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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 4673171" data-attributes="member: 8835">I got 3 stories:My old PC "Janx" a 2e elf Fighter/Thief/Mage was staying at some evil wizards castle (I forget how I got there).  The Wizard was trying to entice me into an alliance of some sort.  I suggested we do an elven blood bond with my ritual dagger.  The wizard agrees, so I cut my hand with it, then hand him the dagger, and he cuts himself and at that point, I inform the DM that the wizard dies from my Dagger of Wizard Slaying.  I had that thing for many real-time years, from when an NPC used it against me (and I subsequently quested to get my Wizard class back), and I was immune to it.  The DM wasn't fuming, but it was one of those cases where what he thought would be a much more complex adventure was just beaten because he forgot about an item I had.Years later, in our 1st 3e game (with the same GM), my half-orc barbarian "Rau" is coming in from the cold (an arctic campaign) into a small inn.    Shortly thereafter, the scene develops where a 18th level gnome sorcerer is about to get spell-hostile on a PC (who I haven't actually met).  I win initiative, move up, and critical hit the wizard with my two-handed sword.  The DM describes him as getting knocked back against the wall 10 feet away, and bouncing back.  I point out that he just left my "threatened" square, and I get an Attack of Opportunity.*  With which I score a critical hit again, and the gnome dies.  I did make friends with the 2 other PCs.  Supposedly they contributed somehow to the campaign, but mostly they were there to heal me, or soak up attacks.  That was a fun campaign.*yes, we know that this was a blatant violation of the rules, but the GM didn't know it then...In the same campaign with "Rau", the party stops at another village* where I head for the pub to get a drink.  Before we know it, the village is surrounded by a horde of orcs.  The horde is in the neighborhood to take over.  My party member Remington gets the idea to go outside and talk me up as the biggest baddest mo-fo ever and challenges the orc leader to a duel for leadership of the tribe.  He accepts, and spends like 20 minutes getting buffed from his head cleric.  Remington gets me, I stride outside, step into the circle, smoothly unsheathing my level-appropriate magic two-handed sword, win initiative and chop off his head with a solid hit, followed by a double-crit.  In this campaign, the GM ruled that if you could re-confirm a crit, it was a double-crit and killed the target.  I then strode back into the pub, and Remington yells "All Hail Rau!", with a resounding chorus of my new tribe.*maybe a month after the start of the campaign, we'd gone up about 10 levels, the arctic is a hostile, but XP-full place.In short, I've had a number of 1 round victories that thwarted my GM and amazed him at how much he under-estimated me (or my lucky-ness).I had enough of the double-crits that the GM modded his house-rule to simply increment the multiplier when a crit was reconfirmed.  It's been awhile, but I also suspect you had to roll a nat-20 on the first crit, to justify a re-crit check.  I had at least 3 instances where I rolled 20-20-20 in that campaign against seriously BBEGs.  I like my dice and my dice like me.  Except for that steel d20 I got from the Iron Heroes box of stuff (I couldn't hit anything with that thing, more 1's and 2's than I'd ever seen in my life).</blockquote>

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