Major spoilers for the first adventure in Candlekeep Mysteries, Joy of Extradimensional Spaces:
The party goes to every room in the dungeon, except for the secret one on the second floor. Anyways, the mimic nearly kills them but Cumin and Coriander (the homunculi) come in and save the day. Anyways after that, the party is at incredibly low HP, but then they go in and meet the invisible fairy dragons.
The dragons play one to many tricks on the party, and the characters get mad and try to attack. Long story short the party ends up running away at very low HP. Then, they hear the dragons complaining that the party attacked them to the Homunculi, and the party overhears it and they run into the kitchen to attack. They get surprise on the fairy dragons, and deal a bunch of damage, forcing the dragons to run away after only a bit of combat.
The party proceeds to kill Cumin and Coriander, their best allies, for being friends with the fairy dragons. But the party, after killing the Fairy Dragons friends, are worried about the dragons attacking them in their sleep if they try to get a long rest before trying to search for the last puzzlebook they're missing. (They should have just gone into the secret basement but they didn't think of that).
Anyways, the party eventually finds and opens the secret door, and the "Animated Chained Library" nearly kills them all with their low HP. They survive, but only because I have the library try to run away when it could easily win the fight if it stayed in combat.
In short, If they had been able to rest without fear of attack, the combat would have been an easy win. But since the murder-hobos made enemies of their friends, they couldn't rest in their now enemies dungeon, and nearly died because of it! (That's why you shouldn't be a murder-hobo!)
TL;DR (with no spoilers): Party nearly dies after murdering all their allies.
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Picked a fight with the Hags at the Bonegrinder in Barovia at party level 4. I know we’re not the first to make this mistake, but that doesn’t make it any less stupid.
Many years ago, I was playing a trickery cleric by the name of Cyrus Finch. His village had been burned to the ground by marauding hobgoblins, so when he crashed on a desert island and heard that there was a hobgoblin fort in the centre, he and the party’s monk (a dwarf by the name of Friog Helswing) decide to go and cause some chaos. Cyrus used Disguise Self to pass himself of as a hobgoblin captain, while the Friog turned invisible and followed behind. We arrived at the gates and when asked what buisness we had, Cyrus immediately replied that he was a scout that had an important message for the king. As I moved through the various checkpoints at the fort, I was asked this question many times, and always replied with the same answer. A +5 to persuasion allowed me to get right to the throne room, where the king and his court where all arrayed waiting for me. Queue Cyrus and Friog revealing there true forms and proceeding to murder the entire courtroom. We were level 9 at the time, and so proceeded to obliterate the hobgoblins that tried to stop us. The combat ended with remnants of the palace guard crammed at the bottom of a staircase, hiding from us. Eventually they offered us anything we wanted if we could just stop killing them. Friog ignored them and continued teleporting around the city murdering people, but Cyrus decided to have himself crowned… as their king. He promised to rule them wisely and justly, and tried to keep the killing to a minimum.
The very next session, he declared war on a growing undead empire, and lost his entire army in the first battle. To stop the undead from taking his city, he had the party’s wizard set the whole fortress on fire. All the undead were defeated, as was the black dragon leading them, but only three goblins survived. Everyone else in the kingdom was dead by the end of the battle. Cyrus decided to magnanimously release them from his charge, left, and never saw the island again.
I once found a whole in the wall-it was completely dark in the hole-and reached my hand in. A rat bit my hand, and so I decided to kill it. And how did I kill it, you ask? With fire bolt. After it died, I reached in and it was filled with dust. not just from the rat, as my DM later told me, but a spell scroll for chain lightning. This was a level one campaign. I feel really stupid.
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We were playing Wild Beyond the Witchlight recently, me as the DM, when my 11 member party decides do get in a fight with 30 commoners. Somehow they TPK'd, only killing 7 commoners.
We were playing Wild Beyond the Witchlight recently, me as the DM, when my 11 member party decides do get in a fight with 30 commoners. Somehow they TPK'd, only killing 7 commoners.
Wha...
How...???
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That'll do it. The worst part was, I told them at the beginning of the campaign they can beat it without getting into a single fight, and then they get into this fight over someone "accidentally" breaking a glass cup... I man i have some messed up players.
In my campaign, one person who was supposed to be lawful good tried to kill everyone in our group, so I sent my wolf to kill him in a small tunnel (I couldn't fit into it). He didn't attack us again, though! Partially because he physically couldn't...
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There was this guy I was in a gaming group with back in 3.5 Edition. If you've gamed for long, you probably have met the type: very full of himself, convinced he was the smartest person in every room, tends to be extremely condescending to other people, always wants to brag about the stuff they've done and show off how much better they are at being a gamer than you.
So, this game started at 3rd level. He went two levels of wizard and one level of monk because "this is a totally OP combination." In reality, it was about the single most MAD multiclass combo you could make in 3.5, and since we were using the point buy system for character generation it left him with pathetic stats because he needed Strength (for melee damage rolls), Dex (for AC and Finesse), Con (for HP), Intelligence (for spells), and Wisdom (for monk AC and abilities). Only Charisma was left as a dump stat and he insisted on boosting that too because he was convinced he was the party's face despite us having a bard. So his ability scores were mostly 13s.
So we adventured for a while and his character was generally dead weight. Often literally since he would start fights and then get easily trounced because he had low HP, low AC, and low attack modifiers, so he tended to get knocked unconscious pretty easily.
But the part that really takes the cake was one session where we found ourselves on one side of a wide bay and needed to get to the other side. Rather than hiking all the way around it (which would have taken an entire day), we tried to hire a boat to take us across. The charisma characters were negotiating with the boat's owner for passage when That Guy said "this is taking too long, I'm just gonna pay him." Well, the amount we'd been quoted was exorbitant and consequently we were trying to negotiate a more reasonable rate until that point.
We cross the bay and the boat owner uses a signal mirror before we reach the docks. When we get there, we find that there's a crew of thugs waiting for us, since we'd tipped off our captain that we were well-off. They've got crossbows ready. We're considering what to do when That Guy shouts "I attack!" and jumps from the boat up to the dock.
Of course he's immediately subjected to the readied actions from the crossbow wielders and takes damage. Then he's up there in melee by himself. As soon as it's my turn, I jump my dwarven fighter up there to get back-to-back with him so that neither of us can be flanked. I start swinging my axe around, doing pretty well: with a good damage roll I can drop one in a single hit, or two hits if I roll low. Of course, this is not how That Guy rolls, he never tries to work together with the rest of us. So instead he jumps back in the boat and just sort of cowers there because he doesn't even have any ranged weapons. Well, the party won anyway, no thanks to him.
But that's not the stupid part.
The stupid part was a week later when I ran into That Guy at the comic book store and he somehow forgot that I was in that game with him because he tried to tell me about the session he'd just been in where he'd single-handedly saved the party from an ambush that the GM had unfairly rigged against them while everyone else just stood around and praised his awesomeness.
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I can't seem to find it. I'm on a chromebook, if that makes a difference?
I normally use a different computer, but I went on my chromebook just to test and I couldn't find the button either. Sorry I can't help you here, but I think being on a chromebook must make a difference then. Maybe you can post a thread on this while using a different computer or phone?
EDIT/WARNING: We spend the next 15 or so posts discussing technical difficulties, so if you just want to read the stories, then skip to this post HERE.
Major spoilers for the first adventure in Candlekeep Mysteries, Joy of Extradimensional Spaces:
The party goes to every room in the dungeon, except for the secret one on the second floor. Anyways, the mimic nearly kills them but Cumin and Coriander (the homunculi) come in and save the day. Anyways after that, the party is at incredibly low HP, but then they go in and meet the invisible fairy dragons.
The dragons play one to many tricks on the party, and the characters get mad and try to attack. Long story short the party ends up running away at very low HP. Then, they hear the dragons complaining that the party attacked them to the Homunculi, and the party overhears it and they run into the kitchen to attack. They get surprise on the fairy dragons, and deal a bunch of damage, forcing the dragons to run away after only a bit of combat.
The party proceeds to kill Cumin and Coriander, their best allies, for being friends with the fairy dragons. But the party, after killing the Fairy Dragons friends, are worried about the dragons attacking them in their sleep if they try to get a long rest before trying to search for the last puzzlebook they're missing. (They should have just gone into the secret basement but they didn't think of that).
Anyways, the party eventually finds and opens the secret door, and the "Animated Chained Library" nearly kills them all with their low HP. They survive, but only because I have the library try to run away when it could easily win the fight if it stayed in combat.
In short, If they had been able to rest without fear of attack, the combat would have been an easy win. But since the murder-hobos made enemies of their friends, they couldn't rest in their now enemies dungeon, and nearly died because of it! (That's why you shouldn't be a murder-hobo!)
TL;DR (with no spoilers): Party nearly dies after murdering all their allies.
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HERE.Picked a fight with the Hags at the Bonegrinder in Barovia at party level 4. I know we’re not the first to make this mistake, but that doesn’t make it any less stupid.
Many years ago, I was playing a trickery cleric by the name of Cyrus Finch.
His village had been burned to the ground by marauding hobgoblins, so when he crashed on a desert island and heard that there was a hobgoblin fort in the centre, he and the party’s monk (a dwarf by the name of Friog Helswing) decide to go and cause some chaos. Cyrus used Disguise Self to pass himself of as a hobgoblin captain, while the Friog turned invisible and followed behind.
We arrived at the gates and when asked what buisness we had, Cyrus immediately replied that he was a scout that had an important message for the king. As I moved through the various checkpoints at the fort, I was asked this question many times, and always replied with the same answer. A +5 to persuasion allowed me to get right to the throne room, where the king and his court where all arrayed waiting for me. Queue Cyrus and Friog revealing there true forms and proceeding to murder the entire courtroom. We were level 9 at the time, and so proceeded to obliterate the hobgoblins that tried to stop us. The combat ended with remnants of the palace guard crammed at the bottom of a staircase, hiding from us. Eventually they offered us anything we wanted if we could just stop killing them. Friog ignored them and continued teleporting around the city murdering people, but Cyrus decided to have himself crowned… as their king. He promised to rule them wisely and justly, and tried to keep the killing to a minimum.
The very next session, he declared war on a growing undead empire, and lost his entire army in the first battle. To stop the undead from taking his city, he had the party’s wizard set the whole fortress on fire. All the undead were defeated, as was the black dragon leading them, but only three goblins survived. Everyone else in the kingdom was dead by the end of the battle. Cyrus decided to magnanimously release them from his charge, left, and never saw the island again.
Be Excellent to one another. Rock on dude.
I once found a whole in the wall-it was completely dark in the hole-and reached my hand in. A rat bit my hand, and so I decided to kill it. And how did I kill it, you ask? With fire bolt. After it died, I reached in and it was filled with dust. not just from the rat, as my DM later told me, but a spell scroll for chain lightning. This was a level one campaign. I feel really stupid.
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Sorry I'm a day late to correct this, I just saw it.
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We were playing Wild Beyond the Witchlight recently, me as the DM, when my 11 member party decides do get in a fight with 30 commoners. Somehow they TPK'd, only killing 7 commoners.
-Archie
Wha...
How...???
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They rolled 5 nat ones, and the commoners got 3 nat 20's, and 4 dirty 20's
I even used online dice, so it wasn't lucky/unlucky dice or anything.
-Archie
Ahh
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That'll do it. The worst part was, I told them at the beginning of the campaign they can beat it without getting into a single fight, and then they get into this fight over someone "accidentally" breaking a glass cup... I man i have some messed up players.
-Archie
In my campaign, one person who was supposed to be lawful good tried to kill everyone in our group, so I sent my wolf to kill him in a small tunnel (I couldn't fit into it). He didn't attack us again, though! Partially because he physically couldn't...
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I know this is a stupid question, but how do you create a thread?
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You click the 'new thread' button.
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There was this guy I was in a gaming group with back in 3.5 Edition. If you've gamed for long, you probably have met the type: very full of himself, convinced he was the smartest person in every room, tends to be extremely condescending to other people, always wants to brag about the stuff they've done and show off how much better they are at being a gamer than you.
So, this game started at 3rd level. He went two levels of wizard and one level of monk because "this is a totally OP combination." In reality, it was about the single most MAD multiclass combo you could make in 3.5, and since we were using the point buy system for character generation it left him with pathetic stats because he needed Strength (for melee damage rolls), Dex (for AC and Finesse), Con (for HP), Intelligence (for spells), and Wisdom (for monk AC and abilities). Only Charisma was left as a dump stat and he insisted on boosting that too because he was convinced he was the party's face despite us having a bard. So his ability scores were mostly 13s.
So we adventured for a while and his character was generally dead weight. Often literally since he would start fights and then get easily trounced because he had low HP, low AC, and low attack modifiers, so he tended to get knocked unconscious pretty easily.
But the part that really takes the cake was one session where we found ourselves on one side of a wide bay and needed to get to the other side. Rather than hiking all the way around it (which would have taken an entire day), we tried to hire a boat to take us across. The charisma characters were negotiating with the boat's owner for passage when That Guy said "this is taking too long, I'm just gonna pay him." Well, the amount we'd been quoted was exorbitant and consequently we were trying to negotiate a more reasonable rate until that point.
We cross the bay and the boat owner uses a signal mirror before we reach the docks. When we get there, we find that there's a crew of thugs waiting for us, since we'd tipped off our captain that we were well-off. They've got crossbows ready. We're considering what to do when That Guy shouts "I attack!" and jumps from the boat up to the dock.
Of course he's immediately subjected to the readied actions from the crossbow wielders and takes damage. Then he's up there in melee by himself. As soon as it's my turn, I jump my dwarven fighter up there to get back-to-back with him so that neither of us can be flanked. I start swinging my axe around, doing pretty well: with a good damage roll I can drop one in a single hit, or two hits if I roll low. Of course, this is not how That Guy rolls, he never tries to work together with the rest of us. So instead he jumps back in the boat and just sort of cowers there because he doesn't even have any ranged weapons. Well, the party won anyway, no thanks to him.
But that's not the stupid part.
The stupid part was a week later when I ran into That Guy at the comic book store and he somehow forgot that I was in that game with him because he tried to tell me about the session he'd just been in where he'd single-handedly saved the party from an ambush that the GM had unfairly rigged against them while everyone else just stood around and praised his awesomeness.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Where?
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At the top of the sub-forum
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Saleadon Morgul Battle Smith Artificer 11 Tyranny of Dragons (In Person/Over Zoom)
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Hmm...
I can't seem to find it. I'm on a chromebook, if that makes a difference?
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I normally use a different computer, but I went on my chromebook just to test and I couldn't find the button either. Sorry I can't help you here, but I think being on a chromebook must make a difference then. Maybe you can post a thread on this while using a different computer or phone?
EDIT/WARNING: We spend the next 15 or so posts discussing technical difficulties, so if you just want to read the stories, then skip to this post HERE.
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HERE.I could try. Thanks for the info!
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Happy to help! Sad I couldn't do more:)
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HERE.