I was playing online and my 4th level hexblade rolled a nat 20. the virtual dice rolled two 10s, a 6 (hex) and my CHA is 18 for a +4. 30 solid points/MAX damage!
I was the king until we were losing a serious fight against a group of knights in plate armor...and the mage saved our bacon by webbing the knights and turning the tide of battle. Fame is fleeting it seems.
We just finished the Sunless Citadel from TTYP. My level 2 warlock made the most of Dark One's Blessing and was able to survive being grappled by a giant toad, blinded with a color spray, and not one but two Thunderstrikes from Belak. Seemed like every round I was killing something to get some temp HP, which were drained by the end of the round.
My guy once performed so poorly in a tournament that his patron became utterly disgusted with him. She forced him to spend the rest of the tournament introduced as "Peggy Sue". She later sold him to a Fiend for 50 gp and a case of beer. Fun times....
My Eladrin Feylock was in a city investigating the corruption of local leadership by fiends. The party had duked it out with 2 Erinyes and their pack of 3 Hell Hounds that night and barely survived. We knew there was a chance we would hunted down by local officials in the morning but we were really tore up so we chanced an evening at the inn and all stayed in one room inside my Leomund's Tiny Hut. That long rest we leveled up to 11 so I got my first Mystic Arcanem. As we were riding out of town, we had to cross a central bridge. There was a guard captain and exactly 11 guards with him all with magic weapons ready to take us in........
I had taken Mass Suggestion for my Mystic Arcanem.......
I told the party to stay at one end of the bridge and road forward. My crew and the DM were totally confused. I told my DM I cast Mass Suggestion and told them "It's such nice weather. How about you drop all of your weapons and go down to the river for a swim for the next 24 hours?"
12 dice rolls. 12 Failed wisdom saves. We got 12 +1 magic weapons of various types and got to walk out of town. My DM was so angry and so proud at the same time lol.
Vindicated my choice for Hex/pact of chain last night. We had to infiltrate a heavily armed fort full of plate armor wearing evil knigts. My Imp was able to infiltrate and spy out the place giving us a good map beforehand...without getting caught.
the plan of course went bad and we awoke a CR16 monster leader that was kicking our buts. (at 5th level we were forced to flee). Circe (my Imp) sacrificed herself by flying into its face and blocking its sight, while a mage actually got an earthen grasp to restrain it for a moment. Those actions gave us the break we needed to get away.
we got no treasure, but did get very incriminating documents we intend to hand over to various govts involved.
So, I don't know my patron's status at the moment.
We were sent to investigate a meteor and the two teams that went missing before us. Turns out it's some obelisk that's the harbinger or proxy or whatever of some evil transdimensional thing, and it's been corrupting the forest. My patron gave me a creepy-as-hell dagger (complete with a watchful eyeball) to act as as her own proxy so that she can suppress the will of some shards of the obelisk we came across. Said patron was also VERY interested in getting a hold of that obelisk to advance her own nefarious goals.
Cut to the bossfight, and I split from the rest of the group to plunge the dagger into the obelisk, and hopefully end this. It seems inert now and the boss was instantly incapacitated (good thing too, rest of the party is already pretty beat up after just a couple of rounds), and now my patron is. . .unavailable. Now, I'm not yet entirely sure what the implications of that are (or my patron's actual fate), since the session ended shortly after, but at the very least my pact weapon doesn't work anymore.
We were defending a village from a freakin army. The army hates arcane magic and is intent on taking over the world. Half of us were outside digging traps and the rest were on the wall. I have the spell sniper feat giving me 240' range, so I had wall duty.
A scouting group attacked our diggers and I fired Eldritch blasts at them. I was doing OK until I rolled a ONE. House rule, when firing into melee, a roll of one hits a team mate. I rolled MAX damage. I yelled, "The army has warlocks now! RUN!" The DM had me roll deception...NOW i roll a 20. The NPC diggers dropped everything and ran. My Fellow PCs roll played it and ran as well. "Warlocks! Run for the hills!" The guys on the wall know the truth and its gonna cost me to keep quiet.
My celestial warlock | bard multiclass tends to be the primary healer in my party. He's got a trick for nearly every situation. Tonight he locked people down with control spells, did some heavy duty scouting with his owl familiar, and of course healing and solid damage. He even mixed it up in melee a bit this session, although that's not his usual thing.
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Any time an unfathomably powerful entity sweeps in and offers godlike rewards in return for just a few teensy favors, it’s a scam. Unless it’s me. I’d never lie to you, reader dearest.
My warlock was actually a spy for the enemy. She is a Yuanti Pureblood 3 Storm Sorcerer/4 Hexblade Warlock multiclass.
No one in the party new I was a Spy nor did they know I was a Yuanti. Eldrich Evocation for mask of many faces. I made my self appear like a male fighter in leather armor. I played it off that my character was an eldritch knight.
Long story short I sewed dishevial in the Party did things to inadvertently have the party get killed. Paid the party rogue companion to join me. And ultimately me and the rogue killed the last player after he swore revenge for leaving him to fight a Naga.... he killed the parties artificer. Unpon killing the last player I finally revealed myself in my true form.
I hope your group discussed the possibility of evil characters and PvP in your session zero. Speaking as someone who was betrayed in party, it's a pain in the ass and super off putting because those sorts of actions were not discussed as "up for grabs" if you will in the session zero. Our level 10 Paladin ended up being a freaking BALOR in disguise and summoned two Erinyes to try and murder the whole party. The only reason we didn't TPK is because we had 3 low level ranger NPC's who had come hunting the Balor to help us and so they stood off and pelted him with arrows and because my warlock had just hit level 10 and decided to learn Summon Greater Demon. I argued that the Demon should have disadvantage on rolls to resist my commands as long as my commands were also aligned with it's instinctual nature and the DM agreed. I summoned a pet Vrock and he happily went crazed attacking it's arch nemesis' from the Nine Hells :)
We barely survived and 1 of the players never came back to the table.
Lesson kids- D&D is a collaborative game. If fellow players can be antagonists, at least have the DM introduce this POSSIBILITY in the session zero.
I hope your group discussed the possibility of evil characters and PvP in your session zero. Speaking as someone who was betrayed in party, it's a pain in the ass and super off putting because those sorts of actions were not discussed as "up for grabs" if you will in the session zero. Our level 10 Paladin ended up being a freaking BALOR in disguise and summoned two Erinyes to try and murder the whole party. The only reason we didn't TPK is because we had 3 low level ranger NPC's who had come hunting the Balor to help us and so they stood off and pelted him with arrows and because my warlock had just hit level 10 and decided to learn Summon Greater Demon. I argued that the Demon should have disadvantage on rolls to resist my commands as long as my commands were also aligned with it's instinctual nature and the DM agreed. I summoned a pet Vrock and he happily went crazed attacking it's arch nemesis' from the Nine Hells :)
We barely survived and 1 of the players never came back to the table.
Lesson kids- D&D is a collaborative game. If fellow players can be antagonists, at least have the DM introduce this POSSIBILITY in the session zero.
This. I'm currently playing an evil Warlock in our group. I've openly let the players know, and the character has motivations to work with the party. I fully expect at some point the DM will create the conflict of player goals vs party goals, which is a fine plot hook. But yeah, if I was a player not expecting PvP and another player goes rogue; I'm not likely to return as a player.
We were fighting a creature that was the embodiment of vengeance. We were trying to save a girl who may be inside. we heard a voice coming from a censor it held, and our two monks managed to wrest it from its grasp. once the girl was free, I was free to cut loose on the creature. I used a sorcery point on Quicken spell and let loose 4 Eldritch Rays at it, and my rolls were on fire. I rolled two nat 20s! The creature's last words were, "If I die, so does the girl!" Too late I unleashed everything I had at it. Tore it apart.
turned out it was a demon that could be summoned by those in great torment and despair. Now we're afraid to waken the girl - she killed half her town... she could lash out as either good or evil. Our patron who set us on this rescue mission, only wants her power as a tool in a war. We are going to have to break our relationship with a powerful lord over this. All the towns leaders are missing or dead. so we are a bunch of level sixes completely on our own.
My Lock has mask of many faces. my group voted that the universal sign identifying myself in disguise, is to have a big blue 'L' appear on my forehead.
I blew my cover this week. We were hunting bandits, and accompanying a wagonload of ale. I took the guise of Old Logan, and elderly farmer. I spent so much time jumping out, dashing after bandit groups, that the locals decried how spry I was for an elderly gent. No 80 year old human could do that. How...suspicious.
My warlock was actually a spy for the enemy. She is a Yuanti Pureblood 3 Storm Sorcerer/4 Hexblade Warlock multiclass.
No one in the party new I was a Spy nor did they know I was a Yuanti. Eldrich Evocation for mask of many faces. I made my self appear like a male fighter in leather armor. I played it off that my character was an eldritch knight.
Long story short I sewed dishevial in the Party did things to inadvertently have the party get killed. Paid the party rogue companion to join me. And ultimately me and the rogue killed the last player after he swore revenge for leaving him to fight a Naga.... he killed the parties artificer. Unpon killing the last player I finally revealed myself in my true form.
Yeah, players like this are not allowed at my table...lol.
My warlock was actually a spy for the enemy. She is a Yuanti Pureblood 3 Storm Sorcerer/4 Hexblade Warlock multiclass.
No one in the party new I was a Spy nor did they know I was a Yuanti. Eldrich Evocation for mask of many faces. I made my self appear like a male fighter in leather armor. I played it off that my character was an eldritch knight.
Long story short I sewed dishevial in the Party did things to inadvertently have the party get killed. Paid the party rogue companion to join me. And ultimately me and the rogue killed the last player after he swore revenge for leaving him to fight a Naga.... he killed the parties artificer. Unpon killing the last player I finally revealed myself in my true form.
Yeah, players like this are not allowed at my table...lol.
Agreed. I would leave a game that allowed crap like that.
My warlock was actually a spy for the enemy. She is a Yuanti Pureblood 3 Storm Sorcerer/4 Hexblade Warlock multiclass.
No one in the party new I was a Spy nor did they know I was a Yuanti. Eldrich Evocation for mask of many faces. I made my self appear like a male fighter in leather armor. I played it off that my character was an eldritch knight.
Long story short I sewed dishevial in the Party did things to inadvertently have the party get killed. Paid the party rogue companion to join me. And ultimately me and the rogue killed the last player after he swore revenge for leaving him to fight a Naga.... he killed the parties artificer. Unpon killing the last player I finally revealed myself in my true form.
Yeah, players like this are not allowed at my table...lol.
Agreed. I would leave a game that allowed crap like that.
yep. As a DM I'd drop the ban-hammer on that quick fast too. It's crap like this that makes evil characters banned at a lot of tables, including mine.
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Any time an unfathomably powerful entity sweeps in and offers godlike rewards in return for just a few teensy favors, it’s a scam. Unless it’s me. I’d never lie to you, reader dearest.
Last Night we fought all sorts of fiends. They were a mixed crew all with different immunities and resistances. We had a Paladin and that was good. But I attracted their attention by being the only one who could affect them ALL. I had an AC of 20, I was using partial cover for +2, and with a Shield spell at the ready and I barely made it out alive. 4 hit points left. I love my shield spell.
I was playing online and my 4th level hexblade rolled a nat 20. the virtual dice rolled two 10s, a 6 (hex) and my CHA is 18 for a +4. 30 solid points/MAX damage!
I was the king until we were losing a serious fight against a group of knights in plate armor...and the mage saved our bacon by webbing the knights and turning the tide of battle. Fame is fleeting it seems.
We just finished the Sunless Citadel from TTYP. My level 2 warlock made the most of Dark One's Blessing and was able to survive being grappled by a giant toad, blinded with a color spray, and not one but two Thunderstrikes from Belak. Seemed like every round I was killing something to get some temp HP, which were drained by the end of the round.
My guy once performed so poorly in a tournament that his patron became utterly disgusted with him. She forced him to spend the rest of the tournament introduced as "Peggy Sue". She later sold him to a Fiend for 50 gp and a case of beer. Fun times....
My Eladrin Feylock was in a city investigating the corruption of local leadership by fiends. The party had duked it out with 2 Erinyes and their pack of 3 Hell Hounds that night and barely survived. We knew there was a chance we would hunted down by local officials in the morning but we were really tore up so we chanced an evening at the inn and all stayed in one room inside my Leomund's Tiny Hut. That long rest we leveled up to 11 so I got my first Mystic Arcanem. As we were riding out of town, we had to cross a central bridge. There was a guard captain and exactly 11 guards with him all with magic weapons ready to take us in........
I had taken Mass Suggestion for my Mystic Arcanem.......
I told the party to stay at one end of the bridge and road forward. My crew and the DM were totally confused. I told my DM I cast Mass Suggestion and told them "It's such nice weather. How about you drop all of your weapons and go down to the river for a swim for the next 24 hours?"
12 dice rolls. 12 Failed wisdom saves. We got 12 +1 magic weapons of various types and got to walk out of town. My DM was so angry and so proud at the same time lol.
Assassinated Laeral Silverhand, stole her magic items, took her place in waterdeep.
My character is Chance, a Changeling Hexblade Warlock.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
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Vindicated my choice for Hex/pact of chain last night. We had to infiltrate a heavily armed fort full of plate armor wearing evil knigts. My Imp was able to infiltrate and spy out the place giving us a good map beforehand...without getting caught.
the plan of course went bad and we awoke a CR16 monster leader that was kicking our buts. (at 5th level we were forced to flee). Circe (my Imp) sacrificed herself by flying into its face and blocking its sight, while a mage actually got an earthen grasp to restrain it for a moment. Those actions gave us the break we needed to get away.
we got no treasure, but did get very incriminating documents we intend to hand over to various govts involved.
So, I don't know my patron's status at the moment.
We were sent to investigate a meteor and the two teams that went missing before us. Turns out it's some obelisk that's the harbinger or proxy or whatever of some evil transdimensional thing, and it's been corrupting the forest. My patron gave me a creepy-as-hell dagger (complete with a watchful eyeball) to act as as her own proxy so that she can suppress the will of some shards of the obelisk we came across. Said patron was also VERY interested in getting a hold of that obelisk to advance her own nefarious goals.
Cut to the bossfight, and I split from the rest of the group to plunge the dagger into the obelisk, and hopefully end this. It seems inert now and the boss was instantly incapacitated (good thing too, rest of the party is already pretty beat up after just a couple of rounds), and now my patron is. . .unavailable. Now, I'm not yet entirely sure what the implications of that are (or my patron's actual fate), since the session ended shortly after, but at the very least my pact weapon doesn't work anymore.
We were defending a village from a freakin army. The army hates arcane magic and is intent on taking over the world. Half of us were outside digging traps and the rest were on the wall. I have the spell sniper feat giving me 240' range, so I had wall duty.
A scouting group attacked our diggers and I fired Eldritch blasts at them. I was doing OK until I rolled a ONE. House rule, when firing into melee, a roll of one hits a team mate. I rolled MAX damage. I yelled, "The army has warlocks now! RUN!" The DM had me roll deception...NOW i roll a 20. The NPC diggers dropped everything and ran. My Fellow PCs roll played it and ran as well. "Warlocks! Run for the hills!" The guys on the wall know the truth and its gonna cost me to keep quiet.
Hmmm. to tell the truth or pay up...?
My current game I'm about to reveal I've accepted a patron as a swashbuckling rogue going into hexblade.
My celestial warlock | bard multiclass tends to be the primary healer in my party. He's got a trick for nearly every situation. Tonight he locked people down with control spells, did some heavy duty scouting with his owl familiar, and of course healing and solid damage. He even mixed it up in melee a bit this session, although that's not his usual thing.
Any time an unfathomably powerful entity sweeps in and offers godlike rewards in return for just a few teensy favors, it’s a scam. Unless it’s me. I’d never lie to you, reader dearest.
Tasha
My warlock was actually a spy for the enemy. She is a Yuanti Pureblood 3 Storm Sorcerer/4 Hexblade Warlock multiclass.
No one in the party new I was a Spy nor did they know I was a Yuanti. Eldrich Evocation for mask of many faces. I made my self appear like a male fighter in leather armor. I played it off that my character was an eldritch knight.
Long story short I sewed dishevial in the Party did things to inadvertently have the party get killed. Paid the party rogue companion to join me. And ultimately me and the rogue killed the last player after he swore revenge for leaving him to fight a Naga.... he killed the parties artificer. Unpon killing the last player I finally revealed myself in my true form.
Kudos! That dishevial is really a game changer.
I hope your group discussed the possibility of evil characters and PvP in your session zero. Speaking as someone who was betrayed in party, it's a pain in the ass and super off putting because those sorts of actions were not discussed as "up for grabs" if you will in the session zero. Our level 10 Paladin ended up being a freaking BALOR in disguise and summoned two Erinyes to try and murder the whole party. The only reason we didn't TPK is because we had 3 low level ranger NPC's who had come hunting the Balor to help us and so they stood off and pelted him with arrows and because my warlock had just hit level 10 and decided to learn Summon Greater Demon. I argued that the Demon should have disadvantage on rolls to resist my commands as long as my commands were also aligned with it's instinctual nature and the DM agreed. I summoned a pet Vrock and he happily went crazed attacking it's arch nemesis' from the Nine Hells :)
We barely survived and 1 of the players never came back to the table.
Lesson kids- D&D is a collaborative game. If fellow players can be antagonists, at least have the DM introduce this POSSIBILITY in the session zero.
This. I'm currently playing an evil Warlock in our group. I've openly let the players know, and the character has motivations to work with the party. I fully expect at some point the DM will create the conflict of player goals vs party goals, which is a fine plot hook. But yeah, if I was a player not expecting PvP and another player goes rogue; I'm not likely to return as a player.
We were fighting a creature that was the embodiment of vengeance. We were trying to save a girl who may be inside. we heard a voice coming from a censor it held, and our two monks managed to wrest it from its grasp. once the girl was free, I was free to cut loose on the creature. I used a sorcery point on Quicken spell and let loose 4 Eldritch Rays at it, and my rolls were on fire. I rolled two nat 20s! The creature's last words were, "If I die, so does the girl!" Too late I unleashed everything I had at it. Tore it apart.
turned out it was a demon that could be summoned by those in great torment and despair. Now we're afraid to waken the girl - she killed half her town... she could lash out as either good or evil. Our patron who set us on this rescue mission, only wants her power as a tool in a war. We are going to have to break our relationship with a powerful lord over this. All the towns leaders are missing or dead. so we are a bunch of level sixes completely on our own.
My Lock has mask of many faces. my group voted that the universal sign identifying myself in disguise, is to have a big blue 'L' appear on my forehead.
I blew my cover this week. We were hunting bandits, and accompanying a wagonload of ale. I took the guise of Old Logan, and elderly farmer. I spent so much time jumping out, dashing after bandit groups, that the locals decried how spry I was for an elderly gent. No 80 year old human could do that. How...suspicious.
Yeah, players like this are not allowed at my table...lol.
Abide.
Agreed. I would leave a game that allowed crap like that.
yep. As a DM I'd drop the ban-hammer on that quick fast too. It's crap like this that makes evil characters banned at a lot of tables, including mine.
Any time an unfathomably powerful entity sweeps in and offers godlike rewards in return for just a few teensy favors, it’s a scam. Unless it’s me. I’d never lie to you, reader dearest.
Tasha
Last Night we fought all sorts of fiends. They were a mixed crew all with different immunities and resistances. We had a Paladin and that was good. But I attracted their attention by being the only one who could affect them ALL. I had an AC of 20, I was using partial cover for +2, and with a Shield spell at the ready and I barely made it out alive. 4 hit points left. I love my shield spell.