Narf the Mouse Posted September 6, 2009 Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Sorry' date=' that's been a '[i']duh[/i]' for us since '79. Oh, well, there you go bragging. Neither of us grew up with role-playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Celt Posted September 6, 2009 Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Oh' date=' well, there you go bragging. Neither of us grew up with role-playing.[/quote'] Neither did I, but we took to rules-wranglin' quicklike. *g* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Blackrock Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Got a couple from game tonight. Enforcers Inc. try to spring one of their own from the heroes, things do not go well: GM (ooc): "Well, it appears that my elite private superhuman merc army is, today at least, set to stooge." Buntai-Kun (ooc): "Which one's curly? Bet it's Breakneck." GM (ooc): "With his terrible rolls tonight, no. Tonight Breakneck is Shemp." Panther has a very entangled Toxic slung over her shoulder: GM: "In this room is a girl huddled in the fetus position, rocking back and forth muttering something incoherent. She's wearing the tattered remnants of a Center City High cheerleaders uniform (at this point, cue the Heroes references). It looks like Vivian, but she wasn't so... fuzzy last time you saw her. She's covered in a pelt of brown/grey fur, has a tail and claws. The walls of the room are covered in claw marks. She starts to the sound of your voice and mutters: "Tiffany?" she looks at her hands and arms, and half-screams half-sobs "This is YOUR FAULT!" and attacks." Panther: "What the hell? I can't get OUT of combat today! I still have Toxic over my shoulder, I use her to smack some sense into Vivian." GM: "When all you have is a hammer... Roll!" Panther: ::rolls, hits, hard:: GM: "Well, for the sake of humor, we're gonna say Vivian is knocked out, and, Toxic, though not unconscious, is really wishing she was at this point." rest of the table: ::raucous laughter:: Toxic: "I hate you all." Best without context: Joshua (ooc, I hope): "Cover Henry Winkler with Bees!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NestorDRod Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... We didn't have a session of Mean Streets this weekend due to the GM being out on the road, so we played a one-shot as FBI agents following up on a fellow agent who's gone missing after being sent to investigate an alleged "alien" conspiracy. The missing agent disappeared from his office, leaving behind his clothes neatly folded. Later, we find his former partner also missing, her clothes also left behind, neatly folded. FBI Agent (OOC): We'll need to put out an all-points bulletin for naked people. NPC Cop on Scene (OOC): Yeah, we can't have that. Could lead to dancing. Later, our heroes end up on a point-blank shoot-out with mysterious agents in an apartment building hallway. One player rolled a near-botch on his first roll, then does it again on his second try. Player (OOC): Dammit, I shot the neighbor's cat again. Me (OOC): Seven more lives to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Well, from last night's D&D session: Illlya's PC has gone to sleep in an abandoned building and is woken by 2 feral dogs. He jumps out of a window but hasn't taken into account the 5 other dogs outside. He manages to esceape but - Illya - "I was terrier-fied for a moment there!" Rest of group: *groan* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cranialspasm Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... During D&D 3.5 Cast Nyla - HumanSorceror/Rogue Redd - Half Orc Barbarian/Fighter Krusk - Half Orc Fighter Tuka - Goblin Pscionisist (sorry 'bout spelling) <- picture this one with a Creole accent Juri - Human(ish) Warlock We are traveling in a hell dimension and come across a room of concubines. We enter and the guards start attacking. "I'm gonna throw one of the concubines at a guard." "What's the range increment on a bitch?" - Redd and Tuka Well, if dis don work I'm gonna kill him with mah brain. - Tuka OOC Melanie: "With these stupid caster level checks, I am never going to get to cast this spell." OOC Me: "Is that your Care Bear Stare?" OOC Melanie: "Uh, it's called 'Rainbow Blast'.... and yes." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnaskar Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I joined in a massive Changeling: the Lost campaign, with over fifty players. Our mission is to find out what happened to a group sent to investigate a haunted apartment. The group consisted of player characters in the campaign, which really made it a suspenseful adventure; and more to the point: they owe us big time now... The group: Max Power: Private Detective with a lot of firearms Louis XIV: The Sun god, fire elemental Mystique: As from x-men Malcolm: really strong Car mechanic Another Shapeshifter who's name eludes me And an expert on antiques Some random comments: Louis: Combat? But I haven't caught fire yet. ... Louis: I'd love to take you home some day and show you my furniture. ... Malcolm: I grapple the sofa. ... Dream figure: I wasn't dreamed up as a person with good memory... ... Max Power: Is it vandalism if it’s done by a pretty girl? Max Power gets knocked out by an electric shock: Malcolm: Hey, I lost to a sofa; you have no right to complain. After a shot is fired: Malcolm: I turn on the TV, crank the volume up, and find a good action movie. The police are called anyway: Police: There were reports of gunfire, sir; we have to search the premises. Max Power: You don't have a search warrant, and you have no grounds on which to get a warrant. So go away. *slams door in the face of the shocked police officers* The police return with the apartment owner: Shapeshifter: *searches the officers minds for information, then shape shifts into their superior* Shapeshifter: As you can see my investigation is going well. Now, arrest that woman (the apartment owner) for assault and kidnapping. *Points around to several unconscious changelings* She has clearly been kidnapping people and abusing them. Oh, and call an ambulance. Police: Yes, sir. *leaves with the now hysterical (and innocent) apartment owner* Shapeshifter: *turns to party* Now, let’s get the f*** out of here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Blackrock Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... ... The police return with the apartment owner: Shapeshifter: *searches the officers minds for information, then shape shifts into their superior* Shapeshifter: As you can see my investigation is going well. Now, arrest that woman (the apartment owner) for assault and kidnapping. *Points around to several unconscious changelings* She has clearly been kidnapping people and abusing them. Oh, and call an ambulance. Police: Yes, sir. *leaves with the now hysterical (and innocent) apartment owner* Shapeshifter: *turns to party* Now, let’s get the f*** out of here. Classic! I love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Baloo Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... The police return with the apartment owner: Shapeshifter: *searches the officers minds for information, then shape shifts into their superior* Shapeshifter: As you can see my investigation is going well. Now, arrest that woman (the apartment owner) for assault and kidnapping. *Points around to several unconscious changelings* She has clearly been kidnapping people and abusing them. Oh, and call an ambulance. Police: Yes, sir. *leaves with the now hysterical (and innocent) apartment owner* Shapeshifter: *turns to party* Now, let’s get the f*** out of here. :rofl: Repped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawksmoorSD Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I'm going to share one I popped off with a couple of weeks ago. We've been playing in an Avengers Legacy game for a while now and I recently got an actual chance to play when one of my players stepped up to run an arc. We get involved in a trans-dimensional/trans-temporal plot that involves our worlds Red Skull and that worlds Red Skull. We end up in a room with a bunch of guards at the far end wearing Nazi uniforms and screaming at us in German while waving guns around. During the description of the guards it was also mentioned that they had grenades. I darted forward and dove between the guards. I came out the other side and turned around, supposedly without touching any of them. It was when I turned around that I held up my hand and twirled a grenade pin. The resulting explosion was rather... messy. My comment apparently made the gm do a spit take. "I love Nazis. All the fun of the killing and none of the guilt the next day.":D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I was at a con last weekend, and I got to play in a lot of games. So this is the first in a series of Notable Quotables from my various games... The first is from a Serenity game. This is a long-running con game that involves a crew of ne'er-do-wells and misfits. They've managed to get themselves in deep, deep trouble with the Alliance and with the mob by accidentally stumbling into a plot to turn kids into assassins (ala River, from the series). They've decided that the best way to clear themselves is to prove to the 'verse that the Alliance is up to no good, so they are breaking into a secure facility to try and free some of the teenage assassins. I'm playing a rather unstable, gun-toting psycho-b***h named Usagi (appropriate, yes?) We also have: Gina, a Companion Tobin, the Captain Willie, our mechanic Sammy, a crazy little ex-mobster/kung fu maniac/ship's janitor Stephen, a passenger and our "hostage" Usagi is trying unsuccessfully to bash a guard with the butt of her shotgun. Finally, she's had enough... Guard: What are you smiling about? Usagi: I just realized something. Bullets come out of the other end of this thing! *chambers a shell and points it at the guy* During the fight, Gina "distracts" a guard by kissing him. While they're making out, she stabs him with a sedative, and he passes out... Gina: When I kiss a guy, he stays kissed! The guards are paying attention to our beautiful, glamourous Companion. Usagi gets jealous of all the attention... Usagi: *Unbuttons top two buttons* Guards: *Remain completely oblivious to her* Usagi: The GM asks Usagi what she's doing with her prisoner... Usagi: I'm just giving him the crazy eyes. Tobin: How're your "crazy eyes" different from your regular eyes??? GM: What are you doing with the rest of the prisoners? Tobin: I let Sammy administer a sedative... via his mop handle. A planning session: Usagi: We should steal one of these trucks. Willie: Was that the captain's suggestion? Usagi: No, it was mine. Willie: OK, we need a different plan. Stephen: If we get captured, I want to make it clear right now that I am your hostage. Willie: Then why are you being so helpful? Usagi: I think they call it "Stockholm Syndrome." Stephen: I thought we were on a humanitarian mission? Tobin: This is a "humanitarian mission" in the same way that you are a "hostage." Usagi goes ahead to scout, and Stephen gives her a little advice: Stephen: If anything bad happens to you... I'll be hiding. Tobin: Usagi, if you keep running ahead of the rest of the team, I'll... I'll... I'll take away your dinner. Willie: Um... that's the best thing you've got to threaten her with? Tobin: Sadly, yes. Best without context: Usagi: A thick concrete plug blocking the passage is nature's way of saying "You Can't Go Here." Usagi tells the gang to follow her... Tobin (OOC, to the GM): Do I think this is a good idea? GM: Your "Trustworthy Gut" talent tells you that Usagi knows what she's doing. Usagi: WOOT! YES! Tobin: Oh god, now we'll never hear the end of it. Also best without context: Usagi: I killed three guys! I claim Stephen's dinner! Usagi is a minor psychic talent; she sometimes gets "hunches" about things... Willie: Usagi, do you have any "hunches" about where the girls we're looking for are? Usagi: *concentrates* Usagi: If it were me... I'd be eating dinner right now in the commissary... Tobin: Good, then we'll head... Usagi: ...And I would have all my friends with me... Tobin: Ok... Usagi: ...And we would all be princesses... Everyone: Usagi: ...And we'd have a pony! Stephen: I'm sorry... didn't you just tell me she was "usually right about these things"??? We burst in on some guards watching TV: Usagi: Hey! The Fruity-Oaty Bar Adventure Hour is on! No context: Tobin: This is odd. Things haven't exploded into shocking violence yet. Stephen: I'm amending my plan. I run. The captain runs forward and takes a bullet... Usagi: I love our captain. He'd rather keep us alive than himself! Tobin: Actually, that was not my logic... A guard pulls a gun on Usagi: Usagi: Aw nah he di-n't! Willie: Actually, I can see Usagi saying that... We open a door into a room full of guards, all pointing guns at us... Stephen: I close the door. Stephen doesn't want to carry the teenage girl that we just rescued... Sammy: You pick up that girl right now! Stephen: Why should I? Sammy: *scowls and points at him* Stephen: (reluctantly) OK, you win. We're surrounded by guards: Sammy: Hey Stephen, don't forget to tell them that you're a hostage. Stephen is mad at Usagi: Usagi: Why are you staring at me like that? Usagi: *pause* Usagi: Oh yeah, 'cause I shot you. Heh. Tobin finally manages to shoot a guard after a long bout of bad rolls. Then Sammy rolls a crit failure... GM: The Captain is so busy celebrating that he failed to notice Sammy and dances right in front of him... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manic Typist Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I'm going to share one I popped off with a couple of weeks ago. We've been playing in an Avengers Legacy game for a while now and I recently got an actual chance to play when one of my players stepped up to run an arc. We get involved in a trans-dimensional/trans-temporal plot that involves our worlds Red Skull and that worlds Red Skull. We end up in a room with a bunch of guards at the far end wearing Nazi uniforms and screaming at us in German while waving guns around. During the description of the guards it was also mentioned that they had grenades. I darted forward and dove between the guards and came out the other side and turned around without touching any of them. It was when i turned around that I held up my hand and twirled a grenade pin. The resulting explosion was rather... messy. My comment apparently made the gm do a spit take. "I love Nazis. All the fun of the killing and none of the guilt the next day.":D Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... These are from a Warhammer Fantasy RPG. Not a great game, so only a couple of good quotes. The characters: Hogni, a barbarian Othrick, a dwarf berserker Marla, a barber/"doctor" Digger, a hobbit treasure finder We're fighting a very tall beast-man... Othrick: My axe is called "Tree Chopper." Guess what that makes you, longshanks? Beastman: Othrick: A tree, a**hole! One of the beast-men has been mortally wounded and is bleeding out... Marla: That guy needs a doctor. I think I'll go over and "take care" of him. The halfling is trying to listen at a door... Hogni: Do you hear anything? Digger: It's hard to hear anything when there's a huge barbarian yelling "Do you hear anything?" in your ear! There's no context that can help this one... Hogni: Don't have sex with a corpse. It'll give you a rash. Everyone: Hogni: Don't ask how I know that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... There's no context that can help this one... Hogni: Don't have sex with a corpse. It'll give you a rash. Everyone: Hogni: Don't ask how I know that. Ewwww! And diseases, too. (And I won't ask how Hogni knows that, 'cos my brain lacks an editing suite) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... From my D&D 4th game. Warlord (OOC): "I'm going to use Lion's Roar." Paladin (OOC): Gives off one of the most girlish growls I've ever heard. It is now the standard sound that someone at the table makes whenever the Warlord uses that ability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Baloo Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... "I love Nazis. All the fun of the killing and none of the guilt the next day.":D That is soooo repped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdamnhero Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Hi Gang - long time no quote, but Teh Bunneh was too busy GMing his most excellent Lucha Libre game at Tacticon to write down all the awesome quotes... The players examine their character sheets. Amazonia, the Jungle Princess: “I have Seduction!” Caveman Cortez, the Wrestling Neanderthal Detective: “Oddly enough, so do I.” Later the Fiery Skull slides between Amazonia’s legs to take out a werewolf. Amazonia: (holds up her character sketch) “You should know, I’m not wearing a skirt.” Caveman Cortez: (holds up his character sketch) “Oddly enough, I am.” Caveman Cortez: “I’m too sexy for my…brow ridge.” GM: “He’s going to try and grab you.” Amazonia: “Men have been trying to grab me for centuries.” Amazonia fails a Streetwise roll and spends the whole night bar hopping. Amazonia: “It’s called research.” GM: “La Hija has an army of midgets that worship her…” Amazonia: “I want an army of midgets!” Amazonia chokes a Frankenstein monster between her thighs: GM: "He can't break free." Amazonia: "He doesn't want to break out; he likes it in there." Several other players: "Who wouldn't?" Re NPCs that fell into a volcano. “No one could’ve survived that!” “You’re right – we’d better check.” Caveman Cortez and Amazonia engage in the ultimate win-win contest: Amazonia: "Dueling Seduction rolls!" [rolls] "Just matched it." Cortez: [rolls] "Made it by two! ...I'm on top!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdamnhero Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... …and from The Bunneh’s Arabian Adventures game: Rasha the Lovely: “Remember the saying – it is better to light a single candle than to light your whole head on fire while cursing the one who set the fire.” (It sorta made sense in context…) Rasha attempt to rally the rock creatures: Rasha: “Rise up and resist your oppressors!” Yuzeed the Bull: “Wait, isn’t that us?” The pitfalls of letting the rogue handle negotiations: Rock Creature: "Do you swear?" Jamil the Swift: (points at rest of party) "I swear they will do it!" Player 1: “I have to go to the little boy’s room, and fill my water bottle.” Player 2: “You might not want to put it in that order.” Rasha the Lovely mind controls a giant to ignore her: Giant: “I’m pretty sure someone said to ignore the pretty girl...” Safana the Pretty-But-Not-Quite-As-Hot-As-Rasha: “Hey! He just hit me!” The GM slips ever-so-slightly out of character: NPC: “You dare lay hands on the noble Malik? I gonna mess you up!” Yuzeed’s turban does not survive the battle: Rasha: "Do you remember the story of the man who lost his hat?" Yuzeed: "Yuzeed living that story." Rasha: "And what was the moral of that story?" Yuzeed: "...Duck?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdamnhero Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... The first is from a Serenity game. A couple more from the same game: Tobin: [to GM] "How many people here are armed?" [players raise their hands] "I didn't mean us!" Willie: [after Usagi shot Steven] "Quit whining, she only shot you once. She's shot me like four times!" Usagi: "Yes, and he learned to duck after one time." One from a Twilight 2013 post-apoc game: "They're actually trying to rebuild civilization." "Let's kill them all." And finally, a handful from my Champions game: Supersonic: "I'm vibrating his belt buckle." Player returning from the bathroom: "I came back at the wrong time…" Guards: "None shall pass!" Illuminatus: "I cast illusion to disguise us as nuns!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cranialspasm Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... During a V:tR campaign. A bit of backstory... One of the players was drugged and was trying to get an NPC to help us fight the uber baddie... She's stumbling over everything. Me (as Cam): "We're starting a fightclub." Renee (as Shannon): "But the first rule is to not talk about it, so I'm gonna hang up now!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Querysphinx Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... During a V:tR campaign. A bit of backstory... One of the players was drugged and was trying to get an NPC to help us fight the uber baddie... She's stumbling over everything. Me (as Cam): "We're starting a fightclub." Renee (as Shannon): "But the first rule is to not talk about it, so I'm gonna hang up now!" One of the PLAYERS was drugged? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cranialspasm Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Well, the player character was drugged. We have an "anti substance" rule for game since the pregaming game of drunken munchkin in '06. Game is incredibly difficult to play when the GM is sloppy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drhoz Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Edge City 3D - Strangers in a mildly odd land A stopover in a RIFTS-universe city of mutants, cyborgs, 'Pinks', juicers, etc. Trawler : It's just like home! Terminus : Only more so Trawler : Bane of druids everywhere Terminus : Black body-armour is so chic Miss Chaos : Hasn't seen her fiancé in months Avatar : Radioactive Man plasma-being Stentorian : Never looses a shouting match Zero : Once got the team infiltrated by a wooden cigar Indian After an anecdote about dropping 2L water bottles and garbage-bag waterbombs down a 12-storey stairwell, and the nature of water Trawler singing : "Incompressible... In every waaaay" Weldun, GM : Trawler: "I can leap just far enough to drown." Another improvised song, this time about the Soul Train last session Stentorian : Train whistle blowing ... Trawler : Makes a creepy noise. Underneath the covers, the souls of girls and boys . Terminus : Can you see if anybody is doing construction work? Lori (NPC, Stentorian's fiancé): We listen for the chorus of 'Show us ya tits!' We've been watching Battlestar Galactica : Original Series Purrdence : They ruined the character of Starbuck! They made her a man! We've also come up with the BSG:OS Drinking Game - Whenever they re-use an effects shot - take a drink - Whenever they use a star diffraction filter - take a drink - Whenever the trio of Cylon Raider pilots shows up - sing a line from Bohemian Rhapsody - Whenever the Lucasfilm laywers turn up chanting "Litigate! Litigate!" - take a drink We reach the Mississippi - and two Coalition barges, patrol boats, and a bunch of soldiers on guard. Zero : *sigh* Where's Arwen when you need her? We make quite an impression. Indeed, they think they're under attack by an orbital laser platform and an army of hovertrucks Weldun, GM : This is the Brownwater Patrol... Stentorian : Now even browner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drhoz Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Me : "I've had Battle Hymn of the Republic stuck in my head for two weeks now - I blame you lot for this. It doesn't help that it randomly interposed lines from Little Peter Rabbit and He Jumped From 20,000 Feet either. Well, that or All Along The Watchtower but that just comes from watching a season and a half of Battlestar Galactica in a week. Lucy Kennedy, Star of the Silver Screen. Also a closet alcoholic who's social currency is dropping like a stone Paddy McGinty, Son of Eire, veteran of the Great War and driver for an up-and-coming Mob Boss Alexei Petrovich, Russian Fringe Scientist, Drunkard and Lech. Blake Harrington, Private Eye. Also current owner of the most haunted house in much-haunted Arkham. Sydney Delthorn, dedicated scholar, currently working on a cover-to-cover translation of the Necronomicon. Poor, damned, fool. Col. Conrad Lancaster, retired across the pond to establish Lancaster's Rare Books. This won't end well. Me : "Considering your story about how Vitus was a German spy who wanted to flood America - a story I point out you didn't rehearse with your colleagues - managed to implicate three of O'Bannion's best leg-breakers in a case that now interests the Treasury Department AND the State Department, you're lucky you haven't ended up in a ditch somewhere. More likely several ditches. Failing to acquire those gold bars, and learning that Vitus had used Bonato's little black book as a firelighter didn't help any either. Admittedly you have managed to redeem yourself by neatly torpedoing Bonato with stolen accounts, scrapbooks, and a truckfull of smuggled liquor, as well as proving that the gold bars Vitus was passing around were last in Bonato's possession. The police are going to be very interested in why he never reported them stolen. I can only put this down to the Luck of the Irish. On the other hand O'Bannion hasn't followed up on your idea of setting up a smuggling pipeline through Innsmouth yet, so ditches may still feature in your future. " GM, Me : Ah yes, the postal services of Innsmouth. They include a free gift with every letter they deliver. Admittedly the free gift is a rock. And they seem to get letterboxes and windows confused. My brother has been playing a lot of the Cthulhu PC game Him : I don't like shoggoths Me : Of course not. Nobody sane likes shoggoths. Well, apart from anonymous_jess, but she always was a delightfully strange girl. Despite this he states his intention to befriend one. Me : Please consider - Abd al-Hazrad, the author of the Necronomicon, possibly the most truly knowledgeable human to ever walk the planet, frantically denied shoggoths were real.... Me : The only reason Vitus didn't swat you all immediately was because he was sure your display of blithering incompetence had to be a distraction from the real attack Bless The Beasts And Children is a neat little adventure - the hook a kidnapping, the challenge to find and rescue - but also enjoys a backstory that will horrify the players even when they leap to wrong conclusions ( a neat trick ). As another benefit the book includes, IMHO, the archetypal illustration of an adult Deep One, in some of the best black-and-white lineart Chaosium's has ever published. It was certainly what I had in mind when I put the following together in Spore. ( Hmm... I really must do a Shadow Over Innsmouth adventure in Spore : Galactic Adventures ) All kudos to John T Snyder then And more opportunity to wax stomach-churningly lyrical - I do so enjoy watching my players wilt when I launch into that sort of polysyllabic prose - they know they've just stumbled on something bad. GM, Me : "Ah, the sense of smell - oldest of the senses, pre-dating even sight. Bound inextricably to our reptilian brains, so close to memory a mere whiff can trigger flashbacks of almost numinous intensity. For Proust, it was Madeline biscuits. For you, the sickly-sweet aroma of Passchendaele and Verdun - the scent of human corpses, bursting with rot." Players : GM, Me : "No sanity loss for seeing the corpse, you two - you're war veterans. You could have tap-danced from Paris to Berlin on the things. Although they would have squelched a bit underfoot, I admit." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Mackinder Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... We've also come up with the BSG:OS Drinking Game - Whenever they re-use an effects shot - take a drink - Whenever they use a star diffraction filter - take a drink - Whenever the trio of Cylon Raider pilots shows up - sing a line from Bohemian Rhapsody - Whenever the Lucasfilm laywers turn up chanting "Litigate! Litigate!" - take a drink So, in brief, when watching BSG:OS, just continuously drink and sing BR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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