Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

[Cancer]

Player: "My character's name is 9th Dan Smith."
GM (confused): "But you said you were playing a mentalist character, not a martial artist."
Player: "I am. But my character's dad had nine sons and named them all Daniel. My character's the youngest, so he's 'Ninth Dan'."

[New Hero]

I am amused.

Thanks! I was afraid that I would have to explain what a 'Lawn Dart' was.

[Tim]

I am amused.

No, you are Narf the Mouse. Amused is a different poster.

[Narf the Mouse]

No, you are Narf the Mouse. Amused is a different poster.

...Now I'm confused!

[Tim]

Used to be a regular poster in the NGD:

http://www.herogames.com/forums/memberlist.php

[Narf the Mouse]

Used to be a regular poster in the NGD:

http://www.herogames.com/forums/memberlist.php

I know. I was making humour out of the rhyme and a vague memory of someone here named "Confused", too.

[Tim]

ahhh, missed that one.

[Ockham's Spoon]

The supers campaign I am playing with my elementary-school-aged kids continues to be an educational experience for all of us. My daughter's character has a DNPC roommate named Wendy Tuttle (for some reason no one can get this name right and she is forever being called Wendy Tuffie or Turtle or Truffle, but that is beside the point). Anyway, she hasn't quite grasped that a DNPC might be an annoyance for the hero, but they have to be protected, because, well, you're a hero. My son doesn't quite get it either. The heroes have contacted a morally ambigious wizard called Blackstone that is summoning exceptionally dangerous monsters for various purposes.

Whirlwind: "I invite Wendy Tuffie to our meeting with Blackstone."
GM (me): "Um, you realize that this might be dangerous..."
Whirlwind: "Exactly! That way if anything goes wrong, Wendy might get killed and I won't have to have a stupid roommate anymore."
GM: "Uhh, you aren't supposed to try and get your roommate killed..."
Iceman: "I know! Wendy is always baking stuff, ask her to bring brownies!"
Whirlwind: "Yeah, that way Blackstone will like her and maybe they can get married and go away together."
Iceman: "No, poison the brownies! Then you can get rid of both of them at the same time!"
GM: "You can't make poison brownies!"
Iceman: "Yes I can! I'll use my knowledge of Chemistry to figure out a good poison. What do I have to roll?"

Needless to say, motivating these heroes is taking some doing.

[Susano]

The supers campaign I am playing with my elementary-school-aged kids continues to be an educational experience for all of us. My daughter's character has a DNPC roommate named Wendy Tuttle (for some reason no one can get this name right and she is forever being called Wendy Tuffie or Turtle or Truffle, but that is beside the point). Anyway, she hasn't quite grasped that a DNPC might be an annoyance for the hero, but they have to be protected, because, well, you're a hero. My son doesn't quite get it either. The heroes have contacted a morally ambigious wizard called Blackstone that is summoning exceptionally dangerous monsters for various purposes.

Whirlwind: "I invite Wendy Tuffie to our meeting with Blackstone."
GM (me): "Um, you realize that this might be dangerous..."
Whirlwind: "Exactly! That way if anything goes wrong, Wendy might get killed and I won't have to have a stupid roommate anymore."
GM: "Uhh, you aren't supposed to try and get your roommate killed..."
Iceman: "I know! Wendy is always baking stuff, ask her to bring brownies!"
Whirlwind: "Yeah, that way Blackstone will like her and maybe they can get married and go away together."
Iceman: "No, poison the brownies! Then you can get rid of both of them at the same time!"
GM: "You can't make poison brownies!"
Iceman: "Yes I can! I'll use my knowledge of Chemistry to figure out a good poison. What do I have to roll?"

Needless to say, motivating these heroes is taking some doing.

No kidding....

[DusterBoy]

Beware. . . Wendy's dad Norman used to work for the FBI. And knows a former motorbike cop called Jesse Mach

[BoloOfEarth]

Iceman: "No, poison the brownies! Then you can get rid of both of them at the same time!"
GM: "You can't make poison brownies!"
Iceman: "Yes I can! I'll use my knowledge of Chemistry to figure out a good poison. What do I have to roll?"

Needless to say, motivating these heroes is taking some doing.

As the father of a self-professed "evil genius", I feel your pain.

[Drhoz]

An assassinine comment

Lucius Alexander

The palindromedary wonders where Vitus was that November, speaking of gassy gnolls....

gassy? gassy? Vitus isn't gassy. He has plenty of other faults, true. Such as a ruthless streak so broad it makes his colleagues swear, and a serious need for some self-awareness if not actual enlightenment. I suppose you could say he's a super-callous-frakking-mystic-gnoll-who-needs-some-gnosis.

[Shadow Hawk]

The supers campaign I am playing with my elementary-school-aged kids continues to be an educational experience for all of us. My daughter's character has a DNPC roommate named Wendy Tuttle (for some reason no one can get this name right and she is forever being called Wendy Tuffie or Turtle or Truffle, but that is beside the point). Anyway, she hasn't quite grasped that a DNPC might be an annoyance for the hero, but they have to be protected, because, well, you're a hero. My son doesn't quite get it either. The heroes have contacted a morally ambigious wizard called Blackstone that is summoning exceptionally dangerous monsters for various purposes.

Whirlwind: "I invite Wendy Tuffie to our meeting with Blackstone."
GM (me): "Um, you realize that this might be dangerous..."
Whirlwind: "Exactly! That way if anything goes wrong, Wendy might get killed and I won't have to have a stupid roommate anymore."
GM: "Uhh, you aren't supposed to try and get your roommate killed..."
Iceman: "I know! Wendy is always baking stuff, ask her to bring brownies!"
Whirlwind: "Yeah, that way Blackstone will like her and maybe they can get married and go away together."
Iceman: "No, poison the brownies! Then you can get rid of both of them at the same time!"
GM: "You can't make poison brownies!"
Iceman: "Yes I can! I'll use my knowledge of Chemistry to figure out a good poison. What do I have to roll?"

Needless to say, motivating these heroes is taking some doing.

Trying to get the DNPC killed by poisoning the brownings, and killing the possible villian with the same brownies?
"Heroes"?

[Susano]

A few comments from two recent play sessions.

First up is the pre-play session for a 4E D&D game.
Nate was playing Wyk, a halfling rogue. But Wyk didn't mesh well with the party so he was swapped out at level 11 for a new PC.

Josh: "What happened to Wyk?"
Michael: "He got underfoot."

Nate (on his new character): "I'm only a hybrid monk. Monk lite. The diet coke of monk."

Next up is session two of Yar's Cosmic Supers Game, where we run 700 point 6E PCs against an alien invasion of Earth.

Bedlam comments on a mucus coated room: "We're in the great sinus."

GM: "Roll low."
Gravitas: "11" (on 2d6)
The Rest of the Table: "Not that!"

Star Power on the aliens: "Dude? Your special effect suck."

Quantum Girl comments on someone's damage dice: "33 on 11d6? If you were rolling for sh*t, you wouldn't even get a whiff!"

[wick]

Shadow run ed? several years ago.
My character: Human with some bioware and a Salette gaurdian
Fellow Runner: Large Troll with Panther Assualt cannon

My team were sent after a female elf decker ( I forget why). We asked around a night club and we were able to figure out that she had a lair somewhere beneath it which lead us to some old sewers. We manage to track her to a tunnel that had a pipe that was leaking natural gas. Thinking it the wise course I turned off the gas and proceded down the tunnel where I had a little scuffle with a few R.O.U.S's but otherwise emerged unscathed on the other side. I entered a well lit chamber occupied by a topless Female elf holding a Ruger Super WarHawk.

Elf: Who are you ? What are you doing here? Are you alone?
Me: *Giving her an apprasing look* No just me and my big friend.
Elf: *she looked me over* Big friend...yeah right? *she scoffed*

Just then the Troll emerged from the tunnel behind me.

Me: Yeah! *grinning*