Most Unexpected/Funny Ways the PCs Killed A Creature

[Kunimatyu]

My best monster-killing story involves a Gauth that was beaten to death when the players trapped it in a big burlap sack and repeatedly slammed it into a wall. I really felt kinda bad for the thing, but it was a hilarious mental image!

 

[Darklone]

Ohhh falling.

My first D&D game ever. Big high level group... I got to be the minotaur henchman bodyguard dude of a wizard. There's some big war going on and the PCs want to avoid it. The army commanders don't listen... so the PCs fly over the battle after it starts... on dragons, carpets, flying barrels, hippogriffs and whatever. The wizards start to discuss who goes where... then the fighterdudes jump down. One of the lower level fighters falls on a black dragon, scores a critical hit and kills him.

 

[Bad Paper]

That roper was in Forge of Fury.

yes, thank you, genius. Maybe next time you can figure out what a SPOILER is.

 

[Darklone]

yes, thank you, genius. Maybe next time you can figure out what a SPOILER is.

The thing on my car ?

Edit:
BTW: If you want to avoid spoilers, use

Spoiler

THIS

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[_spoiler_]text[/_spoiler_] and leave out the "_".

Then I wouldn't have answered that way.

 

[Slife]

yes, thank you, genius. Maybe next time you can figure out what a SPOILER is.

And now you quoted it, so even IF he edits it people will see it.

Thank you, genius.

 

[KrazyHades]

Guys, c'mon, back on topic.

 

[interwyrm]

Well, it required quite a bit of rules fudging... but... I had players go up against a Kraken, underwater. They weren't prepared for it at all. One of the guys was a throwing weapon expert. I let him swim inside the Kraken's mouth. He took damage every round, but used this dagger that did extra damage from inside a monster every round as well. He just managed to kill it before it killed him.

The players loved it.

 

[Markn]

One of our more interesting deaths was drowning in a mud puddle.

We were adventuring in an area that wasn't very level just after a massive rainstorm. The DM described it as puddles of water a few inches deep scattered throughout the area. He even drew them on the map to show us where they were. Needless to say, we never gave it any thought and went into combat without any worries. When one of us dropped and the mapped showed there were puddles all around him we rolled to see if he fell face first or on his back. He fell face first and began drowning. No one got to him in time and that was the end of him.

 

[Fish Priest]

Two from L5R: My character (shugenja) duelling with an enemy shugenja- throwing and blocking fireballs. Then I fail a roll to block one. GM reaches for my character sheet, I say:
"Wait"
"What can you do"
"Rugby tackle the enemy"
"what will that do?"
"Remember that bandolier of highly explosive potions that I started with?"

BBEG disappears in a ball of flames, as do I.

The other one (not mine) was a low-level shugenja faced with an army of ogres and demons. She summons a small air spirit (about 6" tall and invisible), as it's her only spell with unlimited range. Then she orders it to start pinching the ogres. Mass ogre brawl ensues, demons join in to restore order, only a few are left standing by the end.

 

[ChimericDream]

This one happened fairly recently. The party had gone through a large cave system clearing it of frost giants. After several sessions of exploring and fighting basic ones, we got to the BBEG. The battle raged on for several rounds, with the barbarian beating it repeatedly, and the rest of us either using ranged attacks or spells. I was playing the warmage in the party, and kept throwing spell after spell at the thing, hoping to get through his saves (the DM had given this one several class levels plus a template, IIRC). Finally, I simply told the DM to roll a nat 1 on his next save. Prismatic ray + 5 on a d6 (turned to stone) = Frost giant statue. The DM actually rolled a 1 on command... it was great. He tried telling us that the giant wasn't dead, just turned to stone. So our barbarian cut off the statue's head with her adamantine sword and the druid cast stone to flesh. Done deal.

That one was one of the best.