[Cerek the Barbaric]

All of these stories are hilarious. I LOVE this thread.

BTW, Scronan, don't feel bad...I once PERMANENTLY killed another player's 36th level fighter!

After our group graduated from college, we started a tradition of meeting every Labor Day Weekend for a gaming reunion. At the very first one, the DM wanted to run a 30+ level game. All the "veterans" in our group had characters of that level, but me, my roommate, and the rest of the "newbies" had only gotten to about 15th level. So, some of the experienced gamers "loaned" characters for us to play. I borrowed a 36th level fighter and took the point for the group (he was LG). The other fighter in the group was always picking on this character and we quickly got into a contest as to who could kill the most monsters, face the most danger, etc. After clearing the dungeon, we came to a room with a large throne covered in jewels. The other fighter and I rolled initiatives and I won...so I leaped onto the throne...which happened to be the Throne of the Gods. The DM started rolling the powers/effects randomly.
Now, the player had worked long and hard to raise his fighters Charisma to the highest level possible. He was a king over a small area of Greyhawk and his troops were unswervingly loyal due to this guys leadership and Charisma scores. Welllll, the first thing that happened was that his Charisma got dropped to 3. Before the player (who was in the room watching the game the whole time) had a chance to react, the DM said "...and you're aged 130 years."
The player suddenly looked up and said "What? What did you say?" The DM repeated that the character had aged 130 years. The player then said "He's dead! He just died. His max age was 110 years." And - when you die from aging - its PERMANENT.
I apologized profusely and asked the DM to substitute one of my characters instead, but the player wasn't upset about it. He said that he had loaned the character to me and accepted the consequences. I still feel bad about it to this day, though.

The one character I finally DID work up to "high level" was Cerek, my barbarian. My roommate played a Chaotic magic-user and he often used him in games when I played Cerek. These two characters were constantly picking on each other. In one dungeon, we were exploring a cave and came to a large, open room.
The mage said "I'm detecting for traps".
The DM said "How, the room is too large for you to Detect the entire area?"
The mage said "I'm not casting Detect Traps...I'm casting Push on the barbarian!"
Suddenly, my barbarian was skidding across the floor and setting off pressure plate traps. Fortunately, none of the traps were armed.
Since I couldn't retaliate right away, I bided my time until we finally met up with the main monster in the game. That's when I came up with Cerek's "Signature Move".
I turned to the DM and said "I'm casting Barbarian Magic Missile!"
DM "WHAT THE HECK IS A BARBARIAN MAGIC MISSILE?"
I said "I'm grabbing the magic-user and throwing him at the monster!!! Either way, something good is BOUND to happen!!!"
The look of SHOCK on my roommates' face was PRICELESS and it was several minutes before we were able to determine the "success" of my "spellcasting".

BTW, the mage was able to grab a Wand of Lightning from his robe and ZAP the monster at close range... which killed it, so he couldn't argue too much with me either.

[ 02-28-2002: Message edited by: Cerek the Barbaric ]