My Wonderful Silly Players

[arche]

Ok, let me start with part of the story from our last session. I had the players go and check out a city vault of a recently destroyed and abandoned city. They took along with them a few prominent city members and a small militia from the city to help carry things. The players had a secret agenda to destroy the records in the vaults due to the fact that they were going to be used to allow for an unjust redistribution of land ownership (one of the characters is a socialist).

So, they get to the vault underground and go in first. The leader from the city tries to come down and the PC's yell out pretending there's a battle going on. The leader buys it enough to not just run in. Well, a few minuts later, the city leader decides to come down and check on the PC's regardless of what dangers are ahead. The PC's, thinking fast, yell out, "It's a hydra" and the wizard polymophs into a hydra and blocks the doorway with a few heads.

Now, the records room is 20x30 and there's 5 other people in there besides the Hydra. Needless to say things were tight. The city leader teleports to the room next to the records room behind the hydra (giving him full view of the scene and surprising the PC's). He yells out, "What are you doing and why is a hydra in the records room?"

The PC's quickly close the door to the records room and the wizard goes back to regular form. The city leader opens the door and sees the 6 PC's in there. He of course asks, "Where's the Hydra!?" to this, the charismatic socialst says, "What Hydra?" and all the others play along completely disavowing any knowledge of a hydra in the records room. The city leader is just dumbfounded at this whole thing yelling out at them, "Why in the @#$% would a hydra be in the records room in the first place?"

Anyway, they have decided to constantly deny that there ever was a hydra and were thinking of pulling more practical jokes on this city leader by going to his mansion and running around as hydras.

Anyway, my short story is much too long and I just wanted to know what other crazy things your players do. Also, I'm wondering if anyone has run an adventure based on practical jokes.

 

[Piratecat]

That's incredibly funny. "Hydra? WHAT hydra?"

 

[rrealm]

Ha! That's sweet! Good story.

 

[painandgreed]

I know we did have a campaign where practical jokes on eachother became a hobby. I remember I paid local peasants to dress up in black robes and stare at a PC from a distance in an effort to make him paranoid. Instead he thought it was the secret order of druids that he was trying to get in contact with and was constantly chasing after them yelling for them to stop and talk.

Other story: Troublemaking halfling thief sneaks into castle and steals the jewel encrusted gold royal seal for no good reason. Do gooder fighter convinces the T.H.Thief to go with him to return it before they get into trouble. While sneaking into the castle to return the seal, they are observed by a guard who thinks they're breakign into castle and attacks. They kill the guard and flee the castle without returnign the seal. City goes into flurry as everybody is trying to find the seal and we fail several other attmpts and methods at trying to return the damn thing without getting killed. My character, a bard, catches the ear of the Queen who asks me to play at the funeral of her nephew who was killed by thieves while guardign the royal seal. I hit on a plan. We have the Really Good Thief in the party go out and find some Low Wisdom thief in the city. Once we have our mark, the fighter approaches the L.W. Thief and offers him too much money to stash some stolen goods, the seal, for a short period of time. R.G. Thief makes sure to be in the same inn at the time of the exchange and foillows the L.W. Thief. At the funeral, after my song, I introduce the R.G. Thief who conveys the information on the exchange and the location of the L.W. Thief. Guards rush in, catch the L.W. Thief and recover the seal. We get the reward money for recovering the seal and split it up. Fighter spends all his money on new armor and warhorse but is stopped at the city gate while trying to leave as he is recognised as the murderer of the Queen's nephew. We manage to escape the city with the help of the king's wizard with the promise we'll never, ever return. While traveling away from the city we encounter a caravan that is being attacked by orcs. We help kill all the orcs but everybody in the caravan is dead. We search and find what they were carrying, a single box. Inside the box is a jewel encrusted gold seal that had been ordered from the dwarves several months ago when the first one was stolen as a replaccement. We simply left it in the box and walked away swearing never to speak of the encounter to anybody. I think I'd consider the entire thing a practical joke by the DM on us.

 

[spyscribe]

We once told our party's cleric that a sending allowed him to send 31 words instead of 25 because we knew he would end every message with "May Kettenek's Justice be upon you."

Seemed like a good idea at the time.

 

[Gorilla726]

Well, my players are very silly. It can get a little annoying when I'm trying to get some serious stuff done. So I'm starting new campaign soon for them. All of the players will be playing great characters. A midget giant, a giant midget (both around 6'2), a Green Slime, a Were-Flea and a Rock. That's right, a Rock. I can't remember exactly what they're called though. They're in the second ed. Monster Manual. They're gonna be playing through all kinda of zany adventures. :-D

Gorilla

 

[Patman21967]

The funniest gaming experience

Back in 2nd edition we had an Oriental Adventures campaign that was just hilarious. I was a Kensai, who kept fumbling and breaking his weapon, we had a Samurai who would behead commoners for their horses, and a bumbling Mage ( Wu-Jen ) but the greates was as follows:

We were travelling out of the Oriental lands, into the lands of a neighboring barbarian ruler, who hated the Oriental ruler for some reason that i cannot remember. Well, we stole a wagon, and the Wu-Jen cast a spell to make himself appear as a round-eye. The rest of us were hiding in the back under blankets. Well, we were promptly stopped by a patrol, questioning what was in the wagon. Our quick thinking Wu-Jen responded "supplies". The overly smart patrol saw the direction we were travelling and questioned as to what kind of supplies. Again the " brains" of our outfit responded " Oriental Supplies ". Well, this super-smart border gaurd then had the brains to ask " what the hell are Oriental Supplies? " At that we leaped from the back of the wagon and yelled....you guessed it...." supplies " instead of surprise....get it....I guess you had to be there...It was hilarious, as the DM and Wu-Jen never saw it coming...we had been passing notes since the beginning of the encounter.. We still bring it up to this day....super funny stuff

 

[Frostmarrow]

Me, that is an elven cleric of Corellon, and my one halfling droog. -That is Leoh Jaspers, where sitting in the Korova Ale bar drinking ale plus. Almost bored to tears by our do-gooder-fellows and there city antics decided to get some action. We went to the nearest fancy bar and approached the barkeep. In hushed voices we asked him that we had come for the contest. "You know the one where you have to beat a combat course in your basement - fighting spiders in order to claim the gold price."

Needless to say, there were no combat course. The barkeep told us so. However, we weren't going to give up that easily. So, first we told everybody we met about this fabulos combat course in the fancy bar basement. Then we had posters printed where adventurers where sought in order to beat a combat course in the fancy bar basement WITH LIVE SPIDERS!!!

Soon, the fancy bar was swamped with would-be-heroes that had come for gold an glory. It turned out to be rather popular to say the least. The poor barkeep had to fight off contenders with a stick.

Sadly, no contest was ever held. On our next wilderness trek we were attacked by ettercaps and giant spiders. We never mentioned spiders again.

 

[jmucchiello]

On our next wilderness trek we were attacked by ettercaps and giant spiders. We never mentioned spiders again.

Should have fought to subdue and somehow snuck the unconcious bodies in the basement of that tavern.

Re: Supplies!
No Way!

 

[Frostmarrow]

In hindsight - YES!