D&D Shenanigans

[walkertexasdruid]

I am sure that many of you out there have had interesting things happen while D&Ding, some good, and some bad. Well recently I started playing a Kender named Ash, who seems to have the uncanny ability to make good things happen when bad things are supposed to happen, namely when you roll a natural failure 1.

In one instance, he tried to sneak attack using a sling stone from his hoopak, rolled a one and managed to kill a squirrel in a nearby tree. He got experience points for that critter. In another he rolled a one in a similar circumstance and th stone bounced off the sword of a teammate in mele combat with an orc and he killed that orc, all the while aiming for something thirty feet in the other direction.

There are many other things I could mention, but I would like to hear from you. What unusual or funny things have happened while playing D&D, or any other RPG?

[EVILNess]

Oh my goodness, I'll only get into it if there is a consensus allowing a giant wall of text.

[Ravashak]

Personally, I prefer to have paragraphs instead of a single block of text xP

[Amake]

The most interesting thing that's happened to me from playing any board games was reading the big old list of things whatshisface aren't allowed to do, you know what I'm talking about. Vorpal forklifts and feeding the Tarrasque its own weight in iron and stuff.

Yes, this happened to me because someone else was playing D&D and I read about it. My life is that exciting.

[EVILNess]

First, some background information on the world and character as I have discussed my shenanigans before, also they were great threads full of many awesome stories...

From D&D Gold/XP Equivalency (is now general D&D playstyles thread)
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From Fucking Awesome DnD Moments/Campaigns
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There was also a post I could not find where I broke the party that killed me mentally and they they declared fealty to me and started to assist me in my quest to destroy those pesky pillars. It was awesome.

Since I last posted we have destroyed all but one of the pillars holding reality together, the loss of the additional pillars has had some interesting effects. When we got down to one pillar things started to slightly bleed together from one dimension to another, and we spent a few sessions defeating encroaching beings invading our cities.

We discovered that the energy put off by the pillars was fatal to them, so being the resident expert on the pillars I and the other magically inclined PCs devised a kind of man made crystal that put off the same energy. We fashioned some weapons out of it and gave it to the army to fight the small fry while we defeated the bigger threat.

I also fashioned some mini Pillars so that these outsiders couldn't come into my lands and to stabilize the bleed over effect so that I didn't wake up in a fiery hell dimension one day. The rest of the world however, is in ruins. Strange eldritch beasts, faceless horrors, and more wander the world now. Hundreds of thousands of people find themselves magically mutated, many more dead, and the people are looking to me to get them out of this.

It's kind of odd, I haven't changed... my party is still kinda responsible for destroying the world and here is everyone looking at us to lead them to a promising tomorrow. The survivors call my party Gods in the Flesh and Those Who Lead. A whole religion has sprung up around us and our quest to destroy the last pillar.

Suckers.

[Viridis]

Not D&D, but a wondrous oven gave me a robot puppy once. I love our GM.

[Vauron]

Wouldn't the crystals act like pillars and keep you from getting that power you have been striving for? Or do they intentionally lack that feature?

[McTahr]

My rogues tend to make people regret playing with me.
I was playing a pirate (rogue/bard/fighter, bard for sea chanty + glibness) and since it was the first game, the DM was being especially generous in "party-meshing" circumstances. I spent the first session doing everything possible, caught or not, to rob the entire party, aside from the barbarian, if only 'cause she was the only person there who'd hit me in real life. Wound up, I ditched them with an inn bill, hoofed it to the market, disguised myself as the medieval equivalent of a bag lady, and still somehow managed to get caught, only to pull off some sleight of hand and cheat them again.

The entire campaign was spent making sure I got "boat funds" to take care of our "boat" that we basically stole, that didn't actually need maintenance, along with making sure to steal everything that wasn't nailed down. I had about four times as much gold as any character, roughly 50% of the entire party's wealth. (4-5 regular players)

Aside from that the character was completely combat ineffective and spent his time doing flips and sea chantys and other bitchin' feats, like swinging off chandeliers, riding flaming bedrolls into seas of zombies, and generally just the coolest thing I could imagine someone with +20 tumble/balance/etc. doing.

Oh, and he had three fake names, each one being an identity to another, so that it worked out to layers of lies, etc.

[EVILNess]

Originally Posted by Vauron

Wouldn't the crystals act like pillars and keep you from getting that power you have been striving for? Or do they intentionally lack that feature?

To an extent maybe, but their area of affect is rather small and I'd rather have to destroy something I have direct access to than wake up in a lava pit from an elemental plane of fire.

[DarkDrgon]

the newest in my trend of Nintendo-themed games features pokemon.

In a world, where immeasurably strong creatures follow fleshy bags of meat, 2 cultures war for dominance!

The party is mostly non-gamers, so its starting off fairly simple. start in Johto, stiop team rocket. once they hit level 2..... Invaders from across the sea come, bringing more actual D&D into the game.