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Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
Obligatory funny critical hit story: Back in AD&D 2nd we rotated DMs to a new campaign and the new DM had a critical hit chart he wanted. We were all like "sure, let's go for it".
So we create dudes and our first session was basically us getting shanghai'd (sp?) by a pirate with an airship (FR, well pre-Eberron). He was going to do a whole work-up-the-ranks-as-a-pirate thing. Okay, no problem. One of the characters challenged him to one on one combat. Now, we're 1st level and this guy is like 10th (which is a huuuge gap in AD&D 2nd). The captain figures it's the quickest way to get the new recruits in line is to show them he's boss so he agrees. First round of combat my friend's PC get a critical hit. So we roll on the chart. And I think it was a "really good, go roll on this other chart". Long story medium, we cut off the pirate king's leg. And then proceeded to kill him.
Sooo, DM is like "cool!". The crew assumes the guy who beat the campaitn is a badd-ass and obeys him. We find ourselves decked out in magic items way past our level that were coveted by many, with an airship that every country would love to have for trade or military reasons, with a crew that is unsure about us and we have to keep convincing through deeps that we are the meanest and toughest beings to walk the seven ..., well clouds.
Completely not the campaign the DM had planned, but what a great start. All flipped because of a single crit in the first attack roll of the campaign.
So we create dudes and our first session was basically us getting shanghai'd (sp?) by a pirate with an airship (FR, well pre-Eberron). He was going to do a whole work-up-the-ranks-as-a-pirate thing. Okay, no problem. One of the characters challenged him to one on one combat. Now, we're 1st level and this guy is like 10th (which is a huuuge gap in AD&D 2nd). The captain figures it's the quickest way to get the new recruits in line is to show them he's boss so he agrees. First round of combat my friend's PC get a critical hit. So we roll on the chart. And I think it was a "really good, go roll on this other chart". Long story medium, we cut off the pirate king's leg. And then proceeded to kill him.
Sooo, DM is like "cool!". The crew assumes the guy who beat the campaitn is a badd-ass and obeys him. We find ourselves decked out in magic items way past our level that were coveted by many, with an airship that every country would love to have for trade or military reasons, with a crew that is unsure about us and we have to keep convincing through deeps that we are the meanest and toughest beings to walk the seven ..., well clouds.
Completely not the campaign the DM had planned, but what a great start. All flipped because of a single crit in the first attack roll of the campaign.