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 Posted: 15-Feb-2002 11:32 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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What is the stupidest thing you've ever seen someone do in a game? It should be something that was so catastrophically stupid, that in hindsight all you can do is tell the tale and shake your head sadly.
I once saw someone in a Twilight 2000 game lay on top of a twelve foot tall bus with a minigun on a tripod. Since we didn't have a military vehicle he wanted some firepower up on the roof like a poor man's pintle mount. Well the bus was driving down the highway and drove under a bridge with a 14 foot (or less) clearance.
Golly, when the GM keeps saying "Are you sure you want to do this?" That just means he approves of your idea, right?
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 15-Feb-2002 12:14 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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I had a thief that kept running into every room first to see if any treasure was in there, before we got there. She never looked in before she went it. We came into a long hall, and off she run grabing the first door, opening it, going in, then close the door. Unfortuately, that door was a trap. It was a dimensional door to the space between the realms...She's still falling as far as I can know.... you should have seen her face when the DM asked her for her Sheet...It was priceless.
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Warner
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| Posted: 15-Feb-2002 12:59 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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I was GMing a Traveller game where one of my players had a character modeled after a "Flinter" (For some that's like a Dorsai of sorts but faster). He wasn't the sharpest rock on the block. So when one of the PC's got killed he got mad. And on the ship we had to Sentinent Computers. The ship's main computer was Mother and the engineering computer's name was God.
So this PC was asking everyone why did this person die. When he finally turned to the Ships engineer (My PC) and asked, I said, go and pray to God and maybe he'll answer you.
So this Flinter goes, Ok.. and heads back to engineering. Gets down in front of the Eng Computer station and starts praying. He prays, "Oh God, why did this person die?" And he waited.
I personally sat there stunned because I didn't believe this PC was that stupid.. but he was actually doing it. So after a few minutes the only thing I could think of hit me for an answer. The computer answered in its very deep and powerful voice, "Shit Happens." The PC just thought about it a minute and said, "Okey Dokey" and went on. We all busted out laughing and had to pause the game for awhile... it was just too funny!
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| Posted: 15-Feb-2002 16:09 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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NO! NO! NO!
Hardware has missed the best portion of that whole campaign...
Each player was allowed 2 characters in that campaign. The "owner" of that BFG got the gun fixed and decided that it belonged inside the bus. So into the bus it went.
No more than 15 minutes later the bus came under attack. I figured the GM wanted rid of that BFG so I went where it wasn't...which was outside.
Soon the others saw what I was doing (and why) and bailed from the bus...all except "A", who didn't know why we were all bailing but had one of his characters leave. (It should be noted that "A" is the father of Tim Gendron, the person mentioned in a thread elsewhere on this board). His second character stayed in the bus to get the BFG. Suddenly an RPG was fired at the bus...the GM gave "A"'s charcter in the bus 1 "free" action before the bus blew up. He did that so "A" could get his character out of there.
He chose to try and throw the BFG clear of the bus.
So both the BFG and his character got blown up...and for some odd reason he was pissed about it.
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| Posted: 15-Feb-2002 17:44 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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It's called natural selection. Strong and smart lives and the weak and stupid die.
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| Posted: 15-Feb-2002 18:17 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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OK, here's the *first* in the series of stories from my assorted adventures. For some reason, I had a kid in one of my D+D parties who dearly wanted to be a renegade drow like Dr'zzt. He was also our ranger.
One day, we were walking along and found a patrol of fire giants sitting around and getting drunk. He saw that they had beer and tried to join them. They refused. He countered by trying to mess with their heads (where there is one Drow, they say, there are dozens more hidden.) The giants didn't believe him. We all nearly got killed. (especialy since our archer, who was a female renegade Drow, ran outta arrows.)
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| Posted: 15-Feb-2002 20:03 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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Kraken said:
One day, we were walking along and found a patrol of fire giants sitting around and getting drunk. He saw that they had beer and tried to join them. They refused. He countered by trying to mess with their heads (where there is one Drow, they say, there are dozens more hidden.) The giants didn't believe him. We all nearly got killed. (especialy since our archer, who was a female renegade Drow, ran outta arrows.)
Me:
As the DM of this particular situation, I feel certain things need to be pointed out.
First, the Drow ranger tried to convince the giants that he had a whole drow *army* hidden behind him in the bushes. The fact that the giants were tall enough to literally see through that bluff must not have occured to him.
Second, once they succeeded in pissing off the giants, they decided to each take on their own giant (there was 7 of them, and 7+ giants). Keep in mind that these characters were only 5th level... Yes the Archer ran out of arrows, but that was because the idiot left town with only 20 arrows in her possesion, thinking that 20 arrows would be more than sufficient for an adventure (the archer was played by a munchkin *male* player, btw).
So how did they survive? My friend, who helped me DM by being guest NPCs, had his kender character there that session (he knows how to play kender properly, and since he is in on what is going on behind the screen he knows how to help move teh story along like kender usually do in most stories). He was smart enough to get in close to the giants, and climb up on them with his daggers (he used them like pitons), and then proceeded to hit all the weak points. He (with an 8th level kender thief) took out three giants by himself, and assisted on two others, plus bandaging the characters that were pulped by the giants' boulders (the archer decided to trade missle weapon attacks with the giants, not noticing the differential in damage capacity and capability).
You know things are going horribly wrong when the kender saves the day by mortal combat (not a single "oops!" was uttered by the kender during the entire combat). It got to where whenever the kender showed up in future sessions, the group was relieved because they knew he would get them out of the messes that they made. The even started including him in their tactical plans that they made ahead of time, even though they never knew when he would be there or not.
And now you know the rest of the story...
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 15-Feb-2002 20:43 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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How can you say that he played a Kender well. A true Kender would have said oops anyway, and still fought off the giants. It would have been more fun to see the players faces when he kept saying Opps.... 
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| Posted: 15-Feb-2002 22:29 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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The kender didn't say "oops!' during the fight because he was so busy fighting giants almost by himself to save the idiots in the group.
He made up for it later though when the group found out that the Death Knight that was their main bad guy (at least so far that they knew) had had his signet ring "handled" by the kender (whose name is Harold Maximus Burrbutt, but my friends just call me Harry). The party kinda got the idea to run when the kender pissed his pants after Lord Delgarth saw him and swore he would kill "the dirty little kender thief".
The kender's biggest oops of all (to date, that is) was tying the anchor of a pirate ship around the dock, so that when teh ship set sail, they took the dock with it.
How he managed to do it? Only a kender knows...
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| Posted: 16-Feb-2002 02:00 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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Here is one.
Draconis was playing a fighter. Who decided to go hunting one day (without bow & arrow, or any range weapon) he came across a stag. Relizeing that he had nothing to shoot at it. He used the next best thing. (At least in his mind)He threw his +5 Holy Avenger at the stag. Needless to say. It missed. And when he tried to retrieve it. He found out another quirk about his character. It had no search skill.
Good bye sword
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| Posted: 16-Feb-2002 09:15 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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If Draconis had a Holy Avenger than he needed to be a Palidan...otherwise it's just a +3 sword for a normal fighter.
The GM there should be smacked in the head many, many times--at least until he stops enjoying it It doesn't take a "search" skill to find something that is there to be found, especially something that's described an a Holy Avenger. What it takes is time...and if the character saw it land (or even saw the direction it was thrown in--presumably he must have--then recovery is simply a matter of time.
And whether it was a +3 sword or a +5 Holy Avenger, I think time wasn't going to be much of an issue to the owner. 
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| Posted: 16-Feb-2002 09:17 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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Maybe our party should go where that stag was. My paladin is looking for a Holy Avenger. 
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chihawk
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| Posted: 16-Feb-2002 10:08 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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You just want Sara or Colleen to ask you "is that a Holy Avenger in your pocket or are you happy to see me?".
'Cause we all know the answer 
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| Posted: 16-Feb-2002 10:15 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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On 2002-02-16 09:15, chihawk wrote:
If Draconis had a Holy Avenger than he needed to be a Palidan...otherwise it's just a +3 sword for a normal fighter.
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I stand corrected. He was a Palidan. And the GM (His own father) Made it a search skill as a lesson.
When you have a +5 Avenger. You do not go in to the woods, AND THROW IT!!!
Kinda of like to old Gazbo story. You upset a gazbo eoungh. it will attack
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| Posted: 16-Feb-2002 10:24 Post subject: So stupid it's funny |
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Ahhh, it's the old "GM Dad is teaching the Palidan son a lesson about not thowing his +5 Holy Avenger" gambit...
...wish I had a dime for every time that happens.
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