In a highly modified version of Curse of Strahd that I've been playing in, we are currently in the Amber Temple and there was an invisible death slaad behind a magically-locked door that the DM later told would only attack us if we did not take any of the deals from the amber sarcophagi in that room. Thankfully, the party wizard took a deal to get Truesight, and we were spared the wrath of the slaad for now... but a slight problem comes in due to how we got into that room in the first place....
I'm playing a warlock who is somewhat stupid and approaches things in a very straightforward manner, and upon encountering a magically-sealed door, she didn't want to have anything to do with a puzzle and immediately began using her magic pact weapon to Attack the door and break it down. The DM allowed me to do this and our ranger also pitched in, and after a few attacks we broke the entire amber door apart. So now that death slaad is no longer stuck in a magically-sealed room.
Later that night, while we were taking a long rest, our fighter was on watch and got approached by the faceless corpse of a wizard we had met earlier in the temple being possessed by some sort of aberration that asked to eat some of her blood, on threat of taking our blood in our sleep and/or going to kill some innocent people camping in the temple if she did not give her blood to it. She conceded and gave the creature some of her blood, and it thanked her and walked out of the Amber Temple. We later hypothesized that the thing possessing that guy's corpse might have been the death slaad and that I freed it from the Amber Temple by destroying that door, but we have not received confirmation yet. Either way, whoops!
During the 2020 election I did a homebrew campaign which was basically a parody of the political landscape turned up to extreme levels of absurdity. Basically, everything that one side accused the other of was assumed to be true and even worse than imagined.
To infiltrate the Villains Guild, the PCs had to do some quests for them. Since both politicians running for Princeps were employing the services of the Villains' Guild, the players could either try to help the billionaire real-estate mogul commit voter intimidation, or the geriatric corrupt career politician commit voter fraud.
The PCs discovered that the former was in love with his own daughter, and the latter was a pederast. The PCs went to the Senate and introduced legislation to ban pædophiles from holding public office in an attempt to prevent either candidate from eligibility. A Natural 1 at the critical moment resulted in the old men of the Senate rejecting the legislation unanimously and affirming the right of pædophiles to hold office. It was an ingenious plan that I hadn't accounted for, but I let the story go as the dice roll, and in this case it led to a memorably moment of absurdity that we laugh about to this day.
I was doing a combat simulator with my friend once. He was playing a Bard with vicious mockery. He casts Vicious mockery monster rolls Nat 20 on the save. Next turn vicious mockery again. A SECOND NAT 20 FROM THE MONSTER.
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In the same game I was playing a kobold warlock eldritch cannon and using pack tactics with familiar. I rolled to hit nat 1(it was cocked) I roll again nat 1. I roll again (because advantage) NAT 1!!!!
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In the same game I was playing a kobold warlock eldritch cannon and using pack tactics with familiar. I rolled to hit nat 1(it was cocked) I roll again nat 1. I roll again (because advantage) NAT 1!!!!
The odds of that are a literal 1 in 8000. LOL.
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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.
You are not a real adventurer until you burn down your fist tavern.
During a curse of Strahd game, our party encountered him whilst trying to cross a bridge over a deep ravine. He taunted us, riding his Nightmare steed, flying about twenty feet from the edge of the bridge. My Paladin takes a flying leap to grapple Strahd, knowing if I failed I had a misty step on standby to save me. The party Order of the Lycan Bloodhunter, in werewolf mode, had no such safety net, and leapt after me trying to do the same thing. I managed to grapple the nightmare, he managed to actually knock Strahd from the saddle. They both plummeted to the bottom of the ravine, the Bloodhunter died on impact.
Last campaign (Princes of Apocalypse), my character (halfling monk), and two other characters (tiefling sorcerer, and half-elf paladin) disturb two flame guardians, a salamander and some efreeti plus cultists and fanatics.
We run away hide in a store room, thinking to let them past and then sneak away. However, our sorcerer in his infinite wisdom decided to make a bell ringing sound just as they were passing room - if we stayed quiet they were going to pass (we were able to enter the room stealthily before they could see us)
Major fight ensues and we survive somehow. A lot of it came down to the sorcerer being able to control monster etc so was able to make the flame guardian attack the other enemies.
(And the other four members of the party were somewhere completely different)
Second one, in Waterdeep Dragon Heist, two of the party tried to bluff their way into the guard house and talk to the Capt of the guard while the rest of us were actually looking for clues. No matter how much they tried to BS, the DM blocked them so hard it was hilarious it came close to them being thrown into a cell
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Odo Proudfoot - Lvl 10 Halfling Monk - Princes of the Apocalypse (Campaign Finished)
My dm had us start in a tavern and I was hungry so I bought a turkey leg, little did I know but the bartender hired a magic user to cast some kind of spell on the turkey that made me want more, a couple minutes later with no more money, a fellow party member had to pull me away from the counter
My (Lvl 5) players have stumbled upon a hobgoblin encampment with well over a hundred goblinoids, gnolls, orcs, ect. They decide to wait until nightfall to attack it, but rush in without a plan in the early evening because there is about to be this demonic sacrifice involving several elf prisoners with close ties to one of the party members. This is basically what happened:
Elf sorcerer. "I cast fireball"
Dragonborn ranger. "I attack the nearest enemy"
Human monk. "I run to rescue the prisoners"
Gnome wizard "I throw this poison vial into the ogre's mouth" Rolls a Nat 20, ogre takes decent poison damage.
Me. "Each of you are attacked by 20 baddies" Wizard is instantly unconscious and dies shortly afterward.
Good times.
2. Sassy druid
My players were attempting to gather information from an Ancient Green Dragon to help them in their noble quest. Nothing spectacular happens during the encounter until the end, when the gold dragonborn druid (who has a reputation for being chaotic in social interactions) blows a raspberry at the dragon before sprinting far away. But not far enough away to avoid the dragon's breath weapon.
My (Lvl 5) players have stumbled upon a hobgoblin encampment with well over a hundred goblinoids, gnolls, orcs, ect. They decide to wait until nightfall to attack it, but rush in without a plan in the early evening because there is about to be this demonic sacrifice involving several elf prisoners with close ties to one of the party members. This is basically what happened:
Elf sorcerer. "I cast fireball"
Dragonborn ranger. "I attack the nearest enemy"
Human monk. "I run to rescue the prisoners"
Gnome wizard "I throw this poison vial into the ogre's mouth" Rolls a Nat 20, ogre takes decent poison damage.
Me. "Each of you are attacked by 20 baddies" Wizard is instantly unconscious and dies shortly afterward.
Good times.
2. Sassy druid
My players were attempting to gather information from an Ancient Green Dragon to help them in their noble quest. Nothing spectacular happens during the encounter until the end, when the gold dragonborn druid (who has a reputation for being chaotic in social interactions) blows a raspberry at the dragon before sprinting far away. But not far enough away to avoid the dragon's breath weapon.
Number 1 is your players practicing great D&D tactics. LOL.
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My (Lvl 5) players have stumbled upon a hobgoblin encampment with well over a hundred goblinoids, gnolls, orcs, ect. They decide to wait until nightfall to attack it, but rush in without a plan in the early evening because there is about to be this demonic sacrifice involving several elf prisoners with close ties to one of the party members. This is basically what happened:
Elf sorcerer. "I cast fireball"
Dragonborn ranger. "I attack the nearest enemy"
Human monk. "I run to rescue the prisoners"
Gnome wizard "I throw this poison vial into the ogre's mouth" Rolls a Nat 20, ogre takes decent poison damage.
Me. "Each of you are attacked by 20 baddies" Wizard is instantly unconscious and dies shortly afterward.
Good times.
2. Sassy druid
My players were attempting to gather information from an Ancient Green Dragon to help them in their noble quest. Nothing spectacular happens during the encounter until the end, when the gold dragonborn druid (who has a reputation for being chaotic in social interactions) blows a raspberry at the dragon before sprinting far away. But not far enough away to avoid the dragon's breath weapon.
Number 1 is your players practicing great D&D tactics. LOL.
It was a combination of me being a new DM and them being new players. There was essentially no way to effectively conquer the encampment or rescue the prisoners but somehow they were still supposed to? It was a learning curve for everyone, and kind of hilarious to talk about afterwards.
Just recently (which involved two of us dying) was we had a 4-5 level party, and disturb a beholder in it's lair. Instead of taking the warning of the NPC in the room (the beholders slave), some of the group decide to attack.
So instead of exiting the room, we ended up with two insta-deaths, and the other three fleeing for their lives!
This followed a series of unfortunate circumstances, where one party member was just randomly pushing knobs on a wall which found a secret passage. This basically led us straight to the lair, instead of heading the long way around like the DM was envisaging.
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Odo Proudfoot - Lvl 10 Halfling Monk - Princes of the Apocalypse (Campaign Finished)
The level 2 party is trying to calm down a wyrmling that escaped from a circus. The bard is playing the Minecraft theme, and are about to calm it down, when the paladin casts Thunderous Smite. That did not go well. Both the bard and the Druid almost died.
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“Magic is distilled laziness. Put that on my gravestone.”
The level 2 party is trying to calm down a wyrmling that escaped from a circus. The bard is playing the Minecraft theme, and are about to calm it down, when the paladin casts Thunderous Smite. That did not go well. Both the bard and the Druid almost died.
"We need to befriend this monster! Hey - WHY'ED YOU JUST ATTACK IT WITH THUNDER!?!"
our party was hunting pirates as a side quest in tomb of annihilation and my friend tried to introduce his new character as a pirate trying to cause a mutiny right when we showed up then he would join us and beat up the pirates with us. Instead, we stayed in character and when he came near us, we shot at him and now being an enemy to the pirates both sides shot at him till he died. His character only lived for a record time of 15 minutes
Warning for spoilers for Curse of Strahd.
In a highly modified version of Curse of Strahd that I've been playing in, we are currently in the Amber Temple and there was an invisible death slaad behind a magically-locked door that the DM later told would only attack us if we did not take any of the deals from the amber sarcophagi in that room. Thankfully, the party wizard took a deal to get Truesight, and we were spared the wrath of the slaad for now... but a slight problem comes in due to how we got into that room in the first place....
I'm playing a warlock who is somewhat stupid and approaches things in a very straightforward manner, and upon encountering a magically-sealed door, she didn't want to have anything to do with a puzzle and immediately began using her magic pact weapon to Attack the door and break it down. The DM allowed me to do this and our ranger also pitched in, and after a few attacks we broke the entire amber door apart. So now that death slaad is no longer stuck in a magically-sealed room.
Later that night, while we were taking a long rest, our fighter was on watch and got approached by the faceless corpse of a wizard we had met earlier in the temple being possessed by some sort of aberration that asked to eat some of her blood, on threat of taking our blood in our sleep and/or going to kill some innocent people camping in the temple if she did not give her blood to it. She conceded and gave the creature some of her blood, and it thanked her and walked out of the Amber Temple. We later hypothesized that the thing possessing that guy's corpse might have been the death slaad and that I freed it from the Amber Temple by destroying that door, but we have not received confirmation yet. Either way, whoops!
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During the 2020 election I did a homebrew campaign which was basically a parody of the political landscape turned up to extreme levels of absurdity. Basically, everything that one side accused the other of was assumed to be true and even worse than imagined.
To infiltrate the Villains Guild, the PCs had to do some quests for them. Since both politicians running for Princeps were employing the services of the Villains' Guild, the players could either try to help the billionaire real-estate mogul commit voter intimidation, or the geriatric corrupt career politician commit voter fraud.
The PCs discovered that the former was in love with his own daughter, and the latter was a pederast. The PCs went to the Senate and introduced legislation to ban pædophiles from holding public office in an attempt to prevent either candidate from eligibility. A Natural 1 at the critical moment resulted in the old men of the Senate rejecting the legislation unanimously and affirming the right of pædophiles to hold office. It was an ingenious plan that I hadn't accounted for, but I let the story go as the dice roll, and in this case it led to a memorably moment of absurdity that we laugh about to this day.
I was doing a combat simulator with my friend once. He was playing a Bard with vicious mockery. He casts Vicious mockery monster rolls Nat 20 on the save. Next turn vicious mockery again. A SECOND NAT 20 FROM THE MONSTER.
Come check out some of my Homebrew (please give input!)
Make some trinket tables on this thread!
In the same game I was playing a kobold warlock eldritch cannon and using pack tactics with familiar. I rolled to hit nat 1(it was cocked) I roll again nat 1. I roll again (because advantage) NAT 1!!!!
Come check out some of my Homebrew (please give input!)
Make some trinket tables on this thread!
The odds of that are a literal 1 in 8000. LOL.
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explain
HERE.You are not a real adventurer until you burn down your fist tavern.
During a curse of Strahd game, our party encountered him whilst trying to cross a bridge over a deep ravine. He taunted us, riding his Nightmare steed, flying about twenty feet from the edge of the bridge. My Paladin takes a flying leap to grapple Strahd, knowing if I failed I had a misty step on standby to save me. The party Order of the Lycan Bloodhunter, in werewolf mode, had no such safety net, and leapt after me trying to do the same thing. I managed to grapple the nightmare, he managed to actually knock Strahd from the saddle. They both plummeted to the bottom of the ravine, the Bloodhunter died on impact.
Last campaign (Princes of Apocalypse), my character (halfling monk), and two other characters (tiefling sorcerer, and half-elf paladin) disturb two flame guardians, a salamander and some efreeti plus cultists and fanatics.
We run away hide in a store room, thinking to let them past and then sneak away. However, our sorcerer in his infinite wisdom decided to make a bell ringing sound just as they were passing room - if we stayed quiet they were going to pass (we were able to enter the room stealthily before they could see us)
Major fight ensues and we survive somehow. A lot of it came down to the sorcerer being able to control monster etc so was able to make the flame guardian attack the other enemies.
(And the other four members of the party were somewhere completely different)
Second one, in Waterdeep Dragon Heist, two of the party tried to bluff their way into the guard house and talk to the Capt of the guard while the rest of us were actually looking for clues. No matter how much they tried to BS, the DM blocked them so hard it was hilarious it came close to them being thrown into a cell
Odo Proudfoot - Lvl 10 Halfling Monk - Princes of the Apocalypse (Campaign Finished)
Orryn Pebblefoot - Lvl 5 Rock Gnome Wizard (Deceased) - Waterdeep: Dragon Heist (Deceased)
Anerin Ap Tewdr - Lvl 5 Human (Variant) Bard (College of Valor) - Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
My dm had us start in a tavern and I was hungry so I bought a turkey leg, little did I know but the bartender hired a magic user to cast some kind of spell on the turkey that made me want more, a couple minutes later with no more money, a fellow party member had to pull me away from the counter
Mmmmmmmm. Turkey.......... Kudos to your DM, much better than salting the peanuts.
Yah, the turkey was addicting!
Must. Eat. Turkey!
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explain
HERE.Two stories.
1. The heroic suicide mission
My (Lvl 5) players have stumbled upon a hobgoblin encampment with well over a hundred goblinoids, gnolls, orcs, ect. They decide to wait until nightfall to attack it, but rush in without a plan in the early evening because there is about to be this demonic sacrifice involving several elf prisoners with close ties to one of the party members. This is basically what happened:
Elf sorcerer. "I cast fireball"
Dragonborn ranger. "I attack the nearest enemy"
Human monk. "I run to rescue the prisoners"
Gnome wizard "I throw this poison vial into the ogre's mouth" Rolls a Nat 20, ogre takes decent poison damage.
Me. "Each of you are attacked by 20 baddies" Wizard is instantly unconscious and dies shortly afterward.
Good times.
2. Sassy druid
My players were attempting to gather information from an Ancient Green Dragon to help them in their noble quest. Nothing spectacular happens during the encounter until the end, when the gold dragonborn druid (who has a reputation for being chaotic in social interactions) blows a raspberry at the dragon before sprinting far away. But not far enough away to avoid the dragon's breath weapon.
Number 1 is your players practicing great D&D tactics. LOL.
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explain
HERE.It was a combination of me being a new DM and them being new players. There was essentially no way to effectively conquer the encampment or rescue the prisoners but somehow they were still supposed to? It was a learning curve for everyone, and kind of hilarious to talk about afterwards.
Just recently (which involved two of us dying) was we had a 4-5 level party, and disturb a beholder in it's lair. Instead of taking the warning of the NPC in the room (the beholders slave), some of the group decide to attack.
So instead of exiting the room, we ended up with two insta-deaths, and the other three fleeing for their lives!
This followed a series of unfortunate circumstances, where one party member was just randomly pushing knobs on a wall which found a secret passage. This basically led us straight to the lair, instead of heading the long way around like the DM was envisaging.
Odo Proudfoot - Lvl 10 Halfling Monk - Princes of the Apocalypse (Campaign Finished)
Orryn Pebblefoot - Lvl 5 Rock Gnome Wizard (Deceased) - Waterdeep: Dragon Heist (Deceased)
Anerin Ap Tewdr - Lvl 5 Human (Variant) Bard (College of Valor) - Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
also there was this one time that someone invited me to their party, so that was pretty stupid in it if itself! lol ;]
The level 2 party is trying to calm down a wyrmling that escaped from a circus. The bard is playing the Minecraft theme, and are about to calm it down, when the paladin casts Thunderous Smite. That did not go well. Both the bard and the Druid almost died.
“Magic is distilled laziness. Put that on my gravestone.”
"We need to befriend this monster! Hey - WHY'ED YOU JUST ATTACK IT WITH THUNDER!?!"
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explain
HERE.our party was hunting pirates as a side quest in tomb of annihilation and my friend tried to introduce his new character as a pirate trying to cause a mutiny right when we showed up then he would join us and beat up the pirates with us. Instead, we stayed in character and when he came near us, we shot at him and now being an enemy to the pirates both sides shot at him till he died. His character only lived for a record time of 15 minutes
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