D&D Players, When was the Rule of Cool Enforced? Part 2

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"Nat 20 to hit, that's a crit" "Roll for damage" "(rolls) max damage!" "how do you want to play this: single target or battlefield destroyer?"

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[@remraven6443]

My DM made a point in this one combat that creatures called shadows hate light, so of course my brain didn't even think of mechanics and casted the daylight spell. The DM decided that the flavor I put on casting the spell(making a small sun in the palm of my hands) was enough to kill two of them out right.

[@therealfriday13th]

Sounds legit.

[@SilvanianPirateKing]

In my historical fiction campaign one of my friends wanted to play essentially aquaman and it fit especially since the party was about to make a week's long journey south around western Spain via a ghost ship the party more or less procured. He was a paladin and so I decided to give him a little boost since everyone else had adventured in the opening town and had some magic items already. He could daily change between having legs or a tailfin like a merman. He couldn't breath underwater, but he did have a swim speed of 40 ft when transformed. I also gave him a trident of fish command, but I allowed it just to always work on fish and other aquatic life instead of the creatures having to make a save or there being a size limit. Later a party had to break up a blockade outside the waters of Gibraltar. He wanted to summon a sea creature to help in the fight so I had him role for it. I was hoping for the giant seahorse, but he got the megaladon instead which was epic as it singlehandedly sunk a ship and devoured the crew of one of the 3 opposing ships. After the party were on land he kind of stopped being as useful, but I gave him a one last final upgrade towards the end. He managed to do massive damage against a leviathan in a boiling lake they were sailing across. I decided after the fight to infuse its soul into his trident. His attacks gained a reach of 15ft as the leviathan's maw shot out the tip like a scalding hot jet of water doing additional fire damage.

[@alyssavanderklift9296]

for this must have been the most hilarious moment of 'you reap what you sow' rule of cool in the old campaign i was dm-ing. because of some squabble between 2 players (monk and rogue often had their clashes) where the rogue lazily tossed a dagged at the monk... but rolled a nat 20... seeing the monk had a habbit of trying to catch ANYTHING that was thrown at him he decided that using his deflect missles on that dagger to catch it was a good idea (he did not know of the nat 20 when he said that) and proceeds to roll the absolute worst for deflecting, but since she stated he ONLY wanted to catch it... well, he caught it... right through his hand, pulled it out and handed it back to the rogue, saying 'you dropped this' while the cleric healer npc of the group began healing him... just his deadpan addition when handing back the dagger floored the enitre table. why call it rule of cool, well monk said he wouldn't dodge when i gave the option instead of 'catching' so we just rolled with it.

[@michaelreuter2524]

Okay, I have several rules of cool at my table. I'm starting a Strixhaven/homebrew campaign on Tabletop Simulator with a few friends (some new players, most seasoned). I started the game with them on a skyship, making their final approach to the academy. It should have been a few hours by ship, but a few days now that I crashed their vessel into the dirt. I let them cast spells or take actions to go ahead to save themselves or others. Our cleric and paladin both cast shields of faith to create shells around the other students and the party. The aasimar fighter took flight with another in his arms, wizard cast mage armor, the rogue held on for dear life with a nat 20, and our sorcalock armor of agathys's himself and stuck himself to the top of the cargo hold. All told, they managed to save all of the named students in the module besides the second year minatour and orc characters.

[@ghostyuki-kfpinquisitor1038]

A fairly simple one from pf2e. Was a one shot where the party fought through a ghost train fighting well...ghosts. After we cleared what we found on the train, it stopped moving and we got off. Some of the spirits possessing the train basically created an arena lined by them and we had to fight the train itself. The monk asked if they could try to grab and suplex the train. Rules as written, it was too large (and there would be some other complications). The gm allowed it, the monk rolled high enough to do what they wanted, therefore the monk suplexed the train. The situation was ridiculous, the train was a homebrew monster balanced properly and we had fun.

[@Tr0lliPop]

I love that fool's gold is now popular enough to inspire other DMs' campaigns.

[@EvilAutisms]

I love that too, it’s one of my favourite dnd series’s on KZbin

[@chaxinitus]

>If we say it and it's cool or funny then it immediately becomes canon ... That may or may not be how an offhand joke about a hyper nervous NPC reading self-help scrolls ended up adding "wrote a long running series of self-help scrolls under a pseudonym" into my backstory

[@DaniMartVTen]

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[@arkane1732]

Damn, Doctor Who is really slept on when it comes to fantasy characters, loved the Cyberman!

[@joshuaridgway3230]

My favorite moments involve my friends human rogue. In two cases he made smart and tactical decisions that led to a Boss encounter being much shorter than intended. First, he disguised himself as a zombie and several high performance checks and at least Nat 20 later the necromancer mistook the player for his barber. After stating he was specifically attacking the neck and critting, it was all over. The next time he managed to climb a tree with a magic sword, fall onto a dragon’s head and stabbed it between the horns, again critting. I’ve rethought my views on players specifically targeting body parts since.

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[@spadex6455]

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[@jamiereid7428]

My band of hero’s was riding a demonic vehicle of destruction, fighting another one. We largely killed them with long distance spells, but when we got close enough my creation bard animated the wrecking ball at the rear of their machine and I performed a slam attack. DM thought it was way too cool to do 1d10 damage, and let me use the wrecking balls damage roll instead. We turned the final wereboar to paste, and it was rad as hell.

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[@dragonslayerEMP]

My dm has ruled so many rule of cool moments for the sake of cinematics One time we were fighting a sorcerer that used reverse gravity in a large enclosed room. My bard saved and the barbarian failed, so we were essentially 80 ft apart from top to bottom. My 10 marbles pelted her (via animate objects) and she lost concentration. dm said to me "if you want to let go and swipe at her upward with your rapier as a reaction while barbarian falls and swipes at her with the axe as a reaction, I'll allow it," so we ended up crossing our weapons through the sorcerer at the same time, like some crazy anime moment.

[@ditrixgenesis781]

I have a winged tiefling arcane Archer (buffed a bit to be comparable). The party was in a deadly encounter, but managed to kill off all of the enemies while a few fall unconscious ourselves. Except one guy. He was running super far away into the forest nearby. I flew my tiefling up, rain blocking sight, shot a seeking arrow at the enemy. Hits, doesn't knock, but does give me a location. So this tiefling sharpshooter lines up a shot, follows the target through the trees, and looses an arrow. This was a weird circumstance and a newish DM, so I rolled a d100 for it. Well, I got a 100. The arrow flies through the air and through the enemy's throat and they fall to the ground.

[@StateBlaze1989]

I don't know why, but a big portion of me expected him to pronounce Ryuk as "Rye-yuck".

[@jonathanmarks3112]

1:22 Awesome. 4:57 Cool! 6:10 So the orc pretty much got buzzsawed? 7:10 Interesting idea. 9:16 LOL. 9:29 LOL. 11:09 LOL. 11:37 Explain! 12:10 Odds of 5 nat 20s in a row: 1/3,200,000.

[@skyfish77]

The party (where i was playing a tabaxi rogue) was fighting some sort of homebrew turtle-hydra hybrid that was terrorizing a lizardfolk village. It was gigantic, and it's shell was supposedly to smooth to climb. I asked if i could use my grappling hook to get on top of the shell. Rolled high enough, climbed it and then plunged my longsword into one of it's necks, proceeding to cut one of its heads of. I have no idea if this applies but i felt badass doing it.

[@urfork1]

My party were exploring an dungeon, old school dnd style, and after a few brush ups with some baddies, they came across a room with four doors, all of them locked and a spectator guarding one. After a few minutes of chatting with the mad spectator, one bored player who speaks undercommon opened another door which revealed a kuo-toa religious ceremony, and heard them say they were going to take the player as a sacrifice to their god before closing the door. In the following 15 seconds the whole party was screaming, one about them about to be attacked, two of them trying to convince the spectator that the fishfolk were trying to take its treasure, and all of this happening at the same and 3 persuasion rolls later, they convinced a mad spectator to fight against a kuo toa archpriest, despite my better judgement

[@Squall598]

I allow for the rule of cool, but rarely. Fresh level 5 party versed a lieutenant of a lich king sorcerer, she was an undead warlock one level above theirs and had a legendary action called death coil, which dealt 5 damage, healed her 10 and imposed frighten condition if they failed the save. I gave her a few extras on top of this to make her a worthy foe, she had 2x the spell slots (warlock), had a lot more health and could frighten anyone she dealt damage to instead of only once per turn, but otherwise she was pretty much the same as a PC. At the start of the fight the boss managed to blind the wizard, preventing them from casting the majority of their spells as they couldn't see the target nor could they avoid hitting their own team mates with AOE's. However due to the warlock sharing damage around, them failing against the frightened condition, her using spirit shroud in phase 1 to prevent healing and her constantly healing (death coil and second phase, half health, used vampiric touch), the party was in dire straights. The cleric, ranger and barbarian had gone down, only the low health rogue and the wizard who was constantly failing their constitution save were up. Finally the wizard passed the save, and wanted to double cast fireball, once as per normal and once again using metamagic (Metamagic adept feat) as a bonus action. I rule of cooled it and let the wizard blast away the warlock in a massive burst of damage. The warlock passed both saves and barely survived the blast but I also ruled that she was blasted through the door way and fled after the beating she just received. It was a great moment and the wizard who had been super frustrated at failing saves was stoked that they played such an important role at a pivotal moment. The next session I let the wizard know about the rules and that it wouldn't normally work unless they went 2 levels fighter. I didn't say I rule of cooled it because I didn't want them to be disappointed.

[@justinc882]

Me as a DM, players are deep in an ancient forest and keep getting attacked at night. So they started sleeping in the trees and tying themselves to the tree to not fall out. Me, "2 giant alosaurus attack you" Ranger wins initiative, and says "ok can I cut my ropes as a free action, jump out, stab my swords into the dino and ride him?" Me "Sure give me a jump check, attack roll and ride check" Ranger makes the jump, makes the attack, rolls a 1 on the ride. So I rule that he jumps, attacks but can't hold on and falls. Which gives the dino an AaO. Between the dino and the fall damage he ends up at 1 HP. First action of the fight and everything turns from "oh shit we gotta fight these" to "oh shit he's gonna die" Rangers next turn he looks at his sheet, looks at me and says "I cast charm animal" shouldn't have worked because they were threatened and should have made the save but it was so dang funny I couldn't help but let him succeed.

[@Lord_Inquisitor_William7391]

One of my players cast reduce on a door to a dungeon and bypassed my riddle. I was a little mad but impressed but thought it was creative and let it happen

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[@LongboatHistory]

A group of tree mimics grabbed our friends. One of them managed to just say get the grapple off on me. On my next turn my Kenku Fighter just say failed the strength check to break free. So I asked if I could wrestle one arm free instead but stay grappled. From this position I couldn't reach my Halberd. However I could reach my tool belt. I asked the DM if I could take my lit torch and shove it down the mimics throat as it was currently trying to eat me. He agreed and with a nat 20 on the strength check I made a poor tree mimic swallow a lit torch and take 15 D6 fire damage. It didn't survive

[@shrubman3422]

I have a story. We were on a quest and we where up against a trap inside a cave. This trap was unable to targeted or attacked had legendary actions and upgraded itself every turn. We had to scramble to cover and cross bridges to get past it. I was a tabaxi cleric and I was riding a Roc I called for to grab one of my team mates who got stunned. The trap used a legendary action to cast disintegrate on the dragonborn and would have one shot him. We were shocked so. I asked the dm if I could jump in front of it instead. They said yes and I took a ton of damage but saved them.

[@AntonioHachi]

Party gets ambushed by Darklings (evil little fey). We're traveling by cart and my fighter jumps down to hold the line and keep space for the casters to shoot from on top of the wagon. Now, a little clarity. Our wagon wasn't being pulled by horses or mules, but by large snake-like drakes. And they were smart. Our paladin who was driving the cart casts speak with animals on himself and gives the drakes an idea. On his turn he makes an animal handling and a vehicle control check but he succeeds on both and Tokyo Drifts the whole cart around my fighter and smashes it right through 2/3rds of the enemies. Lots of dark mist.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

Going all the way back to 2e, the rule of cool has been a reason I've always waited a fair chunk of adventuring time before bothering with a familiar. In those early days, you literally made the bond with a creature... AND contrary to any of the latest "thinking" there were no terms about slavery or mental entanglements. The TEXT legitimately states that the spell (if it works, and there's a chance it doesn't) attracts a nearby creature of similar mind and alignment... Meaning you don't NEED to enslave anything... It's a magic "make friends" spell, and if the GM and Player are skilled and decent about building literary relationships, then the story moves into the magic aiding in cultivating a mystical bond between the two... AND we had clauses in the mechanics in case anyone WAS "that guy" about it with his Familiars. There's a thing called "Ego Contest" in 2e, based on magical swords and PC's being able to rate an Ego-score, and any time PC's try to handle magical swords of dubious alignment, there (GM's fiat) can be contest for control... WE just expanded that idea for just about anything that might have sentience or intelligence and even a little mystical degree of agency, from enchanted artifacts and books to soul crystals, creatures (especially magical or mythical beasts) and whatever. If there was a chance at a personality conflict resolved by magic, we tossed an Ego Contest into the fray, do the math, roll it off, and let the lightning and fireballs land where they will... SO how does this mean I did anything with "the rule of cool"... Well, once you've adventured for a while, you build a reputation for that PC at the Table... AND via rule of cool, I've had familiars from a Displacer Beast to Cloakers, and a Pseudodragon or two over the years, just to name a few. You can imagine the awe inspired in new Players at our Table when they get introduced to one of the past PC's as NPC's in the "current world/setting" and find out some of their backstory, too. You have to earn your stripes for some of "the rule of cool", but when you do... it can get pretty cool... AND when the Hag's 2 or 3 HD "Cat" familiar growls and hisses, it's nearly always hysterically funny for my Rogue Mage's Displacer Beast (aka "Mookie") to "suddenly appear" from behind my robes to growl and hiss back... ;o)

[@koryh9802]

This just happened we're in a really serious life or death fight with a general of an enemy nation boths sides are looking hurt our paladin especially (1hp and a dream) general does a storm giant level call lightning on the paladin and needs to make a DC22 dex save though it doesn't matter he's down anyway but we say roll just to see how well he would have done 2 natural 20's (he had disadvantage) we pleaded the case that its too rare for it to go to waste, that level of luck doesn't happen nearly ever and the dm took a moment and said "okay, you have one round left, but after your turn, you're down" paladin managed to do some insane damage and with a special sword he had, got him to regain hit points back before his turn was over in thr end we won after 3 hours of combat but were all frazzled and the dm went: "honestly you guys were suppose to lose that fight or atleast run away...." so even when we fucked up our DMs storyline he still allowed a rule of cool move to come into effect DM is a cool guy like that

[@sayrbee6651]

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[@Godzillawolf1]

So I was running a one shot where the players needed to infilitrate an evil king's castle to open the gate for the local resistance movement to storm in. Well the group managed to stealthily get in and sneak around to where they could probably make it to the gate house and open it...when the Rogue decided to do something cool and activate the switch with an arrow. You see, earlier while meeting with the resistance, he'd wanted to buy some explosives, so I permitted him to do so from an incredibly unhinged, Chaotic Neutral dwarven artificer shopkeeper. Well, he decided to turn one of those pieces of dynamite to an arrow and used that to shoot the switch. I allowed this, he hit...and just to cap it off, I had the guard make a Perception Check to see if he noticed it on top of the dex save to avoid damage. He succeeded in the first one but failed the second one. The end result was the gatehouse exploding, allowing the resistance to storm in, as the hapless guard had a perfect 'Oh Crap' reaction to realizing he was about to explode. I swear, I spent about five minutes laughing and so did the table. That was fun.

[@minimishapsgames894]

Normally 2 instances of a spell do not stack. That is until the 3 casters want to work together to enlarge a gerbil to fight a Dragon, Godzilla-style, while they escape out the back.

[@lilyoftheflame]

Gerbil? Not a hamster?

[@IHaveWaffles]

Last night just before the servers went down on forge one of our players riding a mammoth cast fly on it and placed it 60 ft above a (I believe) goat demon and then let it fall and the game stopped working.

[@Arkios64]

''Playing that one soong from Bleach, and all found the scene to be pretty epic'' DO YOU KNOW HOW LITTLE THAT NARROWS IT DOWN?

[@notagoat281]

I wanna know more about the wizard who teleported the moon into the sun. Like, first of all, why would you even do that?

[@jeremyrichard2722]

I have sort of mixed feelings about this sort of thing. As someone who has been around for a long time I will say that groups I was with were experimenting with "rule of cool" before it was called that based on long standing ideas in the gaming community to make RPGs feel more like novels and so on. The problem with benefits accruing due to "being awesome" or "being funny" is many fold. The obvious one is that when one player gets a benefit from something, other players will try and do it too. This can rapidly lead to a good campaign becoming an exercise in absurdity as everyone tries to out cool and out funny each other, or worse yet, assumes that if their idea is "cool" enough they can get away with anything. This very real aspect of things, which I have witnessed multiple times, actually makes me question stories that reinforce or encourage this kind of behavior. The not so obvious one, is of course that in the real world there are a good number of RPG players who like RPGs, but are highly introverted and/or just not really talented or creative role players. If you continually reward people outside of the intended mechanics for doing such things, they gradually take over the game and pull ahead of people who for RL reasons can't compete in this arena, and then those people wind up having less fun or simply leaving the group. While not D&D related, an old White Wolf Game called "Exalted" actually formalized the so called "Rule Of Cool" into the mechanics, and provided a boost for giving crazy details on what you want to do. So basically you can actually get dice by saying you want to triple flip kick someone by rebounding off a wall using sekret kung-fu isometric techniques or something, if someone just says "I punch that guy in the face" they are less effective. While I get what they were going for, and the game did develop a fan base, in actual practice this lead to absurdity and chaos, and made things hard to balance out or GM for. It's already an insane setting, with some reasonably obtuse mechanics full of wonky interactions, encouraging the players to literally overcomplicate and describe everything they do, just made actual game play worse. One big issue with Exalted has in my experience always been that among those who know it everyone wants to play, but nobody wants to sort the chaos as the GM. While my examples describe the problem poorly probably, bringing that sort of thing into D&D is actually counter productive, as most people who REALLY did it can probably tell you. As a general rule, I tend to reward good role playing, and things that makes contextual sense, more than grand standing, and that's intentional to if nothing else prevent the PCs from trying to always outdo each other to the point where it derails the game and becomes a stunt show. I feel good, believable dialogue, plans, and reactions are what a good GM rewards with a bonus, not simply "coo" behavior.... nobody wants an entire party full of what are basically Sonic The Hedgehog, or the failed mascot Awesome Possum, acting like it's still the 1990s and they want to show you how "extreme" they are. That all died hard for a reason, and that tends to be what it really turns into. D&D, and other RPGs, are generally supposed to emulate heroic fantasy, not a clown show where everyone also wants to be The Fonz. :)

[@kitemaywilder1792]

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[@codydevine552]

Never had a good rule of cool moment, closest is characters prosthetic being used as a club because he was unarmed at the start of a fight. Only time he’s done it so far

[@Kattlarv]

Holup... chad would also have hight cha!

[@epicmelonman]

remind me to tell the tale of saya and clarent

[@spartanhawk7637]

Entered a fight as an Astartes homebrewed into a Dark Heresy game. Entrance was...just badass. My character jumped from a dropship flying overhead straight into an active boss fight against a tyranid Hive Tyrant, basically the final battle for the fate of that planet. Now my Astartes had a jump pack at the time and it was expected he would land Iron Man style into the fight...I had him instead FACE the Tyrant, light up the jetpack mid free fall, and basically smash into him like a human meteor. Dm wordlessly stepped away for a moment, came back with a laptop, put on Kickstart My Heart, and said three magical words. "Roll for it."

[@dane4073]

When ever we made the DM laugh we get inspiration. If we have 3 and I mean if there 3 total at table and the ones who have it agree. We get dm mercy so a death would not be a death. Butt hen inspiration is gone

[@averyhorrocks5195]

The story of my first session Zero. (We finished creation quickly, so we started to play a little) Please use this one in a video, Mr.Ripper Basic Info: Module Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden 4 players plus DM Our Dm was a veteran of the RPTTG and he was trying to make the campaign as fun as possible for us because he has hinted he might retire from D&D after he is done with our story. So not as much wilderness/tundra survival. PCs are basic without backstory except for mine because the others wanted to get started. So they only boiled down to Human Fighter, Dwarf Wizard, and Dragonborn Paladin. No one else shared descriptions of their characters. So I don't have much to go on about what they look like. Being that it was a quick and sloppy campaign, not serious at all there are a lot of stupid jokes and I have made certain points seem more epic or fantastical than they actually were. Now for My Character: A Gold scaled Dragonborn barbarian called Khan Veilor. Khan's parents used to live around Icewind dale somewhere but went south to have children. He was sent away from home at age 18 to learn self-reliance and independence. (So yes his Biological parents are still alive.) He wears a polar bear skin cloak, that tells you what primal path he will take at level 3. The coat was made from a polar bear that attacked Khan's mother (Human). His father (The dragon) killed the bear and his mother skinned it. (This is the event that convinced Khan's parents to move south to have children.) Khan wanted to find the place where his parent's old home towards Icewind Dale was. On the way there he was met by a small gang of marauders who tried to rob him. The marauders were new to the area and didn't get along with each other. Their arguing over how to rob Khan caused an avalanche. They threw down their weapons and ran but the avalanche mowed them down. Khan just looked on at the carnage and scooped up their weapons. "I guess these are mine now..." he said awkwardly. -You have gained a scimitar- -You have gained a javelin- -You have gained a hatchet- That is where the first session really began and I got my first taste of D&D. As Khan was picking weapons out of the snow a small carriage came up on the road beside him. The 2 other party members (The fourth and final could not make it to session 0) came in escorting Dr. Emert a herbologist. The Doctor asked for Khan's help and he agreed to help them get to a town in Icewind Dale. Thus the story began. We did a small bit with the wagon tumbling towards a river. I tried to dig my claws into the wood of the carriage and the ground under the snow. No good, I got the carriage but I was now also sliding towards the river with it. The wizard wanted to melt the snow in front of the cart to stop it. Not to use a spell to damage the ground but to just use magical power to melt the snow. The Dm was going to allow this. I however said out of game perhaps it was best to use a spell to damage the ground. It would make a pothole (I live in Michigan we are experts in Pot Holes) that would catch the cart's wheel in. The player nodded and did what I suggested, proceeding to miss. The Fighter mimics my actions to stop the cart. Meanwhile, because I had Dm inspiration I was able to roll again. The Dm liked that I was the only one to attempt to draw my character. It wasn't that good, a rough sketch at best (I have redone it since then *Pic above*) but the Dm still gave me inspiration. So I now plan to use my breath weapon to do what the wizard was trying to do and create an indent in the snow. I succeed and the wizard can use animal handling to catch and calm the horse. -!You saved the Cart!- We headed north once again, but not before the fighter notices something. I say the fighter notices something because my character was too busy trying to pry his claws from the cart. (This was my idea for the bad roll, the table loved it.) He says to us that there had been wolves following the cart for several days now. But now those wolves are gone. "No wait don't tell me.PNG" My barbarian hearing this decides it is best to guard the back. "Predators attack from behind," and all that. So we start traveling on again and a few minutes later guess what? The wolves attack from the front and the side of the cart... Dag nab it! The wolf at the side of the cart is only noticed by the fighter. Meanwhile, the wizard shouts for me about the wolves from the front. I run around the opposite side of the cart from the fighter and the other wolf. (We are in the theater of the mind so the DM was not worried about my travel distance per round.) I try to intimidate the wolves into running away with a mighty roar. Rookie mistake inbound: Khan has a -1 Charisma modifier. I of course fail, but the Dm then remembers I am wearing a bearskin. "Oh wait, you have an advantage!" So I get to roll again, I fail anyway. The wolves are hungry enough to eat a bear, so they attack... not me mind you, they attack the wizard. The Wizard. THE WIZARD! You already know where this is going. The Wizard is easily downed. The wolves are trying to drag his unconscious body away. OH, Hell Naw! PNG. The Dm allows me to run by the rule of cool and clap the two wolves' heads against each other. Saving the wizard from losing a saving throw. The wolves let go and attacked me instead, tearing at my arms and side. Meanwhile, at the side of the cart, the fighter has spent the past 2 rounds trying to make friends with his wolf. He is feeding it trying to pacify it into liking him. Every time he has tried his dice have failed him. I was sure Dr. Emeret was looking on at all of this thinking, "So, this is how I die." I would not have blamed him. So the wolves let go of me and I get out my Javelin. I then proceed to shishkabob one of the wolves. (TF2 Heavy voice: You are Dead!) His friend is squaring up against me while the Dwarf makes his save. The Fighter fails yet again to acquire a new pet and the wolf fails to strike me down. Now, I am neck-deep in this fight, and I am a barbarian right? Well funny thing, being my first time playing D&D ... I forgot to Rage. Now everybody facepalm.png. I suddenly decide that now is the time to do something awesome. I Rage, and the Dm allows my next action which I have a crazy plan for. Rule of Cool Two Electric Boogaloo. I take My javelin that still has the wolf stuck on it. Using it as a hammer I bring the corps crashing down on the other wolf. The hit was monstrous, the Dm says it creates a geyser of blood. The entire table loved it making jokes about it. (You hit a B*** with a B***) The Fighter took this action to see the error of his ways (Yeah, not really but I guy can dream.) to come and help me. He arrives only to see me commit the most egregious double kill ever. The last wolf is bearing after the fighter. The fighter gets in a small hit and the wolf gets the same. I abandon my javelin (stuck in the ground) and take up my hatchet. I attack the wolf only to give it a hair cut not doing any damage. Bad roll... Dag nab it!!! Then out of the snow comes the Dwarf Wizard! Will smith's voice: I LIVE!! The wizard taunts the fighter for trying to make friends. Then The wizard fries the wolf with Firebolt. The wolf disappears in a cloud of ash and smoke. Dm: "You are all of a sudden hungry for wolf stew," taunting the fighter. Thus the battle was won and my first D&D session came to an end. Dang was it fun. TLDR: My first session 0 was chaotic but fun.

[@KenZyl9700]

@Mr.Ripper what happened to Dave makes noises?

[@BrianVaughnVA]

He'll always be a part of the family, but he's since been gone from the channel as he's doing his own thing.

[@mr.c1435]

less than 1 minute

[@vikrambal6247]

Truly amazing

[@leadingauctions8440]

"thickshroom" Stealing.

[@sparklebear1194]

FIRST

[@mr.c1435]

coulda sworn i was first

[@MrRipper]

Mr.c is first, sorry 😐

[@ericb3157]

oh, 8:40 reminds me of that scene in Kung Fu Panda 2! kzbin.info/www/bejne/o57GiJ-dhZmieJY