What legendary move in a campaign will live on forever in infamy (good or bad)? #1 (r/askreddit)

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[@francoisdumont4105]

That Spider-Man game was brilliant.

[@coolbee3111]

Too bad they can't DM anymore

[@mestre12]

I agree. The dude was a genius to hide the easter eggs in plain sight.

[@Lonewanderer6666]

Drider-man, Drider-man! Screw the campaign up, Drider-man!

[@ladylunaginaofgames40]

I found it brilliant he was able to turn a comic book series universe into the DnD Universe. Anyone creative enough to pull that off is genius. I can't blame the party thought: I would get pissed if I wasted the majority of my campaign just for the DM to deliver that punchline.

[@WolfSteel1]

I want that guy as my DM

[@leviwarren6222]

The last one taught me an invaluable lesson about D&D: If you are too good at DMing, you'll never play again; if you are the best at DMing, you'll never DM again.

[@830927mjki]

When he mentioned the were-scorpion, this was my thought process: Hmmm, what would a were-scorpion look like? Maybe it would look like Scorpion from Spiderman. Hey, translating superhero comics to DnD could be cool. Still didn't catch on till he said Drider-man lol(th).

[@emilysmith2965]

Does whatever a drider can

[@Spelladon]

i didnt even realize the wereanimals were all spider-man villains as well til i read this comment lmao

[@daamazingfireman5566]

@@emilysmith2965 spins a keg, any size

[@michaelasbury7121]

Maybe a were-scorpion looks like the Scorpion King?

[@klebermarchand]

The kobold companion who not only brought back somebody back to life by hitting him with a staff of chainlightning, but also awakened the thunder elemental in the young lad. He basically created Thor in the middle of a battlefield and ran away from the thunderdome while yelling "I'm the best healer ever !"

[@tarposthecheesecakethief7007]

God, I love that Spiderman reference campaign. I think I'm gonna use that as a campaign later.

[@nicholaspeters9919]

Hopefully your players will actually appreciate it.

[@satibel]

reminds me of the futurama crew. they have their cover blown when they start the game in the elderly scientist's hangar and he starts by saying "good news everyone!"

[@handlebarfox2366]

"she takes off her skin" NOPE!.jpg

[@rompevuevitos222]

No kink shaming

[@satibel]

reminds me of www.oglaf.com/ecorche/ [nsfw]

[@robinthrush9672]

Not how a succubus works; that was more of a skinwalker effect.

[@soundrogue4472]

A hole is a hole

[@famonk2674]

@@satibel yikes!

[@lucapiemonti9767]

Our gnome alchemist paid a lot of money to some shady individuals to build him a catapult in a precise spot, loaded a whole barrel of gunpowder (50kgs) on it, gave a shitton of performance enhancing drugs to our crossbowman (who used to be a seige engine operator and knew how to use the catapult) to make sure he wouldn't miss, strapped himself to the barrel out of sheer spite and had himself *yeeted* into the nearby baron's castle main hall trough a window.. Because the baron cheated us out of the pay promised for our efforts, during which said gnome was severely crippled and no longer capable of adventuring. He was forced to retire and boy did he do so with a bang.

[@OneNerdyAce]

Uhhh I got turned into a potted plant due to wild magic. It said nothing about casting spells, so Vistra Frostbeard (my character), was called the Magic Pot for a couple days

[@backonlazer791]

Well, if it's 5e D&D you technically need at least one of the following to cast most spells (but usually two or all three): - At least one free hand (somatic) - Ability to make sounds (verbal) - Material components or a spell focus (material)

[@thebookless3381]

and now you know how to use Wild Magic, you're welcome... (Outro music)

[@backonlazer791]

@@bentim7732 Fair enough, lol.

[@Shadowkey392]

ROFL

[@Shouziroku]

First reaction should have been saying: "Oh no, not again"

[@smilingknight9866]

The party I was DMing for entered their main town for the first time. A few of them went to the shop and began purchasing supplies. One of the party members wanted to buy a hat and the shop keeper pulled out a large flamboyant hat with a feather and told the PC that he’d sell it for 20gp as, “It was enchanted.” The player was about to purchase it when the wizard decided to check it for enchantments and found none. It was an ordinary hat. Later on in the campaign the rogue and Bard three a concert for the townsfolk and (whilst everyone was distracted) the rogue poisoned all the alcohol and murdered half the town. When asked why he simply replied, “the shop keeper tried to rip us off.”

[@mestre12]

WOW. Dont fuck with this rogue.

[@TheSpencermacdougall]

Well,if he wasn't chaotic evil before that he should be now!

[@masonwithee6831]

Spencer MacDougall murder-hobo with a purpose

[@tach5884]

Instead of "I have a device" it should have been "You want details you have to pay admission like everyone else."

[@soulweaver64]

Pathfinder is the exact opposite of "DnD for people who don't like maths"

[@kykisaky7841]

Just saw the math in 2e, it is a mess and too much.

[@ascapedgoat8462]

Ky kisaky Just wait and see what happens in 1e.

[@kykisaky7841]

@@ascapedgoat8462 fu** + 2e is a big mess I will wait till 2.5e comes out or they put things in the book in an intelligeable order.

[@MacedonZero]

My thoughts exactly. The feat sacred geometry is literally a math minigame to get prime numbers so that you can apply meta magic for free. Pathfinder is not math light. 5e is D&D for people who don't like math

[@travisbewley7084]

From the other end 5e looks like a dumbed down version where half the rules are gutted out and replaced with a shoulder shrug and "Just ask your GM if that gives you advantage" The payoff for all the math is a greater customization to your characters, greater understanding of how you can effect the world with your actions and greater protection from a GM bulldozing you. PF gives more power to the players and less to the GM, for better or worse. I have to play 5e because that's what my groups are running, but I want Pathfinder and will still run Pathfinder whenever I can. I like both but I prefer PF.

[@thiagobianki1684]

That Spider-man campain, I love it, man, I want to play that

[@antivirusexe2856]

I'm going to! I made a character based on spiderman complete with enchanted spider bite.

[@impofstpete727]

Our DM crafted an entire homebrew campaign with an epic story of war and treachery in a living world. It was amazing. One our players joined as a cleric halfling later on and there was something very different about his play style. He didn't just think outside the box, he found solutions that surprised even the DM. His first real encounter had us trespassing on a tribe's land and when they wanted a blood price he offered to give them two of his fingers so neither of us lost a warrior. Remember that this means he was okay permanently losing some of his hit points and giving someone a body part that could possibly be used against him later. He slept in the barn with my goliath because he didn't want him to be alone. But the legendary moment came from the final moments of the campaign. Jardin managed to unite the armies that had been fighting and convince their mages to erect a barrier to keep out this nearly invincible monstrosity called The Destroyer(based on an even larger version of the Tarrasque, twice its size). That gave him enough time to remove his armor, say his farewells, and pull out two items he had been hanging onto(both us and the DM had forgotten he still had them). He used a scroll that would teleport one person in their clothes with one held object to a location they had seen. He alone had seen the top of The Destroyer's head. He also had a short sword called the Riven Blade(DM used a creation from an old magazine that had used the MTG card set to DnD standards) that could kill any creature with one strike but only one of said creature ever. The catch was it would consume a small portion of the life and soul of the user. Jardin had just enough HP to fuel one strike and only by getting on its head could he guarantee the attack would be successful. We could only watch. I think my words were "Do not look away, bear witness to this sacrifice." The blade consumed the beast causing both to vanish from existence. Immovable object meets unstoppable force situation. Jardin fell 150 feet to ground already dead. Margus, our wizard, managed featherfall just in time to keep away the impact and the damage to his body. The little 40 lb halfling had managed to literally save the world in a single hit by standing on the monster's head and gave his life doing so. Unfortunately the person who played Jardin passed away but I will never forget the year and a half we spent.

[@NinjaMonkiesWithGunz]

"Outsmarting the DM" My character, Jack, is basically Sherlock Holmes. We visit the Feywild and find ourselves in the Summer Court. She's discovered the power of deals when borrowing a book from the shrine (she was marked and could not leave the Feywild until the book was returned to the shrine). During an arm wrestling match (in celebration of their king's return, a giant in our party with a case of mistaken identity), we were given the chance to gamble on the game. Our DM says we can bet "whatever we want". Jack's wager was ownership of the book he got from the shrine as well as access to Fey magic. He agreed but if I lost, the price would be steep (I tried to cheat the outcome and failed, but my wager won anyway). I still was bound to a promise to return the book to the shrine, so when I got there and the mark disappeared. I walked back out with the book. The DM says "Are you stealing from the shrine?" And my response was "No. This is my book."

[@SleepyFailer]

When one of my player did the Thousand Years of Death on the BBEG. No I will not even try to explain further.

[@hyperbannana9262]

What happend after i need answers

[@snatchadams69]

Did it work!?

[@fragile4408]

Fuckin legend

[@floofbirb4436]

so just part 5's ending?

[@ConvictedHeart]

Were they also tasked with grabbing bells?

[@blackstone1a]

Ohohoho, I have a fucking glorious one for this. So we’re in a nation that actually has a bit of advanced tech, flintlock guns, basic electricity using electric eel like fish, trolleys, gigantic paddle wheel ships, etc. And our Monk who’s technically a noble gets into an altercation with a noble from this land and is challenged to a pistol duel at the ball. We go out and buy her a gat but during her impromptu training we discover she can catch bullets and throw them back. We go to the ball and the duel happens, and our monk **catches the bullet and throws it into the guy’s dick, killing him instantly.** We then proceeded to do the Torture Dance from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure pt 5 on his corpse.

[@gabrielhiyodo6144]

JOJO!!![JOJO THEME SONG STARTS]

[@imexistent3977]

OHOHOHO

[@RicolaOnTheRocks]

Joooooojoooo, do do dooooo dooooo do doooo do do, Golden Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed, ...

[@Koel_Hellion]

Holy shiet XD

[@ZarHakkar]

Vocal percussion on a 'hole 'nother level, coming from myy miind.

[@vincentstark4496]

The "bob the farmer" story just SHATTERED my little heart!

[@Marksnow234]

Same :(

[@MusicaX79]

Greater Restoration is a thing, and on a DnD salary it's fuqin cheap!

[@TheLuckOfTheClaws]

I drew angry eyebrows on a skeleton the necromancer wizard had raised

[@Ashiphan]

I was playing a campaign set in the year 40,000 and a Necron was sending an army of scarabs after us, my friend were shooting and slashing at them but they overpowered us , I have this melee weapon called a shock maul which is a Flail but electric, and as it chains from one enemy to the next I had the genius idea to electrocute myself to kill the scarabs, they all died but i took a LOT of damage to and couldn't move for the entire fight after that, probably my best move ever Update: I have now done something greater in the same campaign, I was in an all out war on a tower which someone we needed to capture was in, and in all my infinite Intelligence I shoot a grenade on the enemy's belt, but woops, In 40000, Grenades explosions are bigger the further you through it, My bullet through that out the window, as the grenade wasn't thrown, so it just does the MAXIMUM explosion, Which was a 27 Metre radius, setting of every other grenade in the area, the explosion reached our party and set off OUR armies explosions, meaning in the end the tower collapsed, the guy we needed died, and both armies were obliterated, savour like 20 guys, including my other party members thank god, who were just about too far away, I was left on 1hp, then our resident rouge killed me as revenge for his girlfriend (Long Story)

[@thedyingmeme6]

Did the scarabs ar at least dance??

[@chalkwarrior5542]

dude that update is the best thing I've read all damn night, you are an absolute LEGEND

[@Lorgar64]

I love the benefit of the doubt they gave the strange man who wanted the mule for "breeding purposes".

[@tracybodle9759]

I killed an arch mage by suffocating him in a bag of holding he was supposed to beat us as a part of the story ( we would then claim our revenge) He had terrorised the lands for around 4000 years. we had to reroute the whole campaign and now the dm hates me

[@phelps6205]

Did the arch mage not have a single dagger he could use to rip the bag from inside?

[@tracybodle9759]

Phelyppy lopes He might have but I don’t think he could use it or any of his spells because he was suffocating rapidly in the bag of holding which we already had a lot of debris in it as we wanted to build a house that might have crushed him. We also expelled all 7 charges for a wand if we don the bag

[@excessivelyfangirlingbookw3339]

@@tracybodle9759 you wanted to... build a house on the off-chance it might crush him afterwards? or you wanted to build a house and falling on top of the debris in bag already weakened him? I can see both happen, actually...

[@e4Bc4Qf3Qf7]

Or you know, his teleport spell slot.

[@AlchemistCH]

Technically, the case of compressing water is not nearly enough pressure or density to cause stellar core level fusion (there is a huge difference between breaking electron shells of atoms and actually pressing nuclei into each other), but it still would be energy level a few thousands times higher than what takes to evaporate the water - while still a few orders of magnitude weaker than a nuke, it would turn into quite a plasma bomb on release. Then again there is a problem when talking absolutes about spells - those absolute terms are meant in relation to other regular levels of force and magic applied. So you would need to think about what levels of force or pressure would break or stretch the supposedly unbreakable barrier, or what levels of pressure would stop the pill from releasing more water (or cause a tear in whatever dimensional phenomena it involves - that's actually a common theme with overloading magic storage). If you bring real physics, treat magic as amendments to it (with another set of limitations), not full override based on literally what's written in spell description P.S. Why am I even guesstimating this at 2 AM?

[@corvusdominus9835]

Because its 2 am, you’re sitting in bed and have nothing better to do.

[@TheFinagle]

Under extreme pressure clean water will freeze into exotic forms of ice. Thats where I would go with that scenario myself.

[@onepangaean3018]

Well I checked the density of the sun's core 150g/cm3 so that is like the right density but the problem is it's probably not the right temperature

[@stupidratt]

you broke my fucking brain

[@MindOfGenius]

I was in a D&D 3.5 game with a level 10 group, me being a Pure Neutral Wizard who stuck with the party because "Ehh, it's in-the-field experience, better than sitting around all day". We had been summoned by The Gods [and the GM allowed for A LOT of them, so they were basically all there] asked us to fight this giant creature. I don't remember what it was, but it was a CR 15 or so. We were WAY under-powered. As compensation for being under leveled, The Gods say they can help us. The DM then opens up his DM's Guide, goes to the section with all the magical items, *and pushes the book to us*. "Wait, what?!" we cry. "Go ahead. Pick *whatever you want*." Most of hte party goes for badass weapons and armor; I just go for a fancy robes to boost my stats and something called [I believe] a 9-Rings Dagger. It was a dagger with 1d4-1 Wish and/or Limited Wish, and we didn't have a Cleric and I wanted to have a way to say "I wanna get the Fighter/Rogue/Sorceror back to full health and full power". I don't remember how we defeated it, but our Halfling Rogue willingly got swallowed, and displaced the monster's Displacement by displacing Displacing's displacement...or something. DM ruled that we warped half of its body away. The Gods were satisfied, saying it would be at 100+ years before the creature would be a threat. As a reward, we were allowed to keep ONE special item. While the party is arguing among themselves about what item(s) would be best to keep, my wizard casually pulls out his special dagger and looks at it. "...We have to give back all of this stuff?" "Yes." my wizard is told. He sighs, scratching his stubbly chin. "I wish we could keep all this cool stuff." The DM chuckles. "Yeahm I know-" "NO. I said, *I WISH we could keep all this cool stuff.*" My fellow players slowly smiled as the DM took about 20 seconds slowly realizing *the exact words I said*. Most of The Gods were pissed except for 2: Hades, who was laughing his ass off, and my Neutral deity of Magic was just "...well, he *did* say 'Wish', so you can't really say no...".

[@leadpopsicle1268]

I was dm. The group was attacked by pirates. Our fighter ran up a grappling line and jumped onto the pirate frigate to face off against all 40 something bloodthirsty pirates on board. When he saw he was massively outnumbered, he swan dived off the frigate and was knocked unconscious by slamming into the water below.

[@YAH93]

I have been told a story by my current DM: so a bard, a Cleric and a Sorcerer were on the way through a forest, and a bandit ambush was about to come. Then, all of a sudden, the Sorcerer was bored and wanted the Bard and the Cleric to assist him with something. The Sorc casted Fog Cloud, the Cleric made his mace all glowy, and the Bard played some music. DM asked for performance check. Nat 20. So the three of them made a rave party through the forest, and the bandits joined them. When they got out of the forest, the sorcerer dismissed Fog Cloud, and they killed the bandits, who were still dancing.

[@popularatom463]

The last one is great. I want to play a DnD game to at some point.

[@lunarlightstudios4573]

“Boatlandia” ... I wish I was in that party. TuT Edit: This is the most likes I’ve ever gotten, and this comment out of all of them.

[@mindlessscientist3772]

Actually, Ernest Hemingway's brother dod this thing for real, creating an island nation from ships called "sealandia". It was destroyed in a hurricane

[@adamxei9073]

Actually when water gets super compress it becomes a substance known as ice 7. Very strange material not found on Earth because of our oceans are not deep enough. But in a controlled field the water would compress into a sold rock that may be stronger, or at least more durable than steel.

[@TheCassiusTain]

That is not true for this case. You must differentiate between pressure and compression. While water under extremely high pressure forms some exotic solid structures, the volume doesn't change much because the molecules can only get so close to each other. This is because of electrostatic repulsion as the video already states. The characters in this story however filled a volume of space with roughly double the volume of water. Furthermore, the walls holding this volume where indestructable. Therefore the only way the Atoms in this Voluem could not violate several laws of physics was by nuclear fusion which lets loose a ton of energy. I am not enough of an expert in this field to tell you exactly how much, for that one you should ask someone who does this shit for a living.

[@maxhax367]

@@TheCassiusTain Also don't forget the fact there was already stuff in said space before the water came in

[@F5tornado651]

I did some of the calculations and the pressure created by the water being forced into that space is about 0.785 GPA. At 0 degrees Celsius it would make that water become ice VI. This is assuming the water doesn't rapidly heat up from the sudden compression. If it does heat up or is at say 25 degrees Celsius at start, it would still be a liquid but under extreme pressure. Also, as a note water CAN be compressed however it's difficult. Water at the bottom of the Mariana trench is about 4% denser than normal sea water. This is due to the pressure above. In order for the water to fit within this space it only needs to compress to 1.61 g/cm^-3 instead of the normal 1.00 g/cm^-3. This nowhere near the density required for fusion. As an example the sun's core is 150 g/cm^-3 and has high enough temperatures to give the protons enough energy to overcome electromagnetic repulsion and fuse with one another (also thanks to good old quantum tunneling)

[@clay5083]

@@F5tornado651 thank you for this, it was the comment I was looking for. As a DM, I'd play it that, upon release, the expansion of the water because of the difference in hundreds of thousands of PSI of such a large sphere of water would result in quite the explosive decompression pressure gradient for those near it.

[@elijahcoggins6252]

This is exactly the comment thread I was looking for! I had no idea that water had multiple forms beyond normal ice and steam.

[@lilladykd5348]

Love the Spider-Man one it’s amazing!!!

[@RPGTales]

8:41 Hey, you got science in my D&D boss fight!

[@EinTeufelskreis]

We were in an underground cave we had found by diving through a water hole. There was a castle full of fish people and we were having a rough time. As we were about to flee more fish people encountered us. We were all low on health so we wanted to flee... except for our minotaur barbarian who wanted to battle. Well he was knocked unconscious and while we were trying to help him our fighter got grappled. As we were about to run away in order not to die our fighter decided now is the time: He has always been kind of "that guy" and got caught by obvious traps because he wanted the loot and knew the party was too kindhearted to simply let him die. He even went through some kind of dimensional door once. As it turned out he had got to a demon town in another dimension that day and made a pact with a demon (none of us knew about). So all of us were confused when he pulled a scroll of his bag, tossed the bag to our paladin and smeared some of his blood on the scroll. Suddenly he began to glow and an army of fiends and devils appeared who slaughtered all the fish people and made their way through the castle with our fighter leading the way. All of us sat there in awe with our mouths open confused and impressed what just had happened. We were so stunned our DM had us roll a D100 to see how well our minds were coping with what we just saw. (My character was deaf for three and a half days.) It was the last time we saw our fighter. The player of the character made up a new one and continued to be a greedy bastard. But for one session he was the hero of our party. P. S.: We later learned our fighter could only control the demon army for one minute and then his soul was ripped from his body leaving the devils and fiends to roam free in our world. Oopsie!

[@snowboundwhale6860]

Bob's DM: "When will you learn? When will you learn that your actions have consequences!"

[@carterrollins1712]

I once played as a kenku illusion wizard in a 5e campaign. once we were ambushed by a crew of minotaur and orc pirates. I discovered i could mix the major image spell and the ability to create real illusions (so long as they didn't do damage) from my wizard levels. Five minutes and one illusory black dragon later, our party was lying on a pile of driftwood in the middle of the ocean.

[@RoxyGotMoxy.]

Here's a story for you all I like to call "Garnet Jewelspark: The Gnomish Goddess of Heavy Artillery." (Or alternatively: Why spell durations are a necessary thing) I was once gifted with a homebrew scroll of spell permanence in a 5e game where there was often a fair bit of downtime. Miiiiiistake. With 2 or 3 spells and the scroll, my lv 12 rock gnome wizard Garnet created a superweapon that could crack the planet, or, had she been high enough level to cast 9th tier spells, literally fire a 10x10x20ft (or more) pillar of rock/adamantite at relativistic velocities straight into Orcus's throne room courtesy of the Gate spell XD How you ask? Simple. First have magic and a scroll of spell permanence. Use magic such as Wall of Stone to make a huge stone pillar, use Stoneshape to hollow out a small cylindrical cut such that you now effectively have a perfectly smooth stone tube with a perfectly smooth stone pillar inside it, in a vacuum. Use an Arcane Gate spell to turn the cylinder into a smooth-bore cannon barrel the stone pillar can effectively fall through indefinitely, and use the scroll to remove the duration limit on the Arcane Gate spell. You now have a stone pillar weighing many tonnes, falling indefinitely in a vacuum, meaning it has no friction, no resistance, no terminal velocity and can just keep accelerating due to gravity, faster and faster until it reaches the speed of light. Might take a year or three but it'll get there. Then whenever you're ready, use a bonus action to alter the direction of one of the gates and fire the missile in the general direction of whatever continent you want to destroy. Ooooooorrrr if you had a Planar Gate spell, and the foresight to set up anti-scrying magic before you started so Orcus doesn't know what's coming and therefore can't stop you opening a Planar Gate into his realm before its too late, why not send him "a token of our otherworldly disaffection via deliverance of a relativistic masonry erection." Aaahhh good times.

[@cmelton6796]

I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXLOpWaDnpWHqNE

[@knightfall6179]

The villains army was coming to attack the kingdoms capital to get the plot device, our party was sent to search for any scouts working for the villain in the surrounding forest, a few hours later we find the scouts and begin to fight, our mage decided to cast fireball in the middle of the forest and nat 20, fire rapidly spreads throughout out the forest, the mage: "don't worry I'll put it out" nat 1, dm:"your arms are completely frozen and you can no longer cast magic", and so the entire forest surrounding the capital was cleared, giving the evil army a clear path to invade and the dm also informed us that the ice blocking the mages magic is basically some form of curse and therefore cannot be melted normally, and we were never able to break it, but we did however manage to steal the plot device and are currently on the run from the big bad

[@ill_hex8103]

The first one is literally just a pron comic that happened to have been played out in game

[@stadnikds]

DM said that my character can see a lamp on the wall of the dark room we investigated. My character thought it might be some kind of lever and tried pulling it and it broke. Later when we discovered a locked cabinet and our magician failed to destroy the lock with her magic, my character decided to show his "monk magic" and roundhouse kicked the cabinet. DM cried

[@xreaperxiii]

Way back in 2nd edition I was running a game for 3 friends. The paladin caught a thief picking pockets in a crowd. Obviously the beacon of law and justice confronts the cutpurse. Pally: *grabs the thief by the arm* I'm willing to let you go with a warning but you're going to have to return the stolen gold first. Thief: *attempts to shrug off the grip* I'm willing to let you off with a warning, but you're going to have to hand over all of your gold first. The paladin made a few more peaceful attempts to dissuade the thief from his ways. Eventually he lost his temper. Pally: *Grasps the thief by both shoulders* LOOK HERE!!! The player makes a violent head butt motion. Me: You head butt him? Uh... I don't have stats for a head butt strike, so we will say it is like a club since you're wearing plate mail with a heavy helmet Pally: *casually tosses D20 into the middle of the table*. Nat fucking 20. I gave the thief a saving throw to stay conscious, which he promptly bombed. The Pally returned the stolen gold to the victims and the unconscious NPC to the city watch. Look here still echoes around our table to this day.

[@michaelarview]

That moment I created fireworks and someone asked how that fire worked 😂😂

[@tennagon3822]

"she takes off her skin." I am 10,000% using that.

[@dumbpostsyearly6126]

Title idea: companies and Freinds that your party made along the way (and maybe how did they die)

[@RoxyGotMoxy.]

I apologise, this one is pretty long, but binge watching all of your videos is reminding me of and making me miss my old 5e character Xiang'Hua Yueda. I really hope one of these stories i've posted makes it into one of your videos hun, it would be so cool!! I apologise like I said, but I loved this character to bits and am likely going to go off on a long nostalgia tangent now 😅. I hope you read and enjoy, maybe even get inspired. Xiang'Hua was a NE Shadow Monk Hexblade Warlock. (When she channelled her darker powers her fur filled in between the stripes to become totally black and smoke wisped off her. Her hexblade weapon was her claws growing darkened and sharper like obsidian and becoming full on Lady-Deathstrike claws.) As a Tabaxi Monk she could spend a Ki point and move up to 330 feet a round from a standing start, and with that plus her eldritch blast she had over a 950ft threat range diameter and was amazing at kiting enemies and appearing on the back line of a fight to cause mayhem while the frontliners waded into the fray. Furthermore she did the darkness+devil's sight invocation combo for advantage on her attacks and had the mobile feat so she couldnt get opportunity attacked or slowed by difficult terrain while she ran around in the darkness. With Hexblades Curse having her crit on a 19/20 and adding proficiency to damage, and in big fights a Hex for another d6 her full-swing combat round would be 4 attacks, with advantage, critting on a 19+, with each attack dealing 2d6+8. Minimum possible damage on 4 hits was 40. On a theoretical 4 hit 4 crit max rolls round her damage would be 128! For quick reference 48 damage is the maximum possible roll of your average lv3 8d6 fireball and 40 is her minimum! With a +8 to hit, and advantage for a virtual +5 or so she would still hit an AC20 target around 70% of the time, so in combat her missing was incredibly rare. I should note all 4 attacks could be used to try a stunning strike, and due to mobile feat, her crazy speed, teleportation, and then being invisible in the darkness, she could do the classic anime style hit and run from all sorts of directions thing, or always be totally unknown where she is and never attacked back. There was one fight with some Drow rogues in a hall of mirrors where she doubled her speed, sprinted in, attacked all 4 drow in the hall, managed to stun them all and darted round the corner before they knew what had hit them or had even acted in combat. Well, one of them had an angle on her as she entered the room and a reaction prepped, but she grabbed the poisoned arrow, piroueted and threw it back at him without so much as breaking her stride, then nerve struck him with her clawed fist and sailed past him after his friends. My favourite thing about her fighting style was that it wasn't just brutally effective, it was also just so visceral and beautifully cinematic. 4 Drow warriors and all of their reflections, suspended with a look of surprise and confusion on their face at this black streak that blitzed through difficult terrain at 30mph, paralysed them all and vanished again in under 6 seconds in near total silence. Magnificent. And if things got too bad she could run away, run up a wall, grab on with her claws, and eldritch blast an enemy into oblivion from total safety. She was this weird mix of hyper mobile glass-canon, battlefield control but also a ludicrously effective guerrilla/pursuit predator, able to wear targets down with consistent moderate damage for next to no cost. She could harry targets in hit and run attacks for hours with little fear or reprisal, and was only killed by my own player hubris and a miscalculation/assumption of enemy movement speed in trying to kite three Wyverns back to the party while wearing them down with Eldritch Blasts, then subsequently being caught in the open and multi-critted into oblivion by the wyverns whose poison save she botched while they crit three of their attack rolls. And most insane of all this is all at or before level *7*. (And even better all of her abilities refresh on a short rest!) She was absolutely terrifying in combat. At lv2 (might have been 3 it was a long time ago) aside from one attack from our fighter she solo'd a manticore in 2 rounds. (She did crit tbf) She was also just entertainingly sadistic, unnerving and used to like torturing/interrogating people by taking a claw nail and with surgical/monk precision removing their eyelids then taking their gold so they couldnt afford healing magic. At one point we were fighting a battalion of Orcs in a series of staggered pitched battles in a dungeon complex. In one of the major combats she teleported behind them, killed the leader and just started massacring her way back through the couple of dozen orc mooks back to the party, who were doing their own share of slaying. The 8 or so Orcs that were left a round or two later broke and ran through a secret doorway in the wall. Xiang'Hua peeked her head around, teleported to the other end where they were trying to run to, and purred the ominously cheery "Oh precious, I wasn't done playing.." - the DM then stated that the rest of the party just heard gleeful laughter, screams, claws and blades sparking off walls, and the chorus of terrified voices rapidly being cut short one by one, until silence, followed by a low scraping sound. A minute or two later Xiang'Hua dragged the dead orcs through the secret doorway and dropped them at the feet of the rest of the party, cleaning some gore from her claws with her fang and smoothing her outfit. "Ahh sometimes it's good to cut loose. I needed that. Shall we go find more vermin, or have you 'noble', armour-wearing cowards lost your taste for bloodshed already?" Needless to say after that social power move I didn't even need to role intimidate for the other characters (and players lol) to be scared of her. She also used to enjoy stepping out of peoples shadows behind them to scare them for kicks, or in the case of backline casters, stealthily appear behind them from their own shadow round 1 and cast sphere of silence then grapple and pin them to totally neutralise them in a fight. Dammit now I'm full-on reminiscing and want to play her again lol. She died before getting to usurp the leader of the Assassin's Guild and take over, or her longer term story arc of becoming a Rakshasa. The truly funny thing is she was originally designed for a oneshot and I rolled crazy crazy good stats so was immediately in the mindset to play the often rather MAD monks, and she was supposed to be this neutral good wandering pilgrim monk, but within 5 minutes of playing (and then in the campaign that subsequently followed as we loved our characters) she had remade herself in my mind into this seductive, predatory, "ATLA Fire Nation levels of ambitious, machiavellian and evil" sadistic demon cat woman well on her way to becoming a Rakshasa, who had killed her sensei when he held back from teaching her their highest levels of dark Ki magic and set off to find her own dark power. *SHE WAS MEANT TO BE GOOD!!* 😂😂😂

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

The spiderman episode is why I specifically go after more obscure and older stories/series... JUST to keep the Players from assaulting me "en masse". Basically, "If you get it, you get it. If not... then not." Either way, I look pretty smart (if not f***ing brilliant). ;o)

[@Arcko9]

9:35 "DnD for peoples who don't like maths" my good sir, I have a feeling you've not played much pathfinder then.

[@thatguycolor]

I subscribed. Got 3 nat 20's in a row.

[@apkphantom2122]

Ever since I subbed my nat 20 to no ratio has grown exponentially

[@thatguycolor]

@@apkphantom2122 That's because MrRipper bestows his grace upon us with his glowing mind-tentacles.

[@wolveyplaysgames7760]

My 0 percent NAT 20 was multiplied by 2

[@fuzzwobble]

"Pathfinder: D&D for people who don't like math." Okay boomer. Here's just one feat in Pathfinder. Arithmancy You are able to unravel the hidden meanings behind words by translating them into numerical equations. You can apply this insight to empower your magical effects. Prerequisite(s): Int 13, Spell Focus (divination), Spellcraft 3 ranks. Benefit(s): Immediately before casting a spell, as a swift action, you can attempt to augment a spell’s casting using Arithmancy. To do so, determine the digital root of the name of the spell you are casting. To find the digital root of a spell name, first assign a numerical value to each letter of the name, per the Letter Values table. Once you have a string of digits, sum them. If the result has more than one digit, sum those digits. Table: Letter Values Numerical Value Associated Letters 1 a, j, s 2 b, k, t 3 c, l, u 4 d, m, v 5 e, n, w 6 f, o, x 7 g, p, y 8 h, q, z 9 i, r Repeat this process until you arrive at a single number, called the digital root. Once you’ve translated the name of the spell into a single digital root, attempt a Spellcraft check with a DC equal to 10 + the spell level + the digital root. If your check succeeds, the spell is cast at +1 caster level. If your check fails, the spell is cast at -1 caster level. If you do not cast the spell you intended to augment with arithmancy, the spell is expended with no effect, though you retain the action you would have spent to cast it. Metamagic effects are not included in a spell’s name when determining the spell’s digital root, but they increase the spell’s level as normal when determining the DC of the Spellcraft check. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to the number of caster levels you possess. For example, a wizard wants to use Arithmancy to cast an augmented fireball. First, he translates the spell name into numbers. Fireball translates to 6, 9, 9, 5, 2, 1, 3, 3. Then he calculates the digital root. In this case, 6 + 9 + 9 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 3 + 3 = 38, 3 + 8 = 11, and 1 + 1 = 2. Therefore, the digital root of fireball is 2. He then attempts a Spellcraft check against a DC of 15 (10 + 3 [fireball‘s spell level] + 2 [fireball‘s digital root]). If his check succeeds, he can cast the fireball this round at +1 caster level. If he fails, he can cast the spell at -1 caster level this round. He may also choose not to cast fireball and perform another action, though he expends the spell.

[@tdimensional6733]

what the hell, paizo

[@codyhawley5234]

I am not even going to pretend to read that. This does however lead me to believe that particular line to have been poorly translated sarcasm that fell victim to the monotone nature of text.

[@thedyingmeme6]

*pained screaming*

[@VenomQuill]

Huh. I was following you for a little bit there. Lost me in the last bit. Still cool, though!

[@Sum1lay_z]

So my story is our good pal "The Barrel Bard", our campaign started by us all committing petty crimes so we could go to jail. One guy whos character was named "Onorat" decided to steal a nice necklace from a noble, to do this he decided to sneak over to them in a barrel, once they got close enough and took it, the noble (who was a buff female elf) took notice and grabbed the bard inside of the barrel. Our bard who decided that their last option would be seduction, tried to seduce the elf and... long story short the elf got a barrel fetish and uhhhh... was slightly disappointed when he popped out, but they ended up falling in love and after we got released he decided to go visit her... in a barrel costume, we all went in a barrel costume... yeah. Oh yeah and i was playing a character who was possesed by a fiend who would randomly take over and decided to slap a child, dealing half their hp... (no i wasnt murderhobo i purposefully didn't injure them beyond that) and the last story is how we discovered one of our npc's was in a relationship with a talking, carnivorous horse... yeah our campaign is wild

[@jesterwanted421]

My D&D group has the story of THE SOUP. One of our past players asked if his character, a “bootleg Paladin”, could have a soup inspired by his Patron Kord(?) called Kord Soup. We had to break into a mansion to get information from a Lady and her sickly son. While we were discussing plans, the Bootleg Paladin decides to make Kord Soup, where our actual Paladin got the idea to use the soup to kill the Lady and her son. To make a long story short, we made a Kord Soup that had the essence of 3 Patrons (Kord, a Nightwalker and another god I forgot the name of but is best described as the god of Drugs, sex and rock and roll), 2 dragon’s breath potions, magic eggs and a bunch of other items. This all came together to make a soup that could cause a minimum 300 damage and did every type of damage except for psychic. We called this thing the W.A.D.: the Weapon of Ass Distruction. Anything that ate it instantly exploded

[@noranekosparks4177]

This campaign had a lot of wacky but awesome moments, but these two stood out the most. Our party was travelling alongside a river leading to a swamp full of dragon worshipping lizardfolk. They ambush us, some of the mad lads riding giant crocodiles in the river. Being pretty useless at range, I send my monk into the fray of scalies and start punching. That wasn't the smartest idea, as I ended up surrounded by 8 of them. Then it hits me on the druid's turn. I call out to her, totally serious. "Cast your moon beam on me!" "W-what?" She says, all timid and utterly confused. "Trust me, I can handle it!" Needless to say, 2 turns later of being a godly beam of tankiness, they all died and I survived with 1 HP. Casting Moonbeam on the monk became a legitimate tactic from that day forth. Later on in that campaign, we find that dragon, and particularly charizmatic black dragon that basically shanghai'd us into retrieving a powerful artifact for her. We do this to basically stop her from attacking a nearby town. Of coarse once we got the artifact, she had no intent on letting us live. So the battle begins! We do some damage, not a lot, and the bitch decides to fly off. "Not today!" My monk says. I proceed to spend my ki points to leap onto a really tall ruined pillar...i think 60 or 80 ft. Then cast water whip. The dragon fails its save, takes 3d10 maxed damage from the whip, and plummets to the ground! DM is in shock. I ask how much damage was that. He said it didn't matter. I just killed a dragon with fall damage. The dragon worshipping lizardfolk now worshipped the party thanks to the bard's great tale spinning, a mage hand aided flowing cape, and the total fear of my Monk, now known as "The Slayer". I turned a babbling monk based off of Bo Lin from Legend of Korra...into an utter badass!

[@bradfin12]

"pathfinder(dnd for people who don'[t like maths)" isn't the derisive name for pathfinder "Mathfinder" because of all the +1 and -1, BAB and so on so forth? also "maths" lol

[@romulus2473]

Maths is the correct term for the English-speaking world outside the US and Canada. Short for mathematics.

[@MiiNiPaa]

> also "maths" lol Which is actually correct if you speak British English.

[@Tengu125]

@@romulus2473 I have actually never heard a non-Brit say "maths", so I'm unsure how widely used it is

[@MacedonZero]

I've actually never heard of this nickname. I won't argue with it though. Any game with a game mechanic like the feat Sacred Geometry deserves it.

[@eliezercohengoldberg1381]

MacedonZero it’s almost like sacred geometry in real life except you don’t get special powers irl

[@hatredy555]

I was in a game where we had to fight a vampire. We found the the vampire's lair and had a long fight with it. After about 2 or 3 rounds, our chaos cleric said "Keep it busy, this is going to be funny" in character, sliding a note to the DM. A few rounds later, we eventually killed the vampire. The DM said, "The vampire turns into smoke and goes back into his coffin." To which the chaos cleric says "But I thought vampires can't enter blessed objects." The DM, noticeably confused, agrees with the player. The cleric says "read the note, dude." He spent 3 rounds blessing the vampire's coffin.

[@thewolfstu]

2:37 oh goodness, I am so glad that didn't go down a different path. XD

[@Deth30360]

My players were fighting the bbeg, I had this amazing fight planned out but they rolled 3 nat 20s in a row to throw a table covered in 30 knives through a wall and crushed the bbeg, dealing 120 dammage. Bbeg was then pinned and they just continuously dissected him while he is still alive and finaly torched the whole area

[@TuckyBlue]

That thumbnail captures exactly how it feels to say “fuck it,” and do something suicidal and it works.

[@puddel9079]

My party had previously killed a young green dragon harassing the fort we helped reclaim. The DM had asked what we wanted in the game, to which I requested consequences for our exploits/actions. One day at the fort a pair of adult green dragons looking for the killer of one of their offspring. Our sorcerer was the only one with an item carrying their offspring's scent, the dragons attacked him. Now, we had a new player who quickly turned into *that guy,* he was fairly good at playing his druid and breaking things with his spells (he was competitive to the point of cheesing CoD MW2 and fighting games, but I digress). *That guy* decides to have his large (10ft by 10ft) bear *grapple a HUGE* (15ft by 15ft) *dragon.* *That guy* manages to *succeed* in the grapple *and* maintain the pin for the entire fight, much to our relief and the DM's frustration. I call the moment "The Judo Bear Incident."

[@DarkCeleste11]

After drinking a really strong drink, our Bard Tiefling and Rogue Tiefling were trashed. Our Warforged put our Bard to bed, but before he left the room the Warforged took a card from the deck of illusion and threw it into the room. Luck of the dice, the illusion was a hag. DM rolled and told the Bard that as he had previously failed his con save for the drink, he was now positive the hag was real. Bard ended up shitting his pants (literally) during the night between the hag and horrible nightmares. Our Rogue woke up first the next morning and went looking for everyone... and walked in on the Bard dressing himself in a makeshift toga from curtains after trying to clean himself after the night before.

[@jeremieherard2166]

The Oak dwarf is the greatest mastermind of them all !

[@optillian4182]

_"Godspeed, Drider-Man!"_ -Mayor Oz, Goblin Warlock

[@bean3732]

Ok so for context this is the first time my family and me have played DnD(it’s just my family and me), so we were supposed to find and kill a bunch of bandits, we got to their base and found a beast living in a crevasse in the middle of the base. The beast(I forgot what it was called) just wanted someone to feed it, so what we did was go kill the bandits(our mage made one a raisin) and feed their bodies to ‘fluffy’(the beast). Not only that but earlier meet a NPC who wanted to meet up with a wizard(we didn’t know this), guess who Was in the cavern, the wizard. We didn’t know that he wasn’t hostile so our mage put him to sleep, we looted him and threw him in with ‘fluffy’, we went on to raid the rest of the cavern.

[@reighzhor1058]

Pathfinder "D&D for people who don't like math" LMAO...actually started in Pathfinder and play 5e for that reason, LOL...

[@faxmachine3785]

I, as the DM, had caused the PCs (I don't think it was all of them) to focus so hard on Albuquerque (I don't remember how) that they got transported to the concept of Albuquerque, thinking that they'd be able to roll enough constitution to not focus on Albuquerque and escape the concept of Albuquerque, but instead, one PC focused so hard, he got stuck in the concept of the "B" in the name Albuquerque. Now it's a running joke and a way out of a near-death situation mostly in one-offs with the same people. "Hey DM, can I roll intelligence or something to focus on the concept of Albuquerque as a response to being about to be killed in one hit?" "Sure, I don't see why not." "Nat 1." "Ok. You focus really hard and now you're stuck in the concept of nonexistence. Roll an existence check." "9" "You no longer exist; congratulations"

[@BramLastname]

As with all my D&D sessions and all good stories This story starts with the party splitting up in the second room of the dungeon, Because the first room was a hallway without hidden doors, believe me they tried. At first the rooms seemed pretty harmless, from weird auditory and visual effects, That my party assumes are just illusions, even tho half of them actually aren't. One of the party members decides to go off alone, encounters a ghost, Has a critical success in pissing off the ghost without even having to roll, Promptly fails his roll and gets possessed, while the others are on a different floor. 2 other players succeed their roll to hear the scream that the ghost made And immediately go looking for the source of the noise, However when they get upstairs, the player walking in front (Who was on 5HP thanks to some Animated Armours) Makes the in character decision to first make sure the armour standing in front of the stairs isn't animated, Sadly his character discovers this armour is indeed animated and reacts by opening the hood of the helmet swarming the player with bees and resulting in combat. Initiative is rolled Player 1 rolls 4, player 2 rolls 5, I laugh at them and roll... a 6. Meaning the bees launch their assault, attacking the armour the player is wearing, Next is the player covered in bees, who says the most brilliant line I heard all session, I cast Sacred Flame on myself, Both he and the bees now have to make a DEX save and both succeed. At this point I asked if he had any bonus actions, He checked his character sheet and said: I think I can make an unarmed strike. To which I said roll for accuracy, He managed to hit, however since his character did not use gloves an/or gauntlets, the bees could use a reaction to try and poison him, But rolled way below the 12 they needed AGAIN. Next was player 2 who dropped their weapon because they wanted to use their full force, But stumbled over their own weapon, wasting their action, next turn, the bees made another attack and rolled below a 10 for the third time. Player one cast Sacred Flame again, he rolled a nat 19 on his save, the bees a nat 20, after which the same thing happened as last turn, Except for the fact that player 2 the Barbarian went into rage, stepped backwards and jumped at Player 1 with a reckless attack And proceeded to bitchslap their fellow player so hard they got lifted of their feet, smashed into a stone pillar and went unconscious. Meanwhile the druid had shot past the combat in their wildshape and saw the possessed party member walk onto the roof with a fire poker, (one of those pointy things) in their hand, note that this player had been making wisdom saves to try to regain control 3 times already at this point, The druid acted quickly and cast Entangle exactly when the possessed party member failed the final save, binding their ankle to the rooftop Causing them to smash their face into the wall below the roof and releasing the ghost, the druid now gets approached by this ghost and flees. After some struggling the player outside manages to get back on the top of the roof, trudging through the difficult terrain they notice something, Both the ghost and the druid are gone, however upon re-entering the room the druid attacks them thinking it's the ghost. The player still scarred from being possessed takes no chances and dashes out of the room to the other end of the hallway. The druid notices that despite the bright lighting inside, it is very dark outside and decides to sleep in the bed that conveniently was present in the same room. Where she dreamed that she was in a forest with docile animals, when she tried to pat a rabbit and it bit her in the side of her neck. This was such a weird sequence of events that I'm sure it will be referenced a bunch of times, Tho I'm not sure which part of it. (it's too recent to tell)

[@doomguy8996]

If only Stan Lee had been alive to see that masterpiece of a campaign

[@wyattajc3864]

I don’t play DND but I sure love watching you read them keep up the good work

[@captainkirk4637]

It’s called Newton’s 3rd law, every action has an equal and opposite reaction (this is assuming the wizards wall was contracting or moving in some way).The water is actually pushing with the same force against whatever is compressing it. Also because at a certain point there is not more room for the molecules to move around freely and it basically becomes a almost immovable wall (though this is due to the density of water molecules).

[@porkins93]

I pulled a run for mayor thing once, Rolled 26 on my "vote for me" speech. my DM shut it down. I was pissed.

[@NagikunX]

We're still in the middle of our first campaign, but this encounter stood out the most to me. Our party was fighting the Nothic in the LMoP starter campaign and was about to get TPK'd (trying to catch it on fire backfired and they lost their only lit torch so it became a slugfest in the dark which the Nothic was winning). My wife's fighter had lost a wisdom/insight check against its Weird Insight and I roleplayed that it had learned a fact about her parents' death and began mocking her (it was part of the character's backstory on the character sheet so I figured it was fair game). The following turn she failed a wisdom saving throw, ended up feared due to the telepathic taunting, and ran off to the previous room. Another turn later and the screams of her party members becoming more frantic, she closed her eyes and threw her javelin into the blackness of the cavern in the direction of the screams and clashing of claws and metal (with disadvantage of course!)... Got double nat 20s - spearing it through its cyclopian eye, blinding it and causing it to lose all its eye-ability gimmickry, and forcing it to beg for its life in exchange for information about the big bad. Which, apparently, worked out for everyone because they spared its life and fed the helpful goblin that was being bullied by the bugbears to it...*facepalm*

[@theo35510]

I love your videos ! I got a reccurring problem that lead all my dm to give me maluses : i really like to play chaotics characters, and always crit at key moment (either success or failure). I did a deadman ine shot session ( cow boy / far west oriented ) . I was playing a chaotic evil clerc who had a things for cannibalism ( because he got influenced by wendigoes) ... as i was "starving", i told a poor dude in the inn he was a terrible sinner, and made him drink a lot, while letting him know that he should let it go.. so he jumped out the cliff. I ate him ... and he was in fact the mayor of the city. I accused another random guy, as an inquisitionnal clerc ( i had almost all my ability point in intimidate and persuasing ). The village burned the "culprit".... it was the big bad guy

[@ryanseidenman2259]

Ohhh the levitating sorcerer! I have a Triton sorcerer who for some odd reason is in LOVE with the spell Levitate and he's used it in so many situations. He's used it to snag high level items he wasn't supposed to have, help our goblins (we have 2) forge rivers and climb buildings, but my favorite was to cheat in a fight ring. The party was in a mining town and found a tavern called "The Miner's Delight", it was a place for workers to unwind with drinks, food, gambling, and a fight pit. I worked it by 2 parties anteing up 500gp, the winner of the fight takes the pot, simple. Our paladin was obsessed with the fight pit but kept losing the party's money day after day, until the Sorcerer came to watch the fight. He PM'd me (we were doing this online) asking to roll initiative, I said OK, he would then use meta-magic to subtle cast spells, namely Levitate. He cast it on the opponent's mace and then he failed a DEX save to hold onto it, the Paladin took the opening and got the KO, winning the pot. What I love most about this was the Paladin's player was COMPLETELY oblivious to the Sorcerer's actions and didn't know what happened until he told her OOC. The party now forever jokes how he'll just Levitate his way through anything, and when the sorcerer got turned into a Direwolf for a while... I still let him cast Levitate.

[@SeismicViking]

This was a Shadowrun campaign. Our first night in this campaign almost broke the DM. Our group consisted of me playing an Occult investigator/wizard detective, a gunbunny, a drug dealer, and a teenage orc with a lot of drones. Our first mission was to recover an item for a private company from a rival gang in the city. After a meeting with our point of contact and a brief firefight in a nightclub, we get to the warehouse. We use one of the drones to scout it out and find a lot of armed guards. We are vastly outnumbered and cannot win a firefight, so I come in with a plan. We stroll up to the entrance of the warehouse, claiming to be a girl scout troop, but instead of selling cookies, we're selling drugs to send my daughter (the orc teenage rigger) to girl scout camp. We succeed. We get the whole gang high on drugs and I stunbolt the entire gang. We then use our fire power to take them out from there. DM sat in stunned silence and awe that our half-assed plan worked.

[@jackjarrett9097]

My buddy who’s fairly new to D&D but extremely ambitious joined a high-level campaign that I had been a part of for a couple of years. He announced that he’d be playing wizard, which was the first red flag. The second red flag was when we got to downtime. He started asking the DM about the tarrasque, its location, and how it could find said location. Before we knew it, he was off looking, and he came back 2 in-game months later with a fist-sized chunk of diamond containing a miniature tarrasque. He called it his “tarrasque bomb,” but it was less a bomb to kill he tarrasque and more a bomb containing the tarrasque. TL;DR Crazy-ass wizard caught the tarrasque in a pokéball.

[@ireiora01]

I played a teifling cleric, lawful good. I was a new player and my DM decided to have a demon prince appear when we were level 1. The backstory of the demon prince became that I was betrothed to him and he was going to drag me back to Hell as his prisoner and wife. He threw a sleep spell at me but I hit my dodge. Out of nowhere, I tapped into sass I didn't know I had. "I've seen dwarfs throw better spells than you!" The DM allowed burn damage from the sentence. I dealt 5 damage from a sassy comment. It was wonderful.

[@ChrisJParkerson]

I like how dragons and living slime all that is perfectly normal but breeding mules that’s just too far that’s too unrealistic

[@Cyberdog22]

I don't think they fully understood what he meant by "breeding purposes".

[@thesonofdormammu5475]

That spiderman campaign was awesome. My players would have loved it.

[@RanierMedic]

Running a wilderness/crusades/game if thrones campaign. The party was exploring an ancient, haunted keep when the floor fell out beneath them, and they found themselves facing a young adult red dragon. Surprise round, the dragon sucks in a breath to light up the parry with it's flame breath, when the knight of the robe (modeled after the knights of Solamnia from Dragonlance) holds up a finger and demands "don't you dare!" Charisma check, crit success. The dragon checked itself, and initiative is rolled. Dragon gets slain, and the knight goes down in history.

[@robertenyart9982]

It was a Living Force game (Star Wars d20). Our party had to infiltrate an enemy base and rescue prisoners. We used a bunch of our favors to arrange for a cargo pickup as cover. Illicit goods. The labor druids started bringing in pallets of cargo, stacking the pallets in 2 locations of the landing bay. In the meantime, we went to town to make plans to infiltrate the base. We acquired the necessary uniforms, forged orders on sliced data pads, got into the base, and managed to free the prisoners. All was going well until we ran into one overly suspicious guard. A firefight ensued. Alarms were sounded. We started heading to the landing bay. It was a running battle. We were pursued by battle droids. We were losing unarmed prisoners. We finally got into the landing bay and locked the blast door. That's when we started taking fire from two groups of soldiers hiding behind the cargo. We were caught in a crossfire, with no cover available. I charged the ship, taking a few hits but not dropping. I ran to the cockpit and quick started the engines. The rest of the group was still taking heavy fire. I flew the ship, killing one group of soldiers with engine wash. The other soldiers still maintained their withering fire on our helpless group. Several rounds of quad cannon fire and two concussion missiles ended the threat. I landed the ship, and we got the pitifully few survivors on board. The GM gave me TWO Darkside Points for acting in anger and not giving either group a chance to surrender. When I fought the ruling, explaining that I showed just as much mercy as our helpless group was shown, the penalty doubled. This ruling put me firmly on the path to crimelord.

[@dariusshabaiash3861]

In an early industrial era pathfinder campaign I was running, there was an npc I made hatchet, a minotaur, I had set him up to be an early major villain and had gotten close and friendly with the party. They told him everything they did and trusted him completely, he was a member of an assassin order and specialized in long range firearms(important). There was an encounter with some pirates that the party had a grudge with and they found out hatchet was with them, at this point they were already beginning to distrust and even hate hatchet as they learned of his real intentions. Well a battle started with the pirate captain and hatchet assisted the pirate, the battle itself wasn't hard but that changed once hatchet started bombarding them with basically sniper cannons. The party summoner(a ratfolk) didn't have any spells with long enough range to hit hatchet, so in a moment of desperation he drew a needle rifle(an early bolt action rifle). He didn't have proficiency and was far away from hatchet, so he was rolling with serious negatives. He rolled a nat 20 and just barely beat hatchets ac. He had said before firing he was aiming for hatchets hand, he dealt a massive amount of damage to hatchets right hand and basically mangled the hand. The party moral had never been so high. Then on the immediat next turn the party alchemist(hobgoblin) threw a bomb at hatchets left hand and also rolled a nat 20. Hatchet, a relatively strong villain had now lost both of his hands. The party decided to capture him and get information out of him for later. Even now in the campaign the party is "talking" with the assassin order he was from to negotiate his release, even though if he gets released he will never fire another firearm in his life, effectively ending his career as an assassin.

[@aFallenWolf]

The response: "I have a device." should be used WAY more often! Its so funny!

[@jeremiahsteed6912]

There was one campaign I head the honor of being able to spectate. It was based on the first Reich, and the tabaxi rouge failed a stealth check to sneak up on some enemy spies in a tavern, and ended up being thrown over the upstairs railing, onto a table below. The rouge got a decent acrobatics save, even at disadvantage, but ended up killing a town guard commander, by crushing his face with her rear end. That one incident lead to a song being made, and that song is now sung at the beginning and end of each session.

[@LadyRavenEyes]

I have no idea why but him calling me rosy cheeked made in inordinately happy

[@arcadeinvader8086]

My party of 5 was trying to get past an enemy checkpoint (basically a small castle) that we couldn't really get around. We knew later some allies were going to come through and basically just try to bum rush past the guards, so we figured we would wait and join them. While we were waiting our paladin proposed that instead of trying to rush past, we should just storm the fort and kill the entire garrison stationed there. We were low level and these enemies were not your everyday town guard, they were much closer to actual knights. To make a long story short, we attacked and obliterated them with only one member even being downed (and recovered), and when our allies showed up they had nothing to do but continue on. Then later we almost got TPK'd by some crabs that were a little bigger than regular crabs

[@nathan714]

On the topic of octopi, they are incredibly intelligent and borderline sentient. An octopus chooses where it wants to live not based on food availability but on where it likes. After it finds a home in some rocks, it uses its water jets to blow all the sand outside and brings two rocks inside to use as a door if there is a predator outside. Some octopus species carry two halves of a coconut with them which heavily limits their ability to move, but when a predator they partially bury the coconut into the sand and hide inside it.

[@Spectingthemvoid]

That dwarf making a tree to kill the dragon was some bad ass self sacrifice shit

[@jackychang9148]

Is it me or were those first eight minutes repeated from another episode? And the last one.

[@vladdangel]

Yeah, I was excited for new stories but I'm just disappointed now.

[@Scorpious187]

One session our group got caught by bandits who wanted to sell them as slaves. After fighting against the slavers and defeating them once we'd been locked in the dungeon of the keep they had captured, my character turned to our group's de-facto leader (a drow named Dreslok... homebrew world, drow weren't quite the evil bastards they are in Forgotten Realms) and said "You know, now that we've kinda taken this place over, it would make a decent base for us, don't you think?" After some discussion, it was decided that we would keep it as our own since it was centrally located in the world and was very near the southern coast of the continent making it easy to add a dock so we could use ships to travel as well. This particular session ended up temporarily being the last session Dreslok's player was able to play due to being deployed to a different base for a six weeks, so his character stayed at the keep and began modifying it for our use. During the time when his player was gone, our group got sent back in time 3,000 years due to a mishap with a Bag of Holding (homebrew world didn't have an Astral Plane, so instead you got randomly teleported through time). At the end of all that, we find some elves with powerful enough magic to send us back to our original time, only we end up 21 years in the future. Since the time magic didn't change where we were physically in the world, only *when* we were, we came back to the future in nearly the exact place we had been when we left. (If you're getting Back To The Future vibes, don't worry, so did we. lol.) After popping back into existence and wandering about for about 30 minutes in the ruins of the town we had originally started in, we were greeted by a large group of well-armed bandits... or so we thought they were, anyway. Turns out they weren't bandits, they were Dreslok's men who had been searching that area *every day* for 21 years, waiting for any sign of our return. When we did, they quickly notified Dreslok and another NPC, who teleported in immediately. After convincing him that we were really the same people who had left 21 years prior (the world was all destroyed from demons and such, not to mention there were shapechangers all over the place now), he took us to a city called Ssgandrel... a city of 200,000 people... the city he had founded around our keep we had captured 21 years before. So that's how an in-character offhand comment about taking over an abandoned keep led to us founding what became the biggest city in the entire world.

[@Cap193.]

10:37 Driderman is my favorite story that was hilariously clever

[@YTNFSCC]

I once played a "get to know dnd game" at campus. It was like part of an event by the on-campus club, to get people into it. I was playing a pre-made Ranger, and it was like a 2h campaign. The first fight of me playing DnD ended up with me missing 3 Bow shots, then running away from the fight, because I didnt wanna die in the first fight of my first time playing the game.

[@ManicAU]

Possible spoilers - I ran DoIP for a mate and his girlfriend, while also running a ‘shadow campaign’ for just my mate in LMoP when she took extra shifts. Except in DOIP I made Reidoth the Druid a jolly fat man and had Restored Thundertree. I threw Nezznar in there as a young Drow, tied Gundren Rock-Seeker to the Dwarven Excavation quest as an NPC and a few other things, including a runaway teen who I never named, but described some features on him to set him up as a young ‘Glass Staff’ - all while in LMoP, I scaled ages of Phandalin NPCs for LMoP and some other details as well as downscaling enemy numbers or damage and hp and giving him a DMNPC that was meant to assist him solo, (but got killed by Klarg in the first dungeon). My friend had an extremely challenging time navigating this campaign, but so many lightbulb moments along the way - but I stalled him from playing these sessions for a few weeks while I ran the very much active and alive Thundertree in the main campaign. I put Cultists there but made them shady and evasive and non-combative. They couldn’t get information from them so they left and continued to Falcons Lodge. Next week we resumed and moment he stepped into Thundertree he was in shock. Maybe it wasn’t completely lore, but I had set the solo campaign 30 years after DoIP and watching him discover a Gaunt Reidoth and the cultists as well as the nasty green guy... golden moment. I’m taking them through a follow up campaign - where he has chosen his solo PC and and his gf has aged her elf ranger appropriately - and I won’t say much more except there is a violent storm at sea and an NPC attempts to teleport them to safety, only for them to land separated, and in Theros :)

[@saltthesnailttv]

I was running through Curse Of Strahd in 3.5. Our Warlock often communed with his patron, a grotesque spider demon/god/thing by projecting his mind into the patrons realm (I never really decided where it was but assume some sort of plane of horror). When he did this, his character was catatonic, completely helpless. Someone could walk up to him and stab him and he wouldn't realize it until he was back in his body. This was all for flavor mind you, I never thought it would ever actually become relevant in anything other than that players downtime while he was reporting his progress to his patron. When a few players didn't show up one session, the warlock in question asked "Can I bring other people with me when I commune with my patron?" And I said yes, he touched his 2 allies and their minds all sunk down into that plane of horror to carry out the patrons will for a short quest. With their bodies limp and unconscious. Queue the last fight with Strahd after they have destroyed a key item enabling Strahd to actually be slain and not resurrect. One party member was dying, and they were all on their last legs. The warlock decided with what little HP he had left, to rush Strahd and attempt to commune with his patron. His view was that if he was able to bring his allies, he could bring enemies as well. I said alright. I had him make a melee touch attack against Strahd, and Strahd roll a saving throw against it (the DC was low). Cue the warlock rolling a natural 20... and Strahd rolling a natural 1. Everyone at the table went absolutely fucking ballistic. The warlock and Strahd fell to the floor unconscious, and the warlock was stuck with Strahd in his patrons realm while the party members staked, beheaded, and burned Strahds unconscious body. The speech that the warlock made rubbing his victory in as Strahd panicked was icing on the cake.

[@Violokolik]

Me and my friends are in a D&D club, one person couldn’t make it so everyone else agreed we could do 3v3 I pair up with a rogue and a warlock, the other team being a paladin with a flame sword, a small demon cleric child, and a silent monk. I get cornered by the paladin, the paladin had there flame sword activated not to mention the smite he had on the sword, rolled 2 nat 20’s and did 65 damage, I had around 40 health at the time and hadn’t even taken damage yet....

[@ozwalkr]

A warrior friend of mine was caught in a dungeon rapidly filling with water. The party had tripped a nasty trap that was so cliche...yes, the slam the door and fill the dungeon trap, but instead of sand, water. Everyone was drowning when he got the idea to use his tower shield as a surfboard. It worked and the last 2 survivors surfed their way out of the dungeon.........right out of the cliff face to a drop into a river far below.

[@shadowhunterevil8214]

In our games we do critical fumbles on attacks. If we roll a nat one and there is an ally within range, they are hit instead and the attack automatically hits, but the attack is non lethal(after the even i want to adress here) and damage is rolled with disadvantage. we were playing curse of strahd and starting at level one, our barbarian named "Berserker"(i kid you not) wanted to attack by throwing a spear. Rolls nat one, DM rolls d4 to determine which of the allies is hit. "4". The level 1 wizard is hit, dealing enough damage to 1 shot fully kill him, no death saves. a few seconds of silence before the entire table breaks into laughter for a good 3 minutes before getting our shit together. The name of the wizard was Welyra btw. Now whenever someone misses an attack with a spear throw and does not critically fumble, a random high elve shows up and is hit point blank in the head, before disappearing. Its canon in all of our campaigns since those 5 years ago. It was legendary, but by far not the only silly moment we had with berserker, before he got torn up by a demon(RIP).

[@DomyTheMad420]

yo that last one was brilliant. more of these please

[@topjasper7473]

I played an arcane archer named Ivellios Galanodel in this campain( it was my first campain ever so i had just 2 arcane arrows and was just a common archer fighter) the previous sesion, our warlock climbed onto a platform “carved” into the side of a mountain to have advantage or some stuff, idk. After the battle, he said he wanted to slide down towards the rest of the party and he did. I thought that that sounded very cool. Fast forward to the actual sesion. We went into the dungeon and came acros a battle. Me was ranged ao i thought i stay at the outer ring( the battle happened mostly on some kind of lower level) after some fighting, i couldn’t see any enemies because my darkvision didn’t have enough reach. So i thought to copy the warlock from the previous sesion. I asked the dm,:“can i slide down this wall?” The dm replied: “you can certainly try.” “Than i will try it!” I said. It was this moment the dm said:”okay you set one foot over the side, realize that this is a 60ft DROP and you fall down. I don’t remember the total of fall damage i took but it was enough to knock me out.” Eventually they helped me up and the rest of the time i made jokes about my kneecaps being next to my ears when someone said i wasn’t fast enough. Untill this very day, we keep refering to ivelios and his “smart” plan to jump down a 60ft cliff. (I chose to let ivelios be killed some sesions ago because i didn’t actually do anything in the battles, and i traded him for a new character that could do shit against enemies. :)

[@mpzy101]

Something similar happened in my campaign. We are playing Storm King's Thunder. In the first few minutes of the first game the party was traveling to Bryn Shander when out of nowhere a Frost Giant riding a Mammoth charged them. The druid cast Spike Growth which completely messed up the mammoth. The giant fell and slid taking a ton of damage. The party was able to fight the giant pretty well and had almost killed it. When Trit the barbarian decided to climb the Frost Giant and punch its mouth while activating Quaals Feather Token Tree. The giant had the tree grow inside it. Now there is a tree that has a frost giant wrapped around it. The tree is called Trit's Log, a few miles south of Bryn Shander. Also the giant had only 2 HP before the tree was rammed down its thought.

[@Paragon13]

We were in the final battle. We picked up a potion at some point that the DM expected us to either leave or forget about. First guy chooses to do nothing in the first round. Second guy, who picked the mysterious potion up, runs up to me to hand me the potion. My move was last because I got a 1 in the turn order deciding thing (dunno what it’s called). I tip an arrow with the potion and aim at the final boss, who currently hasn’t taken a single hit yet, and successfully hit. The potion’s effect works on the boss and it dies in a single hit. That potion: “Juice that makes you explode”.

[@unkn0vvnmystery]

8:42 my approximate answer is it would create a explosion of 3 Tara tons of tnt that would create a fireball 119mile in radius and 20psi blast wave 239mile radius. The thermal damage would cover almost all of North America except Alaska and past Pará, Brazil if donated in New Orleans. so in summary trying to compress water is a really really bad idea.

[@chalkeater1427]

The one about the tree feather token reminds me of a session of Pathfinder I played with some friends, where we had a Tree Feather Token, which we used by attaching it to an arrow (if I remember correctly) and shooting it at a fairly strong/semi-immortal enemy, who I'm sure our DM wanted us to find a tricky way to kill. This resulted in the enemy being trapped inside of a full sized tree, and his air supply ran out (i.e. he passed out) exactly one round before he wore down the hp of the tree. If not for this, I'm sure it could have been a TPK. This also meant we had sucessfully incapacitated him instead of killing him, as the vampire lord (who was trying to get us killed) requested, so he ended up fixing an already very powerful weapon I had aquired, making it even more powerful.

[@PaxtheDreamer]

Maybe I missed a detail, but for the water compression in a wall of force story: If the wall of force was only a *hemisphere* instead of a full *sphere* around them, unless the floor was likewise made up of a completely indestructible material, it should have released an explosion against the ground directly beneath them rather than engaging nuclear fusion. Yes, it would still be horrifyingly dangerous and cause a ton of damage, but it wouldn't quite reach fission levels.

[@adam7223]

I love the nicknames you call us. Makes me feel special.

[@davemakesnoises]

nobody is special, and because of that everybody is :)

[@adam7223]

@@davemakesnoises Shoot, I'm special. My mom said I was so 🕺