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."

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.

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.

Ahem.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.



All good parts



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!"

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

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.

I just about passed out from laughing too hard

Where do these people COME from? Jebus.

Not the oddest thing in the world, but the odd circumstances kinda boggled me a bit. So I was statting up a fresh mission for a mini side campaign I'm starting for two of my more obsessive players (they want to play even more often than we already do, but no one else has the time). Combination assassination and destruction, secretly a tailchaser - the twist is that the target is an ultra luxury yacht owned by a corporate bigwig and both it and the rich bastard need to be annihilated while in international waters.

So then one of my players fires over a copy of his character sheet for me to check off on, and in particular wants me to okay his vehicle. It's a Honda Spirit with some typical mods, but then some not so typical ones. Apparantly he wanted it to be both LTA capable and amphibious, and wanted to know if that was kosher and how exactly I'd allow the two systems to operate in tandem with each other.

Bear in mind, I had only thought up the yacht mission literally fifteen minutes beforehand, and this will be the first mission in an exotic environment I've ever sent the runners on. Also worth noting is that the two man team consists of a human gun bunny / sniper with impressive skills, and a dwarven combat mage with a focus on storm-themed elemental magic. I get the strong sense that when the mission goes down, they're gonna want to just pile in the Spirit, drive out of Seattle to somewhere remote, inflate the LTA balloons, float out over the Pacific, and start raining lead and mana down onto the yacht from on high. Which may prove hilariously disastrous, or gloriously successful, depending on how things play out and how the dice fall.

The yacht was already gonna have impressive private defense including a few heavy weapons, but now I'm having to debate with myself over whether they'd be more likely to have guided missiles or unguided rockets...

~Umi

Easy. Guided.
But the first one misses by inches.

Dammit, warn a guy! I lost my lunch hour!

Me and a couple friends of mine have been talking about statting one up. Nice to know I'm not the only one. Cephelapoidal Skull, Thagomizer, Insectile Features, ect.

Yeah, I have a guy who looks like a Spider... Interesting Character, to be sure. Keeps getting mistaken as an Insect Spirit of some sort, though. He does not get out much.

Only one hour? You got lucky.

It's only a private yacht for a rich socialite, though. It's not a corporate boat or anything, just the owner is a company man. He's not exactly expecting his men to have to shoot down gunships when he goes sailing.

Surely a bunch of (appropriately scaled) professional bodyguards equipped with quality weapons and gear is sufficient for both his ego and any realistic threats? The yacht already has concealed mounted machine guns and a few hidden drone bays, it could capably handle a speedboat attack by pirates or similar. I could see the security team having a couple LAWs stowed away for emergencies, but how likely is it really that they'd have a SAM launcher like a Vogeljäger II on board?

~Umi

MG's are perfectly suited to deal with people attacking from a blimp...

3 LAWs, one MAW. if you need more AV oomf than that while out on a sailing trip then you're probably going to know it and have a more powerful weapon system on standby.

Pink Dildo and Soft Rope.

Soft Rope was actually 50' of rope, written messy.

We're *pretty* sure someone else wrote "Pink Dildo" on his sheet. But we weren't 100%. He was a weird, weird dude.

The Yacht?
Concealed Vehicle Laser.
LOS is god on the water, and that thing will make a nice hole without the whole bothersome "Oh..what missile, officer?" questioning you might get from the coast guard.

-Tir

The weapon costs more than the Boat did.

Big deal, so did the sound system.

Heh... Indeed.

Hey! Just like my old Chevette!

Here's a new one.

Book, titled, "19 Other Uses for Milk."
(It is, apparently, a Lactomancer's guide)

A...... Lactomancer?
Wierd...

From what I understand, it has something to do with milk being the source of all life.

Anyway, it exists as some kind of self-fulfilling prophesy (a future version of the character wrote the book, and now the present version is reading it and following in his own footsteps: hooray time travel).

"You made a Pornomancer with a Celibacy Geas?"

Wouldn't that be a Flirtimancer?

No, he's more hands on.

Ahhhh... Got it.

Or... he likes to watch.

Which is just as Creepy, I think...

I tend to create the weirdos as concept I'd LIKE to play but never get.

Daddy Longlegs
Waykayambi Elf

Changeling
-Insect Features [Facetted eyes, dermal plates, rough spiky hair]
-Gecko hands
-Shiva Arms X2
-Astral Hazing
Ambidexterity X3

Ruthenium Polymer Suit
Tiffany Elegance Shooting bracer X2 [Weapon Mod: Underbarrel Grapple Gun / Smartgun Link]
Tiffany Elegance Shooting bracer X2 [Weapon Mod: Underbarrel SMG & Shotgun / Smartgun Link]
Tiffany Elegance Shooting bracer X2 [Weapon Mod: Underbarrel Dartgun & Flamethrower / Smartgun Link]

Sniper Rifle [Ruthenium Polymer Modification]

Various useful cyberware.