'This is payback': Dungeon Master Bans Player’s Characters From Liking Chickens After Player Rejects DM’s Toy Chicken Gift

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Eleonora Bader
Mar 4, 2024 11:30 AM EST

This is a weird story about a Dungeon Master who took things way too personally when one of the players in their campaign didn't appreciate a gift they got him. The DM uploaded a post to r/dnd where they explained that they encountered a strange situation with their best friend with whom they were playing DnD. This best friend was obsessed with chickens, or so it seemed. He somehow managed to incorporate a love for chickens into his role-playing characters. According to the poster, this originated from childhood because his friend really enjoyed the cartoon Ed, Edd n Eddy.

This fixation manifested in various character traits and storylines, such as raising chickens for sustenance or embarking on quests to save them. Again, weird, but okay. When presented with a chicken-themed gift, the dude was surprisingly indifferent. It was almost as if he didn't care about chickens at all. The poster was upset that his friend rejected his gift, and used their DM status to their advantage.

I'm shaking my head over here… And I can't explain it any better, so scroll down and read for yourself.

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    I've banned a player from liking chickens. 20 91 9
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    I've banned a player from liking chickens. DMing Yes, it's as ridiculous as it sounds.
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    One player I have has also been my best friend since we were 11 (we're 32 now). We grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s and Ed Edd 'n' Eddy was a big part of that. For some reason he really resonated with Ed and his love for chickens. Almost every character he's made loves chickens in some capacity. He made a Ranger one time and I allowed him a pet chicken because he wanted to harvest the eggs and use them as a food source. Other times, it's been on a quest to save chickens or otherwise try t
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    While my fiancee and I were shopping last week, we found a chicken Squishmallow, Todd. My fiancee thought it would be fun to buy it for my friend, and I agreed. We had him and another friend over to play some Magic and we presented him with the chicken thinking he'd at least find it entertaining. He did not. We told him we thought he liked chickens because he makes it the focus of so many of his characters.
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    He said "That's just my characters. I don't actually care that much about them." (not exactly verbatim). When it came time to leave, he also forgot to take Todd. My fiancee and I were very upset. If this is a feature you work into every character, it's definitely part of yourself too. He's about to join my Storm King's Thunder campaign as a late comer (two members of the original party dropped out) and he was debating between two motives for his character. He said he
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    had a silly one and a more serious one. • I'm trying to rescue my giant chicken from a giant • I'm a hired hand for an elven noble looking to investigate the giants I replied to him: "I'm placing a ban on you from having per- exisiting fondness for chickens for any of your characters."
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    He said he thought I would find that funny, and I explained that my fiancee and I were still annoyed with how the whole gift went over. It's a mild bother at most right now, but it's still such a bizarre thing. Edit: Reading through these comments has been fascinating. At least half of you are saying friend was ungrateful and should have just taken Todd
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    home, while the rest of you feel I'm being unreasonable for putting such an arbitrary rule in place for his character. For the few of you who have suggested "Talk to him," we are talking. That's what has lead to this point. He will be coming over Saturday to actually play. This won't do anything to our friendship. Edit 2: A disconcerting amount of you believe Todd is a real chicken. I must restate he is a plush toy.
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    demonsquidgod - 1 day ago The funny thing to do now is have a variety of evil monstrous chickens threaten his characters and swear vengeance against them in every future campaign 2.1k Reply Share
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    Ramael-R 20 hr. ago He should not have humiliated King Todd, First of His Name, the Grand Protector of All Chicken Kind. His insolance will not go unpunished. Reply Share 1.1k
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    Spoken Divinity. 1 day ago Okay but are you keeping the chicken? Because if not my friend has been DESPERATE for Todd and I will take him off your hands and give him to a loving home 200 Reply Share
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    neoslith OP. 1 day ago We'll see how Saturday goes. I'll tell my fiancee that someone is interested in him. 94 Reply Share SpokenDivinity - 22 hr. ago If you wanna keep him please do! I will find him eventually for her Reply Share 45
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    . Mythoclast 1 day ago This is so fu g weird. I'm sorry, but you were VERY upset that he doesn't actually like chickens as much as you thought, nay, as much as you DEFINITELY KNOW he does? I literally have nothing else to say other than that this is so fi 3 weird. Bizarre indeed. 2.0k Reply Share
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    Comfortable-Emu9792 1 day ago Its not even like toxic or problematic just.. confusing and bizarre 759 Reply Share Pontiflakes 12 hr. ago Only thing I could imagine is that OP is like, "get it? Because of your thing for chickens?" and he's like "...I don't have a thing for chickens." And then they're both too stubborn to back down.
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    CasperXCV - 1 day ago That's actually just hilarious, bros in denial and you confronted his real life love for chickens out of RP and made him feel uncomfortable “nah man that's just RP stuff" Deep down loves chickens the whole time, won't even eat a chicken irl, pretends to eat it infront of friends to keep up the facade Reply Share 622
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    Otafrear - 17 hr. ago I was thinking this. The guy has made it a core part of his personality, OP has said in at least one other comment that he does put a focus on chickens in at least 1 other game (too lazy to scroll back to find it) as well, and liked them as a kid, but then claims to actually not like them? All signs point elsewhere, man. Outright denying liking chickens after making it a known and core part of yourself? Hmm, something a little weird going on there.
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    And even if it was just a recurring character trait for his D&D characters, and he genuinely doesn't like chickens outside the game that much, simply preferring this recurring gag as some sort of crutch or what have you, it's still insanely weird to not think the gift was thoughtful and kind. I would be f ng THRILLED to receive a gift based on a D&D character of mine, even if it was a gag trait or flaw of my character.
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    forced_metaphor - 1 day ago Ranger I dunno if I'd say it's part of yourself just because it's in your characters. It could just as easily just be a random running gag. But it seems strange that he wouldn't find the gift entertaining Even stranger that you're being weird about how he RPs his character because of that 211 Reply Share
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    vondutcherz0089 - 1 day ago Even if I didn't have some sort of weird liking to a creature I would have still accepted that gift. What madman would say anything else but "Thank you" when gifted a plushie??? 106 Reply Share passwordistako - 21 hr. ago I don't think it's even clear he refused the gift. OP said he left it, he may have forgotten it.
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    Bark Back117 1 day ago Monk Normally id say people dont have to accept a gift but... This is so weird and unexpected? Dude spends 20 YEARS, not weeks, not monthsz YEARS making chicken gags with his toons and someone finally gets him a gag gift and he says he doesnt even like them? But not only that he then refuses to even take it home??
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    What?? Like i think anyone would come to the safe conclusion that the chicken toy was a fun gift that it would be SAFELY assumed the guy would at least get a giggle out of. Jesus, is it just because hes too "manly" to have a chicken toy? Is that what it was really about and why hes upset he cant have chickens in his games now? Bruhhhhh this entire ordeal is so bizarre Imao
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    SendMeSoba - 23 hr. ago Has nothing to do with chickens whatsoever, you saw a thing > the thing made you think of your friend > you bought it for them as a gift because it made you think of them > friend rejected gift for arbitrary reasons. I don't blame you for being miffed that he didn't accept the gift, next BBEG should be a Tarrasque sized Chicken with a personal vendetta named Todd. 52 Reply Share
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    Ghetto Gepetto · 1 day ago I know he's a friend but wow is that a d ‹move to on a gift like that, especially since it was quite thoughtful of you two. I personally love chickens too, they are probably one of the dumbest animals on the planet, can be metal as f、, and are delicious. I'm getting the feeling that he thinks being stupid and also liking chickens is a funny trope or something, but doesn't actually like the animal for some reason. Reply Share 88
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