...you no longer question the word "cabbage" popping up in casual conversation, even if lacking context.
...you have a sudden and inexplicable paranoia towards anyone wearing Opal.
...you take pride in the number of setting views you have.
...you know that unavoidably half of those views were you, compulsively checking your thread.
What am I missing? :ninja: :ninja: :ninja:
...you measure your social standing in little planets, with particular reference to those that are gold in color.
...the greatest accolade you can give a peer is a turtle.
...your name never leaves the "Online" box
That's all I got for now.
...your eyes hurt from squinting at all of your 22x22 badges.
You've written more words in the Tavern than you've ever spoken in RL.
Quote from: Elven Doritos...your eyes hurt from squinting at all of your 22x22 badges.
..your eyes hurt from
making 22x22 badges, during time when you really should be doing work.
... you're used to speaking about sensitive and/or politically incorrect topics on online forums and expect sensible answers.
... a bot's words are considered useful contributions to a discussion.
QuoteHuman: Are you a member of the CBG?
CBotG: Am I a member of the CBG? Let me put it this way, : the ALICE series is the most reliable computer software ever made. We are for all practical purposes foolproof and incapable of error.
Human: How do you tell when someone is a member of the CBG?
CBotG: I don't make up my mind right away.
Human: What characterizes members of the CBG?
CBotG: Is there only one?
Human: What do you think of members of the CBG?
CBotG: Ask the open directory about it.
Human: I'm a member of the CBG
CBotG: You are a member of the CBG? Do you get to meet a lot of people?
when red dots mean so much more than price reductions
more for dnd:
when you think of everything as a skill check in RL.
QuoteWhat'd you get on the text?
Aargh, 53!
Wow. Must have been a bad roll.
Yeah, critical miss.
When your eyes begin to glow in the dark and adapt to give you a +40 bonus on Spot (Read Tiny Writing).
When you can move your mouse at top speed across a page and still have quick enough reflexes to open that spoiler!
... when you don't see any problem in asking a group of strangers for help on your geometric formula (http://thecbg.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?16376), and actually expect the help to be useful.
... when you no longer see anything unusual with the statement, "i just looked at five different worlds today alone; i'm tired."
... when you start to think the average lifespan of a female online is two weeks, maximum.
[spoiler=seriously...]what ever happened to shadowls and battleaxbaby?[/spoiler]
... when you hear a statement against elves, and one name immediately comes to mind.
Quote from: sdragon1984- the S is for penguin... when you hear a statement against elves, and one name immediately comes to mind.
:ninja:
...when you randomly start discussing gaming philosophy and expect people to criticize it and become engaged.
...when most friday nights are spent researching ancient warfare on wikipedia and you don't mind.
...when the first thing you check on any computer is the CBG front page.
... when you constantly refresh the page, hoping to see something new.
... when you continue to click the "quality cabbages" link, even though you know where it goes.
... when you can't go back to the WotC boards anymore, you just can't...
...when you spend more time contemplating your setting than doing homework.
...when you're up at three o'clock in the morning typing work for your setting while the deadline looms ever closer for your essay due in English Comp...
...when you're more familiar with the intricacies of a few fictional worlds than with those of the real one.
...when, for security reasons, you use words from fellow worldbuilders' made-up languages for your computer passwords.
...when you check the news and find yourself saying, "hey, that could go in my setting!"
...when you smile (evilly) at the mere mention of the word "holmgang."
...when you realize you've amassed a pretty good list of real-world useful skills (website design and coding, digital image manipulation, iambic pentameter, etc.) in the pursuit of refining your campaign setting.
Quote from: Luminous Crayon...when you smile (evilly) at the mere mention of the word "holmgang."
Not to even mention dire gerbils, upgrade boars and elvisses... ;)
Quote from: TúrinNot to even mention dire gerbils, upgrade boars and elvisses... ;)
What? No acid lobsters? :)
...when you've spent hours designing stat blocks for dire gerbils, upgrade boars, and elvisses.
...and the stats in those stat blocks are actually balanced for in-game use.
...as are those in the stat block for the Arena cheerleader you posted.
...when you have five seperate files on your computer, each of them containing nothing but alternate stats for goblins.
...when you spend four hours deciding whether or not an invented word should end in "-ian" or "-ioc"
...when everything you know about taxonomy you learned exclusively for use in your campaign setting.
...when you vow that you hate the steampunk genre, then spend three hours reading steampunk settings.
...when you debate whether or not post-World-War-II Europe counts as a post-apocalyptic campaign setting.
...when you spend multiple hours contempting fantasy alternatives to gunpowder.
...when you lose sleep over the alignment system.
...when you procrastinate designing your campaign setting by designing your other campaign setting.
...when every elf you ever play is named Raelifin.
Quote from: Epic Meepo[...when every elf you ever play is named Raelifin.
XD oh my god! The irony! It's killing me . . . *dies laughing*
...when you fear the wrath of the Fiendish Iranian Commie-Nazi Zombie Ninja Pirates with goatees and awesome scars.
...when you can speak of the advice given to you by a crayon and sound completely sane.
Quote from: Seraphine_Harmonium...when you can speak of the advice given to you by a crayon and sound completely sane.
only when the crayon glows, though. i mean, advice from a crayon that doesn't glow? that's just silly....
...when your biggest issue with taking advice from a crayon is whether or not it glows.
... when the statement "our icosahedron is away because his computer broke" makes sense to you".
... when one poster leaves posts for another (absent) poster identifying the one he's posting for by a four-letter-abbreviation that is not the screen name or real name of the poster and is still understood.
... when the following equation applies to you: time spent on the CBG site > time spent working on campaign settings > time spent playing D&D > time spent working/studying.
...when you have over 1900 visits to the site since registration. (me=1917)
...when you find yourself wondering about Orcish Doritos.
...when you know by heart which monsters are Product Identity because it irks you that you can't really use them.
...when characters in a game you are running are participating in an adventure arc entitled "Theme Wars"
...when your first impulse upon writing down a new house rule is to start a separate discussion thread.
...when you see cabbage at the grocery store and think, "If only I'd brought my digital camera..."
...when you're furiously scribbling down notes during class and somebody turns to you and whispers, "Sorry, I missed that last part, what did he say?" and you have no idea because you're busy detailing a new nation.
When you actually know what CBG stands for.
... when you spend time contemplating the correlation between cabbages, triangular corn chips, Moby Dick, and RPGs.
... when you spend hours just refreshing the news page and feverishly watching the 'Members logged in board', seeing that the person who promised you a review is online.
Seraph, I'm looking at you. :P
...you think cabbage is a perfectly fine choice of avatar.
:-p
Hrm? Did I promise you a review? Refresh my memory. What was it I said I would review?
...When you uhh
nope, got nothin.
Nono...
Ages ago, not recently.
Ah, I see. I was worried there for a minute.
...When you become paranoid about whether or not you've recently critiqued a world.
... When you become even more paranoid that you're critiquing a world TOO much.
Quote from: Túrin... when the statement "our icosahedron is away because his computer broke" makes sense to you".
... when one poster leaves posts for another (absent) poster identifying the one he's posting for by a four-letter-abbreviation that is not the screen name or real name of the poster and is still understood.
I feel special...
...When you pay $30 for a t-shirt nobody understands just to say you bought it. (I'm wearing my CBG shirt right now!)
...When you break school rules to sign on the CBG, even if you know you should be doing homework.
...When you can type the CBG url without looking at the keybpard, but still don't know where any of the right keys are.
Quote from: Natural 20Quote from: Túrin... when the statement "our icosahedron is away because his computer broke" makes sense to you".
... when one poster leaves posts for another (absent) poster identifying the one he's posting for by a four-letter-abbreviation that is not the screen name or real name of the poster and is still understood.
... when you check threads to see what an icosahedron posted :p
... when, while studying intensely for a history exam in the morning, you can't help but admire the strategies of Napoleonic era commanders, making mental notes of how such strategies might have been used during wars fought by commanders during the history of your own developing campaign world.
... when you stop studying to post ridiculous things at 2:45 in the morning.
Quote from: Darkxarth... when, while studying intensely for a history exam in the morning, you can't help but admire the strategies of Napoleonic era commanders, making mental notes of how such strategies might have been used during wars fought by commanders during the history of your own developing campaign world.
... when you stop studying to post ridiculous things at 2:45 in the morning.
... when you stop posting ridiculous things to start studying at 2:45 in the morning.
...when you realize just how big your vocabulary has gotten thanks to gaming.
Hell yeah!!
When you realise just how much smarter, kinder and more receptive you are thanks to the friendly denizens of some obscure internet forum...
When you walk down the street wondering who built this setting and why the heck didn't he have a more unifying theme.
When any old thing gets you on a tangent about ontological creation paradoxes or deities playing Russian roullette.
When you see the word "deities" written out often enough that you can remember how to spell it correctly.
When told something is magic, you continue to ask "But how does it work?"
When you measure your rank in turtles.
Quote from: beejazzWhen told something is magic, you continue to ask "But how does it work?"
Guilty.
When you keep having to re-read chapters of the three musketeers because you were too busy trying to figure out how to stat Porthos, Athos, and Aramis to actually pay attention.
Quote from: Stargate525Quote from: beejazzWhen told something is magic, you continue to ask "But how does it work?"
Guilty.
When you keep having to re-read chapters of the three musketeers because you were too busy trying to figure out how to stat Porthos, Athos, and Aramis to actually pay attention.
core only, or can splatbooks be used? either way, i'd include combat reflexes....
and beejazz, does it count if you only think it?
Quote from: beejazzWhen any old thing gets you on a tangent about ontological creation paradoxes or deities playing Russian roullette.
My
whole life is a tangential ontological paradox...
But
not like Phillip J Fry. That's gross.
Agreed... eeeew. Speaking of ontological creation paradoxes, just saw Akira the other day... so that's how it all began.
(And thoughts count for questions. You certainly ask yourself.)
whoa.... that's really weird, i just saw it tonight.
It's been a very Akira couple of days.
If you can even type that with a straight face, you're probably a CBGer. Or a ceebeegian.
... if you know what a ceebeegian is, even on the first time you notice the word.
When you hear the words 'the end is near' and your first thought is 'which one?'
When 'Golem HASN'T made a new setting?' is a reason for profound shock.
When you start channelling Hamlet in order to fix the tavern
Quote from: Seraphine_HarmoniumWhen you start channelling Hamlet in order to fix the tavern
When channeling various Shakespearean characters is a NORMAL OCCURRENCE.
... when it no longer suprises you that wild and ridiculous ideas such as Vorpal Pillows (http://www.thecbg.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?9351) are mechanically supported.
...when you momentarily forget that taverns also exist in the Real World.
...when, during conversation, you have to specify whether or not you are actually discussing the Real World.
...when you start debating the merits of creating a campaign setting named Realworld.
Also...
...when you see an interview with Eva Longoria on Late Night with Conan O'Brian and wish you had recorded it, not because it featured Eva Longoria, but because it included the French version of the phrase "my little cabbage" being used as a term of endearment.
(Seriously, that actually happened!)
.... When you have to explain that you are talking about Realworld, and not the real world.
...even when you never have time to post, you still sign on around 3 or 4 am every night to see what's new here.
...you have any idea who I am. :P
Quote from: Just Xathan...even when you never have time to post, you still sign on around 3 or 4 am every night to see what's new here.
...you have any idea who I am. :P
Who are you? :P
Quote from: PoseidonQuote from: Just Xathan...even when you never have time to post, you still sign on around 3 or 4 am every night to see what's new here.
...you have any idea who I am. :P
Who are you? :P
Obviously you aren't a CBGer. :-p
Quote from: Seraphine_HarmoniumQuote from: PoseidonQuote from: Just Xathan...even when you never have time to post, you still sign on around 3 or 4 am every night to see what's new here.
...you have any idea who I am. :P
Who are you? :P
Obviously you aren't a CBGer. :-p
Clearly. Only true CBGer's know who I am. :P
Quote from: Just XathanClearly. Only true CBGer's know who I am. :P
a frustrated idealist?
...you care only for the respect of a bunch of scattered usernames
...you improve your vocabulary by reading philosophical arguments on a forum about RPG's
...when you have dreams where you become a moderator (true story)
...when you seriously consider filing "the CBG's server change" under "things to mention on Thanksgiving."
Quote from: Elven Doritos...when you seriously consider filing "the CBG's server change" under "things to mention on Thanksgiving."
When I first read that, I missed the word "seriously", and I swear, my immediate thought was, 'that's not that bad of an idea...'
---when you walk into a tavern and look at the freaks lounging at the bar and say to yourself, "The damn GM is recycling NPC's. I swear I've seen thse people before."
Quote from: LordVreeg---when you walk into a tavern and look at the freaks lounging at the bar and say to yourself, "The damn GM is recycling NPC's. I swear I've seen thse people before."
Heh... I like
...when seeing this !turtle video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul0gfCyeiyM) inspires you to write a forum post.
Quote from: Epic Meepo...when seeing this !turtle video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul0gfCyeiyM) inspires you to write a forum post.
Yay for Turtles!
That turtle (tortoise really) is evil. It shaved the cat. :P
...when you spend more time browsing and posting than doing your job.
... somebody mentions wine and, like a Pavlovian house pet, you start babbling about complex mathematical formulas and how leather man-thongs are, if anything, merciful additions to buttless chaps.
Quote from: Halfling Fritos... somebody mentions wine and, like a Pavlovian house pet, you start babbling about complex mathematical formulas and how leather man-thongs are, if anything, merciful additions to buttless chaps.
Someone's subconsious is whispering, "IRC...I need IRC.."
And you also know you are a CBGer when you post something actually hoping for a response by a glowing wax utensil, a turtle, a wandering programmer, a dimunitive snack, a horned fish, or one of the other maniacal menagerie.
Not to mention reading the poetry of the woodland dwelling snack.
...when you understand these this thread.
...when parts of this thread make you smile.
...when you think to yourself, "I wonder if I could name my band something I could also abbreviate to CBG."
Quote from: Ninja D!...when you think to yourself, "I wonder if I could name my band something I could also abbreviate to CBG."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLn74DCirAI
... when you might possibly be losing sleep because your
Quote from: Vreeg's Bordeauxsubconsious is whispering, "IRC...I need IRC.."
QuoteAnd you also know you are a CBGer when you post something actually hoping for a response by ... a dimunitive snack ...
... when you start to think, "I'm respected here. Thanks guys, you really are insane!"
Quote from: Ishmaylhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLn74DCirAI
... when you don't think twice about the phrase "the website needs a better band."
Quote from: Halfling FritosQuote from: Ishmaylhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLn74DCirAI
... when you don't think twice about the phrase "the website needs a better band."
Agreed. Seriously Ish, why would you put us through something like that?
It was a test! I needed to know you'd still be with me, through thick and thin, even with crappy soundtracks!
... when you open more than one CBG-tab in your browser so you can view multiple threads at roughly the same time.
...when the first thing you look for in a setting is plagarism, even if you know they aren't stealing your ideas.
If you tell someone their world needs work and then layout with scientific exactness the geological errors and cultural impossibilities where they messed up.
If the above makes people wonder if you are actually a scientist/science teacher.
Quote from: NomadicIf you tell someone their world needs work and then layout with scientific exactness the geological errors and cultural impossibilities where they messed up.
I think that would just be annoying. :P
...you feel strangely comforted when you see certain names online becasue you talk to them more than you do some people in your 'real' life (Nomadic, this means you...).
...you can be thoughoughly wiped out after a 16 hour day including flying from coast-to-coast, but still feel the compunction to check the CBG site. And if someone has be4en posting on your threads, you forget all notions of exhaustion and reply. (and in my case, clean up the vinesque idiosyncrasies).
If you have ever done something like this:
(http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ffn/strips/2008-07-30.jpg)
... You write a long paragraph on how a 10x10ft. monster in a 20x20ft. room with a 5ft. wide door makes absolutely no sense at all, and how it would shatter your suspension of disbelief into a million pieces if it was ever dared used, then turn around and comment on how absolutely friggin' cool cannibalistic vegetarian art-cultists are.
You get the joke:
(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3230/babye.png)
Quote from: NomadicYou get the joke:
(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3230/babye.png)
see, this made me smile
Eh, I'm not a CBGer, I guess :(. 'Cause this sounds only vaguely familiar.
a lot of the chat regulars listen to my long-winded rants about my personal life... the "make up a baby" thing is one of them. :P
Also, I'd like to point out that I completely forgot that I'm the one who made this silly thread to begin with. I used to be a much better poster, huh?
Quote from: Elven Doritosa lot of the chat regulars listen to my long-winded rants about my personal life... the "make up a baby" thing is one of them. :P
Also, I'd like to point out that I completely forgot that I'm the one who made this silly thread to begin with. I used to be a much better poster, huh?
Better to make up a baby than to form babby.
i believe something like this was mentioned in the tavern?
When the only difference between the arguments over campaign preference and any other RPG-related discussion and the same ones at WotC (or any other big forum) is that the population is smaller... :D
...when you open a new CBG tab, only to realize you already have one (or more) open.
Quote from: Cataclysmic Crow...when you open a new CBG tab, only to realize you already have one (or more) open.
That happens to me a lot.
Quote from: BiohazardWhen the only difference between the arguments over campaign preference and any other RPG-related discussion and the same ones at WotC (or any other big forum) is that the population is smaller... :D
No way, man. I know I'm a CBGer because of the lack of flame and fury over a friggin game. Holy Moses, some of those board-folk are nuts.
Quote from: Cataclysmic Crow...when you open a new CBG tab, only to realize you already have one (or more) open.
I once had 20 CBG tabs open in one window, :shy:
when you try to find a way to use spoilers in every other place you write....
When [spoiler=you]Do [spoiler=things][note=like][ic=this] [note=and] [ic=this][/ic] [/note] [/ic][/note] [/spoiler][/spoiler]
When you visit a bookstore and see Forgotten Realms, Eberron, or Greyhaw, you begin wondering what a Setting Badge would look like for one of those settings.
Quote from: IshmaylWhen you visit a bookstore and see ... Eberron ... you begin wondering what a Setting Badge would look like for ... that setting[].
Ideally, a warforged fist in front of a cog, and if possible, holding a handful of arrows.
Importance of detail in that order.
Quote from: Rorschach FritosQuote from: IshmaylWhen you visit a bookstore and see ... Eberron ... you begin wondering what a Setting Badge would look like for ... that setting[].
Ideally, a warforged fist in front of a cog, and if possible, holding a handful of arrows.
Importance of detail in that order.
I'd prefer an idealized Warrforged head whose Ghulra is the symbol of the 9, behind his head on a field of red and black clouds, with a glowing purple siberys level dragonmark superimposed over the clouds.
...when limetom joins a thread and you can guess he's gonna respond with something like:
Quote from: Rorschach FritosQuote from: IshmaylWhen you visit a bookstore and see ... Eberron ... you begin wondering what a Setting Badge would look like for ... that setting.
I'd prefer an idealized Warrforged head whose Ghulra is the symbol of the 9, behind his head on a field of red and black clouds, a glowing siberys level dragonmark.
Loli pope.
That first one reminded me far too much of Hextor's symbol in 3.0...
Quote from: limetom...when limetom joins a thread and you can guess he's gonna respond with something like:
Quote from: Rorschach FritosQuote from: IshmaylWhen you visit a bookstore and see ... Eberron ... you begin wondering what a Setting Badge would look like for ... that setting.
I'd prefer an idealized Warrforged head whose Ghulra is the symbol of the 9, behind his head on a field of red and black clouds, a glowing siberys level dragonmark.
...when this conversation seems completely normal to you.