What was the best way you completely shut down an encounter? #2

[@genosabre6661]

RoTF campaign, first Yeti encounter. Our ranger raised his hand at the yeti and spoke to it. Bribed it with food. Became the ranger's MO every time we encounter a yeti and never failed. While being hunted down by frost druids, he suggested to look a yeti and bribe him into hunting frost druids with him. Said yeti then became a member of the party and lives outside Bremen's borders. We now have a bonus to survival checks whenever we travel with him in Icewind Dale.

[@ericb3157]

reminds me of a fan-story where someone made friends with "the living gazebo", thanks to a Nat 20 on a negotiation roll. ironically, it was her first decent roll of the campaign!

[@genosabre6661]

and yes, the ranger's dark secret is he was raised by yeti. he revealed it early on, but never got any negative after effects.

[@LoudAngryJerk]

In the middle of a frostmaiden campaign. We killed our yetis. Makes me sad now

[@adamhunter1223]

Please tell me the Yeti's name is "Dale".🤣

[@SolaceHuntsman]

I completely shut down an Owlbear fight in that same module by doing something similar. Except I had no spells. I only had Owlbear whisperer

[@captnpower]

was playing a campaign and i always buy random stuff, looking at the item description i found "dust of dryness" which can absorb a lot of water into a pellet, convinced the DM and the priests in the church to let me have a lot of holy water, later down the campaign we fall down a well full of undead, i reach into my pouch grab a handful of the dust pellets and look at our shield wielding paladin and said "surfs up". after a few rolls probably aided by the rule of cool, we have a paladin surfing on a shield on a wave of holy water flanking nothing since all the creature died.

[@cosmoniums5990]

There was one time when my characters grandfather had cataracts so I as a paladin immediately removed them. It may not have been a combat encounter, but I sure as heck shut down his plan for how such a social encounter would go.

[@tordlindgren2123]

party broke through door as i used an ability to teleport into the room as a swift action, put my crossbow to the big bads neck while he was still sitting and rolled intimidate. DM was speechless when i won initiative in order to do that. admitedly it did help that one of the guys smashing the door was a barbarian with 24 in strength (think the mountain with red hair and crazy eyes)

[@nicholaskratzert]

One I can finally add my story too. My DM had come up with a dungeon that deals damage to whoever casted magic, after a 1 second delay. The higher the spell slot the higher the damage. I played the wizard and another party members were a ranger and a warlock. After crawling our way through most of the dungeon we came across what was clearly the boss room. I convince the warlock to attempt to synchronize our magical casting. Him a 9th level damage spell he could use souls to cast and me casting a teleport out of the area. We made a bunch of rolls and pulled it off. Our DM calculated the damage and told us the room was obliterated. We got out just in time. The DM rewarded myself and the warlock with inspiration for risking our lives.

[@JAMBUILDER08]

We have a Barbarian + Druid multiclass in our party. Basically built to be a raging brown bear that shreads enemies. So when I hit level 7, as our party's sorcerer, I picked up Haste, and managed to turn him into a big brown barbarian bear of blending. All enemies thus forth don't have a very good time whenever he gets into melee range.

[@xXCherryKoolAidXx]

DM here! My party is playing a futuristic, post apocalyptic simulation (it’s Campaign 2 in this world and they all know it’s a sim). They’re currently in London Backway, where steampunk technology reigned supreme after the wars. My two players joined forces with 2 NPCs and found themselves as unwilling contestants in The Graveyard, a combat arena in the hollowed out bottom of a Cathedral. The Graveyard was run by The Seer, who claimed to be the world’s only real wizard. So they made it to the second to last round, wherein their boss fight was Drexel, the last Fire Dragon. The fight was going to be INTENSE. I customized 2 new legendary actions for him, the tank player was at half health minimum, I was really ready to push them to their limits in combat (all of this was AFTER five previous rounds in The Graveyard). And then our Paladin, who multiclassed as a Druid not too long ago, used his last first level spell: Speak With Animals. I love animals and my guys have an entire zoo of wacky animal companions scattered across the world already. I was all for this encounter. The Paladin, who also happens to be the descendent of Sir Galahad and the last living member of King Arthur’s New Round Table, asked why such a majestic beast (the last of its kind, no less) was trapped and fighting on behalf of The Seer. Long story short, Drexel revealed that he was born in captivity and had been forced to kill countless fighters for his handler’s amusement. The Paladin had one of his animal companions, Pokey the Cyborg Octopus, on his shoulders at the time; Pokey got scared, so the Paladin started petting him. Well Drexel had never been touched affectionately before and asked to be petted. And the WHOLE SQUAD got in on it Paladin found out that Drexel was his given name and he never got to choose his own; the dragon revealed that he quite loved flowers. Paladin asked if he liked Daisy, and the dragon immediately took to it. So The Seer is watching all this from above, starts losing his shit and commands Drexel to go back to his station so the combatants can fight to the death. The Paladin, in ALL his fury, pointed at this motherfucker and yelled, “HIS NAME IS DAISY!!” Next thing I know, the Paladin passes successful religion checks, prays and uses his Holy Shield ability to allow Daisy to bust through the barrier that keeps him in The Graveyard. Face to face with the Seer, the party’s Monk/Wizard Samurai uses Presto to fill the Seer’s lungs with ash. The Paladin steps onto the Seer’s throat and asks Daisy to make the call: kill him or spare him. Daisy decided that The Seer will only hurt more people if he’s left alive, so the Paladin drops his sword into his open, screaming mouth. And that’s the story of how my squad dodged a major boss fight, freed and adopted The Last Fire Dragon on Earth. Thanks for humoring this long read, it was the best session I’ve ever DMed and I just had to share it.

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[@patrickhandley627]

This was in a west March campaign, There was a swarm of 40+ stirges, our parties wizard who had almost died to these creatures previously, and held a grudge. One sunburst later, there was nothing left but ashes.

[@SipcyP]

This was during Tomb of Annihilation. Our party consisted of a minotaur fighter, half-elf warlock, human wizard, half-orc barbarian, a dwarven artificer, and me, the lizardfolk druid. We had been making progress in collecting the cube puzzlers of the trickster gods in hope to gain their favor as we took down the BBEG when we came upon a statue. The statue appeared to be made out of this gravel-ly stone but when we approached it broke apart into hundreds of little stone guys. The artificer fire-bolted one of the little guys and they ran off toward a massive lava pool on the eastern side of the ruined city. The dudes appeared a few moments later in this massive dog-like lava monster. Roll initiative. At this point in the game were were level seven, meaning I had access to a myriad of mid-level spells, including polymorph. However. when the artificer threw a spell at the creature that required a Con save I recall it rolled something like a 23. Seeing as my own Spell DC was fairly low with my wisdom score of 15 I opted, instead casting Polymorph myself, I summon half a dozen pixies and to satyrs instead to do the dirty work for me. The thing about Pixies is that they have a once per day casting of polymorph- see where I'm going here; and the Satyrs because they are dope. The DM gives the six winged horrors the same initiative which happened to follow mine. ALL SIX OF THEM casted Polymorph on this thing, and sure enough, it failed the fourth DC 12 Con save on a Nat 1. The Huge monster turned into a baby axolotl and the pixies flew it away at a speed of 60ft per round until it could not be seen anymore. We never saw it happen again and the DM ended the session half and hour later because he prepared nothing else that day. Did I feel bad- kinda. Did I feel great- also kinda. That was one of the many stories about Broken-Fane the Lizardfolk Druid in the short time I played as him because the game dissolved due to the DM having to deal with real life stuff shortly after the three session long combat encounter in the Yuan-Ti dungeon in the ruined city- also the handiwork of Broken-Fang. But that is a story for another time.

[@SamWeltzin]

Pathfinder has a class called Mesmerist, which is kind of like a rogue with psionic powers. They're trash against anything that can't be mind-effected or hit with precision damage, but against anything else, they're one of the best support classes in the game. At one point during the campaign I was playing a Mesmerist in, circumstances forced us to fight the Ninja in the party's master, and the fool made the mistake of waiting for us in a battlefield alone. Sure he had a hostage important to us, but what he didn't count on was my ability to stare at him and lock him down with a spell called Oneiric Horror (Failed will save requires the target do a full-round attack against an imaginary foe). The Ninja of the party turned herself invisible and stuck him full of shuriken. The thing about a Mesmerist's stare ability is that it does extra damage each time you or an ally hits the opponent, and shuriken-build Ninjas are all about throwing out as many attacks as possible and relying on Sneak Attack damage, so the combination essentially toppled what was supposed to be an incredibly dangerous encounter (not for us, but for the important hostage), in one turn. No one but the Ninja's master took any damage.

[@MisterDiceGuy]

First ever session of D&D as a level 1 character, I killed a BBEG. We were on an extremely massive ship that was on fire, the BBEG was escaping via escape vessel. I used a range attack on one of the two ropes used to lower the vessel into the water from the deck several stories up. Natural 20. The rope was severed and it dumped the occupants into the water. The BBEG was wearing full heavy armor. Definitely took falling damage because falling less than gracefully from any height into water hurts and then perceivably drowned as he sunk immediately.

[@MalloonTarka]

Star Wars: Edge of the Empire. We were lost in the bowels of the city-moon Nar Shaddaa. A bunch of Mynocks (those bat-like power-suckers from _The Empire Strikes Back)_ flew at us. It was _meant_ to be one of several encounters we were going to have down there as our supplies and our health were slowly sapped. In this case, though, as any savvy wizard would have noticed, the GM had made one crucial mistake: He'd grouped the monsters together on the first turn. So, naturally, going first, I cast fireba- I mean, I threw a grenade. One and done. I still remember the look on his face when he calculated the damage and said "They're, uh, all dead." An encounter that was (probably) meant to last at least 15-30 minutes was done in about three seconds. Fortunately, being a great GM, he managed to salvage the situation almost immediately by ruling the grenade has blown open a sinkhole beneath the floor that we then had to creatively cross. Fortunately, I was playing a geonosian, so that wasn't a problem for me.

[@drsquirrel7276]

Ok ok our party entered a forest filled with enemies and my party is stuck in combat, the earlier session my dm gave me a fairy dragon , so I flew up with my winged boots having fairy dragon over lap major image on me making it look like I had turned into a anchient gold dragon, dm wondering were this was going let me intimidate and he rolled against I scared the whole forest clear and a party member as well

[@joshuaharmon6684]

One of my players completely shut down an encounter by casting Hold Animal. The party was on a time traveling boat, and found a large squid (intended to be a low level kraken) that threatened to deal structural damage to the hull. In initiative order, the rogue threw an electric shuriken at the squid and missed completely. The Ranger used frost breath and did a decent amount of damage, but then the cleric used Hold Animal. The squid couldn't move. So it fell off the boat, and when it got out of range it was lost to the timeline, unable to exist any further.

[@pizzedahff3127]

Not me personally, but our party. Approaching a cave out of a forest. Across the clearing we see a Beholder guarding the cave. Our rogue says "watch for the sign", and wanders off. She and the DM go into the other room. After about five minutes we hear John (our DM) yell "YOU WHAT111??". A couple of minutes later they come back to the living room. John says "So, you've been waiting for a couple of hours, when all of the sudden, from the hill behind the cave entrance you see Lyric Jump down onto the Beholder, with a blanket. She manages to cover the Eyes, and drags the Beholder to the ground. What do you do?" Laughing our asses off we walked across the clearing, and stabbed the blanket with pointy thing until it stopped screaming. Lyric earned the title of Lyric the Insane that day. She had gone around the clearing, climbed the hill above the Beholder, and then John said she rolled a natural 20 on her grapple check when she jumped off the cliff onto the Beholder. I still think we may have been the first party ever to kill a Beholder without taking a single HP of damage.

[@compassman0577]

A group of bandits walked up on us. One roll later (can't remember if it was nat 20 or dirty 20) and the bandits were scared off. We avoided the fight only to roll a nat 1 during night watch to have the bandits come back with more bandits. Fun fight I do say.

[@mathmusicandlooks]

Was playing a fresh new campaign. In our second combat encounter ever, we squishy low-levels found ourselves facing off a banshee while trying to loot an abandoned manor. As the banshee prepared to scream, my wife’s monk cast Silence. Shortly thereafter, we had completely dispatched of the banshee and not a single party member had taken any damage.

[@gusguskitty1962]

We are playing a pathfinder campaign in our group. As a low level party we were given the task of collecting mushrooms and other things. We were able to find a tree they grew on, but it was guarded by myceloid who had poison spores, shooting spines and telepathy. He focused his telepathy and subsequent attacks on our rouge. Now she is the type that adopts everything; owl bears, dragon eggs, etc… She immediately decided to try to tame it. She critically succeeded against the poison and it critically missed with its spine attack. It taunted her the whole time, but she reminded very kind and inviting through out the fight. Then it tried to leap at her in attack, she rolled and succeeded to catch it in a hug instead. It ended up being terrified of her as she seemed to be so superior in every way. She was able to take it by the hand and lead it back to her room, were she set up a corner with logs and humidity to make it feel at home. It is chaotic evil… thus probably plotting against her.

[@GEWB2105]

I'm just seeing that arm wrestling episode in Dexter's Lab right now with that last story. 🤣

[@lexsamreeth8724]

Enemies at a modest distance, attacking with trained bulettes. All it took was my warlock casting "Crown of Madness" on one of the bulettes to completely derail the encounter.

[@TheTolnoc]

So, we were on a mission to poison a blood well in a vampire keep... a few guards show up, vampire guards, and our caster blankets them with Darkness, since that beats vampire dark vision. Next turn, one runs out of the Darkness, up to my Kobold Paladin. This vampire had not heard about Pack Tactics. Now, I'm at level 11 here, and I had time to cast Spirit Shroud since it's a Bonus Action. That, plus passive smite, is 2d8. I was going to dump a 3rd level slot into him for my Divine Smite, so that's 4d8 + 1d8 for it being an undead, 7d8 on top of my weapon damage. The first attack was a crit. The second attack, thanks to Advantage, was also a crit. I ashed that vampire in one turn, with a grand total of 104 damage, 74 radiant, 30 bludgeoning, doing it so fast, that when all of its allies finally got out of the Darkness spell, they asked, 'Hey, weren't there 4 of us when we came in?', because they didn't even have time to scream. The rest of the fight was trivial with the action economy already in our favor, then the wizard just crits a firebolt and chunks out a third of the next guy. It was a pretty easy mop up after that. Don't. Fuck. With Kobolds.

[@sabliath9148]

My time playing my own Kobold Paladin (of Bahamut) was great time. Uxarix was a member of a Kobold clan known as the 'Ux-Gavir', or the Platinum Order. As you can guess from the name the entire clan worshipped Metallic Dragons, and Bahamut especially. Only those clan members who either completed monastic training or joined the clergy (I.E., Monks, Paladins, and Clerics), were given the honor of adding the draconic word for platinum, 'Ux' to their names.

[@valordin4395]

It was a homebrew campaign the dm made for the party. It was most of the group’s first time playing dnd. Few sessions in and we are fighting a xorn. I’m playing a moon Druid and we are in a small cave. I didn’t want to block the barbarian but also wanted to fight in melee combat so I changed into a giant spider to fight from the walls and ceiling. Reading what it can do I shoot webs and hit. Restrains the xorn and the party tears into it. I manage to recharge webs pretty much every turn and that allows the rest of the party to go crazy.

[@WarChallenger]

Horde of the Dragon Queen: We started out arriving at the city on fire, and a blue dragon circling overhead. With my character being from a hunting village, he made a B line straight for the keep at the center of town to get the dragon’s attention. I was out of breath and struggling with the d100 rolls to get its attention as it was flying overhead. Each time, I was told I could add one extra per roll as I got closer to the center of town while running. I made it to six attempts and was about to give it up and go back to helping the party fight some cultists. I finally yelled one last time before I was about to call it quits, and got a 97. What ensued was the dragon landing directly in front of me, and me somehow persuading the dragon to listen to what I had to say. (Dragonborn with MASSIVE charisma bonuses). I looked deep into its eyes and learned with yet another great insight roll that the dragon had a history of abandonment issues, and felt inferior to other dragons. After telling it that they were just as valuable a part of the world as anyone else, it looked me square in the face and just said “I’m not… I’m not doing this today.” As he started to walk and not fly away, a player that must have played this module before attempted to get the dragon to fight again. They couldn’t surpass the armor class of the dragon, and instead just made it turn its head to see me waving from now like 70 feet away. It nodded its head as thanks for keeping the peace, I tipped my light blue (totally not a French Adrian) helmet back, and it just kept walking. Turns out I derailed the campaign on the spot by giving a dragon therapy instead of just shooting at it. The intended story arc didn’t even get through session one, and I thought I was being a good noodle by not murder hobo slashing at the dragon.

[@fantasywritertenten6618]

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[@timdrugge907]

Command: Release: Bladder. This is technically a valid use of the Command Spell as Release can easily be interpreted as 'release pressure.' Release pressure on a hand/jaw and they go slack and open, 'releasing' whatever was held by them. Apply this to targets like Bladder or Bowels, and your target is suddenly very confused and embarrassed, and the DM is left wondering what kind of disadvantages apply to a bandit with full trousers. For the evil-aligned among you, Command: Release: Lungs can be used to force a target to exhale, which is particularly effective against submerged targets or those inside toxic gases. Without a held breath to sustain them, the target's Constitution is negated and submerged targets instantly begin drowning, or choose between suffocating and breathing in poison gas. Useful both in combat, and when 'extracting answers' from the uncooperative.

[@LazyninjaxLNX]

I had a good one recently, I play as an owl folk so I flew up to the top of a tree to scout and then as enemies swarmed up the tree, I flew around lighting them on fire and distracting all the enemies while my allies took shots from range. Then I spotted the bbeg and landed next to them, putting them to rest with my action surge and maneuvers.

[@spartanfury1]

Pathfinder campaign....our caravan was going to hunt down a hydra. so we geared up for the fight and headed out. basic plan was for my warpriest to get up in melee and proc its attacks while everyone else in the caravan tried to shoot the shit out of it. we were partly field testing some new caravan mechanics with the fight. My guy fully kitted up does just that, running into combat and trying to draw as many of its attacks as possible...basically all of which ineffectively scrape off him because kitted up and in a defensive posture he can crest 30AC. He also had cast Stunning Barrier on himself, which gives him an AC bonus and anytime he gets hit, attacker has to save or be stunned for a round. confident in his tankyness he provokes an AoO to flip off a goblin bombing run that decided to rain on the party, and naturally the hydra nat 20's to hit him...but fails its save and becomes stunned and loses its turn. To which I replied in kind, with a crit of my own, and dropped 52 damage on the thing at once...driving the offending head inside out through its body and killing the beast in one mighty blow. effectively ending what the gm intended to be a fairly long battle trying to outpace the creatures dps and healing without taking losses among the crew.

[@Deverosfear]

Pathfinder campaign: I was playing a tiefling synthesis summoner who was using his abilities to pretend to be a clam mer-person. I had been using my abilities to search wreaks for treasure and shortly after an embarrassing battle with an eel we were attacked by pirates. It turns out this was a supposed to lose fight against the dread pirate, captain crunch and his breakfast crew. I managed to get close thanks to my various resistances making snap, crackle and pops alchemical weapons fail and I grapple him despite his AC of 30ish. Not knowing what to do when his crew surround me I pile drive him off the ship into the ocean he quickly managed to break free in the water but because of how the GM stated and stocked him he failed swim checks and sank into the ocean by the time I managed to drag him to the surface he had already drowned to death and his crew had left under their new vengeful Captain Coco.

[@Deverosfear]

Coincidentally all of his magical gear and weapons sank to the bottom of the ocean while he was flailing in the water.

[@bloo.2779]

I was the dm but I hope u can still see this. My players entered some old mineshaft tunnels that they wanted to use as a short cut to get to their destination. I had a group of angry outcast kobold miners attack them. One of my players was like “how far are they?”, and said “their still coming at you from about 15 ft away”, the player “is their water?”, me “yes, why?”. I forgot the spell but he makes an ice wall between them and the kobolds. Then the wizard prepares an action (burning hands) and the artificer does as well with his cannon thing. Then the guy who made the ice wall said “ready?!”, the wizard “DROP THE WALL!”. He then breaks the wall and my kobolds make a dex save(burning hands) and only one succeeds with only one hit point, killing the rest. Then the artificer shot his cannon and blasts off the kobolds head.

[@bloo.2779]

There was 8 kobolds

[@crasyperson123]

I once gave a group of potential bandits a single warm cloak, because I thought they were beggers in need of it. I was told later that it was not a group of beggers.

[@nekotyrant1629]

Strahd campaign. We came up on some haunted manor. There was chapel room with 3 undead with massive swords. We go in to face them. They kick our ass and we start retreating. They cant or at least wont leave the room. We test with a range attack and they dont respond. We ended up lassoing each one and dragging them out, 1 by 1, beating them mercilessly to outpace their Regen. Our paladin walked away with one of their reaching 2d10. We beat the hag and her house in a later session by my centaur abusing hit and run and our paladin making terrifying use of his new sword. Would have been screwed if our Eldritch Knight had not rolled good and saw, and took out the core of the house, which was wrecking us. Dm said we were about 5 levels under what we shouldve been to fight the hag. Felt good.

[@SerathDarklands]

Just going to copy and paste an old comment of mine from another MrRipper video, since it fits here. This was how my party pretty much shut down a Tarrasque encounter: I was playing a high-level, 3.5e homebrew campaign with a few friends (somewhere around level 18), and as part of the story, the Tarrasque had been unleashed on the city that our players called home. Our cleric and paladin, who shared a homebrew deity - and who had actually physically met said deity earlier in the campaign - had been given the ability to summon their deity ONE TIME as a sort of magical auto-win. Our DM had forgotten all about this by the time the Tarrasque showed up, but as the Tarrasque showed up and breached the fortified walls of the city, our paladin reminded the DM about it, and she and our cleric retreated to the castle to perform the ritual while I (the party's monk), our sorcerer, and our ranger went out to do what we could to delay the beast as long as possible and minimize casualties and collateral damage. With the help of the city guard, the elite guard, and the king's honor guard, we were able to keep the beast from getting very far in the city and help coordinate evacuations. About twenty or so rounds into the battle, there was a massive flash of light, and the god appears in the sky, just hovering over the battlefield. He surveys everything for a moment, then drops down in front of the raging Tarrasque. He suddenly winds back, and punches the beast in the face and just atomizes the Tarrasque's upper half in one hit - think something out of One-Punch Man, but with more divine energy. He then floated upwards and vanished in another flash of light. It was absolutely glorious. Our sorcerer knew the Wish spell, so he was able to keep the Tarrasque dead - the only way in 3.5e to actually kill the Tarrasque is to do nonlethal damage to it equal to its HP +10, and then cast a Wish or Miracle spell on it to keep it dead, since it only ever takes nonlethal damage. Our DM ruled that getting its upper half utterly annihilated was equivalent to that amount of damage. Our DM was kind of annoyed, because he meant this to be an enormous struggle - the Tarrasque is a CR 20 monster in 3.5e, and we were around level 18, and we just annihilated it with a literal deus ex machina, but that's why you don't give out access to god summons unless you can regulate it, I guess.

[@matthewlabodin3981]

I convinced my DM to allow me to create a "landmine" spell. Basically, it creates a few small mines that do some AOE cold damage because frost runes and stuff. The mines are invisible to everyone but me, but they explode prematurely if I lose concentration. Fast forward several sessions, and a small army of animals and monsters is laying seige to a noble's mansion that we were staying at. We kill the first wave, and then, between waves, I cast "Silvertail's Glacial Minefield" to cover one area while we deal with other stuff. 1 round later, all my mines are gone, as I caused Dire Wolf D-day.

[@EmperorNortonII]

Rime of the Frost Maiden. We're fighting a big, nasty barbarian in a village that had already killed the people there. Wizard polymorphs him into a mouse. My elven rogue picks it up, ties its tail to an arrow, and shoots straight up into the air. Mouse escapes the arrow about halfway up. Cleric hits it with a cantrip attack as it falls.

[@fabiansuckfull9446]

I disguised self into Irena to mess with that simp Strahds head long enough to allow my fellow murderhobos to make a getaway and then I ported away to safety. Didn't last too long though and he picked up our trail again through no fault of my own. Really.

[@canadalynxfan]

our party has a satyr sorcerer who plays the bongos and a halfling bard who plays the accordion. we often all joked that the rest of us should learn how to play an instrument so we could just be like “actually were the band? do you know where we set up?” and just lie our way out of there. we eventually did get the rest of our party (including me lol) proficiencies in certain instruments. it did take some time because the rest of us consisted of a cleric dwarf, monk tabaxi, a goblin with no class we adopted, and my character a halforc rouge. we were not really the best charisma wise.. anyways!! we had opened a door and saw three bug bears picking on a goblin. half of us thought we should save him because what if it’s gnaxs (the goblin we “adopted”) lover. the other half including me were opposed because we were VERY injured from a previous battle and are only level three. unfortunately, they had noticed that the door was open and we’re getting ready to draw some weapons. our satyr who had higher initiative started gaslighting one of them into thinking it was his birthday. she was playing her bongos and singing happy birthday to the group. then our bard joined in which caused a way more convincing show and soon our cleric joined. the bugbears were fully convinced we were some type of musical card and turned their backs to us. we successfully didn’t have to fight them!! until we did.. the bug bears continued to mess around with the goblin and we’re getting ready to just throw him across the room. it would have probably killed him since he was already weak. luckily our cleric had casted spiritual weapon and made it look like a lyre to ease suspicions. she THWACKED one on the head but had advantage and if i remember correctly actually got a crit!! TLDR: our party gaslit a bugbear into thinking it was his birthday and we were a musical performance card it was a small encounter in our campaign but will probably be one of my favorites :)

[@ver87ona]

About two weeks ago I reached Level 3 as Gloom Stalker. Afterwards we encountered a bad guy with some goons. I went first and I got lucky rolls that took out two of the four enemies. I regret not trying Ranger sooner.

[@thetiredbiker3652]

Old 3rd Ed campaign. Party of 5 was about lvl 3. DM had insisted that we were allowed to use ANY non modern D20 sourcebook. I rolled up a crane clan iaido disciple from “oriental adventures” at the encounter in question, we met the BBEG. A lv 15 necromancer who appeared in front of the party in a pillar of green balefire. Midway through the second sentence of his monologue, I interrupt the DM: “is he in my attack range?” “What?” “Is he within reach for me to attack?” “Uh, yes. Why?” “Per my character, ‘a battle does not begin when one is finished flapping his lips.’” “Roll for attack.” I had him flatfooted and my favorite feat allowed me two attacks off a draw of my sword at full bonus. First attack was a 16 or so, second attack was called strike to the neck and was a nat20. DM rolls behind screen, muttering curses. “Your first strike takes off his left hand at the wrist, and as the second cut makes contact he vanishes in another pillar of flame, appearing on a balcony three floors up, spluttering blood and ordering his minions to attack! After the session, I asked the DM If the thing that teleported the BBEG to safety was a last minute buttpull. He nodded shamefully and admitted that I had completely killed the BBEG on that nat20.

[@sabliath9148]

I've told this story in the past but: 1st session of the campaign, and I'd made a Dragonborn Great-weapon Fighter, Outlander (Bounty Hunter) Background. He went by Pelthik the Pale, due to his white scales. He was your classic big, strong, boisterous warrior (16 Str, 14 Cha), also emphasis 'big' part, as I'd rolled the maximum on the random height table, meaning Pelthik was 6'10". Anyway, the party was travelling down the road towards the nearest village, when we were accosted by bandits, seeking to steal from us. Pelthik wasn't the kind to accept this sort of thing quietly. I asked the DM "How tall is the Bandit?" The DM answered "5'10"". Pelthik stepped up to the leader of these highwaymen and glared down at the man. Pelthik growled out "Now, now, we're all civilized people here. There's no need for violence, is there?" Roll Intimidation: 17+4 for a total of 21. Needless to say, the bandits decided to flee from the pissed off dragon(born).

[@atsukana1704]

One time my sister who was dming made a honebrew enemy like an ancestral deer. It was blocking our path out of the fey wild. But since she said it did not appear immediately hostile yet and was simply holding its ground, I cast suggestion. It failed and I simply suggested it move out of the way and just like that we were out of the fey wild minus one encounter.

[@johnniefinney3266]

Thank you for posting a video Mr.ripper

[@connortg5]

was playing as a dwarf when i made the character i used my starting cash to get alcohol bottles and a flint n steel spent the rest of that campaign molotov cocktailing enemies yeah... those things were way too op, i one-shot all of the few enemies we fought, although tbf that was the very first campaign anyone in the group had done

[@EliasMorals]

We were playing 5e, doing Curse of Strahd. I was a homebrew race, that was a druid, but that's besides the point. Anyways, we were in a grung village (I think the DM homebrewed it in) and the enemy cast Cloud Kill. Since Cloud Kill was fog, I looked at my prepared spells and saw that i had create/destroy water prepared. I did. So, using a *level 1* create/destroy water, I shut down what would have been a big factor in the fight we would have gotten entirely beaten up in. Made combat go much faster, I like to think

[@w.i.l.l.schannel9647]

It was Pathfinder 1e. My buddy was running to game and I was playing a halfling druid. We came across an entire pack of dire wolves. I made a nature check and located the alpha of the pack and rolled an intimidation check and rolled a Nat 20. My halfling druid thus became the packs new alpha. I told the pack to let us pass unharmed. We went through the woods not being harmed and had an entire pack of dire wolves at our call if needed. It was awesome.

[@sauronsrighthandman301]

5E campaign. Playing my little brother's one shot. Shut down important events twice. First was when we were supposed to talk to this druid, but he wouldn't get out of his tree house. As a level 7 undead Warlock I cast blight (or is it infect?) On his tree. It withered and died and we skipped a whole side quest bit. Second time was at the end of the one shot. Bbeg was sitting menacingly in a room. I told everyone to wait outside for a minute. His swarm of wasps entered the room, I walked to the door we came in from, cast Hunger of Hadar, and shut the door. He takes a butt-ton of damage, and gets to the door, only to be hit with 400 damage from the three monks in the party: Goku, Krillin, and Trunks. He did not survive.

[@GymbalLock]

We met a goblin army led by a hobgoblin chief. Instead of fighting, I made a challenge to the army that I would make a better leader, since I was a fellow goblin. A few Persuasion and Intimidation rolls later, and the army slaughtered their own chief and became MY army. The rest of the party got into training, and equipping, transforming this small band into a professional mercenary army complete with healers and a few paladins.

[@blobfishiant8487]

Pathfinder campaign (lvl 4 at the time): We were down in a dungeon being hunted by a highly advanced construct. An npc we picked up kept warning us about how dangerous it was, every other monster in the dungeon cowered in fear as soon as they heard it, basically it was made very clear to us that this was an extremely dangerous enemy. So I told the rest of the party to put together as much gunpowder, alcohol, oil, and loose shrapnel as we could get. We stuffed it all into a crate and left it in the only doorway leading into the room we were in. Everyone stood their ground, holding actions until we could see the construct. Our cleric saw it step out of the darkness and one of our members casted spark on the payload. We blasted that mf to kingdom come and caused the doorway to cave in, completely blocking it off from the party. When we bumped into it again, it’s armor was completely shredded and it was constantly malfunctioning, so our half orc fighter dropped it down a pit and we went on with our day. Tl;dr: we bombed a construct

[@Salt_Mage]

I was playing a celestial warlock in 5e. Exploring a cave for the monster abducting villagers. We first encounter a lot of spiders. In narrow caves, with a single approach. A single wall of fire filled the 5ft wide passage and roasted every spider that was approaching. Later we found the perpetrators - drow slavers. Funny thing about drow is that they are susceptible to Hold Person. Our DM’s sighs of frustration only increased when the giant stone puzzle door was “solved” by blowing it up with Shatter by our cleric.

[@darkwarriorprogram6546]

This happened just last week. I'm a Fairy Shadow Sorcerer and the party just finished beating a group of mimics disguised as barrels in a cellar. I hit one of them with Firebolt and they all kind of went up in flames. My character is the protector of one of the other party members (she's a zana, like from Supernatural) and he almost went down in that fight so she wasn't happy. Since we were in a cellar with a bunch of other groups of barrels I decided I was going to set them all on fire, partially because I thought it would be funny and partially because I was trying to root out any other barrel-mimics. The way my DM described it was a bunch of high pitched shrieking as the mimics burned to death. DM later said the plan was for it to be almost like a gauntlet where one mimic was going to run off and alert each other group of mimics. I ended up saving the party from being swarmed by barrel-mimics because my Fairy didn't like her charge almost dying. XD

[@Ymryrth]

My story happend to a minor recurring villian. The victim was wight, that served the BBEG. I played it like the ring ghosts of lord of the rings and it would hunt them as soon as they left any city. They were low level at this point and we had a few thrilling chase scenes with this wight and its zombies. After defeating a green hag they were traveling through a forest at night. They first see the zombies emerge form the darkness of the forest trying to block the road, they speed up the horses, but their new cart slows them down. Then the wight shows of on his sceletal horse behind them and catched up to them quickly as they dogde the zombies with their cart. When wight rides beside the wagon, our dwarf fighter has an idea. He graps his 50 ft of rope, throws it around the neck of the wight and rips it right out of its saddle. They drag the wight on the road behind them at full speed for a like a minute, damaging and stunning it in the process. They stop the cart jump off and quickly beat the wight to death.

[@Melisseus_Views]

I managed to instantly kill a boss by throwing 500 copper coins at it. Our DM being a fool who misheard how many I threw said “each did 2 hit points”. The boss never stood a chance.

[@joshuarodrigues5506]

Sorry in advanced with the long story: Our group, at the time, of 5 level 9 PCs (a Barbarian, Ranger, Warlock, Monk, and my Cleric) with a level 9 NPC (Paladin) and a level 20 NPC (Artificer) fought an Ancient White Dragon in the snowy Northern Mountains in our DM's world. We all get sneak attacked and our Monk and Warlock went down, leaving me ,the Cleric, to keep them alive alongside everyone else. The battle begins and some minor damage is given by the Ranger and Artificer, then the Paladin and then my Cleric respectively cast Haste and Holy Weapon on our Barbarian (who's a Goliath too). Then his turn ensues: he attacks 4 times on the dragon, landing all 4 with a Crit on one, and dealing near max damage for all of them adding up to I think around 150-ish in the first turn. Then the order restarts and the first two characters miss the dragon and my Cleric has to heal everyone again. Then comes the Barbarian again. He repeats his attacks like before, doing the same 4 hits with one crit AGAIN, and this time for sure does over 180 in that turn. The following exchange hapened: Me: that's 180 "ish" DM: are you sure?! Me: yup "shows DM math on calculator " DM: ... Table: ... DM: how would you like to kill this thing? And that's how Ragnar the Kind killed an Ancient White Dragon in 2 turns

[@philipjohnson9215]

I was playing a fifth level Armorer artificer before a limit was integrated for their over shields. He was a snow elf mercenary veteran who had just enlisted in the local military in order to effectively protect his land which was in a civil war between the merchant lords and the nobles. Haru was tasked to clear a cave filled to the brim with goblins. He entered the cave and hit the ground running. As an individual he ran through the entire cave system in a hundred and forty seconds. The artificer of rage was going to rescue his older sister from the goblins, and twenty little green lads physically couldn’t stop the regenerating suit of armor before them. He killed all but four goblinoids in the four acre cave system in under two minutes. A hobgoblin was killed in an honorable duel with our party fighter, and our rogue was popping green goblins silently with her longbow as explosions thundered in the deep from the solo artificer.

[@philipjohnson9215]

Kill count twenty three

[@Zarkonem]

I once played a divine soul sorcerer that specialized in defusing and avoiding combat. Invisibility to sneak the party past, flying to go around, banish and polymorph spells to disable and get rid of threats, high charisma and proficiency in persuasion and deception to finesse social encounters as much as i could... My DM hated me.

[@EzekiesAcheron]

Fight with a big demon that was prolly a boss. Warlock created a portal under the demon, which my cleric dispelled after the demon fell halfway in, bisecting said demon and killing them instantly. My cleric and the Warlock made sausages out of the demon's guts to add insult to injury.

[@pixelgaming8800]

So here was mine. MeI cast flame sphere, Dm: nothing happen Me: ok who’s Dm: *describe an enemy* Me: I am not here to fight Dm: I am not here for that either as long as you don’t cast a fire spell Me: *makes small talk* Dm: *enemy tries to recruiter my character* Me: well that god denied my deal with them Dm: “well they hate guys. Oh wait I said to much” *enemy gets smited* Me: *goes back on watch*

[@AlfaWolf777]

Pass without trace. Snuck through an entire Kruthick den. The only reason we ended up fighting was because the queen screamed from the next room before we got the magical door open. She was being tortured and experimented on. I had to drop the cloak in order to set up traps. If it weren't for that scream, we would have bypassed the entire dungeon.

[@josephtaylor4405]

Druid in Treant form grappling a demon. Teleport is 'Spell Like Ability'. 'Nuf said.

[@cdesigner9178]

Not me, but another player, and it led to the best out of context quote for our campaign so far; "Apparently, witches don't like fire. Or 15 feet of snake." Allow me to explain. We are playing a campaign based off of the indie game The Darkest Dungeon, and we were fighting some sort of witch in a mushroom-filled dungeon. While we were journeying, the DM said that there was a weird smell, one that was familiar. What he didn't tell us was that it was methane. So, my wizard, who had failed the perception check before (and couldn't have smelled the methane anyway, because warforged/constructs don't have senses of smell), cast Fireball at her. This caused the methane to blow up and hurt the rest of the party, with the DM treating it that the Fireball also hit the whole party as well as the witch. However, the party's druid remained pretty much unscathed, as he not only succeeded his Dex save, he also used Absorb Elements. We go through the rest of the turn order, then on the druid's next turn, he turned into a giant constrictor snake (which are 15 feet long as a huge creature) and attacked the witch. Since he had used Absorb Elements on the fireball, his attack as 15 feet of snake was fire damage. The witch then died, because the witch was vulnerable to fire damage, and the DM did not expect us to use fire spells in a dungeon filled with methane, but it happened.

[@elphieb3538]

Not DnD, but End of the World. We were doing a test one-off to familiarize some and refresh others' memories on how the game works. For future reference, we did this on Memorial Day. We were facing off Martians, and had just killed one inside a local Pizza Hut, off of whom I swiped a gun which we had no clue how it worked. A moment later, we hear voices and realize it's coming from a communicator the dead Martian had on it. Unsure what to do, we let my little brother's gf try and bs some Martian speak to prevent another fight. Both GM and gf roll to see if she succeeds. Amazingly she does, and the ship moves on, none the wiser to the fact that their commrade is dead. We threw the communicator down a storm drain and took shelter in a Shoe Carnival a short ways away. Early the next mroning (about 4 am), We hear two karens BREAK INTO THE STORE because they wanted to shop the Memorial Day sale. We all thought they were either Martians in disguise, or mind-controlled, and were primed to kill them. Once again, gf diffuses the sitution by pretending to be the manager and saying something like "A series of unfortunate events has led us to cancel our sale. As an apology, take any 1 pair of shoes free of charge!" The female Karens wanted the shoes I had ON MY FEET. I reluctantly let her take them, but was this close to testing out that Martian gun on the Karens, which the GM apparently wanted me to do lol

[@wulfila99]

Campaign setting: A city overrun by robots of some sort. Our party: Literally everyone except the super tanky barbarian can deal LIGHTNING DAMAGE DM: "Well, I'll have to re-balance the entire campaign now"

[@Gep_05]

6:45 you can say it was *ARMOR CLAD FAITH* (This is a guilty gear reference to anyone who didn't get it)

[@cadenangstadt3207]

Alright, Corvin (my human rogue character) is level 6 and woke up and decided to be a menace. A half orc bounty hunter came to the party and said "Look, I'll make this quick and easy for ya." Agnoth, our dwarf barbarian, messed him up decently. Next it was Elppa's turn and decided to give Corvin inspiration. Next was Brobold, an npc kobold who decided to join our party after we convinced him. Brobold is a level 1 wizard and used "Grease" I believe or along the lines of it, so the bounty hunter and Agnoth, slipped, went down to a prone position. Now it was Corvin's turn. He ran up to the grease, slid on it while keeping stance. Now he got this ring along with my party but this was specific to me, it's a Silver Serpents ring which allows him to put a layer of poison on his rapier or dagger, allowing 4d6 poison damage. He pulled out my rapier but whilst pulling it out, I coated it in poison. Then I did a side flip, back flip, then I did a super hero landing/anime pose on him. I then said "Quick and easy, huh?". He dealt a total of 151 damage in one turn. It was like 8d6 damage, then 2d8, which was then tripled because of piercer. At level 6. He then slapped his cheeks in a cocky way and said "Thanks for the warmup." and looted him. It took the DM 4 hours to make this "beast" and it only took the party 5 minutes. Great session. One of my best moments to this day.

[@kevinskinner4986]

So, we're about fifty levels into epic and facing off against a couple of angels who have decided to be real pains in the butt. They have crafted an epic spell that binds alternate timelines to themselves, healing themselves to full by spending the energy of their alternate selves' every time they take damage and they have done this many dozens of times. This is a real slog and while we have the firepower to cut our way through, eventually, it's going to heavily drain our resources to do this. I cast the spell "Unbinding". The magic binding those timelines is severed and all of the bound energy discharges, healing them for their total HP for each bound timeline, and we just watch as they take more positive energy than their body can handle and explode like overinflated balloons.

[@Dewald]

Okay got two stories in the same campaign. First, my cleric was exploring a wagon own by a merchant that was bigger on the inside than the outside. The merchant turned out to be a hag. I was all by myself as the rest of the party was outside the wagon and could not hear or see into it. My cleric got to go first in combat and said, "I don't feel like fighting" Caste's banishment on the hang sending her back to the fey realm ending the combat right there. The other time the party was investigating a rumor of monsters/ghosts/ or something else in the honor in a city on a larger river (think like the Mississippi river) and we came across a woman in a wagon who would tell our fortunes for free. For some reason no one in the party trusted her but we allowed her to do so. Only for it to turn out to be a trap, which failed. The woman ran and we ran after her finding a dead man in the back of her wagon. The woman jumps into the harbor and the DM was about to tell us how she got away when I say "I use the spell control water" I parted the water leaving this woman who was a sea hag and sister to the other high and dry.

[@kurzofrost4927]

Lol I remember I fell asleep irl and when I woke up my party was fighting a boss. I was playing a dragonborn monk. Didn't know how long I was out but I rolled my character to hit. My character could do 3 hits in 1 turn. Got 3 nat 20 for hits and basically 1 shot the boss then I went back to sleep and said wake me if something important happens.

[@LadyEvillyne]

Adventurers League One Shot, I'm playing as a Gnome druid named Gnot Gnelf Gnoblin Gnome (Everyone called him G4). We get sent to an island that a Young Black Dragon has claimed as its home, along with its cult of Kobolds. We find its cave and it starts flying down through the mist with essentially a ball of kobolds on its back, dm tells us to roll initiative. I managed to get first, so whilst its still in the air I cast Call Lightning, managing to kill all the kobolds through a combination of lightning and fall damage thanks to the dragon crit failing on its saving throw. The rest of the fight took around 3 more rounds before the dragon died too

[@taekwonditto]

In the campaign I was currently DMing, the party made their way into an underground dungeon, and they reached a locked door. What was supposed to happen is that the party was supposed to kill off the undead enemies in the rest of the dungeon to get the key forward. What they did is that they forced their way through the door with a crowbar, our Druid wildshaping into a mouse to get to the other side, and the NPC using their bomb that they just got out of a chest. Then what was supposed to happen was a mini boss fight with a few zombies and a ghoul blocking the remaining way forward. What ended up happening was that our Cleric and Druid teamed up and used Thaumaturgy to intimidate the enemies to back off, and I gave them an advantage roll on it since our Cleric has a resistance to the undead. He ends up rolling a nat 20 and the undead moved out of the way. Then on the way back out they pretty much speed-ran the rest of the dungeon by avoiding every other undead enemy in that dungeon just to grab the loot and get out

[@tibotallon9040]

I suplexed a dire wolf with a nat 20 as a final move not too long ago. Had to act it out too! Good times

[@gameygeemer4142]

Curse of Strahd, in the final fight, we stepped into the ethereal and had a ghost Ally snap a staff of power at him

[@Kuroboom]

Encountered a group of spellcasters in Tomb of Annihilation. My Earth Genasi Cleric cast Silence and the Tortle Monk/Barbarian and Air Genasi Rogue laid waste to the casters.

[@hilmarheathkliff9511]

Taking a long rest in sunless citadel. Taking shifts on watch in a closed room on the edge of goblin territory. My bard has second watch. On my watch i notice the door slowly swinging open and something thats not a friendly cobold peeks in. I cast dissonant whisper as the dararaarah in 500 miles playes on speaker. I instakilled a lone hobgoblin by whispering "dararara" at him. Pulled him inside the room and closed the door again. Random encounter resolved without waking up the rest of the party.

[@nicoweeby2173]

This happened yesterday actually, so I had a human artificer and I made him with one of my friends, so he turned out pretty crap. He had 10 hp max since I only had him at level 1 in a campaign where our dm wanted us to be at least level 5, but he still let me play any way. Well we played a game where we had to run from a god of chaos. At this session we were set to fight some minions of the god I think and I was trying hard to not die. When I made my character with my friend (they are a dm and tried to walk me through it) they gave me a catapult since I thought it was cool. Well when my Dm told us about having to fight the chaos god’s minions I asked if we could use my catapult and just shoot us out of there to leave the village to handle it themselves. And so that is exactly what we did. We almost got away with it to, but my dm didn’t want to write more stuff so decided to just restart from before we shot out of the village.

[@kevinewer1914]

I’m in a group playing CoS. So far we’ve been surviving Barovia by the power of “Nope!” Windmill that might have Witches? Maybe later. Village of doll/flesh golem/chimera people? Sorry, we can’t stay. Dungeon room that looks like a torture chamber? How ‘bout no?

[@umbreonmaster8921]

MoP. I was playing a half-off wizard and used Mage hand to gently guide a goblin off a bridge into a river. It was epic that the DM let me do that.

[@logangreuel3290]

a group of terrorists were trying to bring a magical bomb of sorts into a town, we intercepted them and i, a gnome illusionist wizard ended the encounter on the first turn of the first round, a nat 20 on initiative and a single hypnotic pattern spell later and they all were incapacitated

[@tankbuster626]

Not me, but the players I was DMING. Fire Genasi Warlock and Gnome Druid separated from the party to go find a little girl's missing cat. They found it after some successful rolling, but ran into a Giant Centipede with buffed stats for their level. Warlock immediately crit killed it into oblivion. Okaaaaaay then, that was a little fast, so I threw an Owlbear at her. It got off one attack before she proceeded to instantly murder it with a *Nat 20, max attack roll Witch Bolt*. At that point, I just decided that they'd earned their reward fair and square.

[@MysteriousAya]

Currently in a game of Fallout 2D20 and playing as an old man who lived through the events of Fallout 4. The party thinks he is just a guy from the local township who is remarkably good with repairs and decent enough with a pistol that he hits more than he misses. GM laid out the classic "you pay the toll" scenario with a few thugs around visible and more suggested to have been hidden throughout the area in case things got heated. My old man decided to have a chat in private with the leader of the group. We were on discord so the GM took the conversation to a second chat. What hadn't been told to the group is that this old crotchety man is actually a former Brotherhood of Steel and, having worked it out with the GM, keeps it quiet for the most part. After revealing to this poor lowly thug the holographic tags and a lucky roll later with a heavy suggestion the BoS would reign bullets on their heads if they harmed any of them, we got to pass what the GM later admitted, was supposed to be a protracted battle. So much so that we had to call the session early for the GM to consider the next steps. Sometimes it pays to think outside the box.

[@3xm-draconic676]

dnd character was preggers, went into labor right in front of the bbeg

[@funnyblog100]

I slammed the door in the monsters face and walked away once. The gm had some puzzles that would open up hidden rooms. We had to slide statues into the right position to open it. One of the rooms had an enemy encounter in it and I said oops wrong door and slid the statue back into its original position causing the door to slam in the monsters faces.

[@lilmanjoshplayz7478]

Not sure if this exactly counts but, I was playing a Dragonborn bard (fun fact: he was 3) and we fought an ogre. A few other players took their turn, dealing very low damage, and then my bard promptly casts Dissonant Whispers. It deals like 20 damage and promptly kills the ogre.

[@trinitytodd6258]

DM and player here. This happened while I was a player. I am berry picking Druid foraging any chance I can get. Rest of party doesn’t play much part except for the rouge. DM for campaign was very generous allowing each player to start with a magic item. Rouge ended up with plane shifting necklace at level 5. Fast forward a little, party is chasing big bad. Follow big bad too spooky island covered with homebrewed explosive berries, convenient enough to stop foraging… or are they? Island is covered with explosive berry bushes. Literally everywhere. No other plant life. Rest of party follows big bad into a house outside of village. Rouge and Druid go to investigate danger berries for future use. Get a couple handfuls of berries, but things looking hairy in house. Rouge decides it’s time to leave. Whole party is gathered together in doorway of house. Rouge runs into party as I throw a stone at danger berry bush. Rouge plane shifts into random plane, party lands in grassy field as DM explains how we Hiroshima’d the island with exploding berry bushes. DM ended session immediately after frantically scrambling through notes. Update: the party started whole new adventure in Theros. With another magic item of an obsidian horse figurine, Rouge and Druid continue to send undesired enemies to the elemental plane of ranch dressing. But that’s a story for another time.

[@thegreatandterrible4508]

Starting Monday I'm brining a character to my friend's first time DMing who can't roll lower than a 20 on persuasion (and can choose to raise that to no lower than 26 once per short rest). I'm a dick.

[@skalskabar2]

So a level 11 rogue or bard at least?

[@thegreatandterrible4508]

@@skalskabar2 4 levels of Eloquence Bard, 4 levels of Redemption Paladin

[@merrgikker3753]

DM threw a Juvenile Black Dragon at us. Me, the Druid, turned it into a frog and sacrificed it to upgrade the rogue's dagger.

[@LUNITICWILL]

Arm Wrestle your way through a campaign, it's a very barbarian thing to do tbh

[@oscarbooth6679]

we have a dragonborn sorcerer with both absorb elements and shocking grasp, as well as an AOE specialist wizard pyromaniac, wearing armour, let me just transmuted spell shocking grasp to acid after the wizard launches an acid splash. level 6 5d6 (8d6 if armoured), 2d8 (4d8 if armour is present), and an additional 8 kills most things, we are the main dps of the group and we have a rogue and monk. side note my sorcerer has 12 ac and -2 to dex

[@kevindirden4863]

I was playing a Dark Heresy campaign with a couple others for a while when we had nothing better to do. I had no intention of playing seriously when I heard the DM say he planned it to be a brutal campaign where we could die at any time. So I rolled up a psycher pyromancer that grew up on a demon world and weilds a grenade launcher. I knew I would probably die but I pumped as many points into defense as I could. While we were going through our campaign, mid quest we were flying through space and as a random encounter a mutiny broke out due to me and my buddy saying we were going to turn some of the crew into sentient home appliances. The leader set up his base of operations in the engine room and managed to retrofit a defense cannon to guard the only entrance. Everyone went searching for him and got downed by the first volley when they went for the door. Except me. I said fuck it and wanted to Solid Snake my way through the vents. Wasting a half dozen turns blowing up random insurgent pockets before accidentally popping up from a ceiling vent in the engine room behind the cannon. The cannon was fixed in position so they could not wheel it around to shoot me. There were a dozen enemies as well as the leader. I knew I didn't have enough ammo to fight them all so I looked at all my fellow players before grinning. I jumped out of the vent and hit the ground with one word. "Incinerate". I managed to succeed the roll to cast AND the roll to not summon a demon. Half of them died on the spot and the rest were all left with 1-2 HP. I was sitting there with only a handful of HP as well but when they attacked me I noticed something else. My defense was so high at the time, their weapons would have to nearly crit in order to do damage. So I just laughed like a maniac and drew my sword. Stabbing every single one of them as they failed at trying to stop me butchering them like a maniac. The DM couldn't decide if he was proud of the bullshit I managed to pull off or be mad that I derailed the near death scenario he threw at us by simply playing stupidly.

[@thegriffin7773]

Please do a crossover with the click when he narrates 1 episode for you guys and you do one in for him at love that

[@xzekt]

I think I just developed a condition.

[@KBgamer2010]

Pathfinder: level 12 Zen Archer Monk vs Adult White Dragon. 5 attacks with a Long bow with an ability to 3 times a day for 10 rounds set it as bane (Insert Creature type here) Scored 3 back to back Nat 20s and confirmed each one. I believe I dealt 32d6 + 50 damage total that encounter (Average of 146 damage) and managed to end the encounter during that one turn...I was first in Initiative

[@jackpraefortis5293]

As an Oni Paladin sent two trolls to the shadow realm with double natural 20 divine smites when I showed up late to a session a prevented a tpk. The dm was silent for a moment before declairing the trolls exploded on impact and the encounter was over.

[@Nostripe361]

Just happened yesterday. My group (Bard, Artificer, wizard, and Trickster cleric) had to save our NPC barbarian friend from the elves/Alves on his home plane (playing a Norse/NIne realms of yggdrasil inspired campaign). Their king wanted to kill him for his father killing the king's father. Thankfully we were able to get him to think that someone else had tricked the barbarian's father into killing the previous king. So he turned our friend into stone and gave us three months to prove it before they would shatter him by tossing off the side of a mountain. So our team investigates and find out that in fact the dad didn't get tricked but killed the king to stop him from executing his own son for being a halfling from another race the Alves and humans are at war with to stop Ragnarock. Ice giants. Which meant that we would have to fight an entire clan of Alves to save our friend... unless we go the convoluted route of finding his mom, talking her into making a fake magical video of her 'reporting" the plan to trick the humans and alves into going into civil war with each so the Ice Giants could destroy both clans and start the apocalypse after they were both tired out and then fast talk our way into making the judge left behind into believing this while also traveling back to our home plane to pick up a lizardfolk druid to help turn our friend back to normal if they don't fall for it and we have to run away with him. So we took option B. The fun part was how our bard, with backup by our trickster cleric (me) explained it to the judge. Basically accused our friend's dad of being a simp for hot ice giant lady. The phrase "Step on me mommy" may have been used at one point. Had to roll twice to get him to believe both the forged item and our explanation. The judge did roll high enough but our bard used cutting words on both of them (including roll an 8 on the die for the last one) which was enough along with a homebrew item our artificer had to avoid a fight with: Multiple elf archers on a mountain filled with magic The judge who was a druid who had made a magical grove in the area and some living trees that he controlled. All of which would then rush to try to throw our friend off a mountain.

[@aidan4472]

Me, Inventor: does invention require materials? DM: yes Me: darn, I was gonna burn the door. Wait… I think I have everything I need for alchemist fire. Turns out I had not made alchemist fire, but TNT. About 20 times the firepower.

[@ihaveaverygoodchanneliswea4728]

Talk to my player about EVERY SINGLE FUCKING ENCOUNTER

[@BeanLord69]

Not me but one of the other PC’s: Enter temple. See statue of 4 gargoyles. Immediately Fireball it. See 4 gargoyles burn to death. Get on with exploring the temple. No one said a single word.

[@Motsognir9791]

Frickin funny

[@Salad_Pickle]

So, we were going to be ambushed by a traveling cart salesman running a bandit scam. Simple enough. I walked up to the cart (which was loaded with produce) offered to buy it all and then shared a spliff with the driver. Totally forgot to launch the attack. Didn't even learn of the potential danger till after I stuffed my (homebrew) garden-in-a-bag with new growables

[@LoudAngryJerk]

Hoard of the dragon Queen. Be me. Be fifth level druid in the beginning of the campaign. Be common house cat player race (tabaxi, home-brewed to be a small) Half-dragon general calls at the party. Says he'll retreat if one of us defeat them in a duel. Monk accepts challenge. Monk starts to lose. Cast heat metal on half dragon watch him burn to death

[@ryanrambaran4228]

Curse of strahd, my party became werewolves, me the only one that wasn't as a level 7 cleric ended it with 3 remove curse.

[@TheCombathobo]

Being charged bt a cr23 encounter of a few powerful demons vs 4 lv 9 and me lv 10 wizard.. Waited till they got close attacking in a bottleneck... wall of force as a semi sphere.. trapping all but one low level demon in.. we focus fired that demon in a round and walked off getting the thing we needed and leaving them suck for a while.