Most humiliating hit...

[astralpwka]

What's the most humiliating damage your players ever had to receive? One of our players playing a fighter (I think at the time he was around 9th level or so, just an estimate) slapped a camel (I think it was "Torment the Desert Guy's Mount" day). The camel unleashed two natural twenties in a row.

The camel had to be put down by the character, but the camel lives on by making that one bite memorable.

 

[Aaron L]

Just a few weeks ago, my wizard wrestled a fire giant off a bridge with telekenesis, and it fell 150 feet onto my brothers character. Did something like 170 points of damage to him.

 

[Teflon Billy]

I'm going to cut and paste a comment from Fusangite about his character in my weekly game last year.

I played a gnome sorceror in a short-lived campaign of Teflon Billy's. He was part of a small gnomish minority in a human-dominated society; as such, he was alienated, ruthless and constantly trying to prove his toughness. He was named Ash Nazg Grimbatul but, suprisingly, no one got the reference.

I think we were playing some variant at the time, maybe even 2E, as we had meaner fumble rules. I recall us interrogating someone and getting nowhere so; my gnome had been trying to look tough and having no effect despite his considerable Charisma. Anyway, he decided to demonstrate his toughness by charging up a Shocking Grasp and saying, menacingly, something to the effect of 'do you want to see the consequences if you continue to resist us?' while bringing his sparking hand up to the prisoner's face. Even so, he seemed just as ridiculous and small as ever and so the prisoner continued to stonewall us. With a dramatic flourish, I decided to hit him with my scary, electrically pulsing hand and rolled two 1s in a row. I hit myself in the chest, did more points of damage than I had hit points and crumpled to the floor, unconscious. After the cleric healed me back to consciousness, I announced to the prisoner "that could have been you." Then he talked.

Anyway, I played the gnome as a figure desperate to be taken seriously, who specialized in damage-dealing spells and tried to effect a scary image -- all to no avail. Gnomes just can't be scary.

 

[John Crichton]

TB, that was hilarious!

I mostly DM so I don't really have any PC stories. However, one of my players has managed to get himself eaten by ogres, hit so hard by a troll that the character's eyes popped out and lit up like a Christmas tree by gunfire in a Spycraft run.

Good thing he's a solid roleplayer or none of those would have been any fun.

 

[astralpwka]

TB, that was hilarious!

I mostly DM so I don't really have any PC stories. However, one of my players has managed to get himself eaten by ogres, hit so hard by a troll that the character's eyes popped out and lit up like a Christmas tree by gunfire in a Spycraft run.

Good thing he's a solid roleplayer or none of those would have been any fun.

lit up like a Christmas tree... Reminds me of a Vampire the Masquerade game I ran. One of the players decided to dispose of some explosives by running up to flaming police car and pitching the explosives into it. One black and crispy dead undead.

 

[DarkSoldier]

I had a frat house dropped on me a couple weeks ago in my Star Wars game; nat 1 on the Reflex, burned all my Force points to not die, so now I'm (part of) a torso floating in a bacta tank, awaiting the cybernetic implants that will make me the Darth Vader of engineers.

 

[Bloodsparrow]

Not very long ago our Dwarvish Paladin, 8th or 9th level at the time, was taken down to nearly half his health by 16 evil, demonic, lemurs.

The Wizard had cast "Rope Trick" as a place for us all to sleep, and the Dwarf just wasn't having any of it. So he took his watch down on the ground... Where we couldn't hear what was going on... And the lemurs attacked en mass.

Due to a poor luck with the dice, it took him three rounds to get up the rope. Upon entering the Rope Trick room, covered in his own blood and missing most of his armor, he woke us with a scream of, "MOONKIEES!" At which point, two more of the little buggers also skuttled up the rope, jumped into the room, and bit into the Dwarf's head...

We managed to save the Paladin from the lemurs...

I was able to console him with the following story;

A long long long time ago, I used to play V:TM LARPs. And we used to have a game once a month, apart from our on going stories, that would be just a random "one shot" where we would all try and play characters that we normally wouldn't. Because we almost never played these characters again, things tended to get even more goofy then you usually get in a Vampire game.

In one such session there was this artist named Andre who had pissed off a rather large Sabbat Pack that I was part of. (And if you don't know ... Suffice it to say that "Sabbat" = Even MORE evil Vampires... )

We start reacking havoc right away. Andre has a servent, named "Simone", who's job it is to take care of the studio and the lemur. I decide that Simone is really cool, and that it would really be better if Simone was my ghoul. So I start mussing about with his mind.

Which more or less works except that Simone keeps getting distracted by the fact that the lemur hasn't been fed yet. This annoys me, as it's inhibiting my progress in taking Simone over. So I turn to my packmate, who also haddn't been fed yet, and I said, "Take care of the lemur." He seemed overjoyed at the idea and promply left with it.

Ten minutes later, the lemure comes charging back into the room in a frenzy and wielding a katana. It screaches and hops into my lap before attacking me with said weapon.

Simone shreaks, as it jumps on me and slashes at my face, "Ahhhhhhhhh! Lemur!!!"

At which point, my so called friend, bounces into the room and says, "I ghouled and vacissatuded it! Isn't that cool?"

"Yes, very cool.", I thought to myself... And then I died.

 

[shilsen]

The PCs (I was DMing) were exploring an ancient dwarven fortress when they entered a room containing lots of almost-destroyed furniture and an apparently perfectly preserved table.

Ignoring it, the characters head across the room and are surprised (in and out of game) when the animated table attacks. After it misses by a long way, everyone laughs at the situation.

Until the next tound, that is, when the table managed to back the fighter/rogue into a corner and crits on him. They did manage to chop the table into kindling before it killed him, but they'll never look at furniture the same way again.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

I was not part of the group playing in the game, but my friends human wizard (2E) almost died after thinking that the best way to extract a badger from a hole was with Flaming Hands.

As the angered, flaming BADGER OF DOOM rocketed from the hole, it began mauling one low level wizard. Luckily, he killed the badger with his staff, but the story never, ever died...

 

[Mystery Man]

Not so much damage but my players were exploring a castle in the jungle off of a coast. They took a ship there and left it and its crew anchored about 50 yards off shore. So I decided to build this neat little encounter where the villian actually takes control of the ship and they have to fight to take back control etc. It was going to be really cool!

So anyway they realized they had "forgotten" an item that they needed on the ship and instead of all going back for it they just sent the rogue....

....cut to the scene where they're all floating in the middle of the ocean, on a dingy, naked with sharks circling. Lucky for them a "ghostly looking ship" just happened to float towards them.

"Get out the dingy" is still to this day, a term they use for when they get shafted etc.