Are you sick and tired of quoted movies during your D&D sessions?

[Kae'Yoss]

Hey! We have feelings, too! And it's not like any of us hard-core punners can actually help it, you know.

Dito that.

I have a geas on me that forces me to comment on everything remotely commentable

 

[Incenjucar]

Could be worse: They could over-quote Meet the Feebles.

Bwahahaha.

 

[ivocaliban]

I never had a problem with people making these quotes, but I did have a problem with one guy who actually had memorized the entire Monty Python and the Holy Grail script and would go off on lengthy monologues spilling out entire scenes! What's worse? He was the GM at the time. What's worse than that? We were playing Cyberpunk. Friggin' Cyberpunk! What does Monty Python have to do with Cyberpunk? Nada. Apparently, it didn't matter with this guy because he'd go right into it anywhere, like one of those hypnotized folks who cluck like a chicken when someone says the magic word. Only for this guy...any word was the magic word.

Well, to make a long story short...I ran. I ran so far away.

 

[Halivar]

But if you think gamers quote alot, just hang out with a bunch of theatre people. Oh man.

My DM (from a long time back... it's been so long since I've actually played (wink wink nudge nudge, Chad)) is not only a "theatre people", he is a teacher of high-school theatre people. Nevertheless, at the gaming table this only serves to infuriate him because I can't quote worth a darn, and he's the only one aware of it.

His biggest pet peeve, though, is me quoting my characters from previous campaigns. Over. And over. And over. Forever.

That said, I was able to make my last character's tag line a quote from Zero Wing without anyone knowing any better. Nevertheless, they still got annoyed with me whenever I shouted, "For great justice!"

 

[Nifft]

Meh.

It seems to me that the guy who quotes a lot in my group is doing so to avoid immersion, since he will otherwise not take part in immersive stuff. (For example, in the Exalted game that he briefly ran, he'd always take breaks -- even in the middle of combat -- to tell us where he swiped various ideas from.)

Quoting is IMHO the opposite of immersion, but that's neither good nor bad, unless you (or your other players) are trying to have an immersive game.

It may be a "safety valve" for the punster, so he doesn't feel like he's actually taking part in something as nerdy as D&D -- instead, he's mocking the game / himself / the genre, and thus safely staying detached from actual RPing.

-- N

 

[Pbartender]

My old gaming group started getting bad at this. It would be 20 minutes of people trying to out quote each other. But, that was a group I always enjoyed gaming with, I just hated all of the friggin quotes.

We weren't that bad... ...usually... ...we just chatted a lot in general.

The occasional quote isn't that bad (especially at a comically appropriate time), but excessive or lengthy quoting is annoying. I've tried very hard to not quote anything lately, because our newer players have a tendency to drag it out into a re-enactment on an entire movie scene.

My halfling rogue, for example, takes a little beating in some combat and afterward the cleric asks me, "Are you alright? Do you need any help?" I reply (in all seriousness, without any intention of inadvertently quoting anything) , "I could use some healing, but I'm not dead yet."

Pretty soon the rookies are tossing around, "Dear, Sweet Concorde", "I think I could pull through, sir," and "'Tis but a flesh wound" all over the place... That's when it starts bugging me.

It's even worse when they can't get the damnable quote right in the first place.

 

[mikedidthis]

Movie and TV quoting pops up these days in nearly every social situation, gaming being just one of them. Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club, has another book called Survivor (no relation to the TV show) in which a character posits that the question of our age is no longer "Why are we here?", but "What was that from again?"

 

[dreaded_beast]

Am I the only one out there who can't stand it when players incessantly quote movies during the game?

...live with it.)

Seriously, if it detracts from the overall fun of the game, then maybe it's a problem.

Does anyone else in your group have problems with using movie quotes or does it end up being really disruptive?

As a DM, I can understand the frustration, but I believe the overall goal is to have fun for an evening and if saying lame movie quotes gets that job done, then so be it.

 

[dreaded_beast]

That said, I was able to make my last character's tag line a quote from Zero Wing without anyone knowing any better. Nevertheless, they still got annoyed with me whenever I shouted, "For great justice!"

So does your group allow characters to have phrases they are known for, battle-cries, etc.?

If your group mates have no reference for where the quote comes from, why should it be a big deal? (Unless, you tried to use your special catch-phrase every single chance you got )

 

[SmokestackJones]

Hey there,

The groups I've been involved in hasn't had that big a problem, as we all want to play and q uote, judiciously used (and not overdone) is welcome.

As for me, I've done my share of in-game quoting but I am not only a theater person, but a film buff so I quote from a wide variety of films/TV, such as:

I get it. I'm stupid. (Farewell, My Lovely)
Alright, let's shoot this f***er! (Ed Wood)
We're walking, we're walking... (Pee Wee's Big Adventure)
Ohhhhh heck! (Things Change)
I'd buy that for a dollar! (RoboCop)
Who the hell is this? One bastard goes in, another comes out! (The Good The Bad and The Ugly)
You broke the ship! You broke the bloody ship! (Galaxy Quest)
See this butt? Kick this butt! (This is Spinal Tap)
Wha' happened?/I don't think so!/That's Riiiight! (A Mighty Wind)

...and if I do use familiar sources I try to use little-used quotes of the same source, such as:

A GRAIL?! (Holy Grail)
I told them we already got one! (Holy Grail)
What's he do, nibble your bum? (Holy Grail)
He wouldn't write ARRRRRRGH! (Holy Grail)
Better get a bucket, I'm gonna throw up! (Meaning of Life)
What have the (insert group) ever done for us? (Life of Brian)
Sorry Super!
I have a new theory...
I'd like a chest of drawers, please! WRRAAWR!
Ah, a (insert item) requisit-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-e!
(Monty Python's Flying Circus)

Is that what made (insert campaign nation/world) great?
Don't mention the war!
You're a waste of space...
You'll have to sew 'em back on first!
(Fawlty Towers)

May get me some blank stares, but what the hell.

Yes, I know Holy Grail quotes got in there, but at least they're different ones...

-SJ

P.S. I've also been known to liberally quote from Homestar Runner, particularly anything that has to do with Trogdor, burninating or Dangeresque (I think I better JUUUUUMP!).