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ShortQuests -- individual adventure modules! An all-new collection of digest-sized D&D adventures designed to plug in to your game.

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FunkBGR" data-source="post: 3889754" data-attributes="member: 3895">I have so many, but the best is like the moment in The Gamers, where he has to roll a 20 to hit - and gets it. It's not quite the same, but you'll see.I'm running DragonStar one shot, to show off how awesome it is. Players are a squad of space marines, sent to investigate a facility on a remote planet. They start investigating, fight some creatures, and are thinking, "hey, this is kind of fun".Meanwhile, I'm thinking, "it's about time", and that's when I cue up the Aliens-style part of the game. Alien creatures start coming out of the woodwork, and the players end up sealing themselves inside a room, with a broken teleportation device that has no power.The lone soulmech turns to me, and asks if he can hook his own battery up to the teleporter, and I say, "sure, with a <whatever> check, and you'll start taking damage as it drains you." He agrees, makes the check, no problem. They program the coordinates for their ship, and start jumping in. I start rolling d8's for damage per round, and get some nasty high numbers (6, 7 and 8's). He's taking damage each round as the creatures are slowly getting in, and it's down to 2 people. That's when the Soulmech informs me he has 2 hit points left. We had established that he could die from this. He tells the last person to jump in, save themselves, and prepares to die. I roll the die out on the table, in front of everyone. They're all straining to watch it, and holding their breath. It comes up a 1.Everyone starts cheering, and we said the Soulmech had just enough juice to get himself out too. It was awesome.</blockquote>

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