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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hawkeye" data-source="post: 1780100" data-attributes="member: 9200">I guess I am lucky.  While my gaming friends and I are known to use puns and movie/book quotes rather liberally, we have all developed the talent to use the appropriate quote at the appropriate time.  This is particulalry true of a LARP group I am part of.  A couple of examples off the top of my head.We were running a LARP game one day, when one of the players, playing a Dread Pirate Roberts type character, came to the game wearing a mask.  At an informational encounter later in the day, the NPC turned to the PC in question and launced in the Princess Bride Fissick mask questions, and the PC fired right back his answers and the game flowed right from there.  It wasn't disrupting and fit very well.In another LARP game, the PCs had finished with another informational encounter.  While they were leaving the NPCs turned to the PCs and said "Have fun storming the castle" in true Princess Bride fashion.  Of course the PCs laughed a little at this, until they came out onto the open field and there on a hill before them was a castle that had been built for the game.  The game writer had written the castle encounter as a serious affair.  The NPCs had a different plan and I am sure you can see where this is going.  What followed was taken straight from Monty Python was the NPCs were the obnoxious French defenders of the castle, down to the insults, which had to be changed to make them germane to the characters involved.  The PCs had to assualt the castle, while the French defenders were insulting them and launching animals at them with a "catapault."  The animals were all stuffed toys from several years ago that had voice boxes in them that would make animal sounds while flying through the air.  So you would see a stuffed cat coming over the wall going "meow meow" the entire time or a rooster crowing.  The PCs were, of course taking damage if it.  When they became annoying the NPCs "loaded the really big catapault" and dropped a large stuffed cow on them.  It was very well done.  Lots of fun had by all and not one bit of detraction from the game.Hawkeye</blockquote>

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