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I've played through level 8 with multiple characters, and hadn't realized that I hadn't applied the ability score increase until level nine.
I'm reminded of a friend of mine, who had a reputation as the rules lawyer of my old group. She knew the rules better than any of the rest of us. At one point, we were discussing our plans for leveling up our PCs, and she was talking about taking a feat at 6th level. I asked why she got a feat at that level, and she was very confused. It turns out this was one of those times that she got 3.5 and Pathfinder rules mixed up. She didn't know that in PF, you get feats every odd level instead of every 3rd, so she had never taken her 5th level feat on that PC.
I spent half a combat asleep before remembering I was an elf.
I had a friend who was notorious for trying to things to sleep that were immune, and he should have known better. Elves, undead, pretty much anything that's immune to sleep, he tried it. This was someone who knew better, and he'd just facepalm when his mistake was pointed out to him.
After a few of these, we were fighting a demon (I think) one time, and he actually stopped to ask "Are demons immune to sleep?" We tried knowledge checks, but nobody knew, and it's not something anyone knew off the top of our heads. He tried it, commenting "This is probably another wasted spell", but it actually worked, and let us finish off a very tough fight that we'd been losing up to that point.
We were fighting with a bunch of chairs and I carelessly engaged in melee with my wizard. The chair grappled me and I tried escaping its grapple over multiple rounds - no use. I fell unconscious. I sigh and look down on my character sheet.
"MOTHERF***** - I forgot I can dimension door as a swift action!"Afterwards we had to blow a lot of resources to sneak through a very busy area - although I even wrote down that I wanted to grab some uniforms from the wardrobe so we could disguise ourselves. Which I only remembered after we blew our scrolls and potions.
I LOVE that scenario. I GM'd it for a group that did not disguise themselves. Cue the summoner... carrying a massive, 7 foot-tall scythe... riding on the back of her medium-sized, armless centaur of an eidolon... striding through some curtains into the middle of a fancy dinner party.
We had to take a five-minute break for people to compose themselves before we could continue, after we pointed out how ridiculous she must have looked.
That's still one of my favorite scenarios. I GMed it a few times after playing it.
I once GMed that scenario with a druid who insisted on bringing her elephant companion with her. "It's just a baby", meaning it was medium sized. She decorated it with streamers and pretended to be part of the entertainment. I ruled that the elephant failed its check to fit in, but the rest of the group got a bonus from the distraction. I figure that's a good way to reward creativity.
Also, in the fight with the chairs, I once had a ranger joke, "Good thing I have favored enemy: furniture." LOL
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So Paizo Con, 2014, I'm playing an early morning slot with Brian Darnell and Rusty Ironpants and a few other good friends. The GM had a soft voice, so he did us all a favor and had the VC briefing printed for us so we could read it.
He read it out loud, and we read it. And somehow I missed a very important part of it.
Rusty and Brian and everyone else turn to me and are like, "you do what!?"
I'm like, "what?"
They pointed to that line in the briefing and I was like, "Oh... oops"
I'd read it, and heard the GM read it. And yet still I somehow missed that part. Oops.