You want to do what? Outrageous, and otherwise interesting player requests.

[Mort]

I've been posting a few threads about DM permissiveness (as well as reading this thread, which got me thinking:

What are some of the outrageous, strange or just downright befuddling requests you as a DM have received, I'm talking char gen., in game, even out of game? How did you handle it? What were the results etc.

My current group is so relatively straight laced (and straight forward) that I think I'm looking for some vicarious ?!? experiences.

 

[Stormonu]

We had a player who wanted an attack chicken for his character.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I haven't had to field too many oddball requests...but I have made more than a few myself.

One example: played a drow female who believed herself to be an "entertainment robot" with a "holoskin" who was cast as a female drow FTR/MU in a "LARP competition."

 

[JamesonCourage]

I had a player want to play an aquatic squid-man with a monkey tail. In a campaign that was nearly completely on land. I'm not kidding, but he wasn't that serious. He pretty much asked knowing that we'd say no (as in the players as well as myself), and probably hoping for a "yes" just because of how ridiculous he thought it was.

 

[Mort]

We had a player who wanted an attack chicken for his character.

Hmm.. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7tRQUCfbBw&feature=related"]this[/ame].

 

[Dragonblade]

I had a player once who wanted a salmon for a familiar. It was a desert campaign. He said he was going to carry it around in a big fish tank....

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I had a player once who wanted a salmon for a familiar. It was a desert campaign. He said he was going to carry it around in a big fish tank....

Clearly someone who is unaware:

1. of how big a salmon is (3'-5' in length)
2. of how big a tank to carry a salmon would have to be
3. How much that much water would actually weigh (@ 62 pounds per cubic foot)
4. salmon are famed for their penchant for jumping out of the water...

 

[On Puget Sound]

My wife's druid's rhinoceros companion had horseshoes of spider climbing. He would charge across the ceiling to avoid obstacles.

 

[Pentius]

One of my players wants to find a dragon's egg and use worg blood to make it into a drake-ish familiar.

I told him it may take awhile to find it it(paragon tier, or or near so), but we'd do it one day.

 

[Rechan]

The player of a thief wanted to steal the dagger off of an altar to The Mockery (god of torture and other unpleasantness) set up in a demon-infested desert. He was hell-bent on taking that dagger, despite the entire party telling him NO.