D&D 5E You know you’re playing D&D when/if…..

[rgoodbb]

You know you’re playing D&D when/if…..

…your cat flicks your Nat 20 into a 3 before the DM sees it, and then looks all innocent having a wash.

…everyone’s drunk before you have even started.

…that player’s PC burns down at least one building in town.

…there’s a race to see who can loot the body first.

…after making a plan for the last hour, the 1st level PC’s charge the big f$*%ing dragon.

…everyone has a smile on their face.


Any more?

 

[iserith]

...you inexplicably find yourself spending an inordinate amount of session time shopping instead of adventuring.

 

[Vaalingrade]

... if the answer to 'you and what army' is 'heh... army? I've got like five guys; why would I need an army?'

... if the stupid joke item you asked for six months ago just kerploded the whole dramatic encounter.

... if you've been arguing for an hour over the stats of using your friend as an improvised weapon.

... You've killed a dragon with a dungeon -- or vis versa.

 

[Lanefan]

You know you’re playing D&D when/if…..

…your cat flicks your Nat 20 into a 3 before the DM sees it, and then looks all innocent having a wash.

…everyone’s drunk before you have even started.

…that player’s PC burns down at least one building in town.

…there’s a race to see who can loot the body first.

…after making a plan for the last hour, the 1st level PC’s charge the big f$*%ing dragon.

…everyone has a smile on their face.


Any more?

Other than the cat one (though I have seen a cat pick up a rolled d20 and run off with it), I've seen every one of these many, many times.

And all of those times were good times.

 

[Voadam]

. . . The enemy could be what you thought was the chest, or the door, or the floor, or the ceiling, or . . .

 

[aco175]

When someone tells one of these.

And, my tables favorite

 

[R_J_K75]

A player unleashes a real-life room clearing "Stinking Cloud" spell on the rest of the group

 

[Stormonu]

…the villain’s monologue is interrupted by a crossbow bolt to the face.
…. Someone magic missile’s the darkness.

 

[CleverNickName]

...if you spend more time arguing about the rules for movement than actually moving...

...if it takes you three hours of real-time to resolve two minutes of in-game action...

 

[MNblockhead]

...you define your generation by a box color rather than a letter of alphabet.