Best Roleplaying Truism

[Jerry A!]

Originally posted by Syberdwarf2
There is ALWAYS at least one player at every game who will quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Or the Simpsons.

[Syberdwarf2]

Originally posted by Jerry A!
Or the Simpsons.

"Your Father was a drunkard and your mother stank of elderberries!"

[Syberdwarf2]

Once said as Our Heroes travelled thorugh the Canadian Wilderness....

"Mind you, moose bites can be very nasty"
"My sister was bitten by a moose"

[Derek Hiemforth]

Originally posted by Syberdwarf2
"Your Father was a drunkard and your mother stank of elderberries!"

Actually, it's, "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"

...Not that I'm one of the Monty Python-quoting guys, or anything...

[Syberdwarf2]

Back on topic, now...

If everybody else is on time, the GM is late.

The same player that espouses the "no-rules-lawyer-at-all-whatsoever" policy, is the first one to try to convince the GM that he should have a VPP and Desolid.

[starblaze]

Originally posted by GradonSilverton
In a horror game (espically anything Cthulhu)...

The only character who lives is both blind and deaf from the beginning.

Reminds me of a KODT strip where they were playing said game. "Gee Brian, sanding in the back with your eyes closed does work".

[TheImperialKhan]

Originally posted by Derek Hiemforth
Actually, it's, "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"

...Not that I'm one of the Monty Python-quoting guys, or anything...

"Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time, silly english koniget!" (phonetic spelling on that last)

Well if you're gonna do it, do it all.

And I'm not one of the Monty Python-quoting guys either
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[CourtFool]

Players won't believe you when you tell them the challenges are relative to the characters abilities and will sulk when you tell them you're running a skilled normals campaign. At least one of them will mutter "this is bull$hit"

The one player who uttered the sentiment about bovine fecal matter will do something stunninglly stupid, get killed even though the GM was trying to fudge in their favor, and insist their concerns were justified.

The GM will insist challenges are relative to the characters abilities and will refuse to show you the NPC write ups.

When your character is killed, the GM will claim it was your own fault for doing something stunninglly stupid.

[archermoo]

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Heck, ours rarely survive contact with us.

[Captain Obvious]

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Heck, ours rarely survive contact with us.

"LEEEEEEEROOOOOOOY JENKINS!"

[rebeccared50]

The best laid plans of GM's and men get screwed up by PC's who can't swim..

[McCoy]

GM: I'll let you have it if you roll an 01 (on d%)
Player: (Rolls dice) You said 01 right?

This one happened just the other night while we were making Rifts characters, the roll was to see if the player's character would get supernatural strength (he already had a 41)

An old GM of mine used to do that sort of thing, but he would demand a letter.

"You can live if you roll a 'Q'"

Man, was he pissed when Fred brought a Boogle die. He rolled a Q

Back in my RuneQuest games I had a million sided die, 6 d10's. Any time the players wanted to try anything I thought was less than a one in a million chance they could try to roll a 000001. One player always tried. Succeeded twice in the course of about four years.

[Ian Mackinder]

Also from KODT, referred to as 'Gary Jackson's Fourth Law of Game Dynamics'.

If there is a nuclear weapon anywhere in the scenario. the Player-Characters will somehow set it off.

[Ian Mackinder]

Back in my RuneQuest games I had a million sided die, 6 d10's. Any time the players wanted to try anything I thought was less than a one in a million chance they could try to roll a 000001. One player always tried. Succeeded twice in the course of about four years.

What I call Pratchett;s Law (after Terry Pratchett - specifically, his book 'Guards! Guards!', in which the following appears).

Million to one chances occur nine times out of ten.

[Pariah]

In any game session, no matter what the genre or location, there will be a van or similar vehicle somewhere near the scene of the action.

The adventure cannot truly be considered a success until this van is destroyed.


(Or maybe that's just our campaigns...)