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<blockquote data-quote="heimdall" data-source="post: 962601" data-attributes="member: 12421"><p>"Thrash and bash"</p><p></p><p>Popularized by battlerager and vindicators in spiked armor. Whenever a player decided to battle rage and forego the normal weapons, he or she would look at the DM and say, "I thrash and bash."</p><p></p><p>"Thrashball"</p><p></p><p>When I was playing a vindicator, another player had a character with an obscene strength. Though we were on ship, I was wearing spiked plate armor. We were engaging another ship and he looked over at the DM and said, "If I pick up the dwarf and toss him, can I hit the captain of the other ship?" The DM did some quick calculations and said, "Um, yeah, it looks like you can. Why?" So the PC tossed my vindicator directly at the captain and I proceeded to "Thrash and Bash." Hence the word, "Thrashball." It got used numerous time in that campaign afterwards.</p><p></p><p>"Convert or Die!"</p><p></p><p>The wife of the DM complained to me, "You never play evil characters. Even when we run an evil party, you always play neutral!" She then turned to her husband and said, "Make him play an evil character!" Looking to bail out my friend, I created a specialty priest of Cyric. She was a cleric of another god. The first time we started encountering anything powerful, it turned out to be three vampires (high level campaign). First words out of my mouth were, "Convert or die!" as I held up the unholy symbol of Cyric. The DM said, "Are you attempting to turn or command them?" I said, "No, I'm giving them options." They didn't convert. Flame strike and toasted vampires. I then looked at her and said, "Convert or die!" After that, it took on prominence as a jab at her whenever a party-member gave her exactly what she demanded, much to her chagrin.</p><p></p><p>"Uh, oh, gotta go!"</p><p></p><p>A particular player usually did bone-headed things on purpose. However, he built his characters with the capacity to usually get out of the situation. His catch phrase to alert the rest of the party when he did something of this caliber was, "Uh, oh, gotta go!"</p><p></p><p>"Want a girl scout cookie? Want a girl scout?"</p><p></p><p>Standard phrase of a low gen Malkavian named Teddy Bear with a high level of dementation. Imagine a 40 something year-old wearing a teddy bear outfit where you could see his face. That's "Teddy Bear." He always would say that to anyone he meant. The character who coined "Uh, oh, gotta go!" asked Teddy Bear to teach him dementation. Teddy Bear agreed but the character had to complete a particular disgusting task: collect 40 girl scouts, rape them, drink their blood, and bring Teddy Bear their collection of girl scout cookies. Needless to say, it caused a mental illness for the PC (what Teddy Bear felt was necessary in order to become a disciple of dementation). When players would go after something that ended up having more detriments than advantages, we'd say, "Want a girl scout cookie? Want a girl scout?"</p><p></p><p>"Have you no faith?"</p><p></p><p>Started by my paladin, Illyssa of Thay, when anyone questioned whether something was do-able. She would respond with this question and the party would get rolling. Eventually, it was used whenever anyone questioned plunging headlong into a hopeless situation. The group would shout, "Have you no faith?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="heimdall, post: 962601, member: 12421"] "Thrash and bash" Popularized by battlerager and vindicators in spiked armor. Whenever a player decided to battle rage and forego the normal weapons, he or she would look at the DM and say, "I thrash and bash." "Thrashball" When I was playing a vindicator, another player had a character with an obscene strength. Though we were on ship, I was wearing spiked plate armor. We were engaging another ship and he looked over at the DM and said, "If I pick up the dwarf and toss him, can I hit the captain of the other ship?" The DM did some quick calculations and said, "Um, yeah, it looks like you can. Why?" So the PC tossed my vindicator directly at the captain and I proceeded to "Thrash and Bash." Hence the word, "Thrashball." It got used numerous time in that campaign afterwards. "Convert or Die!" The wife of the DM complained to me, "You never play evil characters. Even when we run an evil party, you always play neutral!" She then turned to her husband and said, "Make him play an evil character!" Looking to bail out my friend, I created a specialty priest of Cyric. She was a cleric of another god. The first time we started encountering anything powerful, it turned out to be three vampires (high level campaign). First words out of my mouth were, "Convert or die!" as I held up the unholy symbol of Cyric. The DM said, "Are you attempting to turn or command them?" I said, "No, I'm giving them options." They didn't convert. Flame strike and toasted vampires. I then looked at her and said, "Convert or die!" After that, it took on prominence as a jab at her whenever a party-member gave her exactly what she demanded, much to her chagrin. "Uh, oh, gotta go!" A particular player usually did bone-headed things on purpose. However, he built his characters with the capacity to usually get out of the situation. His catch phrase to alert the rest of the party when he did something of this caliber was, "Uh, oh, gotta go!" "Want a girl scout cookie? Want a girl scout?" Standard phrase of a low gen Malkavian named Teddy Bear with a high level of dementation. Imagine a 40 something year-old wearing a teddy bear outfit where you could see his face. That's "Teddy Bear." He always would say that to anyone he meant. The character who coined "Uh, oh, gotta go!" asked Teddy Bear to teach him dementation. Teddy Bear agreed but the character had to complete a particular disgusting task: collect 40 girl scouts, rape them, drink their blood, and bring Teddy Bear their collection of girl scout cookies. Needless to say, it caused a mental illness for the PC (what Teddy Bear felt was necessary in order to become a disciple of dementation). When players would go after something that ended up having more detriments than advantages, we'd say, "Want a girl scout cookie? Want a girl scout?" "Have you no faith?" Started by my paladin, Illyssa of Thay, when anyone questioned whether something was do-able. She would respond with this question and the party would get rolling. Eventually, it was used whenever anyone questioned plunging headlong into a hopeless situation. The group would shout, "Have you no faith?" [/QUOTE]
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