- "This lair is full of undead without intelligence which will show up and attack you without any sort of strategy." > The Paladin proceeds spamming Divine Sense at every corner.

- A Barbarian miscalculated his movement, so he tried to throw his greataxe against an enemy. Rolled a natural 1, so the greataxe went far away and he was unarmed. He tried to kill 2 Dire Wolf with unarmed strikes for the next 4 rounds.

Not carrying a backup weapon of any sort on a melee character was the real stupidity.

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- "This lair is full of undead without intelligence which will show up and attack you without any sort of strategy." > The Paladin proceeds spamming Divine Sense at every corner.

- A Barbarian miscalculated his movement, so he tried to throw his greataxe against an enemy. Rolled a natural 1, so the greataxe went far away and he was unarmed. He tried to kill 2 Dire Wolf with unarmed strikes for the next 4 rounds.

 Why didn't he use the javelins that all barbarians start with‽‽‽

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 Why didn't he use the javelins that all barbarians start with‽‽‽

I think the reason is the same why the druid doesn't use the Staff of the Viper she found. They forget what they have at their disposal.

This was an online campaign, during the beginning of our first session the dm who doesn't know much about DnD and the actual DnD player who knows how to play (since it was the first time for the rest of us) had an argument. The former said to not use a book and to just rp since its complicated, the latter said that its how you play the game and yeah, they almost broke their own friendship apart due to the entire argument. I didn't know how this worked back then so I just went with whatever but it was cancelled, a day after this a friend of ours joined our campaign late 😭

So I had planned out very meticulously an encounter with a group of Zealot Barbarians who were trying to ritualistically sacrifice an entire village of people closely tied to the party. And I was expecting it to be a frantic battle against powerful warriors while simultaneously trying to save the NPCs that they know and love from being burned alive. However my party instead had the brilliant idea of using their magic to impersonate their God and say that “I don’t want a sacrifice of weak commoners! I would much rather have a larger sacrifice of grand warriors” so pretty much they started a thunder dome and had my entire encounter defeat itself so I sent forth their real God who was really angry that they had intruded on his sacrifice. So now they’re going on a whole quest to appease this God instead of what I had originally intended to be a short side quest of saving a village. *sigh* why didn’t I see this coming…

That sucks… wow that really sucks 

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So I had planned out very meticulously an encounter with a group of Zealot Barbarians who were trying to ritualistically sacrifice an entire village of people closely tied to the party. And I was expecting it to be a frantic battle against powerful warriors while simultaneously trying to save the NPCs that they know and love from being burned alive. However my party instead had the brilliant idea of using their magic to impersonate their God and say that “I don’t want a sacrifice of weak commoners! I would much rather have a larger sacrifice of grand warriors” so pretty much they started a thunder dome and had my entire encounter defeat itself so I sent forth their real God who was really angry that they had intruded on his sacrifice. So now they’re going on a whole quest to appease this God instead of what I had originally intended to be a short side quest of saving a village. *sigh* why didn’t I see this coming…

 Never count on the adventure going the way you expect it to.

New stupid thing! My players during a small fight with cultists during session 0.

Harry: I want to use prestidigitation to make him pee his pants.

Me: Alright, have at it.

Artificer: I wish to enchant his cloak so that every time we hit him, it yells "I PEED MY PANTS"

While it was good fun to describe this every single action until the Cult Fanatic died, I can say, without a doubt, that my party is incredibly immature.

I absolutely had to pitch in because I love my players so, so very much. 
Is it stupid? Yes. Did it work? Also yes. 
This is the story of the stealthiest fighter I've ever seen.
To set the scene, the party was in a kingdom with a very corrupt ruler. One of the party members was disguised as the ruler's dead brother, and they were having an argument. Meanwhile, the fighter and the rogue were sneaking around looking for intel. The fighter, I will note, was in half plate armor.
The duo discovered the ruler's crown carried special powers and, if they wanted a chance of beating him, they needed to steal it. Did they wait for the king to start his trance for the night (Eladrin) or for him to leave it in his room? No. No they did not.
The fighter decided to pull a mission impossible, and hang upside-down from a chandelier, to pluck it off of his head. I had him roll Stealth, with disadvantage. Two 21s. Sleight of Hand? Same story.

So, needless to say, the final battle of that particular kingdom was a little bit less balanced than it was supposed to be lol. 
This isn't even the most ridiculous thing they've done so far in my homebrew campaign, but it's my favorite. 

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1. I was running Wild beyond the Witchlight with my friends, and two of my friends found mushrooms. In the Feywild, all mushrooms are psychedelics, but I made the mistake of telling them that. They spent the rest of the session begging to eat them.

2. In that same session, one of my friends kept trying to seduce every creature the party encountered.

 Welcome to my life

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 Why didn't he use the javelins that all barbarians start with‽‽‽

 

I think the reason is the same why the druid doesn't use the Staff of the Viper she found. They forget what they have at their disposal.

 hold on druids can use staffs?

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 Why didn't he use the javelins that all barbarians start with‽‽‽

 

I think the reason is the same why the druid doesn't use the Staff of the Viper she found. They forget what they have at their disposal.

 hold on druids can use staffs?

 They can use quarterstaffs clubs daggers darts javelins maces scimitars sickles slings and spears

Although the viper staff they are talking about is a magical staff it might be something else or it could be the Staff of the adder or the staff of the python both can be attuned by a Druid 

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One of my players decided to be a Sorcerer. Being the chaos gremlin he is, he asked me if he could roll on the wild magic surge table after every spell he casts (instead of just when he gets a 1). Thinking it would be interesting, I let him. He came back for the next session with 11 new tables to be roll on. That way he'd never get the same effect twice in the same session. Still intrigued, I went with it. The thing is, I forgot to read the effects that he came up with. Long story short, he accidently permanently turned everything within a mile radius black (including the PCs and NPCs), he put every human in the town to sleep (including the party's cleric and paladin), he shrunk himself and enlarged the bad guy, he lit half the town on fire and froze the other half, he charmed every dwarf in the town, he poisoned all the food and water, and he animated every weapon in the town (they were NOT friendly). He also somehow seriously buffed the Bard's Vicious Mockery, so the Bard one-shot the Wolf King (the leader of the pack of wolves attacking the village) by calling his mother a wereboar (which wasn't far from the truth). As you can probably tell, I use a lot of homebrew. This was probably a mistake, but in order to induce creativity in my players, I told them that if they come up with any idea that isn't too OP, makes sense with their character, and will make everything more interesting and fun, I'd let them do it.

 Oh my goodness this had me laughing so hard help 😭🙏

HELP- Why was your first action to start a fight in a tavern 😭

I have a very similar story to the third one.

taverns are where you should fight. It's called XP farming. Obviously the characters are the most powerful there. A wizard need just cast Burning Hands a couple times.

Big oof

True. True.