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I am guilty of being a little dark when I run crypt and or undead encounters. I get very detailed in my descriptions of surrounding environs, etc. to the point if someone doesn't gag I did it wrong.
Last night, I wanted to lighten the mood a little bit so I wanted to share a few comedic moments that happened in our game session.
Skeleton fight, partially flooded room with a concealed pit. The party had just taken a pretty good beating (bad rolls) so I wanted to lighten the mood (new, unhappy players = bad)
Doing my best imitation of the Everquest skeleton laugh, I stated the skeleton fixed its gaze on Valeros and strode forward with a wicked rusted scimitar in hand. I moved the mini one step then just said "Bloop"! and removed the mini from the map. Apparently it helped because the downtrodden player playing Valeros shot wine through her nose onto my flipmat.
In the following encounter I had zombie who had just been hit hard but not dropped "lose its arm" and stop right in combat and just stare at it. It stood there a moment then just sat down cross-legged cradling its arm on its lap rocking back and forth. This launched them into a series of jokes and anecdotes and was just fun.
Finally, they inadvertently triggered the 'drain' of the flooded area of the crypt and were in jeopardy of being swept into a pit along with a lot of debris, corpses and skeletons they were fighting. Kyra missed her reflex save and was swept into the pit and Valeros wasn't able to catch her. Merisiel just laughed and said 'flush'. Through the course of describing the rat and zombie corpses faced earlier being sucked in as well while the whole pit was draining through a large grate in the floor, Meri said 'look out for rats' as one came over the edge and smacked Kyra in the face as she was whipped around in the whirlpool created from the drain. My wife (Kyra) is terrified of rats. The look on her face had us all about to wet ourselves. The rest of the night whenever Kyra commented on Meri's 'treasure tracking' or missed perception etc. he would just say "Flush". This went on all night. Merisiel trigger the flood on 'accident'.
I just wanted to have a light-hearted thread for a Friday morning.
What funny things have happened in your games that just made everyone laugh out loud?
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My PC's, in the first dungeon they encountered in my campaign came across 3 goblins and a hobgoblin. Despite gaining surprise on them, a series of poor rolls lead to a long, drawn out battle. In the end, the hobgoblin and 2 goblins were killed, leaving one left. The druid, who took a brunt of the damage in combat, did most of the interrogating of the goblin (wondering why the group was in the ruins they were delving). Of course, being a lackey, he didn't know much, so the rogue knocked him unconscious and tied him up, thinking he'll be up for talking later.
Now as the party left to explore the rest of the ruins, the druid, ever so vengeful and thinking that goblin was a waste of time, had his snake companion slink back and kill the goblin with his venomous bite (told to me secretly via a passed note so no one else in the party was aware of this).
After finishing their run of the ruins, the rogue returned to the goblin to see if he's up for talking. I told him the goblin wasn't moving and seemed pretty stiff... of course this is when the rogue rolled a 1 on a Sense Motive (which he had only 1 rank in anyway and a low Wisdom), so he believed the goblin was simply being resistant. The rogue then dragged the goblin by his feat outside of the ruins where the party made camp (going up a flight of stairs), but lo and behold, the goblin still didn't respond to anything he said. At this point, I was chortling the entire time that the rogue was clueless to what was going on; the player was wondering why I was trying to hold back my laughter.
I had to take a 2 minute break to laugh (which got the rest of the party going along with me too) when the rogue decided to hang him near a tree upside down... right near a bonfire the group warrior/cook setup to smoke some meat he had acquired. He finally realized the goblin was dead after being hung up for 2 hours, but assumed it was his fault from either smoke inhalation or the head bumps as he left the ruins. The druid never fessed up to it either...
Other great moment came when the same rogue decided to go through some barracks the party was visiting and inspected EVERY SINGLE ROOM I had drawn. This was made more entertaining by his method of barging in, "Hello, housekeeping. I come in, yes." To break up the monotony of seeing only empty rooms all the time (and the fact that SOME soldiers would be in their rooms), he ended up finding among the rooms:
- a group of soldiers playing 'Papers and Paychecks' (an old AD&D joke)
- a book of illusionary 3D troll on gnome action, which he gave to the dwarf druid
- a Brokeback Mountain scene (he promised to keep their love a secret, but told the druid not to go into that room, for what has been cannot be unseen
There's plenty more go around, but this is long enough of a post.
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This one is a bit mature, but quite funny.
In Heroes Unlimited, we were playing villains, Villains Out Shopping, as the trope were, it was our day off. My character is practically Jay of Jay & Silent Bob fame, who can turn into a all-eating, raging monster of fire and muscle.
He convinced the others to go to Denny's with him, then after a while, nature called.
However I decided, he was going to do his business in monster form. While we left the event out of game, the aftermath was the funniest.
No one could trace it back to my character, what with the claw marks on the stall, the mess, and smell of sulphur.
So we sat and talked, as the GM described over the next few in game minutes, someone else visits the lavatory, comes right back out. Talks to the staff, the staff investigates, leading to the janitorial staff arguing about seniority, which is broken up by the manager. The manager then investigates the scene, then promptly hangs up a 'out of order' sign.
The players were ROLLING.
First 3.0 campaign with my long-standing group of players. After several games where the PCs had had run-ins with Lizard Folk and other scaly foes, they manage to NOT kill one and take him prisoner (this was quite a stretch for my guys). After tying the poor sod up and beating the snot out of him, they leave and go to make plans to actually interrogate him later.
One of my guys regularly plays a cleric, and is always a well meaning fellow. Knowing that no matter what information they gained from their prisoner would save him, he decided a more humane thing to do would be to craft a concoction that would dull his pain and alleviate his suffering during the "aggressive questioning" his compatriots had planned.
So I rolled a Craft: Alchemy check for him to brew this anesthetic drink (I wanted to keep the result to myself when I found out he didn't have a single point in that skill). So I made a few rolls behind the screen and said, "Ok, it's finished. What do you do next?" He proceeds to sneak downstairs to the basement of their headquarters building and tell the prisoner what was being planned for him, and while he couldn't release him, he could at least make things go a bit easier. So he helped the Lizard Guy drink the brew. Suddenly the prisoner began thrashing and writhing in agony so violently he broke his bonds and collapsed, blood pouring from every orifice. My friend stared at me in horror and just stammered. I told him I rolled 3 times against a DC of 20, and I never rolled higher than a 2. He failed and instead of making a pain numbing agent, he brewed a horribly lethal poison.
The rest of the players lost all control at that point and to this day (11 years later) they still laugh about Dave's cleric, the "Sinister Minister" and the "Pastor of Disaster". Good times.
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A bunch of years ago, I was GMing a modern-day GURPS game.
One of the PCs was playing a private eye who was trying to get some information out of a sketchy small-time drug dealer, and decided to try to bribe him.
GM (me): [as sketchy guy] "No way man. I ain't seen nuthin last night. I mean, I wans't even here. Or if I was, I ain't seen nuthin'!" He's saying this particularly loudly and looking over his shoulder as he speaks.
Player: OK, I pull out a roll of bills out of my pocket, peel one off and say, "I bet Mr. Jefferson might help your memory a little bit."
GM: [...] Um, you're trying to bribe him with a two?
Other players: [riotous laughter]
Player: Huh? Wait... no, Jackson! I mean, "Mr. Jackson..."
For the rest of that game, that player's detective was referred to as "Sgt. Cheap-a$$."