#DDBStyle I needed to dispell a crazy powerful sword that corrupted the Elven Winter King or likely be killed by him. Rolled a nat 19 + intelligence. Dispelled!!!
When I had to take a huge risk from the dice was when my variant-human wizard was fighting eight orcs. He had to risk trying to cast true polymorph with disadvantage. This was a very risky move as the dice don't usually go my way. As I rolled, I had a feeling that I would not make it. The dice landed on a natural 20 and it saved the day. I cast true polymorph to turn into a hill giant. The orcs retreated very fast. I had won the battle! #DDBStlye
I was DM-ing for a group of friends and my son. They were fighting a mage boss on a rooftop during a storm. Near the end of the battle the boss called a gust of wind trying to push back the party from melee range. My son's character failed a save and was pushed backwards *through* a hole in the roof from a previous lightning strike. He was already low on HP and hit the ground inside with enough damage to knock him unconscious. With the rest of the party still fighting above they could not reach him to heal him quickly. First Death Save was a Natural 1 for two fails! His second attempt he rolled a Natural 20!!! The table went CRAZY and agreed that was the only possible way he was able to have survived full character death. #DDBStyle
First D&D 5e game of my life. Our party was resting for the night and we got attacked by wolves. My ranger’s turn comes up, I make two attacks and roll a double natural 20. The DM’s jaw drops and I can see them taking a moments to process it, before going on to describe how my second arrow hits and splits my first arrow in the eye of the closest wolf. It reminded me a lot of the tournament in Robin Hood Man in Tights. I loved it.
It was a dark and stormy night (well, it’s hard to tell night from day in Shadowfell). I was playing a level two Bronze Dragonborn Paladin: Medrash of Shestendeliath. As my fairy rogue companion and I were questing, we fell upon a young black dragon.
Initially, my first thought was “Crap! A young dragon! While we’re level two!!” But, in true paladin fashion, I rushed forward with my trusty sword and and shield to smite my enemy. I rolled for my first hit, and it lands! I deal a decent amount of damage, and now I’m thinking, “We might actually have this!”
But then, the unthinkable happened. As a reaction, the young dragon knocked my sword out of my hands. Since my character had a deep bond with said sword, I ran after it. Next was the dragon’s turn. As I was heading for my sword, the dragon reared back his head and fired its breath weapon at Medrash. This is where my heart began to pound
I rolled for a saving throw, but I rolled to low. My character would take the full brunt of the acid breath from the young dragon. My only hope was that the damage roll was not too high. That hope was squashed when the results of the roll not only reduced my character to 0 hp, but exceeded his max hp negatively, reducing my character to a pile of mush. “Medmush,” as my adventuring group called it.
A few turns later, while I was fishing out a new character sheet, mourning the loss of my first character, the fairy somehow managed to defeat the young black dragon (to this day, I still don’t know how it was possible). As she was looting the area, she managed to get her hands on some of the dragon’s blood, when she had a thought. We were in Shadowfell, and dragons had special connection there. Being a Dragonborn, she believed she could use the dragon blood combined with the nature of the realm to potentially resurrect me. The DM liked the idea. But he would only allow it if I succeeded a DC 15 saving throw in every ability score.
The way my heart raced made my previous event seem peaceful. I rolled for Strength. Success! My heart sped up. I rolled for Dexterity. Success! My heart sped up. I rolled for Constitution, Intelligence, and Wisdom. All successes!! My heart was beating out of my chest for the next roll. I tossed for Charisma, and as it landed, my heart skipped a beat. It was a success on all accounts!
Medrash was reborn, and was stronger than he ever was before! His DNA was spliced with that of a black shadow dragon’s giving him an upgraded breath weapon, wings, fangs, claws, and a tail! The DM was a little over zealous. But I didn’t mind. And with those rolls, I think I deserved it.
It was the first time I DMed, and all of us were new players. We had decided to play in Critical Roles world, but since i was new at DMing i chose to move LMOP over to the menagerie coast.
Anyway, the PCs had made their way to the goblin hideout and had just defeated Klarg, and made their way to save Sildar whom they found out from a goblin was held hostage.
They found Yeemek and started to make a deal with him to release Sildar. During this time Sildar (whom is an experienced adventurer) made eyecontact with the bard mouthing “heal me” to him and then threw himself of the cliff giving the bard a free surpriseround to heal him, then he rolls a nat20 on initiative and casts Mantle of Inspiration on the whole party allowing everyone to move accordingly to their speed.
In the heat of battle i remember a video om Matt Colvile talking about skill challenges and so I introduced a series of rolls that challenged the players to get out of the cave with sildar before getting caught.
It was an amazing first game for all of us and amazingly they all made it out alive!
Goblin Artificer fighting a losing battle with a cloud giant. Natural 1 on the first death save, natural 20 on the second. I took that as a sign that we needed to leave!
I've run a short campaign for my friends and on the first session there was a simple encounter in a shady tavern, it was supposed to be easy for my players to win it, but I kept rolling nat20 for my NPC's. Luckily all PC's survived and the campaign is still going!
I was doing my first campaign as a DM and a character with low health got hit. I rolled the dice and he was knocked out. His first roll after that was a natural one, causing him to get two strikes against him. The next roll was a success, but the one after that killed him. While I'm not known as a party killer, the dice always seemed to go in my favor, and the look on my face gave away the way the dice rolled. #DDBStyle
My group was in the middle of battle facing off against a couple of fire giants, plowed over our barbarian. He got an opportunity attack as the giant ran by and with an excellent roll, he cleaved the giant's foot off! He then gracefully finished it off, saving the party.
We were playing the Sunless Citadel campaign and actually succeeded in persuading the final boss to switch sides thanks to an incredibly charismatic party, the Diplomat feat, and a couple nat 20s.
In a recent session, our party was up against an ancient dragon with a dracolich between us and our target. I rolled high on initiative and attacked first. Thanks to a natural 20 and the Crusher feat, I did a moderate amount of damage, and gave all other players advantage on their attacks on it. One rogue and a barbarian later and we'd vapourised the dracolich before it had a chance to act. The adrenaline was high and we dove straight into the next epic fight... #DDBStyle
I remember very well the Oneshot around a Lich that kinda.. grew into a full ass campaign. Instead of discussing with the Lich and finding a diplomatic way to end the terror - as it was intended - ..... they challenged her. A group of mostly newbies, all level 3, fighting a Lich that could have easily whiped them out with one fireball.... and me trying to logically do everything to not kill them in their first game of DnD without it feeling weird x'D That was surely something. #DDBStyle
So as a party of Level 3 idiots, we decided to trust the dragon cultists(Big Mistake) in Thundertree and were about to be offered to Venomfang. Then our Warlock had the genius idea to loudly whisper to the leader of the cultists "So, while we are distracting him, you are going to shoot him in the back with those Dragonbane Arrows, right?" One Nat 20 on the Warlock's Deception roll and a 2 on the Persuassion roll of the Cult leader to explain that the Warlock was lying later, we found ourselves in a three way brawl between a paranoid dragon, some pissed off cultists and us. And with the help of a quick Fog Cloud and some small illusions, we were able to escape while leaving the cultist to be slaughtered.
i am a dm and i rolled a nat one when i needed it to save my player and then my player who was playing a pladin rolled a nat 20 so +1 grate sword + 3 level smite plus help from a ally earlier so yea he hit and did around 50 damage on a boss level monster with 40 health remaning
I was playing a fighter and our party had entered a room where the floor was covered in a dense fog, the item we were after was on a pedestal in the center of the room. I found a hidden moat by using my great sword as a walking stick and after talking the monk into retrieving the artifact we triggered a couple golems in the room. After fighting for quite a few rounds and making no head way i rolled a natural one and managed to toss my weapon into the fog. As my heart sank i thought if the sword wasn't killing it maybe this mystery moat will so i rolled a grapple and tried to toss the golem into the moat and following mu bauched attack roll I hit two natural 20's in a row to melt one of the golems in the moat of acid! The parties reaction was priceless and the tale will forever hold a place in my heart! #DDBStyle
It was back when I was DMing Curse of Strahd. Slight spoilers ahead! It was during the Death House mini adventure and inside it there is an animated broom. Now that doesn't sound too scary except when the broom crit and downed a PC, then proceed to down another PC. They barricaded the door (after they got the downed PCs outside), waited for a bit before they reopened the door and finished the broom.
I was pretty scared that the end of the party would be a broom, and at the very beginning as well. We still laugh about it today though, so it's all good! #DDBStyle
I am DMing for the first time (DMing being my intro to playing D&D), and as a DM, I both love when my players score the Natural 1's for hilarious reasons, and even though I don't really want them to perish, I feel so victorious when I do score the Nat20. That said, I feel instantly bad and get nervous for players when I land too big of a hit.
But so far my favorite moment came during one of the more open world quests of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, when the characters are exploring a weird location with a particularly devastating trap (trying not to spoil). Without revealing too much, and with some good background music to set the scene, I kept gently asking for them to described their location in the room, and when they finally triggered the trap, I quietly grabbed 10d10, and then made a big production of rolling a crazy amount of dice. My excitement was hard to contain!
When I read the final number, and told 4 out of my 5 players they were vaporized, it was hard to suppress my grin as their faces on Zoom went through a wide range of emotions processing the temporary deaths of their characters, before I made sure to explain their new ghostly state (one of the quests twists). Now, several sessions later, all my players are super wary of touching anything, and have gotten more elaborate in the round about way they pick things up. #ddbstyle.
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#DDBStyle I needed to dispell a crazy powerful sword that corrupted the Elven Winter King or likely be killed by him. Rolled a nat 19 + intelligence. Dispelled!!!
When I had to take a huge risk from the dice was when my variant-human wizard was fighting eight orcs. He had to risk trying to cast true polymorph with disadvantage. This was a very risky move as the dice don't usually go my way. As I rolled, I had a feeling that I would not make it. The dice landed on a natural 20 and it saved the day. I cast true polymorph to turn into a hill giant. The orcs retreated very fast. I had won the battle! #DDBStlye
I was DM-ing for a group of friends and my son. They were fighting a mage boss on a rooftop during a storm. Near the end of the battle the boss called a gust of wind trying to push back the party from melee range. My son's character failed a save and was pushed backwards *through* a hole in the roof from a previous lightning strike. He was already low on HP and hit the ground inside with enough damage to knock him unconscious. With the rest of the party still fighting above they could not reach him to heal him quickly. First Death Save was a Natural 1 for two fails! His second attempt he rolled a Natural 20!!! The table went CRAZY and agreed that was the only possible way he was able to have survived full character death. #DDBStyle
First D&D 5e game of my life. Our party was resting for the night and we got attacked by wolves. My ranger’s turn comes up, I make two attacks and roll a double natural 20. The DM’s jaw drops and I can see them taking a moments to process it, before going on to describe how my second arrow hits and splits my first arrow in the eye of the closest wolf. It reminded me a lot of the tournament in Robin Hood Man in Tights. I loved it.
It was a dark and stormy night (well, it’s hard to tell night from day in Shadowfell). I was playing a level two Bronze Dragonborn Paladin: Medrash of Shestendeliath. As my fairy rogue companion and I were questing, we fell upon a young black dragon.
Initially, my first thought was “Crap! A young dragon! While we’re level two!!” But, in true paladin fashion, I rushed forward with my trusty sword and and shield to smite my enemy. I rolled for my first hit, and it lands! I deal a decent amount of damage, and now I’m thinking, “We might actually have this!”
But then, the unthinkable happened. As a reaction, the young dragon knocked my sword out of my hands. Since my character had a deep bond with said sword, I ran after it. Next was the dragon’s turn. As I was heading for my sword, the dragon reared back his head and fired its breath weapon at Medrash. This is where my heart began to pound
I rolled for a saving throw, but I rolled to low. My character would take the full brunt of the acid breath from the young dragon. My only hope was that the damage roll was not too high. That hope was squashed when the results of the roll not only reduced my character to 0 hp, but exceeded his max hp negatively, reducing my character to a pile of mush. “Medmush,” as my adventuring group called it.
A few turns later, while I was fishing out a new character sheet, mourning the loss of my first character, the fairy somehow managed to defeat the young black dragon (to this day, I still don’t know how it was possible). As she was looting the area, she managed to get her hands on some of the dragon’s blood, when she had a thought. We were in Shadowfell, and dragons had special connection there. Being a Dragonborn, she believed she could use the dragon blood combined with the nature of the realm to potentially resurrect me. The DM liked the idea. But he would only allow it if I succeeded a DC 15 saving throw in every ability score.
The way my heart raced made my previous event seem peaceful. I rolled for Strength. Success! My heart sped up. I rolled for Dexterity. Success! My heart sped up. I rolled for Constitution, Intelligence, and Wisdom. All successes!! My heart was beating out of my chest for the next roll. I tossed for Charisma, and as it landed, my heart skipped a beat. It was a success on all accounts!
Medrash was reborn, and was stronger than he ever was before! His DNA was spliced with that of a black shadow dragon’s giving him an upgraded breath weapon, wings, fangs, claws, and a tail! The DM was a little over zealous. But I didn’t mind. And with those rolls, I think I deserved it.
#DDBStyle
It was the first time I DMed, and all of us were new players. We had decided to play in Critical Roles world, but since i was new at DMing i chose to move LMOP over to the menagerie coast.
Anyway, the PCs had made their way to the goblin hideout and had just defeated Klarg, and made their way to save Sildar whom they found out from a goblin was held hostage.
They found Yeemek and started to make a deal with him to release Sildar.
During this time Sildar (whom is an experienced adventurer) made eyecontact with the bard mouthing “heal me” to him and then threw himself of the cliff giving the bard a free surpriseround to heal him, then he rolls a nat20 on initiative and casts Mantle of Inspiration on the whole party allowing everyone to move accordingly to their speed.
In the heat of battle i remember a video om Matt Colvile talking about skill challenges and so I introduced a series of rolls that challenged the players to get out of the cave with sildar before getting caught.
It was an amazing first game for all of us and amazingly they all made it out alive!
#DDBStyle
Goblin Artificer fighting a losing battle with a cloud giant. Natural 1 on the first death save, natural 20 on the second. I took that as a sign that we needed to leave!
#DDBStyle
#ddbstyle
I've run a short campaign for my friends and on the first session there was a simple encounter in a shady tavern, it was supposed to be easy for my players to win it, but I kept rolling nat20 for my NPC's. Luckily all PC's survived and the campaign is still going!
I was doing my first campaign as a DM and a character with low health got hit. I rolled the dice and he was knocked out. His first roll after that was a natural one, causing him to get two strikes against him. The next roll was a success, but the one after that killed him. While I'm not known as a party killer, the dice always seemed to go in my favor, and the look on my face gave away the way the dice rolled. #DDBStyle
Super, love D&D so must. I play D&D from 1980! I like 5e
#DDBStyle
My group was in the middle of battle facing off against a couple of fire giants, plowed over our barbarian. He got an opportunity attack as the giant ran by and with an excellent roll, he cleaved the giant's foot off! He then gracefully finished it off, saving the party.
#DDBStyle
#DDBStyle
Just loving D&D Beyond, such a great resource to have on my iPhone and iPod.
#DDBStyle
We were playing the Sunless Citadel campaign and actually succeeded in persuading the final boss to switch sides thanks to an incredibly charismatic party, the Diplomat feat, and a couple nat 20s.
#DDBStyle
In a recent session, our party was up against an ancient dragon with a dracolich between us and our target. I rolled high on initiative and attacked first. Thanks to a natural 20 and the Crusher feat, I did a moderate amount of damage, and gave all other players advantage on their attacks on it. One rogue and a barbarian later and we'd vapourised the dracolich before it had a chance to act. The adrenaline was high and we dove straight into the next epic fight... #DDBStyle
I remember very well the Oneshot around a Lich that kinda.. grew into a full ass campaign. Instead of discussing with the Lich and finding a diplomatic way to end the terror - as it was intended - ..... they challenged her. A group of mostly newbies, all level 3, fighting a Lich that could have easily whiped them out with one fireball.... and me trying to logically do everything to not kill them in their first game of DnD without it feeling weird x'D That was surely something. #DDBStyle
So as a party of Level 3 idiots, we decided to trust the dragon cultists(Big Mistake) in Thundertree and were about to be offered to Venomfang. Then our Warlock had the genius idea to loudly whisper to the leader of the cultists "So, while we are distracting him, you are going to shoot him in the back with those Dragonbane Arrows, right?" One Nat 20 on the Warlock's Deception roll and a 2 on the Persuassion roll of the Cult leader to explain that the Warlock was lying later, we found ourselves in a three way brawl between a paranoid dragon, some pissed off cultists and us. And with the help of a quick Fog Cloud and some small illusions, we were able to escape while leaving the cultist to be slaughtered.
#DDBStyle
i am a dm and i rolled a nat one when i needed it to save my player and then my player who was playing a pladin rolled a nat 20 so +1 grate sword + 3 level smite plus help from a ally earlier so yea he hit and did around 50 damage on a boss level monster with 40 health remaning
#DDBStyle.
I was playing a fighter and our party had entered a room where the floor was covered in a dense fog, the item we were after was on a pedestal in the center of the room. I found a hidden moat by using my great sword as a walking stick and after talking the monk into retrieving the artifact we triggered a couple golems in the room. After fighting for quite a few rounds and making no head way i rolled a natural one and managed to toss my weapon into the fog. As my heart sank i thought if the sword wasn't killing it maybe this mystery moat will so i rolled a grapple and tried to toss the golem into the moat and following mu bauched attack roll I hit two natural 20's in a row to melt one of the golems in the moat of acid! The parties reaction was priceless and the tale will forever hold a place in my heart! #DDBStyle
It was back when I was DMing Curse of Strahd. Slight spoilers ahead!
It was during the Death House mini adventure and inside it there is an animated broom. Now that doesn't sound too scary except when the broom crit and downed a PC, then proceed to down another PC. They barricaded the door (after they got the downed PCs outside), waited for a bit before they reopened the door and finished the broom.
I was pretty scared that the end of the party would be a broom, and at the very beginning as well. We still laugh about it today though, so it's all good! #DDBStyle
I am DMing for the first time (DMing being my intro to playing D&D), and as a DM, I both love when my players score the Natural 1's for hilarious reasons, and even though I don't really want them to perish, I feel so victorious when I do score the Nat20. That said, I feel instantly bad and get nervous for players when I land too big of a hit.
But so far my favorite moment came during one of the more open world quests of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, when the characters are exploring a weird location with a particularly devastating trap (trying not to spoil). Without revealing too much, and with some good background music to set the scene, I kept gently asking for them to described their location in the room, and when they finally triggered the trap, I quietly grabbed 10d10, and then made a big production of rolling a crazy amount of dice. My excitement was hard to contain!
When I read the final number, and told 4 out of my 5 players they were vaporized, it was hard to suppress my grin as their faces on Zoom went through a wide range of emotions processing the temporary deaths of their characters, before I made sure to explain their new ghostly state (one of the quests twists). Now, several sessions later, all my players are super wary of touching anything, and have gotten more elaborate in the round about way they pick things up. #ddbstyle.