August 10: What was the largest in-game surprise you have experienced?
I'll go back about twenty plus years ago for this one. It may be a standard story that you've played through before, I have no way of knowing, but if so just skip to the last paragraph.
My good friend, Don Tibbitts ran a session of AD&D for me and our mutual friend James R Howard--look for them on Facebook. Our characters ran into a sad Ogre sitting on an old tree stump. He was forlorn and in no mood for a fight, in fact he wanted to hire us to do a favor for him. Nasty little goblins showed up in the middle of the night and quickly stole his club and all of his treasure. He could not pursue them because they were able to sneak into small places that he simply couldn't get into, and he had no weapon to fight them with in any case. If we would take the job and bring his treasure back, he would split half of his gold with us. We took the job, and long story short we were able to get the treasure chest and the club back to its proper owner. The ogre thanked us, promptly used the club to break the lock off of the chest and then opened it up. He pulled an enormous set of false teeth from the chest and inserted them into his mouth. He then reached in and pulled out his one gold coin and bit it in half. He gave the 1/2 GP to the two of us along with his undying gratitude for our help. SURPRISE!
So, it turned out to be a one shot game for the pair of us. I've run a similar scenario a few times, and I'm surprised that nobody has ever picked up on what is about to happen. If you want to try I would suggest to keep it short and funny, so that the players don't get upset for 'wasting' time on the joke. Don Tibbitts is currently all about the board games and he has a YouTube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5v8uRCMdzHXgEOZC4rtbXg
A lot of funny playthroughs and unboxings, but no too many viewers. Give him a look.
James R. Howard is a freelance comic artist that you guys may also enjoy:
https://www.facebook.com/Frankenart-animation-275284909179829/?fref=ts
Enough of that I'm just showing the 14 or so of you who have read my stuff that these people are real. :)
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