Ba-zing
My DM allowed me to use my bow to shoot a wand of Cure Moderate Wounds at a Lich. It went off when it hit him and was awesome.
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3.5 Sorcerer gish
An evil cleric was on a 3 meters passage.
I threw my returning weapon at him, hit him and he escaped in the passage. I jumped the 3 meters rolling very high and being hasted. I threw my weapon again (just got the new spell and was having fun with it) but he prepared a wall of stone (or a lesser version of it, can't remember) AFTER the weapon hit to steal it (it was an heirloom weapon and the villain knew how important it was for my character). I had stoneskin and insane strength bonus: I punched the wall, rolled a 20 for the strength check, run through it, caught the weapon and beheaded the evil cleric with another critical it.
Probably not really RAW, but damn COOL
Once I had a rogue who was arrested for some break and enter stuff and general legal violations I committed for the greater good.
In my own defense I lied through my teeth very successfully, however I was not counting on them asking if their were any witnesses in the gallery who were aware of anything. Our party paladin decided that he should tell the truth and basically ratted me out.
I figured my best odds of survival was to escape, so I acrobatically leapt from the prisoner's box, rolled a 1 my foot got caught on the rail and landed face first on the floor, where I was then pinned by several guards...good times, wait you were asking for use of the rule of UNcool right?
First campaign I ever ran: dual wielding 1e ranger is flying, hasted, laced with spells and racing TOWARDS the oncoming ancient red dragon over the capitol city. He's got to get PAST the dragon to have the chance to make a check which, if he succeeds at that, finally at last saves his ailing father at the top of a towering keep. Ranger...Dragon...Ranger...Dragon...2 natural 20's!
BOOYAH! table erupts in cheers and I, typical DM make him roll damage and such; MAX DAMAGE on BOTH FREAKING SWORDS! Even magiked up the waz did it kill the Dragon? not even close. But He hit it so hard he slices off one full wing and it crashes into the evil people's tower.
Now on to the dad. After such phenomenal rolls...a 2 on his check to save the old man. He rolls it, tries to cover it up and looks sheepishly at me. I just smile and ask "so, is your father alive?" to which he shrugs "yeah...my father's alive." I let it go; rule of cool.
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Another one: my brother is playing a 1e ninja from OA rules with a bunch of "western" characters. I don't really understand the assassination rules but my brother assures me; it's nothing but a percentile roll; success equals death. I say ok, but ask how am I going to have him killing people like this all the time in front of the other guys. He comes through again saying every time he puts on his shades, his character Tang Dao Tsing makes an attempt.
Cut to a mini-boss the party was not meant to kill. He's ranting about how if they do anything to him the rest of the baddies will rain down fire from heaven yadda yadda. My brother says "I'm gonna go grab a soda..." and flips down his sunglasses. I roll behind the screens; perfect 100. Bad guy takes a swig of wine to clear his throat...collapses on the spot as my brother settles quietly back in. "What'd I miss?" he asks.
The same campaign one of the characters got a "Ring of Mel" which meant that no matter how badly they failed they'd always look as cool as Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon doing it.
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Ok, last one for a while I promise:
1e OA game, I've got a samurai in the game. He inherits a helmet that turns into a full suit of armor on command in his background to start the game with. Since it's a family heirloom he vows never to use it unless under the most dire circumstance and literally NEVER put the thing on until 12th level. That's not the cool though.
So I capture the characters; 2 kensai, the samurai on an island FULL of ninjas (they were like minions; there's a sea of them but they've all only got 1HP.) Their Wu Jen NPC, appropriately named Woo managed not to get knocked out. They come to bound to wooden posts 10' off the ground with 1 HP each in nothing but some pants. Woo, out of spells, reaches into his "7 demon bag" and withdraws a minor power to use on the crowd in exchange for a year of his life. That's still not the cool.
The kensai can't get down and the samurai refuses to do anything since he knows his actions will endanger his friends. But then the bad guy pulls the magic helmet and announces that the armor will be worn as he masquerades into the emporer's castle to assassinate him. Samurai screams himself to an 18/100 strength, tears free of the ropes and leaps to the ground (it should've killed him but what the hey!) He proceeds, by sheer luck with all dice rolls on the table and me using no screens, to kill a few ninja while not being hit, fire 2 arrows nailing one rope on each kensai who then free themselves, drop down and arm themselves, and then kill their way with Woo's STOLEN magic helping a little all the way to the BBEG who begs for mercy...and the samurai GRANTS it! he reclaims his birthright, the party flees in a freaking rowboat out to sea and escapes ninja island; all 3 main characters STILL at 1HP. Cool.
A human mage, polymorphed into a hamster riding an awakened hawk that was a bard. The bard use Subsonics to grant bonuses to just the party while the mage rained fiery death from above. Did I mention the mage had a custom version of Flaming Sphere that formed around him and let him zip about at 30ft per round? (Flaming Hamster Ball!)
A ghoul monk with monkey style that specialized in fighting on top of rows and rows on tombstones. (I leap to the next tombstone as a 5-foot step...)
The Ring of the One (not to be confused with some other One's Ring...) It has a stored Mage's Disjunction that it uses to counterspell Disjunctions cast in its vicinity.
And in case you're wondering, yes I have played a Malkavian.
His insanity was that he was very ritualistic. Cause the fact he thought he was a demon was perfectly sane.
For a one shot, I also played one based on what if Elwood P. Dowd (Harvey) had Frank (Donnie Darko) as an imaginary friend. He was a very cheerful and overly friendly and outgoing psychopath. (Go watch both movies right now. We'll wait.)
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For a one shot, I also played one based on what if Elwood P. Dowd (Harvey) had Frank (Donnie Darko) as an imaginary friend. He was a very cheerful and overly friendly and outgoing psychopath. (Go watch both movies right now. We'll wait.)
My mother always said to me "Elwood..," she called me Elwood y'see, "Elwood, in this life you can either be all too smart or all too pleasant. Now, for years I was smart; but I PREFER pleasant."
Veta = grandma death?
We tried a rule of cool stunt in our group but the GM shot it down and declared no rule of cool ever. She went as far to threaten the player who invoked the rule of cool by saying that she could think of plenty of "cool" ways to kill the party.
The stunt by the way was to tie a necklace of fireball to an arrow and shot it at the ancient white dragon that was flying at us.
We tried a rule of cool stunt in our group but the GM shot it down and declared no rule of cool ever. She went as far to threaten the player who invoked the rule of cool by saying that she could think of plenty of "cool" ways to kill the party.
The stunt by the way was to tie a necklace of fireball to an arrow and shot it at the ancient white dragon that was flying at us.
Shoulda been allowed. It's cool, it's a clever idea, and it WOULDA been a commonly invoked legend in yer gaming group. Now the only thing that's remembered is what a D yer DM was.
One that sticks out right now:
Party just apreheneded a possessed man, so they take him to jail. After they lock him away, ghost possesses the gunslinger. Ghost tuants the party, and then then compells the gunslinger to finish a ritual.
Gunslinger bursts through the window, trying to lose the party. Whip fighter then tries to trip the gunslinger through the window. He rolls a 20. Gunslinger (and essentially the chase that would've happened) is now caught by the party.
Last game, we went up against an Anti-Paladin (we're all level 2's). He cast Harm at the Ranger. She had 25 hp, so I'm pretty sure she'd have died.
I told the GM I wanted to step between her and the AP and take the blast. I made the reflex save to do so.
The AP couldn't understand why I smiled and thanked him for casting Harm on me.
Oh, I did mention I'm playing a Dhampir Oracle? And I was down to half HP?
A friend of mine had an Orc Barbarian. At level 1, he was able to sunder the body of a tiefling bandit and dual wield his arms.
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One night we are starting into an AP being around level 3-4 the Summoner is still learning her summons list. One combat she is looking over her list to find just the right solution and reads out loud the word dolphin. This devolved in a matter of moments into several members begging her to drop a dolphin on the baddies. Sadly she refused and summoned something useful which saved the day blah blah.
Fast forward nearly a year. I am now running a game for several of the same members in a different group. The group is level ten and fighting a pack of Dire Fiendish Tigers. One of the casters is looking over his spell options and notices a low level summon spell. A round later a dolphin appears 30 feet above a very wounded tiger. I decide to give the dolphin a crush attack with d8 + str and some additional bonus for falling so far. The dolphin crits and rolls well on damage and crushes the tiger into a bloody pulp on the floor. We all just stopped for a moment and then nearly fell out of our chairs laughing.
So many things.
As a GM, I have an NPC who dual-wields bastard swords and only goes by "Boss," I've had an NPC who, during a siege of a city, grappled and coup-de-grace'd the fires that threatened to consume his forge. My players managed to get a Goblin NPC knighted, and said goblin serves food with uber-powered effects (24 hour duration haste, full healing, etc) often as a plot device to allow them to take on much harder encounters. The direct intervention of Cayden Cailean and the dream sequence that followed was also really awesome (he ended up drinking the entire dream)
My players have done such things as mount and ride a hell-hound (taking fire damage) into a wall of braced spearmen, dismounting with a backflip, just because, steal a spellbook right out of an enemy caster's hand without being noticed by anyone but the familiar, who nobody believed, and trip a fire giant by tying its legs together with rope and anchoring with an immovable rod, making bluff checks to converse with it without raising suspicion.
As a player, I have been allowed to Captain America with a tower shield, make bolos out of cooked rats and rope and throw them at an escaping, winged BBEG, snaring his wings (long story), use fishhooks as currency, and make grapple checks against a dire shark I had hooked on said fishhooks.
We had a Dwarf Barbarian with Spiked Armor on at all times. When the Paladin got killed by a greater Efreet, he went into a Rage and rushed (past two Bone Devils, actually) to grapple the guy so hard his legs ripped off (the Efreet was using Giant Form so it had legs) and he fell over, deader than dead since the Dwarf proceeded to beat on the dead corpse out of anger.
I don't know about you guys, but it was pretty cool according to my players.
Some more that I remember -
During a tournament, I used up all of my Elemental fist attempts to to explode, dealing lethal damage to everyone but the enemy fighter, who was so badly charred that the match was declared inconclusive.
Got thrown at and successfully grappled a dire-bat while it was just hanging there on a stalactite.
As a Monk of the Sacred Mountain, I was used as an impromptu wall so that whenever the fighter shield bashed his opponent was knocked prone.
My Paladin's bonded mount took Savage Warrior levels
The boss of an encounter got taken out in one shot by a lvl 1 NPC archer.
My Paladin's bonded mount took Savage Warrior levels.
So it's a Skyrim horse?
So it's a Skyrim horse?
Looking back on it, yes it is was very much a Skyrim horse. Held its own soooo well in combat.
rule of chunky salsa: any attack that reduces the targets head to the consistancy of chunky salsa is automatically fatal, regardless of remaining hitpoints.
well, that's what The White's post reminded me of, anyway. maybe my brain just shorted out for a second.