Era Scarecrow

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Elven Rogue: I'm positive there isn't a trap on this door.
 
Dwarven Fighter: That's what you said about the last four traps you missed finding.
 
Elven Rogue: What are the odds of my failing a fifth time in a row?
 
Dwarven Fighter: Right. (Sighs) Okay, everyone else step back about fifty feet. If anyone's going to get blown up, parboiled, covered in poison spray, or cursed with something, it's going to be me. I'm a dwarf, and I can take it, just like I took it the last few times.
 
*BOOOM!*
 
Elven Rogue: What do you know? I guess tonight isn't my lucky night.
 
Dwarven Fighter: (Laying on floor, gasping for air) If I could reach you, Elf, I'd kill you.
 
Elven Rogue: Oh, Mr. Cleric, sir? I think you'll need to bring the industrial strength bandages for this one.
 
Human Cleric: (Sighs) I wonder if it's not too late to head back to the temple for a nice game of cribbage with the monks?

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I came across this while cleaning up some older posts on the Savage Earth forums. The subject is online dice rollers.
 
Dice Roller Help Text: xdy will roll x number of y-sided dice. X can be any decimal value (greater than 0). Y is any positive integer.
 
Player: What's an integer? Is that a car?
 
GM:The integer is a predatory mutant creature that stalks trade caravans. It will force the accountant in the party to tally up their books. If there is a discrepency, it will devour the perpetrator. This is the friendlier "positive" integer. "Negative" integers don't bother with social niceties and just subtract members of the caravan until sated, at which point they become positive.
The most feared integer is the "rooted" integer. Rooted integers will stay in one place and wait for their prey to come to them. "Square-rooted" integers have nine-inch fangs and vicious claws, armor-like hide, and shoot laser beams from their eyes. They are rarely a problem since they are pretty beneficent, or positive. Fortunately for unwary travellers, square-rooted negative integers are purely imaginary.
 
Keith "i" Curtis

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Wife: Let me guess: you're not at a save point.

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You definetly need to give that bot AI and make it either a villian, an NPC, or a Hero.

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I was playing the ship’s A.I. in a high-point GURPS Space campaign, when were forced to sabotage and destroy a vessel containing over a thousand crew members. As the rest of the PCs watched the explosion on the screens, this conversation ensued.
Note: All A.I.s have a hardwired destabilization program that specifically destroys their central personality matrix if activated. (Thank you very much, Mr. Gibson.)
 
A.I.: It’s… it’s beautiful.
Doctor: That’s horrible! There where over a thousand men and women aboard that vessel, and you call their deaths beautiful?
Captain: That’s it! Where’s that shotgun code?
A.I.: You can’t see this as I do and I can’t explain it to you. The best I can do is this. Do you know Michaelangelo’s work at the Sistine Chapel, on Holy Terra? Well imagine, if you will, someone shows it to you, but only all the red light. And then only the orange. Then yellow, green, blue, indigo and finally violet. Could you truly comprehend it’s beauty? It’s majesty? No, of course not. Now I see everything around this ship in a multi-layered, 3-dimensional image of electromagnetic wavelengths starting from the low radio to the far gamma, highlighted by neutrinos, shaded by tachyons and accented by gravitic waves. Where I can perceive a wavelength range if 1x10 (to -11) to 1x10 (to -1), you are limited to 4x10 (to -7) to 7x10 (to -7). So trust me when I say, “ooh, pretty!â€
Captain & Doctor in unison: Shotgun.

Here's one from 2004!
 
Me: Can I have some iron balls?
 
DM: What? NO!
 
Me: Well what about glass ones?
 
DM: Huh?
 
Took him a minute to realize I was asking for some meditation balls for my character, who happened to have juggling and needed... something to juggle that he might also use as a weapon...
 
It's only too easy to guess what he THOUGHT I was asking for...

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Uhm... is that supposed to be "ambush"?

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From last Saturday's Champions session:
 
1. [situation: The GM is explaining to a player who was not present at the session why all heck broke loose]
 
"The problem is, Iron Maiden has the social skills of an avalanche."
 
2. [situation: The hero team is debating the ethics of killing demons in front of their offficial govenment Secret Service liason]
 
Ryucin (Japanese mystical hero) "Technically, you don't *kill* demons, you just send them back to the Underworld."
 
Secret Service liason "Oh, then there's no problem; you're just extraditing illegal aliens."

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The joys of a Variable Power Pool.
 
JG

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Background: our power armor wearer (Sentinel) has had sort of a long-running tentative relationship with a lady mage from the 17th century for a while now; and it was obvious to everyone in the group except Sentinel that she really had a "thing" for him...but he just wasn't getting the clues. She was beginning to get frustrated, and finally asked Dr. Anomaly "Am I doing something wrong? What approach should I take?"
 
Knowing that Sentinel, while a true outside-the-box thinker, tended to be rather clueless in social matters, Dr. Anomaly told her the best way to make sure she wasn't misunderstood was if she just told him, up front, how she felt...leave no room for missed hints or misunderstandings.
 
Well, it didn't go well.
 
She did tell him, during a late-night stroll along the beach (the group is at Sanctuary currently, and Shanna -- the lady mage -- is there as a guest of ours). Unfortunately, Sentinel still managed to say the wrong thing; what he said was, in so many words, "I consider you a good friend..."
 
The problem is, what Sentinel meant by that was, having been burned in the past in relationships, he now considers a really strong, deep friendship a necessary foundation before exploring other relationship possibilities. What Shanna interpreted that as, though, was the "let's just be friends" speech. She teleported away from him and locked herself in her room in the bungalow.
 
Dr. Anomaly was still up, reading, when that happened and given her body language, etc. had a pretty good general idea that things had gone sour. When Sentinel showed up a while later (having walked back) he and Dr. Anomaly had a rather lengthy talk about perceptions, etc. Sentinel ended up sitting down to try and draft a note he could slip under her door to explain what he'd actually meant, that he was interested, the fault was entirely his, etc. etc.
 
(Unknown to Sentinel and Dr. Anomaly, another team member was also having a rather lengthy talk with Shanna about perceptions, etc.)
 
Some time later, having finally concluded it to the best of his ability, Sentinel left the note at Shanna's bedroom door and went to his own room. When he opened the door he stopped in surprise, because he hadn't left a dozen candles burning in his room when last he was there. The door closed behind him, he was drawn across the room to the bed, and before he could manage to say anything else that could have been misinterpreted, Shanna shut him up a full-on kiss...and let his hands discover she wasn't wearing anything under the sheets.
 
GM: "You know all that stuff you put into your letter to her?"
 
Sentinel: "Yeah..." (a bit dubiously)
 
GM: "She's telling you the same things now...except that you get to read her letter in Girl Watcher's Braille."
 
GM: (pause) "You're going to...busy...the rest of the night, and probably well into morning."
 
Sentinel: "But...but...I'm only mortal! I can't...!"
 
GM: "She's got spells for that."
 
 
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Okay, so that was two good lines, not one, but hey...

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"Cosby, you're this piece of glass."
 
"I don't want to be the piece of glass."
 
"Okay, what do you want to be?"
 
"I wanna be the Coke bottle top."
 
"Fine."

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"And the Lord said...
 
'Let there be dice!'
 
...and there were dice. And the Lord saw that the dice were good."

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"It's a causual dinner and we're relatively safe, so I'm only carrying the 9mm, my backup 9mm, and just four knives."

Guess I should introduce myself.

Let's see... I'm Era, a bit autistic (and thus quiet and shy), love computers, computer games, role playing, programming, and other things.

I learned about Herosystem (5E) back in 2005 when I was in Korea (military), and in 2006-2007 I came here to get into my first 5E fantasy game in Brightwood (and haven't had a chance to play since )

Other than some posts years ago (commenting on powers and mistakes in the books etc) most of those seem to have been either archived or deleted...

So I've more or less not here or paying attention, But... I'd like to be here more now, since video games can't seem to keep my attention quite as easily the last year.
 
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So I guess there's a few standard questions...
How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)? When I was on ICQ I wanted a way to differentiate myself so I was more searchable. So I decided on Era, then later while doing my paperroute the name Hawkeye came to mind (MASH), now of course I didn't want to steal that so I went to Crow, then Scarecrow.... yeah... not very exciting...
What was the first tabletop RPG you played? D&D 2nd Ed
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed? D&D 2nd Ed (limited experience, but had one really good session!)
What are you currently playing/GMing? Looking... if there were a hobby shop in my town, I'd probably be gone 2 nights a week playing...
 
Otherwise playing video games trying to keep myself occupied.

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Scene: Avalon (a Faerie Knight, presently with 10 levels of Growth active), has just been thrown, by me, onto Ankylosaur, while another teammate is trying to set up a shot to EMP Ankylosaur.
GM (to Avalon): "And you are ... on top of him."
Me: "Well, since it's through two layers of armor, that should qualify as safe sex."
 
"He's not brain dead, he's electroencephalographically challenged."
 
Avalon: "Ankylosaur has Vulnerability: Giant Fists."
Me: "Then again, who doesn't?"
 
More than a quote, but ...
At the fight's finale, I had knocked a fully-shrunken Hornet far away from the fight while blinding and deafening him. With the other villains down, I suddenly had a brilliant idea.
"Hey, Flux ... turn invisible and prop Black Harlequin up. Everybody else, lie down and pretend to be unconscious. If Hornet comes back, we'll jump on him."
GM rolls a 17 on Hornet's perception check to notice that we're all faking.
*WHAM*

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I forgot this one from a couple weeks ago. A player new to Champions (but not to gaming) had thrown herself on a grenade to protect nearby civilians. After finding out her force field was strong enough to not only save her life, but prevent any serious wounding:
 
"That's all the damage I take? Being a superhero is cool!"
 
 
bigdamnhero
“The grave opens up before me like a...big hole in the ground.â€

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This happened just last Wednesday
 
Ancient Japan campaign.
 
I’m a ninja sneaking up on an Inn, casing the joint to see if my cohorts have arrived. I carry a large bow, so to avoid trouble, I've disguised myself as a hunter, having killed some birds as I travelled and thrown them over my shoulder.
 
I listen at each window. At one back window, I hear the familiar sounds of my two teammates who are disguised as a married couple. The players say they are “doing what married couples doâ€. I tell the GM, that I listen a little longer outside that window.
 
Another ninja sneaks out of the wood. I crit fail my stealth roll and he spots me. I’m supposed to be quiet like the wind, so I’m annoyed. “I know, it was bad luck! One of the chickens wasn’t dead. It clucked.â€
 
So the GM then makes me roll to determine of *I* spotted *him*. I crit fail *again*. Strangling my dice, I try to save my dignity. “OK, I know! I didn’t hear him sneaking up on me, because I’m busy wringing the bird’s neck before it blows my cover.â€
 
The GM turns to another player (the other ninja) and asks what he does next.
 
And the player says: “Let me just understand this. I come upon him outside a bedroom, with lovemaking sounds coming from within. He's outside, with his ear to the window, choking his chicken…â€

This exchange I recall from years ago. My younger brother was the DM so you'd have to ask the full details from him. It went something like this...
 
Player: I enter the room, is there any treasure?
DM: There's a chest in the middle of the room
Player: I go open it
DM: She slaps you

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This isn't really a new quote, but it came up the other day and I thought I'd share.
 
I was running an FH campaign with two experienced gamers and two fairly new gamers, one of whom was playing a sorcerer. The sorcerer announced his intention to open up a pouch they'd gotten off a dead spell caster. The player, being new, didn't think to cast a detect magic spell before opening it. Since it was trapped, I decided to give him a break.
 
New player: I'll open the pouch
Me (GM): Make an intelligence roll.
New player: What's an intelligence roll?
Old player: It's a life preserver the GM throws you when you're about to do something really stupid.

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In a hero system fantasy martial arts run, the gm was introducing an NPC. exacte statement
 
"across the tournament feild you see the biggest asian man that you have ever even heard of , hes like... 5'6" " it took about 10 minutes for all of us to stop rolling on the floor.

To understand this quote (in context), you have to understand the character I was playing at the time. Ghost Sniper, she's the professional's professional, gal you send you send out when you need someone killed and done right. Calm, polite, and deadly. Scares the hell out of Scorpia. That sort of gal.
 
During a game, the team was going through New York to find a kidnapped girl, and somehow we wound up in this really nasty bar that DEMON, VIPER, and everybody else that's a bad mook considers their watering hole. Due to events that would require you to drink at least HALF a pint-bottle of Jack Daniels to believe, Ghost Sniper had finally made it back to her team, just before the bar fight was going to start.
 
Note, she had been rolling AWFUL rolls the whole game.
 
Walks into the bar, with this terible scowl on my face, and I say, "I'm just going to let a burst off into the ceiling. Just to get everybody's attention."
 
GM:"Okay-do you want to roll to hit or do damage, or I can just give it to you."
 
ME:"With the way my luck has been today, I'd probably blow off my own foot. Just getting their attention."
 
GM:"Sure, not a problem. Nice little burst, makes everybody pay attention."
 
ME: (Deep Breath) "I AM NOT HAVING A GOOD DAY! I HAVE BEEN SHOT AT! I HAVE HAD THREE CARS AND TWO MOTORCYCLES SHOT OUT FROM UNDER ME! I HAVE HAD A DRAG QUEEN TRY TO SEE JUST HOW GOOD I WAS IN BED, AND SOMEBODY BLEW UP MY LAST PAIR OF CLEAN PANTIES! NOW, ARE ALL OF YOU GOING TO BE NICE AND TELL US WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW, OR AM I GOING TO HAVE TO HURT SOMEONE?"
 
GM: "One of the mooks, wearing a VIPER uniform stands up and says, 'I don't think you've got the guts...'"
 
ME: "I shoot him. Machine-rifle mode. Roll?"
 
GM (A Bit Shocked): "Sure, roll."
 
Natural 3. House rules were that a natural 3 meant you did full damage on an attack. On a 2D6 AP RKA, 5 shot autofire, with a character that has Accurate Autofire.
 
GM (Looks at His Map): "Well, all that's left of him is his boots. Most of his upper legs, too. And, the bar now has a nice back door. Right into the car dealership. Across the street. Everybody's look at you and wondering what's going on."
 
ME (Deep Breath): "Now! Does anybody else wanna give me trouble?"
 
Everybody was very, very helpful after that....

Hmmm I'm suddenly reminded of another story. 2nd Edition D&D, the world was vampires and werewolves were warring (later when the numbers of supernatural were so high, if you were human you were potential food...).
 
Anyways, I was playing a druid werewolf. He used his were abilities during fights (depending on the opponents) and shifting when other options arose. Regardless we were fighting an Umberhulk, and my character got hit with confusion. First round, I rolled and could act normally. I told the DM "I turn into a squirrel!"
 
The remainder of the battle I was biting Dan's character (who previously was a vampire, long story on that) but as a squirrel the damage was minimal.
 
HOWEVER since my character was a were, he still had a chance to turn (calculated it was like 5-8%) and he rolled it. Then the DM was pondering over how to do it. "A were-squirrel. Well he would get shorter, and lose strength, but his Dex would go up...". The DM decided he'd just become another werewolf I guess due to the silliness of it all, and Dan was angry because he wanted to be infected by a specific were.
 
 
 
To note Dan had a quirk where he blurted out whatever he was thinking as his action, regardless if it was smart or not, and eventually wrote down on his character sheet 'THINK FIRST', which actually helped him once or twice.
 
One of his random actions occurred while we got ambushed by like 30 bandits (we had a caravan), Dan picked up a handful of crap/manure and started eating it making all the bandits puke (those that managed to somehow save failed on the second round) and everyone outside lost their lunch. The bandit leader finally replied "Alright, maybe we won't rob you..."

And then there was this conversation about evil D&D clerics.
 
Player 1: "Evil clerics have it made. They can command the undead to do their bidding."
Player 2: "Yo! Go to the river and do my laundry!"
Player 3: "Eww! Who wants bits of dead flesh on your clothes?"
Player 4: "That's why you use skeletons."
Player 2: "Exactly! And then when the skeletons are done with the washing, they can double as a drying rack."
 
I have some wierd friends...

Guess I should introduce myself.

Let's see... I'm Era, a bit autistic (and thus quiet and shy), love computers, computer games, role playing, programming, and other things.

I learned about Herosystem (5E) back in 2005 when I was in Korea (military), and in 2006-2007 I came here to get into my first 5E fantasy game in Brightwood (and haven't had a chance to play since )

Other than some posts years ago (commenting on powers and mistakes in the books etc) most of those seem to have been either archived or deleted...

So I've more or less not here or paying attention, But... I'd like to be here more now, since video games can't seem to keep my attention quite as easily the last year.
 
---
So I guess there's a few standard questions...
How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)? When I was on ICQ I wanted a way to differentiate myself so I was more searchable. So I decided on Era, then later while doing my paperroute the name Hawkeye came to mind (MASH), now of course I didn't want to steal that so I went to Crow, then Scarecrow.... yeah... not very exciting...
What was the first tabletop RPG you played? D&D 2nd Ed
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed? D&D 2nd Ed (limited experience, but had one really good session!)
What are you currently playing/GMing? Looking... if there were a hobby shop in my town, I'd probably be gone 2 nights a week playing...
 
Otherwise playing video games trying to keep myself occupied.