Grues, Burnination, and Gnomelings: What Humorous Sources Have You Used Stuff From?

[AFGNCAAP]

Hello,

As fatigue starts to get the better of me, and the more I think that a random encounter w/ Trogdor sounds like a good idea for my campaign, I was curious about what humor elements that others may have used in their games?

Have a Holy Hand Grenade? Any magic items made by Frobozz? Had your players encounter the Scimitaur? Guest appearances by Yamara, Nodwick, Belkar, a purple dragon ("Growf?"), Aahz, Dindil, or even the Burninator himself?

Just curious to see what humorous elements have creeped into games like Choo-Choo-Bear creeping through the plumbing.

 

[SteelDraco]

I've been in a game where a grue showed up, but it wasn't a funny encounter. It was a very scary and deadly critter. Imagine a tiger surrounded by a constant Darkness effect that couldn't be negated, and then try and figure out a way to deal with it without preparation. It was pretty nasty. The darkness moved up to someone, then there were some tearing and rending sounds. When the darkness moved away, they were dead. Teach us to wander around in the Shadow plane version of a major city.

Let's see here. I've run games that were intended solely to be humorous, mostly centered around an old Dungeon adventure called "Old Man Katan and the Incredible, Edible, Dancing Mushroom Band". That's always a fun one to run.

 

[demiurge1138]

Most of the silliness in my campaign has been of my own invention, but I have stolen from humorous sources from time to time.

The villians of "The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters" as a bunch of baddies in my epic campaign.
I once put Duct Tape of Healing into my game.
Another epic PC was Professor Membrane, from Invader ZIM (and my avatar).

That's about it, I think.

Demiurge out.

Edit: Not my game, but a DM of mine once ran a session based on the infamous Badger Badger Badger song. Yes, that one. First, we fought dire badgers. Then myconids (mushroom! mushroom!). Then, a naga (Ooh, it's a snaaake!)

He is no longer DMing.

 

[kolikeos]

one of the building in my world is called 'the vempire stat building'

 

[Khayman]

Lemme see, lemme see...

1. My party frequents a magic item shop called Monty's Magic Item Emporium. It has franchises in pretty much every city, and all the clerks are named Bob. Makes for easy roleplaying.
2. The party also consults a lawyer named Mr. Baalphegor. (The assumption is that his firm's senior partners guest star on Angel.)
3. There's a private investigator's office run by an elf named Archer and a dwarf named Spade.

As well, in our Car Wars game, the local boarding house is run by Elvis.

 

[Dark Jezter]

My campaign has a recurring NPC who, much like Kenny from South Park, dies violently, but keeps coming back to life only to be killed again.

The NPC is a female rogue. Her name: Black Leaf.

 

[Bigwilly]

Potions of Reduce Person

I mean, seriously, how many times have your party needed a potion of reduce person.

In my ongoing homebrew campaign, they just seemed to keep turning up whenever I randomly generated treasure. It got to the point that they started driving the gnome PC a bit mad. He now drinks them automatically if his sensitive nose detects what they are. I now deliberatery throw the odd one into found treasure every now and then just to keep him on edge and am even working out a little side trip for him to track down the source.

 

[Coredump]

Normally I would not admit this in public....but since you asked directly.

When we started out latest campaign, it starts with our characters being from the same town, Trogheim. We have been selected to take our once a decade offering to the towns patron protector...a gold dragon named...Trogdor.

I tried and tried to make him use a different name...but noooooooo. Mind you, the story arc is still going on, and we are now trying to rescue trogdor....
I have not seen it yet, I am assuming it looks like a normal gold dragon. (God I hope so.)

.

 

[Eccles]

My worst offences against common sense have been in a superhero game, so they went relatively unnoticed.

I had one themed supervillain named "The Gamesmaster" who seemed convinced of his own omnipotence.

But he paled in the face of the "Gay and Lesbian Rights Avengers", who flew around in pink lycra and paintballed the heroes' car. (The heroes were cops, and were terrified of laying a finger on the GLRA for fear of a harassment suit...)

 

[DrZombie]

But he paled in the face of the "Gay and Lesbian Rights Avengers", who flew around in pink lycra and paintballed the heroes' car. (The heroes were cops, and were terrified of laying a finger on the GLRA for fear of a harassment suit...)

Good one, political correctness outta the window. like your style.

Once in a game we were attacked by a tribe of small bald men in homespun robes wearing small glasses. their warcries were "no more pacifism" "thiss will make you turn your other cheeck" "try this for civil disobedience". They were warghandi's.