D&D Philosophy One-Liners

[Calenestel]

All right.

First: Wasn't it Plato that talked about shadows in caves as allegories for the Idea world and the physical world? (Or whatever the concepts are called in english, I read my philosophy in swedish and you know what I mean regardless )

Second: Eldan, that one is AWESOME. Was this a quip at the old joke or just what you think the direct reaction would have been.?

[Eldan]

Both, actually. I mean, it's both the well known joke:

Nietzsche: God is dead.
God: Nietzsche is dead.

And what a (bad) DM would do in that situation.

[Calenestel]

To be fair to the hypothetical DM, Nietzsche strikes me as the kind of guy that ultimately pushes ANY DM over the edge and into "Rock falls-territory". Wich makes the earlier joke a good one as well.

Aure Entuluva!
Calenestel

[Cyrion]

Hobbes: Life is nasty, brutish and pwned.

Locke: "This will make the BSF and the GC win the combat with little damage to themselves - and they will feel like "they" won. That's the point - you're God after all, let the mortals have their victory." -Treantmonk

[lostlittlebear]

Hobbes: Life in the state of nature is like being in a tier 6 class - nasty, brutal and pwned.

/quotationjack

[peterpaulrubens]

Kierkegaard - If you label me you apply negative levels to me.

[Dallas-Dakota]

''Do not steal cookies of/ment for the DM''

>.>
<,<
Totally not speaking from personal experience.

[Athaniar]

"When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because the DM wants it to. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of a critical hit."
-Sun Tzu, Complete Warrior

"To play, or not to play, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The +1 slings and flaming arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of kobolds,
And by opposing end them?"
-Hamlet (William Shakespeare, the Epic Bard)

"All the world's a game,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their character sheets and their Player's Handbooks;
And one man in his time plays many characters,
His acts being seven classes. At first the monk,
Mewling and puking in the DM's arms;
And then the whining fighter, with his backpack
And shining plate armor, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to battle. And then the bard,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a barbarian,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the dragon's mouth. And then the cleric,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth class shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd wizard,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful campaign,
Is second noobishness and mere oblivion;
Sans Constitution, sans Wisdom, sans Intelligence, sans everything."
-Jaques (William Shakespeare)

[lostlittlebear]

EPIC WIN.

-takes hat off to Xavius-

[Winthur]

I'm afraid I can't really contribute. I don't know many players in my hometown and my current RPG pack just kinda can't play lately.

I guess you could say that in my hometown...
*glasses*
...RPG is only a Nietzsche pastime.

My alternative take on philosophy one-liners aside...

"There's one rule for the DM and that is: make the most exciting scenarios possible at the lowest railroading possible, paying the highest loot possible." - Henry Ford

[Dvandemon]

Here there be quotable quotes!

[Totally Guy]

We are all the sum of our XP.

[Xsesiv]

I am the DM. I think (I am right), therefore I am (right).

[Another_Poet]

This thread gives me goosebumps.

[Ecalsneerg]

"Build a man a fire, he's warm for a day. Cast continual flame for a man, he's warm for the rest of his life."

[Volkov]

"Know your enemy but don't let them know you."
Sun Tzu, devoted Lich Cleric of Vecna.

[Project_Mayhem]

Camus: D&D is inherently absurd

[Serenity]

"Build a man a fire, he's warm for a day. Cast continual flame for a man, he's warm for the rest of his life."

...Except he's actually not, because Continual Flame gives light, not heat.

"Many who live deserve death, and many who die deserve life. Can you give it to them?"
Cleric: "...Yeah, pretty much."

[Dust]

Nietzsche: "Chapter Three: Why my stats are so high"

[Freshmeat]

It is better to cast Cause Fear than Charm Person, if you cannot cast both.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

God does not play D&D. - Albert Einstein

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. - Aristotle, starting history's first alignment debate

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
- Sun Tzu, explaining the concept of the Batman wizard.



The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. - Sun Tzu

Modern translation: LFG need healer, tank and rogue. Noobs welcome. Gogogo!

[clockworkmonk]

"gaze not into the abyss, for It gazes also into you. That, and theres's at least 666 layers of the thing."
-Nietzsche

[DabblerWizard]

Berkeley: Only one being rolls perception checks, and he is called DM. / Either you roll a perception check, or you are perceived by one.

J.S. Mill: Your actions determine your alignment, not your intentions.

Hume: Just because your sword struck me, doesn't mean that your sword is the cause of the damage I took.

Locke: That purple Deva possesses no inherent purple-ness.

Hursthouse: You're lawful good not because you act that way, but because those are your character traits.

[Rhiannon87]

I'm afraid I can't really contribute. I don't know many players in my hometown and my current RPG pack just kinda can't play lately.

I guess you could say that in my hometown...
*glasses*
...RPG is only a Nietzsche pastime.

My alternative take on philosophy one-liners aside...

:: groans :: That's just terrible and I salute you for it, good sir.

[Narazil]

Karl Marx: The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.


Not even altered.

[Cyrion]

Richard Bach: Perspective- Use it or lose it. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a prestige class.

[Ravens_cry]

FDR: The only thing we have to fear, is cause fear.
And the DM

[Dvandemon]

Socrates: I only know that I have no ranks in Knowledge

[hamishspence]

Theodore Roosevelt: Speak softly and carry a staff of the magi.

[Cyrion]

"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the others and assume the powers of Earth... Wait, with some editing, this could work for the Congress too!"

Thomas Jefferson, preparing an adventure for his weekend D&D session.

[Sliver]

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Craft a create food and water trap, and you feed him for life"

Or..

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will fail survival checks constantly, because he didn't level up and invest ranks in the skill yet."

Sorry...