PCs gone wild

[rasputinradio]

I can't say I've seen this a lot because most of the people I've played with are very group oriented, but I have been in a few campaigns, especially one shot deals, that turned into free for alls. Anyone have any tales of players sticking a knife in the backs of their fellow players?

 

[Mark]

heh heh heh This'll be a very funny thread, indeed...

I usually run games rather than play and a few of the players on this board that I know have some interesting stories.

I'm gonna hold off for a while and try to think about some events from the older campaigns (and make up some false names for the players and characters to protect their innoce... Well, I'll change the names anyway.)

 

[Numion]

Well, in a cyberpunk game one player shot another because the other kept 100 dollars to himself. Opened fire real good with an automatic shotgun, and knocked the offender down. Shooter took off (with or without the 100 dollars, I don't remember), but not before the other character pulled himself back up, and loosed a round with this huge revolver.

Off course the parting shot hit the shotgunner straight in the back of the head. In cyberpunk thats bye-bye. Messily.

For a hundred dollars. The surviving character was a medic who put the dead body in his freezer (to sell the "parts" later), and showed it to the other players next character. (In the end the there were like 5 player characters' corpses in the freezer).

Funny game, that CP.

 

[rasputinradio]

Yeah, I've noticed player backstabbing seemed to be a way of life in Shadowrun as well. I can remember a time where I caught wind of a double cross so I rigged my party members truck with explosives. He pulled his double cross and fled with our cred sticks. He went to start his truck and ...boom!

 

[DM with a vengence]

This is not one of my better moments...
So let's go!

I was playing a Pimped-Out Ninja Assassin of Death (PONAD). I believe he was specifically a Rgr1/Brb1/Rog2, but I can't remeber specifically. What I do remember is that he had two 18s, 3 16s, and a 14, 56 points total. He was uber-buff.

We were in a small Japanese village, and the druid had started a food fight in the local restaurante. I, doing the honorable thing, pull out my trident and short sword and kill her in two rounds. The owner of the restaurante thanks me, and gives me an award. Later that night I sneak back in, kill the owner and his family, take everything of value, and set fire to the place.

Shortly thereafter three of us were in the woods hunting a demon that had cursed the local lord's daughter. After we kill the demon, which leaves the other two people heavily wounded, I kill both of them and return to the lord's castle so I can collect all of the reward.

Worst anti-party player I've seen yet managed to go through 3 characters pretty damn quickly. The first one was an LN Elven Monk. The party is recovering a caravan wagon and killing the goblins who attacked it, when they find some alchemists fire. He wants it, they know he'll just do something stupid if he has it, so they refuse. He steal it from them and runs. They try to stop him with subdual and grapples, and he fights back with lethal force (remember that this is a Monk, there's no penalty for doing subdual). Then he gets hit in the head with a double 20 javelin from a goblin patrol that was returning to the camp and dies.
Next character was a CN Barbarian, Nigel the Destroyer. He goes on pretty well until they are crossing a swamp in a canoe with an NPC. The NPC starts trying to get them to join her conspiracy to rule the world, so he tries to sneak off with the boat, leaving everybody else stranded. They manage to knock him out this time, and tie him up. He manages to get free the next day, and charges the NPC with his axe. He kills her, but flips the boat and nearly drowns everybody.
After disguising a member of the party as the NPC, they proceed to an island the NPC told them about where her conspiracy is meeting. There are around 50 wizards there, ranging from 1st to 13th level, and they are discussing what to do with the head of a Blood Golem of Hextor they captured. While the party is infiltrating various groups, Nigel decides to steal the head. "After all, they're wizards. What can they do?"
**BOOM!!!** **ZAP!!!** **BBBZZZZZTTT!!!** and Nigel is very dead.

His antics continued, but I must do other stuff right now. I'll try to post the rest later.

 

[rasputinradio]

worst I've heard

The worst I've heard, luckily I wasn't a part of it, is this. Some friends of mine were doing dragon mountain and one player, who was a charletan bard was in cahoots with the dm. So they get to the final battle and the party is kicking the crap out of the dragon. The dm gets nervous. The bard then goes through asome great theatrics casts a spell on the dragon and passes a note to the dm. It read, "I heal the dragon 50 points". Then the bard convinces the other party members he has a spell that would kill the dragon, but he needs the other players most powerful magic items. For some reason the other players gleefully give up their magical loot to the bard. He again goes through his spellcasting theatrics again and teleports out of there leaving some very perturbed party members with a valuable life lesson. even if the dragon would then go on to make those lives very short indeed. hee hee

 

[Moe Ronalds]

PCs gone wild?

Why do I have strange mental images involving (bearded, of course) female dwarfs and P-diddy?

In all seriousness though, most of the backstabbing in my group happens between players rather than between characters. Like the time the entire group tried to get this one guy to quit, and the Monk convinved his character (the rogue) that the best way to trigger traps without getting hurt is to push every button, pull every lever, and stomp on every pressure plate.

And sadly enough, he bought it.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

I didn't do it!
Nobody saw me do it!
You can't prove anything!

 

[Angcuru]

I didn't do it!
Nobody saw me do it!
You can't prove anything!

HADOKEN!

 

[Elder-Basilisk]

Worst I've been involved in was a Star Wars campaign. I was coming in to the party a few weeks into the campaign and the GM tells me that I'm a member of the same planetary militia as the rest of the party. And the rest of the party stole an assault shuttle from the militia and crashed it on the moon. So, I decide that I'm still loyal to the militia.

We meet up with the party in the moonbase where they crash-landed after a run in with some pirates. When we decide to go investigate some anomolous readings from caves in the hope of finding parts to repair the ship, I use my secret radio to inform the militia. After we leave, they land and capture the wookie who had stayed at the base.

Before we get to the caves, there's a cliff we have to climb down, leaving our vehicle at the top. So I radio the militia and have them waiting to capture everyone at the top when we come back. Along the way, I also sabotage the jedi and one other characters' comlinks so that, when they reach the top, they can't warn everyone else that there's a group of militia waiting for them.

And the whole double-cross worked perfectly. Of course, the party was somewhat grateful that there was a militia shuttle there as the jedi managed to free an imprisoned army of Sith masters in the caves and we were running for our lives.

And the campaign ended shortly thereafter when the Sith invaded the planet, captured all of us and turned us into slaves to work until we died or were sacrificed.