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<blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2433659" data-attributes="member: 30035">&quot;I got a Rock.&quot;This initially referred back to the Charlie Brown Halloween special where Charlie Brown keeps getting a rock in his trick-or-treat bag. But in one of our current campaigns one player is running a dwarf named Rock. One night he had a bad roll and someone remarked, &quot;I got a rock&quot;. We now use this phrase frequently whenever someone rolls a 1 or makes a low roll that they know won't succeed. It's implied that we're referring to the dwarf, not the Charlie Brown joke.&nbsp;&quot;How many moneys for leg of lamb?&quot;&nbsp;This is our catchphrase for explaining a language barrier, or sometimes for when we're shopping and need to dicker. This is how my RuneQuest GM exemplified using the &quot;tradetalk&quot; language in that game. &nbsp;&quot;I do the rear-end plunge!&quot;&nbsp;This is another one from our former RQ GM - he was describing a bison attacking someone and announced that it did a rear-and-plunge maneuver, but we all misheard him. &nbsp;&quot;Not the lemur!!&quot;&nbsp;Anything we think is evil and horrible is a lemur. We had a short-lived RQ game in which all the PCs were beastmen, and the guy playing a sentient lemur made his character so annoying that all primates ever after have been declared lemurs and hence evil.&nbsp;&quot;I take one step forward to reduce the range penalty.&quot;&nbsp;This one's kind of hard to explain, but we say it a lot. We were playing Champions and my PC was being held at gunpoint by a villain. Another player announced that his character took one step forward to reduce the range penalty, even though the villain had announced that if anyone moved he'd shoot. The player contended that taking one step in Hero didn't really constitute moving, so he'd be able to act before the villain could shoot. The GM didn't see it that way. Now we use that phrase mainly just to make ourselves laugh, whenever it seems appropriate. The guy it refers to still doesn't get the joke.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="sniffles, post: 2433659, member: 30035"] "I got a Rock." This initially referred back to the Charlie Brown Halloween special where Charlie Brown keeps getting a rock in his trick-or-treat bag. But in one of our current campaigns one player is running a dwarf named Rock. One night he had a bad roll and someone remarked, "I got a rock". We now use this phrase frequently whenever someone rolls a 1 or makes a low roll that they know won't succeed. It's implied that we're referring to the dwarf, not the Charlie Brown joke. "How many moneys for leg of lamb?" This is our catchphrase for explaining a language barrier, or sometimes for when we're shopping and need to dicker. This is how my RuneQuest GM exemplified using the "tradetalk" language in that game. "I do the rear-end plunge!" This is another one from our former RQ GM - he was describing a bison attacking someone and announced that it did a rear-and-plunge maneuver, but we all misheard him. "Not the lemur!!" Anything we think is evil and horrible is a lemur. We had a short-lived RQ game in which all the PCs were beastmen, and the guy playing a sentient lemur made his character so annoying that all primates ever after have been declared lemurs and hence evil. "I take one step forward to reduce the range penalty." This one's kind of hard to explain, but we say it a lot. We were playing Champions and my PC was being held at gunpoint by a villain. Another player announced that his character took one step forward to reduce the range penalty, even though the villain had announced that if anyone moved he'd shoot. The player contended that taking one step in Hero didn't really constitute moving, so he'd be able to act before the villain could shoot. The GM didn't see it that way. Now we use that phrase mainly just to make ourselves laugh, whenever it seems appropriate. The guy it refers to still doesn't get the joke. :D [/QUOTE]

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