Shadow Hawk

Re: Your Gaming Group's Jargon "What if we took a hundred chickens..." - any absurd plan. See the 'Gaming Group' quote. "Oh no, a Gazebo!" - a monster we don't recognize the description for.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Oh, lord... old discussion I just remembered. New group of PC's in DnD, trying to get transportation... Jack: We can't afford horses. Hank: If we pool our money, we can get a horse and wagon. GM: You need two horses to pull a wagon. Jack: Which we can't afford. Hank: How about ponies? GM: You'll need four ponies. Jack: Which we can't afford. Bill: Wait, if we get a bunch of pigs, harness them to the wagon, then... Jack: NO! We aren't going that route. We're going to end up with a wagon towed by a hundred chickens. No.

Re: Picking a codename that, like, a million other characters haven't already used.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Not a game quote, but... Watched the movie "Oscar" last night. Sly Stallone plays a 1930's era mob boss trying to go straight. His minions haven't gotten it quite yet... Sly: I told you to get rid of the guns! Minion: You didn't mean all of them. later, after taking the gun away from the minion, a car backfires and the minion pulls out *another gun. Sly: Where'd you get that? Minion: It's my back up. Sly: I told you to get rid of ALL the guns! Minion: Yeah, but... Sly: That's it, give me all the weapons. Minion proceeds to pull out another gun from his coat, a gun from behind his back, a gun from a ankle holster, a derringer from his forearm, a knife, another knife, a set of brass knuckles, a combined knife/brass knuckles set, a knife concealed as a belt buckle, a half dozen shurikan, a hand grenade... Sly: It's like disarming Germany. After this scene, my buddy Hank commented... Hank: The minion must be a first level fighter. Me: No, he's a low level rogue. Hank: With that many weapons? Me: They were all concealed. A fighter would carry them openly.

Re: superuseless superpowers How about "When frightened" being defined as hit by a scary type presense attack over your presense? So whenever 'frightened', he disappears and can be found under the blankets...

Re: superuseless superpowers Well, yes. This is the thread on useless powers, right?

Re: Your Gaming Group's Jargon "Rogue does rogue-ey stuff." - Character works in his specialty: Rogue searches for traps, disarms found traps, picks lock...

Re: superuseless superpowers Life Support: expanded breathing, water, doesn't work when wet(-1/4). Teleportation, always on, persistant, 0 end, only to fixed locations, one fixed location (bedroom in bed under blankets). For a disadvantage, Suseptable to oxygen, 3d6, every segment.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... This weeks game session, 4th edition DnD. GM: You've heard a plethora of rumors about these mountains. Ciaphas: What's a plethora? Torm: Mountain goblins. Tougher than standard goblins, but usually not really evil. Aurther: Not good, though, very xenophobic. Ciaphas: Thanks. GM: Party: Later... GM: You are confronted by a group of what look like Goblins, but with rock grey skin. Torm: Does anyone speak Plethora? Ciaphas: I speak Goblin, would that work? Aurther: Worth a try, it's a dialect. Ciaphas: I ask who they are and what they want. GM: "We are the Plethora..." Party: Later still... Jarl: How was I to know that fireball spells would set dry grass on fire?

Re: Picking a codename that, like, a million other characters haven't already used. OK, American carrier names don't do any better. American submarines had some good nautical names... Seawolf, Skipjack, Seatiger. Not anymore. Now they're all cities, states, 'great Americans' and one former president. Why? "Fish don't vote for sub funding."

Re: Picking a codename that, like, a million other characters haven't already used. Alas, Sea Lord Baron Sir John "Jackie" Fisher chose his family motto after the commissioning of HMS Dreadnaught. "Dreadnaught" was a old British warship name, being first used by a 40 gun Ship of the Line in 1553. The famous battleship was the eighth ship of the name. And the second battleship of the name. British battleships make for some good choices, I must admit: Warrior, Black Prince, Valiant, Achilles, Minotaur, Hercules, Swiftsure, Thunderer... American battleships, with thier 'named for states' traditions don't have that impact.

Re: Power Game. Give it a try. Teleportation, extradimensional (one other dimension), usable against others, at range, area affect one hex. "Here's your handbasket, have a nice trip!"

Re: You. Make. The Call. My call is no. Character is too powerful for the limits I use: a TK str higher than what I let bricks have, defenses too high, movement that would give speedsters a run. No. But it's not my game, maybe in your game it wouldn't be a deal breaker. Oh, and the "but if he goes all offense he'll have no defense" is the arguement I would use to keep the player from using it. It's another munchkin excuse, along with "I'll only use it rarely" with 'rarely' being defined as every other phase.

Re: Picking a codename that, like, a million other characters haven't already used. Welp, the question becomes "what is the name for?" For a hero, you're trying to put fear in your enemies, reassure the innocent, convince law enforcement you're on thier side, and hide who you really are. Nom de Capes I've used included... Shadow Hawk: invisibility, flight, martial arts Pheonix Hawk: Fire powers, flight War Hawk: flight, rka, armor Killer Hawk: villian, flight, hka. Stick: blind martial artist Armor wearers included B.A.D.G.E.R. - acronym stood for "Battle Armor Designed by Gregory Edwin Robertson" (Acronyms work good for armor wearers, implies military funding) The Starry Knight (Knight's a good word to add for armor wearers) Steel Tiger (Steel's another good word) PanzerKrieger - "Armored Warrior" in bad German. "Panzer" is armor, of course. Paladin (another knight reference) Dreadnaught - battleship reference, and not really heroic sounding. P.A.B.A. - another acronym, but I don't remember what for. Sounded foolish. As for villians with names no one 'gets', I can picture it now... Villian: "I am Professor Therion!" Silly person: "What's a Therion?" (Professor Therion fires energy bolt at silly person): "Kzap!" PT: "Look it up, worm!"

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Given how horrible Foxbat is at planning, it'd probably turn out that his phone chat service payed the caller $3 a minute...

Re: Your Gaming Group's Jargon Yahtzee! - any roll with either five 6's or five 1's. Never was popular with other numbers. "The RED button" - any explanation that goes over the players head. Refers to a blind character being given orders to "Push the red button!" Dusted - any minion who's doing really well in combat. Reference to PCP (angel dust). "I walk into a tree" - bad perception roll. "There goes the neighborhood" - miss a attack roll, especially large range attacks. First used by me to describe what a character with a RKA autofire explosion who missed his target hex. Also "Random property damage". "Mood swing, slay the party" - acting out of character, like a character with 'Honorable' suggesting that we lie. "Need another Timmy" - minion gets defeated, usually horribly. From the TV show 'Dinosaurs'. "Viper brought a RV!" - bad guys have a combat vehicle. From 'Die Hard'. "I continue to fall to my death" - characters spending too much time discussing options while someone is about to die. From a session where 15+ minutes was spent discussing how to rescue someone who fell out of a plane.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... In the League of Unusual Individuals campaign, the GM often was as silly as the players. GM: The Mad Ninja found out where the Clonemaster's Hideout was. TMN: I found it in the Yellow Pages. Rose: What, under "Hideouts, villian"? TMN: No, discoteques. GM: The Yellow Pages has a full page ad for "The Clonemaster's Hideout and Disco". Rose: (OOC) I say we kill him slowly. Stick: I ask someone to look under "Hideouts, villian" for me. GM: You find a ad for Foxbat's hideout.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... This weekend's DnD game had the king of Mhas offering us a reward for killing the dragon ravaging his kingdom. When we left the castle, the team's bard started singing (and we all joined in, much to the DM's disgust...) We're off the slay the lizard, The wonderful lizard of Mhas...

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Locust vs. Battlemaster: Locust got behind Battlemaster, scored a lucky critical in the SRM6 ammo, and the Battlemaster blew up. Locust pilot, now thinking he's invincible, charges a Warhammer. Warhammer hits locust with two PPC's in the center torso, Locust dies. GM gives Locust player bonus points for his next character for being amusing.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Famous Last Words: Battletech edition. Enemy (NPC) Warhammer fires everything at a (PC) Hunchback pilot, at range 2. GM: Two PPCs... miss. SRM6... miss. Two medium lasers... miss. Two small lasers... miss. Two machine guns... Hunchback Pilot, in mock terror: "Oh, no, not the machine guns!" GM: Hit, critical, location... head. Cockpit. Hunchback pilot survived, heavily wounded. Never again mocked machine guns.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... The breast removal thing was part of the myth, which was a distortion of the truth. Greek myth said that Amazons were incredible bowmen (bowpersons?) which matched the links to the Scythians. Using a Greek style bow the way the Greeks did (Pulling to the center of the chest) would be impossible for a well endowed woman as the Amazons were said to be. So, they must have... Actually, they used shortbows and pulled to the eye, like a modern bowman. And they weren't 'well endowed' like the Greeks portrayed them. No one was. Which causes much fewer problems. So, anywho, we have the myth (wrong) and the reality. Back to topic. Battletech campaign. I found myself going one on one with my 45 ton Phoenix Hawk against a 80 ton Awesome. Out gunned, outarmored, and this guy kept on beating me in initiative rolls, so I couldn't get behind him. Every turn, we'd trade fire. He had trouble hitting me, but my hits were hardly scratching his armor. And after every salvo, he'd broadcast over the radio: "I'm not impressed". It was getting annoying. He's crippled my mech, I can't run, another solid hit and I'm going down, when I got lucky. I hit his head with both my large laser and my medium, killing him instantly. And my response... "Now are you impressed?"

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Heck, the Amazons were myth. Why not get the myth right? (Yes, there were tribes of women warriors that were the basis of the myth. But they didn't call themselves Amazons.)

Re: Worth a thousand words? That's a costume that makes a statement. "Unable to dress myself, will someone please help?"

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... A real Amazon would have one removed just so they could use a bow. (That part never makes the comic books, I wonder why?)

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... "I've never seen a ballista before. What do they do?"