So, what cool in-game moments have you had lately?  Amazing escapes?  Players that came up with brilliant ideas?  Good/funny/tragic/satisfying character deaths?  Crazy battle royales?  What's the good stuff that's been going on in your campaigns of late?

My last Spycraft game... which was sadly at GenCon

Tiny Dancer (the group's "infiltration specialist") sneaks into the compromised safehouse... and finds the charges set to destroy the safehouse. She makes a break for it just as the charges go off and the house goes up in flames. I showed the player the pic from the book I was using with the floorplan of the safehouse which just happened to fit the situation perfectly...



The group then picks up radio traffic from the clean up team to close in on the position. Overdrive (team wheelman) and Cutter (team faceman) catch that one team is moving towards a safehouse down the road and move to intercept. Overdrive's tricked out vehicle is a muscle car (GTO type thing) with spikes and armor on it. They see the car coming, so he decides to plough into them and bail out... forgetting that Cutter is in the car... Cutter's player's eyes grow wide. Overdrive's player rolls to hit... it's a critical success. He spends the action dice. Enemy car is trashed. With OVerdrive's armor, his car is hardly hurt... Cutter gets a few point of damage, but nothing that's gonna show a mark on this pretty face.

On Saturday, a spectacular spaceship/space battle with four Khundian warships; and on Sunday an extremely tense duel scene between various Roman immortals and a very powerful very old Etruscan Immortal sent by the campaign's current "big bad" to wipe out Rome's immortals as prelude to his plans for invasion.

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Quote from: RPGPunditOn Saturday, a spectacular spaceship/space battle with four Khundian warships;

Khundian as in the Khunds of the Legion of Superheroes Comic?

The very same. I'm running a Legion of Super Heroes campaign every other Saturday.

Its going very well.

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The party was making their way across the mountains to investigate the construction of an old temple, when they got suddenly ambushed by an elder redcap (which is like an evil fey creature), armed with a scythe. In one hit, it beheaded the evil priest character. The rest of the group rallied and eventually brought it down after a fierce battle.

Because the priest guy had made this pact with a fallen angel much earlier in the campaign, she reappeared at the end of the battle to repay the debt.

She sewed his head back on, and reanimated him as undead*, giving him a geas in the process. The other PCs were horrified, but afer she left, they managed to disguise him with magic enough to mask his deathly appearance.

They went on later (still disguised) to arrive at the temple, talked their way past the guards and got a tour of the reconstruction given by the chief engineer.  
 

*- Necropolitan template- +0 LA undead template in Libris Mortis.

Quote from: RPGPunditThe very same. I'm running a Legion of Super Heroes campaign every other Saturday.

Its going very well.

Cool. You using DC Heroes, or something else?

The coolest thing in my recent roleplaying is still the day I finished Ashes of Middenheim in my WFRP campaign. As if it wasn't good enough that my players turned up for an extra session to get through the finale, the rush we shared as the dust settled after the climactic combat was a sheer joy. Memories, sigh.

I started illustrating my mosters.
Scared the shit out of my players.
This is good, as I suck at verbal descriptions.

The funny thing is, I started with those "living zombies" out of Faerun. I described them as "like really old men" and showed them this horrible, freakish picture... like something out of The Hills Have Eyes (movie) and with this huge, horrible scythe (I'm a sucker for the monkey grip thing... dunno why) with trophies hanging off of it (teeth, hair, hands... you get the picture). That and I wouldn't just outright say "living zombies."

Players still ask me what the fuck those things were.

Which is funny to me, considering how fucking lame living zombies are!

The weekend past (I took a break this last weekend), we played a sci-fi StarWarsy game that's in development.  We were playtest guinea-pigs.

It started off with a bounty that moved into a "lost world/lost treasure" sort of game.  Then the players crashed on a water-world, got rescued, got imprisoned, pulled off a daring escape, helped the indigenous population fight back the slavers, facilitated the establishment of trade routes to this world, upgraded their ship and began building up a small shipping franchise.  

Every character got to use their unique abilities, including the assassin who was bodily launched at her target by another party member, jabbed her assailant with poisoned toothpicks (!!!) and snapped his neck for good measure.

Fun was had by all and a repeat session has been requested.

Quote from: Caesar SlaadCool. You using DC Heroes, or something else?

I'm using Star Wars D20 for the basic rules, with the powers coming from Silver Age Sentinels D20.

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Quote from: JMcL63The coolest thing in my recent roleplaying is still the day I finished Ashes of Middenheim in my WFRP campaign. As if it wasn't good enough that my players turned up for an extra session to get through the finale, the rush we shared as the dust settled after the climactic combat was a sheer joy. Memories, sigh.

I'm running Ashes right now. The players have just gotten to the Trial part.

Its a really great adventure... I'm wondering if you've got the two sequels, and what you think of them?

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