The funniest thing happend on my way here..., Humour and running Options

[phaedrus]

I'm interested in hearing what place people think humour should play in SR and in particular during runs. I came across a comment I'd forgotten in the core book about awarding karma that encouraged GM's to award extra karma to characters who while RPing cause the other characters to roll about on the floor laughing. One of the SR crews I'm in seem incapable of doing too much without resorting to some fairly extreme levels of humour - is this common??

One of the best examples I have is of the party troll, "Pepsi W. Cola" who has zero flaws/edges but certainly RPs plenty of hilarious flaws. (You do not want to be in a skirt and keep company with Pepsi - our poor face character - female elf- has just about had to emasculate him to keep him at bay...) Pepsi became bored (a regular occurence, watch out when it happens) with the mage of the party consistently going astral and doing all those mage things. So upon completing the extraction at a certain facility, he opened the van side door, dropped his pants, bent over and pointed his enormous troll posterior at the rapidly retreating security forces and in his words:

"Arse Troll projected..."

We were unable to continue the run for quite some time. It is just too hard to see the dice rolls with tears streaming down your face and your breath coming in gasps as your roll about on the floor...