Have you ever laughed so hard while gaming you cried?

I would like for you to read this quick experience and let me know if you can relate.

We had a player not known for his int. He was playing a Wizard 1 time in a campaign I was DM'ing. The campaign led them to the Valley Of the Madusa. The party immediately started to notice all the beautifull statues littered about. Oh No! The DM wasnt joking they started making a run for it. Well the not so int player noticed something running behind him. He called out.....no answer....He called out again ...no answer...he kept running so did the thing and it was slowly closing in on him. He said ok Im gonna stop turn around real fast and shoot magic missiles at whoever it is, and start running again. The player then spun in his chair, put his hands out in front of him as if he were Vincent Price in the Raven, with a "I gotcha look," on his face.............Well he rolled a 6..........and there the Wizard is to this day, forever in that pose.......he has to be one of the Madusa's favorite pieces...artistically speaking of course.

This was quite some time ago but to this day the gaming group teases him by jumping in the air turning around, holding their hands out and saying "dddooohhh!" just like homer simpson. And it still pisses him off to no end!

Oh well maybe you had to be there
Thorncrest

My best "laugh till you cry" moment...


The party is traveling by ship, where two of the party members have to make sure a shipment reaches its destination. Those two characters (Fullblood orc fighter, and human fighter) are in the ships cargo hold, playing dice with the gnome psion (me). Vanthor, the elven sorcerer in the party is meanwhile trying to find a private spot on the ship to get a booty call with the female NPC rogue, and decides the cargo hold is the best spot.

Upon discovering the other party members there, he pulls the Orc aside, and explains the situation quietly, asking him if he can get the other two PCs to leave as well. The orc then loudly proclaims "Hey guys, all leave so pointy ear can..." and he follows this up with the timeless 'pelvic thrust motion.' For a split second, the fighter's player and I both stared at the Orc's player, before breaking out in uncontrollable laughter for the next 5 minutes, tears of joy commencing. The DM actually said to us "If you can't control yourselves, then neither can your characters!" which we gladly went along with. The end result was an embarrassed to death rogue NPC, and a sorcerer who didn't get any.

My half-giant barbarian wears an elderly oracle for a loincloth just because he can.

Every time I look at that character sheet I can't help but laugh. Or think about Total Recall...

I can happily say that there were many times we laughed til we cried. Unfortunately, I can only think of one right now...

Our party was transported to Oathbound where we soon met a goat humanoid (can't remember the race name). But every time the DM had the goat-guy speak, another player and I would whisper in out best stuttering goat speech, "R-e-e-e-e-c-t-u-u-u-u-m." (that's "rectum"). Don't know where it came from, but it's damned funny. I'm giggling as I type.

So I say to the GM, "My character (a Halfling Runemage in Rolemaster) will be sitting on the bed, polishing his Rod. Menacingly."

Not a dry eye in the house.

There have been several times, but this remains the funniest one:

In my homebrew, one player (a math/physics major and now engineer at Boeing) played a Human Paladin. By this time in the campaign, the paladin and party was well known, and around 9th level. The paladin had also attracted the amorous attentions of the local baron's daughter, and she rashly followed the party out of town as they went to check out some ruins. Naturally, the party ranger noticed the girl following them (she was an Aristocrat 2, and was woefully naive and unprepared for traveling, much less adventuring), and when the group caught her, she proclaimed her love for the paladin, and said she would accompany him on all his adventures. Now the paladin was about 30 by this time, and the girl was barely 17- and the paladin freaked out. He knew the girl was a troublemaker, and if he simply rejected her, she would pout and stew, and would likely cause trouble for not only herself, but for the paladin and the rest of the party when she got back home and made up some story to tell her father (who the paladin had pledged fealty to). After considerable deliberation, the party came up with this plan...

They decided to "create" their own adventure, to show the girl how dangerous, dirty, and undesirable the life of an adventurer was. I had not anticipated anything like this at all, but it sounded fun to me, so I let them go for it. It was decided they would tell the girl they were headed to the local forect to investigate strange disappearances, ghosly lights, and look into rumors of animals behaving like humans. And yes, while this would mean the paladin had to lie to the girl, he felt it was warranted because it would keep her safe and protect the greater good of the barony in the long run- and I've never been a big stickler for the paladin requirements on lying (especially white lies) and this sounded fun, so I let it slide. Over the next few days the party made up a number of extremly funny faked events for their adventure, including: playing a game called "toothy mumbley peg" (using illusions to pretend to catch daggers thrown from other party members in your teeth), having a bear (really a ploymorphed druid) come into camp one night and carry off my sister's wizard to eat (explained by the ranger as "she had three strikes against her, so we didn't try to hard to save her"), but the best was an unintentional slip-up by the paladin. The party had seen "signs" of ogres in the area (really the Enlarged wizard my sis played and the NPC druid making a ruckass in the forest and leaving huge prints), and the paladin leaned down, put his ear on the ground and said "I figure we are dealing with probably 4 or 5 ogres, about 3 miles away, and traveling about 4 miles an hour, so we have about 12 hours to prepare for them." He said this with a straight face, not realizing his error, and everyone at the table sat there looking at him in stunned silence then we all broke into uncontrollable laughter at once! After about 5 minutes of gasping for air (by this time the paladin player realized what he had said and was laughing harder than anyone), we regained our composure, and the group completed their "adventure" with the girl. Not only did she never want to leave the city again, but she thought the paladin was a simpleton and boorish plebian, and she never mentioned sneaking out of the city to follow the paladin and party to anyone. Over the subsequent years of gaming, further run ins with the young noble lady resulted in a cold reaction at best, and lead to some further very amusing RP moments.

Napftor said:

I can happily say that there were many times we laughed til we cried. Unfortunately, I can only think of one right now...

Our party was transported to Oathbound where we soon met a goat humanoid (can't remember the race name). But every time the DM had the goat-guy speak, another player and I would whisper in out best stuttering goat speech, "R-e-e-e-e-c-t-u-u-u-u-m." (that's "rectum"). Don't know where it came from, but it's damned funny. I'm giggling as I type.

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I did not cry while reading this, but I did laugh out loud.

The occasions I can remember are:
1) When the DM had a brain fart and named an elven king "Brown Scepter"
2) When a player had some sort of cerebral flatulence and asked another player what was his character's total ages (it doesn't translate too well in english, but that's mainly because it didn't make any sense at all in french to begin with...)

AR

Several times. Mostly after TPKs........

The only time that is popping to mind right now is when I got my hands on the best misc magic item EVAR. It was an Ascott +4, Proof vs. Vorpal Weapons

Well, we had a very funny moment tonight (the players just left).

Yig of ENworld played his first game tonight with us in this new campaign. They roleplayed the introduction encounter. A player approaches Yig's character and tells him "I just killed one of my own men, so you should trust me."...

We rolled out laughing. There's a very good in-game reason why the player killed one of his own men, but Yig's character wasn't aware of that reason, so his character's reaction should have been to either shoot down the PC right then and there, or run the hell away from this madman.

Oh yes. Several in Paranoia 2nd ed. The most recent one though would have to have been My Life With Master. One of the players was grabbed by the master, had a hole drilled in his head and had his soul (read some brain tissue) extracted. Another player fell in love with a souless (ie. lobotomised) prostitute. It was all just too funny and too twisted for words.