Took inspiration from the Chicago flag (somewhat obviously) the single large red star represents the state of Illinois as a whole. The red band for the blood shed by the sons and daughters of the state. The white band is the purity of the land. And the blue band for the Rivers and Lake Michigan.
It's simple but I really dig it for some reason.
The Country of Hattura is where the players are from. I know it looks a little blury but It's from the much larger world map that I zoomed way the hell in on to print just the player country. And the peninsula kingdom of Kerchem of course.
So I've been with this group of people for almost 5 years now as a player. Well a little over 6 months ago our old DM got really burnt out and was literally just using ChatGPT on his phone for everything. Encounters, NPC names, ect. I decided that I would step up and DM and after my first game everyone agreed that I "did a really good job!" (Their words not mine). I had continued my DM's game but changed up a few things but the baseline is basically this. The cult of the dragon had taken over the City of Waterdeep, BBEG King Odoacer has been basically terrorizing the entire region (burning cities to the ground, assassinating other Lords, ect) and there's an allied/resistance army that hired the party to sneak into Waterdeep (now called Tiamorath) and sabotage the city gates and take out key leadership in the city. That way when the army arrives they don't have to lay siege for months and months.
Well they finally after months of traveling and fighting bad guys, they make it into Tiamorath. They were doing a really good job, they sabotaged one of the gates and they were freeing enslaved people. Well my old DM decided for some reason to get onto the roof of a building "assassin's creed style" which of course got the attention of the multiple dragons flying around and the city wall guards/troops. I literally just flat out told him it was a bad move. But instead he doubled down and literally attacked a random dragon. Also all of the other players thought this was funny too. Keep in mind they're in the occupied capital city, there's 10s of thousands of bad guys. So I gave them a consequence, they were imprisoned. I honestly gave them the best case scenario considering what they did. I could have easily just party wiped them as that's 100% what the cult would've done.
After Being imprisoned they tried to escape, the barbarian broke the lock by punching it, and they rushed the one dragonborn guard, well they were wearing rags and had no weapons so they got completely smoked. Guard casted silence so they wouldn't use spells (cause obviously the guard would know that's all they would have is spells) and they got put back into the cell, but one character died. He failed his DST's. After this everyone at the table started calling me a "Homo" and other derogatory terms. Like over and over again, I was very close to just walking the fuck out without saying anything. I explained that they literally completely ruined the mission they were on and suffered the (frankly favorable) repercussions for it. I still have 3 other players on the outside who weren't jailed. But know I don't even know if I want to continue with this group. I'm more of a serious inclined person, I don't mind at all that people joke around and have fun obviously, we're all here to have fun. But when you literally just completely fuck up the entire story for a LOL moment and then call me slurs for suffering the consequences. I don't even want to be around you anymore.
What would you good people do?