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Sephiroth Do'Urden 04-16-07, 07:37 AM	I think that almost everyone have had a moment of in game ownage, or have been on the reciving end of one. Record them here for the reading pleasure of all DnD players here! One of my favorite moment of ownage was when I played a Soulborn for the first time and my party's Barbarian wanted to show of how strong he was to the other guys (He was playing a bugbear and yes he was STRONG!) so he raged and bullrushed me in the local tavern after the main adventure was done. My Soulborn was wearing Mauling gauntlets filled to the limit with Incarnum so the Barbarian basicly bunced of my outstreched palm and was sent sprawling to the floor. The DM told the guy playing the Barbarian that he felt like he ran head first into a brick wall. Priceless!
Stardust 04-16-07, 02:17 PM	I was in a group of 3 level 4 players and we were exploring the vaults under a dwarven settlement deep in a mountain. There was: Me - Rogue 4 Friend 1 - Paladin 4 Friend 2 - Sorcerer 4 We came to a small room and noticed a mind flayer in the far corner, preoccupied with something on a nearby work bench. The beastie had somehow failed its listen checks for the paladin clunking down the stairs in his armor, or the DM messed that up, but yeah. Recognising the creature as being extremely evil the paladin states 'I charge it'. Rest of group: :eek: So we get a surprise round: Paladin: Charges/crits/smites - does something like 20 odd damage. DM: '...Jeez! Okay, you cut its arm off...' Rogue (me): 'This is going to end badly...Ok sure, I attempt to tumble into a flanking position' *rolls a 19* 'Cool! I sneak attack!' *dishes out 3d6 of stabby goodness* Sorcerer: Magic missile for 2d4 + 2 damage Total damage in surprise round comes to about 38. *roll initiative* Rogue wins, then paladin, then mind flayer, then sorcerer. Rogue - 'Poppa needs some new kidneys - another sneak attack!' Hits, drops mind flayer. Paladin - Coup de Grace DM: ... Group: So what CR was that anyway? (we were fairly new players at the time, this was several years ago). DM: That was CR 8... and I'd assumed you'd go and get help from the bunch of dwarven warriors in the fight, but yeah... Damn that's a lot of xp... So yeah, we levelled and combined with the rest of the xp from that session, we weren't far off the next level ^_^.
Zuractai 04-16-07, 02:32 PM	One was semi simple. Our group's Barbarian decided to wrestle the Druid's Croc animal companion. Barbarian was carried off in a Body bad, druid shrugged and healed the animal companion with one cure light wounds. This one I sorta feel sorry for, but It wasn't my plan. I was running a premade quest, and the wizard opened a door. A dex check was required to determine if the player slipped, and slid into a pool outside the door. The Wizard failed and fell into the pool, and init was rolled for him and the eels in the pool. Player got worst init and the eels attacked. All three crit, for near max damage, enough to kill the Player. When brought up later it was sumerized with "I opened the door. Roled a Dex check and init, then died. I JUST OPENED A DOOT!"
Droma 04-16-07, 02:50 PM	Stardust I think I have you topped. We were all level 5 characters. It was a party of 4, swordsage, sorcerer(me), ninja, bard. We are in a dungeon and round a bend and we see this wierd rock like monster munching on some rodents and it has vine like appendages. For anyone that cant guess what it is we were facing a roper(spelling?) a CR10-12 critter I think(will check later). It was supposed to be a non combat encounter and either stealth or talk our way by. However the ninja says something to the effect of "Lets kill it." and the roper overhears the remark. Ok so no stealth and no talking now. Roper goes first and grapples the bard and ninja dragging them to get eaten. Swordsage uses some manuever that lets him bassically do a fireball. That deals almost max damage of around 41 however we later find out after that they are fire vulnerable. I then hit him with scorching ray. Swordsage gets the dc25 escape artist check to get loose from the roper attaching to him and switches stances and his attacks count as fire for that round. I hit him with another scorching ray next round for the kill. He drops a hefty amount of gold and a ring of wizardry 1. Im now lvl5 with a ring of wizardy 1. Unfortunetly the campaign ended the next session when I killed 4 enemies and our bard with a sudden maximized fireball. We didnt have the gold for a raise dead and the DM wanted to let someone else start their campaign.
Banatine 04-16-07, 03:31 PM	The best one of ours was when we were walking through a mountain range. (We are the one owned in this). The party is a Duskblade (me), a Minotaur Monk, and a mutated Gnome Ranger. We were ambushed by rogues with greatbows, and a stone dragon (our DM makes monsters up). All 4 of their arrows hit. I get one in the eye, the minotaur gets 2 in the throat, and the Gnome gets one in the groin. Ouch. But it gets better, because then the dragon bites me, does a crit, and so i lose my legs. Then i got 4 criticals in a row, and did nearly 300 damage to it. At which point it ran off. (if you're wondering, the rogues ran when the dragon appeared, as they were standing on it). :D I have my legs back now, because a cleric magiced them back, and we are doing quests to pay off the debt, but then i forgot to ask for my eye back as well. :weep:
Sareld 04-16-07, 03:32 PM	Ok, this was a game played with the old 3.0 SRD, though stuff from the Complete Pwn books was allowed. The event took place before the party had actually met eachother, and the DM ruled that we had all entered a gladiator tournament in The North somewhere. I was playing a sun elf evoker 5/Fire elemental Savant 4, and I was the first one in the arena. The DM rolled a "random" opponent, and got a frost giant for me. Of course the tournament officials declared that the fight was too uneven, and allowed my character to pick 3 of the other gladiators as allies for the fight, and the 3 other players at the table all had their characters voulenteer to aid me, but to their surprise, I declined their offer and demanded to fight the giant for myself. The other players and the DM had seen wizards as underpowered untill this point, and I thought that this was an excellent time to proove them wong once and for all... this is what happened: Round 1 DM: *rolls initiative for the giant, gets a 12* ME: *rolls initiative for my wizard, gets a 22* DM: "Ok, the arena is not too big, and you estimate that the giant will be within melee range in its first two turns." Me: "Fine. I cast Haste!" DM: "Ehrm.. ok. The giant advances and lifts its huge axe, your character has no doubt that he will be cleaved in half should the giant..." Me: "Yeah, fine. I cast Empowered Fireball! And another Empowered Fireball! *rolls* Thats 51 and 49 points of fire damage, doubled for 102 and 98. That giant better make his saves." DM: "OK*Rolls*... 19? 21? No? Damn, the giant is obliterated! The crowd is awestruck! And... Wait... woulnt an Empowered Fireball be beyond your powers?" Me: "Nope, I took the metamagic school focus feat. I win." The DM later figured out another way to have the party team up, but we could never really get things to work. One of the players were our regular DM, wo just couldnt lay off trying to decide everything. Later that night, we called off the game and had the regular DM run something again... some people just cant stop DMing once they are used to it.
Sephiroth Do'Urden 04-19-07, 09:16 AM	Ok, this was a game played with the old 3.0 SRD, though stuff from the Complete Pwn books was allowed. The event took place before the party had actually met eachother, and the DM ruled that we had all entered a gladiator tournament in The North somewhere. I was playing a sun elf evoker 5/Fire elemental Savant 4, and I was the first one in the arena. The DM rolled a "random" opponent, and got a frost giant for me. Of course the tournament officials declared that the fight was too uneven, and allowed my character to pick 3 of the other gladiators as allies for the fight, and the 3 other players at the table all had their characters voulenteer to aid me, but to their surprise, I declined their offer and demanded to fight the giant for myself. The other players and the DM had seen wizards as underpowered untill this point, and I thought that this was an excellent time to proove them wong once and for all... this is what happened: Round 1 DM: *rolls initiative for the giant, gets a 12* ME: *rolls initiative for my wizard, gets a 22* DM: "Ok, the arena is not too big, and you estimate that the giant will be within melee range in its first two turns." Me: "Fine. I cast Haste!" DM: "Ehrm.. ok. The giant advances and lifts its huge axe, your character has no doubt that he will be cleaved in half should the giant..." Me: "Yeah, fine. I cast Empowered Fireball! And another Empowered Fireball! *rolls* Thats 51 and 49 points of fire damage, doubled for 102 and 98. That giant better make his saves." DM: "OK*Rolls*... 19? 21? No? Damn, the giant is obliterated! The crowd is awestruck! And... Wait... woulnt an Empowered Fireball be beyond your powers?" Me: "Nope, I took the metamagic school focus feat. I win." The DM later figured out another way to have the party team up, but we could never really get things to work. One of the players were our regular DM, wo just couldnt lay off trying to decide everything. Later that night, we called off the game and had the regular DM run something again... some people just cant stop DMing once they are used to it. OMG! You PWNED the DM and the players!
Lakaniss 04-19-07, 10:47 AM	I was dming a ''one shot'' game whit friends. They were all new to the games and at that time, i was clearly underestimating Melee fighters. The game began and they were all level 1. One of them was an Orc Barbarian whit a Scythe and the feat to get extra strenght while raging. They where on theyr first quest and was at a crucial roleplay moment whit a wizard ( Level 12 NPC Wizard). I made everything to clearly show them he was powerfull, he had teleports spell on his list and he could clearly kill them all in one round or escape whit his teleports or fly away. But the barbarian didnt like the wizard so after 20 minutes of roleplaying he decided to charge whit his scythe. I was like... No dude hes gonna obliterate you , please dont do that or i will have to plan something to save all of you! But he decided to charge anyway, we all rolled initiative. Orc Barbarian : 19, Wizard roll a 2... for a total of 8. The barbarian charge, rage, Roll a natural 20, roll maximum damage on his scythe and kill the wizard in one blow....:eek: well ehm..... good job u killed the last boss! Now the game his ruined and you all get plenty of exp! lol
Ian0311 04-19-07, 11:59 AM	Perhaps not as sweet or as utter as the above, but here goes. A female cleric of Kord spent the last two days training to brush up on her unarmed fighting in order to stand a chance in a tournament (unarmed fighting only and no magic) at the monastery she was staying at. She entered the arena doors, shouted out her intention to fight for her God and her dead master, and waited for her turn. When she finally entered the arena, she faced a pale man who seemed like the kind of person she could mop the floor with. He stepped towards her and taunted her, asking for the first blow. She took a swing at him...and missed terribly (natural 1). He mocks her. Her opponent suddenly revealed his true nature, bearing long fangs and chopping at her side. It hit, doing a meager amount of damage. Frustrated but not giving up, the cleric took another attack and pretty much hit the air next to the vampire (rolled 3+4 bonuses). He laughed at her and made a definite motion to hit her on the shoulder. SLAM Save? Failed, miserably. Despite the fact that most characters would continue on in the face of this danger (purely to win), the loss of one of her levels brought her to tears (my DM ruled that she felt like she had lost some great part of herself). After a knowledge: religion check gone right, she realized that she was fighting a creature that she could not harm with her hands alone. Frightened at the futility of the situation and shocked by her great loss, she burst into tears and surrendered, fleeing from the arena as soon as she was declared to be the loser. Even worse was that the monastery judge declared that the vampire had been using its natural talents and thus not cheating. The vampire laughed at her. Later that night (after the vampire lost the tournament and then attempted to make off with the prize), successful bless and prayer spells caused the cleric's party to kick the crap out of the vampire, who she then staked. With silver weapons, it was crushed easily.
Finarin Panjoro 04-19-07, 12:08 PM	This wasn't me, but I was the DM in this case. The party was fighting a homebrew demon and was in bad shape. The paladin had cast a spell called Heart of Glory (from Monte Cook's Book of Hallowed Might) which gave the demon a -1 penalty on attack rolls. The demon's turn arrived and he hit the paladin for enough damage to drop him into the negatives. I left the die face up on the table and we moved on. Suddenly the paladin's player asked me if I had accounted for the Heart of Glory spell. I looked at the die, did the math, and realized I had not included it and that the demon had in fact missed due to that -1. So the paladin was not dropped. It was now his turn. He charged the demon with a +2 greatsword which had bless weapon cast upon it. He smited evil (+9 damage) and power attacked for 4 points. In total 2d6+19 damage. He rolled a natural 20 and the critical was automatically confirmed due to bless weapon. He did 55 points of damage to the demon dropping it to -12 hit points. This was the last boss fight of that campaign (due to real world issues that game ended) and it was an awesome and glorious moment.
cpn_creepo 04-19-07, 01:03 PM	We were about level five when this happened, I guess, and we were traveling through a cavern with like 3 npcs, when we came across a beholder. What was supposed to happen was we surrender, or the beholder starts picking off npc's until we do, then get captured, but the foolhardy barbarian just charges in and tries to kill him. Well the DM decides to let the beholder focus it's attacks on the npcs, to give us time to perhaps take the barbarian and gtfo, but that never happens. We end up killing it, with one npc left alive, and got a crap-load of xp.
etraikov 04-19-07, 03:36 PM	At level 5, me and my party were in a tournament and for the qualifying round, we had to fight a series of increasingly difficult animals. The final animal was an elephant in full plate. His AC was 23 which was pretty high for most of us (I was a barbarian, so it wasnt too bad for me). Our paladin was knocked out in a previous round. Our bard gets trampled in the first round and then the elephant goes for our fighter. Me and the fighter (only 2 left) had both been wounded previously so we were both 1-shottable by the elephant. the Elephant attacks the fighter and misses. Fighter steps back and draws his bow, gets AOOed by the elephant which takes him down. The elephant had used his AoO for the round, so i charge him, and decide we are screwed so i full power attack. The die comes up a 20. I am really surprised so i roll to confirm. I roll a 17, which with my bonus from charging and the still active bard song adds up to 23 exactly. Since my character weilds a scythe, it was a x4 full power attack critical which added up to about 80 damage and killed the elephant. My entire party was shocked.
Squall255 04-19-07, 05:09 PM	I'm currently in a high powered campaign (14th level gestalt) and had a rather great last round. we are currently in army warfare, and I'm a scout/rogue type character (it's a rather intensive build so i won't go into specifics). I knew that ogres were setting up to scale the walls so myself and an NPC of similar build (scout rogue also) seet up to flank him. I readied an attack action after moving into position (setting up skirmish) and als ohad the first intiative count. The ogre had the last intitative. so events go like this: 1: Ogre clears battlements 2: I attack w/ sneak and skirmish for +9d6 to my damage, doing 50 something. 3: Ogre turn is up from climbing the wall 4: I spring attack moving 5ft. backwards, then 5ft. forwards. attack again for another 50+ damage, and drop the ogre. There were more ogres on the wall and it was now NPC's turn. He white raven tactics me (manuver that sets your initiative relative to the initiators) and attacks the next ogre for moderate damage. I now have ANOTHER FULLROUND IN WHICH TO ACT! I move in on the next ogre, and flank for yet another skirmish sneak and drop the ogre. Summary: 2 rounds 2 full round actions, and a readied standard action 3 skirmish sneak attacks 2 dead ogres. Note that these ogres probably had some gestalt levels and weren't your run of the mill MM ogres. (we were also facing squadrons of trolls)
Thane26425 04-19-07, 05:45 PM	A small group of characters were trapped in a fortified wilderness inn with some guest and an angry red Slaad. The characters were a fighter, mage, rogue, the cleric having been taken out by the Slaad earlier (the character was given an NPC guard to play). The Slaad was in an outbuilding (a smallish cabin sort of thing, roughly 20 by 20 feet) that was partially burned out already. The mage and NPC carefully moved along the defensive wall the building backed up to to reach the chimney. The mage threw a lit torch down the flu and the NPC dumped a large bucket of lamp oil hard after it. The oil burst and splattered out of the fireplace cause the Slaad to run for the only exit, the door. It burst through and right on to the fighter's set spear. To our amazement, the fighter rolled scored a critical hit doing major damage. The rogue jumped in from beside the door and sneak attacked the impaled Slaad, killing it. Not bad for a group of 2nd level characters.
Mindolin 04-19-07, 05:55 PM	I was playing in a solo campaign with a friend, and I was the character, a 4th level rogue. My DM decided to be nice, and gave me one magic item. I decided to be funny, and bought a Mirror of Mental Prowess, then sold it. I decided to, just for a laugh, got a scroll of Polymorph Other, in 3.0. The first fight was against Imix, from the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. I won initiative, and decided to try the scroll, knowing full well that I would die. I finished, and decided to try and turn him into a fish. The DM rolled for his save, and came up with a natural 1. I leveled up, and scared away those who had been watching the fight.
tyrecian 04-19-07, 05:55 PM	I was recently DM'ing and there was a moment of ownage i must convey. I like the high difficulty of large CRs so i generally let my players maximize thier characters with whatever they want, they have some splat, and sometimes the internet (no draconomicon, though). Generally they are pretty geared. So one player is not so savvy, his characters are always the same, fighter-- dwarf, with the same feats and always using a dwarven war axe. Because there are only 3 players, they have a large party at 2chars apeice (6) and the normal dwarf is enjoying a gnome warlock. So his fighter is pretty much his secondary char. anyways, they are being attacked by a BUNCH of giant bees (shout out to MVincent) and the bees are really taking a toll. Some bad rolls for saves and there is some con damage, one char has been dropped, and pretty much the warlock's fog cloud is the last bastion of hope (with miss chances, breath of the night, i think)... anyways the dwarven fighter gets surrounded, and is 4th level. he has not hit yet in the campaign. Not once. Rolled 4 3's in a row in one combat, never hit a creature in any of the combats... good tank, but terrible fighter so far. The dwarf had power attack, cleave, and GCleave so he power attacks 2 using the axe 2-handed, and with a buckler, so he netting only +1 + strength bonus lays into the first bee. Completely surrounded, 3 HPs, he kills every bee around him. Not just the 8, i was using the space above him, so that he was COMPLETELY surrounded (8 squares around him, plus 9 above him (with +1 higher ground... nasty), yeah i am a pretty harsh DM, but my players level fast. He kills every last one. Done and done. The other two players, who had been about to break and run, were like "hell yeah dwarf, do it again!" Next round (he had higher initiative, so he got swarmed again) does same thing. Not one miss in 17 rolls to take out the swarm of bees in two rounds. 34 bees in 2 rounds. Bees the size of a large dog, 34, 2 rounds. The player had a grin the size of the bowl he loaded for me post combat =) The dwarf came out that day.
tyrecian 04-19-07, 06:07 PM	I should also impart one of my favorite moments as a player. With my wizard. I got lucky and had to face off against a large group of reinforcement archer elves. There were several and they were bunched. The party was already embroiled in a melee, so the archers were taking a bead on me (the wizard, ack!) and that was pretty bad news, since i pretty much was going to have to deal with em. So i used Evard's Black tentacles, and ensnared the group of elves, hehe. They were not really that strong, really dextrous, but not that strong, so they were having trouble with Evard's. I then wrapped a wall of fire around them. Pretty nasty, there was a large group of screaming elves now, being slowly charred (my char was good, and my DM was giving me the evil eye)... So he charges me with this bat-crazy wall of steel warrior with a greatsword. Well, i got hit hard, and then i polymorphed into a rust monster. 2 rounds later, he is wearing rusting armor and has no sword. I had activated a spell Ball of Lightning, (spell compendium) with sudden maximize, before i became a rust monster, so i just ran around taking out weapons and armor and then using that spell (if you arent familiar with it, its an electricity upgrade to flaming sphere =). After combat i had created so much carnage that our DM was simply reduced to laughing. I was rewarded a giant bowl for my several rounds of glory, and we went on our way. poor elves. poor warriors. good wizard =)
phoen777 04-20-07, 04:45 PM	This happened to me quite a while ago. All our guys were about level 5 or 6, and we had been hired by the mayor of a tiny village in the frozen mountains to kill a remorhaz that had been terrorizing the area. After a little asking around we learned there was also a white dragon in the area, and we decided that, instead of risking our lives against a big, nasty monster, we might convince the dragon to do it for us. After locating the dragon's lair, and after a lot of sweet-talking and reverse psychology, we managed to convince this creature to A) not kill us, and B) fight the foul beast that was invading his territory. So that was how the two of us (our third member having been called away mid-adventure by other commitments) came to be standing in a cold, rocky clearing, watching a remorhaz and a white dragon fight to the death. At the time, I was playing an elven sorceror. Now, my friend was easily the most brilliant tactical mind I have ever encountered, as well as an amazing character builder. He was playing a Druid/Warshaper with a combination of feats and abilities that allowed him to do things I could never have thought of in a million years. The fight in front of us was coming to a close, with the dragon on top, when he turned to me and said, "Hey...let's kill the dragon." I was skeptical, but I agreed and listened to his plan. And so, while the victorious white dragon was roaring over his kill, he was unpleasantly surprised to find that the scrawny little elf had just pelted a Fireball at him. The dragon charged, and I, having failed my save against Frightful Presence, stood there all alone, shaking in my Boots of the Winterlands... The dragon never knew what hit him. The druid, wildshaped into a polar bear, had used Meld into Stone to hide in the ground between me and the dragon. He un-melded just as the dragon was running over him and attacked. Two big ol' bear-claw crits later, the gutted dragon skidded to a stop at my feet. We recieved huge XP for our victory, harvested all the useful pieces from the dragon, and then looted his ice cave. Unfortunately that gaming group fell apart before we ever had to decide whether to share our swag with the absent player, but I'll always have the memories. :)
Peregrine_Wolf 04-20-07, 04:58 PM	:smirk: I was playing a campaign with a few friends, and they were both half-drags. One was a sorc and one was a druid. I was an elven rogue. We were goin through this small hallway and got attacked from behind by a choker. They were in the back and I was at teh front and the choker had the druid in a hold. I decided to jump over these 7 foot guys and hit the choker-thing. I rolled nat 20 on jump and 2 nat 20's and my attack rolls with both of rapiers. Both crits were confirmed for nearly max damage. My friend fear my awesome critting abilities now...so we fight undead and constructs.....
MattBlacke 04-20-07, 07:31 PM	One's from one of my companions in our current campaign, the other's from me: My companion plays a monk who was heading toward Drunken Master. It was my first game, and I was some of the people they were coming to rescue. We escape, but we've got two wargs coming for us acorss this field. The entire party sets up for shooting the things, excpet the monk, who has no ranged eapons, and has spent the entire escape carrying a keg of wine he found in the baddie's lair. He carefully sets down the wine, then charges one of the wargs. He rolls his tuble check, makes it and rolls and confirms a crit for max damage: DM: "The monk deftly avoids the snapping jaws of the warg, and just as he passes, grabs the beast by the neck and twists. You hear a snap and the warg falls dead." Later on, we're competing in a tournament for prizes and honor. An NPC paladin friend did a race, our ranger did archery, the monk did a wrestling match, our warlock engaged in a maze run with a rod of wonder to defend himself, our bard was doing color commentary, and little old me, playing a cleric with a 12 STR, decided to enter the fighting portion. It's a tiered elimination setup, no buffs and weapons provided. My first foe was a monk, who I managed to beat fairly easily, surprisingly. My next opponent was a Shield Dwarf with a bastard sword. What followed was a test of endurance and a LOT of critical fumbles and weapon drops on both sides. I'd gotten a couple hits in, but with two shots by the Dwarf, I was down from 20 HP to 3 HP. I managed to get one last blow in, and to everyone's amazement, I dropped him. Turns out, I shocked the DM, too because the Dwarf was a fighter, and he had double my HP. Impressed the hell out of the party, too, and it was even sweeter when I defeated the champ and won the fighting portion, putting us over the top for winning the whole tourny. And all by a scholarly little cleric. Got some nice loot for it. :D
Grelin69 04-21-07, 01:46 AM	While delving through some ruins our party was ambushed by an elder earth elemental. Our party paladin takes up the challange and goes toe to toe with the beast while my lvl 15 bard with his proud 86 hps attempts to move past the beast so more can move in to attack. well....things dont always go as planned. the hall was only 20 foot wide and my halfling legs couldn't quite carry me outta reach, the other party members decided to use ranged attacks and the paladin decided to back into the hall to get a heal from the cleric. SO...much to my suprise :eek: when the elementals init came up i was the only one staring it eye to toe (this was 3.0 at the time btw). The elemental winds up with his lewie ville slugger mites and procedes to hit me with a 20, 19, 19, 20. That didn't seem to bad until the GM noticed it had imp crit with slam :weep: . needless to say all 4 attacks confirmed and my UBER bard took somewhere around 120+ dmg :help: . The party just kinda looked stunned for all of 0.2 seconds before the laughing at the stain on the floor began.....elder elemental 1, bard 0. not the ownage i was hoping for.
tkotitan 04-21-07, 01:54 AM	One game I was DMing the fighter in the party entered the main guard room of the dungeon with oh, 30 or so orcs in it. He specialized in the halberd and combat reflexes, and when a bunch of the orcs charged him (without reach weapons) he dropped all six of them in one round. After that the orcs agreed to surrender and 4 party memebers had to figure out how to manage twenty-odd hostage orcs.
Raumz 04-21-07, 02:35 AM	Well I DMed a group in a 1-session-adventure. I had around 5 minutes to make up an adventure idea and whatever else I needed. So I had the game start out with them being captured by a group of slave traders. They are taken to a wooden shack and shackled and such. Now there were 4 of them, a half-elf rogue, a human fighter, a half-orc fighter and a....gnome monk...Well the fighters broke out of their bonds and the monk escaped them. The rogue was working on his when the head of the camp walked in. The fighters and monk returned to their position quickly to make it look like they were still bound. The man walked over and was about to take the rogue when he jump backward, his hands being bound and linked to the ceiling he was a ffree weight and I treated it like a bull rush. So he was bull rush about 10 feet back, when the human fighter bull rushed him back slamming him into a wall, then he stepepd aside. Then the half-orc bull rushed him and got a natural 20 while the man got a natural 1. I ruled that the impact was so great it smashed him through the wooden wall of the shed that they were in. Then the monk came running out of the shed and did a 35 foot jump and preformed a flying kick and killed the slave trader dude. It seemed like a scene out of an action movie at the time...It was awesome.
Sephiroth Do'Urden 04-22-07, 09:57 AM	It seemed like a scene out of an action movie at the time...It was awesome. And that is exactly the kind of ownage I had in mind when I created the thread. Great going so far!
steakandeggs 04-22-07, 02:17 PM	I only started playing D&D about a month ago but I have already had many ownage moments, heh heh. The best one was... My party and I were on a fishing boat that allowed us to come aboard and work for them. When we got out into the vast open sea we proceeded to kill all eleven crew members and the captain, chopped up their bodies, and tossed em' overboard. So we now had a free fishing boat. We brought it ashore near a small poor village (population of about 80) and told the villagers that we had free fish in the lower hold of our large ship. Every single villager, all of which were quite famish, ran into the ship and went into the dark underbelly. Crammed very tightly in the ship, they were greeted by my buddy Mike and his bloodthirsty pet gorilla Coco. We used the heavy crates in the bottom of the ship to slowly corner everyone so the villagers who tried to escape would run straight into our greataxes and Coco's jaws. All died in a gory bloodfest that gave each member of my party nearly 15,000 XP along with a "genocide bonus". Also, our bard friend, Jimmy, was singing on the deck above while holding the door shut so the villagers died in style and song! We disposed of the bodies in the middle of the sea after burning the village to the ground. Good times... :cool:
Raumz 04-22-07, 02:20 PM	...Thats is just very very disturbing....I am sorry but I think that is beyond chaotic evil and to 'psychopathic'....
Brandavis_Arkanon 04-22-07, 05:35 PM	Villanous campaigns are a good way of getting ideas for npc villans :D Ownage moment one: Preface: The character I had played was a form of gestalt, primary cleric and half his levels a 'Master Samurai' from back in the day. So an 18th level cleric with 9 levels of master samurai etc.. The focus for the fusion was an amulet with possessive properties, but thats another story. DM: The stone door opens. Its pitch black but for what little illumination is given by your torch lights. Within you see the outline of a many headed serpent. *DM shows grid diagram of the room and enemy location* Battle begins, I end up first on initiative Me: I charge the serpent. I attack, umm, the middle head, sure..that works The DM began to count squares, flipping pages through the monster manual. DM: Oh, sorry. Seems I misjudged the size of the creature. One moment. DM doubles the size of the room and the monster's surface area. Me: :eek: !!! I so did not charge that! DM: Oh yes you did. I roll, perform some flavor of power attack, I'm uncertain of the specifics - it was a while ago - but I do remember scoring a critical hit in my attack. The DM decides to give me a break and says, "Well, you decapitated one of the serpents heads at the base" I imagine he did this so I wouldn't be mauled quite as horribly by the remainder, however, I then said, "At the base? I cleave" DM: "What?" Me: "Well, c'mon. When one enemy falls and all that. I 'decapitated' it right? Thats as good a premise for cleave as any" DM: "Sure, why not." Long story short, I had managed to turn a multi-headed serpent into a bloody stump. The DM seemed rather annoyed, and just as the group was celebrating victory the DM pulled out a source book and began flipping through it. One of my group members asked what he was looking for. The DM replied, "I swore I saw a hydra template in here somewhere." Us: :weep:
Sephiroth Do'Urden 04-22-07, 07:58 PM	:D HAHA!! A double pwn!!!:D
Sephiroth Do'Urden 04-28-07, 08:25 AM	My friend has a special kind of an ownage moment he wanted to share: "Our group were about to start a new campain with 5 level 10 characters (Bard, Warblade, Sorcerer, Cleric and Factoum) and because of some lucky rolls, everyone had the luxuary of having above average inteligence. So we discussed what we should put the extra skill points into. So we all put them into Prefoem (singing). Everytime the party won a fight, visited a bar or anytime else they went into a choir frenzy, much to the dismay of the DM. Not really ownage but really funny!"
WHW4 04-28-07, 11:17 AM	The group had agreed to aid Uno (my Goliath barbarian) in freeing the last remaining Goliath tribe in the mountain chain from under the heel of their giant oppressors. We had just obliterated several groups of assorted giants (war trolls, eldritch giants, classed ogres) that were camped on three sides of the remnants of the Goliath tribe. They had their backs up against a mountain side, with no way to retreat safely. We were busy congratulating ourselves, when out of a nearby stand of trees steps an eldritch giant with some major cleric levels (see: the leader). I can't remember exactly what his CR was, but the group was an average of 16th/17th (I think, it's been a while), and our DM loves to throw big stuff at us. He's good at it too. Anywho, the battle starts with our caster throwing up a wall of fire to give us a moment to prepare. Our druid summons a couple earth elementals, and the fighters just flex their muscles. The giant and his lieutenant burst through the wall of fire, and proceed to get tied up with the whole group, aside from Uno, who happened to have a buttload of people blocking his charge. Not liking this, Uno decided to run all the way around everyone and come at this eldritch giant from behind. At this point, the thing hadn't even been touched. One Shock Troopering/ Leap Attacking/ Full Power Attacking Crit with a Goliath Greathammer later.... the giant was felled. The entirety of the surviving Goliaths saw and (according to the DM), heard the blow. Needless to say, that coupled with the fact that I had used the greathammer of the long-dead, most beloved, and greatest Goliath King to do the deed, led to Uno becoming king himself, and being seen as Torval (said ancient Goliath king) reborn. That was one of the greatest feelings I've ever had in a campaign.
Kamin_Majere 04-28-07, 01:10 PM	Years ago when 3.0 first came out i was playing a Wizard in a game. We had started at level 1 and were (at the time this happened) about level 14. Up till this point i was a blessed character. I was slowly taking over the area with various guilds and business deals and i was working my self up to have an over throw of the established government. None of my spells had ever failed and i had maybe been hit a dozen times through out ALL the combats we had ever been in... i was indeed a blessed character. Then one day as an extension of the campaign the DM used a pregenerated module because it fit so well into the story line. Well having walked through this adventure with ease our party came across an intresting looking relic in the middle of a small pool of dark liquid. I demag'ed the area and say necromacy covering the pool and the item... well needless to say i wanted the item alot now. So after testing the depth of the pool (only 5 or 6 inches) i step in to get the item... and drown. The pool had a fort save or drained 2d6 strength. Having 11 strength and the DM rolling a 12 i collapse and drown in 5 inches of "evil water" It was a horrible way to die for a character that had spend SO long ploting and scheming. But we all got a great laugh out of it. Luckily i had the partys wealth (i was the "group accountant") so they had to res my character. I ended up burning that place to the ground...stupid evil water
calprinicus 04-28-07, 01:36 PM	this was on an Orc Camp Ground. In the frostfell campaign setting. barbarian 6 / frostrager 5. - me wizard 5 / frostmage 6 forget what the rogue was exactly but he was a shadowdancer. so he sneaked into a camp that was full of ogres. I mean packed. we had to sneak in and kill the leader adn grab the plans for the upcomming seige they where planning. but what happened was the rogue failed a check to pickpocket for a little extra gold and was spoted and the alarms where sounded. well we though were just about to reroll characters, So we deside to go in glory and fight them off. I go into my rage and start mauling whatever was close and cleaving. well The mage uses AOE cold spells (This Heals me since a frostrager absorbs cold, and hurts my surroundings.) and the rogue "pops" whatever it could, weakening before coming to the AOE area. With in the 11 turns of my rage EVERY LAST OGRE FOOTMEN WAS DEAD. at final count it was 35 ogre (CR 3). the only thing that was left was the leader and a few guardsmen that have started to flee. to say the least it was rather easy after the last fight.
Izzak 04-28-07, 04:45 PM	I have a good one. i was playing a dwarf fighter and my freinds were playing a rogue and a ranger and i think a barbarian i believe we were about lvl 5 at this time. Well we were running away from what we thought were giants, and we end up in a town. The rogue thought he said watch my back. He then procedes to try to rob a bum of his sp. The bum gets up after noticing his stuff is gone. The rogue fails miserably at his bluff check and the bum decks him good crit, confirm, another just for a check. Down he goes. We thought he was knocked out, but no he was dead. Our DM goes with a rule that 3x nat 20s= Insta kill. One of a few funny moments. even funnier when a kobold does it though.
hecknoshow 05-15-07, 11:54 AM	This was acheived because of a house rule. The rule was if you crited on a 20 and then confirmed on a 20 it was an instant kill. As party of 4 lvl 1 adventurers we are attacked by 2 minotaures that manage to comletly subdue all but the fighter. fighter rolls a 20 confirms on a 20 cleave fighter rolls another 20 confirms on a ....20 Our GM was spechless. The character became known as Koga the mighty and was consistently rolled well for the rest of the campighn.