I use command on a bandit and say "backflip". The bandit then attempts to do a backflip, rolls a natural 1 for performance, lands on his head and breaks his neck. One of my favorite kills I've had in my short time of playing DnD.
I used Dissonant Whispers on a bandit and said "What'cha gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on you at Summerslam, brother!" He passes the check and puts me in a head lock and I fail the strength check. My turn comes around again and I cast it again at lv2 and say "Where's Triple H when you need him?" and the bandit fails, panics and says "Not Triple H!" has a heart attack and dies.
My character was bleeding out in my first campaign. In panic i decided to Intimidate my wounds. Rolled nat 20, DM had a stroke then said "ok so, you yelled REALLY hard at your open stomach wound and it just...up and closed...heal 5hp 🤦♂️" 🤣🤣🤣
My Dragonborn Paladin was helping infiltrate a Bandit camp. We got seen. “I tell the bandit he can’t see me!” “Roll persuasion..” “Nat 20. “ My DM sighs “The bandit goes “ok” and walks away.” Best. session. ever.
If the group were going for a realistic game, that wouldn't have been allowed. Natural 20 is only an automatic success on attack rolls, not on ability checks.
We were in a modern campaign. There was a chipotle. I rolled to seduce the Chipotle (literally the restaurant). I got a NAT20. DM had no idea what to do...
It’s hurdy-gurdy a beautiful Slavic instrument that looks like a guitar but is played and sounds like an organ ... my character had one as her instrument
My Latin teacher made one of those out of cherry and walnut wood, goat intestines, and brass. He still has it 25 yrs later and he played it for us. It was amazing
"The ship is rocking like crazy in a storm, waking you all up." I'd like to roll to stay asleep. Nat 20. "Ooookay, well now lightning is crackling like crazy, and you hear the crew shouting-" Nat 20. "YOU HEAR THE SHIP CREAKING AND WOOD SNAPPING." ...18. "YOU WAKE UP" I managed to roll 2 more nat 20's for sleeping later in the story arc.
Some people asked me about how I killed someone with a feather. I strangled em with it, Dm asked for a roll, NAT 20. That feather was used to murder three more people.
The first time I played DND, I was a wizard that specialized in lightning magic. We were facing a goblin army inside an ancient temple. It became my turn, which was also my first turn ever. I casted chain lightning, but rolled a nat 1. The DM, feeling sympathetic for me, said "You focus your spell but got distracted half way through and shot sideways. The lightning hit a pillar which caused it to topple over and crush 50 goblins."
@@flamboyantcrow9673 no. you have to roll for ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws. Chain lightning is a save based spell, which means that you don't roll anything, your enemy does. it does 10d6 (iirc) damage, half if they succeed on the save.
I Nat 20-d an intimidation roll after fouling up a stealth check. An 8-foot-something Goliath barbarian just screaming "YOU CANNOT SEE ME! GO AWAY!" At a pair of terrified succubi was just too good.
@@Hangman-yq5uh Same succubus 1: you heard something? Succubus 2: No... I'm bored, let's go find some traveling priest to seduce or something. Succubus 1: Right (THEY DID NOT FLY OFF TOWARD A ROAD)
I set up a prison my players were trapped in. They were required to get to the lowest floor where there was a portal... I made a boss fight on one of the floors where they would fight the warden. My little brother likes to mess up what I have planned. Me (DM): what do you do? Little bro: I chain him up and put him on my pet manticore. Me: Okay? You are going to need a high rol- My brother: Is this high enough? I dont exactly remember what the roll was, but they took their first boss hostage... they now keep him as a pet...
DM: "The mimic goes to bite Rutherford (our gunslinger). It hits, and you take 4 damage. Matt, your turn." Me: "I jump on top of the mimic and slam my revolver into it's head and fire." DM: "Roll for it." Me: "Nat 20." DM (whilst hating himself): "With the grace of an olympic gold medalist gymnast, Ernie (my character) flips over Rutherford's head, and sticks the landing with such finesse, Rutherford's arm doesn't buckle under your weight." Me: *:D*
New player enters game Rogue: "Who is this, I'm attacking them" *Nat 20 "uhhhh..." GM: *Facepalms Bard: "Don't worry, I'll put the rogue in a sleeper hold" *second Nat 20 GM: well that worked out
A suggestion for the Death Knight DM. Make the Death Knight a bit of a recurring NPC that the party talks with often and eventually leaves his order. Then while the party is away, have another member of the order, preferably a rival to the Death Knight, come and kill the friendly Death Knight. That Death Knight is your new BBEG.
Or, you know... realize that even a nat 20 doesn't mean you instantly seduce/win over anything you're trying to charm... Sometimes, that nat 20 just means something that WAS going to straight out kill you.. might just let you go FOR NOW.. You can be the most charming/persuasive person in the world.. it doesn't mean the dragon will fuck you.. just means they might decide you're too amusing to eat... FOR THE MOMENT. Or that they won't outright kill you for ATTEMPTING to seduce them. A lot of the more ridiculous stuff can be avoided by... you know, applying logic to it. A Nat 20 just means you might get the best possible outcome for a situation.. that best situation isn't always getting everything you want.. but more likely just not suffering the worst possible outcome.
one of my players was a little annoyed with me so he said he was gonna go into a tavern and play his bagpipes as badly as possible. He rolled a nat20 so I let him make everyone take 1d4 phsycic damage :)
OOh, I want to make this a mechanic for a joke bard character. Find the WORST instrument I can, keep my perform skills as low as possible, and make him a skill monkey in other areas. Make sure my party has earplugs, and check with the DM about the character first. I wanna do it.
My tiefling bard did a breakdancing check as a joke while a demon was attacking us. The gods liked my breakdancing so they ended up smiting it. Could've been my cousin too.
THANK YOU! I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO INSTANTLY THOUGHT THAT! Though in all honesty if it was the perfect size for a human-sized character’s finger that just makes it funnier
I was playing a bard, and we had to lure people interested in women. So we dressed up and spread across the city. I used my cape (my pc wears a cape) as a blanket, lit some candles with Presto and with Minor Illusion, I played careless whisper. DM tells me to roll performance. Nat 20. Got me 5 gp from some men on the street, interested in me losing some clothes until I revealed to them that my PC is in fact a dude. Still a fun experience
Me (dragonborn paladin): I try to jump on the dragon's back and attack it to keep it from fleeing. DM: Alright, roll athletics with disadvantage. Me: Fair enough. (Rolls two nat 20's) Me: DM: Table: Me: *DIVINE SMITE!!!*
This story was from the first campaign I ever ran: A 12-year-old goblin and a Dragonborn are stuck trying to get a druid from the clutches of a Giant Squid. They were going through 3 trials and this was their 3rd one, in the 2nd trial somehow they managed to get a small army of gargoyles - about 30. My friend playing the goblin ( named Wisp) decided to try and give a motivational speech to these goblins. Somehow she rolled a NAT 20, this 12-year-old goblin who had barely any education and barely spoke common or goblin gave such an amazing speech that she got the whole troop of gargoyles to go free the druid. I don't even know what she said that got them so inspired.
My friend and I got seven nat 20’s in a row. Our DM just let us skip like 2 sessions worth of encounters and rip a whole through the fabric of the universe. We got unicorns too.
Some of people know about this specific "weapon", the Interdimensional Cannon. Me (a tiefling sorcerer) and one of my friends (a half-orc paladin) decided to grab a bag of holding and fill it with gun powder and level 1 daggers and small weapons (even broken ones) that we could find along our journey. The idea is, when the situation calls for it, to throw the bag with all the weapons inside and then cast a spell to break the bag and shoot all the weapons as projectiles with fire damage, our DM knew about it and we all thought that it would be pretty funny so he allowed us to keep a hold of it for like half the campaign. Like a week later after we started the gathering, we encountered a massive, ice elemental golem that guarded a shrine that we needed to enter for plot reasons, and quickly. So my friend said the following: -The time has arrived...I grab my bag of holding and throw it at the golem! At that moment, I remembered the bag was full and so my brain clicked as I immediately yelled: -While the bag is mid-air, I cast Hellish Rebuke on it to ignite the gun powder inside it and fire the weapons inside the bag at the golem! DM told us both to roll, we both got Nat20. DM was shocked, laughing his ass off and regretting ever allowing us to use that bag for that purpose. Long story short, the golem got one-shot by all the burning daggers, broken bottles and kitchen knifes hurled at him, completely melting his body. DM then banned the Interdimensional Cannon as a house rule for future sessions
One of my first campaigns our DM had this plot going where a city we saved in our first encounter was actually a city of vecna worshipers who were planned to be one of our final encounters towards the end of the campaign. After saving said village the village elder comes out to thank us and reward us, obviously we knew nothing about the city at this time and saw this as the generic complete quest and get reward kind of interaction. Me being new to D&D and wanting to have a bit of fun was playing a "Paladin of the Sauce" a worshiper of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. So as we are talking to the elder I tell the DM I want to convert him to Pastafarianism. The DM just gives me this look and tells me to roll for persuasion. Nat 20. The DM groans and asks me to roll a d percentile and I got an 80. Turns out the elder was actually the head priest of the church, and now he, and 80% of the city were so moved by my words they all gave up their evil ways and converted to Pastafarianism.
Ah... the end of my last session had a situation that fits this situation almost perfectly! I am the DM for a party of three level 4 characters. The warlock saw that there was no reason to fight, but the paladin and the rogue decided to try to ride a modified flail snail that almost killed them. This obviously pissed off the snail, resulting in a fight. They cut off one of its tentacled limbs, but since the paladin was on low health, they decided to leave each other alone, rather than possibly die. So, after healing up, the Paladin says she wants to lick the (magical) snail slime. But first, she decides to make a medicine check to see if this magical snail slime is poisonous. Nat 19, which broke me. This isn't the first instance of insane rolls whenever they tried to pull off stupid shenanigans, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back. So, upon no immediate bad effects, the rogue decides to also lick the snail. So now both of them get to deal with the same magical effect placed on them thanks to ingesting this snail slime. Tonight, in a magical world where the language of French doesn't exist, both the rogue and the paladin will have all of their speech auto-translated into French. (French because escargot and snails) I contacted the warlock outside of the game to ask if she was willing to work with me on keeping them both in the dark about this. So tonight, both the NPCs and the warlock will treat the paladin and rogue as if they were speaking French, regardless of what languages they try to speak. This doesn't prevent them from understanding each other or prevent them from understanding other people. If people want me to, I can tomorrow tell the stories that result from this one session curse. Edit: Due to IRL stuff that is out of our control, the campaign has been paused for the next few weeks. Apologies to people anxiously waiting for the update. Edit 2: Thanks to everything going crazy right now because of Covid, schedules have been shifted up a ton for our group, so it's been (probably) postponed for another few weeks until we get more free time after the semester finishes. On a brighter note, none of us are particularly endangered by this, and since our sessions were already online, we don't need to worry about that. Edit 3: Uhh... I forgot about this, so it hasn't been updated, but thanks to Gotham Knight, y'all get an update. Update posted below.
@@dawnsaurora We probably won't play again until April 23, though we might be able to do the 9th. Trust me, this isn't a delay any of us wanted either.
I had a funny moment while playing a gnome rogue by the name of scrambles. By design I made him smaller than your average gnome and quite comically used my size with both advantageous and terrible effect but I always like to think of the time while escorting a trader we met to the nearest town with my party which consisted of a cleric a druid and a fighter who had a in character distrust of anyone "non human" naturally we didnt get along most of the time. During an argument he decides to try to punt my character like a football, having done this a few times before with mixed results I was expecting it. He rolls a 1 I ask the dm if I can roll to dodge it anyway and after getting the okay I roll a 17 I tell the dm I'm going to counter back after my dodge but instead of attacking I want to jump on top of the fighters head the dm shrugs and says okay but I want you to roll a d20 for agility and dexterity and a d6 17-19-6 I think back and ask the dm what the d6 was for realizing he never told me why I was rolling it. Instead of answering my question the dm tells us that when trying to kick my character the fighter stumbled and my rogue was able to not only dodge the attack by jumping but backfliped into the fighters face breaking his nose as I scurried onto his head the table laughed except the fighter who said I just grab the little gremlin off my head and hold him away from at arms length he rolls and succeeds I look at my dm plainly and say my character goes limp. my dm who actually kind of hated how much our fighters hate for other races derailed the campaign or was just annoying to deal with in general told us each to roll a d 20 and lightning struck twice in my favor 20-1 in my favor the dm describes how this tiny runt of the gnome looks at the fighter and smiles before sagging down the massive fighter struggles to grab hold with both hands before being pulled to the ground by the weight of this tiny creature the dm tells us both to roll again and in a cruel twist of fate the dice gods made us even 1-20 the dm closes his eyes and sighs and says the fighter fell to the ground right on top of my character the over all weight of the fighter in his armor crushing me instantly the dm said outside of a mangled sack of crushed meat and bones only a bright red gooey stain remained of scrambles on the outside of our fighters armor the cleric said she wanted to resurect me but I declined I'd been wanting to play a wizard for awhile at that point and it seemed like a hilarious way to leave the party the fighter never washed the stain of his armor either and occasionally pointed at it and said that's the only gnome I ever kind of liked it actually came in handy as an intimidation tool and the dm decided to give him a +5 in intimidation a plus 2 in dexterity and a -1 luck for it and that's how my character became an armor enchantment
@@curious9904 Long story short...... Gnome and another fighter were fighting. Nat 1s and 20s on both sides. Ended with the gnome being squished under the fighter and becoming an enchantment.
A dwarf warrior in my party had terrible perception and so blundered straight into a gelatinous cube. He was engulfed by it, and started taking poison damage. "Can I eat my way out?" (rolls natural 20) "Your teeth tear through the cube, freeing yourself and splitting it into two smaller, weaker cubes. The poison does not harm you, instead triggering a bloodlust giving you +1 to attack rolls." Eating random things became something of a running joke after that, though generally with less success.
There was one time where my DM gave us a dragon to face, but not to fight. We had to Guess riddles to earn our freedom. My DM said that if we decide to fight this, we would surely die. So during the riddles, everyone was trying to Guess, I then asked my DM if I can roll the Dice. She asks why and I said I want the result to come by as a secret. She allowed me to roll without saying what it was for ONLY if I write it on a piece of paper first so I don’t change what I do. I rolled a natural 20. The DM asked what I do with that D20 and I say I preformed the perfect backflip. Everyone was confused. Including the dragon.
There was one time, it wasn’t D&D, it was similar but based off superhero’s. One of my friends superpower was a super decked out car, which wasn’t good for the mission we were running which was a stealth mission into a mall where 2 bad guys were holding 20 hostages and would kill them if we were seen. Since we played multiple games that night, there wasn’t much time for this one, and when we ran out of time and hadn’t entered the building yet, my friend told the DM that he backed up 1 mike and drove full speed at the front of the mall. Since there was a police barricade outside he had to roll a controll check to not hit any of the cars, and got a nat 20, this was just the beginning. He backed up one mile and started driving, getting up to speeds around 700mph, since he rolled a nat 20, he was able to swerve through the police cars without doing any more damage than a single mirror that was knocked off. He rammed full speed through the front door and into the first boss, killing him and sending him through the wall at the opposite end of the mall. Now that my friend was inside, he only had a few hundred feet to stop before he hit the back wall, so he slammed on his breaks. The DM had him roll for a random loss of control, his engine stalled dropping him down to only a few hundred miles per hour, he slowed down further and had to roll for another loss of control and swerved, towards the boss and the hostages, and managed to get his speed down. When he hit the boss, the boss died. The DM then handed my friend 1d20 and said “there are 20 hostages,” he rolled a 1. We won, got the favor of the police, none of us got hurt, and only 1 hostage died
The party was in a prison area to become slaves to dark elves and one of the members wanted to go to a different room, so a guard shot him with a crossbow and sent him to the infirmary. Another member rolled a nat20 to convince the guard he was sick and the guard was so convinced he had terminal cancer that he sent him to a death pit
I remember a game where the DM gave the person a chance for a "God Call". IE as he was being pierced by an enemy weapon he called on his god to help him achieve vengeance (since he worshipped a warrior god). The DM gave him two ten sided dice and said if you roll a 0-0 your god will respond. Lo and behold -- bounce bounce bounce 0-0. Man did the DM's face go blank as he never thought it would happen. But then he stepped up to the moment, and said something to the effect "As the enemy warrior pulls his sword from your chest with a laugh kicking your body backwards .. a glow envelopes you and the wound. Suddenly your armor is whole and the wound is healed and you feel reinvigorated and while staggered from the kick, you stand upright with a grin on your face. The enemy forces see this, drop their swords and flee in panic".
In one campaign I was playing a home-brew undead character that had the ability to heal a small amount of damage each turn if he had been damaged the previous one. He also had a habit of setting himself on fire (didn't actually give any bonuses other than looking cool and being a portable light source). Early on in the campaign, our cleric decided to cast "Turn Undead" and forced my character run away ... into an army of zealous rebel fighters. A small group broke off from the main force to attack my character, and I managed to kill the leader of the group. Being tired of fighting, and wanting to get back tot he safety of the rest of the group, I asked my DM if I could try to scare them away. He said yes. Nat 20. After the gasps and laughter from my group died down, the DM described how I shouted at these cultists, calling them puny mortals, whilst they looked on in horror as my character burst into flames and wounds began closing before their very eyes. So these cultists did the only logical thing: the renounced their old god, and began following my character! TL;DR My character was forced away from the group, and came back having accidentally started a cult.
In my first campaign, a mate of mine failed every roll with 1s. The moment he tried to save another player from an acidic lake we all collectively went "This won't go well". To our surprise, he rolled a NAT20 and saved him. Might I say this friend was a slime, who was responsible for turning the lake acidic in the first place
I was a 7'0 tall Dragonborn and my friend was a 3'0 tall gnome. Their was a boss mummy. He was too far away from us. I threw the gnome and rolled a nat 20, then the gnome got a nat 20 + 4 dexterity with rapier so he one shot the mummy. Best CAMPAIGN EVER!
Who needs to have the whole campaign when you can just threat the Death Knight with your sorcerer casting Dark Spikes T on him if he doesn't surrender and give you his goods?
My father once rolled a history check and got a nat 20, the dm has us check our nat 20s to see how impossibly amazing they were, my dad got another nat 20.
During the first campaign i ran my party was trying to get information out of a group of goblins they had cornered in a tavern. What followed was the biggest string of 'dumb barbarian' moments i have ever seen. 1st Goblin: is unconscious so the barbarian rolls to slap them awake. Rolls a nat 1 and breaks the goblins neck. Goblin 2. is hiding under a large (100 gallon) cask of mead on a stand. Barbarian rolls to lever the cask up. Nat 20. he lifts the cask then tries to grab the goblin While still holding the cask. grabs the goblin successfully but since he is now holding up the cask with one hand i make him roll strength again and he gets a nat 1. The cask falls and turns the goblin's torso and legs into paste. Goblin 3. this goblin is tied up and conscious but will not talk. Barbarian rolls to intimidate and rolls a nat 20. given the situation i decided to roll a con save for the goblin (he is badly hurt after all) goblin rolls a nat 1. My barbarian gave the goblin a heart attack. In less than 5 minutes the barbarian had managed to kill all three of the goblins they could have interrogated. From then on Bermund Forgeborn became known as the 'goblin slayer'. Eventually i made up a perk that automatically adds an extra d4 to his damage rolls against goblins
Last night we were finishing a session on Discord. The session ended with a TPK of our own choosing. We had established that we were to enter a courthouse that had been altered with magic, it was now a maze that you could open only two doors at a time and anymore than this and the lights in the next room wouldn't come on. We started out actually using a block and tackle rip the doors down effectively destroying the DMs Puzzle maze. Eventually he had it magically reset itself, so we started actually exploring. We found a room where there was a chest instead of the usual clear room. We were thinking "Oh it's a mimic." One of the guys opens the chest with Mage Hand, nothing happens. My character, Ogg goes over and checks the chest and there's a couple of satchels inside. Ogg throws one at the mage and says open it up there's nothing wrong. He opens his satchel gold pieces, sweet. We proceed to the next room and there's a chest in the mirrored corner from the one we just saw. We knew this had to be trapped so the mage opens with Mage hand and nothing happens. Ogg goes up to the chest because the Mage Hand couldn't lift what was inside and decides to Firebolt the chest to catch it on fire, because paranoia. As we proceed through the maze we come across a room where there's a chandelier, so far we haven't noticed any light fixtures due to the thirty foot ceiling, at eye level because of the 10 foot ceilings. Ogg decided to swing from the chandelier. Ogg botches his acrobatics check, slams face-first into the opposite door of the room ten feet from the chandelier. After that we ended up in a courtyard full of large trees and plants that were well taken care of. Ogg decides to Sprint through the courtyard to get to another door because he doesn't like plants. He proceeded to trip and fall into a pit trap where an assassin bug crawls out of the dirt. Ogg thankfully climbed out of the hole just in time to avoid the bug. we decided to kill it. After combat, we start investigating and one of our guys finds that the fountain in the center of the room is trapped with Rune of Fireball, total of 24 Fireball runes on this fountain and determine the trigger if you get within 10 feet they activate. Well we search around the room and find that the doors had poison handles. We didn't have any rags to clean them off with, so we decided to rip the door down with the tried and true method. Whe the door comes flying towards our levers, our operator botches his dexterity role and he took a door to the head and was knocked unconscious. Well, the door flies directly into the fountain triggering the trap each of us takes four maximized fireballs worth of damage at level five. Greatest result ever.
Me and my party got jumped by a huge army of goblin theives. The goblin leader yells "drop everything and no one gets hurt" our paladin yells acroos the room to the DM "no u". She rolls a nat 20... We lived as kings after selling all their stuff.
Oooh I got a story for this! So first thing you need to know is that AT FIRST my character was shy, hated talking to new people, and overall a cinnamon bun until she just happen to go through the fly of despair basically and alignment was changed. Basically time ripped open, you know your normal dnd session. So instead of going to the room where the plot was taking us she went to town to the tavern to drink. I guess my character was a lightweight and got drunk. So I rolled a d20 to see what kind of drunk she was. DM didn't ask me to roll. I was just doing it for role play options. Odds were sad depressed drunk and evens were the flirty drunk. I rolled a nat20. My character is a druid okay? She got up on the bar and started performing (dancing and singing) basically taking over the bard job and entertaining the entire bar. The bard? Was behind the counter and serving drinks. That bar was dead when she walked in. About an hour later there was a line out the door. My DM tried to get us to focus that session and my character was too drunk to even try. TLDR; character is the flirty type when drunk and took over the bard's job at the tavern. DM died inside
Didn’t really facepalm and the rolls were not exactly Nat 20s but I am currently hosting a Sea of Thieves inspired campaign and had my party fight one of the four Ashen Lords. After both our paladin and warlock had gone down, our barbarian gets the perfect idea to yeet three of the starboard cannons and main mast right at the Ashen Lord. I applaud her creativity and even made it so the mast took out all of the skeletons the Ashen Lord had summoned.
Okay, this was a home brew, with made up spells aloud as long as they were fair. Me being the chaotic good wizard I was, I gave me self lemon powers. This included turning things into lemons, lemon army’s, even lemon horses! This all ties in to a dungeon where the big baddie was. He was stuck in this tiny bubble cell thingy, the DM let me go up to the bubble and do **1 thing.** so of course, I walked up to the bubble looked at it. And turned the big baddie into a lemon. The DM looked at me confused and said “you better roll high, or this guy is gonna be set free” and of course, the dice was in my favor. Nat 20. And that’s how I saved the world with the power of lemons. I’m called lemon girl now.
My group was fighting against a couple of enemies, the thing was that the group was a little bit disperced in the battle, so, when the enemies saw the poor bard of the team preacticly alone they started to focus him. A single round passes and the bard was unconscious and started rolling death saves. Me, (as a hexblade with the tome [I was stupid] with an Owl familiar) tried to save him, but of course...I don't have healing, so i send my little owl to use the help action for the Bard's death saves, witch my DM allowed. The Bard's turn arrived... NAT 20 thanks to the adventage, now with 1 hp, the bard starts to heal himself and help in the battle, which we won thanks to that stupid crit. It was hilarious
Most recently I ran a one shot for some buddies of mine. They were high level characters (15 and above). They were fighting a lich and the fighter rolled a mat 20 with vorpal sword. I looked at the description of the weapon where it says that the sword does extra damage to a creature with legendary actions instead of outright killing the monster. So I had the player roll on a d100 crit table I have. He rolls a 100 which is instant death. Oh and by the way this was the very first turn for the party.
Not a nat20, but related in levels of stupid luck. We were avoiding the boss fight and had all but awoken the vampire cultist, who was in a tomb with the lid partially moved. My brother poured in the oil he stole from me and our drunk dwarf tossed a lit match in it. Mind you, our dwarf had to have help to reach this, so imagine a buff elf carrying this drunken dwarf and tossing a match into a stone coffin filled with 130 gallons of stolen oil. Our dm went through all his notes and kinda threw his hands in defeat. We killed the bad guy he'd been building up before he even woke up. This is one of 2 dnd stories I have, and I love it
I can imagine that a lot of DMs in these stories took the nat 20 too seriously. Personally, I don't think it would be unfair to say that doing something like "seducing god" is impossible even with a nat 20.
Nat 20s allow for auto success on attacks only, anything else is a DC roll so you would have to have a certain total score (seducing god would be at least a 40 total roll imo). Its not as fun but prevents abuse since you can retry most rolls.
Lost Mines of Phendelver. My party made it our main mission to see the mayor's face (and everything else was sidequest). In the end, we cast invisibility on the ranger, gave him advantage with enhance ability and a guidance, and had him stealth down the chimney. He rolled a double nat 20 (from the advantage). The DM ended the session, went home and started homebrewing the mayor.
I was playing as a cleric and at the beginning of our campaign we were at tavern, i speak to the keep and ask if they have any pancakes which they obviously say no. After a while of campaign talk i go back to the keep and try again and this time i try to go back to the kitchen and make my own, the DM asks me to make a roll to force my way back (i roll with disadvantage because of a house rule we have) and i roll a nat 20 which leads me to gracefully thrust the keeper out of the way and land my way into the kitchen where i steal a pastry from a blind man and then roll for “pancake making” and get another nat 20, which leads our monk down to try and eat the pancake and fails a con save that sends him into the ethereal plane and gives him inspiration and a stat boost, i declare pancakes as my religious dish and now for the rest of the campaign i have a pancake making skill and get to add a religion boost to it.
I'm a Dwarf Barbarian, and, doing an intimidation check, rolled a nat20 when attempting to tell an enemy to give me all of their stuff and walk off a cliff. Got a pointy stick and a funny hat, I was satisfied but my DM was a little miffed that I coaxed a very powerful enemy into just killing himself.
One time when the party was just doing a quest, we found an enemy who was meant to be a boss. After a failed attempt at using charm person (failed for obvious reasons) we talked to this boss and with some high persuasion rolls we got out with no deaths and new general. We tried this one time when we found the BBEG before the actual boss battle against him and the DM asked us to roll 15d20s. After seeing the first roll he said that we failed. We had to get all perfect rolls. If we succeeded at THAT then the DM would know that something’s not right. I guess he didn’t want us to do the same trick twice... 😂
I had a session where my party was tripping off of space mushrooms, and the way to get out of that trip was to fight a samurai minotaur that was guarding a door in the middle of the desert. The minotaur said that he'd guard that door with is life if needed, but one of the players, a an envoy (bard homebrew subclass, diplomatic character, basically) rolled a nat 20 in persuasion, and said to the samurai: "Nah, we spoke with your boss and he said we could go." The minotaur sighs and lets them through. That was the only combat encounter in the whole session and was supposed to be a tough one.
2:42 my friend is whenever I'm a dungeon master I only come up with a basic idea of what's going to happen cuz you never know when someone might do something crazy and or roll a Nat 20
I have a suggestion for that DM. Make the Death Knight a recurring NPC who eventually leaves his order to be full-time ally to the party. Have him then get separated from the party and then killed by another Death Knight from the same order who is your new final boss for the arc.
Had a bard that rolled nat 20 trying to "tame" a mimic. It followed him around but acted more like a cat in that it wasn't super friendly, except to the bard. He couldn't tell it what to do either, the DM just took it upon himself to act out the tamed mimic.
My bf and I were playing a game with the rest of our close friends. This was my second time playing a serious game while this was his first. For context, my bf was a wizard fighting a griffon along with another friend (rogue) while I, a paladin, was watching in the distance unable to really do anything until the battle was done. Friend is 1 hit point and would die if my bf didn't do anything on his turn. Bf: I cast mending on friend! (he thought it was a healing spell and I start to giggle to myself as he is so happy that he rolled a nat20) DM: ...You cast the spell and in a wave of magic, the rogue's armor is completely fixed as if it were new! Bf realized his mistake and I start to laugh along with the rest of our friends. After the griffon's turn, friend now has zero hit points and it's my bf's turn again Bf: (unable to think of anything) I throw a rock at it! (He rolls a nat20) DM: (facepalms again) ...you throw the rock and it lands straight into the mighty beast's mouth and suffocates it. It is now defeated.
I was the DM for this campaign. A little bit of background: 6 deity representing Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Light, and Dark. and everyone in this realm had some sort of combination of these 6 elements that dictated their way of life. One of the players was an Aasimar wild magic Sorc, and his "weapon" was an ancient, magical tome that had a connection to the 6 deities. The party end up deep in the Manor of the evil Mayor of the city. They see a big, ominous steel door at the end of a very long hallway. I set it up so that it was a PUSH door. each party member try to open this door to no avail. Last comes up the Aasimar. Him: "i'd like to open the door" DM(me): would you like to PULL or PUSH? Him: "PULL" DM: "Alright give me a strength check" *NAT20* DM: *oh boy* "so with all the magical power of the deities that you are connected to, you, for a brief moment, become the most powerful being in the world, as you PULL open the doors with such force, they end up at the other end of the long hallway you just came from and the whole city shakes as if an earthquake. Congratulations, you just PULLED open, a PUSH door.
Our elven bard was searching the library once for "clues" to the mystery and was insistent on rolling perception to see the traps. She rolled a nat20 and our dm deadass was just like "You find all 0 traps." She was tired of us.
I got a good one, my friend tryed to use his magic sheild thing and rolled quite low (we were being attacked by bat's that had the consistency of honey and the plane we were in was being taken apart, one guy rolled a 17 to blow the thing up) I, being the good human I am, used friendship to boost his roll and save us all! DM said if I got a Nat 20 it would succeed... I got a Nat 20.
One of my better Nat 20's was probably the time that my changeling warlock basically talked an npc into being a human sacrifice in a very similar fashion to a door to door salesman
Homebrew stat rule that got hilariously out of hand. So, just for funsies, DM says Nat 6s explode; roll 3d6 per stat for the standard ones and once more for an extra "Luck" stat that we use. All is well and reasonable until my GF goes to roll her Luck and gets two Nat 6s. No big deal, roll them again. Another two Nat 6s. We chuckle because she's playing a gambler and apparently the dice agree. She rolls again... two Nat 6s. All I remember after that is laughing myself sick as she keeps rerolling with a look of disbelief until eventually ending with at total Luck score of 94. We put a cap on that rule after that.
We walked into a room full of orcs. Conner said he wanted to default dance them to death, DM was so confused lol. Of course rolled a nat 20. The sheer epicness of his default dance created an explosion, incinerating all the orcs on impact
I was playing a Kobold sorcerer, and had convinced a bandit with amnesia that he was Salazar Mcminkly XLII (42) who the party had saved from a flying carpet accident. He then followed us around and helped us in battle. The DM eventually killed him off with a flaming meteor, so I was sad. So I did it again. Best NPC ever.
My friend and I were helping introduce young boys to DND. So it was four boys about 9 years old, the mom as the DM, then us two as the 17 year old assistants. One of the boys triggered a boobytrap in the first 10 minutes of our first session and his character would have died and I asked “can I bolt across the dungeon and tackle him?” I got a nat 20 and both of us went flying and crashed into a wall
Ok so I was playing a acid dragonborn and roled to literally melt a town got a nat 20 my dm then walked out of the room and just screams, walks back in, breathes heavily, just says ok fine
I had a series of nat 20’s from a player (I’m the dm) that were truly absurd, culminating in one from me (in relation to that player) that left everyone awestruck. My friend was playing his most iconic character, and this time around he happened to be a warrior prince. I had an npc/dmpc with him that was my most iconic character- we’ll get to that later, just keep it in mind- and served as his advisor /jester (he’s a bard.) Now you’d think the npc would be the persuasive one, since he had 17 cha and my friend had 12. You’d be wrong. I rolled ok when my npc was forced to step in, but every time the Prince rolled diplomacy, he got a19 or 20. He recruited a mini boss Dragonborn barbarian, a fire giant smith and a half mad Druid WHO WAS AT WAR WITH THE FIRE GIANT HE HAD ALREADY RECRUITED, which was AFTER he talked down the treant who served said Druid. Then , due to my friend switching character concepts faster than Florida weather changes around mid-summer, and a few plot points, that character left but left my npc behind to serve the kingdoms best interests. Enter the best moment in the game. We had to pass some hill giants to go to the next plot point, and my friends Prince had given npc man a dagger made by the fire giant. Knowing what the prince would’ve done, being loyal to said prince and having a vague understanding of the Ordening (basically the giant equivalent of a caste system)y npc showed the hill giants the dagger and ordered them to stand aside, as we had business to get to on the fire giants behalf. Hill giants are dumb as bricks. As gm, I’d never let someone just talk them down and boss them around without a- Nat 20. My FIRST nat 20 on either side of the game that entire campaign. Even AFTER HE LEFT, the prince still rolled a nat 20 VICARIOUSLY THROUGH MY NPC. I never facepalmed so hard in my life.
My party’s fighter kept trying to throw me (the high elf wizard who was generally light) across rivers but thankfully she never succeeded. DM was still like, “fighter, you can’t throw the wizard across every river you see.”
I’m not too big on the details of what each enemy is called or what the campaign was called either, but one time I was fighting this eyeball attached to the wall. The thing is, it was way to high on the wall for anyone to reach it, and it was dropping us like flies. I ended up rolling a nat20 to run up the wall and then another to hit it, ending it’s life right there. The thing was, if either of those weren’t nat 20s I wouldn’t have even hit the thing, much less kill it. I was a level 1 half-elf rogue. I’m pretty sure I was playing castles and crusades.
I'm pretty well know among my friends by rolling good numbers on dices. I'm something of a carry of our party (I was a monk). In one campagin which was going on forever and everyone were just bored we met a giant demon in dungeon. His size was keeping him out from leaving a room. The fight starts and I got a first roll and I rolled NAT20 and I just went - "Im ordering him to let us through" but my DM couldnt agree on that bcs I told that after I rolled a dice. I felt confident so I told - "Fine I will roll again but I will do the same thing". I rolled NAT 20. DM had to check if I cheated. I didn't. Everyone spirits were back on track after that.
I was a conquest paladin, my first d and d campaign: my friend was trapped by a death knight (my friend was satans son) and the death knight challenged us to find all the bombs i thought this was a dire situation and my paladin had high charisma, so i yelled “I seduce him!” So i rolled, and got a nat 20, everyone in the party bursts out laughing and the dm face palmed, needless to say we got my friend out but the death knight couldn’t join our party, because one of the players characters (the brother of the devils son) couldn’t let the death knight live and slayed him, later in the campaign my dm stared giving people special abilities, i got super seducer, and got proficiency in it, but I’m a paladin so i cant use it...
Fairly early on in any GM's "career path" the fact comes to light that dice are unpredictable little bastards, and certainly NOT anyone's friends... This nets one of two general attitudes from the GM's... 1. The Players genuinely enjoy it, so unnatural results from implausible Nat 20's stands... "A crit's a crit"... so to say. 2. There's a discussion (or internal dialogue) about the improbable BS when allowing rolls to "try" things in-game. The Table isn't in such favor of that kind of antics and either do away with Crit's or the GM greatly reduces the practice of "allowing a try" on just about anything. Just on my own experience, I've had more Players refuse to give up crit's (particularly in D&D) and so greatly reduced just how far in lunacy I'm willing to let someone "roll to try". It seems like a harsh sentiment, BUT it's only a reduction to "make sense of it" rather than just allowing anything to roll. We've all made the mistake of letting a crit' accomplish anything. By the same token, we've also allowed critical fails to go horribly sideways... A seasoned GM past this kind of stage will usually tone down the antics in both directions, since it honestly doesn't make a lot of sense for a five percent chance at "insta-kill" and a similar five percent of "insta-suicide"... Newer GM's need to be assured that they CAN decide something is simply impossible to the degree of "don't even try it"... I can't say which way more Players prefer it, but some of us will still dramatically flail uselessly, even knowing we can't accomplish "X"... but it's for dramatic effect, and Role Play, not because we have any right to be indignant that something in-game is dictated as "impossible"... dice or no. As a GM, I try to hold myself to a standard of EXPLAINING WHY something is literally impossible, so the Players get it. It tends to gain and maintain trust in our storytelling. Where a flat "no, you can't" isn't exactly in the spirit of a game where you can do "anything". ;o)
During my first D&D campaign, my party finally saves our kidnapped party member (a werebear) from the clutches of the Silverflame. We had just defeated a very troublesome paladin that was guarding the Silverflame. Upon defeating him, we took what we needed, graffitied the place, and left. However on our way out, the big bad shows up, my patron. He orders my character to hand over one of our treasures, a mysterious box filled with magical stones (something we had found earlier in our adventures). I had nat 1 while reading the contract he had offered me earlier in the game, so when I tried refusing, I still handed it over. My party tries to stop him, but when 2 pit fiend bodyguards appeared, most of them stood down. Pit fiends!!! We were still struggling our way up to lvl 15...it was overkill to try and take them. However 1 cleric, Yawnie, still tried. He attempted to get the box, but the big bad casts a mind-control spell and orders this elf cleric to carry the box for him. So they walk together to the Silverflame. I follow after them and this is what I witnessed. Our cleric struggled to save against the mind control, and gets a nat20 right when they reached the Silverflame. Our dm says, "Ok, you have 1 action. After that, he will put you under the spell again." Our cleric nods, and says "I would like to invert my bag of holding." Our dm had a rule, do not invert a bag of holding. Never ever. Repeatedly, we had been warned that bad things happen (he also explained his reasoning behind it, about the bag of holding actually holding a mini-dimension in it, and forcing two dimensions to exist in one = bad things etc etc.) So the elf inverts the bag of holding, much to my dm's horror, and a mini black hole appears. (He gave the biggest sigh, ever, and I can only imagine that he did a two-handed facepalm since this was over a voice call). The cleric dies, dismembered by the blackhole which starts growing bigger. It envelopes the *chest* he is carrying, sucking it in. While the Silverflame and pit fiends are being sucked in, the rest of the party escapes. But things don't get better. I can't even begin to describe all the chaos that was already going on. All the plans we had made to assault this stronghold, the army that my patron had brought to fight a city of paladins, our airship being assaulted by a gold dragon (not realizing that it was wrestling with the ship that had the biggest bomb in existence onboard). There was so much death, and it only got worse as the black hole expanded. My party was just trying to survive. We escape far enough into the ocean before the bomb detonates, and then when we surfaced from the water everything was over. The black hole and most of the stronghold was gone. We find a spot to camp, but as the night came we all notice that we were missing the moons (Eberron has 12). Much later in the story, we find out that the chest we were carrying around, the one sucked up into the black hole, was carrying some stones that connected all the planes to this world, and were also the seals that kept Eberron/Khyber sleeping. Each of the moons represented one of the planes. Because some of the cities of Eberon highly relied on some technology/magics from the other planes, several floating cities collapsed, and because the seals on the dragons were gone, they started to wake up, the world started to tear apart. Most of Breeland was flooded with lava before we managed to put things back together again. Now, every now and then, my friends and I like to retell Yawnie's story of how he exploded the world, and killed more people than any other player, despite wanting to save the world. Nice job reading until the end. Thanks for reading. :) P.S. The tales don't end there, though this is the only tale that got that high of a body count...can't really top that unless we really wanted to destroy our dm's game...
Mine wasn't really a facepalm moment, but in our campaign all gods are real so you can worship whatever God you want, and me being a female Dragonborn sorcerer bard decided to worship Cthulhu, and I encountered Cthulhu in Mortal form and being the Bard that I was, roll to fuck him, 4 Nat 20s in a row, 1 for persuasion, and then for performance, everybody in the party lost their shit, another time I decided to pray to him in the middle of battle roll the NAT 20 for him to listen, then rolled a Nat 20 for what he would give me, he summon a giant fucking whale and crushed all the enemies, it was glorious,
1:24: Oh God, I don't think I have laughed that hard in f*cking YEARS. It took me at least 3 or 4 minutes just pick myself up off the floor, much less get back to my chair. My poor sides hurt so much right now. The set-up, timing, and voice you used, it was just perfect.
This is a true story. I was the DM and my campaign had to fight and ancient black dragon. Then one of my players said that he wanted to persuade the dragon to kill itself. Well... let's just say that the dragon ripped off its own wings and used them to hang itself.
Once one of my friends decided to try and destroy a very large iron door, by headbutting it, destroying it with a nat20, a few minutes later the same friend decided to jump down a stone spiral staircase, headfirst, rolling another nat20, breaking holes in the stairway all the way to the bottom and surviving. A few minutes later a different friend accidentally fell down the holes in the staircase, he survived, but I think he was unconscious.
My favourite moments so far were when my party stopped off at a town and later that night one of the members goes to find a dire-wolf in order to tame it, me, being a rogue ranger, decides to follow. The party member asked the DM if she could roll a perception check because she didn't want me following. She rolls a 9. DM then asks me to roll a stealth check. I roll a 20 with a 6 stealth bonus. I am now invisible. Later, as I'm following her through the woods, a goblin decides to sneak up, and naturally, she rolls a low perception check, but so does the goblin. So they have a comedic moment of bumping into each other and getting scared. and now the goblin in angry, so it draws its weapon, just as I fire two arrows that kill it instantly. Once again, another low perception and high stealth. I am still invisible, and now there is a dead goblin that god apparently killed.
I’m a dm, and I was doing a home brew campaign with my bro’s. I was doing a session with a fire dungeon inside of the volcano, and along the way they found a magic had of bombs with the same stats as a druids nut grenades. The point is, I meant them to do extra damage to the boss. Earlier, they slaughtered a thousand chickens in a room with a chicken spawner. They talked the the BBEG of the dungeon, and asked if he had a delivery for the chickens. After some bad rolls, he took what he thought was the bag of holding that held the chickens. The thing is, they tossed it to him, and another is that inside was the magic bomb filled bag. The bag had 45 bombs inside. The boss had 200 hp. Do the math.
I had a guy (lvl 6 barbarian) say “lookin fly, cool guy” to an adult blue dragon, with a natural 20 on diplomacy. They ended up befriending the dragon and even retrieved a few items for him. He basically just chilled with them whenever they would return to his desert, because “I’m pretty bored”
I use command on a bandit and say "backflip". The bandit then attempts to do a backflip, rolls a natural 1 for performance, lands on his head and breaks his neck. One of my favorite kills I've had in my short time of playing DnD.
I used Dissonant Whispers on a bandit and said "What'cha gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on you at Summerslam, brother!" He passes the check and puts me in a head lock and I fail the strength check. My turn comes around again and I cast it again at lv2 and say "Where's Triple H when you need him?" and the bandit fails, panics and says "Not Triple H!" has a heart attack and dies.
I've heard your story!
Told that man to do a flip and he didn't
I once rolled a 20 to german suplex a demon and ended up putting him in the dirt like a cartoon
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
My character was bleeding out in my first campaign. In panic i decided to Intimidate my wounds. Rolled nat 20, DM had a stroke then said "ok so, you yelled REALLY hard at your open stomach wound and it just...up and closed...heal 5hp 🤦♂️" 🤣🤣🤣
Stiffen the sinews!
the wHAT
God I hope I didn’t wake my parents up
RWBY SEMBLANCE
"NOW LISTEN HERE GIANT HOLE IN MY STOMACH IF YOU DONT CLOSE ILL OPEN YOU UP MORE"
My Dragonborn Paladin was helping infiltrate a Bandit camp. We got seen. “I tell the bandit he can’t see me!” “Roll persuasion..” “Nat 20. “
My DM sighs “The bandit goes “ok” and walks away.” Best. session. ever.
“YOU NO SEE GROG!”
huh didn’t know john cena was a paladin
If the group were going for a realistic game, that wouldn't have been allowed. Natural 20 is only an automatic success on attack rolls, not on ability checks.
Melkior Wiseman , Your right. But, this was a pretty casual campaign. The DM was also pretty laid back, so that’s why it worked out the way it did.
@@jakelewis7083 Rule of funny can be an excellent rule to enforce over all others, with the right group. :)
We were in a modern campaign. There was a chipotle. I rolled to seduce the Chipotle (literally the restaurant). I got a NAT20. DM had no idea what to do...
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Comped meal...
"You're our 10,000th customer... don't get it go to your head!"--adapted from Markus of Borderlands fame.
What.... 😂
First one: Hurty Gurdy.
That is all.
I'm ashamed that I didn't think of that one
*B O N K*
I also thought of that
It’s hurdy-gurdy a beautiful Slavic instrument that looks like a guitar but is played and sounds like an organ ... my character had one as her instrument
My Latin teacher made one of those out of cherry and walnut wood, goat intestines, and brass. He still has it 25 yrs later and he played it for us. It was amazing
"The ship is rocking like crazy in a storm, waking you all up."
I'd like to roll to stay asleep. Nat 20.
"Ooookay, well now lightning is crackling like crazy, and you hear the crew shouting-"
Nat 20.
"YOU HEAR THE SHIP CREAKING AND WOOD SNAPPING."
...18.
"YOU WAKE UP"
I managed to roll 2 more nat 20's for sleeping later in the story arc.
morpheus must be proud of you
Cant stop LAUGHING!!
I read this 1 right after th Hurdy Gurdy tale.
@@rsinzen SAME
You unlocked Narcolepsy!
Now that's a heavy sleeper.
Some people asked me about how I killed someone with a feather. I strangled em with it, Dm asked for a roll, NAT 20. That feather was used to murder three more people.
Was your character John wick?
@@silvermegaman8519 No sorry, but his name was Roland if you really wanna know.
@@silvermegaman8519 medieval John wick!
@@TheTownGuard Durandal the feather.
Are you sure you dont want that to be your signature weapon XD
The first time I played DND, I was a wizard that specialized in lightning magic. We were facing a goblin army inside an ancient temple. It became my turn, which was also my first turn ever. I casted chain lightning, but rolled a nat 1. The DM, feeling sympathetic for me, said "You focus your spell but got distracted half way through and shot sideways. The lightning hit a pillar which caused it to topple over and crush 50 goblins."
MrLandShark 55 Lmao i had a similar experience. Tried to cast the same spell on a giant rat, ended up killing all the rats and our paladin
While that sounds cool, I'm a little confused on how that happened, as there is no roll involved in casting chain lightning. It auto-hits
Thunder5077 Same.
@@Thunder-bw9xm I thought you had to roll for every action?
@@flamboyantcrow9673 no. you have to roll for ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws. Chain lightning is a save based spell, which means that you don't roll anything, your enemy does. it does 10d6 (iirc) damage, half if they succeed on the save.
Stray kitten came up to watch game, rolled a nat 20, named Critical.
*Everyone liked that*
Thats both scary and adorable
Favorite part of the video
It wasn't a cat, just a wildshaped druid with nothing to do.
Should've been named Kitical
Missed a perfect opportunity to name it Critty though...
"Today's lesson: If it is going to break the plot, do NOT let them roll"
done in hard way
That 's never a good solution . Nat 20 , when it comes to persuasion , shouldnt break the plot ....
If it's a skill check, it's OK. You as the DM make the DCs, and there isn't something like a skill crit on 20.
@@lapidations exactly .
OR you can, I dunno, have fun
@@lapidations yeah but some people like the possibility of a 5% auto-success. It adds some flavor
I Nat 20-d an intimidation roll after fouling up a stealth check.
An 8-foot-something Goliath barbarian just screaming "YOU CANNOT SEE ME! GO AWAY!" At a pair of terrified succubi was just too good.
I cackled at the mental image of this.
@@Hangman-yq5uh Same
succubus 1: you heard something?
Succubus 2: No... I'm bored, let's go find some traveling priest to seduce or something.
Succubus 1: Right
(THEY DID NOT FLY OFF TOWARD A ROAD)
I set up a prison my players were trapped in. They were required to get to the lowest floor where there was a portal... I made a boss fight on one of the floors where they would fight the warden. My little brother likes to mess up what I have planned.
Me (DM): what do you do?
Little bro: I chain him up and put him on my pet manticore.
Me: Okay? You are going to need a high rol-
My brother: Is this high enough?
I dont exactly remember what the roll was, but they took their first boss hostage... they now keep him as a pet...
lol
Don't know If, i'm inpress, or Scared
DM: "The mimic goes to bite Rutherford (our gunslinger). It hits, and you take 4 damage. Matt, your turn."
Me: "I jump on top of the mimic and slam my revolver into it's head and fire."
DM: "Roll for it."
Me: "Nat 20."
DM (whilst hating himself): "With the grace of an olympic gold medalist gymnast, Ernie (my character) flips over Rutherford's head, and sticks the landing with such finesse, Rutherford's arm doesn't buckle under your weight."
Me: *:D*
New player enters game
Rogue: "Who is this, I'm attacking them" *Nat 20 "uhhhh..."
GM: *Facepalms
Bard: "Don't worry, I'll put the rogue in a sleeper hold" *second Nat 20
GM: well that worked out
A suggestion for the Death Knight DM. Make the Death Knight a bit of a recurring NPC that the party talks with often and eventually leaves his order. Then while the party is away, have another member of the order, preferably a rival to the Death Knight, come and kill the friendly Death Knight. That Death Knight is your new BBEG.
Im sorry, what's a BBEG? New player and not native english speaker 😅
@@juakoblues Big Bad Evil Guy
@@juakoblues Big Bad Evil Guy. Basically it is the main villain of an adventure.
Or, you know... realize that even a nat 20 doesn't mean you instantly seduce/win over anything you're trying to charm... Sometimes, that nat 20 just means something that WAS going to straight out kill you.. might just let you go FOR NOW.. You can be the most charming/persuasive person in the world.. it doesn't mean the dragon will fuck you.. just means they might decide you're too amusing to eat... FOR THE MOMENT. Or that they won't outright kill you for ATTEMPTING to seduce them.
A lot of the more ridiculous stuff can be avoided by... you know, applying logic to it. A Nat 20 just means you might get the best possible outcome for a situation.. that best situation isn't always getting everything you want.. but more likely just not suffering the worst possible outcome.
@@auluadenbartolli6755 Nat 20 is critical success.
one of my players was a little annoyed with me so he said he was gonna go into a tavern and play his bagpipes as badly as possible. He rolled a nat20 so I let him make everyone take 1d4 phsycic damage :)
OOh, I want to make this a mechanic for a joke bard character. Find the WORST instrument I can, keep my perform skills as low as possible, and make him a skill monkey in other areas. Make sure my party has earplugs, and check with the DM about the character first. I wanna do it.
@@curvingfyre6810 fun idea
My tiefling bard did a breakdancing check as a joke while a demon was attacking us.
The gods liked my breakdancing so they ended up smiting it.
Could've been my cousin too.
Wait... So the demon wore the ring UNDER it's loincloth?
So does that mean it was a Cockring of Command Fire Elementals?
...
Nice.
glad im not the only one
Chadring of Topping Fire Elementals
@@Ramsey276one Giggity?
@@LeonJagerWulf 10:30
(Nods)
THANK YOU! I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO INSTANTLY THOUGHT THAT!
Though in all honesty if it was the perfect size for a human-sized character’s finger that just makes it funnier
I was playing a bard, and we had to lure people interested in women. So we dressed up and spread across the city. I used my cape (my pc wears a cape) as a blanket, lit some candles with Presto and with Minor Illusion, I played careless whisper. DM tells me to roll performance. Nat 20. Got me 5 gp from some men on the street, interested in me losing some clothes until I revealed to them that my PC is in fact a dude. Still a fun experience
Me (dragonborn paladin): I try to jump on the dragon's back and attack it to keep it from fleeing.
DM: Alright, roll athletics with disadvantage.
Me: Fair enough. (Rolls two nat 20's)
Me:
DM:
Table:
Me: *DIVINE SMITE!!!*
This story was from the first campaign I ever ran:
A 12-year-old goblin and a Dragonborn are stuck trying to get a druid from the clutches of a Giant Squid. They were going through 3 trials and this was their 3rd one, in the 2nd trial somehow they managed to get a small army of gargoyles - about 30. My friend playing the goblin ( named Wisp) decided to try and give a motivational speech to these goblins. Somehow she rolled a NAT 20, this 12-year-old goblin who had barely any education and barely spoke common or goblin gave such an amazing speech that she got the whole troop of gargoyles to go free the druid. I don't even know what she said that got them so inspired.
My friend and I got seven nat 20’s in a row. Our DM just let us skip like 2 sessions worth of encounters and rip a whole through the fabric of the universe. We got unicorns too.
Some of people know about this specific "weapon", the Interdimensional Cannon.
Me (a tiefling sorcerer) and one of my friends (a half-orc paladin) decided to grab a bag of holding and fill it with gun powder and level 1 daggers and small weapons (even broken ones) that we could find along our journey. The idea is, when the situation calls for it, to throw the bag with all the weapons inside and then cast a spell to break the bag and shoot all the weapons as projectiles with fire damage, our DM knew about it and we all thought that it would be pretty funny so he allowed us to keep a hold of it for like half the campaign. Like a week later after we started the gathering, we encountered a massive, ice elemental golem that guarded a shrine that we needed to enter for plot reasons, and quickly. So my friend said the following:
-The time has arrived...I grab my bag of holding and throw it at the golem!
At that moment, I remembered the bag was full and so my brain clicked as I immediately yelled:
-While the bag is mid-air, I cast Hellish Rebuke on it to ignite the gun powder inside it and fire the weapons inside the bag at the golem!
DM told us both to roll, we both got Nat20. DM was shocked, laughing his ass off and regretting ever allowing us to use that bag for that purpose.
Long story short, the golem got one-shot by all the burning daggers, broken bottles and kitchen knifes hurled at him, completely melting his body.
DM then banned the Interdimensional Cannon as a house rule for future sessions
One of my first campaigns our DM had this plot going where a city we saved in our first encounter was actually a city of vecna worshipers who were planned to be one of our final encounters towards the end of the campaign. After saving said village the village elder comes out to thank us and reward us, obviously we knew nothing about the city at this time and saw this as the generic complete quest and get reward kind of interaction. Me being new to D&D and wanting to have a bit of fun was playing a "Paladin of the Sauce" a worshiper of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. So as we are talking to the elder I tell the DM I want to convert him to Pastafarianism. The DM just gives me this look and tells me to roll for persuasion. Nat 20. The DM groans and asks me to roll a d percentile and I got an 80. Turns out the elder was actually the head priest of the church, and now he, and 80% of the city were so moved by my words they all gave up their evil ways and converted to Pastafarianism.
LMFAO YES!!!!!!
Ah... the end of my last session had a situation that fits this situation almost perfectly! I am the DM for a party of three level 4 characters. The warlock saw that there was no reason to fight, but the paladin and the rogue decided to try to ride a modified flail snail that almost killed them. This obviously pissed off the snail, resulting in a fight. They cut off one of its tentacled limbs, but since the paladin was on low health, they decided to leave each other alone, rather than possibly die. So, after healing up, the Paladin says she wants to lick the (magical) snail slime. But first, she decides to make a medicine check to see if this magical snail slime is poisonous. Nat 19, which broke me. This isn't the first instance of insane rolls whenever they tried to pull off stupid shenanigans, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back. So, upon no immediate bad effects, the rogue decides to also lick the snail. So now both of them get to deal with the same magical effect placed on them thanks to ingesting this snail slime. Tonight, in a magical world where the language of French doesn't exist, both the rogue and the paladin will have all of their speech auto-translated into French. (French because escargot and snails) I contacted the warlock outside of the game to ask if she was willing to work with me on keeping them both in the dark about this. So tonight, both the NPCs and the warlock will treat the paladin and rogue as if they were speaking French, regardless of what languages they try to speak. This doesn't prevent them from understanding each other or prevent them from understanding other people. If people want me to, I can tomorrow tell the stories that result from this one session curse.
Edit: Due to IRL stuff that is out of our control, the campaign has been paused for the next few weeks. Apologies to people anxiously waiting for the update.
Edit 2: Thanks to everything going crazy right now because of Covid, schedules have been shifted up a ton for our group, so it's been (probably) postponed for another few weeks until we get more free time after the semester finishes. On a brighter note, none of us are particularly endangered by this, and since our sessions were already online, we don't need to worry about that.
Edit 3: Uhh... I forgot about this, so it hasn't been updated, but thanks to Gotham Knight, y'all get an update. Update posted below.
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when you do continue, please update?
@@dawnsaurora We probably won't play again until April 23, though we might be able to do the 9th. Trust me, this isn't a delay any of us wanted either.
Someone tell me when this is updated.
"I was once playing a bard." Yeah I can see where this is going.
This one time... at bard camp...
I had a funny moment while playing a gnome rogue by the name of scrambles. By design I made him smaller than your average gnome and quite comically used my size with both advantageous and terrible effect but I always like to think of the time while escorting a trader we met to the nearest town with my party which consisted of a cleric a druid and a fighter who had a in character distrust of anyone "non human" naturally we didnt get along most of the time. During an argument he decides to try to punt my character like a football, having done this a few times before with mixed results I was expecting it. He rolls a 1 I ask the dm if I can roll to dodge it anyway and after getting the okay I roll a 17 I tell the dm I'm going to counter back after my dodge but instead of attacking I want to jump on top of the fighters head the dm shrugs and says okay but I want you to roll a d20 for agility and dexterity and a d6 17-19-6 I think back and ask the dm what the d6 was for realizing he never told me why I was rolling it. Instead of answering my question the dm tells us that when trying to kick my character the fighter stumbled and my rogue was able to not only dodge the attack by jumping but backfliped into the fighters face breaking his nose as I scurried onto his head the table laughed except the fighter who said I just grab the little gremlin off my head and hold him away from at arms length he rolls and succeeds I look at my dm plainly and say my character goes limp. my dm who actually kind of hated how much our fighters hate for other races derailed the campaign or was just annoying to deal with in general told us each to roll a d 20 and lightning struck twice in my favor 20-1 in my favor the dm describes how this tiny runt of the gnome looks at the fighter and smiles before sagging down the massive fighter struggles to grab hold with both hands before being pulled to the ground by the weight of this tiny creature the dm tells us both to roll again and in a cruel twist of fate the dice gods made us even 1-20 the dm closes his eyes and sighs and says the fighter fell to the ground right on top of my character the over all weight of the fighter in his armor crushing me instantly the dm said outside of a mangled sack of crushed meat and bones only a bright red gooey stain remained of scrambles on the outside of our fighters armor the cleric said she wanted to resurect me but I declined I'd been wanting to play a wizard for awhile at that point and it seemed like a hilarious way to leave the party the fighter never washed the stain of his armor either and occasionally pointed at it and said that's the only gnome I ever kind of liked it actually came in handy as an intimidation tool and the dm decided to give him a +5 in intimidation a plus 2 in dexterity and a -1 luck for it and that's how my character became an armor enchantment
Thanks for sharing, that shit's hilarious!
tru i loved this
I...am not reading that...
@@curious9904 Long story short...... Gnome and another fighter were fighting. Nat 1s and 20s on both sides. Ended with the gnome being squished under the fighter and becoming an enchantment.
When you fail a roll so bad you become an enchanted blood smear.
A dwarf warrior in my party had terrible perception and so blundered straight into a gelatinous cube. He was engulfed by it, and started taking poison damage.
"Can I eat my way out?"
(rolls natural 20)
"Your teeth tear through the cube, freeing yourself and splitting it into two smaller, weaker cubes. The poison does not harm you, instead triggering a bloodlust giving you +1 to attack rolls."
Eating random things became something of a running joke after that, though generally with less success.
There was one time where my DM gave us a dragon to face, but not to fight. We had to Guess riddles to earn our freedom. My DM said that if we decide to fight this, we would surely die. So during the riddles, everyone was trying to Guess, I then asked my DM if I can roll the Dice. She asks why and I said I want the result to come by as a secret. She allowed me to roll without saying what it was for ONLY if I write it on a piece of paper first so I don’t change what I do. I rolled a natural 20. The DM asked what I do with that D20 and I say I preformed the perfect backflip.
Everyone was confused. Including the dragon.
There was one time, it wasn’t D&D, it was similar but based off superhero’s. One of my friends superpower was a super decked out car, which wasn’t good for the mission we were running which was a stealth mission into a mall where 2 bad guys were holding 20 hostages and would kill them if we were seen. Since we played multiple games that night, there wasn’t much time for this one, and when we ran out of time and hadn’t entered the building yet, my friend told the DM that he backed up 1 mike and drove full speed at the front of the mall. Since there was a police barricade outside he had to roll a controll check to not hit any of the cars, and got a nat 20, this was just the beginning. He backed up one mile and started driving, getting up to speeds around 700mph, since he rolled a nat 20, he was able to swerve through the police cars without doing any more damage than a single mirror that was knocked off. He rammed full speed through the front door and into the first boss, killing him and sending him through the wall at the opposite end of the mall. Now that my friend was inside, he only had a few hundred feet to stop before he hit the back wall, so he slammed on his breaks. The DM had him roll for a random loss of control, his engine stalled dropping him down to only a few hundred miles per hour, he slowed down further and had to roll for another loss of control and swerved, towards the boss and the hostages, and managed to get his speed down. When he hit the boss, the boss died. The DM then handed my friend 1d20 and said “there are 20 hostages,” he rolled a 1. We won, got the favor of the police, none of us got hurt, and only 1 hostage died
The party was in a prison area to become slaves to dark elves and one of the members wanted to go to a different room, so a guard shot him with a crossbow and sent him to the infirmary. Another member rolled a nat20 to convince the guard he was sick and the guard was so convinced he had terminal cancer that he sent him to a death pit
I remember a game where the DM gave the person a chance for a "God Call". IE as he was being pierced by an enemy weapon he called on his god to help him achieve vengeance (since he worshipped a warrior god). The DM gave him two ten sided dice and said if you roll a 0-0 your god will respond. Lo and behold -- bounce bounce bounce 0-0. Man did the DM's face go blank as he never thought it would happen. But then he stepped up to the moment, and said something to the effect "As the enemy warrior pulls his sword from your chest with a laugh kicking your body backwards .. a glow envelopes you and the wound. Suddenly your armor is whole and the wound is healed and you feel reinvigorated and while staggered from the kick, you stand upright with a grin on your face. The enemy forces see this, drop their swords and flee in panic".
That hurdy gurdy needs to become a magical item, maybe an accidental artifact with a + to hit and bonus to dealing subdual damage.
In one campaign I was playing a home-brew undead character that had the ability to heal a small amount of damage each turn if he had been damaged the previous one. He also had a habit of setting himself on fire (didn't actually give any bonuses other than looking cool and being a portable light source). Early on in the campaign, our cleric decided to cast "Turn Undead" and forced my character run away ... into an army of zealous rebel fighters. A small group broke off from the main force to attack my character, and I managed to kill the leader of the group. Being tired of fighting, and wanting to get back tot he safety of the rest of the group, I asked my DM if I could try to scare them away. He said yes.
Nat 20.
After the gasps and laughter from my group died down, the DM described how I shouted at these cultists, calling them puny mortals, whilst they looked on in horror as my character burst into flames and wounds began closing before their very eyes. So these cultists did the only logical thing: the renounced their old god, and began following my character!
TL;DR
My character was forced away from the group, and came back having accidentally started a cult.
D&D in a nutshell
In my first campaign, a mate of mine failed every roll with 1s. The moment he tried to save another player from an acidic lake we all collectively went "This won't go well". To our surprise, he rolled a NAT20 and saved him. Might I say this friend was a slime, who was responsible for turning the lake acidic in the first place
I was a 7'0 tall Dragonborn and my friend was a 3'0 tall gnome. Their was a boss mummy. He was too far away from us. I threw the gnome and rolled a nat 20, then the gnome got a nat 20 + 4 dexterity with rapier so he one shot the mummy. Best CAMPAIGN EVER!
Fighting the Death Knight in the ruins of a church. *looks at Fire Emblem Three Houses* Coinidence? I THINK NOT!
Jet_seT Get Lysithea
@@burnttoastbadly roll a 15 or higher to learn death spikes T
Who needs to have the whole campaign when you can just threat the Death Knight with your sorcerer casting Dark Spikes T on him if he doesn't surrender and give you his goods?
It’s funny how a marshmallow loli can brutally murder one of the canonically strongest antagonists in the game
My father once rolled a history check and got a nat 20, the dm has us check our nat 20s to see how impossibly amazing they were, my dad got another nat 20.
1:25 HURDY-GURDY!
It took me so long to finish this video cause I kept on going back to that.
During the first campaign i ran my party was trying to get information out of a group of goblins they had cornered in a tavern. What followed was the biggest string of 'dumb barbarian' moments i have ever seen. 1st Goblin: is unconscious so the barbarian rolls to slap them awake. Rolls a nat 1 and breaks the goblins neck. Goblin 2. is hiding under a large (100 gallon) cask of mead on a stand. Barbarian rolls to lever the cask up. Nat 20. he lifts the cask then tries to grab the goblin While still holding the cask. grabs the goblin successfully but since he is now holding up the cask with one hand i make him roll strength again and he gets a nat 1. The cask falls and turns the goblin's torso and legs into paste. Goblin 3. this goblin is tied up and conscious but will not talk. Barbarian rolls to intimidate and rolls a nat 20. given the situation i decided to roll a con save for the goblin (he is badly hurt after all) goblin rolls a nat 1. My barbarian gave the goblin a heart attack. In less than 5 minutes the barbarian had managed to kill all three of the goblins they could have interrogated. From then on Bermund Forgeborn became known as the 'goblin slayer'. Eventually i made up a perk that automatically adds an extra d4 to his damage rolls against goblins
Last night we were finishing a session on Discord. The session ended with a TPK of our own choosing. We had established that we were to enter a courthouse that had been altered with magic, it was now a maze that you could open only two doors at a time and anymore than this and the lights in the next room wouldn't come on. We started out actually using a block and tackle rip the doors down effectively destroying the DMs Puzzle maze. Eventually he had it magically reset itself, so we started actually exploring. We found a room where there was a chest instead of the usual clear room. We were thinking "Oh it's a mimic." One of the guys opens the chest with Mage Hand, nothing happens. My character, Ogg goes over and checks the chest and there's a couple of satchels inside. Ogg throws one at the mage and says open it up there's nothing wrong. He opens his satchel gold pieces, sweet. We proceed to the next room and there's a chest in the mirrored corner from the one we just saw. We knew this had to be trapped so the mage opens with Mage hand and nothing happens. Ogg goes up to the chest because the Mage Hand couldn't lift what was inside and decides to Firebolt the chest to catch it on fire, because paranoia. As we proceed through the maze we come across a room where there's a chandelier, so far we haven't noticed any light fixtures due to the thirty foot ceiling, at eye level because of the 10 foot ceilings. Ogg decided to swing from the chandelier. Ogg botches his acrobatics check, slams face-first into the opposite door of the room ten feet from the chandelier. After that we ended up in a courtyard full of large trees and plants that were well taken care of. Ogg decides to Sprint through the courtyard to get to another door because he doesn't like plants. He proceeded to trip and fall into a pit trap where an assassin bug crawls out of the dirt. Ogg thankfully climbed out of the hole just in time to avoid the bug. we decided to kill it. After combat, we start investigating and one of our guys finds that the fountain in the center of the room is trapped with Rune of Fireball, total of 24 Fireball runes on this fountain and determine the trigger if you get within 10 feet they activate. Well we search around the room and find that the doors had poison handles. We didn't have any rags to clean them off with, so we decided to rip the door down with the tried and true method. Whe the door comes flying towards our levers, our operator botches his dexterity role and he took a door to the head and was knocked unconscious. Well, the door flies directly into the fountain triggering the trap each of us takes four maximized fireballs worth of damage at level five. Greatest result ever.
Love the kitten one but the hurry curdy was too priceless. Also, great Rick impersonation.
Me and my party got jumped by a huge army of goblin theives. The goblin leader yells "drop everything and no one gets hurt" our paladin yells acroos the room to the DM "no u". She rolls a nat 20... We lived as kings after selling all their stuff.
Oooh I got a story for this!
So first thing you need to know is that AT FIRST my character was shy, hated talking to new people, and overall a cinnamon bun until she just happen to go through the fly of despair basically and alignment was changed. Basically time ripped open, you know your normal dnd session. So instead of going to the room where the plot was taking us she went to town to the tavern to drink. I guess my character was a lightweight and got drunk. So I rolled a d20 to see what kind of drunk she was. DM didn't ask me to roll. I was just doing it for role play options. Odds were sad depressed drunk and evens were the flirty drunk. I rolled a nat20. My character is a druid okay? She got up on the bar and started performing (dancing and singing) basically taking over the bard job and entertaining the entire bar. The bard? Was behind the counter and serving drinks. That bar was dead when she walked in. About an hour later there was a line out the door. My DM tried to get us to focus that session and my character was too drunk to even try.
TLDR; character is the flirty type when drunk and took over the bard's job at the tavern. DM died inside
Didn’t really facepalm and the rolls were not exactly Nat 20s but I am currently hosting a Sea of Thieves inspired campaign and had my party fight one of the four Ashen Lords. After both our paladin and warlock had gone down, our barbarian gets the perfect idea to yeet three of the starboard cannons and main mast right at the Ashen Lord. I applaud her creativity and even made it so the mast took out all of the skeletons the Ashen Lord had summoned.
A short-for-a-Halfling scared an entire town into not being mad at him about burning their village by picking up a pebble.
Okay, this was a home brew, with made up spells aloud as long as they were fair. Me being the chaotic good wizard I was, I gave me self lemon powers. This included turning things into lemons, lemon army’s, even lemon horses! This all ties in to a dungeon where the big baddie was. He was stuck in this tiny bubble cell thingy, the DM let me go up to the bubble and do **1 thing.** so of course, I walked up to the bubble looked at it. And turned the big baddie into a lemon. The DM looked at me confused and said “you better roll high, or this guy is gonna be set free” and of course, the dice was in my favor. Nat 20. And that’s how I saved the world with the power of lemons. I’m called lemon girl now.
I love how this is a guy reading these and not the souless robotic voice of other such videos makes it all that much better
My group was fighting against a couple of enemies, the thing was that the group was a little bit disperced in the battle, so, when the enemies saw the poor bard of the team preacticly alone they started to focus him.
A single round passes and the bard was unconscious and started rolling death saves. Me, (as a hexblade with the tome [I was stupid] with an Owl familiar) tried to save him, but of course...I don't have healing, so i send my little owl to use the help action for the Bard's death saves, witch my DM allowed. The Bard's turn arrived... NAT 20 thanks to the adventage, now with 1 hp, the bard starts to heal himself and help in the battle, which we won thanks to that stupid crit. It was hilarious
"Go help the bard not die!"
@@snake698 *_Hoot_*
The fact that the first one not only knew of, but used a Hurdy Gurdy makes me so happy
Most recently I ran a one shot for some buddies of mine. They were high level characters (15 and above). They were fighting a lich and the fighter rolled a mat 20 with vorpal sword. I looked at the description of the weapon where it says that the sword does extra damage to a creature with legendary actions instead of outright killing the monster. So I had the player roll on a d100 crit table I have. He rolls a 100 which is instant death. Oh and by the way this was the very first turn for the party.
Not a nat20, but related in levels of stupid luck. We were avoiding the boss fight and had all but awoken the vampire cultist, who was in a tomb with the lid partially moved. My brother poured in the oil he stole from me and our drunk dwarf tossed a lit match in it. Mind you, our dwarf had to have help to reach this, so imagine a buff elf carrying this drunken dwarf and tossing a match into a stone coffin filled with 130 gallons of stolen oil. Our dm went through all his notes and kinda threw his hands in defeat. We killed the bad guy he'd been building up before he even woke up. This is one of 2 dnd stories I have, and I love it
I can imagine that a lot of DMs in these stories took the nat 20 too seriously. Personally, I don't think it would be unfair to say that doing something like "seducing god" is impossible even with a nat 20.
Depends on the god. You could seduce Zeus just by having over 16 Charisma, no check required.
Nat 20s allow for auto success on attacks only, anything else is a DC roll so you would have to have a certain total score (seducing god would be at least a 40 total roll imo). Its not as fun but prevents abuse since you can retry most rolls.
@@sebastianlavallee706 Oh please, you can seduce Zeus with a B-Cup and a slightly poofy skirt
@@sebastianlavallee706 or if you are female
@@oz_jones And you don't even need to be human
Lost Mines of Phendelver. My party made it our main mission to see the mayor's face (and everything else was sidequest). In the end, we cast invisibility on the ranger, gave him advantage with enhance ability and a guidance, and had him stealth down the chimney. He rolled a double nat 20 (from the advantage). The DM ended the session, went home and started homebrewing the mayor.
I was playing as a cleric and at the beginning of our campaign we were at tavern, i speak to the keep and ask if they have any pancakes which they obviously say no. After a while of campaign talk i go back to the keep and try again and this time i try to go back to the kitchen and make my own, the DM asks me to make a roll to force my way back (i roll with disadvantage because of a house rule we have) and i roll a nat 20 which leads me to gracefully thrust the keeper out of the way and land my way into the kitchen where i steal a pastry from a blind man and then roll for “pancake making” and get another nat 20, which leads our monk down to try and eat the pancake and fails a con save that sends him into the ethereal plane and gives him inspiration and a stat boost, i declare pancakes as my religious dish and now for the rest of the campaign i have a pancake making skill and get to add a religion boost to it.
I'm a Dwarf Barbarian, and, doing an intimidation check, rolled a nat20 when attempting to tell an enemy to give me all of their stuff and walk off a cliff. Got a pointy stick and a funny hat, I was satisfied but my DM was a little miffed that I coaxed a very powerful enemy into just killing himself.
I throw a berry that turns people into a monster into my teammate’s mouth
DM: ok uhh roll for it
Nat 20
Wait...That's a Dingo Doodles DnD story too lmao
The double tap with the Hurdy-gurdy was amazing.
One time when the party was just doing a quest, we found an enemy who was meant to be a boss. After a failed attempt at using charm person (failed for obvious reasons) we talked to this boss and with some high persuasion rolls we got out with no deaths and new general. We tried this one time when we found the BBEG before the actual boss battle against him and the DM asked us to roll 15d20s. After seeing the first roll he said that we failed. We had to get all perfect rolls. If we succeeded at THAT then the DM would know that something’s not right. I guess he didn’t want us to do the same trick twice... 😂
I had a session where my party was tripping off of space mushrooms, and the way to get out of that trip was to fight a samurai minotaur that was guarding a door in the middle of the desert. The minotaur said that he'd guard that door with is life if needed, but one of the players, a an envoy (bard homebrew subclass, diplomatic character, basically) rolled a nat 20 in persuasion, and said to the samurai: "Nah, we spoke with your boss and he said we could go." The minotaur sighs and lets them through.
That was the only combat encounter in the whole session and was supposed to be a tough one.
2:42 my friend is whenever I'm a dungeon master I only come up with a basic idea of what's going to happen cuz you never know when someone might do something crazy and or roll a Nat 20
I have a suggestion for that DM. Make the Death Knight a recurring NPC who eventually leaves his order to be full-time ally to the party. Have him then get separated from the party and then killed by another Death Knight from the same order who is your new final boss for the arc.
Had a bard that rolled nat 20 trying to "tame" a mimic. It followed him around but acted more like a cat in that it wasn't super friendly, except to the bard. He couldn't tell it what to do either, the DM just took it upon himself to act out the tamed mimic.
My bf and I were playing a game with the rest of our close friends. This was my second time playing a serious game while this was his first. For context, my bf was a wizard fighting a griffon along with another friend (rogue) while I, a paladin, was watching in the distance unable to really do anything until the battle was done. Friend is 1 hit point and would die if my bf didn't do anything on his turn.
Bf: I cast mending on friend! (he thought it was a healing spell and I start to giggle to myself as he is so happy that he rolled a nat20)
DM: ...You cast the spell and in a wave of magic, the rogue's armor is completely fixed as if it were new!
Bf realized his mistake and I start to laugh along with the rest of our friends. After the griffon's turn, friend now has zero hit points and it's my bf's turn again
Bf: (unable to think of anything) I throw a rock at it! (He rolls a nat20)
DM: (facepalms again) ...you throw the rock and it lands straight into the mighty beast's mouth and suffocates it. It is now defeated.
Rolled a nat 20 followed by several successes and made friends with the final boss. convinced him to go back to his eternal slumber.
I was the DM for this campaign. A little bit of background: 6 deity representing Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Light, and Dark. and everyone in this realm had some sort of combination of these 6 elements that dictated their way of life. One of the players was an Aasimar wild magic Sorc, and his "weapon" was an ancient, magical tome that had a connection to the 6 deities. The party end up deep in the Manor of the evil Mayor of the city. They see a big, ominous steel door at the end of a very long hallway. I set it up so that it was a PUSH door. each party member try to open this door to no avail. Last comes up the Aasimar.
Him: "i'd like to open the door"
DM(me): would you like to PULL or PUSH?
Him: "PULL"
DM: "Alright give me a strength check"
*NAT20*
DM: *oh boy* "so with all the magical power of the deities that you are connected to, you, for a brief moment, become the most powerful being in the world, as you PULL open the doors with such force, they end up at the other end of the long hallway you just came from and the whole city shakes as if an earthquake. Congratulations, you just PULLED open, a PUSH door.
Dude you just broke reality, everyone knows you can't do that.
Our elven bard was searching the library once for "clues" to the mystery and was insistent on rolling perception to see the traps. She rolled a nat20 and our dm deadass was just like "You find all 0 traps." She was tired of us.
I got a good one, my friend tryed to use his magic sheild thing and rolled quite low (we were being attacked by bat's that had the consistency of honey and the plane we were in was being taken apart, one guy rolled a 17 to blow the thing up) I, being the good human I am, used friendship to boost his roll and save us all! DM said if I got a Nat 20 it would succeed... I got a Nat 20.
After that my other friend playing rolled a Nat 20 to build a snd castle out of DRIED SAND! It became our bace for a bit
My bard turned an NPC so gay that the succubus PC could no longer charm them. Best moment ever.
Never would I see the word HURDY GURDY in all caps let alone on a reddit post
One of my better Nat 20's was probably the time that my changeling warlock basically talked an npc into being a human sacrifice in a very similar fashion to a door to door salesman
Homebrew stat rule that got hilariously out of hand. So, just for funsies, DM says Nat 6s explode; roll 3d6 per stat for the standard ones and once more for an extra "Luck" stat that we use. All is well and reasonable until my GF goes to roll her Luck and gets two Nat 6s. No big deal, roll them again. Another two Nat 6s. We chuckle because she's playing a gambler and apparently the dice agree. She rolls again... two Nat 6s. All I remember after that is laughing myself sick as she keeps rerolling with a look of disbelief until eventually ending with at total Luck score of 94.
We put a cap on that rule after that.
well, she was quite a lucky one allright...
@ man, WAY to ruin a funny little trick for the rest of us... but great story^^
@ I feel like if I ever helped make a video game, I would have a hall of fame for these kinds of shenanigans. :D
We walked into a room full of orcs. Conner said he wanted to default dance them to death, DM was so confused lol. Of course rolled a nat 20. The sheer epicness of his default dance created an explosion, incinerating all the orcs on impact
I was playing a Kobold sorcerer, and had convinced a bandit with amnesia that he was Salazar Mcminkly XLII (42) who the party had saved from a flying carpet accident. He then followed us around and helped us in battle. The DM eventually killed him off with a flaming meteor, so I was sad. So I did it again. Best NPC ever.
My friend and I were helping introduce young boys to DND. So it was four boys about 9 years old, the mom as the DM, then us two as the 17 year old assistants.
One of the boys triggered a boobytrap in the first 10 minutes of our first session and his character would have died and I asked “can I bolt across the dungeon and tackle him?” I got a nat 20 and both of us went flying and crashed into a wall
Ok so I was playing a acid dragonborn and roled to literally melt a town got a nat 20 my dm then walked out of the room and just screams, walks back in, breathes heavily, just says ok fine
Flung a goat so high in the air it gained terminal velocity and turned to paste on the ground.
I had a series of nat 20’s from a player (I’m the dm) that were truly absurd, culminating in one from me (in relation to that player) that left everyone awestruck.
My friend was playing his most iconic character, and this time around he happened to be a warrior prince. I had an npc/dmpc with him that was my most iconic character- we’ll get to that later, just keep it in mind- and served as his advisor /jester (he’s a bard.)
Now you’d think the npc would be the persuasive one, since he had 17 cha and my friend had 12.
You’d be wrong. I rolled ok when my npc was forced to step in, but every time the Prince rolled diplomacy, he got a19 or 20. He recruited a mini boss Dragonborn barbarian, a fire giant smith and a half mad Druid WHO WAS AT WAR WITH THE FIRE GIANT HE HAD ALREADY RECRUITED, which was AFTER he talked down the treant who served said Druid.
Then , due to my friend switching character concepts faster than Florida weather changes around mid-summer, and a few plot points, that character left but left my npc behind to serve the kingdoms best interests.
Enter the best moment in the game.
We had to pass some hill giants to go to the next plot point, and my friends Prince had given npc man a dagger made by the fire giant. Knowing what the prince would’ve done, being loyal to said prince and having a vague understanding of the Ordening (basically the giant equivalent of a caste system)y npc showed the hill giants the dagger and ordered them to stand aside, as we had business to get to on the fire giants behalf.
Hill giants are dumb as bricks. As gm, I’d never let someone just talk them down and boss them around without a-
Nat 20. My FIRST nat 20 on either side of the game that entire campaign.
Even AFTER HE LEFT, the prince still rolled a nat 20 VICARIOUSLY THROUGH MY NPC.
I never facepalmed so hard in my life.
bro the maid got hit so hard the next time she sees a hurdy-gurdy she ain't gonna live to see another day
Seducing a mummylord.
Or when we got a group of sad guards to believe that a tiefling warlock was actually a cat
My party’s fighter kept trying to throw me (the high elf wizard who was generally light) across rivers but thankfully she never succeeded. DM was still like, “fighter, you can’t throw the wizard across every river you see.”
I’m not too big on the details of what each enemy is called or what the campaign was called either, but one time I was fighting this eyeball attached to the wall. The thing is, it was way to high on the wall for anyone to reach it, and it was dropping us like flies. I ended up rolling a nat20 to run up the wall and then another to hit it, ending it’s life right there. The thing was, if either of those weren’t nat 20s I wouldn’t have even hit the thing, much less kill it. I was a level 1 half-elf rogue. I’m pretty sure I was playing castles and crusades.
I'm pretty well know among my friends by rolling good numbers on dices. I'm something of a carry of our party (I was a monk). In one campagin which was going on forever and everyone were just bored we met a giant demon in dungeon. His size was keeping him out from leaving a room. The fight starts and I got a first roll and I rolled NAT20 and I just went - "Im ordering him to let us through" but my DM couldnt agree on that bcs I told that after I rolled a dice. I felt confident so I told - "Fine I will roll again but I will do the same thing". I rolled NAT 20. DM had to check if I cheated. I didn't. Everyone spirits were back on track after that.
I was a conquest paladin, my first d and d campaign: my friend was trapped by a death knight (my friend was satans son) and the death knight challenged us to find all the bombs i thought this was a dire situation and my paladin had high charisma, so i yelled “I seduce him!” So i rolled, and got a nat 20, everyone in the party bursts out laughing and the dm face palmed, needless to say we got my friend out but the death knight couldn’t join our party, because one of the players characters (the brother of the devils son) couldn’t let the death knight live and slayed him, later in the campaign my dm stared giving people special abilities, i got super seducer, and got proficiency in it, but I’m a paladin so i cant use it...
Barbarian once rolled a nat 20 to pet a hellhound.
He later tamed it, and named it spot.
Fairly early on in any GM's "career path" the fact comes to light that dice are unpredictable little bastards, and certainly NOT anyone's friends... This nets one of two general attitudes from the GM's...
1. The Players genuinely enjoy it, so unnatural results from implausible Nat 20's stands... "A crit's a crit"... so to say.
2. There's a discussion (or internal dialogue) about the improbable BS when allowing rolls to "try" things in-game. The Table isn't in such favor of that kind of antics and either do away with Crit's or the GM greatly reduces the practice of "allowing a try" on just about anything.
Just on my own experience, I've had more Players refuse to give up crit's (particularly in D&D) and so greatly reduced just how far in lunacy I'm willing to let someone "roll to try". It seems like a harsh sentiment, BUT it's only a reduction to "make sense of it" rather than just allowing anything to roll.
We've all made the mistake of letting a crit' accomplish anything. By the same token, we've also allowed critical fails to go horribly sideways... A seasoned GM past this kind of stage will usually tone down the antics in both directions, since it honestly doesn't make a lot of sense for a five percent chance at "insta-kill" and a similar five percent of "insta-suicide"... Newer GM's need to be assured that they CAN decide something is simply impossible to the degree of "don't even try it"...
I can't say which way more Players prefer it, but some of us will still dramatically flail uselessly, even knowing we can't accomplish "X"... but it's for dramatic effect, and Role Play, not because we have any right to be indignant that something in-game is dictated as "impossible"... dice or no.
As a GM, I try to hold myself to a standard of EXPLAINING WHY something is literally impossible, so the Players get it. It tends to gain and maintain trust in our storytelling. Where a flat "no, you can't" isn't exactly in the spirit of a game where you can do "anything". ;o)
During my first D&D campaign, my party finally saves our kidnapped party member (a werebear) from the clutches of the Silverflame. We had just defeated a very troublesome paladin that was guarding the Silverflame. Upon defeating him, we took what we needed, graffitied the place, and left. However on our way out, the big bad shows up, my patron. He orders my character to hand over one of our treasures, a mysterious box filled with magical stones (something we had found earlier in our adventures). I had nat 1 while reading the contract he had offered me earlier in the game, so when I tried refusing, I still handed it over. My party tries to stop him, but when 2 pit fiend bodyguards appeared, most of them stood down. Pit fiends!!! We were still struggling our way up to lvl 15...it was overkill to try and take them.
However 1 cleric, Yawnie, still tried. He attempted to get the box, but the big bad casts a mind-control spell and orders this elf cleric to carry the box for him.
So they walk together to the Silverflame. I follow after them and this is what I witnessed.
Our cleric struggled to save against the mind control, and gets a nat20 right when they reached the Silverflame. Our dm says, "Ok, you have 1 action. After that, he will put you under the spell again."
Our cleric nods, and says "I would like to invert my bag of holding."
Our dm had a rule, do not invert a bag of holding. Never ever. Repeatedly, we had been warned that bad things happen (he also explained his reasoning behind it, about the bag of holding actually holding a mini-dimension in it, and forcing two dimensions to exist in one = bad things etc etc.)
So the elf inverts the bag of holding, much to my dm's horror, and a mini black hole appears. (He gave the biggest sigh, ever, and I can only imagine that he did a two-handed facepalm since this was over a voice call). The cleric dies, dismembered by the blackhole which starts growing bigger. It envelopes the *chest* he is carrying, sucking it in.
While the Silverflame and pit fiends are being sucked in, the rest of the party escapes.
But things don't get better. I can't even begin to describe all the chaos that was already going on. All the plans we had made to assault this stronghold, the army that my patron had brought to fight a city of paladins, our airship being assaulted by a gold dragon (not realizing that it was wrestling with the ship that had the biggest bomb in existence onboard). There was so much death, and it only got worse as the black hole expanded. My party was just trying to survive. We escape far enough into the ocean before the bomb detonates, and then when we surfaced from the water everything was over. The black hole and most of the stronghold was gone.
We find a spot to camp, but as the night came we all notice that we were missing the moons (Eberron has 12).
Much later in the story, we find out that the chest we were carrying around, the one sucked up into the black hole, was carrying some stones that connected all the planes to this world, and were also the seals that kept Eberron/Khyber sleeping. Each of the moons represented one of the planes. Because some of the cities of Eberon highly relied on some technology/magics from the other planes, several floating cities collapsed, and because the seals on the dragons were gone, they started to wake up, the world started to tear apart. Most of Breeland was flooded with lava before we managed to put things back together again.
Now, every now and then, my friends and I like to retell Yawnie's story of how he exploded the world, and killed more people than any other player, despite wanting to save the world.
Nice job reading until the end. Thanks for reading. :)
P.S. The tales don't end there, though this is the only tale that got that high of a body count...can't really top that unless we really wanted to destroy our dm's game...
Mine wasn't really a facepalm moment, but in our campaign all gods are real so you can worship whatever God you want, and me being a female Dragonborn sorcerer bard decided to worship Cthulhu, and I encountered Cthulhu in Mortal form and being the Bard that I was, roll to fuck him, 4 Nat 20s in a row, 1 for persuasion, and then for performance, everybody in the party lost their shit, another time I decided to pray to him in the middle of battle roll the NAT 20 for him to listen, then rolled a Nat 20 for what he would give me, he summon a giant fucking whale and crushed all the enemies, it was glorious,
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Oh God, I don't think I have laughed that hard in f*cking YEARS. It took me at least 3 or 4 minutes just pick myself up off the floor, much less get back to my chair. My poor sides hurt so much right now. The set-up, timing, and voice you used, it was just perfect.
This is a true story. I was the DM and my campaign had to fight and ancient black dragon. Then one of my players said that he wanted to persuade the dragon to kill itself. Well... let's just say that the dragon ripped off its own wings and used them to hang itself.
That first one though! "HURDY-GURDY!" lmfao
elf girl rolls nat20, continues to seduce imaginary Arby's worker
Lol that’s great
Once one of my friends decided to try and destroy a very large iron door, by headbutting it, destroying it with a nat20, a few minutes later the same friend decided to jump down a stone spiral staircase, headfirst, rolling another nat20, breaking holes in the stairway all the way to the bottom and surviving.
A few minutes later a different friend accidentally fell down the holes in the staircase, he survived, but I think he was unconscious.
Person: someone in my party rolled a bat 20 and seduced a god and the devil
Me: ah. So I’m not the only idiot who succeed in that in dnd
My favourite moments so far were when my party stopped off at a town and later that night one of the members goes to find a dire-wolf in order to tame it, me, being a rogue ranger, decides to follow. The party member asked the DM if she could roll a perception check because she didn't want me following. She rolls a 9. DM then asks me to roll a stealth check. I roll a 20 with a 6 stealth bonus. I am now invisible.
Later, as I'm following her through the woods, a goblin decides to sneak up, and naturally, she rolls a low perception check, but so does the goblin. So they have a comedic moment of bumping into each other and getting scared. and now the goblin in angry, so it draws its weapon, just as I fire two arrows that kill it instantly. Once again, another low perception and high stealth. I am still invisible, and now there is a dead goblin that god apparently killed.
You know what all of these stories forget?
A nat 20 doesn't mean you bend reality!
Awh my story in the video, rip
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Our Warlock casted Command: 'GOAT-SEE' on the BBEG for a nat 20...
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I’m a dm, and I was doing a home brew campaign with my bro’s. I was doing a session with a fire dungeon inside of the volcano, and along the way they found a magic had of bombs with the same stats as a druids nut grenades. The point is, I meant them to do extra damage to the boss. Earlier, they slaughtered a thousand chickens in a room with a chicken spawner. They talked the the BBEG of the dungeon, and asked if he had a delivery for the chickens. After some bad rolls, he took what he thought was the bag of holding that held the chickens. The thing is, they tossed it to him, and another is that inside was the magic bomb filled bag. The bag had 45 bombs inside. The boss had 200 hp. Do the math.
I had a guy (lvl 6 barbarian) say “lookin fly, cool guy” to an adult blue dragon, with a natural 20 on diplomacy. They ended up befriending the dragon and even retrieved a few items for him. He basically just chilled with them whenever they would return to his desert, because “I’m pretty bored”