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So what are your best memories from DND?
I've got some good ones (from 2 homebrew star wars campaigns)

First one: assassin, assassinated
My friend was playing an ex jedi bounty hunter, and was at his targets apartment.
After exploring the empty side room and coming back out into the main room the encounter begins as a sith assassin drops from the vent shaft in the roof

She begins by throwing her double bladed lightsaber at him.
(I expected him to deflect it with his if he could roll well enough on the reaction)

Tip for being a DM? Don't expect players to do something

Instead he says "I catch it"
I decided to let him try since. Well he's a jedi, and told him to make a dex check

NAT freaking 20
Cue a massive cheer from everyone as I realise what happened
He now has a dual saber and his own against a (very worried) disarmed assassin

The assassin was cut to shreds
And it went down in history as the best thing the bounty hunter Elgar Calhuu did


Second time: the cave hotbox

So same players
Different campaign. On the other side of the war
A squad of elite stormtroopers
Seeking shelter from an incoming sandstorm they moved into a nearby cave, with a strange blue glow coming from vines in back.

Using a combination of the AT-ST and some gear from their standard issue packs they blocked up the door well enough from the incoming sandstorm

And the teams doctor/botanist tried to study the plant to learn anything useful
Rolled a 3
So they did not learn the fact that the plant was quite badly hallucinogenic if burnt and inhaled

And made a fire out of it
While they talked I told them to make a constitution check
They all passed except the commander who was feeling mildly dizzy and slightly high, and decided to go to sleep
The scout trooper (same player.as the ex jedi)and jump trooper realized the plant was hallucinogenic and started smoking it.
A lot
In a sealed cave
They then went to sleep with their helmets on (they had air filters in) the commander had not put his helmet on and therefore spent 7 hours breathing in hallucinogenic smoke

By the time morning came he was
off
His
Tits

He rolled con with disadvantage and badly failed
He couldn't even stand
In real life, the player was laughing his ass off at this while yelling random gak (this was around the time of brexit and he is very loud and political) so we had a high imperial grand commander yelling gak like
"THE EU IS MIND CONTROLLING US WAKE UP SHEEPLE"
and "GLOBAL WARMING IS A CHINESE CONSPIRACY"
That second one led to the best line I've ever said from one of my NPCs
"Dax. What the feth is a chinese?"
at this point we had all lost our gak completely

And the rest of the squad tied him to the big space lizard just to stop him falling off
He did not stop yelling
It went down in history as the best encounter we've ever had
They didn't even find the spider boss hidden underneath the cave





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"Off his tits" and "losing your gak" are phrases used in America right?

Two from a Savage Tide campaign I ran:

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Players have been trapped beneath an island in a pirate hideout. Crypt is occupied hungry zombies. Low level characters had used up most of their spell slots and were low on HP, so retreated to a room with one entrance which they could barricade. During the night, the huecava (undead cleric) controlling the zombies joined the siege outside the door. At the time, yours truly was just getting over a bad cold, and my throat was wracked, so when the huecava starts threatening the characters, my voice had the perfect 'from a watery grave' sound to freak the players out.

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Same campaign. One of the players, a grad student, had finished his course work and was moving back to Ohio. I convinced him to give me one more session the day before he left so I could give his character a proper exit.

Characters return to town and are approached by a priest from the exiting players clerics temple. I hand the player a note. He opens it, reads it, stands up furious, pounds the table, grabs his stuff and slams it into his pack while cussing me out, then slams the door on his way out. Other players are just sitting there all wide eyes and open mouths. They are searching the table for the note, none of them noticing I'd pulled it back during the tirade. I just continued the session as if nothing had happened, but kept it short since they were all in shock.

After I close out the session, I hand the players the note. It was me saying a final goodbye to the exiting player, saying as fun as it was to have him in the campaign, it was more fun playing is his campaign a few months before. He left his goodbyes on the site where we coordinated the campaign, and explaining he and I had staged the whole thing.

Cruel joke. It was perfect, however, for giving their characters the sense of loss from the cleric being removed from the campaign.

that, is amazing. Thats a wonderful way to end the character, I wish I was in the game to see that



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Oh one more

My team were against a goblin squad holding a hostage with a knife to their throat
My party immediately broke character and discussed what they should do
I ignored them
Calmly turned to the DM and had him confirm one goblin was within melee range
While the rest argued I grabbed the nearest goblin, and held my sword to his throat
The rest of my mates looked at me like "what the feth dude, that's a terrible idea"

I think it's when they learnt that playing in character is more important that breaking character for the best solution

It made me laugh to see their reaction