Aphorisms for a Superhero Universe

[steriaca]

If you die, someone else will either use your life as an example or take your mantle as your own.

 

Then you can come back from the grave/get a clone/time travel/whatever.

[wcw43921]

"The time is always right to do right."--Martin Luther King Jr.

[wcw43921]

".  .  .(T)here’s no reason to fear standing up for what you believe in."--Ella Scott, co-founder of the Vandegrift Banned Book Club

[DoctorImpossible]

To achieve the impossible, you must be willing to try the unbelievable. 

[wcw43921]

"To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
And to run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
And to love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far
To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For that heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be truе
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie pеaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable, the unreachable, the unreachable star!"--Man Of La Mancha

[wcw43921]

"A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown"--Tom Hanks

[GDShore]

Be wary of old men who carry brooms. .... first corollary - or those who carry canes. 

[wcw43921]

 

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”― Albert Einstein

[wcw43921]

“Death is welcome when it comes; but to yield- never!”--King Arthur

[wcw43921]

“Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue, if you can pacify, and don’t raise a hand at all, until you’ve extended it.”--Wonder Woman

[Pariah]

"The bigger they are, the lower their DCV."

[Pariah]

On 11/17/2022 at 5:52 AM, Tech said:

Be wary of a smiling GM.

 

Corollary: If the GM is smiling, it's already too late.

[Clonus]

16 hours ago, Pariah said:

"The bigger they are, the lower their DCV."

 

Mentioned as "Growth is the amazing power to make yourself an easy target."

[wcw43921]

"Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost."--Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[SteelCold]

Supervillians don't eventually slay heroes, sequels do. 

[Tech]

On 6/24/2023 at 7:29 PM, Pariah said:

 

Corollary: If the GM is smiling, it's already too late.

 

Corollary to that: The GM should beware of grinning players.

 

[Tech]

Regardless of how good the GM's plot, there are always more players than GM to out-think the plot.

[GDShore]

As a GM you can spend months creating your campaign, seeding it with clues, novel encounters, villages, towns, cities, colorful and unique terrain and hordes of NPC's and the one area you have not yet completed that can only be accessed by going up a mountain pass and then traverse a narrow ledge above a bottomless gorge.  A ledge no sane person would essay, and that is where they will choose to go. "SHEESH"

[Tech]

3 hours ago, GDShore said:

As a GM you can spend months creating your campaign, seeding it with clues, novel encounters, villages, towns, cities, colorful and unique terrain and hordes of NPC's and the one area you have not yet completed that can only be accessed by going up a mountain pass and then traverse a narrow ledge above a bottomless gorge.  A ledge no sane person would essay, and that is where they will choose to go. "SHEESH"

Oh, that is so true. Recently, I had a Champions adventure - it was supposed to last, oh. 2-2.5 hours. The players pulled a fast one of me I didn't expect but I respected and went that route. The game lasted 1 hour but I told the players I greatly enjoyed their ingenuity.

[Pariah]

When you're fighting Doctor Destroyer, there's no point in leaving Charges unexpended.

[Tech]

1 hour ago, Pariah said:

When you're fighting Doctor Destroyer, there's no point in leaving Charges unexpended.

 

Corollary:  When fighting Grond, you will run out of charges.

[steriaca]

Doctor Destroyer and Grond are extremely dangerous, but even more dangerous is that one villain you don't know anything about and you don't know what they can do.

[DeleteThisAccount]

If you get hurt, hurt'em back. If you get killed, walk it off. 

- Captain America, Universe 199999

[GDShore]

old men who carry brooms, ..... or those who plant trees.

[wcw43921]

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."--Edmund Burke