Cool Expressions for use in Roleplay

[The Oakenshield]

-Note: these are also good for DMs/GMs, of course.


1: Today is a good day to die.


2: All is dust.


3: I came, I saw, (insert Deity name) conquered.

I stole that last one form the Polish king after the Siege of Vienna.


Have any others?

[Siosilvar]

See also: Baldur's Gate I & II.


There is safety in numbers. And I'm two or three at least.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it! I'm huge!

Go for the eyes, Boo, go for the eyes!

I am become death, destroyer of worlds.

Butt kicking for goodness!

I grow tired of shouting battle cries when fighting this mage. Boo will finish his eyeballs once and for all, so he does not rise again! Evil, meet my sword! SWORD, MEET EVIL!

Camaraderie, adventure, and steel on steel. The stuff of legend!

Feel the backhand of Justice!

I know you said that you wouldn't tolerate excuses, but we have a real good one.

I will be the last! And you will go first...

Is it just me, or is the world filled with wackos? Okay, Mr. Psycho gnome, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but we're really not interested in your rock garden.

[Dr.Epic]

If you're a little immature, just about anything Finn, from Adventure, says.

[Lord_Gareth]

"I will not speak of justice to you; a craven wretch like yourself wouldn't understand. Instead, know now that you will taste righteous vengeance!"

NARM-tastic paladin player. Baddest guy in the party for sheer RP value.

[Shyftir]

Seriously? 4 posts, on this website before somebody mentioned,
I prepared Explosive Runes this morning.

[RndmNumGen]

Reputation is what others know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Courage is not the absence of fear; courage is knowing fear but not letting fear control you.

Honor is not diminished by being shared.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

[Drakevarg]

After dispatching a dwarf bounty hunter or something:

"Looks like there'll be no money for you, crazy round man."

Cookie for source.

[Siosilvar]

Seriously? 4 posts, on this website before somebody mentioned,
I prepared Explosive Runes this morning.

To be honest, all of those are given.
I AM A SEXY SHOELESS GOD OF WAR!

[Kaje]

Courage is not the absence of fear; courage is knowing fear but not letting fear control you.

Is... is that a quote from Animorphs?

[Zaydos]

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

[One Step Two]

"You want to know what Monsters have Nightmares about? Me!"

"Run if you dare coward, but I promise, if you ever feel you may forget my face, all you ever need do is look over your shoulder."

[Drakevarg]

"Run if you like, but expect a sharp and fatal pain between your shoulder blades."

Or, for some actual original material:

"When I first became a Paladin, I thought in terms of black and white. I see now that it's really a spectrum of greys, and that plenty of people stradle my arbitrary line between good and evil.

But you know what? Those people aren't my problem. My job is to sniff out those who live their lives far enough away from that ...line that I need to squint to see any light, and then kick their ass in a manner most righteous."

[GoatToucher]

"Winter is coming."

It's a book quote, but a pretty badass one, if you know the context.

[Drakevarg]

"Winter is coming."

It's a book quote, but a pretty badass one, if you know the context.

I don't even know the context and it sounds incredibly badass. Might be the way I read it in my head, though.

[Archpaladin Zousha]

"I hear the clash of iron! War and anger reign!"

[Katana_Geldar]

"Is he wearing any pants?"

[Hat-Trick]

To alter the above line just a bit: "Piss me off again and, So help me, I will steal your pants off your goddam legs!!"

and, most likely from a caster to a non caster: "What? You mean you can't- Aww, I feel sorry for you."

[AslanCross]

"I am <charname>. I am your worst nightmare."

[Katana_Geldar]

To alter the above line just a bit: "Piss me off again and, So help me, I will steal your pants off your goddam legs!!"

The rogue in my group is that good that he'll actually do this with a natural 20. Happened in our first session. So now he has the bad ass boast "I'm so good a thief, I can steal your pants while you are wearing them."

[TheThan]

I feel I must quote Porthos

[Ryu_Bonkosi]

"One of us will leave this alive, and I have no intention on dieing."

"The difference between you and me is that at the end of the day, I will still have my head on my shoulders."

[One Step Two]

"I'm a sword for hire. The fact I need to waste my time thwarting your pathetic attempt to kill me is money I'm losing, so I am going to make sure this hurts a great deal."

[Galileo]

Here's a few of my favourites from Discworld.

(About a debate on the nature of sin.)
"It's not as simple as that. It's not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of grey."
"There's no greys, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself."
"It's a lot more complicated than that-"
"No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth."
(I know a dialogue isn't very good for using ingame, but you can probably adapt the core part. I'm certainly readying it for my Paladin to verbally beatdown the BBEG with.)

Not a quote, but damn if it isn't a perfect description of every adventurer ever:
If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards.'

"Oh, you think you're so clever, so in-control, so swave, just because I've got a sword and you haven't!"

"Gods, elementals, demons, spirits... sometimes it's hard to tell 'em apart wi'oot a map."

[Iku Rex]

Army of Darkness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3tHASQj8sU .

[Ravens_cry]

"May the Gods have mercy on your soul, I will not."
"If by my life or my death I can aid you, I will."

[Morph Bark]

"The battle is not over yet, for our life is our battle!"

"Winter is coming."

It's a book quote, but a pretty badass one, if you know the context.

Considering winter is coming, I am all the more piped up for the upcoming Game of Thrones series on HBO.

...which I will only be able to watch on DVDs.

[Emmerask]

"Winter is coming."

It's a book quote, but a pretty badass one, if you know the context.

Song of ice and fire is always good for quotes

"Never forget who you are, for surely the world won’t. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you."

[Trodon]

Inigo Montoya: Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die.

Inigo Montoya: He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.

Inigo Montoya: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.
Man in Black: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die.

[dsmiles]

Go for the eyes, Boo, go for the eyes!

Ahhhhh...the classics...

And now for something completely different:

"Not knowing what I'm getting myself into has been the latest trend for me."

"Who says the undead don't know how to party?"

"Death. The eternal blink. The capricious dance of Now Ya Stop Movin' Forever. Well contrary to popular belief, death isn't just for dead people. It can happen to anyone. I know, it's news to me too. And it's not just people either, it's all kinds of stuff. Horses, fiddler crabs. Did you know that even a potato... can die?"

"Another urban legend dispelled. Ninjas don't bounce."

"And so, may Evil beware and may Good dress warmly and eat plenty of fresh vegetables."

"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit."

"Destiny's powerful hand has made the bed of my future, and it's up to me to lie in it. I am destined to be a superhero. To right wrongs, and to pound two-fisted justice into the hearts of evildoers everywhere. And you don't fight destiny. No sir. And, you don't eat crackers in the bed of your future, or you get all... scratchy."

"I don't know the meaning of the word "surrender". I mean, I know it, I'm not dumb... just not in this context."

(All from external sources. Yes, I once played The Tick in a Champions game. Good times. Gooooood times. )

[grarrrg]

See also: Baldur's Gate I & II.

Minsc Boo for the win!
www.minscandboo.com/quotes.php

If you can't guess from the URL, it has pretty much every Minsc Boo quote ever. A few Siosilvar missed:

My hamster does not like your tone. Away with ye.

Make way evil! I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hamster!

Boo is small and evasive, and there is ever so much of Minsc to search.