Random Quotes Wednesday 2/15

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Feb 152012
 

Let’s get to quotin’

  • Actually, as a consequence of a really bizarre interaction of the Higgs boson, the current common language of all Material Plane semi-European cultures is, in fact, modern English. Earth, Golarion, Toril, Krynn, Oerth, Aebrynis, Scarn, it’s all the same language.
  • Thank you for your very helpful commentary.This message is automated to tell you that it while the DM in question does and will continue to make homebrew items he prefers when possible to use the stuff that’s already there as it would make life easier and less time is spent on a side thing. Additionally, the fact is not all GMs like having players submit homebrew due to the largely varying quality of it.
  • he’s so fucking suave his accent wears a tuxedo
  • No, running back into a burning inn to rescue the people who spit on me at dinner makes my characters heroic.

Anyone else find it hilarious how most gorups always have one guy that has really high charisma?

“Hello I’m Sir Face of Charmingston. Do not be alramed heh, you’re merely feeling the efects of an arbitrarily high diplomacy roll-please no autographs-allow me to introduce my companions.
This is Noodly mcpizzaoldface the highly intelligent and all powerful wizard.
This is Loner McGothkid the stealthy assassin.
And this is AM BARBARIAN I here tell he sunders things.
Don’t mind their smell or their terrible fashion sense, please, we’ll just pay less than normal for a night here and, heh, be out of your hair.
Oh? Oh them? Oh they’re just my fangirls, just ignore them. I certainly do.
Ciao~!!”

  • I rolled my eyes so hard my head flew off my shoulders
  • “The plan is astoundingly short-sighted…clearly dwarves are behind this!”
  • If this kind of thing is possible, then it’s possible to exploit.
  • I don’t think you guys are giving him enough credit. It takes a very brave individual to steal from a group of people that just killed all the possible witnesses.
  • Sorry, but if you aren’t willing to invest some minimal effort like a transatlantic flight, you don’t deserve any of my bread.

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Random Quotes Wednesday 2/8

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Feb 082012
 

I could talk about [topical topic X] but this post was written a month ago.

  • It’s shocking how much I don’t care.
  • The brilliant thing that Crane Style does let you do? Tank a T-Rex, as a monk (yes, or anyone really), at no risk to yourself! :D I have to admit, that’s awesome. Definitely a feature, not a bug. I’m just seeing this T-Rex come charging over the hill and the monk stepping forward, narrowing his eyes and saying “Don’t worry, guys. I got this.”
  • No, it’s definitely a solution. If one thing doesn’t work, use something else.
  • So expect D&D to be much like you’d expect Magic: The Warhammer Fantasy Battles would be if the two games got together and had progeny.
  • There’s so many people trying to put the cork back in the elephant I almost missed the blast.
  • “They’ve actually managed to cast someone with less dramatic range than Schwarzenegger.”
  • The rule for Colin Farrell movies is Irish Accent = Good Movie, Other Accent = Bad Movie.
  • That uncertainty is part of what makes the game challenging and different from other games, and it can force players to guess about their best course of action, which in my experience often leads to roleplaying.
  • Roleplaying and building an optimal character are not exclusive. Having a less than optimal character does not make you a better at roleplaying, no matter how you look at it.

These are filler to make the blog look active in-between podcast episodes.

Random Quotes Wednesday 2/1

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Feb 012012
 

What are you planing to do with your extra day this month?

  • And they will never stop complaining. It will always be something. Because once you start giving people’s opinions the illusion of moral force, they get addicted to the power of complaining. So they don’t ever stop. The only way to deal with that is to ignore them.
  • Don’t confuse me thinking very little of your argument with an inability to comprehend what you’re saying.
  • Prices in this area have been known to spike .25 -.30 cents over night.  I can only assume one of the sheiks camels died, or spat in the eye of the local shaman the previous day.
  • Do you really have an ability if the DM never lets it come into play?
  • What I will say is that the FDA has guidelines for how much rat poop can show up in your food. Same with hair, dangerous chemicals, etc. Those numbers are not zero, because they *can’t* be zero. Rat poop happens. What they’ve done is set the bar as high as seems feasible (and, hopefully, safe).
  • Yes, if only we had a gear quality mechanic we could draw on and and use to gauge how well a particular piece of kit functions. But alas, such a thing most definitely does not exist on page 296/297 of the Core rulebook. *cough*
  • There’s some GMing advice I read somewhere: “When in doubt, err on the side of awesome.”
  • “And for the record, her penis was very charismatic.”
  • Charisma is not a measure of a character’s beauty. Hitler had a high charisma, and he was uglier than a sack of smashed @$$holes.
  • Conversely, you could simply have no idea what actual optimal choices are, and your character is gimptastic in practice. I’ve sat at enough PFS tables with people who thought their characters were the end all be all, but were in fact a boat anchor. You might well be in the category.

Me I’m planing something. Oh yes. Something that’s totally not stay home and play minecraft.

 

Random Quotes Wednesday 1/25

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Jan 252012
 

In general I like to start these out of context quotes wth a little bit of personal writing. Much like the previous sentence.

FATE. Its treated in someplaces as the great RPG ever to be written and those who do not like it or do not get it are pretty much unenlightened heathens.
Call me an unenlightened Heathen as its kinda MEH, and just does not click for me, it might be an ok system but it isn’t the be all , end off of RPGdom people seem to think it is.

  • “Ixnay on the Agicmay.”
  • if you’re going to question why you’re climbing a jagged, icy mountain, that’s the sort of question that’d make more sense at the bottom, rather than halfway up.
  • “I say unto thee, thou hast snoozed and thus, thou have lost.”
  • “Thank you for calling the CIA anti-espionage hotline. We’ve dispatched agents to the location you are calling from already. What is your issue?”
  • In a Call of Cthulhu game where all the PCs were academics he wanted to be a professor of ninja studies.
  • AoO aren’t hard to deal with, I don’t know what paint-chip eating players keep complaining about them.
  • One of my players tried running a campaign that started with us as slaves. It didn’t really work, because none of us were willing to stop trying to escape, not even for a second.
  • But it would open the floodgates to things like casting ventriloquism and having the voice come from the target of antagonize so that he would attack himself in melee because he thinks he is fed up with his own bull s&&&.
  • Either way, I have only one genuine requirement, before characters are even created. Backstory or no, they must be the type to answer the call to adventure, and work as a team. They can be evil, ugly, temperamental or strange, but when that plot hook drops they must be the type to say “yes please” and take it up. I am not running a game for boring coward PCs. It’s an adventure game, and PCs must be adventurous, if not adventurers outright.

My example may not have been the best.

Random Quotes Wednesday 1/18

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Jan 182012
 

I’m going to, from now on, try to make these as RPG-centric as possible.

  • Jean-Luc Picard famously said, “Being first at any cost is not always the point.”
  • As for SoS abilities, don’t spam it if you can’t take it is what I tell ‘em.
  • What I find unrealistic is that the other PCs let you live.

I find it sad that multiple people at the table thought it would be perfectly reasonable to bring a loaded weapon to church.
Well, first of all, an unloaded gun isn’t much use. And second of all, not everyone is okay with dying in church. As convenient as it is.

  • I mean if the GM specifically says that he’s running a very four color cartoonish style of superhero game where the villain’s plan is always this zany scheme to kidnap the Statue of Liberty and stuff like that, where it’s very unlikely that civilians ever get killed, then it’s ok if the villain escapes and does it again because hey the heroes need something to keep them busy, right? But if the villain is typically committing violent crimes where people are killed then I think it is the GM’s responsibility not to make the players feel like a bunch of saps for handing him over to the authorities only to escape time after time. Otherwise I think it is perfectly reasonable for them to be asking themselves, “Is our code of justice costing lives that we could otherwise be saving?”
  • Some groups switched to Pathfinder simply because the GM said, “I’m only running Pathfinder, if you want to do 4E you’ll need a different GM.”
  • You are wrong! I invoke nerdrage to prove it!
  • Laugh all the way to the bank as the GM vows silent, swift, revenge.
  • My dad was an old school newspaper man, who said, “Never get in an argument with a newspaper which buys ink by the ton.” It is still good advice, even if it needs to be modernized in this digital medium.

Helaman wrote:
Assuming your characters maxed out at level 6, what class(es) would you play and why?
LazarX Replied:A different game. Being forever restricted to third level spells is fine for some, but it’s not my cup of cocoa.
Let me put it this way. Looking at the game, it shows you Mt. Everest and once you see that mountain, you want to climb it. You arrive there all pumped up, and then E6 ropes off everything but the foothills and tells you that’s where you’re restricted to climbing not just now, but forever.
Handing out a feat every now and then isn’t the same thing. It’s not the same as playing a game without levels those games have a structure and a rhythm that accomodates it. But D&D and it’s children have always been about Mt. Everest. I might not ever scale the peak, I might fall into a crevasse, but at least I know the mountain is there and potentially climbable.

Mostly so I can justify them in the RPG feed.

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