What Cool Improvised Stuff Has Your Character Done?

[Rechan]

On the rules forum, someone is asking if 4e is boring?

Meanwhile, I just came from a session where my character did something cool and exciting.

So I want to try and ask, "What have you or your group done with 4e that's improvisational and fun?

First me: We were in a tight space (about a 2x10 space) with five spiders. I leaped up onto a statue, put my back to a wall, and used my feet to shove the statue over with a 23 endurance check.

First the spider took 2d6 damage, and the DM decided it was restrained by being pinned. But, then the DM decided "running this flailing is annoying, I'm just going to say it's dead."

The group congratulated me. I felt very awesome.

 

[MerricB]

One of my players had his character punch a hole in a rickety shed, so he could attack an orc from an unexpected angle. That was fun.

Cheers!

 

[Rechan]

From a friend of mine:

We were in this updated version of "The Lost City" we found this room with two giant lizards - one of which was climbing around the ceiling. Since I was moderately low in initiative order, I had to charge in after the rogue who was taking some nasty damage from the lizards. I rolled poorly and ceiling lizard grappled me.

So; next round, I'm grappled in tongue, and another lizard is 5' behind me, in position to bite. I lever my legs up onto the wall, kick off of it to pull that lizard off the wall, and drop something like 600 lbs worth of unexpected lizard/dragonborn/armor right onto the lizard behind me.

 

[cdrcjsn]

Our group was fighting annoying flyers at 4th level that liked to do flyby attacks, keeping out of reach.

So my Warlord ran next to the fighter, jumped up 5' in the air, then used Leaf on the Wind with a spiked chain on the bat 15' up, swinging us around so we switch places, bringing it adjacent to the fighter so the fighter's ready goes off.

The bat dies.

I fall 15', take damage and end my turn prone on the ground...but with a smile on my face.

 

[blargney the second]

My eladrin warlord leapt off the roof of a building, then teleported in through a window right behind a very surprised goblin guard.

 

[Holy Bovine]

My eladrin warlord leapt off the roof of a building, then teleported in through a window right behind a very surprised goblin guard.

I think this is the coolest use of the Eladrin teleport ability I have seen yet. I love the visual I get when picturing this

 

[Brig]

I the game I was running the PCs were fighting a group of guys on a ledge and there were 2 crossbowmen on the opposite ledge. The Dwarf Warlord grappled his rope to a beam running between the ledges and swung across knocking on ethe the crossbowmen to his death.

 

[darjr]

I was running the kobold adventure in the DMG to introduce D&D to a newbie. At the boulder trap one of the players decided to leap onto the bolder and try and ride it over to a ledge that had kobolds on it.

He succeeded and then leapt from the boulder to a ledge to attack the kobolds. He took chances at OP's and falling and worse.

 

[Ktulu]

One player has a cape of the mountebank. Knowing the archer on the guard wall had a readied action to attack, he ran out causing the ready. He then used the daily power to teleport 5 squares if he is hit with an attack. He teleported up to the wall and bullrushed the archer over the edge. The waiting barbarian thanked him for making the situation much, much easier.

 

[That One Guy]

I was running the kobold adventure in the DMG to introduce D&D to a newbie. At the boulder trap one of the players decided to leap onto the bolder and try and ride it over to a ledge that had kobolds on it.

He succeeded and then leapt from the boulder to a ledge to attack the kobolds. He took chances at OP's and falling and worse.

In that room, my Tempest Fighter/Rogue jumped down from that ledge onto one of the scared kobolds inside. I impaled it with my swords, dealing falling damage to it and myself. This caused it to die. I felt pretty BA.

Not quite improvised... but my rogue/cleric jumped out of a second story building, dropped his weapons, pulled out a crossbow, and shot a guy with a slowing poison bolt.