Embarrassing moments in gaming history

Ever had an embarrassing gaming moment that your fellow players won't let you forget?

I told this story over on Circvs Maximvs, but I'll repeat it here for a larger audience.

Our party was sharing a communal room at an inn. My elf fighter was up (naturally) during the wee hours when he noticed a small animal at the window behaving oddly. When he went to investigate he found that it was a ferret, and it appeared to be dancing.

While my character was watching the dancing ferret, he managed to fail a Spot check to notice some NPCs sneaking up on the room. The NPCs opened the door and cast a silence spell into our room, thereby rendering our cleric and two arcane casters useless. We conducted an entire combat in silence (which was actually a really fun session, but that's another story).

Now my fellow players regularly remark that everything will be fine as long as we don't run into any dancing ferrets.

So what's your embarrassing gaming moment?

Mine is a more simplistic story. I was DM, and was describing a room the party had walked into. Of course, I pronounced the burning brazier as being a "burning brassiere." They had a good laugh over that one.

Skipping a quiet player's turn. Twice.

BRP2 said:

Skipping a quiet player's turn. Twice.

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That's not embarrassing, that's par for the course! My players generally get rowdy and fiesty when I skip them, so it doesn't go too long without being corrected.

I've had the usual slips of the tongue and names that looked good on paper but sounded awful, but nothing that really sticks out as embarrassing.

BRP2 said:

Skipping a quiet player's turn. Twice.

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Aw ...

Sometimes quiet people are trying to be polite.
But I'm sure it was no big mistake.

As backstory, I gave my character a little sister who was named Poo. I don't think it's emberassing, I think it's cute!

But she was a HIGH LEVEL Blighter ... at age 5.

As our story line turns out ... she will now be responsible for killing Karrie-Vorhies (ultimate evil) and being the next goddess in charge of Autumn.

Becoming the most powerful POO IN THE WORLD!!

... how cute is that?

Never make a cleric of the Red Knight who is also a sailor unless you are prepared for a lot of dockside prostitute / priestess of the Red Light jokes to be made at your expense.

"You see a pile of gem."

After fighting some nasty monster that they'd probably have avoided otherwise, the PCs wanted to know how many gems where in the 'pile of gems' that I'd describes. "Umm.. 3." Sez I. And they weren't even worth all that much. So the above quote, and "How many are in the pile of gem?", are trotted out whenever I mention more than one of something expensive looking.

I had an excellent, but paranoid, player's PC once subdue and bind a dockside rat, because I described the rat as standing on its haunches and looking curiously at the somewhat distant group. It's a rat. On the docks. It must be someone's familiar, right?

Well, no. Just a mildly bold rat.

That still gets a laugh.

In the same group, the paladin ("Michaela Zarin") got the reputation for announcing herself to shady NPCs by beating them up. That's become forever known as "introducing oneself ... Zarin-style."

Once my Sorcerer PC had killed a captive bad guy in the cell he was held in. Then teleported the body away and dumped it into the ocean. A short while later, the PC returned to the group and lied to them regarding what happened. A day or so later (game time), the PC admitted to the party cleric of Heironius and the party Paladin what actually happened.

Ah, the things a player does when he is too tired.

This bit of hilarity ensued when we chose pregenerated characters. Two of them had been orphaned, mine was a human male warrior and the other was a human female bard. The girl playing the bard was used to getting her way, so naturally she liked to pal around with the strongest party member, which at the time was me.

Stuff happened between said characters, that we didn't actually role play out, just said it happened.. ya know.. (we go to my room and ....)

After the session, the DM is laughing but wouldn't tell me why. 2 sessions later, I find out.

The fighter and bard are brother and sister. To be specific, twins. It was epic, and the rest of the game was filled with stuff like this:

Me: Noble Lord, I have saved your daughter and returned her unharmed. Sil Malek is dead for his betrayal, his head taken by my own sword!
Jackass Player: Yeah, but you $#^&ed your sister!

When getting my character's armor repaired, one of the players snuck in after I left the smithy and paid the guy 100g (yes, 100g) to etch into my character's breastplate the phrase "Sister Slammer".

He said he got that from a movie with Chris Klein, that I can't remember the name of. They rented it for me and I saw it, it was funny as hell.

Except for that, it was a good campaign.. and I have to admit, it added a lot to the character.. but it was embarassing as hell.