Susano Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Actually' date=' I was trying to have a gentle poke at your spelling. Having re-read your earlier post, it was actually the [i']Sphynx's [/i]power gear settings. (Torque = vehicular power (yeah, I know it's not quite that simple). Torc = metal neck piece). Y'know, I was wondering about that myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remjin Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Actually' date=' I was trying to have a gentle poke at your spelling. Having re-read your earlier post, it was actually the [i']Sphynx's [/i]power gear settings. (Torque = vehicular power (yeah, I know it's not quite that simple). Torc = metal neck piece). Torque is actually a measure of rotational forces and is used in more than just vehicles... just to throw my annoying geek hat in. Someone more know-it-all than me could probably name a formula and all that and be more exact about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
input.jack Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Actually' date=' I was trying to have a gentle poke at your spelling. Having re-read your earlier post, it was actually the [i']Sphynx's [/i]power gear settings. (Torque = vehicular power (yeah, I know it's not quite that simple). Torc = metal neck piece). AH! I get it now. Jeez, you misspell -one- word...... ;P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weldun Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... *whimper* Thanks, Sundog. Now I just had a flashback to my days with my first Champions game. It was with the first version of Whisper, and he was a part of a team called Torque. To let everyone else in on this... Torque was possibly the most disfunctional team ever. This version of Whisper was basically a mutant, whose powers only worked while he was in shadow or darkness. One of the Bricks was called S.P.A.M., Solar Powered Augmentation Man. He ended up radiating sunlight, driving Whisper off of the deep end, as he was stuck in a mobile home with him for over a month. Next, we had Guardian, the team's Powersuited Gadgeteer, who was also the hunted for the team's vehicle. Every now and then, he would get an idea for a cool invention that needed a part from the Torque-mobile, and something in it wouldn't work anymore. This prompted us to install a third propulsion system in it. Namely, a trap door flanked by a pair of sturdy handles, so the team's other brick could stick his feat through the trap door and carry the vehicle. I swear, I think we travelled via the "Flintstone-matic Express" more often than the blasted thing flew. Now, this brick also had an enrage that was triggered by destruction/damage of artworks. Which S.P.A.M had the unfortunate tendancy to do. Feaver, my fellow energy projector, was enraged by party in-fighting. I was enraged by violence against women/children, and Isis, our healer/mystic tended to always be in the right line for knockback collisions. It was a mess. Most villains never even had to so much as taunt us. We would just show up, and the enraged cycle would get tripped somewhere, and then the villain would just walk away while we were too busy fighting each other. Suffice it to say, I'm a little more carefull with how I will reflect a characters protectiveness these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balabanto Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... From the Mind over Matter playtests Skybolt: Now just think, if you had been a hero instead of a villain, you might not be sitting here right now under anaesthesia, with a strange looking collander on your head. ---------------------- Gideon: Eiko, Romula just stepped on a land mine down here in the sewers. Can you walk me through disarming it from back at base? Eiko: Nooooooooooooope...! --------------------------- Ember: I'm sorry. My witty banter is off today! As Eiko approaches the land mine from above ground...BOOOOOOOM! (Eiko facepalms) --------------------------- Captain Unity (Over the phone): No. Yes. No. NO! My bra size is NOT up for discussion! Eiko: And they are rather magnificent. Captain Unity: Why thank you, Eiko. ----------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmakaze Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I've been running a sort of Modern Pulp/Urban Fantasy game. Sarah has gone home for dinner will fellow PC, Char. Sarah's a little clairvoyant, and after getting a odd vibe of of Char's mom, decides to check her aura. GM: There's nothing supernatural per se, but it's like... it's like someone took 150 points to build a housewife. Sarah: (quietly) Aaaaagh! GM: I hit you with zombies, demons and killer nightmares and you don't blink, but a woman actually makes the recipes from the back of Kraft boxes and you freak out? Sarah: It's the banality... the suburbity! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I think that would freak me out, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I think my wife would be freaked by that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... GM: There's nothing supernatural per se' date=' but it's like... it's like someone took 150 points to build a housewife.[/quote']I'd like a housewife like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saiyanslayer Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Torque is actually a measure of rotational forces and is used in more than just vehicles... just to throw my annoying geek hat in. Someone more know-it-all than me could probably name a formula and all that and be more exact about it. τ=rF where r is radius and F is the force in Newtons. It can also be the angular momentum using the formula τ = dL/dt. I did this purely so I can say that I have finally used knowledge I have learned in my physics class. and cuz Remjin was begging for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I'd like a housewife like that. I'm trying to imagine what a 150-point housewife would be like. The mind boggles a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I'm trying to imagine what a 150-point housewife would be like. The mind boggles a bit. She'd have Jack of all Trades, Paramedics, and Oratory at the very least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
input.jack Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Here are some from the new Victorian Adventure game. (Run by the same GM as the Freedom League). --------------- Amaravati (OOC): Im covered in sausage grease Wild Lilly (OOC): Well, the cat likes you. Amaravati (OOC): Yeah. How he likes me Ill need seven years of therapy and a pack of cigrettes ---------------- Amaravati (OOC): This centaur figure is very...impressive. His transmission is dragging on the ground! ---------------- Major Pervical (OOC): I hand the Butler my hat, coat, - Lord Kensington: *interrupting* -Pterodactyl! ---------------- [Wild Lilly has hidden a revolver in her bustle] Lord Kensington: ....Does anyone hear a "clinking" sound? Major Percival: Oh, sorry. *Adjusts his trousers* --------------- GM: The table is set with a magnificent feast. The glasses are fine crystal, the place settings are gilt-ware. Amaravati (OOC): ...So I feel bad about using it? --------------- Lord Kensington: Excellent mangoes. Wild Lilly: Where do mangoes come from, again? Amaravati: Mango-lia? ---------------- [A young Scots girl named Moira is having what appears to be an epileptic seizure, as objects fly around the room. The GM asks people what they are going to do] Lord Kensington: I grapple the girl. Wild Lilly: I look around. "Who do I shoot?" Princess Szophia: "It looks like bewitchment!" I try to make an Arcane Knowledge roll to figure out what is going on. Major Percival: Ill examine the girl. Ive had some medical experience from when I was on campaign. Amaravati: I stand in the doorway. "Thats wack, yo!" ------------------- Lord Kensington: Shes MUCH stronger than she looks. Im not terribly concerned, mind you, but I thought you should know. [Lord Kensington is a self-willed, fully Human-looking flesh golem] --------------------- [Wild Lilly and Amaravati have both arisen early and gone to the kitchen, where they have been given biscuits and gravy. They are halfway through when...] Butler: Breakfast is now served in the main dining room. Wild Lilly: ....Then what the h*ll have I been eating?!? ---------------------- GM: So, you have about a 2 hour coach ride. Lord Kensington (OOC): Virgil gives the group a sort of impromptu tour of London as we go, then. "Now, on the left you can see St. John's Church. Well, underneath that mound of snow is St. John's Church. And if you look off to the right, youll see a field of blank snow that, in summer, is actually Hyde Park. Over there, underneath that snowbank, is..." You know, kind of like a Tolkein description of what they -would- see, if it wasnt the dead of winter. ----------------------- GM: All right, youve hit. Whats your damage? ......Other than youre sitting here with...us. ----------------------- Wild Lilly: *leaps up on top of the carriage* Hey! Dead men! Say "Hi" to Old Scratch for me! *Headshots both* ----------------------- Moira: They....they let you wear pants? Wild Lilly: Well, so far aint no one been able to STOP me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... She'd have Jack of all Trades' date=' Paramedics, and Oratory at the very least.[/quote'] Not to mention Bribery, Conversation, and maybe even Interrogation (of the psychological kind). XO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BcAugust Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Got several from last night. Li, also known as a lot of other names: "It is seldom that someone manages to shame both my heritages, but between your ancestry and your affiliation, you manage." *bang* Later on, talking to the ship captain(another PC): Chief Brewer:"And PUT THAT DAMN THING AWAY. Waving a gun at somebody you're not going to shoot is amateur crap." Referring to telling a guard they'd guard the artifacts so he can go report a kidnapping. Li:*dryly* "Isn't it unprofessorial to lie?" Doctor Drake:"I didn't lie. I made a guess as to what we'll be doing. Of course, if you come with an alternate course of action then it's not my fault." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... She'd have Jack of all Trades' date=' Paramedics, and Oratory at the very least.[/quote'] She could also have some housewife super-skills. Imagine a cleaning one (Cosmetic Transform: dirty house to ultra-clean house) or a cooking one (Minor Transform: poor food into culinary feast). She'd be like a lower-pointed version of Belldandy. Or probably more like a Stepford Wife. Come to think of it, how would you write up a Stepford Wife? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... She could also have some housewife super-skills. Imagine a cleaning one (Cosmetic Transform: dirty house to ultra-clean house) or a cooking one (Minor Transform: poor food into culinary feast). She'd be like a lower-pointed version of Belldandy. Or probably more like a Stepford Wife. Come to think of it, how would you write up a Stepford Wife? With Disads up the wazoo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Come to think of it' date=' how would you write up a Stepford Wife? [/quote'] Yeah. Stepford was my first thought on seeing "150 point Housewife" As to how you write one up: Carefully, so as not to make it angry. At a distance helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... ... just to throw my annoying geek hat in. Wouldn't an annoying geek-hat be a 'touque'? (Or 'tuke', eh?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... She could also have some housewife super-skills. Imagine a cleaning one (Cosmetic Transform: dirty house to ultra-clean house) or a cooking one (Minor Transform: poor food into culinary feast). She'd be like a lower-pointed version of Belldandy. Or probably more like a Stepford Wife. Come to think of it, how would you write up a Stepford Wife? They're automatons aren't they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... They're automatons aren't they? That depends on which version you're talking about. In the original and the book, yes. In the remake, no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remjin Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... With Disads up the wazoo. Hey now, keep the porn out of it.... As for a 150 point housewife... would she also be able to kick your butt? How does one write up "Owns one man's gonads and keeps them in her purse"? Transform of some sort, I'd imagine... or ego drain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Wouldn't an annoying geek-hat be a 'touque'? (Or 'tuke'' date=' eh?)[/quote'] Oh, like, take off, 'eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Hey now' date=' keep the porn out of it....[/quote'] Haven't you read the book? That's one of the things they were created to do, y'know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmakaze Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I'm trying to imagine what a 150-point housewife would be like. The mind boggles a bit. The NPC was at least partially intended to boggle minds. I had a lot of fun describing the house, and the 'seasonably appropriate decorations' and the matching plates, glasses and napkins, the spotless white carpet in the living room, etc. I didn't actually stat Char's mom up - it didn't seem necessary. The 150 points figure came because it was the starting point level for PCs in that game. I figure she'd also have contacts (PTA, garden club, neighborhood council, etc.), though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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