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<blockquote data-quote="The Levitator" data-source="post: 3399096" data-attributes="member: 40099">I never thought I'd get a chance to share this story here!&nbsp; This was absolutely insane!&nbsp; It was in 1985, my sophomore year in high school.I had a group of around 10 players, and I was the DM.&nbsp; A couple of the players didn't come for the gaming, but rather the &quot;refreshments&quot; that one of our players always had available. The rest of the players were very into it.&nbsp; One players was borderline obsessed with the game, a fact we didn't find out until this night.So, we were having our typical Saturday marathon, starting around noon and playing until Sunday morning.&nbsp; We were doing a typical dungeon crawl, the party was trying to rescue an NPC from a red dragon.&nbsp; They found the cave structure that housed the dragon, but it was a huge network of caves.&nbsp; It took them 4 hours of real time to work their way through the caves and find the dragon.&nbsp; Now Mark, one of the &quot;recreational&quot; party types, had not said a word in the entire 4 hours, other than to say &quot;yeah, I attack&quot; or whatever.&nbsp; At this point Mark was nearly asleep.&nbsp; The group was super excited because they caught the dragon sleeping.&nbsp; They made all of their stealth rolls and got within striking distance of the dragon.&nbsp; I gave them a 10% chance of finding a missing scale in a vital part of the dragon.&nbsp; They made that roll.&nbsp;&nbsp; They were very lucky and frothing at the mouth at this chance to bring a dragon down (it was their first dragon encounter).&nbsp; As they tiptoed into position, Mark finally opens his eyes, looks around, and says, &quot;BOO!&quot;.&nbsp; I asked him, &quot;What did you say?&quot;&nbsp; to which Mark replied, &quot;I said boo!&quot;.&nbsp; The players were freaking at this point.&nbsp; Mark basically wanted to fight the dragon head on and not kill it in its sleep.&nbsp; So, the dragon woke up and toasted 2 of the players, killing one of them.&nbsp; The player whose character died, Dwayne, lost it.&nbsp; He jumped across the table, lunged at Mark, and drilled him in the nose, breaking it.&nbsp; Mark was in his typical &quot;relaxed&quot; state and was laughing the whole time.&nbsp; 3 of the players jumped on Dwayne and held him down to calm him down.&nbsp; He eventually did and apologized to Mark, but it's a moment I'll never forget as long as I live.Ah......the memories of high school!&nbsp; Nothing has come close to topping that in the last 22 years!&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Levitator, post: 3399096, member: 40099"] I never thought I'd get a chance to share this story here! This was absolutely insane! It was in 1985, my sophomore year in high school. I had a group of around 10 players, and I was the DM. A couple of the players didn't come for the gaming, but rather the "refreshments" that one of our players always had available. The rest of the players were very into it. One players was borderline obsessed with the game, a fact we didn't find out until this night. So, we were having our typical Saturday marathon, starting around noon and playing until Sunday morning. We were doing a typical dungeon crawl, the party was trying to rescue an NPC from a red dragon. They found the cave structure that housed the dragon, but it was a huge network of caves. It took them 4 hours of real time to work their way through the caves and find the dragon. Now Mark, one of the "recreational" party types, had not said a word in the entire 4 hours, other than to say "yeah, I attack" or whatever. At this point Mark was nearly asleep. The group was super excited because they caught the dragon sleeping. They made all of their stealth rolls and got within striking distance of the dragon. I gave them a 10% chance of finding a missing scale in a vital part of the dragon. They made that roll. They were very lucky and frothing at the mouth at this chance to bring a dragon down (it was their first dragon encounter). As they tiptoed into position, Mark finally opens his eyes, looks around, and says, "BOO!". I asked him, "What did you say?" to which Mark replied, "I said boo!". The players were freaking at this point. Mark basically wanted to fight the dragon head on and not kill it in its sleep. So, the dragon woke up and toasted 2 of the players, killing one of them. The player whose character died, Dwayne, lost it. He jumped across the table, lunged at Mark, and drilled him in the nose, breaking it. Mark was in his typical "relaxed" state and was laughing the whole time. 3 of the players jumped on Dwayne and held him down to calm him down. He eventually did and apologized to Mark, but it's a moment I'll never forget as long as I live. Ah......the memories of high school! Nothing has come close to topping that in the last 22 years! :lol: [/QUOTE]

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