What's the worst your party or character has ever been tricked, scammed, or swindled?

What's the worst your party or character has ever been tricked, scammed, or swindled?

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Another PC tricked me into committing domestic terrorism and mass murder. Asshole.

We were tricked into doing good deeds while playing an evil party
Long story short, a wizard pranked us, told us to spread these magically enhanced flowers everywhere, saying it would have an effect that we would enjoy.
The effect was that the flowers popped and released its scent 10x stronger.
In retrospective we should have probably made a point of seeing what the magical effect was before committing.
Still was fun, the litch in disguise was near one and had the smell for a couple days and we made sure he remembered that.

>party comes across a ruined caravan
>no loot
>one small child survived
>its an elf boy who ran off into the woods during the attack and hid
>party basically adopts him and makes him the mascot
>fun times cause the kids 2 nose fulls of coke-tier optimistic and go get'em once he got over the tragedy
>after awhile we get to this huge city
>we had summons from the local ruler to come kill some ancient evil or at least that's the rumors
>get stopped at the city gate
>guards say they can't let us in we have to prove ourselves first
>there's a group of goblin bandits turning over every trade caravan that comes through and we have to get rid of them
>okay?
>as we're leaving get stopped by the now frantic and angry guards
>what the hell do we think we're doing?
>we can't just take a kid into a dangerous fight what kind of irresponsible idiots are we?
>group never thought of this before
>guard says the kid can stay with them until we get back theres plenty of room at the barracks and maybe he'll get to see the city or some traveling troupe as they come through
>group consensus says okay
>head out towards the location of the attacks
>no goblins anywhere
>keep searching
>find a goblin mine but it's a ways from where we were supposed to be
>kill them anyway just in case
>we get back to the city and ask the new guards about our kid and tell them how we passed the rulers test
>what kid what test?
>rulers been waiting for your asses come along
>wait where's Tony
>who's Tony?
>the kid we left with you asshats the little elf kid
>what kid?
>turns out it's common for guards to get bribed by slum dwellers for their uniform and timeslot so they can turnover travelers
>search the entire city
>gets excessive so the dm finally tells us we won't find him
>he can't keep doing that voice it's killing his throat
>never saw tony again
>the paladin actually cries

Goddamned herbalist offered me tea but it was a witch! WITCH TEA! I got kidnapped after I blacked out because of the poison. It took like a whole session to get back to town, and two more to find the witch again so we could murder her. And after all that, we found A witch hut, and the witch inside turned into a giant organ monster and we almost died twice. we don't even know if it was the right witch!

Witches, man.

The party infiltrated a brothel by signing up as employees, then got mind controlled into actually doing some work when they were weaseling their way out of it. The PCs were freshly-married virgins.

This was their uniform.

>"If you destroy these five scrolls that are hidden all over the place, you will stop a secret society from unleashing a super-powerful dragon to destroy everything."
>"Why should we trust you, blue-skinned adonis?"
>"Because that last guy you talked to is a disingenuous bastard who is working towards the end I just mentioned, and will betray you once you give him the scrolls."
>"Fair enough."
The scrolls were seals keeping the Antichrist, whose shadow they were talking to, at bay.
They didn't figure out something was wrong until the fourth, even though each time they busted one, souls would come screaming out, an earthquake would occur (stronger than the last), and a lesser demon or angel would show up and try to stop them. Nor did they think on how it was odd that their blue adonis 'friend' kept on looking less human each time he showed up to point them to the next scroll.
They had been dealing with the AntiChrist's astral projection the entire time.
The revelation drove one character temporarily insane.
And then some asshole space nazi smashed the last scroll in combat with them.

Splebs!

>things that didn't happen

I assure you, this is a central plot point in an ongoing game.

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>he can't keep doing that voice it's killing his throat
I would punch your GM in the throat

I was tricked into a financially devastating bidding war when I was buying slaves, so I could free them. Turns out, both the seller and the bidder were in on the con, and I was the mark.

How do you trick someone into doing that? Did you unknowingly poison a water supply or something?

Sounds hot

Can you give more lewd details, pretty please?

Their first customer was a foxgirl (male), who was a noble, and also a virgin. He wanted a threesome.

Do you have logs?

Yes.

Could you share them here?

Can you people keep in your pants for ONE (1) thread?

(Didn't mean to reply to just one of you in particular)

We've been smeckledorfed!

You do know you don't have to look at the spoilers right?

And hiding posts is always an option.

No.

This was their second customer, who also wanted a threesome.

You do know going back to /d/ is always an option right?

>Playing a character is killing my throat
>I'll try sending the party on a wild goose chase and have the child kidnapped by slum dwellers followed by never letting them retrieve him. That's a good trick.


What the fuck is wrong with your DM? Even if he was dead set on removing the kid from the group, what, he couldn't have written in a loving family to adopt him?

I'm the forever GM, but I once "tricked" the players into assembling a magical statue for an evil mage so that he could transfer his consciousness into it and become even more powerful.

I put tricked in quotations because it was a transparently thin ploy that I never expected to work for a minute, and I was aghast that they actually fell for it. Evil Wizard Dude had soul-linked himself to everyone in a random village they wandered across so if he died, everyone in the village died. This also made most of the villagers act like possessed idiots, and a few of the people (ones with class levels) were able to retain their minds. It was "supposed" to be a kind of hostage situation, with them trying to finagle him into releasing the spell without killing anyone and then striking, and doing as little of his bidding as they could get away with.

Instead, what happened is they stumbled across one of the completely possessed moron-people, who happily exclaimed how the wizard sent away all the militia to combat the evil horned butterfly menace and how he took over protection of the place. People were wallowing in garbage, but they assured them it was all right. They went to the mayor, who talked about how great their new "guardian" was, and how they were looking for these statue pieces. When the few people who had retained their minds tried to talk to the PCs, possessed-mayor told them to forget about those guys, you have a few discontented troublemakers in every town.

Throughout it all, I put emphasis on the wrong syllables whenever one of the possessed villagers talked, an attempt at subliminal reinforcement that something was very wrong. It did not work.

Have you tried not playing D&D?

In our dark heresy game my pc got tricked by one of her closest confidants into helping her summon a deamon.. she struck mid mission after taking the key we were gathering from angry warp ghosts.

We beat her into a pulp and the deamon back into the warp (with the help of a titan) ..She however had some freaky unexplained power since she was like reknitting her grevious wounds when we fled into the titan. It took alot of convincing and the fact she immidiately tried to kill me after summoning to not be executed by my team mates. Now we are hunting her..when the haitus stops..

It might be a little my fault she had a servitor nun army tho..

Did they all die?

I'm currently running a game where my players are being asked to find the 7 pieces of a wish making star and restore it to one piece before the big bad evil team gets it. One of the members of the big bad evil team knows how to mimic the appearance of other PCs and NPCs perfectly unless detected.
They've been checking up on the sage who's been giving them their task every time they get it except for just recently when he was "out on business". They're on their way to getting the last one soon, and the sage will be back like he said he would.
Watch my players hand over the last piece of this wishing star to the imposter sage I put up for them while the real sage got kidnapped.

No, they had backup for his first form (Seven headed beast), then absolutely demolished his Reincarnated form in the span of three turns. Damage on the final hit was something like six times his max life.

High-level Anima, man. It's fucking crazy.

Ask the FBI.

Tricked my older brother into selling a +2 magic longsword to a Gnome shopkeep for 15 gold because he failed his spellcraft roll and thught my description of "extremely sharp" was just flavor

That's pretty great
Watch it get ruined cause one of them is in this thread right now

You can go full Anders
>Never go full Anders

What do you mean? Play the world's only other RPG, pathfinder? I don't know user

Not him but my group did that in unknown armies
>Have a character that is literally retarded with retard strength
>Whenever we want him to do something we just lie to him

>Hey those guys over there called you a pussy
>Proceeds to murder half a dozen people with his bare hands and some chairs

>Need to throw a pipe bomb at something
>I bet you can't hit that car with this thing

Ahh Chad Thundercock he was one hell of a character.

>he can't keep doing that voice it's killing his throat
>never saw tony again
Made me laugh, but your GM is a bit of an ass

Aw, common. Not trying to be an edge lord but not all stories need a happy ending and if they did you would't have this story. Isn't that better than another cliché? Also its a fantasy, Tony not dead until he's forgotten. Reoccurring characters, crossovers, catchup episodes, play him, make porn etc.