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This may have been posted before, and if so please excuse the repeat. This one isn't so much as a one liner but a visual joke, so it'll take a moment to set the scene.
The players were all sailors in a maritime campaign. They'd come across a map that told of a great treasure on a distant island. They found the island, but then discovered someone else had a map and had landed on the island after they'd found it. They didn't want to risk a fight and lose it, so my brother, who played the ship's cook, came up with a plan. The party would all run screaming toward their rowboat with him chasing them with his weapon of choice (a huge meat cleaver) as soon as the other landing party was in sight.
So they do this. They all come screaming out of the jungle, my brother waving his cleaver and screaming in some unintelligible language. When the party makes it to their landing craft, he v.e.r.y. slowly turns and looks at the other party and starts running toward them. The panic and get back in *their* boat and leave. My players waited aboard ship until the other party was back on THEIR ship, rowed like hell back to the beach, picked up my brother's character and the treasure, then got the hell out of there.
But the sight of my brother's character slowly turning to look at the other party with madness in his eyes was a priceless bit of roleplaying and ingenuity, and we count that as one of the best games we had in that campaign.
what a cleaver ploy