What was your funniest time gaming?

"Robin Raymont" <Rbn RemoveThis @shaw.ca> wrote in
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> Lololololol. I think that when we were playing the 1st Ed and
> of course fudging on the rules, we had a greater time than
> strictly adhering <sp> to them. In another adventure my brother
> and I were in a 10' x 10' room (something small) where my
> brother finds a stone figurine of a bird. He tosses it up into
> the air, only to find out that the figurine turned into a Roc.
> Lol, the bird gets crushed in the small space which of course
> causes it to fall on us. My brother had on a necklace of
> adaptation, but I was a goner. After that my character was
> brought back as a zombie. The rest of the party had fun using
> me as a "human" mixmaster to test out potions. [
>
I recall one dungeon. There was a hallway that, when the party
entered, filled up waist deep with oil, and a lit torch dropped in.
The only time we ever triggered it, every single member of the part
was either fireproof and didn't need to breathe, or could teleport.

Same dungeon, right near the entrance, was a small hole in the
wall. Every single time a party entered - even when it had players
who had been there before - *somebody* would look through the hole.
on the other side, was an orc with a ballista. "When the hole goes
dark, fire the ballista, then reload it, and repeat." One time,
character looks, get a ballista bolt through the eye, and dies.
Party priest raises him. He figures, the trap is sprung, it's safe
to look now. Reloading the ballista took less time than the raise
dead. So we raise him again. He wants to try it *again*. We told
him that if he died again, we were going to loot the body and leave
him there. He decided not to.

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Terry Austin

"I'm in the trenches and replaced the rose covered glasses with
fluid safe splash guards." - tom c
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I played thru "Tegal Manor" (judges guild) in the mid 1980's during an
all-night session. - We smoked way too much weed and had a couple of
tabs of acid as well

I can remember laughing a lot about how "trolls" and "Gnolls" rhymed,
and how "Conan the Barbarian" said backwards sounded like an evil
incantation "NANOC ETH NIA'RAB-RAB!"

we must have repreated both jokes (in silly voices) about 250 times
each
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On Oct 24, 7:50 am, Gas Spore Paladin <rob_mur....TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I played thru "Tegal Manor" (judges guild) in the mid 1980's during an
> all-night session. - We smoked way too much weed and had a couple of
> tabs of acid as well
>
> I can remember laughing a lot about how "trolls" and "Gnolls" rhymed,
> and how "Conan the Barbarian" said backwards sounded like an evil
> incantation "NANOC ETH NIA'RAB-RAB!"
>
> we must have repreated both jokes (in silly voices) about 250 times
> each

In one of the first campaigns I played in, our party's battle cry was
"CHORIZO!"

I have no idea why. Although, since that particular DM's campaign was
a meat-grinder, it's probably appropriate.

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Jay Knioum
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Gas Spore Paladin wrote:

> I played thru "Tegal Manor" (judges guild) in the mid 1980's during an
> all-night session. - We smoked way too much weed and had a couple of
> tabs of acid as well
>
> I can remember laughing a lot about how "trolls" and "Gnolls" rhymed,
> and how "Conan the Barbarian" said backwards sounded like an evil
> incantation "NANOC ETH NIA'RAB-RAB!"
>
> we must have repreated both jokes (in silly voices) about 250 times
> each
>
>

The lesson here folks is don't mix recreational chemicals and gaming...

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Tetsubo
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"The apparent lesson of the Inquisition is that insistence on
uniformity of belief is fatal to intellectual, moral and spiritual health."
-The Uses Of The Past-, Herbert J. Muller

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On Oct 24, 3:20 am, "Christopher Adams" <mhacdebhan... RemoveThis @yahoo.com>
wrote:

> The climax of the campaign had us fight an ancient history professor from our
> university, who summoned historical figures we'd been learning about in class to
> kill the heroes.
>
> Shamshi-Adad I is no supervillain, that's all I'm saying.


Sounds like a rejected plot for a Bill & Ted sequel. Makes for a
great story, though.

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On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:35:12 GMT, "Robin Raymont" <Rbn DeleteThis @shaw.ca> wrote:

>I'm thinking that there was enough said on the problems of gaming, so I'm
>starting a thread on the more fun side of gaming...the "weird/wacky" gaming
>sessions.
>
>I remember one time when we were playing 1st Ed. (ya, I'm that old) and my
>oldest sister was playing. She had on a girdle of giant strength (type
>forgotten) and was whipping to death a cougar/puma/mountain lion with her
>old belt because she was bored of killing it the old-fashioned way. [

I'd say the best time we had was back in college. We realized there
was a group of bible thumpers in the next room. The rest of the
evening turned into jokes playing to their fears about the game.
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On 24 Oct, 14:59, The Mad Afro <mada... RemoveThis @grandecom.net> wrote:
> On Oct 24, 7:50 am, Gas Spore Paladin <rob_mur... RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I played thru "Tegal Manor" (judges guild) in the mid 1980's during an
> > all-night session. - We smoked way too much weed and had a couple of
> > tabs of acid as well
>
> > I can remember laughing a lot about how "trolls" and "Gnolls" rhymed,
> > and how "Conan the Barbarian" said backwards sounded like an evil
> > incantation "NANOC ETH NIA'RAB-RAB!"
>
> > we must have repreated both jokes (in silly voices) about 250 times
> > each

and I seem to recall that I ate a packet of pencil crayons during the
same eveining

PS
I was playing a monk called "Ho-di-Hunk"
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LOL. For me it was too much caffeine and/or sugar, and not enough sleep.
Man, the things that happened during then...well they were possibly used on
the small screen. [

"Tetsubo" <tetsubo RemoveThis @comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Gas Spore Paladin wrote:
>
>> I played thru "Tegal Manor" (judges guild) in the mid 1980's during an
>> all-night session. - We smoked way too much weed and had a couple of
>> tabs of acid as well
>>
>> I can remember laughing a lot about how "trolls" and "Gnolls" rhymed,
>> and how "Conan the Barbarian" said backwards sounded like an evil
>> incantation "NANOC ETH NIA'RAB-RAB!"
>>
>> we must have repreated both jokes (in silly voices) about 250 times
>> each
>>
>>
>
> The lesson here folks is don't mix recreational chemicals and gaming...
>
> --
> Tetsubo
> --------------------------------------
> "The apparent lesson of the Inquisition is that insistence on uniformity
> of belief is fatal to intellectual, moral and spiritual health."
> -The Uses Of The Past-, Herbert J. Muller
>
> BLUP
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Loren Pechtel <lorenpechtel.RemoveThis@hotmail.invalid.com> wrote in
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> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:35:12 GMT, "Robin Raymont" <Rbn.RemoveThis@shaw.ca>
> wrote:
>
>>I'm thinking that there was enough said on the problems of
>>gaming, so I'm starting a thread on the more fun side of
>>gaming...the "weird/wacky" gaming sessions.
>>
>>I remember one time when we were playing 1st Ed. (ya, I'm that
>>old) and my oldest sister was playing. She had on a girdle of
>>giant strength (type forgotten) and was whipping to death a
>>cougar/puma/mountain lion with her old belt because she was
>>bored of killing it the old-fashioned way. [
>
> I'd say the best time we had was back in college. We realized
> there was a group of bible thumpers in the next room. The rest
> of the evening turned into jokes playing to their fears about
> the game.
>
We had a Top Secret campaign that ran about 20 years. We spent many
hours in our favorite restraunt, after a game session, discussing
politics in various third world shitholes (and first and second
world shitholes, for that matter). There was one night, I believe
we were talking about the apparent prospects for civil war
somewhere in Central America (in real life, that is), when the guy
at the next table introduced himself as a reporter for the LA
Times, and wanted to know what thinktank we worked for. He's been
eavesdropping, and said we sounded better informed than anyone else
he'd talked to about it. It was hard to decide whether he, or we,
were more freaked out.

--
Terry Austin

"I'm in the trenches and replaced the rose covered glasses with
fluid safe splash guards." - tom c
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:38:06 GMT, "Robin Raymont" <Rbn DeleteThis @shaw.ca> wrote:

>LOL. For me it was too much caffeine and/or sugar, and not enough sleep.
>Man, the things that happened during then...well they were possibly used on
>the small screen. [

I was in a 2nd ed AD&D campaign where the GM was a cola addict.
He'd already drank his own 2 litre bottle of coke and asked one of the
players if he could have some of theres. The player said fine, what he
didn't say was that it had vodka mixed in and the GM didn't drink at
all then.

A couple of glasses later the player who'd given him the coke got
himself caught in a trap he couldn't get out of by his normal tactics
so he cast plane shift (I assume that he had to wait and memorise it
specially). The GM asked to see the character sheet, looked at it for
a couple of moments and then handed it back.

I can't remember what plane the guy decided to go to. The GM said that
the guy arrived on a dusty plane and the PC cast stoneskin,
invisibility and fly then started going in a random direction.

He eventually came to a very large city with massive buildings and
strange lights. He cast Dispel Magic which knocked out lights in the
area and then he started trying to fly away.

Shortly after this he was hit by anti-aircraft fire. Apparently
invisibility didn't affect radar.

and boys and girls that is what happens if you get a GM tipsy and then
try and cast plane shift without the material component that lets you
choose your destination...
>
>"Tetsubo" <tetsubo DeleteThis @comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> Gas Spore Paladin wrote:
>>
>>> I played thru "Tegal Manor" (judges guild) in the mid 1980's during an
>>> all-night session. - We smoked way too much weed and had a couple of
>>> tabs of acid as well
>>>
>>> I can remember laughing a lot about how "trolls" and "Gnolls" rhymed,
>>> and how "Conan the Barbarian" said backwards sounded like an evil
>>> incantation "NANOC ETH NIA'RAB-RAB!"
>>>
>>> we must have repreated both jokes (in silly voices) about 250 times
>>> each
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The lesson here folks is don't mix recreational chemicals and gaming...
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Tetsubo wrote:
> The lesson here folks is don't mix recreational chemicals and
> gaming...

I have to second this... though even with legal ones. I was GMing a game
(Gamma World 4th edition, but that's not really pertinent), and the player
thought it would be great if he got me drunk, because then I would be easier
on them and hand out all kinds of goodies.

Not so.

As it turns out, much even to my surprise, what happens is that I tend to
reign in the opposition during fights to keep it a level playing field.
After a few drinks, that control went away, and I was like "Yeah, he did 30
points of damage... you can take that right? Anyway, let's see, now what's
this guy going to do..."

The other player said:

"That's the closest I ever felt we got to a TPK. You're never allowed to
drink and GM again."

And I have not.

--
Reginald Blue
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telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my
telephone."
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Reginald Blue wrote:

> Tetsubo wrote:
>
>>The lesson here folks is don't mix recreational chemicals and
>>gaming...
>
>
> I have to second this... though even with legal ones. I was GMing a game
> (Gamma World 4th edition, but that's not really pertinent), and the player
> thought it would be great if he got me drunk, because then I would be easier
> on them and hand out all kinds of goodies.
>
> Not so.
>
> As it turns out, much even to my surprise, what happens is that I tend to
> reign in the opposition during fights to keep it a level playing field.
> After a few drinks, that control went away, and I was like "Yeah, he did 30
> points of damage... you can take that right? Anyway, let's see, now what's
> this guy going to do..."
>
> The other player said:
>
> "That's the closest I ever felt we got to a TPK. You're never allowed to
> drink and GM again."
>
> And I have not.
>

I tried the Drinking & GMing thing way back when I was I think 18 or
19... I had to hit the head after too many beers... I stumbled into the
bathroom and realized there was no way I would be able to stand and
perform my duty, so I decided to sit on this occasion. I did my thing
and stumbled back to the game. After sitting down I discovered I had
forgotten one step in my cunning plan... lower my pants... I had just
sat on the john and peed myself...

No more Drinking & GMing...

Heck, by the time I was 22 I didn't drink at all any more... been dry
for 21 years...

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Tetsubo
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uniformity of belief is fatal to intellectual, moral and spiritual health."
-The Uses Of The Past-, Herbert J. Muller

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My favorite funny moment in gaming was a 3rd edition (heavily modified)
Gamma World campaign, I was the GM. The party had decided to camp in a
grove of largish trees that looked vaguely oak like. As the sun set I
mention that the leaves began to glow a soft blue... as full night
settled I told them the trees began to gently hum... this made the
players rather nervous. So they took the risk of moving camp in the dark
to a place with less active trees. At this point I was waiting, hoping.
I just *knew* that someone would ask the question I was waiting for...
and my future first wife didn't disappoint...

Her, "I wonder why those trees were humming?"

Me, "Because they didn't know the words..."

Luckily I was able to use my GM screen as a shield as they group pelted
me with dice...

Good times, good times...


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Tetsubo
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"The apparent lesson of the Inquisition is that insistence on
uniformity of belief is fatal to intellectual, moral and spiritual health."
-The Uses Of The Past-, Herbert J. Muller

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