During Curse of Strahd, my party members were captured by Strahd at Wizards of Wine, dragged into the forest and taken to the castle. I managed to evade capture and then snuck into Castle Ravenloft to rescue the other party members. Once I had managed to release them from their cells, we began looking for a way out of the castle.
While trying to find my way out of the castle I decided to look behind a few doors. Unfortunately, one of the doors I opened was to Strahd’s study and he was inside! I cast disguise self to make myself look like one of the thralls, but I failed the stealth check, so he heard me come into the room and turned around to look at me. I rolled a natural 20 on a performance check and managed to convince him I was one of his thralls, so I escaped without harm.
The party found themselves in the middle of the desert, stranded with no water or food, searching for scraps under the shade of the remains of a dragon skull halfway into the sand. The earth shakes and tremors shuffle the sands at their feet. A party member runs out believing there must be a creature to kill and food to harvest. From below the sand parts as a sandworm reaches up under the feet of our beloved Ragna. He steps between the teeth under him and uses his shield to hold open the mouth of the worm using all of his might. (Nat20) Ragna is able to keep holding on as the party, tired and exhausted rush out to help. The ranger, Wulfstan ties a rope to his arrow before shooting it through the mouth of the worm as it struggles to bite down on Ragna. In a flash he takes the rope and lunges forward being pulled by the party at the same time, (another Nat20 by Ragna and then a miraculous double Nat20 at disadvantage by the group due to exhaustion). Ragna is pulled from the mouth of what would have been a sure and very painful death onto the sands below as the sandworm dives back into the earth and the party makes way back under the shade of the dragonskull nearby.
In Princes of the Apocalypse, we were fighting a bunch of cultists and a Wereboar. During the fight, my Half-Orc Battlemaster scored a Nat 20 an against the wereboar:
Double Greatsword and Battlemaster maneuver damage plus another 1d6 because of my Half-Orcs Savage Attacks feature! I rolled so well I ended up doing about 50 damage!.... Only to realize my weapon wasn't magical or silver.... thus the Wereboar was immune to all of it....... But after we won the fight we kept him alive to interrogate and LITTERALY hogtied him, so it worked out in the end!
I was DM'ing RotFM and the party were fighting a pair of undead giants. Amazingly they didn't take a single hit for the most part...until I rolled a nat 20 to hit the bard. Now this bard had 34 max hp and my crit did 67 points. The look on his face was understandably horrified! We went on to finish the adventure and had an amazing time doing so, Bard intact!
#DDBStyle my party was in a fight to the death, gladiator style and we were not doing well. My rogue Ander took a shot at the other side's leader. Nat20 with sneak attack swung the battle completely around and we ended up winning.
My party was playing Sunless Citadel and I (half elf wizard) used fireball on the tree and some Twig Blights at the end… and our rogue. He failed the dex save, but we remembered he got bardic inspiration. He rolled that and barely passed. Good times #DDBStyle
My best dice story (as a player)... when we encountered our first Dragon in a homebrew campaign. We were wandering around a cavern, with a bunch of dead goblins and other low level critters. As we came into a large cavern room, we could smell the death and decay, even it it was too large to see the far walls or the ceiling.
The dragon was perched on a high ledge waiting of anyone to wander in.
"Thanks for making it so easy," it growled in a guttural tone as it dropped.
As part of the first round of combat, my paladin used her divine power to target the creature, so I had advantage on all attacks for one minute (great since as a reformed thief I had two weapon and an off hand attack).
We surrounded the huge creature and attacked. It was able to knock down two of our players, but the tank fighter and the ranged sorcerer were up along with me. As I attacked, my first attack missed, but my second hit with a nat 20 thanks to the advantage. I pumped as much into channel divinity as I could, along with my meager backstab (I'm a reformed thief) doing well over 75 points on the one attack.
Then the DM said those favorite words we all like to hear "How do you want to do this?" The table erupted in cheers of celebration.
We were fighting the final BBEG of the campaign and the DM had him break his staff with a Sphere of Annihilation. I rolled a DEX save and if I failed my character would have died. Not only did I succeed, I kick him into a pool of lava. Then jumped in to finish the job. #DDBStyle
I was DM'ing a group in a Greek mythology-based campaign. The players were badly wounded in a tomb of undead and it was verging on a TPK, which worried me greatly. The Telkhine necromancer leading the group of undead was attempting to escape, and just then one of the players hurled a spear on his turn, scoring a critical hit and dealing enough damage to the necromancer to kill him, disintegrating the undead who were attacking the group. Everyone now remembers this event as one of the campaign highlights.
I was playing a Monk and fighting as a Tank against a Gladiator who was handling myself and my party. He killed me on some stairs, and I went down, but got a nat20 on my death save on my turn, punched him between the legs for the kill! #DDBStyle.
I recently rolled my favorite nat 20. We were in combat against 2 strange figures, I was playing a monk who’s an child acrobat, everyone else was down and I was down to my last 5 hit point with only 1 key point left. I then proceeded to try and flip and strike one enemy with my quaterstaff 2 handed then flurry of blows the other one. This was it, I rolled a high preformance check for the flip and when it came time to see if I hit the first enemy . . . i rolled a nat 20 crushin his skull in, I then whipped to the side took my movement up to the other enemy and killed him with my flurry of blows, ending a deadly combat in one Massive damaged turn. #DDBStyle
First actual D&D session that our board game group played together. I had written a silly adventure, the players had just escaped the starting town, and they found some horses tied to a guard outpost. They decided the best way to steal the horses was to start a fire in the forest that surrounded the town and lure the guards away to deal with the fire.
I asked for a Survival or Nature check or something to see how quickly and effectively they could start the fire. A friend rolled: natural 20. The ensuing inferno certainly distracted the guards and burned down half the town. The players scrambled to get the horses untied before the fire and smoked kill them all.
Later in the adventure when the players were supposed to return to the town as heroes, the townsfolk complained bitterly about some malcontents who had nearly destroyed the town with a forest fire. The players kept their mouths shut and their faces hidden.
My son is on the spectrum and never speaks. Every time he rolls the dice he has a verbal reaction. The NAT 20s always get an "OHHHH YEAH!!!" I owe DnD so much. It has helped me discover so much about my son and made our bond stronger. #DDBStyle
It was my first campaign, and my group and I were up against the demon lord that had been terrorizing us the entire campaign. Both my teammates were down and I was down to 1HP. With my last 3 attacks, I rolled two nat 1s and then a nat 20 for the win. #DDBStyle
It was my first D&D campaign, I was playing a Dwarf Ranger. I had been killed in a duel and brought back as an undead. I was told that I had to steal the artifact my party was supposed to be delivering to get my "Dwarfmanity" back. The party got tipped off that someone was planning to betray them. Zone of truth was cast, and I failed the saving throw. Never has my stomach dropped so fast.
A hoard of goblins were coming towards my party from a cellar. With everyone unsure of what to do next I decided to be gutsy with my Paladin and tried to intimidate them. Rolled a nat 20. #DDBStyle
Hands down the time in Rise of Tiamat where half our team was struggling to maintain HP and the first dragon we came across was about to fly away but my dragonborn got an attack of opportunity. I critted and killed it!
Later the DM noted that I wouldn't have been able to kill if I hadn't critted on my roll!
Battled a hydra with my wizard and only a blood hunter as a companion, the 2 of us vs this monster, it was close, but when I rolled the damage for fireball and got all 5's and 6's I knew that the tide of the battle had turned. #DDBStyle
Our CN turning CG 1/2 Orc was participating in a fight that was quickly going south. The Paladin (who was trying to convert the 1/2 orc) had just fallen. He dropped to his knees and prayed to the Paladin's diety saying he'd change his ways and build a shrine in his honor if he would but just assist them.
The DM gave him a 5% chance that any deity would respond, and then when he made the roll, rolled for WHICH diety.
A CE god responded "Eat the Heart of the Paladin and the power will be yours!".
"Meh, sure." (plunged his fist into the paladin's chest)
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During Curse of Strahd, my party members were captured by Strahd at Wizards of Wine, dragged into the forest and taken to the castle. I managed to evade capture and then snuck into Castle Ravenloft to rescue the other party members. Once I had managed to release them from their cells, we began looking for a way out of the castle.
While trying to find my way out of the castle I decided to look behind a few doors. Unfortunately, one of the doors I opened was to Strahd’s study and he was inside! I cast disguise self to make myself look like one of the thralls, but I failed the stealth check, so he heard me come into the room and turned around to look at me. I rolled a natural 20 on a performance check and managed to convince him I was one of his thralls, so I escaped without harm.
#DDBStyle
The party found themselves in the middle of the desert, stranded with no water or food, searching for scraps under the shade of the remains of a dragon skull halfway into the sand. The earth shakes and tremors shuffle the sands at their feet. A party member runs out believing there must be a creature to kill and food to harvest. From below the sand parts as a sandworm reaches up under the feet of our beloved Ragna. He steps between the teeth under him and uses his shield to hold open the mouth of the worm using all of his might. (Nat20) Ragna is able to keep holding on as the party, tired and exhausted rush out to help. The ranger, Wulfstan ties a rope to his arrow before shooting it through the mouth of the worm as it struggles to bite down on Ragna. In a flash he takes the rope and lunges forward being pulled by the party at the same time, (another Nat20 by Ragna and then a miraculous double Nat20 at disadvantage by the group due to exhaustion). Ragna is pulled from the mouth of what would have been a sure and very painful death onto the sands below as the sandworm dives back into the earth and the party makes way back under the shade of the dragonskull nearby.
#DDBStyle Thanks for this opportunity!
In Princes of the Apocalypse, we were fighting a bunch of cultists and a Wereboar. During the fight, my Half-Orc Battlemaster scored a Nat 20 an against the wereboar:
Double Greatsword and Battlemaster maneuver damage plus another 1d6 because of my Half-Orcs Savage Attacks feature! I rolled so well I ended up doing about 50 damage!.... Only to realize my weapon wasn't magical or silver.... thus the Wereboar was immune to all of it....... But after we won the fight we kept him alive to interrogate and LITTERALY hogtied him, so it worked out in the end!
#DDBStyle
I was DM'ing RotFM and the party were fighting a pair of undead giants. Amazingly they didn't take a single hit for the most part...until I rolled a nat 20 to hit the bard. Now this bard had 34 max hp and my crit did 67 points. The look on his face was understandably horrified! We went on to finish the adventure and had an amazing time doing so, Bard intact!
#DDBStyle
#DDBStyle my party was in a fight to the death, gladiator style and we were not doing well. My rogue Ander took a shot at the other side's leader. Nat20 with sneak attack swung the battle completely around and we ended up winning.
My party was playing Sunless Citadel and I (half elf wizard) used fireball on the tree and some Twig Blights at the end… and our rogue. He failed the dex save, but we remembered he got bardic inspiration. He rolled that and barely passed. Good times #DDBStyle
My best dice story (as a player)... when we encountered our first Dragon in a homebrew campaign. We were wandering around a cavern, with a bunch of dead goblins and other low level critters. As we came into a large cavern room, we could smell the death and decay, even it it was too large to see the far walls or the ceiling.
The dragon was perched on a high ledge waiting of anyone to wander in.
"Thanks for making it so easy," it growled in a guttural tone as it dropped.
As part of the first round of combat, my paladin used her divine power to target the creature, so I had advantage on all attacks for one minute (great since as a reformed thief I had two weapon and an off hand attack).
We surrounded the huge creature and attacked. It was able to knock down two of our players, but the tank fighter and the ranged sorcerer were up along with me. As I attacked, my first attack missed, but my second hit with a nat 20 thanks to the advantage. I pumped as much into channel divinity as I could, along with my meager backstab (I'm a reformed thief) doing well over 75 points on the one attack.
Then the DM said those favorite words we all like to hear "How do you want to do this?" The table erupted in cheers of celebration.
#DDBStyle
We were fighting the final BBEG of the campaign and the DM had him break his staff with a Sphere of Annihilation. I rolled a DEX save and if I failed my character would have died. Not only did I succeed, I kick him into a pool of lava. Then jumped in to finish the job. #DDBStyle
Rolling a nat 1 trying to avoid dragon fear...get downed but a nat 20 deathsave and back up!
#DDBStyle
I was DM'ing a group in a Greek mythology-based campaign. The players were badly wounded in a tomb of undead and it was verging on a TPK, which worried me greatly. The Telkhine necromancer leading the group of undead was attempting to escape, and just then one of the players hurled a spear on his turn, scoring a critical hit and dealing enough damage to the necromancer to kill him, disintegrating the undead who were attacking the group. Everyone now remembers this event as one of the campaign highlights.
#DDBStyle
I was playing a Monk and fighting as a Tank against a Gladiator who was handling myself and my party. He killed me on some stairs, and I went down, but got a nat20 on my death save on my turn, punched him between the legs for the kill! #DDBStyle.
I recently rolled my favorite nat 20. We were in combat against 2 strange figures, I was playing a monk who’s an child acrobat, everyone else was down and I was down to my last 5 hit point with only 1 key point left. I then proceeded to try and flip and strike one enemy with my quaterstaff 2 handed then flurry of blows the other one. This was it, I rolled a high preformance check for the flip and when it came time to see if I hit the first enemy . . . i rolled a nat 20 crushin his skull in, I then whipped to the side took my movement up to the other enemy and killed him with my flurry of blows, ending a deadly combat in one Massive damaged turn. #DDBStyle
First actual D&D session that our board game group played together. I had written a silly adventure, the players had just escaped the starting town, and they found some horses tied to a guard outpost. They decided the best way to steal the horses was to start a fire in the forest that surrounded the town and lure the guards away to deal with the fire.
I asked for a Survival or Nature check or something to see how quickly and effectively they could start the fire. A friend rolled: natural 20. The ensuing inferno certainly distracted the guards and burned down half the town. The players scrambled to get the horses untied before the fire and smoked kill them all.
Later in the adventure when the players were supposed to return to the town as heroes, the townsfolk complained bitterly about some malcontents who had nearly destroyed the town with a forest fire. The players kept their mouths shut and their faces hidden.
#DDBStyle
My son is on the spectrum and never speaks. Every time he rolls the dice he has a verbal reaction. The NAT 20s always get an "OHHHH YEAH!!!" I owe DnD so much. It has helped me discover so much about my son and made our bond stronger. #DDBStyle
It was my first campaign, and my group and I were up against the demon lord that had been terrorizing us the entire campaign. Both my teammates were down and I was down to 1HP. With my last 3 attacks, I rolled two nat 1s and then a nat 20 for the win. #DDBStyle
It was my first D&D campaign, I was playing a Dwarf Ranger. I had been killed in a duel and brought back as an undead. I was told that I had to steal the artifact my party was supposed to be delivering to get my "Dwarfmanity" back. The party got tipped off that someone was planning to betray them. Zone of truth was cast, and I failed the saving throw. Never has my stomach dropped so fast.
#DDBStyle
A hoard of goblins were coming towards my party from a cellar. With everyone unsure of what to do next I decided to be gutsy with my Paladin and tried to intimidate them. Rolled a nat 20. #DDBStyle
Battled a hydra with my wizard and only a blood hunter as a companion, the 2 of us vs this monster, it was close, but when I rolled the damage for fireball and got all 5's and 6's I knew that the tide of the battle had turned. #DDBStyle
Our CN turning CG 1/2 Orc was participating in a fight that was quickly going south. The Paladin (who was trying to convert the 1/2 orc) had just fallen.
He dropped to his knees and prayed to the Paladin's diety saying he'd change his ways and build a shrine in his honor if he would but just assist them.
The DM gave him a 5% chance that any deity would respond, and then when he made the roll, rolled for WHICH diety.
A CE god responded "Eat the Heart of the Paladin and the power will be yours!".
"Meh, sure." (plunged his fist into the paladin's chest)