Jason Brick > Quotes

“Constitution -- a CON of 6 is already brutal, so this doesn’t need to be as mean as the other items. The character in question needs an extra hour of sleep or trance than normal to benefit from rest, and 10% longer to recover from things like exhaustion or starvation.”
― Jason Brick, Random Encounters Volume 5: 20 NEW epic ideas for your role-playing game

“To truly be prepared for violence, it helps to study how it works. We need to understand how it happens and what factors can improve our ability to prepare for, pre-empt, detect, defuse, minimize, contain, resolve, and deal with the aftermath of it long before we face it. If we do have to defend ourselves physically, we don’t have to go all out in seek and destroy mode like I did in third grade. We can learn to do just what is needed to evade and escape or develop the ability to contain and control violence so it doesn’t boil over. At our best, we develop ourselves into the kind of person who is unlikely to attract altercations.”
― Jason Brick, There I Was...When Nothing Happened: True Tales of Real Self Defense From Professionals in the Field

“Kind GMs[9] might put sand or waist-deep water on the floors to cushion flaws and mitigate this factor.”
― Jason Brick, Random Encounters Volume 2: 20 MORE epic ideas for your role-playing game

“Whether you run these caving hazards in the spaces between the “real” encounters, or use them to spice up combats, is between you and your god.”
― Jason Brick, Random Encounters Volume 3: 20 FURTHER epic ideas for your role-playing game

“No Means No. Human-on-elf and orc-on-human rape are the implied backstories for lots of halfbreed characters in D&D[13]. That may be the most realistic option, but it’s boring and done too often. What about the product of a loving relationship? What might that truth, in the face of obvious and hateful assumptions made by others, mean to a character?”
― Jason Brick, Random Encounters Volume 5: 20 NEW epic ideas for your role-playing game

“Intelligence – An INT of 6 or less means a character is automatically illiterate and the player may not take notes at the tabletop to help him remember details”
― Jason Brick, Random Encounters Volume 5: 20 NEW epic ideas for your role-playing game