For ****s and Giggles.

[MidgetMarine]

Hey there Gitp.
How goes it?
I'm coming to you today after having been playing a gnomish cleric in a campaign for about a year now.
And he is quirky little man

I've recently gotten into the habit of applying random metamagic feats to my prepared spells, even if they don't do anything.

Example: Maximized Mend
Extend Create Food and Water.
etc.

They don't change the effects, but still take up higher spell slots.
And It's been an absolute blast.
Despite it being a ****ing terrible idea power-wise.

But I was wondering, what sort of things have you done just for laughs or just for the fun of it?

[LTwerewolf]

Invisible spell is hilarious.

[Eldonauran]

Playing a Sorcerer/Druid/Mystic Therge without early entry tricks or SAD spellcasting.

:smallamused:

[MidgetMarine]

Playing a Sorcerer/Druid/Mystic Therge without early entry tricks or SAD spellcasting.

:smallamused:

I am actually impressed.

[LTwerewolf]

Did once play a character that had a short attention span, so would roll a die to determine if he suddenly lost his interest and focused on something different. Including combat.

He was a blast to play.

[MidgetMarine]

Did once play a character that had a short attention span, so would roll a die to determine if he suddenly lost his interest and focused on something different. Including combat.

He was a blast to play.

YES on so many levels.

[LTwerewolf]

He was also obsessed with magic. If it was magical he had to study it. If you withheld magic from him. Well, at least you'd be a very happy puddle of goo.

[icefractal]

I'm currently playing an Oracle of "all the gods" - he's basically a walking antenna that gets divine messages whether he wants them or not. So periodically, I roll to see which god he's currently channeling. It's been pretty fun.

[sabelo2000]

I have, on various occasions:

Taken Levitate, Mage Hand, and Floating Disk as my only spells

Put all skill ranks into Jump, Balance, and Swim

Made an Untrained Turn Undead check

Disable Deviced a scroll of Meteor Swarm that I had zero chance of UMDing.

Edit
One of my players once, with the same Half-Orc Barbarian:

1. Took a voluntary reduction to Int because it was more fun to roleplay someone dumber

2. Carried his own battle standard strapped to his back, even (and especially) during stealth missions

3. Using a half-homebrewed/cribbed Fame system, voluntarily purchased more Fame points than his level limit, making himself so famous nobody believed it was really him

4. Spent skill points to learn to read and write, which the jerk*** party Sorcerer deliberately taught him wrong

5. Never corrected it.

Edit Edit:

The same party's (Lawful Evil) Monk, via abuse of the "Can deal unarmed attack with any part of the body" rule, would CDG each fallen opponent... via Halo teabag.

[Norin]

Disable Deviced a scroll of Meteor Swarm that I had zero chance of UMDing.


Hey! Elaborate on this a bit? What exactly did you do? :smallsmile:

[Elricaltovilla]

As a rogue, used my Nat 20 sneak attack on the final BBEG to strap a belt of gender change on him instead of dealing damage.

[CTrees]

I'm currently playing an Oracle of "all the gods" - he's basically a walking antenna that gets divine messages whether he wants them or not. So periodically, I roll to see which god he's currently channeling. It's been pretty fun.

I really like this idea. So much I may steal it. Particularly with influences on alignment... "Sorry guys, I just rolled Gork and Mork..."

Oh man I love this idea!

[Raimun]

Hmm... I try to find mundane utility for supernatural powers. Especially if they are of limited use. Sometimes my characters get lazy.

For example, in D&D, I teleported back to a ship that was within a few hundred feets. Just because I didn't feel like walking and I wanted to chill ASAP. The rest of the party arrived a few minutes later.

[Zombulian]

Played a Tibbit with the PF "young" template, I was a Wu-Jen. Focused on ray spells, took the Ocular Spell feat, LAZORCAT!
With this same character I went into the Geometer PrC just so I could have my spellbook be a coloring book.

[sabelo2000]

Hey! Elaborate on this a bit? What exactly did you do? :smallsmile:

As the last surviving member of a small detachment, cut off and surrounded by hordes of undead, I took the scroll off the dead Wizard and when I realized that I had no chance of UMDing it successfully, and that a mishap was likely, I decided that I'd rather be blasted than eaten and Disabled it in a deliberate attempt to trigger a mishap on myself.

Whether through actual success or DM fiat, the scroll took me, the dead wizard, and half a mountain's worth of undead out in one blast.

[sabelo2000]

As a rogue, used my Nat 20 sneak attack on the final BBEG to strap a belt of gender change on him instead of dealing damage.

BEAUTIFUL! I love it.

[The Trickster]

I played an artificer who was an atheist and didn't believe in magic. He didn't make magic items, he was "an inventor and an engineer" who crafted his magic items using "technology". He was also a gnome, which lead to some interesting role play when someone called him out on his racial spells.

Other player: "How can how no believe in magic!? Your a gnome! You have spells your race can cast! Like your dancing lights!"

Me: "What, you mean my flashlight device?"

*uses the 'device' and casts racial dancig lights*

Me: "It's not magic! It's a solar powered light making device! Too bad it's so small. It only holds enough power for one use a day before I gotta recharge the dang thing!"

Other player: *face palm*

Whenever he would see another spell being cast, he would just assume that person was an inventor like him, and they were just hiding their device from him so he wouldn't learn their secrets.

The DM and I also decided that all my devices had a random chance to fail, and maybe malfunction to the point of exploding on me. This led to one encounter when my artificer's "Ray Gun of Ouch" (in reality a wand of searing ray) backfired and caused the entire room to be filled with fire and smoke.

All in all, a good 'ol fashion goofy character, played just for the laughs.

[LTwerewolf]

The next campaign we play we're going to coordinate our characters in a certain way. One character is going to metamorph into a troll. The next person is going to be a psion and wear clockwork armor, and specialize in shooting energy rays out of his hands. The next character will be a stormlord but specialize in using a hammer, and the last will be a bloodstorm blade that throws his shield. We're going to call ourselves the "totally-not-a-ripoff-revengers."

[Jigokuro]

Playing a Tibbit always-cat.

I could end there, but I wont. I act exactly like a cat would and am only with the party because I like the bard, I ride on his head like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceyo0_k9AEw).
Oh, and I have the Firey Burst reserve feat, which, while taking a standard action, needs no noticeable act on my part. So stuff just explodes around the party all the time.

One time I used ghost sound to pseudo-speak and pretended to channel Pelor (bluff roll of 30 ftw) against a cleric (of Pelor) that had gone completely insane and used Channeled Pyroblast (prepared just for the reserve normally) held for 2 turns to 'smite him with the sun itself!' much to the dismay of the townsfolk he was slaughtering that would have preferred swifter action.
After putting him down, I acted as though the god had suddenly left me and resumed being a housecat, straight to licking myself in front of the crowd of grateful townsfolk.

[Gotterdammerung]

I played a barbarian1/ druid 8/ Nature's Warrior5 (Basically Avenging Druid but it didn't exist back then.)

He was from a Flan tribe near the Yeomanry. he wouldn't wild shape into anything wierd. Only traditional noble forest animals (bears, hawks, stags, stuff like that). He was elected by his people to be an ambassador for the clans, so I spent more character resources than I reasonably should have to end him with a +38 diplomacy modifier. It was a living greyhawk character. It was always funny to hear someone panic, "We don't have a face in this party! We need someone with diplomacy!"

"...Ahem.... I got it covered."


"The barbarian?! Naw, we need a real face."

"*snicker* Yeh, I am an ambassador of the hillman tribes. Also, not just a berserker; also trained in the druidic arts."

"We don't need some cross-class ranked, role-play face. We need someone who can tap the checks."

"OMG, +38 modifier is plenty enough to tap the checks, I GOT IT!"

"Oh... It's that high. *confused, I don't believe you look*"

[Jigokuro]

Oh, and I'm playing a Living Maug that has only been alive a few years. He has the City Slicker flaw which gives -4 K(nature) and survival...
He eats everything that looks edible, this has had him badly poisoned many times.
DM:"there is an almost iridescent blue moss in the corner of the room"
Me:"Survival roll 10, so 7. Does it look tasty?"
DM:"Uh... yes, yes it does."
Me:"OM NOM NOM."
DM:"Fort save?"
Me:"19"
DM:"Your are paralyzed and take 4 int damage, though it was moderately tasty."

[Callin]

the First time my Dwarven Cleric met up with the Human Monk of the party. He was being kind of a pain so it went down sorta like this

Brock casts Command on Brother William "Kneel"
Brother William succeds on his save "My name is not Neil its Brother William"
Brock casts Command on Brother William "Kneel"
Brother William succeds on his save "My name is not Neil its Brother William"
Brock casts Command on Brother William "Kneel"
Brother William succeds on his save "My name is not Neil its Brother William"
Brock botches roll for Command (DM thing) and Kneels before Brother William
Brock "MOTHER ******"

[CaladanMoonblad]

During play, my soon to be eldritch knight captured a kobold as a prisoner to interrogate via Intimidate (talk, no torture); one of the other party members was an evil Gnome bard who did not like the "safe conduct" agreement my character worked out with the kobold prisoner. The Gnome conspired with the Dumb as Bricks Barbarian and they killed my prisoner in front of my eyes; my character, who operated on the chivalric code (but is Neutral Good) ended up carting the dead kobold back to a temple and used one of my "Raise Dead" from my insurance policy; every Adventurer's Guild member has 2 raise deads simply by paying yearly dues in our game world).

I ended up reforming the kobold (life and death experience snapped him out of Lawful Evil to Lawful Neutral), and turned him into my cohort at level 6 when I picked up Leadership. The other players had left by then, and now Armiger Grimm (my squire) is a favorite in our playing group, because I really play up the stoic knight and the fish out of water squire; Grimm is constantly torn between following his instincts and adhering to the Code of Civility. Grimm also emulated my character in progression but took a different bent; where my eldritch knight is a fighter/wizard/eldritch knight build, Grimm is a sorcerer/fighter/dragon disciple build. During dungeon crawls, he uses Spiderclimb to walk on the ceiling and stay out of combat while my eldritch knight is a frontline combatant. It's an Odd Couple that I rather enjoy : )

[Slipperychicken]

I bought a baby Troll for 75 gold. More like a 5-year old, it's Medium sized and has roughly as much hp as the whole party combined. I didn't know what it was before buying it. All I knew was it was a writhing creature in a bag.

Cast Glitterdust on the party vampire so he sparkles (other player did this, not me).

Ate a bowl of a black tar-like substance on a dare.

While effectively cut off from the final battle, I "juggled angrily" in the infirmary.

Attacked and killed an ordinary bird with my claymore. Then threw it over a building. It was a boring campaign.

Rolled to disbelieve trees. Turns out the leaves were illusory.

Flew into a cloud and above the cloudline, just to watch the world in its majesty for a while. I figured that's what I would do if I had free all-day flight.

[killem2]

In my sessions, we use flaws. We also go as far as to use flaws from this 3.0 book Distinctions and Draw backs.

It isn't exactly the flaw to feat, but we ignore what you get for chosen flaws and just use the unearthed arcana way of doing it.


I have a Strong Heart Halfling Focused Specialist Spell-gift, conjurer.

He has a name that by default would be Umaro Boffinrock, but he changed his own given last name to Kingmaker. This is because he convinced he is to rule the lands one day as a great king and must live ever day of his life as though he is a king. He gets his practice from his faithful Warbeast mule aptly named "The Iron Duke".

He goes through out his adventures, addressing his mule as such, and he gets very snarky if you address his faithful companion as anything other than that. He also sees his summoned creatures as his subjects.

Now the flaw, that is quirky, is Miser. You have a drive for money, you love money, its your cup of tea. You are also very cautious about your money. You wear rags, you sleep in hay, you don't flaunt your money. You aren't greedy and you aren't out to steal others money or covet the money of friends.

You do not however, trust anyone but your self with your money. (Well, the Iron Duke is trust worthy of course, he would never betray his king!)

I also must bury, hide, put away, some how separate myself from 10% of my wealth at all times until it is ready to be spent.

To give you a taste of how this has played out in recent games:




In our first mission, investigate a cave that was infested with kobolds had a a lot of nooks and places to search. I took EVERYTHING i could. I even tied pews to The Iron Duke, and towed them out, to sell them later. I took every pit of clothing, pillow cases, and even kitchen stools and spices and utensils.

I bartered down to the nearest copper for a lot of it, and I also when no one would take it for what I wanted, I always settled for a copper peice.

Then, when we slept, climbed into the rafters of an old old barn where I slept with all the animals the city kept, and put 89pp, in a small bag, cut into a slit of the rafter, hallowed, and put over again, and I nailed it shut. It has a note with it that states if found, please return to "highly important name who sent us on the quest on behalf of Umaro Kingmaker".




Out side of this, I make statements such as, proclaiming I am an accountant extrodinare, at your service. I will base choices of combat on, making knowledge checks to see what they are.

If we came onto a dragon hoard, and I checked high and could tell what kind of dragon it was, might might value the investment vs return, rather than death vs living lol.

However, I don't wrecklessly go after money. My thought process usually ends with, death = no money.

[Callin]

oh yea I cant forget my Halflings Fierce name. The fiercest he could come up with. Dandylion Tigerlilly. I mean it has Lions and Tigers in it. FEAR HIM! He was a total bad mamajama

[Togath]

It's more of a GMing one, but I once(and by once, i mean I'm currently using him) made a BBEG that was a golem who had obtained sentience, and then decided to train in caster levels until he was level twenty.
The same BBEG has ended up with the catch phrase of "Howdy minionlings!" when greeting his minions, many of which learned to talk from a drunken fairie(the fairies in my setting are basically a combination of Hobbits and dnd Gnomes) pirate bard working aboard a ship run by the fierce pirate "Sheepy" so named for being a two foot tall goblin(usually good aligned in my setting so a pirate one is unusual, and their normal height is about 3-3.5 feet) who wears fancy wigs

[meto30]

The wizard PC started calling my monk, who had the lowest INT score in our group, a 'greater monkey' (lesser monkey being actual monkeys). Then, when I was WIS-drained in combat, and we had no access to restoration spells, I RPed that my PC began to actually think he was a monkey fooled into believing it was a half-orc. I began screeching and acting like an ape and continued doing so until we returned to town and my monk received two douses of restoration - I deliberately attempted a save on both ones. :D

[SilverLeaf167]

Ate a bowl of a black tar-like substance on a dare.
Welcome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4mmi) to (http://www.viinikartta.fi/media/item_images/alko/FIN/hr/002063.jpg) Finland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terva_leijona). :smallamused:

[jokeaccount]

I haven't played much D&D in my life but on this campaign it seems that we go out of our way to f**k up some plot related items. At some point the DM, after exploring a dungeon gave us a strange book infused with evil magic that no one could really understand what it was for (i.e plot item). We were gonna keep it however the LG Cleric of the party immediately demanded that we destroy it at the first opportunity. In order to "save" the poor book I actually summoned a dog (summon monster I), I gave it the book and sent it off running randomly in the snow. I did keep a page of the book in case someone could use "discern location" on it but I have the impression that it is not gonna work :S. Now no one knows where the book is and we've technically lost it forever -_-

[Hunter Noventa]

I played an artificer who was an atheist and didn't believe in magic. He didn't make magic items, he was "an inventor and an engineer" who crafted his magic items using "technology". He was also a gnome, which lead to some interesting role play when someone called him out on his racial spells.

Other player: "How can how no believe in magic!? Your a gnome! You have spells your race can cast! Like your dancing lights!"

Me: "What, you mean my flashlight device?"

*uses the 'device' and casts racial dancig lights*

Me: "It's not magic! It's a solar powered light making device! Too bad it's so small. It only holds enough power for one use a day before I gotta recharge the dang thing!"

Other player: *face palm*

Whenever he would see another spell being cast, he would just assume that person was an inventor like him, and they were just hiding their device from him so he wouldn't learn their secrets.

The DM and I also decided that all my devices had a random chance to fail, and maybe malfunction to the point of exploding on me. This led to one encounter when my artificer's "Ray Gun of Ouch" (in reality a wand of searing ray) backfired and caused the entire room to be filled with fire and smoke.

All in all, a good 'ol fashion goofy character, played just for the laughs.

I'm playing a quasi-homebrew class that actually does use technology to recreate spells, and she gets very irritated when people start to call her a witch. And now is referring people to the wizard/oracle who is blind and has a pet raven that talks for her half the time, happily noting that 'No, SHE is the witch!'