Eternalknight
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I actually had a Gnome Bard (female) named Janlen who used to use the line "And this one time, at bard camp....". And, yes, she played the flute 
One Time...at Bard Camp...
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ajanders
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Characters Stolen from movie
When I needed two characters for comic relief MacGuffins, I borrowed Skank and T-bird from The Crow and crossed them with Cleetus the Slack-Jawed Yokel from the Simpsons.
It actually helped when the players worked out the references...and gave birth to a new way of describing fights.
"It was big an' scary an' horrible an' it went WHAM!WHAM!WHAM!"
When I needed two characters for comic relief MacGuffins, I borrowed Skank and T-bird from The Crow and crossed them with Cleetus the Slack-Jawed Yokel from the Simpsons.
It actually helped when the players worked out the references...and gave birth to a new way of describing fights.
"It was big an' scary an' horrible an' it went WHAM!WHAM!WHAM!"
Christian Walker
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Aliens
I and another 10,000 GMs have fallen back on the old, "Contact has been lost with Colony X. You need to go check it out, a'ight?"
I and another 10,000 GMs have fallen back on the old, "Contact has been lost with Colony X. You need to go check it out, a'ight?"
Well, I use "cut scenes" all the time.
Cut scenes are where I stop the action, ususaly on a cliffhanger before a fight with some minor thugs. Then I describe a scene invovling the villians and how close they are on the heels of the players, or perhaps a clue about the villian's upcoming plan.
Cut scenes are where I stop the action, ususaly on a cliffhanger before a fight with some minor thugs. Then I describe a scene invovling the villians and how close they are on the heels of the players, or perhaps a clue about the villian's upcoming plan.
I don't know if this counts, but I *did* rip off a real live case.
Autopsy 3 had a wax dummy in a funhouse. However, due to an accident, one of the arms broke, and they found bone inside. It turns out there was a corpse that was hidden inside the wax maniquen.
Well, I used that idea, but had an Elven Ranger dedicated to hunting down drow. Well, some Drow caught up to him, and ended him. But, since they were drow, stuck him in some wax, and made the wax figure resemble a Drow. Then they trapped his spirit within the maniquen.
A gnome eventually ended up with the maniquen, and put it in a haunted house that accompanied a traveling carnival. Well, he accidently broke one of the seals, and it let the ghost out... and the Ghost was pissed.
Autopsy 3 had a wax dummy in a funhouse. However, due to an accident, one of the arms broke, and they found bone inside. It turns out there was a corpse that was hidden inside the wax maniquen.
Well, I used that idea, but had an Elven Ranger dedicated to hunting down drow. Well, some Drow caught up to him, and ended him. But, since they were drow, stuck him in some wax, and made the wax figure resemble a Drow. Then they trapped his spirit within the maniquen.
A gnome eventually ended up with the maniquen, and put it in a haunted house that accompanied a traveling carnival. Well, he accidently broke one of the seals, and it let the ghost out... and the Ghost was pissed.
The first session of my current Britannia 3E campaign had the PCs caught in the middle of a feud between two groups of mercenaries-cum-bandits, both of whom wanted sole control of a small village. One of the players (a diehard Eastwood fan) pinged it immediately as taken straight from _A Fistful of Dollars_.
Hong "which was, of course, based on Roman Polanski's _The Seven Samurai_" Ooi
Hong "which was, of course, based on Roman Polanski's _The Seven Samurai_" Ooi
Mathew_Freeman
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Dinkeldog said:
That's a scary concept. But it would have been worse if it had been 'The Pirates of Penzance'.
shadowcaster007
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We played a campaign where one of the players were a drow hunter. In one encounter the group killed all the drow but one, so the hunter tied him up and poured lamp oil on him. It was like the scene out of "Reservoir Dogs".
