Something I miss

[Mallus]

There's an interesting sport involving pigs in Curse of the Crimson Throne that has a certain ridiculousness.

The phrase "a certain ridiculousness" sums up exactly what I think D&D should aspire to.

 

[Oni]

A little humor is ok, but I've always been of the oppinion that when it comes to table top gaming trying to be funny is not a great plan, the players will provide more than enough laughs on their own. That said I do like weird, odd and whimsical, it just tends to be better when it's not striving for a punchline.

 

[Dog Moon]

I agree with you!

I think Mimics make great comic monsters. The last time my PCs encountered one (in the Age of Worms AP), I named it Bob the Mimic and had it surrender quickly, then beg to be the party fighter's follower. It provided a nice bit of comic relief to a campaign that was otherwise pretty serious and grim.


Ken

Huh, last time one of my characters found a Mimic, it became a bedroll and attached itself to my backpack. We fed it exotic monsters it wouldn't have been able to eat on its own cause it couldn't have defeated them and in return, it protected my stuff and occasionally attacked someone trying to gack me in the back.

 

[ppaladin123]

H3: pyramid of shadows (I think that is the title) is supposedly whimsical, random, sort of off-the-wall crazy. I read a review of it linked from the main page and the reviewer said it seemed to be a tribute to some of those wacky old-school adventures.

 

[Henry]

We'll have humor arise from our session naturally from time to time, but we don't aim to put anything overtly humorous in our games, since all the OOC stuff sometime leaves us barely able to game as it is.

One time, our whole table mishearing one player's use of "blast disks" had us stopped for thirty minutes one time, but that's not a story for polite company...

 

[Lackhand]

H3: pyramid of shadows (I think that is the title) is supposedly whimsical, random, sort of off-the-wall crazy. I read a review of it linked from the main page and the reviewer said it seemed to be a tribute to some of those wacky old-school adventures.

Whimsy is definitely a bit strong. It's random & crazy, maybe even wacky -- but more funny "uh oh" than funny "hah hah".

 

[Hussar]

I'm looking more for funny absurd rather than funny ha ha. I agree you can't really force that. Trying to tell jokes with the game tends to fall flat so often. But, whimsical and weird is always fun.

 

[Korgoth]

I'm looking more for funny absurd rather than funny ha ha. I agree you can't really force that. Trying to tell jokes with the game tends to fall flat so often. But, whimsical and weird is always fun.

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[URL="http://jrients.tripod.com/xylarthen/uxt.pdf"][I][/I]http://jrients.tripod.com/xylarthen/uxt.pdf[/url]

Warning! It may get you into Superior Forms of D&D.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I usually don't put humour into a session, as in having something humours show up in the game. I simply let it come naturally from well a bunch of friends sitting around having fun, guaranteed there will be atleast some laughs.

I do also do themed one-off games for stuff like Christmas and Halloween.

 

[Edgewood]

It's funny you mention humour (I spelled it the Canadian way) but I also was going through my collection and discovered my collection of Murphy's Rules. man those were funny. I love the random zombie reaction table

roll d6
1. stare
2. stagger about
3. stare blankly
4. a limb falls off, it stares
5. stagger continuously into a wall
6. mutter and then stare and then stagger...into a wall...and then a limb falls off

There is a pile of rules jokes in this compilation that I forgot just how ludicrous some of the rules were. Too funny!!!