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So, tonight had perhaps the most absurd enemy death I've ever seen in a game I was in either as a player or a GM. The party was sneaking up on a duo of level 6 troglydyte barbarians leading a 12 HD trog troop. For those who aren't aware, troglydytes have a 30 ft. aura of stench that sickens you if you fail the Fortitude saving throw. As combat gets going, the bard NPC shuts down one of the two barbarians with a Cacophonous Call. The troglydyte is now blowing massive chunks of its prior meals all over the place. Whatever, it can still take move actions, so it activates both rage and it's Guarded Stance power to become a raging, dodging, upchucking troglydyte.
Cue the party's spell slinger wizard, who uses some alchemical power components to amp up a Fireball he chucks at the bad guys. Everyone fails their save, so they are now also on fire. I arbitrarily raised the DC of the troglydyte stench aura by 3 points just because, "Oh god, the smell, WHYYY???" So now, this a raging, dodging, flaming, upchucking troglydyte.
Now it's the ninja catfolk's turn. She decides it'd be funny to shut him down even more, because she HATES that these barbarians have been so resistant to her sneak attacks. Tanglefoot bag, in his face. Natural 5 on the save, he's immobilized. So, he now a raging, dodging, flaming, upchucking, entangled troglydyte who's glued to the floor.
Now here comes the frontline, the dwarven fighter and the lashuntan magus. Both sides of the enemy, because how often do you get to flank a barbarian? So now it's a raging, dodging, flaming, upchucking, entangled, flanked troglydyte who's glued to the floor. He's been hit for a decent amount of damage, too, so he's covered in blood and such at this point to boot. Cue the dwarf using greater trip to much success. As the trog goes down, somehow, both the PCs get AoOs. Great success, massive damage, his body is chopped clean through across his midsection twice.
So in the end, we had a blood and glue covered trolydyte who was raging and dodging as best he could despite blowing chunks everywhere and being on fire (which probably means the vomit was on fire too) get bisected twice while flanked after somehow being tripped when his feet were stuck to the stone floor. I have never seen a more gloriously ignoble death for a monster.
So, yeah, that happened. Anyways, what're your great stories for how monsters have died in your games?
In a previous game we'd met a troll bard, as you can imagine that was interesting. We got in a minor scuffle with a few goblins that got set on fire and ended up being a snack for said troll bard. And my character tried a bite. These guys were turned into a barbecued mess inside of one round, and a snack the next, not as, descriptive as your own, but a decent one I'd say.
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Probably doesn't count, but in our last session, we had an invisible gargantuan Balban (spelling?) that the gm had bumped up to a cr 20+ accidentally get greased by one of our bards, completely by accident. No one knew it was there until it rolled a 1 on its grease reflex check, and hit the ground hard. Next round, bard glitterdusted it, and it fails the blindness save. It goes to stand up, another 1, hits the ground, no one within range, it readies an attack, and fails to save against the blindness again. We have demon possessed people swarming us, evil summoners summoning something even worse... so we leave the Balban alone. On its turn, it goes to stand up, a third 1, falls again, fails the blindness check, I point out it could try standing as a standard as well, it does so, rolls a 2 or 3, falls again. We all continue to ignore it.
And on the next turn, it fails the blindness check, and goes to stand up.
And it rolls a FOURTH 1.
The gm smacks the box representing it off the table in frustration, and says it broke its neck, congratulations.
And that's how our Bard soloed a cr 20+ at level 15 with only a grease and glitterdust spell.
Poor thing spent the last few moments of its life on its back, blind, and completely ignored by the party in every way. XD
That counts, teatime. That DEFINITELY counts.
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I ran There is no Honor (Savage Tide) at a convention. When the players got aboard the Blue Nixie and were confronted by the rhagodessa, they found they couldn't damage it. The guy playing the rogue lassoed the monster with the rope attached to the anchor - then dropped the anchor, dragging the monster down to the bottom of the harbour. :D
That counts, teatime. That DEFINITELY counts.
Seconded
In my group we have a house rule that if you confirm a crit with a natural 20 you can roll the d20 again and if you get another natural 20 you instakill whatever it is you are attacking, no need to roll damage (something similar applies to natural 1s, I once had a character die trying to ride a bicycle).
Anyway, by that point in the story the PCs where working for the king himself, when we came back from a dungeon after recovering some long lost royal relic we noticed things where wierd in the palace. After investigating we discover that the king was being controlled by the BBEG, who was a drow wizard. Things happen and we end up having a big fight in the throne room. As soon as the paladin slays the last enemy in the room the door opens and there is the BBEG drow wizard herself, with bodyguards on both of her sides but no one in front of her and she starts to make an evil speech.
My character was a barbarian who was still raging from the last fight so while the other PCs listened to her my barbarian gets impacient and charges her since there was no one in front of her to stop him. I roll a natural 20, confirm the critical with another 20, make my third roll and BAM! another 20. So with a single hit from my mighty war hammer the powerfull wizard lies dead, her body reduced to a pulp, her bodyguards panic, some run away, some drop their weapons and surrender. And that is how a level 7 barbarian defeated a level 15 wizard (acording to the GM she had a lot of buffs to increase her defense and after the speech she was just going to teleport away, we were not suposed to fight her, much less crush her like I did but not even the most powerfull of wizards can stop the power of 3 natural 20s).
