How many crits/sneak attacks have you suffered in one session?

[John Q. Mayhem]

I was DMing my siblings campaign, and during the latest session my youngest sister's berserker suffered the following series of unfortunate events, with one assailant (a fighter/rogue/mage):

Sneak attacked in surprise round (1)
Lost init, sneak attacked again (this one a crit) (2, 3)
Chased the now-invisible assassin, sneak attacked again (4)
Critted by assassin (5)
Captured assassin with aid of DMPC, assassin escaped, and critted her with an Evoke Death 2 for 6d6 damage (the berserker'd been healed in the interim). (6)

I was rather surprised! The assassin only had +1d6 or +2d6 sneak attack, but still, that's pretty unlucky. Have you had similar things inflicted on you or inflicted them on others?

 

[diaglo]

i've snuck a lot of damage on opponents. but i also have improv init.

so catching them flatfooted is nasty.

check out the rogues gallery for my PC. connected to the story hour in my sig.

 

[shilsen]

Not my PC, but I did see a party-member take 5 crits in the same round. Letting yourself take full attacks from two advanced nimblewrights (3e version, when they critted on a 12-20 or thereabouts) will do that to you. The PC actually survived, mainly because (we discovered later) the DM miscalculated how many dice he had to roll.

 

[AuraSeer]

We once had a PC take 5 crits in a single combat, all but one of which knocked her down. The second crit dropped her to 0, she drank a potion, got critted down to -9, received a heal, got critted again on a sneak attack and wound up at -1, got more healing, went down again... the poor thing was like a yo-yo. It was absolutely awful to watch.

This same player is subject to a crit at least once per combat, and knocked down about every other session. As far as we can tell, it's not her tactics or character design; it happened even when she played a tactically conservative AC-whore. We think she must have offended the dice somehow.

Personally, I think the most I've taken was two crits in one combat. Unfortunately they were one round apart, and the second was an assassin's death attack. I think the total damage had more digits than my max hit points.

 

[The_Warlock]

I think the most devastating I've seen (and technically unleashed) were two criticals in two rounds, but backed up by two rounds of solid hits. The unfortunate dwarven target was toe to toe with a Banelich (FR), wielding a Lifedrinker Morning star - every successful hit applies 2 negative levels to the target. By the rules a successul critical hit with an energy draining attack caused twice the level drain (very scary) in that run. One crit and one hit in the first round applied 6 negative levels... out of 11 character levels, followed by three successful hits - 2 levels, 2 levels, Critical for 4 - bringing the intrepid adventurer to a whopping 14 negative levels in two rounds.

Barring that, the nastiest critical scenario was the Khaasta rogue/barbarian who criticalled once per round in an every other pattern on the two PCs meleeing him, and due to his henchmen and pets flanking got sneak attack damage on each hit. In five rounds, the PCs in question bobbed from copious health to unconsciousness and back twice each, thanks to healing effects. I think the Khaasta missed once in the whole time due to hideously good die rolls.

 

[Arcane Runes Press]

I got hit for 8 in one round, once, while playing a barbarian.

OUCH.

The character lived.

HAHA.

And then got disintegrated at the start of the next round.

Not my most shining moment.

 

[BlackMoria]

In one campaign, I actually witnessed the party Paladin get confirmed criticalled four times in one round alone when he got surrounded by six goblins. Four goblins critted and the remaining two did standard damage. The paladin survived but did he ever take a beating that round.

In another campaign, the party rogue died after getting critted three times in one round (all confirmed) when he was attacked by a bulette. Out of the three hits, two were max damage. He ended up at somewhere between -30 and -40 hit points as a result.

 

[Turanil]

I have rarely seen any PC suffer more than one or two critical hit per gaming sessions.

 

[Craer]

I was running The Heart of Nighfang Spire, a wonderful meatgrinder of a module, when the group's Frenzied Berserker got surrounded by 8 Gorillons due to poor tactics on his part ("I'm charging forward through room after room of unexplored territory! Rar!") He was reduced to something like -350 by a series of 10 or so crits over 4 rounds.

 

[Blackrat]

Not crit but crit-miss. Last game session I rolled 3 ones in 3 consecutive rounds trying to hit an ogre.