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Gamers come in all shapes and sizes. That also say some hysterical things. Over the weekend I heard some real gems come out of people's mouth. Here is a list

"The rules are just there as guide lines and to open to interpretation."
- he was serious and talking about 40k

"Fighters were the worst class in 3.5 D&D. Druids were the best. All you had to do was turn into a dire ape and grapple."
- I asked him if he knew what close quarter fighting was afterwards.

"Warmahordes seems fun but there is so much you have to memorize about the other player's army."

"I heard They're going to prop up 6th edition in a year again by releasing the unnamed 10th legions of Chaos and Loyalist. Chaos will probably be devoted to the 5th god."




What laughable things did you hear recently?

"I eat like a sparrow..I'm only fat because of my glands"

But fighters were the worst class of 3.5...

"Its unfair. Your trained for this" paintball game

"Dude I'm gonna have an army of like, 50 skaven slaves, just one unit, and like it'll wreck everything"

To be fair, big units of slaves ARE awesome, but one unit? Yeah... no.

I dropped into a local GW crèche, er store the other day for the first time in a long time to look at the miniatures in the cabinet. I'd been in there less than a minute before someone was arguing about who had the right to ban some kid from the store.

That made me smile.

"Oh crap, look at my dice rolls! Mind if I try again?"

aosol wrote:
"The rules are just there as guide lines and to open to interpretation."
- he was serious and talking about 40k

What's wrong with that?
Not everyone is a closed-minded 21st century literalist...

Testify wrote:

aosol wrote:
"The rules are just there as guide lines and to open to interpretation."
- he was serious and talking about 40k

What's wrong with that?
Not everyone is a closed-minded 21st century literalist...

Well, rules are rules, you cant say they are "just a guide-line" unless you clear it first. Its fine to house rule anything you like beforehand, but you cant just say that gak half way through a game.

"Ok you need to take 12 saves"

"Pah! Rules are just a guideline, ill take one save and if I make it the bullets bounce off my power armour and kill three of your orks"

mattyrm wrote:

Testify wrote:

aosol wrote:
"The rules are just there as guide lines and to open to interpretation."
- he was serious and talking about 40k

What's wrong with that?
Not everyone is a closed-minded 21st century literalist...

Well, rules are rules, you cant say they are "just a guide-line" unless you clear it first. Its fine to house rule anything you like beforehand, but you cant just say that gak half way through a game.

"Ok you need to take 12 saves"

"Pah! Rules are just a guideline, ill take one save and if I make it the bullets bounce off my power armour and kill three of your orks"

Captain Barbossa would disagree with you.

mattyrm wrote:

Testify wrote:

aosol wrote:
"The rules are just there as guide lines and to open to interpretation."
- he was serious and talking about 40k

What's wrong with that?
Not everyone is a closed-minded 21st century literalist...

Well, rules are rules, you cant say they are "just a guide-line" unless you clear it first. Its fine to house rule anything you like beforehand, but you cant just say that gak half way through a game.

"Ok you need to take 12 saves"

"Pah! Rules are just a guideline, ill take one save and if I make it the bullets bounce off my power armour and kill three of your orks"

Considering its just a game of toy soldiers, yea you can actually.

mattyrm wrote:

Testify wrote:

aosol wrote:
"The rules are just there as guide lines and to open to interpretation."
- he was serious and talking about 40k

What's wrong with that?
Not everyone is a closed-minded 21st century literalist...

Well, rules are rules, you cant say they are "just a guide-line" unless you clear it first. Its fine to house rule anything you like beforehand, but you cant just say that gak half way through a game.

"Ok you need to take 12 saves"

"Pah! Rules are just a guideline, ill take one save and if I make it the bullets bounce off my power armour and kill three of your orks"

On the other hand, if you went by Rules As Written all the time you'd end up with nonsense like YMDC. "Oh your stormraven's guns can't pivot down? YOU CAN'T SHOOT THEM AT GROUND TARGETS THEN HARHAHHAR". The truth is somewhere betwen the two...

Jihadin wrote:"Its unfair. Your trained for this" paintball game

Somebody I know recently got hitched, for his stag do he went paint balling and had spent about a month training for running, only for 5 minutes into it tripping on a tree root and spraining it

Well that the perfect image of marriage right there.

mattyrm wrote:

Testify wrote:

aosol wrote:
"The rules are just there as guide lines and to open to interpretation."
- he was serious and talking about 40k

What's wrong with that?
Not everyone is a closed-minded 21st century literalist...

Well, rules are rules, you cant say they are "just a guide-line" unless you clear it first. Its fine to house rule anything you like beforehand, but you cant just say that gak half way through a game.

"Ok you need to take 12 saves"

"Pah! Rules are just a guideline, ill take one save and if I make it the bullets bounce off my power armour and kill three of your orks"

The rules are whatever two consenting players agree that they are.

Take a look at the discussion ongoing in tournament discussion sub-forum in which many parts of the 6th edition rules are planned to be ommitted/altered/changes for tournament play.

Wasn't in my FLGS, but my house is the closest thing me and my friends have to a FLGS, so here goes.

Once, at 4:AM when most of us were asleep, one of my friends remarked in his sleep that his Eldar should watch out for my Leman Russ.

It was the most hilarious thing in the world at the time.

About a year or so after the release of 4th ed 40K my mate and I were scanning through the latest White Dwarf and talking about how terrible it was, when we overheard some kids talking. Only one of them seemed to be collecting, but his mates were really interested. He was collecting Space Marines, of course, and was telling the other kids about the tournament he was going to play in a month or so. He was saying how this one special character was totally awesome, and had four wounds (so I'm guessing it Marneus Calgar), that if he bought him he would definitely win the tournament, netting $50. So for him it was all about spending $20, or whatever it was, to win $50.

Warhammer as a profit making game.

"Beastmen are fine"

"Teclis isn't OP"

"40k is better than WFB"

"Arenas were a wonderful addition to WoW that really opened up PVP"

And several allusions to any GW game being anywhere near balanced.

Aerethan wrote:"40k is better than WFB".

Careful, careful now. We don't want this topic turning into a shitstorm...