Wynternight Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 Years ago the GM who introduced me to Champions decided he wanted to run a long term campaign and came up with a highly detailed city, background, etc. We made our characters, really fleshed them out as people, and went to play. During a particularly nasty street fight with one of the local villains, the city PD rolled out their specialty squad for dealing with powered criminals. A sleek black truck roared to the scene, disgorging several groups of well armed officers in high tech body armour, carrying futuristic high powered weapons and went to work on the baddies. It was then that we realised what the GM had said when they came to the scene. "Members of the Fast Armed Response Team have arrived." Yes, the police had sent FART to deal with the villains. Game came to a screeching halt for some time after that as the GM had no idea what he had done when making this squad. Needless to say it's been a running joke for alot of years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 19, 2006 Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted October 19, 2006 Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. ROFLOL Thanks for sharing QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted October 19, 2006 Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. That poor man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proditor Posted October 19, 2006 Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. Now that was funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted October 19, 2006 Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. We almost ended up with a Special Crimes And Tactics team, that would have been a followup for when FART wasn't enough... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 19, 2006 Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. FART is always enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. I hear their covert strike force is Silent but Deadly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Schultz Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. True story - my dad, a naval architect and later administrator, was in charge of the Ship Handling Integration Technology project. (or something like that - it was basically a pilot-by-wire propulsion and control system.) It was abbreviated SHT. The theory is that someone did it on purpose, and no one noticed until it was WAAAYYY too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirViss Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. Another true story: Some years ago to canadian political parties allied together, the Conservatives and the Reform party. They decided to call themselves the Conservative-Reform Alliance Party. The party didn't last long. Seems like most politicians didn't want to belong to any party called C.R.A.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. Actually, that party is still around, and is in fact currently the governing party of Canada (albeit in a minority government). However, they did change the name to "Conservative Party of Canada" pretty quickly after folks started pointing out the acronym. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirViss Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. True. I should have said the name didn't last long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klytus Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. On the WoTC board, a DM was telling the tale of a masterful campaign idea he had for a low-level party. He wanted to do something with an unusual animal, so he took a critter called the Rhea, and added the Dire template to it. After spending hours on building the plot, he realized that the monster was a Dire Rhea. He trashed the whole thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. See, you can get a lot of milage in certain campaigns with acronyms that would be unfortunate (and unworkable) in others. I still remember with fondness the K-36ite Atomic Bomb Of Outrageous Magnitude from the old Golden Age of Champions book - the KABOOM was great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wynternight Posted October 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. On the WoTC board, a DM was telling the tale of a masterful campaign idea he had for a low-level party. He wanted to do something with an unusual animal, so he took a critter called the Rhea, and added the Dire template to it. After spending hours on building the plot, he realized that the monster was a Dire Rhea. He trashed the whole thing. LOL! That was...unfortunate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weldun Posted October 24, 2006 Report Share Posted October 24, 2006 Re: A bit of fun in an old Champions game. A local university, Curtin University of Technology to be exact, very nearly had the unfortunate name of Curtin University of New Technologies. Apparently they had even had the marble sign already made before somebody twigged, but I suspect that that part is embellishment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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