Silverblade The Ench
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jaerdaph,
*bows theatrically* hehe
hm, "Flumph Humpers" great name for a dwarven death metal band!
*bows theatrically* hehe
hm, "Flumph Humpers" great name for a dwarven death metal band!
Insults!
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redboxrazor
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Wow. Just wow... So many great insults. And thanks, Puget, for your unique take on the VM power.
I liked and learned many of these and plan to keep them as valuable ammunition for my bard. Next session is this Thursday!
The Shakespeare Insukt Generator is great, too!
Last session my character (Godelin Gibbs, a gnome bard) butted heads with another party member (played by Mike) when I referred to him as a peasant (little did I know, he is an exiled ex-prince, so that hit him hard). Later, when asked to join the convoy for my enchanting expertise, my apology went something like this:
(To the party)
"Well, we may have gotten off on the wrong foot here. I didn mean to gawk at your poverty. I'm sure you are all fine middle-class citizens."
Mike's jaw dropped, and I knew my snippy bard was off to a good start. : )
I liked and learned many of these and plan to keep them as valuable ammunition for my bard. Next session is this Thursday!
The Shakespeare Insukt Generator is great, too!
Last session my character (Godelin Gibbs, a gnome bard) butted heads with another party member (played by Mike) when I referred to him as a peasant (little did I know, he is an exiled ex-prince, so that hit him hard). Later, when asked to join the convoy for my enchanting expertise, my apology went something like this:
(To the party)
"Well, we may have gotten off on the wrong foot here. I didn mean to gawk at your poverty. I'm sure you are all fine middle-class citizens."
Mike's jaw dropped, and I knew my snippy bard was off to a good start. : )
tuxgeo
Adventurer
An alternate take on Vicious Mockery: The PHB (page 55, was it?) tells us that we can reflavor the description however we want.
I expand that to include the name of the power, thus:
"Arcane Mockery _ _ _ _ _ Bard Attack 1
Your words, poses, and gestures are empowered by arcane magic to enrage your foe."
That way, the Keywords, Range, Action, Target, Attack, and Hit descriptions all remain the same as in the original Vicious Mockery: it's still the same power, but it allows for the use of physical insults as well as words, so a bard could make a funny face and sing off-key, or adopt a limp-wristed pose and mewl, or curse and make a rude hand gesture, and any of those would work as well as clever verbal insults would. For example:
"Your
is this big!" (/gestures)
"Aim here! You might hit it." (/points to knee)
I expand that to include the name of the power, thus:
"Arcane Mockery _ _ _ _ _ Bard Attack 1
Your words, poses, and gestures are empowered by arcane magic to enrage your foe."
That way, the Keywords, Range, Action, Target, Attack, and Hit descriptions all remain the same as in the original Vicious Mockery: it's still the same power, but it allows for the use of physical insults as well as words, so a bard could make a funny face and sing off-key, or adopt a limp-wristed pose and mewl, or curse and make a rude hand gesture, and any of those would work as well as clever verbal insults would. For example:
"Your
is this big!" (/gestures)"Aim here! You might hit it." (/points to knee)
Vyvyan Basterd
Adventurer
Thanks goes to Dragonlance for my favorite gaming-related insult of all time:
"Do those fleas on your body do tricks?"
Also, found this: Dragonlance Underground: Kender Taunt Generator
"Do those fleas on your body do tricks?"
Also, found this: Dragonlance Underground: Kender Taunt Generator
Heathen72
Explorer
From here:
The example that follows is from Sir Thomas Urquhart’s translation of Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel, dated 1653, which draws heavily on vocabulary used in Scotland in his time:
Pure invective genius.
The example that follows is from Sir Thomas Urquhart’s translation of Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel, dated 1653, which draws heavily on vocabulary used in Scotland in his time:
The bun-sellers or cake-makers were in nothing inclinable to their request; but, which was worse, did injure them most outrageously, called them prattling gabblers, lickorous gluttons, freckled bittors, mangy rascals, 
-a-bed scoundrels, drunken roysters, sly knaves, drowsy loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes, ruffian rogues, paltry customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoydens, flouting milksops, jeering companions, staring clowns, forlorn snakes, ninny lobcocks, scurvy sneaksbies, fondling fops, base loons, saucy coxcombs, idle lusks, scoffing braggarts, noddy meacocks, blockish grutnols, doddipol-joltheads, jobbernol goosecaps, foolish loggerheads, flutch calf-lollies, grouthead gnat-snappers, lob-dotterels, gaping changelings, codshead loobies, woodcock slangams, ninny-hammer flycatchers, noddypeak simpletons, turdy gut, shitten shepherds, and other suchlike defamatory epithets; saying further, that it was not for them to eat of these dainty cakes, but might very well content themselves with the coarse unranged bread, or to eat of the great brown household loaf.
-a-bed scoundrels, drunken roysters, sly knaves, drowsy loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes, ruffian rogues, paltry customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoydens, flouting milksops, jeering companions, staring clowns, forlorn snakes, ninny lobcocks, scurvy sneaksbies, fondling fops, base loons, saucy coxcombs, idle lusks, scoffing braggarts, noddy meacocks, blockish grutnols, doddipol-joltheads, jobbernol goosecaps, foolish loggerheads, flutch calf-lollies, grouthead gnat-snappers, lob-dotterels, gaping changelings, codshead loobies, woodcock slangams, ninny-hammer flycatchers, noddypeak simpletons, turdy gut, shitten shepherds, and other suchlike defamatory epithets; saying further, that it was not for them to eat of these dainty cakes, but might very well content themselves with the coarse unranged bread, or to eat of the great brown household loaf.Pure invective genius.
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