You know you've got problems when...

[Barbara vdB]

You know you've got problems when: The pacifist(code vs killing) in the party says" When he's down, cut his throat. Then we don't have to worry about him anymore."

You know you've really got problems when: They walk off because they are more interested in getting a drunken party member out and cleaned up before his girlfriend sees him, than in helping with combat.

 

 

Feel free to add your own, I have about 4 pages of them from various games. Use the abreviations, it's a lot quicker.

eg.

YKYGPW: you cast a fireball at the theif threatening your familiar.

YKYRGPW: you're a fighter.

 

YKYGPW: you're badly injured party can't rest because of frogs croaking.

YKYRGPW: you find out that they are as big as you, more numerous and breathe fire.

 

YKYRPGW: You are completely surrounded by enemies.

YKYRGPW: You cast an area effect spell ,with you as ground zero. Which should knock out all the enemies around you but forget about your Vulnerability to that type of attack.

 

 

Have fun!

[Evil Steve]

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You know you've got problems when:You're fighting an invasion of 400 kilogram Cane Toads.

 

You know you've really got problems when:Its Cane Toad mating season

 

Thank Dog I missed that adventure. Shudder

[Weldun]

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YNYGPW the team leader is a drugged-up combat cyborg called "Twitch".

YNYRGPW Twitch is the "calming influence" for another character.

 

I might even tell the story behind that, one day.

[Dreadnought]

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YKYGPW the party brick is splattered on a wall

YKYRGPW the brick's player is just thankful to be out of the combat

[jkwleisemann]

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YKYGPW: Foxbat shows up and laughs manaiaclally about his latest Master Plan working perfectly.

YKYRGPW: He explains, shortly before fleeing, that that 'Master Plan' entailed leaving a flaming bag of dog-doo on Destroyer's doorstep with a sign that said "With Love, Your Team" attached.

[Barbara vdB]

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Ykygpw: Your character's parents think "The only use for Supers, is dealing with other Supervillains."

YKYRGPW: You've got Chaos/Entropy powers (mainly destructive)

 

YKYGPW: Your character's parents don't think working in a PRIMUS office is 'suitable'

YKYRGPW: You're actually training as a Feild Agent.

 

YKYGPW: You plan on telling them on your 21st birthday (after inheriting)

YKYRGPW: You don't think that this will stop them having you sent a 'good doctor to deal with your little problem'

 

YKYGPW: You put Battle Dress Uniform, on your 21st party invitations for your classmates.

YKYRGPW: You think inviting Foxbat (and inadvertantly Batfox) because it can't make it any worse. (Possibly Eurostar would have been better)

 

 

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Only 4 game months to her birthday and Weldun is planning how much will hit the fan.

[Amber Nytstar]

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YKYGPW: Your GM tells you that your vulnerability to electricity also includes ion weapons.

YKYRGPW: Ion rifles are standard issue for the alien invaders you have to repel.

[Trebuchet]

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YKYGPW: You barely manage to defeat a supervillain team.

YKYRGPW: You find out those were the mooks.

[Peregrine]

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YKYGPW: Your GM tells you that your vulnerability to electricity also includes ion weapons.

YKYRGPW: Ion rifles are standard issue for the alien invaders you have to repel.

 

No, that's "You've Just Been Screwed By The GM." Redefining your vulnerability by adding an SFX when a new, major foe uses that very SFX is deliberate.

[Metaphysician]

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At the very least, if the GM rules that the aliens' Ion Rifles trigger vulnerabilities to Electricity, they should *also* be subject to any powers effecting Electricity. So, your buddy Megavolt with his Absorb vs Electricity, ED Armor vs Electricity, and Dispel vs Electricity Powers should be smashing them up.

 

If the Ion Rifles trigger your vulnerability, and yet somehow aren't effected by Megavolt's powers? Flip the table and hang the GM from his toes.

[Balabanto]

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That depends on the level at which he bought the vulnerability.

 

If it's COMMON, guess what? The player should shut up and take it. That means that it should pretty much be appearing one in every two sessions. The GM might want to pull the player aside and ask him to change his vulnerability in a case like this by buying it down with experience points, but if someone paid for 30 points of 1.5 x Stun and Body from Electricity, he should eat it.

[Balabanto]

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You know you've got problems when...

 

The Master Villain sends his henchmen after you and they know exactly how to beat you.

 

You know you've really got problems when after they beat you, they gloat about how easy it was to figure out your powers and abilities from the porn they downloaded on the internet.

[Vondy]

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...when you have know idea what a thread is about based on its title.

 

...when entire sentences rather than nouns are replaced with acronyms.

[Scott Baker]

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...when you have know idea what a thread is about based on its title.

 

...when entire sentences rather than nouns are replaced with acronyms.

 

I'd rep you but you know the old story about having to spread some rep....

 

Scott Baker

[Weldun]

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...when you have know idea what a thread is about based on its title.

 

...when entire sentences rather than nouns are replaced with acronyms.

She's new to these boards. I think that the acronym is relatively common at other places, so...

[Vondy]

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She's new to these boards. I think that the acronym is relatively common at other places' date=' so...[/quote']

 

Its a general criticism of internet language abuse. I stand by it.

[Weldun]

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Hey, I'm with you on that. But maybe you could have worded it a little nicer? After all, when people come here and see "WWYCD", they have no idea what that means.

[Vondy]

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Hey' date=' I'm with you on that. But maybe you could have worded it a little nicer? After all, when people come here and see "WWYCD", they have no idea what that means.[/quote']

 

I said what I said, meant what I said, and chose to say it that way.

 

I was not unduly harsh and clarity did not suffer from platitudes.

 

I prefer frankness to wringing my hands over being politic.

 

And, responding to nerd-gibberish with a wry zinger is hardly a social gaff.

 

I regard the excessive use of jargon as rude to layman, new-comers, and those who love clean language.

 

Personally, this trend (i.e., "WWYCD") is a part of the boards' self-ordained "l33t" speak. Its an exclusionary, cliquish form of geek-jargon that caters to elitist nerdy shmucks. Its only efficient for the old timers, and even among the old timers are those who find it annoying. When I saw this thread's title I honestly thought the boards had been spammed by a computer program spewing gibberish. I'm not trying to be harsh - that was my initial reaction. It was meaningless. If people can't understand you, what purpose does the language serve? I won't go into histrionics and bemoan the downfall of society because its not that bad, but its a good step towards becoming post-literate and putting on a Tower of Babel reenactment.

 

New from White Wolf: Geek: The Babbling.

[Barbara vdB]

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Because I'm too lazy to type in the whole lot each time and kep forgetting about fast keys.

[Weldun]

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Well, we could request that the mods change the thread title to "You know you've got problems when..."?

 

And, in Von D-man's defence, the only reason I even looked at the thread myself was because you posted it, Barbara.

[Metaphysician]

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No offense, but it *used* to be that "What Would Your Character Do" was written out every single time. I think it was only after the first couple dozen threads, once everyone on the board knew what it meant, that someone abbreviated it.

 

And frankly, thats what acronyms are *for*, to shorten and simplify commonly used phrases. It wasn't adopted out of any malevolent urge to exclude the newbie. And given it would take any newbie all of one click to figure out what it means for the duration of their stay. . .

[Trebuchet]

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When I saw this thread's title I honestly thought the boards had been spammed by a computer program spewing gibberish.]

That was my reaction as well. I only finally looked at this thread because I saw it hadn't been deleted as spam by a mod.

 

As to your supposed "harshness," Israelis are known for their blunt speech. In a world in which many people think the world's sharp corners need to be wrapped in foam padding, I find straight speech curiously refreshing.

[Remjin]

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I said what I said, meant what I said, and chose to say it that way.

 

I was not unduly harsh and clarity did not suffer from platitudes.

 

I prefer frankness to wringing my hands over being politic.

 

And, responding to nerd-gibberish with a wry zinger is hardly a social gaff.

 

I regard the excessive use of jargon as rude to layman, new-comers, and those who love clean language.

 

Personally, this trend (i.e., "WWYCD") is a part of the boards' self-ordained "l33t" speak. Its an exclusionary, cliquish form of geek-jargon that caters to elitist nerdy shmucks. Its only efficient for the old timers, and even among the old timers are those who find it annoying. When I saw this thread's title I honestly thought the boards had been spammed by a computer program spewing gibberish. I'm not trying to be harsh - that was my initial reaction. It was meaningless. If people can't understand you, what purpose does the language serve? I won't go into histrionics and bemoan the downfall of society because its not that bad, but its a good step towards becoming post-literate and putting on a Tower of Babel reenactment.

 

New from White Wolf: Geek: The Babbling.

 

PREACH ON, BROTHER!

 

Yeah, I'm in the same camp here... as a whole, people have a hard enough time speaking their own language correctly, no need to exacerbate it with this type of language. And, in addition, those who learn English as a second language are usually further frustrated because its such a whimsical language anyway, with more exceptions than rules.

 

Generalizing about a group of people and their manner of speech is kind of poor form as well.

 

I'd rep you again, Von D-man, but that'd be twice in a row... and it doesn't let me do such things.

[OzMike]

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I said what I said, meant what I said, and chose to say it that way.

 

I was not unduly harsh and clarity did not suffer from platitudes.

 

I prefer frankness to wringing my hands over being politic.

 

And, responding to nerd-gibberish with a wry zinger is hardly a social gaff.

 

I regard the excessive use of jargon as rude to layman, new-comers, and those who love clean language.

 

Personally, this trend (i.e., "WWYCD") is a part of the boards' self-ordained "l33t" speak. Its an exclusionary, cliquish form of geek-jargon that caters to elitist nerdy shmucks. Its only efficient for the old timers, and even among the old timers are those who find it annoying. When I saw this thread's title I honestly thought the boards had been spammed by a computer program spewing gibberish. I'm not trying to be harsh - that was my initial reaction. It was meaningless. If people can't understand you, what purpose does the language serve? I won't go into histrionics and bemoan the downfall of society because its not that bad, but its a good step towards becoming post-literate and putting on a Tower of Babel reenactment.

 

New from White Wolf: Geek: The Babbling.

 

Based on all you have said, why not start a new thread to discuss the issue? You're obviously passionate about it, seem to have a lot to say on the matter, and others appear to share that passion.

[gojira]

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Hey' date=' I'm with you on that. But maybe you could have worded it a little nicer? After all, when people come here and see "WWYCD", they have no idea what that means.[/quote']

 

I agree with Von D-Man, generally speaking. And I don't think his criticism was harsh. I rather found it wry and in the spirit of the thread it self. No blood, no foul.

 

These boards could do with a bit better writing style overall. Barbara is hardly the only person here using funky acronyms. It's just a general complaint, nothing personal or special. Move along, nothing to see here...