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    Attempting to use Iron Heart Surge can often lead to the player removing the 'not being beaten upside the head' condition.
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    2. Having a +1 Vorpal Sword of Speed at level 14 (I was a newb, OK?)
    3.Jumping off the ship to fight a CR 24 Leviathin that was attacking the ship of our level 14 party, and 1 shoting it.
    4. Keeping the head that was the size of a house as a trophey.

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    5. Refusing to search for traps until paid.
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    6. I may never play a cleric capable of casting Animate Dead. Ever.
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    7. I may never have my half-orc barbarian invent the "Saddle-pult", mount it on his back, and load the Halfling Druid. Nor may I then charge with said preparations at an enemy with the intention of flinging the Halfling for him to wildshape mid-flight into a tiger.
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    Welknair, you are like... some living avatar of win. Who's made of win. And wields win as if it were but a toy. Win.
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    Welknair you are a god among men. Thank you for creating a playground for the completely insane.
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    There have also been times where I was jealous of your ingenuity and skills.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Welknair View Post
    7. I may never have my half-orc barbarian invent the "Saddle-pult", mount it on his back, and load the Halfling Druid. Nor may I then charge with said preparations at an enemy with the intention of flinging the Halfling for him to wildshape mid-flight into a tiger.
    But...whyever not?
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    Attempting to use Iron Heart Surge can often lead to the player removing the 'not being beaten upside the head' condition.
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    8. Refuge in Audacity does not grant Resistance bonuses.

    9. Doomspeak does not require me to put a green cloak and steel mask on and randomly announce that DOOM is here to solve your pitiful moral quandary.

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    10. I may not bring puppets to the table.
    11. Not even if they are really good puppets.
    12. The giant serpent is not a cheese doodle.
    13. The giant serpent is not made out of cheese doodles.
    14. I may not win fights by eating the monster.
    15. The monster is not the stand in for the miniature.
    16. I should not expect NPC's to flirt back.
    17. Attempting to seduce an NPC is right out.

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    18) No building characters that can build five-dot artifacts at character creation.

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    19. I may not help the party warblade optimize.
    20. Especially if said optimization allows her to one-shot a hydra.
    21. I may not have access to anything vorpal ever again.
    22. I may not boost my Tumble to "I don't even have to roll, I win"
    23. Ditto for Balance.
    24. Ditto for Jump.
    25. I may not introduce the party spellcaster to the concept of the Batman Wizard.

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    26. I may not stab an innocent shopkeeper in the face, because a sentient dagger told me to.
    27. "A sentient dagger told me to" is not a valid excuse unless you failed your will save.
    28. I may not turn my sentient ring into a god.
    29. I may not have one of my teeth replaced with a gold tooth which has been enchanted to be a sentient magic item, with a high value in Wisdom and call it a Wisdom Tooth.
    30. I may not have sentient magic items. Ever.
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    Welknair, you are like... some living avatar of win. Who's made of win. And wields win as if it were but a toy. Win.
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    Welknair you are a god among men. Thank you for creating a playground for the completely insane.
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    There have also been times where I was jealous of your ingenuity and skills.

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    31. Charlie Sheen is not a natural 20. No matter how often he shouts "WINNING!"

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    32. I may not accidentally make an airship in a medieval setting.
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    32a. Even if it's Magitech.
    33. I will not mislead the new guy by telling him that the Samurai is a great class
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    Quote Originally Posted by Daverin View Post
    Welknair, you are like... some living avatar of win. Who's made of win. And wields win as if it were but a toy. Win.
    Quote Originally Posted by Virdish
    Welknair you are a god among men. Thank you for creating a playground for the completely insane.
    Quote Originally Posted by Morph Bark
    There have also been times where I was jealous of your ingenuity and skills.

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    34. I may not, in any CoC-based game, make a character with ridiculously low sanity with the sole objective of making them go absolutely mad before the end of the campaign.
    I need to at least pretend I intend to have said character do something else beside digging up all the corpses, reading all the occult books, and witnessing all the mind-breaking events.
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    35: "throw anything" doesn't cover small asteroids, no matter how much I wish it did
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    the past we see as history, the future seed with prophecy,
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    14. I may not win fights by eating the monster.

    17. Attempting to seduce an NPC is right out.
    I have to ask: Why not? These are GREAT solutions to some problems!
    Imagine if all real-world conversations were like internet D&D conversations...
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    34. I may not, in any CoC-based game, make a character with ridiculously low sanity with the sole objective of making them go absolutely mad before the end of the campaign.
    I need to at least pretend I intend to have said character do something else beside digging up all the corpses, reading all the occult books, and witnessing all the mind-breaking events.
    ....Because that's just too easy a goal?

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    22. I may not boost my Tumble to "I don't even have to roll, I win"
    23. Ditto for Balance.
    24. Ditto for Jump.
    Is this actually a problem? Barring ridiculousness like the Jumplomancer, is being able to not fall down really all that game-breaking?
    Imagine if all real-world conversations were like internet D&D conversations...
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    That said, trolling is entirely counterproductive (yes, even when it's hilarious).

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    36. I may not use Welsh's List as a bucket list for my character.
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    Welknair, you are like... some living avatar of win. Who's made of win. And wields win as if it were but a toy. Win.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Morph Bark
    There have also been times where I was jealous of your ingenuity and skills.

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    37. The solution to every problem, puzzle, and challenge in the game is not "murder."
    38. Newly-Exalted Deathknights do not make good pets.
    39. When the goal is to stop a series of ritual sacrifices, "murdering the victims first" is not Plan A.
    40. If I choose to kill a group of Wyld Hunters, hide their bodies, and steal all their artifacts, I am not allowed to call the reaction of the party's Immaculate Monk "silly."
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    41. Not allowed to have a character cut himself with a sword of vampiric touch to set up a recursive loop.
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    42. No longer allowed to have a character that can change gender at will. Ever.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arbane View Post
    ....Because that's just too easy a goal?
    Yes, and because like most acts of evil and cruelty, it's only really worth it if the GM inflicts madness on non-masochist PCs, and vice versa.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Megaduck View Post
    14. I may not win fights by eating the monster.
    Hey, I've done that. Polymorphed into a wyvern remorhaz, of course...good times.
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    Attempting to use Iron Heart Surge can often lead to the player removing the 'not being beaten upside the head' condition.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flame of Anor View Post
    Hey, I've done that. Polymorphed into a wyvern, of course...good times.
    My players once ate a Red Dragon after slaying it. They ate it raw.

    ...


    43. I may not make a female character who where's bikini mail and wields a broadsword.

    44. I may not play a Dragonwrought Kobold. Ever.

    45. I may not apply more than one template to my character. Okay, maybe two.
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    46: No matter how much I want the shiny thing at the bottom of the pit trap, I am not allowed to jump in a second time.

    46a: Or a third time.

    46b: Or a fourth, fifth, or sixth time, for that matter.
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    47. I may never have an intimacy towards shiny things

    48. Nor may I have a flaw that requires me to pursue shiny things

    49. "But he had a shiny thing!" is not a valid excuse for murder.

    50. Just because something is shiny, that does not mean it's valuable. I may not use spoons in place of currency.
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    There have also been times where I was jealous of your ingenuity and skills.

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    51. I may not suggest forcing the assassins that were hired to kill us by the enemy army to fight the enemy army for us.

    52. I may not force indentured servitude upon the street urchins that are hired to toss rotten fruit at us.

    53. I may not point out that it actually states in the rules that natural weapons have a crit range.

    54. May not use Mirror Image, as we still can't figure that one out. x.x
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    Quote Originally Posted by Welknair View Post
    My players once ate a Red Dragon after slaying it. They ate it raw.
    Did they at least have ketchup?

    51. I may not cause a volcano to erupt, endangering the lives of over a hundred innocent people, without first informing the rest of the party.
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