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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Puppy Kicker" data-source="post: 1689470" data-attributes="member: 20284">ledded, the group is used to mainly combat in a fantasy game.  So for the first session (and the first time they'd ever played a Modern game) there was a lot of dialogue derived from what they did and how I thought their characters would talk.  Frankly, that's why (in my opinion) the first session just wasn't as funny.  I just can't make these things up that well.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  There were, however, a couple taken straight from their mouths...  “Please don’t hurt me, just take my purse. There’s a cell phone… some money… a nice shade of lipstick?”  (said as Rebecca's player was reading out her equipment list) “Take it, punk. Take it all.”  “Nice toss.” (said as Meadow's player gave Rebecca's player a legitimate angry scowl)... for example.The second session was pretty much verbatim as far as the clever and witty dialogue went.  The players had gotten a handle on their characters and started having fun with them.  Plus, we have an official "wit recorder" so whenever someone said something cool it would get written down.  When I went back to write the story hour I typed in the quotes first and then started writing the story around them.  This is working well I think.  Otherwise I might have forgotten quotes like “You want a ribbon on it?” or the “What, you think I carry a f***in’ crowbar in my pocket?” “You’re a thug! Isn’t that what thugs do?” scene.As far as the non-witty "filler" dialogue to present information to the reader or advance a long scene, I pretty much make that up the way I think their character's would say it.  I stick in whatever they said that was cool during that scene and then type in the filler around it.  I'm good at non-witty.  The players are good at witty.  It's what I call teamwork.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I think it's only going to get better from here now as everyone gets more into the characters and they get stuck in wierder and wierder situations.  Stay tuned!* As for the e-mail.  I'll just let Rebecca reply about that.  I think the girl gets a certain perverse pleasure out of watching the GM almost choke on his drink laughing.** Oh, and if anyone happens to have d20 Modern stats for John Edward, well I know one GM who suddenly needs them.</blockquote>

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