D&D Players, What was your biggest in character flex?

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[@redditersinn4737]

Ask what was your best companion play

[@perrytheplatypus1662]

Hi I just had a video idea sorry if this has already been done When did you get a critical hit and how did your dm describe it

[@guy90703]

You should do you asking what is your weakest weapon or item that one shot a boss.

[@PhantomZ0027]

how can i join the discord for players?

[@noneayourbusiness5149]

During an epic one-shot, I played a Dragonborn Invoker, Avatar of Io, who literally ended up becoming Io reborn. And of course, one of the deities we encountered during that one-shot was Bahamut. So, the first thing my character says upon walking into Bahamut's throne room is: "SON!"

[@nick5zone827]

That’s hecking awesome 🤣🤣🤣

[@exquisitetoast3859]

Sponsor section about stargazer's guide to aroria Me: *didn't I enter a raffle for that* Also me: oh, I've won! Thank you for reminding me of it :)

[@Jhakri_]

I may have dropped a 9th level spell on a child who was showing me the first cantrip they learned. Weird might have been a poor choice of spell, left that kid a mind-broken drooling mess & I'm pretty sure he abandoned his dreams of being an arcanist.

[@Animefan1803]

Best flex i had so far was making the DM nearly ragequit while playing a bladesinger. He had the party fight those two great champions that apparently were both way higher level than us (i still believe these two are set up to become some kind of villain?). Cue me being the last one standing, Cue me literally trolling both enemies because they couldn´t hit me due to darkness,mirror image and bladesong active. And that´s how a lv 4 bladesinger danced and mocked two level 10 DMPC´s that we´re supposed to obliterate the party. I may have died in that arena fight, but damn if i didn´t got the last laugh.

[@jdsimmons97]

Lol. That's really funny. I bet the same DM said Nope! You're not playing that class! When you tried to play the same class again.

[@Animefan1803]

@@jdsimmons97 I´m still playing the exact character right now lol. Same campaign even. Literally the first DnD character i´ve ever made in the very first campaign i´ve ever joined. Kinda a proud moment for me tbh.

[@jdsimmons97]

@@Animefan1803 lol. Cool.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

Chasing the rogue that got me imprisoned down a dark alley and despite not rolling high enough to see her in the shadows, giving her a tense horror-movie-esque moment of terror. I was a battlemage, we were equal level, and my character was murderous. And it was an evil campaign. Had I found her hiding spot, she wouldn't stand a chance. That moment was awesome.

[@devil_master1562]

I had a character who went from homeless nobody to wealthy business man, inventor of the gun, king of a country that he made for the soul purpose of tax evasion, killed over 1000 evil frog people, killed a ancient black dragon, and managed to consume 11 litres of 100% pure alcohol in one sitting without passing out even though he had never consumed alcohol before, all during the time it took me to go from level 1 to level 5

[@codyholley]

That sounds like an anime plot.

[@Gamer88334]

@@codyholley And an Elder Scrolls game. Or Skyrim, at the very least. You go from a literal nobody to the Dragonborn. You can even become Thane in every Hold, own houses in every Hold, win a war with or against vampires, participate in the civil war that's going on, help kill the first Dragonborn, own every single Deadric artifact in the game, or defy at least 2 of the Deadric Princes and live to tell the tale.

[@benihaniman4031]

Thank you guys in the last video’s comment section, I talked with my parents about trying to get into dnd and managed to convince them to let me try it out, as long as I don’t bring it to the house, apparently they calmed down about it compared to how they used to think about it, thank you guys for giving me some suggestions on how to approach the issue with them, now all I need to do is read up on the rules and find a group that’s willing to teach a new player!

[@MrRipper]

I'm glad to hear it! Join the Discord, theres plenty of people that can help.

[@benihaniman4031]

@@MrRipper do people on the discord play through the discord? Or how does it usually work?

[@MrRipper]

Yes, we advertise lots of games, so i'm sure you will find the right group to play with

[@jerryferguson5]

@@benihaniman4031 varies from game to game. One Dungeon/Game Master may want you to use a site called Roll 20 while others use Facebook Messenger and others use Discord with and without DndBeyond.

[@Dragonmaster0118]

Game stores I man tabletop/card game etc stores are a good place to look good luck.

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@jerryferguson5]

Ok I freaking loved the God Gnome story at the end.

[@known6607]

Was playing in a party full of Demi gods, not a Demi god myself just your average mega hulk Goliath. End up being most sane out of party and have to save they’re asses from dieing (mostly from stepping on front of the attack) on multiple occasions. My actions get noticed and I get blessed, with the blessing I fight and win against the world serpent. After making the big snake my bitch I take my destroyed armor and rode into the distance on my war horse named “Orphan eater”.

[@genericuser984]

now THATS a name for a horse

[@Valiguss]

Basically did the snake thing except I used my mind to lift it 8nto space

[@Scarletraven87]

All gone to waste due to that spelling Their *

[@cringeperson6333]

Ive used polymorph at bard lvl 5

[@JoshMarkSoul]

After dying and being resurrected by a part member making a deal with a god of chaos to pull from the Deck of Many Things in exchange for my life, I immediately was offered the deck and drew 2 cards. From those pulls I was given a keep and a title for said keep as well as a free level up. This Rogue ended up cheating death 3 times and turning a pirate captain's prisoners into a well respected work force and stole his ship.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

Successfully predicting an enemy behind a door, drawing a sword before I open it, and immediately impaling the giant centipede to death on the first round. As a lvl 3 ranger.

[@ap_trial666]

Had similar moment, but as lvl 6 high elf divination wizard named Lovilas. Detect 4 kobolds inside abandoned cottage & throw in alcemist fire. Roll crit, burn down the cottage, & kills 2. Fireball-ed the rest just for giggles.

[@perrytheplatypus1662]

So I got this for my dm who is already very creative so I can't wait for this to be released and have a great campaign

[@Fisthammet]

Casting at a high level cultist who was actually head of the town guard durimg his evil monologue; watching him fail his save against blindness, only to jump to his death through a nearby window rather than get captured.

[@naproupi]

We played anima, a game with slightly different rules than D&D. I played a full strenght puncher, we were tired from a fight against an army of minor demon when a demon mage appeared, summoned two major demons and paralysed us with a spell. You know, so he could monologue and then capture us for the plot. That's when I managed to pass the spell DC despite it being a 10% chance. Then I ran to the mage, dodge the two major demons attacks somehow and punched him in the face. The funniest part was the "impact" rule in this game, where high strenght character can possibly send flying ennemies they hit, and in this case our strenght difference was so high that this evil high level intimidating mage flew a good dozens of meters up before crashing on a bush on the other side of the field. ...he then proceeded to have the major demons break most of my bones, but that was so worth it

[@MrSauce-tw6lm]

In my friend’s campaign, I played a lvl 10 monk/ 1 fighter (just for fighting style). I have an uber long backstory, so I’ll cut that out. We met up with one of my old friends who had died in my backstory, but was brought back to life. He is a vengeance paladin (lvl 11). DM gave me control over him as well once he joined the party. The two stand next to each other in combat for several reasons. 1, monk now gets +13 to dex saves and only takes half damage on fails. (DM likes enemy spellcasters) 2, monk has sentinel feat. 3 monk uses knockback strikes to let paladin get op attacks with smite overdosed sword. 4, standing near high level paladins gives several other benefits. 5, both can heal each other. They are an incredibly overwhelming duo to face off with. It wasn’t even intended, it just happened.

[@MrSauce-tw6lm]

It is now a bit later, and the characters have changed. The monk is now kind of useless, but the paladin is so strong that it’s a joke in our campaign.

[@OdinPlays94]

My biggest character flex in D&D was when our party entered an enemy encampment to save the town's forces and villagers but we ended up getting surrounded by bug bears. No one in the party was equipped for that kind of encounter. I pulled a last ditch effort to try and save everyone and cast call lightning. It took all my spell slots but I managed to kill every single one of them before we got completely obliterated. After that I became a member of the queen's guard and was revered as a God by the townsfolk.

[@jeremysorejian]

I cut out a hell-bulls eye and survived a slash from the bull’s horn

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

My battlemage (3.5e sorcerer) had magic missile, jump, and spider climb, so the d.m. thought he was safe making our employer fly above the ground in this evil campaign. Unfortunately for him, I kmow the laws of physics, and jumped, whacked the skeleton, and jumped again right as I hit the ground to negate the momemtum. No fall damage for me, no thank you.

[@letsplaysvonaja1714]

While scouting an enemy castle for a rescue mission my character, who can go through walls, not only found the kidnapped person, but also lockpicked all her chains and the locks on the window before holding her close and floating out of the window to where I had told my party to wait with the teleport scroll

[@seneca-travelerprojects7795]

The Boop of death! My "Human Druid" (actually changling Sorcerer) who looks like a '60s flower child hippie, skipped up to a mechanical warforged collosus and booped it on the nose with a modified thunderwave. 11 points of damage and stunned it. Then used dancing lights to confuse it. Then cast firebolt at an oil slick coming from one of it's legs and killed it. Then my character skipped away happily. The rest of the party was filthy, bloodied, and generally messed up. My floral print sundress was unmarred and clean.

[@shadek144]

When in combat, my char cast a 4th lvl inflict wounds to which I stacked the channel divinity Touch of Death dealing over 50 damage total, and had to notify the DM none of it could be resisted due to my domain feature Inescapable Destruction. The look on his face when I one shot an early game bbeg in the first round.

[@gabrielperez9729]

5:09 doesn't the Half-Orc ability only work if you total hp drops to zero not over and beyond that.(i.e.) let's say 125hp knocked to -59

[@NotEpimethean]

The ability works if you drop to zero, but aren't killed outright. The only way to be killed outright would be to be reduced to negative max HP. So if your max HP was 125, you would have to be at -125 in one hit to die instantly. also, the PHB states that maximum fall damage is 20d6 bludgeoning damage, so a fall at terminal velocity is not likely to kill a mid level player instantly.

[@Tirath]

The max damage for falling is calculated terribly, hence players cheesing. A 170lb humanoid at terminal velocity is moving approximately 102mph and it would take approximately 1500ft achieve said speed. RAW caps the damage at 20d6 when it should be able to reach as high as 150d6. I probably wouldn't go that far, but it's one of the few rules I'd change in my own games.

[@WhyYouMadBoi]

If you drop to zero if you're not killed out right

[@beastboy0078]

my favorite flex will require time for witch i do not have right now. "gets shot off my horse" cannon falls off my back. ""Yes its a navel cannon!"" (dead pan face) attackers back off. I restrap the cannon to my back and walk right between my attackers while locking eyes on the leader. (EXIT STAGE RIGHT)

[@Toolumens]

During a campaign I’m currently playing, our party was ambushed in a maze by bandits and left most of us on death saves except the barbarian, but he also wasn’t doing too well. The final bandit knocked me down just before my turn, and as I rolled to make a death save, I hit a successful Nat20, so my character was up again and ready to attack, and when I rolled to hit, another Nat20. I described as my character whipped up onto their feet and in the same motion cleaved their sword through the body of the final bandit. The coolest moment I’ve ever gotten to have a Gwen, I don’t even care if I never have a mother great moment

[@markuhler2664]

I hope it's ok if I thought, "Dave, you silver-tongued rouge, you, ..."

[@davemakesnoises]

Nope not okay

[@abandonedgecko4824]

I'm playing in a pirate campaign after being a forever dm so I had to knock my character out of the park so I made a 6 yo Goblin sorcerer leaving an island with our loot we were attacked by another pirate crew on round one my character climbed to the crows nest,channeled his magical energy an one shot the rival ship with a twined fireball and quickend scorching ray (if anything is against "the rules" the dm allowed it) i almost passed out casting the spell because it was the first time i had ever done it but managed to clamber down the riging in time to see the ship go beneath the waves. After that my character was no longer the annoying first mate but Glee-Mar the galleon obliterator.

[@Scarletraven87]

How can you even be a DM if you're too illiterate to use punctuation? Oh, a 6yo goblin. Yes, ofc, that explains a lot

[@blatantpseudonym3313]

that sounds spectacular lol

[@timetraveler_from_2012]

You can't use two spells in one turn unless one is a cantrip

[@blatantpseudonym3313]

they did say that the DM allowed it

[@synashilp]

As a paladin of tyranny, I used my channel divinity to scare an invisible druid into revealing herself. Next round, I smacked her in the face with a critical smite and that was it, the final boss was dead.

[@victrystarz5953]

Mine's gotta be taking no damage against the boss of a one-shot that the dm said was the hardest thing he'd ever made. He did not know why bladesingers were op until I had 28 ac consistantly and he forgot to give it any damaging saving throws.

[@Jessie_Helms]

_I’m a DM not a player_ One of my players in my Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign decided to go for a walk while the party did spoiler-y things in the White Lady Inn while in Easthaven. Plot things happened and he was captured by [spoilers]. The rest of the group, after finishing their thing, decided to look for him since he’d been missing about 3 hours. “DM, goliaths are pretty rare in Ten Towns, right?” Asked the int 6 Half-orc fighter named Grunt. “Uh, yeah, I’d say fairly rare.” “Great. So I took proficiency in cobblers tools, can I roll to see if I can track him by his shoe prints?” The whole discord is lighting up and I finally answer, “Screw it, roll survival with disadvantage but go for it.” _Double nat20’s_ “You know exactly where Taurak (missing character) is based off these tracks and you’re all heading to the docks now.”

[@MrInitialMan]

My Coyoten Warlock/Rogue Yaryap (by this time, CG). We were doing a campaign where we had to deal with corruption in a city. Yaryap decided to pay the mayor a nightly visit. He used Fell Flight and Walk Unseen to get to a corrupt mayor's house without leaving a trace, and Flee The Scene to get into the mayor's bedroom. After rolling stealth to keep from waking anyone up, he lit the candle in the mayor's bedroom, woke up the mayor, and produced a colourful book, and proceeded to read "The Greedy Mayor And The Sad Townsfolk" in the tone of a father reading to a very little child. After finishing reading the story, he tucked the mayor into bed, gave him a kiss goodnight, and blew out the candle---invoking Walk Unseen as the candle went out. An invocation of Flee The Scene to get out and Fell Flight to get back to the inn, and it was like he was never there. I go to roll the dice to see if I intimidated the mayor, and the DM said "don't bother. You wake up the next morning to the news that the Mayor has had a complete nervous breakdown. His deputy has taken over his position."

[@vsh608]

Ooo I've got one from my previous campaign. To sum the backstory up briefly, my character Dyvlyrd Acheron Spade (Half-Elf Hexblade Warlock) was the son of Jaron Spade, a tyrannical king who had murdered Dyvlyrd's mother and cursed his wife to become his sword, though he had not learned it yet. (The sword was about the size of Cloud's from final fantasy but serrated and much more deadly). Well Dyvlyrd was aware that his father was keeping a constant watch, and through their wizard employer had been given hints that his father was the reason for his wife's disposition. Dyvlyrd just stood in his room and said, "We need to talk." Nothing happened immediately so the party continued to look into what seemed to be an assassination attempt on one of the other party members (Boba Alvarez II, a High Elf Cleric of Death). The search led to Dyvlyrd listening in on the suspects only to hear a familiar voice he hadn't heard in years. Que him yelling at everyone to get back as an explosion blows the doors off the hinges, slamming Boba into the wall. As the smoke clears and they enter the room, they see someone only Dyvlyrd and Boba recognize, Jaron Spade. "You called for me Dyvlyrd?" Jaron exclaimed smugly. In a very quick fashion, a battle ensued that made it very clear that we were overmatched by miles, as Jaron was a very powerful mage. Dyvlyrd, in desperation to finish his goal and keep his companions safe, walked forward, himself and his sword changing before everyone's eyes. His eyes turned black and burned with the same black flames that now engulfed his sword. The flames crawled up his arm and started eating away at his flesh. His humanity was replaced by rage in a moments notice as he swung his sword, black flames creating a whirlwind where he struck, slicing his father in two. That day is still historical to our group, as it signified the beginning of the end and is the most damage ever dished out in a single strike. Through the sacrifice of his powers, pumping a 5th level Eldritch Smite, a Flametongue sword, Great Weapon Master, some amazing damage rolls, the loss of an arm, and a miraculous nat 20: 169 damage was dealt in a single swing (we were between lv 7-10 at the time, I don't remember exactly). We won that combat, but it wasn't the last time we fought Jaron because of a damn spell known as Clone Hope you like it @MrRipper

[@Samagryn]

Had an epic level campaign where I played a Goliath totem barbarian/rogue. We were sailing to my homeland, and a storm picked up that tried to capsize the boat while I was manning the helm. Athletics check to try and keep control of it. 32 strength, expertise in athletics, and a proficiency bonus of +9 by that point. Cleric had cast guidance before retreating below decks, bard had given inspiration and done the same. Nat 20, skill bonus brings it to 49, guidance and inspiration bring it over 60. Not only did I keep control and get us back on course, I beat the kraken attempting to grab us from below (and causing the storm) into submission with the hull of the ship. Thankfully, the entire rest of the party had spells to repair the ship as this was going on.

[@sniclops15]

I was playing a simplified TTRPG called Adventurers! It's basically an oversimplified D&D, where you only have to keep track of 3 main stats and 2 additional stats that are combinations of the former. No races, no classes. Just weapons, skills, and RPing. Me and some of my cousins were doing a 1-shot for our first taste of TTRPG action. The theme was the wild west, so I went with an outlaw who had a 6-shot revolver and a dagger. My flex moment came right around the beginning of the session. We were all on a train when a train robbery occurred. I was seated in a booth on one side of the car, and a bandit and my brawler friend were trying to score a hit on each other to no avail. Not even bothering to get up, I aimed my pistol, and fired a bullet through the booth that the bandit was hiding behind. I rolled 2d6 (this game uses 2d6 instead of a d20 on checks) and got a nat 12. Ended up nailing the bandit through the booth without doing so much as moving my arm to aim.

[@agustinmazalan2530]

I had a half elf bard proficient in persuation. Long story short, i ended up with a 10+ goblin army to help us in our quest due to a persuation roll (i got a 27, 1d20 + 9)

[@spaghettio5589]

Damn i love these videos I’ve been binging all of them for days, I really wanna play dnd but I jus gotta try work with my anxiety, keep the vids coming!!

[@dxjxc91]

I haven't played a lot at high level, but here are some fun stories in a level 2 dungeon. In an underwater fight against something (a giant crab probably), it successfully grappled my cleric and not wanting to deal with underwater combat, I told my party (a ranger and rogue) not to worry, and absolutely nuked it with an inflict wounds. Later we are fighting the final boss of this dungeon, a weakened black dragon (many concern), I told the rogue it was time to use the wand of magic missile we found earlier, cast at level 6, rolled max 40 damage (I also hit it for 10 from toll the dead) and the dragon fled.

[@zacharyburd2647]

The party was fighting a few juiced basilisks at level 6. I was playing a warforged barbarian, of a homebrew subclass. The subclass is diesel-themed, and uses fuel and heat to manage rage and special abilities. The party was getting hit pretty hard during the surprise round, and the fight was not looking too good. I spent a large chunk of fuel points, maxed out my heat, and ripped one basilisk apart in a single turn. By my next turn, the last basilisk tried to run away. I got just within reach of my chain hook ability, and I shredded it apart like a living chainsaw. I took absolutely no damage.

[@kirxuvalentine4795]

[PF] I was a level 6 Slayer and with machine gun mode built in feats I killed an allosaurus in one round.

[@SymbioteInvader]

Best one was when I played as an elven arcane trickster who was a veteran with a fear of the cold (his division was killed by a spellcaster specializing in cryomancy). We were fighting against a white dragon and I was hidden away in the back and got a Nat 20 sniping it. The best part, however, was when it was hit with a Guiding Bolt and low on health, so it was trying to burrow into the ground as I ran away. However, I Misty Stepped right up to it and hit it with Booming Blade + Sneak Attack. The ruling was that I hit it so hard with thunderous energy that I blasted its body up to the surface, with me grabbing onto it to get back up faster. I even got to bust out a line in Draconic (that I admittedly stole somewhere from KZbin): "When you see the archdevils in hell, don't tell them I didn't give you a chance." In a post-war epilogue, I eventually became the royal family's archwizard and occasionally plane shift to hell to see how the dragon's doing.

[@alisontibbens2155]

In one game my kids and I were in, my son played a Dwarf with a war hammer. It had some magic power for more damage. At some point in the game we encountered a locked door which the DM described as made of 12 inch thick solid steel. Marc decided he wanted to strike the door, but the DM didn't think even Marc's hammer could get through the obstacle.He spent a minute or two trying to convince my son it was a bad idea. "It's not like it's going to explode," he said. Eventually he allowed Marc a roll anyway. Marc rolls a natural 20. The DM stares. ................ ...sighs. "Okay, so the door explodes."

[@Aku9466]

My biggest flex in game, 3.5 home brew FMA state alchemist, mostly medical specialist. Team interrogation of a thug, not getting anywhere, then I tell him, “Tell us what we want to know or I’ll reverse your digestive tract so you’ll have to eat with your ass and dump with your mouth for the rest of your life.” Dude didn’t talk and I was a man of my word. He died of shock rather than a failed transmutation but that was definitely a proud moment for me when all of the players and DM included are looking at me like, “You seriously thought that through and planned this in advance, just on the chance we might need to do THAT?!” “Yup.”

[@rafaelsoto2972]

First time playing DnD with a group of friends. And our warlock got captured in the claws of a giant crustaceans. I rolled a Nat 20 in an attempt to free him I ripped the entire claw of the crustacean.

[@thealchemistking4063]

Iv had alot of epic moments in our homebrew… But id have to go with the time where i rolled diplomacy successfully high enough times to the current boss we were fighting that i managed to convince him we had similar enough goals for him to NOT detonate his planet of pure gold. THIS RESULTED IN INFINITE MONEY FOR THE REST OF THE CAMPAIGN! I also once rolled a nat1,000,000. Also there was the time i spent all my mana on layering several freezing hell spells together (massive aoe cryomancer spell that freezes the surrounding area, buffing cryomancy spells and dealing damage) to kill a BBEG and in doing so put the top of the mountain into a permanent blizzard that even made my werewolf cryomancer COLD!

[@scorpioperk1137]

for context, my yuan-ti fiend warlock Anayi is one of only two characters that has not yet died in my current campaign, somehow surviving lightning bolts, fireballs, a homebrew poison meant to kill yuan-ti (bypassing poison immunity), getting engulfed by a gelatinous cube (twice), magic missiles (all of them), being swarmed by two groups of giant rats while alone, a false hydra, and the most recent incident. So we are trecking across a frozen hellscape to find one of the BBEGs lieutenants who is digging up mass graves of preserved soldiers from the ice and shipping them to different continents. The entire frozen continent has a Aura of Undeath that raises anything that dies on it as an undead compelled to go to the lieutenant. We are using a random corpse we ma- (coughs) "found" as a compass. dm rolls for random encounter dm: through the snow you see what appears to be frozen statues they were not statues, they were undead that had been re-killed and frozen there. Anayi who actually pays attention and knows her shit: Hey, this looks like the work of a white dragon, or more commonly a frost dragon. we should stay away and out of its territory. Everyone else: lets vote! ... we're gonna explore! five minutes later we are inside the frost dragons lair and lo and behold no one listens to Anayi. No caution, no plan. our aarakockra monk flies ahead, finds the frost dragon (who roars at him) and punches it in the face. He has no back-up. fighter arrives and helps out (misses all but one attack). Cleric uses aid on everyone, then Anayi finally arrives, and actually lands a fireball... which forces the dragon to use legendary resistance and guess who has insta-agro? rolls for dex save against ice breath... and fails. Aid saves me. my hp is at 4... and then the dms Die of Pain comes in, since I lost more than half my health in one blow. Dm rolls die: ok, your right side is completely frozen. I put my all into acting dead, even using minor illusion. it works. even my cleric thinks I'm dead. I use my turns to prepare the classic never fail, eldritch blast for when the cleric inevitably gets attacked. Cue to a few turns later, and they were finally able to get some good hits on it thanks to the cleric stopping it from swimming through the ice. So of course, dragons turn comes up, it's seeing red, and targets the creature that stopped it from escaping. it goes after the cleric, my prepared action goes off, and it takes two eldritch blasts to the face. and just like any good warlock, I picked up Agonizing blast (add cha as damage). killed the creature, and with repelling blast, it was thrown back into the wall. Now all allies are looking at me whom they had assumed had finally been killed and instead is breaking free of the ice with handy dandy pickaxe. Me: I. FUCKING. TOLD. YOU. SO. NOW KILL IT AGAIN BEFORE IT GETS BACK UP! I end up killing it AGAIN by shoving a knife shoulder deep through its eyehole before it can get its head off the ground, cause everyone else was too busy wondering about the golden chest encased in ice, or trying to cut off its head and failing. TLDR: Warlock once again proves surprising durability (without the feat) and kills a mini-boss TWICE. in the most warlock way possible; liberal use of eldritch blast, and ocular trauma. Edit: oh, and we are all only lv 8.

[@scottwilhelm2086]

The GM looked up at me sadly and said, "You are Grappled, and in the Hezrou Demon's mouth." I had the Demon Grappled and Tied Up the following round.

[@hellhounds2034]

my oldest character (i made him when i was 6 and transferred him into D&D). he's a 40-somethin' year old dragonborn storm herald barbarian. we were standing down a lich-samurai for my character's story arch (cause the DM knows i love Godzilla and all things Japan). out of the blue i, the least social and least talkative of the entire group, spoke out as the old warrior. cussing out this samurai in the best way possible. telling him he was a forgotten pile of garbage who lost any right to claim he had a warrior's honor the moment he became a lich. suffice to say the battle was insane and i still smile proudly at myself for finally doing great roleplay! good job me!

[@ShandorDavies]

I once played in a friend's Unknown Armies one shot - it's kind of hidden world urban fantasy fare. I was playing a kleptomancer - I got powers from stealing things that allowed me to do even more crimes or "steal" really esoteric things. We'd been hired by what was basically the god of commerce to retrieve an ancient artifact. It comes out in play that the god of commerce was planning to double cross us or something (it was a few years ago, the background details are a bit sketchy.) However, because I was the one who managed to snag the artifact, I effectively stole something so special that it unlocked a god tier use of my powers. So when we returned to the god of commerce, I asked if I could use my power to steal his business savvy. We walked out of there with the artifact and a ton of cash because he didn't have a clue anymore that he was being swindled. Apparently, this had massive ramifications as the one shot I played in was part of a years long campaign. Ooops I guess?

[@scottwilhelm2086]

Yuki got separated from the group and was surrounded by bandits. The party heard something down the corridor by the end of the surprise round. They called out to me down the hall, "Are you all right?" I called back brightly, "I am killing some brigands!" One Great Cleave later with my Greatsword, most of them were dead.

[@usam-zf6gc]

I was playing a barbarian with an insane level of strength and intimidation. I got on board an enemy ship, intimidated the entire crew off of the ship, ripped the mast out, and captured the ship all by my self. The DM had a look on his face that was priceless.

[@dacfiro7gadakall]

I have four flexes from one character. First, some context; my character was a kobold totem barbarian with average wis, middling cha, low int (7 or 8) and very high physical stats thanks to rolls. Our party consisted of a rogue, a paladin, a wizard (at that current time) and a ranger, most all of whom had high wis ~17. The first flex was when we were ~lvl 8 we got trapped in a room that had a single shortsword on an altar, and a pool surrounding it. I was hesitant, playing a magic-fearing character, but someone (i think the pally) decided to grab the sword. Wis save, which he failed. He disappeared, and rising from the pool was a shadow creature that we couldnt really hurt. Cue us 1 by 1 going to the sword and grabbing it, while fighting the shadow creature. Everytime someone touched it, they failed and another shadow creature would rise. With me being the last one standing, I decided "eh tpk or bust", and grabbed it. Used an inspiration and managed to just barely succeed, but disappeared into a shadowrealm. Long story short, they fought a giant beast, I rescued the soul of the sword from a vortex which killed the beast and saved all their butts. I also got a cool sword that grew in power with me. Second was during a "game" between us and an adult green dragon where one of us 4 (wizard was gone at this time due to college irl) would become a slave if we lost, but we could get a lot of stuff if we won. My Koto-barb, being a self sacrificing little git, and having acquired a headband of intellect, (and a potion of storm giant strength [important later]) took on the dragon's challenge of a chess game while the party would go through a maze ala the wizarding tournament in goblet of fire (dodge obstacles, and enemies, grab item, return and win). Right before they went through, had a heartfelt goodbye cause I had a premonition irl that my dice were not gonna roll good. While they were going through the maze, I lost fairly quickly in like 4 rounds due to horrible contested dice rolls (as I predicted). Downing the potion of giant strength, the dragon started to gloat that I'd lost, so hopefully they'd win or I'd be her slave. With my now greatsword (from flex 1, which by the time i quit had become fully sentient, turned adamantine, gave me the mageslayer feat, and had special properties I love that freaking sword man) I entered a rage and took out a tenth of her health. At this point with rage, i could take a little over 200 points of damage (would be ~400 if i was still with that group now) due to some very lucky rolls (where were they when I was playing chess!!!!) I was able to bloody the dragon solo by the time she got me down to ~75% of my max health. Unfortunately, dragon had magic and i got banished until the party returned. (DM later admitted if I hadn't been above half-health when i came back, she would have tried to kill me.) Third flex, due to some backstory shenanigans, we were being hunted by a semi unkillable half-giant (he had a thing kinda like the zombie undead fortitude feature), and due to something we still havent figured out, there was no magic in the world from a third sundering. He and a hill giant ambushed us on a bridge, and after knocking out our pally (the main focus of his ire) he lifted me over the edge of the bridge. Rogue managed finally to do enough damage to kill and behead him.... while i was still over the edge of this 1000 foot drop. Managed to barely make it up onto the bridge thanks again to my greatsword cutting into the bridge. On my turn I hauled myself up, ran at the hill giant, cut their achilles tendons as the final blow, and sent them falling down into the chasm below, destroying the bridge in the process. Fourth and final flex, Unkillable from #3 had been resurrected when magic came back, again due to backstory stuff we were trying to liberate a PC's home village from under this half-giant. As our allies closed in from the west (with the sun to their backs) we took down the catapults that would have pulverized them, which were set up on a hill overlooking the town. Then from the hill, we spotted him heading towards our allies (thanks to a totem ability cause it was chaos in that town) and I used one of my sword's special properties (war leader which amplifies your voice) to call out the half-giant, saying he was a weak, cowardly, half-baked and all around pathetic excuse for a giant. All in giant, which demoralized his goliath troops tremendously, especially the ones near us, which had just witnessed me killing a whole squad of their brothers beforehand.

[@no-oneimportant6861]

Biggest flex I’ve ever done is my warlock permanently shunting a ancient blue dragon from the material plane(as in no being could ever use any means to bring her back)

[@arrankharchkrall2916]

The first story of this video was told in another way in another video earlier in this playlist. At the end of that story, it was outright stated that the Aboleth became a slave to that Merid.

[@erictoncray966]

I’ve put this in other video comments but this is the tale of Seebo Shadowcloak. In a Halloween one-shot, we were visiting Halloween town from Nightmare before Christmas where Charm is fear and fear is charm. An Empyrean attacks our lvl 10 party, casting Earthquake, which levels the town and turns the entire area into rocky terrain. It then traps the Conquest Paladin and goblin cavalier in a resilient sphere after being effected by the Paladin’s aura, being rendered unable to move. Seebo, a deep gnome Arcane Trickster, then proceeds to use the rocky terrain to hide as he attacks over and over every round, always hiding and only ever being hit once the entire fight as he wears the Empyrean down and kills it nearly single-handed.

[@pathit5811]

I was playing a barbarian during a castle siege encounter, the party being on the defensive side. My barb was of the "dumber than dirt" variety, and upon hearing the enemy commander's list of surrender demands from the main gate decided to take immediate action. That's right, I threw my battleaxe at him off of the ramparts. Sadly, I only hit his second in command, burying my axe in his chest. Since I was unarmed at that point, I used my movement action to jump off the castle walls to get my axe back (the party was both amused and horrified). This time I managed to hit my target, landing squarely on the enemy general and crushing him (and both of my legs and spine) in the process. His nearby underlings stabbed me to death before retreating to rethink their plans of conquest.

[@nicholassykes128]

My Rogue making Vecna’s vault security look like child’s play. Pass without trace, boots of elven kind, +15 sleight of hand not only had me breezing around all but one encounter. One room was a laser grid. I almost yelled with excitement. To make it even better I was break dancing in the laser grid as I made my way through. I even took off my boots of elven kind and did half the vault barefoot .

[@WASDLeftClick]

There was that one time I played a Forge domain Cleric who forged a magical mace specifically to counter another party member(a Warlock) I thought might pose an issue down the line. Besides having a custom enchantment that made casters hit by it take disadvantage on concentration rolls, it was also shaped like the character’s deepest fear. Celery. The other player thought I forgot about that joke in the dungeon with the magic trap that makes you see your deepest fear, but I remembered it was celery for his character. “It’s mostly water and doesn’t taste like anything!” he said. “Celery is a vital component of mirepoix and the without celery seeds Cajun seasoning wouldn’t taste the same!” I told him out of character as my Cleric gave him a spanking with the celery mace. Not only did it get him to fall in line and stop being such a murder hobo, it was funny.

[@rompevuevitos222]

Accidental one: As a Paladin i get a feat that gives me an aura of protection, which stacks with the one i have I tought it would be fine since it was just a +4 to people within 10ft of me and i had a boody guard archetype, then the DM informs me that the auras also include me, i just went "oops" So yeah, now i have a permanent +4 to all saves which will go to +6 if i ever increase CHA by even 1 single point, the amount of times this has swung situations in our favor is staggering Another accidental one: i made a vedalken for a 1 shot, DM informs us midway the on shot that we are using sanity mechanics, Vedalken have advantage on INT, WIS and CHA saves My party starts going mad while i am essentially immune to all of the effects, the DM didn't seem very pleased but i couldn't change it mid session, i was also a druid so i carried the party trough pretty much every issue that arised, i tried to not do it but the few times i decided to remain in the background i was the only one that could help

[@capple3568]

A bit of a long one but. My biggest flex So me warlock, rouge and a fighter cleared out this castle, hunting down a dwarf we needed for and quest, low and behold the BBEG has him a knife point diplomacy was not working so I said "hell with this Eldridge blast" missed, the BBEG put the dwarf in the way he dies on impact and the BBEG flees, next session we head back to town to sell our loot at the black smith and report in on the quest, the fighter was getting his armor fixed when we begin to notice there is less people in the town, so to get the next plot hook we go to the town hall talk the the mayor, the door is locked the fighter stays by the door wile I and the rouge sneak in from the back, get round there and the back door is wide open and voices coming from inside so we sneak in the find the mayor tied up and gagged I check to see if he is alive, we are in luck as I'm about to untie the mayor I read a note "duck" I do and a dagger kills the mayor, as I look the BBEG is right there rouge walks in and calls for the fighter who brakes down, the door BBEG "give that back" I look at the dagger it's a nice dagger +3 (I didnt knowest the time) we are level 4 my replay "it's a nice dagger I think we will keep it" i make the throw the knife to the fighter but i keep my thumb on the dagger, i cast minor illusion to make it look like I throw it, a slight of hand check "18" I get away with it and the fighter throws the dagger out the door and we make for the back door and head to the black smith, so the fighter can get his armor he gets it and starts putting it on a few minutes later we see BBEG heading to the shop we are in "is there a back door!?" Black smith "yeah over there" we rush though the door to a backroom and the rouge begins to unlock the back door fighter is frantically putting on his armor, then the BBEG tries to unlock the door to the room we are in the rouge finally get the back door open out of character I say "wait minor illusion got us in to this it can get us out" I pull my party members it me and cast it again turning us in to a box BBEG bersts in sees the open back door, and gets even more pissed and goes to the black smith "where are they!?" Black smith "I I I have no ide" splat hes dead, BBEG leaves we stay the night in the shop me "he DM is there any magical weapons?" DM "Yeah" so we loot the place and get almost fully kitted out with weapons and armor for the use of 2 cantrips. Now the BBEG is really pissed and I got a new pact weapon, the trolling that is to come

[@philippf.1384]

My character pulled a mount St. Helens explosion by firing a giant fireball straight into a cavern on the flank of a mountain. It was supposed to kill its denizens, not blow up the mountain. We were on a platform 30 meters in the air, right in front of the cavern entrance. Needless to say, a stone platform can’t levitate, so it collapsed under us with the mountain. We could’ve all died that session, but fortunately the dice gods were with us that day. We didn’t need to kill the denizens, we could just have left, but my character wanted to show off.

[@vernonhampton5863]

When world hopping at level 19, we entered an early part of the Lord of The Rings. The team had to infiltrate an orc stronghold and we were cornered by the captain. While questioned, my bugbear rogue/ranger (disguised as Tolkeinian orc) got into a fight with that high level battlemaster. After taking a critical blow with damage (over 20 with an unarmed strike), I reset my jaw and said: "You call that a punch? You punch just like your mother, and I love that."

[@Scatteredpast]

Our party was being hunted down by the world's most skilled assassin. The literal boogeyman of the world. My rogue, after being convinced to think more about peaceful options when interacting with others by the paladin, had her gun loaded with a sleep bullet. We get ambushed by the assassin when setting up camp, and my rogue (who was a bit of a prissy princess character that refused to do manual labor, thus being delegated to security watch), immediately managed to notice the ambush, took out her gun and fired, crit, and instantly put the world's greatest hired killer into a coma. She still hasn't let the rest of the party forget 🤷‍♀️

[@fozzy117]

I've been playing D&D for around 19 years y'all, and this is my first time getting a monk all the way up to lvl 17. Yeah you guessed it, Quivering Palms are about to rain down! Flexing eminent! Lol

[@shaclown7721]

I'm playing a drunken monk, using Droop from the LMoP story, who got rescued by the previous party, and the heavy drinking of two of them rubbed off on him. I was expecting it to suck, since monks are usually suboptimal at everything, but i gave it a shot for the lulz. During the current campaign, we eventually reached the lair of an ancient blue dragon. We were level 10 at that point, and had all been given a potion of giant size, which turned my usually small sized goblin into a huge creature, increasing my damage dice from my vicious spear from 1d8 to 3d8. He also had a ring of spell storing, which allowed me to store the haste and mirror image spell inside of it. Our wizard cast fly on my monk, which gave him 60 ft fly speed. I cast both mirror image and haste on myself, which doubled his speed and gave him advantage on dex, AND helped him tank 3 free hits to keep his concentration for haste up. We found the dragon, and I rocket jumped at it, punching it in the face with 5 attacks (2regular ones due to extra attack feature, 2 from flurry of blows, and 1 from haste action), hitting it for 3d8+5 per attack with my maxed out dex score. The dragon used his lightning breath weapon, which i easily evaded with the advantage from haste, and every attack was either too weak, or hit a mirror image. It then tried to fly away at full speed, which was 120 ft. My monk, however, could fly 3 times as fast, since haste doubled my movement speed, i could dash, and i could use the haste action to dash as well. This meant it couldn't hit me, outrun me, or outdamage me.. Meanwhile, the rest of the party was trying every round to catch up to the fight between me and the dragon, but it constantly flew away from them. A giant managed to land a thrown rock, and the wizard landed a fireball. In the end, my monk almost solo'd an ancient blue dragon AT LVL 10, but it managed to teleport the fuck away when its hp reached zero digits.. It was awesome, seeing my mid level goblin punch an ancient dragon nearly to death, while it had zero ways to counter it.

[@KC622V2]

My sorcerer character got to flex twice in the same campaign. The first time was when I learned the truth about my bloodline where my magic came from, and met my badass gold dragon grandma. Dragons had been missing from the world for a couple hundred years, long enough for people to believe they didn’t exist anymore. It blew my character’s mind. After that, he would casually drop the fact he was a dragon whenever he got the chance. It was actually a pretty big moment for him cause he was convinced he was some kind of monster, and ashamed of his magic. The second flex came as a direct result of the first. The party was hired by an absolute bro of a king. My sorcerer introduces himself: “Hey, what’s good, I’m Sorcerer, I’m a _dragon_ .” “Oh neat! So is my son!” Turns out the prince was also a gold dragon sorcerer, and we were maternal half-brothers. Due to the way matrilineal succession works, and being the eldest brother, this means my sorcerer was heir to the throne. Now every time he introduced himself, he’d be _Crown Prince_ Sorcerer who’s also a dragon. The campaign broke apart a short time after this, and has some sour memories tied to it, but I still hold this dear to my heart. Aurel, if you’re out there, I love you, and you do your big bro proud.

[@kurroshin750]

I was playing in a friends game for about a year. The party was level 17 and I had true resurrection. The king had been murdered by his son about two years ago in game. We were supposed to hunt down these objects of power to strip the prince of power. The wizard we were talking to said that if the king were still alive, none of this would be a problem, so I resurrected him. They even had his bones, so that made it easier. It ended up skipping a year worth of real time sessions and went straight to the final boss. The party tried control spells and made him burn his legendary resistance before it got to me. I cast feeble mind and the party divination wizard used portent to make his role a 2. He had +15, but my save was 18. He was entirely magic based, so within that one round, we incapacitated the bbeg completely. It was a rapid finish to a game we anticipated playing for a bit longer

[@Souldestroyer22]

Was playing pathfinder with friends all of us our first time. Rolled 18 on INT with +2 from being a tiefling. Found a feat that said if you have 20+ int when you level up gain a spell and a spellslot of that level, we probably interpreted this wrong. I was playing magus so my main method of fighting was animating a bunch of weapons and turning into a dragon. During a boss fight on top of a building the boss hit me so hard I went flying off the building. DM made me do trig to prove I could get back onto the building with a single move action. Flew back, landed in front of the boss and hit him back, crit and did enough damage to kill him. DM said I was powered by shear force of anger from being punched off a building I came back and did the same thing to him.

[@tienshinhan4164]

Not sure if this fits. In my very first D&D game, session zero, we’ve all made our characters. We had, a human sorcerer (he only played this one session), a dwarven fighter, a human wizard, a human cleric, and myself, a wood elf Druid. The cleric was a domain of trickery cleric so when he sees a big crowd of people he decides to pick people’s pockets. Due to story reasons, most people (all PC’s included) were immigrants from a far away continent and did not have much. This cleric (who’s name was Rat) tried to steal the most valuable things he saw. He jokingly said they were the twigs in Nuku’s (My Druid) hair. I caught him but since I mistook him for a child I handed him one out of kindness. He immediately tries to stab me, misses, and attempts to flee. As our DM starts to describe what happens, I glance at my spell list and blurt out, “I cast entangle!” Rat, and everyone else in the crowd was pinned to the ground from weeds sprouting up and since it was still session zero no one could break out. Long story short: Within 5 minutes of my first session I have pinned an assailant to the ground with a good portion of the town square.

[@KnightPoetic]

Having my Half Ogre Fighter/Herbalist successfully play football with Earth Elementals in the Temple of Elemental Evil module, enabling the party to loot everything they protected without swinging a single blade.

[@jdarnone]

Once playing D&D 3E or 3.5E, can't remember. I was a monk and hit an Orc party leader with a NAT 20. DM had a homebrew rule that a NAT 20's triggered their Crit Table. On the Crit Table you roll another D20; 1-5 is 25% more damage, 6-10 is 50% more, 11-15 is 75% more, 16-19 is 100% more damage and a second NAT 20 = 200% more damage. So I roll a NAT 20 on the Crit Table and then rolled Max damage. One punch kill. So, I became known as Death Monk.

[@Wolfrover]

Heh. I don't get many flexes. I still remember a GURPS campaign at the Dallas Gathering of the Gargoyles, though. I was playing a hefty gargoyle -- big, burly, brawny boy -- and we were fighting ice crabs. As in, man-sized crabs made of elemental ice, filled with freezing water. I got the bright idea to pick up the one I'm fighting and throw it at the one fighting another gargoyle. Tough STR check to lift and throw something that big. Nat 20. With a mighty roar, my orange-skinned behemoth _flipped_ the crab, throwing it atop the other one and shattering them both. The entire rest of the table looked at me, stunned, until I got embarrassed. "What?" The silence went on. "What!?"

[@ravenhunter1355]

Let me tell you a tell of Torgon. For context Torgon is a half-orc Fighter with champion subclass, which some how makes him near immortal and no matter what my DM has done to kill him, he's yet to die to everyone's amusement. On one attempt Torgon retired to his room at an inn only to be attacked by an assassin. With nothing to defend himself he flexed his pecks to block the attack... Nat 20, followed by a successful strength check to take the assassin's dagger and with a single blow the blade's poison the assassin died. Also none of the attempts to kill him were malicious.

[@peripheraldevotee94]

"Don't bring knives to a fire-fight." Said by my Light cleric before barbecuing a slave trader to death with Burning Hands.

[@Runtsymunts]

My biggest flex: My character is a warforged graviturgy wizard/ eldritch knight. We were fighting 5 wights in a 4x4 room. In the centre of the room is a 2x2 pillar of fire. I upcasted magic missile to hit all the enemies plus some extra damage and used a gravity well to YEET all 5 enemies into the pillar of fire. No save, just pure unbridled radiant fury.

[@N3oArcadia02]

My character has REALLY high strength due to different bonuses (24 total). So the dm let anyone with strength over 20 hold large weapons with one hand. Once our party got a new member, (his last char was an evil vampire who tried to kill me only to be one-shot) and he tried to pick-pocket my sword since he thought it was lighter than it looked. He succeeds on the pickpocket only to fail the athletics to hold it in one hand and got slammed into the ground. My character looks over, grabs back his greatsword in one hand and says, “careful, it’s a little heavy”. Now the entire party leaves all strength related checks to me.

[@isdaalexf]

We had a huge town siege. Bad news - we're on defending side, so we're trying to save screaming citizens from a bunch of giants, trolls and a Fing red dragon bombardment. Party mages are playing something inbetween bombers and artillery, most of the party are driving in a cart, drifting hard through narrow streets to catch up with some siegeing giants, and my character lagging behind because of dealing with enemies on a flank before moving to the next one. So, a lot of chaos, some parkouring across rooftops for me, some "drive me closer, so i can hit 'em with my hammer" from our dwarf warpriest. The sieging forces start to lose ground and decide to retreat. Dragon also turns to fly away. My character screams "I said, stop, you scaly bastard, you're my quarry!" while rolling from a rooftop and stretching my bow. The dragon was flying away in a distance and had very high AC for our level. But it was all worth it. Nat 20. Then confirmed hit. I shot my arrow exactly into unprotected dragon arsehole. He didn't die, but emitted pitiful roar and flew away even faster. From now on I used "i shot the dragon's arsehole from 200 ft tho..." in and out of character.

[@the1sonder884]

In Dragon of Icespire Peak Starter set while all of us, DM included, are entirely new to the game. We’ve been using the Monarch’s Factory variant wounding tables, and my Battlemaster has had the left half of his face mangled by the talons of a Wyvern, destroying my eye on our way to Butterskull Ranch. At the ranch, after some failed espionage we storm the house, thinking we could handle the threat since orcs have been easy for us to deal with this far. Unbeknownst to us, the DM had felt the same, and had boosted the stats of most of the 12 orcs hiding there. A couple rounds in, half our party is down, me previously having been one of those due to taking on three beefed up orcs on my own and having been awoken by a friend with a potion. The only one actually doing alright on health was the rogue, who was darting room to room, confusing the orcs and getting sneak attack and killing one before scampering away. Up on the second floor, one of the orcs missed me and I used Riposte, dealing enough damage to take one his eyes. I snarled at him, claiming I would take his other one as well. The DM had me roll for intimidation. 18+5. “Cupping his now destroyed eye socket, he looks at you in terror as you say this, the muscles in payout face contorting around your own ruined eye.” I proceed to attack him on my turn (the other orcs missed my AC on their turns) and slash out his other eye, dropping him to the floor. “I’m coming for all of your eyes!” Nat 20 in intimidation and the other two orcs are wetting the floor boards. One more Riposte and an attack later, and the other two orcs were turning the floors crimson, missing their eyes, the last one of which was in my bloody hand after I had ripped it from its socket.

[@tobymoore2185]

Made sure a bad guy never got a turn with battle master groin punches

[@Lady0Chi]

I was DMing a game for my siblings. My one sibling was playing a cleric and they were up against a few deadly toads. They decided not to kill the toad and instead asked if they could try and befriend it. I told them sure roll me an animal handling check. Considering this was an encounter I made it hard but was knocked back when they said, "Nat 20 so 24" I had to give it to them. So instead of trying to cross water in heavy armor my sibling's cleric hitched a ride on the back of their new friend.

[@mordirit8727]

NPC who was the party's friend had been locked up in jail. He was innocent, but a lord wanted to use him as leverage to get us to do what he wanted. Because of one of the PC's having family in town, busting the prison in our usual style was out of the question. At that time I played a half crazy Storm Barbarian, who believed himself to be a demi-god after he survived being struck by lightning and waking up with electric powers. This character was a mix of dumb and crazy enough for me, as a player, to constantly roll WIS checks on myself whenever a smart plan popped into my head to see if it was possible that he would have thought of that. The best part for me about what happened was that the plan I proposed was _so stupid_ that I didn't even make a WIS check to give the character that idea. Before the dice all agreed with it, it sounded like yet another crazy idea he used to spout. Here was the plan. The goliath wizard, our tallest member, would hang around the area of the prison for a whole day, wearing a black cloak and having a disguised face, not talking to anyone at all. Our ranger, using different disguises, would now and then come to her and whisper to her a little, then walk away; change disguises, come back some 30 minutes later, repeat. We did this during the whole day. Then night fell. My barbarian and the ranger bust into the prison, knocking out any guards that hadn't seen our faces, killing any guards that had (gotta love Neutral groups' morals). When reaching the cells, we released _every single prisoner_ of the whole town, our friend thrown in the mix. To each prisoner, I said in a whispered voice: "there is a new master for the underworld here now, and the Black Cloaked Lord shows the rewards he offers by freeing you from here." We run out of the prison, accompanied by around 40 inmates... Our wizard who stayed out did so to scout the city with her owl familiar. She sent us messages to inform us of which routes the guards were taking to come investigate the commotion. Informing the freed criminals that they were to "look for the shadows in plain sight" if they wanted to work under the Black Cloaked Lord, we scarped off. A few of them were caught, but all the ones who broke under torture said to the guards was that "the Black Cloaked Lord" had rescued them. Rumors of a mysterious figure clad in a dark cloak casing the prison on the morning of the day it was attacked spread. Rumors of a new, terrifying master of the criminals in town grew... Our friend NPC fled the town, and the lord never suspected we were the ones who broke him out: he was too busy trying to figure out who the non-existent Black Cloaked Lord was. Later on, it seems like a random criminal eventually figured out there was no Black Cloaked Lord and took on the mantle (or should I say, the cloak).

[@wolfflamekindl9339]

Can't forget the time when my barbarian yeeted the bard's simulacrum at the BBEG and proceeded to crit, killing both the simulacrum of the bard and the BBEG. Turns out the BBEG was also a simulacrum, but I'll take the win.

[@liamconnor9235]

I was in a party trying to beat the Death House (spoilers for that, btw) I was a death cleric high elf with a solid enough strength score. Also in the party were two rogues and a paladin. The first battle of the session, against the animated armor, one pf the rogues tried to shoot it with an arrow and missed. I walked up and slashed it with a longsword, getting a crit and OHKO-ing it. Then, we fought the grick, who was getting the rogues and pally pretty bad. I hit it and used my CD to insta kill it with 11 necrotic damage. Later on, when we were trying to get into the cultist chamber, the paladin tried to pry open the portcullis and failed. “I’ll try”, I said. Nat 20. The dragonborn paladin was unable to lift the portcullis, but the elf cleric was able to call upon the gods of murder to open a door?? Pretty epic

[@patricksweeney3382]

Pathfinder, Master Summoner, mermaid, sitting in a bathtub... defended a castle by creating a pit behind the gate as it was breach and filling it with snakes. So the attackers tore down the wall to get around it and met my army of summoned Gorillas. The man leading the charge was a major antagonist (some kind of obscure dragon in disguise.) He looks at me at his men are getting mauled by the apes and said "I bet you think you're real cute." I made the obvious response ("B!@#$, I'm adorable!") and used Final Sacrifice to make the gorillas EXPLODE, clearing away all of his support. The leader let out a sigh, walked up to me, handed me a challenge coin, and left.

[@mr.ashenfire2624]

My Warlock managed to destroy a powerful relic that had a loose connection to the timeline of our world. Its properties replayed the memories of the big bad that lead up to their turn to evil. I was able to manipulate the history within the relic enough to make it magically unstable. The magic required to do such a thing relied on our cleric buffing my HP and surviving 5 levels of exhaustion during the incantation which lead to its destruction. It also severely injured our Big Bad, as well as gave my warlock some sick arcane scars from his close encounter with overloaded, dangerous magicks.

[@thorodinson292]

yeeted a molotov in a giant spider nest. burned them all to a crisp, and just said "easy as that" with the most monotone "this is boring" tone i could do.

[@tennagon3822]

Party fighting a hydra. Playing a Goliath Unarmed Fighter. Wizard, out of character: "Why don't you just throw your axes from a safe distance?" Me, also out of character: "Because my bare hands do more damage." I deliver the killing blow with an unarmed strike the following round.

[@PowerHouseProdigy]

Flex: When my Fiend Warlock at level 17 got the party Wizards to use a Wish spell to sever his pact with Asmodeus while maintaining his powers. Then, when he met Asmodeus face to face, Asmodeus tried to dominate him. I rolled a natural 19 + 11. Me: “DM, that’s a thirty.” After a moment of dumbstruck silence. DM: “Thirty was the DC.” The shock of my warlock resisting Asmodeus’ will was the opening the rest of the party used to ambush him.

[@josephdickson3531]

For a pacifist Bard, flexing was one of the best ways to avoid fighting. The wizard stole my lute. So I planned to use minor illusion (sound illusions are very effective btw) to convince the wizard to think the lute was cursed and hand it back to me, no fighting required. I messaged the DM my plan of spooky sounds from his bag and he reacted as worried as I hoped he would. More work, sure. But far more fun in my opinion. 😄

[@BeefaloGaming]

This happened during a dungeon crawl with some friends. During this adventure we at one point had to go a mile out to sea and use a divine horn to continue into the next part of the dungeon crawl. When we blew the horn a massive Sea Turtle Island rose from the depths. Not knowing whether or not it was friendly I decided to use snake trick on it (a patron spell that turns anything longer than it is wide into a snake of equal size). I proceeded to one shot an entire 2 hour long dungeon because it ended up turning into a snake that couldn't swim or breathe underwater. The dm at the time just looked at my brother and I with disdain and didnt even count any exp because of how many creatures were on the back of the Turtle and we moved on

[@BeefaloGaming]

In that same session I turned a city wall into a Massive Serpent creature with a patron spell. The serpent once every round did a field wipe of the center of the field and spanned 30ft wide. It remained on the field for 2 rounds before leaving the field. I proceeded to one shot it dealing ~800 damage to it using force manipulation. (This was during a dungeon crawl) the dead body of the serpent rolled on the city crushing half of it

[@sigo___9669]

My characters biggest flex: my character is the niece of one of the main bad guys. So he would never hurt her, as far as we know so far. And he will probably listen to her and do what she tells him. Though I have some ideas for her if big bad would ask her to join his side. Double agent baby 😎

[@OyBoy413]

My Tabaxi archer hit a shot at disadvantage at 600ft away killing a demon and distracting the demon army, as it came out of nowhere, and lead us to winning the war easily.

[@thejarredhog3936]

4:19 is from Pillars of Eternity

[@jamesreed2475]

Started DnD in the 70s and been playing since, even made it part of my business. I'm an old school 3hp Wizard gets killed by a lucky kobold sling stone kind of player. Recently played my highest level character starting my Half-Orc at lvl 1 and playing through lvl 18. Berserker Barbarian lvl 15 and Chmapion fighter level 3 through the end of rise of Tiamat. With a 3 person party including myself, lvl 18 Paladin and lvl 18 land Druid we killed Tiamat in just 2 rounds (only 1 level down from max). First round with Haste and Action Surge i had 7 hits with 2 crits and did somewhere between 200-250 dmg. Im still old school and love my low level characters but it sure was fun rolling all those dice and dishing out all that pain.

[@scottwilhelm2086]

We were playing a cat-and-mouse game with a BBEG named the Bloody Baron. We had a device for magical messaging and we decided to try it out. Well, the Baron gave an evil overlord speech that must have given the GM a sore throat, and I responded, "We decided you can leave."

[@cheshirecat3504]

Was a in a party consisting of a dwarf fighter, tabaxi monk, a tiefling cleric, and me, a human druid. The adventure had us working alongside the lesser kingdom of Allsrest who was currently being invaded by a greater kingdom. It started as mercenaries testing the borders, disquised soldiers pillaging outlying towns. Eventually all war has broken out and we had been asked to defend the city. Due to work I was unable to come to a few sessions so the dm had me go off on my own for a bit, we would have one on one sessions for what my character was up to so I mainly did what druids did, I wildshaped and hid while listening into armies invasion plans, where there forces would strike and whatnot, then made my way back to the city where with a combination of mold earth, druidcraft. Animal companions and mold stone I dug deep tunnels under where I knew the army would be at. As the day approached that the invading army had shown up, waiting infront with all their men ready to tear down the city, my party at the walls with their plan they had put together. I simply walked out from the main gate, raised up my staf and brought it down, the mold stone spell cracked the main support pillar holding up the tunnels as the earth ripped apart, swallowing up nearly three fourths of their army. And as the dust settled I slowly raised my staff once more in an attempt to threaten them, like I could do it again with no effort. No surprise the army fled, the party surprised and a little miffed that after being gone two sessions I had come back gandolf style and womped the invading army. Suffereda few exhaustion points from working day and night to make it work but it was worth it

[@thetiredbiker3652]

My best friend’s first time DMing, so I was playing a higher lvl pc, functioning as his helper. A lv 15 sorc/ranger adolescent steel dragon. He preferred the company of humanoid races, finding them fascinating. (Think Gandalf, but late 20’s instead of late 200’s) Party moving through a section of deep forest and DM has me make a spot check. Just me. Cleared it and find out we’ve just crossed into the territory of an adult green dragon. And she was coming. “Run east, now. Do not wait for me, and do not come back. Run… NOW!” (I’m not unimaginative enough to totally pull a ‘fly you fools!’ Line) Party runs, my dragon apologizes and green challenges to a battle of riddles to see if I’ll be allowed to leave alive or not. I win, and just a bit outside the green’s territory, the party’s rogue, my best friends younger sister, pops out from stealth grinning her elf ears off, “I saw that…” Proceeds to blackmail my dragon into buying her nice things and spending tome with her in exchange for not telling the party their guide is a dragon.

[@genderenigma8276]

rolled a 2 on intimidation but because of Bard reasons (Being a bard and the other bard in the party boosting me) i still somehow managed to skip half of our dungeon. and this was still before 6th level so that was fun

[@dragonmagick869]

I think my biggest flex was making a barbarian who got accidentallied into a tarrasque at lv5 who later went into a 1v5 against some ancient evil gods and walked away more disappointed than the time he found out it is now near impossible for him to get drunk.