D&D General How serious are your D&D games?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Here's a few off the top of my head:
"Nobody tosses a dwarf!"
Gimli and Legolas's "competition" counting orcs they have killed.
Merry telling Pippin "I don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip."
Sam describing meals with "po-tay-toes" to Gollum and saying Gollum could not say no to them, but Gollum says "Oh yes we could."

My favorite are all the Merry and Pippin scenes in the extended editions. After they have lembas bread explained to them, and that each one can last a fellowship member days, one of them asks the other: "How many did you eat," to which the other replies, "four."

And, of course, them totally not being stoned while watching the ent-wrought destruction of Orthanc. (Yes, yes, JRRT probably didn't mean for pipeweed to be marijuana. The book remains intact, no matter what Jackson did in the movie.)

 

[Vaalingrade]

I describe my ideal as Stargate: serious people who also make jokes.

"Lucy, I'm home!"

"I AM NOT LUCY."

 

[Bill Zebub]

Here's a few off the top of my head:
"Nobody tosses a dwarf!"
Gimli and Legolas's "competition" counting orcs they have killed.
Merry telling Pippin "I don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip."
Sam describing meals with "po-tay-toes" to Gollum and saying Gollum could not say no to them, but Gollum says "Oh yes we could."

My favorite are all the Merry and Pippin scenes in the extended editions. After they have lembas bread explained to them, and that each one can last a fellowship member days, one of them asks the other: "How many did you eat," to which the other replies, "four."

And, of course, them totally not being stoned while watching the ent-wrought destruction of Orthanc. (Yes, yes, JRRT probably didn't mean for pipeweed to be marijuana. The book remains intact, no matter what Jackson did in the movie.)

Ah. I wasn't thinking about the movies.

 

[Rabulias]

Ah. I wasn't thinking about the movies.

In that case, yes, I agree. There are no moments of levity in the LotR novels that I can recall. The Hobbit, OTOH, does have a few.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Ah. I wasn't thinking about the movies.

His name is Tom Bombadil.

He was a friend.

 

[Rabulias]

His name is Tom Bombadil.

A bright spot of cheer and a touch of whimsy, perhaps, but levity? Something that the reader would chuckle about? An honest question, as it has been many years since I read LotR.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

A bright spot of cheer and a touch of whimsy, perhaps, but levity? Something that the reader would chuckle about? An honest question, as it has been many years since I read LotR.

He's part of the Cthulhu Mythos sneaking into Middle-Earth. Don't be fooled by the hallucinations everyone in his presence suffers.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Yeah, there's levity in the books, though it is of a different kind than the movies, for the most part. Gimli commenting on the shield he is given with a horse on it, Legolas teasing everyone that can't run on top of the snow, and a bunch of things in the shire, both in the beginning and at the end. And of course, Tom Bombadil.

 

[Clint_L]

Thinking more about this, I think my answer would be:

"Everyone should take the game seriously, but the game doesn't have to be serious."

 

[John R Davis]

D&D has high laugh level.
Loads other games to do the misery porn level of grim OR very very silly