National Security Decision Making:
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Player Quotes From Previous Games



On the handling of Special Actions and Capabilities Cards:

Unless it’s your wife or something, asking another player to watch your “Wild Card” while you go to the men’s room is like asking your dog to watch your food.



A Sumitomo board member returns home from a junket:

You’ve got to see the purge in China, they’re all over each other, yelling, short-tempered. It’s like every one of them is trying to walk around with a Dustbuster and a cat.



Russian Minister of Defense responds to his German counterpart’s sarcastic comments about Russia’s economy:

The Americans have brought their troops home; Russia still has twenty thousand nukes; I personally have 50,000 tanks... and the only thing between you and me is Poland.



An Iranian player approving of another Iranian’s appointment:

I know her; we went to UCLA together. She’ll be a great leader for the Revolutionary Guards. You know California’s new law against assault rifles? It mentions her by name.



Game Director responding to a complaint that one of the NSDM rooms is making so much noise that it’s disturbing the LARPers:

The Iranians must be having elections again.



The Chairman of the European Economic Community responding to criticism that the EEC meetings are “Death by Boredom”:

We could make it more interesting. Just put cherry bombs on the table in front of the guys who fall asleep.



The PRC Foreign Minister complaining to his counterpart in Moscow that the Russian President is trigger-happy:
PRC FM: If your blood-crazed President came to you out of the clear blue sky without any provocation whatsoever and told you to nuke us flat for no reason, what would you do?
Russian FM: Before or after I nuked you flat?



One U.S. Senator disagreeing with a colleague’s remarks:

She doesn’t have a clear conscience, she’s got a bad memory.

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