D&D Tales: The Croco-rocket
So, I've been playing this campaign with some friends for a while where I am a crocodile-themed lizardfolk hick with a thunder cannon named Cletus Cornelius Crocodilius the 3rd. Much fun has been had so far, but today something extra special fun happened.
So a while back our party found a stone that basically makes whatever it's being wielded by as light as a feather. So naturally our undead pirate monk has been using it to fuck with Cletus by shoving it into his mouth and then pushing him great distances. I thought it was funny, the DM thought it was funny, and it'd give us all a great laugh. But, it did give me an idea.
See, we were all hunting down this nasty chimera, and after some scouting we knew it could fly. That was no bueno for us and we needed something to clip its wings. Suddenly, I remember that we have a stone that made me weigh about as much as a toddler. I also had several bear traps. And since I was a crocodile, I could grapple things with my mouth, leaving my hands, and my thunder cannon, free to attack.
So, we lure the flying chimera out with out bird-person bard, who lures it into range. We take all our ropes and strap the bear traps to Cletus and then an anchor line around his waist. We then have the sorcerer gnome cast enlarge upon himself, making him the massive size of a slightly larger than average human. He and the monk then chuck me as hard as they can at the chimera, which I proceed to stick to like a giant reptilian tick. I then spat the stone out onto the ground, and suddenly this tick weighed 800lb again.
I proceed to spend the entire combat session locked to this thing, blowing chunks off of it with my thunder cannon until it is grounded and no longer able to fly. It was still a tough fight, but we managed to prevail in the end.
It then became a desperate struggle to cut Cletus out of the bear traps before the dead Chimera fell off the bridge we were fighting it on. Thanks to a few lucky dex saves from myself and the bird person, Cletus managed to leap off the plummeting chimera at the last second.
I love this game.
LOL! This kind of player collaboration and outside-the-box thinking about in-game items is what makes me LOVE tabletops. That sounds like mad fun. Reminds me of a time in our recent game (we play Genesys, not D&D but its still a tabletop RPG) where my engineer type character crafted this launch pad prototype. We were fighting against this druid that kept summoning elementals to fight us, but the druid himself was sitting at the very top of this pillar smack dab in the center of these dragon ruins. We couldn't figure out how to get him! None of us had range, or at least that far of a range, to attack. Well wouldn't you know it, my little gnome engineer pulls out her launch pad, launches herself up there (barely making it) and just ends up pushing him off. He fell to his death. No one could believe a 3 ft tall mega genius could take care of him all by herself when no one else could. XD
If you don't mind me asking, what D&D edition are you playing?
We're playing 5e. While I got started with 3.5, I gotta say I'm loving the overall simplicity of 5e. It makes pulling shit like the Croc-o-rocket easier, for both the players and the DM. At least in my opinion.
Oh yeah, I definitely think 5e is the best edition so far. I started playing DND with 5e, only having briefly experienced 3.5 and overall its just way more streamlined. Then somehow we ended up with Pathfinder...which is WAY opposite. Spent too long in that system before finding our love in the Genesys system (star wars edge of the empire/force and destiny/age of rebellion if you are familiar with these).
Anyways, I hope to hear more crazy D&D stories!!