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A hobo in the street. Technically we weren't supposed to kill him, but things got out of hand.
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I don't know if I'd call it THE oddest, but it is certainly up there...
In the Deck of Encounters for 2nd edition, there is an "encounter" with the PCs entering a town where all of the inhabitants are at some kind of rally, and a young child approaches them and asks if they bought a raffle ticket yet, because the prize is really good...
Assuming that they do, the mayor then asks the crowd to look at their tickets and see if it has a black dot upon it.
There is extra XP given if the PCs do not kill any of the townsfolk...
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Discovering a hidden airship from Atlantis, that upon activation initiates an auto pilot sequence flying to a hidden moonbase.
On the lunar base, the survivors of Atlantis greet us, they are sentient and animate teddy bears, and they explain that long ago a scout returned to our world in an effort to make contact, but ended up being captured by unscrupulous humans. First to be used to advance scientific advancement, then finally made to appear in fabric softener commercials.
LOL re: teddy bears Atlanteans.
Mine's not THAT weird in the grand scheme of things, but has become a party shorthand among my group of gamers for a random, non-sensical/poorly designed encounter appearing in a published adventure.
We were exploring an overgrown, jungle-vine-infested temple... come across a locked door... we disable the lock and open it...
Inside are four girallons, Large-sized, of course, as girallons are. We fight them. We win. Ultimately, however, we're extremely puzzled as we realize that the room on the other side of the door is... fairly small; I think it was, in fact, juuuust big enough to hold four large creatures...
How on earth did four giant four-armed apes wind up locked into an abandoned temple in the middle of nowhere? This puzzled us and we started throwing around increasingly convoluted explanations. At one point I remembered that parts of the temple roof had caved in, and thought I had solved the mystery-- that this room was one of those places, open to the sky, and the girallons had climbed in from above. No, said the GM; the roof here was intact.
We must have spent 20 minutes thinking that there was some serious in-game significance to this room-- a secret door, an illusionary wall, SOMETHING-- to explain the presence of these four crammed-in angry apes who had been here for ages unknown. Nothing.
Eventually the GM had to just say "guys, really, there's nothing, it's just the encounter as written" before we would leave. Since then, however, "closet full of apes" is what we use to describe anything in a scenario that doesn't make sense.
What's the most random encounter you've ever come across in a game?
It could be weird a monster, a screwy social encounter, or just something you've never really gotten the point of.
Mine's the fork in the road. ** spoiler omitted **
We were just walking along, and bam there it was.
We fought a pie golem once.
The player that had read the adventure paths and knew where everything was found himself very confused. I think the dm enjoyed his confusion. Ha!
What's the most random encounter you've ever come across in a game?
It could be weird a monster, a screwy social encounter, or just something you've never really gotten the point of.
Mine's the fork in the road. ** spoiler omitted **
We were just walking along, and bam there it was.
We fought a pie golem once.
The player that had read the adventure paths and knew where everything was found himself very confused. I think the dm enjoyed his confusion. Ha!
In 3.0, I fought a calzone golem once, must be a mad baker wizard out there.
Was that in a pre-made mini adventure?
I threw a calzone golem at my players. They freaked right out. I think we played the same quest, or your dm took it from the same place I got it.
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What's the most random encounter you've ever come across in a game?
It could be weird a monster, a screwy social encounter, or just something you've never really gotten the point of.
Mine's the fork in the road. ** spoiler omitted **
We were just walking along, and bam there it was.
We were once attacked by gelatinous cubes shaped like gummy bears.
It was dark and hard to see that the party scout, a centaur didn't even realise they were being eaten by an ooze until their hp started to go down fast.
So the party stares ahead at a centaur thrashing and jumping around stupidly. Everyone retreated.
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Was that in a pre-made mini adventure?
I threw a calzone golem at my players. They freaked right out. I think we played the same quest, or your dm took it from the same place I got it.
It was from that pre-made, yeah. In one of my extremely rare instances as a player, I took it completely off the rails. :P
What's a calzone golem?
I can't seem to find it on the net search.
Fiend, when Dragon Magazine was still running they would usually print some humourous articles in each April issue. Sometimes, they would include joke monsters like the calzone golem, which is a golem made of calzones. IIRC, they included a giant gummi bear as well at one point.
Regarding the OP, what about The Gazebo?
And... what about the Old Man Katan and his band? (From an adventure in Dungeon magazine; issue 41, maybe?)
I still have the issue where they introduced the werelagomorph (wererabbit) and the tin golem (old school toy soldiers). The April issues were the best.
Re: Gazebo + band: require additional context
Here you go - The story of Eric and the Dread Gazebo
Definitely the animate bear rug that explodes when you attack it. My party now quivers in terror whenever they see a bear rug.
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In 3.0, I fought a calzone golem once, must be a mad baker wizard out there.What's the most random encounter you've ever come across in a game?
It could be weird a monster, a screwy social encounter, or just something you've never really gotten the point of.
Mine's the fork in the road. ** spoiler omitted **
We were just walking along, and bam there it was.
We fought a pie golem once.
The player that had read the adventure paths and knew where everything was found himself very confused. I think the dm enjoyed his confusion. Ha!
We went through that adventure once. That calzone golem was filled with piping hot tomato sauce that caused splatter damage when you hit it.
In 3.0, I fought a calzone golem once, must be a mad baker wizard out there.What's the most random encounter you've ever come across in a game?
It could be weird a monster, a screwy social encounter, or just something you've never really gotten the point of.
Mine's the fork in the road. ** spoiler omitted **
We were just walking along, and bam there it was.
We fought a pie golem once.
The player that had read the adventure paths and knew where everything was found himself very confused. I think the dm enjoyed his confusion. Ha!
We went through that adventure once. That calzone golem was filled with piping hot tomato sauce that caused splatter damage when you hit it.
I remember the sauce because I played a Tiefling, so all the sauce did was stain my outfit.