What oddities have made it into your game?

[Savage Wombat]

In my current game, the druid has discovered that his dire bear companion is generally pissed about being fed Goodberries all the time. "I'm a carnivore, damn it - do you think I need these claws to eat berries?"

 

[Jolly Giant]

"And while you're at it, tell that paladin to ride this."

"I'm a carnivore, damn it - do you think I need these claws to eat berries?"

I'm gonna remember those quotes!

Now, if only one of my players would cast Speak with Animals... I don't think the spell has ever been used in any of my campaigns; it seems my players don't like druids much.

 

[Ambrus]

In my current game, the druid has discovered that his dire bear companion is generally pissed about being fed Goodberries all the time. "I'm a carnivore, damn it - do you think I need these claws to eat berries?"

Bears are omnivores actually; they eat berries all the time... and anything else they can get a hold of. Though maybe the bear didn't know that. Still, a funny line.

 

[Aeric]

Anyways, if you bring up magic missles or magical darkness (or shadows, the undead kind) in the game, there is at least 50% chance someone will intone "I cast magic missile at the darkness."

Tell me about it. That skit was the bane of my existence for the first 4-5 levels of my wizard character. It got older than Monty Python quotes, and that's saying a lot.

 

[Hussar]

In my last campaign, the party was burglarizing a house of a mage. They made it into the house and looted fine. But, instead of being sneaky on the exit, they made a break for it, drawing the attention of a Skiver (Scarred Lands critter - sort of demonic scorpion) guarding the premises. They danced with the critter for a round or so and got mauled fairly badly. They then decided to make a break for it. However, the critter got one more shot in at the hapless rogue, Trey. A double crit stinger attack, a critical claw attack and a third hit from a claw pumped in some 65 points of damage into the rogue with 9 hitpoints. I basically described it as the death scene of Bishop from Aliens.

To this day, "Doing a Trey" is synonomous in my group with spectacular PC death.

I guess the strangest thing currently would be a somewhat intelligent dagger the party picked up. I'm giving it the same voice as the Parrot from Terry Pratchett's Eric. Lot's of "wossnames" and that sort of thing. It's actually started to grow on the party. Although, the recent addition to the party has decided to also affect an accent which bizarrely sounds like a cross between Texan and Welch.

 

[Savage Wombat]

Bears are omnivores actually; they eat berries all the time... and anything else they can get a hold of. Though maybe the bear didn't know that. Still, a funny line.

1. It's a dire bear - somewhat more carnivorous, I'd think.

2. I'm not sure that some people don't recognize the FAR SIDE reference here.