Weirdest thing you've seen on a character sheet, More stupid player tricks Options

[ShadowDragon8685]

Yup, they have models in Star Trek. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Poor delusional character!

Then again, in any setting where it's plausible - IE, a setting where the television show Star Trek actually aired, or, you know, the Star Trek setting itself - it might be funny to have a character whose hobby is to build scale models of starships.

Heck, in a setting which is our modern-day one, or descended from it, I think my next character, whomever they may be, will have to have a to-scale side-by-side model of the Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) and the Normandy (SR-2), just for shits and giggles.

[StealthSigma]

Heck, in a setting which is our modern-day one, or descended from it, I think my next character, whomever they may be, will have to have a to-scale side-by-side model of the Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) and the Normandy (SR-2), just for shits and giggles.

Why stop there?

Give the character a model of CV-6, CVN-65, and OV-101.

[ZeroPoint]

My players seem to love sliding weird pieces of equipment past me.

In several of the D&D campaigns I used to run, by brother's characters would almost always have a "bag of random stuff" so he wouldn't have to write down that he had caltrops, rope, blah blah...
And when we got to our epic level game, it became a "bag of +1 $4!# to throw" full of hundreds of random +1 weapons for the express purpose of throwing...
This is the guy that also always has [Street Knowledge: Shadowrunning]

And going way back, one of the guys found a bag of holding and in the next encounter after killing a goblin in a storeroom filled it with a whole bunch of food...and the goblin. I then forgot about it until months later we suddenly needed a dead body for some reason and he says "well its a good thing i still have this dead goblin in my bag"....a great day in gaming history.

I know there are about a hundred other dump things i've found on my brother's character sheets but there are so many i can only think of a few ><

[StealthSigma]

My players seem to love sliding weird pieces of equipment past me.

In several of the D&D campaigns I used to run, by brother's characters would almost always have a "bag of random stuff" so he wouldn't have to write down that he had caltrops, rope, blah blah...
And when we got to our epic level game, it became a "bag of +1 $4!# to throw" full of hundreds of random +1 weapons for the express purpose of throwing...
This is the guy that also always has [Street Knowledge: Shadowrunning]

And going way back, one of the guys found a bag of holding and in the next encounter after killing a goblin in a storeroom filled it with a whole bunch of food...and the goblin. I then forgot about it until months later we suddenly needed a dead body for some reason and he says "well its a good thing i still have this dead goblin in my bag"....a great day in gaming history.

I know there are about a hundred other dump things i've found on my brother's character sheets but there are so many i can only think of a few ><

I don't recall anyone but your brother having weird things on their character sheet. I'm usually very practical and matter of fact and J was a minmaxer. The only ones I could see that would do something like that would have been B & M.

[hobgoblin]

Hmm ... Sammy Smurf.
Yeah, I'd watch that show.

here you go (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smokin.gif)

[Nikoli]

Hob, that made my day

[Prime Mover]

One of my players is a Hacker/clown. His character sheet is amusing and includes things like... A modified emotitoy dressed as a cowboy and armed with hold out sized revolvers.

[Draco18s]

My last shadowrun character had a Nexus on his sheet. I/the character insisted that it was a UV node and where he went to practice his magic.

It never came up whether or not this was actually true (nor does it matter: the character believed it was true, and therefore it was for him).

A friend of mine got away with "all knowledge skills" as a knowledge skill, partly due to his character (named Joat) and GM fiat.

[Jeremiah Kraye]

My GM let an iWin button pass by his "review" of my sheet... the first time I used it he let it go then immediately stripped me of it via extradimensional thief critter. Said a god wanted it for use.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

My GM let an iWin button pass by his "review" of my sheet... the first time I used it he let it go then immediately stripped me of it via extradimensional thief critter. Said a god wanted it for use.

And?

[ZeroPoint]

I don't recall anyone but your brother having weird things on their character sheet. I'm usually very practical and matter of fact and J was a minmaxer. The only ones I could see that would do something like that would have been B & M.

And Chad, Gage, Ian

I think chad had the De-sexing stick on one of his character sheets.

[hobgoblin]

Hob, that made my day

Just glad the image is still there, as i have no idea where they sourced it.

[Jeremiah Kraye]

And?

That's it... We faced a major threat, I wiped out my sheet, read it off, said that it had been on there for three weeks, he checked his copy, it was, I pressed in, major threat was hit by a column of pure energy obliterating him and 10 stories worth of material below him, and that was that. Three days later we woke to find something rummaging through my sack, taking it and leaping through a portal, at our level we didn't ask questions.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

That's it... We faced a major threat, I wiped out my sheet, read it off, said that it had been on there for three weeks, he checked his copy, it was, I pressed in, major threat was hit by a column of pure energy obliterating him and 10 stories worth of material below him, and that was that. Three days later we woke to find something rummaging through my sack, taking it and leaping through a portal, at our level we didn't ask questions.

My Question was "WHAT WAS THE I-WIN BUTTON" though... There is absolutely no description of it. What was it? What did you have written on the sheet...

Did you write: "I-Win Button" on the sheet?
If that is the case... Epic fail of the GM... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Jeremiah Kraye]

Yep, it wasn't described until I pulled it out, an ornate golden box, cracked open to reveal a large, red button inscribed underneath it with the words, "Cast in the name of God, Ye not guilty". (bonus points if you get the reference)


Suffice it to say my GM had a few words, lots of laughs occured and he checked all future lists for shinanegens from then on.

[ShadowDragon8685]

So, you hit him with a beam of pure energy from the skies?


Niiiiiiiiice.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

Yep, it wasn't described until I pulled it out, an ornate golden box, cracked open to reveal a large, red button inscribed underneath it with the words, "Cast in the name of God, Ye not guilty". (bonus points if you get the reference)


Suffice it to say my GM had a few words, lots of laughs occured and he checked all future lists for shinanegens from then on.

Heheheheh.... Classic. I love it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[thorya]

Yep, it wasn't described until I pulled it out, an ornate golden box, cracked open to reveal a large, red button inscribed underneath it with the words, "Cast in the name of God, Ye not guilty". (bonus points if you get the reference)


Suffice it to say my GM had a few words, lots of laughs occured and he checked all future lists for shinanegens from then on.

That sort of shenanigans wouldn't fly in with my group. I had a player once try to take Batman as a contact. I suggested that he might want to also take the group enemy, "Rogues Gallery", because if Batman exists so do the Scarecrow, Joker and Clayface. Suddenly the player was much less interested in Batman as a contact. There's just something about a clown in a purple suit that puts the fear of TPK into players.

I'm okay with silliness, but if they open a can of worms, I'm going to have fun with it too.

[hobgoblin]

Bah, SR already has a killer clown.

Tho if he happens to own a purple pinstripe suit, that may explain a lot...

[Draco18s]

"Cast in the name of God, Ye not guilty". (bonus points if you get the reference)

Srsly, who here does NOT know that reference?
Click if you don't

[ShadowDragon8685]

Bah, SR already has a killer clown.

Tho if he happens to own a purple pinstripe suit, that may explain a lot...

If you're one of my players, stop reading. Or keep reading if you want to spoil things for yourselves.

[ Spoiler ]

I mentioned, a while ago, as a tiny 'fluff piece' mixed in with some other, more Runner-relevant news, that Horizon had acquired the Batman IP and was re-releasing the entire comic backlog for cheap on the 'trix, in authentic 2D AR booklets, as the prelude to something else.

I also noted that there were rumors that they had taken some creative editing license with the comics - relatively minor things like changing background elements and stuff - and that FastJack had put out word that he would pay for scans of originals (or more if whomever came into them were willing to part with said originals' hard copies,) but that was just a red herring and something to make my players take interest in if they happen to find an authentic back issue.

No, what's really coming (in the near future, anyway,) is that Horizon has gotten their hands on the game Gotham City Imposters, and they're planning on remaking it's concept to be a modern shooter, hoping to cut some money out of the Miracle Shooter crowd.

I read about that clown gang in Seattle, and it got me thinking. I think a Batz gang is going to form after the release of that game, with the explicit and express purpose of wiping out the Scatterbrains, GCI style.

How this is going to involve my players, I have NO idea. They may well stumble onto a Batz vs. Scatterbrainz shoot-out, they may hear it on the 'trid news, they may be hired by some party or another. Not sure what the ultimate purpose is, or even if there'll be some gran sinister plan behind convincing a bunch of young people to form a gang with the explicit mission of wiping out gangs with extreme prejudice.

[Neko Asakami]

So, you hit him with a beam of pure energy from the skies?
Niiiiiiiiice.

Srsly, who here does NOT know that reference?
Click if you don't

No reason it can't be both, right?

(Now that I've officially outed myself...)

[Draco18s]

(Now that I've officially outed myself...)

Don't forget that Big O has laser cannons in his eyes.

[Jeremiah Kraye]

That sort of shenanigans wouldn't fly in with my group. I had a player once try to take Batman as a contact. I suggested that he might want to also take the group enemy, "Rogues Gallery", because if Batman exists so do the Scarecrow, Joker and Clayface. Suddenly the player was much less interested in Batman as a contact. There's just something about a clown in a purple suit that puts the fear of TPK into players.

I'm okay with silliness, but if they open a can of worms, I'm going to have fun with it too.

I think the point was not that I did it and he noticed, but that he didn't notice and realized that he didn't notice. I've always believed that when a player outsmarts a GM, the player wins.

And yes... Big 0's lazer vizor was the "Big Win" against many problems during the course of that show. Big 0's cities would be a great setting for cyberpunk off-shoot campaign, a city that forgot it's past.

[Draco18s]

I think the point was not that I did it and he noticed, but that he didn't notice and realized that he didn't notice. I've always believed that when a player outsmarts a GM, the player wins.

That's why I like Dogs in the Vineyard. The entire rules for the GM consist of "Say yes, or roll dice." Dice only being used for conflicts.

Player once had to explain why he was found naked with a woman he wasn't married to (they had to run out of her house as it was on fire) and the PC, upon giving up trying to explain in such a way as to a) not get in serious trouble and b) not lie about it, said that the burning building collapsed and crushed the sole witness to his indiscretion.

He didn't get off scott-free, but the GM let it happen.
(It was supposed to be a short one-shot to give the PC background, and a mark or item of somesort that grants additional dice later. Everyone had one, that one was just the most memorable).