D&D Players, What was your “How the f--k did you pull that off“ moment?

[@Mr.Colagaming]

I once convinced a group of bandits to join a cult that I had accidentally created about an hour prior I was a level 1 bard at that time

[@fumikagetokoyami3226]

Bard of sliver tongue?

[@Mr.Colagaming]

@@fumikagetokoyami3226 no I was still at first level and eventually picked glamour

[@Mr.Colagaming]

@Widojay2048 Two nat 20s and an 19 in a row

[@mythmakroxymore1670]

There’s no such thing as rolling a 19, that’s just criminal.

[@QuantumPrecision]

@@Mr.Colagaminga Nat 19 or 19 with your proficiency bonus?

[@ZippKitt]

I turned a false hydra into a true hydra using glue and dragon scales

[@lucygardiner7594]

thats funny

[@NerrawGnap]

It’s probably better that I don’t know how you did that. Since this way, I’m not tempted to try copying it.

[@zeehero7280]

how did you remember what you were doing? earplugs?

[@ZippKitt]

@@zeehero7280 Had one ear cut off in a previous session by a vampire assassin (long story) and I stuffed hay in the other ear

[@danielbutler8865]

I recently watched a KZbinr called DougDoug organise a match of DnD. In the middle of the game, the bard was knocked unconscious. They only had one chance to revive him, if I remember correctly. The wizard walks over and KICKS HIM IN THE RIBS IN INSTEAD OF USING HEALING, ROLLS A NET 20 AND WAKES HIM UP!!! Absolutely hilarious to watch Doug's reaction

[@quackelstheduck2040]

I rolled to throw a dagger into a green dragon's nostril, and rolled a 20, so it was enlodged deep into its nose. Other player rolls to do the same thing in the opposite nostril and rolls a 20 aswell. Now the dragon has a very profusely bleeding nose. Finally someone with lightning magic or a scroll zaps the dragon, aiming towards the nose. DM says the dragon lights up like a lightbulb like a cartoon character when they get zapped, due to some weird electrocution rules or something. I think this was at level five but I don't really know if it's relevant or not because it was my only game I've played.

[@drewtatum5846]

Talk about a shocking victory

[@QuantumPrecision]

@@drewtatum5846Well play sir.. 🤣

[@4rc4n3f0rg3]

This is why electricity and metal piercings don't mix.

[@WackyrDrago]

Me about to bring a magnet to people with metal piercings

[@NerrawGnap]

@@4rc4n3f0rg3 actually, it’s kinda the opposite: they mix *too well*

[@Inkbone3785]

I deceived a Minotaur that I was a cow and also deceived them into thinking I was working for them.

[@Soulessnight4]

Had a monk roll a nat 20 on medicine to resuscitate a dying party member, so I just imagine they kalimah with their astral arms like in stardust crusaders. They happened to have a similar situation with a certain deadly mold from descent into avernus rolled a nat 20 on medicine to save their friend… now how you would imagine a barbarian saving someone from death by mold? That’s up to you

[@Cixelated]

*smacks back so hard the mold comes right out*

[@spencerblais2539]

I am suddenly imagining the way Larry the Lobster resuscitates drowning swimmers: Punch them in the gut multiple times until the mold hacks up.

[@Konpekikaminari]

"Kalimah with their astral arms like in stardust crusaders" so... Diamond is Unbreakable?

[@Soulessnight4]

@@Konpekikaminari I meant when jotaro resuscitates joseph

[@Konpekikaminari]

@@Soulessnight4 ah Didn't see that one But I did see Josuke pull something from people's chest with his stand

[@Landis963]

Two words for the DM in the first story: Legendary. Resistances.

[@victornone872]

Yeah, that is... quite important

[@Landis963]

@@victornone872 And tossing one in off-the-cuff can be mitigated by making it clear that it was a grievous blow and having the BBEG focus fire the guy immediately, or pull the ripcord on an escape plan in a panicked reaction to how close they came to death.

[@kapelusznick9653]

Rulelawyer moment: Tbh it was DM fuck up, because mace isn't finesse weapon, so GS/A shoudn't be able to use sneak attack bunus dmg to that attack, co BBEG wouldn't drop to this low hp in a single attack.

[@lotsaspaghetticodejr.6488]

I just checked. Mace of Disruption is a Simple weapon, not a Light or Ranged. Can't sneak attack with it.

[@strongsmith1897]

That and Maces can't proc sneak attack. You need a finesse weapon for that.

[@severren1095]

I saw this video by Dingo about Favourite Nat 20s and Nat 1s. So there was the BBEG having a monologue. The Barbarian *dingo* got tossed into the air to smack the BBEG Nat 20. There was a house rule that said you get to roll to see how crazy it is and if you get another nat 20 you can roll again to see how that is. 3 nat 20s in a row means the target just dies. Now this was the BBEG so they let the DM roll to see if he survives. NAT 1 So 3 NAT 20s in a row + a nat 1 fail = BBEG just straight up dies

[@Scorpious187]

You know, I was going to ask Dingo permission to use the comments from that video for one of our threads, but I *can't freaking find a way to contact her except on Twitter* and no one ever responds on Twitter.

[@BrunoMaricFromZagreb]

The barbarian literally SAT ON the BBEG till he died??? Like Po vs Tai Lung?

[@BrunoMaricFromZagreb]

@@Scorpious187 Dingo Doodles,the one who draws "fool's gold"?

[@severren1095]

@@BrunoMaricFromZagreb No the Barbarian Hit the BBEG on the head

[@the05thatasked52]

Just watched that video like 15 minutes ago

[@rogers.5]

Two magic users performed a successful brain transplant taking a Goliath brain and put it in body of a deep scion.

[@HallowedKeeper_]

that first story is a great example of a cool moment allowed due to the rule of cool. As a mace cannot be used to sneak attack

[@morgantaylor84]

We killed a Mummy. At level 2. In AD&D. Which had MAX hitpoints (instead of random like you're supposed to do) because it was a boss. With NO FIRE or attacking spell slots, but we did have silvered weapons. Our DM still has no idea how no one died.

[@robopope7584]

So, I have a great one. This one is about another party member in Tomb of Annihilation. The party may have murdered someone and was sentenced to death by gladiatorial combat. The murderer, an Aarakocra paladin, had to 1v1 an allosaurus. At level 4. Without armor or weapons and bound wings. So, they waited for the allosaurus to charge, jumped on it, waited for it to charge the crowd (which was going wild), jumped off into the bleachers, and survived. It was insane!

[@alexanderthegreat6682]

I have a fun one from TOA. We had triggered a trap that teleported us into a room with pretty much a black hole that we triggered by being idiots and pulling levers. The fighter failed his save and got sucked in, and halfway through the DM describing his imminent, complete destruction, he used his lucky feat to reroll, and the DM had him crawl OUT OF A BLACK HOLE and deactivate the trap.

[@matthewheap9658]

Many actual years ago, in a 3.5 campaign, my GM had allowed my wizard PC to have a wand of polymorph. I used it a few times to moderate effect early on, then forgot I still had it. For example, my character used it to turn a dragon, who wanted to get out from a cavern it was trapped in, into a human form, allowing it to walk out, leaving its hoard. However, for most of the adventure, it had simply been a note on my character sheet. Come the final, climax boss battle, where the GM had stated he really wanted a TPK, the party was facing the biggest, baddest devil in all of the Forgotten Realms. My mage, Sir Auboron of Silverymoon, on his last gasp, pulled out his wand and watched the Biggest of BBEGs fail all of his saving throws and turn into a 3-toed sloth! Stabby, stabby, STABBY!

[@PercyShadowAssassin]

My player slept in a goblin cave. Stated awake a while to see if they tried to rob or attack. Caught someone. They pointed to their boss. Who instantly shouted that he would kill the goblin. And the player insulted the boss and asked to roll seduction. This sorcerer straight up insulted a goblin, winked, got in bed with them, and then killed then in the morning shovign them in a crate and started a revolution against the boss’s boss… my entire party has 5 in charisma…

[@QuantumPrecision]

Well I feel your pain there, my current character has a 5 in charisma and last session I rolled a 17 to intimate and FAILED.. 😂

[@aldritchhunter9861]

So, I just had one today. I'm playing a Changeling Rogue in a group of five, and we're exploring a cave with the help of an NPC Wizard. The cave was a place that had been used in a ritual to pull us from our home places into this campaign setting. One of our party members showed the NPC wizard a goat horn from that cave, which was covered in runes. The NPC muttered a few words, and then the goat horn burst into flames and became a pile of ash. The question posed to the party: "How did this happen?" My character had a -2 modifier to Intelligence, so I didn't expect to contribute much, but the DM let something slip in character, when pressed by a separate PC: "I didn't set it on fire, I just restored its point in time." Right then, it clicked for my character. So, she calmly said this: "So, what you're inferring is that these runes, when activated, freeze an item in time? And when activated again, it causes that item to experience everything that would have normally happened to it in that time? Because if that's the case, then that horn was frozen in time, incinerated in fire, and then left alone. Your reactivation of the runes then triggered it to finally experience the incineration, and now all that's left is a pile of ash." My DMs jaw dropped to the floor, and when she pick it back up, she simply asked "How the hell did you figure that out?" All I said, out of character, was this: "You spoke one sentence. That let me understand the whole paragraph."

[@alastor2745]

Big brain time

[@philw8049]

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[@philw8049]

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[@philw8049]

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[@philw8049]

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[@ProfMeerkat]

One of the other players who was a druid yoinked a goblin with a sickle on a string, and pulled it over but failed to kill it. The goblin proceeded to stab them in the shoulder for all their health, and the druid only survived by crawling into our wagon and eating raw beef.

[@harmonickolobok]

BBEG Vampire monologues, gloom stalker hitting with the mace of disruption - "Sorry to DISRUPT you"

[@syrune303]

I once managed to convince the leaders of the witchlight carnival to introduce the fast pass as a barbarian. It has inspired a campaign long joke that I still love to this day

[@NerrawGnap]

I’m not sure I understand…

[@syrune303]

@NerrawGnap fast pass at theme parks is an additional cost to basically get into an express line to ride the rides. Basically it's the I have more money then the other guys, let me go first line.

[@NerrawGnap]

@@syrune303 I’m guessing that in this case it was something closer to “I more muscles(or weapons) than the other guys, let me go first”?

[@syrune303]

@NerrawGnap nope, my dwarf is trying to start his own small stone masonry business, so he thinks he knows business better then anyone. Usually adds to the funny moments

[@theofficerfactory2625]

I love hearing from doodle poodle's party. They always have some fun stories.

[@jonathanmarks3112]

Do they have a YT channel?

[@Scorpious187]

​@@jonathanmarks3112 Funny you should ask... kzbin.info This is where the edited versions of that campaign's live-play sessions are being released! It's kind of new, so right now there's not a lot there, but the second episode of The Best Available (the name of the party in that campaign) is releasing tomorrow afternoon! (Also hi. I play Torxina in that group. XD But my character won't appear in the YT videos for *quite* a while, I joined the campaign when the party was already level 6.)

[@Clover_tongue]

I managed to kill fate as a concept with nothing but a paper airplane

[@jettblade]

I actually got that "How the f*** did you pull that off"!? from the GM. So we were playing RoleMaster and the GM wanted to do a short layman campaign, a really interesting idea but executed poorly. Basically we build normal townsfolk instead of adventurers. What the campaign should have been was we use our townsfolk skills to take out a dragon or other big monster without the help of seasoned fighters. It ended up being a low-level sprint to safety with zero combat skills because an army of orcs were chasing us. So while making characters I wanted to try to use some of lesser talents that were interesting but not practical. I made the Dwarvish Grave Digger. So we had random encounters and one of the encounters was a Storm Giant. At the time we were lvl 2 and the Storm Giant was lvl 15+. We stood no chance in a fight against it. The GM had Dwarves have racial hatred of Giants and I played it to a T. I charged the Storm Giant. It missed on a Lightning Bolt and I made my attack. I leapt into the air and smacked the Storm Giant in the face with a shovel. This is when 'how the f*** moment' happened. I invested a lot into maximizing my leap, taking lesser by interesting talents. By lvl 2 I had a Jump skill of +130. I had a standing leap of 16ft on a 4'0" Dwarf and hit a 20ft Giant in the face with a shovel. The GM had the giant start to laugh and fell over. I claimed victory. Also this was before Shovel Knight was a thing.

[@marcusfabela3024]

I got a story suggestion. When was the time you rolled a nat 20 in real life Edit:100 likes!!!!!!!! Tysm

[@leitm3912]

IRL as in not while playing a dnd campaign and out about doing normal real life stuff? Or do you mean while playing at a live table with friends?

[@brettreedy9520]

IRL, walking with my friend to a tailgate on campus before a football game, and these girls walked up to us, saying their freezer broke and all of their ice cream was going to melt, so they were giving them out to those lucky enough to encounter them. My friend and I were lucky enough to snag an ice cream sandwich each, and it was pretty tasty! TLDR: My friend and I rolled a Nat 20 on luck and got free ice cream sandwiches! 😊

[@marcusfabela3024]

@@leitm3912 what I meant is you just being your self away from the game

[@leitm3912]

​@@marcusfabela3024 Ok I got a good one then. During math class in 10th grade we had a teacher who liked to finish class a few minutes early and then show off his math skills with insanely long complex math problems that would usually stretch the length of the blackboard. He always got the correct answer but that day he didn't. He stopped class about 15 minutes early, did his math problem, got the wrong answer after 10minutes of solving and threw the chalk at the board making it explode everywhere because he was so mad he got it wrong. Everyone was just sitting there staring at him while he stared at the board then slowly started talking to each other. Since I already put all my stuff away I didn't have anything to write on and I started solving the equation in my head piece by piece taking answers from part and storing them on a mental shelf to pull back and use later on in the equation. After about 3 minutes of this remembering answers and using them to continue to work through the equation I caught his mistake. He didn't switch to a positive number when multiplying 2 of the negatives. A mistake like that in the middle of the problem throws everything else off. So I simply got up out of my seat walked up to the board and fixed his mistake then went and sat back down. The rest of the room who had been talking this whole time got real quiet as the teacher just looked at me dumbfounded for a minute then continued the problem from where I left off and got the correct answer this time. Bell rang and we all left to go to our next class as the teacher is just staring at me with his hands on his hips amazed. TLDR: Rolled a nat20 on Intelligence and blew the teachers mind with mental math.

[@mac_sour]

@@leitm3912 that's a good nat 20

[@UserMcPerson]

My first rpg experience was a war hammer role play. I’m wasn’t really super into it, but my friends needed another person so I said, “eh, why not?”. One thing leads to another and we end up taking over a possessed spaceship, which sounded really silly to me. The dm was clearly setting up a major quest for us to fix the spaceship…that was possessed….by demons. I had my character shoot the controls of the ship and say, “work dang it”. First time I rolled a nat 20. Dm got up, stormed out of the room, came back in and said, “BY SOME MIRACLE YOU GET THE SHIP TO FLY!!” Good times 😂

[@NerrawGnap]

Sounds like a typical response to a nat20. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@johnscarborough9627]

Alrighty then. This is the story of the time my party saved our Dragonborn Ranger from a swarm of giant piranhas by using a lump of cooked meat and Dancing Lights. So. We’ve been travelling through the forest north of Nicodranus and have taken our nightly long rest on the shores of a large pond. As we’re settling down for the night, setting up camp and cooking up some food, our Dragonborn, Kesef, notices something glittering at the bottom of the pond. Without informing any of us, she slips into the pond and swims down to it. Turns out she had found a Scythe embedded in the bottom of the Pond. As she yanked it from the pond bed, she feels the water shift, and suddenly a swarm of piranha appear. She makes her escape to the surface, at which point we notice she’s disappeared, see the water churning, and initiative is rolled. Our Tiefling Bard, Coda, instantly dives into the water to go help. Then it comes to our Verdan Warlock, Tartaros, who turns to the DM “So, you said these fish were dumb right?” To which the DM gave a somewhat confirming answer, which set our plan into motion. Tartaros enlisted the help of me, the Human Rogue Hawthorne, so create the ultimate distraction. Tartaros cast Dancing Lights and formed it roughly into the shape of a humanoid, and i took a lump of raw wolf meat we had from a previous encounter and used Mage Hand to shove it into the middle of the Dancing Lights, creating what we called ‘Meatuniclus’ (imagine the pokemon Reuniclus, but made of sparkly lights with a core of flesh). The swarm of Piranhas instantly failed their save and became transfixed on Meatuniclus, giving Kesef and Coda the opportunity to escape, with the Scythe in hand.

[@NerrawGnap]

Me: *reads first paragraph* *scrolls down to see how long the comment is* *hits like button, since I’m at the bottom anyway* *adds this reply*

[@NerrawGnap]

(After reading the whole thing) me: “yeah, definitely deserved that like.”

[@deltashard7980]

One of my players, a level 9 fighter with one level in rogue(I think, was a while ago) was picked up by an adult red shadow dragon. While in its claws, he maneuvered his arm to wave his hand at it while talking to it like a very angry father. I let him roll for intimidation(with disadvantage), a Nat 20, and a 18. Because of him having chosen expertise in intimidation, he rolled a 29. Rolled a wisdom save with advantage. Two nat 1s. The fighter got a temporary ally for the rest of the battle. The party was about to run away.

[@blakeetter280]

personal note for our favorite narrator from ohio (or anywhere else, minus wherever morgan freeman is from) your comments between the stories or your laughter at certain parts is my favorite part of these videos and its why i perfer yours over any other channel or narrator. one of my favorite youtube personailites and i love your work man, keep it up :)

[@mitchardbartson4272]

Playing a completely homebrew campiagn. My DM let us all get one super buff to our characters and I asked for a mustache that could turn into a full metal suit that would boost my AC. He said that I could instead have it take one hit from any monster and leave completely unscathed and this would recharge about every 3 rounds. He also gave us land mines and my two other comrades had a 200 walk speed or had wings. He was trying to get us knocked out by these zombies and I told them to give me their bombs and get out of their. I ended up blowing up the entire army of zombies and seriously damaging the BBEG while taking no damage. It was awesome.

[@jayniir6711]

My first time ever playing DND, my friend Fisher’s Monk-Fighter character, Darius, rolled highest on our initiative check. He spots a bandit, runs over, and uses action surge and some other ability that allowed him to have another attack. It ends up doing almost double the bandit’s health in terms of damage. My character, Flyck, just witnessed a 9 foot tall Goliath storm over to this poor bandit, and mangle his body with three punches. He had just about the same reaction as I did.

[@NolanTrapp]

I have to add this story. Buddy let me sit in on his monthly (pre covid) D&D Game and he made me sit as a prisoner. Said that when he entered the info, the battle was supposed to be near impossible. Well he let me try to escape the cell I was in while the party was attacking the minions. Nat 20. I then was able to sneak up because the villain rolled a natural 1 on perception. I then grabbed the sword from the buddy, nat 20 and the bad guy fell on ground. So my unarmored prisoner was able to attack with advantage lol. All but killed him by myself.

[@israfel070]

I heisted a powerful artificer's tinker shop while also being spied on by invisible divination magic and stole the thing I needed flawlessly without getting caught.

[@bearjaws9505]

I've got a really good one for you... Our party had recently had a TPK fighting a monstrous dragon made of flesh and bone and we had the opportunity to fight our way through hell in a mission to save someone to revive ourselves or to pass on. We took the chance to come back and also for an epic 9 Hells arc. We found ourselves on the level of Malbolge and traveled a fair distance to a stronghold and met with a group known as the Hell Walkers, also meeting an old party member who had died ages ago, being one of their top soldiers. Fast forward a bit, my character undergoes a change, becoming a Dhampir + Shadow Sorcerer/Celestial Warlock multiclass and we were sent on a mission to save the person we were here for from a fortress led by a Marilith, a snake-like fiend with 6 arms and 6 swords. We get inside and do some stealth to sneak by the Night Hags in her base stationed around and eventually get to the main room, we see our target and we do some distractions to get her out of the way to hopefully save them without sounding an alarm. What we didn't consider is that the whole ground around the target was trapped with Glyphs of Warding, so that hurt pretty bad. We had to stabilize the unconscious target so things were already not going well, the Marilith then turns around and charges to attack. Our group of 3 being Myself, a Paladin and a Artificer all try to engage this fiend, when our tank then gets nearly dropped to 0 in a single round of attacks. NOPE. Once that happened we knew we had to GTFO as soon as possible. There were only 2 options to escape, an above vent and the doorway because the huge stained glass windows loomed over a 500-400 foot drop. We were about to run through the door when we saw the 3 Night Hags we avoided running down the hallway, we slammed the door shut and had to find another way. But the Marilith was suddenly upon us and slashed the Artificer up, because of his insane AC, he survived well enough. I decided I had to do something against all odds and try to banish the Marilith. You may not know this but Marilith have a +10 to Charisma Saving Throws, which I did not know, but I had no choice, I had recently gotten a buff to my DC Spell Saves, so I summoned my shadow hound to give her disadvantage and cast it... she had to get a 3 or lower... she got a 3 on her second roll. Because of a +1 I got to my saves and the recent subclass change, she failed. Saying the words "Leave." She was sucked into a hole the size of a needlepoint, Harry Potter style, and my character bled from his nose concentrating on the spell. We had 1 minute to escape or up until the hags managed to break my concentration. We couldn't go through the vent we snuck in by because her whole fortress had been alarmed to our presence, we were already doing poorly on health and couldn't risk dragging around an unconscious person. Which left only one possible path, the stained glass window. It was either risk dying out the window or die to the Marilith. Both of others smashed the window and jumped for it, landing very hard and became very unconscious, but I didn't know this at the time. I still had the target in my arms, they were unconscious, I tried to use Misty Step to teleport closer to the window and jump too but because the hags opened the door, they counterspelled it... Seeing no other options, I took out the expanding boat we had, threw it at the doorway, yelling it's command word and it blew up to size, smashing me through the stairs blocking my way to the window and locking the hags out, I managed to hold my concentration for the spell by just 2. I then had 1 more option, jump, but I had to remain conscious, so I used the Dhampir ability to walk on walls and stepped out, hiding under an outcropping for a moment to catch my breath, I knew my friends were down there, likely unconscious, so I had to hurry, I looked to the further location down the cliff that I could teleport to and used Dimension Door, I could see them both, bloody and beaten on the group. I sprinted down the hill, realizing I was moving too slow, I used a magic balloon item to feather-fall the target safely to the bottom and ran full sprint down the mountain and when I reached the bottom, I couldn't teleport anymore, I just kept running and running and running. I slid on my knees to reach them, used a bonus action Celestial Warlock heal to get one and then smacked the other with a Cure Wounds. They both woke up gasping for air and lamenting their broken bodies. The target woke up, safe but floating slowly down to us, and we made it back without anymore encounters, which the DM said we got very lucky for because she was rolling for them. Mission. Motherf*cking. Complete. TL;DR: Banished a Marilith, smashed myself through some stairs with an expanding boat, jumped off a 500 foot drop and saved my whole party and the person we were there to rescue.

[@NerrawGnap]

Me: *finishes reading this* *stands up* 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@cooldemon5545]

My party once convinced an entire bandit camp to give back what they stole, and make honest livings. At level 1.

[@NerrawGnap]

Okay, I *need* details, please! 🙏 (I may be planning on using this myself, since it fits *really well* with my approach to most problems, (specifically, “the best way to defeat an enemy”) which is shared by most of the characters I make.)

[@cooldemon5545]

@@NerrawGnap A lawful neutral paladin, 20 in charisma, and a nat 20 on persuasion.

[@aspecttnd]

The intro to this video is one of the funniest freaking intro’s I’ve seen, immediately subscribing 😂😂

[@fabled5906]

In ToD, I replaced the leader of the cult with a Red Abishai. The party was a Twilight Cleric, Bladesinger Wizard/Swashbuckler Rogue, Wild Magic Barb/Rune Knight Fighter, and Draconic Sorcerer. The Abishai was a couple hundred feet in the air. Cue the Bladesinger flying up to him, and completely 1v1d him while the rest of the party dealt with minor ads below. They had an item that made fiends have disadvantage on attack rolls, and could get their AC into the high 20s/low 30s. So while the Abishai hit them once or twice, they mananged to leave that combat mostly unscathed. Can't say the same for when they fought Tiamat. But the player really enjoyed that moment.

[@NerrawGnap]

First thing I notice reading this: aside from the barb/fighter, all the characters in this party seem like ones that I might make.

[@NerrawGnap]

Regarding Tyranny of Dragons, I once used it to see how good a half dozen of my characters were. When the final battle rolled around, I accidentally out-planed myself! I managed to find a way to achieve (or at least have a very good chance of achieving) every likely objective in the battle: a plan to gain air superiority and use it to crush the cult’s ground forces. A plan to seize the massive treasure hoard within the mountain, and possibly silence that giant horn thing(I don’t remember its name). A separate operation to free the innocents being held for sacrifice. And a decisive multi-pronged ground and airborne strike on the caldera, which would stop the ritual before it could be completed by using *earthquake* spells to collapse the Temple of Tiamat. As I was going over this plan one last time-and feeling very proud of myself-I realized something: *I forgot to leave anything for my characters to do!* I’ve never been quite sure whether I find the whole thing hilarious or slightly terrifying(not really the right word, but I can’t think of a better one at the moment).

[@sabsfazbear7592]

A friend started a small one shot campaign with some homebrew to help me get into the game for the first time, I was a barbarian ranger multiclass although I don't remember the race. The little village was under fear of a pack of werewolves in the forest, I left to hunt them while the rest of the party was trying to plan, spent the rest of the day to set up multiple traps and shower in mud and waited till night, single handedly took on 7 werewolves and a alpha werewolf? (Don't understand any difference if there is but he says there was) and returned to town the next day carrying the corpses of the entire pack behind me, the entire party was terrified that I actually did it.

[@Anti-Gravity.]

I play a changeling rouge in a multi-fandom campaign. My character taught a night wing from wings of fire the entire English language in a day.

[@L-ghtlessSky]

in a d a y?? bro is the best teacher in pyrrhia

[@TheMormonSorceress]

My party was surrounded by bandits and we were having a hard time with them till my husband's character decided for some reason to tell a bad joke to them and he rolled high. The DM tells how the bandits were shocked and stunned by that joke and it gave our party enough time to get out of there. He likes to do weird things like that at any table top RPG but there always fun and hilarious.

[@LightShadow-EX]

I was once in a free for all D&D arena event at Iowa gamicon, called the Grind House Arena, where the arena has randomized pit traps leading to an industrial strength meet grinder underneath the floor, as well as fire ball & arcing lighting traps. The goal is like a glorified king of the hill, but instead of a hill, it’s a tower in the middle of the arena, with rotating rings that have differently placed walls on each ring, & ever half round the traps go off & the rings rotate, with each ring rotating in the opposite direction to the ring before it. There are also “loot generators”, which are essentially self replenishing chests that only opens for one who previously opened it if someone else took loot from it in the mean time for obvious balancing reasons, & if someone is on top of the tower when the traps go off at the end of the round, there’s a chance that lightning will strike the top of the tower. Everyone has to use a character from a preset selection brought by the DM. Anyways, in this event, I was playing at the same time as my brother & his girlfriend with a bunch of other players, & at about the halfway point of the event, with my brother & his girlfriend having formed a temporary alliance, one of the other players, who’s character is sitting on the edge of the top of the tower, asks the DM if the person below him (played by my brother) is a human. The DM has him make a perception check due to the distance, & the other player succeeds at his perception check, & discovers that yes, it’s a human below him, so the other player proceeds to fire an arrow of human slaying at my brother’s character, killing his character instantly, so my brother’s girlfriend asks the DM if the person sitting on the edge of the tower is an orc, makes her perception check, discovers that it’s a half orc sitting on the edge of the top of the tower, & so proceeds to return the favor by firing an arrow of orc slaying & instantly killing the other player’s character. The whole table went wild & I’m pretty sure that my brother’s girlfriend became a legend among players at the Grind House Arena. Not bad for my brother’s girlfriend’s first time at the Grind House Arena I’d say.

[@NerrawGnap]

This deserves *faaaar* more likes than it has received. Absolutely LMHO reading this!

[@nickobrien8043]

Technically combat never occurred... however, it was definitely a "how in the world did that happen!" moment. Apologies for the length. We are playing "Ice wind Dale" as our first campaign. The East Haven Docks were being investigated, by our party, where we met a Duergar Prince. He is immediately captured for interrogation, but his bodyguards are not far behind. My fellow party members chase them leaving me (a dwarf barbarian), alone with the prince. Without a beat missing the prince shrinks down, escaping his bindings and I can't find him!... Meanwhile combat hasn't started except for one Duergar knocked into the icy port waters. I'm frantically trying to find this sucker. I ask the DM, Me: Is there anything flammable or explosive on this boat? DM: No... I'm fully prepared to do whatever it takes to get this Mother Hubbard who happens to be in a wine cupboard. (Which I found out after a perception check.) Two other party members join me in apprehending the now teacup sized prince with anger issues. Our ranger motions for his little drake to attack the Gray Dwarf in the wine cabinet. His drake enters and within seconds is thrown like a ragdoll across the Boat's Cabin I begin to think that if we fight him there is no guarantee he won't A.) Shrink to escape Or B.) Take us on and it's a huge headache. I begin trying to deescalate the situation by flattering the prince. Saying how he has lived more lifetimes than I and was likely the better warrior. This goes back and forth until he and I agree to have hand to hand combat. Little did I know this was a ploy so he could use his neat little eye trick on me. He is attempting mind control... it doesn't work. : ) Me: That Tickles. Duergar Prince: How are you this Stupid!? Me: Hey, I'm average! (10 intelligence) DM: You only have one action to take. What will you do? Again, willing to do WHATEVER so this dude doesn't escape. I think for a few moments. The DM then voices the prince with a smirk. Duergar Prince: What are you going to do? This smirk would be our DM's demise, because it gave me the most ludicrous idea on how to deal with the situation. Me: I "interpret" his smirks as flirting, and I lean forward for a kiss. This is so I (a straight dwarf) can confuse our opponent and give my fellow members a chance in the dude's apprehension. DM: You don't even have to roll for that. I do. He rolls.... it's a nat 1. The DM sighs thinking how to move forward. DM: He is caught off guard by your approach, and while backing away screaming he falls.... He is now prone. Fellow Player at table: How dare he be homophobic! We have a good laugh, and the DM describes the rest of the situation. Turns out if the bodyguards hear their prince scream, they will surrender and give you any information you want so you don't hurt him. They surrender and the one that fell into the water emerges from the depths and is now towering over the boat getting ready to fight. He looks over at his fellow bodyguards and is slightly disappointed and also as a giant Duergar raises his hands in surrender. DM: Well now I have to be creative because I thought this fight would take longer. TLDR; We encounter a Duergar prince. He's captured then escapes. The DM is prepared for a massive fight which involves a giant gray dwarf. I'm to average to be mind controlled and I (a straight dwarf) completely avoid the fight by trying to kiss a homophobic Duergar Prince

[@koathekid8255]

You beat him with the power of *GAY*

[@BrunoMaricFromZagreb]

I always find it funny how no DM has a counterplan for "players do something crazy". I really hope you copypaste this story onto Reddit!

[@nickobrien8043]

@@BrunoMaricFromZagreb it is but i dont think i have it in the right spot

[@NerrawGnap]

@@BrunoMaricFromZagreb I’m pretty sure most do, they just never manage to have a *useable* counter-plan ready when they truly need it.

[@lunaghost9267]

The first time I used "Spare the dying". It was on a bandit (who had in fact a way more important role that what we might have tought) to interrogate him (I also used my Manacles on him, just to be sure). The DM was not expecting that at all, so after giving me inspiration, the story took a way different turn than what he prepared.

[@Ghostflame7027]

3 things 1: i rolled 5 nat 20s against an evil copper dragon so in 1 attack i did about 60 damage and i was a lvl 8 fighter 2: i rolled 4 more nat 20s against a shadow fiend so it died from just that and 3: i was about to go into a fight with a reaver which was supposed to be the first "boss" fight of the campaign but i made a deal with the reaver to give it six of my fellow soldiers instead of myself and my 2 companions the reaver agreed and then left the campaign was set in a sort of Crusades style theme i play dnd at my college and i was about 3 or 4 meetings in when this all happened

[@calebhill9191]

This was easily the greatest team moment of our D&D campaign, which easily brought some of us to tears laughing about how it had actually worked! For context, I was playing a warlock. Basically, we were a party of six trying to infiltrate a tall tower mounted on three different dragon mounts. To ensure our secrecy, we wanted to be able to get to a balcony on the 20th story to avoid the battalion of soldiers at the bottom. Making a close 30ft flyby on the dragons, one other party member and I were able to misty step off the moving dragons onto the balcony. We made it successfully, but our fellow party members were still flying. They make another flight around, they soared to over 200 feet above the balcony to rise above the tower. We only have one option. They roll a dex check, and jump to the balcony. With them flying down towards us, I readied myself on my back directly under our falling party members. Only once they were within 5' of the ground did I roll to attack on each party member with eldritch blast, using my repelling blast invocation (pushes them away from me 10') and firing three blasts due to my level. They all hit. The party members are blasted back into the air, up to 15' each, and land safely beside me, taking about 8 damage each from a 200' freefall. Definitely one of the coolest player moments of the campaign!

[@WarWolf947]

My group once convinced a group of goblins occupying a castle keep that they were evil layer inspectors and that they needed to inspect the place to make sure it was evil enough. A few Nat 20s later they were at the boss goblin without killing anyone, one shot the goblin boss, and spent the next hour killing goblins 1 by 1 through a doorway.

[@NerrawGnap]

Mind if I steal this idea?

[@TheKitsuneOnihane]

Pathfinder with a VERY experienced dm who loves insane nonsense. There was an attack on the capital from another land that pretended to be a performance. The bards created an "impenetrable" barrier that reflected all spells cast at or inside back at the caster. They used it to protect themselves while summoning huge demon-ish creatures to murder everything. Our wizard got a custom familiar made by the dm that can travel between shadows. Wizard made the familiar jump into the barrier and uses it to cast Phantasmal killer on the boss/lead musician. Somehow the boss failed both saves despite a MASSIVE fort save and a great will save. Boss dies. Well the spell still reflected back and our wizard also fails both. The city volunteered to resurrect after that crazy stunt. It really does always end amazingly when the dm facepalms.

[@NerrawGnap]

How does this not have more likes?

[@scorpioperk1137]

Minor spoilers (Single Monster and two locations) for Rime of the Frostmaiden So, the first thing to note is our party make-up and the fact that we are heavy into RP despite the grim nature of the campaign. We got the harengon warlock (me), goliath cleric, triton sorcerer, and the star of this weeks "Idiots on Ice" the kobold paladin. The second note is that certain interactions between the DM and I/my character tend to cause CHAOS. It all started when we are planning to our route from Termalaine to Caer-Dineval. We had a map, and could easily see the safest route was to follow the road. It would take a few days but there would be less chance of certain dangers. The only thing our kobold (who grew up in Ten Towns mind you) saw was the shortest route was half-a-days ride straight across the tundra. (failing a wisdom save to realize this was a bad idea.) Of course, everyone else jumped on the idea of the shorter journey. Being the voice of reason, I tried to convince the party that we have already encounter the White Death, Arveiaturace (near blind Ancient White Dragon, whom our kobold fell in love with at first sight) and barely escaped. The safe route should be- and of course I fail my persuasion check. Well. remember when I said certain interactions tend to cause Chaos? The DM rolls for weather. Its nice out for the Rime. rolls 2d20s for encounters and immediately gives me a death glare. DM: "You just... HAD to mention her didn't you?!" (He rolled two 20s) Kobold Player noticing the pattern: "Yesyesyesyes!" We encounter Arveiaturace (Just say White Death, its easier) and after several near death encounters earlier in the week (yesterday), the Harengon did the logical thing and bailed. Grabbed the Triton who was regretting not taking the roads, and misty stepped away, got into my ring (genie warlock) and the Triton put further distance with a thunder step. Our sled dog driver, aka the Kobold, went straight for the feasting dragon while our Goliath put the brakes on his axe beak and prayed he wouldn't be seen. Every player (including the Kobold) considered him dead. When Kobold player said the words all DMs fear. "I wish to seduce the dragon!" This Kobold when he encountered the White Death before, had tried to intimidate her, then took an ice breath. the only reason he lived was his resistance to cold and the DM rolling extremely low on damage. Now, the dm asks him the simple question of "How?" Kobold player then waxes actually poetry fully in character. So the DM in acknowledgement of the sheer effort allows him to actual roll with a chance of success against a contesting save. DM: "Welp, congrats. you have her attention. You have to do that a few more times." And he did. Several times. At the end, the DM says: "The White Death, chuckling at your antics and willpower before her, boops you on your nose, forcing you to go sprawling. 'MAYBE WE'LL SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN SMALL ONE.' before flying away entertained. Now I am going to grab a double shot of Vodka because I did not roll above a 2 for all of her saves. AND I BLAME YOU (points at me) FOR MAKING ME GO THROUGH THIS. AND YOU (points at kobold player) FOR BEING A LUNATIC." Cue DM rant while we all try to stop laughing. (This is not the first time my character or I have said something and then within five minutes what ever I said happens. DM actually started allowing the closest person to confirm the rolls are true after the second such incident caused books to rearrange their languages to primordial)

[@NerrawGnap]

How does this not have more likes?!?

[@JackCochran-r4h]

I have two players who both know thunderwave so every single time they're in a boss fight together they have to flank the enemy and then hit the monster with a "thunderwave sandwich."

[@NerrawGnap]

Thunder-Pong!

[@johnnelson4411]

My players once came up with an ingenious way to merge multiple kinds of magic and ideas together, unknowingly also having a skeleton kimg fighter order his subject to calm down (the fighter had amnesia of his human life), as the spellcasters tried to purge possession from a wraith. The cleric went to excorcise the demon in the wraith, the warlock shielded the wraith from the holy magic, and the wizard maintained the binding spell so the others could focus, as the fighter ordered the wraith to calm himself when the possession flared up. The party made several good roleplay choices, some nat 20s, and the wraith also knew the fighter was his lost king from when the wraith was still alive. This all combined actually allowed them to purge a possession in the wraith that had lasted over a millenia in a very epic moment that altered the course of the game.

[@NerrawGnap]

I must know more!

[@johnnelson4411]

@@NerrawGnap essentially, instead of a major NPC remaining an enthralled villain, the combination of cleric magic to counter the possession, an old one warlock shielding the wraith, and the party skeleton trying to order the wraith to calm down broke said wraith out of the control of a corrupted god. The party didn't realize until the skeleton ordered the wraith, combined with them trying to end the possession, that the skeleton has been an imperial prince in life. That revelation alone drastically changed the game, and learning they could free those enthralled by this dark power did as well. It was a complicated ritual, and very risky, but succeeded. The wraith became the first member of the new court of the lost imperial prince.

[@MagicalMaster]

My Monk, Art the Dodger, a street kid who grew up bare knucking people for his supper was the character and he was fighting giants with the party. Now, this whole party was MEAN in combat with no magic needed so most combat had enemy reinforcements come in as the official adventure just couldn't handle the monsters we made, it was all in good fun so we rolled with it. Now Art was no exception and he was a pretty strong combatant, run up and flurry of blows them in the jaw kinda fighter. Quick and mean and almost impossible to hit while dishing out consistent pain while trying to topple everyone over or knock them into environmental hazards with every hit. If he ever succeeded then our Fighter who was best described as a living lawnmower to the monsters would then proceed to make things thoroughly past tense, and that's if the rogue didn't douse them in oil and light them up before sneak attacking, or our Cleric and only spellcaster showing everyone why the Wrath of God is to be feared. Anyways Hill Giant reinforcements showed up and threw boulders at us. DM rolled to hit and I used my deflect missiles to try and burn off the damage. DM rolled low, I rolled high, and then I blew a KI point to have a guy who's maybe ninety eight pounds while soaking wet to catch and kill a giant by throwing their own boulder back into their face with a crit.

[@NerrawGnap]

“Art the Dodger” hmmmmmm… now why does that name sound familiar…?

[@NerrawGnap]

I see no problems with this sequence of events.

[@disableddragonborn]

The time that comes to mind is actually my first ever session. I can't remember most of the details, but I wanted to gently derail the session by doing the first stupid thing that came to mind. I apparently have great ideas because the stuff I did (to my disappointment) actually worked, to an extent. The only idea that I had that didn't help us succeed only failed to do so because of the DM homebrewing goblins whose only difference that I was aware of is his don't have the obsession with sparkly things like the basic goblins do. I planned to use Prestidigitation to make a rock sparkle so we could sneak past goblins.

[@NikAnima124]

I did a back-flip over 2 meters from a hill onto a boat and landed with a roll and bounce, also took out a harpies and took it down into the ocean and drowned it

[@Arts_and_Carafts]

Happened last session I was in, my level 3 bard accidentally figured out how to have just casual conversations with elementals using music

[@NerrawGnap]

Details please? 🙏

[@Adrum1454]

I managed to not only communicate with but convince a Tarasqk to help my party. My party ended up boosting his intelligence and he ended up training as an exalted monk with me and I convinced him a vow to take a poverty, so he no longer needed to eat or have the urge to eat everything.

[@NerrawGnap]

A) This deserves more likes. B) If you don’t mind, I think I might try to find a way to duplicate this. It fits very well with my general philosophy in D&D.

[@Adrum1454]

@@NerrawGnap Not at all feel free!

[@zacharybliven2697]

I had a labyrinth set up inside of a deep dark cave, and it was stalked with a minotaur, one of my players a paladin fairy set a trap hiding in the shadows of the cave to the side of where the charging minotaur was coming from. And held an attack for when the mino rushed by as the dragonborn sorceress taunted from the other end of the cave. The mino rushed forward and the paladin took a swing as he ran by. Nat 20 with divine smite. Brought him down to 6 hp left. So i just rounded his health down the rest of the way since it was so cool. Lopped off the left leg of the mino and brought him down. Dead.

[@NerrawGnap]

I see no problems with this sequence of events.

[@feazeldagamer2247]

I have a great one, so I’m a new DM doing a regular fantasy homebrew campaign in VR via VR Chat that I run during Saturday nights since I work part-time. So during one part of the campaign, my NPC Prince of this neighboring (evil) kingdom, a male half-elven rogue named Tatshiro Krivell (the prince of the evil kingdom) was going to try to kidnap my main NPC a female mage named Raven, while in combat with my players. Well unfortunately my first player playing as a male human fighter named Henry Gallows, while in combat with Tatshiro managed to do major damage to him, then knocked him out with the hilt of his greatsword. It had me completely shocked, mainly because this was the first time my players actually met Tatshiro. They took him hostage the next session.

[@NerrawGnap]

I see absolutely no problems with this series of events.

[@feazeldagamer2247]

@@NerrawGnap lol 😂

[@Sn0w7ir3]

I wouldn’t say it was a how did you do that but it was a cool moment anyway, basically my character is a half dragon rouge and she and the two others in the party were fighting a homebrew monster that is actually an oc of the dm (note: this is a campaign set in her own world that we helped create characters and lore for), my character was in a tree and then an npc showed up and said that we needed to give her a mask that is used to subdew the monstrous creature we saw before us, so when it was my turn I did this: I broke a vile of narcotic poison on my katana and then leapt off the tree sliding under the monster grabbing the mask and also stabbing it in an attempt to knock it out, after that epic at slide was finished I leapt into another tree using my wings as a boost.

[@FireBall0214]

In my very first campaign a year or two ago, my friend was playing as an aarakocra paladin. We were in a kobold cave and we had just killed one of two kobolds. He rolls to convince the remaining kobold that their leader had taken him unjustly for punishment or something of the like. I don't remember what he rolled, but soon we had over 9 kobolds following us and guiding us through the cave on a quest to save "fabio". We were sadly under leveled when we actually started fighting due to characters dying and a player quit on us after this, so the campaign died there.

[@NerrawGnap]

Man, that’s too bad. Sounds like it was fun while it lasted, though!

[@FireBall0214]

@@NerrawGnap It was pretty much one session for me (joined late) but it was a fun session

[@shadicwpm6290]

5:32 HANGING ON THE EDGE OF TOMORROW

[@artyswirl5780]

FROM THE WORKS OF YESTERDAYYY

[@Jaxophone1337]

I'm a player in a newly-started campaign, and we had one of these just in our last session. Our party, made up solely of three Level 2 adventurers at the time, snuck into the royal palace of a major kingdom's capital city (we had been discovering bits and pieces of a conspiracy involving the court mage, and believed he was evil). We managed to uncover his secret chamber lined with necromancy tomes and books containing evil magics, but ended up tripping a magical alarm built into the chamber. We scrambled out of there in a desperate attempt to flee with our lives, but ended up running into the court mage's father in the process -- one of the royal guardsmen. We had unintentionally allowed said evil mage to destroy all evidence of wrongdoing, and were about to be labeled as traitors to the kingdom. Through several botched persuasion/deception checks, about three points of inspiration, and one grand maneuver involving a holy sword that detects good and evil, we somehow managed to get the entire kingdom back on our side and expose the sinister mage for who he really was. We were on the edge of our seats the whole time, and managed to skip a good ways through an important story arc while narrowly escaping the jaws of a fifth-session TPK. ... This all happened because my Fighter wanted to find some baby hippogriffs.

[@NerrawGnap]

I see no problems with this series of events. (Also, I don’t know why, but I couldn’t help laughing at the early parts of the 2nd paragraph.)

[@robertpowell1464]

We once convinced a tribe of goblins to work with a farmer to grow food rather then raid for it, goblin poop being great fertilizer. Imagine a bunch of goblins dancing down corn rows singing badly and shitting wildly to help the crops grow while the farmer oversees them. It was great.

[@NerrawGnap]

👍

[@ajh22895]

My level 4 party alongside some guest NPCs managed to 2-round a Biomancer I had put in to guard the Zonot 7 side of a planar portal. He was high in initiative and his first spell was Cone of Cold which downed a few members of the army they had assembled. But between the party and the recruits they were able to do heavy damage. By the second round, he was on low HP and used Prismatic Spray as a desperation attack. By the end of that round, he had been downed by Corvak's Chaos Bolt. His henchmen were trying to carry him out when our NPC Knight Walter got a crit and cut the body in half, drenching the hybrid brute that was carrying him.

[@thunderphoenix256]

Less of a “how did you pull that off” and more of a “how did you think to even try”. In a campaign I was playing with two others, our very first major dungeon was a castle/fortress that had four possible ways of entry. The way we actually entered was NOT one of them. There was a tower in the back of the dungeon that we needed to get to in order to rescue an NPC. Additionally, one of the “four” possible ways of entry was to climb the wall and drop down into the courtyard. We climbed the wall, but instead of dropping down we made our way to just outside of the tower. One of us had an idea to shoot an arrow tied to rope through a window in said tower, have the arrow snag on the inside of the tower, and then climb up. I don’t even remember what we needed to roll, but this ended up working, and only bc the campaign notes rather needlessly specified that the tower had a window at all. As a result, we successfully made it into the tower where the NPC was. Not only did we enter the fortress in a way that wasn’t meant to be possible, but we started in what was supposed to be the final room and ended up going through the entire dungeon backwards. I guess this also doubles as a story suggestion for “what was your best sequence break” (assuming that’s not too similar to “how did you best completely derail the campaign”).

[@NerrawGnap]

Me: *reads first paragraph* “ooooohh, this is gonna be good…”

[@NerrawGnap]

Me: *finishes reading second paragraph* “why does that not surprise me?” 🙂

[@NerrawGnap]

I really hope you got lucky rolls, going through that dungeon in reverse…

[@Pineapply_Queen]

We were fighting the big good--an adult gold dragon--in a training exercise. She frightened us immediately, so I decided to use Entangle figuring if it worked the advantage from her being restrained would cancel out the disadvantage from being frightened. Somehow, she barely wiffed the DC14 Strength Save. And then made the concious choice to not burn a Legendary Resistance.

[@darianhobo8838]

Our party was playing a DnD Modern game and one of the forces against us was none other than the pope a 30th level cleric in a world with almost no magic. So we flew to the Vatican to siege the pope in hopes of delaying him as he was 20 levels higher than the party until reinforcements arrived. We were attacked by a giant worm and our martial artist walked out and said “I attempt to grapple the worm” our DM was like it’s a colossal worm it’s too big to grapple. The martial artist had a feat to grapple two size classes larger than him and took a bane style injection to grow and become just large enough. He then proceeded to roll a nat 20 and send a video from dune. He then threw down ropes for the party to join him and we rode the worm into the Vatican. Before we got there our tech guy placed a hologram on the worm and miraculously everyone watching failed their save so we just walked right in the door. Once inside my character as negotiator walked up to the pope who had no idea we were there and rolled a persuasion to join us. Not only did my character have at silly +45 to the check I also rolled a nat 20 to a check which required a 35 to become non-hostile. The DM was not pleased and rolled a counter and managed to roll a nat 1. At that point he just threw up his hands. We defeated his whole siege in 3 combat rounds with no damage taken.

[@jonathancooley8745]

Hey @Brianvaugnva, you have one of my favorite narration styles because you're not afraid to crack up, you keep it real. Keep on keeping on :)

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@darianhobo8838]

In a very long campaign I was on my third character and was playing as a wild mage and we were attacking the tomb of a lich who was incorporating dead animals into his thralldom. During the fight I managed to have a wild magic surge three times to hilarious effect. The first instead of a fireball I summoned a giant full grown forest with thick brambles all around us. My party was non plussed with this result and started hacking away at the forest and undead animals. So I tried to reverse my spell. The second time I surged and made our lead fighter fall madly in love with the forest so he felt compelled to defend it. Initially this even more pissed off my party, but as the animals clawed their ways through the fighter was passed a note saying that he went into a full barbarian rage and mowed his way through the monsters. Later inside the dungeon the lich was attacking our wounded party and with only one high level slot left I cast hallucinatory terrain on the lich who laughed at my spell which he easily saved against before striding forward and stepping on a branch to fighter very much saw with his low wisdom failed wisdom save causing him to go into a rage again and killing the lich. To finish him off we had to destroy his phylactery inside his vault which was magically sealed. I cast a power version of knock learned for this occasion despite it being too high of level hoping I got lucky on the wild surge. As a result I summoned an unwilling elemental form of knock. To persuade the magical key we promised to sing the praises of unlocking elemental far and wild. with a high roll he agreed and since that day we are obliged to occasionally return to the magical forest (now wife) of our fighter and tell the story of the unlocking elemental to their fey children.

[@Eternus_transmogrifus49]

My first ever DnD game, a one shot that resulted in me convincing one of the key bosses of the game not to attack us without even knowing it. I didn’t find out until the end of the game. Other highlights include healing and stopping the bleeding on a Javelin injury by using frost cone breath.

[@dflameX]

I had a fighter decide to throw his shield WELL out of allowable range to try and attack the Two Headed Red Dragon demigod. I decided to let him "Try" at a disadvantage. He missed his first attack and asked if he could draw his magical shield and throw it for his second attack. "You know there is a pool of lava between you and the dragon. If you miss your shield will be destroyed?" He just smirked and said yes. I watched him roll his two disadvantage d20s and get nat 20 on both dice... He slayed the dragon ,*as it had been on deaths door*, and became an absolute legend for it.

[@kiliandevers4994]

In my very first D&D campaign, I managed to single-handedly take out an entire boss fight while the rest of the party was still exploring. I was level one.

[@the_musicalfreakshow]

My favorite is when we were taking back an encampment from orcs under the cover of night. We scouted the place out and found that there were roughly 20 orcs (only one on guard up in a tower, the rest were sleeping) and 3 ogres. We were a party of 4 level 4s, so we didnt exactly feel strong- but I was a cleric and had access to the spell Silence. Long story short, I cast silence on the one orc on guard, my little brother (a dwarven rogue) sneak attacked and one shot the poor thing. We then cast silence on the sleeping groups of orcs and one by one killed them without fail. We never even had to roll initiative. When it came to the ogres, I unleashed 2 charges of Lightning that I was imbued with at a nearby lighthouse/ocean shrine. The whole thing that was supposed to be difficult was over without any actual combat. God- I love being a cleric.

[@darianhobo8838]

We were playing an interesting party where I was a werebear justicar who was naturally lawful good and my wife was a chaotic neutral sorcerer with very high charisma. Our campaign incorporated some Cthulhu style insanity check because of the very weird extra planner creatures attacking us. Long story short my character was very unlucky with this mechanic and consistently was going more and more insane. Eventually in my weakened state one of the enemies cursed me to attack all undead on sight which was very problematic with an undead necromancer for a party member with a whole horde of minions. But my wife rolled deception to tell me that I was just insane and actually our who party was alive and I should only trust her. Classic high low split she got nat 20 and I rolled at nat 1. And my character fully accepted her as source of trust in this crazy world. The party then finished the fight and went to go climb in the giant mammoth skeleton that was our party mount/bus. Except my bear stood there in horror as the party climbed inside the ass of a living mammoth and the sorcerer smiled and told me to climb inside the waters warm. 😂

[@tonywalker3541]

My friends and I played a re-skinned version of Icespire Peak DMed by my sister. Our friends were brand new to the game, so we figured that we'd kind of ease them into it with something lighthearted and fun. The party consisted of a human fighter, a wood elf monk, a centaur fighter, and my variant human life cleric. All starting at level 2. Now, there were many wacky and downright hilarious shenanigans that came out of this game, but the one I want to talk about happened at the very end of the session. By this point, we were all level 3 and we'd made it to the dragon's lair in order to retrieve an artifact that said dragon had stolen from the nearby city. After passing through several hallways rigged with traps, we entered the beast's hoard and found ourselves confronting a young red dragon named... Jeff (yes, that's what my sister named him). Anyway, none of us were particularly keen on fighting this thing, so our human fighter decided to try and negotiate with Jeff to allow us to take the artifact peacefully. Now there were two problems with this plan. First, it's a freaking dragon, and they don't typically part with their treasure willingly, even on a good day. Secondly, the fighter who was doing the talking in this scenario had a measly 8 in charisma. Still, we all wanted to see how this would play out, so with our fingers crossed (and a help action from my cleric) our human fighter rolled for persuasion. Nat... freaking.... 20. My friends and I laughed and cheered at our good fortune while my sister just looked gobsmacked. We walked out of there like champions, artifact in hand, and completely unscathed.

[@konnerpaxton9082]

During a campaign that I was in it was a One- shot that we never got to finish but during during the that one session we ended up fighting a freaking Wendigo and if you'd never heard of a wendigo holy crap are they terrifying they have a long lengthy humanoid body with a deer skull for a head and during the entire fight it just kept saying and the most creepy voice possible that it was "hungry".

[@fixed2113]

I set up a one shot with my coworkers & at the time only 1 of them had ever played before. They fought nearly EVERYTHING, that was until they got to the BBEG room: Player A:“I would like to convince them not to be evil.” Player B&C: *agrees & tries to helps* I, the DM, decided to let them roll since this was the first time they did roleplaying without me offering a prompt. I did tell them I would roll opposed. Player A rolled a bat 20 & I rolled a nat 1….. so yeah no combat for the room/battle I spent hours setting up. But I think it was worth it since all of them cheered & asked if we could do a campaign. So I think it was a win

[@spazmeister1791]

You’re 1 octave away from being SwaggerSoul’s doppleganger.

[@Malhaloc]

I was playing 3.5e. It was my first time playing. First combat. I rolled 3 instakills in a row! For those who don't know, in 3.5e, the way attack rolls worked was you make the attack roll. If you meet or beat the AC of your target, you hit. A natural 20 auto hits and awards a critical threat. You re-roll the attack roll. Meet or beat the AC again to confirm the critical. On a natural 20 on this roll, you re-roll again. On a natural 20, you instakill the target. I rolled 9 consecutive natural 20s, using a different die at my DM's request after each instakill.

[@stevencastleberry7799]

Great video guys, and to the theme of the video I have one of my own to share, I was playing an artificer in a campaign ran by a mutual friend and our parties wizard had obtained a wish from a homebrew god our DM came up with. I asked the wizard to wish for a bag of infinite dumping which was a homebrew item I came up with which can dump an infinite amount of a material that is designated but you can only change the material once per week, he gave me the bag and I immediately started pouring gunpowder into our bags of compression (another homebrew item) and had it pour for about 6 months real time (about 2 years in the campaign) and I then pulled out an ultra condensed ball of gun powder when we fought the bbeg. I have our wizard prepare a fireball and have our cleric call upon their goddess to open a door to another dimension, our barbarian threw the bbeg into the portal and I threw the gunpowder ball into the portal as well while the wizard cast fireball on it and we closed the gate. The DM paused for a moment before looking me dead in the eye and asked me how much gunpowder was in that ball (it was about the mass of the sun but weighed only 1 pound) when he heard that he took a deep breath and said "the explosive force is so great that it completely wipes that dimension from existence and the memories of the Gods, your just erased it. He then locks eyes with me and in a calm voice tells the party "your artificer just killed a boss with over 10,000,000 health and an AC of 250 with one ball of gunpowder even though all he has done all campaign is make the party items and never fought once and is wearing nothing but oil soaked rags, what the actual heck just happened" we all burst out laughing as DM.exe just shut down for the next 5 minutes as he tried to figure out what to do. Hope you enjoyed this little story, don't have a reddit otherwise I'd have posted there

[@SMon42]

What edition were you playing where a enemy has 250 AC and 10 million HP!??!? Like, HOW!? WHY!?!!??

[@stevencastleberry7799]

@@SMon42 it was a home brew campaign I think we were playing 5th edition, the dm basically created everything, although he let me create some items because he and I were friends. Needless to say I made an artificer the most broken class in the game, plus we had killed so many big bads without having any trouble so he was trying to get us to struggle because we usually managed to find a way to just run the bosses pockets with ease, and in my case I erased the boss and an entire dimension from existence on a whim because I decided when in doubt blow it to kingdom come XD

[@NerrawGnap]

@@stevencastleberry7799 of course you did…

[@darkphoenix539]

I don’t remember exact details and I don’t know if this one fits in topic, but .. here I go. We were hunting BBEG, some unknown undead, her only weakness was “Cat allergy”, our artificer and druid prepared a trap. Or rather TRAP, heavy machine gun turret with live cats as ammunition (our DM rule back then “If its cool enough I allow it”). Basically we attached trigger to tripwire and hid gun with prestidigitation. Unfortunately I was used as bait for BBEG, what’s more my character was paralysed just in front of barrel, BBEG was closing on me ready to start her fresh meal and she … activated our trap. Lets just say we both took 40 d4 “Cat” damage and none of us (appart from cats) survived it.

[@cultofloki8361]

One of the other players in my campaign was notorious for casting eldritch blast on anything and everything that the dm puts a highlight on. One time, we were trying to open a magic door with a giant living eye at the center, and none of us managed to open or wake it up. “Welp, guess i’ll cast el-“ DM : “A beam of green radiant light shoots from your shellfire bow. A fire orange eye as large as your very body opens, with a slim pupil. you opened it.” It took us a while to realize that this was just a joke the dm planned out because it never worked.

[@taekwonditto]

This just happened in my Thieves Quest campaign that I keep bringing up in the comments of these videos: The team entered a goblin populated town and they are face to face with the leader of a goblin tribe that lives close to this town accompanied with hobgoblin bodyguards. At a blow of the leader's horn like 4 more hobgoblins appear and the fight begins. I originally made it so this fight was unbeatable and the hobgoblins will keep joining in the fight until all the players are down (won't result in a TPK), but instead what happened was the players ended up one-shooting two of the enemies within the first turn. I was so amazed by this that I just let them have the win and let the leader knock the party out with their magic. Told them about the unbeatable fight when the session ended and they liked the idea of it being unbeatable and liked how I didn't add more enemies so I wouldn't make the players upset

[@Thundarr100]

My human male barbarian berserker from The Tribe of the Bear in Forgotten Realms’ Icewind Dale once one shot killed an ancient red dragon. This was way back in the early 1990’s using 2nd Edition rules. The DM had beefed up this dragon, making it way tougher than the strongest red dragon you can make using RAW in the Monstrous Manual. He increased the amount of hit dice the dragon had, improved it’s ACTUALLY by about 5 points, lowered its THAC0 to a 1, increased the number of dice rolled for breath weapon damage, increased the combat modifier for the dragons age, increased the size of the dice rolled for bite and claw damage, raised the dragons Magic Resistance from 65% to 85%, and made all of its Saving Throws be between 4 and 6. My berserker, Nord Steelheart, fights in a two weapon style, with an Axe of Sharpness +2 in his left hand, and a Bastard Sword of Nine Lives Stealing +2 in his right hand. I happened to roll the best for my initiative (a nat 1 on a d10, which was the best initiative you could have in 2E). Then when combat commenced, on my very first attack roll, I rolled a nat 20. The DM first rolled to determine if my swords magic could get past the dragons Magic Resistance. He rolled a d10 and got an 8. Looking smug he picked it up and rolled it again. Another 8. A total of 88, three points higher than the worst number he could have rolled and still managed to avoid the death magic of my sword. Then he picked up his d20 and rolled a saving throw vs death magic. And his face . . . fell. He lifted up the DM screen and showed us all what he rolled. It was a nat 1. The dragon, the mightiest dragon ever made by a DM for the sole purpose of challenging a group of heroes who had become too powerful to challenge with lesser monsters, dropped dead at my characters feet. After. Just. One. Hit. That was EXTREME good luck on my end, and EXTREME bad luck on the DM’s end. But holy shit was that ever INSANE.

[@SamEvans-at-sc_evans]

TY for the venture bros voices 😂🦋

[@adrenaline0915]

a friend of mine had made a dnd session that was like hangover out characters wake up drunk and had to figure out what we're suppose to be doing. and one of our characters was suppose to reset a magical dooms day device. he had failed once making it go off in 4 hours then failed again making it down to 1 hour and then failed one last time making it go off in 30 mins. then out drunk dwarf with a hammer just decided to come up and wack it with the hammer. he rolled a nat 20 making his dwarf hit it with the tinyest of swings like a spoon hitting a wine glass causing the device to reset to next month.

[@greatestbud750]

The first session of our dnd campaign, we were on some floating islands. Our party had to get from one island to another, and one of us had a rope, a grappling hook, and a crossbow. So we shot the rope into the side of the other island, with our mage creating a bit of extra earth for it to stick into. The only remaining problem was crossing the rope. So, my character went across first. Dm told me to roll athletics. Nat 20. That was the first roll my character got to do. I literally ran across the rope, and then jumped off it, doing a handspring off my hand to land on top of the cliff. As a level 1 Sorcerer. That character is now my lucky charm

[@kingskelett6265]

So, we played Descend into Avernus and we were in the crypts under a cathedral. We had left one of our players to defend some refugees while the rest cleared the rest of the rooms (yes, I know, splitting up is stupid, wasn't the best idea). Then, some cultist or something attacks the refugees alongside two hellhounds. In the span of about four or five turns, which is the time the rest needed to run the hell back, this one player character got brought down several times, only to stand back up again. Against all odds, he survived long enough for us to run back and kill the attackers. The PC retired after that.

[@mastercerda]

So.... Who wants to get tacos?

[@BrianVaughnVA]

I'm down! I can make them, or we can check a local Mexican place.

[@neisan92]

We were rescuing a bunch of hostages from a necromancer Tortle boss. The dude wacked my fighter with a nasty high level spell that almost killed him on 1 shot AFTER making the save. We have three people in the session, 1 illusion wizard, and 2 battle master fighters. The Wizard went invisible to help the hostages, Us fighters went for the boss. The other fighter went first and started with a trip attack, it worked. She then proceeded to action surge. I was next and then I action surged, all in all 8 attacks in 1 round, all hits, and the Necromancer was practically dead. As a last ditch effort, he called for his master. The wizard freed the hostages right after, one hostage was a very good healer that healed me up to full health before they began to run out of the dungeon. The Party stayed while the master, A red Dragonborn with a nasty great axe, teleported into the room the next round and demanded we surrender, I mouthed off to him and got wacked as a legendary action or something for a crit and was dropped to under 10 HP AGAIN. As a result I bent the knee and offered my blade in service to this guy. The other fighter followed my lead did the same, and the wizard who had hid before the master showed up convinced the DM to let him try and cast a Major Illusion of us in our kneeling position while we actually move away, He makes a perception check and the boss fails to notice us or pierce the illusion as we slowly back away and leave with the hostages. We got away Scot-free having dropped the original boss and tricked his boss long enough to escape almost certain death. 10/10 would do it again. The DM awarded us with a level up and the Alert feat on the spot for making it out alive AND with the hostages to boot.

[@jesternario]

My players were up against a gorgon (in D&D, that means a metal bull that breathes petrification clouds). The players were getting hammered by this thing but hadn’t turned to stone yet. In comes my cousin, late. He puts his monk miniature where he was when we left off the previous session, and that happens to be where the gorgon was just passing by. He decides to go bronco busting. I have him roll acrobatics and animal handling. Now, you ever seen videos or gifs of that guy who just sort of hope on a mechanical bull and just stands on it as it moves? This is what my cousin did. He kept forcing the thing into walls and dealing unarmed damage until he gets it behind a gate and slams the door. They then pelt it with ranged attacks until it dies. I was just looking at his dice, which didn’t roll below a 15 the entire time, dumbfounded.

[@curtisholsinger6023]

First campaign with mostly new PCs. Not a "you meet in a tavern," but "you meet in the... afterlife?" Campaign. So i needed them to die or be magically transported. First character, a Courtly Changeling, was exploring for an artifact (long-range goal). Accosted by 5 highway robbers, surrounded, on a cliff pass. What does she do? She convinces all 5 to come back to her city of origin and get real jobs. Convinces them, on absurdly lucky diplomacy rolls, that she can get them jobs in the Queen's castle. Which she then did! Almost derailed the campaign from the start.

[@veridliley9722]

I think my biggest how did I pull that off was when I essentially flipped heads nine times in a row. Set up: 1v1 gladiatorial combat, I’m a level 5 sorcerer, my enemy is a Revenant, I am very low on spell slots and sorcery points. My plan was to nuke him round one with quickened spell 3rd level scorching Ray and twinned spell fire bolt. This does take a massive chunk out of his health however it’s definitely not enough to take him down. He retaliates with two punches, which takes me down from full to a third. I go on the defensive. I’ve got two first level slots and a third level slot. My options for the 3rd level slot are an upcast spell, fireball, hunger of hadar, or what I settle on, blink. What ends up happening is I spam my last two 1st slots on dissonant whispers to buy space and just chip with fire bolt. In case you’re unfamiliar, blink is essentially a fifty fifty chance of only existing on your turn and a ten foot teleport after you blink. The first blink doesn’t go off. However the following nine all roll 11 or higher. This allowed me to keep away from the revenant and chip with fire bolt. It was crazy and it saddens my that because it was a series of 1v1 combats that the other players left and didn’t experience this. (It was late and we play online so it was fair). I should’ve been downed and I highly doubt I will ever get that lucky again.

[@probablyzeke6014]

I didn't want to do a puzzle door my DM painstakingly made, so I asked to roll to noclip through it. He thought for a little bit and told me to roll with disadvantaged. He warned that if I got a bad roll I would plane shift. I rolled two nat 20s.

[@luigines6457]

I'm playing a campaign as a Gloomstalker Ranger, and one session, we fought a necromancer that summoned a bunch of zombies to fight us, and to attempt to get away from the 15 or so zombies, I used Disguise Self to disguise myself as the necromancer to confuse the zombies, and somehow, I managed to roll high enough to confuse the zombies, and stunned them for a minute of combat. There's some other details that happened, but that's all I got time to write for now.

[@dragonickmaster]

I once turned what would have been a tough fight against a group of Bandits, into a slaughter. I'm a Human Scout Rogue and my teammate was a Vulpine Rune Knight Fighter, and I were in a desert heading to, the bandit's base. On the way there about... fifteen of them ambushed us with the leader on the back of a Dire Horned Desert Wolf. Before they attacked I had walked off to do a bit of 'hunting' but really hid behind a dune due to hearing them coming. As the bandits charged I shot an arrow at the leader, knocked him off the wolf... and the wolf instantly turned on the bandits. Once all the bandits were dead we tamed the wolf, went to the base, and captured the rest. Even got a second Dire Horned Desert Wolf to be my mount, with the first one we got being the RUne Knight's mount. The entire thing would have been difficult for only two players but because we were smart, careful and had good rolls, we took out that entire Bandit Base with little to no damage, and even recruited the bandit's prisoners to join our new merc group!

[@mikewithington4755]

I believe I posted this on another video but here it goes... So a quick note before we start, my character was given a homebrew ability to regain a spell slot, however chaotic forces would take effect, and the higher the spell level the stronger the forces (each level equils 1 random effect) Ok, onto the story. Me: a kenku wild sorcerer Nm: human warlock, kobold wizard, fire ginasi/giant cleric, and a dmpc dragon born fighter. - while travelling to a rouge group that had split from the guild we worked for, we came across a woman running from what looked like mutated lizards. After defeating them we find that they were literal nightmare creatures created from the nightmares of the woman opening a portal to the dream realm to sort out her own problems. After another quick battle from some weaker creatures, we decide to have a long rest where we notice some fire. -Me being a good player decide to bring up the fact that our characters would dream and our nightmares might be used... all of us apart from the kobold had nightmares that long rest. -While walking to the portal, we discuss how to solve the portal situation and my characters solution was a simple "Well, I go in, I make something happen, I get out." Implying that chaos magic would be used to solve this situation. But overall the idea was to secure the portal then close it. -once we arrived at the location we see all our nightmares come to life, fire spread around the ruins of the place, with a giant in the form of the clerics father standing behind the ruins (fire giant btw), what looks like a faceless accountant looking for our warlock to pay up her contracts (idk how many they have but I presume alot) and some scarecrows with the sounds of laughing children emanating out of them to scare off the bird brain of my character. - initiative starts and the cleric is scared to the point that they run away from the place, as the rest of our party starts attacking the nightmares we find that they are able to take a beating, but as we attack one their allies react causing our wizard to realise that their health pool is linked and after a perception check they find an octopus like puppet master pulling the strings next to the portal. - my turn is up and I move up to range and misty step behind it, then I recharge my 2nd level spell slot I just used causing the room to be set on fire. After a few turns of me trying to close the portal with no effect and almost being hit (thank you mirror image) I decide to take a quick stab at the creature using my dagger, then I misty stepped out of there. With the regular wild magic occurring. -shazam.gif -As the chaos made 3 bolts of lightning hit 3 targets (1 each) being something like 76hp total. But don't forget that the hp pool of the enemy is shared -jimkerryGrinchsmile.gif -All that damage defeated the boss right then and there. With the session ending. TL:DR, my character said that they would go in, something would happen, get out... and it worked.

[@anotpro123]

One time i had a whistle that summoned an ice mefit. We were fighting a black dragon(AS LEVEL 2 CHARACTERS) and we managed to get into a room it couldn't. So I summoned my ice mefit and casted fog cloud at the dragon so we could sneak past him... that day made me feel like god

[@Spoofopolis]

My group was sailing a boat to another island to deliver some cargo. On our way one of the party members was fishing and almost failed a strength check to reel in a big fish so I, the druid, decided to prepare enlarge reduce the next day. On that day a group of sharks lead by a megalodon attacked the ship, ramming it trying to sink us. It was supposed to be an escape puzzle for the party to try get away before they damage the ship too much, but I had other plans. I casted reduce on it, making it a large creature instead of huge and then thorn whipped it onto the ship. Not being able to move and only thrash at the party, we were able to kill it. We now have 300 pounds of shark meat and named our crew Shark's Bane

[@LokiFreestyle]

The last but not least part was cool as hell

[@michaelmcqueen6808]

I was a lvl 3 halfling rogue assassin and while I was pillaging valuables my party got confronted by the bbeg. He had taken control of our wizard by the time I made my way out in the square. The bbeg was a corrupted angel. Well I made a stealth check NAT20 got up behind the angel and asked the dm if I could cut it's wings off and make it mortal. "I doubt it but roll and see once per wing. If you fail you will die." I thought about it for like 5 seconds shrugged and with a loud YOLO rolled my 2 20s and both landed on 20s. My DM spent the next 30 mins on the porch smoking trying to figure out what to do with his massive campaign that I just completed at lvl 3.

[@lorddingusmcfurguson9356]

I've mentioned Ransom in a prior Video on this channel, as well as this incident. Early into the campaign, Ransom drew a demon hunting him from the Deck of Many Things. We all wondered what it would end up being seeing as Ransom was far more than any typical Horny Bard, and we later found out that Ransom was afraid of cows. There was no explanation or reason for it, they just freaked him out. Eventually we end up making our way through a magical sandstorm and we run into Ransoms demon, a Bael and it's skeletal minotaur minions. We are playing a homebrew, so the Bael was able to turn itself into sand so it could divide us into the storm. Ransom, however has an idea. Being a literal God of Chaos, he casts magic mouth on every grain of sand within a 60ft diameter and also casts cutting words for each use of magic mouth. Many would call it there, but many are not Ransom. He proceeded to explain to us that each grain of sand within a SPHERE OF 60FT is reenacting a screaming version of No Sleep! The effect is so powerful that it first turn oneshots all of the enemies,and very nearly TPKs us. Cow Demon: *exists* Ransom: Skibidibopmmmdada- Vaporeon! He very literally blew a hole into a magical sandstorm via a mindnuke of unwanted information. Edit: Let it be known that I am still putting things that Ransom has done on the other video and this only scrapes the surface of the shit he's put us through.

[@Varnockthe1st]

It was near the end of a dungeon and we’d learned the person we’d come to rescue was much worse trouble than expected, so discussion ensued. In the end two of the party refused to go, called it as good as killing ourselves, but me and the other guy decided to go anyway. We had to fight a gauntlet of nightmare creatures surging out of their mind and try to close the link, and it nearly killed us, but good luck and defensive fighting saw us through it despite it all.