Your Epic Moments in DnD

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Toriver

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So the thread on favorite DnD races got me thinking - for those of us who play(ed) regularly, I'm sure every one of us has had some epic moment, be it of heroism, ineptitude, hilarity or some other aspect. This is a thread for all of us warriors of the d20 to pull up a chair at the tavern and regale the Escapist with our glorious exploits! What are your epic DnD moments?

I've got a couple myself:
1) My first character I seriously played was a gnome sorcerer in 3.5 who later became an Elemental Savant of Fire. The DM threw two young dragons at us, a red one and a white one. My character rolled to the top of the initiative order and took down the dragon in one shot with one single fireball. He friggin' one-hit a motherf***ing dragon.
2) In the hilarity/ineptitude department, our party in another game had to face a high-level drunken master. He grabbed a table, and within two swings of the thing killed my character. The drunken master then proceeded to use my character's corpse as a weapon to take down the rest of the party in a TPK. So much for that campaign.

How about your stories?
 

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toriver said:
2) In the hilarity/ineptitude department, our party in another game had to face a high-level drunken master. He grabbed a table, and within two swings of the thing killed my character. The drunken master then proceeded to use my character's corpse as a weapon to take down the rest of the party in a TPK. So much for that campaign.

How about your stories?
Amazing. Simply amazing.

My first character ever character was a Barbarian in Worlds Largest Dungeon. I came in roughly a quarter way through, so I was around level 9. After seeing a bunch of stone statues of monsters and other adventures. The climax of this mini plot was a basilisk, which proceded to fuck up the Cleric and turn the Rogue to stone. At this point I was all "Holy shit.. This is going to kill me! Oh wait... I'm a Barbarian.. I charge"

We won.

My second epic moment comes from my short lived Ninja. We were getting attacked by flying bug things. I only had a shortbow and was running out of HP, so I ran up a tree (because I'm a Ninja) and managed to jump on one of these bugs, dig my punching daggers in and slam it to the ground.
 

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1. I killed 3 adult red dragons at level 11 in 3 rounds with the help of a sorc's familiar.
2. I critted for 6-7 rounds in a row with a double-bladed sword.
 

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In one game I was not playing in, one of the PCs was a centaur. (Fair enough.) The DM put them up against some sort of dragon, meant to be an extended boss battle at a high point in the campaign. The centaur character looks at his sheet for a minute and declares that he is going to grapple the dragon. Dragon rolls a natural 1. The centaur successfully pins the dragon and the rest of the party runs up and kicks it to death in a few rounds.

However, in a campaign this summer, I played an albino Nothrog wizard (sort of a cross between goblin, orc, ogre, etc.). I killed the Big Bad by casting True Strike and charging at him with a spell-storing staff that had Shocking Grasp in it. Yes, the wizard killed a major boss while in melee.
 

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Just today my level 2 monk started out side of a fortress in a "supposed to die" fight and due to some jammy abuse and nice rolls I he-manned my way through half the army before flying back into my fort :p Our DM was not impressed.


In another game, my level 26 Spear fighter soloed a level 35 Kraken, hauling it out of the water in the process with footstep lure. Sadly it was 2 sessions after they irratered it so I could no longer flip people from 5 squares away to wherever the hell I wanted them :p DM was so impressed I actually got granted special Kraken spaulders which allowed me to breath underwater, swim as a normal move action, and +15 to intimidate aquatic :D
 

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I've not played much. Just a few games about...4-5 years ago. We had mixed just a little Final Fantasy in DnD and I was a moogle thief. My party and I woke up tied upside down in some trees. After managing to get out, first thing my character did was search for food. It'd be a while since I last ate and I was famished, so I managed to find some edible berries and ate them. My companion finally managed to get out of her ropes and free. I was hiding in the bushes trying not to be seen, my pompom wasn't quite hidden, however, and she saw me. As she got close to me, my face covered in red berry juice, I said "Shhh! I'm a bunny!" Then the whole group laughed pretty hard for about 10 minutes. The end.
 

Ildecia

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i'm usually the DM in my circle of friends; and whenever i do DM, everyone is satisfied with my big 'ol awesome uber-dungeons and stuff.
 

Crumpet Man

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My most hilarious moment was with my warforged character. I was being harassed by a large group of children, and nothing i did deterred them. Even shooting lightning! Needless to say, i had the worlds worst charisma
 

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well I only really have a big epic fail to tell. Lets see me and my group we're stuck in an enchanted cavern that made us think we we're in a bar when in fact it was some sort of dungeon. Me and the cleric we're able to break the enchantment due to our high will power(I was a paly), we then proceded to kill the source of the illusions(a minotaur). After noticing a sword in the roof of the cavern, which was emminating a evil aura(a really strong one), we decided to go grab it. My group mates, the warior and the cleric, decided to make a race to see who would get up there faster, the warior climbed a rope and the cleric used air walk. Once they we're both fairly close to the sword the group started hearing the sound of beating wings under our feet(i.e the sword in the ceiling also). Out of panic the warior jumped down(receiving minimal damage), but the cleric stayed. What emerged from the floor(there was a large tunnel under the wooden floor) was a dragon! The cleric decided he wanted to do some epic shit, so he proceded to cancel his air walk spell and try to do a sort of sword plant with his mace. What happened is that he missed the dragon(by about 10 feet) and just fell to his death. Lets just say our group hasn't let him live it down yet.
 

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My funniest moment, in a 3.5 campaign, I was paying a high level wizard, and I had just found the campaign's Big Baddie. I cast a Maximized fireball, and it turns out the villain had hidden a Helm of Brilliance under his top hat! As you might know, but probably don't, the Helm of Brilliance has DR/fire, and any fire damage that manages to get past the DR sets off the spells it contains. All 80 remaining charges, including 10 Walls of fire, 20 Fireballs, and 50 Daylight spells all centered in the middle of a glacier. Hilarity, pyrotechnics, and screaming ensued. Anyways, I got hit by a 20 ton falling piece of ice.
And I got fame in the group for having the worst luck.
 

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This, inspired from this comic.


Excuse the spoiler, I don't know how to hide over-sized images.
 

Ristle

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Playing 4E as a level 5 Dwarf Fighter.

1) Our Half-Orc Berserker ran off into a corridor full of zombies with me and a paladin chasing. He gets chomped and goes down. We get to him and rescue him, then he gets hit so hard he dies. Full on death, no picking him back up, nothing. It was impressive.

2) We were standing around a circle of magical stones trying to work out what to do. I throw a recently deceased kobold's head in, it disappears. Our rogue decides screw caution and runs right in. We all follow suit and 4 out of 6 arrive in a crater surrounded by goblins. The other two, myself and the Warlock, get caught in the Feywild. I proceed to try to cover my maul in magical tree bark, weave twigs into my beard and stuff my pockets with dirt so I can sell these magical things upon my return. I later worked to summon our dead berserkers spirit into the twig and I use him for advice.
 
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Ristle said:
Playing 4E as a level 5 Dwarf Fighter.
I was also playing as this

In a campaign where the DM was giving everyone else cool ways to upgrade (The Mechanist made this robot crocodile flamethrower, an alchemist invented this cool bomb...), and I started to feel left out, so the DM threw me bone and put me in this "Arena" where I fought another guy and won in 2 hits.

The twist?

He had used my exact Character sheet for the enemy.

I killed myself.

Also several minutes earlier, me and an assassin double teamed an Earth Elemental and took it down in one hit.
 

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Playing a 4e Drow Assassin. I was introduced to the group through backstabbing my old "group". Prior to combat, I had shrouded the opposing cleric, opened up combat with cutting the throat of an ambusher and flicking a dagger at the cleric. Crit. Dropped both targets at once.
 

Rune342

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My DM seemed like he wanted the strangest campaign possible. So he went through every, and I mean every, race and class on the D&D wiki to tell us which ones we could use. Because of this I ended up as a Diclonii Ranger who could do 12 attacks, with penalties on half of them.
So we enter into battle against some kind of giant Displacer Beast in the middle of a town. Because of this, and the fact we were only level 7, DM gave us 15 npcs to help us. This is where the problem started, he allowed each npc to give a +2 flanking bonus, allowing me to hit with each attack, by the end of my turn I had taken out over 175 of its 200 health. I'm not allowed to play that character anymore.

On the random side of things, we had to cross a razor wire trap, so we threw our construct party member onto it to use him as a bridge. We all thought he would be immune because he was metal...
 

Nieroshai

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My friend tried to make a makeshift crossbow out of a table leg, zombie arm, and his own hair, and succeeded somehow in ALL the checks to do so. Then he rolled well enough to chew a bottle into glass splinters to fire from said weapon. Sadly he's never been able to recreate this feat of awesomeness, but it is one tale that shall be forever told in our tavern.
 

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this one anit mine but in our last game night my mate was playing this psyonic bug thing with 4 arms made it a barb he had a plus 25 to jump we were fighting a hydra he went into a rage and charged the beast jumped to attack the dm said as long as u dont rool a 1 ur fine he rolled a 1 landed in the dam things mouth as he jumped out all five heads attacked him taking him down and then fought over the bodie my war forged ran thankfuly warforged to ever get tired so yay i lived
 

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As a 4e Goliath Barbarian (named Vorlakk), I jumped off a thirty foot cliff... to land a blow on the big bad (who had just been thrown off that very cliff). My DM was kind enough to roll my falling damage for both me and the baddy, and the damage damn near killed him.

Later I tried the same thing for an Otyugh, with similar results.
 

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Getting a critical hit on an orc with my dual-axe wielding dwarf cleric.

"DIVISION IS FUN WHEN YOUR A DWARF!!!"