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[@NoraMakesSounds]

Eternal Beast of illusion: "GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON I SHOULDN'T KILL YOU RIGHT NOW!" Me: "BECAUSE I LOVE YOU" Holy crap it worked

[@JonathanMandrake]

"Housekeeping" I can´t stop laughing!

[@Gamer88334]

This is why you should never keep your most valuable items in hotel rooms. Someone could just say “housekeeping” and steal your stuff without looking suspicious. Unless they aren’t dressed up as a housekeeper.

[@ДжексонДиринг]

Oxigater

[@BrianVaughnVA]

HOUSEEEE KEEEEPING!

[@nickpossum3607]

No no no, need more lemon pledge, no no no.

[@theofficerfactory2625]

Go away. Me sleepy.

[@ShandorDavies]

Thanks to the Glibness spell, some clever casting of Spider Climb and me (the DM) rolling a 1 for a Sense Motive check, my players managed to convince an Ettercap that they too were spiders. Bloody sorcerer ended up with a Bluff check in the 40s. They turned my combat encounter into a friendly dinner party in a web filled room with their new friend, Spider-Jeff.

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

Does that name have to do with the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

[@ShandorDavies]

@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor I completely forgot that character existed when I named him 🤣 Nah, Jeff was the go to name at our table when a DM needed to name a character that they weren't expecting to name 😊

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

@@ShandorDavies Ahhh. That makes sense.

[@joel5611]

So, let's set the scene. I am a Path of The Beast Barbarian, and I was given an amulet that allows me to swap positions with a creature that is at most 60 ft away, and I can see them. So I'm in a pit-fighting arena, and I'm fighting a Wizard, I immediately assume that they don't have much health, so I climb on the wall, jump off, and switch places with them, they begin to fall, I rage, and switch to my Mouth weapon, running towards him. He falls to the ground, and I jump on top of him, and using my grappler feat to restrain him and myself. He can no longer cast any somatic spells... which all of them are. So, it was basically six turns of my eating him alive as he screams in pain and tries to escape. We healed up, and had a rematch, this time he had the first attack, and he casts Scorching Ray, which I take the full hit of. I don't move, I stand my ground, but prepare an action to swap spots with him when he casts the spell again. He does, we switch places, and he casts the spell, rolls a critical, and kills himself... So now I'm sitting there with a cheese slice wondering why the Hell my DM gave me this thing.

[@aderader3920]

My character had a duel with a vampire and got impaled on his lance and taking a lot of damage because of that and I knew I had to do something about that so I said I pull the lance out of the ground behind me turn around and impale him as well. What I knew but didnt notice was that the lance was made out of wood so after a good enough strength check and attack roll I managed to impale him with his own lance that literally went through my whole body and he got restrained because it was technically a wooden stake. Never thought this maneuver would work but turned out to be one of the best moments!

[@zainiadnan2335]

The fourth wall breaking had me unguard, i thought it's going to be mere meta joke. Lol

[@RavingNutter]

Was playing through LMoP and we got to the part where we infiltrated the Redbrand hideout. I wanted to clear each room as easily as possible so I grabbed one of their red cloaks and boldly walked into each room with my party members right behind. When we were confronted, I would say that Karen from HR told us that there were some openings at this location so we transferred over. This worked for every...single...room. There wasn't a single fight where we didn't get surprise by convincing the bandits that Karen from HR sent us. DM decided that there had to have been a Karen who worked in the Redbrand's HR deparment.

[@duckmanduckman2982]

My buddy just did a similar thing. He was a racoon using disguise self and walked into a redbrand filled room. Convinced them all that they should get unionized.

[@superspicy8740]

@@duckmanduckman2982 did they Unionise?

[@phantomziestik4833]

Just finished this session and wanted to write it down while it’d fresh in my mind. Background: So, my group is doing a campaign in the realm of Shadowfell (still very new to DnD so not sure if some of the things have been homebrewed or not), a place full of undead creatures, friendly/unfriendly zombies, and the sort. The party consists of Ardak, a sentient set of armor (Paladin), Maximus, an elephant man (also Paladin), Shep, a human (supposedly) (Artificer), Ren N Stimpy, a kobold with a huge cat pet (Ranger druid), and lastly, my character, Pet, my female, high elf ROGUE (you’re welcome Dave) that due to backstory reasons, has the mental state of a child, speaking in broken English (Common? Whatever language this campaign uses). We were traveling to a base in a ravine to meet with a man named Varian Dredge, who had knowledge of a way for us to get back to the material plane. We set up camp just outside the ravine as we had been traveling all day. During the 2nd watch, we began to hear deep rumblings coming from the ravine. Ren, the kobold, decided to send his owl familiar out to scout it out. What the owl found was a titanic mass of bodies stitched together into some horrific amalgamation… this thing was walking straight towards where the party was camped out, though it was moving so slowly, the DM said it would take several hours to get to the party. 3rd watch comes around and Pet wakes up and is told of the monster making its way to the party by Ren. Curious as to what freaked the kobold out so much, Pet decides to scout the monster herself. When she finds it, it terrifies her. Having the mind of a child and all, seeing something like this is like a nightmare come to life. She decides to make a hasty retreat towards the party. Dm: “Pet, Make an Acrobatics check”. Ah crap… I roll, get a 15. Fairly good. Pet sees a shadowy mass fly towards her, and she dodges out of the way. Turning around, she is now face to face with a Gloamwing, a massive, bat-like creature (CR 8). In my mind, I’m figuring this is my DM’s way of punishing me for going off on my own. From what I had heard, the party had already been wrecked by one of these things before I arrived in the campaign, though Pet didn’t know this. What she did know is that she had seem people flying on the backs of these creatures. Now, one of my character’s personality traits is “I would rather make a new friend than a new enemy.” So, I lean into it and say I want to try to do the Hiccup/Toothless hand thing to try and calm the creature. My original plan was to use my +10 in Persuasion to get by, but my DM (rightfully so) pointed out that it should be an animal handling check. Note, I have no modifiers in animal handling so whatever I rolled is what I had to go with. I say, “F it” and roll. *Nat 20* The discord call cheers, and the DM falls silent for a moment. After thinking for a little he describes the following… “As you approach the creature, it snarls and growls at you, however, perhaps by the innocent way you are approaching it, it seems to calm. You reach it’s face, fangs protruding from its mouth, and lay your hand on it.” I’m sitting there thinking “There’s no way that just happened.”, when the DM continues… “Suddenly, you feel something wrap around your leg as you are hoisted up into the air.” Now I’m thinking that I’m going to have to roll a new character sheet, to the point I even opened up another DnD beyond tab to begin anew. However, The DM continued. “Gloamwing, holding you in it’s claw, approaches the titanic amalgamation. As you get closer, you see there are spaces in the flesh where gloamwings are going in and coming out of. The creature speeds up and pulls you in as you enter one of these crevices. Immediately upon landing, it begins covering you with gore and viscera.” I assumed it was an attempt to hide the fact that I was a living thing and not just another corpse. Upon looking around, it was evident this monster was not just a creature, but a living fortress… and someone was walking down some stone stairs nearby. It was an undead man with a clipboard. Undead: “Ah, are you this gloamwing’s new Spector? Pet, not knowing what the hell was going on, just shrugs. Undead: “Oh, you must be one of the experiments that required the removal of your vocal cords, I see, I see. Well, that’s no problem. Are you ready to bind yourself to this gloamwing?” Pet nodded with a mixture of curiosity and confusion. Undead: “Fantastic! All you need to do is take this dagger, place your hand in the beast’s head, and stab it through your hand. Simple right? Pet shrugs. Undead.: Oh, and you must recite the incantation, (some random bs the dm made up on the spot). Now I’m thinking, there’s no way I can repeat what he just said. It sounded like a bunch of random crap strung together. I was even sure the DM could not repeat it! Then it dawned on me. This Undead with the clipboard just found out that Pet “can’t speak”, why would he ask her to say the incantation? So, I have Pet point to her mouth and give a shrug to the guy. Undead: Oh, right, how silly of me! Sorry, I haven’t really been all there since the big man took half my brain. I’ll say the incantation for you. Not to worry. Are you ready? Pet nods hesitantly, knowing this would probably hurt like hell. The undead does a countdown and Pet stabs the gloamwing’s head through her hand, their blood melding together as the Undead with the clipboard said the incantation. After a few seconds, the wounds on the pair healed entirely. The Undead man gives Pet a helmet and a crazy looking scythe and f’s off. Needless to say, Pet took the opportunity to climb on the gloamwing and fly away. Apparently, the way these Gloamwing riders control their mounts is via telepathic link, Avatar style. I fly back towards the party to warn them and deliver the information I had just gathered. Not realizing she was still wearing the helmet; Pet landed in the camp and royally freaked the party out. After a quick communication barrier was broken, she removed her helmet and showed “Pet was Pet!” According to the DM, the helmet is a “NIghtVeil Specter Helm”, which gives Dark vision Up to !20 Feet and changes voice to sound like a specter when unattuned, however once you are attuned, it makes the wearer appear as a specter to all who see you even with true sight. it also allows telepathic communication within 60ft. The Scythe is a “NightVeil Specter Scythe”. It requires attunement, does 2d6 slashing damage + 3d8 Psychic damage. My Gloamwing’s name is “Big Bat” (BB for short) and I love him. TL;DR: The innocent, child of the party, “How to train you Dragon”ed a monstrous, flying bat creature, Avatar style mind melded with it, and was given powerful magical weapon and helmet. :D

[@tabithachastain6999]

The most unbelievable thing about the last story was the police being helpful

[@stephenstonge7968]

LOL says the one with the gold star. Way to rip on the city fuzz, sheriff. 🤣

[@BrothaJdogg]

This happened in our most recent session: Long story short, we were attending a party for Feast of the Moon (basically Dio de los Muertos in D&D) hosted by the de-facto leader of a spy organization we were working with (Remalia). The party ended up getting crashed by two of the hosts' exes, who immediately started squaring up on each other and setting the tone for a full on brawl to break out. Now, at this point everyone in the party was familiar with both of these individuals and their relationship to Remalia: one of them (Davil) was now the leader of a rival thieves guild that the whole party agreed was an absolute a**hole, the other (Jarlaxle) a rogue prince who recently helped us by giving us safe haven after a dragon attack in another city. Everyone, that is, except our chaotic Eladrin sorceress who was just meeting Davil for the first time and was learning about their relationship with Remalia in real-time. And so with the two exes now squaring up like two angry bro-douches at a frat party, she chimes in: Sorceress: I would like to cast suggestion on Davil and tell him to kiss Jarlaxle The DM rolls his saving throw while everyone else at the table is laughing and/or arguing with each other about how awesome/horrible this is going to go. I'm sitting directly to his right and notice him gasp and start to muffle his laughter as he pulls me over the screen to see the dice: NAT. F**KING. ONE!!!!! The DM looks to our sorceress and says: "We're not in combat...yet...but how do you wanna do this?" The part that made it even better: Our other sorcerer, who'd "been experiencing the side effects of our recent time travel" (translation: was high AF) had just before cast dancing lights for no apparent reason, making for the most "romantic" prom-night kiss between two angry dude-bros of all time.

[@jonathansteppig4116]

I had a combat for my players in a ruined ballroom with chandeliers and old automatons playing broken music. It was just some goblins in there, but the party decided to, instead of fight them, use magic to dim the lights and challenge them to a dance battle. Several checks for various dance moves later, the goblins walk out of the room, defeated.

[@ericb3157]

i just remembered a silly story: a D&D group was playing a silly campaign they later called the "monty haul" campaign because the GM was WAY too generous with treasure. the final straw was when they sneaked into a giant's lair and stole 1000,000,000,000,000 gold! and how did they carry all that? in their backpacks of course! they changed to a different GM after that.

[@markhammett6676]

You guys will love this, so as a regular DM of 5e I've taken to giving my players homebrew items that match what kind of character they're playing, one of our regular players (A Wild Magic Sorcerer) loved the chaos ensued with his Nat 1s and I decided to give him a "Magical Icosahedron or D20" with it one of 20 things might happen,upon landing on the a number the effect would happen and the number would disappear. I had a number of random things listed such as, "a bag of holding appears" or "nothing happens.." but then later he'd receive a letter of inheritance, the nat 19 would land him a level up and a nat 2 a level down and exhaustion. However a nat 1 would summon an Adult Red Dracolich. So after using the magic die for several sessions he FINALLY lands the 1. (I being a fair DM didnt actually expect them to attempt combat with and wanted to see how they'd react, I even put a "weakness" on it as an orb in its chest if anyone wanted to make perception or insight checks for that sort of thing but no one did) One player drank a portion of flying and DIPPED the other 2, in shock forgot entirely about their rings of invisibility. Well my Wild Sorcerer thought it may be a great idea to try and perhaps persuade the dragon with the spell "Suggestion" and I laughed at the idea knowing he's "Magic resistant" and would roll at advantage. But proceeded to let the player roll. NAT 20 as the table goes wild. My first thought was okay maybe dispite the dragon has like +17 and advantage, maybe I'll make the DC for the dragon really high since it was a nat 20. Well I tell advantage and Boom. To my utter dismay and the strength of the dice gods themselves I roll TWO Nat 1s... he then suggested the dacolich to " go somewhere else please" 😂 that's how the level 5 party defeated one of the most powerful creatures in my campaign without any actual combat haha

[@YAH93]

My party once wanted to open a heavy metal door, but pushing like crazy was not working. Even for our Barbarian with a Dirty20. So I was asking my DM to look for an alternative, and I had to make an Int check. 22 (19+3 Intmod). So I said to our monk to grab the lance we found earlier, put that under the door and used it as a lever to lever out the door. And it worked.

[@repetitiveDebug]

One time, we were in a boss fight, and there were marble statues of reared-up horses, so I calculated the melting point of marble, and figured out firebolt should burn hot enough. The thin leg of the horse melted and it did like 80 damage to the boss, sending it straight into the next phase

[@josiaharaki7310]

This past week I had one. My character is a Level 4 warlock in a small campaign of just 3 players and our DM. Due to this, some of the earlier encounters were likely scaled to be easier. We were sent to investigate a mine that had been taken over by a cult we believed to have been involved in a robbery/terrorist attack in our hometown. As we approached the mine, we saw a group of 5 soldiers and one bigger guy in front of it. As I had Mask of many faces, a high deception skill, and a uniform I'd stripped off one of the enemies we'd fought earlier that day, I decided to try and talk our way in. My party members didn't want to be seen, so I went alone. I rolled super high on persuasion, but due to flubbing a performance roll, they realized I was an imposter and attacked. I'd held my reaction while talking to them to cast Darkness on my staff. I have an AC of 17, so it's pretty hard to hit me at disadvantage, especially in the early game. However, when my action came up again, I cast Mirror Image, creating 3 duplicates with 15AC each. They all constantly either missed me or targeted an image that still beat their attack roll at disadvantage. It became a 7 round Yankety Sax routine where all 5 would miss their ranged attacks, then their leader, a wereboar would run in and out of the darkness, constantly taking damage from my booming blade castings (I somehow forgot to take opportunity attacks during all but the first time he did so...) What I THOUGHT would happen was that my party members could go around and take out the halfling member of the enemies as our party halfling decided she wanted him as her boyfriend. Instead they both ran away. Eventually they came back and realized the enemies had, like, 5 HP and butchered them all. Then... We killed were-boar guy who may have been important...

[@rosiewelham426]

200 miles in 24 hours = 8.3mph. If anyone cares.

[@StortebeckerSF]

I did the math too, and it would be doable with those conditions quite easily

[@BrianVaughnVA]

I'm terrible at math, so thank you Rosie!

[@tyrannuslapis5107]

Just googled it. Apparently thats about the average cruise speed for a sailboat.

[@md123180]

I like making characters with some severe flaws. So, I was playing a CE rogue that liked to stir things up when he got bored. Well, the party was deep in an investigation he didn't care about with some townsfolk, so he went walking around. Mind you, this is all happening via notes passed between the DM and I so the party wouldn't know. Well, he eventually saw a squirrel running through the town, and quickly set to capturing it. As soon as he got the squirrel in his hands, he doused it in oil, lit it on fire, and threw it onto the straw roof of a nearby group of homes, then walked away gleefully and quickly. He casually walked back near the group as they noticed the burning houses and screaming townsfolk, and nobody was the wiser until after we left the table and the DM *had* to tell the rest of them because he was impressed and horrified at the same time. The look on the DM's face when he got the note to set a flaming squirrel running across straw rooftops was one of true horror. I now use that scenario to describe how CE characters can act.

[@static4028]

Picture this; we’re in an underground library, and a there’s a beholder approaching the room we’re in. I wildshape into a scarab beetle to blend in, the barbarian hides under a tapestry, and the cleric runs out of the room. The wizard is left to hide under the table, which quite obviously doesn’t work. The beholder sees him easily, and they converse to stall time. The wizard goes “hey, if you look on that wall over there you can find one of my friends” (pointing to me as a scarab), and the second the beholder turns around, he slaps it with a disintegrate, and because he’s a divination wizard who rolled a nat 20 for his portent, he slaps that on there as well for a little extra oomph. Long story short, the beholder was no longer a beholder, and instead became a pile of dust on the floor.

[@stephenstonge7968]

"Holy shit, it worked!" Last words before you kill him for literally aiming a beholder at him.

[@SuperTux20]

3:40 Replacing your shredded nipple with a gem actually sounds kinda badass

[@Xarestrill]

I had a player back in a AD&D 2e game who played a wild mage with a variation of the wand of wonder. The party was exploring a dungeon/cave system inhabited by a bunch of different types of monsters. They'd found a secret passage that came out into the Goblin Chieftain's throne room. The mage was in the lead, and naturally never thought to crack the door and peek out, instead he just strode out into the room. The Chief, his elite guards, and several regular goblins were surprised by the mages sudden appearance giving his a surprise round to act. Instead of doing something sensible like fleeing, he pulls out his wand of wonder, points it at the chieftain and activates it. Amazingly he rolled "ring of the ram at max charges" effect and maxing the damage roll, hitting the goblin chieftain with enough force to knock a hole in a wall and spraying his bloody remains over all the other goblins. He then pointed the wand in the general direction of the remaining goblins and demanded (in goblin) to bow to their new chief (him) or join their old chief in death. After a moment of stunned silence all the goblins accepted him as their new chief.

[@rvpairofdicethewanderer2383]

In a D&D Session, me and my Party had encountered a small army for us to fight. Since we were in a sandy area, I used a Wind Fan to blow a sand cloud into the army and our Sorcerer used Minor Illusion to make a beast roar in the center of the cloud enveloping the army. The army then screamed and shot every projectile at each other trying to hit this "creature". It ended up having the army weakened and their bows and cannons unloaded so it ended up a one-sided fight.

[@omegasight]

Can't believe it worked: Werewolf the Apocalypse game. We came to a hallway entrance (under stealth), and saw 4 guards with machine guns. Long narrow space, 4 fully automatic weapons, not a good situation. My character could use create element, and our DM allowed me to spend successes (D10, multi-dice-throw system) to modify what I created. I threw 8 successes, so I told him that I created 4 cubic feet of fire, spent 3 successes to split it into 4 pieces, and spent the last success to compress the fire and heat into the size and shape of the guards' machine gun's magazines. My party was shocked as I turned as miserable situation into "hehe, guards go BOOM" situation.

[@o.d.d.792]

3:01 sounds like cami cat should make a song about this now

[@BrianVaughnVA]

Cami please.

[@caliallie]

I have a good one that just happened recently. As context, the party is a mix of levels 6 and 7 and the DM had been leaving hints that there is a very real threat of encountering a Kraken in the area of the ocean we are sailing in. Through a series of events, we end up stealing a chest of gold from a boat the Kraken wrecks and escaping unnoticed. One session later, we are ambushed by a pair of Kraken priests asking for the most valuable item from each party member in retribution for slighting their master. Most of the party complies, two do not. We also roll badly for avoiding the Kraken for the rest of our journey. Our session ends with the Kraken appearing and rolling for initiative. Luckily the Kraken rolls low and most of the party should get a turn before it gets one. As you might expect, the party spends the week coming up with a variety of plans to try to escape, since we are pitifully under-leveled to fight this beast. We start the next session with the warlock (one of the party members who kept their most valuable item) up first in the initiative. She agonizes over what to do with her turn and the party ends up convincing her to cast polymorph on the Kraken. We worked out that the Kraken would have to roll a 1 or 2 in order for this to work and the DM rolls. Nat 1. Needless to say, the discord chat exploded (it's an online game). And that's how a level 6/7 party turned a CR23 Kraken into a duck on their first turn and escaped scot-free. The best part though? This is a game of randos from an LFG on Roll20 with a great GM and a fantastic group of players.

[@stephenstonge7968]

Did you turn the kraken over afterwards, or was it the only one not quacking up?

[@maxwell4508]

I do not have dnd. But I made a homebrew character that someone can use if they so please. It's a neutral being that will only aggro on characters who consume,destroy, or corrupts souls. It's a simple necromancer/reaper that can use a status attack called "black harvest" that can actually boost his stats depending on how many characters the enemy has killed. +*insert reasonable number here* to all stats except hp per kill from the attacked Ex, if your character killed 10 characters before getting into a fight with it, and +1 is chosen as the number. when it hits said character with the dark harvest, the reaper will gain +10 to all stats except hp. While it will never join the party, the dm can put it in a fight with another being who drew its attention, and the party can assist the reaper in his fight to obtain whatever loot is dropped by whatever the reaper was fighting.

[@darkwarriorprogram6546]

7:16 He never saw it coming! (Anyone who gets the reference to the inspiration is awesome)

[@authorwastaken]

I, a water Genasi monk/druid with boots of flying, raced ahead of my group in an attempt to save someone else's mom from the villain. I was up against 5 or 6 guys (can't remember the exact amount) and flew in, announcing myself by screaming, "Don't hurt my friends!" This was in a sewer, so I then dove into into the water and began flying, swimming and running around. Eventually I did get her back, but immediately after I had to do a contested athletics check against the main guy, and we both ruined 1s. I won with a +5, and I kept flying. The last thing that almost stopped me was a mage who cast Web. However, being a monk, I was absolutely fine and was able to make it back. Definitely took some damage, but that is now one of the campaign's most memorable moments.

[@archellothewolf2083]

Ok, so this JUST happened a few hours ago as of the posting of this video. Sorry for the long post, TLDR: We destroyed 3 bosses and their entire bandit camp when we realistically shouldn't have. And we did it by breaking the 2nd most important rule of D&D: Never Split the Party. My party consists of 2 fighters, A Warlock, and 2 Rogues. I'm one of the rogues, multi-classing Mastermind with Divine Sorcerer as our support/healing. We're level 5 doing some bounty hunting work and our current goal is to hunt down 3 dangerous criminals, a massive shield warrior, an expert sniper, and a necromancer, and bring them in dead or alive. Bonus if we cash in all three bounties at once. Last week we manage to convince the bandits to let us join them as a means to get closer to our targets. Our GM had anticipated us spending a few weeks finding means to isolate our targets and take them out one by one, which is our usual MO. While we do end up muder-hoboing every once in a while, we're a party that tends to enjoy tactics and subterfuge more, and our GM had several weeks of RP and trying to force moral dilemmas and etc. He even had the boss fight set up so that if the bosses were near each other they had a bunch of bonuses to discourage us from fighting them all at once. As you can imagine, that's not how things turned out. While the bandit camp settled for dinner our other rogue decided to scout out the Main boss' cave, my familiar (Magic Initiate) was the only one to catch him wandering off so I sent him along to Help just in case things got hairy. At the same time the bandits needed someone to run dinner up to the sniper on the hill, so I volunteered in order to get chummy with him and gather information. About halfway up the hill my familiar reports that the necromancer spotted Rogue #2. Due to some lucky rolls and Uncanny Dodge the rogue managed to survive a 1v5 with the mancer and his zombies until he got close to the door to the cave, at which point a bandit guard outside opened up to see what the commotion inside was. About the same time I'd casually made it to the Sniper and started chatting him up over dinner. I also doubled as the party's packrat alongside being the support and as such I carried most of our knick-knacks, to include spare rope, 10ft pole, grapple hooks, and one of our party's only magical items, a set of celestial manacles we'd won in a rare encounter from the GM's encounter table. These things prevented spellcasting, gave disadvantage on attacks, and couldn't be removed except with the command word, dispel magic, or the Knock spell. The same moment my familiar reported the fight was about to break out into the camp, I rolled a Nat 20 on a slight of hand to slap the cuffs on Sniper Boss. All Hell broke loose. Due to our party being more or less prepared for a fight and the fact that the rest of the camp was technically out of initiative, the GM gave everyone else 1 turn before everything hit initiative. The fighters immediately lept to rogue #2's aid and the Warlock used Hypnotic patter on the 2/3rds of the camp, most of whom were just ordinary bandits (no health but meant to do lots of damage en-masse) and the Shield boss rolled poorly. About half the camp was incapacitated immediately, 1 of the bosses was temporarily out of commission, 1 boss had few of his higher level spell slots left (having whiffed them on rogue #2), and the last boss had his gimmick nullified, as he couldn't use the portable ballista up on the hill while hand cuffed. One of the bandits that succeeded his save freed the Shield boss from the Warlock's spell and everything played out in various stages of chaos. Fighter #1 took a major beating while tanking the Shield boss, Fighter #2 and the Warlock took out the bandits with E. Blast and mutli-attacks, and rogue #2 did his best to survive the zombies while I tried, and failed, to wrangle the Sniper boss properly before using his own gimmick ballista against the bandits. All health potions were used, everyone but me and Fighter #2 hit death saves at some point then brought back, and we actually used the Chase rules from the DMG for the fighters to run down Sniper boss after he'd booked it. In the end we were victorious. Each of these bosses were about CR 5 WITHOUT their minions, the necromancer even having more class levels than us. But due to proper planning, a little luck, and some creative thinking, we managed to wipe out about 3 weeks of content in a single day. I'm looking forward to what the GM has next. And using that portable ballista, REALLY looking forward to that. :D

[@o.d.d.792]

Can you tell the specifics on how the bosses were downed and were the 3 bosses dead or alive

[@archellothewolf2083]

@@o.d.d.792 didn't want the post to be TOO long but Sure: The tank boss had 2 modes, one where she had a ton of AC and one where she did a TON of damage in melee, and she decided to start off with the damage. While half the party was taking down the various bandits and zombies, and I was still on the hill playing with the sniper, Fighter #1 was going 1v1 against the boss. Though the little kobold had to use every single healing potion he had to survive he managed to tank her in her damage mode. Barely, but he did. At this point in the fight the Necormancer only had a few spell slots left and was using his cantrips to harass Rogue #2 (had a bit of a beef with him after the cave) and the Sniper was trying to move his way down his lookout hill to get away from me, not that I was a threat but I was working REALLY hard to try and cuff his legs too. About the time Sniper boss made it down the hill (and I made it back up to the mini-Ballista) the party finished off the minions and blitzed the Shield boss with everything they had left. Half their attacks crit. She hadn't taken much damage up to that point, but the little she did take combined with at least 3 nat 20's (one of which came from a half orc with a lance) managed to take her down before she had the chance to switch to her defense mode. The necromancer had used his last spell slot, that in a bit of meta-gaming the GM had been saving for when the sniper made it down the hill, to dispel the magic cuffs. I managed to nail him with the mini-ballista as he did so. 2d6 damage is pretty nice for a crossbow, and notable when attacking a wizard of any level. Upon seeing their tank go down, and knowing the range on the gimmick bow, the two bosses lost their nerve and booked it in opposite directions. One of them (I think the sniper) managed to take down our warlock before dashing with cunning action, but luckily Fighter #2 had picked up a medicine kit when we were last in town and kept him from bleeding out. Rogue #2 rushed after the necromancer while the fighters chased the Sniper. The necromancer did just about everything he could to get rid of him but Rogue #2 is one of the only players I've ever seen make good use of a net, used it to kill a harpy with with fall damage in our last mission, and forced the boss to waste his action every turn in this one trying to get out of it. Any turn the boss succeeded the DC10 strength check, the rogue would pick up his net, Cunning Dash after him and try again. Any turn he didn't manage to escape the net, Rogue #2 took a stab at him. Since the rogue would always end his turn within 5ft of the necromancer I shot the gimmick ballista. Missed more often than I hit but when I hit it HURT. Due to poor rolls more than anything I think it took us another 5-6 full rounds to take him out. Meanwhile our fighters gave chase to the sniper. He was a slippery tiefling and he turned invisible the moment he leapt over the camp's wall. Unfortunately for him, where Fighter #1 was the MVP of the shield boss Fighter #2 was the Sniper's doom. Through sheer luck alone Fighter #2 jumped over the wall and onto the exact spot the sniper was, bumping into him and revealing his location. Fighter #2 stabbed at the boss with disadvantage but managed to hit. The Sniper failed his Concentration check and was once again visible. A rogue with double-dash sadly can outpace fighters in a sprint. But after a few turns someone (can't remember if it was the DM or Fighter #1) remembered that the DMG actually has rules for boring chase sequences. Short version, you can Dash a number of times equal to 4 +CON mod. After that, each turn you dash you have to make a DC 10 CON save or take a level of exhaustion. And it turns out the boss did not have all that much Constitution to begin with. And Fighter #2 was a half orc who put his 18 into CON. It took them 10 "turns" (the knew what they were doing, we weren't going to play out "I dash, I dash, I dash") but they caught up to him. Fighter #1 had taken 1 level of exhaustion, Fighter #2 passed the only roll he had to even make, and the Boss was lying half dead on the ground at exhaustion level 5. We normally take our bounties in alive but Fighter #1 decided these guys needed to be dead, and nobody was arguing with him. Every one but cowardly little ol me was on the brink of death, but we managed to get the bandits, I got an awesome super-crossbow, and we now have an entire camp to loot. Job well done I'd say. Edit: because it may be relevant to show how long Fighter #1 managed to tank: there were a little over 20 bandits and I think 5 Zombies. The rest of the party were making at most 5 attacks a round and not always hitting.

[@o.d.d.792]

@@archellothewolf2083 amazing! Reminds me of 2 episodes from a pirate DND One Piece anime that’s still ongoing where the party had odds stacked against them like your group but they had tremendous luck so much in fact they called themselves the Devil’s Luck Pirates I recommend you watch it even if you don’t watch the One Piece anime it’s a very entertaining DND series

[@StinkerTheFirst]

Lots of fun here. I appreciate this collection of "holy sh!t that worked!" moments. And I really appreciate the positive note at the end.

[@TSC-hg4fi]

Infinity stones- I’m wheezing-

[@justarandomfanner7164]

For this story I am the DM of a home brew game where we had a bladesinger wizard who was a prince that faked his own death for insurance money and a cleric of trickery rogue multi-class that was the assassin hired to kill him. They are trying to find the people who were responsible for crashing the wedding of the cleric’s mom and step dad and came across a bandit camp outside of the capital city. Rolling an insight check the cleric realized that one of persons who caused it was the king. So they go in and fight the final boss at level 8. Three downed party members(the prince and two NPCs) and they win the fight.

[@jaxmaxwell3038]

In my first session, I, a halfling rouge, hid inside the carcass of a dead horse because I reasoned it’d give me a stealth bonus

[@definitelyguesser41]

no time to explain, get in the Tauntaun

[@kazekamiha]

I still remember one story I heard on another channel. "I suplex the dragon."

[@JameSeraphim]

My party just saved one of our number from the basement of Saint Markovia, immured and Abbot in the basement, and accidentally set a pack of wolves I summoned on a lady who was on the ground floor. She turned out to be the Bride of Strahd, but I still felt bad. We also killed this violin playing mutant on the second floor which I also felt bad about but when you're taking a hostile action like that you DON'T LEAVE POSSIBLE THREATS BEHIND YOU lol

[@corra_m13]

Our fighter has a +3 cursed armor that if explodes with fireball if an enemy crits on her. Btw, we are lvl3 and this alone would likely wipe out the party. But we refused to remove curse cause it would remove the buff as well. Then instead of roleplaying around a pair of assasins (cr8) we engage them in battle. With the very first attack an assasin crits for 56 dmg! Party stops breathing, dm goes pale... The fighter shrugs and says - as a rune knight i have a cloud rune inscribed, so i transfer this attack to the second assasin. It took care of most of its hp, and we wiped the floor with two potentially deadly foes without a human bomb going off.

[@sophiehaslam2492]

TLDR: party couldnt track some polar bears so i rolled a Nat 20 on a polar bear mating call. i'm currently DMing Icewind Dale and to make it feel more like a wilderness survival campaign, i introduced a random weather table for whenever the party is venturing out into the tundra. the party wanted to hunt some polar bears for their furs, as a trader in town would give them some magic items in exchange. i rolled on the weather table and unluckily for them, it was snowing, which imposes disadvantage on survival checks. they were struggling to pick up thd tracks, so the paladin had the bright idea to get his mount, which looked like a polar bear (find steed spell), to do a mating call. polar bears have a -2 to charisma, but i rolled a Natural 20. they ended up attracting two giant polars and the frost druid who had lost control of them. they ended up getting a cloak of polymorph and a headband of intellect.

[@wschnabel1987]

Used a fireball to knock down a cave full of stalactites, down upon the lich, who passed his spell resistance, but rolled 3 1's on his reflex saves. Using his last breath he called me a dick though. : /

[@NicoleChorney]

I was in a party that had to trick a dragon to use it's breath weapon on a cursed tome to destroy it. We had a dwarf warrior who was brave/stupid enough to run toward the dragon during battle carrying the book. When the dragon released it's breath he rolled a 20 on reflex roll but all of his gear, clothing, and hair failed a special roll for durability. We had a naked, hairless, and pissed off dwarf all the way back to the town to collect our reward. He then spent most of his gold on replacing his gear and an expensive potion to regrow his hair and beard.

[@apileofratz4131]

"Both of us roll 69" Nice

[@BoonSpill]

i caused a massive fight that it itself was one of those moments. I played a monk aarakocra who loved anything shiny, my friend was a warlock tiefling, and the other player was a dragonborn wizard. i attacked a jewel owner in the middle of a town event with hundereds of people and heaps of guards came running over to us and caused a fight. During the battle i flew into the sky and belly flopped onto a guard, another guard was beaten to death by his own helmet by the wizard and another had their skull crushed by the foot of our warlock (they rolled NAT20). after all the combat the warlock stuck a guard to the tree with his dagger and cast create bonfire under the tree burning the guard alive. oh and i got the jewels at the end. edit: during the same game i cast light on my pet chickens armour and we pretended it was holy and used it to scare away a demon

[@Blitzkrieg_Wolf]

I basically forfeited a crucial battle with the secondary BBEG characters by miraculously rolling high enough for a low CHR character to deceive them into thinking I was a guard; We had just finished scouting out and clearing a manor owned by a corrupt politician (I think) who had connections with the evil siblings that were working with an evil sorcerer and dragon kin to take over the world using these super powerful crystals that essentially had the same power as 100 nukes IRL, which were stolen from a peaceful kingdom who used them for power generators. Later that night, after we had settled in and setup guard rotations, I was posted at the front gate to keep an eye out for threats... low and behold, a convoy comes barreling through the thicket from the North and it's non-other than the evil duo and their personal guard out doing checkups and delivering goods to their forces. One of the siblings approached and demanded I identify myself, I look at the DM and ask "can I try to convince Her I'm a guard and send Her on Her way?" (I was not in the mood for another 2 hour long battle at 11:45PM), DM said "Roll for CHR check"... I barely managed the check with a 17 and then pulled the rest of the party into the charade by having them dress accordingly and act as if the "lady of the manor" was asleep. One player had a brilliant idea to go check the wardrobe of the Manor's owner to find a dress and wig, put them on, proceeded outside and made a pretty good roll for impersonating the manor's owner... we managed to get the siblings and their guard back into the carriage and sent them on their way into the night, all with a moment or 2 of the entire charade being blown by some lesser rolls... still one of my favorite "Screw with the DM" moments ever.

[@ericb3157]

that part about the ship reminded me of a very old game, "odyssey, the compleat apventure". (an Apple game) the game is in 3 main parts, a large island, a sailing segment, and an underground segment. BUT...if you forget to buy a Compass before starting the sailing segment, the ship is nearly uncontrollable, you wind up sailing in a random direction. i once had to lower and raise the sail 8 times to get the ship to go in the direction i wanted...AND do that up to 8 MORE times EVERY TIME the wind shifted! yeah, i never tried to sail without a compass again. (and no, you can't just go back to the large island and buy one)

[@JacobL228]

BBEG's dragon was guarding a cavern we needed to get into. I got it to admit it was under a lot of stress from having such a horrible boss. I then offered it an outlet for that stress if it let us pass in the form of a kobold egg that would hatch into a minion for it to boss around. It worked.

[@dalegranda1940]

I recently played a dragon-hunting one-shot that got drawn out into two sessions. I played a half-elf archfey warlock (who spoke draconic because why not), I haven't seen many of these, I think they're underrated or something as you'll see. When we finally got to the heart of the volcano, a red dragon's lair, it emerged from the central pile of gold.

[@nes819]

My players had one of those moments... even iff it wasn't exactly as the other stories in here. They found a mysteriouse cristal ball that did not quite let them see its properties (even with identify). befor they could completely figure out what it was a Lich materialized in their neighbourhood and got them busy. After the fight one of them asked their deity iff it was a good idea to keep the bal intact, wich was a STRONG NO. He then proceded to randomely throw it against the next whall... and it shatered. The catch was that Jess it was a phylactery, but No it wasn't just a phelactery. The Necromancer who created this "Cataclysmn" (Homebrew and just as bad as it sounds) failded it's creation in such a spectacular fassion that he got desintegrated and his soul bound to it. When they smashed the thing they killed the lich but also caused a rol on the cataclysmic table i prepared... They got lucky and onely their hubbcitty was ingulfed in a deadmagiczone for onely a year (Jess this could had covered the entire continent for al of eternity).

[@virgiljericho664]

I convinced a town guard to let me go by claiming he was just dreaming. We had to break into a warehouse to rescue children. After killing all the slavers, the guard arrives. I tried to tell them it was self defense and that THEY were trespassing. Unsuccessful. I kinda just blurted out in desperation, “Yeah true but none of this matters because this is all a dream” Nat 20

[@PantherCat64]

Not sure I told this story or not yet, but might as well. I ran a Elder Scrolls theme GURPS game awhile back, and we had a Samuri Khajiit, a Imperial officer, and Khane Silverblood the orc who was an accidental demigod (both in and out of game). A caravan had been captured and the party suspected it was the Thalmor as part some kind of a plan to get Lura, the imperial officer of the group, to either cease her investigation on the Thalmor or just get her killed in general. Now, The Khajiit and Khane were now wanted criminals by the Thalmor, after the rescue mission that involved killing a bunch of guards that were out to lunch, getting two of the caravan members from a poor built dungeon, over 500 soldiers chasing them, and two characters both failing to jump out a window. It worked out better than it should have. Now, the Thalmor are getting suspicious and starting to clam up with Lura. So we were getting close. Eventually the party found a second embassy and didn't know what to do to get in. So Khane, being the demigod he was, wanted to try and use a disguise skill and trick the Thalmor into letting him in. So, with -5 to his 20 IQ score, he of course rolled a 1 (lower rolls = better and we were doing a d20 to make rolls faster). So I asked: "Alright, what is your disguise?" "I put on a monocle and a mustache." Mind you, the the skill roll is to determine how convincing the disguise will look when you make it, not if it's going to work. The next part involving going into the gates, and talking to the guard and actually saying something convincing. "This is a private government estate. Who are you?" the high elf guard asks. "I'm here to look at the dungeon, as I am here with the torture devices you asked for." I roll and take into consideration what Khane said, the guards IQ, and what the disguise was. "Ah, you finally came!" "Yes, yes I had a few delays. But I'm here now, and I can see what of my fine merchandise will suet your needs." "Oh, sorry sir, I should not delay you any longer! Come inside, I shall show you to the dungeon myself." Mind you, Lura and the khajiit did not put on any disguises on. But apparently the guard didn't notice. The party walks by a Justiciar, I roll, take in the consideration of Khane's disguise. "Now what do we have here." he asks "The torture device merchant is here, I'm showing them to the chamber." "And I thought would have to come find you myself. Carry on." The Khajiit and Lura were just out of sight of this guy, but then they walk by another guard. I roll, blah blah blah. the guy just doesn't care enough apparently. We get to the dungeon, get to an empty torture room. And Khane is now talking to this guard, "Now you see, if we put the stretcher there it would really give the room a nice: "oh no, I'm too young to die" vibe. Then we could put the chains right over by that wall as it will give this nice hopelessness feel to the whole room." While Khane is talking to this guard, the other two start looking around for the last caravan member. Nothing. So Lora sneaks up to Khane, fails, khane knocks out the guard with a single bonk to head with his fist, Lora then whispers "Alright, we're going to look around the building. we need to keep everyone distracted. Or as many as you can." The khajiit whispers "But we have a unconscious guy, what are we going to do about that?" "Don't worry you two, I got this." Khane shouts: "PARTY IN THE TORTURE CHAMBER!!!" And all of these Thalmor guards start rushing down stairs, some are bringing cases of wine down, most of them throwing off their armor, some of the government officials came down. Later the other two found a cave that was at the back of where the embassy rest, Khane jumped out a window from the top floor, and returned to the group. and turns out he held a liquor contest with the guards, and even though high elves are super resistant to getting drunk because of high magica or something, Khane won against all of them and was still sober. So now, all of the guards are unconscious and the party could do whatever they wanted. There were about 50 people in that building total, and now the party won't even steal anything and everything because of morals or something. They entered the cave, solved a puzzle after 15 minuets, and saved the last caravan member. I didn't notice this until now, but the party could have avoided the whole thing and got out with no problem or fear of danger. No, they not only went against impossible odds, but they avoided it because our orc demigod put on a crappy disguise and got everyone in the building drunk. if that's not a "holy crap that worked" moment, I don't know WHAT is.

[@nullblasterthevoidmaker1750]

When the cops won't believe the story about the monster, feed them something more believable, and then show them the fucking monster. They'll believe you after that.

[@ajchastain3068]

I was playing a mafia dnd made by one of my friends. The character feat I took was tavern brawler. So as any sane human I had a bottle of whiskey to bash over someone’s head. For this story to make sense, you need to know a few things one of my subordinates was shot so I went to my friend for information he works in a newspaper place. Then it hit me, Molotov cocktail. I rushed into an enemy base and threw it like a mad man. It surprisingly worked. TL:DR Mafia tavern brawler figured out how to make a Molotov cocktail.

[@WASDLeftClick]

On one hand, I can’t stand the “Nat 20 let’s me do whatever I was trying to do no matter what” way of playing D&D, but on the other it makes for great silly stories like these. It is a house rule after all, and those are all about making the game more fun for the specific people who are playing it.

[@wiytchery]

Our group was going in a demon forteress in hell. My character was very strong with illusions, so he made it look as if we were demon guards. Nat 1. Only WE were thinking that the illusion worked. The 2 guards standing at the front door just saw a group of 6 idiots walk through saying: "hey brother! how's the wife?" then simply invite themselves in. They where so confused that our group actually managed to get pretty far in the forteress because the guards just did not know what to do with us. One of the guards just went: "Wait... Should we like... They aren't really attacking the fort, so... We never got trained for this kind of shit. Hold on I will try to speak with them."

[@westenplatt179]

This story can fit in two places it is a joke amongst my group but at the same time it's would fit here one of our members a thief who part of the joke plays more like a ranger always is asking to look for secret tunnels, we never actually came across any, except for one were it was the "wait that worked?" Moment he found a thrives tunnel to the back of the city vault ad took most of all things in there, but then he decided to open the vaults front door freaking out the guard, he used smoke and the darkness since he was a elf with dark vision to escape in that moment was they only time he lived up to his class of thief. He was not caught and he left 12000 gold richer. This was mentioned back at the end of the game that the guards still to this day have know idea who or what happened that day because it was so memorable. The best part was I the wizard played a magic hungry thief who stole everyone's spellbooks. The clearic was ment to be peace loving but was always the first to attack if lied to. Are ork fighter was the voice of reason. And our warlock the the weakling who actually was the most usefully, the reason he was so weak is he messed up when he was rolling stats so he had stupidly low stats the entire game in everything but his choice and gamer plays made him versatile and the backbone of our team.

[@burbthemediocre4353]

Dm - you see goblins worshiping a skeleton - 10 minutes a goblin mask and a nat 20 later the party and goblins are doing conga line down the hallway

[@zrxpd1783]

I only started playing dnd recently but I am a halfling bard and my moment was "run into the trees and attack the goblin gang from behind" I somehow manage to stab one of the goblins on a high roll killing him, then my fighter just bashed all of the other goblin head in with a mace while we tag teamed.

[@samzilla1281]

Tiamat appears. The party had a plan for when she arrived. I had stepped outside the room. I heard the noise and I dimension doored onto her back. I took one bag of holding and put it inside another. We both wound up on the Astral plane. The DM decided my characters Dad, a trickster god, brought him back to the prime material plane. The sole reason was that two characters wanted to get married at the end. My bard was the only one in the party that had the religion skill. (we had no clerics)

[@gorezinbilou9736]

Not Dnd but a similar fantasy world : My first dice based RPG ever for me and my friends except the DM: My party and I were escorting a wagon full of ores across the desert. I played as a dwarf monk, equipped with combat gloves, not magical, just gloves with tiny blades and pointy things on them. We came across a band of goblins and an orc berserker. The combat start with the orc charging at us for some reason. Since i didnt care for the goblins i was aiming to kill the orc first, my companions being more able for crowd control, i assumed. But i had to hurry, it was our first mission in the campaign. After the 3rd charge of the orc (everyone was aware of him and avoiding him as he was screaming all the time), and me not able to catch him while taking a beating in the process (dont want to stay on his path). I decided to climb on the wagon, rolled for an agility check, it passed, barely but i went on with my plan : Jumping on the orc's back when he would charge again, grab his neck and squeeze his spine with my gloves to kill it. The DM said OK, but i warn you, you're a dwarf and it's gonna take.."NAT 20" ! The jump and grab was so perfect i clinched onto his spine and could control the direction the orc was running by making little twitches left and right. The goblins were such in awe to see a dwarf riding an orc the stopped fighting, I then procedeed to run down the goblins. When my friend noticed that the fight was over they told me to come down and finish the orc as i was "Weeehing !" around with my prize. "OK i come down as I make a backflip to land with style while still holding the spine into my hand", DM said, "ok, you're a dwarf remember..." 20 ! again to land, and the spine? roll for strengh, 19 ! ripped apart from top to bottom from the orc's back ! The DM under shock started to go on about what we wanted to do..."IS THE SPINE MAGIC?" i dare to say..."ok, roll 1d100"....97! if i recall correctly, booyah ! DM face palms..."ok, your new toy is a spine from a berserker orc that has been infused by a warlock with "a Rage upon Doom" spell, meaning each time the owner of the spine witnesses a death it gains 1d10 of damage for 24 hours....and it's sturdy enough you can use it as a whip !" It gave me a sick idea afterwards, "Next town we go to the slave trader and ask him about goblin breeding technics to sacrifice them before a fight !"

[@serefine927]

Skeletal Guards where blocking our way.... Our artificer rolled with disadvantage and somehow managed that we could just walk past... We were all like.. wait that worked ?

[@Koppu1doragon]

Party: So yeah we may have lied about the drug dealers. Cops: Why?! Party: Would you have come if we told you the truth?

[@billwhipple9039]

That's a really strange flex on the rest of the voice actors in Ohio

[@BrianVaughnVA]

Believe it or not I'm the only VA in my area in Ohio, so I'm proud of being that. Though yes, weird flex, but a fun one cause banter between other VA's is something real fun.

[@paulhiggins6433]

Once I played a dwarf fighter. We had found these bricks made of an unknown material. Despite having the highest strength of the group, it was all I could do to pick up one, but we had found an ioun stone of strength and I put it to use, gathering up all the bricks around easily now. There were ten or so. I could barely hold one at first, much less ten. The stone was that strong. While taking the bricks to a dungeon to figure out what they were, we were ambushed by some giants dropping rocks and boulders on us from about 100 feet above us on a cliff face. The ranger and druid in the party started using ranged attacks for some covering fire. I was carrying a returning dwarven throwing axe, so I decided to help. There was no way I could hit a giant at 100 feet with a throwing weapon, right? DM had me roll, and I rolled like an 18 or something. Not a not twenty. My DM described that the giant's head simply exploded as the axe flew through it with the force of a jet engine. The rest of the giant's freaked out and fled. I never found out just how much damage I did. He didn't even have me roll. Like the strength bonus from the stone was THAT much. To this day, I have no idea how strong that dwarf really is.

[@dme3y690]

7:22 oh, I see. This DM is sadistic asf

[@aurorialgaming1935]

My tabaxi bard had a character losing her mind, after failing a charisma check and an attempt to slap her awake, I opted to kiss her, rolled high and she woke up, and we both suffered 10 mental damage.

[@aurorialgaming1935]

@RyuRaven no, just a girl that hated him for no particular reasons.

[@aurorialgaming1935]

@RyuRaven Oh her player has. Numerous times. We actually just lost her last session too.

[@Crimson_CourierTTV]

My holy shit that worked moment. The dm let me blow up 30 grenades at the same time. Killed me, 6 enemies a mountain and the next boss.

[@otakubancho6655]

I think the second ones wife was Jigglypuff!😆😆😆

[@chassaj1105]

Party was bound in cages. I, a halfling rogue, had heavy metal manacle, whilst the dragon born paladin with a strength of like 19 was just tied up with some rope. Paladin wanted to roll to break free, and I decided to as well because I thought it would be funny. Paladin rolled a nat 1, I rolled a nat 20

[@GZilla311]

5:00 Nice.

[@countryrhodes79]

Ok I was playing as a dwarven fighter and in a previous session I asked the merchant to give me a magic item he didn't know what it did. So he jumps behind his desk and reappears in a barrel next to me and hand me s shiny rock. A session or two later I reminded my dm I have it in the best way. For some reason we found our way into a cave miles long. As we get to the end of it, we walk in on a poison dragon laying down on its hoard with its eyes closed (we thought it was asleep). We turned back to ready ourselves to face it. When we rounded the corner it wasn't laying down anymore it was already on the wall waiting for us. We roll initiative and I'm first so what do I do I throw this rock at the dragon... it just bounced off of it and landed in the hoard. Because of this the dragon felt sorry for me so he was gonna save me for last thinking I was the weakest one. After a full round it was my turn again. All of a sudden the hoard began to move and it shaped into a hoard golem. This suprised everyone and became very helpful to defeat the dragon. We ended up beating the dragon because of one of my friends who got revived by something that lives in his shadow sphere that we still don't know what it is. So now I can make almost anything into a golem. My dm later told me that when he first gave me the rock that he had not plan for it until I brought it out in that fight.

[@victorhugo-od9ek]

"And she replaced her left nipple with an amethyst." What. the. fuck.

[@cerouluxray6394]

I run a Pokemon Mystery Dungeons and Dragons game (Pokemon as races with all the normal 5e classes) and players have a habit of trying crazy solutions, which I encourage because I love how zainy things can get as a result. They do know that their actions can, and will, have consequences down the line. First, while trying to retrieve a set of golden bagpipes, the bard (Neville the Mudkip) decided to try and intimidate the thief his goons to give the bagpipes back by slinging a host of insults at how unskilled the thief was at playing the instrument. Player gets a nat 20 on the check and I, because I was new, roll a wisdom check for the thieves. All three fail and the leader even gets a -1 (-2 Wisdom save on a nat 1 roll), causing the leader burst into tears in despair. Out of pity, the bard takes the thieves on as his apprentices for the lute. That same player, down the line, seduced a Ditto who I used as a mimic and got an easy out when he said "Yeah, we had a fling. Go ahead and roll to see if I got them pregnant." Daddy Neville left the party a little while later to be a good father. Another time, the party's Twilight Cleric (Andre the Zoura) worked with the bard and the Hexblade Warlock (Cinna the Buneary) talked their way into a dragon's lair under the guise of being in the Census Bureau, trying to keep tabs on the dragon population. "How many dragons have you seen?" "Uh... just our boss." "Right, they're critically endangered, so we want to make sure they're safe and can find a good mate to get the population back up." The party proceeded to shift gears and sell the dragon on hoard, lair and minion insurance as a distraction while the rogue attuned a rod to the elemental plane of Earth. Good rolls were had that day and they've made a legitimate business out of selling insurance to dragons and are prepping for the inevitable claims that their clients will file.

[@donnovanash2334]

We were playing a campaign with a dm added side quest for our depth cleric. One of the required items was a black lotus from a lake of healing, but when we tried to take the lotus (only one in the lake) a unicorn appeared but before combat our assassin (with + 5 charisma) rolled a nat 20 on persuasion and said wait 3 days. I was looking at my spells before this and showed him the spell witch is why he rolled and the dm just looked at us and did the both hand wipe face thing and then using plant growth I grew a second lotus and we left.

[@AmericanGerman92]

At new years day we played a one shot super hero campaign and were only 2 players. I played as super that was simumar to barbarian stats wise but could grow bigger while spending super points. At the beginning, bad guys broke into the student homes and we were in the lounging area the other super was a sharpshooter and readyed herself behind a couch while I who is bigger as others in general hid behind a billiard table. The bad guys breached into the room and when it was my turn I was thinking maybe I can kick the table and disable some baddies. And it worked! 2 got pretty well injured while one even got buried under the table. I was proud because I for once was creative.

[@addysart5027]

I was a rouge and snuck away and scaled the wall behind a cliff, while the bbg had a guy we needed hostage at dagger point. I had to catch the guy and kill the bbg at the same time. I was able to kill the bbg, but barely missed the guy. He became uncontious, and my party was mad as hell. I pointed out hes not dead dead, and our cleric healed him. But the party was still a little peeved and i was admittedly sad i missed the guy, but i was proud about what i did. Although the guy was weary of me. But i managed to get rid of the bbg with minimal harm to the npc. (He was at 5 hitpoints.)

[@Jimbob1337]

Was playing a level 3 monk and we were about to go into combat. I (6'10") leaned down to the 5'4" sorceress gang member and whispered to her that I was here to kill her boss, and that it would be wise for her to leave while she could. She laughs and I whiff a perception check (she has drawn a dagger and has it right at my kidney). Combat goes off, I'm third in initiative behind a mook and the leader. Mook runs round the table and stabs me with a blindside. Boss is busy with other PCs so I'm now 1v2 and taking damage. Since I can't draw my sword without provoking her held action, which would have had advantage as I didn't see it coming, I opted "fuck it, headbutt her". Nat 20. Keep in mind I had leaned in to whisper, so I had very little room to manoeuvre. That Nat 20, combined with the DMs max damage crits meant I hit her in the exact right spot to cause maximum damage with minimal force, All 15 damage, with a headbutt. It was so good that she forgot about her held attack so I saved myself a bit of damage. A couple rounds later, I'm chasing another second across rooftops in a skill challenge, and burning through my viable skills. I go to make a check where I attempt to grapple him (superior speed + dark vision meant I could catch him if the chase went on long enough) and he barely beats my roll. We both end up prone but he gets up first. My ally whiffs his next skill roll while the second pulls a crossbow and shoots the rope holding a large stack of crates. Crates go down, he goes up and away. DM says this next roll decides it, if I fail, he gets away. I choose sleight of hand (+3) so I need to roll a 9 or higher to win. "Out of the corner of my eye I see the rope go up, and on reflex draw my sword and throw it, aiming to cut the rope he is dangling from." 13. Sword flies true, rope is cut, and the second's joy turns to crap as he plummets 30 ft to the rooftop, then to the ground. While my partner keeps him occupied, I go and look for my sword...

[@IlsaTheArtist]

Alright, I have to make this a quick one since I have to work soon, BUT. My fellow party members are a bunch of murder hobos. An NPC came around, then punished the party members who had been rude to him, and after the battle, begins healing everyone, including a spell scroll to restore someone he accidentally maimed. What do my fellow party members do? They kill him, because at that point, he's low health, even though he's likely someone important, and he doesn't seem to be a terrible person. I did a one shot a while back with the same people, where this military was trying to forcibly enlist an entire town of men, women, and children into their army. The farming town -consisting mostly of prejudiced Elves- snub the party members a couple of times. What does the party do? Reasonably, they attack the town and enslave everyone, then sit on a ledge and watch the entire town of farmers and their families get slaughtered in a war they had no part in. So, kind of as a change of pace, I'm playing a pacifist in a different campaign now. She's a cleric who heals, but refuses to deal lethal damage, and resists doing damage at all in most scenarios. It's written on her sheet that over-excessive violence makes her physically ill. I'm lowkey going necromancer-with-animals with her, but we're not there yet. Her backstory is pretty much that she was raised in a family of EVIL cultists, exposed to great darkness and was definitely not cut out for it, so she left in the night to try to make a new life. Some funny moments are: 1. Speaking with animals mid-battle to barter with birds/squirrels to have them defecate on the enemy from trees above for rations. 2. Repeating terrifyingly evil enchantments she's learned from her family experience in infernal to intimidate other enemies into fleeing for their lives. (They're harmless without the proper rituals) 3. Making an offhand backstory comment in the presence of a captured NPC. The DM had me roll to intimidate, and now my pacifist, nature-loving Cleric seems to succeed at bluffing their way through any situation with intimidation, and a poor bandit needs to steal some new pants.

[@pulsefel9210]

you know the fantasy is complete when "call the cops" is an option

[@0PercentImagination]

Here's a holy shit it worked. Once the party had to defeat a dragon at the top of a tower, we had something that we were told would get rid of it if it ate it (given to the party by a god), we thought this would be hard so the backup plan was blowing up the tower with tnt. However my character, a gnome called Single Nugget, casually walks into the dragons room and nat 20s the persuasion convincing them it would grant them immortality or something. Because of something that happened earlier we knew if the dragon had fought it'd be an inevitable tpk.

[@jonh387]

I had this character who's body was trapped in a crystal. But used magic to put his soul in an inanimate body to adventure. Not putting too much though on the background. A year later our DM decided to go to an dungeon and we end up finding my body. At first I didn't put too much though about it thinking I could easily transfer my soul back to my body. But DM had a different idea by stating that the body was fragile, not able to move and close to death. I was the one who had to put my body to peace. He intended to do this a long time ago so that the inanimate body I posses can never swap to another inanimate body and will be permanently stuck in one body. I rolled to be able to save my body with healing magic, but it failed. This would mean the death of my character. So I asked the DM if the scroll of duplication could make a duplicate of my soul. He was confused and I knew what I was doing. I've watched Invincible something the rest of the group didn't watch. I rolled a nat 20 1 soul had to go back to my body and the other got stuck in the inanimate body. I stole the show when I told them my final words to my clone. Saying that this was the only way for my soul to live forever. That I should protect the body I now have. Cause it's the only one I can still have, unable to swap. That my adventure has ended and a new one started.

[@cryosblaze5867]

intimidated Tiamat. well kinda. rolled a nat 20 so this huge ass orc wizard bellowed at Tiamat and she shook her head for a second taken by surprise.

[@severedwolf5778]

Be careful on what you Say ! In my game (Player not D.M) well my Goliath barbarians had a item a Bear trap. I think it did like 1d4 piercing damage and a dex save or they became stuck. Well d.m threw 3 goblins who we encountered earlya and Didn't want to have a fight get out of hand ...Again. So I kinda panicked "I throw my bear trap at the feet of the goblin to ensnare him !" D.M deep voice ....roll for it (Nat 20!) You throw your bear trap with such force it goes straight onto the goblins head (kinda like a Saw movie ) the goblins are scared beyond the minds with there friend just getting killed and bolt away from your area. I was just jaw dropped and was totally lost like ....like that worked ! 😂

[@seanfrye7052]

My dragonborn blood hunter had an intelligence of 9. We were traveling with a god and their emperyons. I got curious and unsighted the god when they got cagy. Well, I got a nat 20, and as they teleported, I called out that the god was a werewolves. Yeah, my lycan blood hunter managed to notice the god was the god of lycanthropes.

[@razark9]

I prestidigitized a rotten zombie image onto an orc and he got smash 1-hit by an ogre on his team.

[@ComicBookGuy420]

I killed level 20 Vampire Lord with a stained glass window and a gust of wind after an epic battle

[@rvpairofdicethewanderer2383]

I do not want to imagine how painful that is.

[@PetarPetrov-cn2xx]

My omg moment was when my friend was attacked by bug people we all were almost dead until he rolled 20 and poisend all of them killing them!

[@iluvlittenanimations2.010]

The barbarians pet duck preformed surgery, it’s… a long story

[@tazman2253]

was playing a sorcerer from the quintessential sorcerer book for 3.5 was a child of the element of fire (basically a 1/2 fire genesi) found a cavern full of kobolds ruled over by a adult red dragon used featherfall and burning hands to jump from the ledge we were on while sheathing myself in flames and yelling out that I was the avatar of the god of fire and they bought it. I convinced a adult red dragon to worship me at level 2

[@cacopoggers]

Imagine casting vicious mockery just to call the bbeg cringe

[@steveaugust7797]

How does one go about submitting a tale of dnd zaniness?

[@VoidPetsBack]

4:59 𝓷𝓲𝓬𝓮

[@travr6206]

Yo dnd is great!!!

[@defcon3596]

I was a artillerist artificer and asked if I could load a party member into my eldritch cannon dm told me to roll to fire it and made him roll a con save and a acrobatics check but somehow we made it work.

[@kaliban4758]

Oh a homebrew aligox

[@josepholson324]

Pretended to be a mannequin and it worked

[@e1357]

Hold on, is that 200 miles or nautical miles? If that is miles, then they went 7.2 knots, if it was nautical miles then 8.3 knots. Depending on the style of the boat, both measures would either be pretty good, if not record breaking, or it would be just about average speed.

[@SpieleSuchti894]

Alligox? Hm... Oxigator would be cool ^^

[@stephenstonge7968]

That sounds like something that would get an over the top hard sell on an as seen on tv...🤣

[@privatizitat815]

the wind direction should be a d8

[@stephenstonge7968]

It turned out gr8!

[@tophatstudios8183]

I want to know the game of star themed one that sounds fun

[@jonathanjoestar3785]

I read the title in Joseph Joestar's voice

[@diobrando9163]

Hello Jonathan

[@jonathanjoestar3785]

@@diobrando9163 Dio, when you gonna pay that child support man?

[@diobrando9163]

@@jonathanjoestar3785 never. I'm evil that's the point!

[@jonathanjoestar3785]

@@diobrando9163 hey, maybe if you pay that child support you can get visitation rights, then you can raise your kids to be like you

[@ignisshadowflame1027]

For me I threw the ships captain through a guy.

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

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[@dusty_ruemae1997]

Hello PANR anything New today? I just finished making Goodberry tea.

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

@@dusty_ruemae1997 Good afternoon and thank you for tuning into the afternoon radio news. Your only source for the latest goings on in the little corner of the post apocalyptic wasteland we call home. Today is Friday, the sixteenth of April, and we're live at the bottom of the hour. Today's top story, today's only story, the MCR's invasion into our wasteland. As you well know, yesterday we received a letter from the MCR commander Restitutor Orbis Acilianus declaring their intention moving forward into the wasteland. We have since verified this in a most unfortunate way. For the sake of young or sensitive ears, now would be the time to cute your radio. The facts I'm to bring you now are not for the faint of heart. Our sources have, on every occasion, been refused an interview by the MCR, and, more often then not, have been met with violence. As of now, we have lost five souls to this war band. Using means of termination forsaken by decent men and woman of the modern day. With one source left to rot upon a wooden stake, half impaled and very much living when found. Another, flayed alive, and their visage used as a banner warning those who could follow or oppose them. While those two are dreadful in their right, but remaining three are far worse, and I cannot bring myself to say what tragic fate befell the remaining three.