The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Older Beholder]

One of those days when seeing the things people will rush to defend around here has me like...

 

[overgeeked]

“Whatever makes sense in the fiction.”

That answers 99% of all “rules” questions.

“Talk to your fellow players like adults.”

That answers 99% of all “I have a problem at my table” questions.

 

[Thomas Shey]

If both or either of those were even close to being easy for most people. I mean "talk to your fellow players like adults" makes a, shall we say, extremely generous assumption about how adults interact in the world all the time just by itself, let alone people agreeing on what "makes sense in the fiction" on a regular basis...

 

[overgeeked]

And, as always, we’re right back to Snarf’s refrain, “it works in practice but not in theory.”

 

[bmfrosty]

Now I want all iconic D&D characters to start having their pronouns listed in all future appearances.

I'm having so much fun poking fun in that thread. Some are getting so bent out of shape in there over what should be a total nothing.

 

[trappedslider]

We haven't had one of theses in a while so:

Welcome to Bob's Big Boy​

Order what you want, i'm paying.

 

[Cadence]

We haven't had one of theses in a while so:

Welcome to Bob's Big Boy​

Order what you want, i'm paying.

I assume there is a Big Boy statue up front? If so, I'll go in and order. If not, I don't trust it.

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

We haven't had one of theses in a while so:

Welcome to Bob's Big Boy​

Order what you want, i'm paying.

One of the local diners was built in the early 1970s and has its original menus hung in a few spots around the place. Not quite as cheap, but close. They're still pretty inexpensive to keep their senior citizen customer base, but I think it's slowly killing them - they've massively curtailed their hours lately and the place is starting to look rather shabby.

I prefer the slightly newer (but more pricey) place that's decorated entirely in WW2 memorabilia, including period music playing all the time and (up until a few years) back an AFV or halftrack parked out front on display.

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

I assume there is a Big Boy statue up front? If so, I'll go in and order. If not, I don't trust it.


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I was reading a nearly Ron Goulart novel the other day that had a brief side scene involving a Big Boy statue that had fallen into the surf following an earthquake. One of his odd semi-dystopian pieces where the US basically falls apart and balkanizes into micro-states somewhere in around 2000AD, mostly as a setup for his sardonic protags to run around encountering weirdness while playing gumshoe detective/secret agent. His early scifi has the strangest tone, never been able to define why it appeals to me.

Appropos of nothing, I found a Chef Boy-R-Dee statuette at a thrift store years ago that's been serving as table scenery for miniatures games ever since. Stands about 40' tall in 28mm scale. I should really use it in a supers RPG game one of these days.

Never did stumble on a similar Big Boy statue, sadly.

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

Totally not here.

Whippomorpha is my favorite recently discovered word.

I knew artiodactyl already, but that's a new on me. Pretty widely useful word too, it passes the "can I use it in relation to a Kamandi cover?" test with flying colors.

Revenge of the Whippomorph!

So, would the construction be "whippothropes," then, for beefy, do-not-mess-with-them, most-deadly-shapechanger-in-fantasy-Africa?

That is an alarming prospect on many levels, and is arguably even worse in coastal areas than riverine Africa. Were-hippos are scary but I wouldn't bet on one against a were-orca at all.