Essentially had my character taken over by a cursed item while in the Amber Temple. The short of it being he had to take any opportunity he could to gain power of which there are ample opportunity in the Amber Temple with the Dark Gifts - not ideal for a Cleric character.
In trying to run away from the others in the party who were trying to stop (read as save) my character, he had to make a number of stealth roles to stay hidden from them while invisible as he sought out opportunities for power. The party were able to catch up with him, restrain him, and remove the curse right outside a door he was about to enter.
While later exploring the same room (and thanks to some table talk after from the DM) we learned he was just outside a room where he would have had to become a Vampire or Lich, each of which would have outright lost me my character. Never been happier to get a Nat 1 on a stealth role!
We were in our first real dungeon as a relatively new party. We managed to sneak past most enemies to get to the end, but there was no sneaking past the boss. Quickly, almost every present member went down and we started failing saving throws. My first saving throw was a critical fail and the last surviving member was having a hard time hitting the boss. Finally, with a Nat 20, our rogue managed to deal the final blow. Afterward, my dm made me roll my last saving throw as a joke and I barely succeeded with an 11. #DDBStyle
I'm a long time watcher but very n00bish player of DnD who only got to play in my first campaign recently. Set in Wildemount, we had some adventures near Port Damali on the Managerie Coast. In the arc of our campaign, we had to get past a baby red dragon that had started to establish its lair in a cave we had to get through. Sure, our DM was being nice to us by only having us fight an already wounded baby dragon, but it was still a tough fight.
My lvl5 half-elf Ranger, Berianir, did some good damage with his bow and hunter's mark, and the others in the party (it was a small, short campaign; only one other player playing a bard and so a couple of DM controlled NPCs in our party) did their fair share of damage.
I broke a bow string on a natural one, and the dragon took the opportunity to close the distance to melee. I got really lucky on its rolls as it missed all of its attacks and didn't get its flame breath back. Another round left it looking really rough, and so it tried to flee.I took an attack of opportunity with my short sword.
Natural 20!
So basically I managed to plunge the sword into an already existing wound, and the force of it leaping away caused the sword to tear into something vital. It bled out and died. Luckily, my DM did not make me roll a strength save to see if my arm got dislocated.
Anyway, pretty cool experience for my first ever DnD campaign. And we saved the people of Port Damali a lot of trouble from a red dragon taking up residence nearby. #DDBStyle
I don't have many (sadly) but one when I was playing lost mine of phandelver, I had a moment like this.
We were in the red brand hide-out, and a few of us stayed to fight a nothic, while the if the party was sleeping. Then when we faced it, it started off by going first and dealing some insane amount of necrotic damage, nearly one-shotting one if the three of us... Good times.
My group was playing a Battle Royale with level 20 characters, my first time ever playing one. I spent hours with my GM working out what character I wanted to play and outfitting him. I landed on a Yuan-ti Sorcerer(17)/Warlock(3). The first turn we weren't allowed to attack anyone so I cast Greater Invisibility on myself and drank a Potion of Flying, moving straight up as fast as I could. On the second turn I cast Meteor Swarm on my first turn when I was allowed to attack, dealing well over 100 damage. The other team had a Monk and a Rogue though, both saving and taking nothing. The the next character to go was on my team and activate a Scroll of the Comet. I had a decent saving through of +10 to Dexterity and the Lucky feat, it wasn't going to be a problem to make the save. However, luck was not with me. Four roles and I didn't get a single one above a '6'. My first level 20 character I've ever had was blasted two turns into the game and the dice betrayed me. #DDBStyle
DM set us up for a boss style fight in one of two ways in a homebrew campaign. We choose the lesser of two evils and fought an Adult Black Dragon. The fight was a mess of the group splitting up. Towards the end the dragon attacks the party's Ranger and only needed to hit her once more to knock her unconscious. My turn rolls around and I cast Command on the dragon to approach me. Dragon rolls a Nat 1. Already having braced for my character to die, the dragon starts to fly toward me. Opportunity attack of Shatter from our Tempest Cleric, via War Caster, with a Destructive Wrath added onto it. DM is a little worried, Dragon is pretty rough, but no bigge, just needs to make the save and with a +10 to Con Saves should be no issue. DM roles and we watch for a what felt like minutes as the die rolls around in his tray. Another Nat 1 with the max damage from Destructive Wrath the Cleric kills the dragon. Longest wait of my life waiting for that die. That was 2 sessions ago and now we get to help the church sort out the aftermath of the war as one of the Kings personally visited with his army to end the uprising. #DDBStyle
Fighting a black dragon as a lvl. 10 Half-elf Ranger. Rolled a nat 20 with a +2 longbow and sharpshooter feat, "colossal slayer" ranger feat, and favored foe to deal a total of 44 hp with one shot. Hit for another 23hp with my second attack. #DDBStyle
Divine Intervention at the clutch moment was really it tbh. Like, it was against Dispater? Who was trying to kill this other god and assume it's divinity. So it needed this god slaying sword to do so. I'm honestly not sure what our DM had been intending to happen? Since we were seeing it as a projected vision on our trip down to Dis on the Styx. But I managed to hit my Divine Intervention roll at the moment when the sword was out of Dispater's hands, and had Pelor send it anywhere but there. Saved a god's life, made Dispater's plan get wrecked. All in a day's work.
The one that I can think of happened recently. My DM had us fighting some Will’o’wisps, which have an instant death ability for players with death saving throws. My character had gone down and failed the first death saving throw. Right after my character, it was the wisps turn. It was there that the DM put up that ability and I had to make a con check at disadvantage ( I was exhausted). My heart was racing as I waited for the dice to land it’s number and it felt like it took forever for it to do so… I failed the save and my character subsequently died. #DDBSTYLE
Oh man, my light cleric had her powers removed by her god for being selfish and straying from the path of faith. She eventually had a face-to-face with Pelor who demanded her exile. However, I offered to slay some necrotic evil in his name and if I were to stray again, I'd give up my powers forever. That persuasion roll was so instrumental to getting my powers back, and if all went wrong, my character would forever be powerless.
I Was DMing my first adventure, The Lost Mines of Phandelver, with my family as players. The PC’s were in Wave Echo Cave, combating bugbears when the cleric rolled a Nat 20 on an inflict wounds spell. He more than the doubled the bugbear’s HP in damage, and exploded the bugbear’s head to boot.
#DDBStyle I was rolling my moon druid and a bullette was quickly approaching unground. I wildshaped into a rocktopus, climbed 15 ft above the surface attached to a ships hull, and snatched the bullette in a grapple with a held action and a 20 when it arrived, sparing the squishies a sound mashing.
My main character had been imprisoned in his own keep via the Deck of many things, a Lich was guarding his suspended body and the party was going to reclaim myself and my property. The party were about 11th level at the time and one of them had a luck blade with a single wish left on it. The lich entered their camp to psych them out before they made it to where I was being held. The monk figured that since we were in for a fight either way, he’d try a Hail Mary and made a plan to have everyone rush The lich. They hit the lich with everything they had and it passed all of its saving throws which was pretty spooky, the luck blade was activated and the wish was used to cast feeble mind on the lich. Everyone in the party was skeptical about it working considering the saving throw. Turns out we ran out his Legendary Resistances and he crit failed to boot! The lich was neutralized and we reclaimed my main character!
One of our party members had just been finished off by an animated bookshelf. This was our favorite character -- a dwarf with an over-the-top Australian accent and an obsession with the architecture of walls. We all had to roll DEX and STR checks to see if we could drag his lifeless body out of the room fast enough to get somewhere safe and revive him. It came down to the final roll and it came up 17! Definitely the most invested I've ever been in the outcome of a roll!
Eager to help out in the battle during Dragon Heist, Gittle quickly dispatched of an NPC who we later learned wasn't a baddie and would have warned us against what was to come. Oh well!
Not long after, they were incapacitated by an intellect devourer and, under its control, finally had a chance to test out the fireball spell. Prior to the fireball, one PC was already on death saving throws. From the fireball, another PC was seriously hurt and two others were down. Only one, Cat, was unscathed. Cat healed the party cleric who prompted knocked Gittle down to 0 HP.
After all the dust settled, 3 PCs were dead, 1 left the party (and the player rolled a new one), and 1 was fine. We narrowly escaped a TPK.
I didn't know it at the time, but that saving throw that I failed on was off by 1. We were so close to a very different outcome where Gittle hadn't caused most of the party to die. Sure was fun, though! #DDBStyle
#DDBStyle I will always remember when I was making a perception check at disadvantage and rolled two 20s. The entire was stunned. The GM said "Well, with that you can see everything." He read off the base description then we stepped away from the table for all the secrets
In this campaign I was playing in, I was an Earth Genasi, (like an elemental) and we were about to fight a bunch of cobolds. Like a full blown ARMY!!! We thought we were going to get wrecked but I used my elemental ability which basically turned me into a 20x20 boulder and then my teammate cast enlarge on me which triples my size! And then I took my big fat 60x60 self and started running and then just rolled myself into the crowds like a bowling ball!
Zanaver, a bladesinger wizard, was surrounded, and he lay unconscious and dying. My rolled death save: natural 20. He was now conscious with 1 hit point. Luckily, he Misty Steppped to safety, and got the heck outta there! #DDBStyle
Playing as a Half elf Warlock fighting Gadrile Reefreaver, her hellhound and a few cultists. I was first up in inititive, cast Banishment on the hellhound taking it out of the fight. Proceed to spend the next 10 rounds running around and rolling concentration saving throws in order to stop the hellhound from re-appearing. Very close calls but made it the full 10 rounds of combat and officially banished the hellhound! DM did not see it coming and felt like the MVP! #DDBStyle
I was DM'ing for a group of friends. One of them asked to play a joke character, an Awakened Shrub. I agreed to it, with the conditions being I would target him and he has to have a serious character rolled up.
He made it into a Wild Magic Sorcerer. He saw in greyscale 30ft, had a cartoon mouth, had no limbs, had to be carried, and his wand was stuck in his branches. Things went well for him for the first few sessions, with the party keeping him alive for the most part with goodberries. But then, on session 3, they started combat grouped together.
4 Lvl 2 PCs. Shrub went first. Immediately fails his Surge check, has to roll on the Surge table. Fireball, centered on self. Total damage rolled was over double every PCs life points, obliterating them in a nuclear TPK. It was absolutely stunning to see. Jeb the Shrub has lived on with us ever since, often in memes. #DDBStyle
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Essentially had my character taken over by a cursed item while in the Amber Temple. The short of it being he had to take any opportunity he could to gain power of which there are ample opportunity in the Amber Temple with the Dark Gifts - not ideal for a Cleric character.
In trying to run away from the others in the party who were trying to stop (read as save) my character, he had to make a number of stealth roles to stay hidden from them while invisible as he sought out opportunities for power. The party were able to catch up with him, restrain him, and remove the curse right outside a door he was about to enter.
While later exploring the same room (and thanks to some table talk after from the DM) we learned he was just outside a room where he would have had to become a Vampire or Lich, each of which would have outright lost me my character. Never been happier to get a Nat 1 on a stealth role!
#DDBStyle
We were in our first real dungeon as a relatively new party. We managed to sneak past most enemies to get to the end, but there was no sneaking past the boss. Quickly, almost every present member went down and we started failing saving throws. My first saving throw was a critical fail and the last surviving member was having a hard time hitting the boss. Finally, with a Nat 20, our rogue managed to deal the final blow. Afterward, my dm made me roll my last saving throw as a joke and I barely succeeded with an 11. #DDBStyle
I'm a long time watcher but very n00bish player of DnD who only got to play in my first campaign recently. Set in Wildemount, we had some adventures near Port Damali on the Managerie Coast. In the arc of our campaign, we had to get past a baby red dragon that had started to establish its lair in a cave we had to get through. Sure, our DM was being nice to us by only having us fight an already wounded baby dragon, but it was still a tough fight.
My lvl5 half-elf Ranger, Berianir, did some good damage with his bow and hunter's mark, and the others in the party (it was a small, short campaign; only one other player playing a bard and so a couple of DM controlled NPCs in our party) did their fair share of damage.
I broke a bow string on a natural one, and the dragon took the opportunity to close the distance to melee. I got really lucky on its rolls as it missed all of its attacks and didn't get its flame breath back. Another round left it looking really rough, and so it tried to flee.I took an attack of opportunity with my short sword.
Natural 20!
So basically I managed to plunge the sword into an already existing wound, and the force of it leaping away caused the sword to tear into something vital. It bled out and died. Luckily, my DM did not make me roll a strength save to see if my arm got dislocated.
Anyway, pretty cool experience for my first ever DnD campaign. And we saved the people of Port Damali a lot of trouble from a red dragon taking up residence nearby. #DDBStyle
#DDBStyle
I don't have many (sadly) but one when I was playing lost mine of phandelver, I had a moment like this.
We were in the red brand hide-out, and a few of us stayed to fight a nothic, while the if the party was sleeping. Then when we faced it, it started off by going first and dealing some insane amount of necrotic damage, nearly one-shotting one if the three of us... Good times.
This was also my second ever session of dnd so...
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My group was playing a Battle Royale with level 20 characters, my first time ever playing one. I spent hours with my GM working out what character I wanted to play and outfitting him. I landed on a Yuan-ti Sorcerer(17)/Warlock(3). The first turn we weren't allowed to attack anyone so I cast Greater Invisibility on myself and drank a Potion of Flying, moving straight up as fast as I could. On the second turn I cast Meteor Swarm on my first turn when I was allowed to attack, dealing well over 100 damage. The other team had a Monk and a Rogue though, both saving and taking nothing. The the next character to go was on my team and activate a Scroll of the Comet. I had a decent saving through of +10 to Dexterity and the Lucky feat, it wasn't going to be a problem to make the save. However, luck was not with me. Four roles and I didn't get a single one above a '6'. My first level 20 character I've ever had was blasted two turns into the game and the dice betrayed me. #DDBStyle
DM set us up for a boss style fight in one of two ways in a homebrew campaign. We choose the lesser of two evils and fought an Adult Black Dragon. The fight was a mess of the group splitting up. Towards the end the dragon attacks the party's Ranger and only needed to hit her once more to knock her unconscious. My turn rolls around and I cast Command on the dragon to approach me. Dragon rolls a Nat 1. Already having braced for my character to die, the dragon starts to fly toward me. Opportunity attack of Shatter from our Tempest Cleric, via War Caster, with a Destructive Wrath added onto it. DM is a little worried, Dragon is pretty rough, but no bigge, just needs to make the save and with a +10 to Con Saves should be no issue. DM roles and we watch for a what felt like minutes as the die rolls around in his tray. Another Nat 1 with the max damage from Destructive Wrath the Cleric kills the dragon. Longest wait of my life waiting for that die. That was 2 sessions ago and now we get to help the church sort out the aftermath of the war as one of the Kings personally visited with his army to end the uprising. #DDBStyle
Divine Intervention at the clutch moment was really it tbh. Like, it was against Dispater? Who was trying to kill this other god and assume it's divinity. So it needed this god slaying sword to do so. I'm honestly not sure what our DM had been intending to happen? Since we were seeing it as a projected vision on our trip down to Dis on the Styx. But I managed to hit my Divine Intervention roll at the moment when the sword was out of Dispater's hands, and had Pelor send it anywhere but there. Saved a god's life, made Dispater's plan get wrecked. All in a day's work.
The one that I can think of happened recently. My DM had us fighting some Will’o’wisps, which have an instant death ability for players with death saving throws. My character had gone down and failed the first death saving throw. Right after my character, it was the wisps turn. It was there that the DM put up that ability and I had to make a con check at disadvantage ( I was exhausted). My heart was racing as I waited for the dice to land it’s number and it felt like it took forever for it to do so… I failed the save and my character subsequently died. #DDBSTYLE
Oh man, my light cleric had her powers removed by her god for being selfish and straying from the path of faith. She eventually had a face-to-face with Pelor who demanded her exile. However, I offered to slay some necrotic evil in his name and if I were to stray again, I'd give up my powers forever. That persuasion roll was so instrumental to getting my powers back, and if all went wrong, my character would forever be powerless.
#DDBStyle
I Was DMing my first adventure, The Lost Mines of Phandelver, with my family as players. The PC’s were in Wave Echo Cave, combating bugbears when the cleric rolled a Nat 20 on an inflict wounds spell. He more than the doubled the bugbear’s HP in damage, and exploded the bugbear’s head to boot.
#DDBStyle
#DDBStyle I was rolling my moon druid and a bullette was quickly approaching unground. I wildshaped into a rocktopus, climbed 15 ft above the surface attached to a ships hull, and snatched the bullette in a grapple with a held action and a 20 when it arrived, sparing the squishies a sound mashing.
My main character had been imprisoned in his own keep via the Deck of many things, a Lich was guarding his suspended body and the party was going to reclaim myself and my property. The party were about 11th level at the time and one of them had a luck blade with a single wish left on it. The lich entered their camp to psych them out before they made it to where I was being held. The monk figured that since we were in for a fight either way, he’d try a Hail Mary and made a plan to have everyone rush The lich. They hit the lich with everything they had and it passed all of its saving throws which was pretty spooky, the luck blade was activated and the wish was used to cast feeble mind on the lich. Everyone in the party was skeptical about it working considering the saving throw. Turns out we ran out his Legendary Resistances and he crit failed to boot! The lich was neutralized and we reclaimed my main character!
One of our party members had just been finished off by an animated bookshelf. This was our favorite character -- a dwarf with an over-the-top Australian accent and an obsession with the architecture of walls. We all had to roll DEX and STR checks to see if we could drag his lifeless body out of the room fast enough to get somewhere safe and revive him. It came down to the final roll and it came up 17! Definitely the most invested I've ever been in the outcome of a roll!
#DDBStyle
Eager to help out in the battle during Dragon Heist, Gittle quickly dispatched of an NPC who we later learned wasn't a baddie and would have warned us against what was to come. Oh well!
Not long after, they were incapacitated by an intellect devourer and, under its control, finally had a chance to test out the fireball spell. Prior to the fireball, one PC was already on death saving throws. From the fireball, another PC was seriously hurt and two others were down. Only one, Cat, was unscathed. Cat healed the party cleric who prompted knocked Gittle down to 0 HP.
After all the dust settled, 3 PCs were dead, 1 left the party (and the player rolled a new one), and 1 was fine. We narrowly escaped a TPK.
I didn't know it at the time, but that saving throw that I failed on was off by 1. We were so close to a very different outcome where Gittle hadn't caused most of the party to die. Sure was fun, though! #DDBStyle
#DDBStyle I will always remember when I was making a perception check at disadvantage and rolled two 20s. The entire was stunned. The GM said "Well, with that you can see everything." He read off the base description then we stepped away from the table for all the secrets
In this campaign I was playing in, I was an Earth Genasi, (like an elemental) and we were about to fight a bunch of cobolds. Like a full blown ARMY!!! We thought we were going to get wrecked but I used my elemental ability which basically turned me into a 20x20 boulder and then my teammate cast enlarge on me which triples my size! And then I took my big fat 60x60 self and started running and then just rolled myself into the crowds like a bowling ball!
#DDBStyle
Zanaver, a bladesinger wizard, was surrounded, and he lay unconscious and dying. My rolled death save: natural 20. He was now conscious with 1 hit point. Luckily, he Misty Steppped to safety, and got the heck outta there! #DDBStyle
Playing as a Half elf Warlock fighting Gadrile Reefreaver, her hellhound and a few cultists. I was first up in inititive, cast Banishment on the hellhound taking it out of the fight. Proceed to spend the next 10 rounds running around and rolling concentration saving throws in order to stop the hellhound from re-appearing. Very close calls but made it the full 10 rounds of combat and officially banished the hellhound! DM did not see it coming and felt like the MVP! #DDBStyle
I was DM'ing for a group of friends. One of them asked to play a joke character, an Awakened Shrub. I agreed to it, with the conditions being I would target him and he has to have a serious character rolled up.
He made it into a Wild Magic Sorcerer. He saw in greyscale 30ft, had a cartoon mouth, had no limbs, had to be carried, and his wand was stuck in his branches. Things went well for him for the first few sessions, with the party keeping him alive for the most part with goodberries. But then, on session 3, they started combat grouped together.
4 Lvl 2 PCs. Shrub went first. Immediately fails his Surge check, has to roll on the Surge table. Fireball, centered on self. Total damage rolled was over double every PCs life points, obliterating them in a nuclear TPK. It was absolutely stunning to see. Jeb the Shrub has lived on with us ever since, often in memes. #DDBStyle