One of my favorites: a player who didn't have his main character creates a temporary, fill-in almost sort of throwaway character for that session. but it was one of the most unique characters ever that I just couldn't stand to let him go by the wayside, and he is now one of my favorite NPC's ever in my games. Sir Spork (who I renamed Sir Shamus), a gestalt (level up 2 classes at simultaneously) goblin rogue/paladin of Bahamut, the god of good dragons, who wields a medium sized heavy pick he used two handed. the player prestiged him as a divine crusader, and his special mount was a worg. after he was "thrown away" I redesigned him just a bit, using the pick one-handed along with the legacy shield "quickspur's ally," he wears a white Elven darkleaf ring mail, and his special mount is a celestial medium monstrous tarantula named Webby. His personal symbol is an armored grinning goblin standing on a mountain top as the sun rises behind him. Instead of divine crusader, he is a slayer of domiel (an exalted assassin basically). the player gave him leadership, and the cohort was a LG female goblin ranger fighter. I redesigned her to be a rogue/wizard/holy scourge/geometer. She rides a krenshar, and familiar is a raven that does the eyeball trick donkey does in the last Shrek movie, (except he makes them appear in his open beak). His mentor of sorts and close associate is a goblin rogue/cleric named Paul. His full title is Father Reverend Sir Saint Paul the Purifier. Although LG, Paul can be a real arsehole at times. Recently, shamus has also befriended a N bugbear binder named Bulgor, who plays dumb but is actually rather smart
Well I remember this one game where I couldn't make it to a session, and come back to find out that in the session I couldn't attend, my character's foot was severed, and the dm's explanation for how it happened made no sense to me. a bone (i think I remember being told it was a finger or toe bone) went through my character's foot. Fortunately another friend of mine stood up and said that was BS.
I remember a World of Darkness white wolf game where my friend had 3 characters die in one session. I think all 3 were werewolves, or 1 might have been a hunter. One was a headshot by a sniper, another which I know was a werewolf, failed in rage roll in a taxi, went ballistic, and another player was forced to tear him in half with a point blank shotgun blast. Can't remember how the other was killed.
I was running a sort of Deus Ex game, and one player just ran into a string of bad luck, poor rolls, and a couple questionable decisions, and he had 3 characters go down. I really felt bad for the guy there, but he was good natured about it.
Then my buddies and I were all playing Mage: The Ascension. the same guy who defended me in story 2 was storytelling. We were fighting a werewolf in a park. Nothing we tried was working. Holy bolts, life magic, whatever we threw at it he just shrugged off. He even killed one of us, and another almost killed himself by paradox using time magic to reverse the event. So this one player, whose character was hopped up on PCP, and was a paranoid schizo, throws a rock. A normal everyday rock. He took out a flipping werewolf with a rock. Then he tries driving away in a van, but the tires blow out, so this character is trying to evade the cops in a van driving on the rims, high on PCP.
Running a mechwarrior game, my character was inner sphere, and was being treated badly by an npc, who was clan, this npc was a sickly kid, so it was probably very dickish of my character to do so, but he imprisoned my character, forced this death device on him, and was kicking my guy, tasing him, and spitting on him so I headbutted him. well another player took out a gun a shot my guy. Only time one of my characters as died, and it was by another player. Story 3 was the only other time in my gaming history i have seen character death by another player.
Yet another game, a character died by a most devious of trap. One that no "find traps" spell or search check or even trap-finding ability. a young blue dragon disguised as a helpless human infant. It's breath surprised us and completely fried our cleric. We did slay it, only to have mommy show up seconds later. Never have I seen characters run so fast!
Also, squirrels. my one friend has had so many bad roleplaying experiences with squirrels, such as the time his character nearly died because nearly got in a wreck because I kid you not, a squirrel threw an acorn through the windshield, that he went out and bought a shirt that says "Evil squirrels are after my nuts". Also one dm created the "squirrel of anti-perversion". Get too frisky with an attractive female npc? this squirrel magically appears and mauls your face, permanently reducing charisma. In my friend's stormwrack game, the captain of the ship the PC's work for is a weresquirrel.
I took a monster from the game torchlight, the varkolyn, and made it into a new playable race, and even two sub-races. I made a varkolyn duskblade for a new version of that stormwrack game, and using scorching rays and a dire bat steed, set fire to an entire enemy fleet.
My first ever D&D character, a half-orc barbar, Thaak, playing in my friend's garage. well another party member thought it would be funny to piss on a wolf. it was funny for the rest of us when the wolf tore out a mouthfull of that character's pubic hair! then he pissed on a magic statue and got his junk burned by a fireball.
My first ever role-playing game was vampire the masquerade, with 3 friends in my basement on my birthday. I remember fighting a mage who had an amulet creating a magic shield, and throwing fire. Vampires-fire RUN AWAY. fire makes them roll courage or flee like bats out of hell. Another game where we made ourselves as various supernaturals. I was a Mokole (think werewolf but crocodiles and lizards instead of wolves, and halway between a dinosaur and dragon instead of the hybrid form. Mokole essentially "build" their archid from from various dinosaur/lizard/dragon traits) my suchid, or animal form was a gila monster. A gila monster in Alaska. Burr!
I KILLED A FROST GIANT WITH MAGIC MISSILE! FEAR ME! I made an Aassimar sorcerer. I don't know why, but the dm started me at level 1 with a pair of 12's. but in fairness he did a good job of devising split encounters or protecting me against foes way above me. so we are fighting this frost giant. He backhands one with his axe, does huge damage, but it's subdual. Does the massive damage rule apply to subdual damage? In any case it was enough damage to jar his brain anyways, and then he fells the other character, slicing him up badly. my missiles did just enough to drop the giant to -1. fortunately I found a button on a giant gold idol that summoned a solar to chase off his pet white dragons and ressurect the other two. The one character died and came back at least 4-5 times in that game Then we enter a town where the other two guys are well known, but the guard stops me. He doesn't believe them when they say I am their companion, and asks me to prove it. The guard shat himself when my character fired a lightning bolt straight into the air.
Well I remember this one game where I couldn't make it to a session, and come back to find out that in the session I couldn't attend, my character's foot was severed, and the dm's explanation for how it happened made no sense to me. a bone (i think I remember being told it was a finger or toe bone) went through my character's foot. Fortunately another friend of mine stood up and said that was BS.
I remember a World of Darkness white wolf game where my friend had 3 characters die in one session. I think all 3 were werewolves, or 1 might have been a hunter. One was a headshot by a sniper, another which I know was a werewolf, failed in rage roll in a taxi, went ballistic, and another player was forced to tear him in half with a point blank shotgun blast. Can't remember how the other was killed.
I was running a sort of Deus Ex game, and one player just ran into a string of bad luck, poor rolls, and a couple questionable decisions, and he had 3 characters go down. I really felt bad for the guy there, but he was good natured about it.
Then my buddies and I were all playing Mage: The Ascension. the same guy who defended me in story 2 was storytelling. We were fighting a werewolf in a park. Nothing we tried was working. Holy bolts, life magic, whatever we threw at it he just shrugged off. He even killed one of us, and another almost killed himself by paradox using time magic to reverse the event. So this one player, whose character was hopped up on PCP, and was a paranoid schizo, throws a rock. A normal everyday rock. He took out a flipping werewolf with a rock. Then he tries driving away in a van, but the tires blow out, so this character is trying to evade the cops in a van driving on the rims, high on PCP.
Running a mechwarrior game, my character was inner sphere, and was being treated badly by an npc, who was clan, this npc was a sickly kid, so it was probably very dickish of my character to do so, but he imprisoned my character, forced this death device on him, and was kicking my guy, tasing him, and spitting on him so I headbutted him. well another player took out a gun a shot my guy. Only time one of my characters as died, and it was by another player. Story 3 was the only other time in my gaming history i have seen character death by another player.
Yet another game, a character died by a most devious of trap. One that no "find traps" spell or search check or even trap-finding ability. a young blue dragon disguised as a helpless human infant. It's breath surprised us and completely fried our cleric. We did slay it, only to have mommy show up seconds later. Never have I seen characters run so fast!
Also, squirrels. my one friend has had so many bad roleplaying experiences with squirrels, such as the time his character nearly died because nearly got in a wreck because I kid you not, a squirrel threw an acorn through the windshield, that he went out and bought a shirt that says "Evil squirrels are after my nuts". Also one dm created the "squirrel of anti-perversion". Get too frisky with an attractive female npc? this squirrel magically appears and mauls your face, permanently reducing charisma. In my friend's stormwrack game, the captain of the ship the PC's work for is a weresquirrel.
I took a monster from the game torchlight, the varkolyn, and made it into a new playable race, and even two sub-races. I made a varkolyn duskblade for a new version of that stormwrack game, and using scorching rays and a dire bat steed, set fire to an entire enemy fleet.
My first ever D&D character, a half-orc barbar, Thaak, playing in my friend's garage. well another party member thought it would be funny to piss on a wolf. it was funny for the rest of us when the wolf tore out a mouthfull of that character's pubic hair! then he pissed on a magic statue and got his junk burned by a fireball.
My first ever role-playing game was vampire the masquerade, with 3 friends in my basement on my birthday. I remember fighting a mage who had an amulet creating a magic shield, and throwing fire. Vampires-fire RUN AWAY. fire makes them roll courage or flee like bats out of hell. Another game where we made ourselves as various supernaturals. I was a Mokole (think werewolf but crocodiles and lizards instead of wolves, and halway between a dinosaur and dragon instead of the hybrid form. Mokole essentially "build" their archid from from various dinosaur/lizard/dragon traits) my suchid, or animal form was a gila monster. A gila monster in Alaska. Burr!
I KILLED A FROST GIANT WITH MAGIC MISSILE! FEAR ME! I made an Aassimar sorcerer. I don't know why, but the dm started me at level 1 with a pair of 12's. but in fairness he did a good job of devising split encounters or protecting me against foes way above me. so we are fighting this frost giant. He backhands one with his axe, does huge damage, but it's subdual. Does the massive damage rule apply to subdual damage? In any case it was enough damage to jar his brain anyways, and then he fells the other character, slicing him up badly. my missiles did just enough to drop the giant to -1. fortunately I found a button on a giant gold idol that summoned a solar to chase off his pet white dragons and ressurect the other two. The one character died and came back at least 4-5 times in that game Then we enter a town where the other two guys are well known, but the guard stops me. He doesn't believe them when they say I am their companion, and asks me to prove it. The guard shat himself when my character fired a lightning bolt straight into the air.
