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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1265560" data-attributes="member: 4441">I get silliness in my games, primarily because my players are a fun-loving bunch.  However, usually my plots are fairly serious, and most of the character concepts are serious as well.But we do have occasional elements of strangeness and slapstick humor.  For example, the druid in my game wanted a dire squirrel animal companion.  Or the time that I had a perfectly normal and respectable plot hook that hinged on a single joke.  I told the PCs, "You see a fork in the road."  When someone, laughing at the expect joke said, "I pick it up," I told them the fork was silver.  Turns out it was from the bundle of a frightened halfing kid whose family's caravan had been attacked by a bulette.Or one time the druid was swollowed by a giant dire monstrous frog (from Tome of Horrors), and subsequently the character has developed a deathly fear of frogs.  I placed, deliberately and with malicious intent, a fairly useful though low-level homebrewed figurine of wondrous power, a jade frog.  The other party members have used it to great effect to scare the druid.In addition, after our somewhat emotionally intense games, the party likes to get down and boogy at the local inn, usually getting rip-roaring drunk and quickly making up for any silliness not had during the regular session.</blockquote>