Your group's jokes.

A year or so ago, my Star Wars d6 characters hired a bunch of goons for an ambush. The lookout happened to be a Sullustean, and his attempt at stealth included a Not-So-Innocent Whistle.

Ever since, when stealth is mentioned in any of our games, a mention of "whistling a Sullustean tune" soon follows.

My World Wide Wrestling RPG group has decided the most lethal and terrifying move of all is the immortal rest hold.

It kills zeros of people every year. Don't joke about it.

• All sneaking is done while humming With Catlike Tread
• Breaking people you don't like's chairs
• "Crack is whack, kids."
• "Playing Pokemon" - Refers to a Starfinder character's habit of carrying as many pistols with different effects as she could and swapping them out to fit the situation
• Snake on Rollerskates - Any difficult enemy who relies on continually staying out of reach when fighting

Edited by Murataku on Jul 19th 2020 at 9:14:28 PM

The phrase "Pretty hot in here" means people are going to die. The first two times it was an actual codeword during an assassination attempt, the third time they were just in a sauna at a high class spa. Noone but them left that sauna alive...

I'm playing Traveller 5 in a Spinward Marches campaign. We make dog jokes about Vargr all the time, as well as "No Furries" about hiring them in general.

And the big action sequence was shooting down a Corsair of them in our last session.

Edited by MrThomps on Nov 7th 2020 at 9:29:56 AM

One particular player's characters attempting to intimidate inanimate objects. Then some coincidence occurs that makes him think he did intimidate it successfully into doing what he wanted.

Because I GM in a very cinematic style, we've joked long that we're actually roleplaying a weekly TV-show. There are plenty of meta-asides, including talk of production details and such. The most ongoing joke has concerned whenever players who were not available last time get to pretend that they actually were involved in last chapter's events, with a re-cap that involves crappy insert-shots of the previously absent character's face.

"Otto, that's a trustworthy name." - after the helpful priest of Morr (named Otto) turned out to be the Big Bad of our last campaign, Ottos being evil kinda become a new joke in our group.

"Worship the vulture." - in one of the first sessions of our last campaign, a vulture flying overhead turned out to be some kind of harbinger of Tzeentch, granting a reroll in exchange for Corruption Points. We kinda ran with vulture being Tzeentch's symbol.

We have a similar running gag, with people even trying to figure out what would be the opening intro of this hypothetical tv show (we sort of settled on The Pirates for Sail version of The Derelict).

One that is amazingly nonsensical is "Invisible Goblins". In a previous table I had a character who was a insane Artificer who thought gravity didn't exist and the thing keeping us tethered to the ground are invisible goblins (which he'd always shout maniacally). Invisible goblins thus become a topic whenever gravity or goblins are discussed.

Even though we have unfortunately not played for several years, one of my original players has been non-stop pitching a Christmas-episode, so that we get to simulate a true shark-jumping moment.

We recently went back to Star Wars d20, and by now "Darth Sidious murdered chancellor Palpatine and was cut down by a Jedi master" is always a good source of chuckle among the players.

(NOT among the characters, who depending on which, either wholly believe the official story or are dead serious about the necessity of this half-truth)

The dead serious narrativistic session we had yesterday reminded me of one more running gag we have:

The meat pie mafia. Basically, a clan of cannibalistic halflings running a regular Sweeney Todd business, making meat pies out of people.

"I REFUSE TO LET YOU TAKE PITY ON ME!"

For context, I had my players going through a low level dungeon. They had nearly died last session, so I decided to make it puzzle focused. The first puzzle was a door that would only open if you answered a riddle correctly. After that was a pit that teleported you outside to the now closed door, which my brother (Dragonborn Paladin) fell victim to. While the rest of the part proceeded, he spent the rest of the session asking riddles to open the door back up. I offered him a freebie, the other players found a switch that deactivated the door trap, and so on. He wouldn't have it. He was going to answer a riddle correctly, or die trying.

Context: the party is attacked by a sounder of giant boars. They've been made slightly more aggressive than normal by the presence of a nearby porc garou, but are otherwise normal giant boars. Nevertheless, when the encounter is over, they decide they want to examine the boars' corpses to see if they can learn anything about them. One poor Investigation roll later:

"They appear to be made out of some sort of meat."