What Are Your Best "Task Failed Successfully" D&D Stories?

[@itsweebtime3461]

I was playing a young, very dumb sorcerer who was until recently the adventuring guilds janitor. He grew up poor and took up mop boy work to help support himself and his mother. Eventually he developed a bad habit where if he didn't know what to do he would just start cleaning. After becoming an adult he was invited to join the guild and along with the party (new requits) he was given the test of completing a dungeon where they were faced with a puzzle in a dungeon where statues of a king and his retainers we're positioned ina room. He didn't know what to do so while the rest of the party debated their next move, he started cleaning the floors with a wash rag and the prestidigitation spell. To wipe down the marble floors he got down on his hands and knees which fulfilled the puzzles requirement; bowing to the king.

[@adambooth7755]

This reminds of the time on Oxventures where Merilwen wanted to get drunk to forget some information, to help the team win a competition (it makes sense in context). She downed a bunch of booze and naturally DM Johnny has her roll a CON save. Nat 1. This being D&D, the critical fail on a CON save while drinking means she was absolutely trashed, which was the goal, making one of the rare times in D&D where someone succeed on a Nat 1.

[@Zeandico]

We defeated the BBEG, but trying to undo his plan, ended up completing it and taking his place as the new god of the world as I accidentally hit the world reset button. My character was a young elf of 75 years old, the equivalent of a 15 year old human I'm told, and trying to RP through the realization that she had accidentally erased all of reality, along with her family and friends was not easy or fun, especially since she had to figure out how everything worked and continuously try and fail to bring them back. (There was also the fact that the BBEG actually had legitimate reason for resetting the world, and we accidentally negated all his progress, so the reset ended up being for naught in the end either way.)

[@thewatcher5903]

My players rolled acrobatics checks to cross difficult terrain and get to an area of the woods where they would be hidden from the approaching cultists. It was an easy roll and everyone cleared it except the fighter. He rolled a nat 1. His character immediately tripped on some branches and fell flat on his face in the mud. Instead of standing up and giving the party away he wanted remain prone and to try to hide in the mud. I tell him sure you can try but you'll have to roll really well on your stealth check. Of course he then rolls a Nat 20. So after falling into the mud he somehow managed to completely submerge himself in it and disappear almost completely from sight. He now routinely asks if there are any mud puddles nearby to hide in.

[@zaratrice115]

My first ever campaign I ever played was absolutely hilarious. My character was a 13 year old dark elf girl who classes as a druid. Orphaned in the forest and the party basically adopted her when they found her. We ended up on a island full of evil cultists. And two of the party members, a monk and warlock, managed to convince a cultist to allow them in and dress in the same robes to attend the odd ceremony where the BBEG was…. My character, Velkana had other ideas… being the bored rebellious teen she is, we don’t know how. But she found a massive supply of acorns. And she kept peppering the cultist who spoke with the monk and warlock. Velkana’s aim and stealth checks were on point that entire session. She managed to throw acorns at the BBEG during his speech and pissed him off. They never found her though, the rest of the party remained hidden, and we were dying in that discord call every time this child got away with being a menace. Much to the dismay of the rest of the party who worried about her safety.

[@TheNorfAndOnly]

That reminds me of a bit that I did while I was spectating another campaign my friends were doing. They were all talking with who I assumed to be the BBEG at the time, because everyone was telling me that they all hated him. So, I start playing as my character Blink, a shadow creature that can go wherever he wants and do whatever he wants, but he never has an effect on anything that’s going on, because he “isn’t canonical.” The BBEG is speaking to the party over radio, and so I say that Blink suddenly appears in BBEG’s room and starts pelting him with “non-canonical peanuts.” Everyone in the call found it hilarious.

[@ArawnNox]

Oh! I've got one! This happened in our Skull and Shackles campaign. We're sailing in to a small archipelago to find an island that supposedly has an old captain's hidden treasure on it. The DM calls for a check (I think it was Knowledge: Geography) to navigate the island chain. The Ranger rolls okay, but the bard rolls a nat 1. I'm the captain and it's up to me to select who to listen to. The bard is more convincing than the ranger (this is RP, I'm pretty sure there were no rolls involved) and so we follow the nat 1. We sail... and sail... and realize we've gone right passed the island we were looking for. So we turn around and sail back. We come around an island and we find a ship anchored next to the island, looking away from us. We recognize the ship as belonging to a captain we'd previously fought and was in league with the Sahuagin. We ambush them and take the ship. So, what had happened is that ship was waiting for us, set up ready to ambush us once we came around the south side of the island. However, because we'd rolled that nat 1, we sailed right by them on the opposite side of the island. So when we came back from a direction they weren't expecting, we caught them by surprise instead!

[@mitsunitaiko1742]

it was a half homemade pirates TTRPG. At the end of the campaing, we were going to see the captain who betrayed us and stole our ship, we were going for blood. The only issue is we were only three while he had a crew of 6, and while we were going, we found a group of three adventurers who were going to rescue the noble our enemy had hostage (for the record, we were the one who kidnapped him, we were meant to split the ransom cut and that's when they betrayed us. They were supposed to kidnap him then they stranded, and we found them on a desert island and took them in. They told us of the mission to betray a lord and we joined, agreeing to share the cut. They did absolutely nothing but I intended to still share since I follow my words. Turns out, they just intended for us to do the dirty work until they betray us.). I manage to trick the adventurers into thinking we were allies going after the captain (which would be true, up until the moment where we take the noble back for ourselves). They were an issue because they didn't trust us and they would attack us the moment they find out we want to kidnap the lord too. Then, the key moment happens. Our mage wanted to turn our rogue invisible so we could stab the adventurers when they become an issue, but he rolls a nat 1. By the rules of the RPG, he rolls a few rolls to find out what the critical failure does, and it turns ME invisible, the one the adventurers were staring at. I somehow managed to bullshit them to think it was our strategy to fight the captain, and then it clicked. I knew what I had to do. When we finally arrived, I compelled the other players to drag on a conversation with the captain as long as possible, so the fight doesn't start and he's distracted. I take a long turn to go behind the captain, I stick my gun to his skull, and I shoot. Normally I would have to roll damage and unless I roll a NAT 20 that wouldn't one shot him, but in that situation, his brain exploded. So I don't have to fight the crew, I roll intimidation on the three pirates who were here. Two of them rolled a NAT 1 so they ran away, and the third rolled a nat 2 so he was petrified by fear, deadly scared of me. When the two remaining pirates come, I hide my gun and I tell them that the adventurers killed their captain, while staring at their mate so he supports my words. So the three of them go against the adventurers, and there's nothing left to prevent our party from taking back the lord and running away. After that we successfully ransom him and there's no one left to ask a cut. Morale of the story: don't betray pirates. TLDR: mage's nat 1 makes us speedrun the encounter against our biggest Nemesis atm

[@dungeonguide1843]

We were playing a homebrew campaign, and we just started. My DM asked us if we wanted a backstory of how we got onto the boat(AKA, the starting point). I was playing the half-orc barbarian, and was hunting in a forest before an orc came up from behind. Dealt some decent damage, before he threw his axe at me. I dodged, but someone(another orc) grabbed the axe from mid-air, and kicked me into a tree. I succeed the con-save, and don't get KO. He hits me with the axe. See, the thing is, DM forgot his dice, so I had to roll for him. Got a NAT 20 hit on me, and knocked me out. I woke up on the boat, and tried to roll Perception. NAT 1. Are you kidding me?! Nat 1 and Nat 20 on Session 0! That is the both the luckiest and unluckiest I've ever been. The worst part? Rolled another Nat 20 next sess(was my roll, thankfully).

[@daggiedepegasus279]

During a search for a local bandit gang near a town we got heard from a local tavern owner that some of the bandits had a house in said town and would often terrorise the townsfolk in the tavern. We figured out where they lived and when they refused to talk to us, the Druid gnome picked the lock and since my fighter dwarf had the highest AC and had the most threatening weapon in the group (a great axe at the time), he went first. We hadn't even rolled initiative yet when my fighter swung his axe at the nearest bandit, attempting to knock him out with the side. I rolled a nat 20. I decapitated the bandit instantly and I didn't even needed to roll intimidation to make the other four bandits surrender and tell us where they're hideout was. So yeah, task failed successfully

[@adamhunter1223]

FISSION MAILED

[@zelithfang2365]

I got that reference

[@ShadeWolf09]

A couple weeks ago, me (Barbarian) and our party Cleric investigated an entrance into the city catacombs to look for a missing person; We were meant to be visiting a scholar, so we went *wildly* off course. We discovered the only two ways in to be a heavily guarded sewer-grate, and an exploding door that would reconstruct afterwards. Me and the Cleric were level four, and decided to test the exploding door, see if we could pass by it before it reconstructed. It was a 9th level fireball of force damage. We both tanked through, me on 13, her on 4. We ran in, got trapped inside, and had to go through a lot of shenanigans, the culmination of which was: Sneaking past a sleeping Ancient Dragon. I roll an 11 on stealth. She rolled a Nat1. The dragon woke up, and started questioning us about who we were, then forced us to look into a magic mirror; My character has been struggling with determining who they are, because they have a lot of extra memories from previous people in their heads. The cleric has been struggling with her faith because she had been forced to do some pretty terrible things in the name of it. The magic mirror helped each of us sort out some of those questions, and we each walked away from this Ancient Dragon encounter feeling better about ourselves (when we both fully assumed that Nat1 would lead to death.) Absolutely not how we expected things to go, but was a really cool bonding moment for the two of us.

[@Wheelwizardpuff]

"stay tuned next time on Dragonball Z what the blslsl back to the story." lol that made me chuckle way too much.

[@Jasmin-lg3gf]

Call of Cthulhu. We, a group of children, are fighting a ghost witch. The only effective weapon is a dagger. So one of us attacks the witch. Nat 100, critical fail. DM: OK, I'll take the dagger from her. DM rolls the defense. Nat 100. DM: ... So she tries to stab, but the witch takes the dagger from her. The witch loses her balance, falls, and stabs herself to death. Fight won.

[@devvintidwell1243]

OMG I LITERALLY *JUST* came from one of the “jokes that evolved to something bigger” that told about the nightmare in the beginning of this video! I swear I must be on this channel too much, but I love it😭

[@_Spex_]

BOY DO I HAVE A STORY FOR YOU! So I was a fighter, with a friend who tried minmaxing (Using 3 or 4 different classes that required different modifiers), and a bard. For some context, my character was a demigod who was separated into three individuals. And my third, Roman Silver, managed to locate one of the other thirds ,Calypso, who was being held against his will by a corrupt Drow mayor. Considering that Calypso was being held underground, we decided to dig our way into the keep. And a tamer NPC we had befriended along the way just so happened to have a tamed bulette. So we had the small resistance group we gathered start a skirmish with the Drow guardsmen to give us a distraction to dig into the keep's prison. On the way we fell into a cave, littered with webs. We knew it wasn't safe to be here and tried to keep digging. But the party kept getting separated by giant spiders who'd paralyze their targets and drag them off. After about 20 minutes of the party getting paralyzed on the initial save, getting dragged off, succeeding the second save, killing the spiders, and getting back to the party; a Drider had emerged, alerted by the noise we made. Initiative was rolled and I was first, charging headlong at the drider to get some damage in. Next turn is the drider, who cleaves into Roman Silver's side. Roman Silver, trying to taunt the Drider's low damage output, said the one word that would change the campaign forever; In a rough, exited voice Roman Silver said 'Harder'. This made the WHOLE PARTY and the drider believe that I was down bad for this drider. Next turn is the bard and he rolls a 30 to deescalate the situation. The drider calms down and leads us to a hole, where Calypso stands chained to the wall. Roman Silver and Calypso merge together, creating Aitomi, and the party and Sheila the drider proceed to the Mayor's throne room, where a drow resides in drow-enchanted armor. Aitomi proceeds to win the fight via out-DPSing the drow in a duel, as the drow proceeded to roll only 20's that entire fight (So glad I took the tough feat). After the duel, the party heads out of the keep, sees their victory, and executes the Drow mayor while the Bard and a female gold dragon go on a date and Aitomi and Sheila go on a date. And the next day, after a pleasurable evening between Aitomi and Sheila, we go on our merry way. And that is how I created D&D's Spiderman. TLDR: Fighter tries to taunt Drider, ends up banging it and making spiderman

[@arcticwolf2742]

Okay, warning, this is a bit long. I recently joined a drop-in DND campaign at my local gamestore consisting of me, a Kobold Bard, a Dragonborn Ranger, a Gnome Rogue, and an Elven Druid. The campaign setting is so devoid of Gnomes and Kobold's that to the two of us small folk are always mistaken for a "hard dog" and a baby, to the point that when being given new clothes, the party all got actual clothes, but my Kobold was just given a collar. Anyway.....so far, nothing has gone right when we needed it to. To start, we needed to cross a stretch of dessert badlands to get to the town of Mana, a place run by Artificers and heavily involved in the fishing industry. So we start to cross the sands, only to encounter a small group of weak rust monsters, that we then had to fight. With all of us at either level 2 or 3, we were able to deal with the weakened beasts without too much trouble. Only then, the last one died so violently that we were covered in it's bile, rusting our equipment pretty badly, and attracting an entire horde of the things. We made the decision to tactically retreat. So we ran away. Except the dice weren't with us, and we barely did half an hour's worth of a light jogging before they'd caught up to us. So they ate every piece of metal we had and left us broke. We managed to make it to Mana though, so, yay? In our attempts to earn money to replace our stuff, we cleaned a rich persons water fountain, removing a Bog Beast from inside the mechanisms and shipping it off to the nearest big, since our employer insisted on humane treatment. We replaced our gear, and found more work in the sewers, which were apparently badly blocked. We were told a the head of the sewage maintenance guild had gone down there some time ago, but had been gone so long that they wanted us to check on him to make sure nothing bad had happened, and maybe help unblock it. Checking the sewer grate near the adventurers guild that gave us the job, we opened it up, only for it to erupt in a geyser of sewage that drenched everything nearby, including our Guild contact, Sanghelli. We followed the grates out of town, looking for one that wasn't leaking liquid like the first one had been, and eventually came across one outside of town. We opened it up and were relieved when all that came out was a noxious cloud of gas. Our DM then described this. "You (referring to the Dragonborn) notice that there are sparks and little tongues of flame starting to dance over your scales." We all see this, and immediately sprint away from the sewer, though the Dragonborn, only being 13 in game and out, just stood there. "As you look back, you see a massive ball of fire burst into the air over the sewer, but the fire also spreads down and through the sewer. You look back to town and see the sewer grates and manhole covers go flying, geysers of sewage erupting all throughout town, and down in the ocean by the beach, where the sewer exit is, you see a rather portly man being carried by the wave. He's blackened and covered head to toe in soot and poo. You also see Sanghelli, who had just gotten out of the water from cleaning herself, get drenched again, turn around and immediately jump back in the water. Townsfolk are running out from the town now, all of them jumping into the ocean to clean themselves off. The Dragonborn is fine, since he's resistant to fire." The sewer guy gave us twenty gold for our assistance. Yeah, he somehow survived that, and his only comment was: "Well, that's certainly one way to unblock a pipe." Tldr: We got all our gear ruined, then we spent most of a session shopping, and then blew up a sewer.

[@jeanlukvolker6647]

I once played a giant who I made intentionally dumb to the point my dm actually had to roll to see if he actually fucking understand what was going on….. half the time he didn’t 😂

[@morgantaylor84]

8:15 That ranger was having a real The Revenant week.

[@Kualinar]

Not exactly a failed successfully story, but, here it is : I was playing a Kender priest of Chaos, born on the Outer planes from other Kenders who got stranded there over the previous generations. He was pretty fond of wood carving. We where in a SpellJamming ship and there where several big wooden crates there. So, I carved several bas reliefs in some of them. Later, the captain spoke to us and told that that we must NOT touch THAT crate under any circumstance, pointing to the box that I had already carved on three faces, getting through in some spots. My answer : Oops !

[@aaronsullivan3174]

1:15 i can picture the "peter, the horse is here." meme, but instead of a horse, its the Nightmare popping into existence, looking around then glaring at the party before going "... *Have I mentioned how much I HATE you all?* "

[@bubbawilson5273]

Totally unrelated to the video itself but you, Brian, are my favorite person on this channel that I've heard. I'm fairly new to said channel but I've heard 2 or three including you

[@T3nch1]

The set up: I was playing a Hexblade warlock(UA version) and my weapon was a cursed sentient crossbow that was driving me insane, not like wit's end but certifiably pants on head. Because it's a cursed sentient weapon I chose it's language as deep speech, never expecting to actually use that language in game. [foreshadowing]. At this point in the campaign the party was around lvl14 and my character had picked up a chess piece that, with the use of a magic phrase, turned into an adamantine tower fortification. The task: The party found ourselves deep under ground and involved in a power struggle between a deranged beholder and an elder brain. My character was the only one who could speak deep speech. My character was also the equivalent of a paranoid schizophrenic. I tried to play both sides of the conflict. Treated with the beholder, got the party captured and told the elder brain about the beholder. Right before enslavement to the mind flayers I force initiative rolls. The successful failure: Having been told about the beholder, the elder brain sent most of the flayers out to kill it. Only having to deal with a fraction of the guys to kill I jumped at the chance and threw my portable tower on top of the brain then activated it. Adamantine towers are very *very* heavy. Took out about 1/3 of the elder brain's HP in a single turn and put a fortification in it's brain well. Before I could get into that fort, one of the flayers stunned me. Turns out having low INT because your crazy is bad against things that force INT saves. My turn comes, I fail the INT save again and stay stunned. The DMs turn comes and the flayer beaks me for over my max HP, Flayers have a special rule that if they do this, your brain is eaten and you die instantly. I got to sit on the sidelines and roll a new character while a 2 hour 20 minute battle between my remaining party members and the elder brain + remaining flayers played out. Concluding with the Beholder showing up at the literal last turn, seeing a bunch of dead and going "eh, why not?" and lasering the rest of the flayer city only to get ambushed and slain by my party. Tl;dr Fought an elder brain, beholder and colony of mind flayers. Me; dead. Elder brain; dead. Beholder; Dead. Colony; destroyed. Tower; unrecoverable. The rest of my party; PHHHHHHAT STACKS OF LOOT. literal years later and those guys still talk about it. They didn't successfully fail, but I sure did. And yes the tower played a big part in why the party survived.

[@Tototoron]

Idk if this was my DM or just the waterdeep dragon heist module so digression is advised: So about 2 weeks in-game time I’m sleeping in the dilapidated manor that volo gave us and I’m just meditating for my 4 hour power nap like all good elves do. A few hours in I wake up to rats skittering about and walking over me while I’m chilling. Little did they know I was a Druid and little did the dm know I had speak with animals and animal friendship prepared from the previous day. I asked the rats what they were doing and they said they were hungry. I was like look man I just got 2 rations I’m happy to share with y’all but this manor was abandoned when we moved in and absolutely no food around for them to munch on. Unfortunately the rats weren’t satiated with just 2 helpings of rations and more were coming out from cracks in the walls and floors. According to the DM there were HUNDREDS of em and according to the rats, Frewn, our neighbor who we learned hurts his kids and is a sick all around, sent the rats in to wreak havoc. So the rations didn’t work but my animal friendship, charisma score of 20, and convincing that it’s frewn that has all the food managed to convince them. I wildshaped into an above average sized rat but still tiny sized and led the hundreds of rats across the street to frewns to lay siege on his pantry. Once my army of rats were delivered and happy with frewns food, the party woke up the next day seeing the business shut down for the day, I wonder why xD So task failed successfully, I tried feeding rats to go away but they weren’t satiated so I used Druidic wiles to lay siege on the neighbor that sent them instead

[@chrisspray666]

had a 4e paladin player trying to kill some undead serpent men, armed with twin scimitars and also trying to subdue the necromancer for questioning. she kept missing the minion serpent men (just bad luck), then blew her daily power out of frustration on them. it missed. but it was supposed to do some minor dmg on a miss. unfortunately that doesn't work on minions. but, i gave her a break and said her whirlwind of attacks sheers off all of the arms of the undead serpent men. they still stand ready to fight you, but unable to swing their weapons (no arms) they instead stand there swaying (they stood on their tails, no legs) left and right staring at you. as the necro was attempting to run away, my player says. "I turn my back to the undead, point at the necro and tell her to stop! in the name of love! as the serpent men sway side to side behind me like backup dancers"

[@michaelpomato45]

I hope your algorithm rolls a nat 20

[@nightshadedim3396]

Playing a Felinid guardswomen in Dark Heresy. (Warhammer 40 inquisition squad style play). One of my favorite characters, as the gut reaction of everyone in the imperium is to belittle the abhuman and call for her death, but invariably she earned everyones respect, and fear, as she slew deamons and chaos marines with her long-laz. The party was surrounded by khornate warriors, and it looked like we were going for a TPK. My poor, neglected catgirl got gutted by the great blade of a chaos warrior, and according to the critical injury table, her entrails were spread over an area several meters in radius, making the floor slick with guts and incurring an agility check from anyone who tried moving in the area. Turns out the khornates have the agility of dogwater, and the catgirl's guts stopped them in their tracks. Every turn they had was consumed by standing up, attempting to approach the party, and falling prone. Every. Single. Time. They just could *not* approach us. The party survived the encounter and brought my nearly lifeless body to have a mechanical gut installed (we didn't die of blood loss because it was raining blood at the time, providing a constant transfusion, and no khornate could get close enough to actually land the final blow.) The Emperor acts through this catgirl. The Emperor Protects.

[@evanmiller7993]

My party was trying to cross the border into another country and got stopped because of contraband. The Rouge Barbarian was kept outside to be searched better while my paladin and our goblin fighter were interrogated. The very second the goblin is put in a chair, the player rolled a 1 to resist the interrogation and ended up having a nervous breakdown and spilling his entire life story. It was so unexpected, so loud, so hilarious at that time of night that no one could stop laughing. It fast tracked us out, because they learned pretty much every reason we were crossing the border with the goblins scared confessions.

[@vincentchartier5895]

SPOILER ALERT (i think…) My friends and I were playing in a Curse of Stradh campaign and after a difficult encounter, Stradh shows up and says that he wants to talk to us over dinner. He basically tells us that we have to find Ireena and bring her to him or he’ll kill us. Seeing as we didn’t have much of a choice, we agreed to ‘look’ for her *wink wink*. We had previously lost track of her after vampire spawns had attacked the cathedral. It was a temporary strategy so that we could buy time and find a way to kill Stradh. We never planned on making any serious effort to look for her. So Stradh lets us go and we head to Vallaki. While we’re there, we stop by Blinsky’s toy store. We notice that he’s acting strange so we ask him what’s wrong. He shows us the back store and lo and behold, Ireena is there, hiding. We had successfully accomplished a mission that we didn’t want to succeed. *surprised pikachu face*

[@CodaBlair]

Technically that wouldn't count. Imo that's the opposite since you actually did complete the task of finding her.

[@vincentchartier5895]

@@CodaBlair And that’s the opposite of what we, the players wanted to do. Therefore, we failed successfully.

[@IlonaTheDreamer]

One of our home rules is that after you roll a nat 1, you roll another d20 to see how badly things go. Our half-tabaxi rogue rolls a nat 1 when she was trying to memorise a route through the castle of a mage trying to become a lich. She then proceeds to roll a nat 20. It was decreed that she was paying more attention to the portraits than the layout and after another roll (a perception check) with another nat 20 and her eye catches on a magically portrait that shows all the bbegs and their disguise forms. She didn't like the information given to her (two beloved npcs being disguises) and doesn't end up being able to tell the party (cursed by a bbeg in disguise) but she can now recognise all the bbegs on sight.

[@lexington476]

8:46 Brian I challenge you being The World's Greatest Voice Actor to make the mating call of a Blue Whale 🙂.

[@alexandrejesus8709]

Best party names, we had not decided on a Name on our current run. And our bard was playing pokedex with the anything we killed poking the heads on javelin and adding them to our wagon, while replacing the rotten ones. Now the dm gave us the title head collectors and we get +1 intimidation checks when the wagon is near us.

[@ala5530]

I had a 1/3rd tonne half-orc barbarian. There was a locked and trapped door. Between a Nat20 Athletcs check to break open said door, and a Nat1 to disarm, trigger, or otherwise break the trap, I managed to charge full-tilt through the door, leaving a looney-tunes-style barbarian-shaped hole in the door (and bits of the surrounding wall)... and a still intact and active trap, so the squishy party members still had to deal with that before they could join me.

[@adadakaka2835]

3:01 ITS BEAR. BEAR WAS IN A SUPER OLD VIDEO OF YOURS IM SO GLAD WE GET TO ACTUALLY HER ABOUT HER AGIAN

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@MitchellTF]

"What does a dragon in heat sound like?" Show a dragon pictures of Smaug, played by Benedict Cumberbatch.

[@1FrogCommander]

We were playing a game of starfinder and due to plot reasons we had to stop a minor villian from activating a console in an alien ruin. As we were fighting though the ruins, dodging or battling enemies as we go we eventually come to him about to activate the console. We were in trouble and he knew it as evidenced by his smug expression as he watched us despirately try to stop him in time. In a final effort one player threw a throwing star at him and it crit missed hitting a random button on the console and activating one of its functions. The DM rolls a dice to see which of the console's features we accidentally activated and tells us "You accidentally hit the self-destruct button and the console explodes."

[@writerofthought8084]

Playing Palladium and my character is an Amish healer who learned from Native Americans during her Rümspringe. Anyway, we're in India, under a mountain, in a quarantined Dwarvish settlement, and the elf escorting us takes a drug that makes him hulk out. We are in a library of ancient dwarvish knowledge, and everything is very flammable. I turn into a bear to make it easier to fight. One of my party members forgets that she has weapons that don't set things on fire, and shoots a flaming arrow that misses the bad guy and hits a bookcase. I slam myself into the bookcase to knock the books off and keep the books from catching on fire. I then throw a burning piece of bookshelf at the foe and fumble, but he fumbled himself straight into it. And it was that much easier to kill him while he had a chunk of wood in his eye

[@morissaedwards7348]

Here before the hour🥰 I'm ready for good stories...lost a pocket pet today, could use some laughter

[@djimonmcdonald9085]

2:55 wait didn't someone discuss weird/funny concepts and that they were a bear that turned into a statue? I swear I heard it here before

[@CodaBlair]

I feel like the animated statue woman in a bear suit has been in a story before.

[@stefanjentoft8107]

Star Wars campaign and we're tracking the Sith that's supposed to be the BBEG of the entire campaign.Followed him down to a planet of nasty buggers that damaged your Wis score and even if you rolled high enough to hit them, you then rolled a 50% chance to actually do damage because they were incorporeal or some such BS. After our highest Wis character nearly went to 0, we noped out of there, but were left with the question "What now?" I had the brilliant idea of capturing the sith's ship, setting it on auto-pilot and self destruct, and then watching the fireworks display. A series of very good rolls later, we managed to do just that, leaving the BBEG stranded on what was described as a "completely arid planet" with the DM confirming that the sith had essentially force leapt to the planet surface, leaving him without any sort of ship at all... That DM still hasn't forgiven me for masterminding that particular stunt. Still, an epic way to end my first ever D&D campaign. (I was playing an Ewok rogue that I later learned was modeled heavily on the League of Legends champion Teemo with blowpipe and all).

[@arcanicsonata]

This was around how many months ago and two things happened in the 2nd session of our DM's homebrew survival horror Medieval Resident Evil-esque campaign. We were composed of Monster Slayer Ranger (me), Fighter Cavalier, Inquisitor Rogue (who appeared a bit later in the game), and Glory Paladin (whose legit player was absent so a spectator of ours decided to help us out, seeing as me and the Cavalier were novices). First instance: we were woken up by the sound of the zombie invasion and our cabin was about to be flooded which caused us to roll initiative. When our DM told us that the door is locked, our Cavalier straight up rolled to break the lock... which locked us in (I forgot the reason why but I think the door was meant to swing outside and the lock was a deadbolt), so our only choice was to yell for help. I rolled a Nat 20 and lo and behold our Paladin (who was manned by our spectator) showed up and carried us off to a safer place, a literal knight in shining armor. Second instance: our Rogue player (not literally) showed up not long after the incident and decided to enter the sewer system below our cabin due to the upstairs being flooded. Fast forward and the treasure room he was in after scouring the sewer exploded. He was miraculously knocked unconscious. Meanwhile, I was the only survivor due to our Paladin and Cavalier dropping down from a 70ft building on a rainy day. Once I spotted our Rogue, I used a rope to grapple down towards him. Two rolls in, I failed a check and plummeted to the debris which could have killed me, but somehow lived with a 1 digit (I can't remember how much) hp.

[@michaelleader633]

Playing a Startrek campaign with a Paklid engineer we rescued from a ship he had destroyed with his own people aboard. Anyway, the whole beating on delicate electronics with a Wrench to make them "Go" joke kinda got old and we secretly wanted to eject this engineer out of an airlock for our own safety after 4 days of him "repairing" things. Well to make a long story short, we were getting our butts kicked by the last Romulan Warbird in a group of 3 and opted for a hostile boarding tactic since their shields were down. Out of the 5 members sent over to their engineering deck 3 of us were wounded in a fire fight and we were debating on leaving when the Paklid saw their warp core. With a determined gleam in his smooth brained mind he ran toward the core with Wrench in his big sausage hands yelling "I'll make it gooo!" We offered cover fire as the great big doofus ran cheerfully forward banging on their warp core with his mighty Wrench. The distraction and panic among the romulans was more than enough for us to beam back to our ship and watch the fireworks from the transporter room before being wheeled to the medbay. Sometimes, it's the little things that keep you clinging to life with a dusrupter hole in your guts, ya know? 😆

[@elliejohnson6356]

So, as DM of the Pathfinder campaign Extinction curse, I have a house rule that when you roll a nat one or a nat 20 you reroll to confirm. A nat one or nat 20 is an automatic fail or success, two nat twenties or nat ones in a row is a hilariously overdone success or fail, three nat 20s or nat 1s in a row, you alter the campaign. One of my players managed to roll a one, then a 20, then a one. I ended up ruling that as he failed so spectacularly that it actually worked, but on the person next to the one he was attacking. Will update with more when they appear

[@otakubancho6655]

The one with the ranger at the bottom of the pit sounds suspiciously like The Revenant.🤔🤔🤔

[@Atalas5]

we were playing in the Humblewood campaign setting. Our paladin was a pigeon who rode a pug by the name of Ludwig. We are going through some caves and get ambushed. paladin goes down... super easy. We were only level 4 or so. And so Ludwig the pug becomes the tank for that combat. Well, we think he's just gonna be a distraction, soak up one, maybe two hits. He had middling health and low AC. Cue abysmal rolls for our enemies here Ludwig is practically going Ultra Instinct in dodging everything coming his way.

[@pkducklett944]

So here's one that happened fairly recently in a campaign. Our party was tracking down a cult, and while we were snooping about trying to get clues to the cult's whereabouts, we notice a shady looking character following us. Unfortunately, as soon as the cultist saw that we noticed him, he books it down the street to try and get away. We enter chase initiative and my character (Eladrin Paladin/Bard) is first. I take the dash action to move twice my walking speed (60 feet), and follow that up by taking a bonus action to activate my Fey Step ability to move an additional 30 feet. So, I'm really close to this guy. The next person in initiative is my brother who is playing a Dragonborn Barbarian/Cleric (of the tempest domain). He decides to get as close as he can by walking, and uses his action to cast the spell Gust of Wind, hoping he can knock the cultist down. Unfortunately, the cultist succeeds on the strength saving throw and stays standing. However, my character who was right behind the cultist fails his strength saving throw. So, he goes flying forward and lands on top of the cultist, knocking them both prone. And since he's wearing heavy armor, he pins the cultist to the ground until the rest of the party catches up to us and can grapple this guy to keep him secure as we interrogate him. TL;DR: While chasing a fleeing cultist, we found the most effective method was to waste a second level spell slot to send your Paladin flying forward to football tackle them to the ground.

[@blakeetter280]

Raiding an abandoned castle for a McGuffin and we found over a hundred suits of armor standing around. By their positions and context we assumed they were animated armor going to animate once we took the relic. Well we find it in a room along the back wall but don’t touch it because we don’t want to set it off. The cleric goes to look around for a way out while I study the relic. I decide to use shatter to break down the wall and escape that way. Well the spell worked but it also accidentally triggered the armor which started to activate. DM said we could hear it start to clank through the halls. It was at this point the DM reminded us the castle was on a cliff. He’d told us on the way in but I didn’t appreciate how close to the edge it was. While I’m trying to think of a way out the cleric comes rushing back in, grabs the McGuffin and jumps out the hole. We try and save him but fail the checks, and I don’t have any spell that can help. He falls two hundred feet and dies instantly but he took the relic out of range of the castles spell, so the armors all deactivated. It ended up being a joke for the rest of the campaign and I later took over the castle. I named the back of the castle ‘brakom’s dive’.

[@drango]

This was about 20 years ago so my memory is foggy, but my first TTRPG was Exalted. One key rule of Exalted was the rule of cool, the better you describe your action, the more bonus dice the GM can give you. My character was... not very well made... But the party had to board a ship to cross the sea at one point, when the crew decided to give the party a hard time, and pulled each of us into one on one unarmed combat... except me who drew the short straw. My character was supposed to be a sort of archer/medic, and was left to fight TWO sailors unarmed. Well, someone in the crew took pity on me and kicked a broken broom handle to me, at which point I spent every turn doing my best to describe attacks performed by Kilik from Soul Calibur to get those sweet, sweet bonus die. Actually take down one of the guys as a result! So the other climbs the mast to swing down sandbags at me. My only option is to climb up after him. I get to where he is, and he's half way out across the beam holding the top of of the, currently folded, sails. I take one step towards him, fail my gymnastics roll, and fall off. Luckily the dice took pity on me at this point and I was able to catch a rope on the way down and successfully swing back up... to the far end of said cross beam above the water. His turn. He ALSO fails his gymnastics roll, but also fails to catch a rope and belly flops into the sea below. Said crew member becomes the mockery of the crew for the rest of the journey, while I was treated with awe as somehow the crew believed I fell on purpose to show off. One of the other party members, who had a much higher charisma stat than I may have been helping with that belief, but thankfully for me the rest of our journey across the sea went without incident.

[@apathyjak8796]

In our BECMI campaign setting. Playing would be merchant sailors. On an island dominated with dinosaurs, a TRex starts attacking the gate the day after a youngling dragon was slain during a banquet. One of the NPC crew members gets eaten by the TRex whole in one piece. My character attempted to dive in the mouth of the TRex potion in hand and pull a Drax to get out. I Rolled a 1 landed on top its head. I happened to be holding my sword with a magical enchanted string to be stronger than a cable, so by proxy held the TRex where he couldn't bash the gate down. A few solid hits from our archer brought it down and discoved the crew mate who got eaten had a mist form item and got out safely. TLDR Tried to save a crew member after getting eaten by TRex. Hopped on its head an attritioned it to death.

[@TheNoobRapter]

I have two. One time I played a ghost in a game and the party was trying to figure out what was in a safe, Because I was a ghost I thought about phasing thru the walls to see what was inside, the DM stated that their will be an impossible test for me to phase thru it (I think because of magic or something). I had to roll 3 nat 20s, and I was able to do that to the party's glee, and the DM's horror. The DM stopped the game to explain how The safe had some type of story relevance and was not supposed to be opened or for the party to know what is in it this early on. So I just simply said, ok then my character goes in the safe, then comes out and just says "It is dark in their, does anyone have a torch?", then proceeds to be able to phase thru the safe again but unable to get the torch thru. Then just shrugs saying well looks like we need to find another way to get thru this safe. It was a new DM so I had to give them some slack. The other time a player in a cyberpunk 2020 game was doing a facedown with a booster gang member. The player was going to twirl their gun out of their holster and say a one liner to get bonuses to their facedown test. They rolled a fumble and got the hit self result and shot themself in the leg. Then they had to do a test to see if they go thru shock and they passed. They got negatives for the facedown test but still passed. The DM described how the booster ganger backed off not because this guy was threatening, but because the guy shot himself and did not react to getting shot.

[@senor-achopijo3841]

8:19 Jesus! The chances of that happening are literally less than 1 in a billion.

[@lignox7570]

It wasn't DnD but a custom system. I casted a spell making a lot of light to distract and amuse some people, but to not blind them i tried to use it between my closed hands. Failed roll, blinded myself and rolling on the ground because of the pain. Well at least they were amused and REALY distracted.

[@jimmieloop8587]

Oh gawd, the whale got me

[@dragonggw5843]

I realize that I'm posting this late, but I thought I'd do it anyway. This story is from a long time ago. Back when 2nd Edition D&D was still fairly new. I was a fairly new player back then, I'd only been roll playing for a few months. One of the more seasoned players showed me a 1st Edition book (1st Edition is compatible with 2nd with only a few minor tweaks) called "Unearthed Arcana". Inside was a class he thought I might like called the Barbarian. The DM at the time was going to run some high level adventures, so he wanted everyone to make new 12th level characters (my 1st clue that something was up). I chose the Unearthed Arcana Barbarian. For those that are unfamiliar with the 1st edition barbarian, they are crazy powerful but level progression is microscopically slow. For comparison a 2nd edition fighter needs 2,000 xp for 2nd level, a 1st edition barbarian need 6,000. Starting at 12th level meant eliminating some of that drawback, and the DM didn't mind (my 2nd clue that something was up). The adventure was going to take place in Ravenloft (my 3rd and final clue), a place I'd never been to. I'll skip to the good part and tell you what happened to my barbarian. The party was facing a Helmed Horror and my barbarian had gotten extremely lucky and found a Vorpal Great Sword a one or two sessions prior. I attacked the Helmed Horror and rolled a natural 20! Normally this is a good thing... nope. "Decapitating" a Helmed Horror doesn't do anything since they are nothing more than an animated suit of plate armor. My character didn't know this and expected it to fall...it didn't. The DM had me roll a save or run in fear...natural 1. My character took off running like a bat out of hell. Boy, it sure was good that I got that bad roll out of the way so I could get on to the good rolls, because running is one of the 1st edition barbarian's strong suits. They can keep on running until they fail a save, I needed another natural 1 to fail. 30ish rolls later I never saw a one again. I was curious about the distance my barbarian covered, if my math was correct ran far enough to go from one side of the U.S. to the other and half way back again. Everyone was laughing so hard, including me and the DM. The DM finally said I ran away for one turn.

[@Kartoffelkamm]

One time, in The Dark Eye, I was playing a hunter, with bow and all that. The rest of the party doesn't matter in this scenario. I wanted to kill a goblin standing guard over a cave, so we could sneak in. However, I missed my shot and hit a nearby tree instead. But because of how narrowly I missed, the DM ruled that the goblin got startled from the sudden noise, and after failing an athletics check, the goblin lost his footing and fell to his death.

[@pacodance29]

was running a sw saga edition game, the pc's were mercs taking advantage of their access to a crypto currency storage to steal MILLIONS of credits from the Trade Federation. They were tracked down to a casino where the hacker/slicer was celebrating their influx of cash. His nat 20 to gamble alerted the security that a high roller was on the floor and the security team id'd him right away for being wanted for theft. so good

[@ChryssaBL]

One of those stories reminds me of a mission in KOTOR II

[@zalphinian]

This has become a running joke in our campaign. We were very trying to sneak up on a camp that was holding the love interest of one of our group hostages to set them free. After planning out our plan of attack which involved the kobold dragon blood sorcerer (me), our human fighter who’s bardic love interest was captured, and a dwarf cleric who followed Torag to sneak behind the main tent, tear a small hole into the tent to allow my sorcerer to disable the guards, then the fighter and cleric were to take the love interest and cover our retreat as we ran like hell! What happened was my kobold and her fighter friend successfully snuck around the camp and reached the back of the tent where the hostages were held. Unfortunately, the cleric rolled a nat 1 on his sneak, so the player had the Dwarf draw his War Hammer and bellow as loudly as he could, “FOR TORAG” before clinging and loudly clanging his fully covered in plate mail way into the bandit’s camp in a full charge! Thanks to his most successful distraction my kobold ripped a hole in the back of the tent and the fighter rescued her beloved bard then went to join the dwarf in subduing the rest of the camp. The bandits were all wiped out and the bard was successfully reunited with his lady love the fighter. To this day whenever we decide the sneaky approach is needed, we still ask, “For Torag?” before we send a party member on their way to sneaky sneak.

[@LeadedWolf64]

Hear me out, I never comment but as a DM I wanted to tell my story about this. I had my players go behind a waterfall to find a giant stone door that had words in celestial. Said something about blood to open the door think outside using your head. I can't remember but it was close to those lines. Anyways. After about 15 minutes of the players trying to figure out the Riddle, the barbarian got impatient so he just ran at the door head first doing 2 points of damage to himself. Little without him knowing the door had some blood on it from his headbutt and that was the key to activate the door. It made a stone copy of the player and fought the party. They then entered the dungeon and got the item they were looking for. So task failed successfully 😂

[@jayzgaming0097]

Hell yeah more amazing content 🥳

[@Sl4wt3r]

There was this one campaign I was in where we were trying to stop an evil wizard from destroying the world by resurrecting the race of the Titans. Our DM explained that the titans are bad news, and while they're killable, one person, even at high levels, couldn't possibly deal enough damage before they get stepped on. Me, a Goliath Barbarian, jokingly: So, avoid the feet, got it. We were mostly successful in stopping the bbeg, but then we finally failed one resurrection. DM starts narrating how the bbeg starts to monolgue about his victory. By this point, we were all level 9 or close to leveling to 9, and had a bunch of wealth, a fortress hq, and an airship. So I look to the Fighter. Barbarian: Go for the eyes? Fighter: The eyes. Got it. DM looks confused as I tell him I leap from the airship into one of the titans eyes with my greatsword swinging. DM: O-okay... Roll athletics, I guess. I start describing how I crouch down to start sprinting to the side of the ship, how I pull back my sword as I spring forward off the rails of the ship! Aaand nat 1. DM: You fly forward majestically through the air. If a bard was watching, you'd be the stuff of legends. Then you notice your trajectory is wrong too little, too late, as you pass through the titan's teeth right down its throat. Everyone at the table facepalms. DM starts pulling out a character sheet. I immediately tell him to wait. Me: I want to grapple his uvula. DM: Sigh... Fine, but you're going to lose your sword. Me: That's a strength check, right? I got a 20. DM: Okay, so you let out a high pitch scream unbefitting of a grown Goliath as you drop your sword. You're now hugging this dangling mass of flesh like you life depends on it, because it does. Every turn I do the same thing. Every turn the dm rolls a dice and writes something down. My friends try a few attacks before they decide to try to rally some help and fly away. DM decides that it would be more interesting to follow them so we stop focusing on my Goliath. I still have to make rolls though. The party is in the middle of strategizing with the closest kingdom when DM, in the middle of a sentence suddenly stops talking as the Guard Captain. DM: You feel the ground tremble. Slow and slight at first, but then it grows and grows until its practically an earthquake. General Aurius is half way to the castle window when it suddenly stops. Everyone goes goes outside to investigate and find the Titan practically outside the city, lying down. It's at about this point I notice DM hasn't asked me to roll for a little while. After some checks, the Titan is declared dead. It turns out that all those secret rolls the DM was making were damage rolls and my Barbarian, by staying lodged in the Titan's throat, was slowly killing it by choking it to death.

[@gerbill13]

We have a goblin in a mine Blows up the mine Very blows it up So mine is now a smooth incline

[@axolotlthepowerful4643]

My friends and I were in a library with skeletons and we heard noises from upstairs but there was no access to the third floor at all so Instead of I don't looking for a magic puzzle or something we had the idea to take a table and throw it threw the floor (we all told the dm if you don't want us to do this all means stop is but he said he wanted to see where this was going) so we ended up throwing it on top of a shelf and then ramming it through the floor with a combined roll of 41 we made a human sized hole while also altering literally everyone else. We were going to be paid with a wagon for our ox to pull but because of the damages the leader of the guards decided that wasn't going to happen . Fair enough

[@cerealguy6359]

The mating call of a blue whale got me

[@mikachan1444]

Sorry it's long, but I'm incapable of being short winded, plus my flailing for words was pretty funny (to me at least) and its on prompt. Our party finally left a small town we had been in for 11 sessions, and came across a few wagons on the side of the road. We could see that one of the wheels had broken, so we assumed that they might need help. However, we (once again) over thought it, sending my changeling rogue Mitaar and our half orc druid Teddy as representatives. We had decided that itd be best to seem non threatening, so my pc Mitaar shape changed into an old woman (complete with awful voice), and Teddy wild shaped into a cat. The rest of the party hung back, with me and Teddy kinda whispering to each other about methods to make friends. This is where we failed successfully.. In all our talking, the entire party failed to notice a black GLITTERING tabaxi watching us from atop the wagons. He jumped down, introducing himself as Antermas, leading man of a wandering circus, shimmying his shoulders to show off the glitter in his fur. Stunned, me and Teddy are try to play it cool, shitting bricks and wondering just how much he heard. Mitaar: (in terrible old lady voice) "hello dearie.. aren't you, ..something." Antermas: "hello madam, lovely to see you and your.. lovely companion today. I apologize, but as you've approached us I must ask if I could... help you with anything? We are quite wary of bandits you see, and have already had a run in with them once." M: "oh! Yes, yes. Um, our party, yes, was coming this way when we had noticed you all.. here. Well we only wished to pass through, safely, but then saw your uh, wagon was in need of repair.. So we took it upon ourselves to speak to you, see if we could maybe.... help?" A: "ah! Well it is much appreciated.. however I have told you my name, would you be so kind as to introduce yourself?" M: *thinking for a hot moment* "I'm an old lady dearie.." M: "and this is my cat" A: "an old lady?" M: "yes-" A: "and not a young man pretending to be one" At this point, I had sirens and alarms going off in my head and a very nervous Teddy in my arms, so when Antermas said this I just dropped the act entirely. M: "ah. So you uh, heard that.." Teddy wild shapes back, trying to explain ourselves, when I interrupt. M: "wait so, you heard all that, so you must know that we aren't hostile???" A: "I dont tend to appreciate such deceit," *gestures to Mitaar's disguise* "I would have rather you all come at once than trick us." So we failed. But we actually came off not so bad because Antermas heard the whole planning discussion for us to win their friendship. 😅 And, with that last statement, Antermas has made a tsundere relationship with Mitaar, who has still not forgiven him for such an "awful take" on his whole being. And as this campaign is ongoing the petty has yet to conclude, and Mitaar has decided that Antermas isnt allowed to see his true *beautiful* face 🤣

[@sethcole9154]

Can I post on a different DnD story topic? This is a THAT PLAYER story. Some context. This is a homebrew campaign being run with Discord chat, so low stress, and people contribute when they can and everybody understands, we have no time constraints. Also means low combat high role playing. This story is from the first combat of the campaign. We're traveling down the road in our wagon when we run into a wagon of bandits going the other way. Combat ensues. Players take turns when they can, and after a real world day had passed, the DM decided that the bandits would go before our Ranger. Bandits take their turn. We're all lvl 5 and I start panicking when I realized that 3 of our 5 teammates were now at half health (I don't play much). Then the Ranger comments "Mirai [rangers name] winces as the arrow sticks her in the leg. She goes to step off the wagon, slips, hits her head on the wagon, and falls to the ground unconscious." We made it out okay, DM's not that mean, but I resolved that if this happened again to kick the Ranger from the party for being a danger to themselves and others.

[@funnyblog100]

GM gave my character a ring that gave my bard plus 1 charisma for backstory reasons. The ring was actually cursed and couldn't be removed and it had a devil inside it who was looking to corrupt my character. Realizing I couldn't get rid of the devil or the ring at my current level I opted to get rid of my finger instead using my dagger. Still wasn't enough because a devil hand started to reform from my severed finger and tried to claw its way out of my character's bag. So I took it to a temple and had it incinerated in holy fire. Afterwards my bard just shrugged his shoulders and said welp that's lunch.

[@nullblasterthevoidmaker1750]

Actually I remember Bear being talked about in a different video.

[@bubbawilson5273]

Idk if it counts for this necessarily but the title reminded me of something. It isn't a long story, especially as I don't remember alot, but I'll tell what I do remember. So a few years ago me, my mom, and my dad were playing. Mom was dm'ing dad played a monk and I was a rogue. Both human. I'd never played a rogue and got some crap rolls for my stats (str int etc.) And I annoyed dad in game so he, being the one to have climbed to power quite quickly in this town had me steal a bell...from a tower. Think like medieval clock Tower....I failed so spectacularly that to this day my character is still alive trying to steal said bell. How am I alive? The gods have decided to keep me alive til I steal it. I was lvl 1. And became immortal. Again I'd like to say there's more to it I just don't remember cus it's been years since I played that campaign

[@aavatargonzalez342]

Thank you for the spoiler alert I was just about to start that campaign like not a week later so I think my DM would be really upset if I had gotten spoiler for it

[@needoriginalname]

Pfft one of my players did a stealth check in the knee high sewer water. She rolled a nat one, the jokely said she fell in the water. I the respond the goblin heard but didn't see anything because she was completely submerged in sewer water. Given I play goblin as little battle crazy idiots, it never assumed someone was there before they got the jump on them. Her roleplay of her character, who was a high born elf that was unexpected put in as next in line of the throne but ran away, was funny after getting out.

[@themadvirus613]

I can't not hear Fox and Q without thinking of RHG. If you know, you know.

[@jackfromyourhouse6033]

CoS spoilers: We are playing with new players, so there needs to be some grace... But one of our new guys was plying the death house like it was a video game he was trying to 100%. Every single room had be scoured, and he managed to trigger every single trap. Our DM even pulled one trap he triggered because it was about to kill 2 of the new players. Our party was burning through all our spells and HP bailing him out of every trap. At one point he was knocked down by a mimic door, and we barely got him back to 1 hp, but before we even finish off the mimic he was in another room, triggering a different trap. Lucky for him our party had 2 devoted paladins who wouldn't let him die. We reached the basement pool with basically no spell slots, all of us on low HP, knowing that our DM had prepped a boss fight for us. A group of spirits begin chanting "one must die" around an altar beside a pile of bones that is giving off an undead aura. We were screwed... EXCEPT one of our party had kept a paralytic bug we found earlier to try and keep as a pet. The other paladin suggested that we sacrifice it instead of one of us. We did it... The DM quickly checked the book. There was a long pause. And the look on the DM's face when he realized we had found a way totally avoided the fight was incredible. The spirits disappeared, apparently happy with our sacrifice. Our new member apologized after for almost getting us killed and generally playing the game at our expense, but thats the beauty of DnD. We managed to subvert death anyways even with his stunts.

[@LordDukane]

I was playing ANIMA Beyond Fantasy as a Tao Martial Artist. I rolled a botch, then followed it with a crit. GM ruled they canceled out and to roll again. Double crit. The ruling? I tripped, recovered enough to flip over forwards and accidentally axe kick the bad guy so hard, I pretty much made a soccer ball out of his head. 😶 Task failed... succeeded? Task failed successfully for sure... 😅

[@backonlazer791]

8:15 I somewhat doubt that part about 8 nat 1's in a row. Unless I botched the math, the likelihood of that happening are 1 in 25.6 *BILLION.* That's more than just unlikely. If they were using online dice then it's more plausible since the RNG sometimes has weird spots where it might roll a specific number unnaturally often.

[@hydrolur3959]

No, it was... actually horrible experience. I was the dm of that. And yes, we were using Roll20.

[@Eddiember]

We were playing on Roll20, and I assure you, that it was eight natural ones. The first two was against a combat with earth elementals, the third one was a history check. The fourth was when I tried to imitate the sound of a minotaur we knew was a afraid of minotaur, and the next three were in the ensuring combat afterward (I actually think one of those rolls was a two, but close enough). The dice were so extremely unkind to me that day, and I remember it as if it was yesterday.

[@YU-ln3mu]

Hey Brian first of all big fan I do have a question though do the people you are reading their posts know that TL DR means too long don't read or is there another meaning for it because that's what we've always used it for in the literacy community

[@minimishapsgames894]

I DM at a store and always have a different group of players each week. Because of having to play nice with others we have no PVP fighting or stealing from other players, and try to keep murder-hobo-ing to a minimum. Queue the loner-orphan-edgelord new player min-max Halfling Rogue Assassin and pain in the butt to all the other players. Rogue decides to steal a zeppelin, sneaks away, and leaves the group. Group realizes they have lost the loner, and by the time they find him he is floating away. Ranger decides to shoot down zeppelin with an arrow. Crit fails and hits Rogue (the loophole in no-PVP), and knocks him out. Now Halfling is just floating away into the sky and the table is in stitches, including the unconscious player. New player sorcerer is desperate to help, and shoots the zeppelin with fire bolt without any question or thought of science, very proud of being able to "contribute". Player apparently not familiar with the Hindenburg flight... TLDR: They did technically stop the zeppelin theft...

[@SamuelJohnsonBungie]

It’s my favorite voice actor from Ohio!!!!

[@ozzypeters8732]

We were tracking A kidnapping and we found something that lead to a alley with a drowning gunslinger and another one and I had the first move so I went to stab him but I missed my role butluckly my dm was great full andsaid that me. Changling had cut off the other guys head. I have another stories about him that turned him into a joke charecter but still be came very powerful.

[@Jerrell7321]

Nah 8 Nat 1s in a row? Bro need to go to the closet church ASAP

[@Noquartersarms]

Probably the stupidest thing to ever happen to me. So most times I Dm but my wife’s dad decided he wanted to try he’s vampire filled modern day homebrew. There was 3of us. Me ( human cleric) my wife (human rouges)then one of the key parts of the story my wife’s brother half orc ex marine with horrible ptsd issues. 😂 we come to the run down part of town looking for info for a vampire den. I a big bad Claric knock on the first door to my right. A voice on the inside ask “who the hell is it” to which my wife’s brother replies “the police”. Little did we know a human vampire hunter with a m-16 was on the other side 😂 dm says roll a dex. Save for me 😢😂 I rolled a nat 1. So I get filled with lead through the door knocking me down almost killing me. After that he panicked and starts blasting away with his spas-12 doing nothing but drawing every vampire in a 12 mile radius of us. He ends up tripping over a rock trying to run away from the hundred of vampires and end up shooting Himself wiping the party. Needless to say we don’t allow him to talk when looking for information

[@marcusfabela3024]

Why are his videos so short

[@sherylcascadden4988]

A comment for the algorithm to help the channel....

[@HankHill11]

GRUMPESH

[@jonathanmarks3112]

I thought it was Gruumsh?

[@HankHill11]

@@jonathanmarks3112 it is

[@benjaminmcgrath9562]

👍

[@Ilias2]

Look up Timothy Dexter.

[@crowbell3059]

Be me doot the gravewalker level 8 undead Warlock be not me fighter/wild magic sorcerer multiclass kobald and the rest of the party (I have a hard time remembering names) we were playing CST and we had collected two out of the three artifacts we needed to defeat him oh that was left was the sun sword we went to the castle and well exploring it we found the five revenants the wild magic sorcerer proceeded to cast chromatc orb firebolt twin spell and combat broke out my character decided to cast major image and made it so it look like the guy we saw tapestries of apparently that was there Master the leader then said master I thought you were dead I saw you die I vent had the image say that he was dead but this was an illusion from Beyond The mortal veil and that strad was about escape from bariova follow some clever convincing of myself along with some field tricks and I was about to convince them to help join us the leader said that their actual leader wouldn't be so easily swayed and then said through the illusion to do what was necessary all I needed to do with roll persuasion check Natural 1 The leader of them said no no you're not my master you're a trick he then turn to the other and said don't you see they're trying to fool us the DM then proceed to roll perception checks to see if any of them would still be under my sway they all rolled A 4 they all still believe it was a master in front of them except for the leader he then went away to tell the other one cue epic boss fight and we managed to make it over to them and help them pass on we then went to Castle ravenloft to kill strad once for all we managed to slay him burn the castle down and I became rick Asley all in all good campaign

[@theenigmascribe]

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[@capnwonk189]

YAY

[@annoyingPoe15]

The prince need to be distracted tiefling cleric nat 1 distraction via showing and talking about relics found (she was used as technically distraction/info learner for she was only good party member) proceeds to accidentally propose to princes older sister by triping following the prince Kingdom technically has two queens now lol on with literally a magic d from Kingdom guardian goddess who is a goddess of love to keep royal bloodline and because she loved the fact that is was going to happen later but happened sooner than my character planned for dm use nat 1 to trip me and found it funny god part was princess praying to God to be able to have kids.my character before leaving for quest left one of her earrings with finance and both traded panties because of Kingdoms engagement traditions half asleep idiots spat out weird things easily lol oh and both god fertility amulets from said goddess lol

[@mr.babylegs537]

Wow im first