I don't know about "cool", but yesterday my Wednesday night group produced one of the most bizarre combats I have ever refereed; to cut a long story short, it took place in the front hall of a large mansion, between some very strangely behaved but quite aggressive household staff, and the non-combat-orientated PCs - at least till the more fighting-orientated types turned up to rescue them - and involved one or all of the following features:
- enemy combatants consisting of a butler, a poker-wielding maid, and a gardener toting a spade (for some reason they believed him to be completely deadly, though it was the maid who did all of the damage).
- the butler at one point ignoring the fight to attempt to clear up a smashed vase using a dustpan and brush.
- one character who had unwisely sampled a local delicacy in the knowledge that it might be psychotropic, and was just beginning to feel the effects*
- use of the following objects as impromptu weapons: a large vase, several paintings, and an upright vacuum cleaner*
- a character attempting to use a loaded shotgun as a cudgel, and fumbling. Fortunately, this was the character with the Dumb Luck feat, so they didn't actually fumble, otherwise things might have got messy.
- another character fumbling whilst firing a carbine into melee*. Fortunately the PC they shot was the one wearing cloth armour...
- the iterative flanking line on the stairs
- the wanton destruction of a stuffed moose head
Meanwhile, the remaining party member has discovered a dead guy in the gazebo, dressed like a ninja except for the pair of shears embedded in his chest, and they all have yet to discover the consequences of the ludicrously transparent lie they told a neighbouring farmer they met on the way to the mansion.
Oh, and so far they've only explored one room of a large three-storey building.
* same person, funnily enough
