D&D Players, What was the best cliffhanger for a session's ending that you can remember? #3

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@jamesmekdeci5570 2 жыл бұрын

The last cliffhanger I did was in curse of Strahd where the players went to Strahd's castle to find a mcguffin. It was a long stenuous journey in each floor where they were on the lookout for secret passages and traps. Fortunately they made it to the 3rd floor where they met a living doll named: Piddlewick the 2nd. They made a deal with piddlewick that he'd help them guide the players to Strahd's treasury if the party helped him get out of the Castle. The party agreed and they moved through a bunch of secret passages and managed to make it to the treasury where the mcguffin lied among many magic items such as a helm of Brilliance, a daern's instant fortress and LOTS OF GOLD, among a few other magical items. The monk took the mcguffin but the rogue had his eyes on the Helm of brilliance as it would allow him to cast some really good spells. As soon as the monk took the mcguffin though, Strahd appeared before all of them and well tried to intimidate them. The rogue however denied these warnings of his to not touch any other treasure and tried to snag the helm of brilliance from Strahd. That angered Strahd and he appeared in front of the rogue and grabbed him by the collar and said: "You think you can simply steal from my treasury and expect there to be no consequences boy? Well you are heavily mistaken". He then proceeded to take the rogue and pull him through the wall and flew with him 100 ft above the ground floor. "Any last words?" Strahd said. The rogue tried to reason with Strahd and well failed. While this was going on, the monk climbed through an opening in the wall to get onto the roof and saw Strahd Holding the rogue. I ended the session with Strahd letting go of the rogue as he began to fall while the monk jumped in the air to try and save him. We'll see how that cliff hanger gets resolved next session 😉👍

@theotherexile6842 2 жыл бұрын

As the writer of the first story I am two things 1. Very glad one of my stories got featured 2. Absolutely ROLLING at how most of the PCs names and town names got sent through the meat grinder

@danthemanno 2 жыл бұрын

I wish these videos were just a little bit longer. There are always interesting stories that inspire ideas but I always keep wanting just a little bit more

@cdawg5113 2 жыл бұрын

The last best cliffhanger I remember is in CoS (Curse of Straud) where we went around exploring Castle Ravenloft. By the way, Every Wednesday we do a session for DnD. We eventually went inside the basement and into "Sewers". I called them Sewers because there was water 3 feet deep and trapdoors on certain tiles. I called for my party to come down and started walking down the area when suddenly I got tornadoed down the water to somewhere. I was freaking out hoping my character was still alive. That ended that session for that day. Next session comes around, A warlock in our party casted ghostly gaze and saw me in a prison and all the pressure plates that would activate through the water. It was kind of embarrassing how I was freaking out for that entire week about what I should do. I made a backup just in case too.

@PrideOfFantasy100 2 жыл бұрын

I think my best cliffhanger was in a homebrew game I run called Shadows of Gods. The players had been tasked with killing five sealed gods in order to prevent them from coming back at full power by a previous group of heroes who died centuries before. Some of the players had personal connections to these former heroes, while others were just chosen by criteria. Whatever the case, the players continued on to defeat them all. Along the way, though, they learn of an entity stronger than the gods who had been sealed off and would return upon the gods defeat. Though the gods held this entity (the BBEG) at bay, they were still a threat though. They had to put the world at risk by saving it. Along the way, they got many allies to help them, one of which was a wizard with amnesia and a love for cooking. The friendly wizard was one among many who aided the players and even had meals that gave them tangible bonuses (such as a bonus to saves and the like) and helped them in some fights that he could. (No one could help the players fight the Gods cause they alone had protection against being enthralled in the God's presence). The Wizard was a good ally, though, and well liked by the group. Even if he did remember some things that he really shouldn't know from time to time. (The party usually chalked it up to him being thrown through time, as it wouldn't be the only NPC like that.) What they did not know is that the BBEG was, in fact, not sealed away completely. Instead, his power had been blocked off and his body had been left... amnesiac. So, when they killed the final God, they got to see their ally wizard, who had been with them for over a year IRL and a month or so in game, awaken as the BBEG, apologize to them, and then charge up a powerful spell even though he was clearly conflicted. I ended the session there, enjoying every minute of it. (SOrry for the rambling, the plot has a lot more nuance, but I didn't think it was important.)

@flyingturret208thecannon5 2 жыл бұрын

Just left off on a cliffhanger that we’ll pick up next week. Nothing impressive, but fun to think about: Y’aernolk & Y’aernolk(my shapeshifter & tortle, whom are only here for this one mission) just charged in after three of the spellcasters who thunderclapped in the middle of a horde of mindflairs. The twins are currently charging like bulls through every mind flair they can, having started by one going low, the other going high, through a mind flair that restrained one of our casters.

@hedera1332 2 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to let you know they are actually 'mind *flayers* ', on account that they flay the mind.

@nigelrichardson4327 2 жыл бұрын

The most recent cliffhanger I experienced was in the previous session of a Call of Cthulu campaign I'm in. Our party had had a long day of gearing up for the expedition we were about to set sail on, in addition to attending our original captain's funeral as he had been murdered just days prior. That night as we were all settling in for our last night on land. My character had just begun drinking a glass of whisky when suddenly, a loud commotion erupted from several blocks away. Peering out our hotel windows, we saw an inferno raging down at the docks our ship was positioned at! Right after that, the session ended for the night, leaving us in suspense.

@Salad_Pickle 2 жыл бұрын

The party went into the library... then into the basement. Then I lost my mind and became hostile, me and one other. The other guy (sorc) got downed in two hits, downing the monk in one. I (artificer) focused Leon (leonin echo knight, I think?) With my bear hands, trying to get him to box. 4 or 5 rounds of just fistfighting I switched to using my cannon and cantrips. Probably could've downed em all if I tried. Session ended when I hit 0. Just as I hit the floor I let out a quick "good fight".

@edgarhidalgo3743 2 жыл бұрын

My dm had the party get to a cave with dwarven ruins, we found a basketball size gem that required a amulet of protection to hold or be struck by the gods, after some time we eventually make it back to a town; the dm’s words per word:”you arrive at the town and it seems like they’re having a memorial, more specifically have constructed statues and it appears to look like your group” so we were dead

@MephiticMiasma 2 жыл бұрын

natural lead will give off radioactivity, actually. Saw a video about some recovered lead ingots from a Roman era shipwreck that were notably valuable because they had lost radioactivity after being cast a couple of thousand years (and underwater didn't hurt)

@dougsauceda1805 2 жыл бұрын

This just happened on Monday, so it's fresh in my mind. The party [(me) good variant human battlesmith artificer, good goblin fighter/rogue, good firbolg tempest cleric, neutral some type of golem or construct paladin/bard, and possibly evil drow warlock] are travelling through a desert at night, following some railroad tracks to a city, when the DM asks me to roll a d100. I roll a 99. A huge desert sand storm approaches us and the party is at a loss, know really knowing what to do. So I cast Rope Trick and get everyone inside just as we realize that this sandstorm is REALLY BAD. so we are in our little pocket dimension, where I had guessed maybe we would come up with a strategy, maybe roleplay a bit and wait out the storm (I could've casted the spell 3 more times). Instead, our warlock decides to just open the pocket dimension and fly into it without telling anyone, to find out how big the storm is. Now, our paladin/bard is the warlock's valet, and is charged with keeping them safe, so he freaks out and goes out into the storm after them. That's when they both realize that the storm does damage every 6 seconds they are out in it. The warlock is making concentration checks to keep up fly, can't see 5ft in front of them, and can't hear anything in the raging wind, while the paladin is getting attacked by weird sand creatures that hit pretty hard. Paladin fearie fires everything around him, including himself, the warlock is attacked as well, and so I hop out with a shield and cast sanctuary on tge paladin. Things get really bad. These creatures have some kind of grappling effect and also have the ability to curse you so you can't heal if you miss ancom save after being hit. Chaos ensues. Eventually the warlock misses a second concentration check and falls to the ground, going unconscious. The paladin is at 6 health, runs over to the warlock, yeets them over to me, I disengage and put the warlock in the Rope Trick, yelling for help. For context, the paladin would never do this because he doesn't like me, doesn't trust me, and doesn't respect me. So this is the first time all campaign that he's trusted me with anything, and the warlock is the most important to him. So it was some nice character growth, you know, besides the almost dying part. I go back out to try to help the paladin, we finish up the fight, but I go unconscious too as well as the paladin. Also, the warlock, paladin, and I all ended up cursed and couldn't be healed. The session ended with our other two party member popping back into the Rope Trick, the sandstorm still raging, and more than half the party ko'd and cursed. The cleric doesn't have remove curse prepared, and I don't even know what happened to the mounts :o

@Josh-99 2 жыл бұрын

I had to end a session of Our of the Abyss right as Demogorgon climbed out of the Darklake in the Kua Toa village. It went something like: "You attack the insane daughter of the village chief. Despite the chaos of the two warring factions around you, your blade strikes true! She stumbles backwards, reeling from the blow, and collapses on the altar. Her thick, violet blood pours from the wound you opened in her chest, coating the ritual implements in her ichor. With her dying breath, she chants chilling words in Abyssal: 'I give this sacrifice of my own flesh and blood to you, mighty Lord of Chaos.' The ground beneath your feet shakes with a tremendous earthquake, commanding an instant cessation to hostilities as several of the ramshackle huts of the Kua Toa village suddenly collapse. The earthquake continues for 15 terrifying seconds before all settles. An ugly silence falls over everything; you hold your breath, hoping that the worst has passed. You heart sinks and you adrenaline rises as the waters of the Darklake suddenly begin to boil. Black, acrid steam rises from the furiously roiling waters just off the village's coast. Four points of yellow light start to surface from the turmoil, and it quickly becomes apparent that the light is in fact four firey eyes, two each adorning one of the two enormous, baboon-like heads atop a hulking, 18 meters tall body. The filthy water of the Darklake runs off the matted, oily fur that covers the taut muscles and two giant tentacles on each arm. The monstrosity lurches towards the shore, moving directly towards where you are standing, its glowing eyes staring at you hungrily while its slavering mouths drip with slimy saliva and spread into matching, maleficent grins." I had to end the session on that paragraph!

@angelaoneal5169 2 жыл бұрын

Okay, so we are playing an Exandria campaign (not really relevant, but there it is). Our party druid got scared by something and "ran" away (technically he swam for a time as a fish of some sort). Great! So now we have to find the druid. One of our party members met a man by the name of Mi Ainsel (played by the player who also plays the party druid) and we hired him to be our guide to find our druid. For some reason we found out that he was in the Greenwoods. So, after much traveling we come across a place in the Greenwoods that has a very large tree. We found the druid's tracks leading in, but none leading out. We end up fighting some seriously powerful fey creature and we were all very beat. Suddenly the thing we were fighting changes into our druid. Our Bard/Paladin is cradling him in her arms. He's alive. He looks up into her eyes and says, "Those eyes! I remember you!" Then Mi Ainsel, leans down, whispers something into the Bard/Paladin's ear and starts to walk away. The horror in our Bard/Paladin's eyes was potent. He had whispered her true name and ordered her to kill our druid. And that's where the session ended.

@davyt0247 2 жыл бұрын

The NPC who the party is helping run away from his mom who wants him on the throne (long story) was charmed by a witch queen, than kidnapped by said mother

@johnabreu6753 2 жыл бұрын

Probably… the best cliffhanger I ever had So, to context. The party was contracted to go help a town with its finances, as the forces of the Evil Necromancer Darak! Was attacking it time to time. The great hero and patriarch of the town, the goliath Billy Malfar (My DM is a HUGE fan of Adventure Time) was responsible for the defeat and sealing the Necromancer in its tower. So it power was dampened. But, his grandson and current mayor of the town, Vermon, had a theory that a magical dagger, the Dagger of Amber, could help defeat the evil Necromancer, once and for all. Said dagger was in his grandpa’s tomb, the Billy recollected himself after the fight so he could die in peace. The only problem, was this old BEHOLDER that made the dwarven ruins that preceded Billy’s tomb, his very own house. And we were lvl4 the time… so we were scared. Not to mention my character’s own apprehension of the situation as she was very distrusted of Vermon. After a attack of the forces of Darak attacked the down and made the quest for the dagger more urgent… once the “spirit” form of the Necromancer showed up (think the shadow version of Sauron in the eye), and was attacked, no attacked seemed to damage him. And once the battle was over Vermon, that took no direct hits, was very hurt. So… we were very suspicious of him, very scared of the situation as a whole and now we had to fight an old Beholder in a tomb so that we could take a dagger and… do what? But we had to secure the dagger, at least that. After a very tribulations in the journey and the dwarven ruin. At the door of the tomb, the party shared a little moment. Minos, the Great Horned, a minotaur Totem Barbarian/Druid. Millan Goodbarrel, a shapeshifter Thief Rogue. Sir Becket, human Oath of Devotion Paladin. Lady Pumpkin, a half-elf Land Druid. Akko Hardiron, a tiefling Clockwork Souls Sorcerer/Bard. And recent lover of my character Arcanist Jazebel Fayden, half-elf Chronurgist Wizard We all looked at each other, in fear, in love, in courage. Ready to fight or die trying to the Beholder. And as the doors opened… we hear the voice of the old aberration: “Oh! Finally! They sent reinforcements! After so long… as the name Billy Malfar doesn’t suit me no more!” “And, end session!” the great hero WAS THE BEHOLDER We were LIVED for the next week until the final session of the campaign!

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@Atma_Weapon 2 жыл бұрын

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@jblask2 2 жыл бұрын

A Oneshot I DM'd for had the party beating the boss and just narrowly managing to escape from an arcade before it collapses. And as they're standing in the parking lot they see a truck pull into the parking, stop a few yards away and the doors opens. Then I hit them with the "to be continued" and play Don't Fear the Reaper.

@aliens109 2 жыл бұрын

So, this cliffhanger just happened to me, it's in Lancer (think titanfall but tabletop). And we're finally getting to my character arc, so we're looking in this derelict ship, when all of a sudden a rogue AI starts trying to kill my friends and saying she missed me. Of course, I have no memory of this (clone), and I start freaking out and what not. Eventually, after back and forth with some lovely banter my character always does, a med drone pricks me with a needle of anesthesia, and I'm passed out, hearing the AI saying that she'll make me remember with my journal. The sad thing is, there was a lot of intricacies to this story, one being this AI, but everything else like it being a ship AI threw me for a loop and I'm so focused on this I haven't even planned my DND session I dm for!!

@norandomnumbers 2 жыл бұрын

I ended a session at the near end of a boss fight. Everyone was at critical hit points, or worse: 1 PC was dead and 2 PCs were unconscious. Initiative came to the boss' turn, and I ended the session there. I don't think any of the players slept for a week. Honestly though I saw a TPK coming and was shocked myself, it would be my first one as a DM. I wanted to give myself a week to plan what to do, and to process it before it happened.

@YAH93 2 жыл бұрын

The best one we had so far was when we were on our airship at a sunny day. Me the Firbolg Druid just took a round in my newly aquired flying forms (freshly Level 8 Moon druid). The rest of the party was on the airship. Dargonborn Paladin smoking a cigarette, Kalashtar Cleric praying, Woodelf Ranger teaching her Pseudodragon baby some new commands, and our Tiefling Sorlock talking with his newly aquired Mothcat. When Ranger and Sorlock wanted to enter the deck, they saw a stranger coming out of the engine room. Ranger said "You check out what she has done, I will follow her." Our Sorlock, eiher playing his character or being stupid af, did the exact opposite and followed the stranger, who just entered the deck. Me the Druid just came back and transformed into my Firbolg self. Next moment, Ranger and Sorlock entered the deck, as well as the Warforged Captain. "Who are you, and what were you doing in the machine room?" the Ranger wanted to know while preparing a shot with her Longbow. The stranger took out a pocketwatch and said "It should be time by now." Next moment, a forceful shake, a massive explosion, and next we witnessed, the ship was going down, with all of us aboard. It crashed into two or the buildings and we were thrown apart, land ing on the alleyways or bushes. Next we saw was a massive towering giant rising out of the smoke clouds, as high as a house and armed with two really leathal looking claws. Our DM was like "As you look up to the burning wreck of what was once your airship, you see this creature appearing out of the smoke, looking to each and everyone of you. And next session, you will have to fight it." I was sitting there thinking "Holy shit! Did all of this really happen just now? And I am down to one use of Wild Shape. This will definetely be a tough fight." (Spoiler alert: it really was.) Our DM also said that the Sorlock would have been the only one who would have been able to stop the engine overload that triggered the explosion and destruction of the airship.

@SDS_Solar 2 жыл бұрын

The first story reminds me of fools gold campaign with a tarask Benethe the magic city

@somepersonwithtoomuchtime5422 2 жыл бұрын

My character was resurrected from the dead after being killed by her once childhood best friend as the party looked at her worried and upset she turned around to see the body of her dead girlfriend and breaks down as her once bubbly world view shatters

@kraterytp6555 2 жыл бұрын

Our story started in Aerdale, an elvan city that is very racist. each of us were thrown in jail. We each got to choose our story of being arrested. Out of everybody's stories mine was the most creative. We all were thrown into an arena and forced to fight an ettin that called himself the Demogorgon. Later on, an adult oblex and a sewer wolf thing shows up. My friend kills the ettin. So, I used necromancy on the Ettin. (My DM said that I was not supposed to be able to raise the Demogorgon but because I provided a lot of creativity, I only got half of it.) The Demogorgon came back to life as a skeleton. But sadly, he doesn't have legs. After killing the other champions, we got to speak to two patrons. If we completed their tasks, we would be granted freedom. A girl named Cadence wanted us to solve the mystery of a poisonous river. And the elf was secretly a slave master. So, we went with Cadence. We reached the river and found a mermaid that was somehow immune to the poison, she also claimed that there was no poison. Then everybody started arguing. An airship flew by and picked me up without anybody noticing. Luckily, I get a sending stone so I can talk to one of my friends. I am then sent to a carnival. Me and a new character investigated the carnival and found a cult that worshipped Talona. Later on, we get rid of the cult and fly back to our main group. However earlier our main group discovered that the mermaid is Talona, goddess of poison and she poisoned the river. So, they attacked her. Talona did a thanos snap thing that caused the entire main group to disappear. But the good news is they did a lot of damage to her. So, my friend jumps down and tackles her with a sword. Talona then used a spell that I forgot to name to one shot the Demogorgon and kill him. Later on my friend slices her in half, killing her. The DM tells me I can return to Aerdale to get my freedom. As for the main group. We don't know what happened. And I told the DM that I wanted to find out what happened. A week later I asked the DM why she made the main group disappear and she said that she didn't know who would be back next year.

@deciple2017 2 жыл бұрын

I stepped up to try being a dm for a group of fresh new players, I had them start in a city where there was a carnival in town. In this carnival was a huge fenced off mud pit that was about 100ft in diameter where people could attempt to fight a greased up kobald. The player who was the barbarian didn't hesitate. Being I am a new dm I made some mistakes in whether the player rolled with advantage or disadvantage. Long sorry short, the barbarian got 2 nat 20s in a row and YEETED the greased up kobald out of the mud pit into the watching crowd. They haven't seen any kobalds since so I may need to barrow that KFC for later

@tylerkister4628 2 жыл бұрын

My last session I had the npc that the party first met/adopted into the party got his head twisted off

@WolfSteel1 2 жыл бұрын

Because of this community I'm currently planning to run LMOP

@TheOneAndOnlyDioda 2 жыл бұрын

Contact with first guy, please! I want hear about senator armstrong

@theotherexile6842 2 жыл бұрын

Hi that's actually me! Senator Armstrong was kind of an inside joke for us for a couple of months until one day our DM just decided to make him real His actual name was Brandon, but he used art someone made of Armstrong with a steel club. For all intents and purposes, he really was just senator Armstrong if he was a domestic terrorist The fight between him and trav was one of the most magical experiences I've ever had in dnd. Trav was statted out as a fighter monk for one reason, so I could pretend I was Kazuma kiryu and punch a mother fucker At higher levels, punch a mother fucker about 12 times in one turn, throw eldritch maul on top of that and you have a pretty sick one round nuker I bring this up because, of course, I saw meme potential I queued up "it has to be this way" and as soon as the lyrics started, immediately started rolling all 12 unarmed strikes Hearing my buddies lose it as roll20 chat sent out a flurry of attack rolls, priceless.