When the Players One Shot the BBEG in Dungeons and Dragons

[@OneShotQuesters]

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[@OneShotQuesters]

Holy crap I am I time traveler

[@theratking5393]

@@OneShotQuesters neat

[@teaganfrizzell5158]

And yes in fact my day did get 100x better🤣💖

[@inkstrikemega]

@@OneShotQuesters I am from the future and you traveled to the past to comment

[@justaguywhozonesoutalot9328]

@@OneShotQuesters Bruh how?

[@Zirbip]

D&D: where combat lasts either 1 minute or 4 hours.

[@philiphockenbury6563]

There’s no in between.

[@Novel272]

Is...is that accurate for IRL combat?? Because it feels like it might be.

[@NobleLeader6]

@@Novel272 As far as I know, most fist fights and shit last less than a minute. Actual battles can last over a course of several days, though it's usually not the same people over those days. Nowadays firefights usually last minutes/hours.

[@GameDogLeader21]

@@NobleLeader6 a fight to the death, the skill/talent/position/etc difference is either too vast and its over very fast, or its close and the fight lasts much longer. it makes sense

[@IndigoIndustrial]

@@GameDogLeader21 Once you get to the higher ground it's over, Anakin.

[@dew-it8744]

I punched a boss and critted. Ended up putting it on 1hp. The bard then viscously mocked them and died.

[@OneShotQuesters]

What was your attack??

[@prometheas4089]

@@OneShotQuesters he did say he punched them

[@dereklee7748]

@@prometheas4089 but UNARMED strikes only deal 1+ your strength mod... so even a crit would be 2 + your strength mod.... >_>" so it had to be a special skill... **edit** in DND 5e that is xD mebbe he was playing another edition?

[@dominiklange8382]

@@dereklee7748 monks

[@dereklee7748]

@@dominiklange8382 I was thinking that too; but ONE PUNCH SHOULDN'T one shot a boss. o_o) 'specially when a monk's fists only deal 1d4 dmg.

[@federica7017]

My dm would be like "welp, time to create a phase 2 on the fly!" I love that man

[@novaaizn5254]

That's an awesome dm

[@samdillard1824]

The trick is never tell your party how much hp something has. You can keep them wounded but never tell them the numbers then on his turn make me do some bull shit that gives him an upper hand.

[@federica7017]

@@samdillard1824 oh yeah, absolutely! So the panic in their eyes never subsides 😂

[@samdillard1824]

@@federica7017 one of my groups encounters had the party fighting a stone giant inside a mountain. So to keep the party from steam rolling, the first action the giant took was slamming the ground causing tremors and causing rocks to fall from the ceiling randomly (used a d% and 2d10 (area was roughly 10 by 10 grid) to randomly determine when and where the rocks would fall during combat. That way there was more interesting combat than just I swing my

[@antoniosanchez-qd4cg]

I would do the same

[@DrGoatens]

When my players did this, I doubled the boss' health so they could really smack the boss around and use big stuff for at least another round. They had a blast, so worth it.

[@stephenstonge7968]

Fudging done right.

[@baronluke8065]

We had (sort of) snuck up on a green dragon. The the paladin crit, smite'd and struck with a sword of dragon slaying then everyone one else got a swing and the dragon decided it needed to LEAVE. Tried to get away and got a crit on the attack of opportunity from our sentinel fighter and it died. DM was so sad, but we loved it.

[@denzilbrowder5509]

had a similar situation, playing a homebrew fighter, walked into a room, BBEG Lich, whom my fighter hates with a furious passion, turns to start monologuing, all i tell the party caster is "now", cue i get hit with Haste, and one full round of actions later, boss took nearly half a grand worth of damage from me, only he had pre-cast Invulnerability because he knew i would nova him on sight, so after the smoke cleared, the boss, surprisingly actually the good guy in the story, calmed things down, and now they're best bros, but DM still just kinda....paused at the damage total and then admitted right then that the Lich had that spell up, and he was thankful for it, since i did ~3x the Lich's hp total

[@Reiginleaf]

@@denzilbrowder5509 if you're DM goes out of his way to write a monolog then you should have enough respect to allow him to finish it before combat starts. Not like you simply get a surprise round cause you yelled out "NOW!" Even the DM wants to have fun.

[@dmitrykargin4060]

Once upon a d&d3.5 time one DM forgot to stop “ubercharger” from doing his stormtrooper charge jump crit attack. That damage was enough to kill bbeg for about 10 times. And that stopped another character from doing even sillier things.

[@pizzacuthd7559]

I cant believe how many evil kings are in this campaign

[@OneShotQuesters]

You mean, you can’t believe how LITTLE of Evil Kings are in this campaign

[@gramfero]

Everyone is evil with right mindset

[@SharkfightersSH]

@@gramfero HEY GUYS! I've spotted a CG Murderhobo over here!

[@kingwildcat6192000]

@@SharkfightersSH Oh I sported a Villain done right, wheres this CG Muderhobo?

[@SharkfightersSH]

@@kingwildcat6192000 Well, if a guy says he's CG but plays as a murderhobo, he can use the argumnent "Everyone is evil with the right mindset" as an excuse to always "slay evil"

[@aMxx-]

i mean they are the ONE SHOT questers

[@MatiNuva1724]

Literally.

[@OneShotQuesters]

Got to put my name to some use 😂

[@aMxx-]

@@OneShotQuesters did that cross ur mind when u made the video?

[@lolbots686]

@@OneShotQuesters pft i could oneshot the thing by myself using my most powerful spell:multiverse quake which literaly harnesses the power of multiple supernovas from other universes into a massive explosion

[@articusramos808]

Title drop

[@ShitpostingJoJo]

"Wait, he did what? o______o" Adbarian, best character 🤣

[@linkeatspie]

Rogue in my party: *shoots* Barbarian in my party: *rages* Blood Hunter in my party: *cuts himself* Paladin in my party: Can we convince the Evil king to change his ways?

[@sandsword5947]

Let me guess your paladin is a Oath of Redemption Paladin?

[@wolfjack5802]

My Paladin would say “you can atone for your sins by the wrath of my God, and when your heart stops beating know that is your final mercy”. He also worships the Goddess Loviatar, Goddess of Pain, so I mean, really raised with the idea that pain is forgiveness and if you manage to survive you’re forgiven.

[@justnoob8141]

Me: Nah, he won’t listen Paladin: Oh ok, guess it’s time for 2 Destructive Waves and 3 Smite option then

[@shebvixen]

Our Paladin was just really dumb and thought his weapon was his blessing stick.

[@justnoob8141]

@@shebvixen it's not a blessing stick until you're level 11

[@rexycat0622]

“He wouldn’t have killed 37 people that day if he was prepared” Me: He probably would have killed more

[@Krwzprtt]

"Ah ha! It's a good thing I had this amulet that lets me regen all my HP if it hits zero, but breaks instantly in doing so! Time for phase 2 that I totally planned!"

[@UlqRay]

Me: **being depressed** Adbarian: im about to improve this mans whole career

[@desipotter6813]

gt

[@masterpiece1817]

My Brothers Paladin killed an Ancient White Dragon by himself, in one turn (Double Crit on 2 3rd Level Divine Smites)

[@joaoluizkurianskifreitassa2436]

I... Don't think that's possible, not without some heavy nerfs to the Ancient Dragon HP (cutting It by half could work). Wich would still be quite an amazing feat, so congrats to him.

[@kjarllan7097]

how ? 3rd lvl divin smite withn a lvl 20 paladin does 5d8 if you have a dragon killer sword it does 3d6... let take a vorpal instead (6d8). So you make 4d6 (GS) + 10d8 (smite) + 6d8 (vorpal) + 8 (str+vorpal) so you can go up to 160 dmg (and you muste have a full luck for that). so 2 attacke at full dmg is 320. Ancient white dragon have 333 pv. so... can't be 2 shots like you said.

[@elderswanderingcircus2341]

@@kjarllan7097 you can also roll for the hp of the creatures rather than take the average and can roll low hp for enemies

[@TemporalElpis]

@@joaoluizkurianskifreitassa2436 Agreed. I think MAX damage with GWM is 238. Ancient white dragon has 333 health. Does kill an adult white dragon though.

[@SellimPax]

@@kjarllan7097 he said they were 2 crits so technically he could have dealt 640 dmg

[@greatazuredragon]

"When the Players One Shot the BBEG" AKA When the Players Have Done All the Side Quests. xD

[@bennythemonk]

I see they found all 900 pine cones.

[@emeraldkoala2]

@@bennythemonk good reference!

[@fantasyshadows3207]

*rolls credits*

[@bennythemonk]

_Alone for awhile_

[@kertisjones2092]

I’m just impressed that the players were so efficient on their turns, instead of spending 20 minutes of deliberation before deciding to hit him

[@Alresu]

Probably why they one. I for one am so not prepared for my players being prepared one day....

[@kritorin0883]

i discovered this channel about 5 months ago and I just wanted to thank you, you have made this pandemic so much more managable and helped me and many people I know laugh and have a good time. thank you so much for doing what you do.

[@teaganfrizzell5158]

I saw the text "Oh he dead..." that was amazing and as for Duke well he might be sentenced...🤣😭

[@fro4152]

I just came to the realization I'm just a Warlock who received power from an electronic tome, who claims to be Bard

[@pinelosbreak8550]

"wait he did what": sudden realize of AdBarian just made me loose it. lmao

[@timmara3296]

I’ve actually had basically this exact situation happen. Buffed up the final bad guy in Lost mines of Phandelver and made him a powerful sorcerer way stronger then his original stat block He went last in initiative and three pcs attacked with fire related things and rolled really well. He exploded and was gone before the fourth player could even attack

[@auxilirem9416]

I did the same thing, except I had the bad guy buffed to use silent image as he sat in his chair so my players blew all their big stuff on an illusion. They weren't stealthing very well, so he knew they were coming and my responses to their attacks was like: Wizard: I cast Fireball! DM: With a crackling Boom! the chamber shakes and dust falls from around the room with debris as a massive ball of fire erupts from the sorcerer. The statue behind the sorcerer seems unstable after such an explosion, but as the smoke clears the sorcerer sits in his chair and smiles confidently, unharmed by your fireball. Wizard: Even the chair? DM: Even the chair. Level 1 spells OP

[@solarflare3752]

That boss genuinely sucked, my DM just made them a drider, but had them retreat after losing about half health because we were level 4 and 5

[@sgazzo8712]

bro, just increase the health during the fight

[@rydurin8478]

That dungeon is really bad as with some luck you can get to him directly no fight so the party just drops everything at him. My group went the other way and the whole dungeon+ boss was brutal and if it wasnt for a PC item from backstory they would had died in a tpk.

[@theanachronisticlife8574]

Our ranger blew up that guy’s wizard staff and we hid behind a metal door while it annihilated everything into he room

[@dorukhanozen2580]

After such an extensive buil up with mid-bosses and dungeon challenges, actually one-shotting BBEG would have felt refreshing especially when he is a caster type. Great content as always.

[@GassyGoat]

He really dead, so dead his soul died.

[@doctorgears9358]

Pretty much how curse of strahd ends when the paladin rolls up on strahd with the lightsaber

[@tigerwarrior1787]

So... Anakin Skywalker vs. The Younglings...

[@casperhermans]

Gezra, the freakin' princess ranger is about to become President? Well, I'd vote for him already.

[@Felixr2]

Imagine ruling the country by birthright *and* by democratic vote.

[@gezraidnay6398]

Thanks Casper, lol 😂 Who woulda thought?

[@dewmilk7266]

He has my vote

[@umokwhy2830]

"the atrocities that day the things we witnessed him do. Duke, how could you do that to so many people?"

[@George27572]

No joke,one time I just got my character to push the bbeg in a portal to another plane of existence.🤣

[@HisExcellencyIsMyGod]

Ah.... I remember when the level 1 Wizard did this to my first ever boss creature. All because of a misread spell... It wasn't so much of a one shot as it was a slow... agonizing... beatdown. I was new as a DM, my friend was dyslexic, and I have never been one to play a caster. So when they said the level 1 spell 'shield' lasted for a minute, rather than a round, I believed them. Thus, my homebrew Wendigo, which was meant to come by, knock them out, and begin the story bead trail, was absolutely annihilated. Round after round of firebolt in its face while I desperately rolled its otherwise deadly multiattack. Trying to get just one hit in, since that would give me the knock out I needed. Alas, when fire was its only vulnerability and the Wizard's AC was suddenly 20, with spell slots to spare... My Wendigo disintegrated without any real fight. Needless to say, though this singular act propelled the party into high esteem and still has lasting effects to this day when they're level 14-15; I no longer trust the reading of a spell. I *always* make sure to read the description as well. ***Just*** in case someone misreads something. XD

[@evannibbe9375]

I just went ahead and basically memorized every spell available in dungeons and Dragons, and then set up a public Google drive folder with the revisions to each spell that were necessary to fit better with the lore of D&D (specifically making Astral Projection a spell that someone might take, making Magic Jar work better vs mummies that you control so that you can become a lesser lich, making Create Undead work with shared spellcasting in order to spend twice as many spell slots of a given level to get the equivalent benefit of casting at the next level, allowing Finger of Death to grant you permanent control over zombies under your control, revising Wish to make sure Glyph of Warding doesn’t work with it and to provide for many more levels of options with progressively higher chances of never being able to cast Wish again (and then a last option to use Wish and expend both your ability to cast Wish and two levels in order to grant someone else one level in any class).

[@aiseanaivalu2143]

Plot twist: The Paladin rolled a 1 on initiative and spent the entire 6 seconds of combat throwing it back.

[@Blitzwaffen]

I was waiting for the line: "... And now that you have dumped all your effort into your attack, just before the evil king collapses, you hear laughter echo around you as his bodyorphs into a second, monstrous form..."

[@zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba0]

"Oh he dead." Yes I am, and that screen was the one that did it hahaha

[@campbelldube1117]

This is the only channel where seeing the words “Includes Paid Promotion” makes me go YES!

[@alexcramer2914]

Ad Barbarian is great, such a fun character. I know he just does ads, but I always stick around to watch his sections. Great job!

[@titan_o7]

DM: “As he descends the grandiose staircase some 300 ft up, he-“ Player: “I cast grease on the stairs.” “...”

[@animorph17]

Glitterdust and grease, the spells that any true wizard will be using all the way to level 20.

[@chongwillson972]

@Titan i cast eldritch blast to pull him further down into the grease too!

[@chaoseclipse0121]

I still remember the time I nearly made the DM just ragequit from one-shotting a boss-like character in the very first action of the encounter. Character at the time was a human Barbarian at the time (Before he died and was resurrected as a Warforged), and he had just gotten his first level as a Frenzied Berserker (Barbarian 6 Frenzied Berserker 1, EL7), as well as obtaining what would be his final weapon type of choice (Talenta Sharrash). Our party was hunting down a guy who was both organizing general crimes as well as organizing monsters that were attacking lots of different villages/towns/cities, and was possibly plotting some kind of military coup of Sharn (We later found out he was just a puppet for someone else that was off doing some even worse shit in the background). It all culminated when we chased the mini-BBEG onto an Airship and he took off, so we had to use a Skiff to catch up and board the Airship. We finally caught up with the BBEG and we quickly found out he had the Airship rigged to fly at its maximum speed going towards Sharn (The City of Towers), and we later found he had some device that was jamming Sharn's Airship Override Zone, meaning he planned on having the Airship try to take out as many buildings as possible. Anyway, BBEG had some crazy monologue in which he revealed he was going to crash the airship and kill us while still somehow surviving, so we initiated battle so we could try to stop the ship. Well, my character won the Initiative Roll, I think it was with an 18 on the d20. Anyway, I take my turn, charge attack with 20 points of attack into my newly acquired Supreme Power Attack...which is x4 damage per attack point sacrificed with a two-handed weapon. This attack critted (with a 19)...which is a x4 multiplier for Talenta Sharrashes. Rolled to Confirm Crit and rolled a Nat 20. Quick explanation, my DM uses two different Nat 20 Confirm Crit rules, first being Getting a Nat 20 on Confirm Crit Roll against a normal enemy becomes a new roll being Confirm Critical Kill roll for insta-killing whatever it is your attacking so long as its a non-important story NPC...important NPC's however, like our BBEG here, get a different Crit Confirm system. If you get a Nat 20 when you roll to confirm crit on an important NPC, it results in locking in your Crit and you're now rolling to confirm crit with a +1 to your crit multiplier, so now I was rolling to Confirm a x5 Crit multiplier against the BBEG...and then I rolled _ANOTHER_ Nat 20...DM was looking uncomfortable at this point and the rest of the party was looking a little scared, as I was now about to roll to Confirm x6 Crit with the x5 Crit locked in. DM at this point gave me one of the d20's he was using at the time and told me to roll with that d20 as he gave mine a test to see if I was using a loaded d20. I rolled again with the DM's dice an got yet another Nat 20...the DM just kind of lost it. Hung his head down, did something of a mix between a laugh and a sob, got up and started walking around. Party was looking rather worried, and hell I was too, we hadn't seen our DM like this at all. He came back and just said this, "So, you hit this guy so hard that you send him not through just one, but two bulkheads of the airship, as he screams in absolute terror from just how strong you are, as he then explodes into a black ominous cloud of smoke and disappears through the cracks of the airship, running away." With the mini-BBEG taken care of, we quickly disable the device that has the Airship rigged to kamikaze into Sharn, and we now posses an Ifrit-powered Airship. And thus, after this encounter, the party and the DM became traumatized by my character after he dropped 480 Damage before taking in damage rolls into consideration...as a god damn level 7 character. The party especially considering my character had to make Will Saves to get out of Frenzy otherwise start attacking the Party if no enemies are around, and Wisdom was his dump stat with a -4 Wisdom Modifier at the time, lol. We were honestly expecting to see the mini-BBEG again later down the road, but we found out after confronting the mini-BBEG's master that after mini-BBEG came cowering back trying to warn the true BBEG of that campaign arc of our party and especially my character, true BBEG killed off the mini-BBEG for his "insolence" and "cowardice" after practically his humiliating defeat of getting nuked by a single melee attack. Funnily enough, the same thing happened to the poor true BBEG too, except the damage was closer to 1k in a single strike before damage rolls were calculated.

[@juanabreu3619]

Just for that acknowledgement of the ranger at the end, i will tryout world anvil to make a dnd campaign for that friend who always tries to make the ranger work. I, as the dm, gave him druid cantrips and the ability to change prefered land and enemy type, let's see how south it goes.

[@helenw3286]

Haha I loved the ending of the sketch 😂

[@elijahquipse5879]

In my very 1st campaign it was just me playing as a Drow Bard, and my cousin being the DM. My cousin implemented a new mechanic, Plunge attacks. You have to be at least 10 feet above the target, if you are, you can jump of and dive down to strike at your foe. In the mid-late part of the campaign, I was fighting a queen-spider-lady boss person-thing, in a giant cavern. My cousin made to mistake of. Giving me control of my Drow, an NPC who can teleport (I forgot how), and 3 other NPC’s that I somehow got to agree to help. My plan was simple; before she could enter her palace (‘cause she was coming back from a trip) 2 of the NPC’s named Jerry and Larry would draw the queen out of her carriage (keep in mine the queen was a bit bigger that an ogre), then me, the teleporter (I forgot his name so I will call him Tim) and the NPC Paladin (I forgot his name) would jump down from a hanging house. We all plunge/surprise attacked, then Tim would teleport the 5 of us (including Jerry and Larry) up and we would repeat the attack again and again until the queen died. And guess what? IT WORKED!!! The queen was last in initiative (I think she had legendary actions, but if she did, my cousin forgot), so we just plunge attack 3 times and she died (the plunger attacks were OP as Heck. My cousin then changed them for his sake) because we did 50-60 extra points of damage needed (keep in mind their health was Inbetween 250-350 HP). And that’s how I gave my cousin PTSD!!!!! (also I did this when I was 11 or 12, I forgot)

[@chaos8151]

Good Job dude! Made me laugh again, thx!

[@Deathven1482]

Literally had this happen two weeks ago. I’m still reeling from it. Granted, he did it in one of the most epic ways possible.

[@hogfry]

I felt this in my soul... Had one campaign were a single party member managed to poison and assassinate my bbeg at lvl 3. He infiltrated the castle and put some gnarly garlic butter on the Kings bread mid meal... I've never had a player get thru so many skill checks in a single session.

[@LoneWolf-zi4ez]

I’m gonna need youtubers to take notes. This guy knows how to promote a product. Kept my attention for the whole advertisement because he MAKES it fun to listen to. I applaud this mans charisma

[@Eramiserasmus]

And this is when you reveal the real BBEG from behind the puppet husk they just defeated.

[@darthhodges]

My first campaign as DM the party walked into the BBEG's chambers and he promptly cast invisibility on himself and began circling the party asking questions of them. The barbarian rolls perception and does well enough that she asks to throw a rock, but then changes her mind and asks to throw the halfling. She succeeds on her attack roll and then the halfling succeeds on multiple grapple checks with the BBEG while the rest of the party dispatches the minions in the room. The BBEG finally untangles himself from the halfling right after the party finishes with the minions and he doesn't get a single spell off before being beat to death.

[@TheVoidCurrent]

The fact that you can make pump these out with new ideas and equal or better quality is impressive.

[@Mugthraka]

This happened to us. We had an habit of been on a "rolling DM duty", that every week it was One of us that would DM for those willing an thus it was a different campaign, so we had like 4 running campaign in 4th Ed. It was made so that the Dm's could also play and vice versa. So one of the guy who had LOTS of ideas, but sometimes the worst execution, Dmed that week. We face off a DnD version of Barbossa, from Pirates of the Carabians, On eof our characters was a Dwarven Pirate, so the two where old acquintances. We reach a room in a dungeon where there's like 200 Pirates Skeletons, so our Pirate Dwarf ask for Parley. The Fight with Barbossa, was TOUGH, while Barbossa himself was not that great of a deal, it was the 3 adds that was an issue... A Giant Undead Gorilla named Jack, and 2 Flaming Auras skeletons... Issue was that the Skeletons flame aura would inflict EACH 4 fire damage at the start of the turn, if you are in the aura. The two things managed to be close enough at all times that their auras would overlap, and while it doesn't look like much 8 fire damage per turn, when you have like 50 HP, it does kinda sting. We still amanged to get out of there, but my character had to constantly chug down potions in the throat of the downed players, so that they don't take damage while unconcious... The Dm and us have a conversation that this encounter was not balanced, he told us that it was an Homebrew encounter and monsters, so that he should fine tune it for next time, ( he was a debuting DM, so we let it slide) A few rooms later, we encounter this Module BBEG, who has a Hulking monstrosity of a minion and the guy himself looks intimidating. And seeing how the last Boss fight went..., And since his Init roll was bad, We Unleashed Our Dailies and others Class features... The amount of damage we deal is ENORMOUS. We see the face of the DM be a bit concerned, then he does the turn of the BBEG, he deal some damage and some debuff to one of us. And then we Unleash everything we have, once again. The DM's face said it all... "Yo chill...He's dead..." We " Wut?, allready?" DM "Allready?, he was technically ALLREADY DEAD the turn before, you Oneshotted Him!, but since it would have been lame that the module's BBEG dies in one turn i ignored it and was gonna go for a couple of turns, But you Did AGAIN, he went from his MAx hp to his MAx Hp in Negatif in ONE SINGLE TURN!" We where all like, "Man he sucks..." DM "Well what can i say, this time it ain't an Homebrew that i screwed up, its the BBEG of the official D&D module" Us "Oh well... a win is a win..."

[@chibrezel8505]

We recently literally one shot a mummy lord by pushing one of his minions into lava with ONE magic missile and a warlock feat that shoves hit creatures back 10 ft... The DM went silent and then revealed to us, that this minion (a stone golem) had held the mummy lords heart.

[@dantehiramoto]

This kinda reminds me of tfs at the table. When the scary vampire guy rolled a bunch of nat 1s and immediately fell through the floor into water full of ravenous vampire sharks.

[@SharkfightersSH]

I love your content! I stayed up that night to watch you unpack the silver playbutton and it was one of the most touching moments I've seen live online.

[@sibs8705]

And this is why I like to give my bosses multiple forms, Kingdom Hearts style (though my players are all KH fans and look forward to that sort of thing)

[@wuftchan8299]

and that is when you improvise- multiple legendary actions some not being spells as well as lair actions

[@TechnetiumTc43]

Dude, your ads are actually hilarious! Great job!

[@Olivia_Dreamrider]

honestly its gotten to the point that I am watching these for the Adbarian, great video!

[@yumiendercat3685]

I had the opposite. I’m digging though the monster manual and I see the awakened tree. Perfect for a nice fight in the woods. So, the players start the encounter a few sessions later and oh dear lord. 6 misses in a row, I have to debuff the awakened tree because it does way too much damage for my squishy little players and they end up running away.

[@MonaRawr]

Dm: Notices the 200HP enemy goes down almost instantly also DM: magically doubles the hp without the party knowing

[@ZMSKfullpower]

Yeah, I just love the "Poker face" of my friend ( our DM ) when we are just destroying his boss fight.

[@SilentMingan]

My players did this at one point. It was awesome seeing the dice behave for them for a change XD

[@eibegraf.d.h.6190]

Entertaining Adds are Rare to come by, I appreciate the effortand and got a good laugh. Thank you :D

[@dermenore7162]

I remember in Solasta, there was a chapter boss with like 150 hp, an orc shaman. My group could prepare before the fight because of choice, so my wizard gives haste to the level 9 paladin. This gives a fourth attack to the paladin, the third comes from a homebrew feat in Solasta. So my paladin rushed the shaman then hit him with his four attacks, using his most powerful smite each time, killing this chapter boss during the round of surprise. Was a good time.

[@Wanderer24]

Excellent, truly divine! And completely relatable as a fellow dm

[@Wolf_Star_84]

the sound effect followed by "oh he dead" absolutely killed me hahaha

[@purplestar322]

This reminds me of our group deciding to fight a king who got turned into a vampire, we managed to beat him to the point where we decided to go gas form and fly away, but i decided to not let that happen and casted the spell Dawn, which for those who don't know, a spell that if you cast it the enemy takes 4d10 worth of damage, and the spell also counts as daylight

[@victoriajohnson7990]

please keep making these videos that put some joy into my life and make me laugh.

[@Trilobitboi]

You know... Adbarian really DOES make the videos (and my day) better

[@kamchatmonk]

This literally happened to our group at Baba Lysaga's hut in Curse of Strahd. The paladin just ran up, knocked at her door, and then critted her out of existence.

[@MyEmkill]

I wish I could like more than once XD, funny as the BBEG that died in one round

[@MithrilRoshi]

"And without checking you unload a flurry of attacks at... a greater illusion. OWCH. I mean you KNEW he was a illusionist and all. Well, time for the fight!"

[@tatersalad76]

I did this once with a devastating build. Level 3 Sorcerer and level 2 Tempest Cleric. Sacrificed all my Sorcerer spell slots to make a 5th level spell slot, casted Witch Bolt with that, landed a crit, then used Channel Divinity to max out damage

[@RubyPuzzle]

That's when I just secretly double the BBEG's health.

[@kingwildcat6192000]

thats when he was standing on a glyph of warding with invincibility prepared

[@joyeuse8524]

Triple, just in case I swear my dm will have to do that the moment my crusader mets the BBEG... I ended up making a monster...

[@chongwillson972]

@@kingwildcat6192000 good thing i used subtle magic with dispel magic to erase it and than use high level illusions to make it seem he still had the ward up.

[@maharshiparekh6377]

The Ad-Barian strikes again! Absolutely love the guy :)

[@apollo193]

And its at this point you just *subtly* add an extra digit to the Boss’s health pool-

[@alessandradigraziano4483]

0:54 "Oh he dead" had me laugh SO hard XD

[@vivienbeam6741]

My brain while playing dnd: Blank Memories: One shot questers thank you for preparing.

[@Nionivek]

From what I understand about 5e is that it is not built for a fresh party (one who just completed a long rest) to be challenged by a single enemy. It takes VERY meticulous planning to design a solo monster who is designed to take on the entire party.

[@lonekirin905]

I was not expecting Duke neither I was expecting the Ad Barbarian

[@ferrous719]

A friend of mine did that. They were introduced to the BBEG early, so he built his entire combat specializations to take it down. First attack did literally like 500 dmg.

[@VanNessy97]

Princess Ranger? Did the Evil King have a daughter that decided to rebel against him and join the party?

[@NoneofyourBusiness-iv6pi]

Totally unbelievable. Now if there was a Divination school Wizard there then yes the group could do that. :-P

[@chrishubbard64]

As the evil sorcerer kings body crumbles to the floor, a sense of unease rises in the throne room. The body twitches, it shakes, then with a sound of tearing flesh the skull breaks free! The Demilich stands now exposed, ready for round 2! Roll saves to not have your souls ripped from your body and devoured!

[@Silentgrace11]

Reminds me of my last campaign. Built up all this drama for dealing with the main antagonist….three of us cast fireball.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

"You look at the mangled remains of the King... and it is actually a body double. His lack of resistance should have been a hint.

[@marcosachaval3534]

"Someone picked me?" That line broke me hahahaha. Poor ranger needs more love. The poor guy had to go through several revisions and add ons to be playable XD.

[@scp-682hard-to-destroyrept7]

This reminds me of when I was a scientist in a Cthulhu D&D, I was wielding a frikin minigun and me and the party went to another dimension to stop cultists from awakening an ancient evil god, an Slime monster appeared (I assumed that it was the final boss, since in the story, the DM said that the two gods that where assisting the party took care of the ancient god, yep, we appeared too late), and I was the first to attack, nat 20, I just one shot the monster to a point that the DM extended the final battle with the cultists and the aliens from the dimension

[@zachf.7854]

When the 20th level scribe wizard who took the alert feat and has a dex score of 20 goes first and opens up by casting time stop, then uses those extra turns to remove the 50 scrolls of fireball from his bag of holding so that he can set them all up to go off simultaneously when the timestop ends.

[@ryankurtz486]

Best video yet, made me laugh a ton, keep up the work!

[@Mellando1]

My day actually got better, thx Ad-barian

[@Heothbremel]

Yep, true facts. My day *did* just get better. ❤❤❤❤

[@inventor121]

Our party oneshotted not one but 4 BBEGs at once. It involved a collapsible tent frame wall and a portable hole. We just scooped up BBEG after BBEG in the hole and then once we had them all scooped up we opened the hole in a pool full of holy water.

[@realrayruby]

I had a dungeon with an army of powerful villain goblins that captured my character my demon magic user did his most powerful attack and rolled a natural 20 a sighed left the room and screamed

[@HomeSchooledWizard]

In our last campaign we did that a couple times. It was great.

[@TheScrapperHQ]

1:26 Is it just me or is that a Madness Combat reference?

[@MrWhite320]

Pathfinder: Skulls and Shackles. Barnabas Harrigan + Baleful Polymorph = Bunny-bas Harrigan. Save-or-suck at high levels can lead to a lot of One-shotting BBEGs.

[@wasganzandreas6108]

As the evil sorcerer king falls down his eyes flash with undead energy

[@---TylerDurden---]

We had this guy in my group who had made a Spellwarped Wizard/Fighter/Order of the Jade Phoenix monstrosity (3.5e). This guy was a proper tourist, missing 2/3 sessions. The only sessions that he came were the boss battle ones during which he always proceeded to DEMOLISH the BBEG by one-shoting him. I should be angry at him but to be honest I loved how goofy the whole thing was.

[@user-ft7fq4ou4v]

That's when you quickly add a zero on the end of the BBEG's health pool

[@san-mononokehime]

The "oh he dead" face has me cackling 🤣

[@hiandbye9658]

And that’s when you say that the evil sorcerer reveals his true for and comes back to life

[@akhilm9851]

I hope we get Duke lore occasionally in the back of other stories

[@colborn8905]

One day, I gave my rouge a dagger called mehrune’s razor (inspired from Skyrim) and basically every-time he attacks he rolls a d100. On a 99, or 100 the victim dies instantly. He meet my boss, and on his first turn he rolled a 100... I spent so much time making the boss too... :(

[@OtterPirate]

That "Okay wait" hits hard

[@Darthquackius]

Not exactly what happened in our last campaign but close. We were fighting the final big battle, a "great wyrm sage" and literally every round we wombo comboed him through an entire phase. EVERY. ROUND. Which actually nearly got us killed... every time he reached a health threshold for a phase a lair ability would go off and deal tremendous damage to anything near him which was... most of the party... every round.