What's the wildest D&D story you've ever heard?

[Bullgrit]

Way back in the '80s, I was looking through the D&D shelf in a Waldenbooks store at the same time as another guy my age, (about 17), that I had never met before. We were just chatting about our games, and he mentioned how his most recent high-level character was killed when his castle was attacked by two (2) Demogorgons. The giant demons teleported in, wrecked his castle, he managed to kill one of them, but then he died before he could defeat the second of the pair.

Have you heard any incredibly wild and/or weird stories about a D&D game that show the participants really just totally misunderstood something? I'm not asking for tales from your own games -- nothing from your own personal experience. I'm asking about tales that you have no connection with. Sort of like D&D urban legends. Tales that leave you scratching your head, thinking, "What the hell?"

Bullgrit

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Dear ENWorld Forum,

I was sitting on the patio of my favorite cafe reading over some of the various 3.5Ed critter sourcebooks. I was trying to come up with a main foe for my new homebrews. Suddenly, this smoking hot, curvaceous brunette walked up to my table, looked over my books and choice of drink (an Icepick: vodka and unsweetened tea) and took the seat opposite of mine. She looked me up & down, then gazed into my eyes and said, "I see you play D&D...would you like to show me a monster?"

And the rest, as they say...is entirely fictional.

 

[malcolypse]

For some reason whenever a stranger approaches me about roleplaying, they always seem to want to tell me about the character that is so powerful that they automatically succeed at everything (and they've been playing that character or one of it's siblings since it keeps dying, for 10 years) and they want to tell me every adventure they've ever acted in a particularly stupid manner in and about the magic items that let them ignore things like how paladins shouldn't murder and rape everyone in a town.

I always think to myself "Couldn't you find a story that's interesting (or at least not insane) to try to convince me to let you into the game I'm running, or hit on me, or whatever it is you're trying to do?" Which is immediately followed by, "This is why gamers are thought of as complete doofuses by the masses."

I try not to strike up random conversations about gaming until I get to know people well enough to know that they're quality individuals and to avoid the urge to do the hobby a favor and hit the idiots in the head with a shovel.

 

[Twowolves]

For some reason whenever a stranger approaches me about roleplaying, they always seem to want to tell me about the character that is so powerful that they automatically succeed at everything (and they've been playing that character or one of it's siblings since it keeps dying, for 10 years) and they want to tell me every adventure they've ever acted in a particularly stupid manner in and about the magic items that let them ignore things like how paladins shouldn't murder and rape everyone in a town.

I always think to myself "Couldn't you find a story that's interesting (or at least not insane) to try to convince me to let you into the game I'm running, or hit on me, or whatever it is you're trying to do?" Which is immediately followed by, "This is why gamers are thought of as complete doofuses by the masses."

I try not to strike up random conversations about gaming until I get to know people well enough to know that they're quality individuals and to avoid the urge to do the hobby a favor and hit the idiots in the head with a shovel.

You too eh? I swear, I am a freak-magnet. If I'm browsing any RPG material in a store, someone will walk right up to me, stand a little to close to me, breathe like a pervert on an obscene phone call for 5 minutes while staring right at me (as I flee to my happy place and try to pretend they don't exist) before finally saying "So. Uh. You play?"

*shudder*

Back on topic, I used to overhear tales of the number of Bahamuts and Tiamats some guys claimed to have slain with their own BillyJoe Badass characters, as well as claims of using the 1st ed Deities and Demigods book as a checklist of Badassdom.

 

[Ringlerun]

At a convention i overheard someone bragging about his uber warrior with his +10 vorpal sword of sharpness and disintegration.

I forget how often i heard tales of a dragonlance campaign were some one got their grubby hands on the stone of fistandantalis.

The worst i ever heard and i lothe to admit it it came from friends of an old group. They got bored and decided to planar hop and kill the gods out of the 1st ed dieties and demigods.

 

[GreyLord]

At a convention i overheard someone bragging about his uber warrior with his +10 vorpal sword of sharpness and disintegration.

I forget how often i heard tales of a dragonlance campaign were some one got their grubby hands on the stone of fistandantalis.

The worst i ever heard and i lothe to admit it it came from friends of an old group. They got bored and decided to planar hop and kill the gods out of the 1st ed dieties and demigods.

I think everyone has their way to have fun with escapism. I mean...you're roleplaying guys who cast and create things out of the fabric nothing!

People running around with swords, and Robbers who steal things but are actually the good guys!

It's all fantasy...and if they get a kick out of feeling powerful, good for them.

As for that worst group there...that actually sounds kind of fun if you had the character power to actually pull it off.

 

[the Jester]

Way back in the '80s, I was looking through the D&D shelf in a Waldenbooks store at the same time as another guy my age, (about 17), that I had never met before. We were just chatting about our games, and he mentioned how his most recent high-level character was killed when his castle was attacked by two (2) Demogorgons. The giant demons teleported in, wrecked his castle, he managed to kill one of them, but then he died before he could defeat the second of the pair.

That's got some commonality with mine... I showed up at an acquaintance's house to play D&D and one of the pcs had a magic sword that, among other things, let him summon "a Demogorgon" twice per day.

TWICE. PER. DAY.

 

[ExploderWizard]

That's got some commonality with mine... I showed up at an acquaintance's house to play D&D and one of the pcs had a magic sword that, among other things, let him summon "a Demogorgon" twice per day.

TWICE. PER. DAY.

If it ain't THRICE a day and 5 times on Sundays then that dude got the cheapo version o that blade!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I haven't heard such stories since my own munckinny days back in 1978 or so...

And I got ticked at some guys talking about their level 10k Paladins, Wizards and such- that is NOT a typo- that I had to run an adventure for them. Despite knocking off entire pantheons, they had never proofed their PCs against one thing. I mentioned it elsewhere on these boards, but I managed to convince them that a Sphere of Annihilation was a bowling ball- hoping to zap one of them- but they all thought the pile of ash was a nifty teleport side effect, just flavor. Instead of being wary, each ridicuPC stepped up to touch the "ball" to join up with his buddies.

Which they did.

 

[kilamanjaro]

I had a summer job in high school working with a guy who played a 1/2 orc, 1/2 elf, 1/2 cloud giant that did 10,000 damage a round.

My college roommate had heard a story at his church about a mom that tried to burn her son's D&D books in a fire pit and the first match she lit blew out in a cold breeze. Very eerie. We hardly ever have breezes here in Kansas.