Gaming stories

[The Old Hack 2,489]

So, I decided just for fun to create a thread specifically meant for gaming stories of all kinds. Tabletop, video games, board games, LARP, war games -- anything goes as long as it is funny and/or memorable.

I'll start with this one:

context: one of our party members is the dwarven paladin Grim Dark, who is a Doom Dwarf (a homebrew dwarven subrace, needless to say created by Grim Dark's player.) Our party is in a dungeon and the rogue has spotted a particularly diabolic trap of dwarven make.

rogue: I don't like this. If I deactivate one part of this trap, it looks like I simultaneously activate a previously inactive part of it.
cleric: Oh wow. Can you tell what it does?
rogue: well, the currently active mechanism sprays burning oil everywhere if we set it off. The alternate mechanism will electrocute us.
wizard: sheesh. What sort of paranoid psycho made this thing?
rogue: hey, Grim. You're a dwarf. Do you maybe know something about this kind of thing?
Grim Dark: Look. I'm a Doom Dwarf, not a Brain Dwarf.

It was generally agreed that Grim had a point.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,619]

 

Ah reckon I never did find myself in such a predicament as in one memorable Old West game (GURPS) 

Seems the bad guy was gettin' away while a big ol' wolf was makin' a mess outta all the townsfolk 

Well having barely survived my encounter with the wolf, I was the last armed person with a shot at the bad guy before he got out of sight 

I somehow managed a long series of health, perception, and will checks (a few critical successes) to get my weapon aimed at the target 

Then, just as I pulled the trigger, I rolled for my Guns / Black Powder Weapon skill and wound up with a critical failure.  Weapon Jam (not the Spartan Breakfast Treat) 

I immediately collapsed, but strangely woke up without a scratch as the full moon rose that night . . .