Best Gaming Moment EVER (What's yours?)

[Breakstone]

Every once in a while, I look back on a session and am forced to say,

"Woah..."

I was recently chatting with a friend about such moments, and came up with my own:

It was the last adventure of a long-running, first 3E campaign. A player's favorite character had died in a past adventure, and the player went through a couple characters before this final adventure. I convinced him to play the character who had died (a female human monk named Como Sarubi), saying she had been ressurected by her tribe.

Being an odd fellow, he forced me to compromise. He'd play Como Sarubi only if she'd come back as Wind, a woman who would cover herself completely in shashes. I agreed, and we went through the adventure.

The session was going well, but time was ticking away. One of the players had to leave in just a bit, but the characters had started a fight with one of the two main villains (a high level human fighter).

I came up with an idea.

The final boss was a reacurring villain, a half-fiend wizard. As the party fought the fighter, I had "Como Sarubi" run through the door with a gem. Little did the players know, the gem had a timed Fireball cast in it (a high-powered bomb the characters had encountered before).

"Como Sarubi" cried, "Wait! Stop fighting! C'zar C'zar (the fighter) is actually a good guy, but his soul is trapped in this gem! You must break the gem to free him!"

The tank was about to break the gem, when all of a sudden Wind pulled off her sash and cried,

"Stop- I'm Como Sarubi!"

The only break to the amazed silence was the players' jaws hitting the floor...



So, what's your favorite gaming moment?

 

[Hoju]

This was a few months ago and is still pretty fresh in the groups mind.

Our halfing rogue was sitting a table with a couple of other's [NPC halflings] and he was trying to gather some information from them. When he caught the chick halfing trying to pickpocket him and was trying to decide what he was going to do. I pipe up [OOC of course] and advised him to say "That's my sh*t" and stab her in the eye. It has now become one of those things that just seems to keep coming up and brings a smile to everyone's face.

My best PC moment was when he took out a fire hydra all by himself (as a level 6 sorcerer), it was keen.

 

[Breakstone]

Anybody else?

 

[Olive]

other than the first time i fought a dragon (which was very fun) the best moment probably has to be the time that my ranger bruno was awoken late one night by a bugbear trying to sneak intot he temple bruno was staying in. bruno chased the bugbear through the snow for a mile or so before he caught him, and hacked him to death with his sword...

did i mention bruno was naked?

anyway, it was a lot of fun and very tense...

 

[SonOfLilith]

We where about to enter a room of treasure that we as a party had quested for for about two months. It was 4 pC's and 3 NPC's. We entered as a group, but as soon as we entered the room, The pirate NPC drew his swords and yelled "it's mine!", Then our Wizard screamed," No! It's mine!" I being a blood thirsty barb promptly took out my glave and hit the nearest person to me, wich happened to be the wizard PC. After that all hell broke loose. Only our cleric survived, and he was at 3.

 

[Xandercrisp]

My favorite gaming moment was played out in GURPs. Our party had been questing for the Eye of the Dragon, an artifact of great power. After many weeks of playing we located the well that was the portal to it's resting place and talked the guardian into letting us have it. We emerged from the well only to find ourselves surrounded by a rebel army, the Sons of Raphiel. My character used the Eye(which turned out to be a very quirky powerstone) and the very basic spell create fire, normaly used to start campfires, to create a mile diameter inferno, remebering at the last second to cast protection from fire on the party. Nothing ever grew there again and years later, in the same campaign, PC's would pass The Desolation of Crisp(my characters name). We also aquired a permanent party enemy, The Son of Raphiel, sole survivor of the desolation.
The stone was taken away from me two gaming sessions later, by an archmage with a protection from fire spell, while the rest of the party was in town getting the people who hired us to find the Eye. That turned out to be a good thing, as the people who hired us turned out to be demons.

Powers of the Eye of the Dragon
You must have Magery to use the Eye.
It will provide 1000 power points each turn, every turn to whoever is touching it.
If you fail to cast a spell while touching it, your soul is destroyed.
If another person with Magery comes within 10 feet of you when you are touching the stone, your soul is destroyed.

 

[jollyninja]

OK, I finally got a character to the point where he could handle himself fairly well as a solo adventuring type. He was an attempt to recreate the 2e blade kit from the bards handbook FTR/ROG/BRD before there were many prestige classes on which i could base the one I made up. he needs a magical tome that sits in the collection of a wizard employed by a thieves guild. the guild has no very powerful members but they have about 30 rogues at any given time in their HQ. my character has never had dealings with this particular guild but finds their HQ fairly easily (really high gather info, sense motive and intimidate scores) and walks in with the intention of bargianing for the book, then comes the 4 on a diplomacy check. 40 men died in that inn including one wizard who had the book i needed. My character questioned one who was not quite dead and found the room. I found the book and slipped out by way of the rooftops just as the town guard entered the Inn. In that town, 200 years of campaign time later, stories were still told of the murderous stranger who came to town and killed every person in the Inn. the townsfolk were now xenophobic and nearly killed our new adventuring party when we didn't get their subtle hints that we were not welcome.

 

[Nareau]

My best moment was in a V:tM game...

I was playing a vampire bloodline created by the DM. It centered around Kali, and death.

My girlfriend (Christabel) was carrying my child (we met just before I was embraced). Her grandfather (Umberto) was the leader of the Giovanni in New Orleans. Neither Christabel nor I wanted the Giovanni to take our child. So she fled to Vancouver. I had to go meet with Umberto in his skyrise office, in order to try and rescue my wraith friend (a young girl, whose Fetter was a mickey-mouse watch) before I left town.

Umberto questioned me about Christabel, but I wouldn't tell him where she was. He tried to Dominate me into talking, but I wouldn't have any of that (I blew all but 1 willpower point to resist). I then used a power to force him to undergo horrific visions of his own final death (effectively paralyzing him with fear). The guards heard noises, and burst into the office, guns blazing. I leapt over Umberto's mahogany desk, wrapped my arms around him, and hurled us both out of the 30-story window.

During the few seconds before impact, I latched myself onto his neck. I drank and drank, putting all my blood into Stamina. By the time we landed, I had diablarized him. I stood up, dusted myself off, picked up the watch, hopped on my motorcycle, and headed north.

The DM was pretty stunned. I don't think I'll ever forget that scene.