Well, while there have been numerous small jokes, Pathfinder simply hasn't been around long enough while an active campaign is running to generate such moments. Give me time, heck, give all of us time to monkey with the game and find out.
It's not like Pathfinder has the history of 2nd ed D&D, or even 3.0-3.5 just yet. Give us time.
PS I have a thread up in Advice about trying to find good pranks/jokes for a goblin Rogue NPC if you are interested in contributing.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Played my wizard last week at a pfs table. The fighter got nailed by a fear spell near the end of a fight with an enemy caster and began running away at full speed. At the moment, I was the only one anywhere near him, but my scrawny tiefling wizard was in no mood to try to physically restrain a 6 foot tall human fighter in heavy plate. Instead, the scenario went something like this.
Me(looking over my remaining spells): "Hey dude, what's your reflex score like?"
Him: "um, not too good?"
Me: "Sweet. I cast grease beneath the fighter. Make me a ref save."
Him:"...4?"
Me:*Smiles*
"You look down from [high place] and see a fight unfolding beneath you"
"i jump down"
Ever since 3.0 my players have been very careless when considering falling distance. It always makes me chuckle when I have to say "Okay, you take 30 damage from jumping SIXTY FEET STRAIGHT DOWN".
I can't even start. Generally, anything run in the Boise PFS region leads to laughter and shenanigans, be it strange character concepts (often turning stereotypes on their heads), small derail comments (describing a room more than necessary), or heavens: Animated cardboard boxes pinning BBEGs.
| 10 people marked this as a favorite. |
Most gaming moments of hilarity seem to fall into the general category of "you had to be there". But here's a few:
Party is camped in a swamp, low on food and the ranger is feeling bummed about finding dinner when the giant crawdads attacked. My witch's immediate response on "Roll initiative" was "Dinner is served!"
Same witch in ogre's hut finds burlap sack with dire rat inside. Makes reflex save to avoid getting bit, wins initiative, closes sack, carries it outside and hands to cleric "It's for you."
Party needs to pass through village of evil lizard people. Party paladin demands that the lizard queen submit to party in spite of overwhelming force of lizard people all around. Party summoner is the only character that can translate draconic. Exchange goes like this:
Paladin: "Tell her she must lead us safely through her village to show her penance."
Summoner (in draconic): "How much gold to lead us to the other side?"
Lizard Queen (in draconic): "300 gold."
Summoner (in common): "She says, hey, [pointing] what the heck is that?"
Paladin looks in direction pointed while summoner gives lizard queen bag of gold.
Paladin: "What, I see nothing."
Summoner: "Oh, well, I thought.... never mind. She agrees to lead us."
Paladin: "Then tell the wretch to begin her penance by obeying my command!"
Summoner (in draconic): "He thanks you and wishes to depart. Please lead on."
Paladin (puffing chest): "You just have to know how to handle these evil scum."
And off they went.
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
So we started playing a new game and I was playing a paladin and some one else was playing a brawler (these two are the only ones you need to know) so the brawler was wanting to try out out his brawling against 2 drunks got one drunk to get anther beer for someone who was super drunk and got the guy giving it to trip splashed all over the other guys shoes which made him angry and he swung a punch at the guy who tripped and people started betting and cheering I work at the garrisons and just before the fighting started I went in to make sure everything was safe fighting starts and during it I go up to them to use diplomacy on them first time the freeze for a sec looking at the guy covered in full amour with the weapons the brawler gets them to fight again before he can join (he's taking bets during all this and it was 5-1 for me getting my butt kicked don't know we're the 5 was going) during my second time I rolled worse and they barely paid attiontn to me the brawler got the, more worked up and one swung a punch at me rolls 15 2 under my ac and breaks his fist and my next time I get 25 and they stop the brawler had a chance to start it again but he gave up everyone thought I was a stick in the mud and then the cleric in our team ahead bought 2 barrels of the finest beer and said who doesn't fight tonight gets free beer so they thought he was a stick also and then a band starts up and sings about me being a stick in the mud
That is one hell of a run-on sentence.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Subverting boss fights is always the best fun for a player. Two examples from a campaign with a rookie (to PF not RPGs in general) GM. He likes clear-cut good and evil so he was happy to have a paladin in the party and loved to pit us against evil creatures.
Example 1: The party wades through a swamp. Suddenly a Black Dragon rises from the water and breathes acid all over us! The Paladin (bowadin) tells us to stand back because he's "got this." Wins initiative and fulls round smites it. Hits every time and obliterates it. The GM is stunned and defeated.
Example 2: The Queen's adviser was secretly a vampire and he picks the paladin up by the throat! Cleric interrupts his villain speech and casts liberating command. The paladin drops, five-foot steps back and full-round smites him. The vampire immediately dies. We find his coffin soon after.
Example 3: The Emperor (different country) has become a lich and has marched on the capital of a Good country! This time the gm learned his lesson and buffed the BBEG's stats. But this also happened after the paladin got to the level where he could distribute his smites. Everyone including my big, burly barbarian smites him. Dead in two rounds. Would have died in one if the BBEG didn't summon some evil outsiders.
Moral of the Story: learn what paladins can do before letting someone play one especially if you plan on using the undead.
|
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
The most recent one of these that springs to mind is well...
A monk had to deal with a vampiric (jiang-shi) monk pirate.
After defeating him, and boarding the ship, he discovered the coffin. At this point, the monk and his companions all attempted the appropriate rolls.
DM: Roll knowledge (religion), since its undead.
Monk: Uh, nope.
Summoner: No good..
Barbarian: ...all I have is knowledge nature and math.
Rest of party, consisting of people with a +20 to these skills, who weren't there, proceed to face palm.
DM: You're unclear precisely on how to destroy it permanently, it'll keep reforming in the coffin, although you're sure sunlight will defeat him.
Monk: How long til the sun comes up?
DM: Seven hours, and he seems to be healing in his coffin.
Summoner: Crap, we should teleport back with him to the rest of the party.
Monk: To hell with that. I drag him onto the beach and open the coffin, whenever he reforms from mist, I'm punching him continually.
And thus, the monk squatted on the vampire and beat the crap out of him for seven hours until the sun rose.
That's how legends are born.
The most recent one of these that springs to mind is well...
A monk had to deal with a vampiric (jiang-shi) monk pirate.
After defeating him, and boarding the ship, he discovered the coffin. At this point, the monk and his companions all attempted the appropriate rolls.
DM: Roll knowledge (religion), since its undead.
Monk: Uh, nope.
Summoner: No good..i
Barbarian: ...all I have is knowledge nature and math.Rest of party, consisting of people with a +20 to these skills, who weren't there, proceed to face palm.
DM: You're unclear precisely on how to destroy it permanently, it'll keep reforming in the coffin, although you're sure sunlight will defeat him.
Monk: How long til the sun comes up?
DM: Seven hours, and he seems to be healing in his coffin.
Summoner: Crap, we should teleport back with him to the rest of the party.
Monk: To hell with that. I drag him onto the beach and open the coffin, whenever he reforms from mist, I'm punching him continually.And thus, the monk squatted on the vampire and beat the crap out of him for seven hours until the sun rose.
That's how legends are born.
+1. Did the DM make him roll for endurance over 7 hours?
|
|
+1. Did the DM make him roll for endurance over 7 hours?The most recent one of these that springs to mind is well...
A monk had to deal with a vampiric (jiang-shi) monk pirate.
After defeating him, and boarding the ship, he discovered the coffin. At this point, the monk and his companions all attempted the appropriate rolls.
DM: Roll knowledge (religion), since its undead.
Monk: Uh, nope.
Summoner: No good..i
Barbarian: ...all I have is knowledge nature and math.Rest of party, consisting of people with a +20 to these skills, who weren't there, proceed to face palm.
DM: You're unclear precisely on how to destroy it permanently, it'll keep reforming in the coffin, although you're sure sunlight will defeat him.
Monk: How long til the sun comes up?
DM: Seven hours, and he seems to be healing in his coffin.
Summoner: Crap, we should teleport back with him to the rest of the party.
Monk: To hell with that. I drag him onto the beach and open the coffin, whenever he reforms from mist, I'm punching him continually.And thus, the monk squatted on the vampire and beat the crap out of him for seven hours until the sun rose.
That's how legends are born.
I sure as hell did. He made the checks.
In a custom campaign I had played in quite some time ago in pathfinder, I was playing a serial killer that cut the faces off of his victims and used them as disguises (DM allowed this, even helped me figure out how to pull it off correctly). The game didn't last all that long really, but it is still to this day my favorite character in terms of RP. So much so I wrote a short story using him and published it digitally.
Anyways, there were a couple specific moments that I recall that makes me smile.
My character, Guise the Face Stealer, is mumbling to himself, walking behind the party who had only just recently found out what he likes to do.
The party Oracle that was trying to convert him moves back to ask Guise, "What are you mumbling about?"
To which Guise responds politely, "Hmm? Oh. I was just talking to my-selves is all."
Guise broke away from the group almost immediately when they reached a city and not very long after the party was caught by a corrupt leader and thrown into a dungeon. After some waiting a guard walks down and starts laughing creepily. They realize it was Guise and the Oracle player realize something and asked,
"Dammit Guise! How many did you kill to get to us?!"
Guise responded by pausing for a second, looking into his bag and saying,
"Five.... Six.... Seven...." *Looks up to the Oracle with an oddly satisfied and joyous smile* "Seven."
Not very funny I suppose, but those moments still make me smile and I will remember them for a long time to come.
Not very funny I suppose, but those moments still make me smile and I will remember them for a long time to come.
This is not the first time you has mentioned Guise, but you scare me a little. Still an excellent character though.
|
So we started playing a new game and I was playing a paladin and some one else was playing a brawler (these two are the only ones you need to know) so the brawler was wanting to try out out his brawling against 2 drunks got one drunk to get anther beer for someone who was super drunk and got the guy giving it to trip splashed all over the other guys shoes which made him angry and he swung a punch at the guy who tripped and people started betting and cheering I work at the garrisons and just before the fighting started I went in to make sure everything was safe fighting starts and during it I go up to them to use diplomacy on them first time the freeze for a sec looking at the guy covered in full amour with the weapons the brawler gets them to fight again before he can join (he's taking bets during all this and it was 5-1 for me getting my butt kicked don't know we're the 5 was going) during my second time I rolled worse and they barely paid attiontn to me the brawler got the, more worked up and one swung a punch at me rolls 15 2 under my ac and breaks his fist and my next time I get 25 and they stop the brawler had a chance to start it again but he gave up everyone thought I was a stick in the mud and then the cleric in our team ahead bought 2 barrels of the finest beer and said who doesn't fight tonight gets free beer so they thought he was a stick also and then a band starts up and sings about me being a stick in the mud
I was the brawler. The Paladin asked me directly if it was my fault. I said no, he believed me. Yay for high Bluff! (for feinting, you know.)
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
This is not the first time you has mentioned Guise, but you scare me a little. Still an excellent character though.
I suppose I do talk about him a bit too much, but he was just so much fun to RP! haha.
That being said, I have a non-serial killer character story I just now recalled.
We're playing Kingmaker and our party has just gotten together and finished their first battle together. We then had to decide which direction we wanted to go first. Most of the entire group began to argue or not talk at all about where we were to head. My wizard, finding the waiting and argument to be unnecessary, abruptly began riding in a random direction.
Group fighter: "Where are you going?"
My wizard: "No idea..." As he continues to ride on without looking back.
Surprisingly, they just followed.
I played a brawler in an egyptian camppaign. I had to guard a temple, together with a druid. I had a few NPC guards, and a guard commander. Our mission was to find out what was attacking the temples ( This had happened before). Suddenly, my 8 INT brawler starts giving tactical orders, to which the chief guard replies: "I'm in charge here"
Me: " I mark him as my territory ( Wolf style, this was a running gag)
GM: They throw you in a small cell, full of religious statues.
Me: I throw the religious statues at the bars.
|
This didn't happen in Pathfinder, but for those of you who never read it, here is the story of the Deadly Gazebo!
I, sadly enough, actually did have a Gazebo incident occur in an old D&D campaign I ran. It wasn't the famous story event. That had already been floating around the net when it happened to me. But seriously, What. The. Fork.
I finally gave up and had the gazebo be a gigantic mimic. Which ended up eating the players.
|
|
A couple weeks I was in a VTT game playing Relari, a life oracle who's backstory ended up being built around the Calistian Prostitute trait and Adopted trait. She was raised by a succubus and was being groomed to undergo a ritual to become one, until turning away from that path recently.
Anyway, we're doing the first part for Curse of the Crimson Throne. When we enter the fishery, I'm the only one that notices one of the children is actually an adult gnome. So I saunter up to him and try to seduce the gnome for information. I end up rolling rather high. Which has the rest of the party in wide eyed horror (in character). When the gnome proves to not know anything and the barbarian in the party notices one of the children being abused and forced to work is his kidnapped sister, a fight breaks out.
Mind you, Relari's wearing scale mail and carrying a heavy wooden shield.
We enter the next room, and another badguy orders the kids to attack us. So I once again break out the Diplomacy stick. Bending over low and blowing a kiss at the room, Relari then croons "If you stand down, I'll give you something real sweet." I'm thinking 'buy sweet rolls for the kids', party assumes I'm going to sleep with these kids if they stand down.
Then when we find the foreman who might actually have the information we're looking for, everyone's gearing up for a fight. At least, they are until Relari saunters up to him, draws her finger down his chin, and proceeds to turn the foreman into putty via a 29 diplomacy (seduction for information) roll. Mind you, I'm RPing the entire interaction before making my skill check. Get the information, convince the foreman to leave peacefully, AND now have a lined up customer for my 'night' job.
Who says the chaotic neutral hedonistic type can't be a useful party member?
In a low level PFS game a young new player making his first druid asked me what skill ranks to give his raptor. I tell him that swim is always a good skill, as it really saves lives. Water is a danger often overlooked.
Somewhere during the course of the session. His raptor gets pushed into a river. I mention to the player that its a good thing he asked me about skill ranks as his raptor can now easily swim out or at least not get swept down river. To which he replied that he didn't follow my advice. Needless to say, the GM was generous with the amount of swim checks, but by the time the raptor finally made his check... It was swept very far down the river.
I found it hard not to break out laughing at the table.