Sleep Deprived Gaming Antecdotes

[Moe Ronalds]

Most people have probably, at one time or another, gamed when they were too tired to think sensibly. This can often lead to dwarven clown ninjas, rubber chicken zombies, and the like. Thus, I started this thread for anyone interested to post anything particularly odd they've seen when gaming tired. I'll post a few of mine to get started.

Things that have popped out of random crates:

Pure Uranium

Undead Clowns

A Tape recorder playing: Loving You Is Easy 'Cause You're Beautiful

A glittery white disco suit and personal strobe light for each character

Zombies chucking half eaten dwarves (okay, they were actually ON the crates...)

An unfathomable ammount of Clorox Bleach

7 bags of white rice

Other things I have seen:

Vampire wannabes named Ga Thluzer riding unicicles in dark alley ways

Super-spies named Bun, Joe Bun, who for some reason can manage to buy martinis in the local watering hole.

Zombie Cows in meat lockers


and any more when I remember them.

 

[blackshirt5]

A PC muttered, after being faced with legions of undead dressed in birghtly colored outfits, remarked, "Ok, I can deal with the living dead. I can deal with clowns. But hella clowns, on hella oversized shoes, with hella rotting flesh, in a hella dungeon? Man. That's just hella evil."

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I had a sleep deprived moment once. We were playing in a very complicated campaign in the FR, and I had patiently sat and watched everyone run around after the different plots and NPC's, carefully writing everyone down and their possible links together.

I ended up with a piece of paper that looked like a spiderweb with dyslexia. At about 1am, I held it up and said, "Well, this is what I think is going on..." Everything just stopped for a moment...

 

[DM_Matt]

7th grade. 3am. Deck of Many Things.

'nuff said

 

[Drawmack]

One of the mansions from Final Fantasy popping up in Ravenloft, we have a fighter running around in blue jeans, tee-shirt and a learther jacket sticking up his thumbs and saying heeeey.

Elminster's Tower - In Ravenloft


Zombie Cats - not pathers and such the house cat variety

 

[Viking Bastard]

Undead Clowns

Been there.

Zombies chucking half eaten dwarves

Except that they were chucking midgets, yeah been there too.

7 bags of white rice

Barrels of rice in my case. The players drowned a guy in rice once.

Zombie Cows in meat lockers

Zombie cows are a classic.

But all these were introduced into games well before midnight.

When I get sleepy I usually throw in stuff like bands of orcs and dragons. Stuff that doesn't need thought.

 

[Cedric]

Champions game...our base was under attack from the bad guys...when the building across from ours dropped a section of wall to reveal Battleship Guns that started blasting away at us.

The GM later wound back time to make it like that never happened, jokingly threatening to never run the game again if anyone mentioned battleship guns.

Cedric

p.s. On a side note, Battleship Guns managed to somehow get mentioned with some regularity from that point on.

 

[dave_o]

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This was more of a combination of heinous smart-assitude, as well as sleep deprivation.

The party was making their way through a rather typical Dwarven trade road, right through a mountain. The passage was a pretty non-descript, square passage with waystations and stores every so often.

Thanks to the Spring flood season, there was about an inch of water in the passage, as well.

After a while, one of the players remarked: "Hey, if this is a Dwarven passage, why is it 15 feet tall?"

I explained that the passage was meant to be able to hold wagons, and things, as well.

But, the players decided it would be impossible for Dwarves to build anything higher than them.

Thus - the Hydroplaning Dwarven Stiltsmen were born.

 

[Number47]

Back when I was younger and gamed a lot more, I actually came up with a game that we ONLY played when everyone was too tired. I called it the jester game. The characters that I remember were the fool, the leperchaun (note spelling), the weregamer and the narcomancer. The narcomancer was played by the guy who always fell asleep at midnight when we were still gaming. Every time he mumbled in his sleep, a random spell would go off in-game. The fool could cast zero-level spells, which had a funny meaning in 2nd edition. One example was "Sudden Levitation", you could only levitate downwards, at a high rate of speed, by stepping off of a height. The leperchaun left a little trail of body parts, but instantly regenerated them.

The adventure they went on involved going to the ice maiden bar and fighting the ice maidens, who used frost giant stats. There they encountered Hot Toddy, who used fire giant stats. I seem to recall that the narcomancer accidently scribed Explosive Runes on the bar in his sleep.

 

[Clear Dragon]

A monkey knife-fighting the party's first level halfling rogue.