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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5099320" data-attributes="member: 20741">Oh GAWD... all from 1st Ed AD&DBURRA : (ca. 1980)  On a DM's world set in Zelazny's  Amber, the PCs were fighting some urban warfare resistance against an occupying invader. One PC uses Polymorph Self to become.... a Giant Pink Bunny who acts in a street play to lampoon the invaders. Other PCs follow suit, polymorphing into giant rabbits as the PCs urban resistance army takes shape.Some player names the PCs group and BURAA is born: The Bunny Underground Resistance Army of Amber."By Kos and Magni": (ca. 1981) SomethingorOther-the-Dwarf has The Invulnerable Coat of Arnd, Girdle and Gauntlets and TWO Hammers of Might, named Kos and Magni."By Kos and Magni!" says SomethingorOther during one session - and BOTH gods show up at the mention of their names."Where's the Giants": (ca. 1981) Same SomethingorOther-the-Dwarf jumps down a bottomless shaft to reach the realm of the Giants. Wearing the Invulnearble Coat of Arnd and being consequently immune to physical damage, Dwarf creates a Looney Tunes crater at bottom of bottomless pit. Climbing out of crater, the Dwarf declares angrily" "Where's the GIANTS" . Everything wrong with the mechanics of 1st edition in one paragraph. The Aaracockran: (ca. 1981)  A 18th level thief with Mournblade AND Stormbringer does an invisible flying backstab from great height on some Greater ArchDuke of Hell on his homeplane, utterly anihilating the Archduke with damage exceeding like.... 300+ hits or something like that with one single attack. Archduke dies. Campaign (same one that Somethingorother-the-Dwarf is in) goes down in gaming circle lore as the "Picnics to the Lower Planes" Campaign. It was utterly silly. Nearly thirty years later, it still makes me smile and chuckle.Lightning Bolt!: (ca. 1981) Game is taking place in my parents' basement which is illuminated by a cheap chandelier affixed to the ceiling. One of those five-bulbs-in-one-things from the 70s.During late-night play session, the Deck of Many Things makes it quarterly appearance. Some monster appears to attack the party. Player playing the Magic-User has a tennis racket in his hand that is lying around the basement. Shouting out "lightning bolt!!" as he points at the DM excitedly... at the same time he sweeps his other arm upward...player forgets he is holding a tennis racket and DESTROYS the chandelier, sending blue electric flashes in the room for a split-second before the basement room plunges into total darkness.TOTAL SILENCE as we wait breathlessly to see if my Mom heard (of course she did. It was LOUD). Somebody pipes up: "Holy Sh$t. Did you cast Darkness too?"   The. Most. Embarassing. Gaming. Incident. Ever.: (Saturday, April 10, 1982) Player in a Middle Earth campaign rolls high for his race option and is granted the singular privilege of playing a Noldor Elf. Player is deliriously happy with his character. Bree is attacked by the forces of the Witch King of Arnor, (for some reason) and the town burns to the ground. Instead of playing out the epic Battle of Bree, a simple saving throw of 3 on a D20 is imposed. All players agree this is fair and makes sense. Seven players make the save vs. death, the Noldor Elf FAILS. DM takes mercy and allows another saving throw. Noldor Elf fails again with a 1.  DM declares the Noldor Elf dead in the Battle of Bree.Player (who is age 25 at the time) goes into a RAGE for several minutes, stunning the rest of the teenaged gaming circle into shocked silence. Player takes character sheet and crumples it up into a ball and THROWS IT AT THE DM, declaring with sneering contempt: "You killed it, you keep it."Not an over-the-top anecdote perhaps, but... still. Nearly thirty years later, "You killed it, you keep it!" remains the battle cry of our gaming circle when a PC dies. Three of us from that group still game together after all these years (Somethingorother-the-Dwarf is one of them, as it so happens). But not (happily) the player of the Noldor Elf. He left our gaming circle loooooong ago.</blockquote>

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