NEW DM SCREEN WOODS! (also a custom wooden bass guitar) S14E6
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In S14E6 of Wyrm Lyfe, we take a look at some of the new wood and wood pairings for our upcoming GM Screen campaign.
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My favorite DM moment was in a West Marches style game we are playing. One of the players got a curse from the previous outing to where they can't turn right (So he pulls a full 270 left to turn right). Trying to end a tense conversation and walk out like a movie scene........ was interrupted by the very slapstick description of him spinning around on his heels like a scene from the Naked Gun series and everyone in the room shooting glances about confused. We couldn't stop laughing at the juxtaposition of themes and tones.
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My favorite DM moment was when my group kept wandering into useless parts of a dungeon I built. Essentially just wandering into the same three broom closets over and over. I decided to make one of the mops sentient, and through conversation they would find where the important areas of the dungeon were, because he cleaned them. Any other questions were met with a confused but goofy "I don't know, I'm just a mop!" Years later we still joke about it
Brand new DM here, but gotta say the best DM moment is always off the table when you realize all of your players' schedules actually line up and your game night is happening!
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My FAVE DM moment was the reveal the BBEG was actually a squirrel that was killed in game zero of our first campaign. He came back with a fuzzy fury, wanting nothing more than vengeance. After all he was bringing us stolen rations from the enemy camp, not stealing our rations and all he got was a dagger to the heart. Poor guy, we deserved every enemy he threw at us, let alone the random unexplained woodland creature attacks and seagull hot drops he stirred up with his smear campaign.
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My fave DM moment: Well, of course, the first time the party TPK'd. 😀
My Favorite DM moment: Session One, brand new campaign, my first go at DM’ing a campaign outside of one-shots. Players cheering at the end of the session after having a fantastic start. It warmed my heart and encouraged me to keep try. I gained a huge respect for DM’s out there
my favorite DM moment...
we started a new campaign set in Ravnica. I had just finished watching critical role's calamity and was inspired to do an intricate opening to introduce the PCs.
after 2 weeks of work we played and the excitement the came from my players was well worth it. best session one I've ever experienced!
I feel like Big Tony is a reincarnated Andre the Giant for modern times.
Man, I would LOVE to see an arm wrestling match between those two.
Okay, now I have to hear him asking if anyone wants a peanut!
@@Reyn_Roadstorm have fun storming the castle
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Next to Andre, he’d look like the two next to him.
My favorite moments as a DM (GM) are when round the table contagious laughter strikes and it takes all of us an extra few minutes to catch our breath. It's good for my soul. 😂🎉
My favourite DM moment was Brennan Lee Mulligan's whole asmodeus scene at the end of EXU callamity. Chills every time
Conversely, I think my favorite DM moment is Mercer on D20 chanting Deus Pazuul. The moment Brennan catches it, is glorious!
@@TheNeojanus1 was that during the most recent series? I havent managed to watch it yet
@@mikeyallen6758 second most recent at this point. It's the Ravening War and the scene is in the finale episode.
My fave DM moment was where I, the DM, conspired with another DM friend of mine to play a one-off character in Death House. He was with the party the whole way, fighting, figuring out puzzles, dealing with moral decisions, all that jazz. And then once they escaped Death House by the skin of their teeth he revealed he had killed the original character and had actually been Strahd the whole time, just messing with them. I fondly remember the screams of outrage when he gave them a fangy smile and said "Welcome to Barovia" before disappearing into a cloud of bats.
Bobby got that big bass boi status with Sunshine of Your Love 🙌 Big thanks to Mr. Strollo for having me demo his custom bass! 🎶✌
Favorite DM Moment is when running a homebrew module, the party TPK's and they get groundhog day'd, The look on their faces when I started reciting the "opening crawl" again, and they all wake up right back at the start of the module was absolutely priceless.
Favorite DM moment is tough, but I'd have to go with the time that I made a random shopkeep so weird that the party decided to break into his house later that night to try to figure him out. They learned a few things- #1: He was a bone-collecting, taxidermy-based alchemist , using flesh-eating insects to clean skeletons, #2: He possessed/produced recreational hallucinogens, which they sampled, and #3. He slept in the nude.
My favorite DM moment actually just happened this weekend. I had some buddies come up from out of town to play D&D, who I had ran for before. They brought 3 of there friends who hadn't played before, and I had such a fun time. I was surprised how everyone was engaged with the story and their characters background. You honestly wouldn't have been able to tell that they had never played before. We ended up running out of time and everyone was eager to finish the story so next week we're all going to hop online and finish the adventure! It was really cool as the DM to see everyone's interest and excitement especially for most of them not playing before.
Favorite DM moment: when I have to throw everything I've written for the session of the table as my party goes absolutely off-rail and I have to rethink the entire adventure along the way the party takes.
My favorite moments DMing is when I think I can get my players to fetch something or ask a NPC a simple question to move forward with the story, but they somehow make a 5 min quest into a 2 hours of improvised conntent.
My favorite moment DMing was an insanely challenging boss fight with a demilich that was nearly a TPK. The players overcame the challenge through incredibly strategic choices and luck, of course. It was awesome
My favorite DM moment is when the players talk about their triumphs and adventures long after. Gives me the warm fuzzy feelings
Favorite DM moment was when a member of my party was just being chaotic af. Stayed back with the parties cart when they went into a dungeon. Decided he wanted to destroy the cart just to screw over the party. Explained to him that he'd need a high roll since the cart is pretty darn sturdy and he rolls a Nat 20; thus the cart was demolished beyond repair.
Love the screens you guys. Keep up the awesome work!
One time our DM, Chuck, had a heart attack during play. Took us a few moments to realize he was not acting, then we rushed him to the hospital. Our group stayed with him overnight and once he was stable we continued playing from the hospital bed for a few hours. Was a lot of fun and one of my favorite memories. Chuck is still alive and is doing well, if you were curious.
My favorite DM moment is any time that I can see players picking up on clues that I've left and beginning to put the pieces of the puzzle together with frantic theorization. Seeing them make these conclusions is incredibly rewarding for everyone involved and as such it is one of my favorite moments in TTRPGs in general.
Favorite DM moment: Creating a random NPC on the fly but than the party becomes obsessed with them so you work them into the main story / BBEG
My favorite DM moment is recently I started running a game for a bunch of friends from high school. It's honestly the best way we've reconnected after 10 years. Just seeing the enjoyment they get from playing is my favorite.
My fav DM moment was the group debating splitting the party and one player screamed « have you never watched a horror movie, it always starts like this », and another player answered in character « what’s that ». True meta moment
My absolute favorite DMing moment so far, was setting up my players with individual introductions, that led into them all meeting each other for the first time, and then sitting back silently while they all role played and made what felt like genuine connections for 40 minutes. ❤
My favorite DM moment was when the players realized they were helping their future selves/kids. The shock and 😮😮😮😮 around the table was priceless.
Favorite DM moment: My first game as a DM. I was running it for 3 coworkers who had never played before. Plot hook was a burning cart in the roadway and signs of a struggle and footprints leading into the woods. One player heard birds in the soundtrack I was playing and deciding to "go play with the woodland creatures" and the other two decided the cart was not their problem and continued along the road to the next town. The next 3 hours were spent with them having the time of their life drinking lemon drops in a multi-dimensional tavern I made up on the fly and me panicking as I desperately tried to reroute them to cavern full of goblins I had spent a month prepping. Best session I've ever been a part of.
Favorite GM moment is when everyone shows up to a session.
Favorite DM moment: First time I took the reigns as a DM for DnD, with a group of coworkers which half are veteran players/DMs, other half never played TTRPGs before.
It was a perfect mix of emotions; from the nervousness of thr first step, the relief of support from the vet players, and exitement to share the hobby to the new players.
Favorite DM moment is revealing that the players were helping the bad guy for the first half of the campaign.
The level of evil genius here makes me wish you had it recorded for prosperity. And it didn’t even happen to me.
Favorite DM moment is when the players began roleplaying with each other for about 20 minutes of in-character dialog, so amazing to watch their progress!
Favorite DM moment: creating puzzles with no answer and picking the one that the players come up at the table and acting like it was the answer all along.
Favorite DM moment, first time I got to do my son and my nephews. It’s great to be able to tell a story with your kids/family. Looking forward to having all my kids able to make a story together.
Favorite DM moment was the first time ever DM'ing, everyone is sitting at the table and ready to start their adventure, and there's a buzz in the air. As soon as I started describing the opening act of the adventure I was completely hooked.
Favourite DM moment: watching a newbie’s face the moment they „get“ what my table is all about, the pure magic that is DnD 😊
My favorite moment as a DM was when my littlest sister joined our family game, since she wasn’t a nerd like the rest of us and hadn’t played the game before. Her sense of wonder at all the little things that we had at that point taken for granted totally refreshed my love for the game.
Favorite DM moment. I had just started running games as a DM. DnD 3rd edition hadn't been out long, it's what I started with, and the Living Greyhawk campaign had several players in the area. After playing three sessions, I asked to see the adventure we had just done, and it looked easy enough to run. I chose to be the DM for the next gameday, got the adventure, read it, and thought I was prepared. It wasn't until three and a half hours in that one of the players said to the group, "You know, he hasn't looked at the adventure for the last two hours." They had gotten so far off script I hadn't touched a page of the adventure since the opening encounter. That's been a hallmark of my DM style since. I know where you start, I know where I need you to be, and what happens in the middle is where ever you all take us. Such a thrilling moment to be able to let my creativity loose, while providing the players with the feeling that their choices and approaches to problems mattered.
*I am not the DM, my dad is and I know he would love this screen.* My favorite DM moment. In our game, one of our characters (J) has a sky ship that can be moved telepathically to wherever they want it. Well we had a new character join that popped on to the shop and J moved the ship to where our characters had come out of a dungeon and the way the DM explained that this new character was pulled through space and time across a couple miles had everyone at the table cackling!! It was such a simple act but pure gold! 10/10
Favorite DM moment: the first time I DM'd a one shot for my friends. They were all super supportive and roleplayed their hearts out! It made it so easy for me and really eased my nerves!
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My favorite DM moment was when my players were talking with some Myconids in their underground cave, and I improv'd that the Myconids really liked shiny, metal things because everything they had was just muddy and dirty all the time. One of my players gave the Myconids a small brass bell and another player cleaned it up with prestidigitation to make it super-shiny. The Myconids were speechless in their awe and appreciation. It was a really fun moment for everyone at the table.
My favorite DM moment is when my party was working really hard on the first step of a puzzle I made with heat-reactive ink and they passed it from one person to another over a strategically placed candle and it made just a little bit of the ink disappear and the party erupted and got straight to work solving the riddles that followed. It made me so proud.
Favorite DM moment is watching the "Aha" moment for your players. When the lightbulb comes on, the story clicks, the BBEG has been interacting with the party the whole time, the leaders of this world are basically gods, the campaign ends and your players are demi-gods. I love those "Aha" moments. 🥰
Favorite DM moment was every moment of my family and friends campaign we actually finished. Too many great moments of revelations, twists, interesting encounters, goofy instances and good vibes.
Favorite DM moment: first campaign, first time players, and while fighting the big bad every player but one was down and both player and bad guy were one hit from dying. Everyone loved their characters and I didn't know how I'd handle my first total party kill. It's now the bad guys turn and standing player would not beg for her life, instead she acted tough and kept the threats going. So screw it, I told her roll an intimidation check even though it wasn't her turn. She won by 1, and bad guy ran. Everyone cheered! And I had my recurring villain.
Trust the dice, they tell beautiful stories.
Best DM moment was when in the middle of a game, my friends of 25-30 years were just role playing a conversation between their characters and I just leaned back, looked around the table and realized how much I loved all these people.
My two favourite moments to DM (since I couldn't pick just one) were #1 having the wife of one of my players give the clue that the PCs needed during the session. I got her on board weeks earlier and she hid the clue on the family tablet. And #2 having the party do a combat encounter session that lead to many NPC allies getting killed or badly injured. Then I ended the session telling the Ranger PC to "wake up" and everyone found out that it was all a fever dream in game and no one actually died. Super cool to session to run! Just sad we didn't play the campaign long enough to get to the dragon ferryboat...Maybe in the next campaign.
Fun video! I like seeing the woodworking and the decision making. Big Tony is so nice. :)
A couple years ago, I managed to DM my first game where I got my parents, brother and sister to play. We've been playing almost every two weeks ever since and it's a big family & bonding moment !
My favorite moment was when I officiated at my parents' weeding in-game. We had a huge ceremony, it was amazing ! They had a ring owlbear-er :)
My favorite dm moment is when you see the terror on the face of a player when you ask for a roll that would be nearly impossible, then see the joy when they pass and the whole table feels that energy.
My favorite Dm moment was completing a two year long campaign with friends I have had for 15 years but had only played with online. We decided to meet during Halloween, and for many of us this was the first time we had met face to face. It was awsome and I miss playing with them.
Favorite DM moment, playing Curse of Strahd and a player decides to put his ear to a door and listen for sounds coming from the other side. He hears a heartbeat because the is a Mimic and literally the one in the entire campaign.
My favorite DM moment was yesterday.
A party member called me up and said the DM for his other group was stuck in another city and couldn't make it to the session. He was stepping up and running his first session ever with 30 min notice and he wanted some help with session prep.
I got him set up with a one shot wedding with silly minigames and an interrupting monster for a finale.
The session went well and he has been on cloud 9 all day.
If I won I think it would be a great welcome to the world of DMing gift.
The markings from figured Maple looks like a TTRPG map. As for my favorite DM moment, a party member once touched an enchanted book, propelling them into the Astral Sea. They returned to the material plane years later, the Captain of the ship named Planar Puddle Jumper.
Best DM moment for me is when you can tell all the players are engaged and having fun. That and when the players remember a foreshadowed clue I left many, many game sessions ago - like the first one.
Favorite DM moment is anytime my players just talk in character amongst themselves for 10 minutes and I just get to sit back, listen and enjoy!
Favorite DM moment would have to to be witnessing the raw emotions on my friends face when a players character died in a combat encounter.
They were all relatively new to the game (myself included), some not really knowing much about d&d other than watching Critical Role. For me seeing them all go from smiling and laughing through the encounter in one instant, to immediate silence and serious planning to try and save the pc that went down, was amazing. It showed they cared and showed how invested they were in that moment. It was rewarding as a dm to see players care and then after the session everyone talking and mentioning favorite moments with the character, and how much they enjoyed the moment cinematically.
I just love moments when the players want to know more about something than you had planned. The interest in the world keeps me doing what I love
Favorite DM moment: We don't play super regularly, so like a year and a half prior (maybe a week or two, game time) I had given the group a few clues that would solve riddles or puzzles later on at different times. Group shows up to the spot where a clue is going to matter, and I've been trying to decide how to remind them of the clues. Our son (20 yrs old) instantly pulls out the note I gave him almost two years ago and says, "Here's what we do." solved the puzzle without any hesitation, no bogging the game down, no lame hints.
As a DM, my favorite moments are when all my players are engaged and having fun, but if I have to pick one moment it would be the big battle they had in Avernus against the new arch-devil that that was put in place after they purified the last one, they thrashed her so hard and destroyed one of her airships, Asmodeus had to intervene and ban them from hell. So many amazing moments, great and bad rolls and laughs were had in just that one fight makes it my favorite moment Ive had as a DM.
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Favorite DM moment was writing a short adventure for my buddies and it actually going off super well. Sailing quest with fishing and water elementals, meeting new characters in a strange land, and helping them find their kidnapped citizens and save them from a cult with a boss battle that had timers and non combat mechanics that they loved!
Favorite DM Moment was recently when we were talking to some of my former players. And they were talking about wanting to get back to my old story. And they told me how much fun the Adventure I hurriedly made up was. Being told that your story was great and people want to get back to it for a DM that's the best validation and moment you can ask for.
Favorite DM moment is leaving to long to get printouts and first time comeing back but all are still talking in character.
My favorite DM moment would be when my players begin DMing their own games. Seeing the love and passion pour out into their own stories and worlds.
My favorite DM moment was when I ran a new group through a D&D module with insane homebrew classes (one of my players was a fighter with the subclass of Jedi. Yes, he had a lightsaber that worked like flametongue). The joy that I was able to experience seeing my players have fun while learning the wonderful game of D&D might never be topped in my lifetime.
My favourite DM moment was actually my DM's reaction to our Curse of Strahd group loading a tower of Castle Ravenloft up with gunpowder, and my warlock successfully igniting the entire room and blowing out the tower and a huge portion of the wall sending rock everywhere.
My Favorite DM moment had to be completing my first long campaign. it took 3 years of weekly play and was the same players throughout. So many good moments and friendships made, moments we still talk about 15 years later. It was Rise of the Runelords, which is a great and well put together adventure path.
Favorite DM Moment: I wrapped a 3-year campaign in May this year! I got my players from level 3 to level 20. after the final battle, I flashed forward two years to a dinner shared with the party and their loved ones and asked each to give an epilogue by describing what they had been up to for the last two years. It ended with two PCs getting engaged and living their life together repatriating the Dragonborn diaspora with their adoptive dragonborn twins. It was excellent!
Burl veneer tablet stand for sure!! So good to see this side of the business again! Loving this regularity!
Favourite DM moment was running my first Homebrew session last week. I may be new to DMing but it just feels like home being on the other side of the screen.
I had a new player in, they were level one and asked if they could shoot 2 arrows at once. I said they can definitely try, and the glint in their eyes when they realized the possibilities of DnD was priceless. Such a simple moment, but I cherish it.
My favorite DM moment is actually from my first player game which got me started running a Tabletop Club at the high school I teach at. I was playing a halfling rogue and was introduced to the party as an outsider who helped progress the party through the story. Was act first and ask questions later. We encountered a swarm of bees. I proceeded to climb a tree, splash oil, and light the swarm on fire. Through several unfortunate rolls between the barbarian and I, we ended up with the barbarian pinned under a burning tree that he cut down on himself.
My son got a figured maple set during the Christmas special random deal. He wasn't very excited about it when he found out what he was getting, but once he got it in person he was floored by how awesome it looked. Just like these fellas are saying, once the figuring caught the light it was magical.
This buttoned up way better than yesterday's episode and the length was a lot more in line with what I would expect from wyrmlyfe.
My favourite DM moment is the recap after a long hiatus - The players revelling in their past deeds and the anticipation in the their eyes of what's to come
My favorite gm moment is, frankly all of them. Every time I sit down to use my gm screen, I feel so fucking badass.
My favorite DM moment is when I revealed my set piece for Hoard of the Dragon Queen. I had spent months modeling the entire floating castle with every room made in perfect detail. My players love it so much I let them keep the castle and they had it for the entire rest of the campaign.
Favorite dm moment has got to be getting all of my players to cry and laugh in the span of 10 mins at the conclusion of a 3 year campaign. Was a very emotional rollercoaster spent with some amazing friends
My favorite DM moment: I set up a really awesome fight with a coven of hags that had a pirate theme. The players loved it. It was a tough fight. The warlock went down early, and the paladin scrambled to get him back up. The fighter had to scrape by as temporary tank while the paladin healed. My players fought so hard and burned through so many resources but emerged victorious! A very lucky crit completely decapitated the final hag. Years later they still talk about that fight and how epic it made them feel. I was a very proud DM.
Favorite DM moment...It was a "yes, and" moment I had with a friend who was playing a cleric in Dragonlance back in 2nd Edition (back when clerics never really got to shine much). Well, he had taken airborne riding as a proficiency way back at 1st level (we actually made fun of him) and was now high level and riding a silver dragon into battle. He gets the smart idea of casting a circular Wall of Blades centered on the dragon. Well, why the Hell not! He became a flying Cuisinart! Attack of the Ginzu dragon!!! It was glorious!!! That was 30 years ago and he still tells the story of flying headlong into red dragons and shredding them to pieces!
My favourite DM moment is when you cause your players to build an emotional string to other characters or NPC's and you can play that string to really bring out desperation and emotional investment. its the best feeling in the world when your players really care about saving that goblin and put ever ounce of effort and thought into it and seeing them feel accomplished and full or joy when they succeed or have to possess the sacrifice they had to make to get to a goal. Nothing else can create that level of emotional investment. I love being a DM for those moments.
Favorite DM moment: my players were facing a particularly deadly encounter and through previous campaign shenanigans, player deaths and learned experiences, they prepared, focused and worked as a team to defeat a challenging BBEG encounter by the skin of their teeth. It made me proud of them to see them work together to defeat something that would have killed that same party that started the campaign a year prior to that. Player growth, you love to see it.
My favorite DM moment was a session years ago with intense roleplaying. We played for over four hours with a total of seven die rolls; the rest was just pure collaborative story building!
My favourite DM moment was when I had an encounter set up in an underground dungeon that my first group of first-timers (D&D 2E) were making their way through. I had a hydra as the big bad, which was trapped behind a collapsed part of the tunnel, only 3 heads could reach through an opening at the top of the rubble. A lot of work making sure the fight would be challenging and balanced, didn't really have anything else planned. The whole party saw it, and just noped right out of there, didn't even give it a second thought
My absolute favourite DM moment was a simple random encounter, one of a hundred possibilities, that left a lasting mark on the campaign. A giant stumbled upon the party's camp during the dead of night, and instead of killing the intruder the party welcomed the giant to stay, drink, eat and talk. It started an entire side adventure to help the giant find his way home to a city in the clouds, and in the final battle of the campaign the city of giants came to the party's aid. Honestly such a good time.
Favorite DM moment was TPKing a group of new players on the first encounter in lost mines of phandelver, but then it allowed me and the party to have an excellent time playing the goblin hideout in reverse as an escape mission. New players got to experience two classic introductions session tropes in one game! For the record this was probably my 10th or 11th campaign/game that I have DMed over the last decade, and my first TPK. Sometimes the dice just be brutal like that.
Favorite DM moment.. finally finding one! They are rare and must be horded!!
Favorite DM moment: Crying with my players as we finished an 8 year campaign and story. Saying goodbye to characters we loved and for some, goodbye forever as their characters passed. It is a memory I will never forget.
Favorite DM Moment: I love those moments as a DM when I suddenly realizes that something truly special has occurred, and I ditch all my plans to watch the party chase the wild story.
My favorite DM moment comes from my perspective as a player. Me and a friend had never played before and we casually brought up wanting to try it to a friend who DM's. So he recruited a few more friends that play in his various groups and we set off on an adventure. He assumed we were mostly unfamiliar with DnD and we played possum during our session 0. Little did he know my friend and I had actually spent the entirety of lockdown binging campaign 1 and 2 or CR and various other one shots. His face when we wiped the floor of his first encounter with some clever combinations was priceless. He loved it, and then subsequently increased all monster health pools by 50% and killed my friend as revenge.
Favorite DM moment: Introducing Strahd to my party for the first time in Curse of Strahd. I was so nervous, but afterwards my party members all said they were absolutely terrified of him. Felt so good!
Favorite DM moment was the first time my players were so immersed in the world and adventure I had created for them that they talked, in character, for a solid 30 minutes and I just watched. Runner up is the first time I made a player cry at through a backstory reveal. I have made at least half my table cry by using they're backstories.
Favorite and one of my saddest DM moments was when we ended my year and a half campaign in my homebrew world of Runeterra (from League of Legends). A year and a half of building the characters and their influence on the world and the events that they went through, the character growth that everyone's pc went through, all for it to end with no one losing their character. It was a blessing and I will forever love the feeling that I had when playing the campaign.
A while back I ran an arc that dealt with an earthen plane princes back story. I loved watching my players piece together the mystery of how one of the players exes(in game) had manipulated him, his family, her family, and the kingdom to assemble a coup to put her in charge of the realm. It was quite satisfying all around for them to fight her at the end of it.
My favorite dm moment was went I revealed a full painted 3d printed ship for the party to board. Of course they stole it. They were so happy, it was so fun. And now they have a huge boat with their own crew.
My favorite DM moment was in my current campaign. I have a scar in reality. Whenever my players talk oog about a cartoon, or movie, or character, or magic or whatever. A specific number of days later that thing appears from the scar as it flares. I keep track of all of this. One of my players recently figured this out and they were all screaming trying to figure out why and what they could bring into the world and the repercussions. Just seeing someone realize the exact number of days though made me proud.
Favorite DM moment is when after a 2.5 years campaign the bad guy was reveled to be one of the first helpful NPC for the party (A nice old man just happy to offer something to eat and a place to sleep). All of that leading to scream and tears at the end of the fight to find in his last souvenir it was controlled by a sort of Demon. My party was just so overjoyed to discover that because it meant the old "Gramps'" as they call him could be brought back without this entity. It meant a lot for them and for me to as I loved playing this NPC.
My favourite DM moment happened very recently. Proud to have finally got my MGT table and somehow had managed to keep it secret from my players since backing the Kickstarter so the first session I had with it set up I got them to go into a different room of the house where I had put my old table and started the session as though everything was normal (nothing weird going on this session guys) I had been building up a city combat with a mass prison break for several sessions. The time came where all the players were expecting to roll initiative, and because it was taking place in a very large area normally we just do theatre of mind but this time instead of saying "roll for initiative" I said "everyone get up and follow me" where I took the into the new conservatory I had built specifically to put the new table in where I had also been able to get some new city terrain and had set up an entire city block battlemap in the vault. The players faces were certainly something I will always remember. Epic moment for everyone.
My favorite moment aa a DM was a simple one: it was a day when I didn't have much prepared and was working from old material, but the party decided to go in a direction I didn't expect. Thinking quickly, I improvised an NPC that they enjoyed far more than I expected, and much of the rest of the session was just them laughing and RPing with them. That feeling was tremendous.
I had this amazing encounter written, of an antique galleon carrying a horde of hundreds of skeletons, zombies, and a Cadre of necromancers delivering a vampire's coffin to the heart of a major city. Maps of the ship, the harbor, the city streets all drawn up and ready for a long night of combat trying to stop the horde. My players firebombed the ship before it got close, and killed the encounter before it began. Everything from the satisfaction of building a huge encounter, to the outside-the-box solution, to the lingering story threads it spawned, was incredibly satisfying!
My favorite DM moment was when the players were so vested in their characters, the world, and what they built that the drama and animosity towards the antagonists of the story could be felt from the beginning to end of each session.
My favorite DM moment: Our DM said while we were watching guard outside the elderly person's house we heard a "HOOT" as an owlbear charged us and we all almost nearly died in our first ever session of D&D. Great memories with friends.
My Favorite DM Moment:
Has to be when I was running a game for some of my buddies in college. They were in a dark, barely lit dungeon that had walls and floors made of bones, fighting undead and spooky puzzles. Scary type stuff. To set the mood I tried to turn off the lights but it was too dark in the dorm room. One of my players opened the microwave door and it was perfect. We played by the light of a microwave in a very small, hot dorm room with like 7 people. Much fun was had.