The DM Bans My Character For Being OP, Then Nearly Cries When He Gets Counterspelled
The story happened a year ago, it was my first time playing D&D. We were a 3-player group at the time, we met in school and quickly became best friends. Our DM introduced us to D&D, we thought it was a cool thing and we started playing. We didn't really play a campaign, more like a series of one-shots.
At our first session I played a homebrew Alchemist bounty hunter, my character could make implants which I thought was really cool and the DM said that it was ok. My friend played a Fighter.
We started our session. Me and Fighter were paid to kill the politician of an opposing party. DM gave us free time, so we went to find implants to buy. We found the shop that sells them and bought 2, 1 of them gave +1 AC, and the other gave +1d6 dmg on attacks, I was very excited, that we get to use my character mechanic so early into the game. The DM asked me: "what do they do?", immediately after I explained their effects, he told me: "That's too overpowered, you'll have to play another character". I asked him, what was wrong with the implants, offered him how I could nerf him, but the DM wouldn't budge (The DM asked, what so the implants do only now, he never asked it before the game.)I was feeling like he took everything from me, but I didn't tell him about it (I still didn't know is that normal in a game). So, I just made a Barbarian and continued playing. The rest of that one-shot went fine, but I was still sad from losing my character.
The next one-shot my friend Fighter became the DM, and our previous DM became a player. I made a Fighter for that game, he made a sorcerer, and made him as optimised as possible. I was very frustrated about it, so I asked him: "If you ban my character at your games, why are you playing an OP character yourself?" he answered: "Well, that's not my game".
We started playing.
We had to investigate a murder, we found some evidence and all of it pointed towards the city Mayor.
Me and the sorcerer came to confront him in his house, and the fight started. The BBEG was REALLY good at fighting spell casters, having counter spell and abilities that helped him resist magic. The first half of the fight went good, but in the second half, all the shit happens. The Sorcerer casts his fireball, describes how he does it for solid two minutes, and... gets counterspelled. He absolutely loses his shit, nearly crying: "This is so unfair, how did I get a nerf and HE didn't get one?". DM answers: "Counterspell is not the worst I could do, right? I could've made you make a different character, just what you did to Alchemist". He shut up, and I have felt like justice has been served.
After that game, Me and Fighter made the decision to play without Sorcerer, so we left him and started our own party, which we still play in after a year.
Thank you for reading!