Stupidest things PCs/DMs have done

[Lalalei2001]

In combat, Ahlia was dragged into a giant frog's mouth. Urge, the group's barbarian, saw her bare feet dangling from it's mouth. Thoughtlessly, in an attempt to save her he thrust his sword into the frog. Impaling her in the process.

Another time, my friend's character jumped of a cliff after drinking what she thought was a potion of flight. It wasn't. Dwarves can't fly.

 

[Fenes]

Not really stupid, but amusing:

In a Shadowrn game, one PC had been hit by a series of attacks. Then, one man appeared in front of the door of the PC, offering to explain the reason behind this. The PC, being a mage, cast "Detect Truth", and interrogated the man. He got everything - a cabal of vampires planning to sacrifice him for something his father did, people opposing the cabal, among them vampires, even locations. And the man was always telling the truth. The only thing the PC didn't ask during the 20 minutes the talk took was on which side the man was on, the cabal or the other group - and so he walked straight into a trap the man had prepared when he followed him to the man's car.

 

[Brother Richard]

My Fighter Friend

My group came upon a 150 foot cliff. Everyone searched for the way dowm accept the full plate and sheild fighter, who attempted to climb down the 150 foot cliff with a 50 foot rope. He failde due to his armor and he would have died from 100 feet anyway due to the rock spikes at the bottom. The ranger saved him by shooting with an arrow attached to a rope. We knocked him to -9, but we pulled him back up. Later we found a path down.

My Inquisitor of Azuth didn't want to spend his 100 thousand platinum at level 5, and se was seperated from Andrina his party member. To get to Andrina she bought a broomstick from a gut in Calimport who wanted to kill Andrina due to her setting free the evil efreet. The broomstick automatically takes you to Andrina and once it finds her, it turns into a metearswarm and hits her. I did it. Andrina was knocked to -10 and died.

 

[Lalalei2001]

Lance, a Mechwarrior, was sent into a old abandoned factory to investigate. He forgot to turn on Image Enhancement and stumbled into something big, say a 100 ton Atlas. He engaged his jump jets for a Death From Above only to be reminded he was in a building and falling after hitting his Panther's head on the ceiling. The Atlas powered up, walked over, and kicked his cockpit in.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Lance, a Mechwarrior, was sent into a old abandoned factory to investigate. He forgot to turn on Image Enhancement and stumbled into something big, say a 100 ton Atlas. He engaged his jump jets for a Death From Above only to be reminded he was in a building and falling after hitting his Panther's head on the ceiling. The Atlas powered up, walked over, and kicked his cockpit in.

That's freaking hilarious! Don't they screen Mech pilots for gross incompetence before they entrust them with equipment worth several countries?

 

[Lalalei2001]

Apparently not.

 

[Herobizkit]

GURPS Post-Apocalyptic homebrew. One hero finds a multi-warhead rocket launcher, along with a cache of assorted warheads, including one mini-nuke. I can't remember the damage for the weapon, but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere between 60-100d6 in a several mile radius; in GURPS, you get your Health score in HP, so an average hero might have 10 HP and a really tough one MIGHT have 14 or 15 HP. He loads the launcher up to full capacity, all excited that we have an actual nuke, "just in case".

We play through a couple of days' worth of game time. We come upon a small city, mostly intact. We decide to get greedy, break into a military installation, and try and steal some swag to use for barter. Naturally, we get caught, and after a short chase we are forced to barricade ourselves into an office building, still fairly populated. We fight from floor to floor, fending off troops in Power Armor (personal mecha). We are pretty liberal with our rocket payload, and we're definitely fighting a losing battle.

THEN, we get near the top of the building, and a heavily-armored atttack helicopter finds us and starts spraying the entire floor with machine-gun fire. In a fit of panic, our hero says "F*** it! I unload the rest of my missiles on the helicopter!"

Guess we ALL forgot about the nuke... GM included.

WHUMPF.

 

[Evilhalfling]

My group came upon a 150 foot cliff. Everyone searched for the way dowm accept the full plate and sheild fighter, who attempted to climb down the 150 foot cliff with a 50 foot rope. He failde due to his armor and he would have died from 100 feet anyway due to the rock spikes at the bottom. The ranger saved him by shooting with an arrow attached to a rope. We knocked him to -9, but we pulled him back up. Later we found a path down.

very funny

My Inquisitor of Azuth didn't want to spend his 100 thousand platinum at level 5, and se was seperated from Andrina his party member. To get to Andrina she bought a broomstick from a gut in Calimport who wanted to kill Andrina due to her setting free the evil efreet. The broomstick automatically takes you to Andrina and once it finds her, it turns into a metearswarm and hits her. I did it. Andrina was knocked to -10 and died.

um really? this sounds like stupid things DMs Do. meteor swarm broom at level 5?
what is the cost of disern location + broom of flying + 1 charge meteor swarm? ALL to kill a mid lvl PC?

 

[Ghendar]

Stupidest thing a PC has done eh?

Well, this one guy ran his fighter type right into the waiting maw of a Century Worm.

Same guy with same PC but at a much lower level decided he wanted his character to go rabbit hunting while the rest of us checked out a cave. We're in there getting our asses handed to us by a troll and company but he bagged us a tasty rabbit dinner! Moron

 

[xstarrx]

"So what's in the box?"

"A shocker lizard"

"I'm going to poke at it with my dagger"---BZZZZZZT