History Awesome / TabletopGames

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* DarkHeresy
** [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Guy_Who_Cried_Grendel The Guy Who Cried Grendel]]: a story about an Adept that initially makes the luckiest die roll ever, and kills a Charnel Demon at level 2 with a knife (he rolled ten consecutive 10s and then a 9). This is not the most awesome thing he does. After many victories against the forces of Chaos, he becomes a Living Saint, armed with a knife that terrifies the followers of Khorne.
*** What's more, it even made it into canon.
* PrometheanTheCreated: A throng of Prometheans wanders into Phoenix on their pilgrimage. Whilst there, they accidently attract the attention of a [[VampireTheMasquerade vampire]], who has been preying on Redeemed Prometheans (drawn to the location for various reasons), in addition to a substantial chunk of the homeless population. After driving him off once, he returns with an offer - allow him to continue feeding on the Redeemed, and he'll grant them knowledge of how to complete their pilgrimage and be Redeemed themselves. The group debates this for a while, until one, a 120 year old Frankenstein who had almost given up on becoming human, smashed his fist into the table and said:
--> I refuse to trade others lives for my own sake. I have wandered this earth in my condition for more than a century, and if I have learned one thing in all that time, it's that gain purchased at the cost of evil is worthless. If this dooms me to this existence forever, then so be it: If I cannot be human, I will be humane. If the comforts of humanity are denied me, then I will use my pain to be a bulwark against darkness to those who have gained and cherish them. I will fight this foul monster. Any who wish to join me are welcome. [[note]] Apparently, the player had spent the previous 10 minutes of debate coming up with this speech in his head[[/note]]
** He got another shortly after, by [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punching the vampire across the street]] whilst roaring "PARASITE!"

* {{Traveller}}
** Traveller is full of interesting [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Moments of Awesome]] written into the sourcebooks. Here are some of them.
*** Merchant Prince Marc Oberlindes contrives to buy a large ship from the Imperial government and recommission her as a freighter for traveling in Vargr territory. As this area is full of SpacePirates Oberlindes somehow arranges for the Imperial government to "forget" that there is still military grade weaponry on it. With this the ship, now named the Emissary sails right through hordes of pirates, laughing all the way.
*** At another time, Marc Oberlinde's son, Sergai is held captive. Marc recruits a band of mercenaries to rescue him.
*** The Battleship Gram, a transport containing several divisions of soldiers and a few smaller ships are trapped when they hear the Earth government they were fighting for had been overthrown. In response they sail all the way through Aslan territory to found the Sword Worlds.
*** In ''Alien Races 4'' a Bwap, a member of a race famous for it's enthusiasm for bureaucracy, stops a mother with a baby in a line of tourists by claiming her ID was faulty. This causes a jam-up in the line behind her and diverts considerable attention, not to mention wrath. While everyone is busy arguing with the Bwap, Imperial police snipers sneak up on some terrorists in the line and catch them. Later the Bwap gives the mother part of his reward as recompense for the unwitting part she played in his BatmanGambit.
*** The whole Intersteller Wars; PlanetTerra taking over the entire Vilani Imperium.

*** What's more, it even made it into canon.

* Awesome/Warhammer40000

** Traveller is full of interesting {{SugarWiki/Moment Of Awesome}}s written into the sourcebooks. Here are some of them.
*** Merchant Prince Marc Oberlindes contrives to buy a large ship from the Imperial government and recomission her as a freighter for traveling in Vargr territory. As this area is full of SpacePirates Oberlindes somehow arranges for the Imperial government to "forget" that there is still military grade weaponry on it. With this the ship, now named the Emissary sails right through hordes of pirates, laughing all the way.

** Traveller is full of interesting CMoAs written into the sourcebooks. Here are some of them.

** [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Guy_Who_Cried_Grendel The Guy Who Cried Grendel]]: a story about an Adept that initially makes the luckiest die roll ever, and kills a Charnel Demon at level 2 with a knife (he rolled ten consecutive 10s and then a 9). This is not the most awesome thing he does. After many victories against the forces of Chaos, he becomes a Living Saint, armed with a knife that terrifies the followers of Khorne.

** [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Guy_Who_Cried_Grendel The Guy Who Cried Grendel]]: a story about an Adept that initially makes the luckiest die roll ever, and kills a Charnel Demon at level 2 with a knife. This is not the most awesome thing he does. After many victories against the forces of Chaos, he becomes a Living Saint, armed with a knife that terrifies the followers of Khorne.

*** The whole Intersteller Wars; PlanetTerra taking over the entire Vilani Imperium.

*** The whole Intersteller Wars; PlanetTerra taking over the entire Vilani Imperium.
* This troper was in a D&D 3.5 where at one point in a mine, we fought a basilisk that was 30 feet away from us, and there was water between us and the basilisk. My dragonborn paladin had no ranged weapons, so I threw my sword at it. It misses, and lands on the ground next to it. Great, I thought. Then, because I was still angry at my sister's rogue, I picked up the rogue and threw him at the basilisk. Who's laughing at my big, bulky muscles now? She hit for max damage and killed it. It was AFTER that that we discovered the water was only two. Feet. Deep. We all laughed, and I decided whenever we get into a pinch, I'll just throw the useless rogue at enemies.

* This troper was in a D&D 3.5 where at one point in a mine, we fought a basilisk that was 30 feet away from us, and there was water between us and the basilisk. My dragonborn paladin had no ranged weapons, so I threw my sword at it. It misses, and lands on the ground next to it. Great, I thought. Then, because I was still angry at my sister's rogue, I picked up the rogue and threw him at the basilisk. Who's laughing at my big, bulky muscles now? She hit for max damage and killed it. It was AFTER that that we discovered the water was only two. Feet. Deep. We all laughed, and I decided whenever we get into a pinch, I'll just throw the useless rogue at enemies.
* This troper in Shadowrun 4th edition managed to not-exactly punch *out* Cthulhu, but did manage to severely annoy cthulhu in an epic way due to highly improbable dice rolling. I was the hacker on our team, and contrary to most shadowrunners, I was so high profile as to be theoretically untouchable rather then a SI Nless nobody. We got hired to pull a doctor out of a mental hospital, the doctor wanted out, looked like a milk-run. Except of course that the day we chose to do this operation, Lofwyr decided to buy the place out and shows up in person. He looks at our sniper "Hmm." He looks at our getaway car "Hmm." He looks at the remote mines we set to be a big explosive distraction "Hmm." He looks at our face trying to lie his way out the door "Hmm." I panic, and hack one of the newsdrones circling his head. I give it a single order "Extreme closeup!" and jack out. The drone goes flying for lofwyr's head with a dice pool of five. Lofwyr being a dragon has a dice pool of THIRTY to dodge it... and he critically glitches. So he looks up at it while it smacks him in the face... then the 20 fireball spells he had set up to auto-retaliate anything that hits him go off, the newsdrone EXPLODES!. He is knocked off his feet "Ow!" We scramble off in the confusion (with our package), put the video on the shadowrun-equivelent of youtube, and put my character on a bus. Totally worth it. ~~Gruegirl

* This troper in Shadowrun 4th edition managed to not-exactly punch *out* Cthulhu, but did manage to severely annoy cthulhu in an epic way due to highly improbable dice rolling. I was the hacker on our team, and contrary to most shadowrunners, I was so high profile as to be theoretically untouchable rather then a SI Nless nobody. We got hired to pull a doctor out of a mental hospital, the doctor wanted out, looked like a milk-run. Except of course that the day we chose to do this operation, Lofwyr decided to buy the place out and shows up in person.
He looks at our sniper "Hmm."
He looks at our getaway car "Hmm."
He looks at the remote mines we set to be a big explosive distraction "Hmm."
He looks at our face trying to lie his way out the door "Hmm."
I panic, and hack one of the newsdrones circling his head. I give it a single order "Extreme closeup!" and jack out. The drone goes flying for lofwyr's head with a dice pool of five. Lofwyr being a dragon has a dice pool of THIRTY to dodge it... and he critically glitches. So he looks up at it while it smacks him in the face... then the 20 fireball spells he had set up to auto-retaliate anything that hits him go off, the newsdrone EXPLODES!.
He is knocked off his feet "Ow!"
We scramble off in the confusion (with our package), put the video on the shadowrun-equivelent of youtube, and put my character on a bus. Totally worth it. ~~Gruegirl

* This troper was in a D&D 3.5 where at one point in a mine, we fought a basilisk that was 30 feet away from us, and there was water between us and the basilisk. My dragonborn paladin had no ranged weapons, so I threw my sword at it. It misses, and lands on the ground next to it. Great, I thought. Then, because I was still angry at my sister's rogue, I picked up the rogue and threw him at the basilisk. Who's laughing at my big, bulky muscles now? She hit for max damage and killed it. It was AFTER that that we discovered the water was only two. Feet. Deep. We all laughed, and I decided whenever we get into a pinch, I'll just throw the useless rogue at enemies.

* Awesome/Nobilis

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*** The whole Intersteller Wars; PlanetTerra taking over the entire Vilani Imperium.

* {{Traveller}}