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Title: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: Entsuropi on June 29, 2004, 08:49:21 PM
C'mon people, lets get a list going.

My opener:
1) The Sentient hand-grenade.
"Throw me! Quickly! There! A group of people! Throw me! Throw! Throw! Through that window, go on, smash it and THROW ME! Your race created me for this one purpose! Damn you! Throw me! It's what I was designed to do! THROW ME NOW FEEBLE HUMAN, LEST I DETONATE ON YOUR HIP!"
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: Onion of Death on June 29, 2004, 09:26:05 PM
2. An NPC dwarf with a curse that makes him yell "ARSE!" after every *cough* sentence. The dwarf's only other words are "Wubble", "Fishbag", and "Slappity". If I remember right he whacked enemies with his beard.
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: PaperSword on June 29, 2004, 11:26:08 PM
3. A D20 Modern Campaign focused on time travel...."AHHHHHHH!!!! It hurts, me brain is imploding." the DM yelled as all past events hurtled back onto his brain, and, without the ability of true comprehension, spontaniously combusts.

Whoops, i guess thats insane, but the players had a good laugh, not anything sprung on them.
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: JP Dogberry on June 30, 2004, 10:20:42 AM
A large pink elephant. Describe it in search a way so that it seems integral to the adventure (regardless of genre or style). The real point of the pink elephant is it's just there, and you should ignore it like and good elephant.
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on June 30, 2004, 10:31:40 AM
A gazebo
an evil gazebo
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: Spriggan on June 30, 2004, 10:32:18 AM
Have the end of your campaign be fighting a lvl 20 goblin.
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: JP Dogberry on June 30, 2004, 10:33:18 AM
Have the end of your campaign be fighting a level 99 stalk of broccoli.  Provide no explanation for the above.
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on June 30, 2004, 04:22:35 PM
replace all treasure with baked goods.
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: 42 on June 30, 2004, 04:50:03 PM
Give their horse/carriage/dragon/spaceship/mecha/super-vehicle a speeding ticket.
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: JP Dogberry on June 30, 2004, 10:03:34 PM
Give them a lot of money and the oppurtunity to spend it. Then force them to apply encumberance rules in such a way that they need to start loading the stuff onto the horses. Once it's all loaded up, have thunder strike and the horse run away.
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on June 30, 2004, 10:52:35 PM
have horse thieves steal their equipment after taking advantage of the fact that they didn't state they were setting a watch
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: JP Dogberry on June 30, 2004, 10:54:52 PM
Say "Are you setting the watch?" and when they give you the details, say "No, really, are you settng the watch, there's a twelve foot tall Digital watch in the forest clearing."
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: 42 on July 01, 2004, 04:43:08 AM
Get the PCs drunk and when they wake-up tell them that they got married to succubi who are now pregnant and expecting child-support.
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on July 01, 2004, 11:00:19 AM
Include this NPC (http://www.criticalmiss.com/issue6/nobbynohead1.html) in your cast.
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on July 01, 2004, 02:04:55 PM
polymorph them all into the opposite sex. Rule that the spell is a curse that can only be removed by a wish.

then visit every stereotype on them you can imagine.
And tell your male dwarf player that "her" beard looks quite fetching...
Title: Re: Funny/Insane things to spring on your players
Post by: 42 on July 01, 2004, 03:07:57 PM
Reincarnation of characters is always fun. "You come back as giant kodiac bear and you come back as a prawn. Oooow, someone had bad karma."