Greatest or best ever?

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

@SoulsFury great story about the NPC bodyguards turning on their PCs. That's an instant classic.

It reminds me of when I was DM'ing a game last year for my brother and 2 other friends. I wanted the party to be rounded out so I included a big dumb NPC dragonborn warrior to follow them around and basically be a meat shield to soak up some hits but I didn't give him any special weapons/armor. They were playing evil characters and my brother decided to buy this elven slave girl to try to get some answers from her about where her people were located and other various tidbits of information that his character wanted. He then turned around and told the dragonborn NPC to "take care of her..." The NPC did just that, right then and there, he pulled out his greatsword and lobbed off her head in the middle of their inn room. My brother's character gets all upset at the NPC and says "Damnit! Get rid of that body and clean up this mess!" So the NPC does exactly that, he picks up the body, opens up the window and tosses it and the head out onto the street!

This caused everyone to burst out laughing and from that point forward whenever my brother decided to tell the NPC to do anything, he was VERY specific about his instructions instead of leaving it up to me to decide...

 

[SoulsFury]

No illegal ramifications came from chopping off the head of a slave girl in public? I want to go to this city!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

In an AD&D game, I made a deal with the DM so I could run a Fighter with 18/00 Str, 18 Dex and 18 Con, but with all of his mental stats totaling 18.

Bear was a gentle giant who had been taught to be a warrior only because someone thought he was wasted in a farm. His bodyguard contract was bought by the party's thief who conned him into thinking he was not just his employer, but his best friend as well.

And Bear lapped it up, defending the thief, no matter what (even when the thief stole from others in the party). That included when the thief stole something he REALLY shouldn't have, and the City Watch fairly boiled out of their posts in pursuit.

When the fleeing party hit a bridge going out of the city, Bear turned to face their pursuers at the natural bottleneck. He took on the entire Watch on that bridge, one or two at a time...until they killed him. The party- and most importantly to Bear, the thief- got away.

...until the thief showed up hanging from a branch next to his wanted poster...and what he stole.

Completely awesome story arc!

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

No illegal ramifications came from chopping off the head of a slave girl in public? I want to go to this city!

It was a lawful evil city with a powerful wizard in charge, who actually had the PCs running around as his personal assassins to take out some upstarts. It was illegal to kill someone w/o reason. They didn't want complete anarchy, so the PCs ran off to a different inn and rented a new room before anyone came to investigate them and ask questions.

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

That is pretty awesome [MENTION=19675]Dannyalcatraz[/MENTION] ! Big dumb brutes are always fun to role play out. Always reminds me of "of Mice and Men" and Lenny... "I didn't meant to hurt the rabbit George...really I didn't"

 

[TarionzCousin]

...ewok jedi ...

What?!?

One great moment occurred when I was one of two players in a 2E Dark Sun campaign. We had managed to accompany a caravan across the deserts to the one "good" city of the world--I think it was Tyr, but I can't remember.

Before the caravan was allowed in to the town, a local priest came out and examined everything with his amulet. We thought at first he was just examining cargo, but he examined us as well. We weren't allowed in to the city and everyone on the caravan looked at us like we had just eaten their children. Okay, so maybe we had lied to them more than a little bit.

One NPC was also not allowed in to the city, so of course we teamed up with him.

The DM knew for about 4 hours of roleplaying the trip across the desert that we would be denied entry in to the city. After it happened, the other player and I both said "Of course they would check!" It was a classic moment.

 

[Khairn]

The best adventure I ever ran was Dead Gods by Monte Cook. The culminating battle utop Orcus's floating corpse in the Astral Plane battling over possession of the Wand of Orcus was simply epic!

My favorite setting is Iron Kingdoms, and to this day I still go back to Rolemaster whenever I can for my regular dose of player paranoia, carnage and pure fun!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Sounds like you should try Paranoia and Call of Cthulhu...

 

[Orius]

I'm assuming we're all familiar with "Leroy Jenkins?"

I've seen that happen in my group, usually to hilarious effect.

It usually is...when you're the DM.

...ewok jedi...

What?!?

Could be worse...

A Gungan Sith.

"Meesa gonna have UNLIMITED POWAH!!!!!!!!"

 

[Hammerhead]

It usually is...when you're the DM.




Could be worse...

A Gungan Sith.

"Meesa gonna have UNLIMITED POWAH!!!!!!!!"

Youssa people gonna die!