what is the most ridiculous thing that has happpend to you when playing a game ?

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**Elemental**

blaktoof wrote:
My favorite story is a DnD game story. We had a DM who was running 2 gaming groups on different nights. What he didn't tell them was they were both existing in the same world, so the actions of 1 would effect the world of the other and vice versa. One of the groups was talking to a friend in the other group and figured this out, and said nothing at first. They then told the rest of their group.

The one group that know created a fake dungeon, and seeded it with very weak undead and monsters they trapped and left in there, then put a severed human head decorated with gems and fake magic enchantments at the end of the dungeon in a trapped buried chest. They then went and spread rumor through various villages that the great and Powerful Vecna's head was rumored to have been lost nearby. For people who do not know there was an artifact in DnD called "vecna's hand" if you had a severed hand, however it may have happend, you could attach this artifact to your severed hand and it would work as a new hand and grant you powers. Needless to say the other group eventually heard of the artefact, the DM tried very hard to keep a straight face.

The other group easily overtook the dungeon, and then fought after the head. Two of the members basically killed another member, then they drew straws as to who got to cut off who's head to put the head of vecna on. After the first person was decapitated and the head did nothing, they thought maybe it only worked on wizards, so the wizard was decapitated, then the DM laughed and that gaming group was very upset.

So your group was the one to spawn an urban legend that's been making the rounds in the RPG community for 15+ years?

**SorataZ**

I seem to go a fairly normal FLGS where the usual Gamestop "Do you sell video games?" stuff doesn't happen all that often and the community is fairly level-headed. Though there is this story:

It was a normal saturday with games and drink, when a man somewhere mid-30s comes, nay storms, into the shop. He's totally messed up and hysteric, claiming he's being chased by the police for some reason and needs shelter. The boss goes to him and offers a chair and some soda, then makes haste to go to the phone and call the cops. Said cops then come in just a minute after that guy went up and ran out. Described his looks and all and they left. Two days later the newspapers claimed that a murderer of 3 had been cought. It was that very man.

**wowsmash**

What a moron. What idiot walks into a shop asking shelter from the cops.

**Freytag93**

baritowned wrote:
Both of these happened at the same store (a Hobbytown USA that offers gaming space and GW models):

-An 8 year-old girl walks up, in the middle of a game I was in, picks up my night scythe without saying a word, and proceeds to drop it on the floor and run away. Both cannons broke off.

-Playing a doubles game with myself and a friend on one side, and a store employee and another guy (we'll call him guy #2 for now) on the other. Guy #2 moves his dreadnought in the wrong direction, and the store employee flips out, packs up all of his minis, and leaves. Pretty sure he was on the clock.

Those are only two of the stories from that store, I have many others. Such as a guy in his mid-30's who honestly believed/ believes he is a vampire and threw temper tantrums like a toddler, and another guy in his mid-30's who was a habitual liar and claimed to be a deity in his family's religion.

I know this store, and I know this guy. This isn't even the worst thing he has done. He's one of the reasons that the gaming scene died at that store.

**Arbiter**

Had a LotR tournament a few months back and when it was over the game director came over worried, we asked him what was wrong, we found out someone had stolen all the prizes, the weird thing is, its a small LGS and the prizes were on a table in the center of the store labeled "PRIZES".

**master of ordinance**

Freytag93 wrote:
baritowned wrote:
Both of these happened at the same store (a Hobbytown USA that offers gaming space and GW models):

-An 8 year-old girl walks up, in the middle of a game I was in, picks up my night scythe without saying a word, and proceeds to drop it on the floor and run away. Both cannons broke off.

-Playing a doubles game with myself and a friend on one side, and a store employee and another guy (we'll call him guy #2 for now) on the other. Guy #2 moves his dreadnought in the wrong direction, and the store employee flips out, packs up all of his minis, and leaves. Pretty sure he was on the clock.

Those are only two of the stories from that store, I have many others. Such as a guy in his mid-30's who honestly believed/ believes he is a vampire and threw temper tantrums like a toddler, and another guy in his mid-30's who was a habitual liar and claimed to be a deity in his family's religion.

I know this store, and I know this guy. This isn't even the worst thing he has done. He's one of the reasons that the gaming scene died at that store.

Much as i hate too our curiosity demands more information.

**Locclo**

marv335 wrote:
I had a dwarf army chain panic and destroy itself.
A dragon landed on my flank, and the unit next to it failed its terror test, fled through the line of the army, every unit failed its test even with re-rolls from longbeards.
I lost pretty much the entire force in one turn.

This reminds me of my group's one failed attempt at doing Necromunda. I forget specifically how it works, but there are rules for fleeing the battlefield if you start doing poorly; essentially, you have to roll leadership tests after certain things happen, like gangers getting wounded/killed and the like. I think it also gets harder as more happens.

In a game I played, we spent something like 10-15 minutes setting everything up, getting our lists ready, and reading up on the rules for the mission. We're pumped, ready to go, I get the first turn and start going...

And with one lucky shot, I take down one of my opponent's gangers, he fails the leadership roll, and I win the game because his force has bugged out. 15 minutes to set up, 2 minutes to play the game.

**Mathieu Raymond**

Locclo wrote:
marv335 wrote:
I had a dwarf army chain panic and destroy itself.
A dragon landed on my flank, and the unit next to it failed its terror test, fled through the line of the army, every unit failed its test even with re-rolls from longbeards.
I lost pretty much the entire force in one turn.

This reminds me of my group's one failed attempt at doing Necromunda. I forget specifically how it works, but there are rules for fleeing the battlefield if you start doing poorly; essentially, you have to roll leadership tests after certain things happen, like gangers getting wounded/killed and the like. I think it also gets harder as more happens.

In a game I played, we spent something like 10-15 minutes setting everything up, getting our lists ready, and reading up on the rules for the mission. We're pumped, ready to go, I get the first turn and start going...

And with one lucky shot, I take down one of my opponent's gangers, he fails the leadership roll, and I win the game because his force has bugged out. 15 minutes to set up, 2 minutes to play the game.

That sounds like my first ten games of Infinity.

We used to live in an enormous apartment, and would set up monster games on the living room floor (it was one of those triple length rooms with folding mahogany partitions) and every damn time my (figuratively huge) cat would walk into the room, daintily avoid minis and terrain and take a nap somewhere on the battlefield.

**AfrikProphet**

Well, this didn't occur while I was gaming but rather while I was working at GW in New York City, The 4th/5th edition eldar had just come out and the place was pretty packed. Now we are located in the Village so there was a pretty diverse group of players in that day probably at least 2/3rds non-white and the staff that weekend consisted of me (African American) and two other guys (both Puerto Ricans). Then in come this Neo Nazi dude and his girlfriend, complete with stormfront tshirts, swastika and SS patches. He makes a B line right to the eldar and is there for a few minutes. I do my hello what do you play greeting and he freezes up, looks around and notices everyone else for the first time. I asked him what was in his army and he bugged out of the store. To which a round of low laughs resounded around the store.

**jmpnfool**

I was at a GW last summer and one of "those" guys was making nurgle happy, so the manager walked right up to him and sprayed him down with fabrise. I about hit the floor, that guy hasnt been in since!!

**wowsmash**

Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Locclo wrote:
marv335 wrote:
I had a dwarf army chain panic and destroy itself.
A dragon landed on my flank, and the unit next to it failed its terror test, fled through the line of the army, every unit failed its test even with re-rolls from longbeards.
I lost pretty much the entire force in one turn.

This reminds me of my group's one failed attempt at doing Necromunda. I forget specifically how it works, but there are rules for fleeing the battlefield if you start doing poorly; essentially, you have to roll leadership tests after certain things happen, like gangers getting wounded/killed and the like. I think it also gets harder as more happens.

In a game I played, we spent something like 10-15 minutes setting everything up, getting our lists ready, and reading up on the rules for the mission. We're pumped, ready to go, I get the first turn and start going...

And with one lucky shot, I take down one of my opponent's gangers, he fails the leadership roll, and I win the game because his force has bugged out. 15 minutes to set up, 2 minutes to play the game.

That sounds like my first ten games of Infinity.

We used to live in an enormous apartment, and would set up monster games on the living room floor (it was one of those triple length rooms with folding mahogany partitions) and every damn time my (figuratively huge) cat would walk into the room, daintily avoid minis and terrain and take a nap somewhere on the battlefield.

does that count as dangerous or impassable terrain?

**BallinWitStalin**

jmpnfool wrote:
I was at a GW last summer and one of "those" guys was making nurgle happy, so the manager walked right up to him and sprayed him down with fabrise. I about hit the floor, that guy hasnt been in since!!

That's the meanest thing I've ever heard of a GW employee doing. He honestly shouldn't have that job after that :/

If someone has problems with that stuff, you have a discrete conversation with him privately, not make a fool out of him in front of other people to get your jollies from causing harm to another human being.

That store manager is a bully, and it sucks that an otherwise awesome thread has that gakky story at the end of it to totally bum me out.

**Elector**

I have a friend who's really into Flames of War, and has an enormous collection, but focuses on his Germans. He regularly hosts, sets up, and organizes events as a Ranger for Battlefront, he's also won a few tournaments and got t-shirts, and is generally a really friendly guy to talk history with and have a game.

So around June 6th or so, we were hosting this big massive D-Day battle. Since most of us were brand-new to the game, he supplied pretty much both armies. To help advertise the game and the event, he came in with quick-play guides and he was wearing his army's t-shirt.

After a few trips in and out of the store to get things from his car, he realized why some passer-bys were giving him odd looks, he was wearing his Afrika korps shirt (it has 'Flames of War' on the front and a big Afrika korps symbol on the back, the palm tree with the swastika on it)

He wisely chose to wear his jacket on subsequent trips.

**Soldier0Fortune**

This may not measure up with some of the outstanding feats i've read on this thread so far haha but it gave me a laugh.

At my GW there's this young lad who comes in from time to time ( cant be older than 12 ) and loves to smack talk the other players and throw insults to such a degree that would get a grown man seriously injured in other places. One fine day he strolls in and gets to painting some bright red on his mini's . Halfway through he decides it's too early for him and proceeds to rub his left eye, granting him a lovely red stripe from eye to ear.

He then proceeds to go outside to spray some models with his can of black. It's almost empty you see, so it splutters and cuts off nearing the end of its lifespan. Puzzled by this stuttering of spray, he proceeds to check the spray nozel for any blockages or other fantasy cause as to why this is. He proceeds to give it another run. Boom. Right eye.

The end result is a small smack talking child with a speed stripe accross one eye and a racoon ring over the other.

It's the little things in life

**Bullockist**

That may only be a little thing SoldierOfFortune but it gave me one hell of a laugh.

**Soldier0Fortune**

Bullockist wrote:
That may only be a little thing SoldierOfFortune but it gave me one hell of a laugh.

Haha after being smack talked so hard by him in the one and only match we ever had , rest assured it made my day

**Skriker**

BallinWitStalin wrote:
That's the meanest thing I've ever heard of a GW employee doing. He honestly shouldn't have that job after that :/

If someone has problems with that stuff, you have a discrete conversation with him privately, not make a fool out of him in front of other people to get your jollies from causing harm to another human being.

That store manager is a bully, and it sucks that an otherwise awesome thread has that gakky story at the end of it to totally bum me out.

Yes it could just be that the store manager is a grade A dick, but since we only have one small part of the story I am not going to get too judgemental about it. For all we know the manager could have had that discrete discussion with the customer one or even multiple times and he kept coming back and doing nothing about it with other customers complaining and leaving because of it and not coming back. This febreze incident could have been the final straw for the store manager after trying to be a nice guy about it and trying to make it a better outcome. We just don't know.

Skriker