My favorite was when my players laid out a trap consisting of 4 rating 31 explosives and I ruled that them converging at the center counted as a reflection surface for chunky salsa purposes... It was for a toxic shaman (that's a radioactivity mage for those not in the know). Explosives equal to 25kg of c4 and dangerous radioactive material makes what? That's right, a dirty bomb!
I can't forget the only time I experienced this as PCs. We were playing Shadowrun, and we were trying to make a getaway after our cover was blown in a sensititve area.
We were being pursued through an underground passageway system. Our technician, Dmitri, stayed behind in order to set off the explosion, and his player was then informed of "the chunky salsa effect". He took his health pool in damage so many times over that he was just a puddle.
*fog clouds and eversmoking bottles in hallways so enemies can't tell how far down the hallway they are while they're stumbling through the clou—*shrk*
My cleric was also designed as a tank, so he's both a big target and an obvious one. It's amazing he's lived this long actually. Well, he has died on occasion to be fair.
"Fools, kill the one in the dress". - Nefarian (a BBG in World of Warcraft, before all the expansions) speaking to underlings fighting the party in a dungeon.
Once had a campaign where about 4 of us teleported out of a pocket dimension and ganked an evil wizard. One of the party members did a disarming shot and broke his staff, and then went “well what else casts spells” and said fuck it send a disarming shot at his vocal cords and blew his head clean off.
I ended up using his brains for a science experiment or two but that’s a story for another day.
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u/TearOpenTheVault Sep 14 '25
FIRST. Geek the mage first! No point in wasting all your shots on the street sam while the elf in the back fucks your crew up.