For me, i think it's a Mind Flayer King or an old Blue Dragon.
You?
Dracolich.
Only (1) not sure how many HD, and (2) does it count if I gallantly fell in round #1?
A Noghri Dark Jedi Master in WEG Star Wars.
It took both the party jedi and the wookie hand to hand master and supressive fire from a platoon of combat droids to get him to the point where we could eventually wear him down.
Orcus in AD&D 1e.
Of course we were in 8th Grade, so we might have been playing without all the right rules back then....
Non-monty haul campaign?
Gosh, that's a hard one. Probably a pit fiend.
Quote from: The Butcher;574370Dracolich.
Only (1) not sure how many HD, and (2) does it count if I gallantly fell in round #1?
Anyone taking the dirt nap for the team counts in my eyes. It kept someone else from taking the damage.
Hmm... in my case. Can't count the teenage years playing D&D...
Would Nyarlathotep while confined to a human form (and thus not as powerful as his real one) count? How about if he basically regenerated in another dimension and then came back after a few in-game years? But he still had the scars showing his defeat!
As GM I've had a player kill a mid-size dragon once, and then with help killed it again when it came back as a Dracolich. In
Age of Heroes that's quite an epic achievement.
Odin, with a 'push' spell.
I killed this:
(http://pathfinderwiki.com/mediawiki/images/5/59/Xacarba.jpg)
with my 16th level paladin.
Does a Warship count?
I had a fighter once that paddled a small boat out to intercept warships loaded with soldiers invading his homeland.
I survived arrow fire from the warship just long enough to set off the greek fire bomb against the hull of the ship, and it sank.
Not every day a commoner thugish fighter dies a hero to save his country!
That's nothing to the time I killed 4 Tarrasques in one day!
:)
Nyarlathotep for me.
Quote from: Imperator;574665Nyarlathotep for me.
In human or true form?
Quote from: gleichman;574671In human or true form?
In dnd or coc ? :)
Not sure. Notables include:
- Some kind of devil, at least higher-middle on the scale, I think.
- A Roc bird, admittedly we got really lucky with criticals.
- Several Type VI Demon (the Balrog-ripoffs), though we had some high-tech aid against some of them.
- A Scorpitron, a chrome-plated metal nightmare with mechanical claws and a 4d10 laser cannon no the tail.
- A minotaur that was allegedly impervious to all weapons except for a specific one (which we didn't have).
- UUARAM, a monstrous demigod-slug with poisonous spines, a defensive forcefield, acid, and IIRC some kind of sonic or beam-based attack.
A 200,000 ton battlecruiser in Classic Traveller. We rammed it with a Subsidized Merchant Q-Ship at 160 kilometers per second.
Quote from: gleichman;574671In human or true form?
True form, 75 mm cannon. Rolled SAN, failed, rolled 1d100 and lost 3 points. My PC was a soldier, there was a cannon nearby, lucky shot.
Quote from: Bill;574679In dnd or coc ? :)
CoC, of course :)
In Rappan Athuk on the first level is a mimic that is supposed to be undefeatable. We had used some clay earlier to scoop up Green Slime. When we found out what a badass it was, we got it in a pit and shot Green Slime arrows at it. In short order it was turned into a giant quivering mass of Green Slime. Since it was supposed to be 'undefeatable', we were really proud.
I ran the adventure later as a DM, but other than the DM telling us we weren't supposed to be able to beat it, we didn't really have any way of knowing.
Story from just the other day. Probably not in my top 5 in terms in actual power, but it was a pretty cool takedown.
The adventure takes place in Port Blacksand, on the world of Titan. (Remember all those Fighting Fantasy books? That world.) We're in an underground temple fighting an evil shade who used to be the high priest of the God of Time and his cultists. There's a gate in the back leading to the same location but in the distant path, disgorging Spikefists, great suits of animated armour that hit incredibly hard and are just impervious to anything our 3-4th level characters can bring to bear. Luckily, they're not directly controlled by the shade, they just go upstairs and into the city streets to kill all goblins, orcs and trolls (City Guard included) according to their original programming.
The shade is just dominating the fight, throwing Paralysation, Command and something that does lots of HP damage ever round. All the party members are either paralysed, thrown through the time gate and out of the fight, or rendered useless as they try to fight the magical compulsions. Everyone, except for my Illusionist who's recently turned into an unconspicuous 7 year old boy and is now hiding in a panicked throng.
While the others are managing to accomplish nothing, I cast the illusion of a troll, place it so it "covers" the hovering shade, and have it issue a challenge to the Spikefist in the room. Over the course of a few rounds, the armour makes its way over there, targets the "troll", and utterly destroys the high-level shade with two brutal smashes.
Yay, illusionists!
My players nuked an aberrated "Crown of Corellon" ship full of aberrated elves and other abominations. Characters' level was abouth 8th, even if they were GREATLY pimped up with spells and magic items. It was the SpecOps action from hell of the decade.
I seem to recall that when I was like 12, a D&D group I was playing in managed to kill a tarrasque. It probably wasn't strictly true to the rules, I'd imagine.
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Dunno really, I've Gm'd for 95% of my RPGing life (at least).
I played Call of Cthulhu recently, We killed a Dark young of Shub Niggurath. It was also a TPK, but we took it with us!
In our 4E game we just wrapped up, the last three sessions featured the slaying of three major antagonists, one in each.
First was the unnamed reborn phaerimm master. Straight after that (or rather without a proper rest, because time was against us) we then took out an efreet mercenary-mage, the Beylerbeyi Safiye Brightflame. Then lastly an ancient frost giant called the Icefather, a major league priest of Auril.
All to keep Icewind Dale safe.
There's that one time we were level 1 at Rolemaster and took a whole keep by just rousing up the populace to help us and basically take the whole thing by surprise. That was epic. The "siege" (wasn't long of siege since my ranger and another PC had been planted as moles, hired by the local lord as assassins, to guarantee we could open the draw bridge and gates to the keep when the others arrived with the villagers, which we did, ultimately) ended with us fighting the lord, who was something like 5th level, up the stairs of the highest tower of the dungeon in flames, and I killed the guy with my two-handed sword and rolling a 320 something on the attack, and another awesome roll on the crit. I basically cut him in half. I was on top of the world.
Another time I took on Etrius, the #2 of Clan Tremere, in duel at the Vienna Chantry with Wheldrake, my Lasombra antitribu (very long story to explain why and how he could actually take him). I didn't exactly beat him, it was more of an epic draw really, but I survived and managed to make it out of the Chantry alive. That was something. I didn't think I would make it out honestly.
Quote from: Benoist;576244There's that one time we were level 1 at Rolemaster and took a whole keep by just rousing up the populace to help us and basically take the whole thing by surprise. That was epic. The "siege" (wasn't long of siege since my ranger and another PC had been planted as moles, hired by the local lord as assassins, to guarantee we could open the draw bridge and gates to the keep when the others arrived with the villagers, which we did, ultimately) ended with us fighting the lord, who was something like 5th level, up the stairs of the highest tower of the dungeon in flames, and I killed the guy with my two-handed sword and rolling a 320 something on the attack, and another awesome roll on the crit. I basically cut him in half. I was on top of the world.
Where's a damn 'like' button when you need one?
Quote from: flyerfan1991;576251Where's a damn 'like' button when you need one?
+1
Some really great stories in this thread, I love it when you're facing the big bad, need to roll an open 10 on a d10, and it happens. Boom, headshot.
Quote from: flyerfan1991;576251Where's a damn 'like' button when you need one?
I know! I'm searching for it too sometimes! Damn Facebook! :D
This was one of the best games I ever played, btw. The entire situation was really a sandbox, and we were let completely free to deal with the situation however we wanted. This is how it ended up playing out. :)
Tiamat, on the Astral Plane. Wiped out three PC's, and five NPC's, even with magical things called "Sunstones" and a Vorpal blade, it took three game sessions to resolve, and we lost a half dozen magic items (failed saves) and around a dozen items were drained completely from use. My PC lost his armor and best weapon, and nearly died but survived, barely.
Quote from: Silverlion;576386Tiamat, on the Astral Plane.
Whereas, we got taken prisoner and managed to kill an Old Blue Dragon in our escape. It started with a blow to the head with a shovel...
A 6th Generation Lasombra, incapacitated, and diablerized. Then again,my character was a 8th Generation Brujah Anti-tribu.
Quote from: shalvayez;576389A 6th Generation Lasombra, incapacitated, and diablerized. Then again,my character was a 8th Generation Brujah Anti-tribu.
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Quote from: danskmacabre;576241Dunno really, I've Gm'd for 95% of my RPGing life (at least).
I feel you on this one. One of the few times I did play we took down a 20th Level "punishment" fighter the GM sent after us. We were level 8 by the way.
I don't remember the toughest monster my D&D groups took down, but I do remember the one Champions campaign where our superheroes met Dr. Destroyer (their Dr. Doom ripoff) on neutral ground and one of the PCs still pissed him off to the point that DD smacked him with a 20 dice Energy Blast and he pretty much woke up the next Tuesday. Which is not "the Biggest Bad You've Taken Down" so much as "the Biggest Bad Who Ever Pimp-Slapped Your Characters."
JG
We were playing a Dragonlance campaign. I'm not super familiar with the settings canon, but this was after the events of the events of the first novels. We ended up fighting Lord Soth in a dungeon with a portal open to the Abyss.
We didn't know it at the time, but the DM had gotten tired of playing, and was looking for a satisfying conclusion to the game. In his mind, the easiest way to do that was a TPK, so bear in mind, that's what he was gunning for. The game up to that point was pretty good, though, and we didn't really know that he had this tendency until a much later game (the ending there inspired by the SAW franchise).
In any case, the party was overmatched. We were close to a TPK. The cleric was dead, the rogue was dying and initiative was not our friend. I was playing a two-weapon-Fighter and even if I hit on my attacks, I wasn't going to take this thing out. The only chance was a weapon that the cleric had cast a spell on that has a chance to destroy undead in a single hit (basically a Disrupting Weapon). I had to spend my action grabbing the weapon and giving it to the Wizard.
The Wizard had to succeed at hitting, and Lord Soth had to fail his save. We had already given up, but all the rolls were in the open. The wizard pulled a 20 out of his ass and hit. We calculated the saves, and Lord Soth would survive on a roll of 3 or better. I survived! So did the wizard.
Unfortunately, we couldn't get out of the room. We were sealed in with the only exit onto the Abyss. The DM ruled that we could level, but it took months of game time. He thought we would starve to death instead, but we had an item that provided enough food and water for one person to live comfortably (or two people to live on half rations).
Since we couldn't teleport out of there, we had to wait for the wizard to successfully research plane shift. Then, when the moment was right, we had to step into the Abyss and cast that spell before we were swarmed by the demonic hordes.
It felt pretty good to be one of the survivors.
I'm not sure if he counts as a bad guy but one of my characters killed Elminster once. If the DM was going to use high level NPCs to railroad us then maybe he should have not started us at 18th level. Or instructed me to bring a high powered character to the table.
I was expecting Pundit to answer "the Forge".
For myself it was some big whale in Mentzer-D&D.
I was a participant in the death of an avatar of Gruumsh in a 3.5 game. It was a last ditch effort to stop an orc horde since the army we led was losing the battle.
To be honest it was pretty dumb move, since we were a mixed level party and the highest level characters were a 23rd lvl monk and my 19th level paladin and the setting was magic item poor. We really didn't have the kind of gear you might expect from your average D&D game. However, we had to try something, and the game had a house rule where if you could roll two natural 20s in a critical hit, if you could roll a 3rd 20 or a hit, the target died. We thought it was worth the gamble, and we were right. The killing blow was landed by the usually cold-rolling 10th level dwarf cleric, in what felt like a mind bending act of open rolling. We called him "godslayer" after that act.
Quote from: JamesV;576444The killing blow was landed by the usually cold-rolling 10th level dwarf cleric, in what felt like a mind bending act of open rolling. We called him "godslayer" after that act.
Awesome, but there's an epithet that probably didn't sit well with his clerical superiors. :D
Quote from: Sope;576433I was expecting Pundit to answer "the Forge".
I was assuming they meant in the game, not in real life. And obviously I wouldn't have ever let the Forge be anywhere near one of my games.
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A few years back we played an awesome Rolemaster campaign which took us from around 8th level to over 50th. Our characters got embroiled in a conflict with invaders from beyond a supposedly impenetrable barrier which split the world in two, and also some strange anti-energy god known as 'the Entity'.
My character was a child of the God-Emperor and had succeeded in taking control of the Empire. The other PCs had risen to Demi-god status. We had a campaign finale against the invaders (we beat them and their mechanical land-dragons) and then the Entity turned up.
At this point, the original god-emperor whispered to me that I should persuade the other PC Demi-gods to channel their divine essence against the Entity, but that I should not do this personally. I did as asked, and the other PCs and the Entity were mutually-destroyed as god-head and anti-god met.
So technically I killed a mega-anti-god and an entiry pantheon of Demi-gods in a single master stroke...
Best campaign ever!
Quote from: RPGPundit;576949I was assuming they meant in the game, not in real life. And obviously I wouldn't have ever let the Forge be anywhere near one of my games.
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That gives me a great idea for a sci-fi setting bad guy organization. Bumbling pseudo-scientists trying to mind control the population!
Under the Storm Giants Castle. We killed Satan.
Quote from: Tetsubo;577385Under the Storm Giants Castle. We killed Satan.
That's pretty good one. Not too many can say that.
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It's been my experience that encounters with demon lords, devils, gods etc are usually anticlimactic and decided one way or another in one, maybe two rounds, tops. Either the archvillain annihilates the PCs in a round or two, or the other way around.
As a player I've seen both Lolth and Iuz get whacked almost instantly with a vorpal sword. As a DM I've seen Demogorgon get snuffed out in the first round thanks to an arrow of demon-slaying (on his own plane!) that I forgot the PCs had, and another lesser deity killed through an ingenious countermeasure against his anti-magic shell.
Quote from: Elfdart;580097It's been my experience that encounters with demon lords, devils, gods etc are usually anticlimactic and decided one way or another in one, maybe two rounds, tops. Either the archvillain annihilates the PCs in a round or two, or the other way around.
As a player I've seen both Lolth and Iuz get whacked almost instantly with a vorpal sword. As a DM I've seen Demogorgon get snuffed out in the first round thanks to an arrow of demon-slaying (on his own plane!) that I forgot the PCs had, and another lesser deity killed through an ingenious countermeasure against his anti-magic shell.
Yes, I remember some similar experiences in my epic level 1-36 RC D&D campaign.
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well, the literally biggest was a creature that was basically a sentient universe. The entire population of the planet was launched against it in a giant final assualt to save all reality.
The most "legendary" though I guess would have to be Venger, from the D&D cartoon, riding Tiamat, backed by an army of Beholders.