Most embarassing gaming moment?
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BiggusGeekus
That's Latin for "cool"
tensen said:
I was just thinking the same thing.
In my case we were walking in a shopping mall on our way to a movie when my buddy decides that right in front of a cop was the exact right moment to speculate on how to break into a building.
Lasher Dragon
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BlackMoria said:Well, the title is "the most embarassing gaming moment?", not the most embarassing RPG moment so this one is not off topic.
Our wargaming group had just setup War in Europe, an old SPI game that boasted 12 map sheets and some 2000+ counters. It took several weeks to just get the game setup with hundreds of counters being pre-postioned on designated hexes and production tables being setup. The map was so big that the game was set up on a two 8 x 4 pieces of plywood on sawhorses in my friend's basement.
During our third session of actual playing, I stepped upon my friend's sleeping cat, overbalanced due to stepping on same feline and reacting to it's loud yowl and stumbled into the game table, knocking both sheets of plywood to the floor with disasterous results as maps, counters, dice and drinks showered down in a kalideoscope of chaotic ruin. Weeks of work down the drain. And it took a nearly a full day to sort the 2000+ counters into the various storage classifications.
I am still tramatized by that.....
I found this one the funniest, but I love slapstick.
Could also be 'cuz I just stepped on my cat's tail the other night in the dark, startled me so bad I sprayed my glass of tea I was carrying at the time all over the dining room.
DungeonmasterCal
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KaeYoss said:
Y'know... aside from the King James phraseology, that's exactly what my wife has said.
Ambrus
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Great thread
As a player I would have wished you Godspeed...
A gaming buddy told me about a Vampire LARP he'd been playing at a friend's apartment. Unbeknowst to the players, an armed fugitive had been spotted fleeing down the street on which their apartment building was located. In the middle of the session, a knock is heard at the door. One of the players goes to answer it only to be confronted by a police officer in swat gear with an assault rifle in hand. The player, leaping to the conclusion that this is a surprise NPC in full costume, excitedly balls up his fist and raises it in the air (all combat actions in LARP are resolved with rock-paper-scissors contests) and declares his intention "I brutally punch you in the face!" The cop, who was canvasing the neighbourhood reacts instinctively to the perceived attack and whacks the player in the face with the but of his rifle, dropping him like a ton of bricks. Backup was called for and naturally some hurried explanations ensued.
As a player I would have wished you Godspeed...
A gaming buddy told me about a Vampire LARP he'd been playing at a friend's apartment. Unbeknowst to the players, an armed fugitive had been spotted fleeing down the street on which their apartment building was located. In the middle of the session, a knock is heard at the door. One of the players goes to answer it only to be confronted by a police officer in swat gear with an assault rifle in hand. The player, leaping to the conclusion that this is a surprise NPC in full costume, excitedly balls up his fist and raises it in the air (all combat actions in LARP are resolved with rock-paper-scissors contests) and declares his intention "I brutally punch you in the face!" The cop, who was canvasing the neighbourhood reacts instinctively to the perceived attack and whacks the player in the face with the but of his rifle, dropping him like a ton of bricks. Backup was called for and naturally some hurried explanations ensued.
squat45
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Oh man...
I just about spewed Dew on my monitor at work - that would have been hard to explain... and coming from a cop's son, he's doggone lucky that he was just butted by the rifle and not worse off.
Ambrus said:Great thread
As a player I would have wished you Godspeed...
A gaming buddy told me about a Vampire LARP he'd been playing at a friend's apartment. Unbeknowst to the players, an armed fugitive had been spotted fleeing down the street on which their apartment building was located. In the middle of the session, a knock is heard at the door. One of the players goes to answer it only to be confronted by a police officer in swat gear with an assault rifle in hand. The player, leaping to the conclusion that this is a surprise NPC in full costume, excitedly balls up his fist and raises it in the air (all combat actions in LARP are resolved with rock-paper-scissors contests) and declares his intention "I brutally punch you in the face!" The cop, who was canvasing the neighbourhood reacts instinctively to the perceived attack and whacks the player in the face with the but of his rifle, dropping him like a ton of bricks. Backup was called for and naturally some hurried explanations ensued.
I just about spewed Dew on my monitor at work - that would have been hard to explain... and coming from a cop's son, he's doggone lucky that he was just butted by the rifle and not worse off.
eris404
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Ambrus said:A gaming buddy told me about a Vampire LARP he'd been playing at a friend's apartment. Unbeknowst to the players, an armed fugitive had been spotted fleeing down the street on which their apartment building was located. In the middle of the session, a knock is heard at the door. One of the players goes to answer it only to be confronted by a police officer in swat gear with an assault rifle in hand. The player, leaping to the conclusion that this is a surprise NPC in full costume, excitedly balls up his fist and raises it in the air (all combat actions in LARP are resolved with rock-paper-scissors contests) and declares his intention "I brutally punch you in the face!" The cop, who was canvasing the neighbourhood reacts instinctively to the perceived attack and whacks the player in the face with the but of his rifle, dropping him like a ton of bricks. Backup was called for and naturally some hurried explanations ensued.
this...can't...be...true. Great googly moogly!
Although, we game with a cop sometimes and put a couple of beers in him......
OK, my embarrassing moment, something my friend Dread October will never let me live down. In our mid twenties, we used to game after hours in a comic shop on Friday nights. Some of those games went on into the wee hours of the morning. I love to game, but I am not a night owl and past ten o'clock I get as cranky as a baby. This particular game had gone on until 3 AM and I was burnt, just dead tired and making bad decisions. We had invited an old friend to play his first session in this game; he's a good guy, but tends to be a bit on the powergamer side. After the session, I mentioned that I had made a couple of decisions in the game that I had regretted. He then in detail tells me what's wrong with my character and that I needed to XYZ with my spells, proficiency slots, etc. to be more effective.
I flipped out. Not cool ninja flipped out, but more like Linda Blair in The Exorcist flipped out. I snapped like a rubber band and to this day I can't remember what I said to him. I freaked him out so bad that he never came back to game with us again.
Luckily though we're still friends and we've learned that our gaming styles are just way too different to game together. I've also learned not to game past my bedtime.
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