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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 

 
Dude - that guy you quote above would do The Tick proud! In fact, that sounds almost like it came directly from the animated Tick! I am in awe...
 
The following is a quote that's not from a gaming group, but I intend to _use_ it in a gaming situation as soon as possible.
 
History channel was doing a "World's Fastest" Modern Marvels show. And the worlds current fastest production car is Koenigsegg CCR, at 241 MPH. The quote is from the owner of the company -
 
"If you can't see the future, it's because you're not driving fast enough!"
 
Now THAT's a man I want to buy a beer for!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
The GM (Zakuiens) said:
 
"Hi! Remember Me? I'm the person who erased your memory!"
 

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Typical. Just typical.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
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.)

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
These two are from family get-togethers where we've been playing Yahtzee, but still...
 
Scene: In the kitchen; Present: Mom, Dad, Wife, Brother #2, puppy dog, and Me.
 
Wife: (laughing) He's peeing on the floor!
Mom: Oh, no! Who?
Me: I hope you don't think it's Dad.
 
Next, the same people, not the puppy, and my grandmother (who's 83 or 84). After her third turn of the game, she asks "What's Yahtzee?"
 
This next one was ten family members playing the home version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, with my great aunt (90+) watching.
 
Brother, reading the question and then the answers: "What was Humphrey Bogart's nickname? Was it A) Humpty; Boogie--"
 
Great Aunt "That's pronounced 'Bogey'."
 
Brother: (snickering) "Actually, 'Bogey' was 'C'."
 
Playing games with your elders can be very fun. In fact, this makes me think of other games we played with my great aunt, one had several questions that began "Name 5 toppings that you would put on" and then list some food. My great aunt would always answer "bourbon" for one of them. Including ice cream.

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One of my players commenting about the lack of skills in the supergroup.
 
"We can break down walls and fight off Super Menaces but we get stopped cold by Westec security and window XP Passwords."
 
All of which has occured in the game.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Okay, a little narcissism here, though it was about two weeks ago. Over on Hero Central:
 
Other player: "Sir, tell me what happened and where it hurts... I will help you if I can."
 
My response: You get the distinctive feeling that the character isn't conscious; however, with your knowledge of biology, you think that if the bloody man could talk right now, he'd say something to the effect of "It hurts where the two bullet holes are."

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Okay, a little narcissism here, though it was about two weeks ago. Over on Hero Central:
 
Other player: "Sir, tell me what happened and where it hurts... I will help you if I can."
 
My response: You get the distinctive feeling that the character isn't conscious; however, with your knowledge of biology, you think that if the bloody man could talk right now, he'd say something to the effect of "It hurts where the two bullet holes are."

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Okay, a little narcissism here, though it was about two weeks ago. Over on Hero Central:
 
Other player: "Sir, tell me what happened and where it hurts... I will help you if I can."
 
My response: You get the distinctive feeling that the character isn't conscious; however, with your knowledge of biology, you think that if the bloody man could talk right now, he'd say something to the effect of "It hurts where the two bullet holes are."

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
After a long weekend at Origins (a few years back), my wife and I returned home with a couple friends to enjoy a little Golden Age Champions. We were all a little slaphappy, so a few entertaining tidbits were sure to creep up.
 
My wife was new to the game, though she'd seen us play several times before. Upon seeing her character, she began to ask me about the things on the character sheet and I explained them in detail. Eventually, she started looking very intently at the sheet, even turning it over to look on the back for something...
 
Me: "What are you looking for?"
Wife: "Does my character have super vision?"
Me: "Nope."
Wife (without missing a beat): "Sweet! I'm unsupervised!"

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
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"chirp... chirp"
 
 
 
 
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(Just FYI... lately I can relate to Kirby... )

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
From my HeroCentral game:
 
VIPER is robbing a bank, the police have shut off the power so the lights are out. After an explosion is heard from behind the bank, one of the team's two bricks goes walking through the front doors (they're glass anyway).
 
Ingot: Normal people can go, Bad Guys need to stay and take a beatin'
Ogre: [Throws an ATM at Ingot and hits]
Ingot: Ow! Guess that's what I get for bringing nothing but my fists to an ATM fight.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
From my HeroCentral game:
 
VIPER is robbing a bank, the police have shut off the power so the lights are out. After an explosion is heard from behind the bank, one of the team's two bricks goes walking through the front doors (they're glass anyway).
 
Ingot: Normal people can go, Bad Guys need to stay and take a beatin'
Ogre: [Throws an ATM at Ingot and hits]
Ingot: Ow! Guess that's what I get for bringing nothing but my fists to an ATM fight.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
I don't want to hijack this thread any further, but please see a thread I created at http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=835117 re your conversation on these games.

Re: Ww 219 / Omac 4 -- Spoilers!
 
I just started reading this thread, so pardon me if I seem to be rehashing things, but this topic brought up something that I just noticed recently, so here goes:
 
I stopped buying new comics in the early 80's.
Before that I had been a fairly regular purchaser of both DC and Marvel, but things just seemed to be going in a direction I didn't like, and prices were skyrocketing, so I just quit buying.
 
Just last week I started reading the DC Comics Encyclopedia:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/075660592X/qid=1124130508/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-8313881-3612759?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
 
Take a good look at the cover.
Batman - Grim (normal)
Superman - Grim and Smug Looking
Wonder Woman - Grim
The only smile I see is on the face of the Joker.
 
Now I know that this is just a picture, but then I started reading the contents.
 
DC was working its way toward becoming an Iron Age slaughterhouse all through the 80's.
 
Almost every single entry I read, for major or minor characters I remembered from the past, had some ridiculous 'dark' twist added in, usually in the 80's.
 
Everyone, it seemed, either turned evil or had some atrocity committed against them.
 
Snapper Carr had his hands cut off for goodness' sake.
 
As annoyed, angry, and betrayed as I feel by this pile of crap being heaped upon my favorite genre, I don't really have much more to say about it.
 
I don't mean to stifle anyone else's opinion on the topic, and believe me I understand your suffering, but it is ultimately pointless.
 
If my favorite restaurant decides to add raw squid to the chili, and refuses to serve it any other way, all I can do is walk away.
 
The owners have the right to make decisions about their product, even if those decisions are disastrous for them and upsetting for me.
 
All I can do is find somewhere else to eat or start cooking at home.
 
The only comics I buy are reprints of things from the time when comics were enjoyable to me.
 
Who knows, perhaps this act, in itself, might someday help.
 
Maybe someday, someone from the sales department will drop by the editor's office.
 
"Hey how are sales going on Wonder Woman : Total Castration?"
"Not so good."
"What about Superman : The Last Son of Krypton Rapes Your Daughters?"
"Not so good."
"Odd. What is selling?"
"Well, the Golden Age Archives are flying off the shelves, and the Silver Age archives are selling even better."
"I don't know what's wrong. Don't our customers have enough sophistication to see the difference between the kewl, edgy, Iron Age stuff we publish now, and all that heroic crap we used to publish?"
"I think that's the problem, Sir. They do."

Re: from little plot seeds, mighty games do grow
 
Foxbat:
 
The death of a pet: A PC's DNPC's pet gerbil dies. The PC is asked to take him to the store to buy another. When the PC goes to the store, all the gerbils, hamsters, mice and similar rodents are sold out. The PC goes to another store. The same thing has happened! If the PC mentions this to a store employee, the employee offers to call their other stores in town. What a coincidence, all of these animals have been purchased. After doing some minor investigating, the heroes discover that at each store a few people came in buying all of the same tye of pet, but none of the descriptions really match. What's going on? The stores mention they'll be resupplied in about a week.
 
A few days later, on a night patrol, the power in the city goes out in a bad storm.* Only one building in the neighborhood has power. If the PC(s) investigate, they see Foxbat and team playing cards or some such. If PC(s) investigate further or enter by crashing the party, they'll eventually discover that there is a floor dedicated to housing hundreds of gerbils, hamster, mice, etc. It turns out Foxbat was tired of paying a very expensive electric bill and uses these rodents to supply him with electricity. All the cages have wheels that are attached to the electric layout. Ingenious and legal! (Of course, if Foxbat is wanted for any crimes....)
 
The check is in the mail: Post offices around the city are reporting break-ins, but they can't figure out what the criminals are looking for. Once the news is spread and stake-outs are posted, the crimes stop. Then postal 18-wheelers are being robbed! The drivers are knocked out from either sleeping gas, or hit on the head from behind when at truck stops. Eventually, the PCs come upon Foxbat and company exiting a mail truck with a few bags full of mail. During the fight, a missed shot hits a bag (or a successul hit where the bag is used to intercept the shot) and many envelopes fall out; the villains flee. When investigating, or if Foxbat is then captured. It turns out all stolen envelopes were from Publishers Clearing House. Foxbat was hoping that by eliminating all competitors in the city, he might win. The next day or so, PCH announces a winner in the neighboring city.
 
Hmm... I can't think of a third one, other than Foxbat embaresses Eurostar and they chase him back to campaign city. But it's just not as creative. UNLESS the PCs are vacationing in Europe at the time, and Foxbat come retreating right past them!
 
 
*A few weeks ago, Dallas County had a standard storm with some high winds that ended up knocking out power to 500,000 homes, apartments, and buildings. It was more due to a lack of well-maintained lines than fierce lightning, but still.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
Jeff T's Millennium Knights.
 
Jeff gave me an exhaustive description. I hope I did his team justice. To those others that I have commissions to do for, I will be getting to them slowly and surely. Origins is eating up a bit of time due to prep. But I'll be taking sketches to do with me.
 

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
From our Shadowrun campaign, setting is the Chicago Containment Zone during Bug City. The area where the characters have been staying has been harrassed lately by vampires and ghouls. Tracking them they find an abandoned bar that at least some of the ghouls have been using as a den.
 
When making a sweep of the gound floor the encounter the restrooms. The description is that it appears some of the ghouls with limited mentallity still use the facilities as they did before they where infected, but many seem to have forgotten such subtleties as flushing, aiming, etc.
 
GM (me): "These bathrooms are in pretty nasty condition, the stench is beyond belief."
 
player1: "Ghoul diarrhea?"
 
player2: "I guess someone ate Mexican..."

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The characters:
Joey Flame - mutant blaster type with, you guessed it, fire powers.
The Wraith - ghost of some poor schlep killed in a super-battle years ago.
 
The situation:
Joey has been captured by VIPER agents and is being held in a non-descript cell in an unknown area. The Wraith followed along with the intent to break JF out at the best opportunity. Joey has the Disadvantage Psy Lim: Phobia of Ghosts and the Supernatural; obviously, these two have difficulties when they're paired up.
 
Wraith: (Phasing into the cell and becoming visible) Joey, I'm here to take you home.
Joey Flame: Oh, Jesus! Guard! Guard! The Grim Reaper is here, you gotta lemme out! Please! (and similar panicking)
Guard: Well, thats a new take on the whole "sick prisoner" routine...
 
Figuring a better way to approach the situation, the Wraith Skin-rides (Mind Control with Melding) the guard and opens the door.
 
Wraith: Joey, it's just me, Sam. Just relax... I've taken this guard's body, you have nothing to be scared of.
Joey: (calmed this time cuz he made his EGO roll) Sam... you think the idea that I'm dealing with a dead guy possessing the body of a terrorist is somehow calming?
Wraith: (after a long pause) Undead. You want out or not?
 
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Hey dude... if you are going to quote me... do it right.
 
E: But she has mind control.
 
Me: And this is different how? Don't all women? (I'd never say, "Doesn't all women?" Yeesh.)
 
You: Yeah, it's bought with a Focus... Obvious... usually inaccessible.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
From Sunday's D&D game. Two of the players were present, two were out, so the previously drunk dwarf and the "I love acrobats" elf were doing the adventuring today. The other elf and the human were "doing other stuff."
 
The dwarf & elf were trying to recruit allies during their investigation. When asked why they were attacked earlier...
 
 
Dwarf: I bought them a round of drinks, so I don't remember....
 
Player 1: Why can't you be on my side?
Player 2: Because you're usually wrong.
 
When they were being questioned by the constable.
 
Constable: I was told you killed Johnny.
Elf: (Looking at the dwarf) We killed somebody?
Dwarf: [Oops look on his face]
 
Our classic misspeak:
Dwarf: I'm going to drink off some of the brew.
 
Player 1: What did I do to you?
GM: Tell bad jokes.
 
On why the PCs are in the small village:
Elf: I've heard of nice bad things.

Re: Answers & Questions
 

Q. Are you out of your mind?! A genie from a bottle grants you one wish' date=' and you wish for the powers of a [i']TURKEY?!!![/i]  
A. You'll understand when you see what kind of a response you get.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Sunday's D&D: The party (human, dwarf & 2 elves) walk into a inn [yeah, there's got to be a joke here somewhere] to start off their investigation of why the town's populace is declining and the attitudes are no longer friendly. A round of drinks are ordered for the group at their table. The dwarf walks up to the bartender at the bar.
 
Dwarf: I'm going to buy the beer a drink.
 
Bartender: Would you like one for yourself as well?
 
The food for the players is drugged and it affects one elf and the other elf's wolf. The second elf can tell something is wrong, but isn't affected; she plays along as being drugged. When it's just the dwarf and the human, the people in the bar try to subdue them, but fail. A big fight takes place, one subduer dies, three get away and three are beaten. The human is fine, but the dwarf is down to 3 hp.
 
After interrogating the survivors, the party decides to go to the temple to investigage further, but needs to leave one person behind to watch the prisoners.
 
Dwarf: (Paraphrasing) I don't want to go, I'm down to 3hp, I'll die.
 
GM (me): I'm going to tell you this just one time. You are the priest. You have healing skills and healing spells.
 
Elf: Weren't you just bragging about you being the only priest in the group half an hour ago?
 
Dwarf: Oh yeah.
 
GM: Now... (goes on to "remind" him how to use his healing skill & his healing spells.).
 
 
Later, most of the party (sans dwarf) is at the temple trying to see if they can get some answers there. One of the elves gets bored and starts doing handstands.
 
Priestess: Please don't do those in here.
 
Elf: Very well. (Goes outside to the lawn. Sees a caretaker and starts doing handstands.) I like doing acrobats.
 
Other player: Whore.

Re: Answers & Questions
 

 
Q: How can you tell that the Tick was here?
 
A: they had other things to worry about.