Recently my level 5 players came up with a plan on the spot to sneak up on some cultists to interrupt their ritual to summon an ancient spirit of destruction - two players snuck up to attack them (our rogue and wizard), whilst two stayed at a distance to attack when the time was right (our fighter and cleric). After rolling just high enough to sneak up on the cultists, the rogue rolled a natural 20 for their first attack and almost killed one cultist in one hit, dealing 49 damage - who I intended to be a very difficult enemy. The table was very impressed to say the least :)
the dice do not love me. my halfling druid passed every check climbing the cliff but at the last moment, a natural one. but wait! halfling luck! second natural one. druid goes splat :/// #DDBStyle
One of the best natural 1 fails was when i was running Dragon of Icespire Peak for the first time because we had just started playing D&D and my two players were having a hard time with the fights so they decided to hire a cleric sidekick to help with healing. They then decided to do the Axeholm quest and started scaling the wall and then going down the shafts. The first PC rolled a nat 20 on the strength save and climbed down with no effort, the second one failed the save but took little damage and then the sidekick, the only healer, tried and got a natural 1 on the strength saving throw. Fell down and took some damage, effectively breaking his neck in the fall and dying.
The look on their faces with that natural 1 and the now dead healer on his first ever trip with them as enough for such a great laugh we all started to tear up while laughning. Great Times. #DDBStyle
During the Lost Mines of Phlanderver campaign, I was the DM (it was the first time me and my friends were trying out DnD) an my friends almost had a party wipe during the first dungeon. They had managed to fight their way up to the last mini boss, the bugbear Clarg, whom they easily defeated. Thing is, there was a tiny grandma goblin there with a huge soup spoon that the party managed to piss off (mainly because they had killed her grandson). She proceeded to roll like 5 nat 20s and kept dodging their attacks, knocking everyone but one from the party out. I had to kill her with a sudden heart attack caused by the fight, so at least the priest could stabilize the rest. Needless to say we fell in love with the game and kept playing through the whole quarantine. #DDBStyle
The dwarf Limbeck had fallen in the river. Refusing to remove his armor he bounced along the bottom. DM gave him increasingly small odds of holding his breath: roll above 75%, 85% 95%. Nailed every roll until he shot out of a waterfall, into a lake. He then walked out of the lake. #DDBStyle
Our party agreed to do some light sparring - the characters were all young and new to adventuring and thought who better to practice with than each other? But my warlock taunted the cleric too hard. He cast guiding bolt and with a nat20 he managed to roll enough damage to kill my warlock instantly. Worth it. #DDBStyle
Was a first session of a homebrew game and we went down into a tunnel of lizard cultists. We were lvl 2s at the time and not ready to fight anything big yet, so we decided to bluffed our way through the cultists with a nat20 deception all the way to the head cultists who was summoning a devil. When the devil appeared we persuaded it with another nat20 that we had summoned him and brought the head cultist as a sacrifice. The devil proceeded to kill all the cultists and rewarded us our first magical item! #DDBStyle
One of the most exciting moment to happen was with my online group. We were fighting at night a pack of wargs backed by vampires. Things were not looking good for us. There were some bad rolls and bad positioning. Our He blade warlock casted hunger of hadar on a group of enemies, which unfortunately included my draconic bloodline sorcerer. Having very few hit points left, when my turn came, I took the beginning of turn damage, knocking me out. Then the end of turn damage made me fail my first death save. My ranger friend tried to pull me out, but the darkness made him fail in his attempt. When my turn came back around, I failed my second death save to the beginning of turn damage of the spell. With only one failure left before dying, which I would fail because of the end of turn damage of the spell, it became apparent that the only thing that could save me was a natural 20 on my death save roll. And low and behold, I roll a natural 20, and everyone goes crazy. That roll couldn’t have had a better timing. And that was my heart-racing moment. #ddbstyle
There was a moment in an adventure I once ran. The party was in the middle of fighting something akin to a freshly birthed demonic demi-god when the group's cleric was cast into the Astral Sea by an errant effect of the area (similar to a Banishment effect). While he was briefly there, he came into contact with an exarch of his deity who granted him her divine sword and charged him with a mission to destroy the new demonic blight before it spread to the heavens. Phasing back into existence on his turn, he wheeled on the demi-god and made his attack.....a natural 20 of course, and more than enough radiant damage to finish off the godling. World saved in the most dramatic of times. #DDBStyle
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"The mongoose blew out its candle and was asleep in bed before the room went dark." —Llanowar fable
Running #GhostsofSaltmarsh and the party took Ned along with them to "save" him, but when they proceeded downstairs he ambushed the party's druid with a frying pan CRANG! nat 20, down for the count and Ned had a frying pan with a druid noggin dent in it. #DDBStyle
We had a newb session with my friend and our daughters along with a couple of our friends. My daughter was playing a wood elf, and we were fighting a group of orcs and ogres. My daughter got the ogre agro'd and just as we were getting to the end of this engagement on the roof, I jumped down, left her to die, but with her lucky roles managed to take it down by herself. Was too much fun. :) #DDBStyle
A fighter in the party I was DMing was trapped and the enemies were closing in on her. In a moment of sheer panic the player asked if he could try and break through the wall. I decided only a nat20 would be a success, this particular female fighter had been defying the laws of physics for some time now. And of course, with the enemies closing in, she went ahead a rolled a nat20 on a strength check to break through the wall and run for the hills, leaving a tomb of hungry ghouls behind.
I was playing a Half-Elven CG Assassin in a 3 player group, this was my first campaign and we were level 7 so this is well into the story. We were facing against this cruel king who tried to execute other 2 characters in public (I managed to escape capture). Me and the rebellion against the king saved the other 2 characters and strike in the aftermath. However the king had suit of armour and with the lucky feat he was kicking our butts, jumped on top of him since he was large while in the armour, broke the vial of poison in my belt with my dagger and attacked, this is sneak atk because of advantage while clinging. I hit a crit, the DM uses king's luck to force me re-throw, natural 20 again. Did well over 50 damage, and killed the ugly face. I still remember the suspense during my rethrow of the dice. #DDBStyle
Several Nat 1 roll for one fo my players - The group were trapped in the basement of a dungeon with a very strong boss (modified Core Spawn Seer) + minions. They had done a good job and weakening the boss to the point it was running but in doing so it KO'd (Swashbuckler) one of the players before unsealing the exit allowing a swarm of minions to rush in. While this was happening the NPC cleric and barbarian were busy trying to lift the massive stone slap covering their escape - they had lifted it about 4 feet up.
The parties cleric (very low on health) grabbed the downed Swashbuckler running down the steps (away from swarm) to the escape; he wanted to slide across the floor, and tackle the bard who was right by the slab so all three would get through. He failed his acrobatics check for the slide (not a nat 1) but then had disadvantage on his tackle which got 2 nat 1s as the bard did not know what was going on so it was a grapple check resulting in him being thrown aside. I allowed him to make a dex save to see if he was able to recover/sldie under the lifted slab but he got his third nat 1. so I had to had some fun - as he failed miserable he lost his balance when thrown aside and hit his head on the slab (about his head hight) for 2 damage. This KO'd him and he and the swashbuckler both tumbled down the shaft.
The bard then jumped followed by the others after ensuring the slab would drop shortly. The bard healed the swashbuckler and the cleric (half-orc) regained 1 HP but do to the fall height was KO'd again when he hit the water....was a fun end to the dungeon
Nat 20, the team was about to get a TPK and I was next to them as a healer, I prayed and roll and Nat 20 and I was able to save them. It was so epic. #DDBStyle
At the end of Tomb of Annihilation we destroyed Acererak's "special project" and he was (understandably) very angry. My gnome wizard had telekinesis up at the end of that fight to fish people out of the lava when the lich appeared on the platform above us, sphere of annihilation right next to him, and did his best to split us up and kill us with time stop, wall of force, delayed blast fireball, etc. Thanks to absorb elements and a decent con save I was able to keep the telekinesis spell up as we started the fight.
For a little context the platform he appeared on was above us but still over a rather large pool of lava.
Sadly my wizard had a point of exhaustion from the previous fight so his ability to use telekinesis was somewhat hampered by the disadvantage on skill checks. The first round trying to use it on the lich failed horribly. Acererak was quick to mock my gnome wizard and his "pathetic attempt at magic". I think our bard knew what I was trying to do so they gave my wizard some bardic inspiration. After another round of combat with mostly ineffective attacks/spells from our side it came back around to my turn and I told the DM I was going to use telekinesis again. He quickly rolled a natural 20 for Acererak's strength check giving him a 21 and happily exclaimed this to the table. I groaned and rolled my intelligence check with disadvantage and the dice came up 9 and 13. +5 for intelligence made that check a 14.....and then I looked over at the d10 inspiration the bard had given me.
"30% chance of success is probably the best I'm going to get" and I rolled it. It came up as an 8. I beat him by 1.
My wizard grabbed Acererak with the power of his mind, slammed him into his own sphere of annihilation, and dropped him into a pool of lava like a sack of rubbish.
We were trapped in the upstairs of a winery by a group of druids and their minions. Our Warlock attempted to jump over a hole in the middle of the room and do a thunderwave to turn the tide of battle. He nat 1'd on his acrobatics check, so he tripped, did a front flip into the hole, thunderwaved in the hole so he didn't hit anything, and was knocked unconscious by the fall. We survived the fight, but but the warlock's dignity didn't. #DDBStyle
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Recently my level 5 players came up with a plan on the spot to sneak up on some cultists to interrupt their ritual to summon an ancient spirit of destruction - two players snuck up to attack them (our rogue and wizard), whilst two stayed at a distance to attack when the time was right (our fighter and cleric). After rolling just high enough to sneak up on the cultists, the rogue rolled a natural 20 for their first attack and almost killed one cultist in one hit, dealing 49 damage - who I intended to be a very difficult enemy. The table was very impressed to say the least :)
#DDBStyle
the dice do not love me. my halfling druid passed every check climbing the cliff but at the last moment, a natural one. but wait! halfling luck! second natural one. druid goes splat :/// #DDBStyle
One of the best natural 1 fails was when i was running Dragon of Icespire Peak for the first time because we had just started playing D&D and my two players were having a hard time with the fights so they decided to hire a cleric sidekick to help with healing. They then decided to do the Axeholm quest and started scaling the wall and then going down the shafts. The first PC rolled a nat 20 on the strength save and climbed down with no effort, the second one failed the save but took little damage and then the sidekick, the only healer, tried and got a natural 1 on the strength saving throw. Fell down and took some damage, effectively breaking his neck in the fall and dying.
The look on their faces with that natural 1 and the now dead healer on his first ever trip with them as enough for such a great laugh we all started to tear up while laughning. Great Times. #DDBStyle
During the Lost Mines of Phlanderver campaign, I was the DM (it was the first time me and my friends were trying out DnD) an my friends almost had a party wipe during the first dungeon. They had managed to fight their way up to the last mini boss, the bugbear Clarg, whom they easily defeated. Thing is, there was a tiny grandma goblin there with a huge soup spoon that the party managed to piss off (mainly because they had killed her grandson). She proceeded to roll like 5 nat 20s and kept dodging their attacks, knocking everyone but one from the party out. I had to kill her with a sudden heart attack caused by the fight, so at least the priest could stabilize the rest. Needless to say we fell in love with the game and kept playing through the whole quarantine. #DDBStyle
Our party agreed to do some light sparring - the characters were all young and new to adventuring and thought who better to practice with than each other? But my warlock taunted the cleric too hard. He cast guiding bolt and with a nat20 he managed to roll enough damage to kill my warlock instantly. Worth it. #DDBStyle
Was a first session of a homebrew game and we went down into a tunnel of lizard cultists. We were lvl 2s at the time and not ready to fight anything big yet, so we decided to bluffed our way through the cultists with a nat20 deception all the way to the head cultists who was summoning a devil. When the devil appeared we persuaded it with another nat20 that we had summoned him and brought the head cultist as a sacrifice. The devil proceeded to kill all the cultists and rewarded us our first magical item! #DDBStyle
One of the most exciting moment to happen was with my online group. We were fighting at night a pack of wargs backed by vampires. Things were not looking good for us. There were some bad rolls and bad positioning. Our He blade warlock casted hunger of hadar on a group of enemies, which unfortunately included my draconic bloodline sorcerer. Having very few hit points left, when my turn came, I took the beginning of turn damage, knocking me out. Then the end of turn damage made me fail my first death save. My ranger friend tried to pull me out, but the darkness made him fail in his attempt. When my turn came back around, I failed my second death save to the beginning of turn damage of the spell. With only one failure left before dying, which I would fail because of the end of turn damage of the spell, it became apparent that the only thing that could save me was a natural 20 on my death save roll. And low and behold, I roll a natural 20, and everyone goes crazy. That roll couldn’t have had a better timing. And that was my heart-racing moment. #ddbstyle
There was a moment in an adventure I once ran. The party was in the middle of fighting something akin to a freshly birthed demonic demi-god when the group's cleric was cast into the Astral Sea by an errant effect of the area (similar to a Banishment effect). While he was briefly there, he came into contact with an exarch of his deity who granted him her divine sword and charged him with a mission to destroy the new demonic blight before it spread to the heavens. Phasing back into existence on his turn, he wheeled on the demi-god and made his attack.....a natural 20 of course, and more than enough radiant damage to finish off the godling. World saved in the most dramatic of times. #DDBStyle
Running #GhostsofSaltmarsh and the party took Ned along with them to "save" him, but when they proceeded downstairs he ambushed the party's druid with a frying pan CRANG! nat 20, down for the count and Ned had a frying pan with a druid noggin dent in it. #DDBStyle
Probably that session where the bugbears forgot how to use weapons and decided rolling 1s and 2s was their job. #ddbstyle
in it to win it! #DDBStyle
We had a newb session with my friend and our daughters along with a couple of our friends. My daughter was playing a wood elf, and we were fighting a group of orcs and ogres. My daughter got the ogre agro'd and just as we were getting to the end of this engagement on the roof, I jumped down, left her to die, but with her lucky roles managed to take it down by herself. Was too much fun. :) #DDBStyle
A fighter in the party I was DMing was trapped and the enemies were closing in on her. In a moment of sheer panic the player asked if he could try and break through the wall. I decided only a nat20 would be a success, this particular female fighter had been defying the laws of physics for some time now. And of course, with the enemies closing in, she went ahead a rolled a nat20 on a strength check to break through the wall and run for the hills, leaving a tomb of hungry ghouls behind.
#DDBStyle
I was playing a Half-Elven CG Assassin in a 3 player group, this was my first campaign and we were level 7 so this is well into the story. We were facing against this cruel king who tried to execute other 2 characters in public (I managed to escape capture). Me and the rebellion against the king saved the other 2 characters and strike in the aftermath. However the king had suit of armour and with the lucky feat he was kicking our butts, jumped on top of him since he was large while in the armour, broke the vial of poison in my belt with my dagger and attacked, this is sneak atk because of advantage while clinging. I hit a crit, the DM uses king's luck to force me re-throw, natural 20 again. Did well over 50 damage, and killed the ugly face. I still remember the suspense during my rethrow of the dice. #DDBStyle
Several Nat 1 roll for one fo my players - The group were trapped in the basement of a dungeon with a very strong boss (modified Core Spawn Seer) + minions. They had done a good job and weakening the boss to the point it was running but in doing so it KO'd (Swashbuckler) one of the players before unsealing the exit allowing a swarm of minions to rush in. While this was happening the NPC cleric and barbarian were busy trying to lift the massive stone slap covering their escape - they had lifted it about 4 feet up.
The parties cleric (very low on health) grabbed the downed Swashbuckler running down the steps (away from swarm) to the escape; he wanted to slide across the floor, and tackle the bard who was right by the slab so all three would get through. He failed his acrobatics check for the slide (not a nat 1) but then had disadvantage on his tackle which got 2 nat 1s as the bard did not know what was going on so it was a grapple check resulting in him being thrown aside. I allowed him to make a dex save to see if he was able to recover/sldie under the lifted slab but he got his third nat 1. so I had to had some fun - as he failed miserable he lost his balance when thrown aside and hit his head on the slab (about his head hight) for 2 damage. This KO'd him and he and the swashbuckler both tumbled down the shaft.
The bard then jumped followed by the others after ensuring the slab would drop shortly. The bard healed the swashbuckler and the cleric (half-orc) regained 1 HP but do to the fall height was KO'd again when he hit the water....was a fun end to the dungeon
Nat 20, the team was about to get a TPK and I was next to them as a healer, I prayed and roll and Nat 20 and I was able to save them. It was so epic. #DDBStyle
Finally joining a campaign after 3 years of listening to Critical Role and being asked to roll for initiative for the first time. #DDBStyle
At the end of Tomb of Annihilation we destroyed Acererak's "special project" and he was (understandably) very angry. My gnome wizard had telekinesis up at the end of that fight to fish people out of the lava when the lich appeared on the platform above us, sphere of annihilation right next to him, and did his best to split us up and kill us with time stop, wall of force, delayed blast fireball, etc. Thanks to absorb elements and a decent con save I was able to keep the telekinesis spell up as we started the fight.
For a little context the platform he appeared on was above us but still over a rather large pool of lava.
Sadly my wizard had a point of exhaustion from the previous fight so his ability to use telekinesis was somewhat hampered by the disadvantage on skill checks. The first round trying to use it on the lich failed horribly. Acererak was quick to mock my gnome wizard and his "pathetic attempt at magic". I think our bard knew what I was trying to do so they gave my wizard some bardic inspiration. After another round of combat with mostly ineffective attacks/spells from our side it came back around to my turn and I told the DM I was going to use telekinesis again. He quickly rolled a natural 20 for Acererak's strength check giving him a 21 and happily exclaimed this to the table. I groaned and rolled my intelligence check with disadvantage and the dice came up 9 and
13. +5 for intelligence made that check a 14.....and then I looked over at the d10 inspiration the bard had given me."30% chance of success is probably the best I'm going to get" and I rolled it. It came up as an 8. I beat him by 1.
My wizard grabbed Acererak with the power of his mind, slammed him into his own sphere of annihilation, and dropped him into a pool of lava like a sack of rubbish.
"Pathetic attempt at magic indeed"
#DDBStyle
We were trapped in the upstairs of a winery by a group of druids and their minions. Our Warlock attempted to jump over a hole in the middle of the room and do a thunderwave to turn the tide of battle. He nat 1'd on his acrobatics check, so he tripped, did a front flip into the hole, thunderwaved in the hole so he didn't hit anything, and was knocked unconscious by the fall. We survived the fight, but but the warlock's dignity didn't. #DDBStyle