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Post an awesome quote from a RPG book you've read recently

Started by The Butcher, July 19, 2012, 11:16:58 PM

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OgreBattle

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July 21, 2012, 11:46:54 AM Last Edit: July 21, 2012, 11:50:14 AM by OgreBattle
From Races of War, a 3.5 fan supplement.

Fighter quote:
"I've seen this kind of fire-breathing chicken-demon before. We're going to need more rope. Also a bigger cart."

On the Goblins:
QuoteIndeed, while the average Goblin on the street doesn't even know that there's an ancient rivalry between his people and the Dwarves, the list of usual suspects for evil overlords is a laundry list of people who actually also know the whole deal. Liches, Fiend Lords, and of course Maglubiet and Hruggek all know that Dwarves spend large amounts of time training and preparing for battle with the goblin people, and they don't tell the goblins. The thought is that by not telling the goblins that the Dwarves are totally ready for them and have been for thousands of years, that goblins will fight more bravely – they literally don't know how very unlikely each individual goblin is to make it out alive from any conflict.

Quotehen a wizard or demon decides to make a new form of super soldier – chances are good that they use Goblins as a base. Heck, you don't see any halflings with rhino horns on their face, and you don't see any dwarves transformed into undead monstrosities with bone-sucking tentacles popping out of their nipples. That's all the dubious pleasure of the Goblin people.

QuoteIf a goblin needs something, he'll take it and use it. Goblins aren't socialist utopians or anything, they simply don't respect property rights of others. Oddly enough, the end result is pretty similar to Goblins being really cooperative.

The Butcher

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July 21, 2012, 12:16:07 PM Last Edit: July 23, 2012, 06:51:39 AM by The Butcher
I'm 100% OK with great quotes from actual sessions, and actually it's only to be expected that actually playing a game will be more fun, and generate more memorable content*, than reading the book. But I was hoping for a few more book quotes...

* Just don't call this content "story" and you'll do fine around here. :D

Quote from: OgreBattle;562641On the Goblins:

Loved those!

James Gillen

#17
July 23, 2012, 01:31:27 AM
The ANGEL RPG corebook gives me a new laugh almost every time I read it.

From the Glossary (p. 252):

Powers That Be: Otherwordly do-gooders (at least as far as we know) who give vague visual assignments to their chosen few via direct cranial insertion (causing wickedly power headaches in most).  Memo To:  Text and graphic emails would be much faster and save much wear and tear on recipients.
-My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
 -Christopher Hitchens
-Be very very careful with any argument that calls for hurting specific people right now in order to theoretically help abstract people later.
-Daztur

Fiasco

#18
July 23, 2012, 02:23:49 AM
Was it Cyberpunk 2020 that said "it's not about whether you succeed or fail but how good you look doing it"?

Panzerkraken

#19
July 23, 2012, 07:47:13 AM
Quote from: Fiasco;563237Was it Cyberpunk 2020 that said "it's not about whether you succeed or fail but how good you look doing it"?

The more memorable one from CP2020 to me was

"it's not who you know, and it's not what you know, it's what you know about who you know."

Some of my very favorites are the sidebar quotes from Living Steel, especially the ones attributed to the Red Targa, Axly:

Quote from: Axly"I didn't do it."

"Well, yes, I did it... but it's not my fault."

"Alright, it is my fault... but I'm not responsible."

"Well, maybe I am responsible... but I'm not to blame."

"Yes, I am to blame... but they made me do it."

"Just because it's my gun doesn't mean I'm the one who fired it."

"Ok, I fired it, but I didn't think I'd hit any civilians."

"Well, yes, it did occur to me that I might hit one or two civilians.  But I really never thought I would hit all of them."


And it goes on and on, every page has something...
Si vous n'opposez point aux ordres de croire l'impossible l'intelligence que Dieu a mise dans votre esprit, vous ne devez point opposer aux ordres de malfaire la justice que Dieu a mise dans votre coeur. Une faculté de votre âme étant une fois tyrannisée, toutes les autres facultés doivent l'être également.
-Voltaire

vytzka

#20
July 23, 2012, 11:40:49 AM
Oh wow, Living Steel, that brings back memories. Sadly I lost my Internet Archive link with the (reasonably) complete list.

Here's some love from Gil the Treacherous.

Quote"Give you one good reason? I'll give you .45 good reasons."
Quote"I don't think he is going to talk. We'll have to kill him."

"Maybe you should remove the gag first, Gil."

kregmosier

#21
July 23, 2012, 12:42:58 PM
i'm going to cheat a little, and post a quote from a Q&A with Rob Daviau regarding his running Tomb of Horrors over a weekend and tweeting the results.

In the Q&A at the bottom, when asked "Why 1st edition Tomb of Horrors", Rob says:

QuotePlaying Tomb of Horrors came after reading Ready Player One, where the 1e Tomb has a prominent role. After finishing the book I went back and read the module for the first time in 30 years. It seemed unfair, biased, and kind of crazy. My guess is that future editions make it more "fair", so I wanted to go back to Gygax's original vision.
(emphasis mine)

...and i think that right there sums up what i love most about old D&D.
-k
middle-school renaissance

i wrote the Dead; you can get it for free here.

Reckall

#22
July 23, 2012, 01:03:52 PM
Thinking about it, my most awesome quote perhaps comes not from an RPG, but from an Italian gaming magazine that did a piece on Traveller starting with this quote:

Quote"...Even though he had lived all his life on the world of Synnax, which circled a star at the edges of the Blue Drift, he was not cut off from civilization, you see. At that time, no place in the Galaxy was. There were nearly twenty-five million inhabited planets in the Galaxy then, and not one but owed allegiance to the Empire whose seat was on Trantor..."

- Isaac Asimov, Foundation

I was 12 at the time, and on the verge of discovering... something new, something that my normal games weren't giving to me. I was too young to really understand what Traveller was (no elder brother or dad to teach me about RPGs). But that quote, more than the feature itself, was my first hint that there was, indeed, a bigger world out there.
For every idiot who denounces Ayn Rand as "intellectualism" there is an excellent DM who creates a "Bioshock" adventure.

Philotomy Jurament

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July 26, 2012, 03:52:12 AM
Quote from: Dark ContinentSome of your players might be disturbed by the prospect of killing and stuffing big game for fun and profit.  Remind them that the Victorian idea of nature was 'red in tooth and claw', that to Speke or Baker pitting yourself against a wild beast armed with only the latest breech loading elephant gun wasn't being sadistic or ironic but heroic.  Then attack them with rabid bushbabies.  Try to nip this kind of woolly liberalism in the bud, lest before you know it you'll all be playing Furry Pirates or GURPS Bunnies and Burrows.

From the Dark Continent GM's Guide, pg 22.  Made me laugh.
The problem is not that power corrupts, but that the corruptible are irresistibly drawn to the pursuit of power. Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.
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