Have you ever laughed so hard while gaming you cried?
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frankthedm
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In a World of darkness game, The gamemaster, to let us know our Fomori foes were expendable said "if they all die, Pentex will just hire more from Monster.com"
Twowolves
Explorer
Before everyone arrived for a D&D game I was running, a couple of players were trying out the new Lord of the Rings Risk game. One player had won and lost Mirkwood so many times he started calling it "Jerkwood". Of course, he uttered the following line with a straight face, not even realizing how bad it sounded:
"I just can't hold on to the Jerkwood, it keeps slipping through my fingers!"
"I just can't hold on to the Jerkwood, it keeps slipping through my fingers!"
Piratecat
Sesquipedalian
I love moments like these.
I had set up a situation to really challenge the group's paladin. They were tracking down worshippers of the God of Disease who were doing something really awful in a swamp city. The only way into their temple was through a door that you couldn't even see unless you had a disease; only people who were sick could go through it. I wanted to see how the paladin handled this, since by definition he couldn't ever get sick. My expectation was that he would temporarily renounce his holy vows, kick cultist butt without his holy powers, and atone afterwards with no consequences.
Ohhhh, no.
Instead, the group takes advantage of my wording and figures out that if he IS a disease (or a parasite, same basic thing in this case) then he doesn't have to HAVE a disease. They polymorph him into a tapeworm and begin to debate who has to swallow him.
Oh, that was a fun debate, let me tell you. We laughed until we cried, our sides aching. It didn't help any when the paladin's player took my model Dune sandworm, balanced his glasses on it, and crawled under the table to hold it up in his seat. Even worse was the discussion about how to get him out again. Luckily (?), one of the other PCs had a ring that causes - err - intense abdominal distress in the target, but no one especially wanted to be the target for that either... After the druid tried to carry the tapeworm paladin through the door just in her mouth (didn't work) and she spit him out into her hand, the player successfully role-playing a cold tapeworm was priceless. I'm pretty sure I've never seen the like, and never ever want to again.
I had set up a situation to really challenge the group's paladin. They were tracking down worshippers of the God of Disease who were doing something really awful in a swamp city. The only way into their temple was through a door that you couldn't even see unless you had a disease; only people who were sick could go through it. I wanted to see how the paladin handled this, since by definition he couldn't ever get sick. My expectation was that he would temporarily renounce his holy vows, kick cultist butt without his holy powers, and atone afterwards with no consequences.
Ohhhh, no.
Instead, the group takes advantage of my wording and figures out that if he IS a disease (or a parasite, same basic thing in this case) then he doesn't have to HAVE a disease. They polymorph him into a tapeworm and begin to debate who has to swallow him.
Oh, that was a fun debate, let me tell you. We laughed until we cried, our sides aching. It didn't help any when the paladin's player took my model Dune sandworm, balanced his glasses on it, and crawled under the table to hold it up in his seat. Even worse was the discussion about how to get him out again. Luckily (?), one of the other PCs had a ring that causes - err - intense abdominal distress in the target, but no one especially wanted to be the target for that either... After the druid tried to carry the tapeworm paladin through the door just in her mouth (didn't work) and she spit him out into her hand, the player successfully role-playing a cold tapeworm was priceless. I'm pretty sure I've never seen the like, and never ever want to again.
Belen
Legend
Time to repost this story again
The party had just fought off a devil and discovered that the cleric had taken a mortal wound. As the cleric said farewell to the woman he loved, we hear a giggling sound coming from my roommate's bathroom (a player had gotten up to use the bathroom previously.)
We all look at each other for a moment. Then the guy comes out of the bathroom, grabs his car keys and says, "be right back. I have to go buy a plunger." Of course, the mood was broken as we laughed our tails off.
Yet it gets better. I tell him to use the plunger in my bathroom and he gives me this funny look and says "Dude, I don't want to ruin it." Here I am thinking "how the heck can you ruin a plunger?" So I ask!
He gives me this funny look and his hands form a round circle bigger than his head. "Dude, it was this big. I thought I was going to break my @$$!!"
At that point, the game was OVER. I laughed so hard that I couldn't breath!
And it gets even better!
So the guy goes back into the bathroom and we hear him giggling again. He comes out of the bathroom and again I have to ask. He told us that he was giggling because he used my roommates monogrammed towels to aid in the clean-up. (We all detested my roommate.) I think I almost passed out from lack of air after that one!
We could not keep a straight face the rest of the game, especially when my roommate came home and showered. The guy had placed the towels back on the rack when he was done.
No one said a word.
Too this day, he has never lived it down, and we make sure to detail the story to an newbie who joins the group (it's better when told in person.)
Ah....youth.......
The party had just fought off a devil and discovered that the cleric had taken a mortal wound. As the cleric said farewell to the woman he loved, we hear a giggling sound coming from my roommate's bathroom (a player had gotten up to use the bathroom previously.)
We all look at each other for a moment. Then the guy comes out of the bathroom, grabs his car keys and says, "be right back. I have to go buy a plunger." Of course, the mood was broken as we laughed our tails off.
Yet it gets better. I tell him to use the plunger in my bathroom and he gives me this funny look and says "Dude, I don't want to ruin it." Here I am thinking "how the heck can you ruin a plunger?" So I ask!
He gives me this funny look and his hands form a round circle bigger than his head. "Dude, it was this big. I thought I was going to break my @$$!!"
At that point, the game was OVER. I laughed so hard that I couldn't breath!
And it gets even better!
So the guy goes back into the bathroom and we hear him giggling again. He comes out of the bathroom and again I have to ask. He told us that he was giggling because he used my roommates monogrammed towels to aid in the clean-up. (We all detested my roommate.) I think I almost passed out from lack of air after that one!
We could not keep a straight face the rest of the game, especially when my roommate came home and showered. The guy had placed the towels back on the rack when he was done.
No one said a word.
Too this day, he has never lived it down, and we make sure to detail the story to an newbie who joins the group (it's better when told in person.)
Ah....youth.......
Henry
Autoexreginated
The worst one was when our GM from a Star Wars game kept mispronouncing the Big, Evil Alien Swoop Biker, Big Gizz, from a published adventure, with a soft "G".
At first, we thought he was doing this intentionally. When it became obvious he WASN'T doing this intentionally, and asked what was so funny, half the table fell out of our chairs.
And then, we almost died laughing trying to EXPLAIN it to him.
Finally, taking a clue from the movie Clerks, someone suggested that since we defeated him and his gang, we must be the... well, I'll leave this one to the imaginations of those who saw the film.![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
At first, we thought he was doing this intentionally. When it became obvious he WASN'T doing this intentionally, and asked what was so funny, half the table fell out of our chairs.
And then, we almost died laughing trying to EXPLAIN it to him.
Finally, taking a clue from the movie Clerks, someone suggested that since we defeated him and his gang, we must be the... well, I'll leave this one to the imaginations of those who saw the film.
MrFilthyIke
First Post
diaglo said:
I now have a new "voice" to use when running that NPC...
der_kluge
Adventurer
A couple of ones from our last campaign. These won't be as funny as they were when they happened, but you'll get the gist.
We had a minotaur in the party, and during one game, someone wondered what language minotaurs spoke. Turns out, it's "giant", but we assumed at the time that it was just "minotaur". Thing was, the minotaur was a barbarian, and had no ranks in any language skills. So, the player playing the minotaur merely assumed that everyone else was speaking minotaur the entire time! "they all speak minotaur real good!"
In the same game, the party rescued a village of lizardman who'd been trapped in a demiplane that had been their home for generations. They found a portal out, and led them back to a place that was infested with Slaad, and other nasty creatures. Most of the party was more or less indifferent towards their fate, but a couple of the players were relatively concerned that they would need assistance getting back to their ancestral home (which, incidentally, they plundered, and killed the king, but that never bothered to mention that to them). And the party sorcerer (who as LG) said, "At least two of the party members have your best interest at heart!" That still cracks me up to this day.
In other campaign, the GM had given the sorcerer a staff of snakes (it turns into a snake when you throw it). This player was all about style so he decided that his character just wouldn't use such a device, and got rid of it (I don't exactly remember what he did with it). Several games into the campaign later, we meet this wizard in combat, and the sorcerer declares that he's flinging his staff at it, forgetting that he had abandoned that staff, and now had a very mundane staff in his possession.
The guy playing across from him (in mocking fashion) said "behold!", makes a motion like he's tossing the staff and says, "clank, clank, clank". I still laugh at that one.
The best one though was a Spelljammer game I ran in college. I'd borrowed the books from a friend and decided I was going to run a game in Spelljammer. It was high level. I don't remember exactly what happened, but here's the scene:
The party is on a ship, in space, being attacked by another ship with mindflayers, and umber hulks. At some point, someone casts something that creates a lot dirt, which is now swirling around the ship because of the artificial gravity. One of the mindflayers is an illusionist, which promptly summons an illusion of a "fire lich" (from one of the splat monster books) - it's basically a flying, flaming skull. So, the party wizard freaks out and is fighting that (because he's read those books, and thinks he knows what it is!), and there were other freaky things going on. My friend just absolutely lost it. We had to stop playing because he was having trouble breathing. Needless to say we never played Spelljammer after that, and I still have a hard time taking the setting seriously.
We had a minotaur in the party, and during one game, someone wondered what language minotaurs spoke. Turns out, it's "giant", but we assumed at the time that it was just "minotaur". Thing was, the minotaur was a barbarian, and had no ranks in any language skills. So, the player playing the minotaur merely assumed that everyone else was speaking minotaur the entire time! "they all speak minotaur real good!"
In the same game, the party rescued a village of lizardman who'd been trapped in a demiplane that had been their home for generations. They found a portal out, and led them back to a place that was infested with Slaad, and other nasty creatures. Most of the party was more or less indifferent towards their fate, but a couple of the players were relatively concerned that they would need assistance getting back to their ancestral home (which, incidentally, they plundered, and killed the king, but that never bothered to mention that to them). And the party sorcerer (who as LG) said, "At least two of the party members have your best interest at heart!" That still cracks me up to this day.
In other campaign, the GM had given the sorcerer a staff of snakes (it turns into a snake when you throw it). This player was all about style so he decided that his character just wouldn't use such a device, and got rid of it (I don't exactly remember what he did with it). Several games into the campaign later, we meet this wizard in combat, and the sorcerer declares that he's flinging his staff at it, forgetting that he had abandoned that staff, and now had a very mundane staff in his possession.
The guy playing across from him (in mocking fashion) said "behold!", makes a motion like he's tossing the staff and says, "clank, clank, clank". I still laugh at that one.
The best one though was a Spelljammer game I ran in college. I'd borrowed the books from a friend and decided I was going to run a game in Spelljammer. It was high level. I don't remember exactly what happened, but here's the scene:
The party is on a ship, in space, being attacked by another ship with mindflayers, and umber hulks. At some point, someone casts something that creates a lot dirt, which is now swirling around the ship because of the artificial gravity. One of the mindflayers is an illusionist, which promptly summons an illusion of a "fire lich" (from one of the splat monster books) - it's basically a flying, flaming skull. So, the party wizard freaks out and is fighting that (because he's read those books, and thinks he knows what it is!), and there were other freaky things going on. My friend just absolutely lost it. We had to stop playing because he was having trouble breathing. Needless to say we never played Spelljammer after that, and I still have a hard time taking the setting seriously.
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