We were forced online for this session and during the classic "Wait, I can't move my token" "Here, let me sort this out for you" moment, I realized I had control of... a torch.
The goblin was killed. With great prejudice.
Good news, it was only Power Word Pain so. That was nice.
All these people make references to pop stuff with their characters, exasperating their DM. Not good enough. My plan is to make the DM accidentally make a pop culture reference.
Diabolical. I'm thrilled by the idea of it happening to someone else.
I built a one-shot around this idea on a heavily-modded Tiny D6 system, letting people choose which of the 4 they wanted to be with variants like wealthy or scientific Victorian, captain or gunner pirate, disgraced or retired Samurai, cattle driver or 49'er, and so forth. I set it in San Francisco to get some good conflux of cultures.
Of my 4 players, 3 of them chose to be rich Victorians. facepalm
For those wondering, we didn't die mostly due to a well-placed Disintegrate. My "stick an immovable rod in its innards" was disappointingly low damage.
For those wondering otherwise, our best plan involved turning it into a regular worm, using an immovable rod with a hole drilled through the length of the staff, clicking the rod, then dispelling polymorph.
To my credit, the reason I was hiding was to find out if some guys we'd joined while traveling were sus.
They were sus. Which we found out when they ambushed us at night.
I'm trying to branch out but somehow I always end up on the same two branches.
I did check! It went something like: Me: Before I go further into this room, I'm backing up to the wall and shooting everything to see if any of it bleeds. Party: You sure you're not going to get eaten by the wall? Me: ...well if the wall is a mimic I'm already dead.
One of my friends started doing a thing where he adds his damage together. When it's as high as his hit point total, then he's down. I am trying it out. So I just needed to math the subtraction. Not a lot of math but shrug.