What are the stupidest things you or your party ever did in D&D?
My stories:
1: My all evil party has 1 PC run into a goblin base alone for no reason. 1 other character follows a bit after him, but cant find him. The other 2 members of the party eventually follow. Soon, the characters are all split up and individualy are no match for THE MIGHTY GOBLINS. TPK.
2. The party is in an abandoned city, a massive ferocious gang of orcs wants to take it over, (contrary to my advice) the players open the drawbridge to "chat" with the orcs. Believe it or not, only one of the characters die.
3. One of my friends was fighting some bandits in a wooden tavern. They decided to castfire bolt,missed, and set the whole tavern on fire.
I had a party member who played a Lizardfok Ranger and he had an INT score of 5(Which he willingly put in INT and hasn't increased it at all) and due to being so stupid and the fact he wanted to play a hilarious character he looked directly into the sun for a whole 2 minutes and ended up Blinded for the rest of the day.
My waterdeep dragon heist party has been obsessed with collecting purple things ever since they met Xoblob. Not super stupid but pretty funny imo when they search for purple literally everywhere they go
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Our party was tasked with finding a missing artificer who we knew had a steel defender. My ranger tried to calm the steel defender by offering metal treats.
My players entered a town of hostile factions, openly wore the colors of a rival faction and got into a shouting match with someone on the street who said it was ill-advised, Polymorphed a guard who came to keep the peace, incited a panic, then decided to hide from the ensuing chase by running into the middle of a parade and casting Wall of Fire.
I played Yakkity Sax for the entire rest of the session. I love my group of absolute chaotic idiots.
Okay. So two campaigns back I was playing a brass dragonborn draconic sorcerer. He was basically Jafar from Aladdin, but with scales. Total glass cannon, and pretty much all my spells were fire-based. So I took the Elemental Adept feat to make sure my fire spells could hurt even creatures with fire resistance.
So the party is in Waterdeep (in a homebrew campaign) and some demons are hunting for the warlock in our party (long story). They tracked us to the hotel we're staying in. Two demons jump in through the window in each of our rooms in the middle of the night. I wake up, see two demons in my room about to kill me. I know I only have one chance, so I hit them with the biggest baddest spell I've got. Fireball at 5th level. They might be resistant to fire, but they're not resistant to MY fire!
So the DM asks me if I'm sure. That should have been a clue. I'm in a 10 ft by 15 ft room. Fireball has a 20 ft radius. I figure fine, I'll risk it. I'll just drink a potion next round, since brass dragonborn are resistant to fire damage. So the 10d6 damage was enough to kill one of the demons, and severely injured the other. Then the DM tells me that I took the full damage too. That's when I remembered that Elemental Adept overcomes MY fire resistance too! Plus I just set the entire hotel on fire.
We ended winning the fight, just barely. But we also had to pay hundreds of GP for repairs.
Our party received information that a local tavern was a front for illegal activity. Since we were looking for an artifact that was most likely being traded on the black market, we thought it’d be a good idea to investigate.
Thing is, the “illegal activity” tended to happen at night; and our party went there in the middle of the day.
So when our Fighter decided to “intimidate” the blokes he thought were the crooks running the tavern…by shooting the ceiling with his gun…he inadvertently unleashed chaos, because the only people there at the time were innocent workers & civilians.
The Warlock flew out the window…our Rogue and Fighter fled along the rooftops…passing a poor fool who got shot in the foot by the Fighter’s initial gunshot…and the Paladin led the city guards on a city-wide chase on his Steed, after summoning it inside the tavern & crashing through the front door.
There was also the time our party nearly murdered an entire village…of entirely peaceful…kobolds.
With magic rocks.
Our warlock at the time was a bad influence.
About halfway through the fight we began to realize something was amiss when they weren’t fighting back.
My paladin…which was going to be a Conquest Paladin at the time…was so shaken by the event that they actually swore an Oath of Redemption when they leveled.
We were on a mission to rescue an npc who was going to be killed for a crime he didn't commit. Our party split up three went to break the kid out of prison, two stayed behind and two of us went to convince the mayor to let the kid go. I was one of the players who went to go talk to the major. The party's mistake was letting the two dumbest characters talk to the major alone. My character a blue dragonborn with an intelligence score of 6 and another player whose character is a green dragonborn with only slightly higher intelligence (and also has a history of being a murderhobo). Long story short, my character broke into the mayor's room by breaking off the doorknob, both of us got tied of the mayor, I thew the doorknob at his face, and knocked him out. I then threw the doorknob at the glass window, breaking it, and a few high rolls later had the town convinced that the mayor had been kidnapped by a dark-haired paladin (long story). The party somehow managed to escape with the npc we freed. Unfortunately, us dragonborn had brought the mayor along. My character got the bright idea of electrocuting his head to make him forget the ordeal by spitting in his face... Yeah he's dead now. We have yet to see the consequences.
My party sneaked in the back door of a chapel and saw the evil cleric standing in the chancel, at the altar. Without looking around, they attacked. At that point, the entire congregation of about fifty evil cultists (who had been kneeling) stood up...
My party sneaked in the back door of a chapel and saw the evil cleric standing in the chancel, at the altar. Without looking around, they attacked. At that point, the entire congregation of about fifty evil cultists (who had been kneeling) stood up...
What are the stupidest things you or your party ever did in D&D?
My stories:
1: My all evil party has 1 PC run into a goblin base alone for no reason. 1 other character follows a bit after him, but cant find him. The other 2 members of the party eventually follow. Soon, the characters are all split up and individualy are no match for THE MIGHTY GOBLINS. TPK.
2. The party is in an abandoned city, a massive ferocious gang of orcs wants to take it over, (contrary to my advice) the players open the drawbridge to "chat" with the orcs. Believe it or not, only one of the characters die.
3. One of my friends was fighting some bandits in a wooden tavern. They decided to cast fire bolt, missed, and set the whole tavern on fire.
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HERE.I had a party member who played a Lizardfok Ranger and he had an INT score of 5(Which he willingly put in INT and hasn't increased it at all) and due to being so stupid and the fact he wanted to play a hilarious character he looked directly into the sun for a whole 2 minutes and ended up Blinded for the rest of the day.
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Awesome, LOL!
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HERE.Lizardfolk: eh who cares it's just the sun, nothing to bright to stare at.
Lizardfolk 2 min later: This is fine.
Lol instead!
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My waterdeep dragon heist party has been obsessed with collecting purple things ever since they met Xoblob. Not super stupid but pretty funny imo when they search for purple literally everywhere they go
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Our party was tasked with finding a missing artificer who we knew had a steel defender. My ranger tried to calm the steel defender by offering metal treats.
My players entered a town of hostile factions, openly wore the colors of a rival faction and got into a shouting match with someone on the street who said it was ill-advised, Polymorphed a guard who came to keep the peace, incited a panic, then decided to hide from the ensuing chase by running into the middle of a parade and casting Wall of Fire.
I played Yakkity Sax for the entire rest of the session. I love my group of absolute chaotic idiots.
I can't think of anything that dumb but once my party of three took on a manticore with a pot and boomerang. AT FIRST LEVEL!
Ok that's funny but I'm curious, were you trying to TPK because a Manticore is CR 3 and you put it against a 1st level party lol
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I did not expect them to make that the first thing they would do.
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Okay. So two campaigns back I was playing a brass dragonborn draconic sorcerer. He was basically Jafar from Aladdin, but with scales. Total glass cannon, and pretty much all my spells were fire-based. So I took the Elemental Adept feat to make sure my fire spells could hurt even creatures with fire resistance.
So the party is in Waterdeep (in a homebrew campaign) and some demons are hunting for the warlock in our party (long story). They tracked us to the hotel we're staying in. Two demons jump in through the window in each of our rooms in the middle of the night. I wake up, see two demons in my room about to kill me. I know I only have one chance, so I hit them with the biggest baddest spell I've got. Fireball at 5th level. They might be resistant to fire, but they're not resistant to MY fire!
So the DM asks me if I'm sure. That should have been a clue. I'm in a 10 ft by 15 ft room. Fireball has a 20 ft radius. I figure fine, I'll risk it. I'll just drink a potion next round, since brass dragonborn are resistant to fire damage. So the 10d6 damage was enough to kill one of the demons, and severely injured the other. Then the DM tells me that I took the full damage too. That's when I remembered that Elemental Adept overcomes MY fire resistance too! Plus I just set the entire hotel on fire.
We ended winning the fight, just barely. But we also had to pay hundreds of GP for repairs.
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Our party received information that a local tavern was a front for illegal activity. Since we were looking for an artifact that was most likely being traded on the black market, we thought it’d be a good idea to investigate.
Thing is, the “illegal activity” tended to happen at night; and our party went there in the middle of the day.
So when our Fighter decided to “intimidate” the blokes he thought were the crooks running the tavern…by shooting the ceiling with his gun…he inadvertently unleashed chaos, because the only people there at the time were innocent workers & civilians.
The Warlock flew out the window…our Rogue and Fighter fled along the rooftops…passing a poor fool who got shot in the foot by the Fighter’s initial gunshot…and the Paladin led the city guards on a city-wide chase on his Steed, after summoning it inside the tavern & crashing through the front door.
It sure wasn’t at first level…but our party’s Eldritch Knight Fighter once grappled a manticore for nearly 10 rounds of combat.
There was also the time our party nearly murdered an entire village…of entirely peaceful…kobolds.
With magic rocks.
Our warlock at the time was a bad influence.
About halfway through the fight we began to realize something was amiss when they weren’t fighting back.
My paladin…which was going to be a Conquest Paladin at the time…was so shaken by the event that they actually swore an Oath of Redemption when they leveled.
We were on a mission to rescue an npc who was going to be killed for a crime he didn't commit. Our party split up three went to break the kid out of prison, two stayed behind and two of us went to convince the mayor to let the kid go. I was one of the players who went to go talk to the major. The party's mistake was letting the two dumbest characters talk to the major alone. My character a blue dragonborn with an intelligence score of 6 and another player whose character is a green dragonborn with only slightly higher intelligence (and also has a history of being a murderhobo). Long story short, my character broke into the mayor's room by breaking off the doorknob, both of us got tied of the mayor, I thew the doorknob at his face, and knocked him out. I then threw the doorknob at the glass window, breaking it, and a few high rolls later had the town convinced that the mayor had been kidnapped by a dark-haired paladin (long story). The party somehow managed to escape with the npc we freed. Unfortunately, us dragonborn had brought the mayor along. My character got the bright idea of electrocuting his head to make him forget the ordeal by spitting in his face... Yeah he's dead now. We have yet to see the consequences.
My party sneaked in the back door of a chapel and saw the evil cleric standing in the chancel, at the altar. Without looking around, they attacked. At that point, the entire congregation of about fifty evil cultists (who had been kneeling) stood up...
We'll be right back...
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