The Warforged surveyed the ground around him. His best friend, a tiefling sorcerer, was on the ground to his right, a huge gash in her head leaking blood. She just failed her last death save. The monk and the rogue, both noble souls, lay dead from numerous stab wounds about 20 feet away as the corpses of 7 stone giants formed a morbid rock ring around them. One giant remained, towering over the Warforged and preparing to swing her gilded axe at his head. He managed to dodge the first but took the second shot straight to the armor covering his chest, knocking the wind from his body. He was down to two hp but he knew the giant was badly injured as well. One good shot should do her in and he had two swings. He whirled his two handed broad sword, needing a 12 on the dice to hit, but he rolled an 11. Far from defeated, the Warforged was confident his second attack would hit and roared as he swung his sword again. Natural 1. He smiled; he was lucky. One last roll for it all, a success and his party can get rezzed and move on, a fail and the DM gets his TPK. The DM had a grin on his face that would make the Joker envious. The roll came, the Warforged's confidence started to fade as the dice bounced, and it seemed to bounce for days....finally rolling to a stop. The number 2 stared up and mocked the Warforged. The stone giant promptly swung her axe and connected, taking the head clean off the Warforged with her follow through. There would be no death saving throws. The last of the adventurers was felled and the TPK was complete. The DM cackled and raised his hands in victory. The journey for those heroes has come to a tragic end, all because their dice failed them.
So this was during COVID and I was playing with a group of 4 other people (including the dm) and I was the only person without an over powered character. We were all level 4 and I was the only one without 18’s on any of my basic abilities, before this event our DM realized I was the only one with a even fair character so I looted a vorpal scimitar from a dead wizard. So since we killed that wizard they declared war on us, we had to get as many recruits as possible so we went to find our “friends” in a forest. On our way there we came across a dragon that wanted us to be his slaves, we tried our hardest to talk him out of it but it never worked. Time to roll initiative, I got like a 3 and went last. Since I was a ranger on my first turn I tried to shoot him but I rolled a 4 missing. Now after my turn my friends went, one ended up getting downed and one sacrificed it’s metal arm with a flame thrower to jam a door in its mouth to stop the fire attacks but it was to late and the dragon ended up killing one of the other people. So it was just me and the half metal man with a missing arm to defeat this dragon, it was my turn and everyone was yelling at my to use the scimitar, so I did and I missed when I came back to my turn I tried the attack again and I hit rolling a 17. At this point the metal man who had a base of 70 something hit points was at 30 scared to death that he would die (I was at 24). The pressure was on and I pulled out the scimitar and I… missed, yay we were doomed, having one turn left before both of our deaths I pulled out the legendary blade almost certain it would miss and when rolling to hit I was nervous thinking they won’t even believe me if I get it. I rolled and boom the crit 20 appeared making the dragons head disappear. I had to take a picture to prove it so I did and when they realized I was the killer of such a foul beast cheering erupted from them as I killed a huge boss with over 100 hp left I felt like I did something powerful in that champagne with me being the tag along I now was the champion
our dm had to quit our campaign due to moving so after that I never got a crit with The vorpal scimitar again.
My Dwarf Fighter/Cleric Grantil Obergraf was a badass and even rode a bear. But he rolled so many critical failures that rolling a 1 at the table became known as rolling my first name. Still great times. #DDBSTYLE
We were infiltrating an old college in an occupied enemy city for details on how to disable a Magic Field Generator(MFG) that was protecting the city. There was Me (Human Wizard), Eladrin Rouge, and Goliath Fighter. We split up to search the offices of the professors for any pertinent documents. Passive investigation on Me and Rogue was high enough to successfully canvas our rooms, but Fighter has a 9 in Int, so DM asked for a roll. Nat 20. Now, I know that this alone is not the most impressive feat, but it gets better. The rooms we investigated had some interesting documentation, (particularly on some kind of sordid office love triangle) but nothing pertinent to our mission, so we continue searching. We get to the next set of rooms, and Fighter must roll again. Second Nat 20 of the night and in a row for the player. He's able to find the documents we were looking for, and they describe how the MFG is built and functions (basically there were several power nodes placed throughout the city that fed into a main central projector), as well as giving the general locations for the power nodes; lo and behold, one of the nodes is supposed to be in the very college we are searching! So, we extend our mission and begin searching for where this node might be. Eventually get to a kind of lab area and DM has us roll a perception check, which surprises me and Rogue, as our passives were pretty high. We both roll mediocre, but Fighter.... he comes in with the third Nat 20 in a row! Party goes absolutely ballistic. He notices a shimmering on a wall over to the side, and discovers an illusory wall, behind which is a hallway leading to none other than the node. I go up and inspect it and after a banger of an arcana check, believe that I can figure out how to expose the power core. I do so and the core is exposed, but needs a substantial amount of strength to rip it from its socket. Step aside for Goliath Fighter to do his thing. Natural freaking 1. We loose all sanity and cohesion as the table just bursts into a chaotic pit of laughter and disbelief as we watch the hulking Goliath get zapped for 5 points of Force damage as the core backlashes the second he touches it. His pride at risk of being damaged, he invokes Giant's Might to grow Large and gain advantage on Strength Checks and Saves, and grips the core with both hands and rips it clean from its moorings with another Nat flipping 20. Needless to say, that night was quite the rollercoaster of rolls, the biggest I've ever experienced at least. #DDBStyle
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My first nat 20 was earlier this year in my first campaign. Level 5 dragonborn paladin who was set on smiting away all the evil in the world. However the first crit was spent on a poor little halfing who I misstook for a goblin during a halloween-esque festival..
It was later revealed that this halfling was part of a travelling troupe of thieving halflings, so a win in the end, but there was a proper roller coaster of emotion..
Hey I'm new to D&D got interested after talking to a new coworker who i founs out was super nerdy and I was super excited. He got me watching Critical Role and I was hooked, so we started a D&D campaign with him DMing, and I convinced a few of my local video game friends to join.
I'm a teifling sorcerer named Khitomer. We were traveling and hunting food when we found a cave with rabbit surrounded by bones and all sorts of gore. (Inspired by Monty Python) There are four if us and we all were rolling terrible because it had the hp of a normal rabbit just hard to hit. Our Rogue actually got taken out and had to do death saving roles, and I actually rolled natural 20, and we were all hurt at this point, but managed to grab it as it was lunging towards me and cast shocking grasp cooking it black killing the evil bunny and throwing it to the ground. #DDBStyle
One of my favorite moments was a yoyo during a critical battle of nat 1, then nat 20, then nat 1, then nat 20. I rolled to save, and failed. I rolled to attack, then crit. They failed to save, then crit to hit. It was WILD! #DDBStyle
To narrow down to a single exciting, pulse-raising roll - tough to decide! The first roll in my ongoing pandemic campaign was a sad Nat1, taking a 'pint' of damage from failing a flung tavern glass. First session excitement but not much compared to the excitement of - not a natural 20, but - a lowly 16, just enough to pass Wis check allowing this ole' Druid and his party enough time to secure an exit from an encroaching ice dragon Cryoclaw, a mini-bad in a dungeon crawl. Cheers, exhalations, and mostly relief of 'thank the EarthMother!' ended our discord session on a cliffhanger but ended 2.5 hours of drama and revelry. #ddb-style
we were escaping a city where the people were being mind controlled by people, but we only had enough horses to carry the party, but not our favorite NPC. My character, being the paladin drew everyone's attention to allow him to escape, but was now one the run from hordes of people. while running, I had an idea to do get to the rooftop of a building. I used the spell Thundering Smite, and hit myself on the back, part of the spell Thundering Smite launches someone five feet in a direction, so I hit myself and sent myself flying on top of a building, had to roll for acrobatics.... Nat 20, and then I escaped the mind controlled people. #DDBStyle
We was down in a cave like dungeon as pillar like creatures kept trying to fall down on us, after stupidly tripping a natural alarm system. After defeating the pillar creatures the mission suddenly took a stand still as enormous amount of walking mushrooms felt their neighbors' pain and came out to fight our group. I was getting angry at the critical 1s I kept rolling with missing hits and not able to stop hp lost, that was until rolling nat 20 to get un-paralized and to hit hard and kill two of them with high damage. #DDBStyle
Best moment was actually out of game after our party finished our first 1-20 campaign. I jokingly told the DM to roll for friendship right as we finished, and he threw the dice in the middle of the table. Nat 20. It was perfect. #DDBStyle
Player was in a competition of 12 contestants runnin across multiple beams over a huge lava pit. The player was coming up the end of the course and had to make the leap from a beam to the final ledge and hit a Nat 20 that caused the entire table to go into an uproar. Not only did he survive but also secured a meeting with the king. They ended up using that meeting to get backup for a dungeon they later went through, and that backup 100% saved their lives so that Nat 20 was important on multiple levels #ddb-style #DDBStyle #DDBStyle
I was playing as the party's cleric with a 20 on my Wisdom stat. The thing is, that I've got separeted from the party as they started fighting (more like 'getting destroy' by) a Lich. So, I ran to their position and to get to them I had to make a Wis Saving Throw against some statue in the room before. Needless to say, I was super confident on my saving throw (+8).. Well, as it could not be otherwise, I got a Nat 1. Which delay my arrival to the actual fight. Which ended up on a TPK... Damn Amber Temple. And damn statue. #DDBStyle
I was recently DMing a campaign with a water Genasi and a halfling, and battle erupted aboard ship with a group of pirates. Enemy sorcerers were charming anyone they could get their magic on into jumping off the ship in the middle of the ocean, making them believe it was on fire. Things were not going well for the crew or the PCs until the charmed halfling leapt from the ship. The Genasi jumped overboard to save him, managed to climb back up onto the deck, then decided to hurl him at the nearest pirate. Natural 20. I then had the halfling roll an attack of his own as he connected the pirate; another natural 20. The tide of the battle turned in an instant, and in three more rounds, the pirates had been routed and were in retreat. The visual alone was worth it all. #DDBStyle
Actually one time recent before my current sessions hiatus for my DM's wedding. Hoard of the Dragon Queen, and some cultists just spawned the first bbeg of the campaign so far, adult blue dragon. We are actually winning, and this guy decides to start running. In comes our monk. For over a year this poor man has missed EVERY STUNNING STRIKE he has attempted to hit. He goes in for the stunning strike. We start laughing assuming it's not gonna hit, and tell him to go for the ass. Nat 20. The celebration around the table was amazing! Everyone was so happy and surprised. Even the DM couldn't help but cheer with us. And we got to harvest some dragon parts for some potential crafting later!
I was GMing a short one shot for a group of new players. I decide to give them a easy fight to start of with so they could understand what their characters could do. Then I followed that up with a strong and difficult enemy that I wanted them to escape from, but they decided to confront it since they didn't understand the scale of the threat. In the end the front line fighters were rolling very well and doing great damage while my rolls were low. They managed to all survive that tough enemy and I congratulated them.
Just this past weekend when our level 1 party used diplomacy to convince the centaur to free the captive princess and then had him help us take out a green hag in his forest.
I had only played a few weeks worth of D&D and my ambition and stupidity convinced me that I was ready to DM.
In my very first session I had ever DMed I was really nervous about my ability to make stuff up so I wrote down 10+ pages worth of possible scenarios and I could just reference my notes on "what happens if players do X".
The campaign started with the players waking up inside individual locked jail cells and I had a whole series of interlacing puzzles to keep them busy for AT LEAST a full session or two, right? Wrong! One player put together a makeshift lasso and tried to wrangle a coat, that had the cell keys in the pocket, across the room. I wanted to encourage the creativity, so I gave them a chance at it, but I wanted to make the DC was near impossible so they would actually have to do the puzzles. "DC is 30, I said".
Boom, nat 20. It's 20 min in and I am already sweating as now it has become an improv performance!
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The Warforged surveyed the ground around him. His best friend, a tiefling sorcerer, was on the ground to his right, a huge gash in her head leaking blood. She just failed her last death save. The monk and the rogue, both noble souls, lay dead from numerous stab wounds about 20 feet away as the corpses of 7 stone giants formed a morbid rock ring around them. One giant remained, towering over the Warforged and preparing to swing her gilded axe at his head. He managed to dodge the first but took the second shot straight to the armor covering his chest, knocking the wind from his body. He was down to two hp but he knew the giant was badly injured as well. One good shot should do her in and he had two swings. He whirled his two handed broad sword, needing a 12 on the dice to hit, but he rolled an 11. Far from defeated, the Warforged was confident his second attack would hit and roared as he swung his sword again. Natural 1. He smiled; he was lucky. One last roll for it all, a success and his party can get rezzed and move on, a fail and the DM gets his TPK. The DM had a grin on his face that would make the Joker envious. The roll came, the Warforged's confidence started to fade as the dice bounced, and it seemed to bounce for days....finally rolling to a stop. The number 2 stared up and mocked the Warforged. The stone giant promptly swung her axe and connected, taking the head clean off the Warforged with her follow through. There would be no death saving throws. The last of the adventurers was felled and the TPK was complete. The DM cackled and raised his hands in victory. The journey for those heroes has come to a tragic end, all because their dice failed them.
#DDBStyle
So this was during COVID and I was playing with a group of 4 other people (including the dm) and I was the only person without an over powered character. We were all level 4 and I was the only one without 18’s on any of my basic abilities, before this event our DM realized I was the only one with a even fair character so I looted a vorpal scimitar from a dead wizard. So since we killed that wizard they declared war on us, we had to get as many recruits as possible so we went to find our “friends” in a forest. On our way there we came across a dragon that wanted us to be his slaves, we tried our hardest to talk him out of it but it never worked. Time to roll initiative, I got like a 3 and went last. Since I was a ranger on my first turn I tried to shoot him but I rolled a 4 missing. Now after my turn my friends went, one ended up getting downed and one sacrificed it’s metal arm with a flame thrower to jam a door in its mouth to stop the fire attacks but it was to late and the dragon ended up killing one of the other people. So it was just me and the half metal man with a missing arm to defeat this dragon, it was my turn and everyone was yelling at my to use the scimitar, so I did and I missed when I came back to my turn I tried the attack again and I hit rolling a 17. At this point the metal man who had a base of 70 something hit points was at 30 scared to death that he would die (I was at 24). The pressure was on and I pulled out the scimitar and I… missed, yay we were doomed, having one turn left before both of our deaths I pulled out the legendary blade almost certain it would miss and when rolling to hit I was nervous thinking they won’t even believe me if I get it. I rolled and boom the crit 20 appeared making the dragons head disappear. I had to take a picture to prove it so I did and when they realized I was the killer of such a foul beast cheering erupted from them as I killed a huge boss with over 100 hp left I felt like I did something powerful in that champagne with me being the tag along I now was the champion
our dm had to quit our campaign due to moving so after that I never got a crit with The vorpal scimitar again.
#DDBStyle
i would love this bundle I could run so many games which i otherwise wound not be able to run #ddbstyle
My Dwarf Fighter/Cleric Grantil Obergraf was a badass and even rode a bear. But he rolled so many critical failures that rolling a 1 at the table became known as rolling my first name. Still great times. #DDBSTYLE
We were infiltrating an old college in an occupied enemy city for details on how to disable a Magic Field Generator(MFG) that was protecting the city. There was Me (Human Wizard), Eladrin Rouge, and Goliath Fighter. We split up to search the offices of the professors for any pertinent documents. Passive investigation on Me and Rogue was high enough to successfully canvas our rooms, but Fighter has a 9 in Int, so DM asked for a roll. Nat 20. Now, I know that this alone is not the most impressive feat, but it gets better. The rooms we investigated had some interesting documentation, (particularly on some kind of sordid office love triangle) but nothing pertinent to our mission, so we continue searching. We get to the next set of rooms, and Fighter must roll again. Second Nat 20 of the night and in a row for the player. He's able to find the documents we were looking for, and they describe how the MFG is built and functions (basically there were several power nodes placed throughout the city that fed into a main central projector), as well as giving the general locations for the power nodes; lo and behold, one of the nodes is supposed to be in the very college we are searching! So, we extend our mission and begin searching for where this node might be. Eventually get to a kind of lab area and DM has us roll a perception check, which surprises me and Rogue, as our passives were pretty high. We both roll mediocre, but Fighter.... he comes in with the third Nat 20 in a row! Party goes absolutely ballistic. He notices a shimmering on a wall over to the side, and discovers an illusory wall, behind which is a hallway leading to none other than the node. I go up and inspect it and after a banger of an arcana check, believe that I can figure out how to expose the power core. I do so and the core is exposed, but needs a substantial amount of strength to rip it from its socket. Step aside for Goliath Fighter to do his thing. Natural freaking 1. We loose all sanity and cohesion as the table just bursts into a chaotic pit of laughter and disbelief as we watch the hulking Goliath get zapped for 5 points of Force damage as the core backlashes the second he touches it. His pride at risk of being damaged, he invokes Giant's Might to grow Large and gain advantage on Strength Checks and Saves, and grips the core with both hands and rips it clean from its moorings with another Nat flipping 20. Needless to say, that night was quite the rollercoaster of rolls, the biggest I've ever experienced at least. #DDBStyle
Today is the last day to enter the giveaway! Make sure you include the #DDBStyle hashtag with your response in this thread, and then complete your entry by filling out the form to qualify!
My first nat 20 was earlier this year in my first campaign. Level 5 dragonborn paladin who was set on smiting away all the evil in the world. However the first crit was spent on a poor little halfing who I misstook for a goblin during a halloween-esque festival..
It was later revealed that this halfling was part of a travelling troupe of thieving halflings, so a win in the end, but there was a proper roller coaster of emotion..
#DDBStyle
Hey I'm new to D&D got interested after talking to a new coworker who i founs out was super nerdy and I was super excited. He got me watching Critical Role and I was hooked, so we started a D&D campaign with him DMing, and I convinced a few of my local video game friends to join.
I'm a teifling sorcerer named Khitomer. We were traveling and hunting food when we found a cave with rabbit surrounded by bones and all sorts of gore. (Inspired by Monty Python) There are four if us and we all were rolling terrible because it had the hp of a normal rabbit just hard to hit. Our Rogue actually got taken out and had to do death saving roles, and I actually rolled natural 20, and we were all hurt at this point, but managed to grab it as it was lunging towards me and cast shocking grasp cooking it black killing the evil bunny and throwing it to the ground. #DDBStyle
One of my favorite moments was a yoyo during a critical battle of nat 1, then nat 20, then nat 1, then nat 20. I rolled to save, and failed. I rolled to attack, then crit. They failed to save, then crit to hit. It was WILD! #DDBStyle
To narrow down to a single exciting, pulse-raising roll - tough to decide! The first roll in my ongoing pandemic campaign was a sad Nat1, taking a 'pint' of damage from failing a flung tavern glass. First session excitement but not much compared to the excitement of - not a natural 20, but - a lowly 16, just enough to pass Wis check allowing this ole' Druid and his party enough time to secure an exit from an encroaching ice dragon Cryoclaw, a mini-bad in a dungeon crawl. Cheers, exhalations, and mostly relief of 'thank the EarthMother!' ended our discord session on a cliffhanger but ended 2.5 hours of drama and revelry. #ddb-style
we were escaping a city where the people were being mind controlled by people, but we only had enough horses to carry the party, but not our favorite NPC. My character, being the paladin drew everyone's attention to allow him to escape, but was now one the run from hordes of people. while running, I had an idea to do get to the rooftop of a building. I used the spell Thundering Smite, and hit myself on the back, part of the spell Thundering Smite launches someone five feet in a direction, so I hit myself and sent myself flying on top of a building, had to roll for acrobatics.... Nat 20, and then I escaped the mind controlled people. #DDBStyle
We was down in a cave like dungeon as pillar like creatures kept trying to fall down on us, after stupidly tripping a natural alarm system. After defeating the pillar creatures the mission suddenly took a stand still as enormous amount of walking mushrooms felt their neighbors' pain and came out to fight our group. I was getting angry at the critical 1s I kept rolling with missing hits and not able to stop hp lost, that was until rolling nat 20 to get un-paralized and to hit hard and kill two of them with high damage. #DDBStyle
Player was in a competition of 12 contestants runnin across multiple beams over a huge lava pit. The player was coming up the end of the course and had to make the leap from a beam to the final ledge and hit a Nat 20 that caused the entire table to go into an uproar. Not only did he survive but also secured a meeting with the king. They ended up using that meeting to get backup for a dungeon they later went through, and that backup 100% saved their lives so that Nat 20 was important on multiple levels #ddb-style #DDBStyle #DDBStyle
This story has **spoilers** for Curse of Strahd.
I was playing as the party's cleric with a 20 on my Wisdom stat. The thing is, that I've got separeted from the party as they started fighting (more like 'getting destroy' by) a Lich. So, I ran to their position and to get to them I had to make a Wis Saving Throw against some statue in the room before. Needless to say, I was super confident on my saving throw (+8).. Well, as it could not be otherwise, I got a Nat 1. Which delay my arrival to the actual fight. Which ended up on a TPK... Damn Amber Temple. And damn statue. #DDBStyle
I was recently DMing a campaign with a water Genasi and a halfling, and battle erupted aboard ship with a group of pirates. Enemy sorcerers were charming anyone they could get their magic on into jumping off the ship in the middle of the ocean, making them believe it was on fire. Things were not going well for the crew or the PCs until the charmed halfling leapt from the ship. The Genasi jumped overboard to save him, managed to climb back up onto the deck, then decided to hurl him at the nearest pirate. Natural 20. I then had the halfling roll an attack of his own as he connected the pirate; another natural 20. The tide of the battle turned in an instant, and in three more rounds, the pirates had been routed and were in retreat. The visual alone was worth it all. #DDBStyle
Actually one time recent before my current sessions hiatus for my DM's wedding. Hoard of the Dragon Queen, and some cultists just spawned the first bbeg of the campaign so far, adult blue dragon. We are actually winning, and this guy decides to start running. In comes our monk. For over a year this poor man has missed EVERY STUNNING STRIKE he has attempted to hit. He goes in for the stunning strike. We start laughing assuming it's not gonna hit, and tell him to go for the ass. Nat 20. The celebration around the table was amazing! Everyone was so happy and surprised. Even the DM couldn't help but cheer with us. And we got to harvest some dragon parts for some potential crafting later!
#DDBStyle
I was GMing a short one shot for a group of new players. I decide to give them a easy fight to start of with so they could understand what their characters could do. Then I followed that up with a strong and difficult enemy that I wanted them to escape from, but they decided to confront it since they didn't understand the scale of the threat. In the end the front line fighters were rolling very well and doing great damage while my rolls were low. They managed to all survive that tough enemy and I congratulated them.
#DDBStyle
Just this past weekend when our level 1 party used diplomacy to convince the centaur to free the captive princess and then had him help us take out a green hag in his forest.
#DDBStyle
I had only played a few weeks worth of D&D and my ambition and stupidity convinced me that I was ready to DM.
In my very first session I had ever DMed I was really nervous about my ability to make stuff up so I wrote down 10+ pages worth of possible scenarios and I could just reference my notes on "what happens if players do X".
The campaign started with the players waking up inside individual locked jail cells and I had a whole series of interlacing puzzles to keep them busy for AT LEAST a full session or two, right? Wrong! One player put together a makeshift lasso and tried to wrangle a coat, that had the cell keys in the pocket, across the room. I wanted to encourage the creativity, so I gave them a chance at it, but I wanted to make the DC was near impossible so they would actually have to do the puzzles. "DC is 30, I said".
Boom, nat 20. It's 20 min in and I am already sweating as now it has become an improv performance!
#DDBStyle