TracerBullet42 said:
So during last night's game session, it finally happened. One of the players cried out, "ACK! YOU BASTARD!"
It was a beautiful moment for me in my young GM-ing career. I feel that I've finally arrived.
That's all.
Great moment there. I had a similar thing happen to me in my last session. I am pretty new to DMing as well but our group plays since more than 15 years now. Now our old DM is a player in my group.
Currently the group is trying to survive "Kill Bargle!" from Dungeon 150 under the C&C ruleset and they are in the second level of the dungeon at the moment. So last session they encountered the elite kobold tribe at their full power on their own turf.
![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
The first highlight was when they entered another room with the little bastards and when they were barely able to win against them our old DM just sat there, took one of the kobold minis, looked at it and muttered under his breath "But they are just some stupid freakin' goblins, darnit...." and then he continued to mumble under his beard about how they are not supposed to be such a pain in the players neck
The second highlight was after the fight in another room (elite kobolds again) the players started to cheer with each goblin they've killed and demonstratively threw the mini over my DM screen with a big smile
The third highlight was a bit dampened by the death of the monk but nonetheless it was the best fight I had in a very long time playing RPGs. It was the fight against the kobold chieftain and his heavily armored bodyguards, some elite kobolds and some normal kobolds. The fight was very intense from the first round on and the players were practically glued to the floor plan, fearing for their characters while on the other hand enjoying a thrilling fight. We got into such a rage that we all started to sweat
The healer (our old DM) had his hands full throwing heal spells or pouring potions into half-dead comrades and the fighters struggled to cope with the horde of furious little kobolds while the thief was backstabbing left and right until he got dizzy. I always roll in the open so at each attack I rolled all heads came forth and followed every minuscule movement of the dice. Unfortunately for them I was doing alot of 20s (about 4 in that fight alone) and each crit the would shout at me things like "Nooez, again a 20!" - "Stop that!" - followed by the automatic move to the charsheet to go through every detail that could help them in the next round. So, it was a total blast for all of us.
The only sad thing was that in the last round of his fight the goblin chieftain (with only 1 hp left) rolled a 20. I took a card from the Critical Hit Deck and looked under "Slash weapon"....."Decapitation, roll against Fortitude or die". Well, the monk didn't make his save so suddenly a head was flying through the air...I felt a bit bad about it, and there were 5 seconds of total silence until the Barbarian cried out revenge and charged the Chieftain to smash him to pulp. A short time later all opponents were dead, except one that got away
The good thing about the death of the monk is that they opted to ask for a resurrection in the monks monastery in Yggsburgh. Now they wear a heavy dept that will have to be repaid once they are on the proper level to enter Castle Greyhawk
