Most Embarrassing Thing You're Willing To Admit To Doing In A Session

[Saph]

Exactly what it says on the tin.

My one: My Horizon Tripper fighter character was on a ship we'd just captured, fighting another ship full of orcs. I couldn't quite reach them with my guisarme, so I drank a Potion of Enlarge Person.

For some reason, I decided that as I enlarged, it would be a really good idea to hold my sword to the sky and shout "By the Power of Grayskull, I HAVE THE POWERRRRR!" . . . and acting it out at the table.

I got some pretty funny reactions from the other 20 people in the room.

- Saph

[Superglucose]

For some reason, I decided that as I enlarged, it would be a really good idea to hold my sword to the sky and shout "By the Power of Grayskull, I HAVE THE POWERRRRR!" . . . and acting it out at the table.

Last meet I was at, for some reason we had a mage who KEPT DOING THAT ALL FRIGGEN MEET LONG. The first time it was amusing, but the other twenty times? Not so much.

[Sstoopidtallkid]

I joined a Cyberpunks campaign over Skype's voice-chat before coming to college. However, my dorm room's internet connection sucks. So I have to use the comp lab. I sit in a computer lab every Friday night surrounded by my classmates and say things like "Get the .50 cal and SHOOT THAT **** KID! Shoot the KID! We can't let him report us!" And "Fine, we'll steal the drugs, but I want some of the morphine, in addition to my commission. You don't want to know where I've got skin grafts, just know that it **** hurts".

[AstralFire]

I joined a Cyberpunks campaign over Skype's voice-chat before coming to college. However, my dorm room's internet connection sucks. So I have to use the comp lab. I sit in a computer lab every Friday night surrounded by my classmates and say things like "Get the .50 cal and SHOOT THAT **** KID! Shoot the KID! We can't let him report us!" And "Fine, we'll steal the drugs, but I want some of the morphine, in addition to my commission. You don't want to know where I've got skin grafts, just know that it **** hurts".

...

Wow.

[Flickerdart]

...the DM's girlfriend. Ba-dum pish.

[drengnikrafe]

In a 4e session, I actually argued for 15 to 30 minutes (it was late, I can't remember which) that it was unreasonable that a fireball that hit it, and all adjacent (including diagonal) squares with fire damage would hit somebody who had hid but not moved.

...

Yup. In the end, I succeeded in getting the group to concede (this was PvP with no DM, just so you know) that the bushes he was hiding behind would not be burned because the wizard wanted to make sure he would hit, even if the hider had moved a bit.

[kladams707]

I don't personally have any embarassing things about myself, however I do have one about one of the other pcs of one game.

He decided he was going to use one of those paper fortune tellers (the kidn you mide in elementary school and what not) to tell him what to do in combat. So his turn comes up and he uses the paper fortune teller. He takes his avatar, moves it up to one of the enemy, and declare his action: he strips.

[Roderick_BR]

Personally? I picked BOTH of my nostrils at the SAME time, while describing a battle scene. My friends never let me forget that. But then again, we all were pretty crazy back then.

In-character, I guess was turning my lawful neutral wizard into a chaotic neutral wizard/blood magus, and yelling out all my attack spells (including his favourite formula: fireball + barrels and barrels of powder), just to to show them I could be as chaotic as I can play lawful paladins. They still consider it one of my best roleplays.

[Ulrichomega]

Not really on purpose, but one session my character (rouge, my first time ever playing one so I didn't have it down) and the party sorcerer were at the bottom stair in a hallway on an airship, with one of the bad-guy-bandits at the base. It took us 8 rounds to kill him. Every round I attacked him, and the sorcerer attacked, with some grease spells to keep him off balance every couple of turns. The rest of the party had mopped up the rest of the bandits by round 3 (it was supposed to be a combat that introduced everyone to their characters). Not us.

[Dr Bwaa]

...the DM's girlfriend. Ba-dum pish.

During a session? wow (unless you weren't actually involved in the session, that would be a little less impressive I suppose :p)

I do embarrassing stuff all the time, but it all blends together so much that I don't even remember specifics before. Usually if I do something bad it just turns into a character trait (such as forgetting that we were fugitives and declaring my name to the first person who asked. It became that character's catch phrase, and I do my best to have him say it at least once a session. "I'm Claaus O'Neal!")

[kladams707]

I just remembered something I did.

It was my very first D&D game, 2nd ed. We were supposed to raid & destroy the food stores (which were in one building). We beat the guards and went in.

Out of game, I had to use the bathroom. I declared to the dm that what I was about to do was entirely in-game. I described my actions as I walked to the W.C. "I walk over to a pile of food, whip it out, and..." and then there's that all too familiar sound of water hitting water, if you catch my drift.

[Triaxx]

Two incidents, the first was just luck of the draw. Or roll.

My Sorceror failed to beat spell resistance of a target, four times, each time by 1 point on the roll.

The second was as a DM. I classically linked the death of the boss of the area, a General in this case, to the destruction of the dungeon. Two problems stemmed from this. First, the 'dungeon' was an airship. So naturally, killing the boss destroyed the ship by releasing the fire elementals bound to keep it's boilers running and keep it in the air. Second, we were currently over a lake of lava. Naturally the ship starts falling one round later, so the PC's rush for the exit. One round before reaching it, the ship hits the Lava. This instantly ignites the Hydrogen balloons keeping the ship from plummetting instantly. Roll 4d10 for damage a piece. Not a single survivor. Not even the Half-dragon, half-orc barbarian with his +6 to constitution amulet.

[phoenixcire]

I once had a character who was gifted gifted with the ability to turn anything to stone.

He was surprise attacked while taking a bath with the tavern master's daughter. Not having a weapon, he turned his erection into stone and enlarged it. He then proceeded to beat his adversary to death with his "Club of Shrooming"

[ocato]

A friend told me we were playing a super high powered L15 game and that I should make my character with the notion that were were equivalent to super heroes (both in power and fame) in this world. I proceeded to exclaim "Sounds fun, I think I'll make a Bard." I don't think it was embarrassing or funny or dumb, but they all did. But not for long.

[AstralFire]

A friend told me we were playing a super high powered L15 game and that I should make my character with the notion that were were equivalent to super heroes (both in power and fame) in this world. I proceeded to exclaim "Sounds fun, I think I'll make a Bard." I don't think it was embarrassing or funny or dumb, but they all did. But not for long.

Bard power! *fist*

[Sstoopidtallkid]

People who say bards are weak have never seen them done well.
Music as a Swift Action(from PrCs), Inspire Courage(Dragonfire), Snowflake Wardance first round, Inspire Greatness in yourself second round, Inspire Courage third round. The enemy will run in fear, and the party will be questioning whether or not they should, too.

[AstralFire]

And people who say bards can't be cool haven't seen them done well either. (...And you don't have to make them into "Power Metal Rockers" or whatever the latest trend is these days.)

[Telonius]

Failing to quote Monty Python at least once during the gaming session.

[TheBlackDog]

I fell asleep. And I was the DM.

The sad part? I'm not sure anyone else noticed. That was an interesting session.

[chiasaur11]

I fell asleep. And I was the DM.

The sad part? I'm not sure anyone else noticed. That was an interesting session.

That sounds like the either the best or the worst session ever.

[ocato]

Music as a Swift Action(from PrCs),

I am blanking hard. What PrC gives Swift Action music? The only thing that comes to mind is Song of the White Raven that requires (*grumble*) ToB stuff.

[Sstoopidtallkid]

I am blanking hard. What PrC gives Swift Action music? The only thing that comes to mind is Song of the White Raven that requires (*grumble*) ToB stuff.

Dang, I thought War Chanter did it, but it only lets you activate 2 at once. So drop the Inspire Greatness. First Round:Inspire Courage+Dragonfire Inspiration. Second Round:Snowflake Wardance, charge.

[arguskos]

Uh... I had my thri-kreen barbarian frenzied berserker smash through a wall once chasing some assassins that attacked him at the inn. He smashed through the wall, to find another PC... *ahem* enjoying the company of a tavern wench. My character looked down (thri-kreen, remember), and said "You are doing it wrong." and charged through another wall after the assassins. The other PC was embarrased that an 8-foot tall insect corrected him on technique.

-argus

[TheBlackDog]

That sounds like the either the best or the worst session ever.

My nap only lasted for 15 or 20 minutes, and didn't actually impact play at all.

It was a Eberron campaign, set primarily in Sharn, and the PCs had just finished some sort of task (can't remember what), and had been notified by their employer that they would be traveling to Xen'drik. They were paid at the same time, and decided to go shopping. The party consisted of a Warforged Warblade, Human Ranger, Human Favored Soul, and Human Fighter.

The shopping trip devolved into an argument, first in-character, and then out-of-character, between the Favored Soul and the Fighter concerning equipment. The ranger was called away from the table in real life, and the warblade was absorbed in a book.

The night before, I had only slept for about 4.5 hours, and I put my head down on a pile of books.
I woke up a bit later to hear the fighter say to the favored soul, "Well, if you're not going to help buy the Bag of Holding, then we'll use YOU to detect traps! We'll push you onto anything that looks dangerous!"

I put my head back down, and by the time I woke up again, they had decided what to buy. I'm still not sure whether they knew I fell asleep.

[DarknessLord]

My nap only lasted for 15 or 20 minutes, and didn't actually impact play at all.

It was a Eberron campaign, set primarily in Sharn, and the PCs had just finished some sort of task (can't remember what), and had been notified by their employer that they would be traveling to Xen'drik. They were paid at the same time, and decided to go shopping. The party consisted of a Warforged Warblade, Human Ranger, Human Favored Soul, and Human Fighter.

The shopping trip devolved into an argument, first in-character, and then out-of-character, between the Favored Soul and the Fighter concerning equipment. The ranger was called away from the table in real life, and the warblade was absorbed in a book.

The night before, I had only slept for about 4.5 hours, and I put my head down on a pile of books.
I woke up a bit later to hear the fighter say to the favored soul, "Well, if you're not going to help buy the Bag of Holding, then we'll use YOU to detect traps! We'll push you onto anything that looks dangerous!"

I put my head back down, and by the time I woke up again, they had decided what to buy. I'm still not sure whether they knew I fell asleep.

How did they detect traps after that? ^.^

[TheOOB]

I made up, and sung, a halfling drinking song on the spot quite loudly to show my characters protest about being locked in a small iron box. Did I mention this was in public?

[BizzaroStormy]

It wasnt as embarassing to me but it was to the others in my group. I was particularly bored that day and my friend's mom had laid out a bowl of leftover halloween candy instead of chips so I was also hopped up on sugar. I spennt the time that wasnt my turn in combat by pelvic thrusting at everybody and everything. at least 10 times at the DM, 15 times at the fridge, 30 times at my friend's sister (who laughed the first couple of times) and about 80 other thrusts at random objects including the kitchen sink.

[TheBlackDog]

How did they detect traps after that? ^.^

They basically did what the fighter threatened, but used everyone in the party, alternating. It wasn't particularly efficient, but was VERY entertaining.

"Okay, there's a long stone hallway with no distinctive features. The last one like this had pit traps. Good luck."

It wasn't the most serious campaign. If I remember correctly, the warforged took up taxidermy, and stored a stuffed squirrel collection in his chest. He and the fighter also learned morse code for the sole purpose of communicating through walls. It was used a surprising amount.

[Ascension]

Let's see, I've played D&D with Lego miniatures in a South Georgia Dairy Queen. That'll get you stared at.

As for in-game embarrassment, my sorcerer failed to recover spells once because he spent the whole night staring stunned at the beautiful nymph who had seduced him at a party. The party's fighter had to grapple him and physically drag him away to get him out of there.

[LibraryOgre]

Made out with another guy (light petting, snuggling, etc.). Our characters were intimate (my chick, his dude), so we tweaked the other players.