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Message no. 1
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: Common GM quotes
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:11:00 +0100
One for the GMs: what kinds of things do you find yourself saying all
the time to your players? I think my own most frequently used quotes
must be:

* "Roll Initiative."
* "What Force?"
* "What damage?"
* "Roll Perception."
* "That's Intelligence, yes."
* "You need <number> <target number>s" (like: "You need four
threes")
* "And what where your other rolls?" (when someone says "I got 11, 8 and
7" when rolling something like ten dice)
* "Only the highest roll counts here."
* "No." (Usually followed by an explanation of why something doesn't
apply at this time :)

I ask because after playing my first laptop-enhanced RPG session
yesterday (I bought a MacBook about a week ago) and soon found a use for
the "say" command in the terminal :)

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Message no. 2
From: swiftone@********.org (Brett Ritter)
Subject: Common GM quotes
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:16:32 -0500
> One for the GMs: what kinds of things do you find yourself saying all
> the time to your players?

"You can try" (in response to the "can I ______" question)
"Roll. Impress me."
"Roll. Just don't mess up."

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Brett Ritter / SwiftOne
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Message no. 3
From: graht1@*****.com (Graht)
Subject: Common GM quotes
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:13:33 -0700
On 11/13/06, Gurth <gurth@******.nl> wrote:
> One for the GMs: what kinds of things do you find yourself saying all
> the time to your players? I think my own most frequently used quotes
> must be:

"You can try."
"Anything is possible."
"Is it written down on your character sheet?"
"Role some dice and tell me the result."

--
-Graht
Message no. 4
From: scott@**********.com (Scott Harrison)
Subject: Common GM quotes
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:31:22 +0100
On Nov 13, 2006, at 19:11 , Gurth wrote:

> One for the GMs: what kinds of things do you find yourself saying
> all the time to your players? I think my own most frequently used
> quotes must be:
>
> * "Roll Initiative."
> * "What Force?"
> * "What damage?"
> * "Roll Perception."
> * "That's Intelligence, yes."
> * "You need <number> <target number>s" (like: "You need
four threes")
> * "And what where your other rolls?" (when someone says "I got 11,
> 8 and 7" when rolling something like ten dice)
> * "Only the highest roll counts here."
> * "No." (Usually followed by an explanation of why something
> doesn't apply at this time :)
>
> I ask because after playing my first laptop-enhanced RPG session
> yesterday (I bought a MacBook about a week ago) and soon found a
> use for the "say" command in the terminal :)
>

You know you can specify the voice used in the say command. Can be
quite funny with the right saying/voice combination. And if you can
ssh into another machine you can cause it to say things to. Nice way
to pretend to have an intercom between two rooms.

--
·𐑕𐑒𐑪𐑑
·𐑣𐑺𐑦𐑕𐑩𐑯 Scott
Harrison
Message no. 5
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: Common GM quotes
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:49:01 +0100
According to Scott Harrison, on 13-11-06 20:31 the word on the street was...

> You know you can specify the voice used in the say command.

I have a few years of using Linux under my belt, so I know how useful
man can be ;)

> Can be quite funny with the right saying/voice combination.

Using "Hysterical" didn't quite work as intended when you have the
computer say "let me go!" when the players are abducting someone. I
thought it'd sound like she was being hysterical, but it sounded more
like she was laughing too much (which was, of course, to be expected).
The problem is that most of the voices sound too computery to really
work. A secondary problem is that they're all Americans, so the
usefulness is a bit limited when trying to make it speak Dutch. If I
could find a way to properly pronounce G and CH (hard and soft guttural)
it'd be a lot more useful :)

> And if you can ssh
> into another machine you can cause it to say things to. Nice way to
> pretend to have an intercom between two rooms.

The only other computer where we normally play is an elderly Windows XP
machine on the other side of the room, so I'm not going to try that
trick on it :)

--
Gurth@******.nl - Stone Age: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
Van e-mail bakt men cyberbrood.
-> Former NAGEE Editor & ShadowRN GridSec * Triangle Virtuoso <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Site: http://plastic.dumpshock.com <-

GC3.12: GAT/! d- s:- !a>? C++(---) UB+ P(+) L++ E W++(--) N o? K w-- O
M+ PS+ PE@ Y PGP- t- 5++ X(+) R+++$ tv+(++) b++@ DI- D G+ e h! !r y?
Incubated into the First Church of the Sqooshy Ball, 21-05-1998

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