Humor in sourcebooks

The Shaman · Aug 4, 2005

Come hard with the funny.

Arrgh! Mark! · Aug 4, 2005

Anything could do with a bit of humour. The Core rulebooks especially.

jgbrowning · Aug 4, 2005

Olgar Shiverstone said:
[deadpan] I don't get it. [/deadpan]

But since it's an aquired template, you'll get it even if you don't want it.

joe b.

Shadowdancer · Aug 4, 2005

Humor in sourcebooks? Certainly.

A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer in your pants -- it's all good.

William Ronald · Aug 4, 2005

Humor can be appropriate in a published product, as our own world provides examples of things to laugh at. Why shouldn't a gaming supplement allow the readers to chuckle every now and then. Also, humor can sometimes prove a point. For example, in the case of the excerpt from the Explorer's Handbook, I thought it showed some of the mindset of characters in Eberron and I think the people of Khorvaire do have a sense of humor. (I imagine there would be a lot of grim humor in an Eberron campaign.)

Land Outcast · Aug 4, 2005

see fiend folio
pg. 32 (ehh, well....)
pg. 58 (someone was angry at his/her -old- mom)

Ringmereth · Aug 4, 2005

Even epic-level scions of power with the fate of the world in their hands need a bit of comic relief every now and then. Us gamers need substantially more. So, I'm all for lighthearted moments in sourcebooks. Granted, there shouldn't be too much in Libris Mortis or Lords of Madness, but token funny stuff like the Deja Vu in XPH adds a bit of much-needed humor to the otherwise dry rulebooks.

Dav · Aug 4, 2005

One of the things that cracked me up in reading the PBH was the arcane focus for detect thoughts: a copper piece. "A penny for your thoughts." Hehehehe. :lol:

Kae'Yoss · Aug 4, 2005

Dav said:
One of the things that cracked me up in reading the PBH was the arcane focus for detect thoughts: a copper piece. "A penny for your thoughts." Hehehehe.

It's full of stuff like that. Daze has a "pinch of wool" as component, to pull the wool over the eyes of the victim.

GrayLinnorm · Aug 4, 2005

:\ It's too bad they cut out the "mutant sea bass" reference in the DMG. It's one of SEVERAL things they should have kept in but that's a ropic for another thread...