What oddities have made it into your game?

[DM-Rocco]

Two sessions ago, in the game that I play in, we were faced with a wall of darkness. We could not see through it and no light worked against it. One of the players said that he would attack the wall, or more to the point, attack the darkness. We all got a good chuckle since it was part of a popular Web video called summoner where a novice mage casts a magic missile spell into the darkness.

What other funny things have happened in your games?

For those of you not familiar with the Summoner video, here is a newer version:
http://www.cybermoonstudios.com/8bitDandD.html

 

[Chimera]

One of the players said that he would attack the wall, or more to the point, attack the darkness. We all got a good chuckle since it was part of a popular Web video called summoner where a novice mage casts a magic missile spell into the darkness.

I heard a singer* on the radio, late last night
says he's gonna kick the darkness
until it bleeds daylight

(U2, God Part II
* Identified in the credits as Bruce Cockburn)

Must be some sort of Bard/Monk...

 

[caudor]

My group of players encountered a lesser water elemental. What did they do?

They threw their bedrolls at it. Apparently, they figured the bedrolls would soak up all the water. Oh well, they are rather young players.

Funny, but true

 

[DM-Rocco]

We once had a young player who had a familiar. It was a monkey, we dubbed him the loot money. However, everytime he told it to do something the monkey would hit the youth in the head.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

In our all-evil FR game, we had a game session yesterday. It was made almost without rolls (except concerning an artifact where we saw visions and had to make fort saves or pass out) and no physical combat whatsoever.

The bulk of the session consisted of an "encounter" where 4 Lathanderites walked in our city (Yes, "our" city. We oblitereated the high clergy of Myrkul, who ruled here, and took over. I'm the mayor, for example) and started giving speeches to the people, how they were under the iron claw of evil tyrants and so on. I (with the support of the other party members) stood up to them and matched them word for word. In the end, we brought about that the people hated the idea of us being deposed and being replaced by elected rulers (yes, we talked them out of the idea of a democracy) and threw rotting fruits and vegetables at the sun-crazed do-gooders

 

[Ferret]

I heard a singer* on the radio, late last night
says he's gonna kick the darkness
until it bleeds daylight

(U2, God Part II
* Identified in the credits as Bruce Cockburn)

Must be some sort of Bard/Monk...

Why curse the dark when you can cast magic missile?

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

I heard a singer* on the radio, late last night
says he's gonna kick the darkness
until it bleeds daylight

(U2, God Part II
* Identified in the credits as Bruce Cockburn)

Must be some sort of Bard/Monk...

For the record, the song they're referencing is "Lovers in a Dangerous Time," which was covered amazingly well by the Barenaked Ladies on their album Disc 1.

It's, like, totally one of my favoritest songs evah! [/fanboy]

 

[MadMaxim]

At one point during the Zenith Trajectory (the adventure from the Shackled City Adventure Path. I used it as a stand-alone adventure), the party was attacked by an invisible stalker. What did the party's fighter/sorcerer do in order to fight their invisible attacker? He cast prestidigitation on the water in his water sack to color it pink and sprayed the invisible stalker which of course became a lot more visible with pink water all over it. I never saw that coming, but it was a brilliant idea and it sounded sensible, so they quickly trashed the suddenly "not-so-invisible" invisible stalker.

 

[Kelleris]

In a pretty usual player deviation from my planned adventure, the party's changeling rogue encountered a rather unstable pick-pocket, and decided to take him back to base with her to see if she could uncrazy him. I was reaching for ways to get across the NPC's unique brand of mental instability, so I had him start reacting to OOC comments made by the other players at the table (the rouge was doing something on her own at the time). They caught on pretty quickly, and the other players starting really screwing with the poor guy's head, giving him directions and responding to his questions. As a result the poor schlup wound with a very nasty illness (bad part of town, you know), and has been bedridden for the last week or so in-game (about 2 sessions). The players have since decided to start using him as a sort of oracle, and consult the delirious, crazed, OOC ninja whenever they need a tiebreaker for some decision or other. It's getting disturbing...

 

[arwink]

I play a cleric of Elvis who hits people with a battleaxe/guitar combination weapon. And I'm not the strangest person in the party.