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TweetGeek Native have taken over 1,200 user generated “Famous Last Words” from GameWyrd and split them up into 15 collections for re-publishing here. This blog has published one each day for the last two weeks. This is the last of those collections but hopefully not the last of the famous last words. If you’ve some [...]
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TweetWelcome to the penultimate collection of Famous Last Words. These originally appeared on GameWyrd and were transported over to Geek Native when the two sites converged. Geek Native is super honoured to be this collection’s great new home. We’re nearly at the end of the list here. These famous last word suggestions were those that [...]
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TweetAre you used to playing in games where characters die often? Is re-rolling a frequent event? Or are you from a gaming group where there is fear of death but the end of character; the end of that story point, is a rare and significant event? Hopefully, no matter how you might answer the question [...]
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TweetThere are a number of common traits in this collection of famous last words. Drow are dangerous. Dragons are dangerous. Dwarves have no sense of humour. Kobolds are never as easy to kill as you think. Orcs do hunt in packs. Stormtroopers can hit you from there. If you’re talking about Cthulhu then it’s already [...]
Read More...TweetOne of the great side effects of collecting so many famous last words from so many gamers was that it was easy to notice how often we understood each others in-jokes and references. There’s a collective wisdom across so many games; from D&D, to Cthulhu to Warhammer, etc. I think it’s also fair to suggest [...]
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TweetWe’re now ten pages into the revamped collection of famous last words; there are five more to go. We’re down in the last third of the popular contributes but it’s down here that we find the retelling of actual game events; remembered fondly by loyal gamers. This re-issue of famous last words at Geek Native [...]
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TweetDespite being called “Famous Last Words” some Wyrdlings took to submitting whole paragraphs of encounters. Sometimes these stories where popular and voted up by the community. Sometimes not. Let us know what you think! Some of the famous last words began “true story” – what’s with that? Surely none of these user generated contributions were [...]
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TweetThis re-post of Famous Last Words is ordered by total vote; with the better ones at the top. So does this mean we’ve only got the poorer contributions yet? Not necessary so; some of the famous last word contributions came in too late to pick up many votes. It’s also far to say some friends [...]
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TweetAt this point we’re sill less than halfway through the whole gallery of user submitted famous last words. The original list kept track of total votes as well as average votes. Since you can’t vote – we’ve deleted that – but the original contributor is still there. It’s also worth noting that the original input [...]
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TweetI’ll admit that not all the famous last words submitted to GameWyrd made sense – some, for example, included re-occuring characters; pretty hard for a so-claimed famous last words! However, pretty much all of them were sumitted in the spirit in which site was intended; gamer humour, fun, easy and hastle free. Just because we’ve [...]
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