Once had a wizard during a curse of Strahd campaign. Our party had just finished a battle against some plant creatures, with our wizard on the roof casting spells from relative safety into the street. Strahd shows up after the battle, to scare our characters, and decides to put on a show of force. He appeared behind our wizard, and crit hit with a slap. Our wizard was literally bitch slapped so hard, he died on the spot, falling to the ground below with a broken neck.
**My character (a lvl 5 archer) is granted a wish after defeating a boss** MC: I want to be max level right now. Dm: No. MC: Ok, ok, then I want a special power. Dm: Ok, what kind of power? MC: I want a scroll that kills people with orgasms. Dm: **Laughing** o-ok... But only if you get 2 d20 in a row. Guess who killed the BBEG...
@@lackingcreativevalue I've been getting 15 at best in that game, so getting a double d20 was like winning the lottery, twice. The dm didn't even thought I could get the scroll and was just going to say my wish got wasted. Also the scroll only caused a lot of damage but wouldn't be able to one hit ko the boss in normal conditions. I got extremely lucky that time and got crit double damage. I swear that was the luckiest game I've ever had and I kinda miss not dying before lvl 14.
Confronted a wizard in his lair. One door leading to the room he was in, upon entering the door the party was shot at with a fireball. We all lunged for cover and the Wizard used that as a chance to sprint out through the door... and into a wall, knocking himself out cold. Good work, team!
We were building our character backstories as children. I was out camping and a dif kid stole my food. In response I took a quarter staff I had to help carry water... nat20 to hit, rolled 8 on a d8.... doubled to 16..... the 8yr old kid only had 6max hp.... well now I have a traumatic backstory of when I killed a kid as a child
Aye, first on my own am I? If you have any questions ladies and gentlemen about voice acting or anything, plop that puppy here under my comment! Otherwise, enjoy the video and I hope you had or have a good day!
@@haloboy20102010gaming Hello panda! Always happy to narrate and voice act as much as I can for the entertainment of others haha. It's darn nice feeling to be able to make people smile especially nowadays you know?
@@amon9556 My uncle did when I was around five or so. He got me into games like Zelda on the NES, same with Mario, Duck Hunt, etc. When he told me he used to carve his own D&D figurines from wood (D&D 1st edition etc) I was all excited to try that one day.
We were a level 1 party with 3 members. We entered a dungeon where we were hoping on rescuing a previous adventuring party that didnt make it back. we found a room where necromancers were animating a minataour skeleton and they finished just as we barged in. The dm tried to tell us how dangerous this encounter would be, as the recently resurrected giant skeleton was killing the necromancers that brought it to life. We rolled initiative and the cleric went first, he casted Guiding bolt and roll a Nat 20. Since the dm is using a crit table for every Nat 1 and Nat 20 rolled in the game the cleric's player had to roll a percentile dice. The roll she got on the crit table the dm made resulted in quadruple damage, the guiding bolt in its own is 15 radiant damage. But quadrupled by the crit table and doubled by the vulnerabilty to radiant damage the total damage done was 120. The skeleton had 67 hp. And thats how the boss battle the dm has been hyping us for ended in the first turn of combat.
I have just introduced my Wife & eldest Daughter to HeroQuest with the recent Hasbro/Avalon Hill release. I was, and still am, über-excited that I get to share this with my family as my Dad & I played it back in the 1990s. The three heros in the 1st Quest were my Wife's Barbarian, my Daughter's Warlock, & my Elf. We had finished defeating all of the other creatures in this final room of the dungeon. Verag the foul & final Gargoyle was the last enemy to vanquish. My Wife's Barbarian moved to the adjacent tile to strike with her mighty Broadsword. She swings the blade (in game: my Wife rolled all of her Attack Dice, and I rolled for the Gargoyle's Defense Dice. She got all Hits, and I got 0 Shields to defend with), and cleaves Verag's hideous cranium in twain! It was both wonderful and disappointing, as my Wife was expecting a real challenge. I had my fun explaining that Sometimes the Dice roll in Your Favor like that. My Daughter was just as pleased and as proud as can be to just be in the room with such a skilled and valiant Crusader against Zargon! It was a great night, and the first of many...
My story is that me and the rest of my party figured out that if you mix a cup of remembrance and bag of holding, you can make a tsunami of whatever you choose
My only “one hit kill”... It was during a AD&D game, and I was playing a min-maxed Minotaur fighter. 20 Str and Con and three weapon proficiency slots in Great Axe (the other was in longbow, because I _always_ have a ranged option). I was able to max out my Strength and Constitution by using the two-for-one stat swap... and (as I’m sure y’all have guessed) I lowered both his Intelligence and Wisdom, making him pretty stupid. His backstory was that his tribe was regularly attacked by “metal men”. He was on a quest to find these metal men, and hopefully acquire some to defend his people. So when he comes over a hill and sees a “metal man” (the party’s Paladin in chain mail) being attacked by bandits, he just *had* to help. He cuts through the woods to flank them, and comes up on two bandits. Given that specializing in a weapon gave him 3 attacks every 2 rounds, I went ahead and burned my two attacks on these guys. I figured, given my ridiculous bonuses, that I’d butcher them move on... And the first one worked out that way. Passable attack roll, decent damage (not surprising surprising with a +6 to hit and a +12 to damage. Yay min/maxing!). The second bandit, on the other hand... Crit *Fail*. DM rolled on the fail table, lost weapon. He then had me roll a d8 to determine the direction... 1. Straight ahead. Right where the party’s Gnome rogue was trying to climb a tree “to get a better vantage point”. Rather than just hitting the rogue, he has me roll another attack roll. No, not a crit, but still plenty high enough to pin the Gnome to the tree, even with penalties for attacking a small creature at range with a melee weapon. Remember that damage bonus? That alone was double his hit points. So I insta-killed the party’s rogue before I even met the party. Pinned the poor fella to a tree with my great axe...
In one campaign of AD&D, we had a party that had a paladin in it. This particular paladin was completely devoted to the king of the country we were in. The king was also a paladin of the same god. We came across a battle field where a large number of orcs, goblins and humans were all killed. While investigating what happened here, a wizard revealed himself, played by a new guy at the table. This wizard was supposed to join the party but during the introduction of characters, the paladin stated that he served the kind. The wizard, being neutral evil piped off with, "To hell with the king!" That pissed off the paladin and he drew his sword and attacked. Nat 20. Did about 25 damage total, and the wizard only had about 12 HP. The DM described it well. "The paladin's sword arcs from shoulder to hip easiy, cutting the annoying man in a dress (what we called robes for fun) clean in half, falling in two different directions." We had to carry the body back to town to resurrect him, but it was hilarious. That player death happened less than five minutes after the character was introduced. We still make fun of the Man in the Dress to this day.
We were playing the death house, and we'd awakened the shambling mound in the basement. We knew we couldn't take it, so we ran away and peppered it with attacks from range. My druid was out of magic, so I decided to hurl some darts at it. I threw my second dart of the combat, critical hit. My dm has an app called Natural 20 with various critical effects. This one was Headshot, and killed the shambling mound instantly.
As a level 1 cleric, I broke a goblins neck in one hit with my mace. He didn't actually die and we ended up keeping him hostage, healing him, getting information out of him, then recruiting him as a fellow member of our group. This was also in our first session.
I play a circle of stars druid and we were going through a city overrun with undead. We get to the final boss battle of the arc: an underground tomb that has basically been turned into a factory that was mass-producing zombies, skeletons, flesh monsters, etc. (We were level 3-4 at this time btw) The entire place was ran by a powerful skeleton mage under a protective magical dome that was being held up by 4 lower level skeleton mages, all taking the dodge action. Me being the main radiant damage dealer (we have no cleric), I focused my divine energy at the lower level mages to let my party unleash on the BBEG once the dome was down. I hit one with a guiding bolt to negate the disadvantage for another party member, but I rolled a nat20, and rolled almost max damage, so my attempt to help the party ended up vaporizing the undead mage with magical starlight. It’s now a running joke that my druids guiding bolt is a holy cannon because when they hit, it’s almost always a crit and I’ve since downed a few more foes in this way
I'll have to post the entire story later (see you guys on the reddit with a huge post), but the short version is D&D 5e; The party goes to a starving town, food won't grow even magically so we learn that the curse is coming from the mines. We go deep into the mountain and it turns out the mountain is alive, aggressive, and trying to eat everything. I (a nature cleric) cast firestorm (7d10, half as much on a save), and set it in the ceiling which is also the creature. In total it was about 455 damage and one shot an entire mountain. We had some buffing going on, it failed the save, and if I remember correctly the mountain was weak to fire. wonderful campaign, I'm not allowed to play a cleric with that DM. (I got lucky and ended up strong, but not as strong as the barbarian who almost only rolled nat 20s)
(also my best 'immediate ending an encounter' story) dnd 3.5 half celestial fighter/cleric... he was flying about, and saw an evil cleric proselytizing in front of his patron's temple... loudly, and threatening a child as he was doing so to force her parents to swear to convert. 'hm. this will not stand.' so he draws his longsword, flares his 'light' ability and enters a dive/charge attack on the evil cleric.. from 200' up. it was midday, so the sun was straight overhead... no one could see him against it - The cleric was screaming about how the good gods were powerless and the timing was just too perfect, as he said 'AND IF THEY DENY IT I DARE THEM TO STRIKE ME DO.... ' as 190 pounds of mail clad armored fury, winged and glowing with pearlescent light basically ruptured THROUGH his chest, sweeping the child aside. The evil cleric's holy symbol pierced through on the tip of the sword and nailed to the ground, as my character calmly whispered an orison in the aftermath to clean the blood from himself and said simply 'The Gods of light are not to be trifled with. I'll not hold your children hostage to tell you to convert. I simply ask that you do the best for yourselves and your families. Be kind and do well.' He then placed his hand on the child, expending a cure light wounds to heal her of her bumps and bruises, before ushering her back to her parents. there were more than a dozen conversions on that day, and nearly a hundred in the following week.
Not me, but my party's cleric in a Dark Heresy game. DH runs on a percentile system with the lower number winning. Setup was fairly confusing but for simplicity, I'll just break it down to 'our friend got possessed and summoned a demon in a church.' The entire party was basically downed within a single turn (not the DM being a jerk, rolls were open and he was just rolling like we were playing for cash) and the cleric was essentially in a duel with a demon several levels higher than him...then he called a strike to the eyes with his broadsword. Rolled a 1 and basically just took both in a single blow. This demon happened to be very centered around eyes and the GM ruled that that one strike was basically an instakill seeing as he effectively destroyed the thing's ability to channel magic.
Our party came across a duergar mind master and two duergar hammerers. The bard lured the hammerers away and I, as the barbarian raged. Unfortunately the mind master was too far away to get within melee distance in one turn (50 feet). I asked if there were any 60 foot trees nearby. He said yes. So I chopped the tree down in one swing and pushed it over onto the mind master.
Playing Warhammer 40k Dark Heresy 2E, We get into a fight with the BBEG of the arc after I do some good RP and get us past all the hostiles that we would have fought. He fires a shot with an overcharged plasma pistol at our big dumb character (BD) that we thought it instantly killed him. We only realized that he could have dodged half a turn later (GM forgot as well) so he was allowed to roll it, and succeeded. After we kill him, his body bursts into a daemon form (fleshy tentacle blob), two of us have no issues with the fear test, BD has a -10 on all rolls from now on, and our 4th is stuck puking on the floor for two rounds. The daemon attempts to hit BD and BD parries the attack, then launches his own attack back, dealing so much damage in one hit that it was killed instantly. The GM loved it so much he was granted a free talent for it.
I spent almost all of last year fighting rectal cancer. My treatment is "complete". Thank you for the well wishes. I wish for health and safety for you and yours also.
In a Cyberpunk/ Shadowrun cross game I have a character named Bass Drop. She has augmented limbs, speed enhancers, vibroswords that have also been magically enhanced to make them even deadlier, add to that her dermal plating, the ability to move at speeds that the human eye perceive as a blur, and the ability to track any target up to 250 meters and you have a fun issue with authority issues. The group ran into an old villain she sliced and diced, now heavily augmented, replacing every thing she cheerfully removed from him, (like a kitten playing with a ball of yarn ^^), with heavy cyberware. During his big monolog about how he'd turned his weaknesses into strengths, how he intended to rip her limbs off and sell her as a sex toy to the lowest bidder, and how evil never truly dies, she opted to attack. (The scariest thing this woman will ever say is "I'm bored," lol) With one lightning fast pass she decapitated him, took his arms off and kicked his legs out from under him, catching his head in one hand before whispering sweetly in his ear "You did all this for me hmmm? So, you turned all your weaknesses into strengths huh?" She then slammed his head into the ground with enough force to flatten it before adding. "Might want to check your brain next time," The gm and group giggle farted as they all considered the hyper death ferrit they'd come to love. 😆
this is not mine, i read it in a different video: a player got a home-brewed magical weapon called "Thunk", which would if the player said it's name, get a guaranteed crit one the next shot, but ALSO make him lost one point of Constitution, PERMANENTLY. -note that this DM was a nasty type who would count it if the player said "thunk" OUT OF CHARACTER. later the player found another unique item, a magical arrow that would turn an enemy into a gold statue, IF IT CRIT... yes, he used both at once to one-shot the BBEG!
Not my story but my brother's. I was the DM though. It was in D&D 3.5 and the party was in epic levels (24 at the time I believe). My brother has a horrible character build. He was playing a fighter/rogue/sorcerer with 2 prestige classes. I forget what the second one was but the first prestige class was the "legendary leader" class. Needless to say his character was built to be the face not the combat monster of the party. As the leader the did have an artifact that had the Dread Undead epic enchantment on it. It was an epic campaign featuring an undead overlord and his character trying to reclaim his kingdom. The party was facing one of the overlord's most powerful allies, the "original" dracolich. This thing was build to be a tough battle and I was happy to finally get to use the Christmas gift from my group the Colossal Red dragon miniature. I had tactics worked out in my mind. This was an epic-ly planned fight, the dracolich had loads of hp. This was probably going to be 2 sessions... and as we know what this video is about I never got to use any of it. They had entered the dracolich's lair the week before at the end of the session so the entire session was dedicated to facing the BBEG of this section of the adventure. With the "box text" and talking done the previous week this session started with Initiative. My brother's character rolled a 19 for his initiative, then he ran up to the dracolich and hit it with his Dread Undead Quarterstaff and rolled a nat 20. Now the Dread enchantment is a more powerful version of Bane. Increased damage against the creature type, and on a crit they have to make a fortitude save or die (DC30 or something like that) so I ask my brother to confirm his crit and he rolls a 19. I say, "Okay." I stand up pick up my die from behind the screen and say "This being a dragon, an undead dragon, but formerly a colossal red dragon I need to roll a nat 1 to fail so start rolling damage." I then roll a nat 1. "Well....okay there's that...Well here's the loot list. I hadn't prepared for anything else today." That's how my brother ended a session 15 minutes after it started.
The only 1 hit KO I've scored (so far) was against an arc boss. The DM had an abandoned underwater sea elf city that contained a powerful trident artifact powering the main world event. The details a not super relevant, but the BBEG had placed a sub beholder there as a guardian, with two other large sea creature underlings. At this point, it's important to mention my character. Augustine was a lawful evil blood magician rogue. (A custom subclass that uses blood sacrifices to make blade oils and cast spells, somewhat similar to arcane trickster) I created the subclass after I had made the character to give gameplay reasons to do what Augustine loved most, which was to draw blood from people as a sacrifice to his god. Suffice to say he relished killing, but I put my second highest ability score (16) into intelligence to be smart enough in-game to avoid murder hoboing. Augustine's high intelligence enabled me to do other fun and interesting things though too. I had heard a story on one of rippers videos involving a physics exploit with the spell wall of force and a bead of dust of dryness. After doing the math on the compression of water, and realizing no living organism could ever survive it, I set to work gathering what I would need. With a little misdirection and low balling the price, I was able to procure 60 doses of dust of dryness, and a spell scroll for "forceful wall" a spell identical to wall of force, but it curses at you in a Brooklyn accent. Knowing the difficulty of triggering this attack (breaking the water bead while inside an impenetrable barrier without suicide bombing myself) I had an activation device made with copper pieces and scraps of steel, basically creating an impact water grenade. Now to the fight. We entered the boss room of the underwater city to see what we thought was a beholder. (I think it was actually an eye of the deep or something like that, but we were only level 6 so still a big threat) He started doing the villain speech about how he would protect the artifact for his master and what not. The paladin and wizard tried to bullshit him with the old "orders from your boss" routine. Augustine saw the writing on the wall, handed the scroll of forceful wall to the bard, and said "cast this on him as a sphere with a radius of 4 feet on my mark" While the boss was busy checking the fake papers, I threw the water grenade at him and yelled to cast the wall. The boss had about a second to react, but nat1ed his dex saved. What followed was a beautiful display of why spells should always have an upper limit. For that unaware, wall of force says that NOTHING can physically pass through it. It can be cast as a sphere with a radius of up to 10 feet but can be smaller. This means nothing inside, regardless of pressure, can escape. Normal this isn't an issue, as you can't put any more material into the sphere to pressurize it. Enter dust of dryness. It captures a 15-foot cube of water and compresses it into the size of a marble, and upon breaking, releases all that water. More water is released than can fit in the wall of force, but because it cannot escape, it is forced to pressurize. Water is notorious for being difficult to compress, and with a sphere 4 feet in radius, it is forced to compress to less than 1/6 of its original volume. International pressure is comparable to the maximum power of a hydraulic press x1000 and heats up to roughly the temperature of the surface of Venus. Because the melting point increases with pressure, the monster was suddenly frozen in place inside crushing red hot ice. The DM and I didn't bother calculating that level of damage. I was told to role a d1000 (probably to see how many times over it died) while the sentient spell was screaming in agony. The party had the good sense to take cover as the spell ended, at once releasing all the internal pressure in an explosion of blood and tissue infused searing hot sublimating ice. The two other enemies were eviscerated in the explosion, and the entire room was covered in a steaming red paste. There is now a homebrew limit on how much force wall of force can contain. TL;DR- I used a physics exploit to 1 shot a boss room into oblivion because wall of force is written poorly. [Side note: the person who figured this exploit out before me thought this would cause nuclear fusion. I couldn't verify this, as the 27.5 gigapascals I achieved is not really close to the maximum pressure ice has reached. Feel free to do your own math and research on this, but if you try it at home be content with classical physics. This ball of DM tears is strong enough as is, it doesn't need to be a nuclear reactor too.]
As much as I love these stories, I have to say that the “long spear” tale does not belong here. It belongs in either rpghorror or worst DMs. No campaign should EVER become a one shot. Even a halfway decent DM would have continued the original low level adventures, and crafted a new BBEG to fit the rest of the campaign. This OP robbed his players and himself of the chance to build a truly epic story.
(i might've told this one before i dont know) i was a level 7 hexblade and due to some interesting homebrew items and haste i did a lot of damage so me and a friend (a halfling wizard) were in the the last room of a dungeon. after just killing the boss and getting loot we where told by the god who made the dungeon we could do a double or nothing fight. naturally we accepted and a enraged beholder spawned, my friend goes first, tosses me his amulet and casting haste, the beholder goes and does a hefty chunk of damage to me, i use my friends amulet to give me its stored spell slots, and cast my three buffing smites (dm ruled smites could stack) and make a double attack with my greatsword 1 hit 1 miss, i then use my necklace witch lets me make another attack if i hit a attack, it hits, then i haste to take another double attack and necklace attack, all hitting, and i eldritch smited on all five hits. total damage 258.i completely obliterated the beholder and the wall behind it. that's the story of how i got kicked out of a dungeon.
We had a big pvp battle in a small campaign where I was getting hit a lot after I halved the health of their Barbarian. I went from 98 to 67 but luckily had like 25 health potions. So I chugged down 4 and took a called shot to the head of their Goliath. Rolled, and got a 20. Double damage on the head with a sniper rifle does surprisingly good damage. I took a second shot with my shotgun and rolled really high. I did around 54 damage to him which dropped him immediately. After that it was a cake walk to take out the others. The PCs we were fighting got pissed off.
Back in Exalted 2E, I rolled up a Lunar who was a grappling expert. She was also a half ass pacifist, so she took a Charm that lets her double damage, at the 'expense' that it can never become Lethal damage. The first time she used it, she utterly crushed a boss as simply as grabbing him, and slamming his face into her knee.
So, one of my players is a Rouge Gnome, Zak Dyet, and another is a Half-Elf Pact of the Archfey Warlock, Arlan. Arlan is mostly support and tries to Charm and Frighten most enemies. One time he used a certain feature from his subclass to try and Charm a few Goblins and one of them rolled a Nat 1 and so I told him that Goblin is now CONVINCED Arlan was his long lost best friend and is about to become the parties pet. Cue the end of combat where Zak Dyer wakes up and due to having been downed the first turn of combat with these Goblins and some backstory stuff also with Goblins nearly killing him, I have him roll Sanity when he sees Arlans new Goblin pet still alive and he gets a Nat 1. I explain that he is now rushing the Goblin in an attempt to kill it and tell him to roll to hit. He gets a Nat 20 and since Arlan is within 5 feet of the Goblin, he gets Sneak Attack damage and instantly decapitates the Goblin. A few sessions later we hit level 3 and Arlan takes Pact of the Chain and summons a Pseudodragon as his familiar with it. Cue our latest session where the group is fighting some Undead and Zak Dyer sneaks at the start of combat and goes to throw a dagger at a nearby Zombie. He has advantage so there's no way he'll miss- Double Nat 1s. I tell him he loses his balance and ends up throwing his dagger into the party and I roll a D6 to see who he hits and I roll a 4... Which is Arlans Pseudodragon. I tell him to roll damage and he gets 11 total, which is the Pseudodragons exact HP and kills it. Arlans player then made a meme about Zak Dyer killing Arlans pets instead of the enemies. The fact that he keeps one shotting them is all the funnier. I feel a trope coming on XD
Paladin got a nat 20 on a great sword+poison+thunderous smite attack and rolled near max damage against a enemy pyromancer who had only taken 4 damage. That character was supposed to be a later game mini-boss. Now they are 2 halves of a Teifling rolling through the street. It was fitting considering her boss just crippled (possibly killed to the paladins knowledge) and she was the only one with in goreing range. Like 64 damage against a wizard. Also the time my players burnt an oil coated medussa alive.
We played a lvl10 oneshott on DnD 3.5. I went for a warforged monk with some nice feats and a roleplaychoice where my flurry of blows was a single blow. We discovered that there was a mistake in the description tho, as my punches obviously dealt piercing damage. Jess what started as a joke turned out to be such a strong buildd that i oneroundkilled each enemy i faced, then again, i did end up dying in the final encounter.
My favorite (so far) happened in a dungeon crawler one-shot run by my brother. The party was my fallen aasimar paladin (oath of vengeance) and a variant human fighter (battle master), both at level 3. While we were exploring this one room, the DM decided to throw a harpy at us. Harpy wins initiative and charms the fighter, then it's my turn. My paladin takes his +2 mace (that he'd acquired earlier), activates divine smite and thunderous smite, and proceeds to turn the harpy into red mist. The total damage was 58 or something like that, more than double the harpy's max HP. That same paladin would also solo a half dozen orcs by charging into them and spamming thunder wave.
Damn, I didn't see this post so I didn't get my story in. Would love for you to use it next time! In my first D&D campaign ever, Lost Mines of Phandelver, we had some downtime while our DM was setting up the next map and was having connection issues. I started the campaign as a fighter, who ended up dying to the Orcs, so I rerolled a paladin. The other player involved in this story was a monk who, when rolling for stats, got double 18s level one and got to 20 dex after racial bonuses. I, as a paladin, had a negative to dex. This is important, because during this downtime from the DM, we had an idea to just have a friendly, non-cannon duel. We rolled for initiative, he rolled low, a 3, and I rolled moderately better, I think a 17. Since I went first, and didn't have many other options, just attacked him with my longsword, 1 handed since I had a shield. Hit a nat 20, did a level 2 smite on the hit, and he got dumpstered in 1 hit. Everyone thought it was funny because he had 18 AC from level 1 and rarely got hit in this campaign at all... until he met me... lol
This is a one hit ko of a fellow player by accident when his character a halfling rogue by attacking me which he misses then I rolled to hit and load and behold nat20 and I killed his character with one handaxe slash at level 2 I was a fighter by the way
Warforged barbarian fighter (battlemaster) after just kool-aid manning my way through a wall. Two gnolls stepped up to me and I used sweeping strike to hit both of them followed by an action surge to repeat the move. Not quite a one hit ko, but it was an unarmed strike. So I pimp slapped two gnolls on both cheeks into unconsciousness after giving a fancy restaurant a new door, and I've yet to do anything else as cool.
We had a one shot while the DM was cooking up some story for the main campaign one weekend. We all brought snacks and marveled as our DM described in the most incredible detail forgetting that this was just a prop for our one shot and wasn't gonna matter later anyway. fast forward a little bit, and my first ever mid-high level sorceror was in town to make some cash. Our DM said we could bring 1enchanted or a set of minor enchanted items. I convinced him to let me bring 2 bags if my chosen secret item with chocolate cookies he liked. Next thing, my character stumbles around and finds city center, noting then that there was a giant stage at the center where a small crowd and one giant beefcake (our one-shots female barbarian), were watching a play. Suddenly a giant rip in the fabric of whatever popped open, and out came a giant chain devil. The behemoth-described beast fell onto the stage, punching a massive hole in the center, much to the displeasure of the arts enthusiastic barbarian. *Our DM played FF sephiroth fight music through his speaker * She raged and was immediately kicked back when I stormed in wanting to help. The Devil grabbed me and my turns come up. I thought about casting crown of madness to make him freak out and let me go, however it would have resulted in me being smashed like a club by bam-bam. I proudly proclaimed this to my party and then exclaimed that it was all due to my 12 intelligence. I was very proud. Then I cast fireball, was asked if I was sure, and also said "yes!" and was very happy about my damage rolls, knowing full well this could backfire, but I'm part dragonkin so I wasn't scared. it explodes, much to the horror of the barbarian who proceeded to cry and scream at this point while threatening me to pay for her stage (she was just a soectator) the DM then informs me that the demon took nothing as it's immune, and light drained from my eyes when the DM said "the demon laughs, and then throws you at the nearest building before walking off. I was badly injured. I gathered my last few hp and healed myself with potions, and then running after the creature. Right before my character lost consciousness for two turns, my character saw the barbarian charging at the creature to protect me. I watched as they fought while moving down the road before sleepy night night. Running now, I catch up as the barbarian is looking a little worse for wear while the demon seemed to be missing some chains. The Barbarian raged and began to smack the demon with very poor rolls, while I failed for a few rounds only to then I remember I had gotten telekinesis or some other ability which allows for magical control over multiple objects. I used it on the items in my bags which were +1 javelins and all 30 of them began dancing in the air. I proceeded to use them to make a pincushion out of the beast and then one more bonus round of attacks because of some other skill I had and I was able to pierce this creature approx. 51 times in two turns. each weapon rolled a d20 for attack with +2 due to +1 from javelin, a d6 for damage. I had quite a few crits and some high damage rolls resulting in close to 330 damage. in one turn and causing so many large holes that there weren't many large chunks of flesh without a massive puncture wound not too far away. I did in one round more damage than the creature had health and about 10x as much as the barbarian had managed to pull off at that point. The DM switched the music to the FF victory song, some orchestral 3 minute version. As the behemoth Chain Devil fell, it began to rain.
I nearly killed the bbeg of a oneshot a friend ran, if it wasn't for his poison immunity. It was my friend's first time DM'ing and the first time playing d&d generally for myself and one other, and first time in 5e for the third player, this being run as an introduction for the three of us before the main campaign started. I was playing a Dragonborn Moon-Druid, and when we got to the end of the oneshot, my first round was to summon 8 giant spiders to attack to bbeg. He took 8d8+24 piercing damage, and would've taken a further 8d8 poison if he wasn't immune. My friend forgot to scale the bbeg to our level properly... I took out half his health with that first round, and with a good roll could have killed him outright with the poison...
Ended the campaign using one lightning bolt. DM did not consider the fact that the party could attack multiple enemies before they could use their first action to raise an impenetrable shield.
This ones comes from a game I am currently in. So the DM created this amazing world that has crazy political things and a new pantheon of gods centered around 4 high gods. To cut a long story short is there is one god who hates everyone so I said "he will be my godly patron and I will pledge my oath of vengeance to this untrusting god" but cause of course I did. So because of reasons everyone in the party has a lot of secrets that no one would share with each other. The DM getting tired of our edge lord bull shit decided the perfect monster to confront us with would be a Nothic. For those who don't know Nothics can take an action of gain insight on a single target so of course this big spiky one eyed monster starts spouting about how my god doesn't trust me and will leave me abandoned as soon as he don't need me anymore. So I draw my sword charge and NATURAL 20! At this point I had one level in paladin and 3 in ranger because backstory and not just the god as trust issues so no smite. Regardless ranger has my back as I do 48 points of damage in one attack and skewer the Nothic straight through its eye.
More like 1 hit 257 KO. We're in a large coliseum, think 4x the size of the real thing, that has an enchantment that teleports and revives anyone felled in the arena, straight to the infirmary. So, I used Circle of Death... twice, burning my 5th and 6th lv spell slots as an Old One Warlock. people were all gathered together trying to fight eachother in close quarters. 60ft Diameter means about 190 square feet x2 for my second cast.
So we were in a very home brew campaign, on the third session the Elf Wizard, decided to be religious to a god he created which was a friend irl. I let him pray during a battle against a leviathan, this was the first round, I said since the god didn’t exsist in my world I said he’d have to get a really high roll. He rolled a nat20, so he created a god, and that god struck the leviathan with about 50 bolts of lightning. They were lvl 3. Sessions later a boss I was hyping up for months which was the son of Tiamat, so a very powerful dragon, but he was in his old age because of time travel. Round 1 the wizard rolled a nat 20 instantly we had decided the damage by then and he instantly dealt 168 damage. I regret making the damage die 10d20. And instantly moved the dragon into phase 2, funny thing is during phase 2 the bard nearly died from fall damage by a stupid misty step over a cliff onto the dragon.
In curse of strahd, my party ended up in his castle early, like level 3 or 4. We were scared shitless and were trying to escape. Our bard managed to lift a portcullis, but fails the dex throw to get out from under it when he climbs through. The gate crits and downs him immediately, and a strahd zombie walks in and finishes the job
Homebrew game where we had an aasimar rogue, half elf wizard, and my character Wood elf monk. While traveling the DM tells us the forest thickens making it harder to traverse and the horses are noticeably bothered by something. I ask if its flies or gnats? He tells me i dont see anything but horses are still shaking there heads around. I tell the DM i want to wave around the horse Chasing away flies i cant see. He says roll unarmed (Forgets im a monk lol) roll a 17+7 to hit for 13 damage. Ended up Smacking the prince of the fairies of the local forest to death while he was invisible. We quickly healed him and apologized but the King insisted we were assassins sent to kill the fairies as they have been driven out of other forest before. We then proceed to face trial in fairy court.
I tried to put a mana sistem on DND. And that is how, my friend's, Druid, whith 45 mana, on LV5, used all mana, to use a Wall of Fire, on a whole wall of archers and soldiers. And like, 100 soldiers, 78 died, and their commander, and the rest of them just ran in fear as the 5 LV Druid Nuked an Entire Army. It wasnt an balanced, but it was a fun campaing.
So I just started playing a minatour war domain cleric. So into our second session we decided to go for the bounty's in the 'mess hall' of the town. I grabbed the last one and the only thing I saw was "undead". I snatched it so fast and asked my party if we can go. Our fighter grabbed another one in cause the one I grabbed was too challenging. After a 2hr walk outside of town we came across giant snake tracks. Out warlock put two and two together at the last second. Bone Naga.. we rolled for rotation and I, the cleric was first [House rule: elemental damage is doubles, i.e fire 2× against water] my first roll nat20+2, 15 raidiant (doubled from elemental and crit) it was 60 damage first blow and killed it as our Goliath Barbarian was shocked as well.
*We killed the final boss at the start of the campaign* So, the party starts at a prison run by the final boss, An ancient demon older than the earth. We escaped the prison and came face to face with the demon. We were supposed to lose, but 3 of us rolled Nat 20s and killed him immediately. The DM didn't know what to do so he ended the campaign.
This one, I have picture evidence of. During an arc in a vampire town that was the result of the DMPC screwing the pooch on a bunch of navigation rolls, we were, after failing several jobs, tasked with polluting the town blood supply to destroy the (arguably) evil Count's magical control of the area. We got in pretty easily, but we attracted some suspicion. A few guards come in to investigate... our party has a Paladin and a Cleric, so we're not exactly worried, and the Sorcerer knows Disintegrate. Before anything big can happen, a Darkness spell goes up from our side, giving me a turn to put on Spirit Shroud for an extra d8 of damage. One camp runs out of the darkness, and comes right up into my face. I'm a kobold. I'm a paladin. I have an ally right next to it. I have advantage. I have bless on me. I have all my spell slots. I swing. I crit. Third level slot, right off the bat, plus 1d8 passive smite plus 1d8 spirit shroud plus 4d8 smite plus and extra 1d8 for hitting an undead... first hit, at level 11? 70 damage. I use my second attack... also a crit, thanks to Pack Tactics. Second level slot, roll really low overall, 34 total damage. Vampire is ashed on the spot, before any of its allies even break out of the Darkness. I had not swung a single attack at a vampire this entire arc, so I imagine it was just the No Nut November catching up to him. cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/653552945916411905/894402314725638255/unknown.png
Munchkin min maxer builds a Drizzt clone fighter/barbarian/rogue in 3.5 edition. Two Ettins are seen in woods and he wants to take the out. Set up ambush and first Ettin walks up and he makes his rolls. Nat 20, max damage first Ettin goes down with ease. DM describes how Ettin falls into nearly two clean pieces. The problem? The CR level for one Ettin is still higher than our party, and we are not at 100%. Ettin starts to pursue the Drizzt clone, I forget his name, and has him pinned. He begs the party for help but no one will or can help him. The Ettin takes his two attacks, crits on first high roll on second. Whereas when the Ettin died it was a clean instant kill, this was a potato vs a sledge hammer. RIP Drizzt Clone.
Minor big bad- "To free these people send out your champion" Me- volunteers and goes out to meet him, seeing me approach he released one of the two captives MBB- talks smack insulting my height and my beard(Dwarf with a 5 foot beard) Role initiative, he roles one higher than me He attacks nat 20, i was level one or level 2 so i was knocked out, and of course i roll a 1 on my first death save...
My first time playing a rogue, me and the rest of the party had to take on a bunch of orcs, I managed to get a crit sneak attack it's not particularly impressive but it's my most recent and it made me realize just how crazy rogues can be
Unsure. To be honest I wouldn't mind some kind of instant kill mechanic if the opponent were totally un-aware in all aspects and had zero chance to defend themselves. Would be more realistic that way, but harder to pull off.
Must have been a house rule? A large number of the craziest stories on this channel involve ill-advised house rules where a natural 20 or natural 1 has some extreme effect outside of the usual critical hit rule.
I don't care what anyone says: If I get into DND and DM'ing and someone asks for how fast they punch, I'll ask them to roll for it. Because if they truly want to kill someone in one punch, I'll need them to roll for speed to account for pressure+force behind their punch. Imagine a monk brawler doing an ax kick and severing someone's head off. It could open up the possibility of a Kenshiro-like PC.
Not technically a one-hit-ko because I was playing a Monk, but it went down in one turn nonetheless. Was fighting a Sharkman Skeleton who are notoriously weak against Blunt damage, like fists. I told the DM that I wanted to attack and then manoeuvre around to position myself between the next enemy and our wizard. Well my triple attack + ki point fuelled crit took the thing down and it was ruled that instead of going around big looming monk had burst through the monster which clattered on the ground as a pile of bones.
@@BrianVaughnVA I It was our last session I campaign, and my character, unbeknownst to the party was being possessed, we switched DMS a lot and it was my turn to, and I rolled super lucky, but there were a lot of people who's first campaign was this one, so I had the ghost leave him because the situation was dire. There was one person left in the party, but my character was one shot, he did k.o 2 of them in one turn though
Lvl8 Goliath fighter arena fight, wildcard. Ended up being 2 faries. Got paralyzed broke free killed the first one. Second one got passed turned into a dinosaur fought it for 3 rounds turned back to a farie in throwing spear range. Nat 20 stapled to the wall. I now have a spear I named tinkerbell
Superman punch. Echo fighter fifth level. Used echo to grapple my target. Running jump punch with unarmed fighter Crit 2d8 + 1d4 grapple damage Near max at 19 Target had 18 health. Knocked his block off literally. Bit of back story was this a**hole was the one who kidnapped my characters grandkids from there crib using fey magic. Honestly expected more for a fifth level party
Me as a level 5 sorcerer once did 141 damage using a twined 3rd level chromatic orb plus a quickend eldritch blast (got it from magic initiate) nat 20d both orbs with a staff of the ivory claw doing 20d8+2d10+6d6 to a boss monster and i instantly nuked it out of existence
4d6 +423 is ONLY "close to" 200 damage? wut? I get the racial traits dropped it to 75, but wut? Also did you really botch your pronunciation of Lathander? A D&D god and you call them Lathalander?
Once had a wizard during a curse of Strahd campaign. Our party had just finished a battle against some plant creatures, with our wizard on the roof casting spells from relative safety into the street. Strahd shows up after the battle, to scare our characters, and decides to put on a show of force. He appeared behind our wizard, and crit hit with a slap. Our wizard was literally bitch slapped so hard, he died on the spot, falling to the ground below with a broken neck.
@Duncan Hernandez it was hilarious, though.
**My character (a lvl 5 archer) is granted a wish after defeating a boss**
MC: I want to be max level right now.
Dm: No.
MC: Ok, ok, then I want a special power.
Dm: Ok, what kind of power?
MC: I want a scroll that kills people with orgasms.
Dm: **Laughing** o-ok... But only if you get 2 d20 in a row.
Guess who killed the BBEG...
No... This is too much power for a mortal to have...
@@lackingcreativevalue I've been getting 15 at best in that game, so getting a double d20 was like winning the lottery, twice.
The dm didn't even thought I could get the scroll and was just going to say my wish got wasted.
Also the scroll only caused a lot of damage but wouldn't be able to one hit ko the boss in normal conditions. I got extremely lucky that time and got crit double damage.
I swear that was the luckiest game I've ever had and I kinda miss not dying before lvl 14.
This sounds like something a friend of mine would want
Confronted a wizard in his lair. One door leading to the room he was in, upon entering the door the party was shot at with a fireball. We all lunged for cover and the Wizard used that as a chance to sprint out through the door... and into a wall, knocking himself out cold.
Good work, team!
We were building our character backstories as children. I was out camping and a dif kid stole my food.
In response I took a quarter staff I had to help carry water... nat20 to hit, rolled 8 on a d8.... doubled to 16..... the 8yr old kid only had 6max hp.... well now I have a traumatic backstory of when I killed a kid as a child
Aye, first on my own am I?
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Thank you for the awesome reading of my story. I always love to hear your voice acting here.
@@haloboy20102010gaming Hello panda! Always happy to narrate and voice act as much as I can for the entertainment of others haha. It's darn nice feeling to be able to make people smile especially nowadays you know?
@@BrianVaughnVA I always try and make people happy, if I can make one person smile then I’ve done something good.
Hi Brian, what got you into tabletop RPGs?
@@amon9556 My uncle did when I was around five or so. He got me into games like Zelda on the NES, same with Mario, Duck Hunt, etc. When he told me he used to carve his own D&D figurines from wood (D&D 1st edition etc) I was all excited to try that one day.
If I ever try to be a DM,
It's stories like this that will make me hesitant in presenting the BBEG in an early session.
We were a level 1 party with 3 members.
We entered a dungeon where we were hoping on rescuing a previous adventuring party that didnt make it back. we found a room where necromancers were animating a minataour skeleton and they finished just as we barged in.
The dm tried to tell us how dangerous this encounter would be, as the recently resurrected giant skeleton was killing the necromancers that brought it to life. We rolled initiative and the cleric went first, he casted Guiding bolt and roll a Nat 20.
Since the dm is using a crit table for every Nat 1 and Nat 20 rolled in the game the cleric's player had to roll a percentile dice.
The roll she got on the crit table the dm made resulted in quadruple damage, the guiding bolt in its own is 15 radiant damage.
But quadrupled by the crit table and doubled by the vulnerabilty to radiant damage the total damage done was 120.
The skeleton had 67 hp.
And thats how the boss battle the dm has been hyping us for ended in the first turn of combat.
I have just introduced my Wife & eldest Daughter to HeroQuest with the recent Hasbro/Avalon Hill release. I was, and still am, über-excited that I get to share this with my family as my Dad & I played it back in the 1990s.
The three heros in the 1st Quest were my Wife's Barbarian, my Daughter's Warlock, & my Elf. We had finished defeating all of the other creatures in this final room of the dungeon. Verag the foul & final Gargoyle was the last enemy to vanquish. My Wife's Barbarian moved to the adjacent tile to strike with her mighty Broadsword. She swings the blade (in game: my Wife rolled all of her Attack Dice, and I rolled for the Gargoyle's Defense Dice. She got all Hits, and I got 0 Shields to defend with), and cleaves Verag's hideous cranium in twain!
It was both wonderful and disappointing, as my Wife was expecting a real challenge. I had my fun explaining that Sometimes the Dice roll in Your Favor like that. My Daughter was just as pleased and as proud as can be to just be in the room with such a skilled and valiant Crusader against Zargon!
It was a great night, and the first of many...
My story is that me and the rest of my party figured out that if you mix a cup of remembrance and bag of holding, you can make a tsunami of whatever you choose
And thus you were the big bad evil crew.
@@BrianVaughnVA with a tsunami of distilled madness. Don't ask
My only “one hit kill”... It was during a AD&D game, and I was playing a min-maxed Minotaur fighter. 20 Str and Con and three weapon proficiency slots in Great Axe (the other was in longbow, because I _always_ have a ranged option). I was able to max out my Strength and Constitution by using the two-for-one stat swap... and (as I’m sure y’all have guessed) I lowered both his Intelligence and Wisdom, making him pretty stupid.
His backstory was that his tribe was regularly attacked by “metal men”. He was on a quest to find these metal men, and hopefully acquire some to defend his people. So when he comes over a hill and sees a “metal man” (the party’s Paladin in chain mail) being attacked by bandits, he just *had* to help. He cuts through the woods to flank them, and comes up on two bandits. Given that specializing in a weapon gave him 3 attacks every 2 rounds, I went ahead and burned my two attacks on these guys. I figured, given my ridiculous bonuses, that I’d butcher them move on... And the first one worked out that way. Passable attack roll, decent damage (not surprising surprising with a +6 to hit and a +12 to damage. Yay min/maxing!). The second bandit, on the other hand... Crit *Fail*. DM rolled on the fail table, lost weapon. He then had me roll a d8 to determine the direction... 1. Straight ahead. Right where the party’s Gnome rogue was trying to climb a tree “to get a better vantage point”. Rather than just hitting the rogue, he has me roll another attack roll. No, not a crit, but still plenty high enough to pin the Gnome to the tree, even with penalties for attacking a small creature at range with a melee weapon. Remember that damage bonus? That alone was double his hit points. So I insta-killed the party’s rogue before I even met the party. Pinned the poor fella to a tree with my great axe...
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Thanks Brian. An excellent reading, as always.
In one campaign of AD&D, we had a party that had a paladin in it. This particular paladin was completely devoted to the king of the country we were in. The king was also a paladin of the same god. We came across a battle field where a large number of orcs, goblins and humans were all killed. While investigating what happened here, a wizard revealed himself, played by a new guy at the table. This wizard was supposed to join the party but during the introduction of characters, the paladin stated that he served the kind. The wizard, being neutral evil piped off with, "To hell with the king!" That pissed off the paladin and he drew his sword and attacked. Nat 20. Did about 25 damage total, and the wizard only had about 12 HP. The DM described it well. "The paladin's sword arcs from shoulder to hip easiy, cutting the annoying man in a dress (what we called robes for fun) clean in half, falling in two different directions." We had to carry the body back to town to resurrect him, but it was hilarious. That player death happened less than five minutes after the character was introduced. We still make fun of the Man in the Dress to this day.
We were playing the death house, and we'd awakened the shambling mound in the basement. We knew we couldn't take it, so we ran away and peppered it with attacks from range. My druid was out of magic, so I decided to hurl some darts at it. I threw my second dart of the combat, critical hit. My dm has an app called Natural 20 with various critical effects. This one was Headshot, and killed the shambling mound instantly.
As a level 1 cleric, I broke a goblins neck in one hit with my mace.
He didn't actually die and we ended up keeping him hostage, healing him, getting information out of him, then recruiting him as a fellow member of our group.
This was also in our first session.
I play a circle of stars druid and we were going through a city overrun with undead. We get to the final boss battle of the arc: an underground tomb that has basically been turned into a factory that was mass-producing zombies, skeletons, flesh monsters, etc. (We were level 3-4 at this time btw) The entire place was ran by a powerful skeleton mage under a protective magical dome that was being held up by 4 lower level skeleton mages, all taking the dodge action. Me being the main radiant damage dealer (we have no cleric), I focused my divine energy at the lower level mages to let my party unleash on the BBEG once the dome was down. I hit one with a guiding bolt to negate the disadvantage for another party member, but I rolled a nat20, and rolled almost max damage, so my attempt to help the party ended up vaporizing the undead mage with magical starlight. It’s now a running joke that my druids guiding bolt is a holy cannon because when they hit, it’s almost always a crit and I’ve since downed a few more foes in this way
I'll have to post the entire story later (see you guys on the reddit with a huge post), but the short version is D&D 5e; The party goes to a starving town, food won't grow even magically so we learn that the curse is coming from the mines. We go deep into the mountain and it turns out the mountain is alive, aggressive, and trying to eat everything. I (a nature cleric) cast firestorm (7d10, half as much on a save), and set it in the ceiling which is also the creature. In total it was about 455 damage and one shot an entire mountain. We had some buffing going on, it failed the save, and if I remember correctly the mountain was weak to fire. wonderful campaign, I'm not allowed to play a cleric with that DM. (I got lucky and ended up strong, but not as strong as the barbarian who almost only rolled nat 20s)
(also my best 'immediate ending an encounter' story)
dnd 3.5 half celestial fighter/cleric... he was flying about, and saw an evil cleric proselytizing in front of his patron's temple... loudly, and threatening a child as he was doing so to force her parents to swear to convert.
'hm. this will not stand.' so he draws his longsword, flares his 'light' ability and enters a dive/charge attack on the evil cleric.. from 200' up. it was midday, so the sun was straight overhead... no one could see him against it - The cleric was screaming about how the good gods were powerless and the timing was just too perfect, as he said 'AND IF THEY DENY IT I DARE THEM TO STRIKE ME DO.... ' as 190 pounds of mail clad armored fury, winged and glowing with pearlescent light basically ruptured THROUGH his chest, sweeping the child aside. The evil cleric's holy symbol pierced through on the tip of the sword and nailed to the ground, as my character calmly whispered an orison in the aftermath to clean the blood from himself and said simply 'The Gods of light are not to be trifled with. I'll not hold your children hostage to tell you to convert. I simply ask that you do the best for yourselves and your families. Be kind and do well.' He then placed his hand on the child, expending a cure light wounds to heal her of her bumps and bruises, before ushering her back to her parents.
there were more than a dozen conversions on that day, and nearly a hundred in the following week.
Not me, but my party's cleric in a Dark Heresy game. DH runs on a percentile system with the lower number winning.
Setup was fairly confusing but for simplicity, I'll just break it down to 'our friend got possessed and summoned a demon in a church.' The entire party was basically downed within a single turn (not the DM being a jerk, rolls were open and he was just rolling like we were playing for cash) and the cleric was essentially in a duel with a demon several levels higher than him...then he called a strike to the eyes with his broadsword. Rolled a 1 and basically just took both in a single blow. This demon happened to be very centered around eyes and the GM ruled that that one strike was basically an instakill seeing as he effectively destroyed the thing's ability to channel magic.
Our party came across a duergar mind master and two duergar hammerers. The bard lured the hammerers away and I, as the barbarian raged. Unfortunately the mind master was too far away to get within melee distance in one turn (50 feet).
I asked if there were any 60 foot trees nearby. He said yes. So I chopped the tree down in one swing and pushed it over onto the mind master.
Playing Warhammer 40k Dark Heresy 2E, We get into a fight with the BBEG of the arc after I do some good RP and get us past all the hostiles that we would have fought. He fires a shot with an overcharged plasma pistol at our big dumb character (BD) that we thought it instantly killed him. We only realized that he could have dodged half a turn later (GM forgot as well) so he was allowed to roll it, and succeeded.
After we kill him, his body bursts into a daemon form (fleshy tentacle blob), two of us have no issues with the fear test, BD has a -10 on all rolls from now on, and our 4th is stuck puking on the floor for two rounds. The daemon attempts to hit BD and BD parries the attack, then launches his own attack back, dealing so much damage in one hit that it was killed instantly. The GM loved it so much he was granted a free talent for it.
I spent almost all of last year fighting rectal cancer. My treatment is "complete". Thank you for the well wishes. I wish for health and safety for you and yours also.
In a Cyberpunk/ Shadowrun cross game I have a character named Bass Drop. She has augmented limbs, speed enhancers, vibroswords that have also been magically enhanced to make them even deadlier, add to that her dermal plating, the ability to move at speeds that the human eye perceive as a blur, and the ability to track any target up to 250 meters and you have a fun issue with authority issues.
The group ran into an old villain she sliced and diced, now heavily augmented, replacing every thing she cheerfully removed from him, (like a kitten playing with a ball of yarn ^^), with heavy cyberware. During his big monolog about how he'd turned his weaknesses into strengths, how he intended to rip her limbs off and sell her as a sex toy to the lowest bidder, and how evil never truly dies, she opted to attack. (The scariest thing this woman will ever say is "I'm bored," lol) With one lightning fast pass she decapitated him, took his arms off and kicked his legs out from under him, catching his head in one hand before whispering sweetly in his ear "You did all this for me hmmm? So, you turned all your weaknesses into strengths huh?" She then slammed his head into the ground with enough force to flatten it before adding. "Might want to check your brain next time,"
The gm and group giggle farted as they all considered the hyper death ferrit they'd come to love. 😆
this is not mine, i read it in a different video:
a player got a home-brewed magical weapon called "Thunk", which would if the player said it's name, get a guaranteed crit one the next shot, but ALSO make him lost one point of Constitution, PERMANENTLY.
-note that this DM was a nasty type who would count it if the player said "thunk" OUT OF CHARACTER.
later the player found another unique item, a magical arrow that would turn an enemy into a gold statue, IF IT CRIT...
yes, he used both at once to one-shot the BBEG!
Not my story but my brother's. I was the DM though. It was in D&D 3.5 and the party was in epic levels (24 at the time I believe). My brother has a horrible character build. He was playing a fighter/rogue/sorcerer with 2 prestige classes. I forget what the second one was but the first prestige class was the "legendary leader" class. Needless to say his character was built to be the face not the combat monster of the party. As the leader the did have an artifact that had the Dread Undead epic enchantment on it. It was an epic campaign featuring an undead overlord and his character trying to reclaim his kingdom. The party was facing one of the overlord's most powerful allies, the "original" dracolich. This thing was build to be a tough battle and I was happy to finally get to use the Christmas gift from my group the Colossal Red dragon miniature. I had tactics worked out in my mind. This was an epic-ly planned fight, the dracolich had loads of hp. This was probably going to be 2 sessions... and as we know what this video is about I never got to use any of it.
They had entered the dracolich's lair the week before at the end of the session so the entire session was dedicated to facing the BBEG of this section of the adventure. With the "box text" and talking done the previous week this session started with Initiative. My brother's character rolled a 19 for his initiative, then he ran up to the dracolich and hit it with his Dread Undead Quarterstaff and rolled a nat 20. Now the Dread enchantment is a more powerful version of Bane. Increased damage against the creature type, and on a crit they have to make a fortitude save or die (DC30 or something like that) so I ask my brother to confirm his crit and he rolls a 19. I say, "Okay." I stand up pick up my die from behind the screen and say "This being a dragon, an undead dragon, but formerly a colossal red dragon I need to roll a nat 1 to fail so start rolling damage." I then roll a nat 1. "Well....okay there's that...Well here's the loot list. I hadn't prepared for anything else today."
That's how my brother ended a session 15 minutes after it started.
The only 1 hit KO I've scored (so far) was against an arc boss. The DM had an abandoned underwater sea elf city that contained a powerful trident artifact powering the main world event. The details a not super relevant, but the BBEG had placed a sub beholder there as a guardian, with two other large sea creature underlings.
At this point, it's important to mention my character. Augustine was a lawful evil blood magician rogue. (A custom subclass that uses blood sacrifices to make blade oils and cast spells, somewhat similar to arcane trickster) I created the subclass after I had made the character to give gameplay reasons to do what Augustine loved most, which was to draw blood from people as a sacrifice to his god. Suffice to say he relished killing, but I put my second highest ability score (16) into intelligence to be smart enough in-game to avoid murder hoboing.
Augustine's high intelligence enabled me to do other fun and interesting things though too. I had heard a story on one of rippers videos involving a physics exploit with the spell wall of force and a bead of dust of dryness. After doing the math on the compression of water, and realizing no living organism could ever survive it, I set to work gathering what I would need. With a little misdirection and low balling the price, I was able to procure 60 doses of dust of dryness, and a spell scroll for "forceful wall" a spell identical to wall of force, but it curses at you in a Brooklyn accent. Knowing the difficulty of triggering this attack (breaking the water bead while inside an impenetrable barrier without suicide bombing myself) I had an activation device made with copper pieces and scraps of steel, basically creating an impact water grenade.
Now to the fight. We entered the boss room of the underwater city to see what we thought was a beholder. (I think it was actually an eye of the deep or something like that, but we were only level 6 so still a big threat) He started doing the villain speech about how he would protect the artifact for his master and what not. The paladin and wizard tried to bullshit him with the old "orders from your boss" routine. Augustine saw the writing on the wall, handed the scroll of forceful wall to the bard, and said "cast this on him as a sphere with a radius of 4 feet on my mark" While the boss was busy checking the fake papers, I threw the water grenade at him and yelled to cast the wall. The boss had about a second to react, but nat1ed his dex saved. What followed was a beautiful display of why spells should always have an upper limit.
For that unaware, wall of force says that NOTHING can physically pass through it. It can be cast as a sphere with a radius of up to 10 feet but can be smaller. This means nothing inside, regardless of pressure, can escape. Normal this isn't an issue, as you can't put any more material into the sphere to pressurize it. Enter dust of dryness. It captures a 15-foot cube of water and compresses it into the size of a marble, and upon breaking, releases all that water. More water is released than can fit in the wall of force, but because it cannot escape, it is forced to pressurize. Water is notorious for being difficult to compress, and with a sphere 4 feet in radius, it is forced to compress to less than 1/6 of its original volume. International pressure is comparable to the maximum power of a hydraulic press x1000 and heats up to roughly the temperature of the surface of Venus. Because the melting point increases with pressure, the monster was suddenly frozen in place inside crushing red hot ice.
The DM and I didn't bother calculating that level of damage. I was told to role a d1000 (probably to see how many times over it died) while the sentient spell was screaming in agony. The party had the good sense to take cover as the spell ended, at once releasing all the internal pressure in an explosion of blood and tissue infused searing hot sublimating ice. The two other enemies were eviscerated in the explosion, and the entire room was covered in a steaming red paste.
There is now a homebrew limit on how much force wall of force can contain.
TL;DR- I used a physics exploit to 1 shot a boss room into oblivion because wall of force is written poorly.
[Side note: the person who figured this exploit out before me thought this would cause nuclear fusion. I couldn't verify this, as the 27.5 gigapascals I achieved is not really close to the maximum pressure ice has reached. Feel free to do your own math and research on this, but if you try it at home be content with classical physics. This ball of DM tears is strong enough as is, it doesn't need to be a nuclear reactor too.]
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The first story in a nutshell
As much as I love these stories, I have to say that the “long spear” tale does not belong here. It belongs in either rpghorror or worst DMs. No campaign should EVER become a one shot. Even a halfway decent DM would have continued the original low level adventures, and crafted a new BBEG to fit the rest of the campaign. This OP robbed his players and himself of the chance to build a truly epic story.
(i might've told this one before i dont know)
i was a level 7 hexblade and due to some interesting homebrew items and haste i did a lot of damage
so me and a friend (a halfling wizard) were in the the last room of a dungeon. after just killing the boss and getting loot we where told by the god who made the dungeon we could do a double or nothing fight. naturally we accepted and a enraged beholder spawned, my friend goes first, tosses me his amulet and casting haste, the beholder goes and does a hefty chunk of damage to me, i use my friends amulet to give me its stored spell slots, and cast my three buffing smites (dm ruled smites could stack) and make a double attack with my greatsword 1 hit 1 miss, i then use my necklace witch lets me make another attack if i hit a attack, it hits, then i haste to take another double attack and necklace attack, all hitting, and i eldritch smited on all five hits. total damage 258.i completely obliterated the beholder and the wall behind it. that's the story of how i got kicked out of a dungeon.
We had a big pvp battle in a small campaign where I was getting hit a lot after I halved the health of their Barbarian. I went from 98 to 67 but luckily had like 25 health potions. So I chugged down 4 and took a called shot to the head of their Goliath. Rolled, and got a 20. Double damage on the head with a sniper rifle does surprisingly good damage. I took a second shot with my shotgun and rolled really high. I did around 54 damage to him which dropped him immediately. After that it was a cake walk to take out the others. The PCs we were fighting got pissed off.
Back in Exalted 2E, I rolled up a Lunar who was a grappling expert. She was also a half ass pacifist, so she took a Charm that lets her double damage, at the 'expense' that it can never become Lethal damage.
The first time she used it, she utterly crushed a boss as simply as grabbing him, and slamming his face into her knee.
So, one of my players is a Rouge Gnome, Zak Dyet, and another is a Half-Elf Pact of the Archfey Warlock, Arlan. Arlan is mostly support and tries to Charm and Frighten most enemies. One time he used a certain feature from his subclass to try and Charm a few Goblins and one of them rolled a Nat 1 and so I told him that Goblin is now CONVINCED Arlan was his long lost best friend and is about to become the parties pet. Cue the end of combat where Zak Dyer wakes up and due to having been downed the first turn of combat with these Goblins and some backstory stuff also with Goblins nearly killing him, I have him roll Sanity when he sees Arlans new Goblin pet still alive and he gets a Nat 1. I explain that he is now rushing the Goblin in an attempt to kill it and tell him to roll to hit. He gets a Nat 20 and since Arlan is within 5 feet of the Goblin, he gets Sneak Attack damage and instantly decapitates the Goblin.
A few sessions later we hit level 3 and Arlan takes Pact of the Chain and summons a Pseudodragon as his familiar with it. Cue our latest session where the group is fighting some Undead and Zak Dyer sneaks at the start of combat and goes to throw a dagger at a nearby Zombie. He has advantage so there's no way he'll miss-
Double Nat 1s. I tell him he loses his balance and ends up throwing his dagger into the party and I roll a D6 to see who he hits and I roll a 4... Which is Arlans Pseudodragon. I tell him to roll damage and he gets 11 total, which is the Pseudodragons exact HP and kills it. Arlans player then made a meme about Zak Dyer killing Arlans pets instead of the enemies. The fact that he keeps one shotting them is all the funnier.
I feel a trope coming on XD
Paladin got a nat 20 on a great sword+poison+thunderous smite attack and rolled near max damage against a enemy pyromancer who had only taken 4 damage.
That character was supposed to be a later game mini-boss.
Now they are 2 halves of a Teifling rolling through the street.
It was fitting considering her boss just crippled (possibly killed to the paladins knowledge) and she was the only one with in goreing range.
Like 64 damage against a wizard.
Also the time my players burnt an oil coated medussa alive.
We played a lvl10 oneshott on DnD 3.5. I went for a warforged monk with some nice feats and a roleplaychoice where my flurry of blows was a single blow. We discovered that there was a mistake in the description tho, as my punches obviously dealt piercing damage. Jess what started as a joke turned out to be such a strong buildd that i oneroundkilled each enemy i faced, then again, i did end up dying in the final encounter.
Power vacuums are always temporary. Raise up another bbeg to take advantage of the opportunity.
My favorite (so far) happened in a dungeon crawler one-shot run by my brother. The party was my fallen aasimar paladin (oath of vengeance) and a variant human fighter (battle master), both at level 3. While we were exploring this one room, the DM decided to throw a harpy at us. Harpy wins initiative and charms the fighter, then it's my turn. My paladin takes his +2 mace (that he'd acquired earlier), activates divine smite and thunderous smite, and proceeds to turn the harpy into red mist. The total damage was 58 or something like that, more than double the harpy's max HP.
That same paladin would also solo a half dozen orcs by charging into them and spamming thunder wave.
Damn, I didn't see this post so I didn't get my story in. Would love for you to use it next time!
In my first D&D campaign ever, Lost Mines of Phandelver, we had some downtime while our DM was setting up the next map and was having connection issues. I started the campaign as a fighter, who ended up dying to the Orcs, so I rerolled a paladin. The other player involved in this story was a monk who, when rolling for stats, got double 18s level one and got to 20 dex after racial bonuses. I, as a paladin, had a negative to dex. This is important, because during this downtime from the DM, we had an idea to just have a friendly, non-cannon duel.
We rolled for initiative, he rolled low, a 3, and I rolled moderately better, I think a 17. Since I went first, and didn't have many other options, just attacked him with my longsword, 1 handed since I had a shield. Hit a nat 20, did a level 2 smite on the hit, and he got dumpstered in 1 hit. Everyone thought it was funny because he had 18 AC from level 1 and rarely got hit in this campaign at all... until he met me... lol
This is a one hit ko of a fellow player by accident when his character a halfling rogue by attacking me which he misses then I rolled to hit and load and behold nat20 and I killed his character with one handaxe slash at level 2 I was a fighter by the way
Warforged barbarian fighter (battlemaster) after just kool-aid manning my way through a wall. Two gnolls stepped up to me and I used sweeping strike to hit both of them followed by an action surge to repeat the move. Not quite a one hit ko, but it was an unarmed strike. So I pimp slapped two gnolls on both cheeks into unconsciousness after giving a fancy restaurant a new door, and I've yet to do anything else as cool.
We had a one shot while the DM was cooking up some story for the main campaign one weekend. We all brought snacks and marveled as our DM described in the most incredible detail forgetting that this was just a prop for our one shot and wasn't gonna matter later anyway.
fast forward a little bit, and my first ever mid-high level sorceror was in town to make some cash. Our DM said we could bring 1enchanted or a set of minor enchanted items. I convinced him to let me bring 2 bags if my chosen secret item with chocolate cookies he liked.
Next thing, my character stumbles around and finds city center, noting then that there was a giant stage at the center where a small crowd and one giant beefcake (our one-shots female barbarian), were watching a play.
Suddenly a giant rip in the fabric of whatever popped open, and out came a giant chain devil.
The behemoth-described beast fell onto the stage, punching a massive hole in the center, much to the displeasure of the arts enthusiastic barbarian.
*Our DM played FF sephiroth fight music through his speaker *
She raged and was immediately kicked back when I stormed in wanting to help.
The Devil grabbed me and my turns come up. I thought about casting crown of madness to make him freak out and let me go, however it would have resulted in me being smashed like a club by bam-bam.
I proudly proclaimed this to my party and then exclaimed that it was all due to my 12 intelligence. I was very proud.
Then I cast fireball, was asked if I was sure, and also said "yes!" and was very happy about my damage rolls, knowing full well this could backfire, but I'm part dragonkin so I wasn't scared.
it explodes, much to the horror of the barbarian who proceeded to cry and scream at this point while threatening me to pay for her stage (she was just a soectator)
the DM then informs me that the demon took nothing as it's immune, and light drained from my eyes when the DM said "the demon laughs, and then throws you at the nearest building before walking off.
I was badly injured.
I gathered my last few hp and healed myself with potions, and then running after the creature.
Right before my character lost consciousness for two turns, my character saw the barbarian charging at the creature to protect me. I watched as they fought while moving down the road before sleepy night night.
Running now, I catch up as the barbarian is looking a little worse for wear while the demon seemed to be missing some chains.
The Barbarian raged and began to smack the demon with very poor rolls, while I failed for a few rounds only to then I remember I had gotten telekinesis or some other ability which allows for magical control over multiple objects. I used it on the items in my bags which were +1 javelins and all 30 of them began dancing in the air.
I proceeded to use them to make a pincushion out of the beast and then one more bonus round of attacks because of some other skill I had and I was able to pierce this creature approx. 51 times in two turns.
each weapon rolled a d20 for attack with +2 due to +1 from javelin, a d6 for damage.
I had quite a few crits and some high damage rolls resulting in close to 330 damage. in one turn and causing so many large holes that there weren't many large chunks of flesh without a massive puncture wound not too far away.
I did in one round more damage than the creature had health and about 10x as much as the barbarian had managed to pull off at that point.
The DM switched the music to the FF victory song, some orchestral 3 minute version.
As the behemoth Chain Devil fell, it began to rain.
I nearly killed the bbeg of a oneshot a friend ran, if it wasn't for his poison immunity.
It was my friend's first time DM'ing and the first time playing d&d generally for myself and one other, and first time in 5e for the third player, this being run as an introduction for the three of us before the main campaign started.
I was playing a Dragonborn Moon-Druid, and when we got to the end of the oneshot, my first round was to summon 8 giant spiders to attack to bbeg. He took 8d8+24 piercing damage, and would've taken a further 8d8 poison if he wasn't immune.
My friend forgot to scale the bbeg to our level properly... I took out half his health with that first round, and with a good roll could have killed him outright with the poison...
Ended the campaign using one lightning bolt. DM did not consider the fact that the party could attack multiple enemies before they could use their first action to raise an impenetrable shield.
This ones comes from a game I am currently in. So the DM created this amazing world that has crazy political things and a new pantheon of gods centered around 4 high gods. To cut a long story short is there is one god who hates everyone so I said "he will be my godly patron and I will pledge my oath of vengeance to this untrusting god" but cause of course I did. So because of reasons everyone in the party has a lot of secrets that no one would share with each other. The DM getting tired of our edge lord bull shit decided the perfect monster to confront us with would be a Nothic. For those who don't know Nothics can take an action of gain insight on a single target so of course this big spiky one eyed monster starts spouting about how my god doesn't trust me and will leave me abandoned as soon as he don't need me anymore. So I draw my sword charge and NATURAL 20! At this point I had one level in paladin and 3 in ranger because backstory and not just the god as trust issues so no smite. Regardless ranger has my back as I do 48 points of damage in one attack and skewer the Nothic straight through its eye.
The prince was sent flying across the THROWN room? 😂
Yeah, that's the PUNCHline of the joke...
LOL!
Would have come eairlier but i was watching your other vids also why does this have 1 dislike? It should have none 😁
More like 1 hit 257 KO.
We're in a large coliseum, think 4x the size of the real thing, that has an enchantment that teleports and revives anyone felled in the arena, straight to the infirmary.
So, I used Circle of Death... twice, burning my 5th and 6th lv spell slots as an Old One Warlock. people were all gathered together trying to fight eachother in close quarters.
60ft Diameter means about 190 square feet x2 for my second cast.
So we were in a very home brew campaign, on the third session the Elf Wizard, decided to be religious to a god he created which was a friend irl. I let him pray during a battle against a leviathan, this was the first round, I said since the god didn’t exsist in my world I said he’d have to get a really high roll. He rolled a nat20, so he created a god, and that god struck the leviathan with about 50 bolts of lightning. They were lvl 3.
Sessions later a boss I was hyping up for months which was the son of Tiamat, so a very powerful dragon, but he was in his old age because of time travel. Round 1 the wizard rolled a nat 20 instantly we had decided the damage by then and he instantly dealt 168 damage. I regret making the damage die 10d20. And instantly moved the dragon into phase 2, funny thing is during phase 2 the bard nearly died from fall damage by a stupid misty step over a cliff onto the dragon.
In curse of strahd, my party ended up in his castle early, like level 3 or 4. We were scared shitless and were trying to escape. Our bard managed to lift a portcullis, but fails the dex throw to get out from under it when he climbs through. The gate crits and downs him immediately, and a strahd zombie walks in and finishes the job
Homebrew game where we had an aasimar rogue, half elf wizard, and my character Wood elf monk. While traveling the DM tells us the forest thickens making it harder to traverse and the horses are noticeably bothered by something. I ask if its flies or gnats? He tells me i dont see anything but horses are still shaking there heads around. I tell the DM i want to wave around the horse Chasing away flies i cant see. He says roll unarmed (Forgets im a monk lol) roll a 17+7 to hit for 13 damage. Ended up Smacking the prince of the fairies of the local forest to death while he was invisible. We quickly healed him and apologized but the King insisted we were assassins sent to kill the fairies as they have been driven out of other forest before. We then proceed to face trial in fairy court.
I tried to put a mana sistem on DND.
And that is how, my friend's, Druid, whith 45 mana, on LV5, used all mana, to use a Wall of Fire, on a whole wall of archers and soldiers. And like, 100 soldiers, 78 died, and their commander, and the rest of them just ran in fear as the 5 LV Druid Nuked an Entire Army.
It wasnt an balanced, but it was a fun campaing.
So I just started playing a minatour war domain cleric. So into our second session we decided to go for the bounty's in the 'mess hall' of the town. I grabbed the last one and the only thing I saw was "undead". I snatched it so fast and asked my party if we can go. Our fighter grabbed another one in cause the one I grabbed was too challenging. After a 2hr walk outside of town we came across giant snake tracks. Out warlock put two and two together at the last second. Bone Naga.. we rolled for rotation and I, the cleric was first [House rule: elemental damage is doubles, i.e fire 2× against water] my first roll nat20+2, 15 raidiant (doubled from elemental and crit) it was 60 damage first blow and killed it as our Goliath Barbarian was shocked as well.
*We killed the final boss at the start of the campaign*
So, the party starts at a prison run by the final boss, An ancient demon older than the earth.
We escaped the prison and came face to face with the demon. We were supposed to lose, but 3 of us rolled Nat 20s and killed him immediately. The DM didn't know what to do so he ended the campaign.
This one, I have picture evidence of. During an arc in a vampire town that was the result of the DMPC screwing the pooch on a bunch of navigation rolls, we were, after failing several jobs, tasked with polluting the town blood supply to destroy the (arguably) evil Count's magical control of the area.
We got in pretty easily, but we attracted some suspicion. A few guards come in to investigate... our party has a Paladin and a Cleric, so we're not exactly worried, and the Sorcerer knows Disintegrate. Before anything big can happen, a Darkness spell goes up from our side, giving me a turn to put on Spirit Shroud for an extra d8 of damage. One camp runs out of the darkness, and comes right up into my face.
I'm a kobold. I'm a paladin. I have an ally right next to it. I have advantage. I have bless on me. I have all my spell slots. I swing. I crit. Third level slot, right off the bat, plus 1d8 passive smite plus 1d8 spirit shroud plus 4d8 smite plus and extra 1d8 for hitting an undead... first hit, at level 11? 70 damage. I use my second attack... also a crit, thanks to Pack Tactics. Second level slot, roll really low overall, 34 total damage. Vampire is ashed on the spot, before any of its allies even break out of the Darkness.
I had not swung a single attack at a vampire this entire arc, so I imagine it was just the No Nut November catching up to him.
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Munchkin min maxer builds a Drizzt clone fighter/barbarian/rogue in 3.5 edition. Two Ettins are seen in woods and he wants to take the out. Set up ambush and first Ettin walks up and he makes his rolls. Nat 20, max damage first Ettin goes down with ease. DM describes how Ettin falls into nearly two clean pieces. The problem? The CR level for one Ettin is still higher than our party, and we are not at 100%. Ettin starts to pursue the Drizzt clone, I forget his name, and has him pinned. He begs the party for help but no one will or can help him. The Ettin takes his two attacks, crits on first high roll on second. Whereas when the Ettin died it was a clean instant kill, this was a potato vs a sledge hammer. RIP Drizzt Clone.
Brian Vahn VA the one punch monk of DND.
I literally gave a goblin beer and they died instantly so this is what I do to goblins now
Minor big bad- "To free these people send out your champion"
Me- volunteers and goes out to meet him, seeing me approach he released one of the two captives
MBB- talks smack insulting my height and my beard(Dwarf with a 5 foot beard)
Role initiative, he roles one higher than me
He attacks nat 20, i was level one or level 2 so i was knocked out, and of course i roll a 1 on my first death save...
My first time playing a rogue, me and the rest of the party had to take on a bunch of orcs, I managed to get a crit sneak attack
it's not particularly impressive but it's my most recent and it made me realize just how crazy rogues can be
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Why would you roll to insta kill? Just roll normal damage. Sure it was a cool moment, but why would you do that?
Unsure.
To be honest I wouldn't mind some kind of instant kill mechanic if the opponent were totally un-aware in all aspects and had zero chance to defend themselves. Would be more realistic that way, but harder to pull off.
Must have been a house rule?
A large number of the craziest stories on this channel involve ill-advised house rules where a natural 20 or natural 1 has some extreme effect outside of the usual critical hit rule.
I'm just going to say that wave is very overpowered and apparently Asmodeus is not immune to it's effects
I don't care what anyone says: If I get into DND and DM'ing and someone asks for how fast they punch, I'll ask them to roll for it. Because if they truly want to kill someone in one punch, I'll need them to roll for speed to account for pressure+force behind their punch. Imagine a monk brawler doing an ax kick and severing someone's head off. It could open up the possibility of a Kenshiro-like PC.
Before the vid even starts I’m gonna keep a tally of how many of these are paladin smite crits
Edit: it was zero, surprisingly
Not technically a one-hit-ko because I was playing a Monk, but it went down in one turn nonetheless. Was fighting a Sharkman Skeleton who are notoriously weak against Blunt damage, like fists. I told the DM that I wanted to attack and then manoeuvre around to position myself between the next enemy and our wizard. Well my triple attack + ki point fuelled crit took the thing down and it was ruled that instead of going around big looming monk had burst through the monster which clattered on the ground as a pile of bones.
The "thrown room" i see what they did there
My level 1 monk got crushed to death by a huge constrictor. He had 9 HP. DM rolled max damage (20). Instant death, no saves.
Today, my PC one hit k.o 3 PCs in our group
How the heck did that happen?
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It was our last session I campaign, and my character, unbeknownst to the party was being possessed, we switched DMS a lot and it was my turn to, and I rolled super lucky, but there were a lot of people who's first campaign was this one, so I had the ghost leave him because the situation was dire. There was one person left in the party, but my character was one shot, he did k.o 2 of them in one turn though
This reminded me of the time I was a DM and the boss I planned got 1hit KO 3 times by the same pc. (It had multiple transformations after death)
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@@bigboie3507 guy was like: I wanna shoot an arrow to his eye **proceeds to successfully pierce the boss's brain thrice**
It got me really frustrated.
Why do I have one story that fits so many of these videos
Lvl8 Goliath fighter arena fight, wildcard. Ended up being 2 faries. Got paralyzed broke free killed the first one. Second one got passed turned into a dinosaur fought it for 3 rounds turned back to a farie in throwing spear range. Nat 20 stapled to the wall. I now have a spear I named tinkerbell
Superman punch.
Echo fighter fifth level.
Used echo to grapple my target.
Running jump punch with unarmed fighter
Crit
2d8 + 1d4 grapple damage
Near max at 19
Target had 18 health.
Knocked his block off literally.
Bit of back story was this a**hole was the one who kidnapped my characters grandkids from there crib using fey magic. Honestly expected more for a fifth level party
Me as a level 5 sorcerer once did 141 damage using a twined 3rd level chromatic orb plus a quickend eldritch blast (got it from magic initiate) nat 20d both orbs with a staff of the ivory claw doing 20d8+2d10+6d6 to a boss monster and i instantly nuked it out of existence
fire pot(like 12?), the spell catapult, and a jacket. killed the undead black dragon in 1 hit.
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I used my warhammer like a baseball bat, and rolled a nat 20
Hit a homerun with the bandits head
Remember Dms. Be happy and excited for your players.
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4d6 +423 is ONLY "close to" 200 damage? wut? I get the racial traits dropped it to 75, but wut? Also did you really botch your pronunciation of Lathander? A D&D god and you call them Lathalander?