To counter the "insta-quit campaign" thread, what has made you think "I LOVE THIS GROUP"?

First session I was part of was the second session of the campaign. The original plan was a one person campaign for a friend of the DMs. After her session she would not shut the fuck up about how dnd was and invited us (me and two other dudes) all to join. As soon as we start building characters DM tells us to roll a few dice to see what cool magic shit we can start the game with. He said they were just simple or interesting things for us to play around with. I got an orb filled with dead vampire. Fucken sweet.

Anyway everyone but me and the DM are pretty new to dnd. We're investigating a giant shape shifting monster that wrecked the hell out of a goblin fort thing. Eventually it looks like some wierd goblin hating guild controls the thing and is gonna destroy the town were in because we helped some surviving goblins. (To be fair thegobli a were pretty cool dudes, apparently this is some homebrew setting made by the DM)

So the goblin haters start attacking the town (there's actually a lot more shit happening but I'm tryna keep it simple. Town governor was a shady magical bastard) and their boss calls the monster to attack. It's flying strait towards the town at like 500ft per round and we either gotta get outta town or die fighting when the DM tells us to roll INT (helping the noobs come up with an idea) the ones that succeed get the hint to double check their list of items to see if someting can help. And one of them had a cool as fuck idea.

Basically the original chick had some burnt copper trash that would double gravity in a small area if it hit something hard. She wants to tie it to an arrow and shoot the monster. DM acts smug and says "don't tell me what you WANT to do, tell me what you do." Shit for like the twentieth time and the guys work together and climb up to some giant defense crossbow and tie the copper to a spear. DM says make an attack roll.

Nat fucking 20.

DM explains to noobs how crits work for landing a hit ignoring AC and looks worried.

DM rolls some dice. "Oh shit" DM rolls more dice, they keep comin up low or mid range.

DM double checks some notes rolls on final dice. I'm worried, players are on the edge of their seats.

DM exhales deeply and tell us the spear hit the monster around its shoulder and fucked up its flight. Monster couldn't recover and falls into a few buildings talking massive damage. DM explains massive damage and says I fucking failed the save.

Noobs explode. DM played to the dice and even explained all the mechanics he used as the players are in disbelief. (Mass heavy breathing)

Player are fucking fueled by holy inspiration or some shit and dive right into saving the rest of the town. Ends session beautifully (more shit I'm leaving out sorry) as the players earn heroic titles and get some sick random loot (not even just weapons or cash, cool shit like a bar of adamantine for one guy)

DM finishes by saying he planned for the monster to destroy the town and put us on the run but was more than happy to run along with the new story.

Next session the rogue mouthed of to some important elf and wrote an apology letter. I love these guys.

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