The eternal conundrum,,

[Dragonsoul]

Is it wrong to make an encounter based solely on a terrible pun?

Notable things
Rolling Beholder trap
Faeries with irresistible dance(A Save or Dio)
An entire combination of Otto's irresistible dance and Summon undead, in order to force your party to recreate Thriller.

[MesiDoomstalker]

Is it wrong to make an encounter based solely on a terrible pun?

As long as your group can take a joke (and understands it) and aren't all super serious then go for it.

[Reprimand]

The thriller idea sounds pretty epic I might steal that.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Encounter? Heck, I've built entire Campaigns around puns...

[Psyren]

Bonus points if you slowly fade in the song once the combo goes off, until one of your players makes the connection.

[Dragonsoul]

In a previous campaign I had the Bard/Barbarian Gestalt be forced to dance to Caramellendansan.(Though in future I may elect to be with "Everyday I'm shufflin'")

[nedz]

... An entire combination of Otto's irresistible dance and Summon undead, in order to force your party to recreate Thriller.

So a high level party encounter a bunch of spell-stitched zombies. I might steal this one :smallcool:

[Fax Celestis]

"Everyday I'm shufflin'"

That song is for zombies.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Zombie Jamboree... you know you gotta play it

[JaronK]

I built a Shadowrun adventure that was entirely based on Scooby Doo. The players didn't even get it (they never actually caught the guy, and in fact never figured out that the "ghosts" haunting the place was just a mage trying to scare them off the property so he could buy the place cheap and get access to the mana line in the basement).

JaronK

[Dragonsoul]

That song is for zombies.

Hmmm, how about if I change the song and combine it with a trip monk called Chumbawamba?

[Psyren]

That song is for zombies.

Or warforged (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zJWA3Vo6TU)

[Ravens_cry]

Hmmm, how about if I change the song and combine it with a trip monk called Chumbawamba?
And a Bard who uses drums improvised from empty containers.
Tubthumping.

[ShriekingDrake]

It would be a shame not to use puns from time to time. It's even more fun when the players only get the pun days, weeks, months, or even years later. We've had that happen in one of our groups.

[sonofzeal]

A previous campaign revolved around attempting to prevent the resurrection of a dead/sealed Yuan-Ti god (or prevent it bodily coming to this plane, I forget which).

We failed... and then there were Snakes on a (prime material) Plane.

[Dragonsoul]

A previous campaign revolved around attempting to prevent the resurrection of a dead/sealed Yuan-Ti god (or prevent it bodily coming to this plane, I forget which).

We failed... and then there were Snakes on a (prime material) Plane.

Hell, my cosmology has an entire paraelemental plane of Cobras and Samuel L Jackson,

[PlzBreakMyCmpAn]

Encounter? Heck, I've built entire Campaigns around puns...Win _____________

[Ravens_cry]

So . . . Xanth: The Role Playing Game?
I shudder at the thought.

[sonofzeal]

So . . . Xanth: The Role Playing Game?
I shudder at the thought.
Somehow, I always manage to misread "Xanth" as "Zearth" (http://bionicbong.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/bokurano.jpg). Even their obligatory cute magical sidekick has too many teeth... (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/261/bokurano51.jpg/) *shudders*

[Toliudar]

I built a Shadowrun adventure that was entirely based on Scooby Doo. The players didn't even get it (they never actually caught the guy, and in fact never figured out that the "ghosts" haunting the place was just a mage trying to scare them off the property so he could buy the place cheap and get access to the mana line in the basement).

JaronK

Highlight of my day, right there! Thanks!

[Elric VIII]

I once had an encounter based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The Displacer Beast that taunted them and disappeared while following them went right over their heads, but they caught on when they fought a Monstrous Centipede Wizard that used fog spells.