Don't you hate it when...

 

• Your ring of free action gets stuck on your finger.
• Your Bucknard's Everfull Purse starts producing only chocolate coins.
• The case holding your chime of opening jams shut.
• Your ring of swimming rusts.
• Your necklace of adaptation doesn't fit.
• Your wings of flying start molting.
• You forget where you left your gem of insight.
• Your ring of blinking has the command word of "Cliff".
• Your robe of eyes needs glasses.
• You can't find your cloak of elvenkind.
• Your ring of invisibility just vanishes one day.
• Your gloves of missile snaring steal all of your +3 arrows.
• You cut yourself on your periapt of health.
• Your plate mail of etherealness goes on a trip without you.
• Your sheet of smallness shrinks in the wash.
• Your manual of stealthy pilfering is stolen.
• Your potion of gaseous form evaporates.
• You notice your ring of sustenance is losing weight.
• Your rod of passage gets caught in the door all the time.
• Your Holy Avenger converts.
• Your staff of the woodlands catches the blight.
• You trip over your manual of quickness of action.
• Your wand of negation stops working.
• Your amulet of proof against detection and location is nowhere to be found.
• Your gem of seeing turns opaque.
• Your staff of withering wilts.
• Your cloak of displacement only projects your image straight UP.
• You find your Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments are water-colors.
• Your rope of entaglement gets a snarl.
• Your pipes of the sewers back up.
• You lose your luck blade in a poker game.
• That tavern hobo you've been insulting turns out to be a Hierophant Druid {remember hierophant druids?}
• Your assassin {remember assassins?} tiptoes around the corner... Right into the middle of a Paladin's association meeting.
• You realize that those aren't skeletons racing at you, they're Githyanki.
• You realize that those aren't Githyanki racing at you, they're liches.
• Your character says "Orcus" for kicks, and the DM rolls a 04%.
• The DM rolls positive for a wandering monster, and turns to the "D" section in his Monster Manual {Devils, Demons, Dragons, Demodands, Daemons, Dinosaurs...}
• You realize that the halflings you offered to help weren't fighting "th-the rats," but "the Tarrasque."
• Your new DM reassures you that HIS copy of Deities and Demigods has the Cthulhu Mythos in it.
• You remember too late why that albino with the black sword sounded familiar.