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Post by DM Mitch on Feb 5, 2015 20:14:10 GMT
What is your greatest Crit Fumble story of all time?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2015 22:12:10 GMT
This happened back in 1996, playing a game called Darkurthe Legends.
Character creation had a table of various merits and flaws to add flavor to your character. The DM allowed us to choose up to 3 merits, but we randomly determined an equal number of flaws.
I was playing an Anghul (similar to the D&D Goliath race) warrior, and one of my flaws was "Kleptomaniac." He wasn't especially sneaky, but dammit if he couldn't help himself. Another member of the party was an alchemist, who had a number of potions stowed in his backpack. Unable to help himself, my character rifled through the alchemist's pack during his night watch, while the party camped out in the wilderness. The alchemist caught him in the act, and my Anghul reacted by dropping the pack.
The DM randomly determined which potions broke from the mishandling, and that at least one of them spilled onto my character's boots and activated the effect. The potion he was affected by was a flawed potion of flight -- the user had limited control over his movement. The alchemist was only keeping it around to throw at an enemy, but it went off on my character and sent him into the air.
The DM asked me to make an agility check to attempt to land. I crit fumbled. He determined I was heading straight for a tree, and to make another agility check to determine how bad it was going to hurt. Another crit fumble. He ruled that I impaled myself on the tree, and was at the verge of death.
Begrudgingly, the alchemist woke the rest of the party and they attempted to get me down. While not a crit fumble, they failed their climbing check on the way down and let me drop. Dead Anghul.
I think we all agreed it wasn't conducive to party cohesion to have someone with a compulsion to steal from everyone, including his allies, so I wasn't upset with the death. Still, it was a memorable scene!
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Post by DMC on Feb 9, 2015 21:56:39 GMT
What is your greatest Crit Fumble story of all time? It was on the podcast! For the life of me, I can't remember which episode though. The Dwarf. In full plate. Trying to Sneak.
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Post by DM Chris on Feb 10, 2015 5:33:49 GMT
Nevvur: awesome story. Somewhere in the world of the dead your character is still crying out to be played! He feels like life was stolen away from him too soon.
DMC: Fricken crazy story of the dwarf trying to sneak and somehow ends up slicing his own throat. Bad day to wear full plate and decide to sneak.
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Post by nerdbillydelux on Feb 10, 2015 13:09:30 GMT
I don't play as a player too much any more but this story I was playing as a fighter with a great axe. My cousin was the Dm and one of our party members was my girlfriend at the time. long story short the party had made its way into a cave system and there was a pool of water in one of the alcoves. my girlfriend at the time had her character inspect it and was promptly grabbed up by a large tentacle with a giant octopus rising up from the pool. Wearing plate i acted quickly throwing my great axe at the horrible beast and well... nat 1 guess who got the great axe in the chest... worst this was it killed her out right. These days we share this story over beers with fellow nerds and many laughs are shared
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Post by nateham44 on Feb 10, 2015 14:59:02 GMT
This happened about two weeks ago. I am the DM. The group was stuck in a maze like dungeon. Rogue finds a trap and rolls a 1 to Disarm. He did not get caught in it but he guaranteed it could not be disarmed. The Dwarf Warlock decides to jump it. The trap, when set off, takes a ten foot section of floor and ceiling and smashes them together, crushing anything in between. The Dwarf has Boots of Striding and Springing so he can jump the distance without a problem. I had him make a Athletics roll. He rolled a 1 and slipped when he was about to jump. I then had him make a DEX Save to recover. He rolled another 1. With three fumbles on one trap, there was nothing else I could do. The Dwarf Warlock became Dwarf tomato paste...I told the group they would have to hose out the boots if they wanted to use them.
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Post by DM Chris on Feb 10, 2015 18:20:54 GMT
I told the group they would have to hose out the boots if they wanted to use them. Oof...that sucks. Well at least they still have the boots...right... Thats got to be a positive coming out of that situation.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2015 5:41:06 GMT
I told the group they would have to hose out the boots if they wanted to use them. Oof...that sucks. Well at least they still have the boots...right... Thats got to be a positive coming out of that situation. That, and one less dwarf in the world... >.>
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Post by nateham44 on Feb 11, 2015 13:14:39 GMT
Oof...that sucks. Well at least they still have the boots...right... Thats got to be a positive coming out of that situation. That, and one less dwarf in the world... >.> Not so...He had a Trinket. A bottle that had a vague perfume smell inside..I made a one shot full blown resurrection. The group came out of a room after taking out a Cambion and ran into a barefoot Dwarf looking a bit dismayed.
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Post by DM Chris on Feb 11, 2015 17:58:00 GMT
Not so...He had a Trinket. A bottle that had a vague perfume smell inside..I made a one shot full blown resurrection. The group came out of a room after taking out a Cambion and ran into a barefoot Dwarf looking a bit dismayed. Did the dwarf have any recollection of what happened to him?
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Post by nateham44 on Feb 11, 2015 18:58:03 GMT
Yeah, he knew he died. Did not know how he came back, although since he had all his gear except the bottle he figured it was that. Weird thing was, the group didn't question how he was back.
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Post by friartook on Feb 24, 2015 14:40:33 GMT
I thought I would share this story with all the talk of crit tables over in the DM Resources thread. Last night I introduced a crit table I found online (see attached). I didn't make anything custom; I used this table because it has crit success charts for multiple damage types and a crit fail chart on the same page. I wanted to use Mainprize's cards and make a custom fail deck to match, but we are in major overtime crunch mode at work, so spare time for D&D prep is limited (also, there's Skyrim to consider...). Brief Background: The PCs have been traveling through a large cave complex beneath the Worldtree. The Tree is a giant, magic tree growing out of the top of a mountain on an island surrounded by a swirling maelstorm. So difficult to get to. The players have been charged by the church of Pelor to bring back a fruit of the Worldtree within a year, or be cursed permanently (this is payment for two resurrections). The PCs have made contact with a tribe of dark elves, the caretakers of the roots of the Worldtree (not evil. druids and rangers mostly, but underground style). This tribe is in trouble. The island is being attacked by a shipload of fire giants and their minions. At the same time, the drow tribe has been decimated by an infestation. This is described to the PCs as an invasion of shapechangers, a plague that causes some drow to change into hideous frog men, and a seemingly related plague that infects the drow with larvae that burst forth from their chests and grow into similar frog men (bonus points if you can Name That Monster!). Setup: So, after two days in these caves, and some poorly balanced random encounters (get your s%!* together DM!) they have made their way to their goal; a circle of ancient draconic runes that drow legend says is an entrance to the interior of the Worldtree. There the found a "boss fight" in the form of a CR 8 baddie (party is five lvl 4 PCs). They acquitted themselves well (well enough for me to question the balance of CR values in the 5e MM, but that's a topic for another day). The Crits: As the fight wore on, our PCs were hurtin' for certain. Two had already survived falling to 0 hp, and everyone had taken major damage. The rogue hit the baddie with an arrow tipped with a paralysis poison. Monster failed his save and was paralyzed for the next round. In that round, the fighter lunged at him with his sword. He had advantage on the attack; his opponent was paralyzed. He rolled snake eyes; double 1s. After much shouting and groaning, I had him roll twice on the crit fail chart. He got off fairly light; first roll had him stumble, he made a dex save and kept his feet; second roll had him entangle his weapon in the enemy's arms. As his opponent was paralyzed, this was embarrassing for a proud and seasoned warrior, but no real harm done. The rogue was next. He decided to attack with his shortbow. Again, advantage on the strike. He rolls double 20s. More shouting and some cheering. I gave him a choice: roll twice on the crit success table, or take double weapon damage and double sneak attack damage. He chose the double-double, inflicting 6d6 points of damage. This felt like poetic justice after the 8d6 damage that had been dealt to the PCs just minutes ago by this "boss". Here were his rolls: 6,6,6,6,4,5. No kidding. He killed the beast outright; splitting its head in two. This is the beauty of the rule of dice. The PCs get the same thrill the gambler gets at a craps table. Double or nothing, sink or swim! Simply put: Awesome! ghbm.pdf (37.83 KB)
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