D&D Shenanigans

synkr0nized · 04-26-2010, 12:04 AM

@tacticslion Ha. Infiltration of organizations is funny. Does that happen often in games? I am pretty sure the party I joined in the below description had done a little bit of that [heck, we may have even done it during the part I was present for, I don't recall; I DO know there is a tale of going in this one place, more or less killing everyone, and being mistaken for them later].

I don't play tabletop, but I have been in a couple of games. It doesn't really interest me, though in fairness I do have a lot of fun sitting around with friends and cracking jokes. So, that and a couple other factors led me to participate in this game one semester in college. It was in Planescape, the one with the city that's at the center or whatnot of the planes with the Lady of Pain running it.

I came in late with a friend of mine, but all the players and the guy running it were also good friends. The latter helped us come up with characters -- my friend was some kind of large bug that spoke broken English, and I was a half-air elemental with about seventy miles of arrogance and an obsession with stabbing most people I met. I was also able to serve as translator for the bug.

That may be needless background. I don't know how common these kinds of things are, but here are some fond memories I have of the game:

-- in a "boss fight" of sorts, deciding it wasn't getting us anywhere as a decent number of the party had taken damage, I charged the guy and took him out the window, fought him a turn or two on the way down, and then floated myself while he splatted.

-- My character generally hating everyone who wasn't him (part of how we set him up and also to give me an excuse to be quiet in-character), so when people did stupid things it was often just assumed that those moments would be when I actually talked in character.

-- A halfling... tiefling? party member got in some kind of racism/millenia-of-hate fight with an NPC when we were walking around this one place that made me think of something like Mos Eisley; instead of helping him, I started taking bets (made a whole lot on that, and impressed a lich somehow by doing so; we later ripped one of the bug guy's arms off, his protests aside, to give to this same lich as part of a deal)

-- fought and defeated an enemy toward the end of the thing that was literally a tornado that wielded at least 4 blades

-- the same tiefling from above had wild surges, and the player had a 100-sided die (haha wtf) that he used for this. Needless to say, half the time or more when this happened there were pretty amusing results.

I don't remember all of it in much detail and am biased to what I did myself, but I did have some fun. When I think about that game, it almost makes me want to do that again. Of course the other good part was all of the out-of-character conversation and nonsense.

These kinds of things might be common occurrences in games, so sorry if this is a pretty boring addition to the thread.

04-26-2010, 12:04 AM	#11
synkr0nized synk-ism Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: throughout the Wired Posts: 6,861	I never got to fight a gazebo. @tacticslion Ha. Infiltration of organizations is funny. Does that happen often in games? I am pretty sure the party I joined in the below description had done a little bit of that [heck, we may have even done it during the part I was present for, I don't recall; I DO know there is a tale of going in this one place, more or less killing everyone, and being mistaken for them later]. I don't play tabletop, but I have been in a couple of games. It doesn't really interest me, though in fairness I do have a lot of fun sitting around with friends and cracking jokes. So, that and a couple other factors led me to participate in this game one semester in college. It was in Planescape, the one with the city that's at the center or whatnot of the planes with the Lady of Pain running it. I came in late with a friend of mine, but all the players and the guy running it were also good friends. The latter helped us come up with characters -- my friend was some kind of large bug that spoke broken English, and I was a half-air elemental with about seventy miles of arrogance and an obsession with stabbing most people I met. I was also able to serve as translator for the bug. That may be needless background. I don't know how common these kinds of things are, but here are some fond memories I have of the game: -- in a "boss fight" of sorts, deciding it wasn't getting us anywhere as a decent number of the party had taken damage, I charged the guy and took him out the window, fought him a turn or two on the way down, and then floated myself while he splatted. -- My character generally hating everyone who wasn't him (part of how we set him up and also to give me an excuse to be quiet in-character), so when people did stupid things it was often just assumed that those moments would be when I actually talked in character. -- A halfling... tiefling? party member got in some kind of racism/millenia-of-hate fight with an NPC when we were walking around this one place that made me think of something like Mos Eisley; instead of helping him, I started taking bets (made a whole lot on that, and impressed a lich somehow by doing so; we later ripped one of the bug guy's arms off, his protests aside, to give to this same lich as part of a deal) -- fought and defeated an enemy toward the end of the thing that was literally a tornado that wielded at least 4 blades -- the same tiefling from above had wild surges, and the player had a 100-sided die (haha wtf) that he used for this. Needless to say, half the time or more when this happened there were pretty amusing results. I don't remember all of it in much detail and am biased to what I did myself, but I did have some fun. When I think about that game, it almost makes me want to do that again. Of course the other good part was all of the out-of-character conversation and nonsense. These kinds of things might be common occurrences in games, so sorry if this is a pretty boring addition to the thread. __________________ Find love.