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« on: May 26, 2005, 06:54:00 pm »
Answer: Grosse Point Blank for VGN's and Empire Strikes Back (?) for Plati's
"Yeees. You know what it is, don't you, boy. Shall I tell you? Steel isn't strong. Flesh is stronger. What is steel compared to the hand that wields it?"
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« on: May 26, 2005, 05:16:00 am »
Hmmm... Okay. An easier quote from the same movie.
"But did we get a thimble full of credit? NO! All we got was the sack for creatin' the Pink Punkerdoo. Yeah. Og created that one, didn't ya? 600 feet tall, bright red, and smelled awful."
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« on: May 25, 2005, 05:52:00 am »
Raising Arizona
"Do you wanna be leader of our gang?"
"No. We agreed no leader."
"Right. Then shut-up and do as I say."
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« on: May 24, 2005, 07:36:00 pm »
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"Oh, man, don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the morning. Think that bridge will be there and it will be there. It's a mother, beautiful bridge, and it's gonna be there."
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« on: May 19, 2005, 09:34:00 pm »
I haven't been online at Layo (or any NWN server) for awhile now but the points I see being made by everyone all are good suggestions. I especially like the suggestion for spontaneous gm situations. Everyone eventually knows what spawns where and they are prepared for it. Throw a curve ball now and again really does add some spice and gets new players thinking there are dms watching all the time. Just throwing out a single random encounter (a "fire and forget" monster) perks everyone up. It doesn't have to be an actual quest per se. A little variety in the "expected" monster diet goes a long way. Just my 2 coppers.
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« on: May 10, 2005, 11:28:00 pm »
I knew I knew that coffee is for closers bit but I kept thinking it was some kind of restaurant movie where I remembered it from. Tough one, dude.
"I gotta pee so bad I can taste it"
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« on: May 10, 2005, 07:11:00 pm »
Glengary Glen Ross?
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« on: May 03, 2005, 06:26:00 am »
Answer: Aliens
"Now it be ah damn shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like dat."
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« on: April 30, 2005, 10:05:00 pm »
What alignment is Gandhi? This'll be fun to see...
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« on: April 30, 2005, 05:05:00 am »
But if that "paladin" knew what the law should be and that it was being corrupted... his fighting against the "lawfully" appointed regents is... what? Is that paladin now chaotic? I don't think so.
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« on: April 30, 2005, 03:38:00 am »
I gotta side with Steve on this. Classic noble Robin lost everything because the law was lawless. Also, classic noble Robin was actually putting his plunder toward the ransom of King Richard so that he could be freed and returned home. Now, if the previous law was upsurped and corrupted into something not very "lawful", or at least "law" when the authority in power wished it to be, would Robin's "lawlessness" be such? King Richard was the lawful ruler and his "laws" were being abused by those in power back home so.... would this possibly make classic noble Robin even lawful good? At least neutral good, I dare say.
The myth of Robin Hood is that he actually was NOT a nobleman but a yeoman (a step away from peasant) and his actions actually had little to do with King Richard. He might have taken what he got and distributed it among the poor he knew but, even so, that would make "true" Robin Hood chaotic good or chaotic neutral, depending.
If a paladin rides into a land where slavery is legal and against everything he's been taught... what does he (she) do? Or, not slavery, but oppressive taxes to the point of death and starvation...
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« on: April 28, 2005, 07:45:00 pm »
I think you've stumped us all or perhaps your quote is wrong... It's a total mystery to me.
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« on: April 27, 2005, 12:59:00 am »
Answer: The Princess Bride
"Now, I swear, the next one of you primates so much as touches me..."
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« on: April 23, 2005, 08:50:00 pm »
Answer: Star Wars A New Hope
"Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder roared around their shores; burning at the fires of Orc."
ps Bonus ~ Who is the poet that wrote this originally?
pps Hey now! No Googling! Don't know, don't answer!
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« on: April 22, 2005, 10:58:00 pm »
Answer: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
"I collect spores, moulds and fungus."
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« on: April 21, 2005, 12:13:00 am »
Stephen R. Donaldson wrote the Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever books (as already mentioned). Good stuff but the second trilogy contains a plethora of words you need a dictionary for.
George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire is an absolute must but not D&Dish.
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« on: April 15, 2005, 05:24:00 am »
Personally... heh... as I've already stressed, anyone who would override their usual "powergaming" in the name of rping really isn't a powergamer but, simply, just another rper. If role-playing is more important than other considerations than that person deserves the ultimate benefit of doubt in judgement and should be met with equal glee in the joy of role-playing. Keep on role-playing no matter what and resistance will whither to your will and role-playing will persevere (sp? too lazy to check now). Peace out.
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« on: April 15, 2005, 03:40:00 am »
If any of you get the reference of the next little blurb I'm about to slightly alter... you ARE an old timer to one of the formerly most entertaining gaming mags ever printed...
"We gotta talk to this hellhound!", the fighter says to the cleric.
"Are you nuts!", says the pointy-hatted geek.
"The last monster we tried talking to ate half the party", replied the cleric.
"Still...", answered the fighter, as he neared the hellhound with sword sheathed in a gesture of supplication.
Yes, please regard anything you ever read in any response to a forum question or blog as personal opinion or you're an idiot. That is, of course of course, another personal opinion.
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« on: April 14, 2005, 12:47:00 am »
There are so many differing definitions for "powergamer", aren't there? The players who crunch the numbers and strive to make that perfect character I label as min-maxers. Powergamers can be and usually are min-maxers, as well as "hoarders", which are players who strive to do anything to have the best equipment, most money through any means possible, including cheating. Min-maxing, by definition, has to include "hoarding", to get the best possible stats.
Power-gamers, on the other hand, are people who can and often do ruin a good PnP session because of their lust for, ironically enough, more power. This "power" can come in many forms. As I said, most power-gamers are also min-maxers and/or hoarders. That special little item that'll raise your attribute by another point is power manifest. I had a terrific game PnP campaign of Desert of Desolation ruined because our cleric wanted to level up in an oasis but was denied by the dm since there was no way for him to train that level there. DoD has a little bit of time constraint and this guy wasn't satisfied with the dm's denial so decided his cleric would go back to the starting city to level up. Game over. Leveling up is another expression of power and if abused, like above, then you're powergaming. It so happens this guy was also a hoarder but not much of a min-maxer. He made creative enough characters but they were all greedy to the point of absurdity (and suicide). His roleplaying sucked pretty badly, too.
That's just my take on it. I agree with others though. If there is no justifiable way to rp something you've done, then you're abusing the true intent of the game and probably a bad rper to begin with.
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« on: April 06, 2005, 10:08:00 pm »
LMAO... Good one, lon.
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