roleplayers: Tell me something cool that happened in your last game.

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cartoonlad) wrote in

roleplayers,
@ 2008-05-08 22:07:00

Tell me something cool that happened in your last game.
A while back, I asked this community to tell me something cool that happened in their last game and got some neat answers. So. Gimmie something cool that happened in your last game. Not something cool that happened in a game a few sessions ago, but something cool that happened in that very last game session you were in, even if the game session sucked overall.

For us, we were doing a session zero for Deadlands Classic: character creation. Man, this was completely old school -- spending a full game session coming up with character concepts and the basis for our short run game. We're going to try to run it completely by the book, so we're going to have cards, dice, poker chips, and colored paper clips flying through the game. It's totally insane.

It was also totally cool.

Several cool moments just going through the book, explaining how combat rounds work and all that. But the coolest thing? Probably how everyone was trying to grab all those horrible random disadvantages to see how messed up their character was going to be out of the box. The best one was when my wife drew "Jinxed" in one of those random draws. Turns out that anyone that associates with her gets the Bad Luck disadvantage. Seeing as how she's an alchemist, that has the potential to be very bad. Everyone thought that was funny. Then Matt drew "Marked for Death". We're all cracking up -- I have the feeling this game is going to have a higher rate of comical PC death than your average game of Paranoia.

Your turn.

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	Something cool ... fiat_knox 2008-05-09 05:24 am UTC (link)
	We chargenned hunters for a playtest of Hunter: the Vigil. Then pitted them against [redacted - NDA]. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Something cool ... cartoonlad 2008-05-09 05:46 am UTC (link)
	I'm guessing the word you redacted was "Godzilla". (Reply to this)(Parent)

madrain
2008-05-09 05:52 am UTC (link)

I was playing for the first time in ages in Dogs in the Vineyard, playing a misogynistic ex-carnival performer investigating the murder of an abusive husband by his wife.

When I found out that most of the women of the town were corrupt, I sentenced the town steward to death for being unable to not only control his branch, but also his own family, as it turned out his wife was the heretic preaching that the King of Life was actually the Queen of Life. I ordered him to kill himself and she busted through the doors of their home intent on stopping me.

I instantly tried to shoot her without talking and she stopped the bullet in mid-air. Seeing I didn't have enough dice to win, I gave, then commuted the steward's death sentence on the condition he shoot his wife. He tried and she stopped that bullet, too, then sent it back at him, and I intervened to save his life.

It became a battle of the sexes, men versus women, right out in the open of that little town, and since I was the only dog, I had enough dice to hold my own but not enough to kill the sorcerer to prove to the murdering woman that the King of Life was indeed a man.

Great stuff.

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wileyotis
2008-05-09 05:58 am UTC (link)

I always loved everything that goes into Deadlands Classic. It's a shame I only ever played in one campaign.

As for the last session I played in, my players took down my big bad psyker "boss" in the testrun of Dark Heresy I whipped together. I was hoping to pit them against something that would kill at least one of them since we weren't planning on using those randomly generated characters beyond one session. She botched her first action to give herself a telekinetic shield, she botched her second roll to slap the guardsman with a force bolt, she made her next force bolt attempt (bringing the assassin to within 2 wounds of critical damage), but then she caught a righteous fury rifle blast to the face and crumpled like an H3 running into anything.

It was kind of a bummer, but it got a few of my friends excited about Dark Heresy. Unfortunately, this happened one month before 4e, so it might be some time before I get a chance to run or play in a legitimate DH campaign.

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	broin 2008-05-09 06:59 am UTC (link)
	"No-one's going to stop buying canned pineapple because the governor of California fucked some whore". Primetime Adventures, with our show being a soap - the stories of a 1950s Californian dynasty as they weather scandal, ambition and HUAC. (Reply to this)

odheirre
2008-05-09 11:16 am UTC (link)

Two things (and sorry for the length):

Here's the scene. They're in Newhall, escorting their client at a poker game a la Maverick. The group picked up a damsel in distress (Becca) -- they rescued her from two thugs, then broke into the hotel room to get her stuff, attacking two more thugs.

They're investigating the area where the game will take place. And they see the four thugs, plus two women and their leader, renown poker player Dan Andy Darcy. They hadn't met Dan, but they heard vaguely negative things from Becca. Dan said that Becca took something that isn't hers (lucky charm), and requested that she be searched. The captain, Becca, Dan, and one of the women went into a side room, and the two groups, minus their leaders, just glowered at each other. The other girl started taunting the thugs ("Hey, aren't these the guys who beat you up before?"), and between the overconfidence of the player characters and the girl, a fist fight broke out.

I tell Phil (playing Sterling, the captain) that the group in the side room hear a ruckus outside. Phil says Sterling just puts his head in his hand and says, "Not again." They are a violent group, and the captain's role is often to try to end fights his crew starts.

Dan says, "Crap, I left Daphne alone with the boys."

"Hey, I have a whole group of them." Sterling and Dan look outside, see the fight going full swing. Sterling says, "They'll be a while. Want a drink?"

"I'll buy the first round." And they walk off to the nearest bar. Dan Andy Darcy ends up becoming a recurring NPC that tips off the player characters that there will be trouble soon. And he was going to be an enemy, too.

Second. Mercy (our pilot) was running away from an arranged marriage, and the groom has been chasing her for most of the campaign. A duel broke out between the groom and Sterling. The groom pushed the matter, and the captain ended up killing the groom. Mercy was very happy.

The next night was Friendship Day with a huge party, and Mercy charmed the lord of the estate with her mad piloting skills. At some point, it was Mercy, the lord, Sterling, and the Sterling's date. Sterling quips, "watch it, Mercy is on the rebound, her fiancee just died." Player got a plot point just for that -- it was so TV.

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tacohunter
2008-05-09 11:29 am UTC (link)

The last game I played I was GMing. It was a one-shot of Promethean (the characters are Frankenstein-like animated corpses trying to become human) and they needed to acquire something from a very powerful vampire. I had designed the vampire to be able to trap a few of the PCs and question them, but during the initial confrontation every single dice roll I made for her came up with no successes, so I decided that since her disciplines weren't working against them she believed they were probably more powerful and more ancient than her, she stopped being domineering and started being fearful.
It turned this scene which I initially meant to be fraught with peril as the life or lives of several PCs might hang in the balance while this vampire interrogated them all, but it ended up being a badass strut through the vampire's personal property. I could probably use it as a great example of a GM rolling the dice and using them without creating fiats or a deus ex machina to effect the result I needed, but for the players it was enormously gratifying that they had intimidated this powerful vampire into their own pocket.
The players took what they came for and left.

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iceni
2008-05-09 12:53 pm UTC (link)

Our host had a very cute new kitten. There were a few random times when a player would yell out in pain and surprise as the kitten attacked their knees or leapt onto their back with claws out! Their older cat was jealous, hissing and looking affronted. They were put out of the room.

We're playing (I'm GM) 'Firefly'/'Serenity' and its set before Simon, River and Book come aboard. We were laughing and joking through most of the session. The players were cracking me up with innuendo jokes - especially Mal Reynolds' player. Last time they had me crying with laughter.

(Wednesday evening group session): Various amusing things are happening at the moment. Mal eavesdropped on NPC Enara talking to a client and discovered about her last appointment when the client's back gave out and a doctor had to be called out to an embarrassed naked guy who couldn't move. Embarrassed Enara saw he'd been eavesdropping. NPCs Zoe & Wash have had a row and Wash is growing back his moustache. Zoe says she "Ain't sleeping with him until it goes".

(PC) Kaylee persuaded (PC)Jayne to accompany her through Beaumonde's streets so she could get to a fancy dress shop, now she has enough money for a real pretty, real expensive frock (a whole Beverly Hills Pretty Woman scenario previously, but without the rich guy revenge). Jayne couldn't be more out of place waiting for her a very posh dress boutique getting cold looks from the attractive but belittling sales assistant.

Jayne doesn't feel well, but what's the cause? There's a (small)pox outbreak just emerging and it looks like he's got the early symptoms. It could also be something he caught from having slept a very friendly busty blonde recently. There's there's also a old crusty pioneer guy on board who's bought with him troublesome chickens, goats and crates of junk posessions. He and his goats probably have fleas. (It eventually turned out he has the flu). Last sesh I'd had Kaylee being bitten and scratched by a cute playful kitten on a wall, just before seeing a guy with pustules on his face looking really unwell).

(NPC) Pioneer Pete is useless and annoying, but (PC) Mal didn't have the heart to tell him to get off ship here, so they're stuck with him until their final destination now.

Another player didn't get to do quite so much this week unfortunately, but had had the limelight last sesh. There's more touble on its way for him. He'd made a wad of money in bare knuckle pit-fighting (!"Browncoat in the ring! Tra-la-la-la-la!!") and got out of there before the authorities showed up at the venue. He also got spotted by someone who reported his location to an enemy.

We had some fun with a new (PC) doctor joining them. 'Serenity' can boast an infirmary, but since this game is set in the past, the infirmary at this time consisted of a filthy dumping ground for a lot of junk, especially engine parts of Kaylee's. It was probably the dirtiest part of the whole ship! It will be this doctor PC that gets it in the fine and proper state we see at the start of the TV show.

There was a thread on this or another RPG community about villains, Jung and shadow types. The introduction of a new PC crew member is going to be very interesting in the coming sessions as his background is going to throw the cat among the pigeons (or should I say, the browncoats among the chickens?)

The crew are going to be delivering a package on behalf of Fanty & Mingo to pay off a high interest loan they've already been spending on repairs, feul and other things. The players laugh every time they hear the names Fanty & Mingo and they get the names wrong accidentally and on purpose.

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	iceni 2008-05-09 01:13 pm UTC (link)
	In another entirely different game this week I played my Mage. I'd been looking forward to finding out what happened next for days and couldn't wait to play. Just a short way into the game I fumbled a dice roll badly and my character got hit on the forehead and knocked down by a thrown snooker cue. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	roflcopter_down 2008-05-09 01:53 pm UTC (link)
	In Shadowrun, my character rickrolled a rampant AI. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	phasmaphobic 2008-05-09 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	HELL YEAH (Reply to this)(Parent)

	arthwollipot 2008-05-09 02:01 pm UTC (link)
	Coincidentally I just got back from the latest episode of my Metascape campaign. I usually like to pre-prepare a two-page summary of what I'd like to do in any game, but tonight I didn't have that. I basically got writer's block, so I scribbled a total of three (count 'em) bullet points on a notepad and winged the whole night. It was great! Edited at 2008-05-09 02:10 pm UTC (Reply to this)

	gloomfang 2008-05-09 02:49 pm UTC (link)
	I HATE Deadlands just becasue the last time I played I was a Huckster bank robber and ending up losing 4 spells in one night and was so brain fried that I had to make a new char. Manitu, apply directly to the forehead. (Reply to this)

	judd_sonofbert 2008-05-09 03:11 pm UTC (link)
	In Houses of the Blooded the players, all ven nobles, killed a giant monster that slumbered in a lake. The Sorcerer Kings used this type of beast to capture runaway ven slaves, back in the ancient times when ven were servants to the now dead Sorcerer Kings. Good times. (Reply to this)

mommaambrosia
2008-05-09 03:39 pm UTC (link)

Our last game was a Star Wars Saga game set in the rebellion era before Alderaan is destroyed.

My 16-year-old human scoundrel/soldier female successfully deactivated a thermal detonator by shooting it with her blaster. Then she killed in one shot the Rodian who had just assassinated her Hutt boss/adoptive mother with a vibroblade.

Two of the other players successfully stole the first x-wing spaceships for the rebellion. While playing the stormtroopers on the planet the x-wings were on for the GM, I rolled two crits on one of the player characters. The Tie-Fighters I was playing weren't so lucky though.

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clawfoot
2008-05-09 03:42 pm UTC (link)

AD&D 2nd ed. I was playing a 7th-level bard in a large party (there were six others, plus the DM) of similarly-experienced paladins and rogues during your typical dungeon-crawl.

It being a dungeon crawl, and my character being a bard, there wasn't a whole lot for her to do. She had a handful of spells (that are mostly geared towards, you know, bardic stuff, like Charm Person and Alter Self), a short bow, the ability to Read Languages and that's about it. She keeps the group's morale up with bad puns and amuses herself by teasing the ninja. Oh, and she has a Ring of Shooting Stars, which, underground, can either cast Spark Shower or Faerie Fire. During this particular plot, I know she's not uber-useful, but the personalities of the party mesh well enough and the other players are awesome enough that it doesn't matter much. We all still have fun.

SO. Underground. Dungeoning. All is going normally. We get to the big bad guy, and HOLY CRAP is he ever tough. My character is basically standing in the background firing her short bow and hoping for 20s, because that's all she can really do. She doesn't even have any healing equipment, so when people start dropping below 0 hit points, there's little she can do other than patch them so they don't die. And people do start dropping. Like FLIES. Everyone's having trouble hitting this guy, even our best fighter needs a 17 or something silly like that.

Finally, there's only our one lone paladin left, and my bard, and the paladin, we know, will go down on the villain's next shot. We have no idea how much health the villain has left. In one last-ditch effort, the paladin makes an all-out attack and I finally remember her stupid ring and cast Faerie Fire. It was only on account of the to-hit bonus from that spell that our paladin landed his hit, and it was enough to finish the boss off.

As the paladin does his healing-thing and gets the rest of the party back up and running, my character is just doing the "oh yeah, I'm so awesome" dance, because it was a really dramatic and fun ending and she actually had a hand in their success, which made her so happy. And then my character's best friend just cuffs her upside the head and asks, "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY TIMES WE MIGHT HAVE HIT HIM IF YOU'D REMEMBERED THAT DAMN RING IN THE BEGINNING?!?"

Which shut her up. But she was still dancing on the inside. :)

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mommaambrosia
2008-05-09 04:16 pm UTC (link)

I had to laugh at all this. My favorite character was a Bard in a 2nd edition AD&D game. She was an ADHD human female who REALLY liked candy. Normal candy. Lots of fun. This didn't happen last session, more like last year, but its still a good story.

I can't recall what level we were at, but we were traveling between towns. We came upon an oasis in the desert where a human and an ogre were relaxing. All of a sudden, the human unleashed a fireball on our party.

My little bard got the first initiative after the surprise attack and she was PISSED. She cast blindness on the human. He failed his saving throw. Our Ogre Magi and Minotaur chopped down on the Ogre while our fighter, bounty hunter, and cleric took care of the human mage. It was still a hard fight, but without the mage being able to see, he was only able to do defensive spells.

My bard and the Ogre Magi shared the spellbook we looted off the human. It had all sorts of firebased spells.

My bard also came into possession of a wand of wonder (with GM created effects) later in the campaign, and a wand of displacement that was used on her first. The word to activate the wand of wonder was Candy, which she said frequently, so she accidentally cast slow on a fellow party member once, and in a battle got rolled up in a giant snowball. While fixing her clothes from when the wand of displacement was used on her, she successfully distracted the fighter and the cleric for a round or two. I believe the line yelled was "Now is not the time Gern!"

I miss that character so much. I need to goad the GM into playing that game again.

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	daringdragoon 2008-05-09 04:52 pm UTC (link)
	At our last session, one of my players announced that they wanted to GM a campaign. After GMing/DMing for the past 5 years straight, it was the coolest thing I've heard, at our gaming table, in a long time. (Reply to this)

terrycloth
2008-05-09 06:46 pm UTC (link)

I tried to run away from a combat by flying straight up, but an enemy sorcerer chased me, so I dropped a 20' radius acorn on his head.

He dodged, leaving it to fall on the party, since I was flying straight up.

Then our ice mage used a judo move with his create ice spell to use a giant ice slide to redirect the accidental giant acorn attack at the bad guys, knocking out their dragon.

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	roflcopter_down 2008-05-09 08:26 pm UTC (link)
	Exalted? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	terrycloth 2008-05-09 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	Nah, it's a homebrew system. Does Exalted do that? I bought one of the books and looked through it a little, but never actually got to play because we decided to play NWOD with ordinary human characters instead. But I got to silver-plate my brass knuckles and punch a werewolf, so it worked out. }:P (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	roflcopter_down 2008-05-09 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	Exalted is extremely over the top. At first I thought everyone was exaggerating. Then I read one of the books. They weren't. (Reply to this)(Parent)

mselfie
2008-05-09 09:55 pm UTC (link)

Our hosts' house was being invaded by a scouting army of the Lady in Crimson. Her army appeared to be made up completely of tiger people. Being the good heroes we are, we stepped in to help turn away invaders. Me and the Monster hunter saw two up on a balcony, so we go up there to stop them. They were archers, looking for higher ground for combat. The Hunter cast Banish on one, and as they were Outsider tiger people, it completely worked. I traded looks with him and said "I didn't know you could do that". And he just shruged and said "its what I do," and we kept on fighting. The remaining archer shot at me point blank, and I snatched the arrows out of the air. The archer's eyes got great big, as he realized he was in for it now. And the Hunter traded looks with me. "I didn't know you could do that." and I shrugged and said "its what I do" with a smirk.

Shortly after that, our crusader crashed the balcony, and the archer and I both fell. But I tumbled and sprung up to my feet. Take that, cat people.

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baby_goat
2008-05-11 06:25 am UTC (link)

We were fighting a stone giant sorcerer who was under the effect of a fly spell. He blinded our party barbarian just before he himself was hit by a feeblemind from the beguiler. Though the stone giant was effectively out of the fight, he was still levitating 30' off of the ground. The barbarian was furious that he couldn't reach the giant, so he had my character (the party cleric) cast enlarge person on him. He leapt at the stone giant twice while using greatreach bracers an an attempt to grapple. Though he made very heroic attempts, the concealment chance caused him to miss twice, with each miss causing a comedic crash into the cavern wall.

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betadynamic
2008-05-12 02:52 am UTC (link)

Last session of any game we played was Star Wars d6 System. Party is as follows: A gray Jedi Padawan, his Wookie foster parent, a silent and paranoid bounty hunter and a drunk Mon Calamari (It's a trap!). We're working undercover for the Jedi Council to expose a crime syndicate.

We're escorting a high ranking officer of the syndicate back to the base of operations and we're attacked en route. The bounty hunter got some bad rolls and is incapiciated and I'm doing my best to stablize him. The wookie is cleaning house and the Jedi is holding his own but he's hurting. One of the enemies is about to die and he's wearing a fragmentation grenade. He activates the grenade and grabs onto our Jedi Padawan, and we're convinced this will kill Jedi. The rule is that at the end of the turn, explosives detonate and the last action for the turn is...the wookie. The wookie runs up and uses his claws (a huge cultural taboo) to pry the enemy off the Jedi. The turn ends, the fragmentation grenade goes off and no one is hurt except for the wookie and the battle is over. The wookie throws the syndicate officer out of the vehicle we have and drives off, leaving the rest of the party stranded.

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more funny than cool

trizia
2008-05-13 02:14 pm UTC (link)

Last night in our weekly Trav:TNE (highly modified by the GM) game me and another character and 5 NPCs are stuck in a hotel in a hollowed out asteroid surrounded by zombies. Air supply has been cut off. We can either try to get to our ship or to a miner's ore-delivery ship. The only safe way out is along the airducts - climb along the outside of the one that feeds into the hotel then get inside the main ducting.

So we get climbing. And ALL the NPCs fall off and get swarmed by the zombies. The looks on the faces of the GM and the other players was so funny as dice roll after dice roll was failed. Me and Daphne get into the main duct and fall over in hysterical giggles.

And we decided not to tell anyone back at the ship that we tried to rescue anyone.

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paka
2008-05-14 06:40 pm UTC (link)

Sunday's D&D game.

We are trying to figure out the upsurge in pirate activity and Sunday's game was non-combat/problem solving. We found out that instead of there just being three pirate captains with perhaps a few peripherals behind the recent upsurge, there are actually seven captains - one of whom we'd just taken out. Some of them are wildcards, and one of them is a cleric - apparently the instigator of the whole thing. So we fomented a plan; we'd sell our captured ship to one of the captains who really wasn't that interested in the pirate alliance, and give her and one of the other captains the information that the cleric captain's ship had a disabled rudder and was easy prey. Once we found out whether she was on our side, we'd actually go and disable the other ship using some underwater breathing magic we'd found - plus the druid's newly acquired shapechanging ability, and with the remaining characters to be a distraction.

Great plan eh?

Unfortunately that's when the friendly captain springs a surprise on us. Sure, she likes us. Sure, she and her friend are likely to attack the cleric if there's a chance that his ship is disabled. Unfortunately, this guy apparently summons fiends to protect his ship below the waterline. People have tried before. This is not as much of a piece of cake as we thought it was going to be.

Other highlights included our warlock posing as a pirate captain himself in suitably spiffy attire, and paraphrasing The Princess Bride...
"I give you my word as a halfling."
"That won't work. I've known too many halflings."

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	duckbunny 2008-05-18 12:42 am UTC (link)
	I discovered that my god, who I thought was ignoring me, had in fact been eaten by a demon. (Reply to this)

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