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

[Saeviomagy]

Re: Re: Re: Oddest momet in a serious campaign

Was this by chance on the shore of the SEA of SILT?

Which isn't a sea, just a gigantic silt quicksand basin - which the giants live nearby. Believe it or not, if they popped out of the silt, I could see it.

Well, we'd just come out of the silt, and were told that the giants came from inland.

 

[marshaldwm]

Tea, Tarrasque or me?

Situation:

This is in 2E, and the party was up on a cloud island, trying to get into the castle (I dunno why) but the guardian of the castle is the Tarrasque. Teh party is of course terrified, and trying to figure out how to get by it. Ideae one, run far away and teleport back.(Pretty normal) The second idea was to pull a road Runner with it.
Of course they tried idea #2. So up scoem the fastest memevber of the party who taunts the Tarrasque and gets it to chase him(not hard) .So they run for a bit, right towards the edge, the theif getting closer and closer to the Tarrasque. So finally at the edge, the theif makes a sharp right, and down down down goes the Tarrasque.

Of course it did not die, but they sure got rid of it.

Marshaldwm

 

[Phebius]

Re: Tea, Tarrasque or me?

Situation:

This is in 2E, and the party was up on a cloud island, trying to get into the castle (I dunno why) but the guardian of the castle is the Tarrasque. Teh party is of course terrified, and trying to figure out how to get by it. Ideae one, run far away and teleport back.(Pretty normal) The second idea was to pull a road Runner with it.
Of course they tried idea #2. So up scoem the fastest memevber of the party who taunts the Tarrasque and gets it to chase him(not hard) .So they run for a bit, right towards the edge, the theif getting closer and closer to the Tarrasque. So finally at the edge, the theif makes a sharp right, and down down down goes the Tarrasque.

Of course it did not die, but they sure got rid of it.

Marshaldwm

That was funny.

 

[Dugite]

reasonable level group with a dead thief and no real cleric.
It went something like this

fighter Well fellas have we got enough gold to raise him.
mage Err let me see, just i think.

Party go up to local temple .
Ask the local priest for a raise dead and say something like this.
Fighter "Hey how much to raise my thief friend and can you do it now were in a hurry."
The priest was insulted by this and anyway its only a filthy thief and tells them to go stuff themselves down a trolls throat.

The intrepid adventures think hey lets go and get a reincarnation
the wizard can polymorph other.
he will be like new.
They were equally tactfull with the druids and ended up with a were ferret.

 

[Crass]

I'd already posted for a different campaign.

For one of my current campaigns: On 01/01/2003, our party cleric, GK, rolled a "1" for a ride skill and fell off a phantom steed, in a combat situation. It was the first die he had rolled this year. He proceeded to fall several hundred feet, suffering 60~ish points of damage. He then rolled another "1" - his second die roll of 2003 - for his massive damage roll...

BTW, GK's dice rolling has proceeded apace. He died subsequently in a sacrificial rite and was transformed into an amulet of natural armour (+5!). His follow-up character again died, and needed deity intervention to be raised again.

A different camapign, a different player. He rolled a "1" on a fireball save (and died as a result), then lost all (!) items due to abysmal dice rolling. When he was resurrected, he had to "borrow" a loincloth...

 

[hong]

I'd already posted for a different campaign.

For one of my current campaigns: On 01/01/2003, our party cleric, GK, rolled a "1" for a ride skill and fell off a phantom steed, in a combat situation. It was the first die he had rolled this year. He proceeded to fall several hundred feet, suffering 60~ish points of damage. He then rolled another "1" - his second die roll of 2003 - for his massive damage roll...

First natural 1 was for a Tumble check to reduce falling damage, actually. I posted about it at the time:

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35590

BTW, GK's dice rolling has proceeded apace. He died subsequently in a sacrificial rite and was transformed into an amulet of natural armour (+5!). His follow-up character again died, and needed deity intervention to be raised again.

Good ol' GK, always good for laffs. Which reminds me, I've still got to prep for this Sunday....

 

[nightmage61]

OK, I have got to chime in on this one.

Several years ago in 2nd edition campaign I was running a Gnome illusionist / thief. Our party was traveling through a dust desert. The dust was so fine it filled small depressions and holes in the landscape. For some reason or other our party could not identify where these dust filled pits were, and if you fell in it was sort of like quick sand. So the party comes up with the bright idea to have the Gnome, the smallest one in the party, walk in front with a rope tied to him. The idea being the Gnome would fall in and the party would pull him up and avoid the dust pit the Gnome discovered. Worked OK, but we latter discovered that some of the pits were home to nasty creatures that think Gnomes are just absolutely tasty. The first time I was pulled out of the pit with a mean nasty nipping at my heels the jokes about Gnome fishing commenced and still continue to this day.

 

[Mystic_23]

There are a couple of things.
My regular DM got into a kick where he wanted potions to be different. So, one healing potion we got had been opened, and had partially dried. Therefore, it had some chewy bits that you had to chew to get the effect.

Another thing is, at the time, we tended to "try out" potions on anyone who happened to fall unconcious. We would pour a potion down that person's throat. Well, we found a potion, and soon after one of the group fell unconcious in the battle. So, we popped open the potion and poured it down his gullet. Nothing seemed to happen, so we just went on.
When that character finally woke up, the DM told him that he had a funny taste in his mouth. Like urine. Apparently, a goblin happened across the potion, and drank it down...then 'tinkled' in the bottle.

 

[Malicene]

I think it would be the Ducks in Runequest.

Silly as hell.

A friend did , his name was : One-eye Quak , he was kind of ranger looking like a pirat with one eye and a patch (for sure ), the better ?? He saved the party... once ! a party of Hero, with a troll priset of Humakth and the like... so funny ! he killed a few broos alone and saved everybody , Quak ! Quak !

 

[Malicene]

double post