A random one-shot our party was doing while our DM was on vacation. My Sorcerer managed to get Hold Monster to work on a dragon (we were running a level-10 version of the Lost Mines dragon encounter) and then the DM of the campaign ended up rolling poorly for a few turns to get OUT of my hold.
The rest of the party had a bit of field day while the dragon was paralyzed. Granted, once it did get out of the hold we were all a bit too bunched together and it nearly ended badly for US after all. But we succeeded in the end. :) It was just very funny for those few turns to be able to just go nuts on a dragon!
A random one-shot our party was doing while our DM was on vacation. My Sorcerer managed to get Hold Monster to work on a dragon (we were running a level-10 version of the Lost Mines dragon encounter) and then the DM of the campaign ended up rolling poorly for a few turns to get OUT of my hold.
The rest of the party had a bit of field day while the dragon was paralyzed. Granted, once it did get out of the hold we were all a bit too bunched together and it nearly ended badly for US after all. But we succeeded in the end. :) It was just very funny for those few turns to be able to just go nuts on a dragon!
A random one-shot our party was doing while our DM was on vacation. My Sorcerer managed to get Hold Monster to work on a dragon (we were running a level-10 version of the Lost Mines dragon encounter) and then the DM of the campaign ended up rolling poorly for a few turns to get OUT of my hold.
The rest of the party had a bit of field day while the dragon was paralyzed. Granted, once it did get out of the hold we were all a bit too bunched together and it nearly ended badly for US after all. But we succeeded in the end. :) It was just very funny for those few turns to be able to just go nuts on a dragon!
haha this sound really fun
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Once there were to players in my game A cleric, And Wizard. They were cornered by like twenty goblins and the wizard tried using burning hands on them. She rolled 1 and pretty much just made the goblins warm. In the end they lost and had to go back to a provisions place
A random one-shot our party was doing while our DM was on vacation. My Sorcerer managed to get Hold Monster to work on a dragon (we were running a level-10 version of the Lost Mines dragon encounter) and then the DM of the campaign ended up rolling poorly for a few turns to get OUT of my hold.
The rest of the party had a bit of field day while the dragon was paralyzed. Granted, once it did get out of the hold we were all a bit too bunched together and it nearly ended badly for US after all. But we succeeded in the end. :) It was just very funny for those few turns to be able to just go nuts on a dragon!
Way back in 2nd Edition I was running an ogre fighter. The party was around 10th level when we were traveling down the road and the GM rolled an encounter with... 3 kobolds.
Honestly, I'm not even sure why he bothered actually doing the encounter, but presumably he thought it was funny. So, back in the days of 2nd Edition, there was this mechanic called morale, which determined whether or not a given NPC or monster would decide to run from combat. Kobolds had low morale in the first place, plus the modifiers for being outnumbered facing foes of a much higher level, and facing foes that were vastly physically superior. GM checks morale- first kobold= fail; second kobold= fail; third kobold= critical success!
So the kobold draws his dagger and charges! Does he go after the dark elf wizard? Nope! The saural cleric? Nope! The thief, which was some sort of humanoid beetle? Nope!
He goes after the 700 lb ogre wielding a flail the size of a horsecart. The GM tells me that due to my vastly superior reach, I get to attack before he does. Anything but a 1 and this little kobold is splattered all over the ground.
I roll.
It's a natural 20.
GM has me roll for damage.
Between my massive strength bonus for being an ogre, my weapon proficiency bonus, and the enchantment on the weapon itself, I end up reducing the kobold to -50 HP on the first blow.
The GM's description: You swing the flail around in an overhead arc. The ball, which is nearly as big as the kobold is, impacts him directly on the head. A massive cloud of dust is thrown up, and when it clears about a minute later, you see a hole in the ground that's at least five feet deep. There may or may not be a small amount of blood staining the rocks at the bottom of the hole.
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Once there were to players in my game A cleric, And Wizard. They were cornered by like twenty goblins and the wizard tried using burning hands on them. She rolled 1 and pretty much just made the goblins warm. In the end they lost and had to go back to a provisions place
What did she roll a 1 on? Burning hands doesn't need an attack roll and does 3d6 damage.
Once there were to players in my game A cleric, And Wizard. They were cornered by like twenty goblins and the wizard tried using burning hands on them. She rolled 1 and pretty much just made the goblins warm. In the end they lost and had to go back to a provisions place
What did she roll a 1 on? Burning hands doesn't need an attack roll and does 3d6 damage.
It could also have been an older edition where Burning Hands did 1d6 damage per caster level.
But 20 goblins is an excessive encounter for two PCs unless they were 6-7th level.
They were running lost mine of phandelver (they said provisions place). I find it hard to see how they died to four goblins: though wizards have terrible health.
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This was back at the beginning of the campaign I'm currently running.
A bit of backstory: The party was at the tavern when a tall, heavily-damaged, pale figure enters the town and introduces itself to the players as the baelnorn guardian of a lost tomb of an ancient order of knights. Recently, the tomb was raided by the cult of Orcus and he was overpowered and unable to stop them from taking priceless relics and the remains of his friends, who the cult was going to resurrect for their own evil purposes. According to him, his phylactery was supposedly damaged, and now he was unable to use his magic. Just as he finished his story, one of his zombified knights and their undead hound broke in, sent by the cult leader to finish off the weakened guardnorn.
Now, this was back when I had only like three sessions of DMing experience, and very poor combat planning skills. I bulked up the zombie's stats and gave the dog a poisonous bite so that the fight would be interesting, but I overlooked one major detail: Bebe Bubbette, the baby bullette that I had (hesitantly) let the sorceress have. I slashed the bullette's stats, but apparently I didn't slash them enough, because within two rounds, both of the enemies had been defeated, the zombie knight having been one-hit KO'd by Bebe Bubbette and the zombie hound following soon after. The sorceress had to scream at Bebe Bubbette to not eat the corpses or else he would get food poisoning, and the baelnorn, seeing his former friend's decapitated, rotting body being thrashed around by a baby landshark, started to realize that perhaps he had made the first of many, many bad decisions and that maybe being killed by a demonic cult wouldn't have been so bad after all.
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Actually our 4! lvl 7 character group almost lost against a pack of wolfs because we didn't roll higher than a 5 all the time. One character even died. It was the strangest fight we ever had.
And one time we were fighting a tribe of humanoids (gith from Dark Sun) and their sorcerer cast a spell that gave all of their arrows a +5 to hit for the next couple combat rounds and thirty of them opened fire on our Rogue/Monk who had like an incredible Dodge bonus and they all missed!!!!
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We were fighting 2 bandits
druid casts entangle both fail
bard nat 20 with a longbow (had bracers of archery ) close to max damage kills one
fighter nat 20 maul max damage kills the other
but the worst part was they were running away from us and we chased them down and murdered them
A random one-shot our party was doing while our DM was on vacation. My Sorcerer managed to get Hold Monster to work on a dragon (we were running a level-10 version of the Lost Mines dragon encounter) and then the DM of the campaign ended up rolling poorly for a few turns to get OUT of my hold.
The rest of the party had a bit of field day while the dragon was paralyzed. Granted, once it did get out of the hold we were all a bit too bunched together and it nearly ended badly for US after all. But we succeeded in the end. :) It was just very funny for those few turns to be able to just go nuts on a dragon!
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quote from Romantically Apocalyptic by Vitaly S Alexius
Once there were to players in my game A cleric, And Wizard. They were cornered by like twenty goblins and the wizard tried using burning hands on them. She rolled 1 and pretty much just made the goblins warm. In the end they lost and had to go back to a provisions place
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Way back in 2nd Edition I was running an ogre fighter. The party was around 10th level when we were traveling down the road and the GM rolled an encounter with... 3 kobolds.
Honestly, I'm not even sure why he bothered actually doing the encounter, but presumably he thought it was funny. So, back in the days of 2nd Edition, there was this mechanic called morale, which determined whether or not a given NPC or monster would decide to run from combat. Kobolds had low morale in the first place, plus the modifiers for being outnumbered facing foes of a much higher level, and facing foes that were vastly physically superior. GM checks morale- first kobold= fail; second kobold= fail; third kobold= critical success!
So the kobold draws his dagger and charges! Does he go after the dark elf wizard? Nope! The saural cleric? Nope! The thief, which was some sort of humanoid beetle? Nope!
He goes after the 700 lb ogre wielding a flail the size of a horsecart. The GM tells me that due to my vastly superior reach, I get to attack before he does. Anything but a 1 and this little kobold is splattered all over the ground.
I roll.
It's a natural 20.
GM has me roll for damage.
Between my massive strength bonus for being an ogre, my weapon proficiency bonus, and the enchantment on the weapon itself, I end up reducing the kobold to -50 HP on the first blow.
The GM's description: You swing the flail around in an overhead arc. The ball, which is nearly as big as the kobold is, impacts him directly on the head. A massive cloud of dust is thrown up, and when it clears about a minute later, you see a hole in the ground that's at least five feet deep. There may or may not be a small amount of blood staining the rocks at the bottom of the hole.
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.
What did she roll a 1 on? Burning hands doesn't need an attack roll and does 3d6 damage.
Maybe she meant three 1s for damage.
It could also have been an older edition where Burning Hands did 1d6 damage per caster level.
But 20 goblins is an excessive encounter for two PCs unless they were 6-7th level.
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.
They were running lost mine of phandelver (they said provisions place). I find it hard to see how they died to four goblins: though wizards have terrible health.
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This was back at the beginning of the campaign I'm currently running.
A bit of backstory: The party was at the tavern when a tall, heavily-damaged, pale figure enters the town and introduces itself to the players as the baelnorn guardian of a lost tomb of an ancient order of knights. Recently, the tomb was raided by the cult of Orcus and he was overpowered and unable to stop them from taking priceless relics and the remains of his friends, who the cult was going to resurrect for their own evil purposes. According to him, his phylactery was supposedly damaged, and now he was unable to use his magic. Just as he finished his story, one of his zombified knights and their undead hound broke in, sent by the cult leader to finish off the weakened guardnorn.
Now, this was back when I had only like three sessions of DMing experience, and very poor combat planning skills. I bulked up the zombie's stats and gave the dog a poisonous bite so that the fight would be interesting, but I overlooked one major detail: Bebe Bubbette, the baby bullette that I had (hesitantly) let the sorceress have. I slashed the bullette's stats, but apparently I didn't slash them enough, because within two rounds, both of the enemies had been defeated, the zombie knight having been one-hit KO'd by Bebe Bubbette and the zombie hound following soon after. The sorceress had to scream at Bebe Bubbette to not eat the corpses or else he would get food poisoning, and the baelnorn, seeing his former friend's decapitated, rotting body being thrashed around by a baby landshark, started to realize that perhaps he had made the first of many, many bad decisions and that maybe being killed by a demonic cult wouldn't have been so bad after all.
Morrigan Corax, The Phantom Queen, Breaker of The Elemental Chains, and Flaming Chicken
Cassilia Decalia, Servant of His Xanthous Majesty. "It's not narcissism, it's histrionicism, dearie."
Dokuhebi Tsuchinoko, child of the serpent goddess and temporary mother of squidlings
Envelope Lastname is going to be the death of me.
I'm allergic to fireball
Actually our 4! lvl 7 character group almost lost against a pack of wolfs because we didn't roll higher than a 5 all the time. One character even died. It was the strangest fight we ever had.
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And one time we were fighting a tribe of humanoids (gith from Dark Sun) and their sorcerer cast a spell that gave all of their arrows a +5 to hit for the next couple combat rounds and thirty of them opened fire on our Rogue/Monk who had like an incredible Dodge bonus and they all missed!!!!