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That Time When I Became A God
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All Things DnD is back with another story.
Homebrewing your world is awesome.
Homebrewing your players into ultra powerful gods on a whim?
Probably not the best move.
I think this DM made the mistake of giving one player too much of...well everything.
I think the rules are important or else you get...this.
Would you let this happen at your table?
Tell me after you listen to this:
At this point, the party consisted of Fahiil the elven cleric, Tafir the Tabaxi rogue,
Bron the dragonborn barbarian, and me, playing Fiik, sometimes called mimic, partially because
Fiik is draconic for mimic, but mostly because Fiik is one.
Somehow Fiik went from being your garden variety mimic to being able to turn into people and
talking shortly before taking a nap next to a dragon.
Fiik woke up, the dragon was missing and he wasn’t able to mimic anything that was humanoid.
No more chests or tables for Fiik.
But on the brightside he could cast magic.
Without any clues as to what was happening to Fiik, they decided that the dragon must
have had something to do with it.
So the quest for the missing dragon begins.
At the time this game takes place, the party had just come back from saving an island that
had been terrorized by a vampire when we heard about a cult in a nearby swamp.
Fahiil, the party cleric, could easily have been mistaken as a paladin based on how she
acted, so we had to check it out.
We made our way to where the lights of the cult had apparently been seen and found a
tribe of what looked to be some kind of giant fish creatures with purple scales and humanoid
limbs that were too small for their bodies.
Their strange stunted legs still gave them the height to tower over the majority of the
party.
One successful arcana check later, and we know they're kuo-toa, a race of fish people
who were driven insane by mindflayer tests, that somehow lead to them developing the ability
to make gods out of inanimate objects.
What we didn't know was what they were doing, and Fahiil's 6 on their religion check wasn't
helping.
Why religion is an intelligence skill but clerics are wisdom casters I will never know.
The party hid behind a rock and began to plan our next move when chaos erupted.
Fun backstory.
The dragon that I had taken a nap next to had been imprisoned there for centuries.
It had been trapped, or more specifically its body had been trapped.
After all of those centuries slipped away the dragon discovered a loophole in his life
sentence but it would need someone, or something to be crazy enough to fall asleep near it.
Enter Fiik.
While the dragon’s body was trapped, its soul was not.
Like a smelly hitchhiker, the dragon bummed a ride on Fiik’s soul.
As the party is about to act, Fiik gets a massive headache.
He doubled over in pain and barely suppressed an agonizing scream.
Not that that mattered much, a dragon flying out from behind a rock is pretty obvious.
Not just any dragon mind you, an ancient red dragon.
I'm pretty sure the DM expected us to run, because the dragon started their BBEG speech,
saying that he's a fire god and is about to form an unstoppable empire that will decimate
the world and reforge it in the fires of hatred blah blah evil motivations and things.
The kuo-toa are lapping this up, because of course their dumb fish brains can’t understand
that they probably aren’t part of the “new world order” the dragon is about to build.
We understand what is going to happen if it's not stopped, but we're level 12, and our strongest
magic item was Bron's flametongue axe.
There is no way we could take the dragon in a fight, and there are too many kuo-toa to
be fireballed.
This is when I turn to Fahiil and say "I have a stupid idea, but if we don't the continent's
screwed," in Fahiil's voice.
Of note, normally when I have a plan, I say "I have a stupid idea, and I need someone
to convince me to not do it," and I usually do it out of character because the DM lets
us plan that way.
Sometimes we use it, sometimes we don't, but I always ask someone to convince me not to
do the stupid thing.
This is why the whole table went silent for a moment before Fahiil's player said "Uh...ok,
don't tell me what it is.
What you need me to do?"
"Not nuke me out of the sky," I say in character before turning to the DM and clarifying that
I can still cast spells.
I teleported beside the dragon and began to hover.
I began to give my own speech.
In my most convincing, commanding voice I bellowed to the stupid fish creatures down
beneath me.
“I am the true fire god!
This creature is an imposter!
This pathetic wretch is but a candle to my blazing inferno!”
There were some more fire metaphors thrown in there for good measure.
Still, if you are a fish person shouldn’t fire be bad?
I digress.
The dm was shocked, and had me roll a d100 and add my deception modifier.
Rolling out in the open, I got an 87.
After adding my +9 modifier, I got a 96.
The DM was silent for a moment and said "You needed to roll a 95."
After we calmed down, the DM narrated how as I spoke, I felt a warm tingling sensation
all across my body and I started to sense things I shouldn't have been able to, like
feeling the hammer of a blacksmith in a nearby city ring against fiery steel or hearing the
screams of devils in Hell.
All fire, regardless of location or size, was an extension of my senses, which had enhanced
to the point where I could count the heartbeats of a cricket miles from the nearest flame.
I ended the speech by waving my hand and incinerating the dragon before floating down to my companions,
my skin now glowing with holy light.
A conversation about what now lead to me realizing that becoming the god of a race of neutral
evil creatures has an impact on a person's morality, which lead to an argument between
Fahiil and I, which ended up splitting the party, with me and Bron leaving to help my
worshippers, and Fahiil and Tafir staying behind.
Now I’m just speculating.
But it sounds like two of the players decided that going from level 12 to incinerating an
ancient red dragon with the roll of a d100 was crazy.
What do you think?
Would you allow it at your table?
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