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Old 11-02-2003, 07:06 AM   #1 (permalink)
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tabletop rpg players: whats your best move ever?

whats the best/smartest/sneakiest/etc move or tactic you ever pulled off?

here's mine:

as a freshman in college, I didnt have a lot of time to play D&D, but one weekend, some friends and I killed a few hours playing a "battle royal" type scenario. everyone brought out their favorite old character and the DM set up situation with basically everyone fighting each other over vast treasure horde.

so, my character, Puric the Blackhearted, a 10th level thief with a fair amount of scrolls, potions and a magic sword, is hiding in a patch of woods. meanwhile, a mage on a flying carpet is zooming around tossing fireballs into the woods. Im taking some minor damage and running out of places to hide. Desperately seeking some way to defend myself, I notice I have a Push spell on one of my scrolls. I wait for the Mage to fly within range and read the spell. The DM made me roll a to-hit, which I made, barely, to make sure I didnt miss the flying spell-caster.

Imagine the scene: a wicked wizard flying around hellbent for leather on a magic carpet, tossing fireballs left and right and generally creating havoc. suddenly the Push spell hits him and stops him in his tracks, so to speak. meanwhile the flying carpet keeps going. He hangs there in mid-air (abour 50 feet up) for a half second with a stunned look on his face, then plunges into the burning forest below. takes massive damage. I am then able to sneak up on him and one well aimed arrow later he is dispatched.

yay for me.



so, who can top that?
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Old 11-02-2003, 11:16 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Very nice and no, i can't top that, i just got started in DND
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Old 11-02-2003, 06:54 PM   #3 (permalink)
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On a Lakhmar setting, I had a cloak of many pockets with several bottomless pits in them. I was dueling a charactar my brother had created and he caused an orb in his staff to grow around us so that we had to battle in a confined area.

I threw one of the bottomless pits beneath him, and he fell. I walked to the edge, and he was unconcious because he'd fallen and landed on the vertical extermity of the orb. He suffered a save vs shock as he woke up to staring into a bottomless void and caused himself to roll a save vs shock, and then his concentration broke on his void, and he fell into the pit, just after waking up...

It was nothing intentional, but pretty funny to picture.


Another similar one, was when a bunch of goons were climbing the walls of an inn, whose casks of wine we were gaurding for a festival the next day. As the goons were climbing, I went to look out the window, and saw about 6 on the wall just below me. I cast a sleep spell on all of them. they fell 3 floors down. about half were crippled, the others fell and got up confused again, one of them ran away.

It was a funny move.
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Old 11-02-2003, 09:07 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Nothing too big. My dwarven fighter with a scythe as focused weapon took out a giant minotaur in pratically one blow. I got a crit and landed aroud 80 damage with my boosted crit from being a weapon master. DM had to roll a system shock check and his stats were so high he would have had to roll a 1 to fail it. He rolled out in front of the screen so we could all see, for fun. And lo and behold, he rolled a 1! Our whole party burst into a huge roar of cheering.
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Old 11-03-2003, 05:11 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Gaming in the Marvel Universe, and playing a minor shapechanger (can change facial features and body shape, but cannot change into animals or objects). We'd attacked a Nazi zeppelin run by minions of the Fourth Reich and weren't doing well. I'd snuck onto the bridge and was trying to figure out what to do.

A guard happens to see me and goes to shoot, so I stepped forward, and with a combination of Sleight of Hand and Shapechanging, pulled off my "mask" to reveal that I was actually the Red Skull!

No one expected the move, and the whole group was laughing while the GM just sat there stunned. I start belting out orders in a cheesy German accent and basically took over the ship. Within a few minutes, I had the Germans attacking one another and had set the zeppelin to ram into the secret, floating Nazi base that we were heading towards in the first place.

Good times...
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Old 11-03-2003, 10:27 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Not mine, but I was present. We were aboard ship in a Forgotten Realms campaign when we got attacked by pirates. Thief in the party climbed the mast, went out on the beam, jumped down onto an incoming pirate raft. 20 to hit the raft, 20 to hit the pirates. Grabbed them by their groins and pulled them through the raft with him. Had a bitch of a time making his swimming checks with two broken legs, but it was a major morale boost for the party.
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Old 11-04-2003, 01:57 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Casting reduce on the Captain of the Guards helmet, making it too small for his head. Then escaping because the helmet was cutting into his head and causing lots of pain and anguish.

My party and I were running, yes running, from a very mad mage we had just stolen a prized possession from. He was on a horse, we were on foot. We had some distance on him, turned around and started combat. 2 of the party who could do something got the same initiative roll. The mage cast sleep on horse, while the ranger got a critical with his bow. The DM ruled the horse who now collapsed from sleep, catapulted the mage straight into the arrow. We were all pretty impressed by that one.
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Old 11-04-2003, 02:57 PM   #8 (permalink)
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This wasn't my move, but one of my player's. We were playing CyberPunk 2013, and the party was on the run from just about everyone. This highspeed chase was out on the freeway with about a zillion cops hot on their heels. They were in a souped up cargo van , carrying some cryogenic tubes. One of the solos has the bright idea to pitch them out the back of the van. One of them goes right into the front of a cop car, with predictable results. The solo who came up with the plan leans out the back of the van and shouts, "EAT CRYOGENIC DEATH, NAZI CUMSUCKERS!". Play had to stop for a few minutes as a result.

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Old 12-01-2003, 04:09 PM   #9 (permalink)
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I'm a D&D junkie from way back....here is something I thought was pretty genius of me.

I ended up killing a few wyverns with the help of some other players. In a Wyverns stinger is Type F poison. I knew that so I wanted to extract some of the poison and dip some of my blow darts into it. Of course I needed to make the necessary saving throws. I can honestly say I made every saving throw I needed to. Now I had my darts which only did like 1d4 damage if I remember correctly along with Type F poison for good measure...screw the four points of damage! Now those bastards have got to save against paralysis ...EVERYTIME I HIT!!! A great weopon for a theif!
Anyway I thought that was a pretty cool move on my part.
Makes me want to start listening to Slayer backwards and playing again!
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Old 12-02-2003, 12:10 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Ok, Ok, I was playing with an inexperienced DM, and me (Monk level 9), and my friend (Mage level 6) were stuck in a room and being attacked by a never-ending horde of giant rats comming through the only exit without a door, well I decided it would be a good Idea to start piling the carcasses up to stop the flow. As I killed the rats the mage started piling up the mound. we fianally got the mound big enough to stop the rats from comming in so we could set up camp and eventually dig ourselves out of the room into another ajacent room... Fun times
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Old 12-02-2003, 12:44 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Yeah, one time I nuked the entire world on accident after I rolled snake eyes. So I marked Super-Level-death on my character's profile and now he's a god. That means he created all of your characters and can end them anytime he wants. All I have to do is say "I nuked you" and it's game over.
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Old 12-03-2003, 01:18 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Here's one for Warhammer 40k fans. Playing Games Workshop's Inquisitor, I was running around as a Desparado (gunsligner type guy). I had my standard laspistol and stubber which had run out of ammo (two of the weakest firearms) with me, facing up to a daemonically possessed Imperial Guard captain. It was taking too long to kill him with my 'flashlight' (as the lasgun is commonly referred to), and the captain was getting annoyed at my repeated attempts to burn through his skin.

I was sitting up on a ledge to get a better shot when he tried to charge me. His action rolls left him 3 yards short. Mine, on the other hand, didn't. I got up, leapt of the ledge into combat, critically hit him in the arm, causing him to drop his bolt pistol. I grabbed it, backed away, and then proceeded to blow his brains out with my first shot.
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Old 12-03-2003, 09:12 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Inquisitor looks pretty keen. I enjoyed the heck out of Necromunda, and Inquisitor puts me into the mind of it, albeit on a more detailed individual scale.
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Old 12-04-2003, 04:20 AM   #14 (permalink)
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It is far more of an RPG than other GW games, more on the level of D&D, which catches most gamers by suprise. However, it is a crapload of fun, which is what counts the most =D. You have to play with the right people, too, as it is very easy to make über-powerful Space Marines and the like.
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Old 12-04-2003, 09:02 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Looks like it. Our Necromunda campaigns were almost RPG's in themselves. We had som many rivalries, secret alliances, double-crosses and the like, it was crazy.

I can remember one scenario we ran where the Hive was getting attacked by a moderate Chaos cult. I managed to place right alongside the a friend's gang that was my hated foe, and the hate was mutual. About halfway through the game, my big HtH guy happens to be taking cover beside his big heavy weapons guy. They hated each other from a long series of games wherein I rushed him and wasted him in melee. Next thing I know, he's making dice rolls because his model simply can't stand it anymore and has to waste mine. Both guys die within two rounds as they come to blows, ignoring the Chaos forces swarming their position. It was hilarious!

I think I may have to look into Inquisitor. Will it support actual RPG'ing?
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Old 12-04-2003, 02:31 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Yeah, one time I nuked the entire world on accident after I rolled snake eyes. So I marked Super-Level-death on my character's profile and now he's a god. That means he created all of your characters and can end them anytime he wants. All I have to do is say "I nuked you" and it's game over.
What?
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Old 12-05-2003, 09:40 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Moonduck
Looks like it. Our Necromunda campaigns were almost RPG's in themselves. We had som many rivalries, secret alliances, double-crosses and the like, it was crazy.

I can remember one scenario we ran where the Hive was getting attacked by a moderate Chaos cult. I managed to place right alongside the a friend's gang that was my hated foe, and the hate was mutual. About halfway through the game, my big HtH guy happens to be taking cover beside his big heavy weapons guy. They hated each other from a long series of games wherein I rushed him and wasted him in melee. Next thing I know, he's making dice rolls because his model simply can't stand it anymore and has to waste mine. Both guys die within two rounds as they come to blows, ignoring the Chaos forces swarming their position. It was hilarious!

I think I may have to look into Inquisitor. Will it support actual RPG'ing?
Inquisitor is based around RPG'ing =D. It's built from the ground up as an RPG, and the designers note repeatedly that you should do with the rules as you see fit. Which I did, and you can see it hereor they'll come sue me, or something. If you have any specific Q's, ask away!
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Old 01-03-2004, 11:38 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Im kinda new at the game but with my 5th level cleric, we were looking for our friend who go abducted and went into a dungeon, i had to make a reflex save to avoid falling into a pit but i missed and got into a battle with several rust monsters. My friends mage killed the monsters, but not before they ate all my weapons and armor. When we left the dungeon, we encountered a Bullette, it basically ran me over, but from underneath it, i fought it barefisted and almost insta-killed it. I ended up finishing it off with and inflict serious wounds, and needless to say, my monk friend was very impressed
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Old 01-04-2004, 10:02 AM   #19 (permalink)
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I don't know how great it was, because it actually ruined the DM's plan for the game. I had a monk, and my buddies and I were chasing something through an undeground ruins. As we came around a corner, we ran smack dab into his Beholder, which of course paralyzed and charmed everyone in the party, except for me, because of some very lucky roles. While the rest of my party either stood motionless or kicked the crap outta each other behind me, I proceeded to make 11 straight saving throws and beat the shit out of the Beholder. Unfortunately, that was the "boss monster" in the game, and it was a little anticlimatic.
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Old 01-04-2004, 04:39 PM   #20 (permalink)
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I once DMed a game where a character was played (in DnD) which had a strange kleptomanic compulsion to take things and place them in his box of holding (a small but infinitely large box he carries around). He had been given this box by a wizard who later became an enemy, many sessions after he had recieved it. No one but me and the person playing this character remembered how he got the box, and he judged his character was too dumb to remember himself. Anyway, there's this big final battle against the wizard in his small, claustrophobic tower, and then suddenly the wizard whispers something, the box explodes, and about ten tons of assorted garbage collapses on him, killing him instantly, and doing massive damage to the rest of the party, including launching their rogue into a window, but the magic in his cloak of "feather fall" ended up sparing his life. Anyway, the character who died didn't really lose much, as I thought he played in such good sport (knowing he knew he was going to die) that I let him have a character only a level below the rest of the party (he gathered some new equipment from the tower of the wizard, who was eventually killed in that battle)
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Old 01-05-2004, 08:16 PM   #21 (permalink)
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We were playing in the "Dark Sun" campaign world, which is like a giant desert type setting, and the group I was traveling with ended up beating the hell out of some big bird/dragon type thing in its lair. While they are all cleaning up the riches the DM asks if I'm gonna collect any treasure, and I say no, but I'd like to skin the monster and keep the skin and some of the rib bones of the monster. He looked at me puzzled and asked "why the hell do you want that crap for? What a mess"

I took all the stuff with me to town and had the rib cage and skin made into a dragon scale shield and body armor made from the bones of the beast. Everyone else had such lousy stuff, not to mention the fact that they blew the loot on junk that didn't help them at all. They weren't very imaginative I suppose.
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Old 01-06-2004, 08:44 PM   #22 (permalink)
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The mention of Dark Sun reminded me. I had a badass Mul Gladiator that totally unbalanced the campaign, so while I was on vacation for a week my DM had the party leave him behind. When I returned I found myself playing the Trader from my character tree. He sucked. Hard. The only thing he had going for him was his wild talent: Wormhole. Eventually I found a use for him. We were being attacked by a huge-ass army. I created a wormhole underneath them. The exit point was designated as up to a mile away, I put them a mile straight up. That handled about 3/4 of the army.
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Old 01-12-2004, 03:15 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Dm'ed a campaign in which a player's kender thief had severly pissed off a guard patroll- and in the ensuing fight had decided to fire at the leader of the guard with his hoopak- realizing he had no ammo left he performed the infamous "pocket grab" (wherein a kender could grab for a random item that they had unknowingly stolen earlier) and came up with a mouse- undaunted, he loaded and fired the mouse at the guard- I stated that he had to roll a 20 to hit- which he did- and then a 20 to do ANY damage- which he did- and then, roll the d-20 once more to see how severe the hit was- he rolled yet another 20- at that point I decided that he had killed the leader of the patrol- how did not matter- i just could not ignore the power of those dice rolls.....
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