So, I play DnD in a play by post format, and my first ever game was a solo introductory game, think, tutorial quests. Anyway I was told to go "clear out that tower that's been standing here in town being wierd and scaring people for years" First floor had quite a challenging fight but I was a sorcerer playing solo and VERY inteded on saving my spell slots. Anyway I clear the first of three floors and go up to the second. that floor is empty but I do hear some scuffling on the third. Naturally I go up to the third floor to see whats going on only to find the door is locked. I have my char leave the tower and smash in through a small window into the third floor room. I failed the athlethics roll to even climb so I didn't fall off the tower (I was kinda pissing off the DM at this point). Anyway I had to go back to the locked door and just knocked and told em something along the lines of "Boy, I'm Moander and if you don't open this oor right now I'mma get in there and spank you". Part 1/2
So, I rolled deception and nailed it with an 18 ish... Then the DM rolls insight to call my bluff and gives himself advantage (He had a reason story wise, but I didn't know that at that point)he also rolled to smite me ut I got lucky. The creature inside then says "You can open the door yourself if you are who you say you are." And my character at that point is like "I'm not giving up yet" and I go back to the second floor to see if there's some better way to open the door. By RPing and writing kinda okay the DM gives me enough EXP to level up and opens up a treasure room (turns out he didn't hate me, he's actually quite a cool guy). Instead of taking my second level of sorcerer I multiclass into warlock (I planned on doing that anyway) and chose Moander as my patron. At that point I could call upon Moander's extreme and boundless door-opening-powers. And that's how I sold my soul to open a door.
Yohohoho! Thank you very much for the story. I have been collecting various D&D stories lately since I noticed the funny dnd stories web site had crashed again. Once I get the chance I'll add yours to my collection. What do you think would be a good title?
Honestly I didn't quite think it'd be that good, thanks. My recent problem solving hasn't reached these heights, (Nearly wiped my party once and did something smart but boringly logical)
As for a title, how about "New player opens a door"
That works, I would recommended checking out funnydndstories.com They've been rebuilding the site since it broke from an attack. I gathered most of the stories in my file from the wayback machine's copy of their page. So far my favorite story is Stealing Immortality. It's worth the read. Also if you're up for it, I'd like to hear about the other story you mentioned, near party wipes are usually pretty interesting. https://amp.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/14qoc9/stealing_immortality_the_collection/
Really isn't much to it, I played a firbolg druid (Firbolgs are a race in 5e, see the MM). Got a party together to go hunt down and kill a few orcs that have invaded a nearby lodge. When we near the lodge we see an orc patrol coming our way, naturally we all try to hide but our half-orc barbarian rolls a natural 1. The orcs only see him and since he's a half orc and maybe a good persuasion roll (Not sure tbh) they think he's friendly. He stabs them in the back and 2 full rounds later he's pretty much solod the encounter. Anyway, my firbolg druid has thunderwave prepared, a 2d8 AoE spell AND he has a racial ability that allows him to look like someone else. So we decide disguised me and the half-orc will step intothe camp, try to gather everyone together, I thunderwave and he'll protect me in melee. I roll damage and it's a whopping 7. Next turn me, the half orc, the monk are dead.
It's in play by post so I'll give you a link.
https://www.rpgcrossing.com/showthread.php?t=175563
As for a title, how about "New player opens a door"
It's in play by post so I'll give you a link.
https://www.rpgcrossing.com/showthread.php?t=175563