Things Said That Stop the Game Dead in its Track

[MGibster]

So there we were, playing our 5th edition Greyhawk campaign, when we veer off topic and start chatting about fantasy movies from the 1980s.

Player #5: I liked Conan the Destroyer better than Conan the Barbarian.
Player #4: Agreed.
Me: What the $#@%?
Player #1: Yeah, what the $#@%?
Me: The sequel was a huge disappointment. They were shooting for a PG rating and toned down all the great violence and nudity from the first movie.
Player #1: Was it as bad as Red Sonja?
Me: Look, I didn't have any expectations with Red Sonja! I won't say Conan the Destroyer was the worst fantasy movie, but it was disappointing because the first movie was so good.

It took us about twenty minutes to get back to the game.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

a few months ago while in the feywild, the party met a feystag - one of a mated pair (the other had fallen under the charms of an unseelie nymph). the one they met was helen, and the male was charlie.

as helen made her plea, i made the horrible mistake of calling him fey charlie.

we laughed for 30 minutes straight.

 

[Weiley31]

No joke, I legit thought that WAS Conan (the character from the last two movies) when Arnold popped up in Red Sonja. Especially considering his character was royalty so it made sense to little me that it was King Conan.

I still headcanon that it is indeed king Conan in Red Sonja.

 

[GrimCo]

It's Conan with filed off serial numbers. If i remember correctly, they didn't have rights to use Conan in Red Sonia movies, even though it was same studio that did all 3 movies. Kalidor sounds similar and in all other aspects, Arnie just plays Conan.

TBH i don't think that movie was bad, although last time i watched it i was 13-14, so it has that childhood nostalgia tint.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Back in 3rd Edition we would get incredibly sidetracked talking about the spell Stone to Flesh.

"The spell also can convert a mass of stone into a fleshy substance. Such flesh is inert and lacking a vital life force unless a life force or magical energy is available. (For example, this spell would turn a stone golem into a flesh golem, but an ordinary statue would become a corpse.) You can affect an object that fits within a cylinder from 1 foot to 3 feet in diameter and up to 10 feet long or a cylinder of up to those dimensions in a larger mass of stone."

We would spend a good hour of the game trying to figure out what happened if you cast it on a stone bridge, or a cylinder of stone in a ceiling. Imagining it sliding down like a can of cranberry sauce!

 

[aco175]

Back in the 90s someone would suggest playing a quick game of MagicTG before we played D&D.

 

[Weiley31]

Back in 3rd Edition we would get incredibly sidetracked talking about the spell Stone to Flesh.

"The spell also can convert a mass of stone into a fleshy substance. Such flesh is inert and lacking a vital life force unless a life force or magical energy is available. (For example, this spell would turn a stone golem into a flesh golem, but an ordinary statue would become a corpse.) You can affect an object that fits within a cylinder from 1 foot to 3 feet in diameter and up to 10 feet long or a cylinder of up to those dimensions in a larger mass of stone."

We would spend a good hour of the game trying to figure out what happened if you cast it on a stone bridge, or a cylinder of stone in a ceiling. Imagining it sliding down like a can of cranberry sauce!

Flesh Golem Bridges.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Flesh Golem Bridges.

I just imagine the Be Our Guest scene from Beauty and the Beast but everything is made of weird flesh.

 

[payn]

While Conan The Barbarian was clearly a better film, Conan The Destroyer is an excellent D&D like film and I can see how folks might be in that frame of mind while playing D&D.