Pen and Paper RPG Great Moments in Pen and Paper RPG'ing.

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Feel free to share your finest role playing game experiences. The greatest triumphs and fails. Did your GM bring out their amateur acting chops to really set the scene? Were the dice rolling in your favor? Were the twists in the campaign really ones that caught you off-guard? Seems like a nice generally broad topic enough to share ones pen and paper RPG campaign stories. Especially Dungeons & Dragons stories of course, because it's still the biggest and best, even if old people tell me it peaked at 2nd Edition.
 
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Terry the Vampire Asshole TPK's the whole party by crit failing his defusal roll so hard that he, the only member of the party with the skills to defuse a bomb lets himself get convinced by the Ice Giant with no bomb defusal experience that icing the bomb is fuckin brilliant.

Our party consisted of Me a super charismatic meth addictspeed Vampire, A ghost, Some mentally retarded Biker dude(Who took all the mental disadvantages) that literally couldn't stay dead and a Norse ice giant bastard son.

My character during the last part of that fateful session.

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Shortly followed by.

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But how did this mentally deficient group get there you may ask?

Well the night before we'd partied so hard it might have been 1776 and Biker dude only managed to get himself killed and resurrected five times. For those of us still capable of inebriation we were headed hung over to a meeting which would establish our cover then investigating the Japanese stadium that an entire crowd had disappeared at.

Long and short of it is the stadium is made to focus magical energy for a ritual which leaves a residue that Ice Giant snorted like cocaine then started floating in the air, tasting colors and throwing our hands up with a shrug we decided to investigate the dude who designed these things in the first place.

Which leads to why we were on a plane!

In that the dude who designed the stadium was in a different part of the nation, so we took a plane. On the plane my character being the blood hound he is smelled explosives. Namely ones that weren't his own. Taking a moment to punch the universe in the dick and read the GM notes he found the bomb in the drink cart that Ice Giant was intending to empty.

Que the flight staff freaking the fuck out UNTIL!

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Using my super public speaking skills I calmed the flight crew down and sent them out of the cabin leaving only the PC's, to preform their dangerous and possibly letal task without interruption.

Cracking my fingers I rolled my explosives skill to know how to defuse the bomb. Which I crit failed. So my character was like "Oh it's one of these. HAH! I could do this easy with a blindfold on!" But deciding if we're going to fuck up.

We go for the memorable fuckup. As the Ice giant pitches freezing the bomb and we let him have his fun.

So we take it into the cargo hold of the plane and let the Ice Giant freeze the bomb.

Naturally it goes off.

Leaving all three character's who aren't incorporeal spirits hurtling towards the solid embrace of mother earth. Though we had a chance to save ourselves, the GM never continued the game.(And we don't play with him anymore... But that's another story!)

As a side note My characters 'Terry' had been framed as a terrorist earlier in the game. For amnesty and explaining how he did 'absolutely nothing wrong' created a series of youtube video's on that premise. Which enjoyed a skyrocketing popularity as they were made with a crit public speaking roll. There were also plans for running for president(2023 or 2019 I think was the year in game?) with my running mate for Vice president being Head in a jar(Or in reality, Fried's character. We plan on chopping his head off and pulling off the futurama head in a jar set up using his immortality) for giggles during our down time once we finish this mission.

Better yet as it was just before presidential election time and GURPs simplictic method of resolving elections meant I could have totally pull this shit off.
 
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Allow me to tell the tale of Joshua, the sword sage that couldn't sword.

This was a D&D 3.5 game at fairly low level, about 5-7ish, and one player brought the most complicated character to my table. Joshua was built to be complex, his player liked that kind of thing, a pure melee build with the Book of Nine Swords, the weeabo book of fightin' magic itself. Now Joshua was quite frankly a monster at close range, by the numbers anyway, four attacks per round, minimum seven damage per hit, crit on a fifteen or higher for three times damage, and four different elemental add-ons that could be switched at the start of each round. Pure death on legs.

Poor Joshua could not roll above a twelve to save his life.

Over the course of our first game night his character went from intimidating to an object of mockery. He actually resorted to using AOE's to even hit basic, unarmoured mooks.

And then he picked up a bow.

It was unreal. The man could not miss with a bow. He had actual penalties to ranged attacks and hit every time.

His first try with it was just a joke. "If I'm going to be useless anyway I might as well try out some of the loot we got." Joshua rolled a crit on his shot, for max damage, and then the one he hit failed the con save versus massive damage and just died.

Joshua was built to be a melee blender, he would instead be Robin Hood reborn.
 
One of my favourite tales is from a failed Starfinder campaign, the GM didn't really enjoy the setting, more of a fantasy preference.

So, me and two others are part of a boarding team who work for the government of the setting boarding and capturing ships or checking out derelict space ships. We board a ship with no life signs, vented atmosphere yet it appears to be following a flight plan so we take a shuttle over and board it. We explore it for a bit, mark down where various systems are such as the server room, air recylcing etc. We eventually stumble across a pair of necro drone monsters. We discover from some found logs that these necro drones are some kind of biological weapon that got smuggled onto the ship and the crew tried to vent the atmosphere to stop it. Didn't work. We take them out and explore a bit more only to find the nesting creature for the drones and it almost one-shots one of the party members. We decide to haul ass out of there and find ourselves stuck in the oxygen recycling part of the ship.
We're fucked. The nesting creature is right outside and trying to hold it at the door has resulted in another attack that does ridiculous damage to the player character. The guy who was first injured manages to find an air duct that can let us move to the adjacent room without needing to go into the corridor but I have an idea. It's dumb and it's probably going to get us killed but if the monster gets through the door (it's a given within another attack or two) we're fucked and if it totals this system,
My guy pulls out the boarding torpedo beacon and the other injured guy doesn't say a word and legs it towards to the vent with the other guy. My guy activates it and tosses it towards the corner of the room opposite the vent. The monster breaks in just as we're escaping, battering it's way through towers of barrels of various pressurized gasses. The torpedo strikes just as we shove something in front of the air duct's opening and get out of the way.
The adjacent room explodes, knocking the ship wildly off course and it's entire air vent system is fucked. The kind of damage that makes the ship all but useless.
 


Some day this will happen to me... and not just the diet versions of this that I usually have to deal with whilst DM'ing.

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