I am interested to hear about the workings of different groups' sessions and what kind of tomfoolery the players get into.
I would like to start by saying that our group considers the d4 the most dangerous die because if you drop it on the floor and you can't see it easily... well... be scared.
This happened pretty recently:
Long story short, a staff broke, and the PCs really needed to fix the staff in relatively short order. Unfortunately, they had no provisions for doing so. Their solution: Cast Snake Staff, then cast Cure Light Wounds on the snake. I know that that's way outside how anything is supposed to work, but I thought it was funny and creative enough (and wildly inefficient enough) that I let it work.
I am running Crown of the kobold king for a group of four kids (aged 12-14). I ran a random encounter with 3 bugbears. I drew a part of the forest on the battle map, and added a small pool just for variety. They tried to negotiate with the bugbears, but this was unsuccessfull, basically because some of the players already decided to attack while the others were still negotiating. Then in the middle of the fight one of the players (playing a female rogue) suddenly remarks: "A bath! At last, I desperately need a bath!" and jumps in the pool. I let her roll a swim check and she succeeds. So far so good. However, another player, playing a halfling cleric of Yondalla, is engaged to the female rogue and she invites him to join her in the water. The cleric is wearing scale mail. The cleric jumps into the water and - yes! - fails his swim check and begins to drown. The elf fighter (a third player) leaves the fight with the bugbears and is just in time to rescue the halfling cleric. The elf pulls him out of the water and then takes his longbow to shoot the bugbears.
Next round. The female rogue decides to pretend to drown, because she wants her halfling friend to join her again. She succeeds at a bluff check. Then I cannot believe what happens next: the halfling jumps in the water again! And - yes - fails his swim check again and begins to drown again! The elf comes running to rescue him a second time!
They finally defeat the bugbears, with a lot of trouble. It left me wondering about giving them extra experience points because of the dangerous environment :-) but of course it wasn't dangerous - they created their own dangerous environment!
Same group, different situation:
There are some kobolds in the dungeon who are not pleased at all with their king. The group meets some of these kobolds. The elf fighter and the elf druid start attacking them at once. The female rogue (the same one that so needed a bath) climbs upon a pedestal with a successfull climb check. Then she begins talking in draconic: "Bow to your queen!"
I let her roll an intimidate check and she rolls a natural 20!
Now she is officially the queen of the rebel kobolds. She has introduced the halfling to them as her fiancée and their king. This would not have been very convincing, if not for the following deeds the kobolds saw him do:
- when fighting against the gelatinous cube (which the kobolds believe is the ghost of the dwarf Druingar Glintaxe) they saw the halfling killing it in one blow with his magical sickle. (He was actually giving the death blow after the cube had been already thoroughly damaged by the other characters.)
- when meeting 3 skeletons he rolled a 19 for turning undead and instantly destroyed all three of them.
The fun is that the player plays the halfling as a character who is frightened of everything. Not really a coward, since he does what he has to do and fights against monsters, but who is constantly afraid. He is even afraid of imaginary monsters and believes every rumor he hears, which makes him even more afraid. Yet the kobolds see him as a powerful warrior and hero, and their rebel king.
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A few years back, when we were running through Age of Worms, our party was ambushed by the drow working for the mindflayer in the sewers. My half-orc fighter/cleric of Kord killed one of the drow, and since I didn't have a ranged weapon at the time, I picked up the dead body and threw it at his more distant comrades.
This one happened fairly recently, and requires a bit of background.
I have a fighter that is 4 feet 5 inches tall. She was also the toughest member of this group.
We were climbing a mountain and a snow leopard attacks the party, more specifically, it attacked my character. It also won initiative, and managed to grapple her in the surprise round. In short, the toughest character in the group went from 17 hp to 0 hp before she even got a chance to act. Fortunately, the rest of the party was able to kill it quickly. The cavefisher later on though, did a number on the level one gunslinger with 8 CON. He just barely made his stabilization roll when failing would have killed him.
Although the most memorable, has to be getting flanked by hillbilly barbed devils while demonic banjo music plays in the background. I still get ribbed about that one by the GM.
In tonight's session of the Savage Tide, as the party stormed the beach during their assault of Gaping Maw, the party had laid waste to the couple dozen demons occupying a bunker, except a nalfeshnee. It was circling the skies, hidden by a special cloukill, pestering the characters with call lightning. They took cover in a bunker and the wizard chose to cast demand, with the suggestion that the nalfeshnee come into the bunker. So it did, and then it promptly [i]feebleminded[/] the wizard.
The rest of them quickly tore it apart quickly, but it was amusing to see the wizard go from "I know how to get it down," to drooling imbecile.
So there i am.
Spoilered due to excessive formatting.
I'm a rogue. I'm doing the rogue thing - feinting, sneak attacking, dodging in and out of combat like crazy. Things are going good for me. Bad Gaiz are dying left and right, I'm getting loot. Smooth sailing, right?
WRONG
Suddenly, at the periphery of my blood-soaked perception i see the fighter go down. He's nearly dead, and an equivilantly powerful melee-type pain dealer has an axe ready for his neck.
I don't do range and I'm next in the initiative count. If i can't do something about this BBEG we're going to lose a man. The table's looking at me. The characters are looking at my rogue. I'm out of options and my back is against the wall.
I do the only thing left to me.
I grapple the BBEG.
I GRAPPLE HIM.
I roll a 19. I succeed and the table goes crazy. I have a strength of like... 13. I have no business doing this but By God I'm going to try.
Next round comes up. I roll a 17 and succeed again. The table continues to go crazy. the game continues in this fashion for a total of three rounds. My rogue is holding down this full-plated fighter like a small child holds down a full-sized pitbull.
In the end we manage to win without losing anyone and to this day i still regale my players and friends with this story.
True story.