Embarrassing In-Character Moments

[Goddess FallenAngel]

Am I the only one this has happened to?

Last game session, I created a new character for an epic-level game. Rogue/Shadowlord/Void Incarnate. Very stealthy, intelligent, serious character. To introduce me to the game, the DM gave me a message to deliver to the party. So, they meet my character. I walk up to them, and say that I have a message to give to the druid. The druid steps forward and asks what the message is.

Here was my mistake. I asked the DM if I could just repeat the message verbatim. He told me to make an INT check.

My roll: Nat 1.

So my mysterious, serious character fumbled the message, thus setting the tone for how the rest of the party sees and reacts to her.

Any other embarrassing in-character moments out there? Share!

 

[Crothian]

Not my character, but one in my game. He's the Chosen of Yondalla, so a very important Halfling. He knows that his life and death willeffect all Yondalla's halflings and even her.

The party ends up accidently going through the Well of Souls (an artifact that all dead sopuls go through to be judged and placed into the afterlife). The PCs are alive in Purgatory, a place living things are not supposed to go. I stress as the DM that they have to make a fort check or they will be dead. Fort DC is 15. We use hero points in my game and for the first time ever I suggest that people use them No one does. The halfling needed to roll a 6 or higher, he liked those odds. He rolled a 4. The other two PCs made their saves and got himraised, but still it was funny and he's been leaving weith regret becasue his death was felt by his goddess and all her halflings.

 

[Henry]

I manufactured one recently for another player.

His winged halfling (half-celestial) was hovering in front of a jail cell, dagger in hand, desparately trying to break the lock to free another player.

My PC, a Psion (Nomad) walks in, asks if she needed help. Two rounds later, she acquiesced, I leaned against the doorway to the room with the cell, arms crossed casually, and manifested Knock, while smiling like a Chesire Cat.

 

[Raflar]

Any other embarrassing in-character moments out there? Share!

I had a Halfling Sorcerer who was notorious for rolling 1s. One time the party is confronting a pair of rude female elven rangers and ignoring me for some time. I jump up on the table and shout "HEY! Pay attention to ME!!!!" I then tell the DM I wanted to flip over off the table and fire off a pair of "Lesser Shock Orbs" (Tome & Blood Spell) at the elves...

I roll a 1 on the 'tumble check', then a PAIR of 1s on the attack rolls.... thus falling flat on my face, with the orbs going off underneath me... of course I then roll near to max damage!!!

Well, they definitely paid attention to me then....

edit: misquote...

 

[Gnimish88]

Well, didn't happen to me, but in one 2E Dragonlance campaign I was in, one player with a minotaur fighter rolled so many ones that is made one question the randomness of his dice. In one session he:

Knocked himself unconcious while fighting in a waist deep pond (fortunately landed face up).
Ran into a support post while bull charging and knocked himself unconcious again.
Dismounted himself by burying the end of his trident in the ground, then threw his sword into the unconcious ranger, nearly finishing him off before the cleric could get to him.

Thereafter, the player refered to his character as Gimpy the Wonder Cow

 

[DrZombie]

Am I the only one this has happened to?

Superhero game, current time. Two superheroes and my character casually fly down the coast of callifornia. All of the sudden we see two sixtienth-century ships in combat. On one of the ships a girl screams as she is being abducted by a pirate. The two other players immediatly fly to the rescue, kick some ass and free the young lady. SHE IS FURIOUS. Why? That was the fourth time they did this scene and now it's ruined again. They had to pay damages to the film crew. I nearly whet my pants laughing, I was the only one that saw it coming. Bloody stupid superheroes....

 

[Tilla the Hun (work)]

Last gaming session... DnD, setting in FR. Played a huge hulking warror, spiked chaing tripping expert. I had created it to join the other front line fighter, and had 'talked up' it's combat prowess to a fair extent.

Entire gaming session came to some 50+ rolls of a d20 for skills/combat etc.

I rolled above a 5 twice, the whole night.

This came in particularly badly when we went up against the BBEG's second in command in total darkness... I kept nearly hitting my comrades or myself - never quite fumbling - until the dwarf fighter I was helping was tempted to state "Heh - it works better if you actually hit them with the spikes on the chain, instead of swinging it all around".

Course, I was already embarrased - I kept having flashbacks to the recent vamp movie where a vampire faces a lycan with two chain whips, one in either hand. He flails them around really cool like- splashing water and all, but then the lycan walks up to him and bites his head off.


Sure thought my character was going to DIE without doing any damage at all

 

[Sir Whiskers]

Queen of the Demonweb Pits, I'm playing a magic-user. I'm watching one corridor leading into a large room the party is searching. The GM says I see a small golden "pea" rolling down the passage toward me. I say:

"I catch it."

Turns out that he was describing a fireball spell...

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Same GM, Champions campaign. Big bad villains holding school kids hostage. Biggest bad guy is a demon that makes a balor look like a wimp. One of our heroes shoots an arrow at the demon. The GM realizes that he forgot to give him any resistant defenses. The demon died instantly, pinned to the wall...

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

My all-time favourite, from around sixteen years ago. I was the DM.

The party theif is trying to sneak past an owlbear. Rolls a 1. The Thief rolls to jump out of the way. Rolls a 1. The Halfling priest gets his sling out to try to help..> Rolls a 1, then a 20. Critical hit the grappled thief.

That same game world has been running since 1978, those characters eventually became gods. To this day, Elkrose, God of Theives, prohibits Halflings or the use of Slings in his priesthood.

 

[jdfrenzel]

In an early-Renaissance swashbuckler campaign, 2 PCs are quizzing a city clerk whom they suspect is part of a forgery ring. Playing the clerk, I attempt to befuddle the PCs with bureaucratic nonsense, then act indignant at their lack of understanding. At one point as the PCs pressed to understand, I said "Must I explain this again? It's not rocket science!"

Of course, one quick-witted player took that one and ran. "Hmm, really. Tell us more of this "rocket science" of which you speak. It must be a long-shrouded mystery indeed!" And on and on. *sigh*

--- John