Does anyone know a relatively pithy, witty, and short quote about TTRPGs that a new player might be able to understand? I need an emergency email signature quote that isn’t dissing the Sage Advice compendium cause I get the dubious honor of trying to introduce a completely new player to RPGs over email as a favor to the librarian, who ‘suggested’ that my signature might not send the right message
I strongly disagree with a lot of the things about RPGs I whole-heartedly endorsed five years ago.
> Wait a minute... **looks at bookcase full of TTRPGS** you’re telling me you can PLAY these things?! https://twitter.com/hottestsingles/status/1111698646976724993
@BESW do you mind if I use this one? It is about a thousand times better than “Sage Advice on Sage Advice: read the SAC. Then rule the exact opposite. — [fellow library GM]”
@BESW thanks. Hopefully it’ll be a fun little thing that will make the newbie player a little more interested in TTRPGs and not likely to run away screaming at the first sign of things blowing up
The ‘suggestion’ I change my signature was made because last time I tried to help someone completely by email it was back when the Sage Advice quote was followed by “‘when in doubt go to blow up the library everything’ — Hermione Granger [my name]” and that was taken the very wrongest of wrong ways to take that quote
Which is to say there was a couple complaints from a parent that maybe I was the wrong person to be given the “heavy responsibility of running a game for those in their formative years, with impressionable young minds”
despite the fact that it was a joke, I still got asked to be a little more careful with my email signatures and apparently being dismissive of the very very wrong SAC is possibly not the right way to go
It was a good quote at the time but a bad idea to leave it on the draft when i knew it was not a reflection of my best self and we could assume that a parent would read it
