I just fought my first [insert critter here]!

[Stone Angel]

This back in just plain old D&D I had made a fighter that had an abysmall charisma 8. I named him Trogoy (yogurt backwards) then he got hit by a vampire -2 to Cha. Then everyone started to call him Dogboy and Frogboy. It was quite entertaining. But inside this large dungeon we found a collesium with a black knight that challenged our parties other fighter to a one on one duel. A round or two after the duel all of these monsters start coming out of the waitng areas. The parties wizard and I are standing over one of the waiting gates and out walks a cyclops. I almost crapped my pants we were only fifth level there were also trolls and other things coming out of the other gates. So we roll up initiative I am before the wizard so I chuck my hand axe at it. Natural 20. Back in those days we had our own Critical system which allowed you up to x5 damage. 18-20 1st roll, 19-20 2nd roll, 20 3rd roll and on. Back it up with 19 and then 20, and then another 20. So 20-19-20-20-7 Boom down goes the Cyclops. I was so excited I almost peed my pants. But it came with a cost. To this day I have never rolled a critical hit in d20. Ahhh well

 

[DM_Matt]

mklm;lk;

 

[Dirigible]

I prefer a deus ex martini.

It's nice to be surprised and left uncertain by monsters, especially when you're an experienced gamer. I have fond, if disturbed, memories of a thing the GM whipped a while back. It looked like a betentacled, Lovecraftian flamer of Tzeentch (if anyone's familiar with Citadel minitures) that lived in the bottom of an oceanic trench. Didn't forget that any time soon.

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

I was part of a group that took down my first Earth elemental last week while playing a Druid for the first time. I actually had the blow that took it down...

 

[francisca]

I had never fought a beholder until this past year, and I've been gaming since '79. That was pretty funky.

I encountered a Beholder for the very first time about a month ago. DM says, "You guys see this:" (holds up 1E Monster Manual and points to the picture of the Beholder).

I screamed like a little girl! Now, I do a lot of phony "GGAAAAHHHHHH!!!!" kind of screams in character, but this was an honest screech of fear, out of character.

We were pretty low-mid level (I'm a 4/3 Cleric/Fighter in a 1E game), and low on HP and magic, as we had just had a pretty nasty fight with a bunch of half-ogres. Me and another guy bribed our way out by coughing up all of our treasure and magic items. The other two in our party tried to make a run for it, were paralyzed, and the Beholder forced me and the other guy to loot them and pay up.

The DM was feeling pretty nice that day.

Next time, we're gonna whoop it's butt. Or whatever a Beholder has....

 

[Tom Cashel]

In our last session, we got our asses kicked by 3.5 ogres. Iconic ogres, no less.

 

[demiurge1138]

Just last week in my FR game, I fought a dark naga. Got killed in one round too, by a scorching ray. I've loved dark nagas since I read my first D&D book (2e Monstrous Manual), so I was pretty satisfied to be killed in that fashion.

Demiurge out.

 

[arwink]

In the last two games I was at, I killed my first wyverns. After years of playing a dex based fighters, I was suddenly glad that someone convinced me that this time around I should be a tough-as-nails platemail covered dwarf

 

[Barak]

In one of my PBP games, we are currently in a combat that includes an Ochre Jelly. I never fought oozes before, in 12 years of gaming, and I'm not liking it too much! Well, my character isn't anyway. Stupid thing is almost dead, but our wizard is out of MMs, so we'll have to finish it off with a torch once we deal with the wraith that is there. I sorta had fun having my dwarven fighter play bait so the ooze would come out of hiding and allow our wizard to shoot his MMs at it though.

Forgot to add.. The weirdest part is that my character recognized the ooze for what it was. So the DM told me "Ok, you know it's an Ochre Jelly, and you know it's defensive capabilities". And I had to say "Well.. My character knows them, but I don't. WTH is an Ochre Jelly?"

 

[Schmoe]

Well, I don't play much, I usually DM. When I do play, everything I fight is pretty much the first time I've fought it, so that's really nothing spectacular. However, even after 15 years of DM'ing, I get to use creatures I've never used before on nearly a weekly basis. Here's a list of just some of the creatures in the current campaign that I had never before used:

Vampires
Mummies
Ettins
a Barghest
a Chimera
Elementals (Earth and Air so far)
Demons (Hezrou, Vrock, Retriever, Babau)
Devils (Imp, Bearded, Barbed, Erinyes)

To this day, I have niether fought nor DM'd a Mind Flayer, a Beholder, or a Dragon.