Dumb things players like to do

On Oct 27, 7:42 pm, The Mad Afro <mada... RemoveThis @grandecom.net> wrote:
> - In one campaign, a players' obsession with his character owning his
> own bar eventually transformed the focus of the entire game. It became
> sort of a "high-fantasy Cheers" kind of deal, where trouble found the
> party, not vice-versa.

My reply is rather late, but I hope you can see it... because it looks
like Three-Dragon Ante is the perfect game for your players.

Wiki of the card game from WotC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Dragon_Ante

I once had a character in a 3.0 game playing a fighter specialized in ranged
attacks. He could hit basically anything, and with the broken rules I was
using at the time about called shots, had lots of fun specifically targeting
people's eyes. It was still a difficult shot (I think a +16 to the AC for
attempting to hit a tiny object), but doable. The party had just hid as a
red dragon flew over their heads. It had failed to notice them, but the
player, anxious to show his prowess, and a little touched in the head,
decided he would do a called shot for the dragon's rear "hole" as he flew
away. Needless to say the entire party cracked up when he scored a hole in
one with his arrow. That was, until the dragon turned around and very
irately incinerated the party.

They were never supposed to try and fight the thing. Just some
foreshadowing to let them know what was ahead.




In another campaign two of the PC's created their characters seperately and
then declared as the game started that they were brothers. This was a
physical impossibility since the one was a full blooded elf druid, and the
other a half orc barbarian. Regardless of this fact, they wanted to play as
brothers, but rather than one of them change their race, they decided that
they would be cursed by a wizard to believe they were brothers. They were
inseperable, and threatened anyone who brought up the question of paternity.