Our group was 4 level 13 w/ 6 mythic tiers in pathfinder 1e. We were not mix-maxed especially considering mythic shenanigans. We entered a demiplane of a long deceased wizard almost akin to a demigod. This demiplane was made to store the memories of this wizard and things he deemed too awful to be allowed to exist in the world. One of these was a conqueror worm (cr 21), and our characters are head strong and almost to the point of arrogance. We start the fight, eventually our healer cleric got dominated by it and started hurling fireballs at us. My character get swallowed by this thing. Unfortunately it learned what happens when a portable hole meets a bag of holding.
Not nearly as epic but... it just happened this tuesday: *SPOILER ALERT FOR RISE OF THE RUNELORDS* We just killed Mama Graul from the third act of the campaign and were scouting the barn for survivors, we found the hideout of their monstrous ogre spider pet and the prisoners kept on the other side of it. Shalelu (the elf ranger NPC) immediately go to them and I decide to take it on my own to distract the giga-critter long enough to let her save those poor guys. My PC, Rood Whitefang (gnoll brawler), jumps and I roll acrobatics landing on the head of the spider, gripping on to it; the bug starts trashing but I deliver a heavy hit that cracks the carapace onhits head and pops many of its many eyes, it tries to throw me off but I cling to it even stronger... The DM delivers that, based on the damage I already inflicted on it and the position I'm in, I am granted a critical hit and I just have to decide how I kill the beast. Rood sinks his clawed hands in the crack in the carapace and pulls with all of his strenght, splitting the spider's head in two. The creature trashes and spasms, before finally going still and collapsing on its own webbed hideout. After a few moments of silence, Rood emerges from the spider-webs, arms lifted and roaring with laughter, one of the fangs held in his claws as a trophy: a glorious memento to an epic victory.
This reminds me of my favored spell. I know it was in Pathfinder, a christmas oneshot... I forget a lot of the details, but I played a wandering gambling sorcerer with a spell known as Holy Cascade. 3d6 Bludgeoning and, if an entity is 'evil', an additional 6d6 Good damage. We had two instances where I used this spell. The christmas themed oneshot had us assassinating some elite assassins called 'The Reindeer' two of which were evil entities--a succubus and incubus. When things went downhill and numerous demons began the strife, I cast Holy Cascade. I wiped 2/3rd of our enemy's health. Unfortunate the succubus and incubus dodged, but the lesser demons were given one hell of a fight. The next instance forced my gambler into dancing with a Vroc in a loaded dance club. The rest of my party took to getting the citizens out via a trash fire, and proceed to paralyze and beat the second Vroc to death while I kept it distracted. Citizens fled, the second Vroc killed, I cast Holy Cascade centered on myself. I took the 3d6 damage from bludgeoning And the additional 6d6 went into the Vroc on top of that. The utter look of betrayal! That's some spicy trauma that'll stay with that oneshot character lmao I'll never forget that moment, bc it's one of my best hahah.
My last character, who killed an entire army with the cha cha slide, and took on all the gods at once solo without breaking a sweat using nothing but koa toa and a terracotta garden gnome at level 5 : 2000+ , those are rookie numbers, you need to get those numbers up
I'm not gonna argue about the damage ruling because that's just way too cool to argue against it, especially since it already happened. Coupled with the Banishment, this is definitely in the hall of fame of moments that make the player feel powerful. I will point out another fun moment: "You all level up from just watching that" when the players asked if that was enough xp to level up the wizard was dope as hell because 1) it keeps everyone the same level so no one's left behind or outshining everyone, and 2) amazing phrasing.
As far as I'm aware, you're supposed to only be able to level up on rests. Although, I'm no rule aficionado, so that could have been a Homebrew thing for a campaign I'm in as well as one I watched. So it was awesome the DM allowed them all to, if that holds any truth.
@@djburk7930 There are a few different ways I've seen it done. One is at rests, another is the DM informing the players only at the end of the session, and one is immediately when you pass the threshold. There's probably even more than those, and I tried to check if the PHB prefers any, it just says when you get enough xp.
Damage would be PER TARGET IN RANGE. Since we're dealing with a massed enemy formation, it's a sensible shorthand to treat it as a swarm and the attack as an AoE against that swarm. I agree with the DM on this one.
Also, lightning bolt has a limited AOE. It's not an infinitely long line. It's only 100 feet long, so maybe 5 trees, assuming average spacing on the big trees of about 20 feet.
@@RedwoodTheElf The lightning bolt would eventually cause a forest fire. The zombies all ideally burn after a few rounds as they march out of the woods, thinning the army to a far more manageable size. At least that's how I'd rule it.
(original poster here) lmao. around 20 sessions later when we returned to the town (ingame after like 6 months) it turned from a magic based city to a farming city because the zombies acted as great fertilizer and the majority of the forest was clear from the following forest fire.
It could go either way really, depending on how it was managed. Would be interesting roleplay material to see how relations between the town and heroes changed depending on if the party stuck around long enough to help clean up the mess they made or peaced out.
@@Tesla7 makes a ton of sense really... corpses really DO have alot of nutrition in them(even if theyre rotten to varying extents) also i honestly love situations where the "rule of cool" is applied in such an amazing fashion...
@@crustybomb115 I still doubt its remotely close to a good idea leaving all those corpses. Infact there is a story going around with Denmark, look up "Denmark's culled mink mass grave", about 10 million minks. Mind you any corpses left to rot in the city water supply will quickly cut their people off from fresh water, and instead it becomes diseased. It's actually a common story hook for a town's water supply to become poisoned by a single corpse, now image if a single hundreth got into the city's water supply.
To resond to your end comment, when you think about it, it's an exploding tree, 1d6 is a dagger, yet you are being essentially pelted by daggers with the force of an explosion behind them, so I'd say 6d6-8d6 is a pretty fair range, especially because a key point is it's non magical damage, minus the lightning bolt itself.
Well, this was a scifi setting and we were in a high-tech dropship hurtling towards our friendly fortress that was under attack by a horde of millions of insectoid monsters that the Wizard was fending off with the aid of about five legions of heavy troopers. I was the co-pilot and wound up accidentally flying into the air support of the insects (we were using a mixture of Tyranids from Warhammer 40,000 and the Flood from Halo as the basis for the beasts.) Our weapons were down due to the circuits being fried and the machine guns jammed so I did what I do best. I applied actual science and broke the sound barrier using the fact that the dropship could break the gravitational pull of the planet as the basis of my argument as to why that was possible. DM allowed it and I effectively killed a quarter of the swarm by creating a massive thunderclap before dropping abruptly into a deep mountain pass and flying low the rest of the way through a blizzard using sonar to avoid the rocks. Just a really fun way that encounter went and wound up getting my guy the reputation of being the Han Solo of the group.
A long time ago in my second ever campaign (short version is dinosaur apocalypse) a swarm of hundreds of velociraptors were attacking a city, and the party (I don't really remember anyone, just that I was a storm sorcerer) decided to try and help defend the city. After some fighting the Swarm was charging down Main Street, when I got an idea. I spent several turns flying around a large stone tower at the end of the street making sure it was abandoned, and verified with the DM how tall it was (if I remember correctly around 20 stories). After that, I told the rest of the party to get out of the street, and I cast mold Earth to disrupt the foundation, and I quickened Fireball at the base, dropping the stone tower on all of the Raptors
*how a goblin bard reduced her party to tears* This was two nights ago and was the third session of the campaign Our party was me the centaur necromancer named nucklevee A homebrew circle of monsters druid named cold winter A gnome artificer in a battle suit named Oz A warforge killing machine named dalek And yatheer a city goblin whispers bard Yatheer (which we learned was based on being called "you there") was a maid working for a rich family whose young son had just been kidnapped by the local crimeboss. We had been working every angle we could oz and dalek threating people cold winter following people in wild shape nucklevee raising the dead for thier secrets We learned the crimeboss hangs out in a pup called "7 drunken oarsmen" and after some plans yatheer is left on stage needing to keep everyones focus while we get into position to take out the crimboss's goons. ... Nat 1 on performance ... Now up to this point yatheer had never rolled less then a 14 and suddenly everything was falling apart hana yatheers player begged to roll again. Before you say anything we've all been hana at some point So Tommy our DM cut hana a deal if she sings in real life he will judge that as her roll. Hana suddenly was too shocked to speak and I had just left the table and came back with my violin and asked "song of choice luv" Hana was silent for a minute and handed me a piece of paper asking if I know the song A Million Dreams from the greatest showman lucky for her I do Now none of us had ever heard hana sing before and as it turned out she was amazing and the DM could not close his mouth "Okay... So you rolled a Nat 20" Anyone got a story like that id love to hear it
That is awesome! Kudos to your DM and yourself for both being so open to creative interpretation, and allowing someone a moment to shine in the limelight uniquely.
That was great. Fly over, exploding-tree-lightning-cannon-jutsu, level up, then just fly away. I would be crying (either with joy as a player, or fear as that BBEG).
1:52 HAH! I swear every time theres a background war in a campaign or something no matter how low level or ill prepared, or unaware of the circumstances of or desires of each faction someone, if not the whole party always wants a slice of the action right away! YIRBEL LIVES!
Hey, we did that as well. We were on a magic Train and suddenly an enemy train caught up to us (It was a Train-Taur, at the front of the train there was a giant torso) I Misty-Steped an entire crate full of dynamite onto the Train Taur and lit it up, dealing a good amount of damage. A few of my party members jumped on as well, and we proceded to kick the crap out of the train-taur, there was even a mechanical octopus ally called Lenny doing sabotage on the enemy train from the inside. It was a fun session
My group blew up dragon and There minions and buryed them under the mountain with a ton of explosives that my character had in his infusied bag of holding he was arficier/wizard multi class and he was party’s main healer and he had an obsession with blowing stuff up my party has learned this with my character once you see dorn firebolt running you run with him as little while latter a bomb/C4/TNT related explosion also ways happen.
I was dming a game and the party had a shattered corrupted god seed( a seed that turns those that consumed it into a god) and one thought he should put divine energy into the seed and caused a grave explosion that tore the vail between worlds
Level 17 party. Walked into battle against the BBEG's chief lieutenant. Entire battlefield is covered in skeleton warriors. DM starts to describe how there are literally a couple hundred skeleton warriors wandering the battlefield. In the middle of his description I go, "9th level Meteor Swarm." The DM went "Oh... so, umm, forget everything I said about skeletons..."
@@exonism8522 As I said.,we walked into battle. We didn't actually walk into the middle of all the skeletons... We got near the battlefield and saw what was waiting for us.
@@exonism8522 Umm, no...? It has a *casting* range of a mile, but the meteors themselves only do damage in a 40-foot radius. "Blazing orbs of fire plummet to the ground at *four different points you can see within range.* Each creature in a *40-foot-radius sphere centered on each point you choose* must make a Dexterity saving throw. The sphere spreads around corners. A creature takes 20d6 fire damage and 20d6 bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A creature in the area of more than one fiery burst is affected only once. The spell damages objects in the area and ignites flammable objects that aren't being worn or carried." *No one* corrects me on fire-based spells in D&D my guy... I didn't play an evocation wizard specializing in fire spells for two years for nothing, lol.
Can I say how much I love your vids its nice to see a dnd narrator that dose not feel the need to drag anime and other non dnd things when reading stories I will never understand the anime and other trpg bashing
In a campaign that’s still going my character, who is a psychic warrior, used expansion and grew to gargantuan and proceeded to wipe out 500 demons in a single turn using great cleave
Let me repeat what was said: HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A TREE HIT BY LIGHTNING? The DM should have added a DoT for the rest of the zombies since the remaining trees caught on fire! XD Great stuff.
**How a Barbarian played lumberjack** Minor spoilers for Icewind Dale. I was playing Drunkenfist of the Thunagora clan, a Goliath zealot barbarian flavored as having been kicked out of the afterlife for partying too hard. We were heading to the black cabin with an orb of weather control that was generating a rain storm that was following us and ran into a duergar mind master with 2 duergar hammerers. Axtali, our gnome mystic telepathically questioned the mind master as we were hidden in the bushes and learned becoming a hammerer was the punishment for rebelling against their brutal regime and we decided to kill the mind master and put the hammerers out of their misery. Our bard and mystic distracted them with a combination of unseen servant and minor illusion but the mind master went invisible. And my passive perception wasn't high enough to see his outline in the downpour. But our ranger could and got him to drop invisibility with a well placed arrow. Next was Atxali who used her psionic powers to hold the mind master in place. Then it was my turn but the duergar was just too far for me to reach, 50 feet away while my movement speed was 40. So I asked the DM, "are there any trees nearby that are at least 60 feet tall?" He says there is one. Drunkenfist cleaves it down with one mighty swing of his greatsword (23 damage) and then pushes the tree so it lands on the duergar, splattering it into an unrecognizable pile of gore (Double nat 20s rolled with advantage because of rage). Then we tracked down the hammerers and had them help us salvage loot (the bard was disguised as the mind master) and decided to free them from the torture armor. One was released with almost surgical precision, the other, well Drunkenfist peeled it off of him like opening a tin of sardines. Honestly as a player I kinda felt sorry for the DM and apologized for one shotting the encounter, but he wasn't upset. I guess that's just what happens when you have a party of tactical players and a strong barbarian.
This was a while ago- so my memory is a bit fuzzy but it goes like this The party setup was. A warlock who was basically a vessel from hollow knight, A cleric of life Aasimar. A gunslinger. A barbarian. And finally a Homebrew Artifiicer revision gnome named Smitty (He is the one this story is important to). After getting basically a cyborg zombie maker (Story for another day). They found a cave they wanted to setup a base of sorts for the machine. The only problem tho- was the lackey of the creator of said machine was looking for them. For context this was a Sci-fi game. The lackey found them and do you know what they sent? A homebrew monster of mine that is basically a large mechanical dragon that can make drones. Basically a walking factory. The drones setup so that if the Main monster died. they died too. I was making this as a tough mini-boss. Then when the combat started the gnome artificer.... *Sigh* Used the spell "On/off".... keep in mind I did approve of it- normally the spell does what it says- turns a machine on or off. however because the mechanical dragon was Sentient. I decided to make a wisdom saving throw against the artificers spell save DC.... it got a nat 1.... So basically this tough battle I was planning turned super easy IN ONE TURN. Now the artificer is remaking the dragon as a siege device. TLDR the gnome artificer uses a highly uncommon spell to turn the "tough battle" into a cake walk.
I had a warforged named Farmer that could make just about any spellcaster flinch and let the rest of the party thrash said caster. In our campaigns, wizards by default knew about all spells in the PHB (Not in their spellbook, but of the general existence and brief notion of what the spell does.) Outside that needed a DC10 +spell level Knowledge Arcana check for official expansions, with a +5DC for 3rd party expansions, and +10 or higher for homebrew. Sorcerers and warlocks had an additional +5DC, but they still usually had a clue about most spells. This 'fact' of the widespread knowledge of magic among casters was something that you might eventually learn, because some do like to brag. My Warforged learned this fact, and asked a caster friend what spell he feared most. When he heard his friend's answer, he saw an opportunity he could not resist. He used a scythe, and had a phrase etched into the surface in common, draconic, and abyssal. "Guess what? I prepared -Explosive Runes- this morning!" He, of course, did not know how to cast that spell, but what caster in their right mind would risk it? Granted, if that failed, he was a crit-fighter with an absurd threat range, and the x4 of the scythe, so he was basically a lawnmower in the fields, whether it was for battle or for wheat.
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oh, you reminded me of a gag in "order of the stick": "oh, i intentionally misspelled it with an extra I. it will not explode when read." "wait, what are you talking about, 'explosive runes' isn't spelled-" [BOOM!]
I think 5d6 is enough. When lightning hits a tree, it turns it into a massive fragmentation explosive, not to mention the ‘air bomb’ (not sure the name in English, but I hope that works) that goes off from the mere lightning impact.
That was a great hit. The only thing from my table I see wrong is that a level up, you would not get your magic slots back until you rested. However, seems like you guys had fun, and in the end, that’s all that really matters.
(original poster here) yeah, it is a homebrew rule our dm came up with where if you level up it counts as a long rest. I forgot why he made the rule originally, i think its just cuz we usually level up during combat or roleplay and he wanted to make level ups more significant but i forget.
Hehe lightning is some serious firepower. Been around it when it's hit a handful of times and every time it was exciting. That was brilliant to cast it in a line through the trees! :D
I don’t know if this counts, but here’s my best boss fight in DnD (kind of): This happened during my first time ever playing DND. My party consisted of a Moon Elf Paladin, a Dragonborn Cleric, a Wood Elf Ranger, and me, a Drow Druid (Circle of the Land: Forest). Our party, after wandering through a large cavern, came across an artificial forest within a large room in the cave. The trees themselves were natural, but there was some sort of artificial sunlight coming from the roof of the cave (no, we didn’t investigate this). Being the skeptic I am, I decided to use Spider Climb on myself so I could scale the walls for a better vantage point. After rolling an okay number for perception, I managed to spot some giant spider webs and some people trapped in the webs. Admittedly, my character was more focused on their own survival, but in more of a “I’ll save you, but only if I know I can survive, too” kind of way. As such, I suggested that we leave the cave. Of course, the party wanted to save the people so, by the power of democracy, I was overruled. Right off the bat, the DM tells us that we notice a large half-spider-half-woman standing in a small clearing in the middle of the forest, along with two other half-spider people (the DM never specified if they were Driders). We tried to hide from view, but the Paladin and I were both spotted. Immediately, we were tied up onto the cave walls about 20 feet up. Initiative was rolled. I can’t remember the exact order, but I remember the main events. First, after being tied up, I decided to curse the Spider Lady out in Druidic. Surprise, surprise! She speaks Druidic! That earned my character a face-full of acid, but, thankfully, she wore a mask so only that melted. Skip to after a few rounds of fighting and it’s very clear that my party is going to TPK if something doesn’t happen soon. That’s when I got an idea. I told the Ranger to fire an arrow at me. The whole table, DM included, looked at me like I was crazy until I explained my idea. The Ranger tossed their dice and, thankfully, rolled well. The arrow severed the webs and, after rolling a successful Dex saving throw, I was freed and joined the fight. The same thing was attempted with the Paladin, but they got shot a couple of times before it worked. We did this every time someone got strung up on the walls. Eventually, we found some ancient weapon, jokingly known to the party as a “pea-shooter” due to the small green beads that were used as ammunition in the slingshot-like weapon. But, we learned very quickly that these beads exploded: Long story short, they let me fire the weapon first. My character barely knows what a slingshot is, let alone how to use one, so I had disadvantage on the roll. NAT 1. The Paladin was caught in the blast radius, not the BBEG, and was soon making death saving throws (they succeeded, don’t worry). Why they let the Druid with no proficiency in ranged weapons fire it when we had a perfectly good Ranger is beyond me. In the end, we didn’t land a single hit on the boss using the pea-shooter. We literally won because the Cleric and I managed to convince the Spider Lady’s minions to overthrow their leader. After the battle, the BBEG dropped a large amulet with a ruby in the center. The ruby glowed blindingly bright and when the party looked back at the amulet, there was a young Halfling with blonde hair and fair skin laying next to the piece of jewelry. This was our final member of the party: our Halfling Warlock- who remained unconscious for the rest of the session because their player couldn’t make it to the session. TL;DR: Party of four uses their dumb luck and charisma to win the BBEG fight and earns themselves a fifth party member.
I disagree. Most people forget how much 1hp would be in D&D. Imagine you were to take your entire health, stamina, and physical fortitude to resist death and divide that by, for instance, 10. A normal NPC commoner in D&D has 10hp and would have the same HP as you or I. 💀 PCs are typically above to way above average "persons" and are that way just to help keep a person from writing up a new character many times a single session. It also helps to make the game more fun. 1d8 a tree would've been fine(e.g. Fireball spell at level 3 is 3d8 and is basically a small bomb). 😮 Rule of cool though would say that almost anything over the amount needed would work just for effect... thus 8d6 just thrown out there because why not. 😎
@@alexanderthegreat6682 Indeed. That would be likely, but would DEPEND on the intervention of clerics, healers, & such. On average, to keep it simple, a commoner has about 10hp & 10 on abilities. However, in 3rd Ed. those under the adult age would get bonuses to their physical stats at the cost of their mental ones. Old age would be vice versa of youth. 😅
Do a search on injuries relating to a tree exploding from lightning. There is almost nothing out there and certainly no fatal injuries that I could find attributed to such an instance. Also look at the lack of velocity of the debris and how close the debris field is to where the tree was. It's basic physics in that most of the debris is not going to be lethal with only a few pieces being dangerous making a lethal or serious injury from such a strike almost nonexistent. I would also point out that trees exploding from lightning strikes is very rare considering how common lightning strikes do hit trees. I implore those out there perpetuating the myth of the deadly and lethal exploding trees to do some research and use facts rather than coming up with their alternate beliefs of how lethal or common such an event is.
My party consisted of a bunch of lvl.2 characters, and we wound up fighting a magically animated statue that was proving difficult to defeat. One of the players manages to trip the pile of rubble, and due to the SR the thing had, we weren't having much success in damaging it. Until one player had a stroke of genius. One of our first missions had to deal with a bunch rat swarms infesting an abandoned apartment complex. As such, we had stocked up on Acid Flasks and Alchemist's Fire as best we could. The genius player poured one of their Acid Flasks onto the prone statue, and the acid completely bypassed the SR. Cue all of the players that still had Acid Flasks pouring them all onto the statue, crumbling it into dust.
As someone whose worked with trees, and seen what lightning can do to them, the dm was on par or a little low on the amount of damage that would do. Even small branches from a decent high can easily maim if not kill outright if you're not careful.
This was back in the halcyon days of 3.5 and level adjustments. We started at level 12, and most of the other players chose exotic races/monsters for their characters except for me. I was playing a Half-Elf Rogue/Wizard/Daggerspell Mage. The only player with 12 actual class levels. We started the game with nothing, trapped in the dungeon of a giant's castle. The first couple sessions were just the escape, avoiding combat whenever possible and making due with what we could find in our exodus. The nearby town that we managed to get to had been menaced by the giants and happened to have black powder. After getting a good selection of gear, we were able to afford 9 kegs of the stuff. So we planned and buried the kegs in a 3x3 grid that would have overlapping explosion radiuses. With the trap set, we lured the giants out and all but 2 of my spell slots of 3 or higher were stacked with Fireball. The other spells I had prepared was a Fly and Wall of Force spell. Once the giants made it to the trap, I cast Wall of Force and another character put a Blade Barrier in front. We couldn't get the whole enclosure covered, but retreat was cut off, and advancement was lined with pain. I had cast Fly earlier and the rest of my actions in that very brief encounter was Fireballing the center of the killing floor we created. With the initial explosions, subsequent fireballs, and our Monk picking up some stragglers, we killed about 15-20 giants in about 5 rounds. It was still the best tactical combat moment I've had in a game, even if there's no logical way it should have worked, but it was cool.
Reminds me of a campaign I played with a. Few of my cousins, we had beaten a sorcerer in possession of an item that vastly amplified magic, and were faced with an armada attacking the city we were in, when our mage steps out onto the castle balcony, using the item to turn his fireball spell into a veritable meteor storm devastating the entire fleet and much of the city, we were all evil aligned in some way so we considered it a win
I know this is really cool, and I'm glad your characters got to experience that! However, lightning bolt has a range of 100ft. There's no way 137 trees are lined up in a 100ft by 5ft line. If they are, there's no way that the trees are big enough to explode for THAT MUCH damage in a 20ft radius. I know it's tough to improvise on the spot, and it's all about the rule of cool, but things like this are really tough to follow. For instance, what if the character just repeats this process in every fight?
Yup, but again, improvisation does not take all angles into account, just enough to make the story work... kind of. They can talk about it in the future if it becomes an issue.
Given a 5 feet wide, 100 feet long lighting bolt at Level 3 , hitting 130+ trees is indeed odd. Trees grow at average distance of 4-8 feet from each other, they have roots and canopies. Falling max 40-50 trees is more realistic. 6D6 per exploding tree seems reasonable. So total damage is 1800 -1400, likely 80~60+ zombies dead. More likely for a level 6 PC character. 2k zombie kill would be more likely for PCs above level 10 and probably only in places like bogs where peat or methane gas can explode in a huge area.
Really cool. Sounds like a good DM and Party. I for one agree, that a forest fire would have broke out and that would have taken out even more zombies. Very creative. The house rules about leveling up seem generous, but if I was a player I would love them. Sounds like you all had fun.
We were running through a game of Dungeon of the Mad Mage, we came up to a pathway a heard a bunch of tiny feet approaching down a ten-foot wide hallway, I was plauing a Warforged Artillerist Artificer, and my friend was playing a Hexblade Warlock Tiefling. I cast grease the exit of the hallway to see what I could do to mess up whatever was approaching. The next turn the Tiefling casts Hunger of Hadar, in the next two turns about 20 goblins and a couple bugbears come sliding out of the hallway either dead or near dead easy enough for my flame thrower to clean up
(original poster here) Yeah lol, our dm uses a different method of xp where it is shared among players so everyone levels up evenly, and xp gets reward for rping. Even with his ruleset, it would have been level 9, but we all leveled to 7 the session before so we all agreed for 1 level up just because he was generous with the damage per tree
That was an ingenious plan by OP and friends. Props to the DM as well for not squelching the fun, although I have to say that this is the first campaign I've heard of that allowed a character to raise while still in combat- must be some video game logic at work here. Regardless, this was a great story!
The wizard in my last campaign did something similar in our climactic fight against a huge army, but it was a bit less impressive since he was level 20 at the time. This guy did it at level 6? Dude.
Technically this was a warhammer 40k rogue trader campaign, but still noteworthy. I was playing a rank 3 psycher that the DM had made me into from multiple sources. he was from a simulation planet that the original group had been trapped on by a god to 'test something'. the others I couldn't tell you what, since this was my first WH40K campaign and I know nothing about their classes. we were traveling around the universe to find worlds with colonies that were still loyal to the god emperor. after our last encounter (those trying to bring back the chaos beings...) we were weary when the planet hailed us down to the surface. we eventually decided to trust them and - after a bit of talking - found out that they've been being attacked by raiders of khorn (is that how I spell it?). after preparations were made to defend the only place they needed to attack to get in, we waited... and soon they came, hoards as far as the eye can see (really, it was maybe a hundred or so with a few machines). note, we had a mech named 'big chungus' and a recently acquired leman russ, as well as several squadrons, so we were very well prepared. once the first quarter entered the battlefield, the first few characters fired off their weapons. then it came to my turn. I giggle and run the ruler function from roll20 across the column of enemy units. for those who don't know, those who have psycher using classes choose a discipline. for me, this was the pyromancy discipline... I had an active psy rating of 5 thanks to a gift from our generous DM gave that upped my active psy rating by 1. this means I can cast most my powers from 100 meters away! with a wave of my psycher's hand, the row of enemies were set ablaze with 'wall of fire'. and you can bet your sweet butts that most of them died. and you could hear the annoyance in the DM's voice. then the next row came in. note, there were machines in the first wave which I hit, but didn't kill. once they started moving, I had bent my wall in a specific direction, with the same result as the last. after awhile, a couple of big guys came in and summoned blood lickers... I don't know if fire will work, but screw it! and I proceeded to make a loop-da-loop that would hit a bunch of them again. this is basically what the exchange that happened OOT. main gm: "wait what?! can he do that?!" sub GM 1&2: "yes! yes he can!" they say as everyone, including them, is laughing their butts off Main gm: "ok, no, fuck that, no. just straight lines. I need to nerf you somehow. at that point, I didn't give a damn, I was laughing too hard. once everything was done, we entered the reliquary, where we find the uncorrupted "thousandth son", who we talk with and end the session with him basically becoming my teacher in the psycher arts. at the end of each mission, we're given a set amount of XP, including little bonuses to specific characters that did stupid/amazing things, each with a title to be had. mine was "fire and brimstone".
I can see 6d6 per tree. 2d6 for piercing, 2d6 for bludgeoning, and 2d6 for fire damage. Trees don’t just explode, they also catch fire when struck by lightning.
Two legitimate mass destruction events that I have seen was a ship in bottle thrown into a hall too small to contain the rapidly expanding galleon once the bottle broke destroying around 70 or so skeletal monster types, a creative solution considering that the galleon was partially rotted and not seaworthy anyway. And the second one being the rupturing of a glowstone that inflicts 1d10 damage per charge held (1000 max charges though this one had 600+) to all creatures within 70' of the stone with a save for half only allowed if at least 25' away from the epicenter of the explosion. I cannot remember how many were killed in the last explosion, only that the party was being swarmed when it was set off.
(couple common questions and answers below) How did you get spell slots from a levelup? The spell slots coming back was part of a homebrew rule from my dm where a level up also counts as a long rest. Why was there no damage over time for fire/hot sap? We all agreed that that would be annoying to roll for, so we just ignored it and added a bit extra piercing to compensate. If lightning only reaches 100ft, how could it hit 132 trees? I actually only realized that now, I guess we just forgot about range lmao. What are other cool moments from the party? Two come to mind, 1: shooting arrows into a bag of holding, and then opening it in combat for all they arrows to fly out at the same speed. (one time while doing this we accidently overfilled it, causing the arrows to explode in an alternate dimension, killing franz ferdinand) 2: bodyslamming a necromancer from 180 feet onto a sword.
So I don't remember what happened before this but in a dnd campaign where I was probably the equivalent of at least a lvl 15 at these moments I managed to 1 shot a hydra and a Tarasque one after the other. For the hydra I used a 4th level firebolt, my many fire supporting items, a frost gaints eye and one other item I don't quite remember but they all mixed to deal over 100 damage or at least enough to 1 shot it which gave me like 30 valuable gems because the place I was in made the person kill powerful enemy to get increasingly mpre valuable things. After the hydra I moved on to a tarasque and with the power of all me and my parties rangers boosts plus complete distracting his sanity I managed to one shot a tarasque and got 50 some very op magical items like a chest plate that made me functionally imortol
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reminds me of a story: a player had an ability that lets him turn into any creature he has seen... yes, he turned into a Tarrasque.
Ya know, I once played this sorcerer, with twinned and quickened spell and aberrant mind bloodline. I used synaptic static, twin and quickened to debuff an army, but then turned around and used 9th level MODIFY MEMORY on Tiamat, having forced her to use her legendary resistances on banishment, and made her my bestie. It was BEAUTIFUL! Then, some true polymorph shenanigans later... I am an Ancient Red Dragon with twenty levels in sorcerer AND Tiamat's bestie. Also one minute of doing nothing but roll concentration. Battling TIAMAT.
I had played a campaign with five others; a mage that likes to blow stuff up, a turtle druid who would charge into battle as a beast, a goblin ranger with a dog and a platypus, our fighter who kept getting into trouble, and me, a hill dwarf barbarian. We were all around level 6 to 8 at the time. We'd been asked to find someone one an island one that was surrounded by a constant storm and we had to sail through it. The party had been battered several times and Reggren, my barbarian, was sailing for the first time. He hates sailing after that. After we finally managed to get through the storm, we took a rowboat to shore, only to face off against three, yes. three manticores out at sea. Our mage actually manage to trap one in a sphere, pretty much taking it out of the fight. One of them nearly killed our ranger but we managed to finish off the two and left the third in the sphere. That would come back to bite us later. After getting to shore, we found a trap on the beach that would've turned us into glass but no one fell for it. We took a short rest to heal up before getting back on the move. Eventually we came across a tree that grew pears. Our druid casted speak with plants, talking with the tree that spoke like a hippie. Our target passed by not too long ago and his fruit healed the party for 1d6 and there was enough for all of us to have two each. Things quickly went south as a plant monster began attacking. I went last in initiative. The party were having a rough time taking down the plant beast and several more sneaking vine monsters revealed themselves. Finally it was my turn and I had the perfect weapon. I had played another adventure from the 1970s and had found a weapon called PlantSlayer, which was a +1 longsword that dealt an extra 2d6 damage to plant monsters. I was a level 6 barbarian so I had two attack and the dice were with me as I was dealing around 40+ damage every round of combat, soloing two plant monster with some assistance on a third. It's always satisfying to have the right tool for the job. The rest of the adventure consisted of finding the pirates the pirate base and wiping them out. The manticore we didn't kill earlier was a pet of the pirates and was waiting for us outside the front. The two guards had enough time to set off an alarm, alerting the rest of the crew. Whelp. What followed was pretty ridiculous. Our druid summoned two dire wolves to help us fight and Wildshaped into a giant elk. Our Ranger had a bag that let him pull out a beast to command and tossed out a brown bear and summoned another when that one fell. Several pirates were on a ship that none of us could reach save for our wizard who had a flying broom. Proceeds to launch the equivalent of an artillery shell at the ship a la fireball and tossed around some lighting bolts. It was a slaughter. I should also mention the cave was big enough for call lightning to be casted inside. The pirate captain does this and sends a kraken like beast after us but most of the pirates were dead at that point so it wasn't too much of a challenge. Turns out the pirates had constructed an idol to the god of storms, sustaining the one surrounding the island and our target had been sold off already but e knew where she was and began preparing to head that way by sea. Reggren hated sailing.
Well... it’s a monster by vague metrics. It was a clone of my character that we found in an abandoned drow laboratory (in our setting the drow were banished for experimenting on dragons, my character is tied into it (ask me for more if you must know)), along with a wall of others. Our fighter, at my request, used his thunder hammer to wipe them all out in one go as I just... watched.
I am assuming that the forest isn't a new growth forest, and may have several hundred to several hundred (five to eight hundred) year old trees with a large circumference amongst the lot. There's missing force damage from the concussion of the thunder itself impacting the wood. Also missing would be a lot of fire damage: although some trees may have green live layers, there are more aged dried layers lending to a wildfire. In minutes from the lightning damage, the foreseeable issue is the wild fire that may wipe out the city if someone doesn't work out a means to cancel the huge wildfire.
(original poster here) yeah lol we just simplified all the damage to the one so that we didnt have to break out the yee olde ti-84. And the forest did burn down pretty bad along with some of the wooden barricades outside the town, but the town itself was fine and half the forest was aight afterwards.
I turned a single layer dungeon into an oven once. We'd come across a dungeon in a homebrew game that had combination of vampire spawn and mind flayers (about 100 monsters total). We'd managed to free their prisoners and realized there was no way we could clear this dungeon out. We collapsed one entrance (blocked it with rubble, but not air-tight) and found out there was a back-door to this place (one party member got separated from the group, found the back entrance that was just an earthen tunnel shored up with timbers). Went around to the back door and, with the intent of collapsing the tunnel to prevent pursuit as we fled, built a huge fire in the tunnel and kept it going all night. DM starts rolling dice. LOTS of dice. He ruled that the draft from the fire ran from the backdoor to the main entrance and that the smoke and heat killed everything inside. All because we wanted to seal the place up and escape.
Ok I got a story So I was playing a one-shot with some friends I was playing an order of the scribes wizard half orc, someone was playing Terrance the arokakra cleric, and Wizlo the halfling rouge. So we had been doing this D&D space thingy. And finally we reach the BBEG. The BBEG was based off Fireblight Gannon. So as a kinda meta game move but my friend shot it in the eye and it did double damage. So I had the spell Bigby’s Giant Hand and grappled it failed to break free. So on my next turn I casted a 3rd level magic middle auto hit and auto crit did double damage and then bonus action squeezed it. And it never broke free. Along with our rouge’s flame Tongue short sword booming blade sneak attack we killed it in 6 rounds. So that’s how I beat a boss with a big hand and lasers
This reminds me of the time I wiped out an entire cult with a Nat 1 gunshot. My party consisted of my character, Solas, (A level 8 Paladin, who took on a homebrew Oath called “Oath of the Peacekeeper”, which gave me proficiency in firearms and interrogation skills, as it was modeled to be a sort of police officer), a Level 6 Ranger named Adem, a Level 7 Fighter named Groaz, a Level 7 Bard named Wilem, a Level 6 Barbarian named Oran, and a Level 8 Cleric named Sara. The party was called to scout out a large outcropping in a mountain, where a cult had built a stronghold. While Oran, Grauz, and Wilem sneaked towards the stronghold, Sara, Adem and I, being ranged fighters, took up a sort of snipers nest, to provide overwatch. I was currently armed with several weapons, but the one important to the story is my Semi-Automatic, Hunting Rifle, which I paid an NPC Artificer to create for me. I looked through the scope of my weapon, to spot enemies, and guide the party to the objective undetected. As I scanned the Stronghold, I spotted a large crystal surrounded by a group of “priests” who were praying to it. Sara loaded a bolt into her heavy crossbow, and took aim at one. Adem drew back his longbow and aimed at a second, while I placed a third in my crosshairs. When we rolled our sneak attacks, I rolled a nat1. Knowing that my shot would alert the cult to our positions, I signaled the melee fighters to get ready. But when the DM described how I missed my shot, he made quite a big mistake. As he was explaining how my shot flew a few inches to the left, because of the distance from the target, Wilem’s player spoke up. “Hey DM, isn’t the crystal to the left of Sol’s Target?” He said, which caused our DM to flush. He had forgotten that fact, and accidentally allowed my shot to strike, and shatter, the crystal. Apparently, this crystal was a big part of the cult, and every single enemy in that stronghold had tied their life-force to that crystal, rendering them immortal and unkillable, as long as that crystal was not destroyed. In one shot, a Nat 1, I had single-handedly slain over 500+ cultists. The session ended early, and we didn’t have one the following week, as that stronghold, and that cult, was supposed to be a major plot point. The DM had to go home and rewrite xD
I just had a fight vs a evil wizard that was hiding in the mouth of a giant beholder using its anti magic field to negate our magic and telling the beholder to close his eyes for his spell, but our druid manage to force the beholder to close his eyes and then i broke the fight by casting command "swallow" on the beholder ...... it was amazing!
Our wizard cast tiny hut in front of a train going 300mph. That train hits said dome and explodes. That is how he killed 2000 level 12 criminals in 6 seconds.
I had my CG Dragonborn Warlock become, arguably, a war criminal, when he tried to make a distraction to let his friends escape an arena they'd beeb thrown into by a Goblin King, by using a combination of Sovereign Glue and 15 Firebombs placed on the underside of some wooden bleachers. This resulted in about 95 dead goblins.
a couple things: 1. 8d6 is probably overkill damage-wise, but it kinda doesn't matter because the amount of damage an exploding tree would do is "more than 5", which is enough to kill any zombies in the blast radius. 2. This reminded me of a story from a dnd campaign I'm in. The party consists of me, a (revised) ranger, Zook, the diviner wizard who would be right at home as an evoker, Uder, a "fire and brimstone to the wicked" celestial warlock, and Goliath (yes that's his name), a goliath barbarian. Basically, party was dragged into the Feywild for the second time, and super sick of its shit (we lost 6 months on a journey the last time that happened). As a party we collectively decided "fuck it" to whatever spider-laden bullshit would be present within the Feywild, and decided to burn the forest down. Zook set up a Leomund's Tiny Hut and then cast a fire spell (I think it was Firebolt, it doesn't matter much), and then we all camped out there till the fire burnt out. The DM quickly reminded us that there wouldn't be any air supply outside the hut, so while we're not hurt by the fire we'd still be in troulbe if we didn't deal with that problem. So, I cast Rope Trick and reasoned that there had to be an hour's worth of air inside the pocket dimension, since otherwise it'd be functionally useless for its intended purpose. The DM agreed and we waited out the fire in there. We managed to get out of the Feywild with only one other incident past that point, but that's a different story.
That sounds about right, damage wise. Watch any video of lightning striking a tree, its glorious, terrifying, and anything so close, is dead from the shrapnel alone.
my party once thought with portals. we had to grab stuff we forgot for the sake of powering up and to salvage the campaign from a losing situation. i had a sorcerer that could make portals and a bard who could make themselves invisible. in order to avoid raising an alarm we went the stealthy approach, and used portals to shove yuan-ti into the thin air next to the cliffside dungeon we had to go into. Afterwards it was as easy as getting the loot, and bailing the hell out of there. earlier in that campaign our fighter "not Shrek" had pulled an all might by arguing he could create a windgust out of how fast he could move in a single turn with aid from his half orc racial features and a Haste spell i had plopped onto him. it worked and the DM gave him bonus damage to the attack he made with that arguement.
Once I was playing as a Circle of the Moon Druid/Path of the Storm Herald Barbarian multiclass Half elf with the cantrip Mold Earth. Me and my party, a Rogue/Artificer Kenku named Lightfoot and a budding Necromancer named Iguva Dominith, found a cult of Drow worshipping Lolth under the town we were staying at, as well as a Bugbear standing guard near the entrance. After killing the Bugbear with a decapitating axe throw, me and Lightfoot scouted ahead to check out the layout. What we found were a dozen or so rooms of sleeping Drow. Each bed was up against a wall, a dirt wall. Then, I got an idea. Instead of rushing in and starting a noisy battle that was bound to bring down a mountain of combatants on us, Cad walked into each room quietly and when he reached the first occupied bed, he casted mold earth and covered the head of the Drow in ten inch thick cube of stone, and held his limbs down while the stone slowly suffocated him to death. After checking to make sure none of the others woke up, Cad and Lightfoot both gained a devious grin. Rinse and repeat for the rest of the rooms until Iguva poses the question. "Wait, do we know if these Drow are hostile?" Blank stares are all that answer him. Which incites about a 5 minute real time rant from Iguva's player about having killed dozens of Drow in their sleep with no provocation. I bring up the Bugbear, which our DM then brings up how the Bugbear had nothing to do with the Drow at all, and walked into the settlement on his own. Which I called bullshit on seeing as their was a mechanism on the door into the settlement, but apparently the Bugbear was smart enough to get through it. So, armed with the knowledge that the last 28 or so people Cad just quietly, ruthlessly, and unflinchingly murdered were all innocent, the last room of which he sealed of the doorway while Iguva saturated the air in the room with the Poison Spray cantrip, Cad decides to instead wake up the rest of the sleeping Drow and explain the situation to them. With a natural 20 on his persuasion roll to make sure they don't freak out and kill him and his party, the Drow are immediately understanding of the situation and even wish the three adventurers luck.
Cad kinda redeemed himself by Wildshaping into a Brown Bear, then sacrifing all of his movement for double action to block a 10 by 10 foot doorway to prevent thousand of spiders from getting to his squishier teammates, leaving him at a grand total of 2 hp and the poisoned condition even after taking damage as a bear, reduced to half because of rage later on after he was finished sealing the doorway, and temporary hit points from his tundra aura.
Lightning bolt spell has a max range of 100 feet. The player located a straight line of 132 trees. For that to be possible, the trees would have to be exactly 8 inches thick and be perfectly aligned in a straight line with zero gaps in between. So basically like a fence? The player found a highly convenient and highly explosive fence, and apparently the entire undead army was gathered around it.
Pathfinder campaign. We were in an underground ruined city that had been taken over by undead. A morg was leading the evil horde of about 2000 skeletons. We had an evil priestess wtih control undead. She controlled the Morg. She ordered it to order it's underlings to kill each other. DING! We then took the Morg with us to fight the area boss (some sort of drow construct) and used it against the enemy. Eventually the Morg and Drow took enough damage from each other for our lower level party to kick both their asses (weaponry included a dog, poop-covered pants and colour spray.) Fun times~
Personally, I’d think that’s relatively fine since it’s a solid tree exploding in your face. This is especially true if said forrest is filled with the kind of trees that could kill you by just falling on you. If there’s one thing I’ve learned with my small amount of experience with moving bits of log around, it’s that trees are really heavy.
I think I would have kept it as lightning bolt damage since that's the spell he used, but as a combined shrapnel and fire effect, and with an area of auto fire damage like with oil in the phb. Bit more reasonable and realistic, but with an added effect as a bonus for clever tactics. Of course now there's also a forest fire.
i think I think 8D6 is reasonable considering he was probably rolling the army as a massive health pool so this factors in the fact that the trees had no shortage of zombies to damage when they blew.
Given a week’s time, you can have the spells necessary to kill a Terrasque. Lightning bolt, Glyph of Warding, and Animate Object (ball bearings.) You’ll need at least one Arcane Gate, but aside from that, you’re all good. You’ll need 2-3 casters, up casting to about 6th level and so on, maybe about 13th-14th level overall if I remember correctly. From there, you gotta make sure everything’s secure, casting nearly at all hours of the night and day. Having someone proficient with elemental adept to add that lightning damage, and since the ball bearings are good to go for awhile, whatever ones don’t melt inside the Terrasque’s mouth should do the trick. I’m workin outta the 5e, not Pathfinder where it regains health
I’d say it depends on the type of forest/distance between tree. If they were all grouped together and were wide trees, then the damage rolls would be only a little outlandish.
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ied say the damage depends on the tree
ive seen some form of palm tree be hit and do basically nothing and a pine tree outright explode
Depending on the size of the tree, I think 8d6 piercing damage is plenty of damage from an EXPLODING TREE!!!
Our group was 4 level 13 w/ 6 mythic tiers in pathfinder 1e. We were not mix-maxed especially considering mythic shenanigans. We entered a demiplane of a long deceased wizard almost akin to a demigod. This demiplane was made to store the memories of this wizard and things he deemed too awful to be allowed to exist in the world. One of these was a conqueror worm (cr 21), and our characters are head strong and almost to the point of arrogance. We start the fight, eventually our healer cleric got dominated by it and started hurling fireballs at us. My character get swallowed by this thing. Unfortunately it learned what happens when a portable hole meets a bag of holding.
Not nearly as epic but... it just happened this tuesday:
*SPOILER ALERT FOR RISE OF THE RUNELORDS*
We just killed Mama Graul from the third act of the campaign and were scouting the barn for survivors, we found the hideout of their monstrous ogre spider pet and the prisoners kept on the other side of it.
Shalelu (the elf ranger NPC) immediately go to them and I decide to take it on my own to distract the giga-critter long enough to let her save those poor guys.
My PC, Rood Whitefang (gnoll brawler), jumps and I roll acrobatics landing on the head of the spider, gripping on to it; the bug starts trashing but I deliver a heavy hit that cracks the carapace onhits head and pops many of its many eyes, it tries to throw me off but I cling to it even stronger...
The DM delivers that, based on the damage I already inflicted on it and the position I'm in, I am granted a critical hit and I just have to decide how I kill the beast.
Rood sinks his clawed hands in the crack in the carapace and pulls with all of his strenght, splitting the spider's head in two.
The creature trashes and spasms, before finally going still and collapsing on its own webbed hideout.
After a few moments of silence, Rood emerges from the spider-webs, arms lifted and roaring with laughter, one of the fangs held in his claws as a trophy: a glorious memento to an epic victory.
This reminds me of my favored spell. I know it was in Pathfinder, a christmas oneshot... I forget a lot of the details, but I played a wandering gambling sorcerer with a spell known as Holy Cascade. 3d6 Bludgeoning and, if an entity is 'evil', an additional 6d6 Good damage.
We had two instances where I used this spell. The christmas themed oneshot had us assassinating some elite assassins called 'The Reindeer'
two of which were evil entities--a succubus and incubus. When things went downhill and numerous demons began the strife, I cast Holy Cascade.
I wiped 2/3rd of our enemy's health. Unfortunate the succubus and incubus dodged, but the lesser demons were given one hell of a fight.
The next instance forced my gambler into dancing with a Vroc in a loaded dance club. The rest of my party took to getting the citizens out via a trash fire, and proceed to paralyze and beat the second Vroc to death while I kept it distracted.
Citizens fled, the second Vroc killed, I cast Holy Cascade centered on myself.
I took the 3d6 damage from bludgeoning
And the additional 6d6 went into the Vroc on top of that.
The utter look of betrayal! That's some spicy trauma that'll stay with that oneshot character lmao
I'll never forget that moment, bc it's one of my best hahah.
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My last character, who killed an entire army with the cha cha slide, and took on all the gods at once solo without breaking a sweat using nothing but koa toa and a terracotta garden gnome at level 5 : 2000+ , those are rookie numbers, you need to get those numbers up
@@Spiceodog You WHAT?!
Astoshan: *angry necromancer noises*
Should probably add this character to his legion.
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William Falls People still remember old characters from a year ago, so nice to see
@@allthingsdnd Well he is probably the people's favourite on this channel
@@allthingsdnd To be fair, iconic character
I'm not gonna argue about the damage ruling because that's just way too cool to argue against it, especially since it already happened. Coupled with the Banishment, this is definitely in the hall of fame of moments that make the player feel powerful.
I will point out another fun moment: "You all level up from just watching that" when the players asked if that was enough xp to level up the wizard was dope as hell because 1) it keeps everyone the same level so no one's left behind or outshining everyone, and 2) amazing phrasing.
As far as I'm aware, you're supposed to only be able to level up on rests. Although, I'm no rule aficionado, so that could have been a Homebrew thing for a campaign I'm in as well as one I watched.
So it was awesome the DM allowed them all to, if that holds any truth.
Agreed. Its not how any of that works ... but its way too awesome to argue with.
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@@djburk7930 There are a few different ways I've seen it done. One is at rests, another is the DM informing the players only at the end of the session, and one is immediately when you pass the threshold. There's probably even more than those, and I tried to check if the PHB prefers any, it just says when you get enough xp.
@@WellManNerd Thanks :D
Damage would be PER TARGET IN RANGE. Since we're dealing with a massed enemy formation, it's a sensible shorthand to treat it as a swarm and the attack as an AoE against that swarm. I agree with the DM on this one.
Also, lightning bolt has a limited AOE. It's not an infinitely long line. It's only 100 feet long, so maybe 5 trees, assuming average spacing on the big trees of about 20 feet.
@@RedwoodTheElf but... mah rule of cool lol.
its not about what spells you can cast, but how you cast them that matters. this is just plain fucking cool
The damage is high but I would have aloud the strategy it was a great play overall.
@@RedwoodTheElf The lightning bolt would eventually cause a forest fire. The zombies all ideally burn after a few rounds as they march out of the woods, thinning the army to a far more manageable size. At least that's how I'd rule it.
*Next Session:* The sea of 12,000 corpses that diseased the villager's lands, and desecrated the soil.
(original poster here) lmao. around 20 sessions later when we returned to the town (ingame after like 6 months) it turned from a magic based city to a farming city because the zombies acted as great fertilizer and the majority of the forest was clear from the following forest fire.
It could go either way really, depending on how it was managed. Would be interesting roleplay material to see how relations between the town and heroes changed depending on if the party stuck around long enough to help clean up the mess they made or peaced out.
@@Tesla7 makes a ton of sense really... corpses really DO have alot of nutrition in them(even if theyre rotten to varying extents) also i honestly love situations where the "rule of cool" is applied in such an amazing fashion...
@@crustybomb115 I still doubt its remotely close to a good idea leaving all those corpses.
Infact there is a story going around with Denmark, look up "Denmark's culled mink mass grave", about 10 million minks.
Mind you any corpses left to rot in the city water supply will quickly cut their people off from fresh water, and instead it becomes diseased. It's actually a common story hook for a town's water supply to become poisoned by a single corpse, now image if a single hundreth got into the city's water supply.
@@UndeadDragonWarrior Lots of after shock type zombie outbreaks, that's what would happen.
I killed a village of trolls in a swamp by summoning fire elementals. Methane ignited everywhere and the elementals chased down the survivors.
That was awesome. Wiping out 2000 zombies AND banishing a demon lord? I think that deserves a "Hail Alonus!"
Pretty generous DM, letting y’all level up mid-fight like that!
i mean they had to survive somehow. at this point rule of cool was very clearly in effect though.
To resond to your end comment, when you think about it, it's an exploding tree, 1d6 is a dagger, yet you are being essentially pelted by daggers with the force of an explosion behind them, so I'd say 6d6-8d6 is a pretty fair range, especially because a key point is it's non magical damage, minus the lightning bolt itself.
1d6 is a shortsword. 1d4 is a dagger
Well, this was a scifi setting and we were in a high-tech dropship hurtling towards our friendly fortress that was under attack by a horde of millions of insectoid monsters that the Wizard was fending off with the aid of about five legions of heavy troopers. I was the co-pilot and wound up accidentally flying into the air support of the insects (we were using a mixture of Tyranids from Warhammer 40,000 and the Flood from Halo as the basis for the beasts.) Our weapons were down due to the circuits being fried and the machine guns jammed so I did what I do best. I applied actual science and broke the sound barrier using the fact that the dropship could break the gravitational pull of the planet as the basis of my argument as to why that was possible. DM allowed it and I effectively killed a quarter of the swarm by creating a massive thunderclap before dropping abruptly into a deep mountain pass and flying low the rest of the way through a blizzard using sonar to avoid the rocks. Just a really fun way that encounter went and wound up getting my guy the reputation of being the Han Solo of the group.
"Han Sono"
perfection is what i just read
Flood AND Tyranids? You are one very lucky Player
The power of LOGIC!!!
A long time ago in my second ever campaign (short version is dinosaur apocalypse) a swarm of hundreds of velociraptors were attacking a city, and the party (I don't really remember anyone, just that I was a storm sorcerer) decided to try and help defend the city. After some fighting the Swarm was charging down Main Street, when I got an idea. I spent several turns flying around a large stone tower at the end of the street making sure it was abandoned, and verified with the DM how tall it was (if I remember correctly around 20 stories). After that, I told the rest of the party to get out of the street, and I cast mold Earth to disrupt the foundation, and I quickened Fireball at the base, dropping the stone tower on all of the Raptors
*how a goblin bard reduced her party to tears*
This was two nights ago and was the third session of the campaign
Our party was me the centaur necromancer named nucklevee
A homebrew circle of monsters druid named cold winter
A gnome artificer in a battle suit named Oz
A warforge killing machine named dalek
And yatheer a city goblin whispers bard
Yatheer (which we learned was based on being called "you there") was a maid working for a rich family whose young son had just been kidnapped by the local crimeboss. We had been working every angle we could oz and dalek threating people cold winter following people in wild shape nucklevee raising the dead for thier secrets
We learned the crimeboss hangs out in a pup called "7 drunken oarsmen" and after some plans yatheer is left on stage needing to keep everyones focus while we get into position to take out the crimboss's goons.
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Nat 1 on performance
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Now up to this point yatheer had never rolled less then a 14 and suddenly everything was falling apart hana yatheers player begged to roll again. Before you say anything we've all been hana at some point
So Tommy our DM cut hana a deal if she sings in real life he will judge that as her roll. Hana suddenly was too shocked to speak and I had just left the table and came back with my violin and asked "song of choice luv"
Hana was silent for a minute and handed me a piece of paper asking if I know the song A Million Dreams from the greatest showman lucky for her I do
Now none of us had ever heard hana sing before and as it turned out she was amazing and the DM could not close his mouth
"Okay... So you rolled a Nat 20"
Anyone got a story like that id love to hear it
That story is amazing!
@@Kino_Cartoon thank you
That is awesome! Kudos to your DM and yourself for both being so open to creative interpretation, and allowing someone a moment to shine in the limelight uniquely.
You'd be better off emailing them if you want them to read it.
Truly awesome!!!!!!
That was great.
Fly over, exploding-tree-lightning-cannon-jutsu, level up, then just fly away.
I would be crying (either with joy as a player, or fear as that BBEG).
1:52 HAH! I swear every time theres a background war in a campaign or something no matter how low level or ill prepared, or unaware of the circumstances of or desires of each faction someone, if not the whole party always wants a slice of the action right away! YIRBEL LIVES!
Wrath: “let me tell you something flying magic dude!”
OP: Very poor choice of last words.
One time we blew up a train but that’s about it
Hey, we did that as well. We were on a magic Train and suddenly an enemy train caught up to us (It was a Train-Taur, at the front of the train there was a giant torso) I Misty-Steped an entire crate full of dynamite onto the Train Taur and lit it up, dealing a good amount of damage. A few of my party members jumped on as well, and we proceded to kick the crap out of the train-taur, there was even a mechanical octopus ally called Lenny doing sabotage on the enemy train from the inside. It was a fun session
My group blew up dragon and There minions and buryed them under the mountain with a ton of explosives that my character had in his infusied bag of holding he was arficier/wizard multi class and he was party’s main healer and he had an obsession with blowing stuff up my party has learned this with my character once you see dorn firebolt running you run with him as little while latter a bomb/C4/TNT related explosion also ways happen.
I was dming a game and the party had a shattered corrupted god seed( a seed that turns those that consumed it into a god) and one thought he should put divine energy into the seed and caused a grave explosion that tore the vail between worlds
haha we gave one of those to a myconid to eat
I love how the DM Rule-of-Cool’d this decision… just so satisfying
Level 17 party. Walked into battle against the BBEG's chief lieutenant. Entire battlefield is covered in skeleton warriors. DM starts to describe how there are literally a couple hundred skeleton warriors wandering the battlefield. In the middle of his description I go, "9th level Meteor Swarm."
The DM went "Oh... so, umm, forget everything I said about skeletons..."
If you walked onto the battlefield before casting it that would hit the entire party as well.
@@exonism8522 As I said.,we walked into battle. We didn't actually walk into the middle of all the skeletons... We got near the battlefield and saw what was waiting for us.
@@Scorpious187 Meteor Swarm has a range of a mile, it would hit you if you were anywhere near.
@@exonism8522 Umm, no...?
It has a *casting* range of a mile, but the meteors themselves only do damage in a 40-foot radius.
"Blazing orbs of fire plummet to the ground at *four different points you can see within range.* Each creature in a *40-foot-radius sphere centered on each point you choose* must make a Dexterity saving throw. The sphere spreads around corners. A creature takes 20d6 fire damage and 20d6 bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A creature in the area of more than one fiery burst is affected only once.
The spell damages objects in the area and ignites flammable objects that aren't being worn or carried."
*No one* corrects me on fire-based spells in D&D my guy... I didn't play an evocation wizard specializing in fire spells for two years for nothing, lol.
@@Scorpious187 What an original character concept.
Holy crap that plan to get close to wrath LITERALLY Blitzkrieg. Nicely done.
just gimme a sec to, get into Von Strohiem mode...
*AHEM*
"German Tactics are the Greatest in the World!"
Can I say how much I love your vids its nice to see a dnd narrator that dose not feel the need to drag anime and other non dnd things when reading stories I will never understand the anime and other trpg bashing
In a campaign that’s still going my character, who is a psychic warrior, used expansion and grew to gargantuan and proceeded to wipe out 500 demons in a single turn using great cleave
As per the question no we are talking about what is probably hundreds of pounds of splinters and even if it was if it was above five it would work
Let me repeat what was said: HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A TREE HIT BY LIGHTNING?
The DM should have added a DoT for the rest of the zombies since the remaining trees caught on fire! XD
Great stuff.
**How a Barbarian played lumberjack**
Minor spoilers for Icewind Dale.
I was playing Drunkenfist of the Thunagora clan, a Goliath zealot barbarian flavored as having been kicked out of the afterlife for partying too hard.
We were heading to the black cabin with an orb of weather control that was generating a rain storm that was following us and ran into a duergar mind master with 2 duergar hammerers.
Axtali, our gnome mystic telepathically questioned the mind master as we were hidden in the bushes and learned becoming a hammerer was the punishment for rebelling against their brutal regime and we decided to kill the mind master and put the hammerers out of their misery.
Our bard and mystic distracted them with a combination of unseen servant and minor illusion but the mind master went invisible. And my passive perception wasn't high enough to see his outline in the downpour.
But our ranger could and got him to drop invisibility with a well placed arrow. Next was Atxali who used her psionic powers to hold the mind master in place.
Then it was my turn but the duergar was just too far for me to reach, 50 feet away while my movement speed was 40. So I asked the DM, "are there any trees nearby that are at least 60 feet tall?"
He says there is one. Drunkenfist cleaves it down with one mighty swing of his greatsword (23 damage) and then pushes the tree so it lands on the duergar, splattering it into an unrecognizable pile of gore (Double nat 20s rolled with advantage because of rage).
Then we tracked down the hammerers and had them help us salvage loot (the bard was disguised as the mind master) and decided to free them from the torture armor. One was released with almost surgical precision, the other, well Drunkenfist peeled it off of him like opening a tin of sardines.
Honestly as a player I kinda felt sorry for the DM and apologized for one shotting the encounter, but he wasn't upset. I guess that's just what happens when you have a party of tactical players and a strong barbarian.
This was a while ago- so my memory is a bit fuzzy but it goes like this
The party setup was. A warlock who was basically a vessel from hollow knight, A cleric of life Aasimar. A gunslinger. A barbarian. And finally a Homebrew Artifiicer revision
gnome named Smitty (He is the one this story is important to). After getting basically a cyborg zombie maker (Story for another day). They found a cave they wanted to setup
a base of sorts for the machine. The only problem tho- was the lackey of the creator of said machine was looking for them. For context this was a Sci-fi game. The lackey found
them and do you know what they sent? A homebrew monster of mine that is basically a large mechanical dragon that can make drones. Basically a walking factory. The drones
setup so that if the Main monster died. they died too. I was making this as a tough mini-boss. Then when the combat started the gnome artificer.... *Sigh*
Used the spell "On/off".... keep in mind I did approve of it- normally the spell does what it says- turns a machine on or off. however because the mechanical dragon was
Sentient. I decided to make a wisdom saving throw against the artificers spell save DC.... it got a nat 1.... So basically this tough battle I was planning turned super easy IN ONE TURN.
Now the artificer is remaking the dragon as a siege device. TLDR the gnome artificer uses a highly uncommon spell to turn the "tough battle" into a cake walk.
"Did you try turning it off and back on again?"
Yes, that's how I got this neat siege device. Thanks.
Details about the warlock?
I had a warforged named Farmer that could make just about any spellcaster flinch and let the rest of the party thrash said caster.
In our campaigns, wizards by default knew about all spells in the PHB (Not in their spellbook, but of the general existence and brief notion of what the spell does.) Outside that needed a DC10 +spell level Knowledge Arcana check for official expansions, with a +5DC for 3rd party expansions, and +10 or higher for homebrew. Sorcerers and warlocks had an additional +5DC, but they still usually had a clue about most spells.
This 'fact' of the widespread knowledge of magic among casters was something that you might eventually learn, because some do like to brag.
My Warforged learned this fact, and asked a caster friend what spell he feared most. When he heard his friend's answer, he saw an opportunity he could not resist.
He used a scythe, and had a phrase etched into the surface in common, draconic, and abyssal.
"Guess what? I prepared -Explosive Runes- this morning!"
He, of course, did not know how to cast that spell, but what caster in their right mind would risk it?
Granted, if that failed, he was a crit-fighter with an absurd threat range, and the x4 of the scythe, so he was basically a lawnmower in the fields, whether it was for battle or for wheat.
oh, you reminded me of a gag in "order of the stick":
"oh, i intentionally misspelled it with an extra I. it will not explode when read."
"wait, what are you talking about, 'explosive runes' isn't spelled-"
[BOOM!]
I think 5d6 is enough. When lightning hits a tree, it turns it into a massive fragmentation explosive, not to mention the ‘air bomb’ (not sure the name in English, but I hope that works) that goes off from the mere lightning impact.
That was a great hit. The only thing from my table I see wrong is that a level up, you would not get your magic slots back until you rested. However, seems like you guys had fun, and in the end, that’s all that really matters.
(original poster here) yeah, it is a homebrew rule our dm came up with where if you level up it counts as a long rest. I forgot why he made the rule originally, i think its just cuz we usually level up during combat or roleplay and he wanted to make level ups more significant but i forget.
Hehe lightning is some serious firepower. Been around it when it's hit a handful of times and every time it was exciting. That was brilliant to cast it in a line through the trees! :D
I don’t know if this counts, but here’s my best boss fight in DnD (kind of):
This happened during my first time ever playing DND. My party consisted of a Moon Elf Paladin, a Dragonborn Cleric, a Wood Elf Ranger, and me, a Drow Druid (Circle of the Land: Forest).
Our party, after wandering through a large cavern, came across an artificial forest within a large room in the cave. The trees themselves were natural, but there was some sort of artificial sunlight coming from the roof of the cave (no, we didn’t investigate this). Being the skeptic I am, I decided to use Spider Climb on myself so I could scale the walls for a better vantage point. After rolling an okay number for perception, I managed to spot some giant spider webs and some people trapped in the webs. Admittedly, my character was more focused on their own survival, but in more of a “I’ll save you, but only if I know I can survive, too” kind of way. As such, I suggested that we leave the cave. Of course, the party wanted to save the people so, by the power of democracy, I was overruled. Right off the bat, the DM tells us that we notice a large half-spider-half-woman standing in a small clearing in the middle of the forest, along with two other half-spider people (the DM never specified if they were Driders). We tried to hide from view, but the Paladin and I were both spotted. Immediately, we were tied up onto the cave walls about 20 feet up. Initiative was rolled. I can’t remember the exact order, but I remember the main events. First, after being tied up, I decided to curse the Spider Lady out in Druidic. Surprise, surprise! She speaks Druidic! That earned my character a face-full of acid, but, thankfully, she wore a mask so only that melted.
Skip to after a few rounds of fighting and it’s very clear that my party is going to TPK if something doesn’t happen soon. That’s when I got an idea. I told the Ranger to fire an arrow at me. The whole table, DM included, looked at me like I was crazy until I explained my idea. The Ranger tossed their dice and, thankfully, rolled well. The arrow severed the webs and, after rolling a successful Dex saving throw, I was freed and joined the fight. The same thing was attempted with the Paladin, but they got shot a couple of times before it worked.
We did this every time someone got strung up on the walls. Eventually, we found some ancient weapon, jokingly known to the party as a “pea-shooter” due to the small green beads that were used as ammunition in the slingshot-like weapon. But, we learned very quickly that these beads exploded: Long story short, they let me fire the weapon first. My character barely knows what a slingshot is, let alone how to use one, so I had disadvantage on the roll. NAT 1. The Paladin was caught in the blast radius, not the BBEG, and was soon making death saving throws (they succeeded, don’t worry).
Why they let the Druid with no proficiency in ranged weapons fire it when we had a perfectly good Ranger is beyond me. In the end, we didn’t land a single hit on the boss using the pea-shooter. We literally won because the Cleric and I managed to convince the Spider Lady’s minions to overthrow their leader. After the battle, the BBEG dropped a large amulet with a ruby in the center. The ruby glowed blindingly bright and when the party looked back at the amulet, there was a young Halfling with blonde hair and fair skin laying next to the piece of jewelry. This was our final member of the party: our Halfling Warlock- who remained unconscious for the rest of the session because their player couldn’t make it to the session.
TL;DR: Party of four uses their dumb luck and charisma to win the BBEG fight and earns themselves a fifth party member.
No watch a tree get struck by lightning if anything the damage was a bit low
I disagree. Most people forget how much 1hp would be in D&D. Imagine you were to take your entire health, stamina, and physical fortitude to resist death and divide that by, for instance, 10. A normal NPC commoner in D&D has 10hp and would have the same HP as you or I. 💀
PCs are typically above to way above average "persons" and are that way just to help keep a person from writing up a new character many times a single session. It also helps to make the game more fun. 1d8 a tree would've been fine(e.g. Fireball spell at level 3 is 3d8 and is basically a small bomb). 😮
Rule of cool though would say that almost anything over the amount needed would work just for effect... thus 8d6 just thrown out there because why not. 😎
@@megamanx466 Well, since this is a medieval setting, many of the average commoners would be quite a bit less healthy than you or I
@@alexanderthegreat6682 Indeed. That would be likely, but would DEPEND on the intervention of clerics, healers, & such. On average, to keep it simple, a commoner has about 10hp & 10 on abilities.
However, in 3rd Ed. those under the adult age would get bonuses to their physical stats at the cost of their mental ones. Old age would be vice versa of youth. 😅
@@megamanx466 Either way the Undead are about half as tanky as a normal person.
Do a search on injuries relating to a tree exploding from lightning. There is almost nothing out there and certainly no fatal injuries that I could find attributed to such an instance. Also look at the lack of velocity of the debris and how close the debris field is to where the tree was. It's basic physics in that most of the debris is not going to be lethal with only a few pieces being dangerous making a lethal or serious injury from such a strike almost nonexistent.
I would also point out that trees exploding from lightning strikes is very rare considering how common lightning strikes do hit trees. I implore those out there perpetuating the myth of the deadly and lethal exploding trees to do some research and use facts rather than coming up with their alternate beliefs of how lethal or common such an event is.
My party consisted of a bunch of lvl.2 characters, and we wound up fighting a magically animated statue that was proving difficult to defeat. One of the players manages to trip the pile of rubble, and due to the SR the thing had, we weren't having much success in damaging it. Until one player had a stroke of genius.
One of our first missions had to deal with a bunch rat swarms infesting an abandoned apartment complex. As such, we had stocked up on Acid Flasks and Alchemist's Fire as best we could. The genius player poured one of their Acid Flasks onto the prone statue, and the acid completely bypassed the SR. Cue all of the players that still had Acid Flasks pouring them all onto the statue, crumbling it into dust.
For those who know about the Zombie's Undead Fortitude, he rolled a crit
The thought of the DM rolling 2000 saving throws is pretty funny though
Really creative and insanely cool. Kudos to the wizard for thinking outside the box !
As someone whose worked with trees, and seen what lightning can do to them, the dm was on par or a little low on the amount of damage that would do. Even small branches from a decent high can easily maim if not kill outright if you're not careful.
I imagine this like that scene from the Adventures Of Sinbad where Sinbad completely destroys a whole mountain range with a single bolt of lightning
As my players charge head first into a horde of super zombies with 15 hp between the 4 of them, this was refreshing.
THE THUMBNAIL HOOKED ME SO FAAAAAAST
Thanks! One does one's best
Ohhh this might be intriguing and bro if you have a few games you can pull I would like to join
Man, oh man, was that epic. Great thinking from Elonus' player and very cool of the DM to roll with that player's plan.
This was back in the halcyon days of 3.5 and level adjustments. We started at level 12, and most of the other players chose exotic races/monsters for their characters except for me. I was playing a Half-Elf Rogue/Wizard/Daggerspell Mage. The only player with 12 actual class levels. We started the game with nothing, trapped in the dungeon of a giant's castle. The first couple sessions were just the escape, avoiding combat whenever possible and making due with what we could find in our exodus.
The nearby town that we managed to get to had been menaced by the giants and happened to have black powder. After getting a good selection of gear, we were able to afford 9 kegs of the stuff. So we planned and buried the kegs in a 3x3 grid that would have overlapping explosion radiuses. With the trap set, we lured the giants out and all but 2 of my spell slots of 3 or higher were stacked with Fireball. The other spells I had prepared was a Fly and Wall of Force spell.
Once the giants made it to the trap, I cast Wall of Force and another character put a Blade Barrier in front. We couldn't get the whole enclosure covered, but retreat was cut off, and advancement was lined with pain. I had cast Fly earlier and the rest of my actions in that very brief encounter was Fireballing the center of the killing floor we created. With the initial explosions, subsequent fireballs, and our Monk picking up some stragglers, we killed about 15-20 giants in about 5 rounds. It was still the best tactical combat moment I've had in a game, even if there's no logical way it should have worked, but it was cool.
That encounter may have not gone as intended, but that was absolutely amazing. If that was me that would be a memory I keep for life!
"How I Wiped Out 2000+ Zombies With A Single Attack" sounds like an isekai anime title, lol. :D
Reminds me of a campaign I played with a. Few of my cousins, we had beaten a sorcerer in possession of an item that vastly amplified magic, and were faced with an armada attacking the city we were in, when our mage steps out onto the castle balcony, using the item to turn his fireball spell into a veritable meteor storm devastating the entire fleet and much of the city, we were all evil aligned in some way so we considered it a win
I know this is really cool, and I'm glad your characters got to experience that! However, lightning bolt has a range of 100ft. There's no way 137 trees are lined up in a 100ft by 5ft line. If they are, there's no way that the trees are big enough to explode for THAT MUCH damage in a 20ft radius. I know it's tough to improvise on the spot, and it's all about the rule of cool, but things like this are really tough to follow. For instance, what if the character just repeats this process in every fight?
Yup, but again, improvisation does not take all angles into account, just enough to make the story work... kind of. They can talk about it in the future if it becomes an issue.
Given a 5 feet wide, 100 feet long lighting bolt at Level 3 , hitting 130+ trees is indeed odd. Trees grow at average distance of 4-8 feet from each other, they have roots and canopies. Falling max 40-50 trees is more realistic. 6D6 per exploding tree seems reasonable. So total damage is 1800 -1400, likely 80~60+ zombies dead. More likely for a level 6 PC character. 2k zombie kill would be more likely for PCs above level 10 and probably only in places like bogs where peat or methane gas can explode in a huge area.
I would not allow level up there, either wait for rest or next session. The use of lightning bolt was a good play thou.
Really cool. Sounds like a good DM and Party. I for one agree, that a forest fire would have broke out and that would have taken out even more zombies. Very creative. The house rules about leveling up seem generous, but if I was a player I would love them. Sounds like you all had fun.
We were running through a game of Dungeon of the Mad Mage, we came up to a pathway a heard a bunch of tiny feet approaching down a ten-foot wide hallway, I was plauing a Warforged Artillerist Artificer, and my friend was playing a Hexblade Warlock Tiefling. I cast grease the exit of the hallway to see what I could do to mess up whatever was approaching. The next turn the Tiefling casts Hunger of Hadar, in the next two turns about 20 goblins and a couple bugbears come sliding out of the hallway either dead or near dead easy enough for my flame thrower to clean up
I just did the math for that and 2000 zombies is 100,000 exp he should have a leveled up to level 12
(original poster here) Yeah lol, our dm uses a different method of xp where it is shared among players so everyone levels up evenly, and xp gets reward for rping. Even with his ruleset, it would have been level 9, but we all leveled to 7 the session before so we all agreed for 1 level up just because he was generous with the damage per tree
Gambler Airsoft that’s real nice of you, I’m guessing it gave him some breathing room since you weren’t suppose to level up anytime soon.
That was an ingenious plan by OP and friends. Props to the DM as well for not squelching the fun, although I have to say that this is the first campaign I've heard of that allowed a character to raise while still in combat- must be some video game logic at work here. Regardless, this was a great story!
Thank you My Friend! I appreciate you for continuing your great work. Maybe one day we can enjoy a short game together as storytellers and actors
The wizard in my last campaign did something similar in our climactic fight against a huge army, but it was a bit less impressive since he was level 20 at the time. This guy did it at level 6? Dude.
Technically this was a warhammer 40k rogue trader campaign, but still noteworthy.
I was playing a rank 3 psycher that the DM had made me into from multiple sources. he was from a simulation planet that the original group had been trapped on by a god to 'test something'. the others I couldn't tell you what, since this was my first WH40K campaign and I know nothing about their classes. we were traveling around the universe to find worlds with colonies that were still loyal to the god emperor. after our last encounter (those trying to bring back the chaos beings...) we were weary when the planet hailed us down to the surface. we eventually decided to trust them and - after a bit of talking - found out that they've been being attacked by raiders of khorn (is that how I spell it?). after preparations were made to defend the only place they needed to attack to get in, we waited... and soon they came, hoards as far as the eye can see (really, it was maybe a hundred or so with a few machines). note, we had a mech named 'big chungus' and a recently acquired leman russ, as well as several squadrons, so we were very well prepared. once the first quarter entered the battlefield, the first few characters fired off their weapons. then it came to my turn. I giggle and run the ruler function from roll20 across the column of enemy units. for those who don't know, those who have psycher using classes choose a discipline. for me, this was the pyromancy discipline... I had an active psy rating of 5 thanks to a gift from our generous DM gave that upped my active psy rating by 1. this means I can cast most my powers from 100 meters away! with a wave of my psycher's hand, the row of enemies were set ablaze with 'wall of fire'. and you can bet your sweet butts that most of them died. and you could hear the annoyance in the DM's voice. then the next row came in. note, there were machines in the first wave which I hit, but didn't kill. once they started moving, I had bent my wall in a specific direction, with the same result as the last. after awhile, a couple of big guys came in and summoned blood lickers... I don't know if fire will work, but screw it! and I proceeded to make a loop-da-loop that would hit a bunch of them again. this is basically what the exchange that happened OOT.
main gm: "wait what?! can he do that?!"
sub GM 1&2: "yes! yes he can!" they say as everyone, including them, is laughing their butts off
Main gm: "ok, no, fuck that, no. just straight lines. I need to nerf you somehow.
at that point, I didn't give a damn, I was laughing too hard. once everything was done, we entered the reliquary, where we find the uncorrupted "thousandth son", who we talk with and end the session with him basically becoming my teacher in the psycher arts. at the end of each mission, we're given a set amount of XP, including little bonuses to specific characters that did stupid/amazing things, each with a title to be had. mine was "fire and brimstone".
I can see 6d6 per tree. 2d6 for piercing, 2d6 for bludgeoning, and 2d6 for fire damage. Trees don’t just explode, they also catch fire when struck by lightning.
Two legitimate mass destruction events that I have seen was a ship in bottle thrown into a hall too small to contain the rapidly expanding galleon once the bottle broke destroying around 70 or so skeletal monster types, a creative solution considering that the galleon was partially rotted and not seaworthy anyway. And the second one being the rupturing of a glowstone that inflicts 1d10 damage per charge held (1000 max charges though this one had 600+) to all creatures within 70' of the stone with a save for half only allowed if at least 25' away from the epicenter of the explosion. I cannot remember how many were killed in the last explosion, only that the party was being swarmed when it was set off.
Heyo! This was from my post, AMA!
(couple common questions and answers below)
How did you get spell slots from a levelup?
The spell slots coming back was part of a homebrew rule from my dm where a level up also counts as a long rest.
Why was there no damage over time for fire/hot sap?
We all agreed that that would be annoying to roll for, so we just ignored it and added a bit extra piercing to compensate.
If lightning only reaches 100ft, how could it hit 132 trees?
I actually only realized that now, I guess we just forgot about range lmao.
What are other cool moments from the party?
Two come to mind, 1: shooting arrows into a bag of holding, and then opening it in combat for all they arrows to fly out at the same speed. (one time while doing this we accidently overfilled it, causing the arrows to explode in an alternate dimension, killing franz ferdinand) 2: bodyslamming a necromancer from 180 feet onto a sword.
So I don't remember what happened before this but in a dnd campaign where I was probably the equivalent of at least a lvl 15 at these moments I managed to 1 shot a hydra and a Tarasque one after the other. For the hydra I used a 4th level firebolt, my many fire supporting items, a frost gaints eye and one other item I don't quite remember but they all mixed to deal over 100 damage or at least enough to 1 shot it which gave me like 30 valuable gems because the place I was in made the person kill powerful enemy to get increasingly mpre valuable things. After the hydra I moved on to a tarasque and with the power of all me and my parties rangers boosts plus complete distracting his sanity I managed to one shot a tarasque and got 50 some very op magical items like a chest plate that made me functionally imortol
reminds me of a story: a player had an ability that lets him turn into any creature he has seen...
yes, he turned into a Tarrasque.
@ great sounds fun
Ya know, I once played this sorcerer, with twinned and quickened spell and aberrant mind bloodline. I used synaptic static, twin and quickened to debuff an army, but then turned around and used 9th level MODIFY MEMORY on Tiamat, having forced her to use her legendary resistances on banishment, and made her my bestie.
It was BEAUTIFUL!
Then, some true polymorph shenanigans later... I am an Ancient Red Dragon with twenty levels in sorcerer AND Tiamat's bestie. Also one minute of doing nothing but roll concentration. Battling TIAMAT.
My players two turned a kraken, an Empyrion, and an ancient blue dragon
This reminds me of how I accidentally created the legend of the lightning dwarf in my DM's games
I had played a campaign with five others; a mage that likes to blow stuff up, a turtle druid who would charge into battle as a beast, a goblin ranger with a dog and a platypus, our fighter who kept getting into trouble, and me, a hill dwarf barbarian. We were all around level 6 to 8 at the time. We'd been asked to find someone one an island one that was surrounded by a constant storm and we had to sail through it. The party had been battered several times and Reggren, my barbarian, was sailing for the first time. He hates sailing after that. After we finally managed to get through the storm, we took a rowboat to shore, only to face off against three, yes. three manticores out at sea. Our mage actually manage to trap one in a sphere, pretty much taking it out of the fight. One of them nearly killed our ranger but we managed to finish off the two and left the third in the sphere. That would come back to bite us later.
After getting to shore, we found a trap on the beach that would've turned us into glass but no one fell for it. We took a short rest to heal up before getting back on the move. Eventually we came across a tree that grew pears. Our druid casted speak with plants, talking with the tree that spoke like a hippie. Our target passed by not too long ago and his fruit healed the party for 1d6 and there was enough for all of us to have two each. Things quickly went south as a plant monster began attacking. I went last in initiative. The party were having a rough time taking down the plant beast and several more sneaking vine monsters revealed themselves. Finally it was my turn and I had the perfect weapon. I had played another adventure from the 1970s and had found a weapon called PlantSlayer, which was a +1 longsword that dealt an extra 2d6 damage to plant monsters. I was a level 6 barbarian so I had two attack and the dice were with me as I was dealing around 40+ damage every round of combat, soloing two plant monster with some assistance on a third. It's always satisfying to have the right tool for the job.
The rest of the adventure consisted of finding the pirates the pirate base and wiping them out. The manticore we didn't kill earlier was a pet of the pirates and was waiting for us outside the front. The two guards had enough time to set off an alarm, alerting the rest of the crew. Whelp. What followed was pretty ridiculous. Our druid summoned two dire wolves to help us fight and Wildshaped into a giant elk. Our Ranger had a bag that let him pull out a beast to command and tossed out a brown bear and summoned another when that one fell. Several pirates were on a ship that none of us could reach save for our wizard who had a flying broom. Proceeds to launch the equivalent of an artillery shell at the ship a la fireball and tossed around some lighting bolts. It was a slaughter. I should also mention the cave was big enough for call lightning to be casted inside. The pirate captain does this and sends a kraken like beast after us but most of the pirates were dead at that point so it wasn't too much of a challenge.
Turns out the pirates had constructed an idol to the god of storms, sustaining the one surrounding the island and our target had been sold off already but e knew where she was and began preparing to head that way by sea. Reggren hated sailing.
What an absolute legend.
I do not say that lightly.
Single handedly best use of magic i have heard in years!
It's one of those moments as a dm that you just fudge the dice so your players get to pull it off
The rule is as follows, the players fucking shatter your plans, you go along with their plans to see what happens.
Well... it’s a monster by vague metrics. It was a clone of my character that we found in an abandoned drow laboratory (in our setting the drow were banished for experimenting on dragons, my character is tied into it (ask me for more if you must know)), along with a wall of others. Our fighter, at my request, used his thunder hammer to wipe them all out in one go as I just... watched.
I am assuming that the forest isn't a new growth forest, and may have several hundred to several hundred (five to eight hundred) year old trees with a large circumference amongst the lot. There's missing force damage from the concussion of the thunder itself impacting the wood. Also missing would be a lot of fire damage: although some trees may have green live layers, there are more aged dried layers lending to a wildfire. In minutes from the lightning damage, the foreseeable issue is the wild fire that may wipe out the city if someone doesn't work out a means to cancel the huge wildfire.
(original poster here) yeah lol we just simplified all the damage to the one so that we didnt have to break out the yee olde ti-84. And the forest did burn down pretty bad along with some of the wooden barricades outside the town, but the town itself was fine and half the forest was aight afterwards.
@@Tesla7 Still awesome to share with us all! Great to hear that with the effort you made, the only major problem was some wooden defensive structures.
Accidently nuke a city with magic Magnuffen twice
Same city or different?
I turned a single layer dungeon into an oven once. We'd come across a dungeon in a homebrew game that had combination of vampire spawn and mind flayers (about 100 monsters total). We'd managed to free their prisoners and realized there was no way we could clear this dungeon out. We collapsed one entrance (blocked it with rubble, but not air-tight) and found out there was a back-door to this place (one party member got separated from the group, found the back entrance that was just an earthen tunnel shored up with timbers). Went around to the back door and, with the intent of collapsing the tunnel to prevent pursuit as we fled, built a huge fire in the tunnel and kept it going all night. DM starts rolling dice. LOTS of dice. He ruled that the draft from the fire ran from the backdoor to the main entrance and that the smoke and heat killed everything inside. All because we wanted to seal the place up and escape.
Ok I got a story
So I was playing a one-shot with some friends I was playing an order of the scribes wizard half orc, someone was playing Terrance the arokakra cleric, and Wizlo the halfling rouge. So we had been doing this D&D space thingy. And finally we reach the BBEG. The BBEG was based off Fireblight Gannon. So as a kinda meta game move but my friend shot it in the eye and it did double damage. So I had the spell Bigby’s Giant Hand and grappled it failed to break free. So on my next turn I casted a 3rd level magic middle auto hit and auto crit did double damage and then bonus action squeezed it. And it never broke free. Along with our rouge’s flame Tongue short sword booming blade sneak attack we killed it in 6 rounds. So that’s how I beat a boss with a big hand and lasers
Okay that DM was VERY generous...
Not fair that I can’t double subscribe to a UA-cam channel. I love these vids!
This reminds me of the time I wiped out an entire cult with a Nat 1 gunshot. My party consisted of my character, Solas, (A level 8 Paladin, who took on a homebrew Oath called “Oath of the Peacekeeper”, which gave me proficiency in firearms and interrogation skills, as it was modeled to be a sort of police officer), a Level 6 Ranger named Adem, a Level 7 Fighter named Groaz, a Level 7 Bard named Wilem, a Level 6 Barbarian named Oran, and a Level 8 Cleric named Sara. The party was called to scout out a large outcropping in a mountain, where a cult had built a stronghold. While Oran, Grauz, and Wilem sneaked towards the stronghold, Sara, Adem and I, being ranged fighters, took up a sort of snipers nest, to provide overwatch. I was currently armed with several weapons, but the one important to the story is my Semi-Automatic, Hunting Rifle, which I paid an NPC Artificer to create for me. I looked through the scope of my weapon, to spot enemies, and guide the party to the objective undetected. As I scanned the Stronghold, I spotted a large crystal surrounded by a group of “priests” who were praying to it. Sara loaded a bolt into her heavy crossbow, and took aim at one. Adem drew back his longbow and aimed at a second, while I placed a third in my crosshairs. When we rolled our sneak attacks, I rolled a nat1. Knowing that my shot would alert the cult to our positions, I signaled the melee fighters to get ready. But when the DM described how I missed my shot, he made quite a big mistake. As he was explaining how my shot flew a few inches to the left, because of the distance from the target, Wilem’s player spoke up. “Hey DM, isn’t the crystal to the left of Sol’s Target?” He said, which caused our DM to flush. He had forgotten that fact, and accidentally allowed my shot to strike, and shatter, the crystal. Apparently, this crystal was a big part of the cult, and every single enemy in that stronghold had tied their life-force to that crystal, rendering them immortal and unkillable, as long as that crystal was not destroyed. In one shot, a Nat 1, I had single-handedly slain over 500+ cultists. The session ended early, and we didn’t have one the following week, as that stronghold, and that cult, was supposed to be a major plot point. The DM had to go home and rewrite xD
I just had a fight vs a evil wizard that was hiding in the mouth of a giant beholder using its anti magic field to negate our magic and telling the beholder to close his eyes for his spell, but our druid manage to force the beholder to close his eyes and then i broke the fight by casting command "swallow" on the beholder ...... it was amazing!
Our wizard cast tiny hut in front of a train going 300mph. That train hits said dome and explodes. That is how he killed 2000 level 12 criminals in 6 seconds.
Party: How are we gonna kill that many?!
Wiz: Hold my book.
I had my CG Dragonborn Warlock become, arguably, a war criminal, when he tried to make a distraction to let his friends escape an arena they'd beeb thrown into by a Goblin King, by using a combination of Sovereign Glue and 15 Firebombs placed on the underside of some wooden bleachers. This resulted in about 95 dead goblins.
1D4 or D6 for an exploding tree? Nah my man thats like hitting someone with a cannonball and then taking the damage of a punch.
a couple things:
1. 8d6 is probably overkill damage-wise, but it kinda doesn't matter because the amount of damage an exploding tree would do is "more than 5", which is enough to kill any zombies in the blast radius.
2. This reminded me of a story from a dnd campaign I'm in.
The party consists of me, a (revised) ranger, Zook, the diviner wizard who would be right at home as an evoker, Uder, a "fire and brimstone to the wicked" celestial warlock, and Goliath (yes that's his name), a goliath barbarian.
Basically, party was dragged into the Feywild for the second time, and super sick of its shit (we lost 6 months on a journey the last time that happened). As a party we collectively decided "fuck it" to whatever spider-laden bullshit would be present within the Feywild, and decided to burn the forest down. Zook set up a Leomund's Tiny Hut and then cast a fire spell (I think it was Firebolt, it doesn't matter much), and then we all camped out there till the fire burnt out. The DM quickly reminded us that there wouldn't be any air supply outside the hut, so while we're not hurt by the fire we'd still be in troulbe if we didn't deal with that problem. So, I cast Rope Trick and reasoned that there had to be an hour's worth of air inside the pocket dimension, since otherwise it'd be functionally useless for its intended purpose. The DM agreed and we waited out the fire in there. We managed to get out of the Feywild with only one other incident past that point, but that's a different story.
This is brilliant lol
That sounds about right, damage wise. Watch any video of lightning striking a tree, its glorious, terrifying, and anything so close, is dead from the shrapnel alone.
Does it go through 132 trees also?
I’d also say that it was raining and the lightning could do extra to wet targets as well
That was a great plan and the DM was awesome for going with it. If nothing else just to see what would happen.😁
my party once thought with portals. we had to grab stuff we forgot for the sake of powering up and to salvage the campaign from a losing situation. i had a sorcerer that could make portals and a bard who could make themselves invisible. in order to avoid raising an alarm we went the stealthy approach, and used portals to shove yuan-ti into the thin air next to the cliffside dungeon we had to go into. Afterwards it was as easy as getting the loot, and bailing the hell out of there.
earlier in that campaign our fighter "not Shrek" had pulled an all might by arguing he could create a windgust out of how fast he could move in a single turn with aid from his half orc racial features and a Haste spell i had plopped onto him. it worked and the DM gave him bonus damage to the attack he made with that arguement.
Once I was playing as a Circle of the Moon Druid/Path of the Storm Herald Barbarian multiclass Half elf with the cantrip Mold Earth. Me and my party, a Rogue/Artificer Kenku named Lightfoot and a budding Necromancer named Iguva Dominith, found a cult of Drow worshipping Lolth under the town we were staying at, as well as a Bugbear standing guard near the entrance. After killing the Bugbear with a decapitating axe throw, me and Lightfoot scouted ahead to check out the layout. What we found were a dozen or so rooms of sleeping Drow. Each bed was up against a wall, a dirt wall. Then, I got an idea. Instead of rushing in and starting a noisy battle that was bound to bring down a mountain of combatants on us, Cad walked into each room quietly and when he reached the first occupied bed, he casted mold earth and covered the head of the Drow in ten inch thick cube of stone, and held his limbs down while the stone slowly suffocated him to death. After checking to make sure none of the others woke up, Cad and Lightfoot both gained a devious grin. Rinse and repeat for the rest of the rooms until Iguva poses the question. "Wait, do we know if these Drow are hostile?" Blank stares are all that answer him. Which incites about a 5 minute real time rant from Iguva's player about having killed dozens of Drow in their sleep with no provocation. I bring up the Bugbear, which our DM then brings up how the Bugbear had nothing to do with the Drow at all, and walked into the settlement on his own. Which I called bullshit on seeing as their was a mechanism on the door into the settlement, but apparently the Bugbear was smart enough to get through it. So, armed with the knowledge that the last 28 or so people Cad just quietly, ruthlessly, and unflinchingly murdered were all innocent, the last room of which he sealed of the doorway while Iguva saturated the air in the room with the Poison Spray cantrip, Cad decides to instead wake up the rest of the sleeping Drow and explain the situation to them. With a natural 20 on his persuasion roll to make sure they don't freak out and kill him and his party, the Drow are immediately understanding of the situation and even wish the three adventurers luck.
Cad kinda redeemed himself by Wildshaping into a Brown Bear, then sacrifing all of his movement for double action to block a 10 by 10 foot doorway to prevent thousand of spiders from getting to his squishier teammates, leaving him at a grand total of 2 hp and the poisoned condition even after taking damage as a bear, reduced to half because of rage later on after he was finished sealing the doorway, and temporary hit points from his tundra aura.
Lightning bolt spell has a max range of 100 feet. The player located a straight line of 132 trees. For that to be possible, the trees would have to be exactly 8 inches thick and be perfectly aligned in a straight line with zero gaps in between. So basically like a fence? The player found a highly convenient and highly explosive fence, and apparently the entire undead army was gathered around it.
Pathfinder campaign. We were in an underground ruined city that had been taken over by undead. A morg was leading the evil horde of about 2000 skeletons. We had an evil priestess wtih control undead. She controlled the Morg. She ordered it to order it's underlings to kill each other. DING!
We then took the Morg with us to fight the area boss (some sort of drow construct) and used it against the enemy. Eventually the Morg and Drow took enough damage from each other for our lower level party to kick both their asses (weaponry included a dog, poop-covered pants and colour spray.)
Fun times~
orc army, scrolls of fly for the party, and mirage arcane to group the orcs together. Then we fly around and spam fireball
8d6 seems like a lot, but I'd probably only cut it down to four. Those things go boom man.
Just imagine what he could have done with chain lighting!
Personally, I’d think that’s relatively fine since it’s a solid tree exploding in your face. This is especially true if said forrest is filled with the kind of trees that could kill you by just falling on you. If there’s one thing I’ve learned with my small amount of experience with moving bits of log around, it’s that trees are really heavy.
8D6 per tree? I knew there was a reason they always say never stand under a tree during a lightning storm.
I think I would have kept it as lightning bolt damage since that's the spell he used, but as a combined shrapnel and fire effect, and with an area of auto fire damage like with oil in the phb. Bit more reasonable and realistic, but with an added effect as a bonus for clever tactics. Of course now there's also a forest fire.
i think I think 8D6 is reasonable considering he was probably rolling the army as a massive health pool so this factors in the fact that the trees had no shortage of zombies to damage when they blew.
Given a week’s time, you can have the spells necessary to kill a Terrasque. Lightning bolt, Glyph of Warding, and Animate Object (ball bearings.)
You’ll need at least one Arcane Gate, but aside from that, you’re all good. You’ll need 2-3 casters, up casting to about 6th level and so on, maybe about 13th-14th level overall if I remember correctly. From there, you gotta make sure everything’s secure, casting nearly at all hours of the night and day. Having someone proficient with elemental adept to add that lightning damage, and since the ball bearings are good to go for awhile, whatever ones don’t melt inside the Terrasque’s mouth should do the trick.
I’m workin outta the 5e, not Pathfinder where it regains health
Glyph of Warding is *hilariously* powerful and people hella sleep on it, the ability to ignore concentration is absolutely insane.
After my first game of dnd, I'm back to watching the channel, ideas!
Lemme guess? Fireball antics?
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I’d say it depends on the type of forest/distance between tree. If they were all grouped together and were wide trees, then the damage rolls would be only a little outlandish.
I would totally allow this to happen in my game. It's just too awesome!