Ian Mackinder

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

GM : I realise I'm supposed to be the GM here' date=' but what scenes of mind-bending horror did I miss while I was away from the table?[/quote']

 

That line in itself says s-o-o-o much.

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

Given their past exploits (those which have been posted thus far), I suspect

that there would be an addition to that warning -- something along the lines

of "If you must engage them in combat at all, do so from extreme long range,

preferably with low-yield plasma explosives."

 

Major Tom 2009

Nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be certain.

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

Also - character portraits of the various PCs

 

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All well done - especially (IMO) 3 & 4.

Given all that I have heard about this bunch, I cannot help but think that their pics should be accompanied by a warning. Something along the lines of "Authorities are looking for these people ....".

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

The Lord-Captain's face goes an alarming shade of purple' date=' and a few extra veins throb on his forehead. Then he gets a confused expression, his eyes roll up, and he collapses.[indent']Tech-Priest Marzu : Um... did you have anything to do with that?

Xanthis : Nope?

Tech-Priest Marzu : I think I'd better apply some medical knowledge then.

GM : That would probably be a good idea.[/indent]The captain, it turns out, has had a massive cerebral aneurysm.

GM

: Considering he was talking to one of your characters, Ian, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.

He is rushed to the medical unit, and into sus-an, since the Rose Tattoo lacks the facilities to repair such extensive damage.

 

Tech-Priest Marzu : Maybe I can make a servitor out of him.

GM : ... You want to make a servitor. Out of the Lord-Captain.

Tech-Priest Marzu : Oh, don't worry, it's be a neat one, with two Gatling cannons for arms!

Xanthis : Can you do anything to help him manage his emotions?

GM : How about a volition circuit so his head explodes if he gets angry with you?

Another Polaroid moment soon to come, I am sure.

As usual, DrHoz, I would rep ya if I could.

Re: "Neat" Pictures

From when comic book covers were done to entice you to buy.

 

... And hallucinogenics were cheap and readily available.

Re: Jokes

And when Americans use an ethnicity in these' date=' it's Scott.[/quote']

 

Scott who?

Re: Jokes

Funny thing' date=' that. The first version I ran across had a Kiwi farmer in the starring role. I forgot to post it then, and when I tried to find it this time, this was the best version I could find. I suppose that makes it the version they tell in New Zealand..? :shrug:[/quote']

 

Could be. I know that Kiwis and their ... close relationship with sheep have long been a part of Aussie humour. Gawd knows what kind of jokes they tell about us.

 

What do you call a Kiwi with 20 wives? A shepherd.

 

What is the Kiwi mating call? Baa-a-a-a.

 

And so on.

Re: Creepy Pics.

Using Firefox and Win XP. No problems. Check your settings.

Re: Jokes

Spoilered for off-camera naughtiness.

 

 

An Australian decides to start sheep farming, and goes to the market and buys six sheep and a ram to breed them. After a few days the ram has not been doing the business so the farmer phones the vet, who tells him that if the ram's no good, he will have to "artificially inseminate" the sheep.

 

Not being very well educated,the farmer hasn't a clue what the vet means but doesn't want to show his ignorance and just asks "how will I know if its worked". The vet replies that if its worked the sheep will be lying down first thing in the morning. The farmer lays awake all that night pondering what artificial insemination is and concludes that he will have to do it himself.

 

First thing next morning he puts the sheep in the back of the Land Rover and drives a few miles out to some secluded forestry as he doesn't think it proper to do it at the farm where his wife might see. He services all six sheep and returns home knackered.

 

Next morning he looks out of the bedroom window at first light and to his disappointment the sheep are standing up. He phones the vet again who explains that sometimes it takes several goes to be successful.

 

Next day he takes the sheep in the back of the Land Rover to the secluded forestry and services them all again,returning home late and exhausted. Again in the morning he looks out of the bedroom window having only just been able to get up due to his exertions only to find the sheep all standing.

 

Right, one more go, so he puts the sheep back in the Land Rover , drives to the forestry and services them all twice for good measure. He returns home completely knackered and falls into bed. In the morning the farmer cant move to get up so he asks his wife to look out of the window for him. She does and he asks her "are the sheep lying down. She replies.....

 

No, they're all in the Land Rover and one of them is honking the horn!!!

Worth noting that when we Aussies tell these kinds of jokes, they are always about New Zealanders.

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

Adam Hyneman

Oh, ghad, no.

Re: What Non-Fiction Book have you just finished?

It's deja vu all over again. Again.

Re: Eccentric but plausible ways a character could be rich?

Consider the "accidental origins" favoured by many superhero PCs. The character was given a big lump of hush-money (or out-of-court compensation) by a major corporation after s/he was accidentally zapped with weird rays, doused in chemicals, bitten by a radio-active whatsit and/or genetically altered at their facility.

Naturally, this payment requires that the character keeps totally quiet about what happened - and when the character finds out they got superpowers from it, that can complicate everything.

Alternatively, either or both of the character's parents had the accident and got the pay-out, and the character simply inherited both the money and something extra.

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

from another GM, regarding the Rogue Trader quotes.

 

Myrystyr : ...exactly which television series' theme music should I play in my head while reading these - Blake's 7, Red Dwarf, or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

Me: all three at once, with a percussion line of me bouncing my head on the table

Ayup, that sounds about right. Yet again, rep ya if I could.

Re: Tramp Steamer Info and Deckplans

Thanks for those links. I play a tramp freightrer captain in a Pulp HERO campaign, and there is a lot of useful info there.

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

Hopefully Miss Einstein won't be another addition to the long list of women who want to stab Paddy McGinty with a broken bottle.

So, she'll choose a more lethal weapon to attack him with, then?

Re: Super hero one liners

"Y'call THAT nerve gas? I've inhaled FARTS that were more potent!"

... And the sad thing is, you KNOW that is true.

Re: "Neat" Pictures

Given what happened to their "JATO car" revisit I'm not so sure...

W-e-l-l, the Mythbusters themselves say that failure is always an option.

Re: The Real Reason That The Nazi War Effort Failed

one thing tho godzilla coudnt have destroyed nazi eqipment

besides the fact that japan was allied with the nazis it has been established that godzilla was given his powers as a eresultof mutation following the 1954 atomic bomb test on bikini island durin wwII he was a surviving dinosaur

Time travel, dude.

Consider all the weird face-offs that both Godzilla AND the Nazis have ever been in. It is probably inevitable that, sooner or later, The Big G makes at least a cameo appearance in ww2.

Re: The Real Reason That The Nazi War Effort Failed

Uh-oh in alternate world Nazi Germany. Himmler is gonna get the firing squad special.

IF he is very very lucky.

Re: The Real Reason That The Nazi War Effort Failed

I liked it .

But, in reality, Hitler had highly variable enthusiasm as regards Big & Flashy Technology; but was very uninterested in relics, the occult or religious matters (other than his belief in his / Germany's "Great Destiny", yadda, yadda, yadda ...).

Himmler was always the go-to Nazi for that sort of thing.

Re: "Neat" Pictures

I can live with that assessment.

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

Or the Ravenous Black Beast of Auugghh...

... Or the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

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

In a recent 'Star Wars' game ...

Our group are honoured guests of a local crimelord, having helped him against other equally un-nice people. We are in our guest quarters for the night, when those people decide to seek revenge.

The Noble in our party settles down in her own room. She has some heavy-duty (secret) computer work to do and leaves instructions NOT to be disturbed. My Character, Sam Darpa (Scoundrel), makes her a pot of coffee and leaves her to it.

Later, Sam is lying asleep in bed (having flubbed his Perception roll) when the assassin breaks in. Assassin tries to use his poisoned dagger, and also flubs it - doing very nasty things to Sam's pillow. Unsurprisingly, Sam wakes up. Given how things are developing for most of the party (Combat, except for the Noble - still oblivious in her room), the Ref probably expects Sam to go all Heroic or some such thing.

Instead, I tell the Ref, "Sam screams like a school girl - and throws his blankets over the assassin's head...".

Yeah, another proud moment for ol' Sam. The rest of the Players are amused.

The Ref has me make a roll-to-hit, and I do well enough to entangle the assassin in the blankets. He can't see a thing, and will need to take at least one action to get out of said blankets.

My next action is to ...... ask the Referee if there is any space UNDER the bed. The Referee says there is.

"OK, I grab my blaster off the bedside table, and DIVE under the bed."

The Ref orders a Stealth roll, which Sam makes very handily. The assassin pulls the blankets off his head, and finds the room now apparently empty. He is just about to start searching when two better-armed PCs burst in and attack.

Sam waits out the fight under his bed. All he can see from there are feet anyhow, and he decides not to risk shooting the wrong extremities.

To cap things off, as all the combat ends, the lady Noble sticks her head out of her room and yells to the world "Would you people PIPE DOWN!" before slamming the door shut.

Somebody says "Sam, I think you overdid it with her coffee...".

Not Sam's finest hour but, hey, for once he got through combat unharmed. Although, when proper security had been established and the bodies removed, he did choose to spend the rest of the night sleeping UNDER his bed.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

Hitlers Secret Science.

 

Why was Wernher von Braun, who invented the V-2, working for NASA and putting a man on the moon?

As L Marcus already said, because he was the greatest living expert on rocketry.

AND because the USA's own efforts in that direction kept exploding on the launch pad.

Re: "Neat" Pictures

As a keen player of Fallout 3, I approve. Repped.