Role Playing and other Gaming Signature Quote Collection

Signature Quotes: Role Playing & other Games, page 2

These are from my collection of sig quotes, collected from years of crawling about the Internet. Share and Enjoy...

"You can learn a lot about local technology and culture by what people are trying to kill you with."

"The Imperium runs on Imperial Might, Superior Strategy, and Coffee." -- Grand Admiral Gaiishev gev'Hault, Archduke Domain of Gastion

Traveller, the game of Interstellar trucking.

"Local Satanic parents distraught to learn that Dungeons and Dragons is actually just improv and math."

"I wish dwarves were real just because the folk metal they would produce would be completely unfathomable."

"Speak up! It's really hard to hear you over the screaming. Nope. It's not use. I'll have to stop the screaming. Disintegrations all around, then." -- Xanathar

"Artificers, trust them even less than the party rogue, and that's saying a lot."

"I'm now having visions of a two-stroke Jump drive starter..." -- Timothy Collinson on the TML

"This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone...Mayday, Mayday...we are under attack...main drive is gone...turret number one not responding...Mayday..losing cabin pressure fast...calling anyone...please help...This is Free Trader Beowulf...Mayday..." -- Traveller 1977

STEM: Sorcery, thaumaturgy, Enchantment, Magic

"How many conspiracies does it take to change a light bulb? Fnord."

"To be fair, it's hard to write an engaging RPG for a worlds where everything has been reduced to radioactive dust..." -- Bruce Johnson on the TML

"If there's one thing that's consistent with Mongoose [Traveller] pubs, it's that a lot of things get screwed up." -- Phil Pugliese on the TML

All in all, the thing was medieval. Not in the "knight in shining armor" way of fairy tales and princesses, but medieval in the "crowded into a city where people shit in the street and we're all going to die of dysentery." -- Jeffrey Schwartz on the TML

Traveller's vast space,
Stars and planets to explore,
Roleplay your own tale.

"Only you can prevent dungeon fires. Kill the Wizard first."

"Failure is not an option. It is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do." -- Seventy Maxims for Maximally Effective Mercenaries

"Feudal Technocracy was the dominant government form in H. Beam Piper's Space Viking." -- Marc Miller, "Planetary Government in Traveller," High Passage #5

"Be careful with labels. Look beyond the stereotype for the reality." - Marc W.Miller, "The Aslan Question," The Travellers' Digest #18, January 1990

"Apparently racial purity is now a priority at Wizards of the Coast."

"Kobolds are a lot less cute when they learn how to cast fireballs." -- Volo Geddarm

"Precognitive Healing, kill it before it can do damage."

"Those who do venture ever into the unknown -- the First-in Scouts of Survey, the explorers, and not the least, the Free Traders who pluck a living from the fringes of the galaxy..." -- The Moon of Three Rings by Andre Norton, 1966

"Do not trust Volo. Do not go on quests offered by Volo. Do not listen to Volo. Avoid being seen with him for risk of guilt by association. If Volo appears in your campaign, your DM is undoubtedly trying to kill your character in a manner that can blamed on your own actions." -- Wizards of the Coast Volothamp Geddarm disclaimer

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