u/Saladawarrior

DM: old college professor in our university that spent way too long world building
me: human fighter
Gary: Aasimar Wizard
fred: halfling rogue
Samuel: Halfling rogue
Aaroon: Human fighter/ranger multiclass
Gianos: Dwarf Fighter/barbarian
Leonard: elf ranger

HELLO REDDIT, long time lurker here and first time posting !. This story is a ongoing campaign in our college that i want to share and ask your opinion.

This game had a few sessions before i joined with fred and samuel, Aaroon also had 1 session before i joined but dm thought the party was too small and put the invitation and more people showed. From whati understand Fred has a noble background so he has some retainers following him and Samuel choose to be one of them on the lore which dm allowed. Anyway this game started on a elf town and Fred had brought some strong magic item there on the previous game and they the lore reason we were there is that we were invited on the matter on what to do with this item. Since my character is from a country at war with the BBEG nation i ask to be handed the item since it make more sense to use it against the bbeg but everyone mocks me for not reading the 500000 page dm lore that explain anyone who uses the item has to make extremely high WIS save to not become a bbeg minion except halflings (kinda bs if you ask me), anyway to not cause problems i say my character accepts the mission but isn't very happy. This first session was pretty much RP only so our character meet so not much happened.

Second session we plan our route to go next elf town and Gary suggest going throught the mountain since it would only take an extra day following RAW travel and since we have 2 rangers it would be pretty easy. DM almost throws a tantrum at us because he prepared a super duper cool dungeon but he allows us going and them the bbeg liutenant throws some high lvl spells that prevent us from using the mountain path and we are forced to go on the dungeon (of course) Gian is very excited since it is related to his character background, the rest of the party doesn't really care. We go to the dungeon and have some stupid puzzle where we have to translate an elf word on a dwarf city like who would think of that ? it make no sense, anyway we have some quick fight with a homebrew octopus and go throught the dungeon avoiding random encounters and ignoring loot since dm started us at high lvl and we don't really need loot. DM get visibly angry and rolls for Fred npcs on secret and we don't understand why, them he explains that one of his npcs make a loud noise and attracts a random encounter with goblins, everyone grumps and roll initiative. We make short work of the goblins and dm gets visibly frustated and start throwing more bs at us even throwing a troll eventually. We start melting throught the gobbos but we didn't realize that Fred got stuck 1v1 the gobbos and he rolls a crit attack instally downing him. Everyone gangs up on the throw and we win the encounter and start running. We do some acrobatic checks on falling stairs and since dm is a old school grognard he make us retrack throught the dungeon but we didn't map so we get ambushed by the entire goblin army End of session. Everyone was tired and kinda angry at dm since it wasn't our fault so he promise he will fix this next session

Next session he ask us to roll for initiative and we grump, them he says "from the depths a ancient fire rises" and all gobbos run, its a Pit fiend. We start running because no way we beat a Pit fiend and dm gets annoyed since it was supposed to be a boss fight for us to get a lot of lvls. We run through a bridge and them i notice Gary looking at his phone worried. when we are about to escape gary stands at the bridge saying he has to hold the line and he cannot let this monster escape because something about his lore, Pit fiend arrives and tries to kill him but roll badly so he attacks the bridge and the fiend fall to his death but since dm is a evil dm he makes gary do a dex roll to escape fiend grapple and since he is a wizard of course he fails and falls too. We get sad and frustated and escape to wildnerss and dm promise that the lore will get more intresting next session.

That was last friday i'm kinda excited for what will happen but this dm is very punishy for no reason, honestly i'm thinking about trying to steal Fred item and running to my nation but i will see what will happen next session. Anyway what would yall do on this situation ? should i leave this campaign ? its the only place i can socialize on college. Is the dm bad ?

what you guys opinion ?

what you guys opinion ?