Well, we had our conclusion to the whole campaign.
We were level 20.
We had five allies, six if you count my good wolf boy.
We were fighting the raven queen, eight stone golems and her throne, which had turned into two mechanical ravens.
The golems advanced, killing two of our allies. I used divine intervention to crush the golems. The DM decided that I managed to get them all. That made the fight easier.
After a long fight, where the wizard nearly died and the ravens wouldn't stop booping my snoot, one of our allies managed to land the killing blow on her. To be fair, he'd been waiting two thousand years for this moment, so we weren't too upset about it. I mean I was going to use Divine Word next turn, but whatever. I'm not mad.
After we took a well-earned rest, a portal opened. A wizard stepped through and said that the fighter/warlock's son had become evil in the future.
Earlier on, the fighter/warlock had promised his first born son to a hag in exchange for information.
The fighter/warlock is a warforged.
My final line as we entered the portal was, 'I have questions.'
We found invisible floor. We found invisible stairs. We went up said stairs. Our nosy shadow monk pissed off some helmed horror by going to the library. We scolded said monk then killed helmed horrors, found some poetry and a magic inkwell, quoted star trek as were beamed up by some runes, found imprisoned djinn, found out djinn was a djinn and was pronounced “ginn” rolled some 19’s, and freed the djinn. Who gave nosy monk tattoos for amusing him and gave the rest of us lore overload and a new villain. It was fun. It’s also an elemental air tower with invisible stuff do next week I think it’s invisible stalker time.
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RIP Tavern.
All hail King Jovan Fluffycloud Prince
Teleporting elf monk supremacy!, but druids are better
[Cactus] Waffles!
”I don’t have any good quotes to put in my sig.” -Me
We had previously saved the town and evacuated the remaining town folk to a mansion on a hill overlooking the main part of town. We thought they would be safer here. Our party were in discussions with local guardsman as well as an adventuring party led by our paladin's NPC brother when we came under attack. From an army. WITH SIEGE WEAPONS.
So we abandoned our defensive plans and rushed down to meet them before they could do more damage and we were met with an ARMY of hobgoblins. 60 shield bearers, 60 archers and several captains to lead them. Against our party of 6 and an NPC party of 6. And we're level 4 so we don't have much in the way of big aoe spells...But we did manage to get them with a few key spells from the NPC's and our paladin's level 3 lightning bolt that he had 3 charges of from communing with an altar of a storm god.
So we beat the army, short-rest and discuss how many of us should pursue lest we leave the town undefended. After a bit of argueing, everyone is coming to chase the stragglers back to where they come from. We follow them into a forest when we get ambused by a bunch of Aarakochra monks. Who batter us but fortunately we still have healing spells for those knocked unconscious. At this point we're fairly sure that they know we're coming but we've fought off so much of what they have to offer that we get ready to find these stragglers and get them.
Nope. It's another army. With a ******* Warlord.
But we devise a cunning plan: Our front liners will attract attention, with our spellcasters behind them. We've got a couple of people with big spells attacking from the otherside, hopefully to take down some Worg riders which are here now. My monk, our rogue and our NPC rogue friend waiting in the shadows so that once the action begins, we can make a beeline for the boss. We start the fight, things are going well.
Until the spellcaster next to the boss appears, who apparently has a feat so that his spells don't affect his allies. And the boss is making his way into the fray. Oh and he just summoned a ******* BLACK DRAGON...it really is true that no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.
******* Pandemonium. Our Barbarian tanks go down and the dragon's breath weapon takes out 2 of our casters at the back. One of which survives the OHKO by 2 hit points. Hearts ******* pounding at this point. What follows is 2 rounds of clutch rolls, clutch moves where we somehow get the boss' sword from his hand which means the Dragon ****s off and we just about manage to kill everything. And we are ******* spent.
But hey, we just got a castle full of loot and a level up. So it's worth
Special shout out to 2 of our players who were playing from the same house and both got more and more wasted as the session went on. Nothing like listening to a druid trying to describe her wildshape when she is completely smashed :D
My party had to deal with displacer ducks (which was annoying, our paladin's sentient sword is depressed, and we managed to screw over Zuggtmoy, without having to do it ourselves
We had our first real BBEG fight. It was our artificer's sister, also a simic hybrid, both of them a fusion of elf and dragon. We had managed to tie her up, and feed her some lsd, before the actual fight started, which gave her disadvantage the entire time. She ended up both paralyzed and stunned at different points in the fight. She also kept getting knocked prone every other round. Our DMs ended up having to use legendary actions just to stand up. At one point my character and her were knocked prone simultaneously. I looked her directly in the eye and said "watch this, it's legendary" as I stood up effortlessly, and then attacked her. Near the end of the fight, she tried to fly away into the snowy mountaintop wilderness outside, while triggering a self-destruct of the building we were fighting in. We escaped in a toboggan our monk found outside, while our druid cast Earthbind on the bad guy. She plummeted to earth somewhere inside the blast zone, and we fully expect to see a scarred and pissed off version of her sometime in the future.
Also, my ranger chose mountains as his favored terrain, so after watching the explosion, we basically strolled down the mountain to civilization, rather than wander our way through. First time I've ever gotten use out of that.
Not my last session, but the one before the one before last or something. I'm playing as a Grung rogue that I want to multi class into artificer. Basically I snuck into the back room of a tavern and stole a bunch of mystery drug. I immediately tried snorting it and almost died, luckily as a frog person I was able to vomit my lungs and get the stuff out. I then proceeded to sell to a random dude with a broken arm. It cured his broken arm, but then it mangled him and we had to do an autopsy on his disfigured corpse.
Not my last session, but the one before the one before last or something. I'm playing as a Grung rogue that I want to multi class into artificer. Basically I snuck into the back room of a tavern and stole a bunch of mystery drug. I immediately tried snorting it and almost died, luckily as a frog person I was able to vomit my lungs and get the stuff out. I then proceeded to sell to a random dude with a broken arm. It cured his broken arm, but then it mangled him and we had to do an autopsy on his disfigured corpse.
I had my first ever session as a player yesterday! (Forever DM here) We started out as slaves in a gladiator pit, and our first mission was to escape the pit and the surrounding town. We freed some dinosaurs on our way out, causing absolute chaos, and through a series of crazy rolls, our druid was able to complete some crazy animal handling checks, (2 nat20s and a 17), and now we have a velociraptor as a permanent companion!
Me, an Air Genasi Wizard, disguised myself as a guard, and managed to persuade the other guards that I was “taking these prisoners and this velociraptor to a hidden outpost in the swamps.” We escaped, (not unharmed, tho) and got safely into the swamp.
Lastly, I was able to find a scroll in the mage captains quarters, and now I know Find Familiar! My DM has allowed me to make my familiars type a elemental, so now I am in the proud possession of an elemental owl!
My next session is in a week, and I can’t wait to see what’s next! So many years DMing, and I’m excited to finally be playing!
That's awesome! I can't imagine starting out with D&D as a DM, even though I started DMing after just a few months as a player. But my first PC was a wizard, so high five! Wizards are the bomb! :D
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Maximilian "Mad Max" Oceanus, transmutation wizard, best known for being on the team that saved the universe from Kozelak's infinite hunger, and also an avenger of the Unspoken. Olaf Ericsson, a jolly ranger with a bit of an anger problem. Also likes to sing. Yaethel Akeelan, a druid with a plan; a very, very big plan. Damien Rook, full time author, part time adventurer. Plays god on Saturdays.
Currently playing Dragon of Icespire Peak for one of the campaigns I'm in. This session we were investigating the abandoned temple on the mountain when a juvenile frost dragon showed up and a fight ensued. My bard acquired a grey bag of tricks the session before, and decided to try it out. He pulled out a badger, threw it at the dragon. Missed. The badger landed behind it. So he commanded the badger to go up the dragon's rear end and attack from inside. It did one whole point of biting damage before we managed to kill the dragon. My bard managed to get the badger out and returned him to the bag.
That's awesome! I can't imagine starting out with D&D as a DM, even though I started DMing after just a few months as a player. But my first PC was a wizard, so high five! Wizards are the bomb! :D
Yea, we started out level 3, so i had no idea about which tradition to pick, until my DM suggested Order of Scribes. It’s really fun, and I hope that it comes out in Tashas Calderon of Everything this November! What was your first Wizard?
Mine was a human transmutation wizard with the urchin background.
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Maximilian "Mad Max" Oceanus, transmutation wizard, best known for being on the team that saved the universe from Kozelak's infinite hunger, and also an avenger of the Unspoken. Olaf Ericsson, a jolly ranger with a bit of an anger problem. Also likes to sing. Yaethel Akeelan, a druid with a plan; a very, very big plan. Damien Rook, full time author, part time adventurer. Plays god on Saturdays.
Well, we had our conclusion to the whole campaign.
We were level 20.
We had five allies, six if you count my good wolf boy.
We were fighting the raven queen, eight stone golems and her throne, which had turned into two mechanical ravens.
The golems advanced, killing two of our allies. I used divine intervention to crush the golems. The DM decided that I managed to get them all. That made the fight easier.
After a long fight, where the wizard nearly died and the ravens wouldn't stop booping my snoot, one of our allies managed to land the killing blow on her. To be fair, he'd been waiting two thousand years for this moment, so we weren't too upset about it. I mean I was going to use Divine Word next turn, but whatever. I'm not mad.
After we took a well-earned rest, a portal opened. A wizard stepped through and said that the fighter/warlock's son had become evil in the future.
Earlier on, the fighter/warlock had promised his first born son to a hag in exchange for information.
The fighter/warlock is a warforged.
My final line as we entered the portal was, 'I have questions.'
We found invisible floor. We found invisible stairs. We went up said stairs. Our nosy shadow monk pissed off some helmed horror by going to the library. We scolded said monk then killed helmed horrors, found some poetry and a magic inkwell, quoted star trek as were beamed up by some runes, found imprisoned djinn, found out djinn was a djinn and was pronounced “ginn” rolled some 19’s, and freed the djinn. Who gave nosy monk tattoos for amusing him and gave the rest of us lore overload and a new villain. It was fun. It’s also an elemental air tower with invisible stuff do next week I think it’s invisible stalker time.
RIP Tavern.
All hail King Jovan Fluffycloud Prince
Teleporting elf monk supremacy!, but druids are better
[Cactus]Waffles!”I don’t have any good quotes to put in my sig.” -Me
We’re gonna die
RIP Tavern.
All hail King Jovan Fluffycloud Prince
Teleporting elf monk supremacy!, but druids are better
[Cactus]Waffles!”I don’t have any good quotes to put in my sig.” -Me
We had previously saved the town and evacuated the remaining town folk to a mansion on a hill overlooking the main part of town. We thought they would be safer here. Our party were in discussions with local guardsman as well as an adventuring party led by our paladin's NPC brother when we came under attack. From an army. WITH SIEGE WEAPONS.
So we abandoned our defensive plans and rushed down to meet them before they could do more damage and we were met with an ARMY of hobgoblins. 60 shield bearers, 60 archers and several captains to lead them. Against our party of 6 and an NPC party of 6. And we're level 4 so we don't have much in the way of big aoe spells...But we did manage to get them with a few key spells from the NPC's and our paladin's level 3 lightning bolt that he had 3 charges of from communing with an altar of a storm god.
So we beat the army, short-rest and discuss how many of us should pursue lest we leave the town undefended. After a bit of argueing, everyone is coming to chase the stragglers back to where they come from. We follow them into a forest when we get ambused by a bunch of Aarakochra monks. Who batter us but fortunately we still have healing spells for those knocked unconscious. At this point we're fairly sure that they know we're coming but we've fought off so much of what they have to offer that we get ready to find these stragglers and get them.
Nope. It's another army. With a ******* Warlord.
But we devise a cunning plan: Our front liners will attract attention, with our spellcasters behind them. We've got a couple of people with big spells attacking from the otherside, hopefully to take down some Worg riders which are here now. My monk, our rogue and our NPC rogue friend waiting in the shadows so that once the action begins, we can make a beeline for the boss. We start the fight, things are going well.
Until the spellcaster next to the boss appears, who apparently has a feat so that his spells don't affect his allies. And the boss is making his way into the fray. Oh and he just summoned a ******* BLACK DRAGON...it really is true that no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.
******* Pandemonium. Our Barbarian tanks go down and the dragon's breath weapon takes out 2 of our casters at the back. One of which survives the OHKO by 2 hit points. Hearts ******* pounding at this point. What follows is 2 rounds of clutch rolls, clutch moves where we somehow get the boss' sword from his hand which means the Dragon ****s off and we just about manage to kill everything. And we are ******* spent.
But hey, we just got a castle full of loot and a level up. So it's worth
Special shout out to 2 of our players who were playing from the same house and both got more and more wasted as the session went on. Nothing like listening to a druid trying to describe her wildshape when she is completely smashed :D
I'm running Lost Mines, and the PCs slept in the wolf cave XD
I hope that they got rid of the wolves, first.
Nope, they made a god animal Handling so i let them sleep with the wolves lol
Adorable image, tbh.
My party had to deal with displacer ducks (which was annoying, our paladin's sentient sword is depressed, and we managed to screw over Zuggtmoy, without having to do it ourselves
We had our first real BBEG fight. It was our artificer's sister, also a simic hybrid, both of them a fusion of elf and dragon. We had managed to tie her up, and feed her some lsd, before the actual fight started, which gave her disadvantage the entire time. She ended up both paralyzed and stunned at different points in the fight. She also kept getting knocked prone every other round. Our DMs ended up having to use legendary actions just to stand up. At one point my character and her were knocked prone simultaneously. I looked her directly in the eye and said "watch this, it's legendary" as I stood up effortlessly, and then attacked her. Near the end of the fight, she tried to fly away into the snowy mountaintop wilderness outside, while triggering a self-destruct of the building we were fighting in. We escaped in a toboggan our monk found outside, while our druid cast Earthbind on the bad guy. She plummeted to earth somewhere inside the blast zone, and we fully expect to see a scarred and pissed off version of her sometime in the future.
Also, my ranger chose mountains as his favored terrain, so after watching the explosion, we basically strolled down the mountain to civilization, rather than wander our way through. First time I've ever gotten use out of that.
"World's okayest Dungeon Master"
There were some great Freudian moments, as our artificer wields a large ***** as his weapon.
"World's okayest Dungeon Master"
Not my last session, but the one before the one before last or something. I'm playing as a Grung rogue that I want to multi class into artificer. Basically I snuck into the back room of a tavern and stole a bunch of mystery drug. I immediately tried snorting it and almost died, luckily as a frog person I was able to vomit my lungs and get the stuff out. I then proceeded to sell to a random dude with a broken arm. It cured his broken arm, but then it mangled him and we had to do an autopsy on his disfigured corpse.
Lol
I am an average mathematics enjoyer.
>Extended Signature<
I had my first ever session as a player yesterday! (Forever DM here) We started out as slaves in a gladiator pit, and our first mission was to escape the pit and the surrounding town. We freed some dinosaurs on our way out, causing absolute chaos, and through a series of crazy rolls, our druid was able to complete some crazy animal handling checks, (2 nat20s and a 17), and now we have a velociraptor as a permanent companion!
Me, an Air Genasi Wizard, disguised myself as a guard, and managed to persuade the other guards that I was “taking these prisoners and this velociraptor to a hidden outpost in the swamps.” We escaped, (not unharmed, tho) and got safely into the swamp.
Lastly, I was able to find a scroll in the mage captains quarters, and now I know Find Familiar! My DM has allowed me to make my familiars type a elemental, so now I am in the proud possession of an elemental owl!
My next session is in a week, and I can’t wait to see what’s next! So many years DMing, and I’m excited to finally be playing!
That's awesome! I can't imagine starting out with D&D as a DM, even though I started DMing after just a few months as a player. But my first PC was a wizard, so high five! Wizards are the bomb! :D
Maximilian "Mad Max" Oceanus, transmutation wizard, best known for being on the team that saved the universe from Kozelak's infinite hunger, and also an avenger of the Unspoken.
Olaf Ericsson, a jolly ranger with a bit of an anger problem. Also likes to sing.
Yaethel Akeelan, a druid with a plan; a very, very big plan.
Damien Rook, full time author, part time adventurer.
Plays god on Saturdays.
Currently playing Dragon of Icespire Peak for one of the campaigns I'm in. This session we were investigating the abandoned temple on the mountain when a juvenile frost dragon showed up and a fight ensued. My bard acquired a grey bag of tricks the session before, and decided to try it out. He pulled out a badger, threw it at the dragon. Missed. The badger landed behind it. So he commanded the badger to go up the dragon's rear end and attack from inside. It did one whole point of biting damage before we managed to kill the dragon. My bard managed to get the badger out and returned him to the bag.
I think the DM is afraid of me now.
Nikolai Buckman | vampire | bard
Solace Redgrove | tiefling | bard
Yea, we started out level 3, so i had no idea about which tradition to pick, until my DM suggested Order of Scribes. It’s really fun, and I hope that it comes out in Tashas Calderon of Everything this November! What was your first Wizard?
Mine was a human transmutation wizard with the urchin background.
Maximilian "Mad Max" Oceanus, transmutation wizard, best known for being on the team that saved the universe from Kozelak's infinite hunger, and also an avenger of the Unspoken.
Olaf Ericsson, a jolly ranger with a bit of an anger problem. Also likes to sing.
Yaethel Akeelan, a druid with a plan; a very, very big plan.
Damien Rook, full time author, part time adventurer.
Plays god on Saturdays.
my first, second and third were all necromancy, the coolest one.
I am an average mathematics enjoyer.
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I saw some comical stuff some gnomes I had that others posted
About to go to the Dwarven Excavation in Dragon of Icespire Peak on another adventure
Rogue Shadow, the DM (and occasional) PC with schemes of inventive thinking