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Ok, part of this is my difficulty with spelling (which anyone who reads one of my posts should know of)
Anyone else?
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The classic Typo from TSR in the OD&D days was 'Minionions of Set' in the 'Deities amd Demigods 'book
One of the best from a Pathfinder book is in the Rival Guide on page 13. Amongst the wizard's 6th-level spells prepared is "mage's lubrication".
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Not a typo but a misread by the DM (and I hope he forgives me for posting this).
I forced one of my long time players to run something, anything and he - not having DMed in over 20 years - opted for the Village of Hommlet. Easy, low level, etc
At one point we were about to breach a room in the upper keep, we heard noises before we went in so we knew something was inside.
Long story short, we find a very Large Lizard Man (who we captured) in the room, and as the ref was running the parley between the creature and our party I could see he was struggling to describe what appeared as an abnormality and distortion in the creature’s torso and stomach.
Well, he re-read the encounter and of course it was supposed to be a Giant Lizard which had swallowed a shield (don't ask). The junk weapons listed as loot threw him off so he assumed it was a humanoid creature + its gear.
We eventually let the guy go..... as the DM explained his mistake to us one of my other players wanted to chase down the lizard man to extract the shield (it might have been +1?).
Was good for some great laughs and we had a blast on the adventure. He didn't have a lot of time to prep/memorize the module but he gave me a much deserved break from DM duties.
Every once in awhile when am DMing this player I will joke around describe a humanoid they encounter as having a vaguely shield-like outline in its stomach.
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Not a typo per se, but there was a 2e adventure in Dungeon Magazine (aside to pour out a 40 for my dead homie) with a villian named "Asflag".
I am horrible at pronouncing words I don't know (which is why my NPCs tend to have non-fantasy names), and I managed to sound this one out as "Ass-flag".
Needless to say, the game took a 20 minute detour into jokes about flags with bare asses on them flying about the villian's keep.
Well, we all know that Paizo loves a certain gorilla-like monster from (most recently) the Tome of Horrors Complete (page 509) that they included a map of a indigenous sub-species in their Campaign Setting
We had someone proclaiming that she had, in fact, a magic weapon: A +1 handbrake. We were quite astonished until she corrected herself and said it was a hand crossbow.
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Well, we all know that Paizo loves a certain gorilla-like monster from (most recently) the Tome of Horrors Complete (page 509) that they included a map of a indigenous sub-species in their Campaign Setting
** spoiler omitted **
We had someone proclaiming that she had, in fact, a magic weapon: A +1 handbrake. We were quite astonished until she corrected herself and said it was a hand crossbow.
Along those lines...
Years ago, in the days of 1e, we had a player who insisted on pronouncing the 'W' in sword. We kept trying to tell her that it was silent. Finally she says "It is not silent! My name isn't SACKHAMMER!"
"For which all us boys are grateful." :-)
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I played a Demon in Monte Cook's World of Darkness-- fantastic character, a jewish-mythology golem built out of a Studebaker that had to draw the rune of life on his tongue in motor oil every day to regain anima. Anyways, because of how shoddy the powers were at level one, there were basically two options-- one I can't remember that hinged on having a high charisma, and the ability to make yourself really really sticky or really really slippery. Of course, this power made my character absolutely _ridiculous_ at grappling, so I became the de-facto grappler bruiser for the party-- only enhanced by the fact that, later on, I got the ability to become large. (If only my friend's Nazi vampire hadn't outshined me because the vampire rules were broken-- if only!)
Anyways, I didn't know 3.5 grappling rules, so I went into the book and checked it out.
Step 4: Move In: To maintain the grapple, you must move
into the target’s space. This is not a part of your move (it’s
free). Moving, as normal, provokes attacks of opportunity from
threatening foes, but not from your target. If you cannot move
into the opponent’s space, the hold is breaks.
Well, I kind of have a habit of exclaiming Engrish things in a stupid voice the second I read them, so I interrupt the GM with "THE HOLD IS BREAKS!" It really, really caught on.
From then on, whenever I or someone else grappled, escaped a grapple, broke a grapple, we'd have to shout "THE HOLD IS BREAKS!"
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Another missread. The GM in my Kingmaker group from the description of one of the rooms in a ruined stronghold*.
The walls of the chamber are decorated with faded frescoes of sylvan life, showing scenes of beautiful elves engaged in hunting, fisting, dancing, singing, and a bewildering variety of other idyllic pursuits.
Should have been "feasting". Sort of set a theme for the rest of the session (and since i'm quite childish, the session after as well) :)
Book 2, The ruined keep, room G7.
There was a Dungeon adventure in I think 2005 in which a sentence read "the orcs are not gentile captors." I was imagining yarmulke-wearing orcs with payot.
Fear my sneak-attacking rouge!
It's okay, just cosmetic damage.
good one...
In the old AEG Feats book, there is a feat in a chain tied to Toughness or Diehard (I forget which). The description of the feat is hilarious. "You have are a tougher than tough." Talk about copy-editor fail.
I think my FLGS printed T-shirts with that phrase on it not long afterward.
Not even a Misprint but a mishearing by a player....
We were playing Shadow run and I told the Runners they were looking for a bar called the 'Cobalt Marie'
The troll Player misheard me and his character spent the rest of the night threatening people with violence if they didn't tell him where the 'Kobold Marines' were
This became a sort of running joke in our group for quite a long time wafterwards
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Not even a Misprint but a mishearing by a player....
We were playing Shadow run and I told the Runners they were looking for a bar called the 'Cobalt Marie'
The troll Player misheard me and his character spent the rest of the night threatening people with violence if they didn't tell him where the 'Kobold Marines' were
This became a sort of running joke in our group for quite a long time wafterwards
As an aside...
I had a player once in the middle of the game shout out, "I cast Explosive Runs on him!"
After we all stopped laughing we explaind the spell didn't make his bowels explode, it was Explosive Runes.
There was a Dungeon adventure in I think 2005 in which a sentence read "the orcs are not gentile captors." I was imagining yarmulke-wearing orcs with payot.
...and I just read that as "the orcs are not gentile raptors."
I think it was my 3.X copy of Expedition to the Demonweb Pits that had a monster in the back that did so many "poonts" of damage with some special attack. It was one of the Expeditions- I think Demonweb...might have been Undermountian.
Years ago, in the days of 1e, we had a player who insisted on pronouncing the 'W' in sword. We kept trying to tell her that it was silent. Finally she says "It is not silent! My name isn't SACKHAMMER!""For which all us boys are grateful." :-)
Well, the English language is rather silly when it comes to silent letters. Onner, Syth, Foksl, Simmitar - All of those are spelled differently, but they shouldn't be.
Not really a misread, but a misunderstanding.
The party got a treasure trove that included some of those figurines that turn into animals. The DM was reading what was in the treasure:
DM: 6,000 gold pieces
Bard: I'll keep that in the party communal funds. What else?
DM: An Onyx dog figurine.
Wizard: Mine!
DM: A Horse Figurine
Cleric: Mine!
DM: Gloves of Thievery
Rogue: Mine!
DM: 3000 silver pieces, 6000 copper pieces, a 10' foot pole, a fancy tapestry worth 1000 gp, a portable ram. . .
Barbarian: Mine!
DM: What?
Barbarian: That ram! I want that one.
DM: Sure, ok.
Wizard: Anything else glowing magical?
DM: Nope.
Party (in chorus): Leave it then.
So the barbarian thought he had a figurine of a ram that turned into a real ram, like the dog and the horse.
This led to hilarious situations where the wizard activates his dog and has it attack some goblins. The barbarian says "I'll have my ram attack them too". He rolls and takes out the goblins with a -4 for improvised weapon (which he though had something to do with the ram's BAB). The cleric activates his figurine and rides the horse and the barbarian says he gets on his ram and rides that. He thought everybody was laughing because he was riding a ram and not a horse.
It wasn't until several game sessions later that he found a "portable ram" is just a big log for breaking down doors.
This is another example of a player mis-hearing something, rather than a misreading.
In a fantasy game I played in many years ago, the GM had our group searching for a Mcguffin called "The Red Scroll". Well, when he told us the item we were all looking for, one of the players heard "Red Squirrel".
So, when our characters all split up to ask around about a Red Scroll in taverns and inns all over the City, that player's character ran around threatening to kill people unless they pointed him in the direction of the "Red Squirrel". Everyone pointed him in the direction of the local park.
When we all met back as a group to discuss our findings, this player character's contribution was to tell the group that apparently there are a number of "Red Squirrels" in the park. Lol.
The classic Typo from TSR in the OD&D days was 'Minionions of Set' in the 'Deities amd Demigods 'book
Everyone knows that mini-onions are more dangerous than full-size onions...
Dawizard/Iwizard.
That's awesome :)
There was a Dungeon adventure in I think 2005 in which a sentence read "the orcs are not gentile captors." I was imagining yarmulke-wearing orcs with payot....and I just read that as "the orcs are not gentile raptors."
It's better than reading it "the orcs are not genital captors"...
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It's better than reading it "the orcs are not genital captors"...There was a Dungeon adventure in I think 2005 in which a sentence read "the orcs are not gentile captors." I was imagining yarmulke-wearing orcs with payot....and I just read that as "the orcs are not gentile raptors."
"We will spare your worthless lives and make slaves of you, but certain...'things' must be left behind."
This is another example of a player mis-hearing something, rather than a misreading.
In a fantasy game I played in many years ago, the GM had our group searching for a Mcguffin called "The Red Scroll". Well, when he told us the item we were all looking for, one of the players heard "Red Squirrel".
So, when our characters all split up to ask around about a Red Scroll in taverns and inns all over the City, that player's character ran around threatening to kill people unless they pointed him in the direction of the "Red Squirrel". Everyone pointed him in the direction of the local park.
When we all met back as a group to discuss our findings, this player character's contribution was to tell the group that apparently there are a number of "Red Squirrels" in the park. Lol.
Everybody knows the notorious villain,
Don't forget the granddaddy of them all: "% in Liar"
Don't forget the granddaddy of them all: "% in Liar"
LOL how could I forget the original and best.
Yeah, I used to think it was the chance they would lie too.
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Dawizard/Iwizard.
Improper search and replace is a clbuttic mistake.
I wonder if there is any Hobbit version with a mighty Sgoblinserer.
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A few years ago one of my players, who has a terrible handwriting and english as his second language, was found carrying around a "Scrool of Rape Trick" and a "Scrool of Fine Ball"
