D&D 5E Awesome 5e Gaming Stories!

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Not DnD, let alone 5e but since that ship has sailed...

I have two, both involve:

The Greatest Archer who ever died.

An honest to God, Weaponmaster "Robin Hood was an amateur" archer, when confronting a mage was the only one who could see him. He took a shot, the arrow bounced back and winged the archer (Reverse Missile, minimum damage).

The archer asked himself, "Is he a better mage than I am an archer?" So, of course, he shot the mage again! It reflected back again, this time I gave him a dodge which he failed. Max damage, died on the spot.

Ep. 2. Same archer some time earlier, tracking an (undead) wyvern. The group sets up a camp as bait and waits. Sure enough, the Wyvern shows. The archer, the group's tactical leader (honest, in spite of these two inexplicable incidents) has given explicit instructions NOT to engage unless attacked. The plan is to follow it to it's lair and attack on the ground.

So everyone holds their breath, half expecting the impulsive rogue to attack, it's going, going...Then the archer shoots it. Everyone stares at him, cofused, as the Wyvern turns, charges the archer and grapples him. Not able to use his bow or draw a weapon, head butts the beast. One crit failure later, an unconscious archer is carried away.

As it turns out, it was a pretty lucky thing since the Wyvern had no need to venom the victim so he was healthy-ish for a rescue attempt. :)
 

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Adventurer's League, Pools of Radiance Resurgent. Bear artillery.

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Brother Chief, Brochief to his friends, is a Vengeance Paladin Half-orc with a bear for his Find Steed mount. The party enters the narrow crevice that leads through the orc lair, leaving the bear to stand guard at the entrance. The party fights their way through to the bottom of the crater and confronts the giant, with the hell hound joining the fray the round after combat begins. The paladin suffered a very bad hit from a thrown boulder on the opening round, so the hound's appearance made things pretty hairy for the party.

Brochief gets the bright idea to have his bear launch itself off the cliff and land upon the hell hound. I ask for a strength check from the bear as an athletic maneuver, the bear passes the DC and hits his target, falling damage 20d6 gets split between the bear and the hell hound. The total comes to 95, a number many of you will recognize as "too many 6's." In any case, this was sufficient to reduce them both to 0.

The party quickly recovered from their astonishment - and the bad opening round - to dominate the remainder of the fight.[/sblock]
 

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