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It happens. Someone calls one of the players while people are talking in or out of character. The person on the other side of the line likely hears a snippet of conversation. Said person has no context for what is being overheard.
Tonight we had:
"...have to @#$% her before she becomes a werewolf then!"
-during Werewolf: The Forsaken
One of my favorites was:
"Am I still invisible?"
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One of my favorites was:
"Am I still invisible?"
Heh. This may be off topic, but your story reminds me of a similar incident.
I write software at work. Once, when my graphics weren't displaying correctly at runtime, I asked a co-worker to help me. We looked at my work, and I asked "Why isn't this text showing?" We both stared at the screen silently for a moment, trying to figure it out, and suddenly I realized the answer. It was such an obvious answer, and such a foolish mistake on my part, that I loudly cried out "BECAUSE I MADE IT INVISIBLE!!!" My officemate, hearing this comment out of context, burst out laughing. "What are you, a wizard?" (He knew nothing about RPGs, AFAIK, and wasn't a fantasy fan.)
I wasn't overheard talking about any RPG, but it sure FELT like I was!
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It happens.
Nothing game-wise, and not really taken out of context, but the story has to be told.
I'm pulling CQ duty in Berlin--you answer military phones, and in case of issues handle it or in case of emergencies call the chain of command. Basically, it is 24 hour secretary-type work with a little night security guard thrown in for good measure.
Phone rings. Lady asks, "Can I speak with so-and so?" "One minute please!" I answer. I then go looking for said individual, whom I cannot find. "I'm sorry, ma'am ... <click>."
The <click> that I heard ended up not being the receiver of the caller, but a linked phone in an office. Someone had picked up the line to make a call, heard the line was active, and hung up.
I, in my infinite stupidity, while hanging up the phone, neglected to use my inside-head voice and instead muttered, "Huh. B**** hung up on me."
Approximately 30 seconds later the phone rings again. Lady, "Yes, I just called to let you know I am NOT a 'b****'."
<Insert tap-dancing here>
Wow. :clap:
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Not a phone call, but a walk-in. I was about 16, DM'ing my friend through an old TSR module, which I think was The Village of Hommlet. We were in my bedroom with the door closed. He had just found a room full of weapons, and I was reading off the list.
"Four pole-arms, two longswords, seven javelins, two spears, a trident, two longbows..."
Just then my mother came in to see what was going on. I kept reading off the list as I looked up to the doorway, and I was looking directly at my mom when I finished:
"... and one battle-axe."
"... and one battle-axe."
D'oh!
My former group we were a bunch of jackasses we would make as many ingame coments that would sound weird to the person on the other line as we could if the person on the other line didnt know we were gaming of if the person they were on the phone with was gaming
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We occasionally would order pizza delivery during a game session. There was at least one incident where a player remained in-character when he went to answer the door and pay for the pizza.
That alone would have been hilarious enough, but the fact that he was playing an Illumian Sorcerer with a penchant for making up words only heightened the hilarity.
My former group we were a bunch of jackasses we would make as many ingame coments that would sound weird to the person on the other line as we could if the person on the other line didnt know we were gaming of if the person they were on the phone with was gaming
Wait, so we're a bunch of jackasses too?! We do that all the time!
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I used to play in a group when I worked at the hospital in Baghdad, and a few of the senior nurses and doctors had their own phones. If a spouse called during the game the punishment was that they were "Passed Around the Group". Usually we just said hello to them, or announced what our character actions were.
The spouses were usually good sports about it too.
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One of my group members had to quickly explain Pathfinder to their spouse after spouse overheard me, playing Cannonfodder Trapfinder, say, "If I take off my clothes, will that distract them?"
It happens. Someone calls one of the players while people are talking in or out of character. The person on the other side of the line likely hears a snippet of conversation. Said person has no context for what is being overheard.
Tonight we had:
"...have to @#$% her before she becomes a werewolf then!"
-during Werewolf: The Forsaken
Anything related to killing Mwangi, and/or black people.
Seriously, the Mwangi are great bad guys, but you've got to be careful about letting people know you play a fantasy game involving killing indigenous tribes.
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"It's not really kidnapping, we murdered him before moving the body."
Conversation recapping the nights game session as the waiter came up to take our order at Denny's.
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We were playing Amber Diceless Roleplaying about a decade ago. Its the kind of game where you can sit around the living room-- no table required. Anyway, the players were discussing what to do about a demonspawn infant we'd discovered that could potentially destroy the world.
Anyway, the pizza delivery arrives, and I answer the door, while the rest of the group keeps talking in-character. It was a cold and rainy night, so I let the delivery woman come in while I pay her. A look of sheer horror crosses her face when one of the other players (also a woman) says, calmly, "I don't care if it's an infant. That child has to die. I'll perform the ritual myself."
The pizza delivery woman practically ran out of the house. (We were half-expecting the cops to show up, but they didn't.)
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"It's not really kidnapping, we murdered him before moving the body."
Conversation recapping the nights game session as the waiter came up to take our order at Denny's.
In my head, sounds like it went down like this:
"It's not weally kidnappin', we moidoid 'im before movin' da body."
"What's a truck?"
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"So, at my wedding, you're planning to ritually murder me, dismember my corpse, and then force my husband to eat my carved-out heart? It will be a respectful murder, right? No poisons or strangulations!"
Nothing comes to mind right now, but back when I was in high school, the RPG club was called Games & Simulation.
For the life of her, my mother couldn't stop calling the club Games & Stimulation.
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We were playing Amber Diceless Roleplaying about a decade ago. Its the kind of game where you can sit around the living room-- no table required. Anyway, the players were discussing what to do about a demonspawn infant we'd discovered that could potentially destroy the world.
Anyway, the pizza delivery arrives, and I answer the door, while the rest of the group keeps talking in-character. It was a cold and rainy night, so I let the delivery woman come in while I pay her. A look of sheer horror crosses her face when one of the other players (also a woman) says, calmly, "I don't care if it's an infant. That child has to die. I'll perform the ritual myself."
The pizza delivery woman practically ran out of the house. (We were half-expecting the cops to show up, but they didn't.)
Only way that could have been better would be if she'd run out horrified BEFORE you paid. Woo! Free pizza!
As for mine. World of Darkness game where all templates were allowed. My werewolf was an honorary member of the local vampire Prince's family, and had taken part in some of the more interesting festivities after the previous night's meeting (his vice was lust), and the game had come to the next morning after the fade to black. I'd gone to the front door to talk to the neighbour, a sweet old lady, who'd come over to ask for some help with her mobile phone, when I heard my housemate (who was running the game) describing a scene of a pile of naked sleeping people intertwined with each other, somehow managing to make it sound as if he was asking why the hell he was seeing that in his living room. At first I thought she'd missed it, but after I'd finished helping her, she smiled, thanked me, said she was sorry for interrupting, told me to have fun, winked and walked away.
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Not an RPG but at a board games club. Playing Rattus with the expansion and when several crescent and stars came up on the rats in a row, one person playing said,loudly, just as everyone else hit a pause in the coversation, "Kill all the Muslims!" Fortunately, as she was Algerian, she got away with it.
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And this one we still laugh about...
Quite a while ago, we were playing at a table in our (long-closed) game store. I was at a table with some friends, and there were two other tables running, plus some other customers in the store. We had gone off-topic, and were talking about the film "Total Recall," which had just come out. That got us talking about the works of the author Philip K Dick, who penned the story "I'll Remember For You Wholesale," which was the basis of the film.
Anyway, just as the conversations at the other tables wound down and the store was in relative silence, I expressed my opinion of the author's works: "Y'know, sometimes I like Dick, and sometimes I don't like Dick!"
Anyway, just as the conversations at the other tables wound down and the store was in relative silence, I expressed my opinion of the author's works: "Y'know, sometimes I like Dick, and sometimes I don't like Dick!"
I think Dick is overrated, but now I'm curious under what circumstances you enjoy Dick.
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Man..
Being overheard in Pathfinder/DnD is nothing to being overheard in freaking Shadowrun..
I had a friend who liked to discuss it in, let us say, mundane situations.
Leading to us having long drawn out discussions on knocking over secured facilities and banks, in a Wendy's and drawing looks from people who were probably wondering if they should call the authorities.
I still remember standing in line and he was like 'You know, given how burned we've gotten from our fixer on fencing the data we stole from that corp, we should really branch out into assassination." Leaving me to sheepishly look at the employee and be like "..uh, oh yeah, can I get a large number 2?'
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We had one last night in the pub, 1 player stated loudly "At some point I'm going to rip of his kid face and wear them when I kill him." Oh hang on that was about an ex-GM & not in character...never mind.
This one's kind of an inversion of the premise. I can't remember many specifics, but here goes:
Probably about ten years ago, back when I was in high school, we had a DM who lacked a certain degree of tact. During the game, someone called him (I can't remember who), and it was important enough for him to take the call. We all left the room to give him some privacy, but we could still sort of hear him. Near the end of the conversation, we heard the following:
"Yeah, I'm playing Dungeons & Dragons."
(pause)
"Dungeons & Dragons?"
(pause)
"No."
(pause)
"NO."
(very long pause)
"FOR THE LAST TIME, IT'S NOT A F**@ING BOARD GAME."
Would have been funnier if it had been 4E (which hadn't been invented by then of course.)
Yeah...
I don't have any times exactly like this... but... there was this one time when I went on about RAW versus RAI to a judge while my boyfriend was fighting a ticket for running a light. I am pretty sure I died of embarrassment when I realized these were game terms.
Aranna, that's because they're not actually game terms. They're legal terms.
Rules As Written vs. Rules As Intended has been an ongoing argument in the American legal system for close to two hundred years. Just RAW has mostly won because it's easier to overcomplicate the language of the laws than to rely on everyone to interpret them the same way.
So your saying I died of embarrassment over nothing? I mean the judge did give me an odd look (which is when it occurred to me that those were game terms or so I thought)...
The judge probably gave you an odd look because people typically don't use legal terms to dispute traffic tickets :P
Edit: More information
Our group says plenty of horrible things in context.
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Playing Oriental adventures rolling up social rank, I rolled upper middle class and everybody else rolled low. Joking around I started calling the rest of the players peasants at the table, when one of the guys started to say something I said quiet low life I am your social better. The hosts mother walked into the room at that time and gave me a strange look.
A little later she lectured me about my attitude and how I wasn't welcome in her house if I thought my parents income made me think I was a better person than my friends. I tried to explain it was just part if the game. She wouldn't believe me.
All my mates were falling off thier chairs laughing, eventually when it looked like I was going to get a perma-ban, the host pointed out the tables in the books and said "mum how many times mum when you walk into the room do you hear us say we are killing people and casting spells".
She let it go but I was on her hate list - she would say stuff and dig at me.
After a while I started hosting at my place, until my mum made one of the players cry by shouting at him for walking dirt into the carpet. We all laughed got into trouble and hid outside while he cleaned up the carpet.
Then we moved locations again because everybody was afraid of my mum (me included).
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One of the best...we were playing at a friend's house and his grandma was taking a nap.
We were 15 and using the "Critical hits" book. So we described every crit in graphic detail.
Suddenly his grandma wakes up, looks at us and says "That's not what happens when you disembowel a person. And no, the intestines coil differently." and went back to sleep.
We were speachless for about five minutes.
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My brother and a friend were visiting me at work about a decade ago. We were walking down a hall towards the cafeteria and they were talking about the dungeon I was running and how they had been proceeding very cautiously in the game so far. My friend said "I really want to kick in the doors and just murder everyone I see with my axe!" just before the CEO of my company came around the curve in the corridor about five feet in front of us.
"So I can summon a Succubus? And she looks like my perfect woman? But nekked?. Oh, hi Mum..."
So long as it wasn't:
"So I can summon a Succubus? And she looks like my perfect woman? But nekked?. Oh, my Mum..." *Other players nod*
I wish houstonderek were here to tell his story about the guy in the prison yard yelling "I'm a fairy!"
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Playing Shadowrun 2nd Ed. at my buddy's house back in the day. At one point, just as his mom walks into the room, one of the players (referring to his character) says, "Of course they're afraid of me, I'm a f***ing troll!" and my friend's mom says, "Don't listen to people, dear, you'll grow into your looks." and walked out. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard during a session.
