Epic bluff result

[The Deej]

had something happen yesterday that was awesome enough that I felt like sharing. On the weekends IRL, I'm in a Star Wars game (SAGA) set in the KOTOR era, and we are currently on a mission to rescue a captured Jedi master from a prison on Mustafar. Two party members have just finished using their fighter craft to destroy the base defense turrets, but the blast doors have been sealed. So two of the party walk up to the intercom and somehow manage to pull off the following:

Scoundrel: "Yeah, we're here to deliver a pizza?"
DM: ...roll deception
Scoundrel: "29"
DM: *rolls*...*facepalms*
Mook (DM):"...no one ordered a pizza...I don't think..."
Jedi: "We've got a pizza here, and it says sub-level 15"
DM: Roll deception
Jedi: *rolls*..."28"
DM: *rolls*...*sighs*
Mook:"umm...okay. Someone will be right out"
DM: *rolls int check for mook*...*Headdesk*
Mook: "Um, here's 20 credits, do you have the pizza?"
Jedi: *mindtrick* "Here is the pizza. You want to lead us inside the building now."

Yeah. We drove in with fighter escorts, took out their patrol, blasted all of their turrets, and STILL somehow tricked a guy into thinking that we were just pizza delivery guys. And he didn't even tip that great...

[akragster]

That's awesome.

My next character is going to be a Sorcerer in a Pathfinder setting, and I'm going to pump tons of ranks into his Bluff score. Once he gets Explosive Runes, he's going to pass them out left and right like they're free brochures (some of them will be written on brochures, too). If I ever want to initiate combat, I'll probably start by giving them a Rune'd object.

[Silva Stormrage]

Thats a pretty awesome story. In one of my campaigns that I was Dming a Wilder was trying to betray the party and thought he would get a nice surprise round with a psionic disintegrate targeted at the party binder. He rolls a 1. The 10 by 10 ft square next to the binder is disintegrate. Okay he fires a schisimed disintegrate. Another one and the 10 by 10ft square on the other side is disintegrated. The rest of the party turns around in shock and yells what he was doing. The conversation went like this.
Wilder: I slipped.
Party: With a magical ray... Twice...
Wilder: Rolls 20 for bluff with a bluff psi crystal and like 30 charisma
Party: Rolls a one.
Party: Hmm I guess we believe you.

Saddest thing ever...

[sambo.]

hehe, i love it when things like that happen.

[Warlawk]

Playing a game set in dark sun under 3.5 rules, the party was around level 6 or so and in a town for the night. The elf rogue with good bluff decides he wants to steal a Kank. At level 6 a kank is not really that big an investment and he was mostly just doing it because swindling people is what elves do. He decides he's going to try and convince the next person that comes along to the inn with a kank that he is the kank valet parking attendant.

Now, the way our group does social interactions is that the player lays out the basis for their approach and gets circumstance bonuses or penalties based on cleverness and appropriateness etc. Then we roll the dice to get the result, and then roleplay the scene out once we know how it should go.

Elf rolls a natural 20+abigmodifier.
NPC merchant on Kank rolls natural 1.

The npc rides up and as the elf opens his mouth to speak, the NPC just wraps the reins around his arm like he was a hitching post and walks off toward the inn mumbling to himself with a distracted look on his face.

That's one of those scenes that gets brought up every now and again for a chuckle even many years later. :smallbiggrin:

[Demidos]

Thats a pretty awesome story. In one of my campaigns that I was Dming a Wilder was trying to betray the party and thought he would get a nice surprise round with a psionic disintegrate targeted at the party binder. He rolls a 1. The 10 by 10 ft square next to the binder is disintegrate. Okay he fires a schisimed disintegrate. Another one and the 10 by 10ft square on the other side is disintegrated. The rest of the party turns around in shock and yells what he was doing. The conversation went like this.
Wilder: I slipped.
Party: With a magical ray... Twice...
Wilder: Rolls 20 for bluff with a bluff psi crystal and like 30 charisma
Party: Rolls a one.
Party: Hmm I guess we believe you.

Saddest thing ever...

We actually rolled for that?
I thought we just ignored him....:smallconfused:

[Heliomance]

My favourite: Epic game. I was the party bard, with ridiculous skill checks. I was amusing some young dragons, and made up a story about the Oyster King and his magical rainbow pearl, who lived in a palace at the bottom of the sea. I don't remember what I got on the Perform (Oratory) check, but it was over 80, may have been over 100.

A few hours later, the dragons come up to me and go "look what we found!" while showing off this gigantic rainbow coloured pearl. Seems they'd taken a trip to the bottom of the sea, found the (entirely fictional) palace of the Oyster King, and stolen the pearl.

That's right, I was such a good storyteller that reality itself had gone "cool story, bro" and adjusted itself to suit!

[Darth Stabber]

Epic Bluff results

With a score of 100 or more on a bluff check, it's no longer a bluff, the universe rearranges for it to be true.

[Iferus]

My favourite: Epic game. I was the party bard, with ridiculous skill checks. I was amusing some young dragons, and made up a story about the Oyster King and his magical rainbow pearl, who lived in a palace at the bottom of the sea. I don't remember what I got on the Perform (Oratory) check, but it was over 80, may have been over 100.

A few hours later, the dragons come up to me and go "look what we found!" while showing off this gigantic rainbow coloured pearl. Seems they'd taken a trip to the bottom of the sea, found the (entirely fictional) palace of the Oyster King, and stolen the pearl.

That's right, I was such a good storyteller that reality itself had gone "cool story, bro" and adjusted itself to suit!

That is truely epic.

[SamsDisciple]

I was playing a mindbender and one of my slaves cast black tentacles then I bluffed the entire mob of orks and ogres that it was a powerful demon summoning and that they should run away. Since it was done telepathicly they thought it was their conscience telling them what to do. My bluff beat their sense motive by over thirty so my dm had them run away... right into the path of a falling/dying dragon :-)