Gamemasters and Players: What was your greatest moment?

[wraithstrike]

Those of us who have run or played in rpgs must have great stories to tell. What was the most amazing thing you've ever done as a player or seen as a GM?

As a player:
I was playing a gnome bard in D&D 3.5 who was completely neutral in all things. Some of the party was good, some was evil, and they had a different faction for each alignment. My bard decided he'd play the middle to both ends, playing both factions like a violin to get what he wanted. And it worked for six sessions as both factions tried to get me on side with bigger and bigger gifts until I forced the two factions to merge for the good of the land.

As a GM:
Right now, I'm running a campaign which is Space Pirates in the world of Doctor Who. A new player, who had been watching and listening to the game for weeks, joined in Tuesday. This player suggested pulling off the biggest theft/con in the history of the universe.

"You're looking for the next big adventure, right? What could be bigger than becoming gods to a bronze age civilization then selling the moon the civilization lives on?"

For the next thirty minutes, it was rolls on Deceit, Leadership and Mysteries to convince these cavemen that the space pirates were their gods. After spending two years in game time blessing those who prayed to them and punishing those who didn't, the crew used a transmat to teleport the moon out of orbit and sold it to the wealthiest man in the galaxy for 2/3 of his overall wealth. The new owner of the moon and his wife became the ultimate deities of the pantheon.

Simply put: My crew of pirates stole the concepts of civilization, mythology, and religion, then stole an entire moon to sell on the Black Market.

[Name]

Man, I love stories like this.

[Koltreg]

As a player: I wasn't really a munchkin but I liked combining insane ideas for characters together. My character was a skulker which was a subterranean human with the power to loosely transform parts of his body (I don't remember the class) and the ability to digest and eat anything. I played him as CE and eventually when I tried and failed to toss my teammate off of a cliff, he ended up tossing me off instead where I got impaled on a stalagmite. Since we weren't adhering to the rules as much (it was for fun overall) I was able to convince the DM that I should be able to eat through it which he bought so I healed myself by eating only to slide into a pile of bones which I ate (which also included a key) which lead to me having to eat through the lock that the key opened.
Eventually though after eating a belt of transformation that would have given him the powers to transform parts of his body into animal parts he was tossed into a pit of acid where he died, killed by the sister of a character I killed who just happened to be there.

Alternately I was playing Hunter The Reckoning with three friends at college and a DM who was joining via Skype. Unfortunately the DM wanted to type out everything instead of saying it out loud and he was slow at typing.
As a result one of my teammates ran into traffic and was hit and killed by a car. The car's driver got out with a gun and shot the teammate to be sure. Another teammate ran up to fight the driver unarmed and got shot and my character waked away as the third teammate pulled out a sword. To fight a guy with a shotgun. And the sword guy wasn't trained. My character ended up watching television and then the world succumbed to a paranoia demon.


As a DM I had my characters fight an insane man who was able to change reality so when they lied about killing a bandit (who was really good) they ended up killing the bandit through the man. Eventually he was forced to believe that the supporting beam in his house was a rooster and the building collapsed killing him.

[BIGREDROBOT]

We fought some home-brewed Weeping Angels in an haunted library and ended up defeating them by having one of our crew sneak up behind them and toss a pair of pants over their heads while our allies pounded them to rubble.

[Rae]

I'm currently in an epic (actual-epic, not internet-diluted-epic-to-mean-excellent-or-whatever) Norse D&D game. It is all greatest moments.

[wraithstrike]

In today's game, my players played to each others' strengths and neuroses.
In an attempt to shut down a Dalekanium forge, the clockwork robot first found out all the information about the factory's fire suppression system. He promptly dashed to the location, killed all the guards silently, and shut down the suppression systems so the pyromaniac fire priestess could slag all the metal on ground level.

When the cybermen started to fight them, All three players realized that there was a massive crucible of molten dalekanium above their heads. By falling back to the entrance, they all shot the crucible, encasing the cybermen in unbreakable metal.

And then the factory exploded and the clockwork robot suggested: "Let's go start a war between Cthulhu and his ilk."

[MoustachePants]

You guys, I really like King City, I'm going to post an Art That Makes Me Love This Book pic soon. It is so very great, thanks for the recommendations.

[BIGREDROBOT]

(03-27-2012 03:19 PM)MoustachePants Wrote:  You guys, I really like King City, I'm going to post an Art That Makes Me Love This Book pic soon. It is so very great, thanks for the recommendations.

I think you put this in the wrong thread, Pete.