Conversation today:-
"You see before you two doors. Through one door is ONE MILLION GP. Through the other is INSTANT FLAMING DEATH. You don't know which is which. Choose a door."
"My players have learned GURPS, it's just taken them three years. Three years of "wait... what dice are we using?""
"I was reading that Ron Edwards flap on rpg.net and rpgsite today, and was musing that if not for Pundit, I would never have heard of Ron Edwards at all"
"one of my players had a mage whose characteristic was mainly that he had a hood that always left his face in shadow...
so, one time we encountered some cultists... so we captured a cultist, and he wouldn't tell us where his temple was, and we'd been blundering around in the snow for about an hour realtime
so, the faceless mage says
and, again, fake deep andrew eldritch voice
"i bend him over."
"and i give him a hot beef injection"
"is gygaxian naturism how the fighters on 1e modules never wear pants?"
"i have to admit that i was really sort of surprised that the birth of D&D wasn't even partially out of a primal sea of zeppelin and bong hits"