Pretty self-explanitory, what was the funniest thing that happened when you rolled a nat 20?
There was a rock blocking our path down a forest road
DM: "Roll for acrobatics to climb over the boulder"
Our Cleric: "I'm gonna pray it away"
DM: "What?"
Cleric: "Yeah I'm rolling for religion instead!" *rolls nat 20+4"
DM: *sighs* "The rock ascends into the sky in a blaze of holy light. On its way to rock heaven, it thanks you for your service."
*everyone dies of laughter*
*Fast forward 30 minutes to a battle in which there is a large group of zombies in front of us*
Cleric: "I'm gonna ask to get the rock back and crush the zombies with it"
DM: "Fine. Roll for Religion"
Cleric: *rolls*
DM *angrily* "A portal opens in the sky. The boulder descends from Rock Heaven, crushing seven zombies. There, are you happy now?"
The DM has since heavily nerfed the power of prayer after this incident.
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*First nat 20 attack in the entire campaign after several encounters!*
*Player rolls d12 for damage twice*
*rolled a 1 both times*
(DM offered a house rule so that crits = max damage roll + normal damage roll, but he warned that the enemies get the same rule if they choose to do it. He stated that he never liked that a crit could end up with 2 + mods under standard rules.)
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
The party has been asked by 2 dwarves to clear the kobolds out of their home. They live in a fancy cave, and the kobolds have broken through the back wall.
Enter Thoruk - Barbarian, idiot, and wasn't listening to what they were asked to do. So he asks, and a party member breaks it down for him nicely - "go inside and kill everything".
So Thoruk does this - we clear the first room, and Thoruk runs through the next door.
DM: "You find yourself in a small room with an alter at the end, but it's otherwise empty."
Me, thinking I would just smash a chair or something: "I attack the nearest thing and then run back out." (thinking like sir Lancelot in Monty python where he stops halfway up the stairs to chop some flowers on the wall).
Cut through the rolls: DM decides that Thoruk is in fact swinging at the alter. He has me make a strength roll - nat 20. The DM had planned for Thoruk to be launched back (like Gimli when he chops the ring) but no, Thoruk has to out-stubborn it and crack the alter in half.
At this point, everyone with magic senses that s@$*'s about to go down, and legs it. Thoruk continues to chase Kobolds, oblivious to the swirling magic which is slowly taking form in front of the shattered alter. It takes the form of the Dwarven Goddess of Homely Protection, and she makes to ask thoruk (in that tone that a mother uses when she is trying very hard not to fling her child out of the window) just what he is doing.
Me, after the DM describes her as a dwarven woman with only a small, well trimmed beard: "Stay back, sir, there could be more of them", before continuing my assault.
Eventually the other players manage to catch Thoruk, and the goddess asks him why he broke her alter.
me: "well, the dwarves hired us to come in here and kill everything, and I came into the room and saw the thing, so I killed it. I was just doing what the dwarves asked me to.
DM: Roll for deception.
me: But I truly believe this is the truth.
DM: OK, roll for persuasion.
me: *Nat 20.
So on this day, Thoruk helped some dwarves by persuading the goddess who protects their home that they asked him to come into their home and shatter her alter for them.
I never found out what happened to the dwarves. Sadly our DM passed away not long after this adventure.
"In that tone that a mother uses when she is trying very hard not to fling her child out of the window" 😂😂
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I was running a little one shot dungeon crawl, essentially go i, hack it up and leave. Sprinkled some minor tidbits in for flavor, conversations and such. My son wanted to capture and interrogate the Orc with the rusted battle axe. Barbarian is using a 2 handed axe, asks if he can throw his axe at said Orc, my son says "yeah sure" knowing I will set a DC of at least 20 to try and throw a frikkin' 2 handed axe. *nat 20 With his Dex boost, scaled it to a d10, in hopes a small roll (my orc had 20HP) of course....10
"Your axe spins through the air, straight at the Orc, who raises the haft of his own weapon to block. The axe cleaves cleanly through the shaft, embedding itself in his chest. He drops like a stone."
Cleric (my son's character) "Noooooooo!"
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We were interrogating Glassstaff in the module he shows up in, I don't remember the name, and I was playing a Changeling because the DM let us play any race, and I nat 20'd an Intimidation check to get him to talk. That was fun.
We were interrogating Glassstaff in the module he shows up in, I don't remember the name, and I was playing a Changeling because the DM let us play any race, and I nat 20'd an Intimidation check to get him to talk. That was fun.
Don't remember all of the specifics: Some kind of Wisdom curse was involved.
"Nat 20! Woo!" "What's your WIS modifier?" "... Nat 15! Woo!"
(WIS score was reduced to 1 from some curse.)
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
DM - (inwardly raging) The door shatters under the onslaught.
6 seconds later
Dexadin- i punch the door (different door)
nat 1 +0
DM (Sweet Sweet revenge) Your hand shatters against the door.
What's a dexadin?
A dexterity-based paladin.
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So, in the LMoP campaign I'm playing in right now, my wizard was at the top of the initiative order. A goblin had just spotted us sneaking up on Klarg (Not going to give more spoilers than that), and was about to warn the others. I flip my dagger into my hand and launch forward in a last-ditch effort to stop it. Attack roll to hit it, and Nat 20. The only way I could do enough damage to one shot it. I lunge forward, clapping my hand over its mouth as I slam the pommel of my dagger into its head, dropping it instantly.
I was playing as an Artificer in this campaign that my friend was DMing for me. I was a forest gnome and of course had a raven friend because, why not? My character was typed up in a wagon on the way to the capital city, but didn’t know that it was the capital, so our DM asked us to roll history to determine whether or not we knew. I rolled *nat 1*.
DM *smugly* “You have no clue where you are.”
Me, equally smugly “I ask my raven”
DM: “... what?”
Me, wicked smile across my face: “I ask my raven where we are.”
I roll a history check for a RAVEN! And roll a nat 20. Needless to say he hated that raven for the entirety of the campaign.
Later, he puts us in a colosseum with a giant spider, whereupon I roll initiative and cast fire bolt through a gun like contraption I made on my first turn and nat 20 the attack roll. The spider was then half blind for the duration of the battle. I dare you to think of some random gnome going up against this giant spider which, by the way, was the king’s champion, and blind it with a small gun-thing and not laugh.
We were playing Waterdeep Dragon Heist and were infiltrating a hippogriff calvary stable. Our goal was to scare off/kill the hippogriffs, but our half orc barbarian wanted to roll an animal handling check to keep one of them. he rolled a nat 20 with a wisdom of 8 and now owns a hippogriff which he consistently summons.
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We were playing Waterdeep Dragon Heist and were infiltrating a hippogriff calvary stable. Our goal was to scare off/kill the hippogriffs, but our half orc barbarian wanted to roll an animal handling check to keep one of them. he rolled a nat 20 with a wisdom of 8 and now owns a hippogriff which he consistently summons.
aah, animal capturing. A true classic of the funny times.
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Pretty self-explanitory, what was the funniest thing that happened when you rolled a nat 20?
There was a rock blocking our path down a forest road
DM: "Roll for acrobatics to climb over the boulder"
Our Cleric: "I'm gonna pray it away"
DM: "What?"
Cleric: "Yeah I'm rolling for religion instead!" *rolls nat 20+4"
DM: *sighs* "The rock ascends into the sky in a blaze of holy light. On its way to rock heaven, it thanks you for your service."
*everyone dies of laughter*
*Fast forward 30 minutes to a battle in which there is a large group of zombies in front of us*
Cleric: "I'm gonna ask to get the rock back and crush the zombies with it"
DM: "Fine. Roll for Religion"
Cleric: *rolls*
DM *angrily* "A portal opens in the sky. The boulder descends from Rock Heaven, crushing seven zombies. There, are you happy now?"
The DM has since heavily nerfed the power of prayer after this incident.
Life is very busy unfortunately, gone from most Pbp's indefinitely.
If you'd like to contact me, I am on Discord at GreatAxeblade#7595, always happy to chat :)
Homebrew races: ~Otterfolk! Play as a otter!~ Playable Dryad! (Literally just the monster sheet ported to player race)
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*First nat 20 attack in the entire campaign after several encounters!*
*Player rolls d12 for damage twice*
*rolled a 1 both times*
(DM offered a house rule so that crits = max damage roll + normal damage roll, but he warned that the enemies get the same rule if they choose to do it. He stated that he never liked that a crit could end up with 2 + mods under standard rules.)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Well, ahaha!
Player has advantage on nature roll. (DC 15)
Rolls 19
DM: No need for advantage! You succeed!
Player: Nah bro I have advantage! Ima roll a 20!! *rolls* uhhhhhh, nat 20!
A New DM up against the World
Player crit a 4 armed gargoyle now he as a new Dong shaped club
The Scenario:
The party has been asked by 2 dwarves to clear the kobolds out of their home. They live in a fancy cave, and the kobolds have broken through the back wall.
Enter Thoruk - Barbarian, idiot, and wasn't listening to what they were asked to do. So he asks, and a party member breaks it down for him nicely - "go inside and kill everything".
So Thoruk does this - we clear the first room, and Thoruk runs through the next door.
DM: "You find yourself in a small room with an alter at the end, but it's otherwise empty."
Me, thinking I would just smash a chair or something: "I attack the nearest thing and then run back out." (thinking like sir Lancelot in Monty python where he stops halfway up the stairs to chop some flowers on the wall).
Cut through the rolls: DM decides that Thoruk is in fact swinging at the alter. He has me make a strength roll - nat 20. The DM had planned for Thoruk to be launched back (like Gimli when he chops the ring) but no, Thoruk has to out-stubborn it and crack the alter in half.
At this point, everyone with magic senses that s@$*'s about to go down, and legs it. Thoruk continues to chase Kobolds, oblivious to the swirling magic which is slowly taking form in front of the shattered alter. It takes the form of the Dwarven Goddess of Homely Protection, and she makes to ask thoruk (in that tone that a mother uses when she is trying very hard not to fling her child out of the window) just what he is doing.
Me, after the DM describes her as a dwarven woman with only a small, well trimmed beard: "Stay back, sir, there could be more of them", before continuing my assault.
Eventually the other players manage to catch Thoruk, and the goddess asks him why he broke her alter.
me: "well, the dwarves hired us to come in here and kill everything, and I came into the room and saw the thing, so I killed it. I was just doing what the dwarves asked me to.
DM: Roll for deception.
me: But I truly believe this is the truth.
DM: OK, roll for persuasion.
me: *Nat 20.
So on this day, Thoruk helped some dwarves by persuading the goddess who protects their home that they asked him to come into their home and shatter her alter for them.
I never found out what happened to the dwarves. Sadly our DM passed away not long after this adventure.
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"In that tone that a mother uses when she is trying very hard not to fling her child out of the window" 😂😂
Life is very busy unfortunately, gone from most Pbp's indefinitely.
If you'd like to contact me, I am on Discord at GreatAxeblade#7595, always happy to chat :)
Homebrew races: ~Otterfolk! Play as a otter!~ Playable Dryad! (Literally just the monster sheet ported to player race)
Sauce Archpriest!- Join the Supreme Court of Sauces! Join the Cult of Cults! EXTENDED SIGNATURE Tooltips
I was running a little one shot dungeon crawl, essentially go i, hack it up and leave. Sprinkled some minor tidbits in for flavor, conversations and such. My son wanted to capture and interrogate the Orc with the rusted battle axe. Barbarian is using a 2 handed axe, asks if he can throw his axe at said Orc, my son says "yeah sure" knowing I will set a DC of at least 20 to try and throw a frikkin' 2 handed axe. *nat 20 With his Dex boost, scaled it to a d10, in hopes a small roll (my orc had 20HP) of course....10
"Your axe spins through the air, straight at the Orc, who raises the haft of his own weapon to block. The axe cleaves cleanly through the shaft, embedding itself in his chest. He drops like a stone."
Cleric (my son's character) "Noooooooo!"
Talk to your Players. Talk to your DM. If more people used this advice, there would be 24.74% fewer threads on Tactics, Rules and DM discussions.
*Party encounters Graz'zt, demon lord of seduction*
Bard: I WANNA SEDUCE HIM
DM: *sighs* ok roll
Bard: NAT 20
DM: *rolls eyes yet again* Graz'zt is facinated with you and invites you to his house, unleashing his army on your companions.
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The party finds a locked magical door-
monk- I punch the door
(Nat 20 + 10+ 2+3 [guidance+Bardic inspire] )
DM - (inwardly raging) The door shatters under the onslaught.
6 seconds later
Dexadin- i punch the door (different door)
nat 1 +0
DM (Sweet Sweet revenge) Your hand shatters against the door.
I can’t remember what’s supposed to go here.
We were interrogating Glassstaff in the module he shows up in, I don't remember the name, and I was playing a Changeling because the DM let us play any race, and I nat 20'd an Intimidation check to get him to talk. That was fun.
Lost Wines of Phandelver.
I have a weird sense of humor.
I also make maps.(That's a link)
Don't remember all of the specifics: Some kind of Wisdom curse was involved.
"Nat 20! Woo!"
"What's your WIS modifier?"
"... Nat 15! Woo!"
(WIS score was reduced to 1 from some curse.)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
*My warforged pugilist is on top of a large tower being chased by bullywugs*
DM: the bullywugs are getting closer.
Me: I jump and reach my hand out to drag on the building and slide down anime-style, nat 20 here I come.
*rolls 20*
DM: you safely slide down the building into the street.
*My Gunslinger is being attacked by a hellhound*
" I attack him with my pistol and use violent shot twice ( a feature that allows you to roll an extra die of damage on a hit )
*nat 20*
*rolls 30 damage, ( which BTW, is 2/3 of the creature's max health )*
DM: Your bullet Strikes true and shatters the side of the creatures skull"
DM: your bullet strikes true and drags acro
Mystic v3 should be official, nuff said.
What's a dexadin?
Mystic v3 should be official, nuff said.
A dexterity-based paladin.
All stars fade. Some stars forever fall.
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If there was no light, people wouldn't fear the dark.
Not necessarily funny, but pretty awesome.
So, in the LMoP campaign I'm playing in right now, my wizard was at the top of the initiative order. A goblin had just spotted us sneaking up on Klarg (Not going to give more spoilers than that), and was about to warn the others. I flip my dagger into my hand and launch forward in a last-ditch effort to stop it. Attack roll to hit it, and Nat 20. The only way I could do enough damage to one shot it. I lunge forward, clapping my hand over its mouth as I slam the pommel of my dagger into its head, dropping it instantly.
That was fun.
Ok thanks
Mystic v3 should be official, nuff said.
I was playing as an Artificer in this campaign that my friend was DMing for me. I was a forest gnome and of course had a raven friend because, why not? My character was typed up in a wagon on the way to the capital city, but didn’t know that it was the capital, so our DM asked us to roll history to determine whether or not we knew. I rolled *nat 1*.
DM *smugly* “You have no clue where you are.”
Me, equally smugly “I ask my raven”
DM: “... what?”
Me, wicked smile across my face: “I ask my raven where we are.”
I roll a history check for a RAVEN! And roll a nat 20. Needless to say he hated that raven for the entirety of the campaign.
Later, he puts us in a colosseum with a giant spider, whereupon I roll initiative and cast fire bolt through a gun like contraption I made on my first turn and nat 20 the attack roll. The spider was then half blind for the duration of the battle. I dare you to think of some random gnome going up against this giant spider which, by the way, was the king’s champion, and blind it with a small gun-thing and not laugh.
Farewell.
We were playing Waterdeep Dragon Heist and were infiltrating a hippogriff calvary stable. Our goal was to scare off/kill the hippogriffs, but our half orc barbarian wanted to roll an animal handling check to keep one of them. he rolled a nat 20 with a wisdom of 8 and now owns a hippogriff which he consistently summons.
— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fan δ —
making a smoothie for meta
——————| EXTENDED SIG |——————
Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
aah, animal capturing. A true classic of the funny times.
Life is very busy unfortunately, gone from most Pbp's indefinitely.
If you'd like to contact me, I am on Discord at GreatAxeblade#7595, always happy to chat :)
Homebrew races: ~Otterfolk! Play as a otter!~ Playable Dryad! (Literally just the monster sheet ported to player race)
Sauce Archpriest!- Join the Supreme Court of Sauces! Join the Cult of Cults! EXTENDED SIGNATURE Tooltips