Craziest combat move by a PC

[Lord Ipplepop]

In a home-brew adventure I was running, there was a pile-up in a dorrway as the result of some really interesting decisions by the PC's.
The "move of the century" was by one of the fighters (I believe) in full steel regalia who decided to jump OVER the pile, and do a Starsky and Hutch diving roll after the villains.
By the time we got finished, the entire group was crying from laughing too much.

 

[Capellan]

I was playing an Adventure d20 game once where my character jumped out of a biplane onto the back of a zeppelin so I could remove the bombs that had been strapped onto it.

And no, he didn't have a parachute.

 

[Doghead Thirteen]

Hmm... I guess there's the time I grabbed a burning helicopter to stop it dragging the team's sniper off the roof of a towerblock...

... and got away with it.

Or there was the occasion our sniper failed to grok just how close the attacking combat android was, and by the time we managed to get through to the dumb Swedish git it had pulled his left leg off...

...Or the anti-matter bomb superbowl...

...Or using an autocannon as a counterweight to stop the rest of the team falling into a carnivorous hole...

... or the whole mess with the Russian APC and the anti-tank sniper rifle...

... our campaigns consist of a series of insane stunts.

 

[Slife]

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.

It worked for Gandalf, didn't it‽

 

[KrazyHades]

It worked for Gandalf, didn't it‽

Of course, when PCs try to do something which "worked for Gandalf", they tend to die. After all, Gandalf only rolls 20s.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

My brother was playing a dwarf in a BECMI campaign. The party was confronted by a magic-user who was levitating past the edge of a cliff (and thought he was out of reach) and throwing lightning bolts at them. The dwarf charged and leapt off the edge of the cliff, dropping his warhammer and grabbing the magic-user by the ankles. This was too much for the spell; both of them ended up at the base of the cliff. Much damaged, but still alive, the dwarf finished off the evil wizard bare-handed, bitching about how much he hated heights, and the magic-user really pissed him off, making him go and do that...

That dwarf was one tough mutha.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Of course, when PCs try to do something which "worked for Gandalf", they tend to die. After all, Gandalf only rolls 20s.

Nah. He doesn't only roll 20s (he horribly fumbled his sense motive against Saruman, he missed his knowledge/lore check to identify the Ring properly, he failed his grapple check against the Balrog....), and he's only a 5th-level wizard to boot (well, and 25 or so levels of fighter )

 

[the Jester]

Soo many to choose from... all right, here's one...

The party is 6th-7th level and needs to cross a great chasm that is 200' deep. At the bottom are thousands of wooden stakes with people impaled upon them, and dozens upon dozens of hezrou demons (note: the party has, what, one magic weapon at this point? Maybe? They aren't gonna be able to scratch these demons and the players know it!). There's a rickety rope bridge across the chasm, so the wizard and his apprentice go invisible and try to sneak across. When they are most of the way over, a big ugly mutant troll steps out of the rocks on the far side and growls, "I can smell you..."

Blammm!! Wizard fireballs both the troll- and the end of the rope bridge. It falls into the chasm (the troll just watches, singed), but both wizard and apprentice manage to hold on. Then they start climbing while one of the demons teleports up to the rest of the party to engage them. A couple of rounds pretty much show our heroes that this ain't a fight they want to be in.

So the party knight puts his shoulder down and charges, bull rushing the hezrou off the edge of the cliff. He falls 200'- onto a spike!!

And lives.

Our heroes hurried away, but that was a very cool moment.

 

[Slife]

Nah. He doesn't only roll 20s (he horribly fumbled his sense motive against Saruman, he missed his knowledge/lore check to identify the Ring properly, he failed his grapple check against the Balrog....), and he's only a 5th-level wizard to boot (well, and 25 or so levels of fighter )

I think he just has a really good template or race.

 

[PaulKemp]

Setup: Playing Shackled City, the end of Flood Season. Group stands on a cliff face overlooking a subterranean lake, alight with glowing algae. The only way across appears to be a metal cage attached to a winch-pulley apparatus, the ropes for which span the lake (kind of like a ski-lift, I suppose). The near end of the rope is attached to a winch/gear mechanism attached to a guard house on the top of the cliff. The far end is attached to another guard house on the far shore of the lake, which is about 100' below the level at which the group stands on the cliff top. Thus, the ropes have a downward slope to them from the group's POV.

Anyway, the spellthief decides to "zip line" across, gets halfway over, loses his grip, and falls fifty feet into the lake. A skuvyn demon in the lake soon sets upon him and matters look dire. The warforged and two others disable the gear safety on the winch and dash into the cage, now free to speed down the rope lines. Below them, the spelltheif is in dire straits. The warforged fighter takes position in one end of the cage, takes firm hold of the bars, and readies his glaive. As the cage passes over the combat between the spellthief and skulvyn, the warforged cuts the ropes.

He (and two others, ignorant of his plan until he did it) ride the plummetting cage toward the lake, the skulvyn, and the spellthief. He thrusts his blade between the bars as they fall, hoping to crush and impale the skulvyn all at once.

Very cinematic move, but he missed the skulvyn altogether, and instead clipped the spellthief with the cage. While the other party members scrambled out of the cage, the warforged rode it to the lake's bottom. As he descended, the skulvyn set upon him and they had a balrog-gandalf running battle. They hit bottom and continued the combat, with the warforged getting the better of the demon and gradually dragging him into shallower water, where he and the rest of the group finished it off.