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My wife and I host our Pathfinder gaming sessions every two weeks. Due to the fact that we are not only part of the game, but parents as well with a small child, we ask that everyone bring food and drink as we cannot provide enough for all the players. The GM agreed with our sentiments and made this a cardinal rule.

One game, one of the other players (a good friend of mine), put together an amazing chili beef and bean dip with the GM consuming it vigorously.

About an hour into session, one of the other players (my wife, I think) asks our GM to describe a particular room we are in.

Player: So, uhh, okay what is in the room? Describe it.
GM: Okay, so, the room has...wait <sniffs the air twice>

<everyone at the table now looking at the GM quizzically>

Me: Dude, what was that all about?
GM: What? Oh! Uh, I uh farted and wanted to make sure it didn't stink too badly.

<whole room looses their mind laughing causing the game to pause for about 5 minutes>


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A few different instances:

1) I'm running a game of Mage: Ascension and the party is about to storm a bad guy hideout (I want to say it was a group of vampires who'd kidnapped someone). Player: "I use Forces to cut the power to the building." The power in the house we're playing in goes out.

2) We're playing D&D at a friend's house when there's a knock on the door. My friend answers to find a police officer standing there. He asks my friend "Do you know a <name of another friend of ours>?" My friend tells him "Yes."

Officer: "Do you have a vehicle you can follow me in?"

My friend leaves with the police officer and we're all left very confused. About fifteen minutes later our friend comes back with the other friend the officer had asked about. Turns out his car had started on fire a few blocks away. (Using a rag in the place of an oil cap will do that sort of thing. Genius.) It ended up being a total loss, though he'd managed to haul a bunch of stuff out of his trunk before it went up completely and needed someone to drive him and his stuff home.

Shockingly, the cops didn't give him a hard time about the sword he had in the car.

Best part is he hadn't even realized the car was on fire until some 10 year-old kid on the side of the road yelled "Yo, G, your <bleep>'s on fire!"


Sorry for the thread necromancy, but I just remembered a story about the first time I met one of the guys in my group. This was about 25 years ago.

We're gathering for our weekly AD&D game and a new guy was brought in by a couple of the other players. He seemed nice enough, a little socially awkward and nerdy (even by our standards). We didn't always order food or get takeout, and this was one of those nights where folks just ate beforehand or brought something of their own. We were probably an hour into the game when New Guy asked if I had anything to eat. I was a bit surprised by this, but I told him all there was in the pantry was a can of corn (that was the truth. I was single and ate out most of the time). He then actually asked if he could have it. Too shocked to think clearly, I poured it into a bowl and microwaved it and he ate it. A regular can of corn.

Today he's one of my best friends and a staunch attendee of our games. He still has some quirks like this (like an uncanny ability to show up after the pizza has been delivered and the cost divvied up), but he's a pretty good guy.

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Not at the gaming table per se, but playing Arkham Horror on one of our off-game cycle weeks.

Well, being gamers we snack and drink soda while gaming - this goes for RPGs, Board Game night or Poker.

One of my players was eating his Hostess Apple fruit pie and had bitten into the end of it, so there was a hollowed out part of the pie (as those pies are known to do on the first bite). No problems.

The next thing I know, he puts up the end of the apple pie for another bite but missed his mouth by a few inches - he put the end of the pie in his eye socket.

I laughed, he was upset.

IDK - maybe the Stars were Right that night or maybe it was a spell cast by Carl Sanford (jerk cult leader from the Silver Twilight lodge)?

No reason was given - he was wide awake when it happened and in just as much shock as the rest of us when the ocular incident occurred.

To this day I will send him pics of Hostess products to get a reaction or I will even buy him an Apple Pie before we start gaming and hand it to him.... only to get a vile and ungrateful expletive laden response - every time.

He always still eats the free apple pie though.


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I don't recall any super creepy-weird moments. I've had a pretty subdued table.

Still, there's one incident that my group loves to refer to that involves me. More of a weirdest thing said, but I'm sure it applies.

To begin, confession time, I often drift to sleep during slow portions of the game. Mixture of work hours and having trouble getting to bed at a reasonable time during the workweek.

So, at one point I drift off again. The group wakes me up due to important stuff happening. I ask for a recap, and I'm given one. At this point, I look perfectly awake, sitting up on the couch, looking at the game table, seeing miniature placements, eyes moving around. However, I may have looked awake, but I was still mentally asleap.

After the recap was done, I ask, in a non-tired voice with full seriousness:

"Have the snakes come out of their mysterious holes yet?"

There were absolutely no snakes or holes of any sort in what was going on in the game at the time.

What the group remembers is the perfectly deadpan delivery, which made everyone else (even the GM) wonder if they were missing something that happened without them noticing.

In reality, I was still half-asleep, and was thinking about the snake pit/Karnath's Lair level in Battletoads, and my head full of sleep mixed the two together. (No, I don't know what was so Mysterious about any of it.)

My one friend, upon realizing the absurdity of the situation, choked on her juice, and left a trail of spit and juice down the hall as she ran to the bathroom to spit it out.


I attacked the various PCs in the places they were sleeping in, one was at her home in town and the other two were in the inn. The PC who was at home was a scorcer and a NPC Magus and they fought naked and with half their spells. oh and the mother in law who lives with them crited with a ladle and took on baddy out all by herself. for the two at the inn one had trapped the window and received full warning so not that entreating. But the other guy was almost killed and fled into the hallways to bang on other doors. he got a big guy in his underwear sporting a greatsword. when asked his name he introduced himself as Russell MicJimmies (this PC was always going on about rustling their jimmies and if I killed something he liked he would cry out "No Jimmy! NO!"). For a moment I though I killed him he was laughing so hard.

a session or two later this PC walked up to his room at the inn and there was a naked woman from town in the room. the PC turned around, ran down the stairs ignoring the woman asking what was wrong, and he delivered a big kiss on the male inn keeper. when I asked him why with dead seriousness he said "she was an assassin." we had a good chuckle about that

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