In D&D, have you ever witnessed a fellow player’s quick thinking save the entire party? part 2

[@pbtenchi]

I saved AND traumatised my entire party in an Urban campaign as a level 1 bard. We were investigating what we thought would be a mafia drug exchange. Turned out they were actually selling some hard core rocket launchers. This was bad. But I had an idea. I left hiding and walked straight towards the trade. Got shot by a sniper lookout, but managed to signal “what the hell man” with so much authority the sniper apologised. So I got up to the two gangs exchanging weapons and shouted “THEY’RE SCAMMING US!” And the mafia mowed down the gangsters. Then whilst they still thought I was in charge, picked up one of the rocket launchers and blew up the remaining gangsters. The party just stared in horror at the 40 corpses on the ground.

[@Ren-bro-ku]

That is simply art my friend! Chefs kiss 🤌

[@sanscomic4226]

...you either have a weighted dice or wasted the next month of luck.

[@Allantitan]

@@sanscomic4226or both 😂

[@benpepin7872]

I got to be that player. Halloween one-shot. The battle involved floating explosive jack o lanterns. They would react to any stimulus by detonating. This was compounded by having enemies we wanted KOed, not killed, so even other downed foes had to be factored in where we could set them off. Then it hit me. Jack o lanterns have candles, even these ones. And prestidigitation lights or snuffs out small fires. I was hoping the move would just lessen their power, but the DM decided when their lights went out, they became totally inert and smashed like any regular pumpkin. That known, the remaining pumpkin bombs were wiped out. I got to save the day with a damageless cantrip.

[@synashilp]

The entire party's quick thinking saved themselves. They were facing an epic final battle against a dragon and her kobold army, with their hub town at stake. The party had an army of their own, and I allowed them to split their army into squads under their command. The kobold general arrived onto the battlefield with a regiment of advance troops, to distract everyone while the dragon herself swam to the docks for a pincer attack. He gave the town a chance to surrender. The party, being the party, refused. The plan on my side was to send kobold squads in waves, since the players had a lot of people under their command. Combat begins, with the players having a significant advantage in the initiative. One of the players had an enchantment sorceress under her command. I could hear the player gasp as the light bulb clicked on. She commanded the sorceress to control the kobold general with some magic. Kobold general failed his saving throw. The command was uttered: "sound the retreat!" The kobold general blew his war horn that signaled for the waiting kobold army to pack up. Well, dang. The other players used their squads to capitalize on the opportunity. Before the general could regain his senses and call back his army, he and his advance troops were peppered with arrows and spells! This turned the final battle greatly in the favor of the party. The dragon emerged into the town to find herself facing 30 capable fighters, as well as 20 armed citizens! The druid's player had a quick thought: crippling the dragon's wings so that she couldn't fly away. Everyone commanded their squads and the dragon's wings became Swiss cheese. Then the witch put out the suggestion that the dragon be surrounded so she couldn't run away. The dragon did her best to fight back, and it was a slog of a fight that saw a few NPC deaths, but the town was saved!

[@tommerker8063]

thats not a pincer though.

[@christuley7936]

One player was given a book of mis-spells. Spells that sound like one spell but do something completely different and silly. (For instance fireball becomes friar ball... that's a whole thing on its own) Anyway we were up against the bbeg who kept spamming shield and none of our party seemingly had any good way around it and were failing miserably to get any good attacks though. That player sees a spell in his book and says" I'll cast magic missile" our table insisted that he should probably do anything else, us all meta knowing what shield does. He said "iknow what I'm doing... oh I'm sorry I meant magic rissole". Turns out this spell, unlike magic missile, is not affected by shield and instead can... and did... blind the target with sauce and meatballs. With the blinded conditions now on the bbeg and our attacks at advantage, we then made short work of the bbeg while the rest of the arena erupted into a food fight. Glorious.

[@Ren-bro-ku]

Oh yes, if the battle does not end in a food fight, then is it really worth it in the first place? 🤌

[@SpeedyCheetahCub]

I don't know if this counts, but there is a moment from Just Roll With It: Riptide that I think would fit this question. The party is visiting their friend's shop when they are attacked by the Navy (they are pirates, so the Navy are their enemies). It's especially bad because the party is split (the Paladin is in front of the shop, the Artificer is behind the shop, and the Rogue is inside the shop) and the Navy have backup. The biggest problem is Vice Admiral Kuba Kenta, who is a Rakshasa. He had already cursed the Rogue on a previous encounter, which took them a while to get cured. (The Rogue had gotten an absurdly high roll on stealth, but he wanted to feel the fur on Kuba's paws. So he reached out to pet his hand, and Kuba scratched him pretty badly. Apparently, it was really soft fur.) To make matters worse, Kuba is in front of the shop where the Paladin is, and he had just dropped his armor off in the shop because their friend was going to fix it up for him, so the Paladin's AC was 8. Knowing that he was inevitably going to be hit by every attack Kuba made and was certainly going to be cursed, the Paladin's goal was to take out Kuba before the Navy soldiers could take him out. During the course of the fight, the Artificer and Rogue had managed to escape and defeat their enemies respectively, and they were regrouped inside of the shop but were unable to escape to the ship because of the soldiers out front and Kuba. I don't remember how exactly (I think it was the Artificer's enemy who came to help Kuba) but after scratching him and sinking his teeth into the Paladin's neck, Kuba found himself hundreds of feet in the air with the Paladin in tow, intending to drop him while Kuba would be fine. Knowing he was going to be down either way and needing to take out Kuba, the Paladin had a brilliant plan: he recently bought a palm-sized anchor that you could make weigh between 1 and 10,000 pounds using a command. So he tucked it into Kuba's jacket, said "10,000 pounds" and casted Enlarge on it, making it double in size and increase in weight by 8. Now weighed down by an 80,000-pound anchor, Kuba plummeted towards the ground, with the Paladin still in his mouth. They crashed through the upper dock where they were originally standing, through the lower dock where the boats were, and into the water. Kuba was killed on impact and the Paladin was down, but the rest of the party was able to use that distraction to get into the water as well. They administered a health potion to the Paladin, and were able to trade Kuba's body for safe passage out of the port (Kuba was revivable, so the Navy would still be able to use him, but his body was being weighed down to the bottom of the ocean by a 10,000 pound anchor and only water-breathing creatures like the Paladin (he's a Triton) can speak underwater, so only he could make the anchor stop weighing so much by saying the command words so they could recover the body. Bonus: At some point in the fight, the Paladin cut Kuba's right hand off and kept it, so even if the Navy revives Kuba, he still is missing his main hand and cannot use it to curse anyone. Tl;Dr: "WHAT??? A DC 102 Strength Check??? There's no way that can be right!!!" Also, the episode is JRWI: Riptide #90 and is titled "21 Ton Salute".

[@Sammich004]

JRWI MENTIONED

[@ravenshade266]

Gosh. Glad to see this artificer representation. We’ve had a couple of pretty crazy moments, but my favorite one was when we (somehow) kept the entire crew of the badly-damaged sailing ship we were on from dying after a fight with a dragon turtle. Seven of the crew had been thrown overboard as we tried to escape the turtle, and it basically shredded our sails with its breath attack, so our cleric rolled for Divine Intervention as a last resort… and GOT it. Basically ended up bloodbending the turtle apart. However, all seven of the crew got hit with the breath weapon, and were in DIRE straits. Two of them had been killed outright, three of them were on death saves, and two of them were somehow still alive. Luckily, one of the ones in the water was the ship’s cleric, but considering we were actively moving away from them, it was going to be difficult to get them onboard in time to save all of them. Except for one very niche spell my tiefling artificer, Taqqiq, had that I’ve grown to absolutely adore: Vortex Warp. If you don’t know what Vortex Warp does, basically it requires the target to make a Constitution save (they can fail it willingly) or be teleported to an unoccupied space that can support it that the caster can see. With a normal range of 90 feet and an upcasted range of 120, and quickly teleporting the injured ones as fast as possible, we got the unconscious and dead crew back on the ship before a minute had run up, managing to stabilize the unconscious ones and revivify the dead ones. The crazy thing is that it likely wouldn’t have worked as well if, the evening before, as we tried to sail around a portal to the Elemental Plane of Water, the second mate hadn’t fallen in, prompting a Vortex Warp from Taqqiq. It basically meant that the second mate told the whole crew to not resist when they felt the pull from Vortex Warp, meaning that there was no chance of it failing.

[@phantomwraith1984]

Well, of course i know him. He's me. We arrived in a town, and i started selling guns at the marketplace to make some money. I sold 9 guns to various people, only for a fight to break out, and our DM said the guys i sold guns to were actually our enemies there. I respond with "WAIT! I didn't say anything about selling them ammunition."

[@hannahshandknits]

Ooh good catch!

[@Ren-bro-ku]

This story is not really me saving the party, but still a cool story. So, my party (Barbarian, fighter, paliden, and, me, a rouge) were in the desert and were about to go into the cave with a lot of sanke people (about 15) and the party sent me into the cave to sneek in and see what was going on. I took a few lvls into ranger so I got favored terrain, the desert ( my character was born in the desert), this making my stealth a solid +18. And I saw that there was way to many for us to win. I went back and plotted with the Barbarian. He was a pirate Minotaur, and he had a cannon on his back. I used my invisibility cloak to hide the Barbarian and his cannon, and went back into the cave. We lit and fired the cannon, and I helped so we argued that it would have my sneek attack dice. Before hand the Barbarian had traded his cannonball for a lot of arrows and we the dm said that it would shotgun blast. Back to the cave, we killed about half of the bad guys. And then, roll for initiative, they were surprised due to the fucking surprise cannon to the face. It was a quick encounter. Ps: you might say something about the dm allowing us to get away with to much, but this dm allows us to do most things, and if we get to op, she will just make things harder. She is the type of dm to throw things at us that we are not able to kill, so we gotta think out side of the box. Plus, her motto is if it's cool and fun, we can do it, to an extent ( nothing like intimidating a mountain or anything )

[@XivaNeophix]

My party was in the feywilds to raid an enchanted mansion that contained the macguffin of the week, a magic mask. The doors to this mansion, according to fey rules, were only open for a very specific time of night on a certain night of optimal celestial alignment, so the entire party agreed to not waste any time outside, lest we miss the chance to get in before the doors close. Naturally, this lair is guarded by three monsters that only visible in direct moonlight, and trying to fight them would waste time, so the party agrees to cast Pass Without a Trace and take the stealthy approach. My Hexblade Swashbuckler gets by just fine -thanks Roguish expertise- but most of the party members are... not dextrous. I'm up against the mansion, watching the creatures descend upon The Druid Who Rolled A Nat 1 On Stealth Even With Her Own Pass Without A Trace On, and prepare Prestidigitation. Right when they're within smelling distance of that half of the group, I used it to let loose a "distant" cry of "Time's up, let's do this! LEEROOOOOOYYYYYYY..." and the sound of a glass window shattering. The guards instantly zero in on the noise, abandon the rest of my team, and fly over the building to try to find the intruder that somehow broke into this enchanted mansion, while my team of Actual Invaders got in through the front door.

[@jettblade]

Not DnD but RoleMaster. Had a few clutch moments but one I can think of was when one of the rogue players saw that we were about to be attacked by a hydra and just fell to his knees to start to worship it. The entire table was just taken aback. The rogue asked for the hydra's name so it may spread the word of its majesty. This bought enough time for me to start summoning animals to feed the hydra, I was playing an evil Ranger. The player actually wrote the hydra's name where the deities section. The same player also stopped the party from attacking a sleeping dragon we were hired to kill. Instead she had us poison its waterhole with a stupidly powerful poison we found on our travels, wake it just enough for it to not perceive us but enough for it to get some water, and set up some pretty powerful explosives to kill it when the poison started to work. And yes this was inspired by 'sleep-bombing' monsters in Monster Hunter.

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@mitsunitaiko1742]

Actually I was that player. I saved our ship from sinking and a player from drowning in the middle of a lake. None of us knew how to swim mind you. This situation was entirely caused by the rest of the party. My character is the mage and the only litterate one in the party while the rest of the party shares one braincell, both in roleplay and around the table. I had to use my earth powers to patch the ship together and make a homemade anchor for the drowning member. Terrifying situation and no one did anything to help, they were expecting me to tell them what to do the whole time

[@anishshirodkar484]

You could have also just made a platform rise up from the ground, then rest on top of the water

[@mitsunitaiko1742]

@@anishshirodkar484 maybe that's something you can do as an earth mage in D&D but that was not D&D. The best I could do in earth creation was harmless thorns

[@anishshirodkar484]

@@mitsunitaiko1742 ah, I assumed DnD, since the original question is about DNd

[@mitsunitaiko1742]

@@anishshirodkar484 sadly I never got a chance to play D&D yet

[@generalrendar7290]

OMG! You're Gandalf!

[@TheDanielCityHeroes]

Proud moment of my character pulling off one of these, especially since he's normally one of the more gung-ho attackers. I was playing a human monk who loves getting into a good fight (think Ryu or Ken from Street Fighter), but on this instance, the party found themselves ambushed and surrounded by goblins and hobgoblins. We try fighting them but find out quickly that they outnumber us. Combine that with a bunch of unlucky rolls and things aren't looking good, with a potential TPK in the near future. That's when I remembered that my character could speak Goblin (in his backstory, he picked up the language gradually after picking fights within a few goblin tribes). Thinking we don't have anything to lose by trying, I shout in Goblin to challenge their leader for safe passage. The goblins stop fighting and the leader steps out. I was expecting to have to go one on one with either him or the strongest guy in the tribe. Instead, we're able to negotiate our way out. I loved that it actually worked so well. I swung for the fences and got a home run.

[@breneniverson8081]

We were fighting Thea customized fire genie who was the bbeg of that arc in our campaign. The genie used the gravity slam & prismatic wall combo as we entered the room. Luckily the room was big enough that we each had one turn before we passed through the prismatic wall. Everyone was trying to find something to grab onto or use a flight ability. At one point the genie moved up next to the prismatic wall and I saw my chance. My sorcerer cast wall of force on top of the genie, pushing the him into the prismatic wall with no saving throw or any way to avoid a trip through his own murder wall! A few seconds later we had a new statue to decorate our base. Needless to say the DM wasn’t too happy the bbeg was gone in one round.

[@skywolfbat]

So I'm a little late to this post but it reminds me of the AD&D campaign my friends and I played in; I was playing a priest of one of the god kings, we had gotten away from some slavers and found our way to a city of dwarves who were being opressed by some jerk in an old fortress. So we stormed through the desert and found our way there, finding him studying some old runes of some kind. Our aarakocra decided they wanted to pick him up and drop him to the stone floor to kill him quickly, they managed to grab him with their claws and flew up before getting ready to drop down at high speed. Then, I had a brilaint idea and asked them "[Aarakocra], would you accept a spell from my character if you saw them casting it?" "Yea, sure." "I cast silence on the Aarakocra as they drop." They proceded to stop short about twenty feet in the air, Silence has exactly a range of twenty feet, and they let go of the guy right as they stopped short. His guards never heard the splat as he hit the stone floor at velocity or the rapid beating of wings that stopped the bird from meeting the same fate, and got to let them do an awesome kill. The two of us still laugh about it.

[@mj101inf9]

Played Curse of Strahd as a dwarf ranger. Our party was at a tavern in Vallaki and discovered the brothel owner also ran the town orphanage. DM didn’t explain that situation clearly enough and we all got the wrong idea, so our paladin killed the old lady right then. Alarm was sounded and the entire town guard is marching to arrest us. We didn’t want to fight or kill the “good guys” but were certainly in a tough spot. My Gloomstalker Ranger climbs to the roof of a building, casts Disguise Self and impersonates Strahd himself (who we had already encountered). Fake-Strahd yells at the soldiers that these infidels are HIS to kill and if anyone else dares to touch them he will kill everyone on Vallaki and turn it into a lake of blood. Successful roll on a Persuasion check and the guards all run away in terror, giving our group time to GTFO.

[@hahaheart1]

A personal moment that I'm proud of :D! Before this, I had asked if I could wear two magic cloaks at once, and the DM said fine. The two cloaks I wanted to wear was the Cape of the Mountebank (which was inherited from a dead PC) and Robe of Stars (which I had as a mission reward). This is important for later There was a fight that happened due to our local sorcerer getting bored, and asking the DM for a fight. The DM said fine, and our team, which had been boating through a flooded city, with some highways peaking out, encountered a magic user of sorts. Apparently he was friends with the two tabaxi that attacked me earlier, *which* I had spared, but he thought I had been picking on them, didn't listen to reason and proceeded to attack us. Being on water plus being behind a summoned poison cloud cover meant it was neigh impossible to hit him, plus all the tricks I had required sight or being on land. Which means I was basically neutralised. My teammates honestly were fantastic, and the only reason we lived was because they were awesome. So long story short, we land a couple hits, but we've been reduced to low low digits, and I'm on my last health point. I had been trying to convince him that his friends were in the wrong, and they attacked us first, but when it looked like it was getting close, he'd just yell and blast us with stronger magic. Which, when we're all on a boat, is not great due to AOE attacks! Now, I was playing a homebrew class, the Savant (subclass archeologist) which had a couple functions, but to summarise, if I landed a hit, or looked at a creature long enough, one of the things I could do was see their lowest stat. Asking the DM, he confirmed the magic user's lowest stat was intelligence which I had suspected when trying to convince him to not kill us. Well I manage to persuade the magic user to "let me show him a magic trick", that "it was my last wish, after all, if I try anything you could kill me easily, considering that I am so weak right now", and "all you have to do is take my hand and agree to the trick". The magic user hemmed and hawed, but through a successful persuasion roll, he took my hand, citing that he might as well list. As he took my hand and I said, "Enjoy sky blue". Then I teleported us 500ft in the air above a highway grinned and said "Cool trick right?" before dipping into the astral plane. He hit the concrete with a splat. The way the DM described it was quite gorey so I won't replicate it here, but it was quite satisfying after our near TPK. I had to keep dipping in and out of the astral plane, resetting my velocity before landing safely down, and as a reward, the DM let us have his magical cloak. Instead of becoming the local coat rack, I gave it to our local sorcerer, who was quite appreciative, and said they'd said they'd stop asking for fights. See the thing is, Cape of the Montebank let's you TP in any direction up to 500ft but *only* willing participants, hence me asking over and over for him to accept, and needing him to be kind of dumb. Robe of Stars let's you dip into the astral plane. So combined the two together, and you have a safe way to throw someone from hundreds of meters up in the air. That was the coolest moment in DND for me ever, the DM even highlighted the moment, said DM was great, my teammates were awesome, and everyone got a chance to shine. One of my favourite campaigns! TL;DR After getting our butts handed to us, tricked the mini-boss into taking my hand, subsequently throwing him 500ft into the air, causing him to splatter, as I semi gracefully tp back and forth between planes before landing on the ground.

[@DBoy4613]

I can just image you smiling as you both start to fall with the :D Face

[@hahaheart1]

@@DBoy4613 Well! It'd be very in character! I think both me and my character were equally excited when it worked >∀

[@das_gruuben]

My fighter/barbarian needed a ranged option. I took a javelin to some artificers that we had rescued to ask them to give it an enchantment of Returning. That wasn't so bad, it just ment that I had "infinite" ammo if we ran into enemies that flew or had insane mobility, of which we had seen many. Then it got dumb. Our DM miscalculated my ability to aquire loot, and soon I had an amount of cash that made my fellow party members pretty ANGY. I told them in character, with my best Travis Willingham voice; "Don't worry, Oi know jus' what ta doo wif dis dosh." I went back to the artificiers and paid them a truly punitive sum to put an enchantment on the same javelin to make it ALSO a Javelin of Lightning. Not that bad, I can only use that once per day, and it comes back to be a basic javelin for some sub-par DPS in situations that a greataxe can't reach. What broke it was a combat encounter where our party was in a wooden boat in an underground lake and getting our asses handed handed to us by some Lovecraftian merfolk surrounding the boat. We had no idea what to do. I took a few minutes to look over my character sheet in desperation, then inspiration struck. I described my character, Lurrik having an epiphany, pulling out his javelin, dipping the tip into the water, and saying the command word that sent a bolt of lightning into the water. I expected the enemies to make dex checks, and asked the DM what they rolled versus the spell save DC. He looks at me, grinning and facepalming and says: "They're IN THE WATER, and now I know why you asked about the f**king boat being made of wood. Now roll your damage, damnit." None of the enemies survived. TL;DR, just don't give me magic items, you should see what I've done with Daern's Instant Fortress...

[@Plasmawarrior]

In this case, the quick thinking was me. We were playing the Pathfinder 1E game system that is known as 'The Cheese Grinder" at a major convention. We were fighting 2 giant-sized, 8-headed monsters that clearly weren't meant to be killed. During these games, you're allowed to buy cheats in order to get out of different situations. The fighter in the party decided to stand so far back and not do anything. Meanwhile, I have to be the unwilling tank as a bard. Needless to say, I was just about to get slaughtered until I played the cheat that allows me to exchange my position with any player, rather they wanted it or not. So, of course, since the fighter was exchanged with me. It ended up killing off the fighter, who wasn't doing anything anyway. Remembering the words of the monster well: "NO ONE WILL TOUCH MY BAG!" before he started the fight, he set the bag right next to him. So, assuming they now quit focusing on me, I quickly cast haste and invisibility, ran right to the bag, and activated the portal to the next room. The funny thing is, literally no one at the table even tried to go for the bag other than me. TL;DR The BBEG told us of the way out of the fight, our tank doesn't tank, I used a cheat that ended the fighter (better him than me I'd say), and I unlocked the McGuffin to save the rest of our team. The McGuffin that LITERALLY WAS TOLD TO US ALL THAT NO ONE ELSE BOTHERED TO GO TO! I to this day don't know how anyone else couldn't figure that battle out other than me.

[@astrius22]

We saved the campaign once, it was a sandstorm that was approaching a caravan on a tight cliff road and we defeated people in the gate that was blocking us fast enough to be able to store 2 carts inside the gate, safeguarding them, in order of importance, someone smart managed to position another cart in a way the wind wouldn't push it away and I decided we should put all of the weight of our massive bulky party inside the last cart, preventing it from moving and anchoring it down. It worked, and we saved the entire caravan we were probably not supposed to save.

[@czcrossman]

Our Cleric saved our ass a few weeks ago - Level 8 party somehow found ourselves fighting an aboleth (along with 3 of its skum minions) and we were not only getting our asses beat but we couldn’t really hurt the aboleth because it kept disappearing below the water after popping up and launching ouchies at us. Cleric cast Control Water - basically removed a 100x100x100 chunk of water, causing the aboleth to plummet down to the (now bone dry) seabed. It couldn’t move so we proceeded to rain all hell down on it lol.. Would’ve been screwed without that spell!

[@ContagiousRepublic]

I can't seem to believe the DM who separated the ranger from his mechanical ant TWICE, and once IMMEDIATELY AFTER IT WAS MADE. One wonders if that DM doesn't like the ant, stucking it into the present and whatnot.

[@noneayourbusiness5149]

When I was playing a Monk, we got into a situation where we were on a train, caught between two extremely powerful baddies. I think the DM was expecting us to try to acquiesce to one baddie to save us from the other. Instead, I literally body-block one of the baddies between train cars while the rest of my party took care of the other baddie. Basically I used my action to Dodge the whole time, which helped me to not only avoid getting hit, but also resist attempts to shove me out of the way.

[@Epicgoldwing]

Hell, i've actually got one for this. Been a forever dm for a while, so i jumped at the chance when a mate was starting up knights of Phandelver. So Also Minor spoilers. Made a Pacifist Gnome Druid Named AnOak (party needed a healer), from level one through 5 managed to not do a single point of damage. Dumped dex so i was pretty much always last in initiative. Came to the final fight against a drow with a bunch of spiders around it. DM warned its going to be a hell of fight. Drow Laughed and went invisible, few bits of damage from the rest of the party against the spiders, as im still hiding by the door. I cast Faerie fire, get a few spiders but most importantly the drow. Dm begins monologuing, i assume to stall while he thinks of a plan. when he finish, he casts darkness. and boom we can see nothing. I pause for a second and then ask "seeing as though we just has that little exchange. Can i say something to everyone before we go back into initiative?" Immediately the Dm stares at me suspiciously "sure...." Me "everyone hold your fire". Returning to the top of the round, i hold my action, hold, hold, hold. then to me "I cast dispel magic" Darkness drops and that poor drow (who still had faerie fire on it) became a large red smear on the wall. Managed to get from lvl 1 to 5 without doing any damage and was actually clutch. \m/

[@BlueSkyBirdies]

I'm still a little unfamiliar with DnD, can you please clarify how you killed the Drow without doing any damage? And why it was necessary for your teammates to hold their fire?

[@z0ro_62]

Yes seeing a flying content falling from the sky saw that said "what did thry do this time! " had to use my wish scroll to stop it 😢.

[@nickvitale4265]

In the most dire of situations my half orc barbarian has been known to drown heavily armored foes on docks by pushing them off. Or drowning a spell caster in a river. Or grappling a spell caster by the face. My dm has had to learn what spells have verbal components because of this move.

[@VoidPetsBack]

11:40 Having an Artificer Goblin who’s able to make anything gave me an idea: what if there was an Artificer feat that allowed a Survival roll when making something through the class that, if successful, allowed them to ignore one of the components (cobbled together from what’s around) at the cost of losing those resources when it’s destroyed and also (naturally) not getting the component that was skipped?

[@Pure_Skillz]

I love he used a Scottish accent for dwarves. Really says something about this perception of the Scottish.

[@masqueradeChainedDevil]

I instakilled a boss with a sword after convincing his sword to attack him he jumped down to attack us so i walked under him and stuck my sword up

[@BeekillerJohanna]

During the end of campaign invasion to our group's home town, which consisted mostly of trees and treehouses, several fires broke out. In the town was also a massive sacred druid grove tree (big enough to count as a small village itself), which was animated. The attackers had chained it to prevent it from fighting. The fires also spread to the sacred tree, which, being shackled, couldn't move to put out the fire. My character, a female half-orc cleric of Sune (goddess of beauty and love) has an Endless Decanter of Water. She instantly became a one woman fire brigade, hosing down the flaming druid tree each round, until the rest of the team managed to break some of the shackles, and the tree started smacking out the fires on its own, as well as fighting the invaders. The town's mayor had been letting the invaders do their shady shit before the battle, and it was election year. During the timeskip after that fight, and before the start of our current campaign, my character got elected as the new mayor, and promptly passed a law stating that elected officials cannot get paid for their service, to rule out any future candidates looking to fill their own pockets instead of serving the town. She also had a baby with her husband (half-elf NPC tailor), and while she returned to adventuring after the baby's birth, she's now expecting again (triplets this time). I may have to retire her after this campaign.

[@applesauce999]

Had an instance of a OP boss that is supposed to attack us and run away. Heat metal + full suit of armour makes escaping pretty hard.

[@chrispbacon1763]

I had a situation where the party was fighting a demon with a powerful sword forged through some ritual we weren't able to stop. The sword had a number of effects, the demons favorite being its throwing and returning properties. The sword also had some detonation effect that caused it to create a mini fireball wherever it struck, So simply beating the initial attacks AC check was now enough to avoid getting hurt. At one point I remember that the DM had given one of the players a bag of holding around six sessions ago. I had them pass me the bag and I did what I could to survive another hit, swooping the sword up inside the bag as it tried to return to its master. The boss was no where near as tough without its weapon, and unable to call it from within the pocket dimension, it was only a matter of time before it went down It was also made easier by the fact that all its attention went into getting its weapon back, and decided to chase the tabaxi around the map. The DM only uttered " I forgot i gave you guys that"

[@crispyjokingtuna1495]

I was that player recently. We were investigating a skeleton invasion in a mine and got jumped by a couple of squads. We killed them getting beaten down a good bit and when the backups showed up we yeeted ourselves down the mineshaft in a minecart. After riding down for several minutes crushing a few other skeletons as we flew by and getting going 60+ mph we saw the end coming. Having only a couple of seconds to plan, I called out to our Druid to turn into a bear and act like an airbag. Well the dm loved the idea and so our bearbag prevented a tpk due to lack of thinking ahead 😂😂

[@BlackWolfessUSCM]

So we had some pirates pin is down with cannon fire my sister said aim for the powder keg so I did and shot my arrow as it hit jer warlock shot a fireball and blew the pirates to hell rolling a nat 20 as our cleric scrbles to get a shield up

[@yoface2537]

Session -1, myself and my friend who had never played dnd before were being taught how it worked by the dm in a mini adventure, we were kinda getting wrecked by pirates but I just asked the first mate for a vial of Greek fire, few turns later pirate ship up in flames and dm is now eternally cautious of giving me any sort of flammable or explosive substance

[@izuku3111]

he should be careful of giving you anything at all tbh

[@lockwoan01]

Not necessarily Quick Thinking, but it did save the Party. I was a Variant Human Level 3 Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer with 16 Charisma , and Inspiring Leader - everyone in the party had +6 extra HP. Party had a dwarf Barbarian, a human Fighter, a wood elf Rogue, and a halfling Paladin - Kip, I'll always remember you praising the sun.. I'd done the little Speech thing that had given folks the extra hp. We encountered a Young Green Dragon. It did it's breath attack - got everyone but the Paladin, who had moved in close first. I only made it because of my Temp HP. I then used a scroll of fireball - did over 30 points of damage to them. Barbarian and fighter moved in, as rogue and I stayed at a distance. Both fighter and barbarian go down, and with their last attack, the Paladin took out the dragon, only for the dragon to fall on to of them. Luckily, both me and the rogue had healing potions - Fighter and Paladin were both given a drink, and they moved the dragon enough for me and the rogue to free the paladin, and there was another health potion that was used to wake the paladin up. Then our Half-Orc War Cleric finally showed up.

[@lmw11661]

Level 2, first character ever, was 1 druid, 1 rogue (stupid combo, ik), we were in a dungeon and I was pretty much screwed, low hp no wildshapes. I had watched the movement the dm had used for the specter and knew it could go through stuff, but it seemed to cut its movement a bit when it did. There was a gelatinous cube in the room prior, so we retreated hesitantly. I bottle necked the door, seeing that the cube was 10 feet away from it. I told my Bard to hold my left and my Barbarian my back. When the specter tried it couldn't move into the room without stopping in me or the wall. It chose me and stopped inside, life drain, I drop. I give the Barbarian the thumbs up and he did exactly what I told him. Throw my body and my possessor into the cube. Idt RAW that should have worked but the dm was so impressed with the plan AND that I was willing to die for my friends, he allowed it to work and the cube ate me and the specter while my party got away

[@tjxrick4139]

Wasn't saving a TPK or anything but saving a lot of headache for the campaign, I play a trickster rogue and I agreed to help on a heist for the thieves guild and get the other 2 in the party included with promise of gold. Fast forward we are trying to escape from mercenaries that are working with the city guard, they are chasing us on spider type mounts (don't remember what they're called the sessions for this campaign have been spread out over a lot of time). We all live in this city, so I really don't want to kill the mercenaries but we also can't allow them to identify us so I'm scrambling on my turn looking for anything I can use, spell, item anything. That's when I remember I have a wand of web, so I ask the DM if I can try to use that. He thinks about it briefly, and says roll to see if you hit. I did rolled a 16 or 17, he rolls percentile die to see if it has the desired effect, it does. So we escaped, got the stuff to the thieves guild and got paid a couple days later. He also mentioned afterwards that he wasn't sure wand of web was supposed to work that way but because he'd never heard of anyone trying in the 25ish years he'd been playing, so he allowed it because it was fun. Still to this day don't know if wand of web is supposed to be able to be used that way but it made for a fun bit of game play that saved us from jail time or spending large quantities of gold or just outright being put to death.

[@axinhedgelion8417]

I was that player that saved the party. The group was fighting a green dragon. And it was about to do 12 D6 poison breath damage. Had my characters tiger cub not landed the first two hits in its multi hit attack, the third hit wouldn’t have automatically landed, which wouldn’t have done the damage needed to kill it.

[@stillthere1238]

I was that player I somehow convinced a boss to do NON LETHAL COMBAT FIRST SESSION

[@HannahSiemer]

Are multiclass cleric Druid did this. Literally going through her character sheet seeing what she could do to help us how we were facing a Demi, we weren’t really supposed to be fighting it yet, but you’re just trying to get to stop doing whatever ritual it was doing, since we figured it wouldn’t end anything good. She literally forgot that we had found a small scroll for sunbeam or Daylen, or whatever, something to that effect, use it, end of the encounter. Probably saved all of us from being barbecued or butchered, or both. God love you Ori. Or more rather gods. Love you.

[@rnelody5496]

I was the player. A massive important crystal artifact got stolen from the flying city we were based in, and because that thing was also the power core of the city, the entire place fell out of the sky. My group was tasked with tracking down the artifact. Fast forward to the end of combat, we were at the end of the battle with the BBEG. He jumps on top of the crystal (this thing was the size of a truck) and was going to run away with it to use for some other nefarious purpose. He cast Arcane Gate above him, and then made the crystal float up to go through it, so we had exactly one round to stop him. Now, I was playing a gimmick character. Kevo the half-elven Divination wizard was a boy detective archetype, meaning he was there at the ripe old age of 9, and while he was loaded with detection and utility spells, he didn't know any offensive spells outside of the Green Flame Blade cantrip. However, Kevo was a resourceful little lad, and when he saw the guy trying to run off with the artifact he pulled a spell scroll out of his belt and cast Dispel Magic on the Arcane Gate. Because Arcane Gate is a 6th level spell he'd need to make an ability check to see if he could dispel it, but he used his last portent die to make it a 16, which is exactly the DC he needed to hit. The artifact got shattered by the BBEG, but I definitely prevented something a lot worse from happening with that thing.

[@randus7053]

I saved the party last session as the cleric by casting spirit guardians despite one of the players being at 0 hp. The enemy had greater invisibility and we were at level 7 I think. By casting the spell the invisibility was dropped I got to hit with spiritual weapon, and the rest of the party got to wail on that enemy and take her down in the same round.

[@TheT1m3L0rd]

I was playing in a friend's homebrew campaign years ago based off basically every Gundam series ever. I wasn't ever really into that type of show (to me giant robots are either supposed to hunt humans after judgement day or mutants in the Marvel universe). In order to keep me in the game, as I had played a few sessions and found it wasn't my thing he offered my Gundam an upgrade, an experimental "hyper"-drive that gave, once per session, a massive powerup that doubled the dice I rolled for 5 rounds. I stuck around basically because it made me OP, not gonna lie. Anyway, I only really used it when we came up against insurmountable odds or a boss (which I guess was the idea). Anyway I stopped using it for a while because it made the other players feel like there was no point in them being there. Fair enough, I'd rather play with people who able to join in, and favoritism is never fun in a TTRPG. Some time later at the end of the "Season 1" campaign we finally come face to robot-face with the BBEG. Now this BBEG had been so hyped up as being "unbeatable" in combat, that he had never lost a battle and that his followers saw him less of a man in a robot suit and more of a god. He gives a speech, yadda yadda yadda, and end his speech with his famous catch phrase: "I only have three words for you: Bow before me." We had heard this multiple times during the campaign from different bosses, but now we were facing him, the one the term was known for. The reason for all the war and bloodshed through out the solar system. So I inform the GM that I move my Gundam up to the BBEG and initiate a surprise round grapple. Success. With the coms still open I reply with "I have three words for you," engage my hyper-drive and say "Initiate Self Destruct." The BBEG and his Gundam was instantly vaporized, along with myself and mine leaving his entire forces without their leader, who they viewed as a god, resulting in them fleeing in terror. The GM didn't know what to do because he had planned out the entire "Season 2" arc around him surviving, destroying most of the Earth and building an even bigger army of fanatics and supporters. TLDR: GM gave me an overpowered item, forgot about it and I ended up using it against his BBEG and destroyed him in a single round along with myself.

[@christophermiller129]

I know this is late but here is my story. I am new to DnD only been playing rime of the frost maiden campaign for a few months. For context My char is a Half-Elf, Efreeti genie warlock at 7th level with the ring as the vessel. We had already beaten the Chardalyn dragon, and we have been keeping the chardalyn inside my vessel. My party of 3 including myself was ambushed by a pack of smilodons while we were taking a long rest. My teammates were a wizard with a level in fighting 18ish AC and a crossbow welding cleric with a 20 something AC and all of us were out of spells. So being a warlock fired Eldrich blast only for it to reflect and hit me in the face putting me at something like 10 hp. I flew up and over the scary magic reflecting cats. Not knowing what else to do I crushed the ring as a reaction (Thanx DM) poring several hundred pounds of chardalyn on top of my teammates and the smilodons. My teammates took maybe 10 damage between them (high dex and high roles to the rescue), and I killed the cats. I will never again question the ultimate power that is gravity.

[@pikaplayer2618]

Hey! I dmed the story with the artificer goblin, definitely one of many crazy moments, sad to see the campaign is over now.

[@pikaplayer2618]

Ik i probably should’ve handled that situation a bit differently, but i’m pretty sure it was like 4am when that was happening.

[@paulhiggins6433]

Had one of my players save the party last session thanks to her quick thinking. It's a party of three, a ranger, a wizard, and a barbarian. All level 5. They were up against a few archers, a bandit captain, and a 10th level wizard. In two turns, the party was looking rough, but the ranger and wizard had taken out the archers while the barbarian was tanking the bandit captain. Every other turn, the enemy wizard was tossing fireballs (felt so good to use that against my players for once.) When the enemy wizard realized that the battle was turning against his favor, he cast Suggestion on the barbarian. The barbarian rolled a nat 20 on the save. The suggestion was to come work for him and give him her sword. Here's where the brilliant part came in. The barbarian, who aced the save with that nat 20, decided to play along. Without a word to the party, he sheathed his weapon (a great sword) and approached the enemy wizard. Two turns later, with the PC wizard in death saves and the ranger in single digit hp, after playing along with the wizard's orders, the barbarian suddenly turned to the wizard and attacked him. Nat 20. As the barbarian killed the wizard, he looked him in the eye and said "Here is my sword." By playing along, the barbarian was able to get close to the enemy wizard and was able to one shot him with a crit. Taking out that one wizard saved the party.

[@amorencinteroph3428]

This didnt so much save the party, as it saved myself. It was a sand box play by post game on myth-weavers, and we all started by ourselves. I was a late addition to the game, probably because an accepted player was a no show. Having no clue whats going on (we all got isekaid into this homebrew world), my guy boards a ship to try and make it towards a temple he heard might know something. Little did I know, that either on that ship, or another ship nearby, was another player character that was likely going to cause our deaths. He had somehow summoned, and PISSED OFF, an epic level demon, that had rewarded his foolishness by conjuring an acid rain storm with EPIC ENLARGE, making it have a MILES WIDE RANGE. I was a level 1 rogue//swordsage gestalt. Well, my boy wakes up ro screaming on this quickly abandoned boar, all the sailors are either dead or hiding, and I'm essentially on my own. Both of my nuerons clicked on, however, and I had the bright idea to grab provisions from underneath the deck, then get to a life boat and turn it upside down to float on the sea so its hull was upright as a protective barrier against the acid. Using some rope to tie myself, and an NPC irrc that joined me, we hid underneath that life boat like waterlogged rats until it drifted to shore days later. As an excuse to catch me up, more than likey, the DM said I survived a situation that was impossible, and granted me enough experience to level up to 5 instantly. The NPC was also from a wealthy family, and they granted me something like 100k gold to pinp myself out. My soon to be assassin grabbed the bracers or murder and a sleeve blade styled Assassin's Dagger, and began his merry adventures.

[@artmanadvanced]

I don't want to say I saved the party, per se, but with the help of our party's cleric using Turn Undead and me (ranger) using Binding Strike on a Goblin Cultist, we ended a 7 v 6 with hardly a scratch. I'm sure our barbarian didn't need advantage on the restrained goblin, but every little bit helps.

[@khironkinney1667]

While it didn't necessarily save the party. My group was in a mobile battle we're on a cart being chased by bounty hunters on horses. Our cleric this was his first game asked if he could cast wind wall behind us. All but the leader of the Bounty Hunter's ran headlong into that wall and died instantly. High fives all around for that brand new player for his quick thinking

[@jonathanmarks3112]

6:02 That was awesome! 9:24 You said it, Brian! 10:07 Nice work! 12:39 This is D&D, define "bat-s*** crazy".... 13:15 Nice! 13:43 AoE DEX save spells are not the solution to everything! 13:59 What the... 14:58 Seriously?!

[@Crimson_CourierTTV]

I like to think i helped us survive a full tpk. When after we watched our monk (strongest member of the group) fall to the 50ft tall baddie. I used my last spell slot to cast protection from evil and good on our paladin who charged in and finished off the baddie. But sadly he died to vecna who was possessing my characters love interest soon after.

[@ethanhawksley9097]

I've only done slow thinking

[@demogorghon]

"I got Summon Draconic Spirit. You might have guessed what I did"... Yes... Totally ignored reading a spell description and made it Deus ex machina the vampire. Also I assume totally didn't saw it has a costly material component (but people forget that one all the time). But hey. If DM allowed it and you had fun... Don't mind me.

[@twistedturns65]

Am I the only one who thinks the the False Hydra story was a poorly implemented use of the False Hydra? Like, it strikes me as a scenario wherein PC's fight a dragon, but all it does are bite and claw attacks and nothing else.

[@laughterlightchats5133]

Our party had been tricked by a cloud giantess into allowing her to teleport us into a cage in a boss's lair. When we appeared in this cage, we quickly found out that no spells could cross through the bars. After a moment of party freakout in which we shouted over the boss's monologue, one of our two warlocks decided to rip a patch off of the robe of useful items we had received a session or two prior. He rolled on the roll table and got... a 10 foot pit. In a moment of quick thinking, he raised the patch above his head and yelled "GATE!" then threw it down to create a magical pit in the floor of the cage. Following his lead, the entire party jumped into the pit where our enemies couldn't see us from where the cage was hanging above them. One successful Deception check later, the enemies freaked out and lowered the cage to the ground, opening the door to check for us and allowing us to jump out and start combat.

[@FrogNotOnTheLog]

YOU USED MY GOBLIN STORY!!! TYSM!!!

[@sleepydrifter6355]

Bit dissapointed, while still great, a lot of "Me/My/I" in these stories. I thought the point was to point out the awesome stuff you saw OTHER players did. lmao I get it though, lots of people have hero syndrome in these stoties. At least there was one or to people who recognized their mates.

[@templarknight245]

I am the ice power player from the bat shit crazy goblin story!

[@templarknight245]

That campaign has a lot of stories If anyone wants to hear them

[@JacobL228]

You kinda got cut off there at the end.

[@jediroshi]

Not sure it's quick thinking but- Spoilers for Age of Ashes Pathfinder 2E Book 4 So imagine if you will. A party of adventurers entering into a dragons lair. A self proclaimed Molten King. He has stolen the crown from an Undead Dwarfen King and has caused devastation to both the living and the dead in the area. It was our task to end his threat. However in our party was a Dragon Instinct Barbarian. A lady by the name of Virago who didn't worship dragons but was one in the sense she was a human raised by a dragon and imbued by a Red's power as his daughter. She wished to speak to this dragon and try and talk them down. So the first thing we do is come up to his guards undead Dragon Scarred, who the DM ruled that the undead would recognize her Draonic Presence and escort her and the rest of the party to see there master. The Molten Kings room was a huge lava pit with only a few rock out croppings for you to take stance on. It was very much in the Molten Kings favor as the Barbarian Virago talked to the Molten King to try and to appeal to them. I secretly told the DM I was using the new magical item key we got on our mission here. The Guiding Chisel it basically says you put it into the ground and envision a building or something for 10 minutes and then when you remove it the building is created within 1000 feet of the Chisel when you remove it. The actually conversation went on for more then 10 minutes as the debate raged, so my Dwarf War Cleric just held this chisel in and imagined a nice wall of several layers. A building of thick walls that had arrows slits and what not just in case... The negations failed and we engaged, we were at a heavy disadvantage and had to pull back as our Dragon Barbarian transformed into her dragon form to carry us all back as the Molten king chased after us. It was then my initiative. I ran back and with him out of his initial room I reached where I left the pick. I tugged the pick out and formed the building around the Molten King trapping him with a prison of stone now that he was no longer floating over the lava. The battle went down hill from him quickly after that point.

[@Maddog3060]

I want to know the context of that portal->waterfall story. Was the GM just deliberately trying to be a massive dickhead and arrange a TPK, or did he give them ample warning first that it was a bad idea and they just rushed into it anyway?

[@misterhyde2817]

Taco bell has a new host

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

Wait! Are we doing this again? Did I miss a video?

[@misterhyde2817]

Yes

[@Jessie_Helms]

Dead meme, and a bad one even when it wasn’t dead.

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

@@misterhyde2817 I must find it!

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

@@Jessie_Helms hard disagree

[@ryangodbier9377]

Are these videos ai?

[@AncientRylanor69]

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