A game master presents his group in Dungeons & Dragons with a seemingly insurmountable task. But they have the perfect plan.
Why do the players have to kill a god? Deetz_Meerkat shares on Reddit in his post the story of his group of Dungeons & Dragons. He is the game master of the session and has given his players an almost impossible task.
Their quest was to retrieve a treasure from the hoard of a blue dragon, who guarded it well. The group knew that a fight would be hopeless, so they negotiated with him. The dragon offered them a deal: If they could manage to kill a god, he would willingly give them the treasure.
A task that seems just as impossible for the group as defeating the dragon itself. But the players had a plan: They lured their Dungeon Master into a nasty trap.
“You see, guys, that’s how you kill a god”
What trap was the DM lured into? When the next session was due, one of his players wrote to him with the suggestion that he could lead a short adventure instead of the follow-up session, so he could also experience being a player himself. Deetz_Meerkat excitedly accepted this offer as he had never tried being a player character in the 5th Edition.
It happened as it had to: The group successfully completed the short adventure and left the dungeon victorious – only for Deetz_Meerkat’s character to be hit by a powerful fireball while simultaneously receiving a knife in the back from a sneak attack by the rogue. His character went down.
The wizard who had conjured the fireball approached him with a crooked grin and said in a cinematic moment: “You see, guys, that’s how you kill a god. You have him give up his immortality and take him while he is still a human.”
Deetz_Meerkat was so impressed by this nasty trap and the actions of his players that he let them get away with it and promised them the treasure of the blue dragon. However, he is already asking the community on Reddit for ideas on how he could get his revenge.
What does the community say about this solution? Users in the comments of the post on Reddit are excited about the creativity of the group. Many celebrate the idea and would have acted similarly in place of the game master. Some provide direct suggestions on how he could take revenge on them:
- Healthy-Carry3822 celebrates: “Damn. That’s 5D chess they’ve played.”
- TheFlawlessFlaw23 jokes: “It’s a shame the game ends now, the DM is dead”
- N_S_F_L suggests: “A voice echoes from the shadows, or is it just in their heads? ‘You killed a god?’, it asks. Then it answers its confusion with: ‘No. You killed the avatar of a god. The true god is still alive. You can have your trinket… and all the trouble that comes with it.'”
- skullchin comments: “I wouldn’t use it against them. That was incredible.”
- Agreeable_Sweet6535 has the idea: “Is there a cleric in the group? Because they just killed his god.”
In another group, a similar task was posed that the game master deemed extremely difficult to solve. But the players quickly had ideas on how to solve the whole thing creatively while having a lot of fun: DM presents his players in Dungeons & Dragons with a supposedly nasty task, but they solve it in a pretty brilliant way
