What is your most memorable moment in D&D?
Mine is when my three friends, a level 10 paladin, level 10 fighter, and a level 10 barbarian were att he end of a campaign. They had just brought back the orb of Ao from this dungeon that contained all of these ancient artifacts(most of them evil). They come upon this ravine and each of them step into a different portal.
Inside each portal they see three different things. The paladin sees this demon with all of these red crystals jammed into his skin. The fighter is fighting this creature that looks like a half-demon. And the barbarian is fighting a wizard that looks like a human, that is also insane.
They began fighting, they kill their opponents with some difficulties but not hard. (By the way they are seperated in three different white voids lol). The barbarian, being the stupidest of my friends decides to run away from the lunatic, hitting an invisible wall in the void.
The barbarian holds up his mighty war hammer and starts hitting the wall, eventually he rips a hole into the fighter’s void and then he charges right past hima nd rips a hole into the paladin.
This leads up to the best part! The three enemies gather into the middle room and meld into each other forming this colossal purple skinned demon, that the paladin had actually thought to be a god, and had served it for a little while.
It laughed at them all and they began to fight it, and as they landed the final blow on it, they were transported to a temple made of flesh from the lunatic.
They had to run to away as the temple collasped and they got to a part filled with all these blood vats and these flying paltforms over this large and very deep hole, across the hole was the exit to the outside. The paladin jumps onto the platforms and gets to the exit right before the bars close.
As the barbarian tries to jump to get there the fight goes into a bloody rage that was implanted in him by the lunatic (a lot earlier in the campaign). He starts eating away the barbarians finger lol!
Now as those two are struggling they can hear a mighty roar rising from the hole and they see these waves of fire rising up with the lunatic all smeared in blood flying up at them laughing insanely!
The barbarian goes into his magic ring which contains a gnome mistress to get away from the fighter, the fighter pockets the ring and starts jumping on the platforms, when the fighter gets tot he end the platforms start to dissolve as the fires melt the flesh, and he bangs on the bars trying to get out but he can’t.
With a scream the fighter falls towards the immense wave of fire with the ring with the barbarain in it, towards the lunatic… the paladin who was very in touched with divine powers wished for the god of love (lol long story) to rescue his friends, which she came out and grabbed the two and transported them to the paladin.
They all breathed a sigh of relief, then the temple exploded… lol making them go into a cataclymsic sleep for 800 years. (You know, that their first campaign. And you know, they have been in three camapgins, they have also beenin three different worlds. Destroying each one after each failed campaign…
Mine was actually my last gaming session. We are playing Dragonlance pre-war of the lance campaign (Which means no clerics or healers at all).
During the last hour of the session we came across a locked stone door (One of many). It was my turn to walk through it after the theif picked the lock. At this point I was down to about 54hp
I peeked my head in the door and saw a bunch of snake-like heads looking back at me. I closed the door pretty quick and looked back at the party and told them what I saw. The theif takes a look and sees nothing. I look in again and also see nothing. Illusion? I made a listen check and heard something in the room even though i couldnt see it. After some debate we decided to rush the room. Only me and the Half-Ogre Warrior made it through the door before the 7 Headed Pyro Hydra closed the door on us.
We were both already hurting and in no shape to fight this thing on our own. Apparently the Hydra didnt care and opened up with its Flame breath. Doing about 15dmg to me and 20dmg to my partner. The hydra was blocking the door and it was clear the other members of the party were not getting in or us out. So i enraged and we engaged the thing to attempt to kill it before it got a chance to use its breath weapon again.
As the battle wore on, I managed to cut off 5 of the 7 heads one after another I was rolling hot and doing good damage each time. I managed to get crit hit and did 47 dmg in one hit.
At this point the Hydra dropped. This was good because the warrior was down to 1hp (No joke), my rage was about to wear off the next round which would put me at -2hp (Extra HP from rage comes off once rage wears off). On top of that - the Hydra was going to be able to use his breath weapon in the next round as well.
Our wizard managed to get in the door just in time to save me from bleeding to death (Luckily he made his heal skill check) and we all survived. For two hurting level 6 characters - we did pretty damn good =)
That must of been one really cool battle!
Mine is as follow.
We were at the end of a small temple of Evil(Undeads around, a few conscripts soldiers of the cult(few fanatics)), and the ‘boss’ was a higher level wizard(3 – we were 1 at the time) and…a Rust Legionaire
Now, the fight goes as follow. We enter the large room filled of corpse, smites thoses two conscripts that were there(one surrendered). Soon after an intterogation, the Wizard comes in and…well, the fight start. Not for long – the party’s cleric charge the spellcaster and goes…completly ninja on it. How ninja? Well, the wizard was levitating, he hit him with a 18(and 5 damage), the caster tries to counter with a spell, attack of opportunity, BANG, Cleric kills him. Like that. Poof.
But that’s not all. The Rust legionair soons come in after, smites the poor cleric(At 11 HP damage, and that was a low roll). . Me, Raoul(Not that same!), Wizard of the party, advances couragously foward and blast it with a Burning hands(6 damage). Khimi, our bard we recently saved, shot it for 2. Lukri, our party warrior powerhouse, charges the monster thing, misses. The Legionaires totaly ignores her and charges directly troward the wizard, causing an attack of opportunity for Lukri. She take it.
Do you know how painfull a Critical Hit with a Great Sword is? We sure saw it as she dealt one for about 27 damage, killing the thing.
It’s last words and actions were pulling the sword deeper, and say: “When you kill a Rust Legionair, do it well.”
Gee Lunaris, I thought it would have been when you accidentally torched a whole forest and destroyed to villages (and a couple of your party members) while trying to fireball a couple Treants
Party’s Knight falls into a spiked pit trap. Gets damaged bad too. “Ouch, my ass!”
Mage and Cleric only ones left to save him. Ooops. Str modifier total for both: -4. That combined with a critical failure from the other as they’re just about to get him up… OUCH, MY ASSx 2
Well, the Knight then drinks a healing potion and unequips his armor and equipment and puts them into a neat package. The two above attach the rope to a wall using a nail using a climbing kit and they retry the pull… and succeed getting the Knight up…
Doh.
His armor and stuff are still down, and I roll for wandering monsters due to the noise caused: 3 Huge Spiders…
Mage Hasted Knight, Knight jumped down and re-equipped, Cleric got poisoned down to 3 dex, and then fumbles a sling rock into the Mage’s skull >_>… but everyone survived O_O
A lot of cool moments!! (I think my new memorable moment will be when the PCs in my campaign finally get to the last boss, hahaha they will never suspect that peasent healer from the very first town they started in!!!)
did that once, except it was a little begger boy from the starting town
My memorable moment isn’t from D&D, as I never managed to get my campaign off the ground, but I find it funny nontheless.
We (my brothers and I) were playing Shadowrun 2nd Edition, with my oldest brother DMing. We were assigned to assassinate the CEO of a major corporation, my brother and I. He was a decker, and I a mercenary (both humans). There are two parts to this, one about the decker and one with the merc. (I don’t know if it’s relevant, but I was in third grade at the time.)
Anyway, the first thing is the decker. He was in the matrix trying to find the security codes for the door to the CEO’s office. He came across a black IC, and we all figured that was where the codes were. He actually managed to break through the IC, and what we found was… the controls for the CEO’s coffeemaker. We boiled the coffee, and then found the security codes were right there, too.
After several heated battles won thanks to an NPC mage and me, armed with my Valiant SMG, we broke into the CEO’s office on the twelfth floor to find it empty. Outside the window was the CEO’s helicopter, with three cops guarding it on the inside. (The CEO had a hunk of white gauze on his tongue, by the way.) After several rounds, I managed to take out the cops and our target, the CEO. We all jumped to the helicopter and made it, with the exception of an NPC mage who fell to his death. Then I shoved the corpses out the door, making a good five-foot diameter puddle of blood and gore. Then the corporation that hired us came by in a jet liner to pick us up. We made those jumps, too.
Not as gutbustingly hilarious as some of the others here, but it’ll do.