Common mistakes you have made as a player

[Numion]

I haven't played long enough to have been missing anything many times, but one of the players (in the game I DMed) has quite many times forgotten to add all modifiers to his damage roll. He often just rolls the 2d6 for Greatsword and tell's the damage. Even though his modifiers would be far more than the roll of the dice. (Like, 10, or something.)

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

For the longest time, we were using the concentration rules completely wrong. Still stuck in 2e thinking, I guess, we all thought that in order to cast a spell you had to make a concentration check of 10+damage dealt+spell level for all the damage you had taken in the previous round. This led to a lot of "ouch, that ogre sure hit me hard, guess I can't cast a spell for the next round or so."

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

Note that if you have at least a +2 ring of protection and a +2 cloak (or other item) of resistance, the prot. evil bonuses become moot. If you can afford to get permanent prot. evil, I'm guessing you'd have these items.

It still gives you protection against mental control and bodily contact from summoned creatures.

 

[Queenie]

big mistake!

I ALWAYS forget to add the +4 bonus to my ac for using haste.

I play a sorcerer, and I only have a 13 AC (yeah, i know..). So i haste, then mage armor. I've gotten hit so many times, I always almost die.. then on the next players turn.. remember I didn't add in the other 4 points and I wouldn't have gotten hit! Well, I'm getting better anyway, I remember half the time now..

duh!

Queenie

 

[Drawmack]

In 2e I had a theif in ravenloft who's favored weapon was the gun. It was a primitive gun though. It took a full round to reload. So I could only fire it every other round. I also had a blowgun. The GM decreed that I could fire one or my three shots with the blow gun and still reload the pistol in a round as long as the blowgun was already loaded and having the darts in my mouth counted as loaded. So often times I would put 5 - 10 darts in my teeth and fire them one every other round. Sometimes the darts were even poisoned, OOPPSS.

No one ever caught this until long after the campaign ended. We were all siting around bullting about the campaign one day when the realization of what I had been doing hit me.

 

[BlackMoria]

I was playing a rogue in campaign back in the 2E days. I tried to climb up a wall and fell, taking some falling damage, even though I had a 80% success for climb.

I tried it again and fell. My character now felt it was a matter of personal honor to continue to assault this wall.

I failed 5 other climb checks. (A bloody 80% success rate and I rolled above 80% on all the checks). By now, I had lost about about 2/3 of my hit points from failing.

Finally, as I announced that I was going up the wall yet again, the DM looked at me with a exasperated look and in his "You Bloody Idiot!" tone, says:

"Why don't you use your Slippers of Spider Climb this time".

A moment of intense embrassment. I was wearing Boots of Elvenkind and had Slippers of Spider Climb in my pack........

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Fighter/Barbarian - forgot the 2nd attack the first two sessions after he made 6th level.

Cleric - I keep forgetting about his Vestments of Faith and Ring of Regeneration. Even a post-it note on the character sheet didn't help. But an adventure to an evil place where he could not replenish spells made me remember those items.

 

[starkad]

This one time.. at orc camp...

Ok, not orc camp, but still...

I once had a character that was a fighter/cavalier (custom prestige based off the original in unearthed arcana)... He was lawful, and challenged to a duel. Little did I know much about duelling. I used a bastard sword, not a pansy rapier.

So the fight started, me being big and slow and dumb, lost initiative to the quicker rapier-wielding duelist. He hit me, and immediately proclaimed victory... Not understanding what was happening, and fully angry now at this little foppish fruitcake, and figuring he was just egotistical... I attacked him, critted and almost killed him. His guards and brother immediately jumped in.

Little did I know duels in this land were fought only to first blood... Ooops...

On a 'Hey I ran a game, and once had this PC...' vein...

I once had a monk in my game, who kept trying to use tumble to 'kip-up'. He kept failing. Like 10-12 times. He was trying it the entire fight while the rest of the group nearly peed themselves laughing and fighting this really bad bad guy. We never let him live it down.

 

[Ravellion]

I played in a 2e game about a year after 3e had come out, and I kept forgetting that initiative was with a d10. Nevertheless, that was kind of obvious every time, so I had to reroll.

Barbarian -2 to AC, forgot that a few times

And I always forget the +4 on fear saves when close to the Paladin, with sometimes disastrous effects.

Rav

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Note that if you have at least a +2 ring of protection and a +2 cloak (or other item) of resistance, the prot. evil bonuses become moot. If you can afford to get permanent prot. evil, I'm guessing you'd have these items.

Actually i got it from some fruity item in Abysthor's tomb. Other than a boat load of scrolls and a magic warhammer the character has very littel in the way of magic items. Although he's only 7th level so i don't think that's too bad anyway.