The best I can think of was Rolling Stats for my First Psionic character. 4d6 5 rolls and each one had 3 6's and I was loosing my mind hoping to get 1 more max roll. My DM was right over my shoulder swearing I was using rigged dice. Last roll and I crapped out. 4 1's. I just lost it and started laughing like a lunatic. My DM said I had to give my character a debilitating fault. So I put that 3 into Charisma. Fault, Inappropriate laughter. Basically My Psionic Elf had a to laugh no matter what was happening. Death, Injured party member, burning down the pub, I had to start laughing uncontrollably,. Best Dice rolling event ever. #DDBStyle
Our party was trapped in the Shadowfell finding our way out. While on the path to the exit, being the curious, reckless druid I am, I mindlessly touch boulders, corpses, everything. I stumbled upon a dangerous cocoon that was said to contain a body. I tried pulling the body out when I was told to make a WIS saving throw. The DM told me that this was the most important roll I'd ever have to make. We found out that if I rolled anything lower than a Nat 20, the creature would've been angered from awakening its slumber and TPK our party. Then I rolled. Natural 20. We celebrated and had huge sighs of relief for 5 minutes as the DM processes what just happened. The corpse pops out and was revealed to be a sleeping guardian of the Shadowfell. The guardian shows gratitude for waking it up from its endless slumber and served as our guardian against the final boss of the Shadowfell. #DDBStyle
In my first ever combat encounter in my first ever campaign, our DM had set us up 12th level, evil-aligned characters to run through a "prelude" for the real campaign he had set up for us. Our Tiefling rogue decides to try to "lockpick" a stone door impeding our progress to what we would soon learn was a chamber full of celestials.
Not one, but TWO critical fails later, he somehow managed to find himself under the massive stone slab with 3 angels staring at us from the end of the hall. I'm sure, at that point, they were wondering what the heck we were doing, but as the party's healer (again, first campaign/combat encounter ever) I had no idea what to expect, but I knew I had to think quickly before the angels could close the distance. I just figured we were all dead because... angels.
After we got him out from under the slab, I was able to get him healed back up enough to fight since he had just been crushed for a significant amount of damage. I'm still not exactly sure how, but we managed to get past those three and a few more while only losing one NPC party member (sorta), but I had to go change my pants...
I was playing a Dhampir Warlock of the Great Old One, multi-classed with Arcane Trickster Rogue. Stealthing into a building full of Aberrations seeking to get into the mind to Charm and Dominate. My character was trying to infiltrate to find out more information on a group of Merchants that had been taken hostage in the town, seeking to help them escape. A Charmed hostage had spotted something unusual about a door opening by an invisible hand and gone to check it. A Nat 1 Stealth check as they got just under my character, who was on the ceiling just above them. Turned into my character falling to bite and Diplomance them with Telepathy, scoring a Nat 20 on the roll. They had failed their save to break Charm due to damage, but the Nat 20 Persuasion gave them another chance that they passed. Got a ton of information from the freed hostage, in an out of the way area.
However, soon after another party member got a set of Nat 1s, on a stealthed attack to try and take out a creature before it alerted everyone nearby. This led to an entire building being alerted to their presence and a fleeing combat with a dozen enemies. Polearm Master with Sentinel and Telekinetic Shoves to pull friendlies out of Grapple, with every one but the tank being ranged were the only thing allowing for us to escape. A Nat 20 Sneak attack on a creature that had grappled a party member, killing it in one shot. A Nat 20 Chromatic Orb from the formerly Charmed NPC Wizard, taking out another. A set of really bad Nat 1s had seemed to get us into this situation, but the series of Nat 20s afterwards helped to get us out of it. Was a long, multiple dozens of rounds of combat set out over fleeing an entire town, especially when other parts of the monster controlled town were alerted. Was probably one of the most harrowing combats I have ever been a part of. Took two full sessions to properly finish. Started in the middle of a third.
I was making a deal with a devil we summoned a few weeks before in our campaign, and I thought it was a grand idea to go against him in a Deck of Many things drawing contest, I came out on top, and my new feat was very nice #DDBStyle
Rime of the Frostmaiden, fight against Frostclaw the owlbear. The fight is a blood bath for the party, the owlbear is seriously injured but us, my character is laying in the snow too... Death save and NAT20! I stand up with 1 hp and with a last effort finish off the owlbear. We are saved, #DDBStyle
Pretty sure that my first heart-racing experience was also the same moment where I permanently got hooked on D&D. My group and I were playing our first campaign, the Lost Mine of Phandelver. As we explored the Ruins of Thundertree, we came across a ruined house with odd noises coming from within. After checking the doors and the windows we surmised that there were undead within. Me (the dwarven cleric) and the halfling rogue had this wonderful idea. He would climb the roof of the house, throw some oil down the chimney, and with a torch set the house ablaze. Hopefully killing all the undead residents. We wouldnât have to fight them and we would still get the experience.
The rogue, weirdly enough, failed a couple of times in climbing the roof. When he eventually managed to make it up, the DM reminded us that the chimney was still higher up. In a moment of genius, I told my party that I would grab a nearby rock, bind a rope around it, and throw it inside the chimney, hopefully giving the rogue advantage on his climb. With much bravado, I threw the rock and rolled a 1. The rock plunged on top of the rogue which consequently broke through the roof. The rogue was now surrounded, prone, and surrounded by the undead. Trying to right my wrong I attempted to break down the door and save my companion. However, bad rolls continued to happen. The elf wizard who saw her party act like true âprofessionalsâ pushed me aside and attempted to kick down the door herself. This book smart, frail-looking elf, bashed down the door with the strength of a minotaur by rolling a nat 20. We saved the rogue and had a good laugh. From that point on Iâm no longer allowed to throw things and we continued to rely on the thunder thighs of our wizard for the rest of the campaign. #DDBStyle
I was running a solo campaign I found online using a character I made here on D&D Beyond. Second room into the crypt there was an urn that had arcane writing on it that seemed a bad idea to touch, so I had my character go to one of the doors and check it. There was a trap on the door and I tried to disarm it, but failed. The trap went off, so I rolled for it to hit me and it got a Nat 1! Remembering the urn I determined that the dart would miss me and knock over the urn, which set off that trap- reanimating the skeleton in the room. that was a pretty cool and scary moment for a second, even if I did think the skeleton would end up causing me trouble when I first looked at it. I did run the crypt again with my brother. I was using a different character to play test a homebrew I made on the here (the Monk- Way of the Third Eye I was working on because of a commission thread) and got two Nat 20s against a skeleton. #DDBStyle
(It sounded more impressive on Twitter where I didn't mention I determined that it would be great for one trap to set off another, I guess one could say it was DM practice.)
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Some homebrew: Curse Eater and more-hereother- here
It was the first time that I played my new Drow character... in the end of the session, and spoilers...the character's life. It was the final roll that he had to make in order to defend himself against a spell save... he failed it... with a NAT 1... So he ended up dead after only one session at a ditch next to a dirt road!
We were playing Curse of Strahd, they were in the Baron's Mansion in Valaki, sneaking in to find a treasure. Instead of sneaking, the paladin decided to use command as a "forget me" spell. As everyone ran by, the previous ignorant servants became suspicious. They had not read the spell close enough (I prodded them a few times to do it, but, hey, I knew this was gonna be fun). They got called out, the dogs sicced on them, and the major henchman started hurling balls of fire at them. One thing lead to another and the wizard set loose a fireball in the attic. The whole place burned down and they were run out of town. There were so many points of near death rolls, but they made it out. I got carried away in this description, but definitely one of our more memorable moments. I love DnD #DDBStyle
Stopping a demi-god from the Abyss from breaching the mortal realm by fighting off his minions and rolling to dispel a portal as he was about to step through. If he had made it through it would have been a TPK as the whole party was low HP and nearly out of resources. #DDBStyle
My first major pulse-racing D&D memory (and probably applies to most players) is the moment you have to roll your third death saving roll during heavy combat on your first campaign. đ #DDBStyle BTW, my character died the first time I rolled for this.â ïž
Fiego Laurentis de Gryphon, half elf Noble and Bard (with some levels of Rogue and Warlock) had a tense moment that hung on the whims of the dice because the Bladesinger didn't get the message that it was a STEALTH mission and alerted the entire orcish army to our presence. Which would have been bad enough, but then some sort of orcish necromancer started to bring the corpses on the field back to life. Knowing that an army of zombies would be extremely bad news, Fiego strummed his Fochlucan Bandore to cast Fly on himself, gulped down a Potion of Speed and blasted off to end the necromancer. He would be all by himself considering he had to cross over 500ft of open battlefield and ascend to the top of a 50ft tall keep, but he felt up to it.
Zooming across the battlefield, he was tagged by some arrows and the poisonous blast, but was able to maintain his flight. When he finally reached the necromancer her swooped in .. and CRITICALLY MISSED. He had to use the remainder of his flight to try and hide behind some crenelations around the side of the castle 50ft in the air. It was a tense moment as he was injured and alone, but he gulped down a healing potion and flew back into the fray, knocking the necromancer off the wall. The lucky (and constitutionally tough) orc managed to continue casting, but Fiego followed him down to the ground and plunged his rapier down .. for a CRITICAL HIT that killed the necromancer and made the zombies lose control and start attacking the orcs. Fiego had enough time left on his potion induced Haste to beat a hasty retreat. The critical miss followed by the critical hit was a wild rollercoaster! #ddb-style #DDBStyle
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Canto alla vita alla sua bellezza ad ogni sua ferita ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
i was a orc barbarian who thought he was a wizard and i had a minion who thought i was a really good wizard following me around. he was just a normal human so he died in one hit in one battle and i prayed to a random god in a stained glass who i had no idea was in a church to revive him and rolled really high (i forget the number) and i revived my minion. best day ever
As the Cleric was about to be hit from a bugbear, I as a Paladin with Protection, saved him from a critical hit.
During my turn, the Fighter was fighting the other bugbear where I Misty Stepped behind it and critical hit the bugbear for nearly max damage then return.
We all rolled poorly in a fight with a Nothic. Me and another party member fell, the last one standing was on 5 hp, one hit and we were done. But somehow the last standing PC rolled a nat 20 for the killing blow on the Nothic. #DDBStyle
This happen a few weeks ago my friend was doing a homebrew boss fight he wanted to test out something from darkest dungeon had multiple forms we got to make level 20 characters went with a protector Asimar with 20 levels into paladin of conquest we lost half the party in the final form I went into my conquest state unleashing everything I had and with my third strike and advantage I got double nat 20âs on the advantage my party flipped out and after doing all the damage from all three strikes with divine smites, improve divine smite and holy weapon I did over 198 points of damage the most damage I ever did in my eight years of playing and it was all thanks to d&d beyond dice roller
There was a time where I was playing a rogue in waterdeep, stealing as much as I can. Then got hands on trying to steal from the guards and then rolled a natural one, getting locked up.
Another time I was doing the dinosaur race in ToA and came to the last stage and rolled a natural 20 as I gambled on making my dinosaur go faster. I won the race. Woo hoo. That race went up and down and I thought I was going to lose. #DDBStyle
In the first campaign I was running I had a kraken BBEG they had to fight and the ranger threw his spear at the krakens eye (in my games I have weak point on monsters and if they hit it deals triple damage) it requires a natural 20 to hit the eye and the ranger rolled a natural 20 killing the kraken.
#DDBStyle
edit: they were losing at the time an were at level 3 with only 3 party members so it was critical that the ranger hit the attack
The best I can think of was Rolling Stats for my First Psionic character. 4d6 5 rolls and each one had 3 6's and I was loosing my mind hoping to get 1 more max roll. My DM was right over my shoulder swearing I was using rigged dice. Last roll and I crapped out. 4 1's. I just lost it and started laughing like a lunatic. My DM said I had to give my character a debilitating fault. So I put that 3 into Charisma. Fault, Inappropriate laughter. Basically My Psionic Elf had a to laugh no matter what was happening. Death, Injured party member, burning down the pub, I had to start laughing uncontrollably,. Best Dice rolling event ever. #DDBStyle
Our party was trapped in the Shadowfell finding our way out. While on the path to the exit, being the curious, reckless druid I am, I mindlessly touch boulders, corpses, everything. I stumbled upon a dangerous cocoon that was said to contain a body. I tried pulling the body out when I was told to make a WIS saving throw. The DM told me that this was the most important roll I'd ever have to make. We found out that if I rolled anything lower than a Nat 20, the creature would've been angered from awakening its slumber and TPK our party. Then I rolled. Natural 20. We celebrated and had huge sighs of relief for 5 minutes as the DM processes what just happened. The corpse pops out and was revealed to be a sleeping guardian of the Shadowfell. The guardian shows gratitude for waking it up from its endless slumber and served as our guardian against the final boss of the Shadowfell. #DDBStyle
In my first ever combat encounter in my first ever campaign, our DM had set us up 12th level, evil-aligned characters to run through a "prelude" for the real campaign he had set up for us. Our Tiefling rogue decides to try to "lockpick" a stone door impeding our progress to what we would soon learn was a chamber full of celestials.
Not one, but TWO critical fails later, he somehow managed to find himself under the massive stone slab with 3 angels staring at us from the end of the hall. I'm sure, at that point, they were wondering what the heck we were doing, but as the party's healer (again, first campaign/combat encounter ever) I had no idea what to expect, but I knew I had to think quickly before the angels could close the distance. I just figured we were all dead because... angels.
After we got him out from under the slab, I was able to get him healed back up enough to fight since he had just been crushed for a significant amount of damage. I'm still not exactly sure how, but we managed to get past those three and a few more while only losing one NPC party member (sorta), but I had to go change my pants...
#DDBStyle
I was playing a Dhampir Warlock of the Great Old One, multi-classed with Arcane Trickster Rogue. Stealthing into a building full of Aberrations seeking to get into the mind to Charm and Dominate. My character was trying to infiltrate to find out more information on a group of Merchants that had been taken hostage in the town, seeking to help them escape. A Charmed hostage had spotted something unusual about a door opening by an invisible hand and gone to check it. A Nat 1 Stealth check as they got just under my character, who was on the ceiling just above them. Turned into my character falling to bite and Diplomance them with Telepathy, scoring a Nat 20 on the roll. They had failed their save to break Charm due to damage, but the Nat 20 Persuasion gave them another chance that they passed. Got a ton of information from the freed hostage, in an out of the way area.
However, soon after another party member got a set of Nat 1s, on a stealthed attack to try and take out a creature before it alerted everyone nearby. This led to an entire building being alerted to their presence and a fleeing combat with a dozen enemies. Polearm Master with Sentinel and Telekinetic Shoves to pull friendlies out of Grapple, with every one but the tank being ranged were the only thing allowing for us to escape. A Nat 20 Sneak attack on a creature that had grappled a party member, killing it in one shot. A Nat 20 Chromatic Orb from the formerly Charmed NPC Wizard, taking out another. A set of really bad Nat 1s had seemed to get us into this situation, but the series of Nat 20s afterwards helped to get us out of it. Was a long, multiple dozens of rounds of combat set out over fleeing an entire town, especially when other parts of the monster controlled town were alerted. Was probably one of the most harrowing combats I have ever been a part of. Took two full sessions to properly finish. Started in the middle of a third.
#DDBStyle
I was making a deal with a devil we summoned a few weeks before in our campaign, and I thought it was a grand idea to go against him in a Deck of Many things drawing contest, I came out on top, and my new feat was very nice #DDBStyle
Rime of the Frostmaiden, fight against Frostclaw the owlbear. The fight is a blood bath for the party, the owlbear is seriously injured but us, my character is laying in the snow too... Death save and NAT20! I stand up with 1 hp and with a last effort finish off the owlbear. We are saved, #DDBStyle
Pretty sure that my first heart-racing experience was also the same moment where I permanently got hooked on D&D. My group and I were playing our first campaign, the Lost Mine of Phandelver. As we explored the Ruins of Thundertree, we came across a ruined house with odd noises coming from within. After checking the doors and the windows we surmised that there were undead within. Me (the dwarven cleric) and the halfling rogue had this wonderful idea. He would climb the roof of the house, throw some oil down the chimney, and with a torch set the house ablaze. Hopefully killing all the undead residents. We wouldnât have to fight them and we would still get the experience.
The rogue, weirdly enough, failed a couple of times in climbing the roof. When he eventually managed to make it up, the DM reminded us that the chimney was still higher up. In a moment of genius, I told my party that I would grab a nearby rock, bind a rope around it, and throw it inside the chimney, hopefully giving the rogue advantage on his climb. With much bravado, I threw the rock and rolled a 1. The rock plunged on top of the rogue which consequently broke through the roof. The rogue was now surrounded, prone, and surrounded by the undead. Trying to right my wrong I attempted to break down the door and save my companion. However, bad rolls continued to happen. The elf wizard who saw her party act like true âprofessionalsâ pushed me aside and attempted to kick down the door herself. This book smart, frail-looking elf, bashed down the door with the strength of a minotaur by rolling a nat 20. We saved the rogue and had a good laugh. From that point on Iâm no longer allowed to throw things and we continued to rely on the thunder thighs of our wizard for the rest of the campaign. #DDBStyle
I was running a solo campaign I found online using a character I made here on D&D Beyond. Second room into the crypt there was an urn that had arcane writing on it that seemed a bad idea to touch, so I had my character go to one of the doors and check it. There was a trap on the door and I tried to disarm it, but failed. The trap went off, so I rolled for it to hit me and it got a Nat 1! Remembering the urn I determined that the dart would miss me and knock over the urn, which set off that trap- reanimating the skeleton in the room. that was a pretty cool and scary moment for a second, even if I did think the skeleton would end up causing me trouble when I first looked at it. I did run the crypt again with my brother. I was using a different character to play test a homebrew I made on the here (the Monk- Way of the Third Eye I was working on because of a commission thread) and got two Nat 20s against a skeleton. #DDBStyle
(It sounded more impressive on Twitter where I didn't mention I determined that it would be great for one trap to set off another, I guess one could say it was DM practice.)
Some homebrew: Curse Eater and more-here other- here
It was the first time that I played my new Drow character... in the end of the session, and spoilers...the character's life.
It was the final roll that he had to make in order to defend himself against a spell save... he failed it... with a NAT 1... So he ended up dead after only one session at a ditch next to a dirt road!
#DDBStyle
We were playing Curse of Strahd, they were in the Baron's Mansion in Valaki, sneaking in to find a treasure. Instead of sneaking, the paladin decided to use command as a "forget me" spell. As everyone ran by, the previous ignorant servants became suspicious. They had not read the spell close enough (I prodded them a few times to do it, but, hey, I knew this was gonna be fun). They got called out, the dogs sicced on them, and the major henchman started hurling balls of fire at them. One thing lead to another and the wizard set loose a fireball in the attic. The whole place burned down and they were run out of town. There were so many points of near death rolls, but they made it out. I got carried away in this description, but definitely one of our more memorable moments. I love DnD #DDBStyle
Stopping a demi-god from the Abyss from breaching the mortal realm by fighting off his minions and rolling to dispel a portal as he was about to step through. If he had made it through it would have been a TPK as the whole party was low HP and nearly out of resources. #DDBStyle
How to get your dice to look like the ones in my profile picture and a full site dark mode.
Tutorial thread by Hyrkali
My first major pulse-racing D&D memory (and probably applies to most players) is the moment you have to roll your third death saving roll during heavy combat on your first campaign. đ #DDBStyle BTW, my character died the first time I rolled for this.â ïž
Fiego Laurentis de Gryphon, half elf Noble and Bard (with some levels of Rogue and Warlock) had a tense moment that hung on the whims of the dice because the Bladesinger didn't get the message that it was a STEALTH mission and alerted the entire orcish army to our presence. Which would have been bad enough, but then some sort of orcish necromancer started to bring the corpses on the field back to life. Knowing that an army of zombies would be extremely bad news, Fiego strummed his Fochlucan Bandore to cast Fly on himself, gulped down a Potion of Speed and blasted off to end the necromancer. He would be all by himself considering he had to cross over 500ft of open battlefield and ascend to the top of a 50ft tall keep, but he felt up to it.
Zooming across the battlefield, he was tagged by some arrows and the poisonous blast, but was able to maintain his flight. When he finally reached the necromancer her swooped in .. and CRITICALLY MISSED. He had to use the remainder of his flight to try and hide behind some crenelations around the side of the castle 50ft in the air. It was a tense moment as he was injured and alone, but he gulped down a healing potion and flew back into the fray, knocking the necromancer off the wall. The lucky (and constitutionally tough) orc managed to continue casting, but Fiego followed him down to the ground and plunged his rapier down .. for a CRITICAL HIT that killed the necromancer and made the zombies lose control and start attacking the orcs. Fiego had enough time left on his potion induced Haste to beat a hasty retreat. The critical miss followed by the critical hit was a wild rollercoaster! #ddb-style #DDBStyle
Canto alla vita
alla sua bellezza
ad ogni sua ferita
ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty
To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me
The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
i was a orc barbarian who thought he was a wizard and i had a minion who thought i was a really good wizard following me around. he was just a normal human so he died in one hit in one battle and i prayed to a random god in a stained glass who i had no idea was in a church to revive him and rolled really high (i forget the number) and i revived my minion. best day ever
#DDBStyle
We all rolled poorly in a fight with a Nothic. Me and another party member fell, the last one standing was on 5 hp, one hit and we were done. But somehow the last standing PC rolled a nat 20 for the killing blow on the Nothic. #DDBStyle
This happen a few weeks ago my friend was doing a homebrew boss fight he wanted to test out something from darkest dungeon had multiple forms we got to make level 20 characters went with a protector Asimar with 20 levels into paladin of conquest we lost half the party in the final form I went into my conquest state unleashing everything I had and with my third strike and advantage I got double nat 20âs on the advantage my party flipped out and after doing all the damage from all three strikes with divine smites, improve divine smite and holy weapon I did over 198 points of damage the most damage I ever did in my eight years of playing and it was all thanks to d&d beyond dice roller
#DDBStyle
There was a time where I was playing a rogue in waterdeep, stealing as much as I can. Then got hands on trying to steal from the guards and then rolled a natural one, getting locked up.
Another time I was doing the dinosaur race in ToA and came to the last stage and rolled a natural 20 as I gambled on making my dinosaur go faster. I won the race. Woo hoo. That race went up and down and I thought I was going to lose. #DDBStyle
In the first campaign I was running I had a kraken BBEG they had to fight and the ranger threw his spear at the krakens eye (in my games I have weak point on monsters and if they hit it deals triple damage) it requires a natural 20 to hit the eye and the ranger rolled a natural 20 killing the kraken.
#DDBStyle
edit: they were losing at the time an were at level 3 with only 3 party members so it was critical that the ranger hit the attack
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I remember we had just finished a quest for the king of the land and weâre being rewarded in the throne room. Then out of nowhere my wifeâs character, an assassin rogue says, âI stab the king.â She assassinated the king right in the middle of his throne room, with the entire party stuck there. Needless to say, we booked it out of there! đ As we ran through the streets of the city, dodging city guards and hurdling barricades, our DM put on an epic soundtrack for the chase scene! When we approached the docks, we all did one last check to jump onto a ship that is moving out to sea. We all barely made it! And just as the last chord of the song came to a thrilling end, a member of our party said, âWell I guess weâre not coming back here.â An epic ending to that particular adventure. đ€©
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