Most amusing line in a game book?

[LordVyreth]

It's been years since I read it, but the mere awareness that the 1E Dungeon Master's Guide had a table to give a detailed description about exactly what kind of prostitute the party randomly encounters in cities has always amused me.

 

[Ozmar]

There are many. One in particular that springs to mind was (IIRC) in the index of Primal Order, the original Wizards of the Coast game product. I believe there were items in the index that went something like this:

infinite loop: see unwary reader
unwary reader: see infinite loop

I'm probably mis-remembering it, but it was something like that... a couple recursive index entries. Simple humor, perhaps, but I liked it.

-Ozmar the Easily Amused

 

[Psion]

Could it be true nobody has mentioned anything from Pleasure Prison of the B'thuvian Demon Whore? I don't have it here to precisely relate it, but the tracking results table was amusing.

 

[JRRNeiklot]

Re: Universal Solvent

Don't you guys mean Sovereign glue?

 

[Crothian]

I'm probably mis-remembering it, but it was something like that... a couple recursive index entries. Simple humor, perhaps, but I liked it.

Exalted 1e Lunars book I beleive had something like that with pants.

 

[Thanee]

Yep. HōL (Human Occupied Landfill). Pretty much the entire book, and all the supplements. Doubly so for the line about the orcs.

That sounds kinda like Tales from the Floating Vagabond, just more extreme.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Mark Hope]

Exaklted 1e Lunars book I beleive had something like that with pants.

Damn the pants!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Have you ever been reading a game book when something in it made you stop and laugh out load? Is there something that makes you chuckle every time you read it?

I loved all of the old Paranoia books- all of the best stuff was for the GM...I frequently found myself laughing.

One that I can remember was a bottle of pills labeled "Instant Troubleshooters" or some such- each pill, when water was added, would create a life-sized humanoid decoy in mere seconds. The cap to the bottle was faulty, and it was advised that the GM trigger the entire bottle of 100+ pills whenever the party found itself getting wet...like from a fire-extinguisher sprinkler system (there are always fires in Paranoia), or when they traverse the sewers...or if a little sweat found its way into the bottle (the PCs are always sweating in Paranoia)...

The mental image of 100's of humanoids erupting from someone's overall pocket...probably pinning them in an uncomfortable position...I laugh even today.

 

[Vanye]

Orcs of Thar

The entire training guide for the Orcs from the old basic Orcs of Thar gazetteer

 

[JustKim]

It's not really a book, but out of the Munchkin card game rules..

"Decide who goes first by rolling the dice and arguing about the results and the meaning of this sentence and whether the fact that a word seems to be missing any effect."