Moments you live for in D&D gaming

[derelictjay]

When the DM seeing as how my character couldn't fly, picked my character up (a lowly bard) and flew around with my character as a hostage. But I had an item that would disentagrage on impact a foe, and being that the enemy was a vampire, I used it. And watch as the DMs evil grin (knowing I'd fall to my death) change into one of shock as I proclaimed "free action featherfall".

 

[barsoomcore]

When I'm trying to design a plot, and an idea slips into perfect place with an almost audible "click." It's moments like these that I DM for.

Oh my lord yes.

I had one of those moments just recently, literally as I was walking down the street. It suddenly occurred to me what one of my BBEGs in Barsoom had been doing all the time. This goes back to the FIRST ADVENTURE in the entire campaign -- some four years ago now.

There was a "click". I heard it. And stopped where I stood as my head exploded.

NOW I know what he's doing. And it's EEEEEEEEEEEEVIL.....


I also love it when a player says, "I can hardly wait to play again -- but I'm afraid to."

 

[MerakSpielman]

A moment I loved:

Player: OK, I'm going to take a sip of that potion. What happens?

DM: Just a second.

Player: Why are you looking in your Book of Vile Darkness?

 

[BASHMAN]

The spawning of thousands of "inside jokes" that would only arise around a gaming table.

 

[K'Plah Q'Houme]

When I strike down the mighty Dragon and Torm appear before me, bowing, handing me his greatsword, making me is choosen...

 

[scourger]

I live for the sound bites. I've got several from recent campaigns. Some of my favorites include a song my character sang during & after a particular assault on an overrun keep. Also, many phrases uttered just before or during combat, such as: "Bad dog!" yelled to a gnoll while smiting it with a mace; "There's trouble now!" when threatened with 'there's gonna be trouble' by an outlaw if we didn't hand over the wounded sheriff--punctuated by immediately running over said outlaw & his motorcycle with the truck I was driving; and "It doesn't have to be this way..." as an offered diplomatic solution in the middle of a Star Wars cantina brawl (turned out it did have to be solved with my light saber).

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Coming across the "weird stuff" you know, wells with magical water, arches dripping with blood, boxing rings with opponents that grow stronger with every punch, living towers, temples that drive you insane, etc.

When your party clears out an abandoned keep, and then with the loot you have, your party is able to repair the keep because of the sizable discount the party gets because the dwarf's family is the contractor. We then begin to settle the wilderness around it, waiting for the day when the first settler appears over the crest of the hill.

Seeing a great strategy actually work.

Seeing a great strategy fail, but with sheer grit, by gum, you survive! Shame about the bard though.

 

[res]

Getting to pull off clever plans,

I love it when the clever plan that you spent the last 2 hours working out fails on the first round and the rest is just improvised. Win or loose, its a hell of a lot of fun to improvise when stuff hits the fan like that.

Other things...

Seeing the look on the DMs face (and the villians) when your barbarian makes mincemeat of the four demons who were summoned to hold off the party. 3 consecutive Crits with Great Cleave left 1 demon still standing and badly injured.


Witty retorts. Those are always the best.

When a hydra bit into the Trent character I was playing and did no damage and I proclaimed "You gotta get up a lot earlier in the morning to eat a tree."
(of course, the next day, I was preping for one of my games and I realized that bites do slashing damage and the Hydra should have been hurting him, me and the DM laughed it off and its one of the legendary lines of our group.)

The one I came up with for the current villian, an Orc Warlord named "The Butcher," when I come upon him and his immediate associates (2 others) I've got "Well, isn't it the Butcher, the Baker and the Candlestick maker."

The look on someones face when you tell them the 35 they rolled to hit misses.

 

[Rabelais]

Sleestaks = Land of the Lost

The laaaaaand of the Looooooooooooosssst! Man I loved that show. Holly made my tummy all tingly (I was 10 or so at the time...)


Now you know... and knowing is half the battle.

Land of the Lost

 

[Rabelais]

Love that DM

Here's one...

We were in the ruins of a temple, having appeared through a gate just moments after a battle. We were lost, hungry and really beat up. The cleric "speaks with dead". The DM used a zombie voice (braaaaaaiiiiins...) that raised the hair on my neck.