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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4698521" data-attributes="member: 35909">Not sure what would count.  In the Final Fantasy 1 campaign I was in, which was probably jumping the shark just by existing, we played music for battles, overworld travel, towns, dramatic moments, etc...The very first session, we're having a tough fight.  I'm a Black Mage, and I decide to enlarge person on the dwarf Fighter.  I declare that I throw my staff to the ground and yell out, "Make my dwarf grow!"  Which of course cues the power rangers theme to get played.  Large dwarf proceeds to clean house and turn the tide of the battle.  It became by FAR the biggest running gag I've ever seen in a campaign, with us always playing power rangers when he went large.  It really took on a life of its own later on when we visited the dwarven lands and they gave him a special artifact that had been guarded and held to give to the legendary dwarf hero that would arise.If you haven't guessed...it was a belt buckle.  Allowing him to enlarge himself, as well as adding several other powers, as he donned the full Blue Ranger suit, helmet and all.  Oh, and the command to activate it was "It's morphin' time!"After THAT, he eventually found an effigy Triceratops* (a type of construct), which he named David Yost.  The whole time, we still wanted some sort of internal consistency, so as the joke took on its own life, the rest of the party increasingly saw the whole thing as some really weird dwarven cultural thing.  We had to maintain a similar (but much stronger in magnitude) attitude of "he's crazy" for the Red Mage, who was largely 8-bit theater inspired and actually had the class skill "Knowledge: Metagame" (instead of Bardic Knowledge).*[sblock]The triceratops itself spawned its own in-joke, that has spread into every single campaign I or any of the other players or DM has ever run since.  In one particular battle in tight quarters, we had a lot of difficulty, because we could not reach the enemies to melee because the triceratops kept getting in the way.  So now, "There's a triceratops in the way" has become a common statement (at least once in any given campaign) for any time a path is inaccessible.  If the DM doesn't want the party to go a certain way, he'll put a triceratops blocking the path.  I've yet to see a party dare try to get a triceratops out of the way. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[/sblock]</blockquote>

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