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Recently I started up a Necessary Evil game for my players. Think supervillains that are trying to save the planet because all the heroes are gone.
The scene, an old run down bank that is the home of a cult. I have 3 players. One designed all her powers off being a vampire, the second is a super hacker, and the third is a speedster. In order to take out the cult the party came up with a relatively simple plan. The speedster would sneak in and hide in the meeting room, bust out when all the fighting began, the vampire would mist in through the broken drive-thru window and mind control 2 guards to do the fighting for her, while the computer hacker took out the two guards on the roof and shot anybody who tried to escape. Fairly simple plan, and it worked. They got the goods from the safe that they needed, took out the cult, and had fun doing it. Now for the funny part.
The computer hacker, who was the only one who knew how to drive a car, asked if the villain had any car keys on his person. Looking through the book and a percentile roll later I figured he would. The party was now the proud owners of a 1998 Ford Taurus (Game is set in 2004 so it's not so bad). A few small adventures later they have kept their beat up Taurus and have paid to have bullet resistant armor on it, and continue to steal random license plates and give it different paint jobs. Nobody expects 3 super villains to be cruising around the city in a Taurus, nobody. They "sneak" into areas of the city controlled by aliens by driving their taurus. So far it's worked and I'm giving them some time before they have to steal a different car.
Things I've done in games:
Failed several climb rolls after forgetting I had a wand of levitation in my backpack.
Used a simple spell (Create water, of all things) to break a portal knowing my character might not be able to get out in time (she did).
Disarmed a poisoned trap and then used the poisoned needle to make an improvised weapon.
Jumped into a bathtub in full armor with an NPC because the guy said "Please, join me" to our party when we were teleported into his room.
Tamed a Velociraptor with a Natural 20 in a D20 Modern game a level before I should have been able to get an animal companion (druidic type)
Oh, and I'm famous for my bad puns. :)
I do have one more story. This isn't anything epic, just kind of a stupid tale of one night in Shadowrun. It was not a pink mohawk game but one session ended up like one.
Okay so I was playing my ork combat wage mage from draco industries. My job was to bust down doors, melt walls, just move obstacles out of the way so the party could get in, do the job, and get out. I was called tank for a reason, my job was to get rid of obstacles. So the run; sneak into a building, steal some stuff, knock out a computer terminal, and get out. Fairly simple.
So we sneak up, knock out a guy on break eating his sandwich (one of the party members stole his sandwich) and we took his keycard. Sweet, we have a way in. We also found a few managers on a golf cart, so our martial artist snuck up on the moving golf cart, leaped off a building, knocked out the two people rolled into the seat and hit the brakes. We place the two riders in compromising positions near a dumpster and steal the golf cart because we wanted it. So we cruise around the building a bit, knocking out cameras, find our way in and get in. We had to leave the golf cart and vowed to return for it. It was our noble steed after all.
So we get in to a private facility, find a lot of military grade things. I'm trying to contribute and I duct tape thermite to a box of rifle grenades thinking that when we get caught this will take priority over us getting away. We got caught before we could take out the computer terminal so we loaded up as much of the military grade stuff as we could, stole the forklift (named that Noble Steed II in honor of the golf cart) and got out of dodge on a stolen 18 wheeler. We are being chased so the troll archer leans out the window and shoots an explosive arrow at the engine block of the armored vehicle chasing us. Car blows up, we are having a blast literally until we get a bigger blast. We get about 5 blocks away before we hear the loudest explosion we've ever heard. We look at the gm's dice, his bomb squad had botched their roll to remove my caveman bomb.
The table in stunned silence I look up with one sentence "Looks like we took out that computer terminal huh."