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<blockquote data-quote="Gnarlo" data-source="post: 2001771" data-attributes="member: 2995">&quot;Ewwww....Rolled a six&quot; Comes from the original Car Wars rules, where a roll of 6 on a handling roll meant that your car had rolled over and was on fire. Used in game and in RL whenever something really bad happens.&quot;I lick my sword!&quot;My players were in the Sunless Citadel and found the fountain that spit out one dose of a Flame Breath (?) potion. At the same time, one of them opened the door in the room and released the skeletons from their crypts.&nbsp; As combat ensued, the player at the fountain had no time to try to determine what the substance was so he scooped some up and between combat rounds tried different things: flinging it at the skeletons, rubbing it on his hands, dipping his sword in it, etc. Finally he ran out of ideas and said &quot;I lick my sword&quot;, thus discovering it was (obviously) a potion. It's used now to describe when someone is attempting every solution to a problem except the obvious one.&quot;Boromir's in trouble!&quot;During one game a player leaned over the table to move his mini and inadvertently let out a long, low toot. There was total silence for a few seconds, then one player exclaimed &quot;The Horn of Gondor! Boromir's in trouble!&quot;&nbsp; After we had all recovered, &quot;Boromir's in trouble!&quot; has become the phrase for when someone is getting up to visit the bathroom.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gnarlo, post: 2001771, member: 2995"] "Ewwww....Rolled a six" Comes from the original Car Wars rules, where a roll of 6 on a handling roll meant that your car had rolled over and was on fire. Used in game and in RL whenever something really bad happens. "I lick my sword!" My players were in the Sunless Citadel and found the fountain that spit out one dose of a Flame Breath (?) potion. At the same time, one of them opened the door in the room and released the skeletons from their crypts. As combat ensued, the player at the fountain had no time to try to determine what the substance was so he scooped some up and between combat rounds tried different things: flinging it at the skeletons, rubbing it on his hands, dipping his sword in it, etc. Finally he ran out of ideas and said "I lick my sword", thus discovering it was (obviously) a potion. It's used now to describe when someone is attempting every solution to a problem except the obvious one. "Boromir's in trouble!" During one game a player leaned over the table to move his mini and inadvertently let out a long, low toot. There was total silence for a few seconds, then one player exclaimed "The Horn of Gondor! Boromir's in trouble!" After we had all recovered, "Boromir's in trouble!" has become the phrase for when someone is getting up to visit the bathroom. [/QUOTE]

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