While playing Descent into Avernus, 3 times my monk was on his final death save with the party having no idea where he was or that he was in trouble. All 3 times I managed to roll a nat20 to stabilize myself. It's a miracle he's still alive. #ddbstyle
As we exit The Black Cabin in Icewind Dale the party is surrounded by heavy fog and an unknown creature attacks my Warforged Monk. I make the Dex save to avoid it's attack and now it's my turn to attack. I strike blindly at the spot I think the creature is, rolling with disadvantage. I ignite my Flame Tongue Scimitar and roll. First roll - Nat 20. 2nd roll - Nat 20 again! I vanquish the enemy in a single strike and now need to make another Dex save to mitigate the damage from it's shrapnel released upon its death. Nat freaking 20! #DDBStyle
Homebrew campaign, playing as a level two paladin with a good friend of mine as the DM and another friend of mine as a rogue. The introductory session had us running into a village that was being ransacked by kobolds as well as a dragon flying overhead (kind of like hoard of the dragon queen). Me and my friend ended up fighting 5 kobolds, about 30 of the most stressful combat minutes I've had so far into the fight, I go down. Me being the paladin and us being a party of two I was the only one who could possibly try and bring back my rogue friend if he were to go down, I rolled a natural 20 on my death saves and popped back to 1 hp in the next round. My friend went down after I came back to life. He then proceeded to roll a natural 20 on his death saves and the last kobold hurled a stone at him causing him to go down once again. We all thought this was the funniest thing we ever experienced in a combat encounter so far. It was the most stupid thing ever, but it was extremely funny at that moment.
TLDR:
Fighting a band of kobolds: Paladin goes down, comes back up to 1 hp with a natural 20 on death saves. Paladin: "I got you Rogue! I won't go down that easily" Rogue: "Thanks a lot man, we only have a couple of em left to kill!" Kobold throws a stone at the rogue, the Rogue goes down. Paladin: "Damn it all, you won't leave here alive Kobolds!" Rogue comes back to 1hp with a natural 20 on death saves. Rogue: "Holy shit what happened, did we wi-" The last Kobold throws another stone at the Rogue which causes him to go down once again mid-sentence. :"D
My players took down all legendary resistances of my BBEG. They had a monk who used Quivering Palm and tried to insta kill the villain. I threw the die in the air and covered my eyes with my palm. Everything was in slow motion in that moment. I would take a sneak peek from between my fingers to look at their faces, they were all looking at the flying piece of plastic with such awe in their faces, such hope and optimism for the future. The die fell under the table and everyone instantly threw themselves on the ground in order to see what the BBEG rolled (they had hunted him down for like 17 sessions, so they pretty much hated him at this point). Everybody was close to dying and this was their only chance of success at this point, as he regained his legendary actions the next turn. Seeing the die fall on a natural 1 - they all jumped up (one of them bumped their head on the table) and threw their character sheets in the air. They hugged each other and celebrated like it was new year's eve. I was kind of disappointed that my villain died in such a stupid way, but seeing their faces and excitement made my heart fill with joy and I knew that this guy's demise brought them sweet victory and pride. I will never forget that moment and how we celebrated afterwards. I love D&D. #DDBStyle
It was at the end of an epic boss fight. We had cut our way through waves of orcs and finally got to the secret vault of the Orc King. We all were down to a few hp, our resources exhausted and we knew, that with his next move, the Orc king was going to pull a lever bringing down the ceiling and that would have been a TPK. It was the start of the round, and I was first in the initiative order, the Orc King last. We knew, that it would be, one way or the other, the very last combat round of the encounter, and we were struggling desperatly to avoid it beeing the very last combat round at all. We also knew, that the enemy still had a lot of hp left, and that our damage output would probably not be enogh, to bring him down in one round. I was down to one last 1st lvl spellslot and was cecking my spell list for the highest damage, when I had a flash of inspiration. So I told the DM: 'I ready my action. I'm going to cast Sleep on the Orc King just before he starts his turn.' The idea was, that my allies would bring his hp down enough giving my spell a realistic chance to put him to sleep. When it was my turn to try my luck, my friends had done a decent amount of damge and, as it was an allin situation, the DM told me: 'Well, the Orc King has 26 hp left. 5d8... doable. Cast your spell. But to raise the tension, roll the dice one by one.' So i carefully picked my lucky d8 and rolled... ...5... keep it up that way and it will suffice ...1... not good... next one has to be a good one ...5... oh crap... 15 left that's quite impossible ...7... hope still lives...
At this time, the crackling tension got all of us out of their seats and we were standing around the table.
'Oh great Tymora, sweet Lady Luck! If you grant me this one, I will never ask a favor again... '
I took a deep breath and rolled... BOOM! 8!!! There it was!!!
It took me a long time to fall asleep later that night... #DDBStyle
I was in a home brew world that my DM had been running with various groups over the past 10 years. My group was up against the big bad guy in the end of the tower. He was a wizard that was over powered and was not supposed to die at this time we later found out. The wizard with out any trouble was trouncing our group. Most of out group was almost dead the ranger had gotten his bow destroyed and our casters were out of spells. The wizard decides that he is going to cast his big bad spell that the DM made and it was going to take a few rounds to cast. He cast levitate to get out of the range of the melee. As players we were checking our sheets to see if there was anything we could do. The ranger in the party notices that he had a throwing dagger in his inventory. The player asked what would he have to roll to hit the wizard in the sky. The DM responded that he would have to roll 3 20's on the dice. The player rolls 20 on the first roll 20 on the second roll and finally 20 on the last roll. The DM rolls to see if the wizard looses concentration on his casting. Yea for us he does so now the wild magic surge happens. The wizards get dispel magic effects him, so he starts falling, a large fissure opens up in the ground to an unknown realm and the wizard falls into it and then it closes. That is how the ranger got his nick name lucky.
One of the most heart racking moment is from the d20 modern setting from some 15 years ago. Gm used some house rules.
Characters were flying around with chopper at level 1 and saw ancient dragon. One of the characters just had to try to kill it with his great sword and jumped out from the chopper with huge swing. He rolled nat 20 on hit. Game master let him to roll for hit location for which he rolled nat 20 for head. Then he rolled nat 20 for one shot. Game master let him have all the experience from the kill and his level rose in one shot. But thats not the end of the story. No he had to roll for landing ending up with nat 1 for breaking his leg. Another nat 1 for dropping of from the cliff and last nat 1 for constitution check against death from massive damage.
#DDBStyle I´m only playing for a few month so it might not be the most crazy story. But anyways, so I´m DMing a group of first time DnD-Players (including me as the DM) therefor everything is kinda exciting. But for me the moment that made my heart race the most until today, was one of the very first fights they encountered. It was our 3rd session and for all fights my roles for the monsters had been incredibly bad. So they had a pretty easy time until that moment. Since we got a little more confident with the game dynamics, I decided to give them a fight that´s going to be a little more challenging. The fight started and very soon the first PC was unconscious and dying. We agreed on me as the DM making the Death Saves in secret to add a little more dynamic and tension to fights. A dying PC for the first time itself was very scary and exciting at the same time for me. But this PC was unconscious and healed/stabalized three times in a row, since they were the only opponent in reach for the monster. As specially since I could not show to my players how good or bad it was for this Character plus it was the first time nearly loosing a character, it was the most thrilling moment until now.
#DDBStyle Playing in a Norse campaign years ago in a boss fight and my character was immobilized, and kept failing the saving throw... for ten rounds. Extremely frustrating meanwhile we are all taking damage from the boss in its crazy huge aura. 2 party members down another and myself extremely bloodied I finally saved, went up to the Boss and since nothing was doing damage to her I grasped for the only farfetched straw I could think of... pulled out a shard of a mirror she hated from her past/Lore. NAT crit 20ed her, was the only thing that could do damage to her, killed her outright ending the aura damage and saving my party. Still to this day was one of the biggest and most frustrating, yet clutch win moments I have ever had in D&D. #ddb-style
During my first ever campaign I was playing a Halfling Druid named Rosco Tealeaf. Our party was responding to a fire/explosion that broke out in Waterdeep. Part of my party was focusing on the fire and the others including myself were on rescue. As I had just gotten the last civilian out of a burning building the DM informed me that I had stayed too long and the building collapsed and put me at 0HP. I rolled my first death saving throw... NAT 20! Rosco had an entire flaming building fall on him and rose from the rubble with 1HP forever being dubbed "The Iron Halfling". #DDBStyle
Playing a high elf rogue and trying to pull off the legolas crumbling bridge jumps. Nat 1 the dex check... Wait, inspiration!! Tried again, Nat 20! My heart was racing so hard but I pulled it off. Since then, I try every chance I get to make cinematic moves like that!
During the first-ever game of D&D I ever Dungeon Mastered, I was the DM for a group of entirely new players, and one of my players fell unconscious in combat during the dungeon's "boss battle". The newbie players were incredibly demoralized as they weren't aware that death was an actual thing in D&D and the player who fell was the only one capable of healing. Everyone sat in anxious silence as the player rolled one failed death saving throw... then a second fail... THEN a natural 20, earning one hit point and ending the session alive and (mostly) well! It would have been a massive bummer for a first-time player to die at the end of the game, and waiting for that third death saving throw was about as tense as it gets!! #DDBStyle
Playing a high elf rogue and trying to pull off the legolas crumbling bridge jumps. Nat 1 the dex check, inspiration!! Tried again, Nat 20! My heart was racing so hard but I pulled it off. Since then, I try every chance I get to make cinematic moves like that! Thats my #ddbstyle
In my first campaign, my half-elven rogue character and his adventuring party were exploring different underground dungeons. I decided to scout ahead for possible dangers, but one bad roll made him think that all was fine. His very first step made him activate a giant rolling boulder. Quickly I managed to jump aside, but our poor druid took the full damage and died as a resolve. Her spirit now haunts his mind so that history doesn't repeat itself.
Deep below a corrupt library, my halfling character Garbin Greenbottle took the initiative to destroy a corrupt crystalline structure. However as it exploded into a thousand brilliant shards the dark magic held within was released in a single blow. Garbin was overtaken by the magic and lost control of his body and mind. He ran frantically toward a deep crevasse within the cave looking to send himself plummeting to his own sweet demise. If it hadn't been for the persisted efforts of his companions he would have left this life forthwith.
I was playing Tomb of Annihilation with a Warlock/Sorcerer Fire Genasi because I wanted to. Don't question my character choices! Somewhere in the Bay of Chult, we were attacked by something (i don't remember) and our boat was slowly sinking.
The funny part was, we were just a tiny bit away from shore. In fact, I'm pretty sure I made it to shore!
So, pretty much we got critical failure after critical failure (all of us, not just me), and one by one, we started drowning just 30 feet from shore. It started with my brother (irl, not in game), whose character was running out of time and he just got to zero hitpoints, I decided to go out and try to save him.
Of course, I managed to save him but then it was me in his place. This cycle went back and forth between the entire party and eventually it was just comical!
So, in the end, my character died, the entirety of the party was about to die, and the DM decided to have mercy on us... and saved everyone who was still alive, but kept me dead. I was so pissed because it was Tomb of Annihilation, so I couldn't be revived, but then I got to make a new character. This time, it was a Water Genasi -- no more drowning for me!
I do find it ironic that my Fire Genasi died to drowning.
Back in the 3.5e days, few friends and I decided to run a level 20 campaign for the fun of it. I played as a human fighter with an oversized greatsword, which was fine normally except for when we had to travel across the sea and got into ship-to-ship combat. I had an item that allowed flight of course, but as a melee fighter it still meant I had to travel to each ship before doing anything besides man the cannons so I decided screw it I was just going to make a running leap and attack the ship itself. The DM made a point of saying it was very unlikely but go ahead and make the jump check. Rolled an 18, just enough to make it. Rolled for attack: 19, critical hit. With the effects of all my feats and the critical hit the damage was over 200, enough to cleave the ship in half. Didn't get a chance to do anything else the rest of the battle, but totally worth it. #DDBStyle
I saved the entire party from certain death. It was like an impossible puzzle with no solution.
We're exploring a cave and come across a frozen over skeleton in the middle of an eerily cylindrical room that looks like it was a killing floor. I inform the party I intend to start blasting to find out if the room is safe
Skeleton gets up. It's a CR 6 skeleton frost giant with a colossal great sword. We're level 2. This is an official adventure module. Our DM, knowing our chances of survival - lets one of us roll a check he made on the fly to prompt us (this thing is a god compared to us, we should flee) Everyone in the party turns to flee and dashes (moving 60 ft) It breaks out of its Ice cocoon and wrenches a sword out of the floor.
Everyone in the party runs another 60 ft , we have a 120 ft lead. It's first turn, it dashes, moving 80 ft. 60 ft separate it from us. We can't run. We can't fight. & there is nowhere to hide. & we sit around the table and get to the realization in 2 turns, 2-3 of us are being killed. because of its size. At this point, we stop the game for an intermission, everyone uses the rest room and gets snacks. We're all coming to terms with our Character's dying.. Another round passes. We each get 60 ft closer to salvation. It moves another 80 ft. There's only a 20 ft gap between us and death.
I came up with the party saving idea - So, I run TOWARDS the instant death beast, roaring ferociously & just as I get within 5 ft of it, I evaporate into mist. I'm the Eladrin. I used Fey step, returning back to where I previously stood When I fey stepped, the skeleton had to make a WIS save & on a fail, be frightened & unable to move TOWARDS me Having it frightened for a round & being unable to pursue us changed the party's fate - we got out of that cave by the skin of it's teeth.
It's moments like these I play DnD for. Some out of the box creative thinking (& a bit of luck) means we live to fight another day #DDBstyle
In a homebrew campaign, we were hurriedly making our way to stop the BBEG from destroying a town, but encountered a powerful celestial being bound by magical chains who prevented us from reaching our destination. They were bound to the service of the BBEG to slow our progress and fight us if we tried to get past them. As the cleric of the group, I endeavoured to free the celestial - it was either this or fight in a deadly battle.
With the DM's "you can certainly try" blessing, I cast Dispel Magic on the chains and rolled a Natural 20! Adding my Wisdom, my Guidance, and our Artificer's Flash of Genius, we got the total to 30! The DM was clearly taken aback by this, the freed celestial could not stay to fight the BBEG they did grant our 7th level party Epic Boons!
It was in a oneshot, my goliath barbarian gets swallowed by homebrew worm creature, i make the save against the acid damage. i attempt to cut it from the inside, i roll a crit and max damage, bringing the thing down to 0 HP and cut its stomach open, crawling out and greeting my party
While playing Descent into Avernus, 3 times my monk was on his final death save with the party having no idea where he was or that he was in trouble. All 3 times I managed to roll a nat20 to stabilize myself. It's a miracle he's still alive. #ddbstyle
Homebrew campaign, playing as a level two paladin with a good friend of mine as the DM and another friend of mine as a rogue. The introductory session had us running into a village that was being ransacked by kobolds as well as a dragon flying overhead (kind of like hoard of the dragon queen). Me and my friend ended up fighting 5 kobolds, about 30 of the most stressful combat minutes I've had so far into the fight, I go down. Me being the paladin and us being a party of two I was the only one who could possibly try and bring back my rogue friend if he were to go down, I rolled a natural 20 on my death saves and popped back to 1 hp in the next round. My friend went down after I came back to life. He then proceeded to roll a natural 20 on his death saves and the last kobold hurled a stone at him causing him to go down once again. We all thought this was the funniest thing we ever experienced in a combat encounter so far. It was the most stupid thing ever, but it was extremely funny at that moment.
TLDR:
Fighting a band of kobolds:
Paladin goes down, comes back up to 1 hp with a natural 20 on death saves.
Paladin: "I got you Rogue! I won't go down that easily"
Rogue: "Thanks a lot man, we only have a couple of em left to kill!"
Kobold throws a stone at the rogue, the Rogue goes down.
Paladin: "Damn it all, you won't leave here alive Kobolds!"
Rogue comes back to 1hp with a natural 20 on death saves.
Rogue: "Holy shit what happened, did we wi-"
The last Kobold throws another stone at the Rogue which causes him to go down once again mid-sentence. :"D
#DDBStyle
My players took down all legendary resistances of my BBEG. They had a monk who used Quivering Palm and tried to insta kill the villain. I threw the die in the air and covered my eyes with my palm. Everything was in slow motion in that moment. I would take a sneak peek from between my fingers to look at their faces, they were all looking at the flying piece of plastic with such awe in their faces, such hope and optimism for the future. The die fell under the table and everyone instantly threw themselves on the ground in order to see what the BBEG rolled (they had hunted him down for like 17 sessions, so they pretty much hated him at this point). Everybody was close to dying and this was their only chance of success at this point, as he regained his legendary actions the next turn. Seeing the die fall on a natural 1 - they all jumped up (one of them bumped their head on the table) and threw their character sheets in the air. They hugged each other and celebrated like it was new year's eve. I was kind of disappointed that my villain died in such a stupid way, but seeing their faces and excitement made my heart fill with joy and I knew that this guy's demise brought them sweet victory and pride. I will never forget that moment and how we celebrated afterwards. I love D&D. #DDBStyle
It was at the end of an epic boss fight. We had cut our way through waves of orcs and finally got to the secret vault of the Orc King.
We all were down to a few hp, our resources exhausted and we knew, that with his next move, the Orc king was going to pull a lever bringing down the ceiling and that would have been a TPK.
It was the start of the round, and I was first in the initiative order, the Orc King last.
We knew, that it would be, one way or the other, the very last combat round of the encounter, and we were struggling desperatly to avoid it beeing the very last combat round at all.
We also knew, that the enemy still had a lot of hp left, and that our damage output would probably not be enogh, to bring him down in one round.
I was down to one last 1st lvl spellslot and was cecking my spell list for the highest damage, when I had a flash of inspiration.
So I told the DM: 'I ready my action. I'm going to cast Sleep on the Orc King just before he starts his turn.'
The idea was, that my allies would bring his hp down enough giving my spell a realistic chance to put him to sleep.
When it was my turn to try my luck, my friends had done a decent amount of damge and, as it was an allin situation, the DM told me: 'Well, the Orc King has 26 hp left. 5d8... doable. Cast your spell. But to raise the tension, roll the dice one by one.'
So i carefully picked my lucky d8 and rolled...
...5... keep it up that way and it will suffice
...1... not good... next one has to be a good one
...5... oh crap... 15 left that's quite impossible
...7... hope still lives...
At this time, the crackling tension got all of us out of their seats and we were standing around the table.
'Oh great Tymora, sweet Lady Luck! If you grant me this one, I will never ask a favor again... '
I took a deep breath and rolled...
BOOM! 8!!! There it was!!!
It took me a long time to fall asleep later that night... #DDBStyle
I was in a home brew world that my DM had been running with various groups over the past 10 years. My group was up against the big bad guy in the end of the tower. He was a wizard that was over powered and was not supposed to die at this time we later found out. The wizard with out any trouble was trouncing our group. Most of out group was almost dead the ranger had gotten his bow destroyed and our casters were out of spells. The wizard decides that he is going to cast his big bad spell that the DM made and it was going to take a few rounds to cast. He cast levitate to get out of the range of the melee. As players we were checking our sheets to see if there was anything we could do. The ranger in the party notices that he had a throwing dagger in his inventory. The player asked what would he have to roll to hit the wizard in the sky. The DM responded that he would have to roll 3 20's on the dice. The player rolls 20 on the first roll 20 on the second roll and finally 20 on the last roll. The DM rolls to see if the wizard looses concentration on his casting. Yea for us he does so now the wild magic surge happens. The wizards get dispel magic effects him, so he starts falling, a large fissure opens up in the ground to an unknown realm and the wizard falls into it and then it closes. That is how the ranger got his nick name lucky.
#DDBStyle
One of the most heart racking moment is from the d20 modern setting from some 15 years ago. Gm used some house rules.
Characters were flying around with chopper at level 1 and saw ancient dragon. One of the characters just had to try to kill it with his great sword and jumped out from the chopper with huge swing. He rolled nat 20 on hit. Game master let him to roll for hit location for which he rolled nat 20 for head. Then he rolled nat 20 for one shot. Game master let him have all the experience from the kill and his level rose in one shot. But thats not the end of the story. No he had to roll for landing ending up with nat 1 for breaking his leg. Another nat 1 for dropping of from the cliff and last nat 1 for constitution check against death from massive damage.
#DDBStyle
#DDBStyle I´m only playing for a few month so it might not be the most crazy story. But anyways, so I´m DMing a group of first time DnD-Players (including me as the DM) therefor everything is kinda exciting. But for me the moment that made my heart race the most until today, was one of the very first fights they encountered. It was our 3rd session and for all fights my roles for the monsters had been incredibly bad. So they had a pretty easy time until that moment. Since we got a little more confident with the game dynamics, I decided to give them a fight that´s going to be a little more challenging. The fight started and very soon the first PC was unconscious and dying. We agreed on me as the DM making the Death Saves in secret to add a little more dynamic and tension to fights. A dying PC for the first time itself was very scary and exciting at the same time for me. But this PC was unconscious and healed/stabalized three times in a row, since they were the only opponent in reach for the monster. As specially since I could not show to my players how good or bad it was for this Character plus it was the first time nearly loosing a character, it was the most thrilling moment until now.
#DDBStyle Playing in a Norse campaign years ago in a boss fight and my character was immobilized, and kept failing the saving throw... for ten rounds. Extremely frustrating meanwhile we are all taking damage from the boss in its crazy huge aura. 2 party members down another and myself extremely bloodied I finally saved, went up to the Boss and since nothing was doing damage to her I grasped for the only farfetched straw I could think of... pulled out a shard of a mirror she hated from her past/Lore. NAT crit 20ed her, was the only thing that could do damage to her, killed her outright ending the aura damage and saving my party. Still to this day was one of the biggest and most frustrating, yet clutch win moments I have ever had in D&D. #ddb-style
During my first ever campaign I was playing a Halfling Druid named Rosco Tealeaf. Our party was responding to a fire/explosion that broke out in Waterdeep. Part of my party was focusing on the fire and the others including myself were on rescue. As I had just gotten the last civilian out of a burning building the DM informed me that I had stayed too long and the building collapsed and put me at 0HP. I rolled my first death saving throw... NAT 20! Rosco had an entire flaming building fall on him and rose from the rubble with 1HP forever being dubbed "The Iron Halfling". #DDBStyle
Playing a high elf rogue and trying to pull off the legolas crumbling bridge jumps. Nat 1 the dex check... Wait, inspiration!! Tried again, Nat 20! My heart was racing so hard but I pulled it off. Since then, I try every chance I get to make cinematic moves like that!
During the first-ever game of D&D I ever Dungeon Mastered, I was the DM for a group of entirely new players, and one of my players fell unconscious in combat during the dungeon's "boss battle". The newbie players were incredibly demoralized as they weren't aware that death was an actual thing in D&D and the player who fell was the only one capable of healing. Everyone sat in anxious silence as the player rolled one failed death saving throw... then a second fail... THEN a natural 20, earning one hit point and ending the session alive and (mostly) well! It would have been a massive bummer for a first-time player to die at the end of the game, and waiting for that third death saving throw was about as tense as it gets!! #DDBStyle
Playing a high elf rogue and trying to pull off the legolas crumbling bridge jumps. Nat 1 the dex check, inspiration!! Tried again, Nat 20! My heart was racing so hard but I pulled it off. Since then, I try every chance I get to make cinematic moves like that! Thats my #ddbstyle
In my first campaign, my half-elven rogue character and his adventuring party were exploring different underground dungeons. I decided to scout ahead for possible dangers, but one bad roll made him think that all was fine. His very first step made him activate a giant rolling boulder.
Quickly I managed to jump aside, but our poor druid took the full damage and died as a resolve. Her spirit now haunts his mind so that history doesn't repeat itself.
#DDBStyle
Deep below a corrupt library, my halfling character Garbin Greenbottle took the initiative to destroy a corrupt crystalline structure. However as it exploded into a thousand brilliant shards the dark magic held within was released in a single blow. Garbin was overtaken by the magic and lost control of his body and mind. He ran frantically toward a deep crevasse within the cave looking to send himself plummeting to his own sweet demise. If it hadn't been for the persisted efforts of his companions he would have left this life forthwith.
#DDBStyle
I was playing Tomb of Annihilation with a Warlock/Sorcerer Fire Genasi because I wanted to. Don't question my character choices! Somewhere in the Bay of Chult, we were attacked by something (i don't remember) and our boat was slowly sinking.
The funny part was, we were just a tiny bit away from shore. In fact, I'm pretty sure I made it to shore!
So, pretty much we got critical failure after critical failure (all of us, not just me), and one by one, we started drowning just 30 feet from shore. It started with my brother (irl, not in game), whose character was running out of time and he just got to zero hitpoints, I decided to go out and try to save him.
Of course, I managed to save him but then it was me in his place. This cycle went back and forth between the entire party and eventually it was just comical!
So, in the end, my character died, the entirety of the party was about to die, and the DM decided to have mercy on us... and saved everyone who was still alive, but kept me dead. I was so pissed because it was Tomb of Annihilation, so I couldn't be revived, but then I got to make a new character. This time, it was a Water Genasi -- no more drowning for me!
I do find it ironic that my Fire Genasi died to drowning.
#DDBStyle
Back in the 3.5e days, few friends and I decided to run a level 20 campaign for the fun of it. I played as a human fighter with an oversized greatsword, which was fine normally except for when we had to travel across the sea and got into ship-to-ship combat. I had an item that allowed flight of course, but as a melee fighter it still meant I had to travel to each ship before doing anything besides man the cannons so I decided screw it I was just going to make a running leap and attack the ship itself. The DM made a point of saying it was very unlikely but go ahead and make the jump check. Rolled an 18, just enough to make it. Rolled for attack: 19, critical hit. With the effects of all my feats and the critical hit the damage was over 200, enough to cleave the ship in half. Didn't get a chance to do anything else the rest of the battle, but totally worth it. #DDBStyle
I saved the entire party from certain death. It was like an impossible puzzle with no solution.
We're exploring a cave and come across a frozen over skeleton in the middle of an eerily cylindrical room that looks like it was a killing floor.
I inform the party I intend to start blasting to find out if the room is safe
Skeleton gets up. It's a CR 6 skeleton frost giant with a colossal great sword. We're level 2. This is an official adventure module. Our DM, knowing our chances of survival - lets one of us roll a check he made on the fly to prompt us (this thing is a god compared to us, we should flee)
Everyone in the party turns to flee and dashes (moving 60 ft)
It breaks out of its Ice cocoon and wrenches a sword out of the floor.
Everyone in the party runs another 60 ft , we have a 120 ft lead.
It's first turn, it dashes, moving 80 ft. 60 ft separate it from us. We can't run. We can't fight. & there is nowhere to hide.
& we sit around the table and get to the realization in 2 turns, 2-3 of us are being killed. because of its size. At this point, we stop the game for an intermission, everyone uses the rest room and gets snacks. We're all coming to terms with our Character's dying..
Another round passes. We each get 60 ft closer to salvation. It moves another 80 ft. There's only a 20 ft gap between us and death.
I came up with the party saving idea - So, I run TOWARDS the instant death beast, roaring ferociously & just as I get within 5 ft of it, I evaporate into mist.
I'm the Eladrin. I used Fey step, returning back to where I previously stood When I fey stepped, the skeleton had to make a WIS save & on a fail, be frightened & unable to move TOWARDS me
Having it frightened for a round & being unable to pursue us changed the party's fate - we got out of that cave by the skin of it's teeth.
It's moments like these I play DnD for. Some out of the box creative thinking (& a bit of luck) means we live to fight another day
#DDBstyle
In a homebrew campaign, we were hurriedly making our way to stop the BBEG from destroying a town, but encountered a powerful celestial being bound by magical chains who prevented us from reaching our destination. They were bound to the service of the BBEG to slow our progress and fight us if we tried to get past them. As the cleric of the group, I endeavoured to free the celestial - it was either this or fight in a deadly battle.
With the DM's "you can certainly try" blessing, I cast Dispel Magic on the chains and rolled a Natural 20! Adding my Wisdom, my Guidance, and our Artificer's Flash of Genius, we got the total to 30! The DM was clearly taken aback by this, the freed celestial could not stay to fight the BBEG they did grant our 7th level party Epic Boons!
#DDBStyle
It was in a oneshot, my goliath barbarian gets swallowed by homebrew worm creature, i make the save against the acid damage. i attempt to cut it from the inside, i roll a crit and max damage, bringing the thing down to 0 HP and cut its stomach open, crawling out and greeting my party
#DDBstyle