It's the end of an encounter and there is one enemy left. We are certain he is on the verge of death. Our Wizard pal with Magic Missile tells me to not bother rolling an attack, that he’ll just kill him on his next turn. You see I’m terrible at rolling attacks. My Cleric has a history of attack misses. 

 

No wanting to waste my turn entirely, my Cleric picked up a rock to throw at the enemy. Not really caring about what rolled... I crit. At first I think,

 

"Oh man, I just wasted one of the only crits I’ve ever rolled on throwing a rock."

 

Turns out I threw the rock so hard it killed the guy. He died from being hit by a…

I was the DM for my friend’s group. There were about seven of us in all, and I only knew one of the party I was DM’ing for, my best friend from high school. I was hesitant to DM at all, not knowing any of these people. Nervous as I was, I went ahead and wrote out my campaign, and created a few encounters for them to start. I even created my own boards and figures made of styrofoam and card stock.

 

They all showed up at eight and introductions went around. Everyone seems nice but there was a tangible tension, as we didn't really know each other. Things went well, but awkwardly. After the first encounter they told me I was an…

When presented with the first Dragon our party had seen since the last one all but totally wiped us out Elven Monk, Tassan, should have been cautious.... But no, he takes a standing jump, flies to the top of a three-story tower where the Dragon is perched and punches it in the face, knocking it prone.

 

It wasn’t the prettiest of fights, we made lots of mistakes, but we had lots of little successes too. This was mostly due to how brazen we were when faced with such a mighty foe. Our party almost didn't make it through.

 

We were all but gone, on the verge of a full party wipe, until our Mage brought out the big guns. We had…