Emperor Valerian
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If you're reading my story hour and don't want to be spoiled, stop reading here.
For everyone else, I just finished likely the funniest DnD session I've DMed. Ever. Despite the fact that my big bad monster was defeated rather... piteously.
I had set them up against a tarrasque... a special tarrasque, partly fire and partly shadow. I'd been building up to this fight for several sessions, slowly revealing to them more about their nemesis to come. By the time the tarrasque arrived, they've recruited and dragged along a small army (literally... they managed to cull the local nobility for several hundred peon soldiers... most of them really low level) to defeat it.
The battle started as the tarrasque came into view over a hill. The two spellcasters with the group lobbed delayed blast acidballs (they both had gotten rods of elemental substitution) at it for two rounds, and the big beastie just kept coming. On the third round, the party sorcerer puts up a prismatic wall, hoping to hold the creature just a bit and maybe inflict some damage. The tarrasque is big and dumb, and me being a confident DM, I send the beast through the wall.
So we roll to see which color on the wall has come up... the color is violet.
So I think... okay, its a Will save. The tarrasque has a +20 on that. Shouldn't be much of a problem... he'll only fail on a 3 or less.
Rolled a two.
Goshdarnit.
So I decide to see where our lovely friend ended up. I roll percentile to see which plane the big beastie went to...
Celestia.
What followed was about ten minutes of impersonations of Hieroneous yelling at Olidammara that "teleporting around tarrasques isn't funny," and "now my shrubbery has been damaged." By this point everyone was laughing like mad, and someone asks what happened to the tarrasque at the end. Thinking quickly, I blurted out that probably after they figured out that there was no holy pranks involved, someone on Celestia likely gave the creature some intelligence, and sent it on a geas to take care of some particularly bad evil.
So we went from a Flaming Shadow Tarrasque, to a Flaming Shadow Celestial Paladin of Good Tarrasque.
Fun session, thought I'd share the fun in general..
For everyone else, I just finished likely the funniest DnD session I've DMed. Ever. Despite the fact that my big bad monster was defeated rather... piteously.
I had set them up against a tarrasque... a special tarrasque, partly fire and partly shadow. I'd been building up to this fight for several sessions, slowly revealing to them more about their nemesis to come. By the time the tarrasque arrived, they've recruited and dragged along a small army (literally... they managed to cull the local nobility for several hundred peon soldiers... most of them really low level) to defeat it.
The battle started as the tarrasque came into view over a hill. The two spellcasters with the group lobbed delayed blast acidballs (they both had gotten rods of elemental substitution) at it for two rounds, and the big beastie just kept coming. On the third round, the party sorcerer puts up a prismatic wall, hoping to hold the creature just a bit and maybe inflict some damage. The tarrasque is big and dumb, and me being a confident DM, I send the beast through the wall.
So we roll to see which color on the wall has come up... the color is violet.
So I think... okay, its a Will save. The tarrasque has a +20 on that. Shouldn't be much of a problem... he'll only fail on a 3 or less.
Rolled a two.
Goshdarnit.
So I decide to see where our lovely friend ended up. I roll percentile to see which plane the big beastie went to...
Celestia.
What followed was about ten minutes of impersonations of Hieroneous yelling at Olidammara that "teleporting around tarrasques isn't funny," and "now my shrubbery has been damaged." By this point everyone was laughing like mad, and someone asks what happened to the tarrasque at the end. Thinking quickly, I blurted out that probably after they figured out that there was no holy pranks involved, someone on Celestia likely gave the creature some intelligence, and sent it on a geas to take care of some particularly bad evil.
So we went from a Flaming Shadow Tarrasque, to a Flaming Shadow Celestial Paladin of Good Tarrasque.
Fun session, thought I'd share the fun in general..
