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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nemigar" data-source="post: 2583916" data-attributes="member: 36657">I have several, but here's my favorite.  AD&D campaign, many years back, the party is in a dungeon of some sort and fighting giant lizards.  A lizard looks poised to attack Hal, who pipes up (he had a *very* high pitched voice), 'Maybe it attacks John instead?'  The DM obliges by rolling a die, and sure enough, determines that the lizard attacks the lightly armored John, instead of the plate-mail wearing Hal.It gets worse... the lizard rolls a 20 on its attack.  The DM used his a homemade 'critical damage' table, and determined by a second roll that this meant 'double damage'.  John begins to fume, he's almost certainly toast now.Worse yet... DM looks up the monster in the Monster Manual, and notes that the lizard does double damage on any attack that rolls a 20!  So, he decides this means 4x damage.  John is *definitely* toast, now; DM rolls damage, John is very dead, and quite annoyed with Hal at this point.  He is only mollified by the knowledge that we can get him raised from the dead back home.The lizard is looking for another victim, and Hal is closest.  DM is preparing to move the lizard to attack Hal, who again pipes up a line that has become classic amongst our group, still remembered and oft-quoted after about 25 years:"Does it stop to feed?"</blockquote>