D&D Philosophy One-Liners

[Haberdashery]

"This is my people shooting hat. I get a +5 competence bonus on attack rolls against humanoids in this hat."
-Holden Caulfield, Catcher in the Rye (In memory of J.D. Salinger)

"One score and sixteen years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new RPG, conceived in Chainmail, and dedicated to the proposition that all characters are created to plunder dungeons and slay dragons equally.
Now we are engaged in a great edition war, testing whether that RPG, or any RPG so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great forum of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that board, as a final resting place for those who gave their social lives that that RPG might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot desecrate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow -- this ground, for we do not have the Caster Level to do so. The brave players, washed and unwashed, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor cleric level to recast it. The forum will little note, nor long remember what we type here, but it can never forget what they did here, because those threads have many pages and are posted on daily. It is for us the players, rather, to be dedicated to the unfinished work which those who argued and insulted each other here most nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task before us -- that from these honored debaters we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these debaters shall not have debated fiercely in vain -- that in this RPG, under Pelor, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that an RPG of gamers, by gamers, for gamers shall not perish from the earth."
-Abraham Lincoln