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Post by Admin Pete on Feb 10, 2015 19:35:34 GMT -5
What kind of insults do your PCs and NPCs use? I am not into profanity, but I do like creative insults that I have heard one place or another. Does your campaign have that? Please give us some examples, a couple of examples are "You are lower than the slime on the belly of a gelatinous cube." or "Don't you ever bath, you could make a carrion crawler gag."  |
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Post by Von on Feb 11, 2015 2:27:39 GMT -5
Being a right sweary mary I generally stick to the recognised profanities or to venomously-delivered British English terms like 'berk', 'nonce' or 'wazzock' in the heat of the moment.
In more elaborate put-down terms I find that universal ("I've scraped bolder things than you off my boots") or back-handed and courtly insults work better for me than specific references to D&D concepts, which I always find uncomfortable and contrived.
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Post by tetramorph on Feb 11, 2015 12:26:49 GMT -5
You know, Admin Pete, I've never really even thought of this! Someone should list all of Falstaff's insults (and Shakespeare's in general). I am sure it is out there just a google search away. You could print 'em out and hand 'em out to players until they simply rolled off the tongue! I play such lawful characters, usually, however, that they don't insult. They curse, denounce, declaim and promise vengeance. But they don't usually insult. "Gladly will I part your head from your shoulders, foul thing, and return you to the pit from whence you crawled," says Pelham to a goblin vermin. Etc. |
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Post by Admin Pete on Feb 11, 2015 12:37:09 GMT -5
In more elaborate put-down terms I find that universal ("I've scraped bolder things than you off my boots") or back-handed and courtly insults work better for me than specific references to D&D concepts, which I always find uncomfortable and contrived. This is the kind of thing I like, I am just looking to see if anyone has taken these types of insults and made then more grounded in the game. They likely feel uncomfortable and contrived because they are forced. Although I recall (bitd) one player saying to another that he should brush his teeth before the game and get rid of that "harpy breath" and the whole group laughed till we couldn't get our breath. |
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Post by Admin Pete on Feb 11, 2015 12:38:11 GMT -5
You know, Admin Pete, I've never really even thought of this! Someone should list all of Falstaff's insults (and Shakespeare's in general). I am sure it is out there just a google search away. You could print 'em out and hand 'em out to players until they simply rolled off the tongue! I play such lawful characters, usually, however, that they don't insult. They curse, denounce, declaim and promise vengeance. But they don't usually insult. "Gladly will I part your head from your shoulders, foul thing, and return you to the pit from whence you crawled," says Pelham to a goblin vermin. Etc. Yeah, those are the kinds of things I am looking for. Maybe my examples where bad.  |
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Post by tetramorph on Feb 11, 2015 12:41:08 GMT -5
Admin Pete said, No second guessing ourselves around here! We are all friends. You are, as always, right on target. And a fun topic!
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Post by The Old Ref Himself on Mar 7, 2015 21:28:37 GMT -5
Thou venomous ill-nurtured basilisk!
Thou scurvy fly-bitten bugbear!
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Post by Admin Pete on Mar 9, 2015 19:34:29 GMT -5
Thou venomous ill-nurtured basilisk! Thou scurvy fly-bitten bugbear! Sweet! |
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Post by scottanderson on Mar 30, 2015 14:27:41 GMT -5
Your hands smell of leeks and you drink your own bath water! Ruby said that in Frank's game. I have no idea what leeks smell like.
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Post by Admin Pete on Mar 30, 2015 15:22:53 GMT -5
Your hands smell of leeks and you drink your own bath water! Ruby said that in Frank's game. I have no idea what leeks smell like. IIRC leeks smell very similar to onions. |
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Post by xerxez on Apr 2, 2015 23:06:05 GMT -5
I will not say that she is ugly...I will say only that, when she laughs, I know how must appear a guffawing gnoll.
Again, I will not state that she is of hideous aspect; I will say only that if any man wed her, he should propose with a ring of invisibility.
Very well then..I shall say it; she has the aspect of a pouting orc and even a dog would not sit upon her knee though she wore a skirt of bacon.
Far be it from me to suggest that you are of small intellect my good sir...I am never so generous.
It would only be the greatest unkindness for me to mock your physic vitality, sir; it is no fault of yours that you had a sickly kobold for a wet nurse.
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 3, 2015 6:21:27 GMT -5
Have an Exalt!
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Post by merctime on May 2, 2015 15:58:19 GMT -5
Very well then..I shall say it; she has the aspect of a pouting orc and even a dog would not sit upon her knee though she wore a skirt of bacon. I just snorted coffee out of the gyrations of full belly-laughter!! THIS IS GOLD. PURE GOLD I SAY. |
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Post by Admin Pete on May 2, 2015 21:07:37 GMT -5
Very well then..I shall say it; she has the aspect of a pouting orc and even a dog would not sit upon her knee though she wore a skirt of bacon. I just snorted coffee out of the gyrations of full belly-laughter!! THIS IS GOLD. PURE GOLD I SAY. Truly it is PURE GOLD and I have been waiting xerxez to come back and share some more, his Exalts are waiting! |
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