Shpadoinkle
2009-02-22, 01:16 AM
As I've said in several other threads, I'm playing a centaur ranger with the Giant Killer kit in a 2e game run by my sister's fiancee. About 90% of the campaign up to this point has consisted of the DM's conversion of the old 1e modules that made up the campaign Against the Giants; Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl, and Hall of the Fire Giant King. We just started on the third one tonight.
Without going too much into detail, we made it to the fire giants' headquarters, and a new player to the campaign, the DM's sister, joined us with a half-dragon priest of the god of blowing **** up or something, because she can cast stuff like Fireballs. Anyway, she cast Wraithform on herself (basically it turns you ethereal for 2 rounds/level) and investigated the compound. This took a while, real time, so while she was doing that, I was poking through my character sheet, and the sheets of the two henchmen I had brought along, and hit upon an idea. Once the priest was back in our campsite and described what she saw, I pretty much immediately had one of my henchmen, a level 9 wizard, cast Reduce on me 4 times. As we figured it, this reduced my size to 1/100th of 1% my original size, or about 94/10,000s of an inch. Then he cast Fly on me, and I used my ring of Invisibility. Next I flew into the king's throne room, flew up his nose, and, using a power I got from a Wish a few sessions ago that lets me cast 5 dice worth of lightning bolts per day per level, essentially vaporized his head with a 45 die Lightning Bolt from inside it. As far everybody else in the throne room knew, his head simply exploded for no reason whatsoever.
The DM said he had never had a player pull off something that outrageously ridiculous before. He had a great attitude about it, so he wasn't angry or anything, but he did admit disappointment due to the fact that he had given the guy 20 HD and had specifically tweaked him to be able to last at least a few rounds of melee with my character (so far I think the record is about three rounds).
So, yeah. I'm pretty sure that I'm never going to experience a moment in D&D that was quite as awesome as that.
If you've ever been in a game where the players have come up with something ridiculously awesome like that, regardless of whether it worked or not, I'd love to hear about it. Maybe I'll be able to come up with something even greater for next week.
Without going too much into detail, we made it to the fire giants' headquarters, and a new player to the campaign, the DM's sister, joined us with a half-dragon priest of the god of blowing **** up or something, because she can cast stuff like Fireballs. Anyway, she cast Wraithform on herself (basically it turns you ethereal for 2 rounds/level) and investigated the compound. This took a while, real time, so while she was doing that, I was poking through my character sheet, and the sheets of the two henchmen I had brought along, and hit upon an idea. Once the priest was back in our campsite and described what she saw, I pretty much immediately had one of my henchmen, a level 9 wizard, cast Reduce on me 4 times. As we figured it, this reduced my size to 1/100th of 1% my original size, or about 94/10,000s of an inch. Then he cast Fly on me, and I used my ring of Invisibility. Next I flew into the king's throne room, flew up his nose, and, using a power I got from a Wish a few sessions ago that lets me cast 5 dice worth of lightning bolts per day per level, essentially vaporized his head with a 45 die Lightning Bolt from inside it. As far everybody else in the throne room knew, his head simply exploded for no reason whatsoever.
The DM said he had never had a player pull off something that outrageously ridiculous before. He had a great attitude about it, so he wasn't angry or anything, but he did admit disappointment due to the fact that he had given the guy 20 HD and had specifically tweaked him to be able to last at least a few rounds of melee with my character (so far I think the record is about three rounds).
So, yeah. I'm pretty sure that I'm never going to experience a moment in D&D that was quite as awesome as that.
If you've ever been in a game where the players have come up with something ridiculously awesome like that, regardless of whether it worked or not, I'd love to hear about it. Maybe I'll be able to come up with something even greater for next week.