YMMV / Elfslayer Chronicles

• Accidental Aesop: The whole saga is one to new DM's about being careful when it comes to letting their own personal opinions and desires reflect in the campaign. The DM's world isn't particularly well thought out, with the only established things being Elves are too good for this sinful Earth and humans are racist war profiting bastards that deserve every bad thing that happens to them. Not only does this not fully reflect in the world itself, as Elves are isolationists while humans co-exist among the other races, that latter point gave OP full justification for his human wizard to be a complete and total dick towards Elves, since humans would profit massively from the war continuing to go on. If you're new to DMing, take this story as an example of be very careful when planning out your worlds, and give the players notice ahead of time so you can gage if they would even be interested in the world in the first place.
• Designated Hero: OP fully admits he was being a dick in the first post, and his character commits' countless atrocities in the name of wrecking OP's campaign. To his credit though, he was just going along with the established lore for humans.
• Designated Villain:
  • Humans are evil, according to the DM... basically, because they're not elves. Additionally (although it's not addressed in the story), the fact is that the elves are keeping the prince of the human kingdom away from his home and family, and the humans have no way of knowing that it's because he and the Royal Guard Captain are in a consensual relationship, not because he's dead or a prisoner. As far as the human kingdom knows, their prince did die in elf territory, and all the elves have to do to get them to stop is to say "Hey, your prince is alive and we've been nursing him back to health! Please don't declare war on us!" Following the logic of the situation the DM set up, the humans declaring war on the elves makes it seem much less like the latter were tragic victims of homophobia and more like it's their own damn fault for being too dumb to just send a message telling the humans that their prince was actually still alive.
  • The DM's Utopia falls incredibly flat when you look at how she went about building the human empire. Human culture is actually incredibly accepting of other races such as dwarves simply because the DM wanted to lump everything she didn't care for into one nation. Humans are supposed to be "shortsighted" because they would rather fight the elves to stimulate a wartime economy than trade with elves, except in the setting as established any human entrepreneur looking to trade with elves would be a loss leader at best. There's also the fact that the DM goes out of her way to establish how utterly bigoted, homophobic and racist the humans are, but this...never really comes into play ^* apart from OP's in-character reasoning for killing the prince and Royal Guard being that the discovery of their relationship would shame the human royal family, which could easily be rationalized that it was the relationship itself rather than the nature of it which scandalous, and even then OP was merely adhering to the DM's claims that Humans Are Bastards in this world. especially since from what little we see about the humans, the opposite is true.
  • The DM herself can come off as this, as her only real "crime" is self indulging herself a bit too much with her world and characters, particularly her love of Elves. Even with the OP wrecking havoc on her world and characters, she still (if somewhat begrudgingly) plays along with it instead of just kicking OP out of the campaign, which is a far cry from most 'player VS DM' stories like Old Man Henderson (where the DM was maliciously killing off characters for their own amusement) or That Guy Destroys Psionics. (Where the DM kicks the OP out of the game despite being the one who told him to 'Min Max or GTFO' in the first place.)
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The Rumbling Brothers, who don't directly participate in the gambit, but are widely considered to be awesome characters to play with.
• Fridge Brilliance: The DM's complete inability to understand that OP was acting out of patriotism and loyalty helps explain why she wrote the plot she did, despite not being a railroader (as shown by her willingness to roll with OP's complete derailing of her campaign). She simply couldn't conceive that the PCs might not be as entranced by the sparkly homosexual elves as she was, so it never occurred to her that she was trying to railroad them.
• Moment of Awesome: OP's beautifully done Xanatos Gambit. He managed to kill both his target and the one potential witness, and made sure that there would be no way to pin it on him.

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