D&D Players, What is your best low-tier in-game flex? #1

[@noguy0829]

The only experienced player in my group was aloud to have a gun, because he’s always forced to team carry the party. One time he saw a chest, correctly guessed it was a mimic, and immediately blasted its head off

[@fivebuckle3967]

Head?

[@noguy0829]

Face, I guess

[@watcheryegr]

@@fivebuckle3967 head, eyes

[@guacotaco4349]

*meta gaming, but cool rool*

[@noguy0829]

@guaco taco no he just saw the chest and immediately shot the top off, and the damage was enough to instantly kill it so it reverted to its normal form upon death

[@Frogenshtein]

Second session in a campaign, my party rescued an elf from orcs; unfortunately, her ears had already been cut off for the orcs' elf-ear necklaces. I asked if I could try to reattach them. A flabbergasted DM and a quick google of 'time limit for reattaching smaller parts' later, I was given the okay. Through use of tinker's tools and fishing wire (sanitized by our Warlock's Prestidigitation) plus some godlike medicine checks, my Druid was able to reattach the elf's ears with minimal scarring. Not bad, considering my character is a dentist.

[@zacheryeckard3051]

You've got the head down. Time for the shoulders, knees, and toes.

[@nathanmceneny2633]

I had something similar to this. I was playing a Firbolg Druid, and we encountered an injured griffon knight that was dying on the ground. Being lvl 3 we diddn't have anything fancy for healing other than cure wounds and the DM said that she was too injured for just "I snap my fingers" healing magic, which I agreed with. So I asked if I can try and stitch the wounds close. He asked "Ok, what will you use to stitch them closed?" Some giant spider slink from my clothes, some needles from our monks darts and some other items I forget, I rolled a 24 for medicine I think, and managed to fix her up so she would survie, which the DM Diddnt really expect aha.

[@robertlombardo8437]

A dental surgeon, so it seems.

[@cuddlebug9699]

Player kills one BBEG DM:Well at least i have the other Player kills the OTHER BBEG DM:EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!

[@lemongaming152]

My 8 foot ally fell over on the floor because it was shaking and he was disoriented. A spiked wall was approaching from behind. I, a tiefling rogue about half his size, stared his approaching death in the face and thought, "Not today." I draped him over my shoulder and ran twenty feet before chucking him forward for another ten. That was the first, and best, nat 20 I got that campaign.

[@davidaward82]

ah.. pre-change tieflings... short tiefling, best tiefling.

[@0PercentImagination]

I was once in a short lived campaign as a low level Fighter called Kevin Copper, a middle aged man who became a cynical drunkard after failing to become a dragon slayer (I even gave him medicine proficiency to imply he had to patch himself up a lot). The low-tier flex came from when we had to break in to a warehouse that a small group of bandits were hiding in. My plan was to kick the door down and then enter whilst shouting something along the lines of "If you show yourselves for even a second I will f**king kill you", nat 20'd both the attack on the door and the intimidation check afterwards not only causing them to not approach me but one of the enemies tripped and fell out a 2nd floor window out of shock.

[@3rduck735]

That would be my first 3rd-level spell ever. We had encountered a pack of wolves in our travels, and they were looking at us hungrily. My cleric was first in the initiative order and cast fireball. Not only did I catch all of then in the blast, I also rolled enough damage to kill them. So before anyone could even draw their weapon, I had blasted everything to oblivion, ending the encounter.

[@irisinthedarkworld]

a normal fireball then. wolves only have like 11hp

[@proxy90909]

Awesome gotta give some love to the light clerics

[@hedgehogsonic11]

I played a character who had lost his arm as a result of an explosion in the previous session. When joining the campaign, I had taken the place of a different PC, and for plot reasons was still carrying his gear, including that character’s bagpipes. They hadn’t been used since the very early sessions, and the PC had always rolled very middle of the road with them, to the point where it had become a bit of a running joke. I asked the dm if I could try playing them. “With one arm?!” They cried, incredulously. The party laughed about it and pleaded with the dm, saying that I should roll with disadvantage. I’m a notoriously unlucky guy, and my character does have literally one arm, so I think that’s fair. The dm sighs, shrugs, and tells me to roll four performance rolls, and that they would base my attempted performance on the worst of the four rolls. I shrugged, expecting some subpar rolling. My modifier was a +4, nothing to sneeze at, but probably not enough to save me from getting at least one really bad roll. *All of my rolls were above 20.* *The best bagpipe player in the kingdom is a paladin who has one arm.*

[@morissaedwards7348]

Yes! Yesssss! I hope this makes it into a video

[@goldie8781]

I can actually see that. And hear that.

[@TheNoobRapter]

In a Call of cuthulu, I was fearless due to being from New Jersey. The character I made was a parody of Pauly d from jersey shore, he was mainly the groups strong man. However any time a sanity roll was done I would be lucky and always pass it. Even with dice changes and the gm telling me to roll dice he provided, I would never fail a sanity roll. It became a joke that the only reason I am fearless is because new jersey is just that much of a hell hole that eldrich monsters are just an average Tuesday

[@kyleward3914]

Suplexing the ghost train is a reference to Final Fantasy VI, in which Sabin can suplex the phantom train during a boss fight.

[@RJ-1580]

Solo’d a pirate encounter whilst the party was off at an underwater masquerade party making cutesy love interests. Let’s just say they came back to one additional ship under our belt.

[@bodesmcbodeson686]

Using trivial powers incredibly wisely is way better than flexing high level powers flippantly.

[@johnscarborough9627]

Probably the time i finagled my way out of a barrier trap by pissing off a fairy using Bagpipes. So. Me and my party, The Degenerates, (yes thats what we call ourselves), were travelling south down the savalierwood after getting stranded in the Flotket alps. One evening we come across a grove that isnt cursed like the rest of the forest and, after a really high investigation roll, i find a fairy door in a tree. I knock on the door, and lo and behold theres a lil fairy in there! I introduce myself (first mistake) and ask if we can stay the night. He agrees, and joins us for a meal around the fire, swapping stories. Come morning, we’re wrapping up camp and saying our goodbyes… and I cant leave. I physically couldn’t leave the grove. Turns out lil fairy dude was tired of being alone so decided he was keeping me as company. I smirked, told him that was a terrible idea, whipped out my bagpipes and rolled a 18 (27 total) on deception and began playing the bagpipes so badly that the fairy started sobbing. After some high roll persuasion checks from my allies to inform the Fairy that, yes, i am always that much of a pain, we managed to negotiate my freedom for 50 gold. And thats the story of how i gained my freedom by being an unbearable nuisance.

[@Allantitan]

So basically you got your freedom by being a…..degenerate? 😂 ok I’ll see myself out

[@johnscarborough9627]

@@Allantitan there’s a reason we have that name xD

[@Darkinu2]

I was giggling like an idiot at the first story, good on that first DM for rolling with it.

[@edamommy]

Thiccifying the bandits' getaway carriage at Level 3 (Session 1). The opening hook of the campaign was that a bandit gang yoinked our items from camp. As we woke up to see our loot rolling away, my sorcerer cast Enlarge with Distant Spell, and increased the carraige's weight by 8x, stopping it dead. While it was a very tough combat, us lacking weapons, it was a lot of fun to start off with that level of chaos

[@theawkwardpotato1973]

Since it wasn’t explained in the post… Daolock is a warlock that took a pact with a Dao, an elemental genie of Earth.

[@supernintendosp]

You had me laughing with "suplexing the ghost train." Good one.

[@lockwoan01]

Playing as a Dhampir Tabaxi Rogue with 14 constitution, that was pretending to be a regular Tabaxi. Party consisting of Orc Fighter, Mountain Dwarf Paladin, and Bugbear Artificer. Party encounters Evil Wizard, the henchmen (kobolds, zombies, skeletons), and their Veteran Guard. I get knocked to under half my health. Well, Bite Attack time - roll with Advantage and I got a Nat20 - so I roll two of those little caltrops, and I'm just one shy of max damage, and I heal up to full health. Because I did this in full sight of the other party members, the Paladin rolls an Insight check upon seeing this, and realizes that normal Tabaxi don't heal up after biting someone. Basically, the party finds out that my father was a Tabaxi Mercenary that was supposed to guard a Priestess of Healing while investigating a vampire attack. Vampire wanted the Priestess as his bride, and went after her - Tabaxi mercenary interfered, got bit/infected, but retained enough of their Free Will/Good Nature that they managed to hold onto the vampire as the sun rose - evil one was destroyed in an explosion that sent the Tabaxi Vampire into a church, where, oddly enough, he wasn't destroyed, despite being uninvited on Holy Ground. Seems that the God of Healing granted him a boon, as he's been willing to sacrifice his life to save the Priestess, especially since the Priestess decided to heal him with her own blood. So, now that everyone knows what I am, I'm occasionally biting my foes to get back my hp. Although, in our last game, I Intimidated a Suspicious Person, that was planning to kill us, a little too well, and they ran away. Need to locate them before they ruin me.

[@issacon5685]

Final Fantasy fan myself, glad to hear people knowing about the train fight. That said, not my story, but two members of the party during the first session of my campaign (this happened Monday). For context, the setting is actually set in a world I made for a book. I’m actually still working out some of the homebrew on how best to translate in-world features into 5e as of writing. This is important to know. During the party’s little exploration of the town, the town’s emergency bell went off. Guards went to escort the townsfolk to safety, while the party went to the gate opposite of the herding. Upon arrival, they were met with the sight of a merchant boy literally running into town (the fifth member of the party who agreed to this prior) for safety as the gates were closing. As the guards where closing the gates, they heard a loud thumping coming their way, before the sight of a gargantuan pale white chimera came bursting through the gates, launching and knocking out two of the guards. How I initially planned for it to go was the Pale Chimera (in an already highly injured state for story/First enemy reasons) would be chipped down enough for Kallem, the merchant boy, to cast sleep on it and knock it out. Given the fact the party already consist of two fighters, a bard, and a witch (homebrew from the player that I approved), I figured it would go swimmingly… it went very swimmingly.. Cue the first fighter, a variant human with the gunner feat getting not 1, not 2, but 3 Nat 20s during the encounter! The last one even being a called shot to the eye! That +4 AC could not save it from screaming out in pain as its blue blood gushed from what used to be an eye! The second fighter, a war forged who canonically has big steely hands, not only successfully called shot the other eye, but mounted the damn monster! The bard could barely get a hit in while the witch managed to get a successful witch bolt to keep the thing at bay! Kallem’s player did eventually use sleep, but used it too early, ultimately making it an unsuccessful attempt to sleep the beast. As the first fighter basically set the stage for their warforged companion, by managing to reduce the hp to 2, and with one last successful hit, the warforged proceeded to violently grab its head, and twist it back and forth, before ending its life… with their thighs. The party all leveled up to level 2 (Yes, they all did this at Level 1!), and the two fighters claimed whatever they could carve from the gargantuan beast. The warforged later going to a tailor they encountered in town to get its fur turned into Viking styled winter clothing, complete, with a hood that resembled its head (even has little button eyes). Obviously that’s not everything that happened during the session, but I’m just left shocked in a good way at how effectively the two fighters made this highly dangerous monster their bitch. (More so as a little side thing, characters are as follows: Kyo, the Half-breed Ironcladian bard ((and canonical leader of the group)), Cyrus, the variant human fighter who was allowed a gun, Ona, the variant human witch who brought her baby with her, Mapper, the warforged fighter who is the party navigator, and Kallem, the human archfey warlock who doesn’t know what he just did. All five are good friends of mine, and I’m glad they’re letting me have the opportunity to DM my first campaign, especially since Cyrus’s player is our usual forever DM.)

[@Sunstreaker2k5]

Our party was level 2. Myself: Rogue, My Girlfriend: Ranger, A Paladin, a Cleric, and a Bard. Icewind Dale is the setting, Rime of the Frostmaiden. We're ambushed on our way back to town by a group of Goblins and one Goblin Boss. Generally, Goblins are not an issue, but this group had tamed a polar bear that they were using to pull their wagon. It was rampaging across the snow, and mauling anyone it got close to pretty severely. With very few of our powers online at level 2 we were in a bit of trouble. One party member down, two others severely wounded. Goblin Boss decides to taunt us: If you surrender now, and give us all your valuables, we'll let you scamper back to town still in one piece. Otherwise, you're all bear chow." My turn is up next. I step out of my hiding spot and fire an arrow from my longbow and bam, Nat 20. With Sneak Attack, the boss is down in a single shot. Arrow hits him right between the eyes and he crumples. "There's your answer bastards. Anyone else feel like asking a stupid question?" DM: "Roll intimidation" Me: "Nat 20." DM: "The goblins piss themselves and run, leaving the wagon and the polar bear behind. We kept the big guy as a pet for several sessions before turning him loose.

[@jonathanmarks3112]

5:55 Holy snap, that was awesome! 6:30 I find it ironic that you picked a seahorse. 6:53 EPIC. 8:33 SAHN-gray is the pronunciation. El Caldero de Sangre= The Cauldron of Blood. 9:41 Final Fantasy VI? I KNOW there's a Final Fantasy game where you can suplex a train. 11:42 Instakill!

[@Kaindrillx]

Yes in FF vi or 3 in the US the character Saban can suplex the ghost train

[@boomkruncher325zzshred5]

I once got a result of zero. In one game. TWICE. I love -1 Int modifier 🤣

[@Jessie_Helms]

Let me tell you a story of fire and flame. Of a fire Genasi, Vanil was his name. How brave Caer Konig was never the same. On the morning when all the Gnolls burned… (A little Longest Johns reference for ya). Anyway, at 4th level my party was in Caer Konig after hearing stories of increasingly dangerous gnoll raids, so they came in to help. They saw a small pack engaged with about 6 militia- several dead militia and civilians on the ground- and the town speaker. After mopping up those Gnolls Trovus, the speaker, informed them that from what they could tell a Fang of Yeenoghu had united several roaving packs and was planning on overrunning the entire town, to use it as a base of operations to raid other nearby settlements while feasting on the population. They were all given magic items from the armory under the logic that they could use it better than anyone in the militia. The party spent 2 weeks IRL discussing their strategies to protect the town since we had to skip a week, and about an hour and a half actually setting it up in game (how many men at what positions, where should we add traps? Are we worried about a secret passage? Etc…). The battle ensures- 5 PC’s of level 4, the Speaker who was level 5 Fighter, and about 30 militia VS a Gnoll Fang, 3 Packlords, and about 50 Gnolls of various types. I was genuinely concerned that some of the PC’s- especially the fighter & Druid- would get killed. Then the wizard ripped a patch off his Cloak of Many Patches, rolled and wound up with a spell scroll, then rolled on a table and got… _Fireball._ Cue 1 Packlord and a solid _half_ of the Gnolls being 1 shot and the Fang being dropped to nearly dead in 1 move. “Vanil the Immolator” was his title from then on.

[@TheSimpleMan454]

The Redirecting Vambrace. Oh, I made the perfect use of it. A hatchet was thrown at Chorban, and I had a charge left on the item. 20! Chorban snatches the hatchet midflight and hurls it straight back into the raider's forehead. Corrine's response? "Okay now... Okay. That was dope. Drew, you got a tough act to follow there." It was just the one moment, but it was the only time I've seen Corrine crack while GM'ing. She just had that grin and couldn't stay in scene to narrate. I felt validated.

[@couchsurfer6715]

I'm new to the show but I'm loving it so far

[@Metaknight180]

DM in the first story is awesome. Great guy, flexible and won't ruin his players' fun. Nice FF6 reference in there with the suplexed train, good stuff. Don't really have any flexes to speak of since I've hardly played myself, but the one character I did play (in Pathfinder) was a Summoner with the intention of being a melee combat duo with his eidolon, with my character using a rhoka sword in one hand and a wand of shield in the other for a sword-and-board style. The DM always found ways to separate my eidolon from the party so I didn't get to experience playing with it much, but I was particularly proud of how high my AC was at level 1. Being a caster class with over 20 AC (can't remember, it was either 21 or 24) took the DM by surprise and he did a bit of a double-take when I told him what it was when an enemy failed an attack. Not a flex that compares with anything here, but as a new player it felt nice to cause that sort of reaction.

[@crystopus]

I was new to D&D, and our DM used a homemade module he uses with other new players to help them learn how to play. (Awesome DM, great first experience) Our group was tasked with trying to get a dragon to leave the area, in fear of the town burning down. My Wizard could speak dragon, so I had asked if I could simply ask the dragon to leave, instead of the murder fest the rest of my group wanted. We had all came to the conclusion that my character wouldn't be smart enough to actually reason with the dragon, but we joked how it would be nice if our bard could speak dragon, as she would easily convince the dragon. Our DM was taken away by the plan I attempted. I had asked if my Wizard could cast an illusion of the bard, replicating the movements and mannerisms of our Bard, while I translated the words she spoke to the dragon. I felt proud that I had an amazing plan that none of his other sessions had thought of, even though ultimately it didn't work.

[@o.d.d.792]

I play an artificer in a party of 5 and we fought what our DM described was two mini bosses at LVL 2. We were hunting bird-like creatures called Frosh. They were essentially 15ft. tall emus with a appetite for flesh and not plants. The two barbarians were struggling against one and the bard was cornered by another. When it was my turn, I told the bard to disengage and help the barbarians while I prepared an action that when the Frosh attacks with its beak, I prepared rope in hand to wrap around the beak and grapple onto its long neck. Unfortunately Frosh got a crit and DM’s crit have a chance to cause injury and it succeeded causing an injury to my left elbow. As for my athletics check I rolled high with a +1 and bonus inspiration from the bard that disengaged. I was able to delay the Frosh from attacking anyone for this turn and the next, also succeeding another athletics check with a +1 no inspiration on a huge creature. Within those two turns the Wizard found out frosh are vulnerable to fire and was able to crit a firebolt roasting one of the frosh and I had a homebrew spell that allowed me to make a bomb out of nonmagical objects that last for 1 minute duration before using another action to detonate, using the rope as the object in its mouth. Killing it as we did some damage before everyone focused on the one the barbarians are dealing with. We were all low health and it was quite mind-boggling that a short man 5ft. 6in. with +1 strength was able to distract a 15 ft. tall huge emu bird with +4 strength for 2 turns before finishing it off.

[@RayPoreon]

I suppose I've got one of my own. In a recently started campaign, we were told that it was gonna be an intrigue-type affair. So I made a character based on my favourite intrigue story(series), Yakuza. Thus is created Okano, a human fighter/monk. He's a tough guy that can beat information out of people without killing them type of deal while also covering intimidation. So our band of misfits woke up In a literal ghost town(everyone is either dead or a ghost, except the graveyard keeper) with cryptic letters guiding us to seek what happened. A bit of meandering later and we're busting down the door of the blacksmith. The spooky gnome blacksmith doesn't even realize he's dead until we tell him, but he's very adamant that we don't look in his basement, adamant enough that he decides to possess Okano. I failed the roll because I dumped charisma(more of a Saijima than a Kiryu). Now should be the time where I mention we were allowed to start with magic items, one chosen and the other decided by the gm. I had a ring of free action(immunity to magic restraints+paralysis and ignoring difficult terrain). So no matter what my allies did they could stop the possessed Okano from grappling them and shoving them out of the smithy. They had to either drop me, leave or be annoying enough that the ghost decides to deal with it himself. After a bit of confusion(summoning a giant constrictor snake via a magic item to grapple me), they chose the latter, baiting the ghost to leave and try to possess the barbarian. Big mistake on the ghost's part. My other item was the eldrich claw tattoo. Which meant Okano was the only person that could do consistently high magic weapon damage in the group. The ghost gnome got a very angry max-damage headbutt the moment they left Okano's body, as he was understandably rather miffed about being puppeteered. Okano then proceeded to continue punching a ghost while the party lockpicked a trapdoor before just smashing through it. And the best thing about it is I didn't even need to activate the tattoo's active effect, so I can save the big dramatic Yakuza-style thing where they toss off their clothes to reveal the detailed tattoos underneath for later.

[@BuffaloBaymax2187]

I think this is a pretty good low-level flex: We are a level 1 party, first session of the campaign (we all had our characters made and approved in advance), we just got to the town of Good Mead in Icewind Dale. We investigate the town and find the abandoned Shrine of the Flaming Sword and I decide I want to take a look around (my character is a Wildfire Druid and a mild pyromaniac so this temple is right up his alley, so to speak). After our initial investigations and history/religion checks it seems we learned all we could but didn't really find anything of value or interest. As we are about to leave, I casually mention to the DM that I was hoping there would be a flaming sword in the temple, due to the name. He asks "High or low" before rolling a D100 (house rule: if you guess correctly he will rule of cool it). After I make my guess he rolls the die and I guessed right. "As you are about to leave you notice a stone in the floor that looks slightly raised compared to the others...what do you do?" Of course I investigate the stone, move it from its location and *Legend of Zelda chest opening music* find a sword hidden underneath! While the DM is looking at a table and rolling a die to determine the type of sword (i.e. long, broad, etc.) I casually mention that I hope it's a scimitar because that's the only sword a druid has proficiency in. He rolls a die and busts out laughing! Usually a bad sign, but not this time. The dice gods blessed me that night and he rolled for it to be a scimitar. A Flame Tongue Scimitar. That's right. At level 1 I have a rare-level magic sword. In a campaign with a lot of ice/cold based enemies who happen to be weak to fire. Maybe 10 min into the campaign. The party was both impressed and jealous, so win-win for me

[@THEGRUMPTRUCK]

A colleague of mine was in Rise of Tiamat alongside me, and we were at Greenest. Keep in mind we were level two at the time. I was challenged by Cyanwrath, as the GM saw fit to since my cleric was a Bahamut worshiper. As I walked toward the gate to meet my destiny, a scaly lizard hand came down upon my shoulder and the words "No. I will fight him." Filled the area. Our champion fighter, Gesh, (Chaotic evil to my Lawful Good) was not about to be outdone. He was pussed Cyanwrath challenged my 5'4 human instead of his seven foot tall lizardman. This was a blessing as Gesh had an ego and I was entirely out of spells and with a rank of exhaustion. Gosh was fully healed and rested. Cyanwrath said these terms were acceptable, and thus Gesh adjourned out of Greenest to fight. Cyanwrath is level 6. Gesh is level 2. With rolls in front of the DM, Gesh landed TWO natural 20's back to back on his attacks and on both of them rolled near maximum damage with his greatsword. This was his action surge. Cyanwrath hit him once, then crit. Action surged and WHIFFED both times. Gesh struck Cyanwrath on his final attack and KILLED him. After doing so he roared, and turning to the gathering army he rolled intimidate. He got a 21 intimidate. "Is *THIS* the best Tiamat has to offer!? Pathetic!" Gesh turned around and stomped back into safety. Cyanwrath had brought him to ONE hit point.

[@XTerraUltima]

Guess it counts as a "low tier flex", but was a great feat for me. My character earned the respect of a female drow, and changed the party's perspective of the culture of Drow.

[@kitemaywilder1792]

a rogue i played alongside snuck into an orphanage and left them stuff like food/cloths/money/materials to repair the place took many trips, when he was done i asked why bother sneaking and he replied "too embarrassing to donate face to face" nicest rogue i ever met ^^ in case you ever do a wholesome D&D stories vid

[@garfjaconsen1161]

I always just used the cheap way out and used a Phoenix down on the ghost train...

[@xw0lfpack91x]

So one of my best Flex moments came from an old 3.5 screw around campaign. I was running a half elf-half fire elemental home brew Ranger variant. The flavor of the character was that he was the soul surviving member of a Druidic coven and was more specifically the only surviving heir of the arch Druid, what’s set him apart from other Rangers was his spell list being a hybrid of the druid spells and fire evocation magic and he gained full Bab in exchange for A severe handicap against ice magic and cold environments as well as a druids armor/weapon restrictions (no metal only natural materials). The campaign was basically a one shot through the first act of Diablo 3 with a few modifications, being both nobility and a skilled combatant at the beginning as party formation is being handled DM had me start as Acting captain of the guard. I was on the balcony of the tavern having a drink as our Paladin was being introduced. Dice were rolled and as a random encounter the DM describe how a small legion of undead had breached the front gate, in typical lawful stupid paladin form the idiot charged dick first into a swarm of about 20 undead and goes down first round of combat. I asked the DM if I can intervene even though I am not supposed to be introduced until last, he says please do. So I tried to use create bonfire to make a wall of fire around the paladin and refugees to force the undead disengage and push them back out the gates. Triple nat 20. DM describes how my character basically sat down his ale mug, snapped his fingers, and disintegrated the entire undead horde to Ash Roy Mustang style. Then just calmly picked up his mug took a drink and walked back in the tavern like nothing had happened. Best introduction ever.

[@viothesheikah1018]

The luchador character busting out Sabin's moves on the gnolls, sweet reference!

[@ronaldfriesiii7923]

So, a pretty simple flex I'd say, but one that still reigns in my campaign. I was a Bear Totem Sea Elf Barbarian and was around lv 6 I think. If not directly at 6, then really close to it. My party consisted of a Light Domain Ferbolg Cleric, a Sword College Half Elf Bard and a Hexblade Tiefling Warlock. Our Cleric managed to get ahold of their first diamond to cast Revifify and wanted it crushed down into diamond dust, but no one was strong enough or had Jewelers tools, so everyone started asking me to break it with my hands, so I agreed. I took it into my hand, a relatively small diamond(about an inch and a half wide) and I raged. I then had the party punch me to do minimum damage to keep me raging and I rolled a strength check to crush it. First roll, with all modifiers added( +6 in strength from Stone Giant Belt) and rolled a 22, so my DM said some small cracks started to form. I kept going; rolled a 25, the DM said there were massive fractures in it; last roll, Nat 20 for a total of 26, and the Diamonds cracked in my hands and were ground into a fine powder. Some notable NPCs in the campaign and random people, guards and others stood around as this was happening and bore witness to my feat; the crowd, players and myself were shocked

[@SteveSilverskull]

the best flex is pulling out a unique ability or spell thats almost never used, and using it perfectly in the right moment. beating a puzzle or tricky enemy by casting tensers floating disc, or purify food and drink, or phantasmal force at the perfect time always feels awesome

[@MikhoffeeTime]

I have a player with insane luck. In an old campaing he was playing an evocation high elf wizard named Olwen, fighting for his teacher in a revolution to separate his country from a slaver nation, but far from a frightful one he was a front liner and he NEVER died. I knocked him unconsious more than once, but he NEVER died. You know, nat 20s in death saves, other party members curing him. Long story short, very into the campain, the plot developed and the slavers had made a deal with Tiamat to bring her back if she helped them so the final confrontation was her. However to get to her they needed to go on a dungeon crawl with various tests. One room had clones of their old enemies, but buffed, since I am a fan of shades of grey instead of good vs evil, those clones explained their reasons and they could engage them in battle or help them rest and avoid the combat. One of those was the captain of a ship that was the warlock a tiamat that betrayed them, and the whole party hated them for the betrayal even if he had his motives, so they engaged. It was a formidable enemy, actually far stronger than I anticipated doing serious damage to the party to the point Olwen was very close to fall unconsious, but this enemy warlock too. Knowing this, the npc sorrounded him in a wall of force buble in an attempt to leave everyone else out and at least kill Olwen before going away. When I do this, Olwen's player smiles. "You think you trapped me with you? You are trapped here with me." Fireball at 8th level inside the wall of force bubble, and since he's an evocation wizard he avoided all damage. From then on, that asshole of a player has a tendency to provoke me texting me EZ after each boss they kill.

[@stevekarns8416]

Paladin on seahorse: THE CRUSADE KNOWS NO BOUNDS

[@Banchoking]

I was a Lore Bard rescuing my team who had been captured by Amazons. These were some tough ass warriors so I had to play it smart. I lured them into chasing me and when the crowd got into a hut I'd run through they started falling from the ball bearings and oil I'd put down. While they were struggling to get up I used Prestidigitation to make a small fire on my fingertip, threatening to ignite the oil if they didn't give me the keys to my party's shackles. Later, while releasing my friends, they asked where the Amazons were. I told them that they were a bit preoccupied. I promised not to light the Amazons on fire. I said nothing of casting Evard's Black Tentacles.

[@jeremyschoenecker3797]

My first 5E character was an Eldritch Knight, and was able to pick up a set of adamantine full plate armor after making a significant business deal with a blacksmith in Neverwinter. My fighter, normally a paragon of stoicism, was as giddy as a schoolgirl to have is very own set of full plate. The next expedition the party went on, we ran into a group of highwaymen that tried to extort some toll money out of us to cross a river. My fighter, being the leader of the group and only front line fighter, walked ahead of the party to negotiate. After a few terrible rolls (two rolls below 5 if I recall) initiative was called, and the bandits went first. The leader and four other bandits all loosed arrows at my fighter. Due to his brand-spanking-new full plate armor, none of the arrows hit. My fighter looked at the broken shafts around him and began a slowly escalating laugh of triumph. The DM gave me a free intimidate check for the role-play, and all of the bandits collectively crapped their puny leather armor.

[@samus20018]

Gotta always suplex the phantom train as sabin than immediatly use a phoenix down on it. One of the few bosses you can actually OHKO with an item.

[@SeanClaudeVanQuam]

Also, "daolock" is a warlock with the genie patron, specifically a dao. They get resistance to bludgeoning damage, do additional bludgeoning damage 1/turn and a few other fun things like being able to pull off the "cheese grater" strat all by themselves because they get spike growth while they can take repelling blast and grasp of hadar invocations as well as crusher and telekinetic feats for a lot of forced movement through that spike growth.

[@robertgangluff234]

I was playing my first session with my family as a wizard and we decided to go contact some dwarves at an excavation site. (Dragon of Icespire Peak) We began fighting some ochre jellies and I used ray of frost (a cantrip). Unbeknownst to me, they only had a movement speed of 10 feet. As a result I was able to half the number of opponents we faced by immobilizing one of them.

[@funnyblog100]

I nearly killed the boss in one shot. Our GM wasn’t expecting this. My character is a college of whispers bard and the gm let us start with a feat and I picked sharpshooter. This means a bolt fired from my crossbow has a ton of burst damage packed into it. Most of my characters damage can comes from one attack.

[@eugenecaudill5361]

In one campaign I caught my DM entirely off guard. It has been a while, and was with a different group than the one I play with now. So, I can’t give an in depth breakdown of the party make up. I, though, was playing a Dwarf Rogue. We were ambushed by Elvish guards that were protecting a city we were headed for. The party was level three so we didn’t have much to deal with this, and our DM as far as I can tell pretty much expected us to be captured and imprisoned until we could receive an audience with the cities leader. I immediately went to hide, and the party wasn’t favoring very well against the ambush. I don’t think me being there would have changed much. I approached a large pond next to the road, and stealthed into the water slowly to avoid making noise. I’d grabbed a bamboo stalk, and used it to breath as I made my way parallel to the guard’s captain. Once I got to the position I wanted, I fashioned a lasso out of my fifty feet of rope, lassoed the captain, used my bonus action to dash and clear the distance over rough terrain, and the guards who were looking for me didn’t have time to react because of the aforementioned sleuthing. I drew my long sword, and held it on the bound captain. Upon doing so one of the guards grabbed one of my incapacitated allies and fled to hiding. I then ordered the remaining guards to have my ally returned, and to allow us to enter the city free of binds, or I was intent on slaying their captain (who we later found out was the sister of the cities leader). The DM, impressed, allowed us to enter the city unbound and immediately set us up with the meeting. She also said, though killing a character wouldn’t technically roll the way I was attempting to play it out, she would allow it for the creative lengths I went through to navigate the interaction we weren’t supposed to be able to overcome. The party wasn’t a fan of being abandoned, but the players thought it was pretty legit lol.

[@phyrexiancoffee6324]

As Therai The Wise, a Tiefling Evocation Warlock, my party was attempting to escape from a Bandit camp that imprisoned us during a recon mission. This occurred at 3rd level. After forcing us to fight in the pits, we managed to escape our bonds and make a mad dash for the gate. After recovering our gear and freeing the other prisoners, we were almost to the gate when we heard a small platoon of bandits approaching the gate from the right. Therai looked to the group, told them to take care of Arishnadoriando (the Half-Orc he took to raising from the time he was 6, who was played by my best friend. He had a 5 in INT, it was great), and ran around the corner casting Burning Hands at 2nd level. 4d6, rolled for FULL DAMAGE. In this 15 ft cone, due to the amazing damage role, the DM stated that the flames trampled over the whole small platoon of 10 bandits, killing all of them. What was meant as a self sacrifice to ensure the safety of his friends and the Half-Orc he saw as a son turned into a dominant show of force that allowed the whole group to escape relatively unscathed. While our playgroup has long since disbanded, my best friend and I spread the story of that moment to all our new playgroups, and he even allowed me to bring back Therai in one of our current games.

[@kai5481]

HOLD EVERYTHING MR RIPPER UPLOADED

[@spartanhawk7637]

The barbarian of our first campaign as a table killed the first boss single handed. For clarity, he had health regeneration abilities amounting to him healing roughly 20 hp a turn or around half his health. Point of the boss was to scare us off. Then the Barbarian proceeded to land two consecutive critical hits on the boss's only vulnerable point, his eyes. Max damage both times. 26 HP twice with critical damage on top. Yeah the DM gave him the win, took like five minutes to decompress. Became a running gag that the barbarian was just impossible to defeat at low levels as he was a perfectly normal human who slaughtered a demon so fast that it couldn't move.

[@TheRealBingus]

I believe that we were level 3 in my brother's homebrew, 5e-based campaign. I was playing a Half-Elf, Half-Dwarf Ranger named Paelias, who took the "Horizon Walker" Archetype from Xanathar's Guide. This meant that not only did I have Hunter's Mark, but I also had "Horizon Walker". Horizon Walker, for those who aren't familiar, is basically just a stronger Hunter's Mark that takes an action rather than a bonus action and turns your damage into Force damage. So, with my handaxe, I was dealing 1d6(ax)+1d6(HM)+1d8(HW)+2 each time I got a hit. The other thing is that my brother is really good about making it seem that your character isn't just being stupid when you roll low. Get a Nat 1 against a Kobold? Your sword was going to kill the Kobold but before the blade could slice its head clean off, it ducked like the coward it is. Get a Nat 1 on your acrobatics check? Your character performed flawlessly until a rope was out of place and your foot got caught, causing you to fall on your face. Anyway, I was the only one landing hits on this Homebrew creature (akin to a bear with resistance to any melee that wasn't slashing) until the final round. My brother explained each miss on my siblings' part as "Right as your blade was about to strike true Paelias' handaxe, with a glowing golden streak, ripped a massive chunk out of the creature's side, your blade meeting air not a moment later." This happened each round for both of the other players in the party until the final round in which the bard was able to cut its head in half and kill it. In this one encounter, I was able to deal a total of 56 damage across three or four rounds. TL;DR My Level 3 Horizon Walker Ranger nearly killed a party-killing beast, dealing 56 damage on his own until our bard finally got a hit in and killed it before I could.

[@RioDrake]

I guess this is technically low-tier for Mutants & Masterminds (Power Level 8 so characters are supposed to be mostly skill-based with a power or two). Our GM had said there was no way to bring the dead back to life in their setting, which we were all cool with. He then proceeded to introduce aliens with technology so advanced they had weapons that HOUSED THE SOULS OF PREVIOUS WORTHY WIELDERS. My character would later ask them to bring a child back to life, hoping that if they would travel the galaxy, seed life on planets, and contain souls, they could clone the child from what little DNA he'd been able to scrape up (mostly hair and, unfortunately, a lot of blood). GM called my a cheeky jerk, said he loved it, and later on put me through some of the most anxiety inducing roleplay I have ever had and I loved it. Best GM I have ever had and likely best I ever will have. In and out of character I kept this secret. Very fun reveal. :)

[@ryanhenderson225]

Around eight years ago we were playing the Jade Regent campaign for Pathfinder with some twists from the DM. I was playing a half elf ranger and a friend of mine was playing his half dragon half brother. Both of these guys were STACKED. Ripped even! As the Brasilians would say "bombadão." At level 3 they each had a 18 ish strength. So the first session of the game we get to a castle and it just so happens that the party goes to the basement first, where the "end of the dungeon impossible to lock pick" door puzzle was. It was set up like a portculus. Massive bars going into the ceiling and into the floor. Our rogue waa trying to pick the lock and the DM was trying to make obvious that we had to go through the rest of the dungeon without telling us. My buddy and I look at each other and then to the also buff Barbarian of the group before asking the DM if we could try bending the bars to get through. 2 nat 20's and an 18 later, the bars were all but destroyed and we were sneaking in for the reward loot and plot significant encounters having skipped the whole dungeon TLDR: buff half elf and half dragon half brothers skip the first session dungeon by breaking a door.

[@aidanrmacgregor7537]

Level six cleric. We felt that it was crucial to interrogate an enemy assassin, but her companions killed her as they ran. Soo.... Revivify. "Wha- what happened to me?" "You died. It didn't stick. Who's the BBEG?" ".... What if I don't tell you?" *Bluffing* (or deception for the zoomers) "We can do it again." We convinced her to pursue religion and gardening.

[@LarryJ2022]

On the first level my monk got stunning blow - or extra attack, whichever comes second. Walked into a group of 4 enemies. Each of them was stunned, and the fight ended pretty quickly with everyone having advantage. I was also a UA kobold, and at the end of the campaign my DM basically described my character as a "walking advantage factory."

[@saintsentry6945]

I once played a dwarf barbarian named Ornum Lufric. He was also a very loving character to his friends and he loved pastries (would do just about anything for them). However the second his friends were in danger he’d rage and go berserk. Onetime at an Inn we were approached by a strange man who told us he was being chased. We sheltered him but the armed guard after him broke in killed him. We then all got questioned by the guard and my party was trying hard to not break into battle with them as we’d become fugitives. Ornum was itching for a fight after they took his new friend and the second the guards asked for his weapon and tried taking it he screamed “NOBODY TOUCHES MY GREATAXE” nat 20 chopped the guy in half down the middle. We all became fugitives but it was a good damn fight lol.

[@DuckTDuckmaster]

I had an in-game fight with another player because he kicked a bowl of soup my character had ordered. This was session 1, i never pardoned that warlock and he earned the title "The soup Slayer" and "Destroyer of bowls".

[@TheFallenangelneo]

I choked on my coffee when I heard about the ghost train. Lol The nostalgia.

[@foroforo8]

I have a story, but I was actually the DM here. The party consists of a cleric and a paladin, trying to survive in the middle of an apocalypse scenario where gods use the material plane as a battlefield for their war. This means that rifts from each deity's realm open up at random intervals bringing forth their armies, or random creatures from their domain. In one such instance, a Goristro came through a rift that opened up about 150ft away from them. It was meant to just add to the atmosphere of danger lurking everywhere and how difficult survival will be. The cleric, a dwarf who has bigger balls than a fucking giant, starts taunting the Goristro into fighting the party instead of doing whatever it had planned. The Goristro, being a fiend, laughed at them and accepted their challenge as a a pleasant past-time. The party, was level 6. Through some lucky rolls, and great teamwork, they brought down the Goristro to about 100 or so HP, while they themselves were in the single digits. Now, I don't know how, but some God must have blessed the paladins dice, because he got two Nat20's in a row for his two attacks. He put smite on both of those crits, and -with great weapon master- dealt EXACTLY the remaining HP of this fiend, splitting it's head in half and bathing in the fiery black blood of the Goristro. They gained a level and we ended the session right there.

[@Gardiken]

TLDR: I got an inspiration for having morning wood We were playing Pathfinder, and had something very similar to inspiration called "fate chips." DM would hand them out for when we created moments in the game that were memorable through RP or combat, or a mixture of both. Other players also had to nominate and vote for that moment to worthy of earning the player a chip. If the vote was unanimous, you got one. We used them as a way to reroll any d20 roll, or you can cash them in for 100XP. You could have up to 3 at a time, and if you would earn a 4th, it's immediately traded for the 100 XP. Anyway, we were tasked with finding out what the source of goblin attacks on the town we were living in was. At some point we decided to camp on the outskirts of town to try and defend it when the next band was sent in to wreak havoc. My character was asleep, when the goblins showed up and ended up sleeping through the entire fight because the DM made me roll perception checks to see if I get woken up by the commotion. Being a bit upset that I missed out on the fun, I tried to think of some other way to have some fun. I then asked the other players to make perception checks of their own. Rogue: What? Why? Me: Just do it. Rogue: 17 Cleric: 16 Me: You both notice my morning wood. Whole table starts laughing and the DM actually made the nomination for the fate chip.

[@bojay2]

Just got done running my first campaign. A one player campaign that lasted a total of 42 hours. My player Krieg found himself at lvl 5 in a dungeon (along with his dmpc companion). And after smartly sneaking around he spotted a pack of 3 kobolds in a tucked away cove before they could see him. He gained there attention by throwing things at the entrance and then running. he kited the kobolds around a corner and then he used minor illusion to conceal himself and the dmpc against the wall recreating the rock wall in front of him. None of the kobolds figured it out. He returned to there potion of the cave and preceeded to lay down about 300 ball bearings on the ground and then covered them in oil, he then used another canister of oil to create a fuse line and then hid and waited for them to return. When they did return 2 of the 3 kobolds failed there save and slip all the way to the back of the 20 foot long "room" as soon as he heard then fall he revealed himself and shot his ring of scorching ray 1 at the oil and 2 at the remaining kobold. Killing all 3 in one shot. Hell of a thing

[@Kartoffelkamm]

Early on when I first played The Dark Eye, there were two NPCs arguing over something or another. Now, I play a warrior cleric belonging to the church of Boron, the God of Death in that world. He's also the God of dreams, memories, and sleep. And in TDE, clerics of Gods are considered their gateway into the mortal world, in a sense. As such, clerics are generally treated with a similar respect as their God. So, I walk up to those two NPCs, and, upon noticing my character and his belonging to the church of Boron, immediately shut up, until my character said something. It felt really great, because I just brought a heated argument to a halt, instantly, just by standing there.

[@discopotato4089]

Nobody asked you to do this video. We needed this video 💝

[@SeanClaudeVanQuam]

Decades ago, AD&D 2e and we're playing in Dragonlance and I'm a magic-user that hasn't passed the trials yet (basically a wizard from future editions before sorcerers and warlocks even existed, and the trials are something out of Dragonlance which should tell the experienced with this setting at that time that we were 2nd level) with some homebrew rules that did allow for unlimited cantrip use despite that not being a thing for many years to come. My character has a knight of solamnia as a best friend, and we're basically setting ourselves up to be the next Magius and Huma (legendary characters of the past in this setting). It's a large party and my character is darting around a battlefield where we're fighting a bunch of ogres, and I'm pinging the baddies with little bits of damage. After I do so, some ogre always comes to try to squish my squishy little mage, and he seemed to be in constant peril. The whole table is constantly asking me what the absolute hell I thought I was doing?! They kept saying I was going to die... ...but my knight friend was always there to intercept. This is probably a good time to mention that the DM was also using the called shot rules (full disclosure: I don't recommend using these in most games), and the knight would approach, make a called shot for the head/neck... and miraculously kept rolling 19s and 20s! He was decapitating an ogre per round with his greatsword as each came at me. Eventually I say in character while pointing at the knight, "I have complete faith in this man's abilities."

[@bradwolf07]

I have probably mentioned this on a Mr. Ripper video before but...Star Wars campaign. I had the only Wookie on the group. We were on my homeworld doing a mission to destroy a base. We managed to surprise the base's defenses. Another player and I do the stupid thing of jumping out of the ship onto the air support. I managed to land on the Y-Wing, hold on, rip open the hatch, and throw the pilot out. We managed to defeat the defenses, and destroy the base. When I landed the Y-Wing (next to our ship), I was already thinking up possibilities for what to do with the ship. What came after this still annoys me to this day, but I have forgiven the DM for it (it was his first time DMing, and he wasn't TRYING to upset me).

[@pulsefel9210]

minotaur: youll run out of spells before i run out of fists minotaur one spell later: so this is what the afterlife looks like

[@hen-ryebread714]

i happened to be the only melee martial class at the beginning of my campaign, a monk with a nice yklwa, and as we were walking down a creepy forest road, zombies leapt out and we had our first battle, consisting of my monk taking the first turn and evaporating a zombie with ease

[@JosephLobato475576229]

I've only played one session of D&D. My biggest flex from the one session was successful rolls on all checks and landing the killing blow on the first and only monster we encountered: a mimic.

[@CRYOKnox]

My current ones, Hinata Emeria Hinori, at that point a level 3 winged tiefling circle of wildfire druid. Flying around playing the bagpipes, like you do as a slight pyromaniac that just enjoys what she just does. A raider party attacked us by surprise and pierced her bagpipes. Her answer Scorching Ray on 3 of them on the ground, while flying in the air above them. Smiling jozfully before blasting all 3 of them, with 12 point of fire damage, two wizards, one fighter. The fighter barely survived with 1 HP left, but he catched fire, the wizards got blown to ashes. The rest of the raiders where a bit fearful afterwards. Thats whats happen if you pierce her bagpipes while she is enjoying her day. Turns into an orbital death ray. And a level 1 Drow Bard Ja'zia Li'arae (based on the idea of a priest of Elistrae) Mocking an unbeatable Boss (he was just the BBEG in the first encounter, showing up to undermine players morals and smash one character for powerplay) a blue halfdragon & actually doing 3 points of psychic damage to him because he failed his throws against vicious mockery. She probably told him his mother left with the milk man, as his father did and his sister too. Pulling the same stunt at the next encounter with a black halfdragon... In both cases she got beaten up hard but she snarked her way up under their scales she has now become some sort of nemesis to this folks, she also had this shitty idea of climbing up a ladder only to be discovered by a lot of enemies, mocking them for some damage and then backflipping down the same hole she just climbed out with the words "you will never forget the day you almost captured me" and landing with a 19 down on the floor beneath.

[@ohgodno]

10:09 somewhere. far, far away Panic Grimtongue sneezes

[@raccoonfederationceo3580]

Our party had been dispatched by the royal guard to deal with a nearby orc camp, I was playing a wood elf Ranger and decided to roll a survival check to see if there were any nearby animals that could help us. I rolled a nat 20, DM said that there were six brown bears nearby. One animal handling check later and I had an army of brown bears on my side.

[@MajorMystery]

First time player here playing in a steampunk mini campaign. My character is a one handed hobgoblin necromancer with the goal of finding a way to bring back his dead twin brother, but that's unimportant for this. The split personality warforged artificer in our party decided to challenge a tavern to a drinking contest because, as a warforged, he is unable to get drunk. This plan backfired as our DM decided to have the beer rust him on failed con saves. Anyway, the rest of the party joins in with an NPC dwarf. First few rounds the dwarf, warforged, and I all pass our con saves, tiefling paladin passes out almost immediately. Couple more rounds go by, I fail a con save so I have to start rolling with disadvantage. Barely managing to pass the saves I still pound down beer and everyone has bit the dust except the dwarf, warforged, and my character. All of us have failed a few saves a this point and anyone could pass out at any moment. Warforge drops first, short circuits and is unconcious before he hits the ground. That leaves me and the dwarf. Final roll, I rolled low on both rolls, and start to black out at the same time the dwarf falls out of his chair. Turns out we both failed the save but I barely beat his roll so I hit the ground a split second after he did, winning the bet

[@Lichsorrow]

Pretty simple, but it was my first time playing 4th Ed and my sis ran a small encounter for me to see how it plays. I was a Dragonborn (don't recall class) that was allowed wings at lvl1. Fighting a few Kobolds, killed one, damaged another then thought, "Can I grab this one, fly up into the air and launch it at the last Kobold?". Sure enough, grabbed it, fly straight up, yeeted him back at his friend and rolled to hit. Perfect strike. Killed them both on the spot. I might have done some cool things in actual campaigns rather than an introduction encounter, but this is sadly the only character instance I can remember after so long.

[@wschnabel1987]

Played a warforged monk in a one shot campaign with admantine armor build that was set in a star wars cross over. He took feats that allowed him to deflect blaster bolts and other projectiles with his bare hands and managed to make the bbeg of the game which was a sith hutt basically shat themselves to death from fear thinking he was facing a jedi master. He was actually a lawful neutral character too lol.

[@titanictnt7476]

In the early game in one of our campaigns, I was playing a Human Rouge/Fighter. We were on a train that was rigged with explosives, and we were trying to save some hostages (the hostages never got saved because the Hill Dwarf Barbarian threw one of the explosives to the back of the train, where the hostages were). I killed one of the 3 men fighting us, and I rolled for intimidation to sort of pacify the other guys. I forgot exactly what I rolled, but it was very high. The two guys were so terrified of my character that they jumped out of the train, killing themselves. That same character got a number of high intimidation rolls, but that was definitely one of the greatest.

[@notjfk2050]

One time, our party's druid tried to trip my bard after he made fun of her for being paranoid heading into a city. DM had me roll a dexterity saving throw. Beat the DC by a lot, total more than 20, and I described it being like a graceful dance avoiding her foot. Then the barbarian tried to trip me. Another huge 20+ dex save. This time, without missing a beat, I do a back flip to dodge his trip, and cast Prestidigitation to make confetti pop from my hands on the landing. I then asked, "Anyone else wanna try me?". They did not.

[@drakonnos]

First and only campaign that got off the ground, dnd 5e. 1st session, all level 1, Dwarven bard, halfling barbarian, half-elf rogue/thief, and me, human cleric. We annihilate a group of drow that ambushed us from a magic portal with magical darkness shrouding them. 2nd session we find ourselves deep in a mountain in drow territory and we're facing 7th level drow in full plate armor, when one of us, not me, decides to release the dire boar that was caged in the room we were discovered in. We then proceed to mop them up with help of said boar and let it run off into the beyond. Didn't get to finish the campaign but I had a feeling even higher level baddies were coming our way. We were I think 3rd or 4th level when the campaign just fizzled

[@jesternario]

The guy with the multiple BBEGs killed in one story, that was a clear 1 on the Henderson scale.

[@gingerjester2606]

My Paladin Caid in our second session touch parole custody of the warlock who had been arrested for breaking and entering/being defeated by a door and dwarf with a crossbow. Marched up to his cell and loudly declared we were going fishing, promptly gathered he rest of the party and got the session back on track, much to my GMs surprise all the while carrying the semi conscious warlock over my shoulder. That was the same session I rugby tackled a Lock Ness monster... Firbolg’s are fun

[@lilleg2830]

Don't know if you could consider a flex but. It was my first and only campaign I've played so far. It was ADnD, his name was Rasher a level 1 gnome rogue, but played more as a treasure hunter. I joined after the party played there first games. They found me in an abandoned farm house while I was looking for secrets and loot. It turns out the party was being chased by 2 mutant ponies and 4 of mutant crows. We barracaded the door waiting for our end, when I had the brilliant idea to set the house on fire as they broke and made there way into the house. Turns out these mutant creatures where able to paralyze you with a bite attack. While we are fighting the flames a spreading and they paralyzed a few of the party. I got 1 of the paralyzed party member out (16 strength). I was about to run back in to get the barbarian, but the house started to collapse trapping her. Eventually the house collapsed completely killing the monsters but also killing my friends barbarian. It was pretty epic if I must say. My first ever game and I killed a party member. I felt bad about but I turns out the party leader was going to set the house on fire on his turn. This was more of a low level flex, same campaign. We were about to head out to scout some old fortress taken over by goblins. We decided to stock up on supplies, as I always want to be prepared I bought oil for my hooded lantern. Half way to the fortress we ran into a patrol of goblins we decided to ambush them. I decided I wanted to be a menace to the dm after he told us not many of his player get to level 2. Especially after that very first encounter I had, I was not going to risk dying. So I made some homemade molotov cocktails with a flask of oil. I snuck up to the goblins lit the molotov nat 20. Landing and hitting 4 goblins setting them a blaze. My party a little down the road just saw a ball of flame appear out of nowhere and a little gnomish man standing in front of the flames. I later found out some lore about gnomes in ADnD, they oddly enough gnomes stole fire from a god. Making them the first race with fire. Sadly I didn't get to play him for long. I rolled a 1 with a bow shooting myself in the foot. I rolled max damage 6 and died. RIP Rasher Dintrick the Fire Menace.

[@Konpekikaminari]

Here is a fresh low-tier flex from my current SotDL game: We recently hit level 2 and my Rogue picked up magic- specifically time magic Now, we are fighting 2 giant, magically souped-up bears; I attack and miss, and decide to cast Retry: this is a time cantrip that let's me reroll, but potentially forces me to reroll again next turn I use the spell, get a crit, and fail my save against the 2nd reroll. Next round comes up, this time I hit, but am forced to reroll... into another crit Now- here's the cherry on top: SotDL doesn't have a standard crit system like D&D, it's a class feature. In rogues case they can only crit once per round, but if they do they get a 2nd turn!

[@VidelxSpopovich]

I have a few but I’ll settle for one from my current character. I’m playing a Shadow Monk in a game of Against The Reptile God in 5e. In short it’s an adventure where you attempt to save the town of Orlane from an evil cult. My character, after learning that we could identify cultists via Detect Magic took the party Wizard with his from building to building and we systematically rounded up every single cultist in town in about a day’s time and took them to the inn where they’re now being held prisoner until we can undo the brainwashing that made them cultists to begin with. Basically all the wizard did was cast Detect Magic while I hunted down the cultists. I even ended up taking down the entire City Watch alone when I caught them sleeping in their barracks. One by one I stealthed alongside their cots and knocked each of them unconscious before dragging them outside and tossing them into my wheelbarrow which I then used to get them to the inn. Meanwhile the rest of the party was just.. well they were at the Inn doing absolutely nothing.

[@bookwormx11]

My low level flex is talking a cult leader into turning himself in. Full Story The party had been tasked with investigating a town that seem responsible for as assassination attempt on the local representative of The Empire. Once we got there, we found people turning into fish people and other crazy stuff. We discovered this started when the local priest found a cursed harpoon, though people were already angry because a magic factory was posing the water, as this village mostly ate the fish from the local river. in the end, we went though the compound and found the priest. I went down in the fight and rolling death saves, got a nat twenty so I woke up, then roll successfully with Fire Bolt(I am a wizard) to blast the cursed harpoon out of his hands, then in an impassioned speech, I convinced the priest that he was only hurting his own people and while their grievance was legitimate, they did not have enough people to win this fight. He turned himself in, the town survived, the factory was shut down and he is now a returning NPC as we take down the empire. (now level 14). the best part is while I cannot remember exactly what I rolled in game, the DM does say I rolled a Nat. 20 in real life to convince him, as this was originally just going to be a normal D&D dungeon with a random bad guy at the end, as this was just a side quest.

[@zalianth15]

Earlier this week, we were running lost miens of Phandelver, and many of the players were new. In the first session we got to the goblin cave, and early in the next session, we had an encotner that resulted in the deahts of two characters- both of whom were of the three experienced players(one was me). Then, in the session after that(it was a three days straight of dnd), we got to the young green dragon and, sicne we had way too many people, the dm decided to not have it fly away when it got to half health. It instantly killed the third experienced player with its breath weapon and took the other two down to 1 hp in the first round of combat. We then spent several hours running around thundertree, with the paladin who was carrying all our healing potions acting as life support. THere was another character deahth, but after the fight was over, it felt epic since we'd coordinated our moves and all(something that nobody there had done before). Needless to say, it was the best dnd experience I've ever had(especially since it was in person, which I'd only done one before.

[@colecook834]

3.5 e. DM running a classic race war between elves and dwarves. My character is a desert elf that lost his home due to the war and relocated to the desert so had in game knowledge of their war tactics. When we were liberating a coastal city from Dwarven control. My wizard had made a staff of fireball just for fighting dwarves. Making there shield other feats completely detrimental to them. Was only suppose to face a single squad of 8. Ended having about 4 waves of reinforcements before the dm gave up. Also calculated a shore fight so well that it also had massive reinforcements that all ended in vain. DM later asked me jokingly if a small meteor landed on my character. Had a good laugh. My character was been gradually possessed by a vengeful spirit.

[@JacobL228]

A Daolock is a Genie Warlock that chose the earth-aligned Dao as their patron.

[@ShadowD.Joestar]

Played keep away in PvP as a Bard against a barbarian. The entire fight was me keeping up concentration on heat metal and running away as the barbarian was too stupid to drop his sword.

[@copyrightdragon7244]

Probably my favorite was when my halfling wizard helped free some war prisoners we'd taken (one of the players is a pirate captain; it's a v nautical campaign) by turning them over to the authorities, then using alter self to become a halfling girl that was one of the prisoners, go to the local bank and deposit the reward for their capture in the prisoner's name as bail money. My DM totally forgot that I had that spell and was sufficiently stunned to just let it happen.

[@MeyerLeah990]

For me it was during our party's first big fight, started by our monk rolling a nat 20 and landing right in the center of a gnoll camp after using his ring of jumping. Cue our fighter making a way to him by knocking down the pallisade around the camp, and me our bard hiding behind her to take potshots. The gnoll leader, a huge creature wearing intricate armor and wielding a large glaive approached us, stomping over its own minions to try and attack our fighter. It failed its first attack due to failing its contitution roll when I cast Heat Metal on it with a 3rd level spell slot. It tried to attack again, but was stunned by our monk's strike, taking the damage of me keeping my Heat Metal spell on it with a bonus action. I managed to kill it with a third damage roll from Heat Metal, cooking it in its own armor. And that's how I managed to kill the boss of a big fight without it even being able to get a hit in (of course with the help of our monk and our fighter who kept the other gnolls away from me).

[@PieaterProducts]

My 4ft tall Druid once hit a common skeleton with maxed out damage rolls with a Shillelagh-empowered Vicious Club in our 4th session. We flavored it that the skeleton evaporated from that strike. Later on in that same session, my Druid body-blocked a raging Minotaur in a tiny hallway. I kept it from skewering our Warlock, who kept taunting it until it died. Not much compared to the ones in the video, but I think they're neat.

[@NessaEllenesse]

My level 4 wizard. Dealt with a trap by dropping an acid flask on it. It was a harmless trap that one a failed didable device check, turned your hand red.

[@ZorokTheKobold]

This comes from the campaign I'm playing right now. So, I am a kobold and we were travelling in a forest. The night comes and all the party but me start sleeping, because as a kobold I slept during the day. The DM rolls on a random encounter table and with a smile that made him look like the BBEG announced that an owlbear appeared and we had to roll initiative. Now, we were a lvl 2 party. Of course the DM would have allowed the others to wake up, but I rolled the highest on initiative. So, I say:"I throw my rations to the owlbear so he will leave us!" Then proceeded to roll something around a 16. The DM, after thinking a little, said that it worked. So the next morning my kobold randomly said that while the others were asleep a hungry owlbear came, but no problem guys, nobody got harmed. 😎

[@roma540]

Ah, yes, Suplex Ghost Train. Someone's well educated!

[@poetgriot18]

Dunno if someone else explained it or not, but Daolock refers to a build centering around the genie patron warlock that utilizes the dao genie patron. Really great spell options and magical bludgeoning damage.

[@AlexKlindt]

Second level PCs. The party was entered into a 2 man combat tournament. Our party comp was a human summoner, lizardfolk druid, orc inventor, kitsune magus and myself playing a buffing-focused drow witch. We knew that the bouts would increase in difficulty as the tournament progresses so we decided to keep the magus and myself out of fights until the final round so we'd have all of our recourses. I'd buff the magus, he'd blow his all his spells on the boss until it died. Not the worst plan, right? Sure enough, we got to the final round versus a hammer-wielding gladiator; we approached as our team's representatives and rolled for initiative. The magus quickly approached the boss, only to botch his spellstrike attack. The boss's turn came around, he took a swing, crit and preceded to pummel the magus into the dirt in the first round of combat. I spent the next 10 or so rounds of combat throwing javelins at the boss while kiting (being a dark elf, I was pretty quick on my feet and the party saw fit to give me a magic item that upon activation increased my movement speed for a while) and taunting the boss in character (my character was sassy, arrogant and sardonic) until I'd finally whittled it down. The boss didn't touch me. I was awfully lucky that I had enough javelins stowed to last the entire fight. I held that over the party for awhile. Incredible.

[@ST0AT]

My level 2 Rogue double-Nat20'd a goblin warband leader, another Rogue, with his hand crossbow - much to the DM's dismay who he revealed, just a moment later, that he'd planned that one specific goblin to be the session's final boss. He later replaced the Goblin with a Bugbear... which really didn't do shit against us, or, rather, didn't have time to react to much of our shenanigans around him.

[@1Ring42]

We were about level 5 in our Icewind Dale game and my Goliath zealot Barbarian, Wundorag "Drunkenfist" Thunagora (who later got the nickname Bull Mammoth), had recently joined the party. We came across a duergar mind master along with a couple duergar slaves in torture armor. The DM tells me they are about 50 feet away, so just far enough that I couldn't close the distance and rage in the same turn. I ask if there are any 60 foot tall trees in the immediate vicinity. DM says yes. Drunkenfist rages and chops the tree down in one blow with a natural 20, before pushing it onto the master duergar, crushing him into pulp. Combined with the eloquence bard distracting the slaves with an Unseen servant and disguising himself as the master, we wiped the encounter without even rolling initiative. Of course then we freed the slaves from the torture armor.

[@gilliganallmighty3]

When I killed a primordial in the first session in Exlated, the GM rage quit. It was my first ever ttrpg session, and my friend helped build the character.

[@samanbouniady]

My “Tiefling” was dared as a bard to seduce something. She caressed a wall and made it blush because I got a 35 on a 19 roll for performance as I acted a little too, telling the wall how much it meant to me, holing up the tower. Freaked her out ic as a rising succubus gaining love powers instead of lust (Ferna Tiefling Lore Bard/Redemption Paladin).

[@kyriss12]

I have got to get the full story on that character campaign. She sounds interesting

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

Similar to the first story here, DM gave me a homebrew item and didn't anticipate where and how I would use it. Basically it was a goo that would change to another non-magical liquid. I roll and if I do good it works as I intended, bad and things go "part of your arm transforms too" bad. But, I was a plasmoid so that part wasn't so bad. 🤷 Anyway, after a few sessions of sitting on it, we walk into this room where the BBEG has stored his "collection of heroes." Basically stone statues of everyone who ever challenged him to combat in his castle and put up a fight. They had engravings saying how they met their end. Well one statue looked weirdly realistic and said "Petrification." It was apparently a jokey reference to a high level PC from a previous campaign but I didn't know that at the time. So I just go "hey, can I turn the goo into a solvent that can break down the outer layer of this? If this is the kind of petrification where it's just the outside I might be able to free this guy." Oops, I rolled well. Uh oh, the DM is now clutching his head because a level 20 DMPC has joined the party. 😅

[@kelseyschuchart4697]

Let me tell you about Rose. Started the campaign as a 3rd level half orc barbarian and the very first thing she did was tear down a building that was on fire. There were no sources of water and no one had any water based spells. She ran into the building, attacked the main support beam, and collapsed the building on top of her. She took 10 damage because she raged and made the DEX check. She then proceeded to talk down a group of assassins and a young dragon before going to bed.