I keep a running list of times when people in my games earn inspiration and I figured you guys might have some fun stories on this topic too. Here are a few of mine that don't require a lot of context:
Player rolls his D20 and it falls into a nearby trash can. "Oh, I made a garbage roll."
The first time the group all just started roleplaying without any prompting from the DM and continued for a good 15 minutes. Everyone got inspiration.
Character drinks a magic beer with a chance of turning the drinker evil. He lets out an evil laugh--and then reveals he passed the check.
The changeling falls asleep, dreams of being a hedgehog, and her player describes her growing quills in her sleep.
A reporter asks the party where we live and our dwarf cleric responds, "First of all, I live in the moment."
Discussing a magical artifact, the orc barbarian says, with zero context, "It's probably a necklace that'll turn us into fish."
These are great,I will note,I have not used inspiration much (nothing wrong with it,I just forget,which may be a thing wrong with it.) but here are a few
-Casting silence to stop a bat demon,worked until the bad demon just left the area of the spell.
-A few cases of generic roleplaying here
-Two players having a in-character argument whether or not a nearby entity counts as a deity (the conclusion is rather complicated)
-Another few roleplaying ones here
-Beating what should have been a insta-kill encounter through clever planning (lot's of planning,we had nine backup plans,we did not even need one).
The best two instances I have are the same player. We were in a game using the Monster Girl Encyclopedia. The first inspiration he got was when we walked up to a chest and the cleric asked the DM, "Is it a mimic?" The DM said, "Is it?" So he tossed his mace on the ground next to it and told the rest of us to leave the room. We did and he started singing, "~WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN~". The DM calls for performance and he passes. The DM says, "Yeah, it's a mimic, and it works. She gives you her treasure." Low and behold, our cleric's mace was a mimic the whole time! So he got his weapon laid... two sessions later we walk through a portal to the astral realm, and upon looking at our Cleric we all see something very different that we can't quiet describe. His character panics as he realizes what's going on and he tries to pass himself off as someone else, because he was a Changeling THE WHOLE TIME! It had never come up, and he had never hinted at being able to take on a new shape before... but he had commented a few times before about trying to become king, if only we'd kill the king. We just thought he was a tyrant.
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I keep a running list of times when people in my games earn inspiration and I figured you guys might have some fun stories on this topic too. Here are a few of mine that don't require a lot of context:
These are great,I will note,I have not used inspiration much (nothing wrong with it,I just forget,which may be a thing wrong with it.) but here are a few
-Casting silence to stop a bat demon,worked until the bad demon just left the area of the spell.
-A few cases of generic roleplaying here
-Two players having a in-character argument whether or not a nearby entity counts as a deity (the conclusion is rather complicated)
-Another few roleplaying ones here
-Beating what should have been a insta-kill encounter through clever planning (lot's of planning,we had nine backup plans,we did not even need one).
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The best two instances I have are the same player. We were in a game using the Monster Girl Encyclopedia. The first inspiration he got was when we walked up to a chest and the cleric asked the DM, "Is it a mimic?" The DM said, "Is it?" So he tossed his mace on the ground next to it and told the rest of us to leave the room. We did and he started singing, "~WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN~". The DM calls for performance and he passes. The DM says, "Yeah, it's a mimic, and it works. She gives you her treasure." Low and behold, our cleric's mace was a mimic the whole time! So he got his weapon laid... two sessions later we walk through a portal to the astral realm, and upon looking at our Cleric we all see something very different that we can't quiet describe. His character panics as he realizes what's going on and he tries to pass himself off as someone else, because he was a Changeling THE WHOLE TIME! It had never come up, and he had never hinted at being able to take on a new shape before... but he had commented a few times before about trying to become king, if only we'd kill the king. We just thought he was a tyrant.