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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 3322962" data-attributes="member: 12706">Many years ago in a WEG Star Wars game I was integrating a published module into an ongoing campaign, and in said module the leader of a speeder bike gang's name was Big Gizz. Which, oblivious, I kept pronouncing with a soft 'g', until I realized the snickering in the room, and then the room exploded with laughter. And even then, they had to explain to me what was so funny. Boy, was my face red. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />I also have a tendency to get proportions wrong when DMing off the top of my head, which has at times, before a player gets me to recon and correct it, resulted in things like buildings that are way too close together, or wooden sailing vessels (for medium sized creatures) that are bigger than modern aircraft carriers.Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but in the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy book Life, The Universe, and Everything (SPOILER ALERT!!!) there is a little man who was injected with too much truth serum and then asked by the court to "tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." So he did. EVERYTHING. And a good bit of it was funny, so he kept bursting into laughter. Upon meeting the main character, Arthur Dent, he recognises his name (even though Arthur is the last person you would expect anyone to recognise anywhere, with the Earth destroyed and all) and keeps laughing and talking about how the frogs love Arthur, and how he cracks them up. And laughing and laughing. Until all the laughter finally tears him apart physically, and he dies.</blockquote>

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