Silliest thing you've seen in a serious campaign...

[Crass]

A character was wisdom drained to 2. He then "mooned" the creatures that stat-drained him. Shortly thereafter, he cast Fireball, twice, at point-blank range (there were a few hill giants irking him on the way outside the dungeon, about 10 feet away), failed both saves and died.

Another campaign: a leprechaun created a couple of enchanted black bananas that did 8d6 explosive damage (as per fireball spread) and gave them to the party members for their assistance in saving his pot of gold...

 

[CarlZog]

I think it would be the Ducks in Runequest.

Silly as hell.

Oh yeah! I always figured there was probably some great inside story behind their getting in there.

I'd give second place to Dave Hargrave's 'Thunderbunnies' from the Arduin Grimoire. Huge herds of foaming-at-the-mouth jack rabbits, roaming the plains like schools of terrestial piranha. I only used them once in game. The sound of their approach scared the hell out of the players, but they couldn't stop laughing after their characters saw the things. They sobered up a little when the bunnies began eating their horses.

CZ

 

[Desdichado]

I guess we're not really all that silly. I mean, we are, but the campaigns aren't. We had a pirate campaign where we all asked the DM over and over again if the NPCs we met had parrots on their shoulders and said things like "Arrrrr" and "Shiver me timbers" but I don't think that really counts.

What we really need is Rel to pop in and tell his story about polishing his rod in front of an NPC, though...

 

[babomb]

Our group was running through <i>Death in Freeport</i>. We were attacked the *spoilerYellowShieldsspoiler*, and took quite a beating. At the end, the entire party was into negative hit points, as were all of the enemies but one. I was playing a sorceror, and after the last party member was KOed, it suddenly occured to me: "My weasel familiar's still conscious." So the weasel climbs onto the roof of a building, jumps down, and bites the remaining enemy on the neck for 1 damage...bringing him to 0.

We laughed for about five minutes.

 

[DMauricio]

Oddest momet in a serious campaign

I'd have to say one I experienced was during a D&D campaign (back in 2nd ed)



We were travelling from one city to the next, as usual, in search of adventure.

Our group had happened upon a seemingly endless plain. Rolling grass about knee high to a halfling as far as the eye could see.
Not even a rock, or a tree or a hole in the ground.

We're travelling uneventfully, (and being the paranoid sods that we are, one of the party was always watching the skies - we had heard there were dragons in the area)
Next thing we know we've been asked by the DM for our AC etc, as something has just attacked us as we had just been attacked by a creature so cunning, if you stuck a tail on it you could call it a fox.

No it wasn't an invisible dragon, or even incorporeal undead. Or even a land shark or two.

We had been ambushed by ogres and not just one or two, but TEN of them.

We survived the battle, however, we couldn't find any trace of any hiding places. no holes in the ground, no caves, not even any disguises.

Afterwards we asked, how could a 10 foot ogre hide under less than a foot of grass.

The answer, they were COMMANDO ogres.

It still gives bad vibes to this day... (then again, there was the time we were playing V:tM and the party had to deal with a talking pig and a cardboard box... but that's another story)

Dom

 

[Saeviomagy]

Re: Oddest momet in a serious campaign

We had been ambushed by ogres and not just one or two, but TEN of them.

We survived the battle, however, we couldn't find any trace of any hiding places. no holes in the ground, no caves, not even any disguises.

Afterwards we asked, how could a 10 foot ogre hide under less than a foot of grass.

The answer, they were COMMANDO ogres.
Dom

We've had a similar one - in one of the pre-written darksun modules, our party were jumped while on a beach. A nice, flat beach.

We were jumped by 30-foot tall giants. 7 of them.

The encounter started out at melee distance.

Loony.

 

[krbrunn]

Ah this is a good topic, I am enjoying it.

All these stories remind me of all the blunders I have made while dming, which my players have all thoughtfully put on the internet for all to enjoy.

These all took place over the space of 2 years, mostly in the 2nd ed era.

The Bitter Gamers Club

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Last saturday evening, my Dragonstar Campaign:
The Human (Shintao)Monk trips a Dire Elephant.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

In the very first D&D campain I was in my DM had Gandalf and Aragorn as NPC's and we were asked to take "the ring" to the mountain and destroy it. (Yes it was as bad as it sounds) Now I was playing a 1/2Elf Ftr/Mu Level 2. We came upon Sauron and were getting the poo beat out of us. I cast my first spell ever (having been worried about never playing a mage before and messing up. I was very shy in my youth) I actualy caught him with Charm Person.

That's right a 2nd level character with a 1st level spell took out Sauron. I used him as a valet until the spell started to fade and then the group Paladin killed him in cold blood.

To give you an Idea of how bad the game was the paladin was given diety status for killing Sauron in cold blood.

In that same game we had no cleric for many levels and our elf decided to contact Pisss the rat god for aid (where that came from only a junkie can tell) well the elf gained the ability to pee on the forehead of dead party memnber and resurect them. leaving Piss' "mark" on thier foreheads.

 

[Wolfspirit]

My first time really DMing, at the very beginning of the game:

Me: As the dirt road you've been following comes over the rise of the hill, you see the town you've been traveling towards, which from this distance looks like a ramshackle castle.
Nekias: Hey guys, from this distance that place looks like a ramshackle castle.
<party>: Oooooh
Nekias: I say we enter through the gate
Anolis: I say we search for a secret enterance!
Enabrin: Oh, Are ye sure? I was thinking we should enter through the sewers!
Atrea: Sigh

Things only went further from there, later the next game when they were assaulting a bandit hideout, and found the leader's room.

Me: You find the largest room in the complex you've seen so far. Along one wall there is a large desk with a variety of writing implents on it and some papers. There is also a very expensive looking four post bed, with sheets that look like they might be silk, and a large pillow. At the foot of the bed, there is a small chest.
Anolis: Would you say that the bed is Master Work?
Me: Yes, I guess it would be.
Anolis: How about the pillow on the bed?
Me: *shrugs* Sure.
Anolis: Hey, guys, I found a Master Work Weapon!

He actually went on to use said pillow in combat situations, and when he got his next feat, he requested to get Exotic Weapon Profficiency: Pillow.



I swear one of these days I'm going to make a comic about that game when I learn how to draw.