Susano Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I've been in a few games like that (usually with the same GM ). I remember a Werewolf game we were in once where one of the PCs rolled so many critical successes to leap from point A to point B that the GM ruled she overshot "due to such powerful leg strength" and ended up instead falling into a pit a hundred feet down. Mirth tells Kevin Matchstick at one point that jumping from one building another would be easy "in fact, be careful you don't overshoot." But Kevin had just come into his true power. If "doesn't know own STR" is part of the concept, fine, but to out right rule that a critical success ends up a worse result? Maybe in Paranoia or some other black humor games, but not normally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... In our new Golden Age Champions game... Havok is asked why she doesn't wear make-up or nail polish: Havok: Um... because when I turn intangible, the nail polish and stuff all just sort of... fall off. Clubber: That's a very specific kind of intangibility. Rocket Ranger: Does that mean when you turn intangible, your clothes also just sort of... fall off? The Patriot: I love being a part of this team so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manic Typist Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Mirth tells Kevin Matchstick at one point that jumping from one building another would be easy "in fact' date=' be careful you don't overshoot." But Kevin had just come into his true power. If "doesn't know own STR" is part of the concept, fine, but to out right rule that a critical success ends up a worse result? Maybe in [i']Paranoia[/i] or some other black humor games, but not normally. Sometimes GMs have brainfarts, you know? Who doesn't? I've had a few situations where I blinked, and thought through it later and cringed. Hindsight= 20/20. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
input.jack Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Sometimes GMs have brainfarts' date=' you know? Who doesn't? I've had a few situations where I blinked, and thought through it later and cringed. Hindsight= 20/20.[/quote'] Thats a fair point. I wonder if "Hindsight is 20/20" is why so many politicians seem to be trying to use their own posteriors as a vantage-point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackCobra Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... (FINALLY, I can post some quotes from an actual Hero session!) A few choice quotes from our new game: Ancient Greek Heroes! (Super-heroes). The name of the campaign is "Heracles' Children: the First Age". Basically, each character is a Hero descended from Heracles*, and thus possessing Great Powers. Game is 450 points (300/150 disads). ------------ Priestesses of Aphrodite have just performed a sacred dance at a party as part of some sort of yearly ritual, and come walking over to the revelers (PCs). Player immediately says (OOC): Anybody got a buck? ------------ There's a message scrawled in chalk on a wall. Player says her character only reads Greek. GM: It's all Greek to you! ------------ Male character (PC) has escorted a female character (PC) into the Temple of Aphrodite. Player 1: What am I doing here? GM: You know first-hand the information she's going to relay to the priestesses second-hand. Player 1: So what's she doing here? ------------- "Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Aphrodite!" * In case anyone is confused on this point: Heracles is the Greek spelling of Hercules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... (FINALLY, I can post some quotes from an actual Hero session!) A few choice quotes from our new game: Ancient Greek Heroes! (Super-heroes). The name of the campaign is "Heracles' Children: the First Age". Basically, each character is a Hero descended from Heracles*, and thus possessing Great Powers. Game is 450 points (300/150 disads). Okay, first of all...cool concept. Secondly, regarding some of the responses bwhahahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... The name of the campaign is "Heracles' Children: the First Age". Basically' date=' each character is a Hero descended from Heracles*, and thus possessing Great Powers. Game is 450 points (300/150 disads).[/quote']Like father, like son. Nice to see the Heracles version used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdamnhero Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I don't have the game quotes... hopefully BigDamnHero comes along with them. (edit: or' date=' you know, post them at the same time)[/quote'] I just have to note he managed to capture us. With FoxBat. So Foxbat could ask one of the PCs to marry him. . . Which reminds me of a quote we both forgot. Early in the scenario, I'm expositioning about this old amusement park that had recently been bought and refurbished... Inertia: (OOC) "Foxbat. Has to be." GM: (desperate attempt at poker face) "No fair reading ahead to the end of the chapter." Later, the PCs have been captured: GM: "From the shadows you hear..." (Foxbat voice) "Bwaahaaahaaaaa Heroes! You've blundered right into my trap!" Inertia: (OOC?) "See! I said Foxbat, but did anyone listen? No...!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netzilla Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Ancient Greek Heroes! (Super-heroes). The name of the campaign is "Heracles' Children: the First Age". Basically' date=' each character is a Hero descended from Heracles*, and thus possessing Great Powers. Game is 450 points (300/150 disads).[/quote'] You know, every now and then I try to get my group to allow me to run Mythical Hero (and I was torn between Greek and Nordic myth) but the idea's never flown. Props to you & your group for giving it a go. Any chance your campaign maintains a blog? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... The Via Campaign reconvenes: GM: It's noon in Filo. What is everyone doing? Daris (OOC): Rastal's naked on the roof, peeing on passersby? GM: At noon? Rastal (OOC): Well, there aren't people around to pee on at 3 AM! The party is witness to strange goings-on. Flora remarks, OOC, "It's like we're on an episode of Lost." Daris's goats seem to be reproducing inexplicably. He started with four. No one else has noticed anything amiss. Daris: How many goats do I have? Flora: Ten. Once again, Flora bemoans her fate after being rejected by the current incarnation of her not-really-dead husband. Flora (OOC): If there ever was a time when Flora deserves to be emo, it's now. Rastal (OOC): You said that last time! Daris: Flora, how many goats do I have now? Flora: Eleven. Why? What is it with you and those goats? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkwleisemann Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Daris: Flora, how many goats do I have now? Flora: Eleven. Why? What is it with you and those goats? Some questions are better unasked.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Some questions are better unasked.... Heh. By the end of the session, he had twelve, and no one else could figure out why this vexed him. It was sort of a godly prank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confusion Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... From Sugar, a 16th Century Pirate, on learning some 'advanced medicine' : I see, so the heart pumps emotions *and* blood, what an amazing thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... From my Thunderbolts: The Next Generation campaign... Arachne bravely leaps directly under the plummeting giant monkey head... OK, there's a sentence I never imagined myself writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix3 Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... From my Thunderbolts: The Next Generation campaign... Arachne bravely leaps directly under the plummeting giant monkey head... OK, there's a sentence I never imagined myself writing. Was it a three headed monkey? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Just a little surreal Was it a three headed monkey? No, it's a robotic King Kong with a bomb in its head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzMike Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Re: Just a little surreal No' date=' it's a robotic King Kong with a bomb in its head.[/quote'] Ahh... a Robo Kong Bomb.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Mhoram Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Not a quote but a funny use of power. The computer that had the info we needed was in a room that had an area effect (which we couldn't turn off) that was affecting the computer person on the team. So we needed to get the computer specialist to get into the computer remotely. So Meeb (with a nice power tricks roll) gloms himself on the computer's keyboard, and stretches back to where the hacker sits, and creates a "Meeb keyboard and screen (he has images for just this sort of thing)" and she types on him, he types on the computer, the computer displays, meeb displays. A Meeb keyboard extender - interesting mental image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mephron Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... In Balabanton's Champions game, are fighting frog-men from Toorg (really genetically-modified people). Mesa, our team brick, is trying to decide what to do. Me (OOC): "grab one and throw him at the others!" Mesa (OOC): "Why?" Me (OOC): "This may be the only time in your life you can throw a frogmentation grenade!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodstone Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Rapier: Dear lord Captain America! Is that what they hang the flag on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... My wife is starting a new Golden Age Champions game. She asked us to come up with a good name for the campaign. My buddy sent out his suggestions: > Chronicles of the Agency > The Heroic Chronicles > Secret Files of the Agency > Thrilling Heroic Tales > Agents of the Agency > Agency Adventures > Amazing Agency Stories > Tales of Heroes > Living Legends > Heroic Stories > Agency Stories Or we could combine all of those into one title: Tales of the Secret File Adventure Stories: The Thrilling Amazing Heroic Chronicles of the Living Legend Agents of the Agency! Or TotSFAS: TTAHCotLLAotA for short. Yeah. That just rolls off the tongue' date=' that does.[/quote'] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Not a quote but a funny use of power. The computer that had the info we needed was in a room that had an area effect (which we couldn't turn off) that was affecting the computer person on the team. So we needed to get the computer specialist to get into the computer remotely. So Meeb (with a nice power tricks roll) gloms himself on the computer's keyboard, and stretches back to where the hacker sits, and creates a "Meeb keyboard and screen (he has images for just this sort of thing)" and she types on him, he types on the computer, the computer displays, meeb displays. A Meeb keyboard extender - interesting mental image. I so hope Meeb got extra xp for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Mhoram Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I so hope Meeb got extra xp for this. Not any XP, but the feelings of a job well done, and the general amusement from the group of another problem solved by Meeb in a really unusual way. And speaking of that, I'll let the following pic speak for itself (note - Meeb is a fairly decent minibrick, and the full brick in the game is slowly physically changing into an alien... just like the movie alien)... The Meeboplunger: (or the not drawn varient the Meebovacuum). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Not any XP, but the feelings of a job well done, and the general amusement from the group of another problem solved by Meeb in a really unusual way. And speaking of that, I'll let the following pic speak for itself (note - Meeb is a fairly decent minibrick, and the full brick in the game is slowly physically changing into an alien... just like the movie alien)... The Meeboplunger: (or the not drawn varient the Meebovacuum). Words fail me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Mhoram Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Words fail me. A not uncommon reaction to some of the really wierd stuff Meeb does. By Special Effect he speaks by vibrating his surface. As he got better, he could make any sound (bought as an images no range). He also has Radio hearing - so when off duty he often is the boom box for the group - picking up radio and using his images to make the sound. I need to buy him cyrptography to hack XM radio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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