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Once in a great while, a player almost unwittingly utters a line that suspends all gaming activity for a noticeable amount of time. Thus do I present unto this forum....
....Tomorrow Boy: The Defenders' uber-genius teenage gadgeteer from the future with a penchant for accidentally dropping references to future events.
 
The group was investigating a crime scene when Foxbat (who is convinced that The Defenders have shown him the error of his ways and is striving to prove he's now a hero and worthy of joining the team) interrupted them in an attempt to "help." Having already determine which direction the criminals had fled by using his high-tech gadgetry, Tomorrow Boy points the overeager Foxbat in the wrong direction.
 
Tomorrow Boy - You might be able to help us after all, Bats. Looks like whoever did this went THAT way! *points* We still have some wrap-up work to do, but if YOU hurry, you might catch 'em!
 
Foxbat - Ah ha! Evil doers beware! *he ascends to his Foxbatcopter and heads off.*
 
Nighthawk - Nice work dealing with that lunatic, TB.
 
Tomorrow Boy - Eh, no problem. Still.... hard to believe that guy actually becomes President.

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Another one from the Avengers Next game. The new Avengers are being questions by the press ... and the press is starting to ask some tough (even hostile) questions. Sorry about the length, but this one literally put chills up my spine. Kudos to Kolbrandr the Brave!
 
The question was in reference to the death of the Vision, which happened a few years previously:
"This is a question for Cinnabar," a reporter speaks out. "But I'd also like to throw it open to any and all the other new Avengers to hear their take on the matter. Cinnabar, your father's death was a terrible blow -- not just to you personally, but to the other heroes around the country, and to the nation as a whole. But his death brought home an important (and often overlooked) truth about superheroic activities -- that sometimes the good guys don't win. Can you share with us your feelings on this dangerous, potentially deadly job you're about to take on? "
 

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Too lazy to fully explain the context, but it might be funnier this way...
 

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Situation: The fabric of the universe is tearing. Rifts to pure chaos are opening faster than Starbucks.
 
One of the villians is a Dragon, gives a beautiful speech about welcoming the destruction of the world and all the people on it as it means unbelievable wealth and power for him.
 
One of the heroes who has a Strong Code vs. Killing ponders killing the dragon by throwing him into one of the growing chaos rift so that he has time to stop the main villian and rolls his ego roll. Natural 3.
 
"It appears you've just mastered situational ethics."

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The game was a Star Trek adventure. Just as we were about to head into the suspicious nebula, the player who was playing the captain had his cell go off. He picked up the phone, opened it, snapped "I'm busy!" and hung up. (He'd specifically arranged to be off-call for the game time, and someone ignored that.)
 
Turned out the nebula was a time-vortex. After several iterations, it became clear that the solution to the problem was to nevr have gone into the nebula in the first place. We managed to get clear several seconds before "game start" and sent an urgent message to the captain telling him not to go in.
 
I paused. "Oh! No! We're doomed. That was the call he refused to take!"

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Well, not really 'quote of the week,' as this took place some years ago, in a 4E game, but it's still memorable.
 
First off, the necessary background. Radar was a flying projector - practically a speedster, but he preferred to rely on his Laser Blast than Move Throughs.
 
Not that move-throughs were a serious problem for him - he could dole out somewhere in the neighborhood of 30" of flight movement even before his NCM multiples came into play, so he could cause some *serious* hurt to just about anything, himself included (low defenses). Of course, his 4d6 AP RKA could do that pretty well on its own (the aforementioned laser blast), but that's beside the point.
 
We were younger and I wasn't paying close enough attention to the fact that, as the GM, I had veto powers. Ah, the foolhardiness of youth, eh?
 
Anyways, Radar was played by a player of mine who practically *begged* to have Foxbat thrown at him... and so Foxbat was thusly thrown. When the fight *opens* with a 15" flying wedgie, and Foxbat *isn't* the guy administering it... well, y'know things are already starting to go strangely.
 
As the rest of the group watches in sheer disbelief, what started out as a largely random encounter quickly becomes an exercise in increasing ridiculousness as Foxbat's attention is *thoroughly* shifted to the superhero who interrupted his Master Plan of taking over the city by robbing ice-cream trucks (and getting some Fudge Ripple in the process). Foxbat fires on Radar, Radar returns fire... it's all pretty well normal, really, except for the two people involved. Until Foxbat fires off a Smoke Ball, blinding Radar in the darkness field.
 
Then fires a net at Radar, and actually manages to hit, entangling him.
 
Now, not wanting to *kill* Radar with a fall, I rule that a net wouldn't result in him falling, just tangle him up and keep him in place until he can find a way out.
 
And oh did he *ever* find a way out.
 
Andy: "After spending the last phase trying to break free, I'll just use my Flight at full speed to bust out of the net."
 
Everybody around the table stopped and looked at him like he was crazy.
 
Me: "Are you sure you want to do that?" I ask him. "You have no real idea which way you're pointed."
 
A: "Yeah," he says easily.
 
M: "You're going to have to dice for which way you're pointing when you take off."
 
A: "That's fine."
 
M: "Your *full* movement, including non-combat?"
 
A: "Oh, I can use that? Cool, that way I'll be *sure* to get out!"
 
Keep in mind, throughout this exchange everybody's eyes are getting wider and wider as they do the math, and a few people have even caught on to what will almost inevitably happen and just laid their heads down and groaned. With his NCM, Radar's movement is somewhere in the neighborhood of 120" of Flight.
 
M: "Okay, I'll let you pick if you're going to dice for left/right, or up/down."
 
A: "Up/down, six is straight down."
 
I can only assume he was *planning* on getting a 3 or 4 and going straight *up*.
 
M: "Uhm... okay. Roll it."
 
Now, it doesn't take a 3 on your Deduction roll to figure out just what he managed to roll. Or the reaction everybody else had when he found out he was breaking out of a smoke-cloud and speeding towards the ground at maximum speed. His reaction, to his credit, was reprintable.
 
A: "WHAT?!?!?"

I was gentle, and let him only take Stun damage... and allowed him to reduce it as though it was for a move-through, instead of falling damage... and capped it at 30d6 (maximum falling damage, at the time)....
 
He's just lucky that 911 is on Foxbat-Speed-Dial.

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GM to player: "I don't think you have Weapon Element: Dead Snake for your martial arts?"

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GM to player: "I don't think you have Weapon Element: Dead Snake for your martial arts?"

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GM to player: "I don't think you have Weapon Element: Dead Snake for your martial arts?"

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Starting session of the new "Shadows Angelus" game.
 
Nestor (OOC about the team sorceress): "I am Jamadagni Renuka. You are very impressed."
 
Ross (the GM) describes a NPC that looks a lot like David Lopan from BTILC.
Jamadagni Renuka's player (OOC): Oh, crap! My character has green eyes! I'm screwed!"
 
Nestor on Tyger, the human/cat cross: "I'm your worst nightmare. A clade with a badge!"
 
Burton (team scientist): "We should wear helmets to defend against mind control."
Carpenter (team paladin): "I hope I'm not allergic to tinfoil."
Tyger: "I'm not wearing a colander on my head."
Burton (looks at Carpenter's sword): "I'm not the one using 12th Century technology."
 
Ross (the GM): *holds up a drawing of the monster on the map*
Yar: "Is that to scale?"
Ross: "Not quite."
Yar: "Thank God."

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Father Jacob: I am Father Jacob, priest of Obadhai.
Brother Theroin (cleric of Pelor): Oh, the lettuce god.
 
Kobold Sorcerer: You will not defeat me and my army!
Carr the Rogue: We don't have to defeat your army. If we kill you, you lose.

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From our long-running Champions game:
 
 
"Now Dr. A, let me go over this again, because I'm sure I'm missing something somewhere, okay?"
 
Dr. Anomaly: "Go ahead."
 
"First off, Kathleen [Enigma] is the woman of your dreams, and you're deeply in love with her."
 
Dr. Anomaly: "Correct."
 
"Second, she's in love with you, and has been for years, but has been afraid to say anything, at least until recently."
 
Dr. Anomaly: "That does seem to be the case, yes."
 
"Okay, now to the part I'm sure I'm screwing up. The two of you are in your bedroom, and Kathleen's planning on spending the night there..."
 
Dr. Anomaly: "That was her intention, and I certainly was not objecting."
 
"So...the woman of your dreams is going to spend the night in your bedroom...in your bed...and what the two of you end up doing isn't the 'obvious', but instead spend most of the night writing physics equations and chemical formulas on a blackboard and start assembling a list of components, equipment, and supplies?!?"
 
Dr. Anomaly: "Well, neither of us sleep more than a few hours a night, and there is a new lab we've been considering putting together once we're back home in Millennium City, so it seemed to both of us like an opportune time to..."
 
(heavy sigh) "Geeks...superpowered geeks...in love."

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So one of the guys in my group (who has a passing resemblance to the drummer of the Beatles) can never be happy with playing a normal character, he has to be the best of the best.
 
During a session of the greatest Legend of the Five Rings, I have ever seen, he decides to do some impossiblly stupid and incredibly heroic strength feat. His difficulty is damn near impossible on the dice he has.
 
The player looks at the dice on the table, closes his eyes, inhales and slowly exhales, and picks up the dice.
 
Other Player: Ringo, did you just focus your dice chi?
 
I laughed so hard pain came.

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From our Champions campaign:

The situation: Hummingbird has approached the PCs, at normal size, to parley. She claims that her teammates are out of the country, and she’s being stalked by Freakshow. The heroes are understandably wary; none of them are mentalists, and none would have an easy time hitting Hummingbird or resisting her Mental Powers if she shrinks. Witch Hazel whips out a potion phial.

Witch Hazel: “This is Instant Bat Juice. I uncork this, or drop it, and 750 common black bats will swarm out. They have no rational mind for you to affect, as they are little more than very fast, agile, hungry insectivores intent on gobbling up any moving thing smaller than themselves. Do you understand this?”
Hummingbird: *puts up hands* “You had me at ‘bats’.”
 

Later…
Orca: “’Instant Bat Juice’? Good one, Hazel. Out of curiosity, what was in that phial?”
Witch Hazel: “Instant Bat Juice.”
Orca: “You actually carry around a phial of Instant Bat Juice?”
Witch Hazel: *shrugs* “Well, you never know, do you?”
Sun Walker: *smiles and shakes head* “Now that’s totally witchin’.”
 
 
Later…Hummingbird and Witch Hazel are having a private conversation about fears.
 
Hummingbird: “I suppose you think I should just, like, build a bridge and get over myself, right?”
Witch Hazel: “I imagine you could just ford across. You’re pretty shallow.”
 
End of session, Freakshow is downed and bound and Renegade has him Covered, waiting for the authorities…
 
Freakshow: “I’ll get you for this! You’ll never see me coming!”
Renegade: “True. I can’t see you coming with your bag of knives, and you can’t see me coming in my battlesuit.”
Freakshow: “Just remember, hero…you have to sleep sometime.”
Renegade: “I’ve been trained not to sleep.” [Note: This is true.]
Freakshow: “Man, you are just creepy. And not in a good way.”

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Superhero team, narrowing the search for the villains, anticipating battle.
 
Our Leader, half in character, half out of character: "Let's keep the damage down to one city block this time, eh?"
 
Chuckles all around. I tentatively raise my hand, speaking for my super-strong character.
 
"Yes?"
 
"Is that one city block for the whole team, or a city block each?"

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In Yesterday's D&D game, Aaron the GM is describing this scene out of the module where a female Barbarian is fending off a group of Orcs, she sees us and then yells for us to come down and help her. After her speech, she swings her axe and cuts down one Orc and hits another with the same swing.
 
I say, "She must have the Cleave feat. Maybe even Great Cleave."
 
Don says, "Yeah, she's got some Great Cleavage."
 
JG

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I was running my Zombie Apocalypse game, with several long-time friends.
 
The three PC's and one NPC are on the top of a sporting goods store that they and their survivor group has been holed up in for a couple of days, as they prep to leave L.A.
 
The three PC's are Jordan, a gorgeous LAPD "kiddie cop" (think of Eliza Dushku in the LAPD uniform. Now youre on track), Eric, a recently-graduated high-school athletic star who was about to turn pro before the world ended (looks like Tom Welling), and Gabriel, a six foot ten EMT ambulance driver (who looks like Abraham Benrubi). The NPC with them is most often referred to as "Conspiracy Man", and goes only by the name of Ed. Despite a few comments about the "alien overlords" and the "flouride mind-control policy", they nevertheless gave Ed a rifle, as they had just raided a pawn shop, and his oddly useful skill-set was instrumental in their success. (They suspect he is ex military, and has seen too much).
 
The group has recently discovered that there are a few more survivors trapped on the fourht floor of a building about a block away from their own hideout. The people trapped in the office building have smashed out a window and hung a sign out of it written on a drape that says "Help Us".
 
As the characters are deciding what to do next, the sounds of gunfire erupt from a rooftop a few buildings away. The characters look around, and realize that it is coming from four gang-banger types who are taking shots at the "Help Us" sign, and the people behind it. (These are people with the same mentality as those who were shooting at police, ambulances, and fire fighters during the L.A.riots).
 
Jordan, the cop, is the first to spot the perps. She aims her rifle at them. The others follow suit. I tell them that one is shooting, another has a rifle also, and there are two others with pistols besides. They look like they are in their early twenties, of mixed ethnicity, and are wearing loose clothes with alot of sports team endorsements. Jordan makes a Perception roll and recognizes them as wearing local gang colors.
 
Ed: Firing order?
 
Jordan: Im taking down the shooter.
 
Ed: Ill take the other one who has a rifle.
 
Eric and Gabriel's Players both indicate they are also going to fire. I ask them to pick targets. And then...
 
Gabriel's Player: Ill shoot whichever one has the most underwear showing.
 
 
 
 
After we all finally stopped laughing, Garbiel then proceeded to randomly hit the unlucky s.o.b. in Location 13. For near-max damag,e and maximum Stun.
 
I guess Gabriel -really- didnt want to see that guys underwear!
 
(Edit: If this post accidentally offends anyone out there who habitually "busts a sag"... TOUGH! Pull your gorram pants up!)

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A Champions battle had one of the hero bricks going toe-to-toe with the main bad guy (another brick). The villain got a good damage roll, and actually did some knockback to the hero -- 5d6 to be exact. Knowing what that PCs defenses are like, I commented that I didn't expect any KB damage to get through but I'd roll for the heck of it. I picked up five Hero dice ... and got five "sixes".
 
The player yelled "Yahtzee!"
 
(One of the other players is convinced that the Hero dice know when I'm rolling them as a GM. Events like this don't help bust the myth.)

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My boss's boss, who heard I had written a book (Ninja Hero) asked me about it. So I described the AB project. Some time later, his kids are in with him at work.
 
"This is Mr. Mike. He makes monsters."
 

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The only notable quotes from my Star Wars character.
 
The Falleen is going to start making connections, so he starts up his pheremones.
Dal'Shek, Togruta Jedi "Turn on your love stink!"
 
The players are trying to figure out exactly why the Empire is capturing Jedi.
Character A "Well, they gotta catch 'em all"
Jason(OOC) "I want a new character! I am not a F*****g Pokemon"
 
John

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A buddy reminded me of an old quote from bygone years…
 
GM: As you try to sneak past the guard in what is essentially a Mac Truck, it suddenly strikes him that (makes a perception roll of 18 for the guard) …he really likes vanilla. Sheesh… feel free to do whatever you like to him, he deserves it.
 
From then on, whenever anyone completely blows his perception roll they were considered to be deeply contemplating the joys of vanilla.

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Teen Champions/Teen Titans Demo game last night. Cyborg is working on the "T-Car" when Bumblebee comes in.
 
Bumblebee: All your high-tech skills, and you build a Hyundai?
Cyborg: Well, this is a Korean cartoon...
 

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That's okay, I repped him.
 
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko

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From my Dark Champions game at GenCon: The game opened up with the members of LIBRA being set up, so needless to say they're a bit ticked. Especially Sarge, as he has a thing about plans that don't work out. Once they find the first of their street contacts, Sarge tells Blade to come with him and pull his biggest knife (actually a machete).
 
Sarge to contact: "Now, we can do this the easy way or the cutlery way."

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
From my Dark Champions game at GenCon: The game opened up with the members of LIBRA being set up, so needless to say they're a bit ticked. Especially Sarge, as he has a thing about plans that don't work out. Once they find the first of their street contacts, Sarge tells Blade to come with him and pull his biggest knife (actually a machete).
 
Sarge to contact: "Now, we can do this the easy way or the cutlery way."