What's the longest running "inside joke" at your table?

[Barendd Nobeard]

"I cleave this <<insert type of nearest party member here>>."

When we play Living Greyhawk at home, we joke around a lot. My main character is a fighter type with Cleave. If he downs an opponent and the only person close enough to cleave is a party member, I usually joke "I cleave the wizard" (or whatever).

One night, we played with a You say do, you do it rule. I killed a bad guy and said, "I cleave the old woman" (a PC cleric). I rolled a crit threat, but refused to roll to confirm and just did normal damage. That put the PC into negative hp. And since my PC was using a scythe, the x4 critical would have permanently killed her.

So now I say, "I cleave the old woman," and we laugh. But we've never played with the You say it, you do it rule since!

 

[Salad Shooter]

Elree...the psychotic halfling. I played a halfling in my friends homebrew, who had some kender tendencies, as well as being just plain nuts. My dear Elree somehow wound up with a Rod of Wonder (who came up with that brilliant idea?). Much fun ensued. Elree still appears occasionally, usually a cameo as he goes running across the "camera," generally on fire. He occasionally appears and points his "wand of crazy s ," as it came to be known at something, and then promptly vanishes. Confuses the newer players, wondering why theres is a burning halfing running around, but hey, its fun.

 

[Shivy]

One time our paladin kept getting awful rolls while attacking. He got around four or five attacks in a row that were all under 10. We then figured the paladin had a mental handicap, and went around yelling "My Thword! I'm gonna hit you with my thword!" (No offense to anyone with a mental handicap or speech impediment). From then on whenever some sucks badly at some mundane task (like our rouge that took four rounds to tie a friggin' rope around his waist) he would be ridiculed in the same manner ("My rope!").

I played this paladin he speaks of, and would like to defend myself here, as I feel immensely slandered. I did not go around yelling anything, aside from cursing up a storm that my DM just about declared me in need of atonement for, the other players were the ones who started saying this at me. (By the way, the guy who posted this above was my big brother when I pledged my fraternity, so after I was initiated, he made my jersey name "My Thword"). So this has not only lasted for a while in our game, but has followed me into real life. I would like to remind him of a certain ranger who failed his climb check down a rope, which caused him to "jump" off of a ledge.
The next longest joke in our game really is the fighter's, shall we say, "love" of goblin corpses, which has caused the rest of us to not try and stand between him and any goblins we may kill.

 

[Tuzenbach]

It's kinda dumb, but I'll tell it anyway........


So I was playing a blind dwarf, Albrecht. Whenever the party would actively search for anything and nobody would find squat, I'd always ask the DM "OK. Now what does *Albrecht* see?" And he'd always reply with "Nothing". The same schtick happened at virtually every gaming session. Perhaps you had to be there.

 

[Tetsubo]

Plan B) Kill them and hide the bodies.

That one comes up at least twice in every session...

 

[mrtauntaun]

There are a couple running jokes in my group. The first is our current DM really likes to come up with elaborate names for his NPCs. Really elaborate. While that's all well and good for flavor, after awhile, it got difficult to remember what everyones name was and one day I said "We're going back to see whatshisname, Blacksmith Bob". From that day to present, every NPC we meet is Bob, Fighter Bob, Cleric Bob, Goblin Bob It torments our DM so and gives us no end of amusement.

The other is I was playing a Paladin of Pelor in one game, and I made liberal use of the spell "Divine Sacrifice" (for every 2 HP you sacrifice, you gain +1d6 to your next damage roll, max 5d6.) One time i had the spell going when our group was overwhelmed by a whole army of low level guys. Everyone voted to surrender but me. The disarmed us and took our weapons. They brought us before their leader, and he leaned over to examine the Paladin. To which I responded "I am going to touch him with my forehead while sacrificing 10 hp", a touch attacked adding +5d6 damage. The guy practically exploded on the spot, and my paladin was coupe-de-graced on the spot. Now, whenever a character makes a great unexpected attack, we say "Im going to give him the Holy Headbut of Pelor!!"

 

[WanderingMonster]

When I'm feeling silly, I'll describe scenes as "strewn with Rubble," which is the lead in for one of the players to say (in his best Barney rubble voice), "Hey, Fred!"When I'm feeling less silly I use the word "debris" a lot more often.

 

[DM_Jeff]

Long Running Inside Jokes

Like others, probably too many to mention. Been gaming with some of the current folks in my group for over 20 years!

In one of my earliest games DMing, with poor word structure I announced an NPC was "Swandering down the street." Someone asked what that meant and thinking quickly I said, "you know, to swagger while wandering". Everyone cracked up and many still use it today.

We have a PC named Equalina which rhymes with Macarena. So whenever we see the player, we all sing, "Hey, Equalina" after the song of rhyming name.

Loosing patience with an annoying NPC halfling in a Warhammer FRP game who was trying to tell us NOT to go into the adventure's main area because of the warpstone which would surely all mutate us, I announced "Let us ignore the halfling, if we all get turned into chaos, so much the better!" which is now used whenever a good-hearted NPC tries warning anyone of obvious danger.

When one of our newest players was first playing with her brother in D&D years ago she was a cleric, and someone told her to use her mace against the skeletons, she put up her hand (as if holding a can) and made the "shwish shwish" sound of squirting mace. The mace has never been seen the same since.

Way back in 1st edition circa 1982, we all this crazy idea that the magic user should come up with verbal components for his spells. So when the player uttered "Eenie meenie miney moe, magic missile strike my foe" it brought the table down and has been used in every table-generation since.

-DM Jeff

 

[Storminator]

My favorite is "...without incident..."

That's spread to 4 or 5 game groups.

In one of my PBeMs, a character went off by himself, and ran into some minor trouble. Having dealt with that, he "returns to the inn without incident."

As the DM, I'm the only one that can say wether or not there's an incident! So the city watch started following him. And he "ducks thru the sewer and returns the inn without incident." Attacked by thieves guild, "slips into secret passage, esapes the thieves, and returns to the inn without incident." Attacked by rats in secret tunnel. "escapes from rats, gets to the surface, returns to the inn without incident." Muddy, bloody, coming up from the sewer... chased by city watch, "runs from watch, jumps off the cliff, returns to inn without incident!" Shot at as climbs down cliff, loses rope (still attached at top of cliff), dunked in horse trough at inn, finally returning without incident.

Now, in all my games, my players will never say "without incident," even to warn other players not to say it!

PS

 

[zenld]

There are a couple running jokes in my group. The first is our current DM really likes to come up with elaborate names for his NPCs. Really elaborate. While that's all well and good for flavor, after awhile, it got difficult to remember what everyones name was and one day I said "We're going back to see whatshisname, Blacksmith Bob". From that day to present, every NPC we meet is Bob, Fighter Bob, Cleric Bob, Goblin Bob It torments our DM so and gives us no end of amusement.

i suspect all groups have a bob joke, but here is mine. in a campaign i ran for a few years, whenever the players asked for the name of a character i hadn't bothered to name, it became bob until i looked one up. this was made better by the fact we were playing in a post apocalyptal japan. eventually towards the end of the campaign, they just stayed bob. the pcs hired a group of mechanics who became "the bobs".

as for other in jokes:
we have a long standing tradition of whoever gets in the last blow on a monster (no matter who did the majority of the damage) stands over the corpse and exclaims, "it was all me!"

zen