yo! my name's dee. i recently began my first ever campaign with friends in a school club, and boy, are we a chaotic group. first of all- i've adopted all the freshmen in the club, referring to them as my kids jokingly, but they do hold a special place in my heart as friends, as well as the seniors who have chosen me to call their child- anyhow, back to the topic of the thread. so, we got in our first engagement, and we had decided "hey, let's just gang up on each guy one by one!" we did so- the foes' names were Luke, Carter, and Todd. we f*cking hated Todd- still do actually, it's an inside joke now- and we got him to the point where he was almost dead, and low and behold, it was my turn. so, like any other normal person, i used my character's (Spade) half-orc strength to just absolutely pummel his groin with a punch...that's how todd died. a punch to the groin from a half-orc. so, now i ask you guys- what's the funniest way you've killed a foe in your campaign(s)?
P.S.- tips and tricks are also welcome as i'm a beginner
There was one time where we managed to put a pot over the BBEG's head, cast Grease, then firebolt, igniting the grease (DM's dicretion as it's not officially the way it works), then create water to douse the chip pan fire, causing a fireball, a near TPK, and the DM to almost die laughing because the BBEG only had 2hp left after everything else and we went and just exploded the entire cave. Good times.
Had a fight with a water elemental, on boats. there was an island with an enchanted sword which launched you away from it if you were unworthy. Same character as above (Thoruk, my namesake) used the sword's magic to launch himself through the elemental, and snatched up someone elses weapon which was inside it. Wasn't the final blow, but Thoruk flew 3 times in that fight.
had a character in my game I was DMing perform a suicidal attack off a cliff, dropping 300ft. onto the big monster climbing the cliff, and rolling a natural 20 with their thunderous smite. Between my fall damage rules, their nat 20, and a good dexerity save, they survived landing in a huge fondue pot with 2hp left out of 70-odd, and they dealt 189 points of damage to a monster with 187 total! It was an epic finale, and the day was saved!
Shortly before this heroic act, they defeated an evil wizard who had summoned the beast. The wizard was knocked prone, with 5hp left, at the feet of the raging werebear barbarian, in werebear form. He had spent most of the game eating the food-based monsters. He did not make an exception for the wizard.
Just remembered another one: A solo game, where the PC was attacked by Goblins. One escaped and ran off, and climbed a tree. She had no ranged weapons, and neither did the goblin. We spent about 12 rounds throwing rocks and sticks at each other, rolling 2-6 on the attack rolls, until the goblin rolled a nat 1, fell out of the tree, and died.
This was the final battle of the campaign i was DMing. It had very loose bones around HotDQ but was essentially homebrew, which is why this battle ended up being between the party and a member of the Cult of the Dragon, and the right-hand man of Asmodeus, all in front of Tiamat's prison, which i completely made up the mechanics for, of course. Essentially, anything organic can go in so she can be fed, but nothing can go out.
After a long-fought battle that included throwing enemies at other enemies, fighting an illusion for at least two rounds, plane-hopping time travel, and the first successful use of counterspell in the campaign, the killing blow ended up being after a divinely-enchanted crossbow bolt to the stomach of the demon to stop him from regaining hp, followed by a combo move of pouring out a wave from a Decanter of Endless Water and then magically freezing it and pushing him down it like a curling stone, directly into Tiamat's center mouth. It was amazing.
I was in a battle near a cliff. I grappled an enemy from behind that was much more powerful than I and pushed us off the cliff.
Shortly after my ring of feather fall activated and I floated down.
The funny part was my DM totally forgot I had the ring as it was only the first time I had cause to use it. He was expecting a long drawn out battle and near death experiences.
He was guffawing when my rolls were successful and was starting to suggest new characters for me. The rest of the players were dumb struck I would do that.
Then I just smiled and said Feather Fall and he remembered my ring
So my party had just met when the town we were in was attacked by giants. First we went to the stables to try and get some horses. Unfortunately as we got to the stables the main bridge into the city and our only way out collapsed. One of my party spotted an entrance to the sewers not far from where we were. Unfortunately there were a hoard of undead who had been raised by the giants in the way. Deciding we didn’t need the horses anymore I set their tails on fire sending them stampeding into the zombies clearing us a path. Despite being a ranger in a party with no Druid who was supposed to be protective of nature.
I'd say the funniest way I killed a monster was relatively recently.
Our party of 5 (half-elf paladin, goliath barbarian *me*, halfling rogue, gnome barbarian, and half-elf fighter), all of us at level 5, thought it would be a brilliant idea to fight a dragon. We all set off, and soon, we were face to face with our target: An adult Umbra Dragon (homebrew). The battle was super intense, with two of us almost dying near the end. That's when the rogue had a brilliant idea:
"Hey, *Name of Barbarian*! Toss me at the dragon!"
So, my Strength 17 barbarian picked up the halfling rogue by the foot, and swung him around a few times before chucking him at the dragon. He didn't get on top of it like he planned, but instead he collided with the dragon's head, breaking its neck and killing it. The rogue almost died from the impact, and luckily we caught him before he went splat.
And that is the stupidest way I've ever killed a monster in D&D.
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Well we were trapped inside a bar with the city watch outside we found a backdoor so our barbarian kicked it open with a 24 and this is how our DM described it.
"As you kick open the door you hear the crunch of bones as the door hits something on the other side."
We investigated and found an orc impaled by the doorknob. It was a very interesting campaign from there on out.
It was my first character (Yondor), and my brother had wanted to do a sort of fight to the death kind of thing, so I drew up a little map. None of this counted for the campaigns we were actually in though, he just wanted to see who would win.
Anyways, I was hiding behind a big boulder, and through my bat familiar I could see him approaching. But he was falling right into my trap. Earlier, I had set a hunting trap ready, and used illusion magic to disguise it as just a lump in the grass. He rolled pretty bad on Perception, and stepped right onto it, and ended up getting stuck. My turn comes around, and I jump out, blast him with fire, then jump back. His turn, and he has literally no way to hurt me, so he keeps trying to get out, but keeps rolling really low. The process continues, and soon I stand victorious, with him now a burnt corpse.
It was just really funny in the moment to see him struggle to do anything, and then just get absolutely pummeled over and over again.
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Alright, I didn’t kill him, but this was really funny to us when we were playing.
so, my first session of my first dnd campaign. We had (obviously) started in a tavern. Our rogue,, who was actually not edgy, but sadly had to leave to focus on mental health, walks up to us. For my first ever roll in dnd, I end up spilling mead on myself. I end up rolling badly for a while. I fail an intimidation check, a dexterity check to get out of the bar, and when I question the barkeep about why there is a ton of magic smoke in the area, I roll horribly, at most a 3. I “fail to acknowledge the dirt” trip and fall right onto my face. Some other shenanigans happen, and our Druid is replaced by a changeling. Our rogue finds him, and starts fighting with the changeling, and our Druid starts fighting with his changeling as well. My character goes to see what the ruckus is about. I rolled to see which one is the changeling, and rolled well. I could tell which is which. So, I roll to punch the changeling in the face. I got either an 18 or a 19. KNOCK HIM OUT COLD. Just like that. Oh by the way, the character I was playing in that session was a level 1 sorcerer with only a strength of 8.
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So, about a year or so ago in my first full length campaign I played, we encountered the big bad evil guy early on. His name? Kalashtar; no relation to the race.
To keep things simple, we had been tasked with defending a village. Hordes of drowned giants prepared to descend upon the place and there was only a few brave souls and the then unnamed adventuring party there to stop them. Greek fire, a dragon killing poison, and some magic weapons on loan made sure the adventurers were well prepared for the battle ahead.
A wagon, some impromptu drive-by work, and raw tenacity resulted in a forest fire, some dead allies, and an unending, seemingly unwinnable battle. That was we'd until somehow carved a path to Kalashtar, bruised, bloodied, but brave nonetheless. Our Druid had the idea to turn into a constrictor snake and restrain Kalashtar; the dice were in our favor. As Kalashtar helplessly struggled with the giant constrictor snake, we attempted to force feed him the poison fit for a dragon. After a few tries, the poison trickled down his throat, its potency was not overestimated; Kalahstar went from a pretentious High Elf to a puddle in mere moments.
The following words followed from our DM: "I need a minute to go and scream."
From the ensuing chaos came our name, coined by myself: Collateral Damage. Y'know, because heroism has a blast radius.
We had to fight the god of light in a level 20 campaign because he wanted to wipe out all creatures of darkness, but instead we sued him for hate crimes and attempted mass genocide, and primus ruled in our favor.
Edit: we also threw a thermal cube (Icewind Dale RotF, changes temperature to 75 degrees or something) into the sun and because physics it exploded and killed a lunar dragon. Same campaign a 6th level giff with enlarge cast grappled a CR 16 nightmare beast near the edge of a volcano and threw it in.
Technically not me, I was the DM. The players were fighting the main boss at the time. After a long and gruesome fight they finally managed to kill the boss.
Unfortunately for them, the boss turned into a Death Knight ALMOST immediately after his death. The players had very little HP and resources left. The Death Knight had only 1hp, so it was meant for a last stand type of situation. The boss would be able to heal some and had very nasty stats for a party of that level in that condition. Very soon the players would feel the final wrath of this dark priest.
Unfortunately for the bad guy, immediately after his dead corpse hit the ground, a player called an action and decided to kick the corpse in the head purely out of spite and frustration and for absolutely no tactical reason. 😂 And at that point, without the player's knowledge, the boss had regained that 1hp.
So the boss was just reborn and opening its eyes when the player kicked him in the head and killed him - again. 😄
In a one-shot I was dming the party was at the final battle with the BBEG who was riding a giant kruthik. I had him perched above a pool of lava for dramatic effect but before I could have him give his backstory and reasons for unleashing a horde of monsters in a dwarven citadel, one of my characters who had the telekinetic feat, telekinetically pushed the monster the bad guy was riding into the lava, killing it almost instantly. Luckily the bad guy on the kruthik succeeded on his saving throw to leap off the monster and onto safe ground. He quickly got as far away from the lava as possible, but our hobgoblin barbarian decided that since this was a one-shot and he would never play the character again, he would grab the evil dwarf and jump in the lava, killing them both. He succeeded and the moral of the story is be careful with where you place your pools of lava.
In another game I was in that was set in the modern world, we were exploring our church and found a bunch of werewolves attacking a person we knew. One of the players had found a bottle of bleach earlier and had decided to try to make the werewolf drink it. One nat 20 later, the werewolf was dead at his feet after he had leapt across the room, spun the bottle cap off of the bottle, and force fed the monster an entire bottle of bleach.
yo! my name's dee. i recently began my first ever campaign with friends in a school club, and boy, are we a chaotic group. first of all- i've adopted all the freshmen in the club, referring to them as my kids jokingly, but they do hold a special place in my heart as friends, as well as the seniors who have chosen me to call their child- anyhow, back to the topic of the thread. so, we got in our first engagement, and we had decided "hey, let's just gang up on each guy one by one!" we did so- the foes' names were Luke, Carter, and Todd. we f*cking hated Todd- still do actually, it's an inside joke now- and we got him to the point where he was almost dead, and low and behold, it was my turn. so, like any other normal person, i used my character's (Spade) half-orc strength to just absolutely pummel his groin with a punch...that's how todd died. a punch to the groin from a half-orc. so, now i ask you guys- what's the funniest way you've killed a foe in your campaign(s)?
P.S.- tips and tricks are also welcome as i'm a beginner
There was one time where we managed to put a pot over the BBEG's head, cast Grease, then firebolt, igniting the grease (DM's dicretion as it's not officially the way it works), then create water to douse the chip pan fire, causing a fireball, a near TPK, and the DM to almost die laughing because the BBEG only had 2hp left after everything else and we went and just exploded the entire cave. Good times.
Had a fight with a water elemental, on boats. there was an island with an enchanted sword which launched you away from it if you were unworthy. Same character as above (Thoruk, my namesake) used the sword's magic to launch himself through the elemental, and snatched up someone elses weapon which was inside it. Wasn't the final blow, but Thoruk flew 3 times in that fight.
had a character in my game I was DMing perform a suicidal attack off a cliff, dropping 300ft. onto the big monster climbing the cliff, and rolling a natural 20 with their thunderous smite. Between my fall damage rules, their nat 20, and a good dexerity save, they survived landing in a huge fondue pot with 2hp left out of 70-odd, and they dealt 189 points of damage to a monster with 187 total! It was an epic finale, and the day was saved!
Shortly before this heroic act, they defeated an evil wizard who had summoned the beast. The wizard was knocked prone, with 5hp left, at the feet of the raging werebear barbarian, in werebear form. He had spent most of the game eating the food-based monsters. He did not make an exception for the wizard.
Just remembered another one: A solo game, where the PC was attacked by Goblins. One escaped and ran off, and climbed a tree. She had no ranged weapons, and neither did the goblin. We spent about 12 rounds throwing rocks and sticks at each other, rolling 2-6 on the attack rolls, until the goblin rolled a nat 1, fell out of the tree, and died.
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This was the final battle of the campaign i was DMing. It had very loose bones around HotDQ but was essentially homebrew, which is why this battle ended up being between the party and a member of the Cult of the Dragon, and the right-hand man of Asmodeus, all in front of Tiamat's prison, which i completely made up the mechanics for, of course. Essentially, anything organic can go in so she can be fed, but nothing can go out.
After a long-fought battle that included throwing enemies at other enemies, fighting an illusion for at least two rounds, plane-hopping time travel, and the first successful use of counterspell in the campaign, the killing blow ended up being after a divinely-enchanted crossbow bolt to the stomach of the demon to stop him from regaining hp, followed by a combo move of pouring out a wave from a Decanter of Endless Water and then magically freezing it and pushing him down it like a curling stone, directly into Tiamat's center mouth. It was amazing.
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I was in a battle near a cliff. I grappled an enemy from behind that was much more powerful than I and pushed us off the cliff.
Shortly after my ring of feather fall activated and I floated down.
The funny part was my DM totally forgot I had the ring as it was only the first time I had cause to use it. He was expecting a long drawn out battle and near death experiences.
He was guffawing when my rolls were successful and was starting to suggest new characters for me. The rest of the players were dumb struck I would do that.
Then I just smiled and said Feather Fall and he remembered my ring
So my party had just met when the town we were in was attacked by giants. First we went to the stables to try and get some horses. Unfortunately as we got to the stables the main bridge into the city and our only way out collapsed. One of my party spotted an entrance to the sewers not far from where we were. Unfortunately there were a hoard of undead who had been raised by the giants in the way. Deciding we didn’t need the horses anymore I set their tails on fire sending them stampeding into the zombies clearing us a path. Despite being a ranger in a party with no Druid who was supposed to be protective of nature.
I gave an orc an STD, no more context
I'd say the funniest way I killed a monster was relatively recently.
Our party of 5 (half-elf paladin, goliath barbarian *me*, halfling rogue, gnome barbarian, and half-elf fighter), all of us at level 5, thought it would be a brilliant idea to fight a dragon. We all set off, and soon, we were face to face with our target: An adult Umbra Dragon (homebrew). The battle was super intense, with two of us almost dying near the end. That's when the rogue had a brilliant idea:
"Hey, *Name of Barbarian*! Toss me at the dragon!"
So, my Strength 17 barbarian picked up the halfling rogue by the foot, and swung him around a few times before chucking him at the dragon. He didn't get on top of it like he planned, but instead he collided with the dragon's head, breaking its neck and killing it. The rogue almost died from the impact, and luckily we caught him before he went splat.
And that is the stupidest way I've ever killed a monster in D&D.
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Well we were trapped inside a bar with the city watch outside we found a backdoor so our barbarian kicked it open with a 24 and this is how our DM described it.
"As you kick open the door you hear the crunch of bones as the door hits something on the other side."
We investigated and found an orc impaled by the doorknob. It was a very interesting campaign from there on out.
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It was my first character (Yondor), and my brother had wanted to do a sort of fight to the death kind of thing, so I drew up a little map. None of this counted for the campaigns we were actually in though, he just wanted to see who would win.
Anyways, I was hiding behind a big boulder, and through my bat familiar I could see him approaching. But he was falling right into my trap. Earlier, I had set a hunting trap ready, and used illusion magic to disguise it as just a lump in the grass. He rolled pretty bad on Perception, and stepped right onto it, and ended up getting stuck. My turn comes around, and I jump out, blast him with fire, then jump back. His turn, and he has literally no way to hurt me, so he keeps trying to get out, but keeps rolling really low. The process continues, and soon I stand victorious, with him now a burnt corpse.
It was just really funny in the moment to see him struggle to do anything, and then just get absolutely pummeled over and over again.
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Alright, I didn’t kill him, but this was really funny to us when we were playing.
so, my first session of my first dnd campaign. We had (obviously) started in a tavern. Our rogue,, who was actually not edgy, but sadly had to leave to focus on mental health, walks up to us. For my first ever roll in dnd, I end up spilling mead on myself. I end up rolling badly for a while. I fail an intimidation check, a dexterity check to get out of the bar, and when I question the barkeep about why there is a ton of magic smoke in the area, I roll horribly, at most a 3. I “fail to acknowledge the dirt” trip and fall right onto my face. Some other shenanigans happen, and our Druid is replaced by a changeling. Our rogue finds him, and starts fighting with the changeling, and our Druid starts fighting with his changeling as well. My character goes to see what the ruckus is about. I rolled to see which one is the changeling, and rolled well. I could tell which is which. So, I roll to punch the changeling in the face. I got either an 18 or a 19. KNOCK HIM OUT COLD. Just like that. Oh by the way, the character I was playing in that session was a level 1 sorcerer with only a strength of 8.
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So, about a year or so ago in my first full length campaign I played, we encountered the big bad evil guy early on. His name? Kalashtar; no relation to the race.
To keep things simple, we had been tasked with defending a village. Hordes of drowned giants prepared to descend upon the place and there was only a few brave souls and the then unnamed adventuring party there to stop them. Greek fire, a dragon killing poison, and some magic weapons on loan made sure the adventurers were well prepared for the battle ahead.
A wagon, some impromptu drive-by work, and raw tenacity resulted in a forest fire, some dead allies, and an unending, seemingly unwinnable battle. That was we'd until somehow carved a path to Kalashtar, bruised, bloodied, but brave nonetheless. Our Druid had the idea to turn into a constrictor snake and restrain Kalashtar; the dice were in our favor. As Kalashtar helplessly struggled with the giant constrictor snake, we attempted to force feed him the poison fit for a dragon. After a few tries, the poison trickled down his throat, its potency was not overestimated; Kalahstar went from a pretentious High Elf to a puddle in mere moments.
The following words followed from our DM: "I need a minute to go and scream."
From the ensuing chaos came our name, coined by myself: Collateral Damage. Y'know, because heroism has a blast radius.
We had to fight the god of light in a level 20 campaign because he wanted to wipe out all creatures of darkness, but instead we sued him for hate crimes and attempted mass genocide, and primus ruled in our favor.
Edit: we also threw a thermal cube (Icewind Dale RotF, changes temperature to 75 degrees or something) into the sun and because physics it exploded and killed a lunar dragon. Same campaign a 6th level giff with enlarge cast grappled a CR 16 nightmare beast near the edge of a volcano and threw it in.
Create and Destroy Water dehydrated some poor thug to death. The spell is now banned in that group
Technically not me, I was the DM. The players were fighting the main boss at the time. After a long and gruesome fight they finally managed to kill the boss.
Unfortunately for them, the boss turned into a Death Knight ALMOST immediately after his death. The players had very little HP and resources left. The Death Knight had only 1hp, so it was meant for a last stand type of situation. The boss would be able to heal some and had very nasty stats for a party of that level in that condition. Very soon the players would feel the final wrath of this dark priest.
Unfortunately for the bad guy, immediately after his dead corpse hit the ground, a player called an action and decided to kick the corpse in the head purely out of spite and frustration and for absolutely no tactical reason. 😂 And at that point, without the player's knowledge, the boss had regained that 1hp.
So the boss was just reborn and opening its eyes when the player kicked him in the head and killed him - again. 😄
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Using the cantrip Mold Earth. We had time to prepare for a battle
So I used the cantrip to dig a trench 5' wide and 10' deep. and 15' long.
Deposited the dirt on the side that the enemy would be coming from.
Enemy came running at us, came over the mound of dirt with their focus on us and ran right into the trench.
I then used the cantrip to move the earth back to the holes.
An enemy cast "Feather Fall" when our party bruiser forced him off the edge of a building.
...and a held action from our party spellcaster allowed them to cast "Evard's Black Tentacles" directly below them.
So they got a nice view of the writhing mass of nightmarish tentacles that had spawned below them as they SLOWLY drifted down into their demise.
In a one-shot I was dming the party was at the final battle with the BBEG who was riding a giant kruthik. I had him perched above a pool of lava for dramatic effect but before I could have him give his backstory and reasons for unleashing a horde of monsters in a dwarven citadel, one of my characters who had the telekinetic feat, telekinetically pushed the monster the bad guy was riding into the lava, killing it almost instantly. Luckily the bad guy on the kruthik succeeded on his saving throw to leap off the monster and onto safe ground. He quickly got as far away from the lava as possible, but our hobgoblin barbarian decided that since this was a one-shot and he would never play the character again, he would grab the evil dwarf and jump in the lava, killing them both. He succeeded and the moral of the story is be careful with where you place your pools of lava.
In another game I was in that was set in the modern world, we were exploring our church and found a bunch of werewolves attacking a person we knew. One of the players had found a bottle of bleach earlier and had decided to try to make the werewolf drink it. One nat 20 later, the werewolf was dead at his feet after he had leapt across the room, spun the bottle cap off of the bottle, and force fed the monster an entire bottle of bleach.
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