D&D 5E Awesomest D&D Experience Ever!

[pukunui]

Hi everyone!

I just had what was probably the awesomest D&D experience of my life! I'm playing in the Age of Worms AP (converted to 5e) and we were up against a primordial titan guy. My 16th level paladin used misty step to teleport up onto his shoulders (using the "Climbing onto a Bigger Creature" optional rule in the DMG) so I could get advantage on my attacks.

I then proceeded to roll not one but two natural 20s! I had both my 4th level spell slots free, so I used them both to smite with my moonblade. The two attacks combined did 156 damage (14d8+8 for each one).

That was enough to kill the titan, and the DM narrated the result as me decapitating it.

Well, as if that wasn't cool enough, he decided that that was a good time for my moonblade to get an upgrade ... [A little explanation is needed here: This PC is a replacement for a previous one, and I managed to convince the DM to let her have a moonblade by agreeing that it would only have a few runes to start with but more would unlock over time.]

Guess what he rolled? "00". I kid you not.

VORPAL SWORD FOR THE WIN!!!

To top it all off, the titan had some girallons aiding him. One came to attack me. I attacked it back and ... got another natural 20! OFF WITH ITS HEAD!

Holy crap that was epic!

I just had to share.


Cheers,
Jonathan


p.s. If you want to know more about my PC, she's a half-elf paladin with the Oath of the Ancients. She's actually a paladin 15 / fighter 1 ~ I wanted to be able to get both Dueling and Defense. Her AC is 24 (Defense style, mithril plate +1, shield +1, cloak of protection). I'm still debating whether to go to fighter 3 and take Champion for the improved crit range or to stick with paladin to get the last ASI/feat slot and the aura range improvement.

 

[Moorcrys]

Congrats! It seems like a blast of a game and she sounds like a badass. [emoji4]

 

[pukunui]

Thanks. She is pretty awesome, and not just in the combat arena. She's not your typical stuffy lawful good paladin of devotion. Believe it or not, she beat the dwarf cleric in a drinking contest (and that was even with the dwarf benefiting from my paladin's Aura of Protection on her Con saves). And being a somewhat hedonistic noble, she loves to go carousing and have one night stands with random guys (hooray for being immune to disease!).

I liken her to Phryne Fisher, the titular "lady detective" from Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, if anyone's familiar with that series. I guess you could say she's something of a feminist.

 

[wedgeski]

Sounds frickin' awesome.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Sounds like your experience with nat 20s was better than my last time when I rolled two 20s in a row


I needed a 20 just to hit the guy, and I got two natural 20s with my throwing daggers. I was like, "Awesome!" Then the DM said, "Spark, spark." Grrrrr.....

 

[Tormyr]

Wow. Blessing of the dice.

How did the bird hunt go?

EDIT: Oh and definitely consider champion. Twice as many opportunities to rock the smites.

 

[famousringo]

Sounds almost as awesome as that time in 2nd ed I hit Strahd with a Mace of Disruption and rolled 00 on the percentile.

Yeah, the DM only let me discorporate him for a split second before he came back more pissed off than ever, then it was back to getting the heck out of Ravenloft. Boo.

 

[Pickles JG]

In my group we have a running gag that when someone is going to bore you with a story about their character it starts my level 15 paladin....

Of course yours is level 16 and that was entertaining.

 

[doctorhook]

Damn, that's awesome! Lucky stories are the best stories.

 

[Tony Vargas]

(using the "Climbing onto a Bigger Creature" optional rule in the DMG)

You have to wonder how something that iconic avoided an official rule for so long. (Even as tiny monsters, like stirges, did it to you from the beginning.)

It's funny that 'rulings not rules' 5e finally came through with it, too. Was there really nothing like that in C&T, 3.5, and 4e? Is my memory that bad, now? :/