Farewell
Senior Member
Sadly, I can relate to this. Usually the characters are built for fighting or for one specific area and follow with "I hope the other PCs have useful skills."Originally Posted by Chimpira
Having stated this, in the only high-speed PBeM game I'm in (I'm a player in five, only one of which posts daily) my PC has 62 points in noncombat skills (34 in combat related), most of which deal with his job. Out of 5 KS's, not one is "Supers" or even an AK.
Good-bye, and thanks for all the fish.
Putting the Punk back in!
Super Moderator
In a 7th Seas game my wife was running, I was playing a Cap'n Nick, captain of the dread pirate ship The Skull and the Rose. We raided a Montaigne ship and were in the process of mopping up the defenders when my character saw a lovely Montaigne noblewoman carrying a chest and running towards one of the lifeboats.
Cap'n Nick leapt to intercept her, brandished his sword, and said, "Not so fast, my dear. I'd like to take a better look at your chest. Also, I want to see what's in that box."
Bill.
Star-Spangled Joiner
Obsessed Member
...And hey, what are you carrying?In a 7th Seas game my wife was running, I was playing a Cap'n Nick, captain of the dread pirate ship The Skull and the Rose. We raided a Montaigne ship and were in the process of mopping up the defenders when my character saw a lovely Montaigne noblewoman carrying a chest and running towards one of the lifeboats.
Cap'n Nick leapt to intercept her, brandished his sword, and said, "Not so fast, my dear. I'd like to take a better look at your chest. Also, I want to see what's in that box."
Bill.
"See it's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess, it's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs." - Jon Stewart
2009: Else Earth Gods of Olympus
Project 2006:
DC/Marvel Write up compilation
Project 2004:
Hero A Day Thread
Cosmically Powerful Superhero
Member
groan
Competent Normal
Junior Member
It is the start of a new Champions campaign. One of the players is determined that the superhero name he comes up with cannot be mocked in any way. As his character has the delusion that he is a Jedi a certain amount of mocking is inevitable and he is determined that it should not be added to. He has spent about 25 minutes on the phone discussing names that are mock-proof. The other players have been told his quest for a name that cannot be mocked so the challenge is on. He announces his hero name will be Vornar.
Two seconds later 'Vornar the Porn Star' had been created and the player was looking for a new name.
Zealot
Member
GM: You recognize the symbol on the priestess clothing, she worships the drow god of...(cue evil music)...vengenace and suffering.
Me: I was hoping for rainbows and kittens.
First in my class here at MIT / Got skills, I’m a champion at D&D / MC Escher - that’s my favorite MC / Keep your 40, I’ll just have an Earl Grey tea
Only question I / Ever thought was hard / Was do I like Kirk / Or do I like Picard
Think I’m just too white and nerdy
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Weird Al Yankovic, White and Nerdy
Mostly Harmless
Super Moderator
One of my players was notorious for naming chartacters if their player didn't come up with a good codename fast enough. (This gave us, among others, "Mgobo, the Human Taffy" - I still don't know where the 'mgobo' part came from). A new player was warned about this. She had a mystical sword that, when activated, generated armor and some other powers. About halfway through her first session, they sent her in to talk to the villan hunting the team figuring he wouldn't know her and she could get close. He asked her to identify herself, and she told him "My name is... Excalibabe!!"
I'm not /evil/, I'm /differently motivated/...
Putting the Punk back in!
Super Moderator
Man, you can't say things like that to gamers! "Don't mock me!" is a sure invitation to be mocked.
Star-Spangled Joiner
Obsessed Member
Paradoxically enough, so is "Mock Me."Man, you can't say things like that to gamers! "Don't mock me!" is a sure invitation to be mocked.
"See it's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess, it's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs." - Jon Stewart
2009: Else Earth Gods of Olympus
Project 2006:
DC/Marvel Write up compilation
Project 2004:
Hero A Day Thread
Still Powered Up!
Junior Member
Why are you black and white? What happened to the color Enforcer?
Please tell all men
That Peace is Good.
That's all
That need be understood. -T. Geisel 12/23/55
Star-Spangled Joiner
Obsessed Member
Changed Avatars a few months ago?
I am so cool I absorb color.
"See it's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess, it's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs." - Jon Stewart
2009: Else Earth Gods of Olympus
Project 2006:
DC/Marvel Write up compilation
Project 2004:
Hero A Day Thread
Esper Weapon
Obsessed Member
Enforcer is so cool, you can keep a side of beef inside of him for a month!
Michael Surbrook
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"Provide me with ships or proper sails for the celestial atmosphere and there will be men there, too, who do not fear the appalling distance."
Johannes Kepler
High Powered Superhero
Member
Amongst gamers, simple existance is a sure invitation to mockery...
Grant Morrison on Batman: "I love the fact that you can delve into a fictional character like this and get so much depth and so much history. He's kind of alive. He's been around longer than me and he'll be around when I'm long gone, so he's kind of more real than me."
John Oates Mustache
Member
From another player:
"Millia, please understand. I am a liar, a blackguard and a scoundrel, and probably a few other words that escape me at the moment. Allow me to play to my strengths."
Hero System is not a religion. It gives you the tools to build a religion. -Lord Liaden
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I need to define my worth by the amount of rep points I have on an obscure board frequented by people I have never seen nor met. -Catacomb
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That, my friends, is the problem with America. Political discourse is not so much held to a lower standard as it has its head forced into a bucket of diarrhea until it drowns. -Querysphinx
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Double Millennial Master
Member
A friend of mine is coming into town and actually offered to GM. I told him about others who would like in on the game. His response...
"The more the merrier. It’s been a while since I ran a large-scale session, but I’m up for it. What characters are they likely to play, and do you have a quick overview of each one so I have some idea how to kill them?"
Levels of RPG Development
(With special thanks to Zornwil)
Axioms: The sacrosanct core assumptions of the game.
Mechanics: The basic functional building blocks derived from the axioms.
Game Rules: The specific and variable application of Mechanics that define the play of the game.
Play Experience: The resulting behaviors of play and shared imaginary event unique to each group.
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