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    *My Warforged, when presented with a choice, will not say "Reaching a consensus..."
    *I may not name my characters words in Draconic that may be easily mispronounced
    **If I do, and the party refers to my eidolon as "Cakes" instead of "Caex" I should try to stop them before he develops confidence issues.
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    *** It totally rules the feel when the department chair walks in on my horrible caricature of him, and then does it better than me.
    Perhaps you meant "ruins", but I like it better this way anyway.
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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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    * I may not base my campaign on Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    ** The same goes for The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
    *** Ditto for any of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books
    **** This goes doubly so for any Discworld stories
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    *Proceeds to google "Bride of the Portable Hole", jokingly wondering if it might exist*

    *It does.*

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    *Can't dig a tunnel through a solid rock door with Mountain Hammer and a longsword
    **or any other weapon for that matter.
    ***especially if the room next door contains lava
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    Quote Originally Posted by LordDeathkeeper View Post
    *I may not name my characters words in Draconic that may be easily mispronounced
    **If I do, and the party refers to my eidolon as "Cakes" instead of "Caex" I should try to stop them before he develops confidence issues.
    ***I may not name my character words in Draconic that when put together become a sexual innuendo.
    ****If I do, my character will just have to deal with the FURTHER confidence issues that might arise when his name is mispronounced.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RoyVG View Post
    *Can't dig a tunnel through a solid rock door with Mountain Hammer and a longsword
    **or any other weapon for that matter.
    ***especially if the room next door contains lava
    ****If i want to remove walls, i will ask the drow paladin to stick her head through the wall and check first, then remove the wall.

    *I will not police my party as a paladin
    **I will not enforce said policing by planting their heads in the solid rock floor
    ***I will not completely destroy the BBEG by attacking through solid rock
    ****I am no longer allowed to take underdark Knight and Mystic Fire Knight
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    Quote Originally Posted by RoyVG View Post
    *Can't dig a tunnel through a solid rock door with Mountain Hammer and a longsword
    **or any other weapon for that matter.
    ***especially if the room next door contains lava
    **** Specially while singing "Dig dig a hole".

    * The less references to other games, the better.
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    **** Kamehameha, hadoken, or any similiar with any character that can shoot fireballs, lightining bolts, Eldritch Blasts, or similar, is a free sign for everyone to kill my character. Summarily.
    ***** Any LotR reference is fair play, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roderick_BR View Post
    **** Specially while singing "Dig dig a hole".
    *****Dig a tunnel is right out.
    ******So is Hi Ho.
    *******No more Disney songs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Metahuman1 View Post
    *****Dig a tunnel is right out.
    ******So is Hi Ho.
    *******No more Disney songs.
    ********Chanting "Diglett dig, Diglett dig" will cost me teeth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vasharanpaladin View Post
    ********Chanting "Diglett dig, Diglett dig" will cost me teeth.
    *********However it will cause permanent sanity damage to all in hearing range, regardless of if the system has sanity rules or not.

    *May not run a planescape campaign in The Mad City
    **Or a Don't Rest Your Head campaign in Sigil
    ***Mixing systems and settings is generally frowned upon
    ****Doing so just to mess with players will have the nearest and largest source books put into aerial trajectories towards my head.

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    *unlike in dark souls where it could be a joyous life saving moment, in any cooperative tabletop game I should not shout at the top of my lungs "OH YEA! GET CRIT SON!"
    ** this is doubly so when I'm DMing

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    *********Diggy diggy hole

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    Quote Originally Posted by toapat View Post
    ****If i want to remove walls, i will ask the drow paladin to stick her head through the wall and check first, then remove the wall.
    What?
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    What?
    Underdark Knight grants Earthglide. Thus, a paladin can crudely scout without trace at lvl 12+
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    *at times it is acceptable to insert caracatures of real people into a D&D campaign
    *During our down time it is acceptable for me to run a D&D campaign with the other cadets
    **If any characters are based on the folowing bad things (read as infinite numbers of push ups) will happen to me
    -My Drill Sergeant
    -The Colonel
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    -The Cadet Command
    -Any Current Pollitical Figure

    *I may not reference the fact that Master Sergeant is... OH GOD HE'S RIGHT BEHINNNNNNNNNnnnnnnnnnnnnn........................ ...........

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    *May not dominate the quest giver to pay us before we do the quest.
    **May not dominate the monster to give us it's xp
    ***Talking the monster out of fighting us will not work, and if it did it doesn't count as defeating it in combat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaperMustache View Post
    ...***Talking the monster out of fighting us will not work, and if it did it doesn't count as defeating it in combat.
    Actually, in most games I have been in, that would have counted -- win through roleplay is just as good of a win as combat, though usually results in less loot. Sometimes.

    *Opening spell of polymorph other is frowned upon.
    **Doubly so when the target cannot make saving throw to maintain current identity.
    ***Especially when it is a Troll to butterfly morph.
    ****Cannot then allow anyone to take up entomology as a new hobby.

    *Chain lightning in an enclosed space is a Bad Idea.
    **Doubly so when more than half the party wears metal armor.
    ***Cannot complain when both full plate wearing paladin and cleric won't heal you later in the round.

    *When fighting vampires, tag teaming bless water and create water elemental using the same water source will result in DM face-palms and higher than normal grapple checks.
    **When succeeding in those checks, it is poor form to gloat.
    ***Especially to the boss who sired them.

    Failure to comply with these guidelines gets you what you apparently asked for...
    78% of all DM's start their first campaign in a tavern. If you're among the 22% who didn't, copy and paste this into your signature and tell us where you DID begin.The players were attacked individually on the road on the way to town by werewolves. To survive, they had to team up then and there without knowing anything about eachother (literally -- all character sheets were completed without other players' knowledge).

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    *Batman is an acceptable place to start for a character concept. Bat-Mite, on the other hand, is not.
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    Actually, in most games I have been in, that would have counted -- win through roleplay is just as good of a win as combat, though usually results in less loot. Sometimes.
    Is there any precedent for this? Because that's what I thought too but the DM didn't think it made sense so I dropped it. We play pathfinder.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PaperMustache View Post
    Is there any precedent for this? Because that's what I thought too but the DM didn't think it made sense so I dropped it. We play pathfinder.
    Pretty sure 3.5 DMG covers that, not sure if Pathfinder does tho...
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    *Proceeds to google "Bride of the Portable Hole", jokingly wondering if it might exist*

    *It does.*

    What.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaperMustache View Post
    Is there any precedent for this? Because that's what I thought too but the DM didn't think it made sense so I dropped it. We play pathfinder.
    This type of confrontation was a standard in all our games [AD&D, 3.0, and 3.5; Star Wars (both old d10 and new d20); and Vampire the Masquerade]. I have not played Pathfinder, but I would think that victory is victory no matter how you slice it. And not getting bashed in is a victory. While we might not get the loot we might have had if we had just gone in magic missiles blazing, we usually ended up with an information resource if not a outright ally. Frankly, this was typically worth a lot more than gold or magic items, but that was how we did our games. (Mileage may very.)

    It probably depends on how your GM wants to run the game, but I would find it rather odd if talking my way out of a fight didn't count as a victory. (Of course, we always had skills (or equivalent) that we could base a character personality that was likely to be able to try that.) *shrug* If it bugs you it might be a good idea to talk it over with your GM a bit more to find out what [her] rational is, but it is [his] game and in the end, you will know better next time in either case.

    I wish you luck in figuring it out!
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    78% of all DM's start their first campaign in a tavern. If you're among the 22% who didn't, copy and paste this into your signature and tell us where you DID begin.The players were attacked individually on the road on the way to town by werewolves. To survive, they had to team up then and there without knowing anything about eachother (literally -- all character sheets were completed without other players' knowledge).

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    *High fives are in order when someone scores a critical hit.
    **A contingent major image that makes fireworks go off accompanied by theme music, a sound effect, and someone yelling "critical hit!" is a bit too much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ksheep View Post
    Pretty sure 3.5 DMG covers that, not sure if Pathfinder does tho...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ksheep View Post
    Pretty sure 3.5 DMG covers that, not sure if Pathfinder does tho...
    I've read 3.5 Modules and Pathfinder Adventure Paths, and both award full exp for resolving conflicts peacefully.
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    * When I say I'm going to nerf the dungeon, I can't just replace all the 50' pitfall traps with 10' pitfall traps that have gelatinous cubes at the bottom.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Welknair View Post
    *Proceeds to google "Bride of the Portable Hole", jokingly wondering if it might exist*

    *It does.*

    What.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ksheep View Post
    * When I say I'm going to nerf the dungeon, I can't just replace all the 50' pitfall traps with 10' pitfall traps that have gelatinous cubes at the bottom.
    ** 10' pitfalls with acidic nerf ball look-alikes are right out.
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    *** Keeping the 50' pitfalls but putting large trampolines at the bottom is rather borderline.
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    *Cannot create a character who's life goal is to "eat their way through the Monster Manual"
    **Even if said character does max out their ranks in Profession (cook)
    *The material components for the summon monster spells do not include pokeballs.
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    ***I may not name my character words in Draconic that when put together become a sexual innuendo.
    ****If I do, my character will just have to deal with the FURTHER confidence issues that might arise when his name is mispronounced.
    *My dwarf cleric's name is not Bud the Wiser
    **My halfling rogue's name is not Bud the Light
    ***My elf wizard's name is not Pierre the Wine Snob
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    * When my wizard's clever plan to assault the bandit camp in any way involves fire, I may not be annoyed when the currently-in-a-strategic-hiding-spot PC steals my thunder by thinking of the same thing and going first.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sith_Happens View Post
    * When my wizard's clever plan to assault the bandit camp in any way involves fire, I may not be annoyed when the currently-in-a-strategic-hiding-spot PC steals my thunder by thinking of the same thing and going first.
    **All of my clever plans as a wizard now involve chainlightning
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    Quote Originally Posted by toapat View Post
    **All of my clever plans as a wizard now involve chainlightning
    ***When my plans involve chain lightning, I may not hit the Full Plate wearing Paladin with it, explaining that his armor acts like a Faraday Cage, leaving him unharmed but the outside of his armor charged so he can shock the next person he touches.
    ****If this happens in the final moments of the battle and he kills me with his congratulatory high five, I am not to complain because my plan worked perfectly.
    *You know what DM? I think I'll take your advice and leave the physics out of D&D.

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