Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

**MilkmanDan** · Apr 24th, '03, 05:32 AM

"You can run around in hot pants for only so long before some interdimensional God of Evil begins to come after you. It's just the way the world works."

**Captain Obvious** · Apr 24th, '03, 05:50 AM

Originally posted by death tribble
I remember one player saying he was going to use this phase to crap himself.

Crapping yourself is a 0-phase action, isn't it?

**RDU Neil** · Apr 24th, '03, 05:56 AM

A powerful, flying brick... Tachyon... who had recently been mind controlled by the player charcter Locke (can't remember why... some small thing, actually) was asked how he feels. Tachyon blinks, and stammers, "Cats! I loved Cats! I'll see it again and again!" (Perfectly role played by Matt... who then broke into song with Rum Tum Tugger!)

We fell about the room. Took 20 minutes to get back to the game, and it became the catch phrase. "How do you know Locke has been here?" Glazed looks all around, and everyone mutters, "Cats! I loved Cats! I'll see it again, and again!"

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One of the last "all nighters" we ever pulled... back in '93... group of eight or nine players, with two GMs switching off between two simultaneous battles going on in separate parts of the city. Jim has been asleed for a good half hour at this point, as it's like 4:30 am and we've been playing since 7:00 pm. There is a lull in the talking for a moment, and suddenly Jim's head snaps up from the table eyes still closed, drooling, face slack with sleep and gasps, "I'm so WIRED!" and then his head slams back down to the table... out like a light.

We cried.

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During a big invasion of a VIPER base, the heavy hitters went to the lowest level to engage in battle with the big baddies. One hero, Vengeance, a master of sword and gun, stayed behind on the floor above, to distract and hold off all the agents. He spent his entire combat in or near the elevator shaft, throwing smoke bombs, shooting and beating up agents. He'd just taken one of their M-203s and launched several concussion grenades back down the hall, out of his smoke cloud. He stood there laughing, hearing the explosions and screams... when suddenly three grenades came "thunk, plunk, tink, rollllll" right back INTO his now fading smoke cloud. The troops had been afraid to fire into their own guys up to that point. Vengeance makes a mad dash for the open elevator shaft, makes a brilliant acrobatics roll, and swings up the ladder, just above the open door, so the explosion goes under him. Seconds pass... smoke clears, and I describe the remaining agents poking their heads up to look at the devastated hallway, littered with the bodies of their comrades, low fires burning... no sign of Vengeance.
A couple of them mutter... "Man! Who WAS that guy?" when Vengeance (perfectly timed by Paul) calls out "Hey! Send more guys! I'm getting bored here!"

The whole play group let out a cheer at that one, it was such a perfectly timed, in character line. Even though he didn't declare it as such... I made it a Presence Attack against the agents. Most ran... the others gave up. It was brilliant!

**Champsguy** · Apr 24th, '03, 06:02 AM

Our characters are walking down a street, when a group of enemies leap out and ambush us. Just as they attack, the GM's dice go ice cold, and ours go white-hot. The villains miss just about every attack they fire (rolling 18, 18, 17, 18, etc), until our telepathic brick (Jon-El) Mind Controls one of their group (who then suddenly begins to roll awesomely well as he shoots his former comrades). Growing more and more frustrated, the leader of the enemy group declares: "That's it! Now you'll pay!" and fires his 5D6 RKA heat vision at Jon-El.

GM: "Alright! I hit! Let's see how much damage I do." (roll)
We all stare at the dice on the table. The attack did 6 Body and 6 Stun.
Jon-El: (wipes smudge off chest where heat vision hit him) ".......Do you guys want to start over? We can just go back that way, turn around, and come back and pretend like we don't know you're here. You can jump out at us and try this again."
This was met by a howl of rage from the other side.

**FTJoshua** · Apr 25th, '03, 12:02 PM

We were in Africa, and about 6 tribesmen were shadowing us. Pathos rushes over, determines they don't speak English, and draws a line in the sand with his 22d6 EB, against the wishes of our martial artist. The warriors run off. An hour later, we walk into a canyon area, look up, and notice about 1,000 of these warriors with spears and such, ready to make us pay. Pathos, looking around at them and knowing it's all his fault mildly offers this apology to the team: "Hm. My bad."

**MarkusDark** · Apr 25th, '03, 12:17 PM

Originally posted by Captain Obvious
Crapping yourself is a 0-phase action, isn't it?

I believe it depends upon how much you want to crap yourself. Although a Solliquy is a zero phase action, if anyone wants to go for a really long speech, I will begin to count it as a half or full action - how else can you get the ol' squeeze them by the neck in the middle of their tirade to get that lovely "...urrk!" graphic?

**Mightybec** · Apr 25th, '03, 04:05 PM

Originally posted by Captain Obvious
Crapping yourself is a 0-phase action, isn't it?

It all depends if you've had your daily fiber or not.

**Captain Obvious** · Apr 25th, '03, 04:12 PM

Maybe we should get an official ruling from Steve about how long of an action crapping yourself is. I see we're getting several interpretations here...

**Catacomb** · Apr 25th, '03, 04:31 PM

Isn't from Champions, but my all-time Fav is from the old Star Wars by West End.

Pilot to the rest of the crew...'So jumping into Hyperspace is bad without a Nav computer right?'

**rayoman** · Apr 25th, '03, 04:32 PM

In a WEG Star Wars game the rebel group was trying to sneak into a secret Imperial base. The group just landed at the starport and the Cyborg Pirate walks up to the nearest cab driver and says, "Take me to the secret Imperial base."

**rayoman** · Apr 25th, '03, 04:34 PM

Cat, it looks like we both posted a Star Wars rpg story. Anyway, I like your quote. How about putting your brother's name or just his rank and last name in the quote. I would love to use that sig on my emails.

Thanks,

Ray

Originally posted by Catacomb
Isn't from Champions, but my all-time Fav is from the old Star Wars by West End.

Pilot to the rest of the crew...'So jumping into Hyperspace is bad without a Nav computer right?'

**rayoman** · Apr 25th, '03, 04:40 PM

The same player who played the Cyborg Pirate in the post above created a character for a Highlander campaign using the WEG star wars rules. He hadn't given him a name so we warned him that if he begins play without a name then we, the players, will give him a name and it won't be flattering. So the player names himself Stranger. He was trying to be cool and mysterious then the players started "roleplaying"

"Howdy, Stranger."
"Your hair is red? You are the Red Headed Stranger."
"The Lone Stranger!"
"Hey, Stranger, long time no see." - This quote was used everytime another character walked into the same scene as Stranger.

there were many more...some funny...some not, but we laughed our butts off.

**Catacomb** · Apr 25th, '03, 05:02 PM

Originally posted by rayoman
Cat, it looks like we both posted a Star Wars rpg story. Anyway, I like your quote. How about putting your brother's name or just his rank and last name in the quote. I would love to use that sig on my emails.

Thanks,

Ray

Cpt. Jason Jones 1st Marine Force Recon

**Wyrm Ouroboros** · Apr 25th, '03, 05:26 PM

You really should edit your quote to include that. This is what, the fifth time you've been asked?

**Vondy** · Apr 25th, '03, 05:29 PM

We had an extremely gritty dark champions game going with a bunch of casual killer vigilante types (the campaign could have been named "body count"). One week when the gamemaster was sick one of the players stepped up. He thought it would be cute if he whipped CLOWN out on us.

This was a group of players who just didn't find CLOWN funny or amusing (and this was a known fact) and the GM of the week was doing to annoy on purpose. CLOWN got wasted in an extremely succinct and bloodthirsty way. The leader of the group (Pinstripe), who'd pumped Merry Andrew full of lead from his .50 caliber hand-cannon (TM) walked up, gave him a coup de grace and said:

"Now thats comedy".

Everyone except the GM thought it was hilarious.

Literary Note:

Tragedy is when something bad happens to you
Comedy is when something bad happens to someone else