It can be anything like something funny, random, strange, etc.
We just finished killing some bandits that tried to ambush us during our travels. So we decided to rest up for the night since most of our party sucked at fighting. This one girl's character Rosaline Mercusio just got upset that this guy that she likes is in love with a mean dark elf. She goes in a forest to shed up tears where she was all alone. My character Markus Taven the half-elf decided to comfort her as best as I can.
We started talking a bit, which then lead us to flirting with each other. In our session, the group likes to take thier roles really seriously but, this girl took it to a whole new level. Our characters started to kiss each other, then this girl said "I'm not really feeling this at all". The she just got out of her seat and she started to kiss me for real. That totally came out of nowhere for me.
Not only that was funny as hell but that was awesome at the same time. That was my first time playing a D&D demo too. I'm definetly coming to the next session. ;)
RPG Superstar 2014 Top 16, RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16
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I've had several very funny moments over the years.
During a recent SCAP campaign my wife was a little disturbed by the number of correct (or close) miniatures that had been hitting the table week after week. So as I'm filling an encounter with a large number of minis she asks me, "Where are you getting all of these little guys?"
I answer glibly motioning over my shoulder, "My cabinet."
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Warning spoiler contains naughty double entendre. Names have been changed.
Several years ago I was running a homebrew game using WW's storyteller system with each player playing a character based on themselves but trapped in this fantasy world.
For this encounter the PCs had only just crossed into the world and were encountering a group of trolls (not D&D trolls but more like tollocs from Jordan's Wheel of Time) for the first time. Since these guys are unprepared for fighting monsters they decide to hide.
Mike: I run into the trees.
Cameron: I follow Mike.
Lynn: Scott and I won't be able to make it all the way to the trees will we?
Me: Probably not.
Lynn: I hide behind that bush.
Scott: I make for Lynn's Bush.
Cameron: (Lynn's husband) You stay away from Lynn's bush!
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May not be the funniest stories in the retelling but at time they were pretty funny.
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Story #1
About 8 years ago our old group was playing a Ravenloft campaign. Whilst travelling between towns with the friendly local lich, we needed to make camp. My evil ranger located a cave nearby and with the monk waiting outside, went in to investigate. Seconds later my ranger comes running out the cave screaming "DIRE BEAR!" in what I described as Han Solo-esque fashion.
Ironically (this was about 8 years ago remember) the monk says "I have leap of the clouds. I can jump the dire bear." The whole party says "Don't do it!" He did it, and just like Anakin in Episode III he got wrecked. When my group was sitting in the theatre watching Episode III for the first time, when Anakin went to jump Obi-Wan my whole group laughed and yelled "Don't jump the dire bear!"
Story #2
Requires prior knowledge of this.
Recently in my Legacy of Fire campaign, the group was investigating a horrible blaze at their caravan under instructions of Lady Almah. The Lady requested the group keep things "quiet". The session was well into the wee hours of the morning.
They get to the caravan driver and his wife, who start blurting out all sorts of chatty questions. Eventually they get to "So are you here on behalf of Lady Almah?"
Without missing a beat the party wizard says "What!? Maybe!"
In my friday game, we got fed up with are drunk rogue/monk party member. We started making plans
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Two interesting little double-entendres:
1.
About five years ago (read: high school), one of my friends was playing a ranger in a homebrew campaign, and his animal companion happened to be a badger. At the end of one adventure, our socially inept DM presented the PCs with gifts via an elven princess NPC. One of said gifts was an "upgrade" to the animal companion: flight. However, the means of granting said abilities to said badger was a bit... odd, when taken out of context.
DM: "She reaches down, and lays her hands on your badger."
Needless to say, the entire group burst into hysterical laughter. True to form, the DM didn't realize he had made a faux pas of sorts, which merely served to increase the volume of laughter filling the room. TO THIS DAY, our DM involuntarily winces every time someone says the word "badger."
2.
A couple of years after that incident, in another homebrew campaign, my best friend was playing a half-elf bard, one of a long string of half-elf bards which ceased abruptly after this particular incident. You see, said half-elf bard was the target of a baleful polymorph, which turned him into a small dog. Now, this wouldn't have been so bad, and indeed the situation was rectified after a little while, but for the method in which one of the other players told the bard/dog that he was going to be just fine:
PC: "It's alright. We'll all just go to the temple and get you fixed."
Fixed being the completely wrong word to say. He never played that character archetype again.
So we are playing 7th Sea and for the first time we have reputation dice.
My character is bathing naked in a lake (portal to the feywild), the BBEG comes out of the lake. I try to start the fight, jump on him, throw a dagger at him, he shrugs it off and keeeps walking away from me. Exasperated I say
"Can i taunt him with my thingy." (holding up the reputation dice)
Needless to say i got attacked.
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So we are playing 7th Sea and for the first time we have reputation dice.
My character is bathing naked in a lake (portal to the feywild), the BBEG comes out of the lake. I try to start the fight, jump on him, throw a dagger at him, he shrugs it off and keeeps walking away from me. Exasperated I say
"Can i taunt him with my thingy." (holding up the reputation dice)
Needless to say i got attacked.
DM - "Only if you roll higher than a 3 ..."
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I knew I'd get him to post what happened April 25, so here is what my DM posted about what was, IMO, one of the best game nights ever.
DM speaking
Yeah the paladin didn't knock you out, the fighter guard with the paladin knocked you out. You went from just grabbing a level in monk to "Let's go mess with the acolyte" Please note which characters you took with you to do this too -- Not the paladin (LG) or witchhunter (hexblade) (LN) -- No you took the Dragon Shaman (CE) and the Abyssal Sorcerer (CN). Then when told to "Stop talking" by the rightful city guard you continued to talk... which proceeded to lead to you being quieted.
Also you didn't "Test" the acolyte -- You snuck up behind him, with wings, tail, and claws fully exposed tapped him on the shoulder (at night) and said "Boo! Yes I am a demon." (By the way an out and out lie)
With no reason to disbelieve you, and plenty of evidence to support your proclamation, the acolyte response was naturally panic, the guards that came did what they were supposed to do when confronted with a menace (Please note you aren't dead for claiming to be a demon, while looking like one) and subdued you.
You where charged with Disturbing the Peace, Causing mischief and general Mayhem, and Resisting Arrest...
NONE of which are LAWFUL activities (maybe AWFUL activities though...)
Now granted you lost your hat of disguise, but you got those funds back (minus your legal fees).
Finally let's consider that you are correct -- everyone considers what you to did to be non-lawful, and not a test of the acolyte, but a romp through the...
I went with those who would most likely help with the test. My own character is LN and doesn't really care about moral inclinations. It was a test of the acolyte's knowledge. Needless to say, he failed.
This is probably one of my favorite stories from my friend Val's game. For some back history first. One of my party got caught in a trap. Anyone who had a Lawful or Evil alignment could pass through this trapped room freely. Now the guy who was caught was Chaotic Good. The party figures out that if a Lawful Evil act is committed on the person trapped they can leave the room. Being Lawful Evil I went into the room and cast a Geas on his character. The Geas being if he realizes that he did something stupid he has to slap himself in the face.
Now fast forward about a year. This guy who's name is Kormath. He is a fighter who is becoming some kind of magicial beast because raw chaos is effecting him. He doesn't look human at all anymore. Its surprising he even talks or thinks like a human. He is a creature of Chaos.
So now the incidient. The party gets in a battle with demons. During the battle he decides he is going to take bites out of them and eat parts of them during the battle. At the end of the battle the Dwarf in the party creates this giant wall of ice with an artifact to protect the party so it can rest inside a ruin. It is aligned to Law, and radiates an aura of cold that does damage to people who are not protected. Kormath realizes he has an upset stomach from eating the demons. He badly needs to get outside. So he runs up to the wall and trying to push it with his bare hands. He horribly burns them, and then vomits everywhere because his upset stomach got the better of him. So he says, "That was stupid." So he smacks himself with his burnt hands because of the Gaes. Then he says, "Wow that was stupid too." So he starts to repeated smack himself in the face til he knocks himself unconscious. We couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the night.
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It can be anything like something funny, random, strange, etc.
The early days of 3.0, second session with my still existing (!) D&D group. The adventure was a converted Dungeon oldie from "Road to Danger" (2nd edition collection available as pdf until very recently *sigh*), the group a very challenging blend of opposing concepts and perceptions about what the game "should" be played like.
The mission was simple: Get into the villains home at the base of a cliff. The challenge: The pcs were on top of the cliff. Or were the players the biggest challenge?
This was the session after my "lecture" on the meaning of alignment and now the discussion on how to approach the villain"s lair was still ongoing.
Aragon (lg ranger) to Tarostar (cn rogue): "What are you doing over there? This is an important discussion!"
Taro: "Uhmm... Nothing, just having a look around. Discussing is boring."
Taro after another few minutes of discussion: "I am climbing down the cliff."
Aragon *shocked*: "You can't do that!! We must scout ahead first. You'll get killed!"
Taro *very calm and content*: "I can, I have a rope in my backpack and I am already half down that cliff."
Aragon *heating up*: "No, you can't! We are a group! You can't simply walk away and do what you like!"
Taro *patiently*: "I am a chaotic neutral rogue. And my alignment makes me do this. I want to do some discovering."
Aragon: "You can't! And if you don't come back immediately, I"ll chop this rope!"
*Rest of the group by now curiously observing this spectacle* One player starts to cheer for Taro.
Taro: "You don't dare to do that. You could hurt me!"
Aragon: "I'll wait until you are just 3 yards above ground!"
And so it happened. The rogue - and most of the rope met the base of the cliff much faster than anticipated. Fortunately no monsters awaited the unlucky rogue. Unfortunately this had been the party's only rope!
A lot of other interesting rule discoveries happened. Greedy elven fighter learned first "hand" that treasure chests can be secured by trmporary blindness spells (ever imagined a group leading their temporarily blinded ranged combat specialist by hand?), and that very same unfortunate elf who was very proud of his archery skills learned the hard way what it means to throw a "1" when shooting into a melee (Aragon couldn't sit any more for several days and his dignity was hurt forever).
Odd, but those early adventures as a very unexperienced DM with as unexperienced players still strike me as the funniest D&D times. All of us still laugh thinking of this adventure and its infamous successor in which the druid pc was gagged and bound by his comrades ("He is behaving too normal. Something is wrong. Grap and bind him!") and was intent on taking revenge for this unfairness. My, just that druid is good for a whole thread...
I am looking forward to reading more of other parties' exploits (maybe even in the same adventure?!).
Cheers,
Guenther
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RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8
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It's not D&D but I have to share last night.
Playing Battletech, teaching my roommate level 2 tech.
She lands her Crocket on a level 1 heavy building (CF 90) exchanges shots with the Hatamoto-Hi and I've pulled back into the city as well.
I check line of sight, I can see the mech and the building it's on, having to shoot through one building to get it.
"I'm taking the shot." Roll, hit. Building I shot through absorbs two points of PPC damage. Her building takes 8 points of damage.
Crocket falls and I get a lucky crit, taking her shotgun out of the equasion.
Next turn after some maneuvering. "You can shoot Matt's Wolverine, you know, there's only one building in the way." (She knows I love my wolverine, it's a mod I've been testing)
"Ok, I'm firing everything I have at it."
I watch her roll, hits with everything. She goes to roll for locations.
"Um, that building's hardened (CF 120) so it absorbs 12 points off of every hit."
"What? Why didn't you tell me?"
"You've got to learn sometime, and I was hoping you'd roll lots of head hits."
Hey, she's been a PITA with lucky shots and hitting my ammo, a bit of karmic payback (finally!) was worth it.
It's not D&D but I have to share last night.
It can be anything from RPGs, Wargames, Boardgames etc.
so a few months ago my party faced two manticores, both of which were killed swiftly, now in need of weapon I took all of their spikes to use as ranged weapons....fast forward 2 weeks and we are fighting a group of harpies so I decide to throw a spike at the harpy hovering directly above me
hit
then unexpectedly my DM screams "You've killed my baby!"
so my party was trying to leave a dungeon after a fight with a xorn that nearly killed half of the players because everyone was still lvl 3 at the time we encounter what appears to be an anthropomorphic wolf about 3 minutes into the battle, Jarvis, the wizard of the party suggests I throw a silver coin at it...it dies, it took me until after it was dead to realize: anthropomorphic wolf=werewolf
It was a D20 game where one of the characters was trying to communicate with the shaman of a tribe of gatormen using hand signals.
Her intended message was "We came by boat. Can we go down the river past your tribe's hunting ground."
The DM's spit take was "My mammaries are big and round. Lets you and me go do the jiggy from the back."
This was promptly followed by one of the players choking on his green tea and sending a geyser onto the floor.
D&D 3.5 Savage Tide campaign.
PC #1 rolls 3 critical fumbles IN A ROW!!!
PC #2 who was next in initiative order...rolls 2 critical fumbles IN A ROW!!!!
That is five fumbles in a row.
I don't even wanna know what those odds are, but damn, that session will be remembered for all time.
We were at a friend's house and someone else from the group was DMing. The DM decided that he needed a "DM's chair," and raced upstairs to nab my friend's huge leather computer chair which was actually too big to fit down the stairs (it had to be assembled up there), resulting in him jamming the chair in the stairwell and taking some time to extract it, whilst the rest of us sat around waiting to game. My friend's stepfather arrived and ended up getting very annoyed as he couldn't get up the stairs. After the incident was resolved, the same guy - the DM - then proceeded to go into the kitchen and eat the host's stepfather's own personal block of cheese (which was huge, we couldn't believe he ate all of it), resulting in, an hour of so later, the now-legendary scream of, "Someone's EATEN THE CHEESE! What happened to THE CHEESE?" emenating from the kitchen.
We got very little gaming done but it was a hilarious night. Very surreal.
(the same DM later suggested we play D&D outdoors and combine it with a barbecue; perhaps predictably he gave himself food-poisoning)