You’re such a Munchkin you should have Ruby Slippers
True table story: My Dungeon Master, Ruben, was running a game in California and his co-worker was running a game also. Their individual campaigns were following similar story arcs, so they decided that they would combine the tables for the final adventure. A double-sized table of adventurers! The culmination of a multi-year campaign! In an epic battle against ASMODEUS THE ARCH-DUKE OF THE 9TH LEVEL OF HELL!!!
Round one, one of the payers from the visiting table killed Asmodeus with one hit for 700-plus points of damage.
(This was Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition, possibly 3.5). True, this character was built using a plethora of broken home brew crap that never should have been allowed at the table… much less conceptualized in some dude’s brain. But way to anti-climax the crap out of a game table.
I’m not a munchkin and it wasn’t a low-level game but in a 3.5 campaign, my 13th level barbarian did do more than 1000 points in a single round in our initial encounter with a blue dragon. 🙂 Who was supposed to be the big bad for the whole evening. That was some good dice rolling and annoyed the DM mightily. I’ve also been the DM when this kind of thing happened. 🙂
The expressions here are great, btw. 🙂
1000 points? Let’s see… greataxe with x3 multiplier… STR 30. Magic weapon, magic life-stealing weapon maybe? Great cleave and a bunch of kobold minions around the base of the dragon… Counts on fingers…. switches to Spanish accent. “On my best day I could only do 200 points of damage…”
I think I like how Kickman approaches this. He’s being really nice about this and it feels natural to him. But if I had that kind of skill at a gaming table, I would use a lesson he has yet to learn: Sometimes you need to reserve that kind of awesome for when you *need* it.
He’s just really excited about being a power-gaming munchkin. In theory if he were to give some thought to balancing with the GM and party, he would be hella fun to play with.
Haha! There’s real magic on the gaming table with that wizard figure. Is that some of Luthor’s antigrav tech? 🙂
Oh, I wasn’t sure what you meant. LOL. Those are Minor Spoiler’s dice clattering on the table behind the wizard. But yeah, it looks like his mini is equipped with a bunch of Ioun stones.
I had a friend who said his party once accidentally picked a fight with a deity, and they were getting their butts handed to them. However, he had 2 rings that each gave one of 50 random effects and rolled +50 damage on both of them, then crit with 3 of his 4 scythes. It did an absurd amount of damage and one-shot a god.
You have unlocked *God Slayer* Achievement!
Regarding anticlimaxes, I once had that experience playing Star Fleet Battles. We had 10 players, and were doping an epic confrontation between a Klingon/Romulan alliance and a Federation/Tholian/Gorn alliance. Huge point values, dozens of ships, a battle that was two days in the planning. We set up our initial fleet dispositions in secret, and when the screens came down, the entire Fed force was stacked in a single hex, while our force was arrayed in a more traditional layout. The Fed behemoth began coming forward, moving at the speed of their weakest vessels. During the middle of turn 3, they ran over the mines that our cloaked ships had laid. Without a shot being fired, half of the Fed fleet was disabled, and the other half beaten up pretty badly. It was really a letdown… that battle was supposed to last all weekend!
That never would have happened if Sisko was in charge.
I’m impressed he managed to break the game so thoroughly in just 5 levels. I guess certain classes give multipliers to unarmed damage, and the creators forgot to not make them stack with each other.
I find it darkly amusing that Kickman has themed his character after his own superpowers. Matt, are all of his builds Kicktastic like that? I’d particularly be interested in seeing his take on magic. 🙂
He might be of the Batman/Superman school of thought on magic… As in, “I hate magic.”