I was playing a Tabaxi wizard. We were fighting a tiger which had retreated and hidden, waiting to ambush us. We knew it was around somewhere, and that it would probably attack the mostly-dead rogue next. On my turn, the only idea I could think of was to imitate the mating call of a female tiger!
I rolled a nat 1.
The whole table was hysterical. It was several minutes before we could listen to the DM at all. When we calmed down a bit, he announced that I had succeeded at attracting the tiger’s attention, but it was actually a female tiger, and now considered me a rival for mating opportunities! Needless to say, it slaughtered me.
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One of my players' most...interesting ideas came after the party's incredibly fat gnome died in a wizard tower. The next room had a spike floor the characters had to cross while traps shot firebolts at them. They went back, got the gnome's body, and rolled it out onto the spikes, using it as a stepping stone to cross the room. It worked, perfectly.
I had a couple with a previous character, Ozzy, who was a...let's say maverick, to be kind.
One time he was at the top of a 60ft cliff with a corpse (long story), and since he was a halfling, he didn't fancy the climb down, so he proposed jumping off the cliff, holding onto the corpse, and using it to break his fall at the bottom (Matt Damon does it in the Bourne Identity, so it's totally possible ;-). Sadly the DM nixed that by pointing out it would end with Ozzy's certain death.
Another time, after we broke someone out of a dungeon, Ozzy decided to take the latrine bucket with him, just on a whim. Everyone thought he was crazy, until we got approached by some guards, at which point: Ozzy throws the contents of the bucket in the guard's face, knocks him prone and sticks the bucket on his head, and the party makes their escape.
Playing as my namesake, Thoruk the Barbarian, I once successfully made 3 stealth rolls (nat 20, 19, 19) allowing me to sneak around the room and get behind the bad guy (an oversized gnoll). I had two options; a dragon greatsword I had found earlier in the adventure, or a cooking pot.
So I succeeded in getting the cooking pot jammed over the Gnolls head. He staggered forwards, and the wizard cast Grease, then the druid managed to set the grease on fire. The Gnoll, pot on head, fell over in the grease and caught on fire.
Back to my turn, the Gnoll's up but still in the flaming grease, and so I have a choice; Dragon Greatsword, or throw a full waterskin on the chip-pan fire in the middle of the room.
So the explosion deals a bit of damage to everyone, but mostly the Gnoll. Thoruk managed to dodge it, which was nice.
But then the Druid steps up and says "I cast create water".
The explosion knocks out 2 of the party of 5, and the DM (who by now is in hysterics at the way this went) explains that the Gnoll had about 3 hp left before the second explosion, and would have died to a punch!
We revived the party and everyone commended Thoruk on his clever idea in the usual way; saying things like "why would you do that?" and "why didn't you just hit them?".
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I was playing a Tabaxi wizard. We were fighting a tiger which had retreated and hidden, waiting to ambush us. We knew it was around somewhere, and that it would probably attack the mostly-dead rogue next. On my turn, the only idea I could think of was to imitate the mating call of a female tiger!
I rolled a nat 1.
The whole table was hysterical. It was several minutes before we could listen to the DM at all. When we calmed down a bit, he announced that I had succeeded at attracting the tiger’s attention, but it was actually a female tiger, and now considered me a rival for mating opportunities! Needless to say, it slaughtered me.
I live with several severe autoimmune conditions. If I don’t get back to you right away, it’s probably because I’m not feeling well.
One of my players' most...interesting ideas came after the party's incredibly fat gnome died in a wizard tower. The next room had a spike floor the characters had to cross while traps shot firebolts at them. They went back, got the gnome's body, and rolled it out onto the spikes, using it as a stepping stone to cross the room. It worked, perfectly.
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I had a couple with a previous character, Ozzy, who was a...let's say maverick, to be kind.
One time he was at the top of a 60ft cliff with a corpse (long story), and since he was a halfling, he didn't fancy the climb down, so he proposed jumping off the cliff, holding onto the corpse, and using it to break his fall at the bottom (Matt Damon does it in the Bourne Identity, so it's totally possible ;-). Sadly the DM nixed that by pointing out it would end with Ozzy's certain death.
Another time, after we broke someone out of a dungeon, Ozzy decided to take the latrine bucket with him, just on a whim. Everyone thought he was crazy, until we got approached by some guards, at which point: Ozzy throws the contents of the bucket in the guard's face, knocks him prone and sticks the bucket on his head, and the party makes their escape.
Playing as my namesake, Thoruk the Barbarian, I once successfully made 3 stealth rolls (nat 20, 19, 19) allowing me to sneak around the room and get behind the bad guy (an oversized gnoll). I had two options; a dragon greatsword I had found earlier in the adventure, or a cooking pot.
So I succeeded in getting the cooking pot jammed over the Gnolls head. He staggered forwards, and the wizard cast Grease, then the druid managed to set the grease on fire. The Gnoll, pot on head, fell over in the grease and caught on fire.
Back to my turn, the Gnoll's up but still in the flaming grease, and so I have a choice; Dragon Greatsword, or throw a full waterskin on the chip-pan fire in the middle of the room.
So the explosion deals a bit of damage to everyone, but mostly the Gnoll. Thoruk managed to dodge it, which was nice.
But then the Druid steps up and says "I cast create water".
The explosion knocks out 2 of the party of 5, and the DM (who by now is in hysterics at the way this went) explains that the Gnoll had about 3 hp left before the second explosion, and would have died to a punch!
We revived the party and everyone commended Thoruk on his clever idea in the usual way; saying things like "why would you do that?" and "why didn't you just hit them?".
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