Dominions II T-Shirt Contest
 

For all you Dom 2 Fans! To kick off the opening of our branded store at Cafe Press ( Gamers Front Branded Store ) we are running a "Cool Saying" T-Shirt Contest. Go to the store and you can see what we are doing: The Dom 2 Logo on the front of the T-Shirt and the Cool Saying on the back.

Here are the rules:

1. You can enter as many sayings as you wish. Just do it all in one post. If you think of new sayings edit your post. Number reach saying as:
1. Blah
2. Blah, blah
3. Blah, blah, blah
Non-Numbered sayings will not be considered. (By numbering your entry(s) you are saying this is an entry - rather than just a post).

2. Post here in this topic. Posts outside this topic will not be accepted.

3. By posting a saying here you agree to let Shrapnel Games, Inc. use your saying for promotional purposes and profit.

4. Posting must be done between now and April 30, 2004. Sayings posted after April 30th will not be considered.

5. The top three vote getters will be awarded a T-Shirt with their winning saying on it.

6. Winners are determined by Shrapnel Games and Illwinter Game Design.

Have FUN!

PS - you can also get to our branded store through the Gamers Front (www.gamersfront.com), just click on the Merchandise menu item.

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1. Unleash the Squid
2. They want your messiah
3. Our elves are Vikings
4. Now with astral!
5. A game of gods and magic missiles
6. God Control II
7. What Would Bogus Do?
8. Gods and Monsters

Update:
9. Immortal Kombat

10. This ain't your momma's MoM

11. Eat hot theological death

12. Greeks and Lizards

13. Home of the Tartarian Monstra

14. Godsmack

15. Orcless and addictive

16. Punch in the faith

17. Sword, spear, and clam

18. Smite smitily smite

19. 17 Pretenders. 1 True God. 2d6(oe)

20. Gods Gone Wild - Nataraja edition

Yet another update:

21. The gods play dice. Open-ended dice.

Ack! I only intended to drop by and check on a thread after making a phone call. I just can't resist a T-Shirt contest, though these are some of the worst ideas I've had in a while. I'm clearly rushing this whole thing.
Will go now.
Will be back later.
Avenge.
Discuss.

Yet another update: What we need is a mascot. Like Deep C. the Starspawn, or something.

[ April 22, 2004, 23:58: Message edited by: Vicious Love ]

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Well, I adore Latin quotations, so here's a few slogans in that dead language.

1. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Dominions
(A pun on "Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini" - "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. So, in other words: "Blessed is he who comes in (wearing) the name of Dominions.")

2. Est deus in nobis.
("There is a god inside us.")

3. Vae victis!
("Woe to the conquered.")

Other suggestions:

4. Pretend!
5. Hoburg Hero.
6. My other prophet is an ice devil.
7. I fought the game and the game won.
8. Hoburg Hero For Hire
9. Hoburg Hero In Training
10. R'Lyeh does it deeper

11. Bloodslave Inspector
12. Maenads have more fun
(One for Arryn?)
13. Genuine Shroud of the Battle Saint(tm) Wear
14. Warning! Precision 5 Fire Mage
15. Warning! Wearer is horror marked. Keep away from astral flames, twin spears, Tartarian gates, summoning chambers, tantric sex, powerful thunderstorms, dimensional rifts, haunted castles,etheral creatures, magic laboratories, strange vortexes in the ether, mysterious, hooded strangers, supernatural menaces and fortune tellers.
16. Horror marks kill. Don't drink and divine.
17. Will work for world domination.
18. Maenad talent scout
19. I used to have a life, but I managed to trade it in for a Barrel of Air, fourteen earth gems and two clockwork horrors.

20. Real Black Templars starch their underwear.
21a) My http://smilies.jeeptalk.org/otn/love/face80.gif belongs to Great Mother
21b) My http://smilies.jeeptalk.org/otn/love/face80.gif belongs to Allfather
22. I sacrificed 40 bloodslaves, and all I got was this bloody T-shirt.
23. I brake for succubi.
24. Succubi susceptible
25. Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go to Pangaea
26. Do you have pretensions?
27. Sidhe Champion. (If you can read this, my god has wasted 17 resources and 140 gold.)
28. Kiss me. I'm a pretender.
29. Ssssh! I'm hunting bwood slaves.

30. Oh my me!

And a few from the bible:

31. To me belongeth vengeance and recompence
32. I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
33. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
34. To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
35. For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences

36. I inflame the hearts of hundreds of thousands, and ponder greatly upon the gods.

Then a couple from Lovecraft:

37. I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...
38. That is not dead which can eternal lie ; And with strange aeons even death may die
39. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

40. The stars are right!

41. I WILL NOT BE DENIED!
42. Over 1080 unique units and we still mod!
43. Who need high fantasy? We've got mythology.
45. The only strategy game with troll knights riding mooses.
46. Real gods play turn-based.

This one is probably a bit too provocative to some people, but I like it:
47. Yahweh would have played Dominions.

48. Odin, Dahzdebog, Jupiter, Lugh, Ishtar, Osiris, Kukulcan, Zevs ... and you.
49. Have you vanquished the heathens today?
50. Bringing divinity to Origins

There - that's a round fifty, I think I'll stop now.

Just ... one ... more...

51. I selected Luck +3, but all I got was this T-shirt.

And a few more. (Assuming the competition is still open out the 30tieth)

52. 1100 units, 400 spells, 400 magic sites, 250 magic items, 17 nations - 1 victor.
53. 1100 units, 400 spells, 400 magic sites, 250 magic items, 17 nations and you get to be a god.
54. The game for strategy gods.
55. Turn-based godhood.

Then there's one that isn't in the bible, but ought have been (although using that one would probably include royalties):

- "And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

And one that would have been great, but is under copyright:

Oh yes I'm the great pretender
Adrift in a world of my own
I play the game but to my real shame
You've left me to dream all alone

[ April 30, 2004, 12:50: Message edited by: Leif_- ]

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1. Today this province, tomorrow the World.
2. I'm Immortal.
3. Wisdom, Ironwill and Knowledge are mine.
4. Get Fantasy, let your mind dream.


I can advice a shirt for each Nation, with the figure too of a typycal soldier of that Army in the back?
This perhaps could cost a little more to have someone drawing the figures and to print them on shirts, but they'll be far more cooler.

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1. I conquered the world, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

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1) My Other God Is A Void Lurker

2) Spread Your Dominion!

3) First Rule of the Gods: Dominate or Be Dominated

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1. Dominions - Where do you want to rule today?
2. Dominions - Resistance is futile
3. Dominions - One world is not enough
4. Dominions - Your Soul is mine
5. I hereby declare war upon you!
6. No Virgin? Never mind...
7. Dominions - Where no game has gone before
8. Believe in yourself... million others do.

[ April 27, 2004, 20:27: Message edited by: PrinzMegaherz ]

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1. Power To The Pretenders!
2. ...as determined by faith and force...
3. It's a Vastness!
4. True Ulmish Black Steel
5. I'll murder for a Heart of Darkness.
6. Illithids United
7. The Supreme Being is dead.


I love Leif's nr 6, by the way.


Update:

8. Rex Pretendis
9. Mudwrestling C'tissian style.
10. And then, the other eye was shot out as well.
11. The Wyrm's bite has two sides...
12. Playing with mortals is a duty of gods.
13. Dominions II - Where armies serve as Vampire fodder.

2nd Update:

14. Victory was close, but then my archers decided to fire.

[ April 24, 2004, 02:25: Message edited by: Karacan ]

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1. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I ascended, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.</font>
2. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Putting the "decide" in deicide.</font>
3. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The world is your clam.</font>
4. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">One small step for Man, and an even smaller one for Jotunkind.</font>
5. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">God is dead. Well, yours is, anyway...</font>
6. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">More fun than a barrel full of Hoburgs.</font>
7. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">All that, and mooseriders.</font>
8. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Give me three gems and a pair of Earth Boots, and I can move the world!</font>
9. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Iron Pigs: what more can you ask for?</font>
10. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Wish for "death". You know you want to.</font>
11. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Who knew that fundementalist warmongering could be such fun?</font>
12. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Fallen Ermor will rise again! And again! And again!</font>
13. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ring of Wizardry: 80 gems. Robe of the Sea: 20 gems. Bloodthorn: 20 slaves. Brazen Vessel: 20 slaves. Awakening the Rimtursar: priceless.</font>
14. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Summer Lions, Winter Wolves, and Autumn Bears, oh my!</font>
15. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You killed our god!</font>
16. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear. An iron purse, on the other hand...</font>
17. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Deus ex logismiko</font>
18. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm with Bogus -></font>
19. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The meek shall inherit a Slave Collar.</font>
20. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">If at first you don't succeed, hit 'em with Ghost Riders.</font>

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[ April 20, 2004, 19:04: Message edited by: E. Albright ]

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My favorite kind of contest!

1. WARNING: This game is dangerously addictive. It is NOT suitable for students, interns, apprentices,
or anyone else who is expected to pass tests on a regular basis. Do not
think about Dominions strategys while operating heavy machinery. The
demo has built-in protections which should not be bypassed. They are for
your health as much as for monetary reasons. Do not begin on the full
Version without first making arrangments for someone to check on you
daily. If you find that your game has continued for more than 36 hours
straight then you should consult a physician immeadiately (Do NOT show
him the game!)

(1. should be typed in text which gradually gets smaller with each line down)


2.
In Dominions, if it looks like a killer strategy
then look at it again carefully.
In Dominions, if it looks like a total waste
then look at it again carefully.

3. What we do every day Pinkie, try to take over the world.

4. My pretender can beat up your pretender.

5. AWARD WINNING STRATEGY GAME
(joystick addicts need not apply)


6.
Me: Some play to win or lose. Others just to stay in the game.
Them: Are we talking about games? Or about life in general?
Me: Exactly.

7. It's for my Cult Leader resume.

8. I am their leader and they love me.

9. The best game I never bought off the shelf.

10. When I have this game completely beat,
I will teach you how.
(talk to me a year from now)

11. The Ascension is yours!
(some assembly required)

12. They dont think Im a god!
(but we are working on that)

13. A Windows, Linux, Mac OS-X, Solaris Multi-Player game of Domination.
(this is NOT your daddy's Chess game)

14. Strategy Games?!? You cant HANDLE a strategy game!

15. There can only be Juan.
Hail Juan!

[ April 25, 2004, 17:31: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

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I know I don't get a vote, but it goes to Graeme Dice's suggestion.

Now I only need to find something...

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1. Dominions II, Destroyer of Time, Crystallizer of Dreams, Emperor of Strategy, The Game Who is At the Center

(or something similar/more creative from the titles pretenders get in the game)

2. Got Clams?!

(Like the Got Milk?! campaign... silly, but I couldn't resist)

3. There can only be one!

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1. "...And I shall strike thee with furious anger..." Bob 3:17(a.m.)

2. This is no Shroud of the Battle Saint!

3. DOMINIONS II -
Everything you do is divine intervention.

4. Bogus Party Member

5. "For I shall indeed be a god!"

6. Time will not be the only thing you sacrifice.

(Possibly this one [7] -or something similar- has been posted before, in that case I appologize, but I did not find it by skipping over the Posts-posted 30. April 04)

7. Yeah, I'm a size 6. With trample.

[ April 30, 2004, 13:47: Message edited by: Tricon ]

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1. He that overcometh shalt inherit all things.

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1. Nagot Gick Fel! (There went your Pretender...)
2. Dominions 2: Crack, pixilated.
3. How many spells can you use?
4. Who do you want to conquer today?
5. There can be only one!
6. Never mind the bolloks! This game owns you.
(or pwns you. whatever.)

[ April 27, 2004, 04:47: Message edited by: J Stanley ]

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Heh, just look at my sig. Either one would work. ^^;

1. "My plans are always practical! It's the laws of physics that get in the way of my success!"

2. "I found out what zombies are weak against."
"Oh?"
"Point blank annihilation."

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Oh wow. This SO wins.

Bravo! (although Gandalf's tellingly accurate disclaimer should also be used.... front/back?)


Rabe the ROFLHDAAO

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Oh this is fun just reading these...
These are pretty rough, but if anyone out there wants to sharpen them up...

1. If a god falls in the forest and nobody's left to believe in him, does he get back up ... or ... just dissolve back into potentiality?
The rest of these are just going through the item lists...
2. My other ride is a Pocket Ship (or a Flying Carpet, your choice)

3. (under a picture of a Totem Shield): Curses!
3A. (under Shield of the Accursed): Horrors! (then in small print) That one's yours!!
(This brings up a question about Horrors, do they ever show up as a random or do they have to be Called/Sent by an enemy nation?)

4. (Chainmail of Displacement) Watch out, I'm actually a couple of feet over that way
5. Prophet Motive
6. (Wall Shaker) Acme Demolition Service. Walls removed while you wait (earplugs supplied on request)

7. (under a Marignon High Inq) The original Ghostbuster (this one on orange)
8. I'm not lazy, I'm just set to Sloth-3
9. I Visited the Void Gate and some Thing from Beyond, instead of coming out, gave me this T-shirt. Rough deal huh...
(OK, Void creatures probably wouldn't need 'em... maybe with the wrong number of arms? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif )(this on R'Lyeh green...)
10. Things to do: i. Believe in yourself. Check. ii. Convince everyone else to. Working on that.
11. It's actually rather simple: You live, you die, maybe you sign on with Ermor... (obviously on purple)
12. Dominions II: You Coulda Been A Pretender!
13. Dominions II: The guy next door could be the Man Upstairs.
14. Dominions II: No cheat codes. Get your OWN God mode.
15. Armageddon is just a Last resort for pretenders who know they're about to lose anyway. That's why I'm against it.
16. Dominions II: Quite possibly the best game ever designed by two guys for whom designing games isn't their main line of work

(Aside on this one: The Last time a teacher-type in Europe designed a diVersion to assist in the understanding of the subject at hand, it was Tetris. And the time before that it was Rubik's Cube. And look what happened to them...)

17. What I play, "activating God Mode" means.... something different.
17A. What I play, "God Mode" isn't a cheat. It's a state of mind.
18. Taking the term God game a little too literally.....

[ April 30, 2004, 21:32: Message edited by: Etaoin Shrdlu ]

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1. New & Improved Formula with 8% more addiction !

2. Diet Formula with only 4% real blood slave flavoring !

3. Caffeine sold separately.


Added:

4. "The troops are starving, order more bags of wine."

5. "Where religious zeal meets tempered steel"

6. It's not the SIZE of the army, it's how you script it.

7. Squids are evil but clams are divine.

8. "No, I said we need more flagellants, not flatulence."

9. Where losing your faith can be deadly.

- Kel

[ April 22, 2004, 20:49: Message edited by: Kel ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Oh kewl.

Edited: #11 added to my original post.

(thanks Gateway103 for pointing that out. Im terrible at reading manuals and rules.)

[ April 21, 2004, 13:29: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

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Err... Gandalf, #11 is good, but look at rule #1, "You can enter as many sayings as you wish. Just do it all in one post..."

May want to edit that ^_^ I'd hate to see a potentially wining post not get counted.

-Gateway103

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Great! Keep them coming guys!

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1. Be my blood slave.
2. Don't forget to smite the heathen.

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1. Dominions: The low-impact Jihad.
2. Dominions: The only one answering your prayers is ME!
3. We put the FUN in Fundimentalism.
4. Dominions: Where God is overweight, balding, near-sighted and more than likely has an addiction to megalomania.
5. Please refer to me as Bob the Omnipotent, Prince of Many Names, King of Kings, the EverLasting Pyre, Lord of Destruction ... Thompson. (Or alternatively, you could put it on one of those "Hello my Name is" stickers)
6. My Temple burned down on Turn 2.
7. Religious Persecution never felt so good.
8. "Unbelievers. Smoke'em if you got'em."
9. Moloch said so.
10. Computer Nerds + Religion = Dominion
11. Bogus stole my virgins.
12. Male Blood Slave (for Argitoth)
13. Look Ma! I'm a Sanguine Dousing Rod.

This is one from reality:
14. No Tim, they are called flagellents, not flatulence. Dominions 2 Faux Pas #32.

This one is requires more. Have the picture of one of the pretenders (though you might want to get an artist to give you an artistic rendition rather than the pixilated)

15. "And God made Man in his own Image"
Lost an Eye
Lost Other Eye
Lost an Arm
Mute
Feeblemind
Limp
Chest Wound
Lost Other Arm
Never Healing Wound
Weakened
Crippled

Some men are uglier than others.

In Small Print at the bottom
Paid for by the Church of Bob


(#3 is something I saw in the past, I don't know if it's copywritten, but it applies http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ April 26, 2004, 03:39: Message edited by: Zen ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I like these. But (as I was reminded also) the rules say 1 post only. You should edit the first post and cut-n-paste these into it.

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1. You're either a god or you're just pretending
2. He who sits in the heavens shall laugh. - Psalm 2:4
3. When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations ... then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. - Duet. 7:1-2
4. My other shirt is a Robe of Calius the Druid
5. "Men at some time are masters of their fate" - Jul Caesar, Act i, Sc.2
6. "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." -Twelfth Night, Act ii, Sc.5
7. "Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven" Henry VI, Act iv, Sc.7

[ April 30, 2004, 17:04: Message edited by: daesthai ]

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Note to self: Press "Edit" not "Quote"

[ April 21, 2004, 18:55: Message edited by: Leif_- ]

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Some of these are awesome! I hope they release several shirts...or have more than one saying on the winning shirt.

My suggestions:

1) Got Dominion?

2) All Hail Me!

3)These elves will kick your ***!

4) So many bloodslaves...so little time...

5) Dominion? I don't need no stinking dominon!

6) Prophet wanted

7) Can't talk...Ascending.

8)Fanatical Flagellants Flagellating Furiously

9)Eat flaming arrow Pretender scum!

10) I'm gonna get apocalyptic on your ***!

11)Have altar, need blood slaves.

12)Visit my temple and get a shirt like this one!

13)Behold...ME!

14)Will Dominate for Supplies

15)Will Forge for Food

16)My Prophet can kick your Prophet's ***!

17)My army stormed the castle and all I got was this stupid battle affliction...

18)Explore, Expand, Exploit, Extermintate!


To be continued....

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[ April 27, 2004, 20:48: Message edited by: En Forcer ]

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Well here are my suggestions:

1. Horrors Happen
2. Afflictions Happen
3. Do you want to live forever? (front)
Dominions II (back)
4. What is best in life?
Crush your enemies.
See them driven before you.
And then collect thier Blood Slaves!
5. O God, that I were a man, I would eat his
heart and replace it with a Black one!
6. "Now order the ranks, and fling wide the
banners, for our souls are God's and our
bodies the King's and our swords for our
Prophet and Dominion!"
7. Dominions II. The only real Holy War!
8. As punishment for my contempt for authority
Ilwinter has made me a God!
9. Dominions II (front)
Your destiny does not write itself! (back)
10. The real measure of a God's wealth is what
he has invested in his scales.
11. History is a set of lies agreed upon by
those in charge.....Just make sure
YOU are in charge!
12. I love the smell of Foul Vapors in the
morning.
13. Great is the hand that holds dominion over
man by a scribbled name.
14. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever
15. So.....you want to be a God?
16. "I'll sleep when I'm dead."
17. "I am become death, shatterer of worlds."

[ April 21, 2004, 23:21: Message edited by: Pirateiam ]

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1. Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
2. Mine, all mine! Bwahahahaha!
3. *I* bless you.
4. I *AM* the Power.
5. Size does matter... when trampling.
6. Dominions II: The cure for sleep.
7. Dude, that was soooo Bogus.
8. To serve is yours; to rule is mine.
9. I attacked on the first turn, and all I got was a curse from a lousy Lizard Shaman.
10. In Dominions II, I'm Size 6.
11. They call me the Great Pretender / Pretending that I'm the one god...

[ April 25, 2004, 18:41: Message edited by: Taqwus ]

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1. Dominions II - Now with extra smiting.
2. Why pretend? Be a god!
3. Now's a good time to go apocalyptic!
3. Be a god they said! Rule the world they said! All it got me was sore eyes, a headache and sleepless nights.
4. Every god has its day.
5. Dominions II - Chess has come a long way baby.
6. Worship me! I'm a god! (Well in Dominions 2 anyway...)
7. It's not who you are that counts. It's who you can smite with divine might.
8. You may be a brillant strategist, but you're no Dominions II player yet kid.
9. If you're so smart how come I never seen you play Dominions 2?
10. Dominions 2 - What the seventh day was all about.
11. Don't worry. Just because I'm a veteran Dominions 2 player doesn't mean I respect you any less. Puny mortal.

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Some religious stuff in no particular order. Not sure if it is good to use biblical stuff, but I couldn't resist.

1. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. (Daniel 7:6)

2. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and Languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everLasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. (Daniel 7:14)

3. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. (Daniel 7:26)

4. This one who contended first received the crown, gained dominion, and appeared, giving light to everyone. (Nag Hammadi Library - The teachings of Silvanus)

5. When ye therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation (matthew 24:15)

6. It is I who am God, and there is no other one that exists apart from me. (Nag Hammadi - On the Origin of the World)

7. But for corruption thou hast made Belial, an angel of hostility. All his dominion is in darkness, and his purpose is to bring about wickedness and guilt. (Qumran scrolls 1QM according to several sources, but it's not. Probably a modern remake).

I'm personally fond of 'Något Gick Fel!' http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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Mayhap someone ought to sticky this, lest all who would contribute make their marks, and then just take to editing them as the thread sinks into obscurity...

Just a (possibly needless) thought.

[Edit: oh, and to date, I'm favoring 'Något Gick Fel' and Leif's #22...]

[ April 21, 2004, 22:24: Message edited by: E. Albright ]

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Some good suggestions there, but shouldnt a t-shirt hold something non-players should understand? Hmm, i can only contribute these two, and they are both not exactly of my own invention:

1. Some say prayers, but I say "MINE!"

(inspired by the lyrics of the song "Dominion")

2. Dominions2 will crush this world and make its inhabitants slaugther one another!

(inspired by the Game description of the Moloch and some thread on this forum)

[ April 23, 2004, 14:21: Message edited by: Chazar ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yes and no. The very best slogans for things like this are those that have a simple, easily understandable meaning that everybody gets and also a different, humorous meaning to the people in the know. The second best slogans are, in my opinion, those that sound intriguing to ordinary mortals, and are inherently funny to insiders. Third best is slogans with a generic meaning which fits the game. Fourth best is slogans that seem bizarre and meaningless (as opposed to intriguing) unless you're an insider. The worst slogans are the ones that have a generic meaning that doesn't have any connection with the issue. (All very much IMO, of course.)

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@Leif_-: Roughly agreed. I would just draw the line before the fourth best according to your rating...at least for deciding for myself whether I would show myself in the public with such a shirt http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ April 22, 2004, 14:59: Message edited by: Chazar ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Totally from a Publisher's point of view: The best slogan is one that will make someone reading the t-shirt ask the wearer "What is this about?" or at least want to make the reader visit the website.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Totally from a Publisher's point of view: The best slogan is one that will make someone reading the t-shirt ask the wearer "What is this about?" or at least want to make the reader visit the website. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Agreed. Besides the fact that its the companys who will decide what goes on the shirts... I think I would still prefer to wear a shirt that had something to make people interested in the game. Some of these are funny and would be great to wear at a "Dominions" convention, but not for the public. That doesnt mean they are wasted. They will make great sig files for Posts here or on Usenet newsGroups.

I also think that I would automatically NOT want to wear anything with bible or quran quotes. It just brings conversations to mind that I dont want to be part of. An interested person based on those, who asked what Dominions was, might not like the description. Just not the discussion I would want to have in a grocery store.

Im trying to come up with more that challenge people who think they can handle a GOOD strategy game.

[ April 22, 2004, 15:56: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

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I'm busy and feeling all-around uncreative, but my only request is that the saying picked have some distinctive Dominions II flavor to it. It shouldn't be a quote that could be applied to just about any other GodGame out there -- it needs to have flavor that is both immediately recognizable to Dominions II players and intriguing/unique enough for non-players to ask "Hey, what's THAT all about?"

So, yeah, cool quotes that come from movies, literature, and commercials or other stuff that could be found in variety of non-Dominions contexts shouldn't be up for the running. I'll list a few of my Favorites here in a sec.

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1. ^ Bogus (yeah trolls look like this)

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If the T shirt is going to look like the game/bookcover, I hope its going to be a short message inside the globe. Not something to long

I would like to see a blue T-shirt with the following (and the Last part to be in the globe- instead of the words "The Ascension Wars")

1)
Dominions II
We all start as pretenders!

2) Dominions II
still researching after all these turns

3)Dominions II
where communion is for slaves

4)Dominions II
where every thing has a counter

5)Dominions II
where driveby priestings happends

6) Dominions II
if anything can compare with MoM

number 6 was the reason that actual look on this awesome game, though I forgot where and who and how exsactly that was worded. BUT certainly a t-shirt I would love to where on a gamers con. But you offcause have to know what MoM does refeers to here! Or at least put in something like "Strategy game of the decade" or something simillar

[ April 22, 2004, 19:11: Message edited by: Jondifool ]

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1) Dominions II: The games so good the Gods want it back.

2) Oh my God!

3) Still worshiping God? Last i heard he started worshiping me!

[ April 23, 2004, 21:35: Message edited by: Xether ]

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My proposition :

I rode alongside the knights inquisitors of Marignon, battled abominations from the Void Gate, sailed across the seas in Vanheim's longships, uncovered the secrets of black steel in the secret forges of Ulm, consorted with the Grave Priests of long forgotten C'tis and all I got is was this stupid T-shirt !

Some other less serious propositions http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

1) Improved Crossbreeding failed experiment

2) Hoburg weed, 'nuff said.

3) So THAT is the Gift of Kurgi ?

4) Kurgi who ?

5) <- I am a Pangea base-theme Pan. Yay me !

6) My cyclop pretender picked up that spare Eye of Aiming, weeee

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"Got Blood?"

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Wow, a contest with my name written all over it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

1. I won the Death Match and all I got was this stupid shirt.
2. I won the Death Match and all I got was this lousy trident.
3. I won the Death Match and all I got was a lousy trident and this stupid shirt.
4. Got Blood Slaves?
5. Dominion II--Home of the backward Forums.
6. Mama don't let you daughters grow up to be Maenads.
7. Dominions II--Keeping the world safe for R'yleh.
8. Famous Last words: "You think you can capture my fortress. Yeah, you and who's army?"
9. Meglomaniacs "R" Us
10. There is no cure for meglomania, but the symptoms can be treated. Ask your doctor about Dominions II.
11. Are you Rainbow or a SC?
12. Nothing will wake you up in the morning better than a good Blood Hunt.
13. Dominion II--where vampire queens don't suck!
14. Dominion II players do it like a God.
15. Dominion II players do it religiously.

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1. Godhood guaranteed

2. God under

3. Hey, Sauromancer! Disintegrate THIS!

4. One... More... Turn...

5. This is just my astral body

6. I'm actually a red dragon in human form.

7. Cure for cancer? Nah, something better.

[ April 23, 2004, 00:03: Message edited by: peke ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Oh wow. This SO wins.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Heh! I agree, this is easily the best. Sly, yet meaningfull to anyone, and fits the theme perfectly.

It'd be cool if you could make two such quotes (front and back) that worked together. Probably with a second from Bob's Opponent Joe, or perhaps from Bob a little later in the morning when things aren't working out so well.

Hmmm, plus this would need an appropriately wrathfull picture to go with it. The Dominions manual cover art is too tame for my tastes.

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[quote]Originally posted by Jasper:

Quote:

Sly, yet meaningfull to anyone, and fits the theme perfectly.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">What does it mean ?

- Kel

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1) God does not play dice, He plays Dominions.

2) You killed our God!

3) Något Gick Fel!
(couldn't pass on this one http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

4) Dominions 2: the depopulation game.

5) My god got more purple hearts than a Vietnam vet.

6) If only I had another eye to lose...

7) Botulf was here.

BTW, does anyone remember this old little game where cartoon Versions of real world leaders nuked each other with bombers and nuclear warheads? I think I remember Ronald Reagan was featured as "Ronnie Raygun" or something like that. When the game was over, you could see an hilarious cutscene with the winner wearing full NBC gear in a barren wasteland, jumping and yelling "I've won! I've won!". What about T-shirts depicting a bandaged, one-eyed Titan jumping and yelling "I'm God! I'm God!" with a devastated landscape in the background?

[ April 23, 2004, 12:17: Message edited by: Nagot Gick Fel ]

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I'll be the first to admit that these aren't the products of true genius, but meh.

1. Dominions II - Blood sacrifices have never felt so good!

2. Who let the Gods out?

3. Uncle Taurotyrannos Wants YOU! (this works with other heroes,Cthulu makes a good one too, I think)

4: Pagan Power!

5: Dominions II - Every other game is just... bogus

[ April 24, 2004, 06:00: Message edited by: HotNifeThruButr ]