Most epic DnD moments
 

Hey. I'm new to this forum and wasn't exactly sure where to post this thread, so I went with the closest topic, (Favorite DnD moments) and it happened to be in this sub board. If this is wrong, let me know and I will rectify the problem.

Anyway, this is a forum for the posting of all of the priceless (not necessarily funny) moments you've had in your DnD campaigns. Everyone has had a period, sometimes short and sometimes long, where it seems that it would go great in an action movie or epic novel.

I'll get the ball rolling with a story from one of my epic campaigns. our party consisted of a level 20 druid with a legendary bear companion, an equal-CR twinked-out iaijutsu-master angel-template warrior, a level 20 fighter, and myself, a level 20 monk named Jan Syntaphar. To skip the plot, we were in a castle in which everyone had been murdered by an unknown assassin. As we came to the throne room we found it to be a Hellfire Wyrm.

Now, this thing was 6 levels above our party at the time and it had us by surprise. It's first tuft of flame hit everyone except the angel and myself. (improved evasion.) At this time, we all were ready run, so I slung the bear over my shoulder and ran down the castle wall while the angel iaijutsu dueled the wyrm, taking a good chunk out of it's health. As the angel flew out of the tower, the wyrm destroyed it behind him.

At this point, I ran at a speed later calculated to be 50 miles per hour to the fighters stronghold to fetch his leadership militia while the angel flew around attacking the wyrm, the druid cast powerful nature magic and the fighter clung to the wyrm's neck, hitting it with his sword. As I rushed back, reinforcements on the way, I jumped onto a fountain and off without breaking speed until I was withing 30 feet of the wyrm's flight position and used a Ki Shout. This shook it enough to bring it to the ground where we pummeled it into defeat.

This is just one of the more epic moments from that campaign, and hopefully the thread will take off and I'll have a chance to post more.

Well, in one campaing My Lvl 15 Monk got a Lighting bolt spell with his bare hands...

I had a Monk entirely made to be a "Wizard-Killer", all feats were towards this. So a Wizard Shot the team with a Lighting Bolt spell, and i rolled a 20 for defense!

GM: Ok! You dodged it clean...
Me: No... I stopped with my own hands!
GM: Wait.. what?
Me: Look... it was a critical, it wont cause me harm and even if it did hit it would only cause half the damage because of my feats... Everything else is "Roleplaying". So... i Stopped the Lighting bolt clean with the palm of My right hand!

From this day foward, there was a new group rule: All fights must be fought like it was a DBZ episode!

I only ever played the 2nd edition with my father as my DM, so basically twinking, feats, all that other BS that just seems like it's been stolen from an anime flick was left out in favor of as much "realism" as possible.
So my most epic encounter had to have been my lvl 6 fighter who dual-specialized in the bastard sword, with ambi-dexterity and two-handed fighting went toe-to-toe with a magical-sword wielding Wight. I won. Why don't I know what the "Magical Sword" was capable of?
Because I parried it with a roll of Natural-20, and rolled a D12 to determine the effect of my parry.
The result? The sword blew up, releasing all of it's power into me, the wight, and the surrounding dungeon, obliterating the wight, the surrounding dungeon, and my right eyeball.

And I really wanted that magical sword too :(

The accidental time I killed a goblin war camp. I was taking this quest to kill, what I thought was only a couple of goblins, but when I got there, I went up to the hill and took a look. There was a war camp. So I said, "Screw these poor basturds, Im outta here!" So I threw down a Mist and then a Shockbolt. Man that was a good day for a crit, cause half of them died, and the other half ran away after a failed fear check. So then the town was like "YAYE!" because they didnt know I was going to leave them to die, and I played it up saying, "HAHA! Thats right run goblins! For I am Trell, Master of the Elements!"

The one I think would make an excellent epic story would have to be from a campaign I was DMing. I should point out it started as an evil campaign.

The party consisted of mostly drow, and one human. The human was a Paladin that was forced to work with the rest of the party by powerful magic. But otherwise could not stand them. He held to his word to protect them during the day, but did little else. The rest of the party were there to search for surface areas that were unexplored and could be turned into an outpost for slave raiders.

One place they found seemed very promising. It was an ancient temple carved out of a mountain side that had not been marked on any of the maps they had stolen from the libraries from many of the major cities.

Long story lightly less long, they found out that the temple was not suitable because the core of the complex was protected by a powerful spell. The walls were enchanted to reflect the most terrible crimes of those that pass through them.

The paladin had no actual crimes yet, because he had just recently been forced to work with the party. He was unharmed and only felt a small amount of guilt for not dying in battle and allowing himself to fall from grace.

The rest of the party was nearly killed simply from psychological trauma alone. One of the party members had assassinated several people and felt himself dying painfully several times. Another party member specialized in "interogation" (read as torture) and made a hobby of flensing people. ( a spell that peels the skin off of the victim one layer at a time until there is nothing left but veins and bones.) But one party member in particular was driven nearly insane.

He hated humans more than any party member, and went through great length to make sure they suffered for their crimes. So he would stalk down couples that had large numbers of children, and would kill them in front of their children and then cut out the children's eyes. The last thing they would see would be their parents being skinned alive.

I would like to point out here, that the cave forced one to experience their sins from the perspective of their victim.

In a recent nWoD session, me and another player was sent to nab a vampire for interrogation. I successfully managed to trick the vampire to thinking we were taking him to a mutual ally, and that's when my partner tried to sneak up on him once he got in the cab to stake him. Failing her stealth roll, the enemy vampire angrily demanded an explanation pulling out a billy club while the other player drew a knife... thats when my character quick came up with this lie:

"Well, mon ami, you see our friend wants to have a little bit of secrecy. He trusts us of course being his personal messangers, but you'll need to be staked just until we arrive at the location... unfortunately as you can see my friend here lacks tact..."

Well, the sucker fell for it, and my character successfully managed to dupe a vampire into allowing himself to be staked.

So, this is from a non-DnD system, but it still works.

Basically, we're this group of average-rank guys, hired to track down this guy who escaped from a reserve, wherein they stash all lifeforms that have been mutated by a complicated previous event; all such beings are referred to as 'Hybrids,' and need to feel off 'life force' to live (basically, they eat any magic energy you have). We know that this particular guy, as a result of Hybridization, grew wings and is insanely charismatic, and though most Hybrids cause pain when feeding off you, he causes great pleasure.

So we track him down to this house where he's taken three women to feed on (not that they mind) and sneak in while he's sleeping. Everyone links up their minds so we can communicate, except my Hunter, just because I felt like it. We spread out, most people outside his room or by the stairs, me on the bottom floor, and the NPC outside, incase he tries to escape via window. Then the guy wakes up, and realizes we're here, and of course is like "Screw this I'm not getting recaptured," and goes out the window--but instead of trying to fly off, he dives right down and bites the NPC to get her energy.

And you know how everyone's minds were linked up? Yeah, so basically everyone except me is too busy being overwhelmed with good feelings, so it's my average-rank Hunter and his crossbow shooting across the building at this guy, who's moving like six feet per second at a walk, blood streaming down his face, and it takes like five bolts before the sunuvabitch even starts to slow down.

This specific character has lived through many more epic moments than all my other ones combined. Thusly, he is messed in the head.

The most epic moment I've seen was in a DnD campaign I was running. It was two first lvl chars, an elven cleric of chaos and a halfling barbarian with a wolf mount (they pooled their money). Wandering through the woods trying to find the dungeon they're supposed to investigate, they see a goblin war party, around 200 goblins total. I'm expecting them to lay low and wait for another opportunity, but they decide to set up an ambush. The elf climbs a tree and readies his crossbow while the halfling and his wolf hide in the grass. As the goblins pull even with them, the elf starts shooting, which draws attention from the halfling who charges into the middle and rages. It's only goblins, so they can kill most of them in one shot, but that's still only 3 kills a round. But with some clever movement and a little luck they were able to keep the goblins from regrouping and slaughtered the entire band, except for one they kept to interrogate about the dungeon ahead.

I think I gave them two or three lvls each just for managing to pull that off without dieing, though it would have been a really short campaign if they hadn't.

-Anim

Do modern or futuristic campaigns count? Because I was once playing in a mutants and masterminds campaign where my character had the ability to adapt to his surroundings every so often. Anyway, at one point we were defending a hospital from the minions of the main boss for that arc, and the mini boss found me. Without displaying his powers, he quickly landed some painful blows on me, so I jumped back into a nearby room to plan for him. After bolting the door, I noticed a generator and a large pool of water, so while changing my adaptation to electricity resistance, I held both the nodes of the generator and waited. Sure enough, he barged through, right into the water. I leapt forward, throwing the nodes into the pool and frying him, or so I thought. Turns out the jerk was immune to electricity. I quickly changed tactics and, after allowing myself to get hit by him several more times, succeeded at a bluff that he had done absolutely nothing to me. The mini boss chickened and ran off.

The hilarious part was I was almost unconcious, while he didn't have a scratch on him.