Level 8: #18
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I will forego my usual punning to instead comment on how much I eagerly await the comparisons to Mutant League Sports games.
“Maybe if the receiver had been a little more observant, he’d have noticed the defenders running AWAY from him when he caught the ball. Oh well, CLEANUP AT THE 40 YARD LINE!”
How about Blood Bowl?
Blood Bowl works too. Really, any comedic mockery of an actual sport with gratuitous violence will fit the bill.
And that is why Robespierre thought it such a good idea.
I would like to retract my statement about Robespierre have an unflattering opinion of baseball. It appears that his opinion on this sport is 100% correct. Also, ouch.
I mean, technically, Roxy wasn’t WRONG in her description of events…
My brother thought the same as Petey whenever I would go to one of his sportsball games. Truth was I just wanted to cheer him on,. though I did rat him out if he lost his temper.
Come on, Robespierre. Great barbarians told it:
Part of the fun in crushing jeweled thrones with your sandaled feet is the whining of your foes and the laments of their women.
Well, that, or decent toilet paper. Sources are conflicted*.
* See here for one of these sources.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian
I’m glad I looked at the link source. Wandering into TV Tropes while at work is a dangerous gamble, we’ve lost many a good worker to the endless void of the tropesphere.
Well then, I have only one question here. Is it okay if I use this concept in my own D&D campaign? Because this is the best thing ever and my players are extremely well-suited to this kind of insanity.
I don’t know why anyone needs to ask permission to use stuff in their campaigns… just go for it! (That said, you may want to wait until I publish the official rules for Gnomish Baseball!)
Typically, its a sign of respect for the originator. Even if you were never aware of the occurrence, he intends to use your ideas which others may mistake as his/her own. Just in case something affects you in some way (the internet is a fickle place), you are aware and consented to another using it in its entirety (vs simple inspiration, like making their own warped sport rules).
Hmmm, warp portals mixed with sports…
Possibly make the warp portals open and close randomly? or should they be a reward to use at the players discretion? Perchance they have set entry and exit points, but which direction you’ll be coming out facing is random? No, that wouldn’t do.
hmm… decisions, decisions…
Common courtesy is no longer so common, and Sandova is demonstrating what used to be more prevalent. Good GMs steal from sources all over the place, and since (a) I’ve never heard of Gnomish Baseball before and this is quite possibly a “new idea” and (b) monetization of that intellectual property is a distinct possibility in the future on your part, Sandova is making sure *you* know what he/she is doing to avoid hurting that intellectual property.
Is it likely that such damage is likely to occur based on Sandova’s actions? Probably not.
Should Sandova refer his/her players to a certain very fine web comic for more details or to experience the source of inspiration? Why, yes indeedy-do.
Didn’t need a crystal ball to see this twist coming, which is lucky because there’s no scrying in baseball.
I’m torn between admiration and complete disgust for this pun. *golf clap* Well done.
Wow. Not into baseball, but first out of the dugout (can’t yet work a Beatrix Kiddo joke here, but I’m sure she’ll knuckle out a solution): battered up, short stomped, grand slam vs. bam-bam, hot pitch, flay ball …
Anybody else is having flashback from the Rugball arc of “Space Adventure Cobra”?
Read this in the last week from start to present, a good read I will share around some.
Well, I guess in Gnomish Baseball, when you’re out, you’re OUT.
Gotta give the purple guy props though. That is fantastic goomba-stomping technique.
I like how, while her brothers look scared stiff, Stabs is mad instead.