Showing posts with label game trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label game trivia. Show all posts

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Want a $10 gift certificate? Identify these quotes

The first person to correctly identify the movies that the following quotes appear in -- and post their answers in the comments -- gets a $10 gift certificate to DriveThruRPG. When I declare the winner, I'll need to ask for your e-mail address so the folks at DriveThruRPG can e-mail you their gift certificate.

1. "'Tis but a scratch."
2. "When someone asks you if you're a god, you say: yes!"
3. "If it bleeds, we can kill it."
4. "What is steel, compared to the hand that wields it?"
5. "Lo, there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning."
6. "Stay frosty."
7. "Who is this? What is your operating number?"
8. "This is my boomstick!"
9. "Target that explosion, and fire."
10. "One shall stand; one shall fall."

How is this related to gaming? Well, these are semi-common to pretty common movie quotes that I've heard at gaming conventions and with my old gaming group. It's true that some of these films have more commonly quoted quotes, but hey, didn't want it to be a cakewalk.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Fun with Acronyms -- February Edition

Do you know what the following acronyms stand for in their respective RPGs?
  1. AD&D - AC - Armor Class
  2. Marvel Super-Heroes - FEATs - Function of Exceptional Ability or Talent
  3. Hero System - OCV - Offensive Combat Value
  4. Rifts - MDC - Mega-Damage Capacity
  5. Cyberpunk - SP - Stopping Power
  6. D&D - hp - hit points
  7. Top Secret - AOK - Areas of Knowledge
  8. Action System - TN - Target Number
  9. Silhouette System - MoS - Margin of Success
  10. Palladium - PP - either Power Points or Physical Prowess
UPDATE (07 Feb 2012)
Added the answers above, in a hard to read font -- just select 'em for the answers.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Gaming Trivia Quiz #1

I did this before for a local organization's grand meetings -- a gaming quiz!

I've never been a real rules lawyer, but the oddest things keep getting stuck in my memory -- hence gaming trivia. The questions and answers will of course reveal my game generation, but what the heck.

Here are the first quiz's 5 questions:
  1. What is the main weapon of the fighter on the Basic D&D rulebook (the version with the Erol Otus cover)?
  2. What does the acronym FASERIP stand for?
  3. What were Black Dougal's last words?
  4. Complete this phrase: "Stay ____ !Trust no one! Keep your ____ handy!"
  5. What do the following names have in common: Joshua Leng, Jonathan Harker, Jr., Ambrose Hunt, Virgil Hector Hades, August Rath, Dmitri Katliya, and Frank Glup?
I'll put up the answers later.

If anyone takes issue with those answers for whatever reason, I'd appreciate the explanation. After all, it's always a treat to learn even more gaming trivia.

UPDATE (May 25, 2011)

So here are the answers to the questions above:
  1. a spear
  2. Fighting, Agility, Strength, Endurance, Reason, Intuition, Psyche -- from the TSR Marvel Super-heroes RPG;
  3. "Poison!"
  4. "Stay Alert! Trust No One! Keep Your Laser Handy!" from the Paranoia RPG
  5. They were all members of an organization informally known as the Theron Marks Society, as mentioned in the Theron Marks Manual found in Call of Cthulhu supplement Terror from the Stars.