That's So Crazy...

[Pbartender]

...It Just Might Work!

Ever come up with one of those excessively goofy but extraordinarily innovative ideas?

The other at the table, as our party wizard was about to be dropped into a 200 foot deep chasm by a dragon, we suddenly came up with the idea of a Warforged with a built-in Immovable Rod (just attach it to him with some Sovereign Glue).

Activate it, and he'd be well... An Immovable Warforged!

Oh, the possibilities!

Okay... I guess you had to be there.

 

[wolff96]

The closest I came was in a recent game where my character was being slowly nickel-and-dimed to death by a thief using a very expensive returning dagger. Finally getting tired of him pursuing and attacking me each round, I turned around and readied an action for his next attack.

When he threw at me again, I took my readied action -- dispelling the dagger and throwing myself in front of it. I succeeded at the Dispel Check (thankfully, since I couldn't have survived the sneak attack and magical abilities of the dagger) and then threw it into my pack.

When I flew away the next round, I left behind a very steamed rogue/assassin-type. Did I mention it was worth a LOT of money?

 

[Umbran]

Well, there was one session, long ago, when I uttered the words, "Don't worry, the purple worm will break my fall...."

The other really wacky things that come to mind weren't from D&D, and so would require a whole lot of rules-explanation to make them understandable.

 

[Clueless]

in a superhero game with hints of sliders in it...

"So, let me get this straight - in order to stabilize this empire in the Legend of the Five Rings setting... you're... going to walk in and claim to be sent by the gods to bring peace while they determine the new emperor?"

"Yes."

"... you are aware that none of you uh... look like you're exactly 'local', right?"

"Yes."

"... your 'Emperor' only speaks German!!"

"... so? It's the language of the gods. It's not like we're gonna let him talk anyways - he's just supposed to sit there and look pretty."

It worked. It worked far too well.

 

[Darklone]

Reminds me of a golden shiny robot being levitated by some Jedi boy...

 

[Dykstrav]

In a game I've been playing recently, the group is composed of Thayans working for the church of Gargauth. We're on a mission to find a mystic herb when we come across a Rashemi village...

Since our bard actually had a chef follower, I really wanted to try to tell everyone that we were cheese merchants. Evil-aligned Gargauth-worshipping cheese merchants from Thay, but only cheese merchants with no sinister intentions. Hey, my cleric of Gargauth has a maxed out Bluff and access to the Trickery domain, might as well use it.

The Rashemi witch there actually bought it until the wererat rogue decided that he was bored and shifted into hybrid form right there at the town's gates.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

In a Wheel of Time d20 game, the party was trying to sneak close to a barn where some prisoners were being held under guard by soldiers from an invading Seanchan force.

There was a drainage ditch at the edge of the field in which the PCs were hiding, when a patrol headed over in their direction.

The only chance we had to distract them was for my character - a cavalry soldier known for being reckless - to stagger out, feigning intoxication and claiming to have lost his horse.

A few lucky Bluff checks later, we were saved!

 

[Drawmack]

In a 2e ravenloft game one of the characters got infected with lycanthropy and we found out when she started to change while my rogue was on watch. So I slipped a bag of holding up to her chin, tied it tightly and tossed her into the woods. I never liked her anyway but the stupid paladin of Ezra insisted we retrieve her in the morning.

 

[shilsen]

2e game, where we ran into a dragon which was much too powerful for our group to take. My PC, knowing it was either everyone dying or maybe just him dying, reached into his pocket, pulled something out and ran up to the dragon, yelling insults. The dragon promptly swallowed him.

Which wounded him critically, but not enough to kill him automatically, so he was able to activate the item he'd pulled out.

Which was a Daern's Instant Fortress.