but that one!! !) not sure if it’s possible to even please him since he needs to be in control all the time. But I’ll give it a shot because he is obsessed with being a warlock
Thankyou if you even just managed to get to the end of this messy message
10 Mar 2019, 6:48 pm
