Silliest thing you've seen in a serious campaign...
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2nd ed modified. Couple of second level characters, Mu/Th, Cl/Th. Members of the local thieves guild invaded the home of a magic merchant. The DM had run this same campaign with the same startup several times. My partner and where the only two players ever to check out the ale barrel in the corner. Find a relic magic item that was slotted for the campaigns first major villian, bringing us into conflict WAY sooner than normal. The mage identifies the item: Box of Lu-Chow. Can control, imprision, release, destory undead, gain three of four command words but don't know which does what She sends a ghoul to retreive it. The ghoul strikes and freezes the cleric. The mage panics, having exhausted his combat spells and uses the box. A minor artifact. Gets lucky and choose the "command undead" command word. Hm, what do I do with a ghoul. I know. Is there a cleric in town high enough level to auto destory ghouls? Yes the local Bishop. Command the ghoul to go to the Bishops house, knock on the door and do nothing else. Acolyte answers door, screamed, slams door. A few minutes later the Bishop opens the door and obliterates the ghoul. Newspaper headline the next morning: "Ghoul commits suicide". The campaign gets weird from there.
Argent Silvermage
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LMAO.Taluron said:
That's priceless!
Did I ever mention the time a Cleric of Zeus used a stampeed a Volcano and a blade barrier spell to sacrifice to Zeus?
The cleric had decided we needed Divine Intervention to kill off an Orc. (Yes.. Just an ordinary Orc. He thought it was much more than it was.) so we started a stampeed up the cone of a volcano and directed them therough the bladebarrier and the "slop" became burnt offerings. Zeus struck us all dead seems he is not amused by innovation.
Rel
Liquid Awesome
Joshua Dyal said:What we really need is Rel to pop in and tell his story about polishing his rod in front of an NPC, though...
How can I resist after I've been called out like this?
It's Rolemaster. I'm playing a Halfling Runemage. We're in our room at the inn where we're supposed to wait for the captain of the guard to come talk to us about some murders that have taken place in the town. All of us are highly suspicious that we're about to be accused of these murders that we most certainly didn't commit. In an effort to appear to be the sort of Halfling that isn't going to take a lot of accusatory crap from some backwoods sheriff, I pull out my Rod of Firebolts and assume my most intimidating posture:
"My character hops up on the bed and begins casually polishing his rod."
To this day, nobody remembers what happened after that.
Another unintentional funny happened in a later Rolemaster campaign. Our party was comprised of characters who had flirted with the wrong side of the law for most of their careers. But now the local constabulary had some dirt on us and we were being leaned on to help them root out a nasty band of thieves or face the consequences.
Not being the types to take blackmail laying down, we were contemplating double crossing the city guards as soon as we could. One of the more cautious members of the party was afraid that the guards might be scrying on us and discover our intended double cross. I caustically berated this character, sarcastically saying something like, "Oh yeah. These thugs that call themselves the city guard are really a bunch of mind readers."
Moments later, our contact from the city guard shows up to brief us on the plan for attacking the thieves stronghold. "Good day. I'm Captain Mental."
All of us sat there with our eyes the size of saucers, staring at the GM. "What?" he says. "CAPTAIN FREAKIN' MENTAL!!" we replied. Then he starts laughing. Turns out that the NPC is named "Captain Mentil" and any resemblance to a mind reader was entirely unintended.
Hilarity ensues.
billd91
Not your screen monkey (he/him) 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
I have two amusing stories from when I was running Oriental Adventures:
1. There was a wu-jen with an interesting sense of humor. He wasn't particularly powerful at the time. In a fight on the streets, a fruit cart got overturned and he saw his opportunity.
To spook and distract the party's opponents, he created an illusion of the fruit forming into a humanoid shape with big oranges for eyes, bunches of bananas for hands, and so on. The bad guys, of course, ran. But now I have the idea of a fruit golem that I just can't shake...
2. Another wu-jen in the campaign, this one also a ninja, had the tendency to unleash his Rain of Fire spell on enemies. One day, he unleashed it on an opponent who was not only not amused, but could also return the favor. Unfortunately, this wu-jen also had a wicker backpack with a substantial amount of gunpowder in it. The party scraped up pieces of him later for raising.
Not long after that, they encountered one of the Nine Immortals (specifically, the one responsible for the local agriculture) and asked for his help. He not only resurrected the wu-jen, he did it in his own agricultural way. He took the body part they had recovered, a toe, and planted it in the ground. He watered it. Then the wu-jen quickly grew a new body right out of the ground. I thought it was a nice special effect.
1. There was a wu-jen with an interesting sense of humor. He wasn't particularly powerful at the time. In a fight on the streets, a fruit cart got overturned and he saw his opportunity.
To spook and distract the party's opponents, he created an illusion of the fruit forming into a humanoid shape with big oranges for eyes, bunches of bananas for hands, and so on. The bad guys, of course, ran. But now I have the idea of a fruit golem that I just can't shake...
2. Another wu-jen in the campaign, this one also a ninja, had the tendency to unleash his Rain of Fire spell on enemies. One day, he unleashed it on an opponent who was not only not amused, but could also return the favor. Unfortunately, this wu-jen also had a wicker backpack with a substantial amount of gunpowder in it. The party scraped up pieces of him later for raising.
Not long after that, they encountered one of the Nine Immortals (specifically, the one responsible for the local agriculture) and asked for his help. He not only resurrected the wu-jen, he did it in his own agricultural way. He took the body part they had recovered, a toe, and planted it in the ground. He watered it. Then the wu-jen quickly grew a new body right out of the ground. I thought it was a nice special effect.
Henry
Autoexreginated
I introduced one of Larry Elmore's Gaggelzoomers (I called them Lightning Lizards) in my AD&D campaign. I thought it was a cool way for PC's to get from Point A to Point B.
The Driver, who had just received a stoneskin spell (the 2nd edition version of it) from a high-level wizard, was driving the lizard while on a wagon, and hit a curve badly and failed his "ride" check.
One botched die roll later, and he wound up UNDER a Gaggelzoomer, going 120 Miles per hour.
I figured he was a goner, until he reminded me of the stoneskins.
It clawed off 18 stoneskinsbefore with its back legs at high-speed before he got out from under the thing.
I never put another 'Zoomer in my games after that.
The Driver, who had just received a stoneskin spell (the 2nd edition version of it) from a high-level wizard, was driving the lizard while on a wagon, and hit a curve badly and failed his "ride" check.
One botched die roll later, and he wound up UNDER a Gaggelzoomer, going 120 Miles per hour.
I figured he was a goner, until he reminded me of the stoneskins.
It clawed off 18 stoneskinsbefore with its back legs at high-speed before he got out from under the thing.
I never put another 'Zoomer in my games after that.
Jhyrryl
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You know those moments in life when someone does something, and it's kinda funny and everyone chuckles, but then someone is thinking about the ramifactions, and mentions said ramifications, and everyone chuckles some more. The someone else does it, and it just starts snowballing from there. Eventually everyone's laughing so hard they can't breathe.
We had one of those moments a couple months back. We'd wiped out an entrenched area of this dungeon and were going through mop-up. The mage opened a door that led to a barracks. There were no other exits, but two of the pud fighters were in there still putting on their armor. Our fighter spring attacks and dropped one of the guys while they were still flat-footed, then the mage polymorphed the other one into a cow and shut the door.
Then the emotional ramifications of being that guy-turned-cow started. We were all in serious pain 10 minutes later, except for the DM who was somehow immune to this particular episode, which made it even funnier.
We had one of those moments a couple months back. We'd wiped out an entrenched area of this dungeon and were going through mop-up. The mage opened a door that led to a barracks. There were no other exits, but two of the pud fighters were in there still putting on their armor. Our fighter spring attacks and dropped one of the guys while they were still flat-footed, then the mage polymorphed the other one into a cow and shut the door.
Then the emotional ramifications of being that guy-turned-cow started. We were all in serious pain 10 minutes later, except for the DM who was somehow immune to this particular episode, which made it even funnier.
Geoff Watson
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Kaiju Kobold.
The players were annoyed that they got beat up by a kobold. It held the record for 'most damage in one hit' until last month when the barbarian that joined the group got a critical with his mercurial greatsword while raging and frenzying.
Geoff.
The players were annoyed that they got beat up by a kobold. It held the record for 'most damage in one hit' until last month when the barbarian that joined the group got a critical with his mercurial greatsword while raging and frenzying.
Geoff.
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