Funniest DM/player faux pas

[Sejs]

DM: You look down the dark alleyway and you see two men standing on eachother's shoulders.

Players: *stunned silence*

Player A: ....wait, standing on eachother's...

Player B: We're up against Cirque de Soleil! Run for your life!

 

[HellHound]

Among the memorable "oopsies" during games that I remember fondly would be the time he's running some module from I think it was star frontiers, adapted for a cyberpunk game, and about mid-way thru the module...

Ahem.

It was a CyberSpace adventure (basically CyberPunk, but the ICE version). And of course, I don't watch ST:TNG (arghh... hemorrhaging geek points once again), so *I* didn't recognize the similarity.

Just -all- the players did.

I didn't bother to 'wing it'. We just role-played out the ending a little... 'quicker' than the module expects.

 

[Wik]

Ahem.

It was a CyberSpace adventure (basically CyberPunk, but the ICE version). And of course, I don't watch ST:TNG (arghh... hemorrhaging geek points once again), so *I* didn't recognize the similarity.

Just -all- the players did.

I didn't bother to 'wing it'. We just role-played out the ending a little... 'quicker' than the module expects.

I've had that happen to me. People look at what you're running, make a comparison to some stupid movie, and you're left wondering... "hunh?".

I had that happen with a chariot race scene I ran in DARK SUN. All of a sudden, people around me were making "Ben Hur" references, doing Charleton Heston impersonations... lots of fun, that.

 

[DragonLancer]

Anyone got any funny dm/player blunders?

I once had a DM who was trying to describe an image:

DM: 'The mural depicts an image like a pirate flag without the crossbones'

Players in unison: 'So it's a SKULL!!!!'

You probably had to be there but it disrupted our game for a good while

Laugh it up, fuzzball! I'd had a long day as I recall.

If you are going to raise this, then you should also tell everyone the "detonate" story.

 

[wolff96]

I have a bad tendency -- especially near the end of long sessions -- to mangle the English language and change what I meant to say.

The most famous in my group is from a long time back. I was trying to describe a large, stone hallway, filled with stones and debris from a long ago battle. Instead, I got something different...

"The room stretches before you, the broken ceiling letting just enough light to see the rubber-strewn foyer in front of you."

One of my players immediately commented that it must have been one HECK of a party. I'm pretty sure I just went ahead and ended the session there, rather than risking further damage.

 

[Festivus]

I was drawing on the battlemap, and when the female player at the table gasped I realized I had drawn a what looked to be a penis, complete with the dangly bits.

The map just happened to work out that way.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Well, I once, reading from the paraphrased text, explained to them that the BBEG was standing in front of them. While they were going for their weapons, I noticed a little word I was overlooking all the time: mural. It was just a picture of the chick.

I also told the story of the daywalker many times. Due to unforseen player behaviour, the fight was taking place half a day early, and the vampire was prancing around under the sun. Noone noticed anything wrong with that until 10 minutes after the whole thing.

 

[Ambrus]

I was drawing on the battlemap, and when the female player at the table gasped I realized I had drawn a what looked to be a penis, complete with the dangly bits.

I knew a GM a few years back who suffered from this same subconscious tendency; for a while it seemed everything he drew inevitably ended up looking like male genitalia. It was always unintentional, but after he'd drawn something on the blackboard (we played in an occupied classroom) the players would soon start snickering and he'd turn around to apprise his illustration with a critical eye, only to realize that he'd once again drawn a giant penis.

It became a running joke throughout the university's gaming circles. During our last session he tried drawing a quick profile view of a tall slim tower tilted at a slight angle built next to two large round domed buildings...

 

[heirodule]

Why does everyone keep stopping their sessions?

I'd keep going and get over it. Definitly been in situations where the game gets silly unexpectedly, but we usually receover in a few minutes.

Keep going folks!

 

[Voadam]

I've had that happen to me. People look at what you're running, make a comparison to some stupid movie, and you're left wondering... "hunh?".

I had that happen with a chariot race scene I ran in DARK SUN. All of a sudden, people around me were making "Ben Hur" references, doing Charleton Heston impersonations... lots of fun, that.

PC 1 "The big orc's going after our guide! Stop him!"

PC 2 "Our guide has been too useful, he's gotten us great information and taken us to places and people we never would have found on our own. It's just like 24. Our guide is either going to betray us now or die."

PC 1 "Yeah, I can't believe you are making the game like 24, cool. Good choice of stuff to rip off."

PC 2 "Didn't you notice how our guide is a lot like X?"

PC 1 "Oh yeah, and hey, the efreeti arms merchant is like . . ."

DM (me) "Guys I only saw the first two episodes of 24. I really don't know what you are talking about."