jollyninja
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what is the most bizzare thing that has happened in one of your games? in or out of character.
strangest thing ever?
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Crothian
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I was running a game for my roommate and some friends every Friday night. It's a weekly game. In game my roommate's character found The Book of Ascension. It's a major Artifact that gives precise instruction on how to become a diety. The book is very intelligent and will only allow certain people to even read it. Each page is a step towards godhood and there area few thousand pages. My roommates character did not want to become a good or even want the book. But he didn't trust anyone else with the book (the bad guy wanted it and there was no place safer for the book then with the PCs). Well, the book choose his character to become a god and his character refused to read the book. For about 4 sesions I had the book appear in place of other books he was reading, it would tyalk to him, basically anything I could think of to get him to read it. He would draw his sword and find himself holding the book instead. But in game he kept resisting, he did a good job of role playing it. So, I decide to increase the presure.
Sunday afternoon we are sitting watching a movie. I look over at him and say "read Me". He looks at me really wioerd. So, I repeat it. I was playing the part of the book, even though we weren't gaming. To show him the pressure the book put on his chatacter i did this sort of thing for a week straight. I called him at work and after he picked up the phone I'd just say "read Me." and hang up. I did get him to start reading the book, though.
I don't know if that's a strange thing or just proving how strange I am. I was only able to do that because we are good friuends and I knew it wouldn't get to him personally.
Sunday afternoon we are sitting watching a movie. I look over at him and say "read Me". He looks at me really wioerd. So, I repeat it. I was playing the part of the book, even though we weren't gaming. To show him the pressure the book put on his chatacter i did this sort of thing for a week straight. I called him at work and after he picked up the phone I'd just say "read Me." and hang up. I did get him to start reading the book, though.
I don't know if that's a strange thing or just proving how strange I am. I was only able to do that because we are good friuends and I knew it wouldn't get to him personally.
Negative Zero
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so the game started to creep into his real life? ... i'd say that's pretty darn strange! lol then again, maybe you're right. maybe it's just you, Crothian. LOL
Omegium
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One thing we once had.
We were fighting a couple of medusa's, and I was playing an archer. One of the medusa's shoots an arrow at me, and the dm rolls for the attack: 20. Potential crit. 20. Potential death at once. (We used that variant rule). 17. Hit. Ok, so long for my character. I had a pretty good AC, so we calculated this had a chance of about 1 in 1000.
That is possible, just bad luck for me. But than it happened: revenge on the evil medusa!
One of my party members, attacks the medusa with his guisarme. with another die, he rolls for his attacks: 20, 20, 19. Another death at once. The chance of this happening, is just, very improbable. About one in a million.
Maybe the golden heart was nearby
Damn, I wish something that improbable would happen to me at the lotery
We were fighting a couple of medusa's, and I was playing an archer. One of the medusa's shoots an arrow at me, and the dm rolls for the attack: 20. Potential crit. 20. Potential death at once. (We used that variant rule). 17. Hit. Ok, so long for my character. I had a pretty good AC, so we calculated this had a chance of about 1 in 1000.
That is possible, just bad luck for me. But than it happened: revenge on the evil medusa!
One of my party members, attacks the medusa with his guisarme. with another die, he rolls for his attacks: 20, 20, 19. Another death at once. The chance of this happening, is just, very improbable. About one in a million.
Maybe the golden heart was nearby
Damn, I wish something that improbable would happen to me at the lotery
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Zappo
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Talking about improbable things... we were playing Call of Cthulhu. One of the characters had been captrued by cultists and was brought before Nyarlathothep itself, in one of his many horrible aspects. The player makes the sanity roll, rolls 1d10, and comes with a 1.
Nyarlathothep: "Blaaah!"
PC: "Hmm..."
Then, big N turns to another horrible form. The player fails the new sanity roll, and a gleeing DM tells him to roll 1d100. The player obeys and promptly rolls another 1.
Nyarlathothep: "Gaaah!"
PC: "How ugly"
At this point, a frustrated cultist bonked the PC in the head and brought him back to his cell. We even managed to rescue him afterwards.
Nyarlathothep: "Blaaah!"
PC: "Hmm..."
Then, big N turns to another horrible form. The player fails the new sanity roll, and a gleeing DM tells him to roll 1d100. The player obeys and promptly rolls another 1.
Nyarlathothep: "Gaaah!"
PC: "How ugly"
At this point, a frustrated cultist bonked the PC in the head and brought him back to his cell. We even managed to rescue him afterwards.
I once had my players spend two hours (real time) in a stuck elevator, playing the Super Mario Bros music as elevator music. Drove them nuts.
Also, we finish all our Gemini (dark fantasy) sessions by playing a theme from a western movie whose name I can't recall right now. I'm sure you've all heard it, though.
Gemini is also the game were we spend most of our time running away from fights. Whenever we get into a fight, someone starts losing body parts. My PC lost his left arm in the first fight he was in... Gemini is DEADLY!
Also, we finish all our Gemini (dark fantasy) sessions by playing a theme from a western movie whose name I can't recall right now. I'm sure you've all heard it, though.
Gemini is also the game were we spend most of our time running away from fights. Whenever we get into a fight, someone starts losing body parts. My PC lost his left arm in the first fight he was in... Gemini is DEADLY!
Henry@home
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Weirdest thing? OK...
AD&D, 2nd Ed. Part of the party (two mult-classed rogues)has been chartered as official head of the thieves' guild of a major city. (the players decide one is boss, and other is right-hand man.) The party's PALADIN has been elected as head of the city constabulary. (Picture this!)
The thieves' guild has undertaken a mission to rescue a rather stupid, yet important rogue from the Constabulary. Because of his crimes, this NPC rogue was sentenced to death by bow and arrow firing squad.
The two thieves' guild PC's has arranged the whole thing: they successfully sneak this past the Paladin Constable, they have bribed or replaced the guards on the firing squad, etc. Even to the point of "Right-hand man" being one of the firing squad. The plan is to shoot him with such precision it LOOKS like it killed him.
The paladin presides over the execution. All is ready; the priests of the thieving god are in wait to heal him, the "death wagon is ready to proceed down the streets as a parading example of those who commit such heinous crimes; and the archers are nocked and ready. The paladin gives the order to fire...
And Mr. "Right-Hand Man" Rolls a 20 and confirms a crit.
He deals so much damage that the NPC is killed outright by HIS arrow.
Everything went according to plan after that, and his next guild dues just got raised substantially.
AD&D, 2nd Ed. Part of the party (two mult-classed rogues)has been chartered as official head of the thieves' guild of a major city. (the players decide one is boss, and other is right-hand man.) The party's PALADIN has been elected as head of the city constabulary. (Picture this!)
The thieves' guild has undertaken a mission to rescue a rather stupid, yet important rogue from the Constabulary. Because of his crimes, this NPC rogue was sentenced to death by bow and arrow firing squad.
The two thieves' guild PC's has arranged the whole thing: they successfully sneak this past the Paladin Constable, they have bribed or replaced the guards on the firing squad, etc. Even to the point of "Right-hand man" being one of the firing squad. The plan is to shoot him with such precision it LOOKS like it killed him.
The paladin presides over the execution. All is ready; the priests of the thieving god are in wait to heal him, the "death wagon is ready to proceed down the streets as a parading example of those who commit such heinous crimes; and the archers are nocked and ready. The paladin gives the order to fire...
And Mr. "Right-Hand Man" Rolls a 20 and confirms a crit.
He deals so much damage that the NPC is killed outright by HIS arrow.
Everything went according to plan after that, and his next guild dues just got raised substantially.
Crothian said:
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