I mean, there was the "Fireball in a ship's hold full of gunpowder" incident.
But the "rouge stabs and kills the quest giver to steal his ring" thing might have been the stupidest, since the faction we were working for then decided we were traitors, and hunted us down. It wasn't even a valuable ring, it was a ring to mark us as part of the faction we were working with. We all had them, including the rouge.
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He/Him. Loooooooooong time Player. The Dark days of the THAC0 system are behind us.
"Hope is a fire that burns in us all If only an ember, awaiting your call To rise up in triumph should we all unite The spark for change is yours to ignite." Kalandra - The State of the World
The party needs to get down a river, so they need a boat. There are four boats in the town, used to ferry goods and people from bank to bank (there is no bridge).
What do they do? Attack the docks at a time when all four boats are on the other side of the river.
Hiding behind a one-way kitchen cabinet island while the BBEG is watching us. How did this happen? The level 3 Paladin decided to taunt the Boss because he couldn't walk away from a challenge.
While facing off against an Adult Black Dragon, the Halfling Rogue decides that he's going to grapple it's head (nevermind the RAW doesn't allow it due to size) as a last ditch effort for the party to survive...at this point in the round, the dragon has one Legendary Resistance left, and the party is nearly dead (the Paladin is already down). Seeing as he's only trying to grapple it's head, and again, close to a TPK, he's allowed to try, but (for dramatics, not any actual rules) must attempt to get to it first, using Acrobatics with Disadvantage to even reach it, DC 30.
The Rogue has a 20 in Dex and Expertise in Acrobatics, but the party is Level 8, meaning he needs to roll at least a 19 on the lower dice to succeed.
He rolls two Nat 20s.
Now the dragon needs to meet a DC of 14 to not be grappled.
The dragon rolls for a total of 12.
Next round, dragon breaks free and yeets the Halfling away, going straight up, then focuses on the rest of the party.
Halfling Rogue, feeling like he won't survive the fall, plummets right back at the dragon and Sneak Attacks the dragon's neck, which both saves him from dying from fall damage (he spiralled down it like a tree with his daggers) and actually kills the dragon!
Tl;dr: Halfling rogue goes and Leeroy Jenkins in to grapple an Adult Black Dragon, momentarily succeeds before getting yeeted straight up, before slaying it while falling, epic anime style.
Party of 6 L20 PCs attacks Lolth in the Demonweb pits instead of trying to parley. The ranger is off to one side and goes after Lolth while the rest of the party goes before her. The 5 in front do zip except anot her tremendously so she does a TPK on the 5 leaving the ranger on his own.
Just curious.
mine was probaly "the stew incident" where I was the only person who did not want to eat a strangers stew. Everyone except me was knocked out.
I mean, there was the "Fireball in a ship's hold full of gunpowder" incident.
But the "rouge stabs and kills the quest giver to steal his ring" thing might have been the stupidest, since the faction we were working for then decided we were traitors, and hunted us down. It wasn't even a valuable ring, it was a ring to mark us as part of the faction we were working with. We all had them, including the rouge.
He/Him. Loooooooooong time Player.
The Dark days of the THAC0 system are behind us.
"Hope is a fire that burns in us all If only an ember, awaiting your call
To rise up in triumph should we all unite
The spark for change is yours to ignite."
Kalandra - The State of the World
Possibly the "almost TPK trying to rescue a bottle of BBQ sauce from a ruined city" incident
The party needs to get down a river, so they need a boat. There are four boats in the town, used to ferry goods and people from bank to bank (there is no bridge).
What do they do? Attack the docks at a time when all four boats are on the other side of the river.
Hiding behind a one-way kitchen cabinet island while the BBEG is watching us. How did this happen? The level 3 Paladin decided to taunt the Boss because he couldn't walk away from a challenge.
While facing off against an Adult Black Dragon, the Halfling Rogue decides that he's going to grapple it's head (nevermind the RAW doesn't allow it due to size) as a last ditch effort for the party to survive...at this point in the round, the dragon has one Legendary Resistance left, and the party is nearly dead (the Paladin is already down). Seeing as he's only trying to grapple it's head, and again, close to a TPK, he's allowed to try, but (for dramatics, not any actual rules) must attempt to get to it first, using Acrobatics with Disadvantage to even reach it, DC 30.
The Rogue has a 20 in Dex and Expertise in Acrobatics, but the party is Level 8, meaning he needs to roll at least a 19 on the lower dice to succeed.
He rolls two Nat 20s.
Now the dragon needs to meet a DC of 14 to not be grappled.
The dragon rolls for a total of 12.
Next round, dragon breaks free and yeets the Halfling away, going straight up, then focuses on the rest of the party.
Halfling Rogue, feeling like he won't survive the fall, plummets right back at the dragon and Sneak Attacks the dragon's neck, which both saves him from dying from fall damage (he spiralled down it like a tree with his daggers) and actually kills the dragon!
Tl;dr: Halfling rogue goes and Leeroy Jenkins in to grapple an Adult Black Dragon, momentarily succeeds before getting yeeted straight up, before slaying it while falling, epic anime style.
Party of 6 L20 PCs attacks Lolth in the Demonweb pits instead of trying to parley. The ranger is off to one side and goes after Lolth while the rest of the party goes before her. The 5 in front do zip except anot her tremendously so she does a TPK on the 5 leaving the ranger on his own.
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