Great barbarian quotes

Angcuru · Mar 18, 2003

I need to go read Eaters of the Dead now. I've been meaning to do it ever since I watched 'The 13th Warrior' (which was a crap title for such a good movie, by the way.) Big unemotional nordic dudes with huge swords RULE!

Hypersmurf · Mar 18, 2003

I need to go read Eaters of the Dead now. I've been meaning to do it ever since I watched 'The 13th Warrior' (which was a crap title for such a good movie, by the way.) Big unemotional nordic dudes with huge swords RULE!

It's a strange movie. When I first saw it, it felt kinda disjoint. It didn't flow. Things were set in motion, and then never went anywhere... like the Prince, or the girl...

Then I watched it a second time, and ignored that aspect of it, and it was pretty cool.

Then I bought it on DVD, and I think it's fantastic now. It is lacking a lot of substance, but it has style.

I assumed that it was suffering from book-to-movie syndrome - that a lot of plot details ended up on the cutting room floor, and that the plot of the book would make more sense.

And then I read the book - good grief! The movie managed to capture the feel of it pretty damned well. Crichton wrote the book as though it was translated from recovered journal fragments, etc - so there are missing details, and plot threads that go nowhere, and so on.

I was hoping the book would clear up some of the questions! Aargh.

Edgtho the Silent makes a damned cool 3E Ranger, though.

"I thought you'd be in the tower."
"I know - that's why I'm not in it."

-Hyp.

Roland Delacroix · Mar 18, 2003

Eldorian said:
In response to someone's comment of the order of "That dragon's gonna end up eating all of us!"

The response was "Then we'll just have to eat him."

The dwarf fighter from Record of Lodoss War. Excellent anime, the very essence of D&D.

There are some good quotes in some old Cerebus phone books I have around, i'll try and dig them up later...

drnuncheon · Mar 18, 2003

Roland Delacroix said:
The dwarf fighter from Record of Lodoss War. Excellent anime, the very essence of D&D.

Not surprising, since it was based on a novel (or series) that was based on a D&D campaign.

J

Angcuru · Mar 19, 2003

Record of Lodoss War based on books....

ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!

ANGCURU WANT! GIVE ! NOW!

Anyone notice how Chronicles of the Heroic Knight is practically identicle to the first in terms of Parn&Deedlit, Spark&Neese, Wagnard Syndrome?

Eldorian · Mar 19, 2003

Ah yess, Rodossu War! I remember where i got that now. As for books, you can probably buy Record of Lodoss War graphic novels at your local friendly place to buy japanese graphic novels. It's a great anime, worth a watch, not worth 100 bucks for the dvd series unless you're rolling in dough. Me, I'm in college, the opposite of rolling in dough.

And a new quote

"Sure I walk in front. What is "barbarian trap detection" mean?"

"Only coward look for traps first. Just open it."

Eldorian Antar

krunchyfrogg · Mar 19, 2003

I always thought that Record of the Lodoss War was based on the writers own D&D campaign, and theat the graphic novels were from the animated series.

I could be wrong, though.

As for a quote;

HULK SMASH

Gotta wax a little classic barb.

zyzzyr · Mar 19, 2003

Barbarians are defined by actions, not sayings

Targ, suspecting a treasure in a room aflames, walks in.

DM: "You know the room's on fire, right?"

Me: "Yes."

Players: "Geez."

DM: "You rush into the room ... "

Me: "No, I stroll."

DM: "Ok, you stroll into a room aflames. Take 15 damage. Through the smoke you think you can make out a chest ablaze in the corner."

Me: "I open it."

DM: "But it's on fire."

Me: "I know. I open it."

DM: "You reach into the flames, taking another 23 damage. The smell of burned flesh fills your nose."

Me: "I pause and inhale deeply, remembering the smell of charred corpses piled upon each other after a successful raid."

Or upon finding an ogre's altar has a false bottom filled with decomposing bodies.

Me: "I jump in and start digging with my axe, ignoring any possibility of disease or infection."

DM: "The smell is just horrible ... awful ... you retch."

Me: "I vomit joyously, remembering the puking masses teeming from their huts after seeing their loved ones mowed down by my axe."

And it netted me 3000 platinum too. Nobody in the party complained once about the stench, which lasted a week.