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Previous post with his concept!

This is how I envisioned his semi-ceremonial portrait before his tragic expedition into Arcane Wastelands... where he got fused with his armor by a magical rot. I mean, not the *worst* thing that could happen to an adventurer, right?..

Is it necessary to have a concept-spread, portrait and a bunch of sketches for a character to play a campaign? Probably no 🙂

Is it fun coming up with all of that? Definitely 🙂

(also the players and GMs usually love it!)

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I've been DMing for about 18 years, and I can honestly say I've never had a campaign end quite like this.
For context, we were playing Curse of Strahd (2014, 5e). One of my players was running a warlock who, over the course of the campaign, became one of the greatest agents of pure chaos I've ever seen.
This character started the campaign by adopting an altar boy.
They somehow negotiated ownership of one of the Vistani horses.
They became the party's primary diplomat, regularly talking enemies down and making deals I never expected.
Then came the Blue Water Inn.
Through a spectacular combination of a backfired love potion, several absurdly high Persuasion rolls, and everyone leaning into the chaos, the session somehow devolved into a mass wedding ceremony. Random NPCs were marrying other NPCs, party members were accidentally getting married, enemies become lovers, everyone was jealous and the barbarian married a dragon. By the end of it our cleric had basically officiated the most dysfunctional wedding Barovia had ever seen.
It was glorious.
One of my favorite running jokes was that the warlock kept making little friendship bracelets and handing them out to NPCs and party members. Secretly, I planned to reward everyone still wearing one at the end of the campaign with a special boon.
Then the Amber Temple happened.
One of the party members fell through a collapsing floor, so everyone climbed down to rescue them.
That was when the warlock encountered one of the Dark Gifts.
They failed the saving throw.
Normally this wouldn't have been a problem. This player practically lived off Inspiration because they constantly elevated the table and deserved every point they earned.
Except...
Earlier that same session, they'd burned every last point of Inspiration trying to Counterspell a Fireball which they were successful at.
So this time there was no safety net.
The Dark Gift took hold.
The warlock became evil.
Chaos ensued.
Instead of taking control of the character myself, I let the player roleplay the corruption.
The table immediately realized what was happening and Initiative was rolled.
Now here's where everything fell apart.
The party consisted of:
A Light Cleric
A Bard
A Fighter
A Barbarian
And of course The Warlock
The warlock also happened to be the only party member with Counterspell.
On their first turn they teleported to the perfect position.
Then they cast darkness.
Then Silence.
Suddenly both spellcasters were blinded, unable to speak, and completely shut down.
No verbal components.
No Counterspell.
No healing.
No control spells.
Meanwhile the fighter and barbarian were left blindly swinging into magical darkness with disadvantage.
It was a complete tactical nightmare.
At this point Strahd himself arrived.
The players immediately panicked.
"Great... now Strahd is here."
Nope.
He didn't attack.
He didn't interfere.
He simply stood there watching.
Honestly, after everything this warlock had put him through over the campaign, I figured Strahd would absolutely enjoy watching his greatest nuisance destroy the party for him.
So he just... watched.
I like to imagine Rahadin asking if they should intervene.
Strahd simply replying:
"Absolutely not."
Several brutal rounds later...
Everyone was dead.
The campaign ended not with Strahd defeating the heroes...
...but with the party's lovable friendship bracelet making diplomat accidentally becoming the final boss because of one failed saving throw! After 18 years of DMing, I don't think I'll ever top that ending.
Sometimes the dice write a better story than any DM ever could.

Edit edit:

I think there may be a misunderstanding because my original post was a summary of the fight, not a round-by-round combat transcript.
The warlock did not cast Darkness and Silence at the same time, nor were they maintaining concentration on multiple spells. The fight played out over several rounds, and I condensed the events for storytelling purposes.
The actual sequence was more like this:
The warlock entered the fight after failing a Dark Gift save in the Amber Temple. They had already gained temporary hit points from their normal abilities and a Feast item that they intended to share with the party. They had also recovered their spell slots from a short rest beforehand.
The fight began with a surprise round because the party was not expecting one of their own members to suddenly turn hostile. The warlock used a teleport ability to reposition without provoking opportunity attacks, then used their Dark Gift abilities, including a free use of Cone of Cold, which severely damaged a party that already had some members injured from previous encounters.
After that, the fight continued normally over multiple rounds. The barbarian and fighter had to spend actions closing the distance, the casters attempted to fight back, and eventually Darkness was cast. The party had opportunities to reposition, but in the chaos of suddenly fighting a former ally, they did not.
The fighter (who was married to the warlock in-game) was also intentionally holding back because their goal was to save them, not kill them. They eventually landed a critical hit that broke the warlock’s concentration on Darkness.
Later, Silence was cast, which created a separate problem for the spellcasters. By that point, the party had already taken heavy damage, the warlock still had additional Dark Gift abilities available, and Strahd was basically just enjoying the show.
The point of the story wasn’t that the warlock broke the rules or had some unbeatable combo. It was that a series of character choices, bad rolls, emotional hesitation, and a very unlucky Dark Gift result created one of the funniest and most memorable endings I’ve ever had at a table.
The dice wrote the story, not me.

Edit: Since a few people have asked, the player behind the warlock gave me permission to share their Twitch.
If you have questions about what was going through their mind during the Amber Temple, how they played the character throughout the campaign, or you just want to support an incredibly entertaining roleplayer, feel free to check them out on Twitch:
Battylotus
They had no idea the campaign was going to end this way, and honestly, neither did I. The dice told the story, and they leaned into it perfectly. It ended up becoming one of the most memorable campaigns I've ever run.

He may be a meathead, but you know that he's just asking the question that we've all wanted to ask. Is it a mask? is it your head? Is it hot in there? Is it connected to his neck? Welcome to Fodder Inc, a weekly web comic strip set in the For Profit Dungeon, Azmodendak's Halls of Madness, in a "5e" style world. Each week, we'll show you a little peak inside the halls, and what shenanigans are going on.

I just notice recently that there is a popular trope in DnD games, that genies/djinns will twist your wishes and either use it to harm you or just not give you what you really wanted. This lead to you have to be very specific in what you wish for and how to word that wish, to the point of being pedantic.

But it bugged me that this trope even exist, as the genies in the two most popular version renditions, the Disney movie and the tale in One Thousand And One Nights, never do any of that. They are not Monkey Paw, they did not bend or twist anything. They just give Aladdin what he wished for, and were actually quite chill for the most part. In fact, when Aladdin tried to make a wish that would harm him if realized, the Genie refused and told him to his face that he was tricked into making this wish, who the culprit was, and he should take care of himself.

So my party just reached level 19 last session and the party’s Druid pulled me aside to ask if his character could wish to make the effects of his current casting of Regeneration permanent and I told him I’d think about it, should I allow this?, what do you think?

They’re walking up to a cave that’s supposed to have a hermit living there, getting there they see it surrounded by bodies in different states of decay.

So the dungeon starts right at the cave enterance w a stupid puzzle. There’s a set of double doors with a fancy live laugh love mom sign saying please knock. We’re a less serious group don’t judge, but you gotta knock on the sign and the door talks, it locks itself and opens when they apologize for waking it up from its nap, they also asked it if anyone had been in recently.

Upon entering they find an unlit necromancy lab. There’s these stone spiders that this guys trynna bring to life and they’re sitting dissected on tables everywhere. There’s also potions and other random magic lab stuff. In the next room they find more of the same but also a crystal on a table with magic energy that’s linked to every experiment.

Going to the next room there’s a hallway with magic darkness and a hole to wide to jump or climb down then up. They have to fill the hole with the bodies laying around or water from the magic sink, they used web instead. In the next room there’s a church with a weird grimoire on a pedestal, on the other side of the room there’s a giant stone head. .

They grab the book and crystal and wait for the owner of the cave, when they finally come they jump the guy with web and hunger of hadar. He escapes all that and runs almost dead to the next room, he gets the crystal and puts it in the heads mouth. The heads eyes have anti magic beams, they kill the guy before I get to use any of the heads attacks or anything in that room but it was still fun.