[X] My Assistant

[Neraph]

And mine for "xe." Which I picked up from someone else.

Yeah, but if you use that in a spoken sentence it sounds like you're just trying to speak German anyways, so in reality I just went straight to the source.

[Draco18s]

Yeah, but if you use that in a spoken sentence it sounds like you're just trying to speak German anyways, so in reality I just went straight to the source.

Honestly hasn't come up in spoken language.

I've had a few times trying to apply a gendered pronoun to someone while speaking, but not due to not knowing what gender, but knowing full well what gender they are. And what gender I (and others) know them as.

And these aren't transsexual people going through hormone therapy. They're just people who roleplay cross-gender online (not in a "lying about my gender and trying to get in your pants" kind of way, but just because they want to; they're perfectly open about their RL gender...if you ask).

But at a con I'd be like "I ran into So-and-so and (pause to decide which gendered pronoun to use) he asked if I'd like to get lunch."

[Ophis]

I don't believe I missed this one before. What was that fine background, anyway?

Basically the Character had been raised in the Renraku Arcology, and while there as a baby had been the subject of Deus' experiments, mostly hormonal. S/he had been rescued and raised by ork smugglers, and later awoken as a Technomancer.

[Draco18s]

My hermaphroditic character's gender has been revealed, to much confusion.

Most of which is from my character's daughter's player.

Oh yes.

This is glorious.

[Grinder]

Get back to the original topic, ok? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Ahem.

[X-Kalibur]

Does the back of a character sheet count? I so, Ork Rap. It was fairly long and I'm pretty sure the title was "Chumma please".

Otherwise credit goes to someone I played one session of D&D with: he decided to sketch his character and I have NO idea what sort of hallucinogenics he was on. It was a guy who was like half man, half platypus and he had a hand crank blender for a hand. There were probably more details but honestly I tried to block most of it out.

[Cynewulf]

My group was on safari, big-game hunting metacritters, when we came up against a herd of something bigger than we could chew on a snowy mountaintop. Our party's heavy-weapons minotaur got his neck snapped, so with quick thinking we pushed him on his front (was wearing a metal breastplate), climbed on top o him, grabbed his horns, and rode him down the mountain like a sled to escape. The party's rigger had taxidermy skill for some reason. He later had the corpse stuffed and mounted on his ride, for luck. Stayed in his char sheet for ages...

I'll miss Thok the Minotaur. Could absord damage better than most armoured vehicles. Ironic, really.

[Blastula]

Does the back of a character sheet count? I so, Ork Rap. It was fairly long and I'm pretty sure the title was "Chumma please".

Otherwise credit goes to someone I played one session of D&D with: he decided to sketch his character and I have NO idea what sort of hallucinogenics he was on. It was a guy who was like half man, half platypus and he had a hand crank blender for a hand. There were probably more details but honestly I tried to block most of it out.

Rummaging through the dead/retired sheets, I found both of those not too long ago and they still make me laugh. 20+ years of gaming and those are still the oddest non-typo things I've ever seen scratched out on a character sheet.

Btw, Scroggle (the half naked barbarian with a blender for a hand) was only riding a giant platypus thing. The nipple ring in the sketch is what really catches the eye.

[StealthSigma]

Btw, Scroggle (the half naked barbarian with a blender for a hand) was only riding a giant platypus thing. The nipple ring in the sketch is what really catches the eye.

Half naked barbarian.
Riding a platypus.
Hand crank blender for a hand.
Nipple ring.

Okay. The half naked part isn't surprising give it's a barbarian, but of the remaining three you suggest it's the nipple ring that catches the eye?

[Shortstraw]

Half naked barbarian.
Riding a platypus.
Hand crank blender for a hand.
Nipple ring.

Okay. The half naked part isn't surprising give it's a barbarian, but of the remaining three you suggest it's the nipple ring that catches the eye?

It's like looking at a sundae it's the cherry that catches the eye.

[Neraph]

Rummaging through the dead/retired sheets, I found both of those not too long ago and they still make me laugh. 20+ years of gaming and those are still the oddest non-typo things I've ever seen scratched out on a character sheet.

Btw, Scroggle (the half naked barbarian with a blender for a hand) was only riding a giant platypus thing. The nipple ring in the sketch is what really catches the eye.

I demand these be posted. You can do it on another site and link, but I have to see these.

[X-Kalibur]

I demand these be posted. You can do it on another site and link, but I have to see these.

If he can't find a way to get them up, I'll take a portable scanner over and see what I can do.

[overcannon]

Well, I did deal with one player who's SR4 character had an extreme racial prejudice against the French.

The best story that comes to mind is actually something that I did.

You see I decided that I wanted to play as a Judas AI, so I built the character as a rigger. The AI lived in a commlink mounted in an ejector seat in a seriously tricked out bus. Also, the bus had locking doors and an explosive self destruct. The character's name was "The HAL 9001" and he frequently asked other players if they would like to play a nice game of chess, or if he was asked to do something that he was unable to do would answer "Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" despite none of the other players being named Dave. You would have thought that there would have been some suspicion. Eventually, the game got ridiculously out of hand (as the games in that group tended to do in a few sessions) and the GM gave me the signal to end it. I'm not sure that I've ever seen a table have quite that reaction before.

[Draco18s]

That's a good contender to the reaction to the news that my male character was the mother of his own child.
(Yay herms)

So much "WHAT!?" going around.

Also, his official title is "The Defiler" (as a result of having, ahem, boinked a number of women) and is now a common ancestor to a sixth of the world's population (of only a few million).

[Lantzer]

I've been told of a D&D game where the character had "Starship Enterprise" on his character sheet as equipment. The GM allowed him to think he'd gotten it over him until he tried to use it. Then he calmly pointed out he'd didn't have a communicator and went on with the game.
That's just awesome! I would have loved to see the expression on his face when it happened. I used to play with one guy who was regularly trying to get one over on the GM. Watching as it fell apart every time was a joy to behold.

That's just awesome! I would have loved to see the expression on his face when it happened. I used to play with one guy who was regularly trying to get one over on the GM. Watching as it fell apart every time was a joy to behold. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)

I've run across references like this several times on this forum. Are there really games where players actually believe that if they put something asinine and game breaking on their character sheet the GM will somehow be forced to let them use it? Because I want to know where those tables are so that I can avoid them.

[Draco18s]

I've run across references like this several times on this forum. Are there really games where players actually believe that if they put something asinine and game breaking on their character sheet the GM will somehow be forced to let them use it? Because I want to know where those tables are so that I can avoid them.

Have you not seen Dorkness Rising?

This is all you need to know:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sebPpFTWI2o

Yes, players get creative sometimes and try to slip things past the GM. A clever GM will let them use it (and find a way to have it backfire) than to simply disallow it. It solves more problems at the table that way.

[Kruger]

Doesn't trying to "slip one past" the GM break the social contract between gamers that everyone is in it for fun? After all, the GM is typically putting the most work in. Seems pretty childish to be trying to "beat" him all the time.

Maybe I'm just older and more mature, but I'd probably laugh in the face of a player trying to do stupid shit like that. What's funny in a comedy movie isn't so funny in real life. I'm with Lantzer. Makes me grateful that I've typically played with good people, and not some of the clowns that I hear about on the forums.

[Halinn]

Have you not seen Dorkness Rising?

This is all you need to know:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sebPpFTWI2o

Yes, players get creative sometimes and try to slip things past the GM. A clever GM will let them use it (and find a way to have it backfire) than to simply disallow it. It solves more problems at the table that way.

I preferred the "Hide behind the pile of dead bards" part of that movie.

[Tiralee]

After all, who's not wanted to hide behind a pile of dead bards? Although after heading towards Pathfinder, that's no longer a driving fact of DnD.

(I love it how he's got random passers-by completing his character sheets for him)

Also: The Sorceress and Bard having sex.
The Sorceress male/female personas, and tag on/offs.
The Monkchkin ragequitting like a little bitch.
The expression on the Sorceress's face when, as a reward, s/he finds their character class has been...altered...
The Monkchkin then coming back to the table, unaware of the shiney that the other guys stuck the fuck around for.

And as a gamer and a GM/DM/Whatever - The Sorceress's first actions on going outdoors? The utter destruction of an "evil, demon-possessed" grocer.


Our table lollled so hard.
-Tir.

[StealthSigma]

Yes, players get creative sometimes and try to slip things past the GM. A clever GM will let them use it (and find a way to have it backfire) than to simply disallow it. It solves more problems at the table that way.

The single biggest rule of improv is to not deny the scene....

[Draco18s]

Doesn't trying to "slip one past" the GM break the social contract between gamers that everyone is in it for fun? After all, the GM is typically putting the most work in. Seems pretty childish to be trying to "beat" him all the time.

You have to realize the context. Even if you don't get away with it and the GM outright says "no" it's a break in the tension at the table, and everyone laughs.

But I'll admit it depends on the group, how well you know each other, and so on. Being a dick isn't the goal, nor is power gaming. It's having fun.

I preferred the "Hide behind the pile of dead bards" part of that movie.

I do too. (It's also another "pull something on the GM" moment).
It's the only time I've ever laughed so hard I cried.

Also: The Sorceress and Bard having sex.
The Sorceress male/female personas, and tag on/offs.
The Monkchkin ragequitting like a little bitch.
The expression on the Sorceress's face when, as a reward, s/he finds their character class has been...altered...
The Monkchkin then coming back to the table, unaware of the shiney that the other guys stuck the fuck around for.

All good parts

And as a gamer and a GM/DM/Whatever - The Sorceress's first actions on going outdoors? The utter destruction of an "evil, demon-possessed" grocer.

That was actually overtly mentioned by the female gamer. "What's the first thing you do? Have sex with a random stranger, and then murder a farmer!"

[KarmaInferno]

Ran into a pixie during the Missions at DragonCon.

He had Cephalopoidal Skull, and I think pretty much every gross deformity possible from Runners Companion.

"Oh. Oh god. What the hell is that?"

"You know the mini-thulu there? He wears a simrig."

"Yeah?"

"He uses it to contribute to the TacNet. And he, uh, likes to taste things."



-k

[FuelDrop]

One time, I had a character who carried multiple bags worth of gear on runs.
On the down side he had to be heavily augmented to even move with all that gear.
On the up side he was equipped with the right tool for almost any situation!
IIRC he had 1 backpack, 4 belt pouches, 2 leg bags, and a bag strapped to either side of the backpack. He had to shed them when being stealthy, but his collection of situation gear saved the groups collective hides more often than perhaps it should have.

[faultline]

Ran into a pixie during the Missions at DragonCon.

He had Cephalopoidal Skull, and I think pretty much every gross deformity possible from Runners Companion.

"Oh. Oh god. What the hell is that?"

"You know the mini-thulu there? He wears a simrig."

"Yeah?"

"He uses it to contribute to the TacNet. And he, uh, likes to taste things."



-k

I just about passed out from laughing too hard

[X-Kalibur]

Ran into a pixie during the Missions at DragonCon.

He had Cephalopoidal Skull, and I think pretty much every gross deformity possible from Runners Companion.

"Oh. Oh god. What the hell is that?"

"You know the mini-thulu there? He wears a simrig."

"Yeah?"

"He uses it to contribute to the TacNet. And he, uh, likes to taste things."



-k

Where do these people COME from? Jebus.