I figured it would be fun to have a place where we can all come together and share some of our best/favorite stories from playing this game! What stories do you all have?
The most intense thing happened tonight for me. I'm a dwarf cleric at 4th level aligned good, in a party with five others, four of which are neutral to straight up evil, this makes it difficult to stick to my alignment and not come into conflict with the others. Well, it all came to a head tonight as things finally boiled to a head between me and the one pure evil 5th level wizard in our party, named Levaithan. The two of us have been in conflict continually through the campaign, and I have been trying to keep myself from killing him due to the evil things that he has done. We are now as a party on a prison island trying to get him help to take away the failed death saves that he had received earlier in the campaign (in our game you have to do a lot more to get them taken away, and since he is an evil wizard, he needs to sacrifice a magic user, but he has kept that secret from me), and since I had been given direction from my deity to keep my members alive within reason, I didn't want to kill him; however, I knew there were things that he wasn't telling me.
He goes into a tower that held a massively evil and powerful weapon to give to a man who is way more powerful than any of us could handle (he straight up knocked out one of our fighters with just a punch) to be able to enter into an alliance with this guy to help us get to the wizard who will perform the ritual. I finally decided this would be the chance where my character would make a stand against Levaithon. The rest of the party were speaking with the literal One Punch Man of our world and I booked it back into the tower after him. After he got the sword I blocked his way at the top and I made my stand, both of us fully understanding and accepting that one of our characters would die.
I summoned a spiritual weapon and placed it behind him while I called him out on everything. I then attacked him with inflict wounds at second level and missed, so did my spiritual weapon. He attempted to attack me and missed as well, but then misty stepped past me. Before he could get fully around the curve going down the stairs, I cast guiding bolt at second level, doing 20 points of damage and I began running after him. He threw down grease on the stairs, which I was able to detect and jump over without effort, but failed the landing, taking 3 damage and I'm prone. He then cast a fireball at me and did 27 points of damage, putting me at 3 hit points. During this time our druid is aware that not only is he gone, but so am I, fully aware of the volatile nature between us. He runs in, with me on death's door (granted, I had healing reserved, but he really messed me up so I could last maybe another round), and Levaithon holding a super evil sword ready to kill me. Our druid, Mathias, asks Levaithon what he is doing and begins to call out how insane what he is doing really is. Levaithon starts to actually realize what he's agreed to do would probably kill us later. I hear this and knowing that I am pretty well unmatched, despite Mathias being on my side, I sheath my ax and we begin to realize how awful of a situation we've put all of ourselves in. Half of our party is standing outside with the man who can kill us easily, while the three of us are in a tower that he cannot enter, with two of our four magic users at low health and low spells. Basically, we're either hosed now by not giving it to him and putting ourselves in a situation that will most likely kill all of us, or I will have to try to kill Leviathon if he tries to give this weapon to our enemy (most likely ending up with myself being killed).
It's at this time I ask him just to come clean and tell us why we have an abducted wizard with us (yeah, they kidnapped another wizard and has brought us around with us using charm spells to keep him behaved when it would be unseemly to have him bound and gagged still) and he comes clean about the sacrifice. Mathias wonders if we could actually use the sword against One Punch to give us an even playing field, and then use him as a sacrifice. We have two of an item called phoenix down, which can bring someone back to life (I don't have any resurrection spells yet, so this is helpful), so if we kill him, bring him to the wizard, and then bring him back to life just as the ritual completes, we could kill two birds with one stone hypothetically. However, myself and Levaithon are messed up and weakened, we need to rest. We then realize that if he can't get in then we are set to have a long rest. We need to get the rest of our party in the tower, but how do we do it without them getting eviscerated by the killing machine next to them? We tell the druid to tell them that Leviathon was killed by a trap when he removed the weapon and it flat out killed him and that we need the phoenix down to bring him back to life, the druid passes a performance check to convince them that our wizard was in fact dead, also convincing the killing machine. They get in and we close the door. We then tell them our plan.
So now we are waiting inside of a tower resting before we attack him. That's where we left off for the night, and I'm so excited to see if we actually survive next week.
I invite a few people over. One is the first to arrive. He makes a Dragonborn rouge, who has shit Constitution, and some awful Dexterity. He put all stats in Strength and Charisma ( which he never used )
So, the story went That my rouge, Konstantien, had stolen huge amounts of gold from the King, and had escaped to a tavern and was sleeping. He woke up to the sounds of Heavy footsteps. He rolled for stealth, got a 19, and crept silently to the back of the stairs. Two guards with Pikes walked up, looking around. Konstantien decides he wants to attack one of the guards, to which he rolls a 3. The guards whirl around, and spot him. I Can tell the only thing going through his mind at that moment was ' ohshit.jpg. ' So, He rolls to slip behind the guards and run down the stairs.
As he does, he dives down, falling on his hands, breaking them. He quickly gets himself up, and runs. As he's running, a carriage with A Well-Dressed Couple in the carriage, enjoying the evening. He quickly runs up to it, grabbing onto the side, and pulling himself up. A Guard running after him ( me ) rolls a 1, as his pike flips, stabbing him between the Visor, and killing him. The other guard yells for backup, to which 5 more guards ran up, and one climbed onto the back of the Carriage. He swiped their Flintlock, kicking him off, and staring at the woman of the Carriage
He stares at me. " Does she have any valuables? " I nod, looking at him. She's wearing much jewelry, and he quickly rips off her necklace, kicking her off. The man pulls out his rapier, and aims at him, to which Konstantien quickly pulls his gun, shoots him, and aims at the Driver. He misses, shooting the Horse. The Carriage crashes into another tavern, and knocking the driver and Konstantien out. He wakes up to a Cleric and a Healer. He looks at the cleric, smashes his skull open with the back of his knife, and knocks them out
The problem with my home game, well, it's not really a problem; but it is very cannabis friendly. Sometimes things happen then months later we can never agree on specifics. Thankfully, this story is from when I was in the military and not on my canna-budder diet. That being said, it happened over a decade ago and this might not be entirely accurate...
If you ever played Shackled City then you would know it was a crazy game that tried to connect a lot of stuff. One of the cool things about it is that it had great dungeons, amazing encounters, and sweet monsters. (A pyroclastic dragon, like what the eff?) It was a different game back then, so many rules and so many players trying to figure out to use them best to their advantage. 3.5, I hated and loved this system. It was hella broken and had so many problems. There is no way what I am about to tell you should have happened. But it did. Swear it. I am almost 100% it happened this way.
Colbert Darkbreeze, my little halfling Beguiler. He was just a mid-level character, nothing too fancy yet and he liked doing what he did best. Outsmarting his enemies and using his skills (and magic) to best them in any encounter. He had a knack for getting into trouble when he should have been keeping his nose down, but where's the fun in that? He was the problem maker and sometimes the problem solver of the party.
One day we found out the half-drow princess (I can't remember her name or where the information came from) was kidnapped and being held in a handful of possible locations. While we were back at HQ we started to discuss where she might be and how to find her. Colbert hated this, all the talking and the not doing of anything made him a little anxious. So, I slipped a note to the DM and told him I was leaving our HQ and going out into Cauldron (That was the name of the city we were in, a now extinct volcano where a city formed in its caldera.) As he left, my DM pulled me over to another table away from the rest of the group and we started RPing where Colbert was going and what he was going to do.
I informed him I wanted to climb onto a rooftop and spy on the Thieves Guild in town. Maybe it was a Rogue's Guild? I really can't remember, so we will call it a Thieves Guild. As Colbert is spying on this building he sees that the rogues are acting odd, keeping shifts and watching out the windows. (I think the place seemed abandoned, but can't remember that too well...) So, I climbed from rooftop to rooftop and used my ring of featherfalling to make my way down to a window on the second or third floor. I slipped inside and found it empty, so I made my into the hallway and tried to go downstairs.
On Colbert's way downstairs he ran into some rogues in the guild and ran back upstairs, hoping to make his way back to the window I came in and jump the heck out of it.
As I made my way up the stairs, I used a spell called Phantom Battle. (Is that right? It was a Player's Handbook II spell...lol) In the chaos of it all, I actually started fighting and defeating the rogues. They were stopped by my "battle" I conjured and I made my way into the room I came in, which was wrong. I went in the wrong door and found the half-drow princess sleeping on a bed. I grabbed her, jumped out the window and made my way back to HQ. As I walk in they are still discussing on where to find her and I place her body on the table. We were able to wake her up, she was under a spell or something. Regardless, I saved the day while everyone was discussing what to do and how to do it.
I've done a lot of cool things in games, but I never went into a high-level thieves guild, taken a prisoner and made it back in time to tell the party that we need not to plan anything. It was all an accident too, I just wanted some information and maybe a way to cook up a plan for our party. That character, Colbert, he ended up dying. Giving his life so his friends could escape. In doing so, my DM asked if I would like to live still. he let me come back as a Risen Martyr and become a saint. Later on, at the end of the game, the whole party got TPK'd by this demon prince lord. Everyone except Colbert. He now is in an everlasting battle with this demon prince, a stalemate for all eternity to keep him from coming to destroy the world.
What a character. And I am pretty sure this story is mostly true. Even the part about the junkies using diamond dust as a drug. What an expensive habit! Or the time our paladin got beat up by a little girl. Or the time we beat the first dungeon by taking the easiest route to the bazaar. Two secret doors later and we skipped a whole dungeon five (5) minutes in. I'm pretty sure this is all true, but then again, Colbert was a Beguiler. Maybe he made it up?
"...Debts must always be paid, sometimes in more than blood and gold. But this is Ordo Ursa," Ren places his hand on Erakas's chest, right where the Dragonborn's heart is. "Right here. And it always has been and always will be. Don't ever forget that. Because I won't."
Serandis Mendaen (Aereni Elven Rogue/maybe one day Wizard)- Project Point Playtest
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I figured it would be fun to have a place where we can all come together and share some of our best/favorite stories from playing this game! What stories do you all have?
The most intense thing happened tonight for me. I'm a dwarf cleric at 4th level aligned good, in a party with five others, four of which are neutral to straight up evil, this makes it difficult to stick to my alignment and not come into conflict with the others. Well, it all came to a head tonight as things finally boiled to a head between me and the one pure evil 5th level wizard in our party, named Levaithan. The two of us have been in conflict continually through the campaign, and I have been trying to keep myself from killing him due to the evil things that he has done. We are now as a party on a prison island trying to get him help to take away the failed death saves that he had received earlier in the campaign (in our game you have to do a lot more to get them taken away, and since he is an evil wizard, he needs to sacrifice a magic user, but he has kept that secret from me), and since I had been given direction from my deity to keep my members alive within reason, I didn't want to kill him; however, I knew there were things that he wasn't telling me.
He goes into a tower that held a massively evil and powerful weapon to give to a man who is way more powerful than any of us could handle (he straight up knocked out one of our fighters with just a punch) to be able to enter into an alliance with this guy to help us get to the wizard who will perform the ritual. I finally decided this would be the chance where my character would make a stand against Levaithon. The rest of the party were speaking with the literal One Punch Man of our world and I booked it back into the tower after him. After he got the sword I blocked his way at the top and I made my stand, both of us fully understanding and accepting that one of our characters would die.
I summoned a spiritual weapon and placed it behind him while I called him out on everything. I then attacked him with inflict wounds at second level and missed, so did my spiritual weapon. He attempted to attack me and missed as well, but then misty stepped past me. Before he could get fully around the curve going down the stairs, I cast guiding bolt at second level, doing 20 points of damage and I began running after him. He threw down grease on the stairs, which I was able to detect and jump over without effort, but failed the landing, taking 3 damage and I'm prone. He then cast a fireball at me and did 27 points of damage, putting me at 3 hit points. During this time our druid is aware that not only is he gone, but so am I, fully aware of the volatile nature between us. He runs in, with me on death's door (granted, I had healing reserved, but he really messed me up so I could last maybe another round), and Levaithon holding a super evil sword ready to kill me. Our druid, Mathias, asks Levaithon what he is doing and begins to call out how insane what he is doing really is. Levaithon starts to actually realize what he's agreed to do would probably kill us later. I hear this and knowing that I am pretty well unmatched, despite Mathias being on my side, I sheath my ax and we begin to realize how awful of a situation we've put all of ourselves in. Half of our party is standing outside with the man who can kill us easily, while the three of us are in a tower that he cannot enter, with two of our four magic users at low health and low spells. Basically, we're either hosed now by not giving it to him and putting ourselves in a situation that will most likely kill all of us, or I will have to try to kill Leviathon if he tries to give this weapon to our enemy (most likely ending up with myself being killed).
It's at this time I ask him just to come clean and tell us why we have an abducted wizard with us (yeah, they kidnapped another wizard and has brought us around with us using charm spells to keep him behaved when it would be unseemly to have him bound and gagged still) and he comes clean about the sacrifice. Mathias wonders if we could actually use the sword against One Punch to give us an even playing field, and then use him as a sacrifice. We have two of an item called phoenix down, which can bring someone back to life (I don't have any resurrection spells yet, so this is helpful), so if we kill him, bring him to the wizard, and then bring him back to life just as the ritual completes, we could kill two birds with one stone hypothetically. However, myself and Levaithon are messed up and weakened, we need to rest. We then realize that if he can't get in then we are set to have a long rest. We need to get the rest of our party in the tower, but how do we do it without them getting eviscerated by the killing machine next to them? We tell the druid to tell them that Leviathon was killed by a trap when he removed the weapon and it flat out killed him and that we need the phoenix down to bring him back to life, the druid passes a performance check to convince them that our wizard was in fact dead, also convincing the killing machine. They get in and we close the door. We then tell them our plan.
So now we are waiting inside of a tower resting before we attack him. That's where we left off for the night, and I'm so excited to see if we actually survive next week.
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I invite a few people over. One is the first to arrive. He makes a Dragonborn rouge, who has shit Constitution, and some awful Dexterity. He put all stats in Strength and Charisma ( which he never used )
So, the story went That my rouge, Konstantien, had stolen huge amounts of gold from the King, and had escaped to a tavern and was sleeping. He woke up to the sounds of Heavy footsteps. He rolled for stealth, got a 19, and crept silently to the back of the stairs. Two guards with Pikes walked up, looking around. Konstantien decides he wants to attack one of the guards, to which he rolls a 3. The guards whirl around, and spot him. I Can tell the only thing going through his mind at that moment was ' ohshit.jpg. ' So, He rolls to slip behind the guards and run down the stairs.
As he does, he dives down, falling on his hands, breaking them. He quickly gets himself up, and runs. As he's running, a carriage with A Well-Dressed Couple in the carriage, enjoying the evening. He quickly runs up to it, grabbing onto the side, and pulling himself up. A Guard running after him ( me ) rolls a 1, as his pike flips, stabbing him between the Visor, and killing him. The other guard yells for backup, to which 5 more guards ran up, and one climbed onto the back of the Carriage. He swiped their Flintlock, kicking him off, and staring at the woman of the Carriage
He stares at me. " Does she have any valuables? " I nod, looking at him. She's wearing much jewelry, and he quickly rips off her necklace, kicking her off. The man pulls out his rapier, and aims at him, to which Konstantien quickly pulls his gun, shoots him, and aims at the Driver. He misses, shooting the Horse. The Carriage crashes into another tavern, and knocking the driver and Konstantien out. He wakes up to a Cleric and a Healer. He looks at the cleric, smashes his skull open with the back of his knife, and knocks them out
CONTINUED IN PART 2
The problem with my home game, well, it's not really a problem; but it is very cannabis friendly. Sometimes things happen then months later we can never agree on specifics. Thankfully, this story is from when I was in the military and not on my canna-budder diet. That being said, it happened over a decade ago and this might not be entirely accurate...
If you ever played Shackled City then you would know it was a crazy game that tried to connect a lot of stuff. One of the cool things about it is that it had great dungeons, amazing encounters, and sweet monsters. (A pyroclastic dragon, like what the eff?) It was a different game back then, so many rules and so many players trying to figure out to use them best to their advantage. 3.5, I hated and loved this system. It was hella broken and had so many problems. There is no way what I am about to tell you should have happened. But it did. Swear it. I am almost 100% it happened this way.
Colbert Darkbreeze, my little halfling Beguiler. He was just a mid-level character, nothing too fancy yet and he liked doing what he did best. Outsmarting his enemies and using his skills (and magic) to best them in any encounter. He had a knack for getting into trouble when he should have been keeping his nose down, but where's the fun in that? He was the problem maker and sometimes the problem solver of the party.
One day we found out the half-drow princess (I can't remember her name or where the information came from) was kidnapped and being held in a handful of possible locations. While we were back at HQ we started to discuss where she might be and how to find her. Colbert hated this, all the talking and the not doing of anything made him a little anxious. So, I slipped a note to the DM and told him I was leaving our HQ and going out into Cauldron (That was the name of the city we were in, a now extinct volcano where a city formed in its caldera.) As he left, my DM pulled me over to another table away from the rest of the group and we started RPing where Colbert was going and what he was going to do.
I informed him I wanted to climb onto a rooftop and spy on the Thieves Guild in town. Maybe it was a Rogue's Guild? I really can't remember, so we will call it a Thieves Guild. As Colbert is spying on this building he sees that the rogues are acting odd, keeping shifts and watching out the windows. (I think the place seemed abandoned, but can't remember that too well...) So, I climbed from rooftop to rooftop and used my ring of featherfalling to make my way down to a window on the second or third floor. I slipped inside and found it empty, so I made my into the hallway and tried to go downstairs.
On Colbert's way downstairs he ran into some rogues in the guild and ran back upstairs, hoping to make his way back to the window I came in and jump the heck out of it.
As I made my way up the stairs, I used a spell called Phantom Battle. (Is that right? It was a Player's Handbook II spell...lol) In the chaos of it all, I actually started fighting and defeating the rogues. They were stopped by my "battle" I conjured and I made my way into the room I came in, which was wrong. I went in the wrong door and found the half-drow princess sleeping on a bed. I grabbed her, jumped out the window and made my way back to HQ. As I walk in they are still discussing on where to find her and I place her body on the table. We were able to wake her up, she was under a spell or something. Regardless, I saved the day while everyone was discussing what to do and how to do it.
I've done a lot of cool things in games, but I never went into a high-level thieves guild, taken a prisoner and made it back in time to tell the party that we need not to plan anything. It was all an accident too, I just wanted some information and maybe a way to cook up a plan for our party. That character, Colbert, he ended up dying. Giving his life so his friends could escape. In doing so, my DM asked if I would like to live still. he let me come back as a Risen Martyr and become a saint. Later on, at the end of the game, the whole party got TPK'd by this demon prince lord. Everyone except Colbert. He now is in an everlasting battle with this demon prince, a stalemate for all eternity to keep him from coming to destroy the world.
What a character. And I am pretty sure this story is mostly true. Even the part about the junkies using diamond dust as a drug. What an expensive habit! Or the time our paladin got beat up by a little girl. Or the time we beat the first dungeon by taking the easiest route to the bazaar. Two secret doors later and we skipped a whole dungeon five (5) minutes in. I'm pretty sure this is all true, but then again, Colbert was a Beguiler. Maybe he made it up?
"...Debts must always be paid, sometimes in more than blood and gold. But this is Ordo Ursa," Ren places his hand on Erakas's chest, right where the Dragonborn's heart is. "Right here. And it always has been and always will be. Don't ever forget that. Because I won't."
Serandis Mendaen (Aereni Elven Rogue/maybe one day Wizard)- Project Point Playtest