First-time DnD player experiences an eye-opening session after discovering NPCs can lie to players in the game, proud host shares the story online: ‘Made me smile’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Aug 5, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

Everyone remembers the very first time they played Dungeons and Dragons. It's an exciting experience, considering everything it entails. But if you ask us, the one thing we remember the most vividly from our first session is how much it exceeded our expectations. Sure, you hear countless stories about how detailed and complicated this game can get, but you never understand it fully until you actually put it to the test yourself. And boy, does Dungeons and Dragons fill you with surprises at every single corner.

For the first-time Dungeons and Dragons player in the story below, the most surprising part was finding out that NPCs are not required to tell you the truth. Unlike most video games, where what the NPCs tell you is usually what you base your knowledge of the game on, that rule does not apply to DnD. Just like real people, they can tell you whatever they want, and you have to choose whether to believe them or not.

Oh, doesn't that make the game so much more thrilling?

We loved reading the story about this echanting DnD exeprience, so scroll down to read it for yourselves. After that, check out this story about a comic book employee getting payback.

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    Blew a Player's mind by having an NPC lie

    I hosted a recent game which had a two newbies, one of which has never played D&D or any TTRPG in his life. He was curious about it so we invited him to our Roll20
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    game and helped him with his character. He made a tiefling ranger, starting level 1, but that doesn't matter in this post.
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    He made a tiefling ranger, starting level 1, but that doesn't matter in this post. I also told him to make a backstory as well but he
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    doesn't have to make it super elaborate. It could just be "guy picks up sword one day and goes I wanna adventure." It is his first character.
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    He makes a pretty detailed backstory about his character being a runaway slave from Drow slavers from the Underdark, and how he found a surface entrance that led
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    him to the city of Baldur's Gate where he lived since then. (In session 0, we explained what the Underdark and how dark elves worked to him since my homebrew
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    campaign would take place there.) We began the actual game with an introduction to the Flaming Fist. I explain what they are and that recently
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    they needed a full body group of adventurers to partake on a "secret" mission. The party wins out and are selected and then told about that Underdark entrance, that
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    no one but the Dukes of the city knew about. A commander explains to them the details and backstory stuff about it which guides them to introduce their characters for session 1 in his office.
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    In the middle of the Commander's speech, the player (out of character) interrupts me. Player "Wait, when did he - say the entrance was found?"
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    "About... 5 years ago. Why?" - Player "But... my character escaped through that entrance 17 years ago. Didn't you say those Flaming guys
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    stood watch over it and would've stopped me in my backstory?" "Oh yeah. Yeah, you're right.
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    Player - "But that's wrong. It's not true." "Do you think he's lying?" Player "What?" -
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    "Like... not telling you the full picture? He's lying to you?" He sat quiet in VC for a bit and eventually responded. Player - "...he can do that?"
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    So anyway, his first official roll at the virtual table was an Insight Check to see if the Commander believed what he said, or if he was just feeding them bulls. Made for a little
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    RP moment that made me smile and proud. After session 1, he told me he saw the appeal as to why someone would play and asked when we would meet up again. :)
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    Dg-wildstar Congrats on getting a player invested in the game. I love stories like this!
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    imababydragon Having NPCs lie or just not know and make up stuff is such as great way to make it more real.
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    Intelligent-Key-8732 My players would have to remember their own backstories for this to work.
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    drewdp "Dudeee! He said it was a magical sword" "He was lying" "He said he never tells a lie" "He was lying when he said that"
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