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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dragonier" data-source="post: 4222465" data-attributes="member: 5888">My proudest moment as a DM came very unexpectedly and mostly out of simple goofing around.  It was an OD&D campaign in Mystara using the Rules Cyclopedia.  I was kinda' winging it from a set of rough notes because I had come to learn my players would go off in any direction at a moment's notice.  Even if I've had minimal prep time though, I always try to set a specific tone with a scene.  In this instance, it worked better than I could have imagined.  The players were helping defend a halfling village against a humanoid army invading from the Black Eagle, Baron von Hendricks.  They had decided to scout into the woods early one morning to get an idea how close the enemy was.The elf in the party was run by a woman who had not had much experience roleplaying, but she seemed to be having a blast.  We were in a friend's living room and I was set up on the coffee table and sitting on the floor beside it.  She had left the party to scout ahead and ended up in a mist shrouded clearing confronting a troll that was doing it's own scouting.  She had heard the troll coming, sniffing it's way through the fog.  When she finally fought it, she didn't realize it regenerated.  She did finally manage to defeat it, but it was a very tense fight and the eerie setup of the scene really worked well.  Towards the end of the combat, a couple of very impressive criticals led me to hand-wave the severing of one of the troll's arms....So she's bloody, badly wounded, panting, alone, standing in this creepy clearing with mist swirling up to her knees.  I pull a blanket off the couch close by, put it over my head and say, "Suddenly you feel...!" and I reach out and grab her knee really hard from under the blanket.  At first you can see she doesn't quite get it.  Then it suddenly clicks.  Her eyes go wide and she screams at the top of her lungs and starts frantically slapping my hand and arm.  When talking about it later, she actually shuddered when she thought about the dismembered troll arm grabbing her leg from out of the fog.It was the best truly immersive roleplaying experience I had ever seen.  It brought the scene to a beautiful climax and is one of those moments we tell and re-tell.</blockquote>

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