DM: Your party comes upon a band of blog trolls. Upon seeing your valiant party, they start throwing taunts at you that cause 1d4 psychological damage.
CPP: My 15th level wizard casts the spell “StockCritique®” at those fukken riffraff.
DM: That’s a powerful spell for those poor bastards. 2d20 plus a +10 BSD modifier is a bit of an overkill for something with so little HP.
CPP: My choice, dickeweed. They’ve conflated separate and easily understandable issues for the last time!
DM: As you wish. Go ahead and roll.
CPP: [rolls] 34! Plus my +10 modifier that makes 44 damage, bitches!
DM: Well, no. According to the SF424 manual, section 3.2.1 subsection 4A, the blog troll is immune to any form of critique or criticism. In fact, these attacks just make them stronger.
@Grumble
Led Zepplin rates up there with Rush as the nerdiest of rock bands (not that is a bad thing). “Cool” bands deal with grown-up issues like lovers leaving you, not fantasy and SF tropes.
DrugMonkey 
September 17, 2015 at 7:22 pm
Never tell Ted the vibes you have about him, newb. FFS.
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September 18, 2015 at 5:17 am
Anyone who messes up nerd v. geek this way should be required to walk around in a giant chicken costume.
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September 18, 2015 at 9:18 am
DM: Your party comes upon a band of blog trolls. Upon seeing your valiant party, they start throwing taunts at you that cause 1d4 psychological damage.
CPP: My 15th level wizard casts the spell “StockCritique®” at those fukken riffraff.
DM: That’s a powerful spell for those poor bastards. 2d20 plus a +10 BSD modifier is a bit of an overkill for something with so little HP.
CPP: My choice, dickeweed. They’ve conflated separate and easily understandable issues for the last time!
DM: As you wish. Go ahead and roll.
CPP: [rolls] 34! Plus my +10 modifier that makes 44 damage, bitches!
DM: Well, no. According to the SF424 manual, section 3.2.1 subsection 4A, the blog troll is immune to any form of critique or criticism. In fact, these attacks just make them stronger.
CPP: Well, shitte…
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September 18, 2015 at 9:18 am
What’s with the “H” of YHN???
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September 18, 2015 at 9:28 am
Glad to be a source of merriment. Carry on.
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September 18, 2015 at 10:34 am
You can enjoy Tolkien immensely without being part of or in any way enjoying “nerd culture.”
Who was reading Tolkien back in the 60s and 70s? Nerds? Like, for instance, Led Zeppelin?
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September 18, 2015 at 11:18 am
@potnia – Ideally DM would like ‘H’ to stand for Hedonic…
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September 18, 2015 at 12:26 pm
It’s a cultural reference, Potnia.
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September 18, 2015 at 12:59 pm
Cultural, right.
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September 18, 2015 at 3:48 pm
@Grumble
Led Zepplin rates up there with Rush as the nerdiest of rock bands (not that is a bad thing). “Cool” bands deal with grown-up issues like lovers leaving you, not fantasy and SF tropes.
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September 18, 2015 at 3:56 pm
Actually it is as much a Boomer reference as a GenX one, Potnia.
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September 21, 2015 at 8:21 am
Just ignore it DM. That’s sheer jealousy.
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September 21, 2015 at 11:22 am
I am curious what my alleged “avowed distaste for nerd culture” entails.
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