So our campaign features a Half-Gnoll Paladin with a NEGATIVE Charisma bonus, and my Halfling Rogue with very low hit points and a negative strength modifier.

We have to climb a rough rock wall... easy enough, except my negative mods make any Athletics checks quite perilous, and a fall could kill me easily.

The idea? Let's tie the halfling to the half-gnoll! He's strong!

The GM asks: Who's tying the rope?

The half-gnoll points at the Tiefling Mage, and says, "He's good at tying knots." Now, earlier in the campaign, he tried to tie a knot, and rolled a 4. Luckily, nothing went wrong.

The half-gnoll rolls to persuade the Tiefling to handle the knot-tying, and rolls an 18... sounds like a good idea! The Tiefling rolls to tie me on...

natural 1.

Thankfully, I fall out of the harness before he even starts climbing.

LATER

We encounter a trap room filled with iron spheres... unfortunately, they can't be removed from the dungeon. They just disappear from our packs.

The three soldiery-types (one of which is the half-gnoll paladin) are heading back to their garrison, where they're confronted by the lieutenant, accusing them of going AWOL (which they did).

They profess that they everything's fine, they were doing some private enterprise, nobody's hurt.

The Half-Gnoll, who was SO looking forward to playing with his iron spheres (throw the ball! throw the ball!), mournfully says, "I lost my balls."

GM: "I thought you said nobody got hurt!"