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Your Funniest Campaign?

Started by RPGPundit, September 25, 2009, 05:55:06 PM

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RPGPundit

What was the funniest campaign you ever played in, or ran?

Most significantly, was the game itself a "funny" game?
If not, was it one that was run from the start to be a humourous campaign?

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I remember a one shot AD&D game where we decided to play evil characters. I ended up playing a chaotic evil werepig, and a friend of mine was playing an antipaladin. We were just acting like jerks, killing on a whim, treating people like dirt, and the more we played, the more we were coming up with the worst of puns, movie lines and such. We ended up hunted down by the village guards, and my character served as the antipaladin's mount. Just the image of the evil warrior riding a giant pig was too much for us to bear. That's one of the longest lasting laughs I got out of a game. It was just so over the top gonzo D&D it didn't even make sense.

Insufficient Metal

A spy game I called International Awesome Squad. It was an espionage-type game in the vein of James Bond, except far more ridiculous and full of characters who were often broad stereotypes, borderline psychopaths, or both. The game had one simple premise: no matter what the PCs do, the home office always says "good job, team!"

My favorite PC was a guy named Gunter Angstlander, the Icelandic death metal undercover agent. When the team went to china, he would put on a coolie hat (still in white death-metal face paint and huge skull belt buckle), run up to people, and scream "I AM CHINESE!" If he made his Disguise roll, I allowed that to work. That sort of thing.

My favorite episode was the one where I just took the plot of Moonraker, modified it very slightly, and ran the PCs through it. It ended with the PCs escaping in a stolen space shuttle just as Rio de Janeiro was about to be leveled by an orbital death ray. They made their escape -- and then everyone in Rio de Janeiro was incinerated. They then failed their piloting roll and augured the space shuttle right into IAS headquarters. "Good job team, you've done it again!"

There were way too many funny, horrible gags to really list here -- suffice it to say it was pretty much non-stop hysterics around the table. We still play pickup games now and then.

David R

I guess it's this oneshot I ran recently :

Quote"You Can Tell By The Way I Use My Walk"(since we are playing on Saturday night...oh nevermind) based on the old Gamma World setting ....or rather think of it as a Gamma World adventure meets Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome meets Slash Maraud based on the lyrics of Funky Cold Medina.

It was basically a battle between brothel owners (PCs) in a post apoc setting. There was a drug that made you change genders. They were aliens looking for a good time. I think we were mostly drunk.

Regards,
David R

GeekEclectic

I have two.

One was a Monsters & Other Childish Things one-shot that I ran when most of my regular D&D group didn't show up. Basically just me and the regular DM, so we decided to do something else since nobody else was there. I both GM'd and ran a character of my own. I had an emo kid with a flying bug-lizard that I decided he had since he was really little, so he named it . . . Butterdactyl. Big mistake. I couldn't even say the name because it made me laugh so hard to hear it out loud. The other character was a goth chick who kept calling me "emo bitch." That was also kind of funny, but not side-splittingly so.

The other was the time I played in a Wushu Renegades(some guy's homebrew) thing at Dragon*Con. There were two guys and two girls in our group, and we were made to randomly pick out characters from a pile of character sheets. All 4 of us pulled characters of the opposite gender, so we decided to just go with it. I turned the DM's carefully-crafted Xena meets Romance of the 3 Kingdoms social character into something more Clueless meets Miss Piggy. Ditzy-seeming, randomly violent, you know. I won the best player award(a $5 chip to spend in the dealer room) for it, too!
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