Agentorange Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 You start a new swords'n'sorcery book ( The sum of all men by David Farland ) which has an interesting magical system and the first thing you think isn't" hey thats clever" or "nice plot twist" but "now, how do I translate that into BRP/RQ mechanics?" sad...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK Games Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 When you are reading a comic book and you actually stop and say "hey, his stats are not high enough to do that with his power!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaira Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 You track your own SANity points on a daily basis. Quote "The Worm Within" - the first novel for The Chronicles of Future Earth, coming 2013 from Chaosium, Inc. Website: http://sarahnewtonwriter.com | Twitter: @SarahJNewton | Facebook: TheChroniclesOfFutureEarth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaira Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 When somebody asks you "What are the chances of that happening, eh?", you can usually give them an immediate off-the-cuff answer, to within a few percent... Somewhere, secretly, you have a BRP character sheet where you've tried to work up your own stats... but you probably lied about your STR stat... and probably POW... oh, and maybe INT, too... hey, it's just a game, is'n'it? You have a pair of percentile dice which have all the corners worn off so bad you can't use them anymore, but you keep them - for "sentimental" reasons. Whenever you see a house plan in an estate agent's window, you think "heyyy... I could use that..." and immediately start imagining numbering each room and working out where the secret doors are... Quote "The Worm Within" - the first novel for The Chronicles of Future Earth, coming 2013 from Chaosium, Inc. Website: http://sarahnewtonwriter.com | Twitter: @SarahJNewton | Facebook: TheChroniclesOfFutureEarth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzunder Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 When you cross the road and think 'what is the saving roll to avoid a car?' [i was very young and we had only played Basic D&D..] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 As a player. When you watch a film or TV series where the actors split up in the zombie ridden/Alien/gangster ridden house and Think. "Pah, never catch one of my characters doing something that dumb..." As a GM re the above: "oh...the actors have split up. If this was one of my games they would be in real trouble about now..Heh! Heh!" >:-> (More so if a Cthulhu Keeper.) :thumb: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dredj Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 When somebody asks you "What are the chances of that happening, eh?", you can usually give them an immediate off-the-cuff answer, to within a few percent... Somewhere, secretly, you have a BRP character sheet where you've tried to work up your own stats... but you probably lied about your STR stat... and probably POW... oh, and maybe INT, too... hey, it's just a game, is'n'it? You have a pair of percentile dice which have all the corners worn off so bad you can't use them anymore, but you keep them - for "sentimental" reasons. Whenever you see a house plan in an estate agent's window, you think "heyyy... I could use that..." and immediately start imagining numbering each room and working out where the secret doors are... I'm guilty of everything except the dice part:o:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threedeesix Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 When the weather person says there is going to be a 60% chance of rain and you run in your game room and get the dice. When you have a game room that doesn't have a pool table in it. When you cancel the weekly game because it's you and your wifes 10 year anniversary and she gets upset and makes you call everyone back. All true, Rod Quote Join my Mythras/RuneQuest 6: Classic Fantasy Yahoo Group at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/RQCF/info "D100 - Exactly 5 times better than D20" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kraalomega Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Guilty as charged. Though I still claim to have a high CON because I'm never ill, despite the fact that I get out of breath going up the stairs:) Quote so this is it, we're going to die... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ars Mysteriorum Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 When you size up someone, you mentally assign them statistics for their abilities and skills and compare them to your own. Quote "Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal..." - H.P. Lovecraft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerallKahla Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 When you drop something and think, "Damn! Botched that roll..." Or, when the friends who watched your clumsiness say the same thing. Out loud. In public. Quote Emerging from my Dark Age... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyquest Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 You know you're a gamer when... ...you refer to reality as "my other campaign." ...your spouse tells you to come to bed and you argue that your character only needs 4 hours of sleep to regain all your MP. ...you're in the hospital and wonder what the doctor's Physik skill rating is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trifletraxor Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 When watching movies, you point out all the torchbearers before they die. SGL. Quote Ef plest master, this mighty fine grub! 116/420. High Priest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK Games Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 You partake in "you know you are a gamer when..." threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sladethesniper Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 When watching a movie (any movie), you start picking characters with the other gamers watching the movie and have them all statted up in 5 minutes and use the movie like a "convention game" with a railroading GM As you read a book, you start statting up all the interesting characters "just in case" you need an NPC...in three different gaming systems "just to make sure". -STS Quote Vhreaden: Blood, Steel and Iron Will is here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 You know you are a gamer when while reading this thread, you think "damn, why did I not do that?" ... Jean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GianniVacca Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 ..you're watching 'Willow' with the kids and when the troll shows up you tell your kids "Nah, that's not a troll" Quote 「天朝大國」，https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/92874/celestial-empire 很有意思: http://celestialempire.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OooMatron Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 ... you manage to convince your boss that the Traveller character sheet you just spent 30 mins filling out is actually an expense claim form. Guilty. As. Charged. Quote Stop messin' about. 139/420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ars Mysteriorum Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 ... you have decided that platonic solids really are the most beautiful of shapes. Quote "Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal..." - H.P. Lovecraft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogspawner Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 ...when you find yourself compelled to point out that d10's aren't strictly platonic solids... Quote Britain has been infiltrated by soviet agents to the highest levels. They control the BBC, the main political party leaderships, NHS & local council executives, much of the police, most newspapers and the utility companies. Of course the EU is theirs, through-and-through. And they are among us - a pervasive evil, like Stasi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightlamp Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 ...You regularly carry a "travel size" dicebag in your backpack/briefcase/purse/etc. "just in case you need them." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ars Mysteriorum Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 ...when you find yourself compelled to point out that d10's aren't strictly platonic solids... Indeed, the pentagonal trapezohedron is NOT a platonic solid That's cuz Basic Roleplaying channels the SIXTH ELEMENT! Quote "Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal..." - H.P. Lovecraft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ars Mysteriorum Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 ...You regularly carry a "travel size" dicebag in your backpack/briefcase/purse/etc. "just in case you need them." *Looks at his leather satchel sitting next to him, which is currently occupied by an RPG, a folder full of character and reference sheets, and a bag of 25 dodecahedrons necessary to play said RPG* You never know... I've yet to run into a game just spontaneously happened (especially at work), but dammit, I'm prepared! Quote "Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal..." - H.P. Lovecraft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sladethesniper Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 ...You regularly carry a "travel size" dicebag in your backpack/briefcase/purse/etc. "just in case you need them." You take your "lucky dice" to Iraq and Afghanistan...and you have run a quick pick up game in an Iraqi Police Station with four other guys in between guard shifts who just happen to have their characters sheets.... -STS Quote Vhreaden: Blood, Steel and Iron Will is here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK Games Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 You take your "lucky dice" to Iraq and Afghanistan...and you have run a quick pick up game in an Iraqi Police Station with four other guys in between guard shifts who just happen to have their characters sheets.... -STS Guilty, though not in a IPS. Slade, this might be a stupid question because of your screen name, whats you MOS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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