A couple weeks ago in our weekly game (played online via OpenRPG) our group found an item that the DM described as a "rust-colored bag filled with small, soft objects". I don't think that there was anyone in the group who didn't know what this was, but one player who was playing an irresponsible always-looking-for-trouble tiefling decided immediately upon finding the bag to pull out one of the soft objects and pop it in his mouth.
The game pauses for a moment while we all ponder what exactly happens in this case. The DM makes a few careful reads of the
SRD entry for bags of tricks, then announces that the soft object the tiefling is chewing on is warm, furry, and explodes with blood when he bites down on it, nearly choking him.
The tiefling spits it out, and the small furry object grows alarmingly into the corpse of a bear.
Since we were playing an online game it's hard to gauge the reaction of everyone else, but me and the tiefling's player (we live in the same apartment and were playing from two computers in the same room) were rolling on the floor laughing. We spent a few minutes in the game discussing how the tiefling just crushed a bear to death with his teeth.
The DM said that he decided on this reaction because you need to throw the things 20 feet to activate them, otherwise, the tiefling would've had a pretty bad migraine. And this is where the quote in my sig comes from... the tiefling's player said, "Strangely I think I'd be okay with having a PC die by a bear exploding out of his head."
Only in D&D do such things happen. Moments like this are why I play roleplaying games instead of just sticking to computer games or the like. Where else do you get a chance to spit out an entire bear corpse?
So what funny, awesome, or just otherwise "this is why I game" moments do other EN Worlders have?
(I know that threads like this crop up every once and a while, but I love hearing everyone's stories, anyway.
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