Funnily enough, I have a friend who is constantly telling me to use the old "town is destroyed when you arrive" trope. I haven't sprung it on him yet because he won't stop requesting it.

Story time today? Tell about a time when a town was destroyed.

Does accidentally destroying it when your sorcerer powers first manifest count?

Because I sorta totally accidentally burned the village to ash when my sorcerer powers first manifested. This was in an "oriental" setting, where all the buildings were made of bamboo. Whole place went up like a pile of matches.

Well, a cosmic monstrosity ate a frontier planet a couple weeks ago in the Deathwatch game I play in, starting with the planet's sole city, where we were working on killing everything preventing civilian evacuation.
A Hive City is a little beyond a town, but as the only civilization on a frontier world, it was a bit smaller than the typical Hive, so I guess it counts.

I don't know about an entire town, but there was an incident during a Star Wars game where our party was tasked with sneaking into a casino and planting a virus in their mainframe. This somehow ended with us leveling the building.

The fun part was explaining to our Hutt boss how, given our history of solving all problems with blasters and face-punches, the whole debacle was TECHNICALLY her fault for assigning the mission to us in the first place.

That's a terrible excuse to give to a Hutt Boss. Though I suppose, given that diplomacy was certainly not your party's strong suite, that it was in character.

Never got the chance to get to town destroying levels but there was an NPC we used for a taxi (Read flying airship) service that would constantly destroy all sorts of stuff whenever we called for him... Which unfortunately due to my party was generally when we were in an important building of some sort... Like a courthouse... I really hated that stupid Gnome but everyone else loved him. Stupid Thony.

It wasn't a town so much as it was a bandit camp, but my group once decided to crash an airship we'd stolen into the camp as a means of evening the odds. That, and the DM said we couldn't keep the ship, so we said screw it. Bottom line we basically dropped the Hindenburg into the middle of a tent city. Things went about as you'd expect.

most of a town was destroyed on arrival because we hit a wave and someone fell onto our cannon activation button.

Not a story about destroying a town, but my parties paladin started flipping buildings once we realized that he could, and that it totally would bring down the freaking slime monsters that infested the roofs in Shattered star...

In the final panel you get to see how just how far they had to climb! I would say it is about 30cm. DM is being tough on Phil and Dan, and they don't even know it!

Either that, or Usopp's Climb skill is just that bad.

That's not water. Thet's sky. They're actually thirty six thousand feet above sea level.

Now I want to see fishmen that evolved in the sky islands. Imagine Arlong as a balloon with teeth. The guy with the big lips could propel himself around by blowing, pufferfishmen would act like beach balls...awesome.

Actually, that's the concave top of an overhang that just happened to had recently collected rainwater. The ledge is extra slippery because of it. :p

That is his name for the town, and it has only appeared twice. The recent incarnation had the Dust Coven, which is a group of exiled Drow assassins, murder every individual in town before even attempting a hit on our party or the King we were hired to protect.

My group has a specific name for that town. We call it "burned-to-the-ground-shire"

That is his name for the town, and it has only appeared twice. The recent incarnation had the Dust Coven, which is a group of exiled Drow assassins, murder every individual in town before even attempting a hit on our party or the King we were hired to protect.

DISBELIEVE! DISBELIEVE!

I know you can only work with what the show gives, but the picture doesn't exactly show something that would require multiple climb checks. Unless that was the joke, in which case I apologize for it going over my head.