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...someone ends up as the opposite gender. I remember the first time that someone ended up as a chick in my games. They had basicly "charmed" a young lady and you know the rest. The village wise woman was not going to stand for this when she heard, so she turned him into a girl.
It was fun watching what he did when his character was hit on by men in the bar.
So, tell your stories. it can be as a player or GM
One of my good friends was playing a headhunter who was planning on jumping some guy in a dark ally. he jumped into a pile of trash bags when his victim came around the corner to soon. When the GM told him he felt a needle stick him in the leg, without a second thought he said "@#$% this I'm not getting aids" and blew off his own leg with an MD pistol it was the funniest thing I had ever seen in roleplaying the whole group but him was stunned for like 5 minutes, he was like whats the big deal guys. Of course the guy who came around the corner was my character who was forced into bringing the one legged headhunter to bionics shop.
My freind still dosen't know that the needle didn't have a lethel thing on it.
-Floops of the Megaverse beware, Scrud the Flooper Slayer is on the Prowl
... the PC Party's space craft falls under attack. The severity may differ from game to game, but no matter what they are flying around in, it seems to get pounded on.
at least one character says any of the following, when & where appropriate;
"Hey, I thought it was loaded!"
"What harm could one little critter do?"
"Whadayamean, you DON'T take credits?"
"No, *YOU* were supposed to bring it."
"You said, & I quote, 'Turn left up here, I know EXACTLY were we are'."
"I wasn't supposed to push(/flip/touch/look at) that?"
"Yes, I know I'm going to hell; I'm bringing marshmallows." BookWyrm aka The Horn'd One Str-8 male Dom/Top; Honourable but not gullible; a Hero of the Megaverse.
Comment: Listen very carefully, human...the fact that I even allow you to speak directly to me is a gift I bestow upon you. You do not order me. You beg for my appreciation and then wait to see if I choose to bestow it upon you.
Location: At the forefront of the War between Evil & Good.
I was offered a belt of immense power. Like Uber omg wth power. I foolishly took it, without pondering the consequences and, upon fastening it, was changed into a chick. As I was already playing a were-dolphin.....god did life suck for a while.
Soon I Shall Bring Forth A New Beginning, And All Shall Be Made Mighty At The Touch Of My Hand
Petty tyrants thrive when they have authority backed by vague regulations.
....a character is killed (or at the very least seriously injured).
Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem". Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985
We were playing a PF game once years ago and my wife decided to play a character that was male for a change, but she had a problem remembering what gender she was playing. The party was in a bar (typical) trying to gather some info/intel that they needed and she decided to strut up to a table and seductively strike up a conversation with the Merc sitting there drinking. Gently sliding her (his if you're thinking her character) fingers along the Merc's arm, commenting on his rugged good looks and big muscles. Well the Merc punched my wife's character dead in the face, knocking her to the floor. My wife looked at me in shock. "He hit me! He hit a woman!" I had to remind her that she was playing a man and the Merc didn't apprecoate the advances of her "male" character. Her eyes got big and that was the end of her playing a character that was a male.
Someone goes and talks to the dark figure in the dark corner of the dark bar. Now an on going theme in my games
Myndtrip
"What would it take to make me normal? Perhaps a proper outlook and a need to wear tweed formal wear." ~Josh Martinez
"When someone asks if you are a god, you say YES!" ~Ghostbusters
the players take at least a five to ten minute break just to trade insults with one another and/or bicker about something insignificant to the game.
Yeah, everytime I see a blazingly obvious moron walking the streets... I think, "score one for the creationists..." ~ DLDC Warwolf is right... you can sig that. ~ TGK I refuse to participate in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. ~ Me
It's not a real game unless;
1) At LEAST one prophecy is foretold.
2) An alternate realty dimension is swallowed by darkness/chaos/destroyed.
3) A PC is humilliated in a non-injurious manor to the great ammusement of the other players and their characters.
4) The red-shirt buys it.
Bind the body to the opened mind Bind the body to the opened mind
I dream of towers in a world consumed A void in the sentient sky I dream of fissures across the moon Leaves of the lotus rise
the group spend the first hour of the session BSing about random topics and finally someone says "ok so where are we?"
Myndtrip
"What would it take to make me normal? Perhaps a proper outlook and a need to wear tweed formal wear." ~Josh Martinez
"When someone asks if you are a god, you say YES!" ~Ghostbusters
Someone goes and talks to the dark figure in the dark corner of the dark bar. Now an on going theme in my games
Its not a real game unless there is a bar to go to... finding dark people in dark corners is just a perk.
Sureshot wrote:Listen you young whippersnappers in my day we had to walk for 15 no 30 miles to the nearest game barefoot both ways. We had real books not PDFS and we carried them on carts we pulled ourselves that we built by hand. We had Thaco and we were happy. If we needed dice we carved ours out of wood. Petrified wood just because we could.
Citizen Lazlo wrote:........someone shoots their teammate.
been there done that in ouor Chaos Earth game, rolled a one he got a triple pulse from my pistol in the chest his 35 mdc vest was hanging by shreds, and that was the only armour he had! and it was brand new! and we were in the middle of a fight with a subjugator
...the G.M. starts haggling players about playing their alignment at least somewhat correctly.
I gave up on that...i just change their alignments and then make sure there's some good dire repercussions for their actions...."Are you sure you wanna shoot the annoying kid in the head?...Ok... "
Myndtrip
"What would it take to make me normal? Perhaps a proper outlook and a need to wear tweed formal wear." ~Josh Martinez
"When someone asks if you are a god, you say YES!" ~Ghostbusters
Good one Ill have to user that more often. Though we dont dungeon crawl much these days.
Sureshot wrote:Listen you young whippersnappers in my day we had to walk for 15 no 30 miles to the nearest game barefoot both ways. We had real books not PDFS and we carried them on carts we pulled ourselves that we built by hand. We had Thaco and we were happy. If we needed dice we carved ours out of wood. Petrified wood just because we could.
In BTS2, I've discovered it's not a real game until I've caused an NPC police officer to radio "it's like a war zone out here." This is usually caused by liberal application of phosphorus grenades, ANFO, and/or high powered rifles (though the burning buildings and urban combat that frequently result are usually unintended on my part).
In PF, it's not a real game until I overreact to something and smite somebody I probably shouldn't. Last week, this manifested itself in kicking a captured ratling in the face and breaking its jaw, before remembering we wanted to ask it questions.
As you may notice here, I'm a bit impetuous when it comes to combat. I occasionally try to play non-combat oriented characters, but somehow I always end up using their skills to create havoc.
Jeremiah Lionheart (Evan Cooney) Only person ever to kill another player in KS's "Secret Enemy" game. "Julius is convinced Evan Cooney was born to play Weasel Man." -Kevin
The PCs have a rude awakening when they realise that "fumbles" apply to them too... (especially when the PC then vapourises due to his rifle's e-clip catastrophically releasing all stored energy)
Fnord
Cool...I've been FAQed... atleast twice!
.sig count to date: 2
"May your day be as eventful as you wish, and may your life only hurt as much as it has to." - Me...
Normality is Relative, Sanity is Conceptual, and I am neither.
Intel the GM says "Are you sure you want to do that?"
And the PC snaps back "For the last time yes!" and then gets himself killed in horrord, but amusing, way.
If I weren't a snob, I'd be unworthy of being French. -Svartalf "The death penalty may make the State a murderer, but the penal system makes the State into a gay dungeonmaster." -attributed to Jesse Jackson
1 = That one player in your group blurts out his next action without thinking of any negative consequences, and gets the "look" from all the other players.
2 = Said player continues doing the action even after the GM asks "Are you sure?"
3 = The game starts off like Star Trek, but ends up being more like Firefly.
4 = The players come up with an idiot-proof, sure-fire plan and everyone fails their rolls.
Comment: Listen very carefully, human...the fact that I even allow you to speak directly to me is a gift I bestow upon you. You do not order me. You beg for my appreciation and then wait to see if I choose to bestow it upon you.
Location: At the forefront of the War between Evil & Good.
Unless one of the chars becomes a parent. Otherwise the game was too short.
May you be blessed with the ability to change course when you are off the mark.
Each question should be give the canon answer 1st, then you can proclaim your house rules.
Reading and writing (literacy) is how people on BBS interact.
It'sn not a real game unless you manage to overthrow a government.
You'd be suprised at what the G.M. will allow with a little blackmail and bribery...
"Jack! You've debauched my sloth!" - Steven Matrin
"Artillery is the King of the Battlefield, Infantry is the Queen; and everybody knows what the King does to the Queen."- Stuart, from StarDestroyer.net
... your players find the longest, hardest way of doing something.
...the same player gets himself killed every two game sessions. (this happens to one of my HU players)
...there is a bar involved.
...things get blown up, shot up, mangled, and utterly destroyed, and that is by the supposed heroes.
"A little Rebellion now and then is a good thing." Thomas Jefferson
(To the tune of Ride of the Valkyries): Death and Destruction, Chaos and Carnage, Total Annailation Now!
300 Movie Geek Points
"I immediately regret this decision."- Jack Hare
… Despite the most well planned out event, everyone knows what they are to do go’s up in flames when someone botches their roll, gets surprised and drops a grenade or otherwise annoyingly loud piece of equipment, alerting the CS to their presence in which they strike the area with 8 medium range plasma missiles, ending the campaign.
… A member of the group buys a bunch of Neruni Missile Drones linked to his cybernetic HUD and he encounters a fiery in which is addicted to a particular plant and the cyborg using his flame thrower toasts the apparently semi-intelligent addictive planet sending the fairy into a rage, mind controlling the Mystic Knight of the group telling him to kill the Cyborg. And in turn tells his 3 Neruni missiles drones that happen to be sitting there that happen to be packing 18 plasma mini-missiles and 10 fragmentation missiles, to KILL the mystic knight at all costs. Where the Mystic knight wins inish and go’s first and charges the cyborg and grapples him, only to hear 28 missiles fire and streak into them both. The next 5 minutes were sat in total shock as the player for the cyborg lists off the other internal explosives that didn’t go off, like the … somehow fitting 250 lbs of K-Hex explosives inside his internal storage compartments.
… Someone states one of Murphy’s laws
… A member of the group who happens to carry around a lot of special weapons is volunteered to go dig up a grave <despite his clear vocal objections saying this is a bad idea guys I’m not liking where this is going > of a past part members who vengeful spirit wants to kill the group, and the member fails his save vs. possession with a natural 1 and turns around proceeding to kill or injure several party members in turn leading only two other people surviving, one not being himself
That second one is killing me....
"What began as a gathering, ended as an organization."
I remember the first time that someone ended up as a chick in my games. They had basicly "charmed" a young lady and you know the rest. The village wise woman was not going to stand for this when she heard, so she turned him into a girl.
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