What were they thinking thread!

[EricNoah]

You asked for a game where you could go around fighting Gungan Sith Lords?? That's weirder than the game itself!

Well we'd actually asked for an opportunity to slaughter Ewoks, but then the GM reminded us that we had gotten that chance the LAST time we played Star Wars, so he came up with something just as good.

 

[atom crash]

I once unknowingly named an NPC after a furniture store

I feel your pain.

IMC there's an organization of demi-human rogues lead by a halfling who are contacts and occasional allies of the PCs. I needed a cool name for this group, and I was thinking of a play on words for them being short and sneaky. I remembered a character named the Upright Man in Raymond Feist's books was the secretive leader of the thieves' guild in Krondor, so I came up with the Upright Citizens Brigade. I thought I was making it up.

Then when I told the PCs the name of the organization, they started laughing. Now I'm stuck with the name.

 

[-Warlord-]

If you tell us the skeletons are in any way thankful for their situation, I shall find a way to hurt you.

You mean like....gratefull to be skeletons?

In the categorie "what were they thinking", I have a DM who faced us with dinosaur size cats, modeled after his pets. We fitted them out with balistas and other weaponry and used them as walking fortresses.

 

[Macbeth]

You don't have to worry about the skeletons being thankful, at worst they'll be the Grateful UNDead. Dang, now I'm going ot have to work that into a D&D game for fun. Or maybe Call of Cthulhu...

 

[Talmun]

What was I thinking...

In a planes game I ran, the party met a bartender in Sigil whose father was a Teifling and whose mother was an Asimar. His name was Typhus the Teifamar.

The party instantly began calling him Typhus the Asling.

That possibility had never crossed my mind. He died a tragic death shortly afterward...

 

[Kestrel]

I once unknowingly named an NPC after a furniture store

Rooms-To-Go?

I once named a rogue Black Angus, not knowing about that type of cattle.

 

[Talmun]

Back when Planescape first came out, I played with a DM who was a little new to things.
He had us make sixth level PC's, then immediately sent us to "Dwarf Heaven" where we stole some uber-axe from the Dwaven Gods. We were then comanded to use that weapon to murder all the dwarf gods - and we succeeded!
We also used this axe to chop down the central mountain range that housed the dwarf gods.
Things were going "well" until the barbarian weiling the axe fumbled. He drop the axe, and it cut the world in two.
We were of course saved by a friendly group of Mercane, who just happened to be passing by in their Nautiloid Spelljammer.
Mind you, this all happened in the first four hour game session, after making up PC's!
There was no second session.

Why not? I'm sure there were many other worlds to destroy.

I have another...
In a game I played at Boy Scout camp one year (now that's a merit-badge!) where our 4th level party was sent to Hell: one party member promptly fell into the Styx, another two were killed by an Osyluth, two more were turned into Minions of Set(willingly, of course) complete with Nightmares.
At that point the two new Minions attack my character, the only one left. Keep in mind, I'm 4th level, their horses alone could've killed me. Needless to say, the game ended with a whimper...mine.

 

[mythusmage]

You mean like....gratefull to be skeletons?

You don't have to worry about the skeletons being thankful, at worst they'll be the Grateful UNDead.

So close.

 

[Aeric]

I played in a D&D game many years ago where the party was being pursued by an army of George Lucas clones. These clones were completely unkillable unless you hit them on top of the head, at which point they stopped, got a nosebleed, and keeled over.

The game ran for two sessions, I think.