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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 5267968" data-attributes="member: 4720">Not really.  I've run into "D&D is serious business" throughout my time playing.  More of a player issue than a rules issue.  And you don't need wacky monsters to have silly fun.  Some of the biggest laugh-until-you-hurt moments have come when we're fighting nothing more interesting or wacky than a bunch of orcs.IME, if you have a "serious bidness" person at your table, things like the belt of gender reassignment is just going to lead to pouting and temper tantrums, and is no more likely to lead to hilarity than anything else.  In fact, blatant silliness within the game rules tends to create headaches and endless kvetching that no one wants to deal with.  On the other hand, if you have genuinely funny people at your table who know how to blow off steam, the most generic Tolkienesque encounter can become a riot.</blockquote>