ghost-angel Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... 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. My Gods. You stated up Martha Stewart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weldun Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I'm sorry. I didn't see a reference to SocLim: Criminal Record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Major Tom Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... 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. OMG! It's the Attack of June Cleaver! Run!! Major Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I'm sorry. I didn't see a reference to SocLim: Criminal Record. Obviously this is Martha early in her career. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... *whimper* Thanks' date=' 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 [u']called[/u] 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. That reminds me of the problems faced by . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... How does one write up "Owns one man's gonads and keeps them in her purse"? Transform of some sort' date=' I'd imagine... or ego drain? [/quote'] Easier solution: Buy the hubby as a Follower and give him "Psych Lim: Gonads Kept in Wife's Purse (Very Common, Total)" for 25 points. (Yes, I'm a married man. The wife and I just celebrated our first anniversary, if anyone was wondering...) 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... Obviously this is Martha early in her career. Martha, I should note, is much more a businesswoman than a housewife. Char's mom really is just a housewife, with no side businesses. She's just... very intense at it. There's a reason, but the players haven't found it out yet. I do know Char's mom at least has Conversation, because she and Sarah had a Conversation-off (Sarah was trying to subtly introduce a topic mom didn't care to discuss) and mom won. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remjin Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Easier solution: Buy the hubby as a Follower and give him "Psych Lim: Gonads Kept in Wife's Purse (Very Common, Total)" for 25 points. (Yes, I'm a married man. The wife and I just celebrated our first anniversary, if anyone was wondering...) ROOKIE! You probably still have it good, you just finished your honeymoon year.... she probably still wears lingerie... Hadn't thought of that build, good idea. 10 years, 2 kids... still have my gonads, but lost the manual, I think my daughters took it while I was singing "I'm a little teapot" at the grocery store, dance and all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balabanto Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Heh. On that note, let me give you a preview of a "housewife" from my Paul Revere High teen champions stuff that may make it to Dave Mattingly sometime before the end of the year... Head of History Gene Robards: If ever there was an award for the most boring man in the world, Gene Robards would be certain to receive it. Gene Robards just drones. He can’t help it. His knowledge of history, especially military history, is phenomenal. Unfortunately, he has the oratorical skills of a half-asleep zombie. Gene Robards is a thoroughly unexciting man with a thoroughly unexciting wife. GM Information: Sucker! Gene Robards wife is the supervillainess Countdown. Marrying Gene was the perfect cover. He was so boring that naturally, everyone would suspect that she was boring, too. She has several swiss bank accounts, and is looking forward to collecting on her early retirement, along with whatever monies Gene Robards can afford to pay her in alimony. Gene himself is completely boring and oblivious to Countdown’s evil schemes. To roleplay Gene Robards, drone like Ben Stein. To not roleplay Gene Robards, drone like Ben Stein anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Um, can we get back to actual quotes? I'm starting to miss them. Even the campy over-the-top "say something outrageous just to get a laugh" quotes are better than the derailing. IMO. YMMV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... 10 years' date=' 2 kids... still have my gonads, but lost the manual, I think my daughters took it while I was singing "I'm a little teapot" at the grocery store, dance and all.[/quote'] :rofl:That's the funniest thing I've heard in a week. Thanks for the laugh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Martha, I should note, is much more a businesswoman than a housewife. Char's mom really is just a housewife, with no side businesses. She's just... very intense at it. There's a reason, but the players haven't found it out yet. I do know Char's mom at least has Conversation, because she and Sarah had a Conversation-off (Sarah was trying to subtly introduce a topic mom didn't care to discuss) and mom won. So basically, her mom is Martha's target audience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Um' date=' can we get back to actual [i']quotes[/i]? I'm starting to miss them. Even the campy over-the-top "say something outrageous just to get a laugh" quotes are better than the derailing. IMO. YMMV. Nope. 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... Um' date=' can we get back to actual [i']quotes[/i]? I'm starting to miss them. Even the campy over-the-top "say something outrageous just to get a laugh" quotes are better than the derailing. IMO. YMMV. All the recent really good quotes in the game I am in are in blue-book sessions. My current favortie is "If you can read this, the witch fell off." 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... From last night: Devastator: So you all have standing invitations to the club... Surfer Girl: (a few minutes later) I still think it's funny this place doesn't have chairs? The team: ??? Surfer Girl: He said we have to be standing! Later on in the briefing (after several such interruptions). Devastator: Surfer Girl, could you hold your questions until I'm done talking? Surfer Girl: OK Devastator: ... and ask them to somebody else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remjin Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... :rofl:That's the funniest thing I've heard in a week. Thanks for the laugh! Thanks... I think... one of those idiotic things you do because it amuses the children without regard for anyone else. Oh, I know what it is.. a loss of any sense of pride... =) Now, to honor the return to quotes... "Daddy, can I paint a miniature?" "Boy do I love you." And an actual gaming quote... "What phase are we in?" "Phase 8, why?" "On 9, my action will be to start crying..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rapier Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I was singing "I'm a little teapot" at the grocery store' date=' dance and all.[/quote'] I would SO pay to see that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I would SO pay to see that. It $50 payable to me. As his agent, then I pay him his $10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Thanks... I think... one of those idiotic things you do because it amuses the children without regard for anyone else. Oh, I know what it is.. a loss of any sense of pride... =) Now, to honor the return to quotes... "Daddy, can I paint a miniature?" "Boy do I love you." And an actual gaming quote... "What phase are we in?" "Phase 8, why?" "On 9, my action will be to start crying..." You can abort to crying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weldun Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Martha, I should note, is much more a businesswoman than a housewife. Char's mom really is just a housewife, with no side businesses. She's just... very intense at it. There's a reason, but the players haven't found it out yet. I do know Char's mom at least has Conversation, because she and Sarah had a Conversation-off (Sarah was trying to subtly introduce a topic mom didn't care to discuss) and mom won. Oh my gods. It's not Martha, it's Kasumi! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Anomaly Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... The talk of the 150 point housewife reminds me of a rather bizzare incident from many years ago in a Champions game I was GMing... the PCs had been tangling with a rather Psych Lim -laden mentalist named "Psi Clone" who desperately wanted to be a brick, not a mentalist. He kept using tech that boosted physical strength and such, but didn't work well (Activation rolls). At one point, they managed to get ahold of the catalog of the place from which he'd been getting his equipment, and went to the address listed on the order form, prepared for battle. They didn't realize that Psi Clone had been getting his stuff from a parallel reality. So when the address turned out to be a tidy little home belonging to a little old lady (only drives her car to church on Sundays, bakes cookies type) they spent the better part of a game session trying to trip her up into admitting that she was some kind of evil technical genius, sneaking off to analyze the cookies she gave them for poisons or mutagenic chemicals or whatever instead of eating them, and so on and so forth. It was... amusing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Oh my gods. It's not Martha' date=' it's Kasumi! GAH! You're right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Cross Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Took you long enough to figure it out.I thought it was Kasumi as soon as I read the phase "150-point Housewife":) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodstone Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Father Longfellow: For some reason, he makes me tingily. * * * Father Longfellow: God has taught me to love myself... Torchsong: But if you do it too much it's a sin! * * * Torchsong: I don't like to be surprised, I'd rather ask for it * * * Ghost Eagle: And that's when the Mexicans get angry. * * * Ghost Eagle: What are we, German?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Took you long enough to figure it out.I thought it was Kasumi as soon as I read the phase "150-point Housewife":) Given how big of a Ranma 1/2 fan I am, I feel ashamed I didn't catch this sooner. And, for no one's amusement other than my own, I claim the four thousandth post in this thread! Yay me! -looks around- Dude, work was dull; I need me my fun somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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