Craziest combat move by a PC

[Falldog]

I've always been very proud of the actions of my cleric in my first 3E campaign. Some wicked wizard had set up a nasty piece of machinery at the top of his tower, which we had set out to destroy – and then he'd set a vrock on our tails... Thinking quickly (and not entirely sensibly), I jammed myself on the other side of the wizard's delicate machinery, cast Sanctury, and watched as an increasingly enraged vrock (with a few horrifically unlucky Will saves!) thrashed about among all the wires and tubes to try to get to me.

I think that the DM may have been being kind, and letting my plan work – but only for as long as necessary. Soon after the machine had been suitably mangled, the vrock made his save and started chowing down on my poor, soft flesh...

A narrow escape ensued.

 

[Darklone]

Hyp, that non attending players PCs suddenly become heros seems to be ... natural.

Another story where our old group was hiding after a huge battle (when we burned down half of the town again) outside... once again the big wiz whom we battled followed us and attacked with a wand of fireball. Fighter and my small dude stood at the edge of a valley where we had hidden and returned fire with bows and hurt him nicely... yet the fighter (no evasion) was still pretty hurt from the big battle and went unconscious. Seeing that the next fireball would kill us, my char grabbed him and jumped down as far as possible into the small valley... while the wiz put the next fireball at the edge and we had 5ft between us and the zone of death...

Heavy armored fighters hurt if they land on soft funny bards.

 

[Bagpuss]

5th level party fighting a bunch of mooks and a strafing (medium) dragon. The swordsage/barbarian has climbed to the top of a tower. He readies and action to "tackle the dragon out of the air when it flies by"....
Mark

Had a character do exactly the same move but then force sovereign glue down it's throat, while hanging by it's neck, to stop it's breath weapon.

 

[green slime]

Entering a large cavern in the underdark. No, a large cavern. The PC's hear sounds of fighting echoing from ahead.

"I cast light upon myself and fly up to the ceiling."

Ever notice how much easier it is to see a light source from far away, when compared to how far you can see, standing next to that light source?

Player wonders why his character has just become a paralyzed, floating pincushion, near the ceiling.

 

[rossik]

the fighter was in combat with a wererat (i asked once a hint on sewer adventures, but forgot to give silver weapons...).

the other figther was like "hang on, i will save you!", and jump from a trash can to have a better look at the wererat and shoot him if a crossbow....only that he missed, hit his friend and land face to the ground.

the first fighter passa out

later, fighter two was like "oh man, u where attack fomr behind! luck of you that i take him down!"

 

[Hypersmurf]

The story loses integrity with the simple 8th-grade physics knowledge that all objects fall at the same rate, and that one falling creature can't ever catch up to another one unaided.

Are you calling James Bond and Johnny Utah liars?

-Hyp.

 

[KrazyHades]

Wrong thread

 

[Stalker0]

We were fighting a massive spider on a giant spider web over this really deep pit. The spider knocks out a PC, and she goes tumbling off the web. Our rogue dives down to save her. My monk has a ring of feather falling, and with a natural 20 throws the ring right into the rogue's hands. He catches her, and uses the ring to bring them safely to the ground.

 

[Stalker0]

The story loses integrity with the simple 8th-grade physics knowledge that all objects fall at the same rate, and that one falling creature can't ever catch up to another one unaided.

Those 8th graders are smart cookies, but 9th graders are smarter still! They know that wind resistance can slow down a wide, bulky object...for instance say...a demon? If a person threw himself down instead of jump up and over to get a head start, and then made themselves as narrow as possible while the demon was just sprawled out, there's a chance he could catch up.

 

[sniffles]

It's not really crazy - I guess I'm not very imaginative during combat. But a couple of sessions ago in our Eberron campaign I had my Valenar fighter/scout jump up on a table to fight some Aereni Stillborn. I was pretty pleased with myself for even thinking of jumping on the table.

After a few hits I got tired of having my PC whack them with his double scimitar and started kicking them instead. I was actually doing better with the unarmed attacks than armed attacks - for some reason I rolled better on those. And with the strength bonus from his belt of giant strength, he did some pretty decent damage, too.

That combat was a lot of fun.