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Lowered Intelligence was a power? stupid.gif

 

And I though Traveller (where your character can die during character creation) was the silliest game-system I'd ever seen...

 

I'm pretty sure there are (or were) a few other systems that had a chance of death during character creation.

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I'm pretty sure there are (or were) a few other systems that had a chance of death during character creation.

 

I'm not sure that there were that many. Quite a few that you got crippled in the creation, but then were supposed to play the character.

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From our Mythic Greek Heroes campaign:

 

The group is a banquet being thrown in their honor after having returned the Omphalos to Delphi (which had been stolen in a prior episode).

 

Sarrigone: Wow, you fetch someone's big rock and you get all this. I should have started gathering big rocks a long time ago.

 

****

 

Sophie to Typhonicus (descendant of Aphrodite and incredibly suave and handsome): Hey, everyone likes you but me. Can you speak to the king for me?

 

****

 

Sarrigone: You assume, just because I beat and strangle people, that I'm angry.

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First edition Villians and Vigilantes. I rolled up two powers, and got Water Breathing and Lowered Intelligence.

And Named him "Aquaputz". Intelligence 3. His highest stat was his Charisma, at 14. Everything else was dead average. And he's supposed to be a superhero?

maybe he could be a comic relief hero ala joxer the mighty

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thread is about quotes; reminiscing is that other thread

 

Middle Earth D20; Week 2:

 

Barbarian Ranger and Gondorian Warrior, working for Saruman....

Plus Snake and William.

=======================================================

We're really playing up the "Odd Couple" schtick in our role-playing.

 

He's city, I'm country, He's diplomacy, I'm search and spot,

He knows the taste differences between red and rosé,

and I know the taste differences between bear and boar scat.

 

His full name is "Brame the Unyeilding, Cadet Prince of Lossarnach ..." plus

about 7 more sub titles after that.

When I need his attention I just yell Hey Gondor

 

===========================================

 

in my fight with a Troll, our wizard "Snake" hit him with a blood poison spell,

and the side-effects shut down his regeneration. then my character scored

a critical hit to the throat on the big green lummox.

When the big dummy caught on that this cut was indeed a mortal wound,

he squalled and carried on and blubbered till he died. :idjit:

When it stopped being vicious and got all sickened,

Killing that Troll didn't feel heroic, and was about as much fun for me as

beating a poodle to death with a pizza paddle.

So when the Troll finally shut up and died, I whirled around

and asked "Snake what in the world...."

he described the spell to me and I said "Wow, ya really hit'em where they live, don't ya?"

 

=============================================

 

between the 2 adventures, we've looted 11 magic rings from various people,

and Saruman loaned us 4 minor rings of Endure elements, since we're headed

into the desert of Harondor.

 

Gondor took one of the extra rings and put it in his horse's ear,

so it would have some extra protection.

Well we are playing Lord of the Rings :straight:

 

=======================================

 

 

my character has a high Search skill, and usually finds all the loot.

 

Gondor has a nickname for my Natural 20 rolled while attempting this skill: Full Cavity Search

:nonp:

 

=========================================

 

We're in Rohan, headed South into Gondor.

I suggested we use The Old Shortcut. :D

 

 

you have to be a true LotR geek to know why that's funny

I'm not going to explain it here

 

======================================

 

 

plus everyone's seen the bumper sticker, or t-shirt "Pillage First, Then Burn"

well our heroes actually didnt follow that last night. We got ambushed by Orks, in the middle of Rohan,

and of course eventually slaughtered them (great cleave, ya know).

so we took their chainmail and a little loot, and made a pyramid of the

bodies, and burned them in a huge bonfire.

Later that afternoon we run into some Rohirrim border guards, and

we exchange pleasantries, and they ask about the smoke,

and we tell them why, and they remark "you fellows will be wealthy at that rate" :confused:

Why no, we say, they only carried a few silver....

that's when they laughingly told us about the bounty on Ork ears set by the King of Rohan.

we had torched a few weeks pay back there.

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Re: thread is about quotes; reminiscing is that other thread

 

Middle Earth D20; Week 2:

 

Barbarian Ranger and Gondorian Warrior, working for Saruman....

Plus Snake and William.

=======================================================

We're really playing up the "Odd Couple" schtick in our role-playing.

 

He's city, I'm country, He's diplomacy, I'm search and spot,

He knows the taste differences between red and rosé,

and I know the taste differences between bear and boar scat.

 

His full name is "Brame the Unyeilding, Cadet Prince of Lossarnach ..." plus

about 7 more sub titles after that.

When I need his attention I just yell Hey Gondor

 

===========================================

 

in my fight with a Troll, our wizard "Snake" hit him with a blood poison spell,

and the side-effects shut down his regeneration. then my character scored

a critical hit to the throat on the big green lummox.

When the big dummy caught on that this cut was indeed a mortal wound,

he squalled and carried on and blubbered till he died. :idjit:

When it stopped being vicious and got all sickened,

Killing that Troll didn't feel heroic, and was about as much fun for me as

beating a poodle to death with a pizza paddle.

So when the Troll finally shut up and died, I whirled around

and asked "Snake what in the world...."

he described the spell to me and I said "Wow, ya really hit'em where they live, don't ya?"

 

=============================================

 

between the 2 adventures, we've looted 11 magic rings from various people,

and Saruman loaned us 4 minor rings of Endure elements, since we're headed

into the desert of Harondor.

 

Gondor took one of the extra rings and put it in his horse's ear,

so it would have some extra protection.

Well we are playing Lord of the Rings :straight:

 

=======================================

 

 

my character has a high Search skill, and usually finds all the loot.

 

Gondor has a nickname for my Natural 20 rolled while attempting this skill: Full Cavity Search

:nonp:

 

=========================================

 

We're in Rohan, headed South into Gondor.

I suggested we use The Old Shortcut. :D

 

 

you have to be a true LotR geek to know why that's funny

I'm not going to explain it here

 

======================================

 

 

plus everyone's seen the bumper sticker, or t-shirt "Pillage First, Then Burn"

well our heroes actually didnt follow that last night. We got ambushed by Orks, in the middle of Rohan,

and of course eventually slaughtered them (great cleave, ya know).

so we took their chainmail and a little loot, and made a pyramid of the

bodies, and burned them in a huge bonfire.

Later that afternoon we run into some Rohirrim border guards, and

we exchange pleasantries, and they ask about the smoke,

and we tell them why, and they remark "you fellows will be wealthy at that rate" :confused:

Why no, we say, they only carried a few silver....

that's when they laughingly told us about the bounty on Ork ears set by the King of Rohan.

we had torched a few weeks pay back there.

 

 

Oh, wow...:snicker::lol::rofl:

 

ILSMIHM

 

 

 

 

Major Tom :D

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Ahh, random power generation....

 

I only had to do it once, in the old Marvel FASERIP system (using, I think, the Ultimate Powers book). I wound up with a bunch of silly powers, including:

 

Tunneling (just what it sounds like)

360-degree Vision (same)

Claws (ditto)

Whirlwind (basically this power means you can spin around really fast. :confused:)

Alter-Ego (think 'Hero ID')

Invulnerabilty

and some other subtle defense power which I forget off-hand.

 

At first, I was having a hard time coming up with a concept, and petitioned the GM for a few changes - of course, he said 'no,' which irritated me to no end. Then an idea hit me.... :eg:

 

I got the GM to boost the Invulnerability power to pretty ridiculous level by having it apply only to things the character ate. I think he was thinking of poisons and such; I was thinking of high explosives. :sneaky:

 

 

 

Yep, you guessed it. I played the Tazmainan Devil in the game, and ruined his adventure in under 5 minutes. He was running the 'nuke hidden in Central Park' scenario, so I just honeycombed the area with tunnels seraching for it. :D One good roll later, I found the bomb and ate it. Sure, it knocked me WAAAAY out, but still....snicker.gif

 

From then on, all I had to do was tell that story when a random-roll powerset came up goofy. The GM's quickly allowed reasonable modifications.

 

 

Sounds like your character should've gotten a black T-shirt with white lettering

that read "Got Gojira?"...that way, when some poor unsuspecting soul asks him

why he's got that particular shirt, he can promptly demonstrate his new Power --

Radioactive Flame Breath ( :eg: ).

 

 

 

Major Tom:D

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Sounds like your character should've gotten a black T-shirt with white lettering

that read "Got Gojira?"...that way, when some poor unsuspecting soul asks him

why he's got that particular shirt, he can promptly demonstrate his new Power --

Radioactive Flame Breath ( :eg: ).

 

well, just as long as it isn't Godzilla Bukkake

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D20 Jokes:

 

Q: Gosh your character has a lot of Feats.

A: Yeah I downloaded them from http://www·feats·com

 

 

which led to ....

 

Feats.Org : the abilities are balanced and follow the rules, but the download is free.

 

Feats.Com : abilities are powerful, and download is $1.95 per level of the character.

 

Feats.Net : abilities are imbalanced, mighty, and contradict basic rules;

since the feats were translated from a Korean website by Babel-fish

and cost $20 per feat per download.

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As long as we're exchanging disturbing images.

 

Here is something that threw me little when I was making my daily jaunt through the Elfwood site.

 

I didn't dare to actually follow the other link. But I suspect that this one is actually a lot more .... tasteful. (Which is not something that I ever expected to say about it). It's still freaky though.

 

Bride of Cthulhu

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Ahh, random power generation....

 

I only had to do it once, in the old Marvel FASERIP system (using, I think, the Ultimate Powers book). I wound up with a bunch of silly powers, including:

 

Tunneling (just what it sounds like)

360-degree Vision (same)

Claws (ditto)

Whirlwind (basically this power means you can spin around really fast. :confused:)

Alter-Ego (think 'Hero ID')

Invulnerabilty

and some other subtle defense power which I forget off-hand.

 

At first, I was having a hard time coming up with a concept, and petitioned the GM for a few changes - of course, he said 'no,' which irritated me to no end. Then an idea hit me.... :eg:

 

I got the GM to boost the Invulnerability power to pretty ridiculous level by having it apply only to things the character ate. I think he was thinking of poisons and such; I was thinking of high explosives. :sneaky:

 

 

 

Yep, you guessed it. I played the Tazmainan Devil in the game, and ruined his adventure in under 5 minutes. He was running the 'nuke hidden in Central Park' scenario, so I just honeycombed the area with tunnels seraching for it. :D One good roll later, I found the bomb and ate it. Sure, it knocked me WAAAAY out, but still....snicker.gif

 

From then on, all I had to do was tell that story when a random-roll powerset came up goofy. The GM's quickly allowed reasonable modifications.

Heh - I love it. ^^

 

Most of my 'random generation' horror stories have to do with Heroes Unlimited, and the Understatement of the Century that happened in the included adventure (grenade + Atomic Gasoline + blockade of cop cars = big, big boom....)

 

For some reason, I always managed to roll the most inane, insane, and useless combinations... particularly useless, like the time I rolled a mentalist who didn't have the telekinetic strength to do more than deflect a thrown grenade (see above 'my bad' moment.) and a mental projection that didn't work much behind punching distance.

 

My favorite part - the GM had us roll stats, *and* class of powers. So you could, say, roll a Mentalist who makes Jessica Simpson look like a Rhodes Scholar....

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And from the look on her face' date=' she knows exactly what's coming, or at least has pretty good idea.[/quote']

 

Yeah, she's not too happy about the arrangement. (And I think it probably was an arranged marriage). Considering the amount of skulls she's crouched on the term 'bride' could be a euphemism for sacrifice/lunch. Presuming of course that Cthulhu is capable of differentiating between those concepts.

 

Alternatively the skulls could be a result of intimacy issues suffered by this particular Great Old One.

 

Or the skulls could just be there for effect or not have any relevance to the 'marriage' at all.

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