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Zousha_Omenohu 06-13-07, 01:07 AM	Yes, another 1001 thread. What are some famous (or infamous) running gags that you have experienced, either as a DM or a player? I'll start: 1. The Half-Orc P*** Magazine. This began when my brother started playing D&D with a friend (this friend introduced both of us to the game). One of the PCs in the group my brother's friend was a part of was a half-orc named Sir B****smacker. While they were listing off their inventories, somehow some half-orc p**** found its way into Sir B****smacker's inventory. Some time later, my brother was playing a tiefling rogue, who somehow came into possession of this tawdry little magazine, and it was he who made it a gag. Basically what he did was hold up the magazine like a holy symbol, and anyone looking at it had to make a will save or be so overcome with shock and horror at the sight of nekkid half-orc babes that they fell backwards down the stairs. The first time this happened was in the middle of the desert, where there weren't any stairs for miles, yet somehow our enemy fell backwards down a set of stairs that had just appeared behind him. It didn't affect the tiefling rogue since he was already a pervert. Ever since, when we've had some sort of perverted character, they have a copy of this anarchic little publication.
DraconsNighthawk 06-13-07, 09:59 AM	I have a few... 2: Everytime a player runs or moves fast, there is always a little boy who looks at it go past, then turn his head to the side and ask "Mooom??" in a scared voice. This started back in 3.0, and we were just learning about psionics. We thought burst added for every point you put in, so the player would put in 10,20 points to move at 230 speed to run. It just struck. 3: Every time the party relaxes at a bar, or a dungeon, or what have you, the door will always open regardless of the locks/defenses etc, and a head of a half-elf woman would peer in, and ask "Ven!?" before shutting it and running off. This too started back 3 or 4 years ago, when a woman player played a half-elf monk who got obsess over a NPC, and would attempt to hunt him down by running through towns and opening doors, demanding to know where he lover was. Then she found out he had a nymph grotto. That is also why nymphs are extint. 4: Everytime a NPC sneezes, it means some super powerful being just froze time and is going to demand a quest for the players. (Used rarely, but it still a running gag ) 5: The pcs can go to a bar, and go to inn in another plane, then go to a restraunt in another. They will always be served by the same halfling woman. Said Halfling woman will always cry since the PCs were the ones that got her fired at the last place she worked. 6: Monsters of a higher CR then the PCs are scared of said PCS, monsters of a CR lower then the pcs, the PCs are scared off. (Started when a winter wolf nearly killed a level 24 ranger, then a kobold almost killed a level 9 monk, while a dragon 9 Crs higher then the pcs got spanked, and the god they fought in a final battle also got beaten. Badily.
Skara 06-13-07, 10:05 AM	(Whoa, a winter wolf? Cool.) 7: Everytime the PCs go into a bar, there is 4 dwarves at a table with a keg. Every time. Being very stereotypical. If they're not there, it's side-quest time! 8: Also, a stranger in all black with a 'really cool dagger' is seen talking to NPCs here and there. He never is talked about by the NPCs, and always avoids the PCs so they have no chance to talk with him. Only appeared 3 times, but creepy nonetheless.
_Jayne_Cobb_ 06-13-07, 10:42 AM	9. Back in the day I ran the original Ravenloft module. Early on the PCs are in a tavern and learn the story of Strahd and the castle. Every time someone said the name "Strahd" everyone in the tavern would spit on the floor in anger >"Ptui!"< and it became a running gag. No matter where they went in the region, every single time anyone mentioned Strahd's name anywhere they would here, from far off in the distance, the sound of everyone in teh tavern spitting on the floor in anger >"Ptui!<. 10. I have 165 Bullywug miniatures (see my sig) so it has become a running gag in my group that every time they cross a body of water larger than a bathtub they get jumped by Bullywugs. 11. Magic is relatively rare in my campaign (in terms of availability outside of normal adventuring) and so magic shops are few and far between. Each large city seems to have only one, and they all seem eerily similar. The PCs are convinced that they are, in fact, the same shop but have never been able to get a straight answer out of the proprietor(s). 12. I had a half-ogre PC named Slobb the Large. We were on a mission that required a great deal of stealth and so the party leader told Slobb (and his 3 INT) that they had to remain "incognito." The leader went off into town to gather information, leaving Slobb behind (an 8'6" half-ogre tend to stand out). Slobb, however, got bored. Half way through his clandestine meeting the leader hears a bellowing voice yelling "Hey Rog*, are we in Cognito, yet? Is this Cognito? I'm looking for Rog, he went to Cognito." Thus "Are we in Cognito" became a running gag in our group that has persisted nearly 20 years. *Slobb's personality was based on the character Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds and so he referred to whoever was his leader as "Rog."
RobbyPants 06-13-07, 12:30 PM	13) This is more of an Out-of-game gag: The players (and I) are always making references to the wizard's sleeve from Borat. High five!
TimelordSimone 06-13-07, 12:35 PM	14) #We're off to see the [person]! The wonderful [person] of [place]!# I forget how that started... Our DM hated it...
lord_zack 06-13-07, 12:56 PM	15) Well one of my player's characters is a Drow Fighter named Leroy Jenkins. Just guess what he does. 16) They constantly burn down taverns and other building as a sacrifice to the fire god Pyro.
Zousha_Omenohu 06-13-07, 01:24 PM	17. The Dwarven Bartender. No matter what dive the PCs are in, the bartender is always a friendly ol' dwarf. I've always wanted to have different bartenders in different taverns, but my brother insists that all bartenders in the game must be dwarves. I have no idea why he insists on this so much.
Cariyaga 06-13-07, 02:14 PM	8: Also, a stranger in all black with a 'really cool dagger' is seen talking to NPCs here and there. He never is talked about by the NPCs, and always avoids the PCs so they have no chance to talk with him. Only appeared 3 times, but creepy nonetheless. Hrm...Sounds like a certain popular fantasy author's character. Namely Artemis Entreri.
Salick 06-13-07, 02:45 PM	every time someone gets a modified die roll of 37 we all ask the question. "In a row?"
DraconsNighthawk 06-13-07, 04:14 PM	every time someone gets a modified die roll of 37 we all ask the question. "In a row?" Where's that from?
Salick 06-13-07, 04:18 PM	Where's that from? It's from the original Clerks movie
Arcomage 06-13-07, 04:34 PM	Way back when, we used to have a really bad player in our playgroup. Not the actually annoying kind, but just mostly very random. He was playing a Human Barbarian named Okra who somehow had a weight over 600 lbs. despite being of average build. We basically chalked it down to him being 'very dense', which was about right. His backstory would also change every time he told it - At first, he was adventuring because his sister was kidnapped by goblins. Then his father had been slain and his farm razed by Orcs. His mother had been taken away by gnolls. And his sister was kidnapped by flying monkeys (don't ask). Eventually, the player had to leave the campaign due to time issues, and the character sort of faded into the background. It is still a running gag that the character became an Incarnation of Chaos, and whenever something random happens in-game, Okra is manipulating things from behind the scenes.
Kuroimaken 06-13-07, 04:46 PM	18. Every time I leave the table for a bathroom break or the DM asks, "What do you do now" someone says "I kill his player." Then the DM says, "OK, your animal companion is killed, becomes an undead then kills you." Even if they don't have an animal companion. 19. The guard NPC who dies is always called "John", "Bob" or "Nostradamus". 20. Every other NPC is called Bob. 21. Female NPCs are called Bobbina. 22. One of our players always calls his characters some name ending in "us": Darkus, Fistus, Lagus, etc.. In one campaign, we all had PC names starting with the letter F.
Malcaor 06-13-07, 04:48 PM	In my new campaign, the party is being assembled by a magic talking parrot. They think it is a familiar of one of the guild organizers, but the parrot is the guild master.
AffableDoomwalker 06-13-07, 05:03 PM	every time someone gets a modified die roll of 37 we all ask the question. "In a row?" ::makes sucking noises::
rankrath 06-13-07, 06:03 PM	We had this one player who had a wizard who was deathly afraid of/genocidal towards pigs. It started when we were playing a solo campaign, his char. had to defeat a Dire Boar to enter a tourney and got owned bad. He came back later that night, killed the pig and the pig keeper, then fled town with a squad of guards hot on his heals.
whdr02 06-13-07, 06:41 PM	23(I think) Back in my old group we had a house rule where if you went below -5 HP you would loose a point of Cha due to permanent scarring. So every time it happened we all chimed "The best characters don't die, they just loose charisma."
Fencerboy 06-13-07, 10:38 PM	17. The Dwarven Bartender. No matter what dive the PCs are in, the bartender is always a friendly ol' dwarf. I've always wanted to have different bartenders in different taverns, but my brother insists that all bartenders in the game must be dwarves. I have no idea why he insists on this so much. I made this cliche in my campaign, except he is always on stilts, generally described as massively oversized platform shoes...
WilwarinAndamar 06-13-07, 11:16 PM	24. The BS Plate. It's a paper plate with the letters 'BS' written on it. Used mostly for players rather than PCs. 25. The Lightning Bolt. Our DM's favorite punishment for stupid actions by players or PCs. "A lightning bolt strikes five feet in front of you. You're blind for the next three rounds." 26. The Green Fairy. Before we had NPCs help us out, we had a little gren fairy who would suddenly appear, give the PCs what they needed to do next, then disappear again. 27. The Fire Mage jokes. My Halfling Wizard, specializing in fire spells, met a Human Wizard NPC who also specialized in fire spells. Sparks flew, so to speak. :mage: The short jokes, Ride check comments, and other fire-related puns never ended.
EyeHunter 06-13-07, 11:26 PM	28 & 29 (It appears so): 20 gallons of Ale & Vamp turning Five minutes into the very first campaign any of my players (or myself) had played, one Bard was being played as a male pervert by a female player.She had him choose to drink 20 gallons of ale that he had stolen from another PC. (This PC had attempted to poison her PC earlier) Her PC drinks it, rolls a 1 on a fort SV and dies. The bard came back as a female Vamp that turned something she couldn't control. This one character created two running gags: 20 gallons of Ale, which comes up whenever buying food or the player creates a new PC, and the advice; "Don't turn something you can't control." 30: If you cut off your Animal Companion's tail, It won't follow you anymore. One of my players (the one who lost his 20 gallons of ale above) played a CG Ranger with a beaver Animal Companion. At one point in the adventure, he got bored, so he decided to cut off the beaver's tail. This choice shocked me. As the DM, I explained that his AL would change to CN or CE. He refused to believe me, and he talked a CG Dragon Shaman into helping him cut the tail off. I missed it at the time, but he was cutting it off with a flaming rapier. When he tried to cut the beaver's tail off, it fled before he could finish and escaped. He protested the change to his AL for five minutes, preventing me from dealing with the Dragon Shaman. Since then, this has been discussed concerning every Animal Companion or AL change. P.S. Was I justified in changing his AL?
Zousha_Omenohu 06-13-07, 11:55 PM	I'd say he'd be CE. That's just not right, inflicting pain on a cute, little beaver just because he's bored. Here's another one: 31. The Critical Push: Back when I was a young and stupid DM (my brother insisted that I DM for him and his buddies and insists on it still, despite the fact that the only thing that's improved is my knowledge of the rules, and that didn't take much). Anyway, my brother was playing a paladin named Pluhkar, and he and the group we'd assembled were exploring a necropolis. They encountered a couple of skeletons, and a fight started. WARNING: THE FOLLOWING SEQUENCE IS REALLY STUPID. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! Sometime in the middle of the fight, my brother realizes that his Lay on Hands ability deals damage to undead: "Hey! I'm a paladin! My touch hurts these things!" So he gets this hair-brained idea to put his sword away and use Lay on Hands. None of us really knew the rules and were kind of making it up as we went, so he just rolled an attack. He got a critical. This was the image I got in my mind: he ran at the skeleton yelling with his hands in front of his chest, slammed his palms into the skeleton's ribcage and it basically blasted apart from the force of his blow. I could almost hear a bowling ball getting a strike. Now we are more experienced and look back on those days chuckling, but whenever we bring up the lay on hands ability someone mentions what we've come to call The Critical Push.
Cariyaga 06-14-07, 12:23 AM	It actually would be possible to get a critical, in that case, I believe.
Zousha_Omenohu 06-14-07, 12:35 AM	Yeah, but since we didn't know the rules, he immediately critted instead of just threatening. That became the subject of an intense bout of arguing and rules-lawyering down the road, but that's another story.
MrWildman 06-14-07, 01:35 AM	I've got a couple: 32(I think): Every town we went to, there was always one guard named Louie Louie, another named Mony Mony, and the Captain of the Guards was always named Ringo. I forget how this one started. By the way, I loved the Critical Push idea.:D
MrWildman 06-14-07, 01:40 AM	I've got a couple: 32(I think): Every town we went to, there was always one guard named Louie Louie, another named Mony Mony, and the Captain of the Guards was always named Ringo. I forget how this one started. By the way, I loved the Critical Push idea.:D 33: (Oh, yeah!) "Give it to Todd!" This started because the youngest member of our gaming group (Todd, obviously) would try out any magic item, drink any potion, talk to any horrible thing we encountered
Zousha_Omenohu 06-14-07, 02:32 AM	Maybe we should have called it "Bowling for Skeletons" or something...I don't know.
Skara 06-14-07, 09:14 AM	8: Also, a stranger in all black with a 'really cool dagger' is seen talking to NPCs here and there. He never is talked about by the NPCs, and always avoids the PCs so they have no chance to talk with him. Only appeared 3 times, but creepy nonetheless. Hrm...Sounds like a certain popular fantasy author's character. Namely Artemis Entreri. Hmm, you're right. Never thought of that, actually. I used an Elf Stalker, even though I have an Artemis mini. Although I did take the idea from another source. But I doubt anyone will figure it out. Oh, I thought of another one. 34: If someone does something stupid, I (DM) will mime it in Krog's voice. Krog was a half-orc comedian who got on their nerves (by being stupid) a huge amount when they had to stay in one tavern for a while. Although sometime's I'll do it if they come close to doing something stupid. It's fun.
zvbxrpl 06-14-07, 09:27 AM	35: Whenever someone does something hideously game-disrupting, pink DM lightning opens a portal to Discworld. So far, the luggage has not eaten anybody. 36: If someone uses wish, everyone else tells them to wish for sex and the best sandwich ever, because "Dude, sex and the best sandwich ever is like...uh...sex and the best sandwich ever!" 37: It is assumed that all changelings, regardless of their actual names, are called Tedd. (It's an El Goonish Shive reference.)
RealSorceror 06-14-07, 10:32 AM	38: Whenever I play a Changeling, its gender is never revealed in game. 39: We have a demigod of rodents. Anytime the phrase, "you rat bas---d" is used, a cleric or druid will yell, "Hey, Rat Lord has a father!" 40: Our dwarven god once killed an Iron Golem by hitting hit with a bar of soap and rolling 3 natural 20s in a row. Contructs everywhere now fear soap, and the player is sure to always have a bar in his inventory. 41: Three evil PCs have now become NPCs similair to Team Rocket, in that they will reapear in different games, regardless of how often they are defeated. The group consist of an Orc Barbarian, a draconic Sorceror, and a Dark One Rogue, and their appearance is always linked to the murder of a gnome. 42: Any time a Knight uses a Knight's challenge, he yells, "Fight me for candy!"
Uglysad 06-14-07, 11:13 AM	43. We have a player who either sleeps the whole game or plays with her cell phone. When she isn't at game we all joke that her player is off "Making wind chimes". This has spilled over into game and the DM actually has given her character tons of bonus to "Craft Wind chime" that makes everyone else snicker and she doesn't really understand it. 44. When describing a dragon to the PCs, an NPC stammered out "Swamp... Big as a house..." and not much else. Now the PCs constantly refer to a house in the swamp in which all evil has once lived in. 45. In our urban arcana game, we have gotten so fire happy at times that Department 7 has to specify, in every order we get, "NO FIRE" (they won't even let us have grenades) This has spilled over to our other games as well. (D&D, Spycraft, etc..)
Blackskullgreymon 06-14-07, 02:35 PM	46) One guy in my campaign has the worst luck or the stupidest ideas. It's become a running gag that his PC is so stupid/clumsy that he earned the prestige class "Idiot" Some examples - He threw a torch at a large monster hoping it would just spontanously combust Koolade Man bursts through a wall, and a stray brick hits his PC on the head A guard willing to talk things out and barter passage to the party finds an arrow in his face before he finds the chance to speak. A rope can be used to climb out a window and across to another window. This PC walks out the window and lands two stories down face-first. The wizard also trips out the window and lands on him. Yeah, so now with his prestige class he uses the Rat Flail as his primary weapon. Let's see where the future takes us...
TimelordSimone 06-14-07, 05:24 PM	47) True Neutral is the worst evil known to mankind. I think this stems from our first ever campaign, in which the True Neutral ranger was actually pure evil. But, I was a rubbish DM, so I didn't warry about alignments that much. (In fact, the paladin wasn't that nice...)
Silversheen197 06-14-07, 06:42 PM	48) Merlocks are everywhere! I started a Stormwrack campaign a while ago, and many of the battles in the first session were against sahuagin. During one of the battles, a player found a sound bite of the noise a merlock makes in World of Warcraft, and began playing it every time a sahuagin either a) took its initiative; b) got attacked; or c) got mentioned. Now, anytime in that campaign that I merely say anything to the effect of "it sounds like..." or "you hear...", everybody in the room mimics that sound. It's hilariously funny sometimes, and extremely annoying at others.
eggellis 06-14-07, 07:29 PM	49. Anytime anyone was suspected of cheating our dm would threaten to hit them with a Flaming Ball of Werewolves (the deadliest spell known to man). 50. Scoring an extremely good hit on a creature is refered to as "passing your knowledge check". I'm not even trying to explain that one.
fun2223 06-14-07, 09:00 PM	Smokey the bear is a reaccuring pyromaniac. (i used greater command on him, made him burn down a forest, he went insane:schemes:
Crusher217 06-14-07, 09:19 PM	Let me give some background: We were in a Kobold lair (1st level pcs), and we apparently stumbled upon a very evil tomb/cavern, with a lake filled with cursed gold in the middle, and an island in the middle of the lake with a stone throne and a skeleton on it, covered in jewelery, one of which was a cursed crown on his head not unlike the ring in LOTR. Well, the noob rogue (2nd rogue specialized in speaking, not trapfinding like the other) decides to search the throne for traps. He finds one and fails his disable device check. All of a sudden the room starts shaking, and after a while it stops. Immediately after we ask what that was, the noob rogue starts yelling, "This was only the first part, it's the eye of the storm" So now everytime we fail a disable device check, or we hear a rumbling, everyone in-game starts yelling, "Eye of the Storm, guys. Eye of the Storm."
Zousha_Omenohu 06-14-07, 10:34 PM	46) One guy in my campaign has the worst luck or the stupidest ideas. It's become a running gag that his PC is so stupid/clumsy that he earned the prestige class "Idiot" Some examples - He threw a torch at a large monster hoping it would just spontanously combust Koolade Man bursts through a wall, and a stray brick hits his PC on the head A guard willing to talk things out and barter passage to the party finds an arrow in his face before he finds the chance to speak. A rope can be used to climb out a window and across to another window. This PC walks out the window and lands two stories down face-first. The wizard also trips out the window and lands on him. Yeah, so now with his prestige class he uses the Rat Flail as his primary weapon. Let's see where the future takes us... Wow! That's crazy! But now I have to ask, what the heck was Kool-Aid Man doing bursting through a brick wall in-game? Silly, silly I say!
EyeHunter 10-15-07, 12:56 PM	Bump! Gotta be more of these...
_Jayne_Cobb_ 10-15-07, 01:25 PM	Bump! Gotta be more of these... That isn't a bump, it's an exhumation.
Darkarcher736 10-15-07, 04:35 PM	One that my players and DM use came from a Greyhawk adventure awhile back. I was playing an elven cleric and we were investigating a ruined church. When we entered, fanatical paladins of Pelor attacked us. Since then, anything that deals with churches, we say, "Beware the Pallies!" Another is back when we ran The Sunless Citadel. Meepo, the Dragon Keeper hugs my clerics leg for the entire adventure. Meepo. My DM threatens me with Meepo :D
Satyrus 10-15-07, 06:03 PM	Let's see I can think of three 53. First off the group I was DMing was heading down a mountain to check something out. The level 1 rogue/level 1 sorcerer with a ring of feather fall decides to take the short way down and jumps off the cliff, floating down. The not so intelligent person playing the fighter decided to jump off too deciding the other guy could catch him. So he does, rog/sor misses him and he goes plummeting down a 1000 ft. even with the two feather falls because they only lasted 6 seconds each. I rolled d100 for damage, he was only a second level fighter, and I got a low roll and he survived.:( From then on whenever something unlikely comes up I hear "that's about as likely as surviving a fall from a 1000 ft cliff." 54. In one of my first campaigns I introduced the substance known as Dwarven Fire Whiskey. Basically this stuff is the semi-drinkable equivalent of nitro-glycerin and they stole two huge kegs of it and carted it around using them as bombs. This still happens in nearly every tavern they go to, "do you have any dwarven fire whiskey?":rolleyes: 55. And last the "critical slap", the one player's character always seemed to go against the party, betrayed them twice, and I think there were three seperate instances in game where one of the other players slapped him and rolled a natural 20. The one time it would have killed him if it were lethal damage. So now whenever somebody does something stupid "critical slap!":D
TyWebb 10-15-07, 06:31 PM	56. Every time a PC gets hit with a hold person spell, the player will croak out of the corner of his mouth, in a squeaky voice, "Oilcan...oiiiilcannnnn..." Cookie to the first one who gets the reference.
Zousha_Omenohu 10-15-07, 07:19 PM	56. Every time a PC gets hit with a hold person spell, the player will croak out of the corner of his mouth, in a squeaky voice, "Oilcan...oiiiilcannnnn..." Cookie to the first one who gets the reference. The Tin Woodman in the film, The Wizard of Oz.
TyWebb 10-15-07, 08:51 PM	The Tin Woodman in the film, The Wizard of Oz. Ta-da! :cookie:
Zousha_Omenohu 10-15-07, 08:59 PM	Aw, I don't deserve it. Give it to the poor starving kobolds. They deserve it more than I. Besides, you'd have to be living under a pop-culture rock to not know The Wizard of Oz.:rolleyes:
TheJackOfSpades 10-15-07, 09:31 PM	57) Way, WAY, WAYYY back when, our first session, one player had the disguise skill. We were in a room, and heard footsteps approaching, and the player says "Can I disguise myself as a table?!" Now, anytime that ANYONE uses disguise, or MENTIONS it, someone says "Let's disguise ourselves as tables!" The player just looks down and shakes his head.
FoeAxeXiii 10-15-07, 11:01 PM	- In an apocalypse campaign I was running, one of my players had an infatuation with some chick they excavated from a cryo lab. She was a hottie (aren't all rescued girls?) and would get hit on allot. So one time he gets angery and walks up to the guy and yells "SHORYUKEN!" and uppercuts him. He rolled a 20 and comfirmed with a 20. (I use a house rule where every additional 20 adds a crit multipler, and you roll again.) And then comfirmed that with another high roll. (Think a 19 or 18) His eyes went wide as I decribed the victims head snap back and his body fly in slow motion upwards in the air, catching blue flashing fire. The man died. (The blue fire and such never actually happened but he did yell "Shoryuken". Ryu from street fighter's special uppercut attack.) A few sessions latwer he "shoryuken"'d another guy hitting on her and rolled a 20... and a guy after that with ANOTHER 20. After the second time people would lean in excitedly whenever they saw it coming... and it happened a good few times more, all 20's. It was amazing. Till he rolled a 19 for the last person to recieve one. After that he said he must let the power "rest". (This occured over the course of 20 something sessions.) - In one of my first DnD campaigns I ran.. the PCs were exploring a massive tree tower which used to be a mage's guild. In one of the rooms they discover a sarcophagus and as they were new to the game.. they tampered with it. Out pops a demi lich (They were around level 7 or so... I didnt know what a proper challenge was or cared. It was all in fun. In that same sense, however, my campaigns back then were less... campaigns and more a long series of snuff films.) Anyways, the PCs are running around trying to escape. Noone can figure out what to do except... DarkBlade. The party's fighter. He whips out his rope and tries to tie it to something in the room and jump out the window with it all in one round. I tell him to make a use rope check to tie it fast/well enough and jump. He rolls a 1, naturally, and leaps from the window. So I describe how the object he tried to tie it around wraps around his neck as he leaps from the window forming a "noose" and the opposite end catches on something on the windowsill. He fell 200 feat until the noose caught. Since then he has never been allowed to carry rope of any kind. When caught with it people speak to him as if he were going to commit suicide, and how much he has to look forward to. (Yes we still torment him about it. To the PCs in that campaign they thought he committed suicide rather then face such a foe.)
RollaD20 10-15-07, 11:40 PM	i took the skill proffession hijacker with every rogue i've played... i currently am in debt to atleast 40 different merchants/travelers for stealing and crashing/losing the carts/horses/tobogans/water wheel boats.
Shmeff 10-15-07, 11:49 PM	61. In one of my first campaigns, the 7th level barbarian (around 26 STR) slept in, so one of the other party members poked him, and out of reflex, he slapped at the hand, hitting himself. The party then got the bright idea to poke him with a stick in the groin... He decided to make an attack roll just for the fun of it. He rolled a 20, with max damage on the die rolls. That woke him up... 62. One party member, a halfling rouge, will always find a reason to disguise himself as a bush. And the druid's animal companion, a dog, will always find a reason to relive it self. Nuff said.
Ebrion 10-16-07, 01:25 AM	63. "Tempus should never be a patron god", Every time some one in our group plays a Character with Tempus as a patron diety, they die upon speaking his name. My Barbarian was charging a Frost Giant, having already chopped one down, yelled "TEMPUS" on the way there. I rolled 2 Nat 1's and was then critted on by the Giant 2 times. Pink mist anyone. Roughly the same has happend to anyone else claiming Tempus as thier diety.
Naderion 10-16-07, 06:42 AM	If the characters ask a nameless npc about his name, it is Balthasar. They're always named Balthasar. :D I think the most fun thing I've ever heard/read of was from a group where the party had the evil wizard cornered and he gave his obligatory speech. The barbarian wasn't much for talking and just hurled his axe on him. The anoyed players told him he should warn them next time he's about to doing something brilliant like that. Resulting in the phrase "I'm going to do something brilliant", every time someone pulled a leaver, broke a lock or cut a rope or something like that without really knowing the results.
MechMage 10-16-07, 05:21 PM	66. ******* off the druids has become a running joke in my game. Here's how my character brought it up in sessions 1 and 2. It kept going after that, but do to spacial restriction, I shant write more than nesisary to give you a basic idea. My character is a warlock that gets his power from the parasite from the Far Realm on his back. On an over land voyage through to forest, my character go bore, and sucked all the blood out of a buch of squirels. Later, we were sneaking to the were-wolf druids' cave, and we used meat soaked in beer to drunken the guard weasle into uncontiousness before I drained all of its blood. Then, I drew the were-wolves out of the cave by singing about the joys of polution at the cave entrance. They chased my through the forest while the rest of the party raided the cave. 67. Casting open/close on my character's mouth has become a running gag. Every time we are in a social situation, and I try to do say something crazy, the party sorcerer casts close on my mouth. One time, we were talking to a semi-divine druid, and when I couldn't talk, I tried to compensate by carving the message in trees using eldrich blast. Needless to say, I was mauled by a bear. 68. My character is resistant to every energy type exept for fire. Insidentally, enemy casters always use scorching ray. Always. I was almost killed four times before I got a ring of spell countering. I'm now waiting for a fireball.
Japan_the_cougar 10-16-07, 07:18 PM	69. The truth will blind you. In the first game I DM'd, the half-ogre barbarian found a +1 longsword with a curse on it that turned him into a woman (I didn't have BoED at the time, so I ad hoc'd it). After getting the curse removed, the player decided to smash the remains of every enemy by "revealing the truth" (going into more detail will get this on the Mature boards). The Half-Farspawn NPC that was with them was unfortunate enough to have eyes on his arms, so he always saw "the truth" in action and had to make Fort saves every time it happened. Finally, after an encounter with raggamoffyns, he failed his save and one of the eyeballs exploded. Every once in a while, "the truth" will make a brief cameo mention in one of our other games, but the wielder has never been seen again. 70. The ship The person who played the half-ogre in the above currently runs the game right now, and each time he's done a different game, there has been the same boat with the same crew of overpowered NPCs: Green Star Adept, Underfolk Cleric, and the pyromancer cook being the most notable. 71. This hand of mine burns with an awesome POWER! The doctor I'm playing in a d20 Future session has a cybernetic right arm that has, despite not having any game play advantages, become a force to be reckoned with. First, without weapons, we needed to get rid of a bunch of gremlins that had taken over the ship we were on. I rolled an unarmed attack and managed to take one out with a single "SHORYUKEN!". Later, in the house of a mark we were trying to get, a flesh golem started coming at us through a doorway. I rushed up (having the highest speed, despite having a slow mutation), and tried to hit it with my sword, failing. Since I was blocking the door, the golem made a bull rush against me. Despite having only a +1 str bonus, I actually won and shoved it back with my cybernetic hand. Last session, we went into a bar and intimidated the patrons into crapping themselves. Because of the surgical kit that I had put in my arm and extended from my fingers, I managed to get a +2 circumstance bonus. I've been seriously trying to figure out how to make the arm as good as luck has decided to make it. The next game is in two days!
HARLEYDUDE 10-16-07, 07:54 PM	72. This is during my 2nd ever game session in 3rd. (i played basic and ad&d but went about 10 years b4 playing 3rd) we were playing the temple of elemental evil. one part we were outside the mountain and were attacked by some flying creatures, dont remember what exactly. another player (i just met) was playing a big fighter/bodyguard type chara. and for some reason was forbidden to use ranged weapons. so i said "throw your sword at it." this happened to be one of the special elemental swords made for that adventure. what i didnt know was that was her first time EVER playing. and she did throw it at the baddie. thankfully she missed, and retreived her sword. so now everytime we come to a flying enemy someone yells "throw your sword at it!!!" HD
PallysFTWBaby 10-16-07, 10:07 PM	73. In every campaign I have run, one of the earlier dungeons contained a room with four kobolds playing emo music. The only lyrics I ever bothered to make for them were "Bleed my heart out."
Guardian1 10-16-07, 11:54 PM	One running gag my old group used is the phrase "Pulling a Nate." Started during a D20 game a few years back. One of the characters had levels in the Fast class, so had the best Dex and the best Reflex saves in the group. However, he was also infamous for botching Reflex saves when he really needed to make them. One notable instance of this happened soon after our party formed. We were in the basement of a house that was going to explode, and our guys happened to be at Ground Zero. So we're charging up the stairs, and three of us make it up. The last guy however, accidentally activated a trap that dropped two grenades right in front of him. He botched the save. As a result, he ended up back at the bottom of the steps. Another notable instance, and where this gag got its name, involved a moment where our characters were on motorcycles trying to get away from a pair of enemy agents (think the Agents from The Matrix). The same guy from above tried to toss a grenade at the agent directly behind him. DM calls for a reflex save, guy botches it, ends up getting thrown from his motorcycle. Ever since then, my old group has used the phrase "Pulling a Nate" to describe a moment where a character has spetacularly failed where they were supposed to easily succeed. Another running gag concerns a cybernetic arm that a different character in this same campaign had. In each campaign since then, somehow, this arm would always show up on one of the PC's. The circumstances of its appearance might be different, and it would sometimes be in a different form, but would always be that arm!
Tovec 10-16-07, 11:56 PM	All of the following were asked/done/said/performed by a new player in our group. Multiple DMs. 73. Him: I sense motive the DM. DM: Bad move. 74. Him: Is there a reflex save I can make to avoid taking damage? DM: Its called your AC. 75. DM(me): Sure its okay to drop the sentient glowing magic glass ball from a 100 foot drop. Him: Okay, I drop Globe (what Globe is stated above) Me: Okay, so it drops 100 feet, [rolls damage], and explodes. Him: Wait! Before Globe hits the ground can I do something? Me: Sure, what? Him: I realize that dropping him was a mistake and I jump after him and try to catch him mid-air. Me: Alright.. Centaur(him) jumps from a hole in the ceiling after a glass ball, misses - the glass ball hits the ground explodes and the centaur takes damage. Then the centaur hits the ground. Luckily for Him / Unfortunately for Me, I rolled low on the damages and the only casualty was a Dwarf Monk ally and not the bloody centaur! Things learnt? Nothing! 76. CG Ranger returns to where the party is staying and sees a bird flying in the sky, also sees the Centaur (his "friend") following the bird and decides to shoot the bird with his excuse that he has favoured enemy animals and when better then now to use it? Learnt? Just because you have a favoured enemy doesn't mean you use it!!
bone_naga 10-17-07, 03:55 AM	In my last campaign, one of the PCs was a Storm Giant Dark Knight (antipaladin)/necromancer/crypt lord/avatar (created using the Legendary Class rules from Path of the Sword). His unholy mount was a blue dragon. His general attitude was keep those who help you, and kill those that hinder you. Now, everytime we are faced with a dilemna, we ask ourselves WWTD (What Would Tuvor Do). The answer: kill, kill, and kill some more. And then animate all the corpses. Similarly, one of my favorite characters was a CE assassin, Stiletto. WWSD? Flip a coin, heads you live, tails you die. Used by us almost as much as WWTD. In another campaign where I was a wild mage (2ed), I constantly messed with the other players. A few examples: 1) Charmed the crusader into donating his ********* to medical research in return for money to donate to the temple. 2) Had the ranger lead the charge (despite the fact that there was a minotaur fighter in the party) into a room with four death knights. I then shut the door and placed a Greater Sign of Sealing upon it. We finally let him out when he had less than 10 HP remaining. 3) Used a spell I created to weld links of chainmail being worn by that same ranger together (I welded the arms together, basically putting him in cuffs). 4) I had my own keep, an asston of wishes (Deck of Many Things, anyone?), and I was creating incentives for a village to start growing. I also wanted servants, soldiers, and other individuals such as merchants (so I could start making money). The DM said since I had CHA 18 I could basically attract whatever followers I wanted so long as I paid them. At the next session when I wanted to know how much money some of my ventures were making, the DM's expression as she exclaimed "What?! When did you get a traveling circus?!" was just priceless. The DM later returned the favor by attacking my keep with a god.
Kargush 10-17-07, 04:32 AM	81. My name, in real life, is Tim. On occasion, I play a wizard. So, guess what the running gag is...? ;)
zeratulcraft 10-17-07, 04:55 AM	81. My name, in real life, is Tim. On occasion, I play a wizard. So, guess what the running gag is...? ;) Robert?
Gemstone 10-17-07, 05:02 AM	82. During a game over five years ago, two PC's were walking through Chronopia. Suddenly, they bounce into two gamblers, of which one becomes deadly afraid and runs away from the PC's, screaming that they tried to rob him. After a few sconds, he passes a corner and they hear him bump into a troll. The troll says "hehe... mooooney" and proceeds to kill the poor guy and take his money. Since then, this troll keeps showing up and those of the party who has gold, runs for their life... 83. In the same game, the PC's was set upon the task to find "the Sword of Truth". Now, they ventured into a forest and heard a strange noise. They shot some arrows and a boy fell dead onto the ground. They buried the poor chap... only too be assaulted by him a day later. they promptly slayed him again and burried him. Another day later, they faced him again! Screaming from fear, they slayed him, burned his body, gathered the ashes and burned them again. Then they climbed into a tree and spread his ashes with the wind. Still today, they are afraid of seeing that young boy again... 84. Another runnin gag is a man named "Locke Trueblood". Locke had the habit of "renaming" other PC's to the public, even once managing to rename a shapeshifter into "Lobster Boy"., Whenever the PC's wants to find some info today, they try to reach Locke as he knows. 85. "I aim at the leader..." is another classic... basicly, nobody EVER hits the leader when saying that.
maxt60 10-17-07, 04:55 PM	The 1st session I was ever in, I had a Githzerai Ranger name Dinnearash. The rest of the group had just passed the tests to get into the local militia when I was introduced. The DM proceeded to make me take the tests according to my class. He asked the usual registration questions, name, class, age, sex, the usual stuff. When he came to the question "What battle experience do you have?", I immediately made up a monster that I referred to as the beast. In a middle-eastern stereotypical voice, I had my character say,"Have you ever fought 'The Beast of RACACACACACAAAA? He has eight arms and seven exploding pe**ses. It's mate, instead has seven times the exploding Pe**ses." The other PC's promptly intentionally failed their saves and immediately fell over laughing on the floor. Now every time we encounter an enemy that none of the PC's have encountered before, Dinnearash promptly makes a spot check and asks in the same voice, "IS IT THE BEAST?!?!?!?!?"
wizard of Newfoundland 10-17-07, 05:59 PM	81. My name, in real life, is Tim. On occasion, I play a wizard. So, guess what the running gag is...? ;) "There are those who call me....Tim" :D From monty pyton and the holy grail, talking with Tim the Enchanter
Drenack 10-17-07, 06:12 PM	In the first game of D&D I played a NPC tried to mug me and I beat him senseless using non-lethal damage. Then I used some sleeping dust on him, cut off his arms and legs, and tied him to townsquare. Ever since then any town we go into has a dead man tied to town square. And another one is whenever someone we don't know call one of the PCs friend they yell "Your no friend of mine!' and raise their lanterns (that all started when I did the same thing only I splashed a man with lantern oil and lit him on fire.)
Devan 10-23-07, 05:45 PM	I think this is 89... I play an Air Genasi fighter/dervish (that'd be my handle, Devan). He's male (and gay, but it's not like he runs around flopping his wrists or anything. At most, he'll lean away from a Succubus instead of towards it :) ), but I'm not, and for that obvious reason at the beginning of our campaign our DM kept referring to my character as 'she' or having NPCs address him as 'young lady' or such. Cue my PC pretty much growling at people (he has 8 CHA) and us all snickering madly as it was quickly established that Devan, the six-foot-tall, 16 STR fighter with at least three swords strapped to him at any time, is absolutely indistinguishable from a woman. :rofl: (Except by Halflings. The reason for this has been thankfully left unexplored to this day. ;) ) From then on, whenever someone has called him a woman, he's either glared at them while going "I'm a man" in as low a voice as he can get, which being mine is really not low at all, or, in the case of enemies, charged them with what has, to date, been the only true battle cry ever uttered by our group: "I. Am. A. MAAAAAAAAAAN!"... in a slightly high-pitched, semi-hysterical voice. :rolleyes: Incidentally, he once actually managed to look vaguely heroic while doing it, flinging himself off the side of a tower in Sharn (our DM house ruled that Air Genasi can fly in Sharn) and lopping off the head of an evil wizard who'd lobbed a fireball at our party before jumping over the edge, casting Featherfall, and calling Devan a little girl. Last thing he ever said. :P 90? Another running gag in our party began when we were once paid for a mission, instead of in gold, with land plots... located in some kind of disgusting marsh. Our Dwarf fighter bought them all off of us, except for the Psion's, and has plans for them which he refuses to reveal. We fear we might have gotten a glimpse of them when he decided to keep a young dragon occupied for us (mind you, we were abour LVL 4 at the time. Thankfully the dragon wasn't quite real)... by trying to sell him "a wonderful, relaxing vacation in a delightful thermal swamp resort!" :mymy: He's been doing that with nearly any big scary monster that didn't try to take a bite out of us first thing. Need I mention the Dwarf has 6 CHA, and the most stubborn disposition ever displayed by a PC who actually got to level 12 alive? :bigeyes: