What are your most memorable moments in roleplaying ?

for me it was a P&P (pen and paper) game of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (just a different brand of AD&D for those of who who dont know it). I don't even remember what my character was, but we had been travelling somewhere when we were ambushed by a superior force of bandits. So we jumped on the wagon and made a run for it. The bandits, of course, gave chase. We were a new party and didn't have much stuff, and the only one of us with a ranged weapon just happened to be driving the cart, so my resourceful fellow, sitting in the back of the cart started rummaging through his bag. This is where P&P really excells over pcRPG...
I found a fork in the cutlery and threw it at the leader of the bandits, who was on a horse and in hot pursuit. By an amazing roll of the dice, the fork hit him in the eye and killed him! Seeing the death of their leader the other bandits stopped the chase and we got away.
This ability to improvise is what really makes P&P so exciting.

My other favorite was in BG2. I had (i think) Anomen kitted out with some sort of spell shield item (can't remember which one, and I've tried looking) and we were in a dungeon full of beholders. I noticed that all the beholder "cause serious wounds" were rebounding and hitting their casters, so i just ran anomen alone through the whole level and let the beholders kill themselves on him. haha

in bg2 i was playing a kensai dual weilding the cesfury and defender of easterhaven, I cast negative plan protection and something that protected me from charm and cleared out bodhi's dungeon by myself

heh fork in the eye was funny but cmon.. you cant REALLY roleplay in baldurs gate.. or any other pc game.. [img]smile.gif[/img]

thats very true, solafein. and it sucks!

the item is "the cloak of mirroring" i believe(from the shahuagin city). i too used that strategy, though the strategy failed when the stupid elder orb came and imprisoned my protagonist. damn i was mad, for i hadn't saved since the end of the mind flayer city.

yes well it sucks.. but you can always play p&p games and its gonna take long time until the first real working roleplaying game is coming for pc and those fix patches take time too because that game wont come out wihtout FEW bugs :D

heres one of my memorable games

we were playing runequest and my char was a farmers son who wanted to be a hero(as always) well he didnt get far.. in the first city i went to fight for money in arena.. well.. i came out head shorter.. of course he was poor fighter :D

my next character was duck warrior(yes duck....like donald..kinda) our party was traveling through mountains and there a manticore attacked us... in the first round it hit critically my character... slap.. my duck was head shorter....... 2 characters in one game.. and both loosed heads.. not very nice

<font color="deepskyblue">One of my favorite PnP moments came in the first campaign I ever played in. Our DM was a good friend of mine and had taught my college roommate, me, and a couple of others how to play AD&D. He ran a "closed campaign" set in Hyborea (Conan the Barbarian's homeworld). The "closed campaign" part meant that he could pick and choose which rules applied in his world (for instance, there was NO weapon specialization allowed [img]graemlins/verysad.gif[/img] ).

Anyway, our characters were around level 9-10. I played a ranger who was the party leader. We had gone to investigate "strange happenings" around an ancient tomb. This meant we were dealing with a LOT of undead beasties. We entered the tomb by going down a long staircase (it was a biiiiig tomb). As soon as we got to the bottom, the staircase collapsed behind us and we were swarmed by various undead (wights, wraiths, and one ghost). For some reason, our clerics entered combat mode and started attacking the undead rather than trying to turn them.....then the ghost showed up. My character and the mage both blew our roles big time and were scared out of our wits. The mage turned and tried to climb the rubble of the staircase. My ranger decided that was stupid because there was no way to get out doing that....but there was a hallway leading AWAY from this room - so he took off at max speed down the hallway.

He ran around a corner, only to come face-to-face with a vampire. He was almost as surprised as I was, because - even though he could hear the sounds of battle - he wasn't expecting anybody to come his way this quickly. So here is my ranger who is now literally frozen stiff with fear and the vampire gets a "free shot" at me. Of all the incredible luck, the DM rolls a ONE! and the vampire misses me completely.

The DM looked at me and said "OK, it's your initiative. What do you do?"

I thought about it for a moment, then my character grabbed the vampire by the lapel of his coat, jerked him forward until they were nose to nose and screamed...

<font color="yellow">"RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! IT'S RIGHT BEHIND ME!"</font>

It took the whole group several minutes before they could quit laughing long enough to continue the game. And yes, I DID get away from the vampire, because I took off running again and left him behind.</font>

In BG2 it would be deciding on the umteath time that my good char was smart enough to see Kangaxx was imprisoned for a reason. And then hinding his bones in the bottom of the outerworld from the planer sphere and guarding them with all the spell and thieve traps I could. Now Kangaxx will stay imprisoned until some wayward plane hoping bard with alot of hitpoints get's lucky.

I've been reading posts about pnp roleplaying for a while now and my interest is well and truly piqued. I've never played AD&D (the closest would be those 'make your own adventure' type books from Ian Livingstone and ilk when i was 10). Can someone refer me to a webpage or something so i can learn more about this fascinatingly withdrawn behaviour. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Aye, me too, I'd like to look into the subtleties (and literature!) of P&P, although it seems that one needs a living breathing DM present; one can't play by one's self, apparently... perhaps that is the whole point... I suppose group interaction would be good change-of-pace for loners like myself [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] at any rate I love those cool dice

My favorite BG2 moment is witnessing the consequences of Edwin's quest... But one of my most satisfying game events was independently discovering out a way to get through the mindflayer rooms - I tried summoning everything and nothing could really help much (we were not at high enough level to summon Skeleton Warriors). Finally I summoned an Earth Elemental and when the mindflayers cast psionic blast it stunned the Earth Elemental in the doorway - but the mindflayers could not reach us, because the huge elemental blocked the doorway... The battle was eventually lost (again), but I got an ideafrom the experience; I now ask for two volunteers to go invisible and block the doorway while one or two of us, with Chaotic Commands in our brains and Oils Of Speed in our stomachs, attack with a flurry of ranged weapons. . . . I may graduate from such a foolproof method to something a bit more swashbuckling but then again I don't claim to be studly, just a little unorthodox :D

So this is an old post, and I'm a new user... after reading the theme for of 'favorite role playing moments', I had to add one of my funniest and memorable moments of D&D and sign up for the forum.

A few years ago, we were playing a normal D&D type session, which involved some of our oldest and most highly leveled characters. We had 4 high level mages who all had apprentices (spelling?) all centered in one particular tower, which, in typical noncreative DM fasion was under seige. It was a lame attempt at killing us off due to our characters being too overpowered for our DM to keep up with (and potentially the fact that we were all evil and had just wiped out several small villages for some reason or another). Well, our DM had this group of warriors who were notorious in our game, Black Knights or some such, with millions of hit points and magic resistance, making them mage KILLERS... and he'd send tons of them after us to try and kill us... climbing ladders, ramming the front door (like knocking was just TOO polite of an option, geesh) and the like. So we decided to use a few of our mages' tower's designs to our advantage and abuse some D&D rules to get back at our DM. We slaved for a few days, scribing scrolls, scrolls, scrolls, every available mage scribing scrolls for a few days doing this while the tower's defenses held everyone out... as soon as the defenses were crumbling and Knights were rading the halls, every mage (there were like 19-20 total) mass casted HASTE on our attackers from safe spots in the tower, behind barriers that kept them safe from attack, yet allowed us to get close enough to them to be within spell range. So our DM was a bit confused at our tactic, until we had cast about 20-30 spells on every grouping of attackers, and, with great smirks on our faces, reminded our DM that Haste ages the recipients 1 year... and seeing as the Knights were human, the DM had no choice but to admit that his grand army had not attempted to save against the spells since they were beneficial, so we had bypassed their magic resistance, and they were all slowly turning into fumbling, senile old coots who couldn't hold onto the ladders anymore due to arthritus and were too weak to push the battering ram anymore (and they thought they were moving faster cause of adrenneline hehe). Within about 10-12 rounds, with every mage casting haste every round, we were able to walk outside and literally dance on our legion of enemies. After that we decided to start new characters to make the DM happy, but we still regularly visit our old characters and talk about how great it was when we killed the Black Knights, as our new characters were... mages, who apprenticed under our old characters. hehe HURRAY FOR RULE EXPLOITING!

The second best moment involved a mage, a werewolf, the punching chart in the Players Handbook, and a lucky arse roll on the knockout %... and yes, another happy dance on my helpless victim :D I'll spare everyone the long version of that one, cause as you can tell, I talk too much.

Very funny 605, keep up the good tales and welcome to IW [img]smile.gif[/img]

Like it 605! Never played P+P: Sounds Fun: Don't think the boyf would appreciate it though

Can someone explain what PnP is? I know that it stands for pen and paper, but thats pretty much the limit. Do it for Sever [img]smile.gif[/img]

OMG, damn my side hurts... Pyrenk, you sig is excellent [img]smile.gif[/img]

EDIT: decided 'Battle Strategies & Tactics' was a better place for this [img]smile.gif[/img]

- Imrahil

[ 01-07-2003, 11:38 PM: Message edited by: Imrahil ]

Heh..thanks.