Some of the sidebars are gems. Perhaps my favorite:
The stone was as heavy as my sins. That's not a metaphor, not exactly. That's how heavy my mistress had made it. [...]
Third edition is far more whimsical than the previous two editions and is just loaded with throwaway jokes in examples and footnotes:
"Bond: Flowers are awesome enough when they don't explode — but when half of them are antimatter? O.M.G."
"For instance, in your game, fire might have the Property Fire burns, and it doesn't care.†"
"†ProTip: In the real world, fire totally does care."
From the Edge chart:
"+1. Your tennis racket and shoes are awesome, and theirs are falling apart.†"
"†Also, you are playing tennis."
"+5. Your opponent has mistakenly brought a knife to a global thermonuclear annihilation fight."
"Difficulty 9 Domain miracles allow you to perform large-scale miracles of movement and dharma — you could ... transplant rabbits from their peaceful undersea homes to the world of land... Even at this scale, movement and dharma miracles are pretty subtle: people will know something's wrong†..."
"†Like how conspiracy theorists are always picking at that rabbit thing."
"There are relatively few fights in which a 25 trillion ton snake wouldn't come in handy."
The example of play in second edition had the Power of Treachery convince a missile to switch sides in flight, and the Power of Eternity attempted to freeze an explosion in place so she could land safely on it.
Earlier on, just as the fight breaks out, the Power of Treachery's first act? "Hostess! More wine!"
