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#1 Post by rredmond »

The gnomes in Inferno's Horror at Briarsgate game keep speaking in gnomish in ways that continually make me chuckle. Either they speak one word and it means like three paragraphs of stuff, or a paragraph that means one word. Good times!
Subject: Chapter 20: Hungry Are The Dead
ChubbyPixie wrote:Picking himself up off the ground, Telkis gives Urdur a "what now?" look, then, glancing left and right, he grows suddenly decisive. "Fløøt!*" he whispers urgently, then scrambles to duck down an alley or narrow street to round at least two corners in an 's' curve as quickly as possible, heading in the general direction of the town hall and its cells.
*"Come! Come! It is vitally important that you do not tarry!"
SocraticLawyer wrote:"Breðafönn! says Urdur in agreement. He follows Telkis as they try to lose the wolf.
"Indeed, our survival depends upon our rapid flight from the vicinity of the dangerous wolf-man! Let us make haste!"
Bravo ChubbyPixie and SocraticLawyer, bravo!
SocraticLawyer wrote:"Veiðir fisk," says the gnome.
Translation: This is indeed a dire situation, friend, made all the more so by my need to pee.
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This is a game about killing things and taking their stuff so you can become more powerful in order to kill bigger things and take even better stuff.
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#2 Post by Nordbo »

Yup, Icelandic is punchy and fun (and of course means nothing of what the spoilers say here :lol: ). As a Swede, it's intriguing to eavesdrop on our linguistic cousins: speakers of Icelandic. Terse staccato sentences that mean nothing and then wham! suddenly two words you understand completely - and then you've lost drift again.

Btw, as a coincidence, GW uses Norwegian as Orcish in our game - but that's much easier to understand
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This is funny and cool stuff. Until you and GW started talking about it I thought he was just making stuff up for Orchish. I need to find one for Wookie so I don't keep using the same thing for everything.
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#4 Post by GreyWolfVT »

lol I was cheating with google translate. In the past i have found translators that work better. Just wait if you encounter giants take a guess what language I'll use for them Rex. :)

The hill giant looks at the dwarf adventurer and says "Luktar ork här"

translated "Smells like orc in here"
“All men did have darkness. Some wore it in the form of horns. Some bore it invisibly as rot in their souls.”
― Paul S. Kemp, Shadowbred
"If good people won’t do the hard things, evil people will always win, because evil people will do anything."
― Paul S. Kemp, Twilight Falling

Algrim Tirion Dwarf - HarnMaser
Dalin Silverhand Dwarf Thief - Barrowmaze
Elwood 'Dug' The Bounty Hunter Dwarf Swashbuckler - Hedge's Adventures in the World of Golarion
Roan Gravelbeard Dwarf Fighter - Hedge's Greyhawk Adventures
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They better be small giants if they are fitting in the basement of the place we just explored. :)
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They'll be standing outside the cave when you return ;)
“All men did have darkness. Some wore it in the form of horns. Some bore it invisibly as rot in their souls.”
― Paul S. Kemp, Shadowbred
"If good people won’t do the hard things, evil people will always win, because evil people will do anything."
― Paul S. Kemp, Twilight Falling

Algrim Tirion Dwarf - HarnMaser
Dalin Silverhand Dwarf Thief - Barrowmaze
Elwood 'Dug' The Bounty Hunter Dwarf Swashbuckler - Hedge's Adventures in the World of Golarion
Roan Gravelbeard Dwarf Fighter - Hedge's Greyhawk Adventures
Torvik Shadowhood Dwarf Fighter/Thief - Nocturne
DM - GreyWolf's Mystara Adventures - AD&D 2e
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Fun, maybe I will get to use Egons back attack for a change.
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rredmond wrote:The gnomes in Inferno's Horror at Briarsgate game keep speaking in gnomish in ways that continually make me chuckle. Either they speak one word and it means like three paragraphs of stuff, or a paragraph that means one word. Good times!
SocraticLawyer and ChubbyPixie have been making me laugh too. :)
Also, Pulpatoon's cyborg PC in my scifi dungeoncrawl game:

Subject: Chapter 5: Subterrane of the Cyborgs
Pulpatoon wrote:Garamond continues to flail futilely with its drills. "This isn't... I don't know what I'm doing! Is this how you do it?"
DM:
The Horror at Briarsgate (1e): Lovecraftian Gothic Horror (N1, homebrew)
Lost City of Eternity (1e): Hyborian Age Sword and Sorcery (B4, JG102, homebrew)
Once and Future Earth (1e): Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Dungeon Crawl (X1, B1, ASE1, homebrew)
Sauron Victorious (1e): Dire Saga for the Fate of Middle Earth (homebrew)

Player:
Agax Gryyg: Gamer of Urth, Ravenloft
Azoth Al-Aziz: Lovecraftian Cultist, Tamoachan
Blodget: Foolish Young 9th Level Hobbit, Dark Clouds
Dredd Doomsmith: Dwarven Deathtrap Engineer, Tomb of Horrors
Elijah Crowthorne: Marooned Prophet, Pirates
Jack in the Green: Ancient Child, Giants
P.T. Codswallop: Larcenous Impresario, Dimwater
Sir Ugghra: Bestial Half-Orc Aristocrat, Brotherton
Swilbosh: Savage Lizard-Warrior, Keep
Tantos Vek: Failed Paladin, Under Streets
Ulfang Chainbreaker: Barbarian Liberator of Slaves, Tharizdun

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#9 Post by rredmond »

The current OOC discussion going on in Inferno's Sauron Victorious game:

hedgeknight
PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 12:39 pm
Can't believe BOTH of the dwarves failed saving throws vs. poison!!
We only needed a freaking 9 to save! :oops: :x

Urson
PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 9:29 am
It's a really good poison.

Rex
PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 4:45 pm
I seem to recall a story about 13 dwarves and a Hobbit where the dwarves didn't do so well against spider poison.

Scott308
PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:22 pm
That story doesn't seem very plausible. Anyone who would come up with such a ridiculous story clearly has no future as a writer.

Rex
PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:38 pm
Your probably right.

rredmond
PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2019 7:23 am
Would never sell.

wolfpack
PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2019 7:45 am
way to childish
This is a game about killing things and taking their stuff so you can become more powerful in order to kill bigger things and take even better stuff.
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mjulius: That's how I know I'm home.
Pulpatoon: The whole point of PbP is to take the scheduling pressure off the game. We're just chatty because we're so eager!
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Leitz: Quality and quantity wise, I think US is the best I've seen.
Paladin: I can promise terror, glory, and riches...or a quick and brutal death.
Inferno: Come on! That's was Vicar's Head, a completely different doomed village!
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Great moments when some 2hp algae nearly took out a TPK in Pirates. The Obliviax stole spells, confused everybody, put some to sleep, entangled others and using a Hypnotic Pattern with an indefinite duration nearly captured the whole team.

naughty but nice! :twisted:
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From your perspective, maybe. Fenis didn't think so. ;)
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#12 Post by rredmond »

This makes me smile and is likely sig worthy :D
Inferno wrote:Come on! That's was Vicar's Head, a completely different doomed village!
This is a game about killing things and taking their stuff so you can become more powerful in order to kill bigger things and take even better stuff.
Alethan: I'm good with NOT pressing our luck this time.
mjulius: That's how I know I'm home.
Pulpatoon: The whole point of PbP is to take the scheduling pressure off the game. We're just chatty because we're so eager!
Scott308: ...everyone should be reminded of just how wonderful the people they play games with here can be in real life.
Leitz: Quality and quantity wise, I think US is the best I've seen.
Paladin: I can promise terror, glory, and riches...or a quick and brutal death.
Inferno: Come on! That's was Vicar's Head, a completely different doomed village!
Rex: I can move to the wait list to let someone else into the game.
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Couple more:
Subject: Chapter 24: Human Sacrifices
ChubbyPixie wrote:"Remember the good old days when all we had to deal with was a town full of insane, murderous cultists?"
Subject: Wanderings (ooc and questions ll)
Inferno wrote:Stupid life! We'll show it. We'll escape its tedious clutches! (thank you, Unseen Servant)
This is a game about killing things and taking their stuff so you can become more powerful in order to kill bigger things and take even better stuff.
Alethan: I'm good with NOT pressing our luck this time.
mjulius: That's how I know I'm home.
Pulpatoon: The whole point of PbP is to take the scheduling pressure off the game. We're just chatty because we're so eager!
Scott308: ...everyone should be reminded of just how wonderful the people they play games with here can be in real life.
Leitz: Quality and quantity wise, I think US is the best I've seen.
Paladin: I can promise terror, glory, and riches...or a quick and brutal death.
Inferno: Come on! That's was Vicar's Head, a completely different doomed village!
Rex: I can move to the wait list to let someone else into the game.
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#14 Post by AleBelly »

The drinking contest at the Briarbeard Tavern is one of my fondest Unseen Servant moments.

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#15 Post by Scott308 »

That was a lot of fun! Even though Dorvar didn't win the contest, he won the grand prize- immunity to alcohol poisoning, so the dwarf would never need to stop drinking!
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"Maybe we weren't identified by that mob. Those cultists won't tell anyone, and who knows that the guild master is even dead?"
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#17 Post by Stirling »

I post this as a quote from Hvalreki, player in Barrowmaze.
Most RPG fun I've had in years. Thanks Spearmint and Bluetongue. This adventure reminds me of how I got into D&D in the first place all those years ago.
Honorable mention needs to go to the Unseen Servant Dice Roller for saving our collective behinds. First level idiots facing off with a Drow cleric and a Wight? I thought we were gonners for sure.
Wasn't involved in this expedition but certainly a lot of the players identify with the 'most fun' moments. A shout-out to great GM's on the site.
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#18 Post by hedgeknight »

Some of my fondest memories on US as a DM are the beginning conversations when I kicked off my Greyhawk Adventures game back at the first of 2020. Chubby's dialogue, along with Monsieur Rose's sarcastic bite, made my ribs ache from laughing. :mrgreen:

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#19 Post by Scott308 »

Ok, this was funny!
sastaz wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 7:09 pm Sylla

Like Barry Gibb joins Bobby and Maurice, Sylla pops up next to Renna and Stobart to turn undead in a falsetto, waving her silvery symbols. However the tune is off and the harmonies incomplete.

"Ah, ah, ah, ah, staying dead, staying dead!"

Turn attempt: [1d20]=1
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Heh heh heh, I can hear the tune for sure!
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This is a game about killing things and taking their stuff so you can become more powerful in order to kill bigger things and take even better stuff.
Alethan: I'm good with NOT pressing our luck this time.
mjulius: That's how I know I'm home.
Pulpatoon: The whole point of PbP is to take the scheduling pressure off the game. We're just chatty because we're so eager!
Scott308: ...everyone should be reminded of just how wonderful the people they play games with here can be in real life.
Leitz: Quality and quantity wise, I think US is the best I've seen.
Paladin: I can promise terror, glory, and riches...or a quick and brutal death.
Inferno: Come on! That's was Vicar's Head, a completely different doomed village!
Rex: I can move to the wait list to let someone else into the game.
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