Short version "We can't kill it? Run!" The slightly longer version is the party was against an Annihilator with 110 HP and it was a vehicle, so couldn't be damaged by standard weapons. The group legged it until they got to the fortress they were holed up in and took it down with siege weapons. Most parties I put up against this thing tried to fight it out. But my last table just fell back and used their resources/the setting to their advantage.
I feel like that first story is an example of a cool DM rewarding creativity. If it's 5e they could have easily said "These moving parts operate similar to organs or worn items and as such are not subject to making individual saving throws." That or he wanted the party to have a way to survive that encounter.
Agreed, I usually reward that kind of creativity... however if a player tries to keep doing the same gimmick, I do have to limit them. A moment should be that... just a moment.
Yeah i read it as a possible one-off but definitely against the spirit of the spell. Mech enemies would be 100% useless and nobody would build them if a spell like that was even somewhat common
That curse shield is barely even a curse. Taking agro from projectiles and blocking the projectile is perfect tanking. You rebuild your character around this item when you get it
It’s a boon to an artificer. Slap a lightweight/feather fall spell on and throw it like an orbital strike beacon, then just start launching inaccurate attacks with OP levels of power. Or… throw the shield over the ledge, then throw the gnome at the shield to ensure a safe fastball special
@@emberthecatgirl8796 the curse stays on the person so whilst a realllly cool idea, you’d just be throwing away your shield as you got hit by arrows your shield would have prevented hitting you.
Also don't use a lightweight spell, a feather fall one may work though. Since the weight of the shield is lessened by lightweight, an observant DM might reduce the damage of the impact.
Or have the Party Wizard Cast Dominate on any random Mook, hand them the shield *POOF* Instant (albeit, probably short lived) Arrow-tank! This tactic would also work quite well with Necromancers, certain types of Summoners, and 3.5 Thrallherds (Oh my God, they killed Kenny...)
Oh I actually have a story for this one! So I was in a pirate themed campaign, think pirates of the Caribbean meets fantasy. So we were going through a forgotten labyrinth searching around for some treasure. One interesting room we found had this blue tree in a glowing pool of water. This tree was magical and it’s water gave you the benefits of a long rest, we ended up planting our own at our home base for later. Cut to the final boss fight, we are fighting this gigantic kraken human hybrid thing, as one of our ex crew mates betrayed us and merged his soul with the kraken. We were already pretty beat up from the last fight, and it wasn’t looking good. The Druid’s turn rolls around. She walks over to a nearby tree. “I cast tree stride.” She teleported to the magical tree, filled ten bottles of the water, and came back ready to get everybody back to full strength.
Here's a story from my first game, think it was d&d 3.5e. So this is a story that covers both my dumbest and smartest moments as a player. So the party of 3 including my human wizard had been tasked with clearing a cave of monsters that had been plaguing a nearby town. We enter the cave and all the walls are covered in webs. Me: (without discussing it with the party) I cast a fire spell to burn away all the cobwebs (hoping to set some 8 legged freaks aflame.) Spell works, webs burn and the whole dungeon is alerted to our presence. (Dumbest moment.) The room we were in only had 2 ways you could go, forward and deeper into the cave or back the way we came in to get out. Me (internally): there's only one point they can get through to us and it's only 5ft wide Me (out loud):I cast flame sphere in the bottleneck, if they want to get to us they have to burn. Not sure if that spell changed in more recent editions or if the DM misplayed the spell but we took out a whole dungeon worth of mobs without taking a scratch before going 4v1 with the big boss. TLDR: I alerted a whole dungeon to our parties presence, session ends with the party walking into the dungeon boss room without a scratch thanks to a cleverly places spell.
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Our wayward heroes came to a festival, where a particularly juiced up Centaur was bullying and condescending the other contestants in a keg-tossing contest. The Centaur decided to insult the flimsiness of the group's Wizard, who would have otherwise likely stayed out of it. The Wizard (who actually had a -3 Con) considered the brute, and after a moment responded, "Good sir Centaur, it is plain that I could easily beat you at this contest of strength if you allow me to watch 3 other contestants to see how it is done. Then I will throw my barrel and you will not be able to throw yours further than mine. If I win, you will leave these townsfolk alone and if you win I will accept the inevitable beating you already seem ready to dish out." The arrogant Centaur snorted an agreement, and the two began to watch. While the Centaur had his focus on the contest, the Wizard used Mage Hand to put a bar of Nickel into the Centaur's saddle bag (not really a saddle, but there was a pocket). He then placed a long metal spike into the ground. It was time for the Wizard to throw his barrel. Predictably, a low Athletics check meant the barrel did not go very far. The Centaur was smug and everyone laughed, but the Wizard was calm and moved to the side so the Centaur could throw. The Centaur made a big show parading up to the barrel, hefting it easily above his head. But just as he was about to launch the keg, the Wizard used the cantrip Lightning Lure, and the player called it out as non-damaging. The cantrip, metal spike, bar of Nickel, and the Centaur's own horseshoes created an electromagnet so powerful that it pulled his hooves out from under him. To the crowd it appeared simply that he had slipped in the mud, the barrel landing with a *CRACK* on his head. Covered in mud and ale, the bully-free townsfolk would forever remind him that even though you are half horse, that doesn't give you the right to be a total ass.
This one time, my character (some kind of psionic) had been affected by an incredibly strong curse that basically polymorphed you into a different body every day, and would become permanent once it found the body you hated the most. Oh and the curse was not only unbelievably hard to break (even gods would struggle), it was also *contagious* : any failed attempt to break it would infect the one attempting, for one. We eventually learned the virality itself was beyond ridiculous: even just having *the most minimal mind or soul contact* would spread it. Casting *identify* would spread it to the caster. At one point the BBEG (The evil leader of an evil racial supremacist group) had captured important people and we were making plans to go confront him to get them back. We had a rough outline of how we could *get* there, but he was so much more powerful than us that we had no idea how to even survive in his presence for more than like a second. Problem was, he had the captured people inside magical crystals *on his person*. I look at my psionic powers and ask "we saw him in person at one point, right?" and the answer was yes. So my character just says "okay, let's go there right now, we got this" before using the psionic power 'correspondence', which lets me directly contact, MIND-TO-MIND, any creature I've ever seen in person before. "Yo, asshole!" This immediately spreads the curse to him, he starts to polymorph into the very race he was leading a crusade to genocide, and he has to drop literally everything he's doing to focus ALL his magical energies to fighting the curse. We teleport to him while he's prone, gritting his teeth, and paralyzed by the effort. We yoink the crystals and bamf out. No fighting, two rounds, in and out, rescue mission done. Boy did he hate us after that. The funniest part is, this encounter was his first and last time seeing me in the particular curse-given body I was in that day, so his extreme grudge against me was associated with a face that never really existed. All the wanted posters were wrong.
Recently in a survival focused campaign, we came across a shipwreck. The artificer cuts up the sails and collects all the bones to boil them into bone glue. Later we realize we're almost out of rations. So the artificer lathers the bone glue onto the pieces of sail he got, throws some over-ripe fruit into the center and traps a weeks worth of cicada rations on the sails.
In my first ever D&D campaign, we had a member join us a little over halfway into the campaign. She was a tiefling druid, and she was insanely good. As we were fighting one of our BBGs, she was already high up in the air. She gets an incredible idea- summon a bunch of cows, place them even higher up (like a few hundred feet or so, she was in range to do that,) and drop them on top of the BBG. The DM was… not thrilled about this idea, but he allowed it. Needless to say, this drop of cows caused so much damage that it killed the BBG, and druids were effectively banned from the DM’s table. 😂
Damn you Brian! First I couldn't stop imagining you looking like swaggersouls cannonically, now you showed me awesome cards and stuff and the intrusive thoughts won... I shouldn't be left alone with my money...
my group was hired to protect some sacred artifacts that were being displayed at a festival. The weapons and artifacts were out in the open for the public to see, so protecting them would be extremely difficult. or at least that's what the DM thought, our group had an artificer who forged perfect copies of all the weapons and artifacts and I was playing with a spell caster who had a spell called magical aura so we put the copies on display and the weapons and artifacts were safe with us in a holding bag. Before we make the exchanges, we remove everyone from the place and use magic to isolate it so that no one sees us making the exchange and to give more credibility we put protective spells on the fakes and take turns 'protecting' them. the DM had to give us a point of inspiration for each one because there was no way he could continue the story without 'cheating'.
6:55 One Bag of Holding can only hold 250'000 ball bearings, their description doesn't state they deal damage, and even 2 million isn't enough to "fill" any room of middling size. So yes, I *will* underestimate ball bearings, thanks
Players got fed up with a vampire, in a 5e campaign. I allow monster research, so they researched its strengths and weaknesses. After luring it out as part of their agreement, they threw holy water at it and used shape water to wrap it around his head... They pointed out it's 2d6 radiant damage per round, the water wouldn't burn away and that the vampire can no longer heal. I did have it move multiple times after transforming into mist but then action economy made it really hard to do anything as they would just bombard it with magic while it was mist, followed by the 1-2 combo with holy water once it solidified. After they killed it despite it trying to get away I ended up ruling that it couldn't use misty escape due to the water effectively becoming running water in the moment that it transformed. Even with all the summons it got trounced because of a simple combination they worked up.
When I watched Glass Cannon’s video with Seth Skorkowsky playing the Cthulhu story Intimate Encounters. In the game where the group arrives at the home of an npc they were looking for, Matthew asks if the npc had an apple computer and then has it do “Find my Iphone”. I could see Troy have to pause for a moment since that action was unexpected lol
A friend made a Eragon D&D campaign following the events of the first book. We had to help Eragon and Saphira through the events of the book. We were playing spells without components. My character was a shy Tiefling Druid. She'd used all her money early in the campaign and was traveling on the charity of the 2 rouges that were making money by constantly pickpocketing people. We entered a city with a strong slave trade. me 'Is there a cheap general store?'. Dm 'Yes' Me 'Will the store owner trade several days traveling rations for a set of clothes unfit for sale?' Dm 'Hes not happy about it, but he agrees.' me 'Is there a nearby alley thats empty of people?' Dm 'Yes, that one... What are you doing?' me 'You'll see. I cast Summon Fae spirit in the form of an elf' DM 'You do know this is a kingdom that is at war with elves right?' me 'Yup! I ask the elf to dress in the ratty clothes I just traded for.' Dm ' What are you doing?!' me 'I place the manacles from my bag on the elf's wrists.' Dm 'He doesn't fight, but what are you up to?!' me 'I lead him to the market and sell him as a slave.' Everyone at the table 'OH!!!! WHAT THE HECK?!?! IQ 1 MILLION!!' I sold a summoned elf for 10,000 gp, and left town quickly. When they went to torture the elf for information later, they discovered a set of manacles and a small pile of clothes where the elf had been. My DM was furious. It was supposed to be a low money campaign where we were supposed to scrounge for every copper piece. When we finished the campaign, I still had 9,950gp. My DM has never trusted me since.
Story for this: I was playing in a homebrew pathfinder game. All 3 PCs had to take first level rogue and we were all part of a small thieves guild. Our biggest competitor / rival was a gang called the gold tooths. We were more of the burglar type and they were more of the robbery type. This story happened around level 6? We were given a mission to steal from a fairly high level wizard who was supposed to be gone from his home. Unfortunately, the wizard left some guards. We did a reasonable job of sneaking in and getting the item we were looking for but we got caught on the way out. As we were fleeing the scene, one of the other PCs shouts, "Don't mess with the gold tooths ever again." The next day, we were traveling through town and found a known gold tooth hideout had become a crater. Wizard never found out he smoked the wrong people.
My party had a troll guarding a prison we needed to get into. He said his orders where to keep people from entering the prison. After bickering, i decided to walk backwards, when the troll asked what i was doing said "oh I'm just existing the prison" me and the group got to go inside
We were playing a popular module (which I will try to keep anonymous) and found ourselves in a castle where we found two Lahmia lounging about waiting to attack. This wasn’t their castle and had been sent to find the owner of said castle but many of the doors were magically sealed. They asked if we who owned the castle and where they were but we said no. They were looking for proof that the owner was someone that had done something to their employer and I said there was a gallery of self portraits in a room down the corridor we just left and proceeded to go to the room. The Lahmia followed me quickly and when I opened the door and went in the room, the DM described how they barrelled past me, saw the portraits gleefully and celebrated they had confirmed their suspicions. As he was describing this I typed into the group chat “I leave the room and close the door”. You see earlier in the game we had found out how to open all the doors but the Lahmia couldn’t so instead of fighting them we just trapped them in a room and went on our way.
Modern post apocalyptic world, player was a nerd/coder who found claymores. He hacked and reprogrammed his Roomba to do a specific path through his home with the claymore fixed to the top as a wandering home defense landmine. He changed the path it took so the lazers from the claymore wouldn't be accidentally set off.
Here’s a recent one of mine! We had all been captured by the current BBEG and her minions. It was reasonably impossible for us to escape, so we had agreed to do a spellbinding pact to leave with a chest of 20k gold pieces and never return, or else we would die upon setting foot on the grounds of the evil castle. The DM wanted to make absolutely sure that the spell was without loopholes and he had spent hours revising the deal until he felt that nothing would be able to cheese it (It was generally a campaign-ending move since we were all pretty tired of this specific one and wanted to start a different one). The BBEG’s side of the deal was that she would give the chest to us and make the gold inside easily accessible by giving the key. This made her have the clause that if the gold wasn’t able to be accessed, she would die. After most of us agreed to the terms, the fighter spoke up. Fighter: So, the chest is locked and she’s given us the key? DM: Yep. Are you going to agree to- Fighter: I take the key and snap it. It’s not easily accessible anymore, so she broke her end of the deal. There’s silence on the DM’s end of the Discord call. DM: ... As you snap the key in half, you can see her suddenly grasp at her chest. Seconds later, she falls to the floor dead. Everyone begins laughing their asses off, but since most of us had already agreed to the deal (and me casting Detect Magic revealed that the ones who agreed were now marked by deadly magic), we still had to leave... However, I suggested that as an epilogue kind of thing, our group uses half of the gold to hire other adventurers to storm the castle again and again, constantly being an eternal pain in the ass of the intended BBEG after the one that died. The other half was used to invest in the fighter’s smithing business, which only got us more gold to continue hiring adventurers. And due to half of us being races that don’t die easily with old age, it will keep going on until a group of adventures we hire manages to triumph
Just this past Sunday my half-orc warlock pulled a quasi-Columbo, acting like he didn't know what he was doing/talking about in order to trick the guilty party into revealing what they knew. My GM did a great job going with it. Sadly the guilty individuals are one of the region's princes, and the high priest. Fortunately we had witnesses in the room, and our group surrendered to the guards as a way placate them and show that we have the empire's best interest at heart. Next session we'll get to decide whether to try to break out of prison or stand trial, though I know my character's definitely planning to use his mage hand to yoink the prison guard's keys.
Ok so with out spoilers we where is a fortress sneaking around when one of our friends caught by giants. We followed them with past without trace spell. Well the giant went past a gate are we all made it past except one our rogue Natasha but the person who played Natasha had an idea and that idea was to put her bag of holding on the ground right in front of the gate and to get in the bag. Then we would on the other side reach through the gates bars grab the bag and pull her out of the bag. We used this two more times like this. never underestimate small useless magic items Edit: this can also be used to escape jail cells. And you only have 10 minuets of air before you suffocate so use this information as you please
Somehow I'm reminded of this event of when i played years ago. Probably sometime about 1997. My brother was DMing and was playing a shopkeeper or something where there were challenges and if you beat the 3 challenges they'd.... give info or something. (The exact reason i don't remember, but that's beside the point) Anyways, a veteran player (who i wish i could have played with more) had a challenge regarding drinks. He'd set up a big glass, medium, and a shotglass all filled with water. He declared 'I bet i can drink both of my glasses before you can drink your shot glass. Two rules, first is you can't start until i finish my first glass and put it down, and second you can't touch either of my glasses'. DM agreed, sounded a bit unfair advantage for him only to have to drink the shotglass's worth. So the player picks up the large glass, gulps it down, then puts it upside-down OVER the shotglass making it impossible to access, and then proceeded to (at a much more leisurely pace) drink the smaller of the two glasses. Naturally this blindsided the DM, and he hummed over how to access the shot glass, even considering trying to wiggle the table to make the glass fall (but it was on the counter or something so wasn't possible) so the DM just admitted defeat at the brilliant play he did on him, as he was a normal 3rd level bartender and not some wizard or something.
had a guy carry a scroll of remove blindness/deafness from the time he could afford it (lvl3). he is now level 14 and just used it. was blinded in another campaign 5 year’s ago and didn’t want it to hamper him again.
I ran a campaign in a setting where Creon, the 'mysterious powerful advanced nation in the far east', valued one thing above anything else Lunar Regolith. (moon dust/rocks) Enough to fill a thimble would be sufficient to start your own international shipping company, or buy yourself a retirement in the foreign quarter of that isolationist nation. The PC's ended up in possession of a refurbished ancient starship as part of the intended adventure path. I figured the party wouldn't even ask if it was able to go to the moon, since it was billed as a super prototype sky battleship built by an existing nation. I didn't sweat it when they realized the BBEG (and key to defeating them) was on the moon, since the NPC they were asking calmly dropped on them the reality that the ruins of the Lunar Palace the boss was in had still active ancient defenses nothing would get through. Then one of the players pointed out "But, why would we go there when there's an entire moon of Regolith, just lying there undefended?" I hadn't considered the fact I'd just handed the players a multi hundred ton cargo hold on a landing capable starship, well before their actions (or NPC's actions if they didn't) would wake up the Lunar Dragons that would make any attempt at this 'supply run' near suicide. To top off the 'I should have thought of that, because my players sure did' cake, instead of trying to carefully play the market with their Lunar Regolith, the PC's discussion hit on a reality I'd also failed to account for. Specifically: I'd just told them a world ending threat was on the rise, they had proof to back up their claims, and if there's one thing the Immortal Emperor of that isolationist nation would be grateful for, it's handing him enough Lunar Regolith to finish his world conquering magitek Warforged army. It didn't take the players much effort to get the Emperor of Creon on board with helping them take out the BBEG in exchange for enough Regolith to conquer the world. I had to do only slightly more speed chess maneuver's than the BBEG's minions to try and deal with the players skipping most of act 1 and all of act 2 (So to speak) because they'd made a perfectly reasonable realization of a lucrative opportunity to Cave Johnson me.
@@someguy4252 No. My general rule is that if I failed to see an opening, I have to either say "Okay, so this breaks literally everything, can we not?" or roll with it. I tend to favor the latter, which I did here. Like I said, the antagonists who would have been in the background pulling strings had to step up their game and get to work immediately. A very Babylon 5 season 4 situation ensued where what would have been a much longer and slower introduction/build up instead went hot immediately. To the tune of 'The next time the party landed their ship, the season end boss came to assassinate them in person.' Some smart combat by the players later and this went poorly for said Lunar Dragon. A heck of a lot of info came to light far earlier than it would have because of that classic domino effect of NPC's logically reacting to other NPC's reactions to the PC's actions. Pity that campaign never got to have it's proper ending due to a couple of players having to leave, but everyone was reasonably satisfied with how it ended. Long story comedically short: The PC's ensured the BBEG couldn't fully wake up in time and negotiated from a position of strength a binding agreement with the BBEG. So instead of 'an apocalypse for your own good' the BBEG has to help them against the greater threat which justified said 'blow of civilization' actions. Atropus, The World Born Dead, is kind of a big deal like that.
I can top the “swallowed by a toad” one! I was also swallowed by a giant toad but I was playing a high level Druid character (3.5). The way I got out from inside it was by wildshaping into a dire bear within, covered in toad and blood.
I absolutely hate stories like the first one with the construct and shatter. It has nothing to do with DnD, and sounds more like a game from the children's playground. "I use my super blast 3000 and you take 3000 damage!"
Yeah, because it doesn't work that way in the game. It's considered a single object, despite multiple parts, just like a crossbow is treated as a single object
This actually happened pretty recently, me and some friends are playing through Storm King’s Thunder, recently, while exploring a huge dungeon, we encountered a Remorhaz, basically a giant super hot ice form that does damage to you if you hit it with a melee attack, definitely not fun to fight. However, our bard had the amazing idea of casting polymorph on it, and turning it into a turtle, somehow the thing failed the constitution save and we were all wondering what to do with the turtle, that’s when said bard picked it up, carried it outside, dropped it off the mountain and let go of concentration. The thing fell several hundred feet and died, we laughed for a good five minutes. The only thing that pissed me off is the fact that I wasted a fire resistance potion.
This just happened in our last game meeting. I'm new to the group, invited by one of my best friends who's group wanted to see me since I've played off and on since 2nd Edition. We are probably several months into the campaign and as I said, this is my first session and I know nothing about the setting (both in character and in person) I rolled up a Human Warrior (the game is DCC or Dungeon Crawl Classics so it plays similar to 2nd Edition) and rolled surprisingly well on everything. For example, my Luck at 2nd level is 17. So I'm in the bar, as per normal introductions, and I said I'd just like to order some whisky and listen to local rumors and lore. One of the things Bauer (my guy) picked up is the festival tomorrow night called Stormsong which is a mystical storm that rolls through the harbor once a year. Lightning strikes everywhere and people lay possessions out hoping it will be struck. You roll a d100 to see if there is a strike, and roll on a magical enchantment list if it is. You even have a chance of your item being totally destroyed. Okay. Move forward about an hour and Bauer learns that the rest of the party went through a portal that cast them 90 days into the future, which is now my current present. I join the group and we are about to head back into the portal (90 days to my past but returning to their present) when Bauer has a suggestion. "You know... Stormsong is tomorrow night. We could wait for the storm, note where the most favorable strikes are, and in 90 days lay out our possessions in those exact spots..." My new DM was floored. He didn't even consider that as a consequence of what was being set up. He agreed, and gave us his fully detailed map of all strikes. We still have to roll for enchantments or destruction, but in 90 days it'll be a 100% guaranteed success.
We where in a trap dangeon with a astral dimond at the end. Insta-deth and ilusions i had the idea of just rooling a bunch of rocks down the hallway. It disarmed all of the traps and we got the dimond
Not going to reveal the campaign to keep spoilers away, but I'm in a campaign now where we were just recently in the lower levels of a building and some of our party were being attacked by ghouls. My turn comes and I am outside the door that leads into the room where they are fighting, with three of our party members in a row blocking the door and one of the ghouls below them. Seeing the situation, my DM says "not sure how much you are going to be able to accomplish this turn", but fortunately for me I was a level 2 lightfoot halfling. So I disengaged as a bonus action, moved through my party member's spaces (they were all a size larger than me), popped out the other end and took my shot. I missed initially but my DM gave me temporary inspiration for using my character so well and I actually got some damage off that helped put the thing down that round.
One time my dwarven forge cleric, along with his party, were surprised by a wax golem (we all failed perception) and it already had one of our party members grappled and was trying to bury them within itself to suffocate them. Now I have a personal rule that if "I" have an idea of how to beat the enemy, but my character might not, I ask the DM if my character can make an insight check to see if they will have the same idea. Anyways I rolled well and had my forge cleric cast create water (rain form) above the wax golem and subsequently put out all of it's candles. It apparently has rules for this situation and it only has a small handful of rounds left before it solidifies and is rendered not a threat.
I WAS IN THE BALL BEARING ONE!!! like actually the exact same numbers I was a player and one of the ones killed by them. Man its just so crazy because that was literally mine the numbers were the same
My party was playing Rime of the Frostmaiden and reached Ythryn. Through a long series of events, we managed to convinced Iriolarthas, the Demilich 'ruling' what was left of the city, to let us fix the mythallar, the magical power source that would get Ythryn flying again. Well, despite it being insanely difficult, we managed, but the last step was to have the mythallar be rebooted, which would require Iriolarthas to unattune to it for a moment. My Druid convinced Iriolarthas to inspect the mythallar himself (so if he DID attack us, we'd be out of his lair), and sure enough, paranoid Demilich was a paranoid Demilich, and he decided to attack us, thinking we were trying to steal Ythryn. Well, before he can actually attack, our Eldritch Knight Fighter, whose entire character is built around being a paranoid survivalist, asks the DM how close the Iriolarthas is to the Mythallar. Finding out he was within ten feet of it... Eldritch Knight: I cast Gust of Wind. The rest of the party joins in with all our pushing centric moves, and cue Iriolarthas being thrown into the mythallar, which deals 20d10+70 radiant damage (half as much on a failed save) if you touch it. Between everyone, we burned up all his Legendary Resistances in one move, resulting in the extremely powerful and deadly Demilich behing completely obliterated before the fight could even start.
Warlock would have to cast shatter on each part for that kind of damage each part would have to make a save. Otherwise it's a single casting that can effect one part or whole thing dealing damage only once per casting.
I don’t know if it’s more unexpected than smart, all I know is that the dm was not intending for us to solve the puzzle like this. So, my first dnd game was during the school lunch period. It consisted of several people, mostly freshman and seniors, who decided to start doing dnd. Anyways, our dm lead the party into a large cavern of ice, with a pillar of ice in the middle attached by chains to the floor. Upon our entrance, the door collapsed and we were trapped. The pitch black room was almost immediately ignited in light with flames coming from two pillars. We investigrd a little, and discover when someone touched the chains that were bolted to the pillar of ice, not only would a tremendous amount of guilt overcome the party members, but the flames would grow. So, after about 10 minutes of us screwing around, the dm gave us a hint that it was a puzzle. Whenever I learned of this, I realized I had absorb elements. I asked if we could do it, which with a surprised face the dm said you can try. So, we have one person on each chain who on the ready would grab the chain and pull away from the pillar. With myself in the middle of the pillars of flame preparing to do something stupid. On the might of go, everyone grabbed the chains, settings the flames higher than the pillar, with guilt overcoming all with a guilty backstory. Tears were streaming down mostly everyone’s faces, and I began absorbing the fire. Now, it was working apparently. But, I realized I had to put this energy somewhere, while I could have used it as a sort of blast to destroy the icey pillar. Instead, we directed it to another party members weapon, which was able to absorb the energy. Once the flames went out, my character would direct the flames into their hammer as they were the ONLY ONE who couldn’t feel guilt. After that, the most overpowered person, got an overpowefed weapon. With a single touch of the hammer from anyone other than him, would essentially have a panic attack. Then, we used the hammer, to absolutely destroy the pillar. This hammer has given joy to the wielder as he will just poke someone with it, and send them into damn shock. It solved the puzzle, but also broke the balance
Just had a session of Pathfinder where the group was fighting an awakened Demilich, was getting our @ss kicked because of the At-Will Wail of the Banshee attack. Me being the awesome Celestial Commander Summoner (Level 15) that i am, had an Leonal Agathion summoned, but knew he wasnt going to have enough of a punch to kill it (Demilich has DR 20/-) so after the Leonal had charged/pounced it then with the haste atack grapple it, i summoned an Monadic deva (angel), tossed it a bag of holding, had the Leonal push it into the bag of holding and had the Angel Plane shift the bag to the positive material plane and left it there. Glory was had by my character from the party as we were looking at a TPK otherwise.
1:00 GOOD GOD! Usually that much damage comes from a preplanned strategy/exploit that multiple people have to work together with buffs and crap, nah this guy just absolutely took the DM's description and just fucking ABUSED it beautifully... thats someting you didnt think of till it hjappens lol
I had a smart moment yesterday. Our party is traveling in the mountains and gets ambushed and kidnapped by a herd of goliaths. They take us to a fortress arena where they force their captives to fight to the death. While waiting in my cell for my turn I (level 5 ranger) find an old shiv in the hay that makes up my mattress and notice some rats about. I cast speak with animals and say "hey, would you guys mind fetching the keys for me? I'll give you food if you help me escape." The rats say "but you ARE food" and begin slowly crawling towards me. I stab the biggest one with the shiv and say "I AM YOUR GOD! YOU WILL OBEY!" The rats run off in a panic. Long story short, I created a religion. I convinced all the rats in the colosseum to not only bring me the keys to my cell, but to wait for all the goliaths to fall asleep later that night and then bite their eyes out so I and the rest of the prisoners can escape. Session ended with DM dropping a dragon on the place before we could get away though... So that's where we pick up next week! 😂
Rumba clamor mine. Unless there's a front facing activate device like out of planet side 2.... This needs a bit more work. Ideas. The Roomba is the timer and when it finishes it's sequence the mine will detonate. Because it's been pulling the trip line behind it. Or the Roomba is by itself. The claymore mine is set up for someone dumb enough to investigate. ..... Unless I'm missing something from pop culture....... This feels like something off of breaking bad.
oh, that "claymore mine on a drone" reminds me of a video about Battlefield 2040, where it's possible to attach C4 to a drone and fly it into a TANK to destroy it!
When I started dnd I didn’t have my player sheet so I was a hobgoblin and my brother was a ork and I was turned into an ice cube so the ork threw me out one of the party members killing them
I hate the first story so much, it clearly isn't a creative thinking, but rather selective ignoring of both the letter and the spirit of the spell description to get the desired result, the most reprehensible form of rules-lawyering. First, the Shatter spell only targets creatures and _unattended_ objects, and cogs inside an automaton are neither. Second, the spell targets objects and creatures, not their parts: you wouldn't apply it to a chair a hundred times because the chair is made out of a hundred planks. If my player tried to insist it should work that way, I would answer that I can allow it, but only if they would be okay with the next enemy caster casting the spell on them, and me applying damage to every single one of their very much non-magical bones.
*SPOILER OF THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE 1, THE WAY OF KINGS* That last one of the projectile diversion shield is a Kaladin Stormblessed moment from the book by Brandon Sanderson
TLDR: Smartest guy in the group finds out how many needles he can carry in his pocket and cheats server rules with MATH Not DND but, in a Naruto themed group roleplay server they had a rule that was intended to limit the amount of kunai, shuriken etc that any given player had for balance. In comes my friend Wade. He’s a biochemistry student, master of many smaller hobbies and REALLY good at math. So, when Wade wasn’t told an exact number of how many weapons he could have, only “enough to fit in your bag.” So he looked at the tool pockets from the show, calculated exactly how many senbon needles he could carry. Which, as it turns out, is well over one thousand if properly stored. This move is now a joke between he and I whenever he tries to rebuttal that he’s not going to brain his way into bending the rules. Wade: I’m going to try something Me: you’re going to try and outfox Jaden Wade: the British bastard cannot contain me! (Our server owner is a British friend of ours and they have a running joke between each other of Jaden threatening to fake colonize us again whenever he loses one of Wade’s technicallycorrect arguments
I can't even try to defend the DM on this one (assuming the story isn't bs). Like, you can't be this unaware to even begin to think that specific use of Shatter should be viable.
@@HeliosRed95 It's not my game, so if they had fun, sure. But using "rule of cool" to justify oneshoting a boss by ignoring how a spell actually works it's a good way to shit on the concept. Rule of cool is supposed to complement the game, not steamroll the rules to the ground.
@@LeRodz the DM has every right to say “no that’s not going to work.” And as a DM I encourage my players to make a convincing case for anything that seems off the wall, whether it is in the rules or not. Like in one instance I let one of my players use destroy water on a frozen water elemental even though the spell is clearly not intended for combat. For the sake of storytelling it is completely acceptable to allow or disallow things.
I recently had a smart moment in a one shot we were trying to get a mcguffin back from a group of brats who were using it as a ball to play with we were sneaking in some bushes, and saw them playing with it. my own character was the shortest of the group, and couldn't see past the bushes, being a dwarf artificer I decided to try something. I cast catapult on one of the nearby rocks. it flew off, and scared the shit out of most of the brats, who thought the mcguffin was cursed (yes and no. unimportant to this story, but will happily tell more if asked) we came out and grabbed the mcguffin...only to be confronted by the brat leader he kept saying it was HIS toy, and we needed to give it back, trying to act all tough. this is where I got evil while he was prattling on, I used the mcguffin to get my short spear at a perfect angle, and used my 2nd 1st level spell slot of the day to cast another catapult on the short spear...sending it flying just shy of castrating the lead brat he quickly shut up, visibly pissed himself and ran off like a bat out of hell screaming like a little girl I regret nothing, and am laughing about it as I type
(Major Spoiler alert for Mine of Phandelver please don't read it or hear it if you want to play this campaing.) Ok here something smart I've done in order to protect one of my fellow partner. I don't think is super incredible, but it's a small thing I'm happy to share as my very first D&D Campaing. Let me present a bit the PCs at the table: There is our Artificier Cobalt, our Druid Aerhan, the Sorcerer Phélaïa, the Fighter Valen, the Rogue Rovalur and mine a Kenku Ranger named Cordélia. Something to keep in mind for my character she is a Ranger Tiny Beast Master (A homebrew subclasse close to the Beast Master). And my pet of choice is the Metallic Warbler I name it Lueurfer. For those who don't know, a metallic aarblers are tiny construct creature with a CR of ¼ which has fire immunity (A really important detail) and lots of condition immunities. Now the presentation are done here what I've done: We were at the end of the module Mine of Phandelver and the BBEG has one of those spell I think is something about a triple homeing fireball (Can't remember the name correctly). We were at the phase 1 of the fight and I know he was about to cast again that spell and I've decide to send my Warbler in front of him to absorbing at least 1 of those fireball. So when it was his turn in reaction my creature just goes for the fire ball. What I was hoping is only tanking the fireball and at least doing some damage on the BBEG with his own spell. Which is what happen. It work but at a price. Even if my little creature was immune to fire it wasn't immune to the blast damage and because those thing don't have a lot of HPs it get OS. But this tanking attack was completly worth it. Because I safe the life of my Fighter. This story just remind me of something a bit more funnier, but as smart of what I've done with my Warbler. It's crazy with a so little thing what you can do. In the same campaing but a few sessions before. I've manage to send my warbler between 2 goblins standing close to each other. (I think you can guess what I've done). I ask to my DM I send my Warbler between those goblin in hope of if they missed they hit each other. I pray the dice to happen. Guess what, it happens two goblins giving each other a big bonk on the face because a mosquito was wandering between them. That was just a gorgeous thing we laugehd hard to it and glad my DM has allowed me to play. I'm glad I can play this Ranger Tiny Beast Master For my very full flesh first campaing.
Im gonna toot my own horn here Our party was trapped in an illusion based dungeon of nightmares Caves turned into space, Space turned into pure white temples, temples to the bottom of the ocean, each filled with horrifying creatures or people we failed in our lives trying to kill us after awhile in caves we made it to the exit, the forest calm and the sun high in the sky with no clouds we thought we made it out and our perception and insight checks told us the same but i asked if my druid could use druidcraft to double check the weather everyone at the table was suprised at such a useful function of an otherwise flavor only cantrip the DM said "You see the current weather should actually be a horrible hurricane and hailstorm." so that instantly told us we were still in the dungeon DM: "God i fucking hate druids"
Well, they could technically have gotten out, just as there happened to be a hurricane and hailstorm outside, but yeah, odds would be that they were still inside.
I disagree with the first DM first off, he was trying to kill the party with an OP boss fuck him for that. that warlock saved the party with that stunt, and if that warlock were me, I'd call the DM out for HIS BS before telling him where he can shove it
My idea but other players execution. Dragon was kicking our ass. Artificer cast catapult on 5lbs of ball bearings. Which is 1000 ball bearings. Each ball bearing does 3d8 in damage. Dm had him roll for a % of how many hit with a D100. NAT 100. We told the DM make 1000 dex saves or take minimum damage per ball bearing. 3 DMG x 1000. That dragon got shredded
Its just a me thing. I can not stand when someone plugs their content before 5 mins into the video. After 5 mins do your plug. I am unsubbing from this channel bc of that. I have done it to every channel I was subbed to that did their plug before 5 mins .
i seem to remember a gag in a video called "best use of a cantrip": DM: "the BBEG is descending some stairs while monologuing-" PC: "i cast Grease on the stairs." th-cam.com/video/qt2Q0fKueHc/w-d-xo.html
Short version "We can't kill it? Run!" The slightly longer version is the party was against an Annihilator with 110 HP and it was a vehicle, so couldn't be damaged by standard weapons. The group legged it until they got to the fortress they were holed up in and took it down with siege weapons. Most parties I put up against this thing tried to fight it out. But my last table just fell back and used their resources/the setting to their advantage.
What system were you running? Because you have my attention.
I feel like that first story is an example of a cool DM rewarding creativity. If it's 5e they could have easily said "These moving parts operate similar to organs or worn items and as such are not subject to making individual saving throws."
That or he wanted the party to have a way to survive that encounter.
It was probably a fight that the party was meant to run from and they just stood there trying to fight it instead.
Agreed, I usually reward that kind of creativity... however if a player tries to keep doing the same gimmick, I do have to limit them. A moment should be that... just a moment.
I was thinking the same.
Considering in RAW, the mech would be a single item per damage.
Yeah i read it as a possible one-off but definitely against the spirit of the spell. Mech enemies would be 100% useless and nobody would build them if a spell like that was even somewhat common
That curse shield is barely even a curse. Taking agro from projectiles and blocking the projectile is perfect tanking. You rebuild your character around this item when you get it
yeah but think about it in a in-game context
then it makes perfect sense
It’s a boon to an artificer. Slap a lightweight/feather fall spell on and throw it like an orbital strike beacon, then just start launching inaccurate attacks with OP levels of power.
Or… throw the shield over the ledge, then throw the gnome at the shield to ensure a safe fastball special
@@emberthecatgirl8796 the curse stays on the person so whilst a realllly cool idea, you’d just be throwing away your shield as you got hit by arrows your shield would have prevented hitting you.
Also don't use a lightweight spell, a feather fall one may work though. Since the weight of the shield is lessened by lightweight, an observant DM might reduce the damage of the impact.
Or have the Party Wizard Cast Dominate on any random Mook, hand them the shield *POOF* Instant (albeit, probably short lived) Arrow-tank!
This tactic would also work quite well with Necromancers, certain types of Summoners, and 3.5 Thrallherds (Oh my God, they killed Kenny...)
Meeting a bugbear at the end of a dungeon and getting married over your mutual love of tea is just the censored version of goblin slayer.
And by censored version of Goblin Slayer... you mean what exactly. Because it could mean several things.
nah, Danmachi imo
Oh I actually have a story for this one! So I was in a pirate themed campaign, think pirates of the Caribbean meets fantasy. So we were going through a forgotten labyrinth searching around for some treasure. One interesting room we found had this blue tree in a glowing pool of water. This tree was magical and it’s water gave you the benefits of a long rest, we ended up planting our own at our home base for later. Cut to the final boss fight, we are fighting this gigantic kraken human hybrid thing, as one of our ex crew mates betrayed us and merged his soul with the kraken. We were already pretty beat up from the last fight, and it wasn’t looking good. The Druid’s turn rolls around. She walks over to a nearby tree.
“I cast tree stride.”
She teleported to the magical tree, filled ten bottles of the water, and came back ready to get everybody back to full strength.
Remember kids: It's not sadistic if it's an evil campaign
The cursed shield bit was awesome
Walking away from a table was the smartest thing I've done- online sessions, and several players were being utterly ignored.
Here's a story from my first game, think it was d&d 3.5e. So this is a story that covers both my dumbest and smartest moments as a player. So the party of 3 including my human wizard had been tasked with clearing a cave of monsters that had been plaguing a nearby town. We enter the cave and all the walls are covered in webs. Me: (without discussing it with the party) I cast a fire spell to burn away all the cobwebs (hoping to set some 8 legged freaks aflame.)
Spell works, webs burn and the whole dungeon is alerted to our presence. (Dumbest moment.) The room we were in only had 2 ways you could go, forward and deeper into the cave or back the way we came in to get out.
Me (internally): there's only one point they can get through to us and it's only 5ft wide
Me (out loud):I cast flame sphere in the bottleneck, if they want to get to us they have to burn.
Not sure if that spell changed in more recent editions or if the DM misplayed the spell but we took out a whole dungeon worth of mobs without taking a scratch before going 4v1 with the big boss.
TLDR: I alerted a whole dungeon to our parties presence, session ends with the party walking into the dungeon boss room without a scratch thanks to a cleverly places spell.
PANR has tuned in.
I just finished a small diy project for my home. And I'm filled with rage now.
Who or what is PANR
@tristanrouse6150 Post Apocalyptic News Radio, your only source for the latest goings on in the little corner of the post-apocalyptic wasteland we call home.
Our wayward heroes came to a festival, where a particularly juiced up Centaur was bullying and condescending the other contestants in a keg-tossing contest. The Centaur decided to insult the flimsiness of the group's Wizard, who would have otherwise likely stayed out of it. The Wizard (who actually had a -3 Con) considered the brute, and after a moment responded, "Good sir Centaur, it is plain that I could easily beat you at this contest of strength if you allow me to watch 3 other contestants to see how it is done. Then I will throw my barrel and you will not be able to throw yours further than mine. If I win, you will leave these townsfolk alone and if you win I will accept the inevitable beating you already seem ready to dish out." The arrogant Centaur snorted an agreement, and the two began to watch. While the Centaur had his focus on the contest, the Wizard used Mage Hand to put a bar of Nickel into the Centaur's saddle bag (not really a saddle, but there was a pocket). He then placed a long metal spike into the ground. It was time for the Wizard to throw his barrel. Predictably, a low Athletics check meant the barrel did not go very far. The Centaur was smug and everyone laughed, but the Wizard was calm and moved to the side so the Centaur could throw. The Centaur made a big show parading up to the barrel, hefting it easily above his head. But just as he was about to launch the keg, the Wizard used the cantrip Lightning Lure, and the player called it out as non-damaging. The cantrip, metal spike, bar of Nickel, and the Centaur's own horseshoes created an electromagnet so powerful that it pulled his hooves out from under him. To the crowd it appeared simply that he had slipped in the mud, the barrel landing with a *CRACK* on his head. Covered in mud and ale, the bully-free townsfolk would forever remind him that even though you are half horse, that doesn't give you the right to be a total ass.
Great read lol
This one time, my character (some kind of psionic) had been affected by an incredibly strong curse that basically polymorphed you into a different body every day, and would become permanent once it found the body you hated the most.
Oh and the curse was not only unbelievably hard to break (even gods would struggle), it was also *contagious* : any failed attempt to break it would infect the one attempting, for one. We eventually learned the virality itself was beyond ridiculous: even just having *the most minimal mind or soul contact* would spread it. Casting *identify* would spread it to the caster.
At one point the BBEG (The evil leader of an evil racial supremacist group) had captured important people and we were making plans to go confront him to get them back. We had a rough outline of how we could *get* there, but he was so much more powerful than us that we had no idea how to even survive in his presence for more than like a second. Problem was, he had the captured people inside magical crystals *on his person*.
I look at my psionic powers and ask "we saw him in person at one point, right?" and the answer was yes. So my character just says "okay, let's go there right now, we got this" before using the psionic power 'correspondence', which lets me directly contact, MIND-TO-MIND, any creature I've ever seen in person before. "Yo, asshole!"
This immediately spreads the curse to him, he starts to polymorph into the very race he was leading a crusade to genocide, and he has to drop literally everything he's doing to focus ALL his magical energies to fighting the curse. We teleport to him while he's prone, gritting his teeth, and paralyzed by the effort. We yoink the crystals and bamf out. No fighting, two rounds, in and out, rescue mission done.
Boy did he hate us after that. The funniest part is, this encounter was his first and last time seeing me in the particular curse-given body I was in that day, so his extreme grudge against me was associated with a face that never really existed. All the wanted posters were wrong.
Recently in a survival focused campaign, we came across a shipwreck. The artificer cuts up the sails and collects all the bones to boil them into bone glue. Later we realize we're almost out of rations. So the artificer lathers the bone glue onto the pieces of sail he got, throws some over-ripe fruit into the center and traps a weeks worth of cicada rations on the sails.
In my first ever D&D campaign, we had a member join us a little over halfway into the campaign. She was a tiefling druid, and she was insanely good. As we were fighting one of our BBGs, she was already high up in the air. She gets an incredible idea- summon a bunch of cows, place them even higher up (like a few hundred feet or so, she was in range to do that,) and drop them on top of the BBG. The DM was… not thrilled about this idea, but he allowed it. Needless to say, this drop of cows caused so much damage that it killed the BBG, and druids were effectively banned from the DM’s table. 😂
Damn you Brian! First I couldn't stop imagining you looking like swaggersouls cannonically, now you showed me awesome cards and stuff and the intrusive thoughts won... I shouldn't be left alone with my money...
I made a railgun powered stake launcher and absolutely destroyed strahd
12:20 A Shield of Missile Attraction? Yeah, depending on your class, it can really be a boon for your party.
That first story is such overkill.
my group was hired to protect some sacred artifacts that were being displayed at a festival. The weapons and artifacts were out in the open for the public to see, so protecting them would be extremely difficult. or at least that's what the DM thought, our group had an artificer who forged perfect copies of all the weapons and artifacts and I was playing with a spell caster who had a spell called magical aura so we put the copies on display and the weapons and artifacts were safe with us in a holding bag. Before we make the exchanges, we remove everyone from the place and use magic to isolate it so that no one sees us making the exchange and to give more credibility we put protective spells on the fakes and take turns 'protecting' them. the DM had to give us a point of inspiration for each one because there was no way he could continue the story without 'cheating'.
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One Bag of Holding can only hold 250'000 ball bearings, their description doesn't state they deal damage, and even 2 million isn't enough to "fill" any room of middling size.
So yes, I *will* underestimate ball bearings, thanks
Players got fed up with a vampire, in a 5e campaign. I allow monster research, so they researched its strengths and weaknesses. After luring it out as part of their agreement, they threw holy water at it and used shape water to wrap it around his head... They pointed out it's 2d6 radiant damage per round, the water wouldn't burn away and that the vampire can no longer heal. I did have it move multiple times after transforming into mist but then action economy made it really hard to do anything as they would just bombard it with magic while it was mist, followed by the 1-2 combo with holy water once it solidified. After they killed it despite it trying to get away I ended up ruling that it couldn't use misty escape due to the water effectively becoming running water in the moment that it transformed. Even with all the summons it got trounced because of a simple combination they worked up.
That first guy would be an excellent stand user
So the smartest thing the first guy ever saw was someone crucially misunderstand the Shatter spell?
I was pretty psyched when I got to use 'Control Water' to beach an Aboleth and we got to demolish the thing in a single round of 4 Fireballs.
When I watched Glass Cannon’s video with Seth Skorkowsky playing the Cthulhu story Intimate Encounters. In the game where the group arrives at the home of an npc they were looking for, Matthew asks if the npc had an apple computer and then has it do “Find my Iphone”. I could see Troy have to pause for a moment since that action was unexpected lol
A friend made a Eragon D&D campaign following the events of the first book. We had to help Eragon and Saphira through the events of the book. We were playing spells without components. My character was a shy Tiefling Druid. She'd used all her money early in the campaign and was traveling on the charity of the 2 rouges that were making money by constantly pickpocketing people. We entered a city with a strong slave trade.
me 'Is there a cheap general store?'.
Dm 'Yes'
Me 'Will the store owner trade several days traveling rations for a set of clothes unfit for sale?'
Dm 'Hes not happy about it, but he agrees.'
me 'Is there a nearby alley thats empty of people?'
Dm 'Yes, that one... What are you doing?'
me 'You'll see. I cast Summon Fae spirit in the form of an elf'
DM 'You do know this is a kingdom that is at war with elves right?'
me 'Yup! I ask the elf to dress in the ratty clothes I just traded for.'
Dm ' What are you doing?!'
me 'I place the manacles from my bag on the elf's wrists.'
Dm 'He doesn't fight, but what are you up to?!'
me 'I lead him to the market and sell him as a slave.'
Everyone at the table 'OH!!!! WHAT THE HECK?!?! IQ 1 MILLION!!'
I sold a summoned elf for 10,000 gp, and left town quickly. When they went to torture the elf for information later, they discovered a set of manacles and a small pile of clothes where the elf had been. My DM was furious. It was supposed to be a low money campaign where we were supposed to scrounge for every copper piece. When we finished the campaign, I still had 9,950gp. My DM has never trusted me since.
Story for this: I was playing in a homebrew pathfinder game. All 3 PCs had to take first level rogue and we were all part of a small thieves guild. Our biggest competitor / rival was a gang called the gold tooths. We were more of the burglar type and they were more of the robbery type. This story happened around level 6? We were given a mission to steal from a fairly high level wizard who was supposed to be gone from his home. Unfortunately, the wizard left some guards. We did a reasonable job of sneaking in and getting the item we were looking for but we got caught on the way out. As we were fleeing the scene, one of the other PCs shouts, "Don't mess with the gold tooths ever again." The next day, we were traveling through town and found a known gold tooth hideout had become a crater. Wizard never found out he smoked the wrong people.
Mr ripper... literally in almost all new cod games there's a drone and making claymore/c4 drone is a legit strat
My party had a troll guarding a prison we needed to get into. He said his orders where to keep people from entering the prison. After bickering, i decided to walk backwards, when the troll asked what i was doing said "oh I'm just existing the prison" me and the group got to go inside
We were playing a popular module (which I will try to keep anonymous) and found ourselves in a castle where we found two Lahmia lounging about waiting to attack. This wasn’t their castle and had been sent to find the owner of said castle but many of the doors were magically sealed. They asked if we who owned the castle and where they were but we said no. They were looking for proof that the owner was someone that had done something to their employer and I said there was a gallery of self portraits in a room down the corridor we just left and proceeded to go to the room. The Lahmia followed me quickly and when I opened the door and went in the room, the DM described how they barrelled past me, saw the portraits gleefully and celebrated they had confirmed their suspicions. As he was describing this I typed into the group chat “I leave the room and close the door”. You see earlier in the game we had found out how to open all the doors but the Lahmia couldn’t so instead of fighting them we just trapped them in a room and went on our way.
Modern post apocalyptic world, player was a nerd/coder who found claymores. He hacked and reprogrammed his Roomba to do a specific path through his home with the claymore fixed to the top as a wandering home defense landmine. He changed the path it took so the lazers from the claymore wouldn't be accidentally set off.
Here’s a recent one of mine!
We had all been captured by the current BBEG and her minions. It was reasonably impossible for us to escape, so we had agreed to do a spellbinding pact to leave with a chest of 20k gold pieces and never return, or else we would die upon setting foot on the grounds of the evil castle. The DM wanted to make absolutely sure that the spell was without loopholes and he had spent hours revising the deal until he felt that nothing would be able to cheese it (It was generally a campaign-ending move since we were all pretty tired of this specific one and wanted to start a different one).
The BBEG’s side of the deal was that she would give the chest to us and make the gold inside easily accessible by giving the key. This made her have the clause that if the gold wasn’t able to be accessed, she would die. After most of us agreed to the terms, the fighter spoke up.
Fighter: So, the chest is locked and she’s given us the key?
DM: Yep. Are you going to agree to-
Fighter: I take the key and snap it. It’s not easily accessible anymore, so she broke her end of the deal.
There’s silence on the DM’s end of the Discord call.
DM: ... As you snap the key in half, you can see her suddenly grasp at her chest. Seconds later, she falls to the floor dead.
Everyone begins laughing their asses off, but since most of us had already agreed to the deal (and me casting Detect Magic revealed that the ones who agreed were now marked by deadly magic), we still had to leave... However, I suggested that as an epilogue kind of thing, our group uses half of the gold to hire other adventurers to storm the castle again and again, constantly being an eternal pain in the ass of the intended BBEG after the one that died.
The other half was used to invest in the fighter’s smithing business, which only got us more gold to continue hiring adventurers. And due to half of us being races that don’t die easily with old age, it will keep going on until a group of adventures we hire manages to triumph
Just this past Sunday my half-orc warlock pulled a quasi-Columbo, acting like he didn't know what he was doing/talking about in order to trick the guilty party into revealing what they knew. My GM did a great job going with it. Sadly the guilty individuals are one of the region's princes, and the high priest. Fortunately we had witnesses in the room, and our group surrendered to the guards as a way placate them and show that we have the empire's best interest at heart. Next session we'll get to decide whether to try to break out of prison or stand trial, though I know my character's definitely planning to use his mage hand to yoink the prison guard's keys.
Ok so with out spoilers we where is a fortress sneaking around when one of our friends caught by giants. We followed them with past without trace spell. Well the giant went past a gate are we all made it past except one our rogue Natasha but the person who played Natasha had an idea and that idea was to put her bag of holding on the ground right in front of the gate and to get in the bag. Then we would on the other side reach through the gates bars grab the bag and pull her out of the bag. We used this two more times like this. never underestimate small useless magic items
Edit: this can also be used to escape jail cells. And you only have 10 minuets of air before you suffocate so use this information as you please
Somehow I'm reminded of this event of when i played years ago. Probably sometime about 1997.
My brother was DMing and was playing a shopkeeper or something where there were challenges and if you beat the 3 challenges they'd.... give info or something. (The exact reason i don't remember, but that's beside the point)
Anyways, a veteran player (who i wish i could have played with more) had a challenge regarding drinks. He'd set up a big glass, medium, and a shotglass all filled with water. He declared 'I bet i can drink both of my glasses before you can drink your shot glass. Two rules, first is you can't start until i finish my first glass and put it down, and second you can't touch either of my glasses'. DM agreed, sounded a bit unfair advantage for him only to have to drink the shotglass's worth.
So the player picks up the large glass, gulps it down, then puts it upside-down OVER the shotglass making it impossible to access, and then proceeded to (at a much more leisurely pace) drink the smaller of the two glasses.
Naturally this blindsided the DM, and he hummed over how to access the shot glass, even considering trying to wiggle the table to make the glass fall (but it was on the counter or something so wasn't possible) so the DM just admitted defeat at the brilliant play he did on him, as he was a normal 3rd level bartender and not some wizard or something.
had a guy carry a scroll of remove blindness/deafness from the time he could afford it (lvl3). he is now level 14 and just used it. was blinded in another campaign 5 year’s ago and didn’t want it to hamper him again.
I ran a campaign in a setting where Creon, the 'mysterious powerful advanced nation in the far east', valued one thing above anything else Lunar Regolith. (moon dust/rocks) Enough to fill a thimble would be sufficient to start your own international shipping company, or buy yourself a retirement in the foreign quarter of that isolationist nation.
The PC's ended up in possession of a refurbished ancient starship as part of the intended adventure path. I figured the party wouldn't even ask if it was able to go to the moon, since it was billed as a super prototype sky battleship built by an existing nation. I didn't sweat it when they realized the BBEG (and key to defeating them) was on the moon, since the NPC they were asking calmly dropped on them the reality that the ruins of the Lunar Palace the boss was in had still active ancient defenses nothing would get through.
Then one of the players pointed out "But, why would we go there when there's an entire moon of Regolith, just lying there undefended?" I hadn't considered the fact I'd just handed the players a multi hundred ton cargo hold on a landing capable starship, well before their actions (or NPC's actions if they didn't) would wake up the Lunar Dragons that would make any attempt at this 'supply run' near suicide.
To top off the 'I should have thought of that, because my players sure did' cake, instead of trying to carefully play the market with their Lunar Regolith, the PC's discussion hit on a reality I'd also failed to account for. Specifically: I'd just told them a world ending threat was on the rise, they had proof to back up their claims, and if there's one thing the Immortal Emperor of that isolationist nation would be grateful for, it's handing him enough Lunar Regolith to finish his world conquering magitek Warforged army. It didn't take the players much effort to get the Emperor of Creon on board with helping them take out the BBEG in exchange for enough Regolith to conquer the world.
I had to do only slightly more speed chess maneuver's than the BBEG's minions to try and deal with the players skipping most of act 1 and all of act 2 (So to speak) because they'd made a perfectly reasonable realization of a lucrative opportunity to Cave Johnson me.
did you give them the lemons for that stunt then cave?
@@someguy4252 No. My general rule is that if I failed to see an opening, I have to either say "Okay, so this breaks literally everything, can we not?" or roll with it. I tend to favor the latter, which I did here.
Like I said, the antagonists who would have been in the background pulling strings had to step up their game and get to work immediately. A very Babylon 5 season 4 situation ensued where what would have been a much longer and slower introduction/build up instead went hot immediately.
To the tune of 'The next time the party landed their ship, the season end boss came to assassinate them in person.'
Some smart combat by the players later and this went poorly for said Lunar Dragon. A heck of a lot of info came to light far earlier than it would have because of that classic domino effect of NPC's logically reacting to other NPC's reactions to the PC's actions.
Pity that campaign never got to have it's proper ending due to a couple of players having to leave, but everyone was reasonably satisfied with how it ended.
Long story comedically short: The PC's ensured the BBEG couldn't fully wake up in time and negotiated from a position of strength a binding agreement with the BBEG. So instead of 'an apocalypse for your own good' the BBEG has to help them against the greater threat which justified said 'blow of civilization' actions. Atropus, The World Born Dead, is kind of a big deal like that.
I can top the “swallowed by a toad” one! I was also swallowed by a giant toad but I was playing a high level Druid character (3.5). The way I got out from inside it was by wildshaping into a dire bear within, covered in toad and blood.
I absolutely hate stories like the first one with the construct and shatter. It has nothing to do with DnD, and sounds more like a game from the children's playground. "I use my super blast 3000 and you take 3000 damage!"
Yeah, because it doesn't work that way in the game. It's considered a single object, despite multiple parts, just like a crossbow is treated as a single object
Yeah, either that's a made-up story, or a very inexperienced DM, who didn't know how things actually worked.
This actually happened pretty recently, me and some friends are playing through Storm King’s Thunder, recently, while exploring a huge dungeon, we encountered a Remorhaz, basically a giant super hot ice form that does damage to you if you hit it with a melee attack, definitely not fun to fight. However, our bard had the amazing idea of casting polymorph on it, and turning it into a turtle, somehow the thing failed the constitution save and we were all wondering what to do with the turtle, that’s when said bard picked it up, carried it outside, dropped it off the mountain and let go of concentration. The thing fell several hundred feet and died, we laughed for a good five minutes. The only thing that pissed me off is the fact that I wasted a fire resistance potion.
This just happened in our last game meeting.
I'm new to the group, invited by one of my best friends who's group wanted to see me since I've played off and on since 2nd Edition.
We are probably several months into the campaign and as I said, this is my first session and I know nothing about the setting (both in character and in person)
I rolled up a Human Warrior (the game is DCC or Dungeon Crawl Classics so it plays similar to 2nd Edition) and rolled surprisingly well on everything. For example, my Luck at 2nd level is 17.
So I'm in the bar, as per normal introductions, and I said I'd just like to order some whisky and listen to local rumors and lore.
One of the things Bauer (my guy) picked up is the festival tomorrow night called Stormsong which is a mystical storm that rolls through the harbor once a year. Lightning strikes everywhere and people lay possessions out hoping it will be struck. You roll a d100 to see if there is a strike, and roll on a magical enchantment list if it is. You even have a chance of your item being totally destroyed.
Okay.
Move forward about an hour and Bauer learns that the rest of the party went through a portal that cast them 90 days into the future, which is now my current present. I join the group and we are about to head back into the portal (90 days to my past but returning to their present) when Bauer has a suggestion.
"You know... Stormsong is tomorrow night. We could wait for the storm, note where the most favorable strikes are, and in 90 days lay out our possessions in those exact spots..."
My new DM was floored. He didn't even consider that as a consequence of what was being set up. He agreed, and gave us his fully detailed map of all strikes. We still have to roll for enchantments or destruction, but in 90 days it'll be a 100% guaranteed success.
We where in a trap dangeon with a astral dimond at the end. Insta-deth and ilusions i had the idea of just rooling a bunch of rocks down the hallway. It disarmed all of the traps and we got the dimond
Not going to reveal the campaign to keep spoilers away, but I'm in a campaign now where we were just recently in the lower levels of a building and some of our party were being attacked by ghouls. My turn comes and I am outside the door that leads into the room where they are fighting, with three of our party members in a row blocking the door and one of the ghouls below them. Seeing the situation, my DM says "not sure how much you are going to be able to accomplish this turn", but fortunately for me I was a level 2 lightfoot halfling. So I disengaged as a bonus action, moved through my party member's spaces (they were all a size larger than me), popped out the other end and took my shot. I missed initially but my DM gave me temporary inspiration for using my character so well and I actually got some damage off that helped put the thing down that round.
One time my dwarven forge cleric, along with his party, were surprised by a wax golem (we all failed perception) and it already had one of our party members grappled and was trying to bury them within itself to suffocate them. Now I have a personal rule that if "I" have an idea of how to beat the enemy, but my character might not, I ask the DM if my character can make an insight check to see if they will have the same idea. Anyways I rolled well and had my forge cleric cast create water (rain form) above the wax golem and subsequently put out all of it's candles. It apparently has rules for this situation and it only has a small handful of rounds left before it solidifies and is rendered not a threat.
I WAS IN THE BALL BEARING ONE!!! like actually the exact same numbers I was a player and one of the ones killed by them. Man its just so crazy because that was literally mine the numbers were the same
My party was playing Rime of the Frostmaiden and reached Ythryn. Through a long series of events, we managed to convinced Iriolarthas, the Demilich 'ruling' what was left of the city, to let us fix the mythallar, the magical power source that would get Ythryn flying again. Well, despite it being insanely difficult, we managed, but the last step was to have the mythallar be rebooted, which would require Iriolarthas to unattune to it for a moment.
My Druid convinced Iriolarthas to inspect the mythallar himself (so if he DID attack us, we'd be out of his lair), and sure enough, paranoid Demilich was a paranoid Demilich, and he decided to attack us, thinking we were trying to steal Ythryn.
Well, before he can actually attack, our Eldritch Knight Fighter, whose entire character is built around being a paranoid survivalist, asks the DM how close the Iriolarthas is to the Mythallar. Finding out he was within ten feet of it...
Eldritch Knight: I cast Gust of Wind.
The rest of the party joins in with all our pushing centric moves, and cue Iriolarthas being thrown into the mythallar, which deals 20d10+70 radiant damage (half as much on a failed save) if you touch it. Between everyone, we burned up all his Legendary Resistances in one move, resulting in the extremely powerful and deadly Demilich behing completely obliterated before the fight could even start.
oh, that "bugbear who likes tea" reminds me of G'narsh from The Adventure Zone!
I just wish that first story had ended in "Omae wa mou shindeiru."
Warlock would have to cast shatter on each part for that kind of damage each part would have to make a save. Otherwise it's a single casting that can effect one part or whole thing dealing damage only once per casting.
I don’t know if it’s more unexpected than smart, all I know is that the dm was not intending for us to solve the puzzle like this.
So, my first dnd game was during the school lunch period. It consisted of several people, mostly freshman and seniors, who decided to start doing dnd. Anyways, our dm lead the party into a large cavern of ice, with a pillar of ice in the middle attached by chains to the floor. Upon our entrance, the door collapsed and we were trapped. The pitch black room was almost immediately ignited in light with flames coming from two pillars. We investigrd a little, and discover when someone touched the chains that were bolted to the pillar of ice, not only would a tremendous amount of guilt overcome the party members, but the flames would grow. So, after about 10 minutes of us screwing around, the dm gave us a hint that it was a puzzle. Whenever I learned of this, I realized I had absorb elements. I asked if we could do it, which with a surprised face the dm said you can try. So, we have one person on each chain who on the ready would grab the chain and pull away from the pillar. With myself in the middle of the pillars of flame preparing to do something stupid.
On the might of go, everyone grabbed the chains, settings the flames higher than the pillar, with guilt overcoming all with a guilty backstory. Tears were streaming down mostly everyone’s faces, and I began absorbing the fire. Now, it was working apparently. But, I realized I had to put this energy somewhere, while I could have used it as a sort of blast to destroy the icey pillar. Instead, we directed it to another party members weapon, which was able to absorb the energy. Once the flames went out, my character would direct the flames into their hammer as they were the ONLY ONE who couldn’t feel guilt.
After that, the most overpowered person, got an overpowefed weapon. With a single touch of the hammer from anyone other than him, would essentially have a panic attack. Then, we used the hammer, to absolutely destroy the pillar.
This hammer has given joy to the wielder as he will just poke someone with it, and send them into damn shock.
It solved the puzzle, but also broke the balance
Just had a session of Pathfinder where the group was fighting an awakened Demilich, was getting our @ss kicked because of the At-Will Wail of the Banshee attack. Me being the awesome Celestial Commander Summoner (Level 15) that i am, had an Leonal Agathion summoned, but knew he wasnt going to have enough of a punch to kill it (Demilich has DR 20/-) so after the Leonal had charged/pounced it then with the haste atack grapple it, i summoned an Monadic deva (angel), tossed it a bag of holding, had the Leonal push it into the bag of holding and had the Angel Plane shift the bag to the positive material plane and left it there. Glory was had by my character from the party as we were looking at a TPK otherwise.
1:00 GOOD GOD! Usually that much damage comes from a preplanned strategy/exploit that multiple people have to work together with buffs and crap, nah this guy just absolutely took the DM's description and just fucking ABUSED it beautifully... thats someting you didnt think of till it hjappens lol
I had a smart moment yesterday.
Our party is traveling in the mountains and gets ambushed and kidnapped by a herd of goliaths. They take us to a fortress arena where they force their captives to fight to the death. While waiting in my cell for my turn I (level 5 ranger) find an old shiv in the hay that makes up my mattress and notice some rats about.
I cast speak with animals and say "hey, would you guys mind fetching the keys for me? I'll give you food if you help me escape."
The rats say "but you ARE food" and begin slowly crawling towards me. I stab the biggest one with the shiv and say "I AM YOUR GOD! YOU WILL OBEY!"
The rats run off in a panic. Long story short, I created a religion. I convinced all the rats in the colosseum to not only bring me the keys to my cell, but to wait for all the goliaths to fall asleep later that night and then bite their eyes out so I and the rest of the prisoners can escape.
Session ended with DM dropping a dragon on the place before we could get away though... So that's where we pick up next week! 😂
Rumba clamor mine.
Unless there's a front facing activate device like out of planet side 2....
This needs a bit more work.
Ideas.
The Roomba is the timer and when it finishes it's sequence the mine will detonate. Because it's been pulling the trip line behind it.
Or the Roomba is by itself.
The claymore mine is set up for someone dumb enough to investigate.
..... Unless I'm missing something from pop culture....... This feels like something off of breaking bad.
How does one shatter a tent? I am quite curious what these tents were made of.
Subzero temperatures freeze the tent during the night and then shatter the stiffened canvas?
oh, that "claymore mine on a drone" reminds me of a video about Battlefield 2040, where it's possible to attach C4 to a drone and fly it into a TANK to destroy it!
Hey, Brian. I have an idea for a new video, but I didn't put it on the subreddit: What Are Your Ideas For A Super Mario Campaign?
When I started dnd I didn’t have my player sheet so I was a hobgoblin and my brother was a ork and I was turned into an ice cube so the ork threw me out one of the party members killing them
I was the encounter
I hate the first story so much, it clearly isn't a creative thinking, but rather selective ignoring of both the letter and the spirit of the spell description to get the desired result, the most reprehensible form of rules-lawyering. First, the Shatter spell only targets creatures and _unattended_ objects, and cogs inside an automaton are neither. Second, the spell targets objects and creatures, not their parts: you wouldn't apply it to a chair a hundred times because the chair is made out of a hundred planks.
If my player tried to insist it should work that way, I would answer that I can allow it, but only if they would be okay with the next enemy caster casting the spell on them, and me applying damage to every single one of their very much non-magical bones.
*SPOILER OF THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE 1, THE WAY OF KINGS*
That last one of the projectile diversion shield is a Kaladin Stormblessed moment from the book by Brandon Sanderson
TLDR: Smartest guy in the group finds out how many needles he can carry in his pocket and cheats server rules with MATH
Not DND but, in a Naruto themed group roleplay server they had a rule that was intended to limit the amount of kunai, shuriken etc that any given player had for balance.
In comes my friend Wade. He’s a biochemistry student, master of many smaller hobbies and REALLY good at math.
So, when Wade wasn’t told an exact number of how many weapons he could have, only “enough to fit in your bag.” So he looked at the tool pockets from the show, calculated exactly how many senbon needles he could carry. Which, as it turns out, is well over one thousand if properly stored.
This move is now a joke between he and I whenever he tries to rebuttal that he’s not going to brain his way into bending the rules.
Wade: I’m going to try something
Me: you’re going to try and outfox Jaden
Wade: the British bastard cannot contain me! (Our server owner is a British friend of ours and they have a running joke between each other of Jaden threatening to fake colonize us again whenever he loses one of Wade’s technicallycorrect arguments
Thats not how shatter works
I can't even try to defend the DM on this one (assuming the story isn't bs). Like, you can't be this unaware to even begin to think that specific use of Shatter should be viable.
rule of cool precedes all
@@HeliosRed95 It's not my game, so if they had fun, sure. But using "rule of cool" to justify oneshoting a boss by ignoring how a spell actually works it's a good way to shit on the concept. Rule of cool is supposed to complement the game, not steamroll the rules to the ground.
@@LeRodz the DM has every right to say “no that’s not going to work.” And as a DM I encourage my players to make a convincing case for anything that seems off the wall, whether it is in the rules or not. Like in one instance I let one of my players use destroy water on a frozen water elemental even though the spell is clearly not intended for combat.
For the sake of storytelling it is completely acceptable to allow or disallow things.
@@HeliosRed95 Well im glad im not playing with you.
You are allowed to play how you like but without Limites the game is pointless.
I recently had a smart moment in a one shot
we were trying to get a mcguffin back from a group of brats who were using it as a ball to play with
we were sneaking in some bushes, and saw them playing with it.
my own character was the shortest of the group, and couldn't see past the bushes, being a dwarf artificer
I decided to try something.
I cast catapult on one of the nearby rocks.
it flew off, and scared the shit out of most of the brats, who thought the mcguffin was cursed (yes and no. unimportant to this story, but will happily tell more if asked)
we came out and grabbed the mcguffin...only to be confronted by the brat leader
he kept saying it was HIS toy, and we needed to give it back, trying to act all tough.
this is where I got evil
while he was prattling on, I used the mcguffin to get my short spear at a perfect angle, and used my 2nd 1st level spell slot of the day to cast another catapult on the short spear...sending it flying just shy of castrating the lead brat
he quickly shut up, visibly pissed himself and ran off like a bat out of hell screaming like a little girl
I regret nothing, and am laughing about it as I type
Bro gets swallowed and thinks its smart to reach for weapons? Wut?
(Major Spoiler alert for Mine of Phandelver please don't read it or hear it if you want to play this campaing.)
Ok here something smart I've done in order to protect one of my fellow partner. I don't think is super incredible, but it's a small thing I'm happy to share as my very first D&D Campaing. Let me present a bit the PCs at the table: There is our Artificier Cobalt, our Druid Aerhan, the Sorcerer Phélaïa, the Fighter Valen, the Rogue Rovalur and mine a Kenku Ranger named Cordélia. Something to keep in mind for my character she is a Ranger Tiny Beast Master (A homebrew subclasse close to the Beast Master). And my pet of choice is the Metallic Warbler I name it Lueurfer. For those who don't know, a metallic aarblers are tiny construct creature with a CR of ¼ which has fire immunity (A really important detail) and lots of condition immunities. Now the presentation are done here what I've done:
We were at the end of the module Mine of Phandelver and the BBEG has one of those spell I think is something about a triple homeing fireball (Can't remember the name correctly). We were at the phase 1 of the fight and I know he was about to cast again that spell and I've decide to send my Warbler in front of him to absorbing at least 1 of those fireball. So when it was his turn in reaction my creature just goes for the fire ball. What I was hoping is only tanking the fireball and at least doing some damage on the BBEG with his own spell. Which is what happen. It work but at a price. Even if my little creature was immune to fire it wasn't immune to the blast damage and because those thing don't have a lot of HPs it get OS. But this tanking attack was completly worth it. Because I safe the life of my Fighter.
This story just remind me of something a bit more funnier, but as smart of what I've done with my Warbler. It's crazy with a so little thing what you can do. In the same campaing but a few sessions before. I've manage to send my warbler between 2 goblins standing close to each other. (I think you can guess what I've done). I ask to my DM I send my Warbler between those goblin in hope of if they missed they hit each other. I pray the dice to happen. Guess what, it happens two goblins giving each other a big bonk on the face because a mosquito was wandering between them. That was just a gorgeous thing we laugehd hard to it and glad my DM has allowed me to play. I'm glad I can play this Ranger Tiny Beast Master For my very full flesh first campaing.
Why are half of the smart things to do mildly evil...
Im gonna toot my own horn here
Our party was trapped in an illusion based dungeon of nightmares
Caves turned into space, Space turned into pure white temples, temples to the bottom of the ocean, each filled with horrifying creatures or people we failed in our lives trying to kill us
after awhile in caves we made it to the exit, the forest calm and the sun high in the sky with no clouds
we thought we made it out and our perception and insight checks told us the same
but i asked if my druid could use druidcraft to double check the weather
everyone at the table was suprised at such a useful function of an otherwise flavor only cantrip
the DM said "You see the current weather should actually be a horrible hurricane and hailstorm."
so that instantly told us we were still in the dungeon
DM: "God i fucking hate druids"
Well, they could technically have gotten out, just as there happened to be a hurricane and hailstorm outside, but yeah, odds would be that they were still inside.
Shatter doesn't work that way.
I disagree with the first DM
first off, he was trying to kill the party with an OP boss
fuck him for that. that warlock saved the party with that stunt, and if that warlock were me, I'd call the DM out for HIS BS before telling him where he can shove it
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My idea but other players execution. Dragon was kicking our ass. Artificer cast catapult on 5lbs of ball bearings. Which is 1000 ball bearings. Each ball bearing does 3d8 in damage. Dm had him roll for a % of how many hit with a D100. NAT 100. We told the DM make 1000 dex saves or take minimum damage per ball bearing. 3 DMG x 1000. That dragon got shredded
starts out with a wrong interpretation of the rules 🙄
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Its just a me thing. I can not stand when someone plugs their content before 5 mins into the video. After 5 mins do your plug. I am unsubbing from this channel bc of that. I have done it to every channel I was subbed to that did their plug before 5 mins .
Claymore Roomba is a meme. A quick google image search should show you.
i seem to remember a gag in a video called "best use of a cantrip":
DM: "the BBEG is descending some stairs while monologuing-"
PC: "i cast Grease on the stairs."
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