Recently in a game, situation:
Talk for information to NPC X.
We arrive there and even high rolls (19 bluff) don't convince the enforcer to let us pass.
One of my favorite utility spells, Daze, i said i would cast if the bluff would fail. It did despite being rolled 19. Anyway, enforcer resisted and calls for his buddies, who were mentioned but my brain didn't register.
(Odd thing, the human brain)
We're now at start of a 5 vs 12 combat....oops...sh1t.
Any good stories of accidentally/unintentionally setting off events or fights?
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We had a rogue accidentally set off a log trap and then the fighter rushes in to help him and gets hit by the other log trap... I think there were 4 logs in all, each coming from a different direction, but we managed to disable the last two. Heh.
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Party is in a dungeon that is basically a moonshine mill run by halfling alchemists and rogues. They step out into a hallway and ambushers attack from both sides, flanking the group.
Monk says, "Wait. I think I have something in my bag to help deal with this." Pulls out a set of smokesticks and sets them off before anyone in the party has a chance to stop him.
Congratulations. Now all the sneak-attacking halflings have concealment.
I don't remember, it's been years, lol. I think I was still relatively new to the game at that time - this was back around 2006 or so, when I very first started GMing and we were still running 3.5 - and didn't know that concealment negated sneak attack.
I don't remember, it's been years, lol. I think I was still relatively new to the game at that time - this was back around 2006 or so, when I very first started GMing and we were still running 3.5 - and didn't know that concealment negated sneak attack.
Now if he'd cast magic darkness and the halflings could see in magical darkness, then you'd be in trouble!
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I made my DM's jaw drop a few times. One time I remember was when my my group was fighting some drow and maybe driders and some Drow cast magic darkness and I turn to my DM and say, Oh, good thing I have Devil's Sight (Warlock Incantation that gives darkvision and allows you to see in magical darkness)... and proceeded to pound away on the Drow. :)
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Back at the swamp village's small tavern, the PCs are discussing how to proceed with their investigation. When suddenly the Halfling has an idea! The Halfling pulls out a skinned face from the hidden cache, "Hey y'all can I have your attention! Anybody recognize this face?" Suddenly door flies open on tavern and PCs are fleeing for their lives from a mob of angry villagers! Had to walk all night to Lepistadt since they were clearly not welcome in swamp village anymore!
Why the Halfling thought the villagers in this tiny backwater would be cool with a stranger whipping out a skinned face is beyond me.
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"Oops, seems I just woke the vampire we were supposed to be killing while he slept in his coffin". Not an exact quote, but I did that.
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Does leaving the unconscious Grippli Rogue with a Worg count? He did wake up and almost survive.
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Sitting around a table trying to negotiate the return of one of our party memebers with a group of spelljamming pirates.
Ken Chiema (me) <I slip my wand out of my sleeve and toast the bastards with a lightning bolt.>
DM snorts: "What?"
Barok "What the hell man?"
Everybody starts drawing weapons and fighting as the DM calls for an initiative roll.
Tazger "Dude, what the hell are you doing?"
Ken Chiema (me) "They weren't going to negotiate and I for one don't want to be sitting out in this damned swamp on this damned asteroid all night." Turn to DM and tell him I use my initiative boost (1st edition Wu Jen ability).
After the fight the party wanted to sting me up. To which I replied, "You will want to wait until after we kill off the pirate's reinforcements that should be arriving in less than a minute." Sure enough, the pirates were just stalling waiting for their reinforcements. The party let me live. :)
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This was back in 2nd Ed AD&D...
Relatively low-level PCs were playing cat-and-mouse with a vampire. I
The vampire was winning. At one point the crossbow-specialist successfully makes a called shot to the vampire's heart-- staking him. The vampire falls dead.
Before the rest of the party can stop him the player says, "Awesome! I take the quarrel as a souvenir!"
The vampire then wakes up and attacks.
This is a recent one from Skulls & Shackles.
We had just cleared a town of it's guard with our crew with the intention of robbing the town of it's reserves of hat I think was deep platinum. Afterwards we went over the town to make sure we didn't miss anything.
Once we got to the church, we saw something huge covered by a cloth. We fogired it wouldn't attack us as long as the cloth was on it and started discussing whether or not we should engage and what our plan was if we did. During this discussion, our witch uses her extending spear with a large range to lift the cloth, beginning the fight before we were prepared.
In the end we almost died and 3 of our crew was mind controlled and left behind when we made our escape. The witch in question was whipped for it later. Had it been someone in a lower position of power, he/she would have probably been executed.
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That's nasty :/... and a waste of good people.
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I accidentally the fighter. In fact, I accidentally the whole rest of the party.
Standing before a giant, spherical portal into blackness, my paladin did a Detect Evil check. Only AFTER I jumped into the Sphere of Annihilation did the DM reveal that area itself radiated evil, not the Sphere.
I accidentally the fighter. In fact, I accidentally the whole rest of the party.
accidentally what? Killed, kissed, f~!~ed, ate?
Only AFTER I jumped into the Sphere of Annihilation did the DM reveal that area itself radiated evil, not the Sphere.
Did you jump the gun or were they just a dick?
I have a bad habit of playing impulsive, gun-jumping characters.
I accidentally the fighter. In fact, I accidentally the whole rest of the party.accidentally what? Killed, kissed, f~*!ed, ate?
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The group I was GMing for was instructed to enter a warehouse for some reason I don't actually remember anymore. When the players arrived at the warehouse they found it guarded. In a rare show of actually talking to the bad guys, they tried to bluff their way in. The guards were willing to let them in for a 50gp bribe. One of the players, who at the time was fairly new to the game said "50gp?!? But I'm just a poor paladin!"
The guards looked at each other and said "oh really"?
Combat then commenced.
Ow......yeah baddies don't like paladins.