Hey there folks. What are the most ridiculous plans that you or your players have come up with during a campaign?

Hey lets go steal that ship and be pirates!

Great idea, lets do it.

DM: Do any of you know how to sail a ship? Or even a row boat?

Lets just say it took longer to move the ship away from the dock than it took to kill the guards. Inside 4 hours it was beached a half mile away. It was the talk of the local bars for the next 100 years. the story spread far in that world.

Me: [reading out the description of the room full of goblins/what have you]

My Ranger: Hey so is there a giant heavy chandelier in this room?

Me, who's seen Errol Flynn movies before: Yes, please continue.

Me: The dragon  is retreating--

My Ranger: No, my throwing axe is still stuck in the dragon, I'm still going to fight it. I don't want to lose my axe.

Me: Uh... it is airborne right now, but you can certainly try?

Me: And which wolf are you targeting?

My Ranger: Is one of them close to the ledge?

Me: Yyyesss...

My Ranger: I would like to kick that one over into the pit then.

Somehow, every single one of these worked. Brunhilde the dwarven ranger made EVERY decision like her goal was to look cool or die trying, and by the gods did she look cool.

There's been a few.

Playing as the barbarian, I used a magically enchanted sword (which explosively rebuffed anyone who touched it) to launch myself through a water elemental, because I didn't have any ranged weapons and wanted to hit it!

In the same fight, I provoked it to attack the boat I was on so that it would catapult me at it, much to the dismay of the other PC and her panther who were also on the boat

In another fight we combined grease and firebolt to make a chip-pan fire (DM allowed it) and then poured water on it, which killed nearly everyone.

In one game another player decided to jump on the moth-man-monster, which promptly took flight. Luckily for her, I had featherfall!

In another game I was DMing, the players were tasked with collecting the breath of a Gorgon. There were 2 of the beasts in the valley, and they had a Windbladder (a homebrew magic item which sucks up the air around it when activated, allowing them to catch the breath). It was about round 2 of combat that they remembered that they weren't just supposed to be killing them and scrambled to work out some tactics, get the windbladder set up, and so on - it was a good lesson in planning ahead for players so used to killing everything they see!

We are a level 4 party. 3 players. I am a fighter. We are in the middle of a desert. the Dm says "you see something that looks like a medium sized zombie." Easy prey says the dwarven monk. I approach and attack it with my fists. Dice are rolled, the dm says "you do strike it but it is unharmed".  Lol I approach it too and strike with my greatsword. "You strike but you deal no damage". The ranger goes "Let me try too" attacks, misses. The zombie attacks. 4 damage Cloud you are poisoned! "What are we gonna do??" DM: Stoneskin guys, on the zombie not a big thing! And then the idea comes to me. "Guys I have a +1 fire longword I looted off a corpse yesterday. It deals 1d6 fire damage. All we have to do is surround the zombie, grapple it and pass the sword around for three attacks each round!" And so we did. And we won.

I once had a party member shove a dragon off a cliff which obviously doesn't really hurt it in any way. So I decided to double down and jumped on it and grappled it 500 ft the base of the cliff. I died but so did the dragon. I have zero complaints haha.

I'm in the earlier stages of Lost Mines of Phandelver with one other player and one DM. My character I decided would be a slightly diabolical crazy person. Her name is Jade in the campaign, she's a fighter. The other player is named Kyra (in the game) and I cannot remember what her class was. Jade is a Tiefling/Human thingy I kinda forced through my DM. ANYHOO, since Jade was acting too insane for her own good, Kyra knocked her out and dragged her to Phandalin on the ox cart. So then Kyra brought Jade to a local inn and got a room. When Jade woke up, she threw her great axe through the roof, making a large hole. Next minute, the bad guys are after us and Jade says "GET IN THE HOLE QUICKLY THEN WE CAN SLIDE DOWN THE ROOF AND GET OUTTA THIS TOWN!" So with goblins chasing us with jump through the hole in the roof of the inn room and bust onto the roof, making a quick getaway.  Gosh this is the craziest campaign I've ever been in. Earlier on the game, at the very beginning, when Jade entered the tavern and made the deal with the man, she quickly lopped off his arm straight after for no reason (Jade has some issues, but I thought added a tiny bit of character into the game wouldn't hurt.) Then I had the guards on Jade and Kyra so after I got handcuffed Kyra took the blame for me but then I took the blame for her then we did it back and forth so much we confused the guards and made a getaway. In between both of those hilarious situations, as soon as Jade discovered the exploding mice in the back of the wagon, she lopped off all their heads except one   and kept it as her pet naming it Bertie. Please don't spoil any of the campaign if you have played The Lost Mines of Phandelver before cuz I'm really early in not he game thank youuu also vote for me or if you are a cult member make an alliance with the Cult of Nerds and Dorks please so we can take down Yvonne (Spider Queen Yvonne)!

During a One shot of zombie apocalypse    ..

Stanwick( me) vincent and Babs trying to escape the region thats locked down after a virus broke out creating zombies

Party had obtained a Miltary truck and were heading to docks to escape the area via boat. only thing standing in the way is a horde of 100's of zombies.... Stanwick's (Me) plan was to MIcheal Bay the truck into the horde as distraction and killing.

Micheal Bayying is making the biggest explosion possible.

So using a petrol can and a rag as fuse , use the petrol can to hold down the accelrator, and letting the truck go into the horde , once fuse hits petrol KABOOM!  ,,, bit more delayed than expected .

but the noise drew attetion to where the truck started as well as some poor stealthing rolls party soon surrounded by Zombies and all are killed.

End of session.

Descend into the Undermountain.

Proceed to waterboard Halaster Blackcloak until he converts to the faith of Tyr.

No, I don’t know how we arrived at that plan.

Have the thief run straight at a red dragon, and poke it's eyes out... at level 3.

In a whole different post apocalyptic WW3 world game our little party decided to stop a horse drawn wagon by firing a grenade at it.

We chose to fire at the wagon at maximum range just knowing we would miss and fall short but the explosion should stop the wagon and turn it around.

Made the mistake of saying we were aiming at the wagon. Never trust the dice.

We rolled that natural 100 and bounced the grenade right into the wagon. Even killed the horses. Did not save the day that day.