“Your ability to bang your head against reality in the hope that reality will crack first is impressive, but futile.”

– Geoffrey Brent, in rec.games.frp.dnd

“You just can’t argue with a moron. It’s like handling Nuclear waste. It’s not good, it’s not evil, but for Christ’s sake, don’t get any on you!!”

– Chuck, PCGen mailing list

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
– James D. Nicoll

“While information might or might not want to be free, it definitely doesn’t want to live under a DRM”

– Jonas, on PCGen

“I’m happy to do the tracker stuff since our Microsoft Poxy Server (that’s poxy, not proxy) won’t let me connect to sourcesafe’s CVS…”

– Karianna, pcgen mailing list

DM : “You search the storeroom and find a barrel marked ‘elf pudding’.”

Random: “Elven pudding! Wonderful stuff. I haven’t had it since I left the elven homeland.  Gimme!”

Dolarn: “We’re in a goblin lair and it says ‘elf pudding’. I wouldn’t.”

Random: “What?! You mean… <hyuuuurfff>”

– at the game

Evil High Priest: “Leave now, if you value your skins.”

Garrick: “I’m all for it.”

– at the game

Logan: “I don’t think it’s a good idea.”

Raven: “The vote is three to one against you — me, the crystal ball, and the little voices in your head.”

– at the game.