Things I May No Longer Do While Playing VI: This Isn't A Checklist, We Swear!

[Svata]

Svata, your avatar is adorable. Fire elemental or Omnimental?:3

Fire Elemental

[DigoDragon]

* The house cat is no longer allowed to handle any kind of magic wand that could lead to arson.
** The house cat is also forbidden to rack up a higher kill count than the druid and wizard combined.
*** Murdering everyone in a library by arson after absorbing a copy of the book you needed is not a True Neutral act for your cat PC! It's Brainiac with fur and claws!

[unseenmage]

* No longer allowed to use one spell to track every object of monetary value with GPS-like precision.
** Especially not allowed to track everything without monetary value.
*** Using the spell to become an information broker is fine though.
**** No, I'm not allowed to become the CIA.
***** Nor the NSA.
****** And no I'm not allowed to recreate the show Big Brother in a form more true to the phrase.

[iceman10058]

**** Ditto for Inspector Clouseau

***** Nor can I be Inspector Gadget

****** Johny English is also disallowed

******* I may not be Inspector Lestrade, Inspector Gregson, Inspector Hopkins, Watson, or any other character from Sherlock Holmes

******** I may not be Hercule Poirot, Charlie Chan, Guy Noir, Adrian Monk, Eddie Valiant, Ace Ventura, or any other fictional detective, police officer, private eye, or other similar character, regardless of aptitude.

********* sugesting batman will get me shot, as well as robin or nightwing

[GPuzzle]

********* sugesting batman will get me shot, as well as robin or nightwing

********** If I suggest to play any Agatha Christie characters, I'm thrown through the window.

[Fates]

My players are no longer allowed to cast Detect Object to find the nearest lead barrier, in order to find the object hidden by said barrier from such spells.

[Socksy]

My players are no longer allowed to cast Detect Object to find the nearest lead barrier, in order to find the object hidden by said barrier from such spells.

That's genius though! :D

** Cannot cast non-detection spells on the barrier and turn it invisible to watch them all smack into it and laugh, regardless how much my villain loves irony

[Wookieetank]

That's genius though! :D

** Cannot cast non-detection spells on the barrier and turn it invisible to watch them all smack into it and laugh, regardless how much my villain loves irony

***I may not cover the lead barrier with iron sheeting to increase the irony rating.

[Ksheep]

* I may not run a Call of Cthulhu game with Batman, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Tom Riddle, and Dr Who as the PCs
** When the player playing James Bond decides to go with the Sean Connery version of Bond, I should not be surprised when Indy says "You remind me of my father"
*** When Tom Riddle thinks the Doctor is a wizard, and the Doctor thinks Tom is an alien with advanced technology of some sort, it would be best for me to just watch the hilarity that ensues

[Jurai]

**** When Batman solves the puzzle, defeats Riddle before he goes full Voldemort (Don't go full Voldemort), and still goes unseen, I am not to complain.

[masterjoda99]

What exactly constitutes "going full Voldemort"? Does it involve losing your nose?

[Jurai]

Going full Voldemort may cause any of the following side effects: Ophidiphilia, loss of nose, a raspy whispering voice, an inability for other people to properly say your actor's name, being defeated by a seventeen year old kid, overly complicated plans, an inability to be lied to, and hair loss.

[Adoendithas]

********** If I suggest to play any Agatha Christie characters, I'm thrown through the window.

*********** Including the murderers, unless I'm GMing a mystery campaign.

[GPuzzle]

Going full Voldemort may cause any of the following side effects: Ophidiphilia, loss of nose, a raspy whispering voice, an inability for other people to properly say your actor's name, being defeated by a seventeen year old kid, overly complicated plans, an inability to be lied to, and hair loss.

I prefer to go super-psion.

[Ksheep]

* I may not strive to give Murder-Hobos a bad name
** Nor may I strive to give them a good name
*** I may not strive to give Murder-Hobos any sort of name

On a related note, I am no longer allowed to refer to the Adventurers as "Murder-Hobos"… especially in the presence of the King.

[DigoDragon]

Don't go full Voldemort

* Not allowed to experiment in going fractional Voldemort just to cherry-pick how much mort I want before I lose my nose.

[unseenmage]

* No longer allowed to draw smiley faces on the worldmaps of several connected planes of existence by spamming the Precipitate Planar Breach spell.
** No (explative deleted)s either!

[Alex12]

*When the DM says we're going to play a campaign in which we'll be mostly encountering undead, I may not play a necromancer.
**I may not attempt to resolve the "undead problem" diplomatically.
***Nor may I solo encounters that the DM intended to challenge the entire party.

[GPuzzle]

*When the DM says we're going to play a campaign in which we'll be mostly encountering undead, I may not play a necromancer.
**I may not attempt to resolve the "undead problem" diplomatically.
***Nor may I solo encounters that the DM intended to challenge the entire party.

****Aumanator is dead, buried, and I've never heard of him.

(Necessary 4e info to understand that: The Paragon Path Morninglord's level 16 feature is "slap vulnerability 10 radiant when you hit on an enemy with a radiant power, but it requires worshipping Aumanator)

[Socksy]

*When the DM says we're going to play a campaign in which we'll be mostly encountering undead, I may not play a necromancer.

** Playing an evil cleric and/or Dread Lich with a wand of Desecrate is likewise banned.

[Ryu_Bonkosi]

*My first solution to all my problems should not be 20 pounds of plastic explosives.
**The first time is clever, but after that I will have to start explaining where I got it from, and "I made it," is not a good enough answer unless a skill check was involved. Then it's shaky at best.
***My plan for distracting the BBEG is not to burst through the door blasting Rock of Ages as loud as I can, destroying any dramatic tension the DM was trying to create, and just plainly walk up to them and engage them in a monolog. (And yes, I did just watch Season 5 of Supernatural. What ever gave it away?)

[DigoDragon]

*My first solution to all my problems should not be 20 pounds of plastic explosives.

** Not allowed to be a smart-arse and say my second solution is 40 pounds of plastic explosives.
*** Using real-world logic such as burning plastic explosives to cook your food is okay. Using TV logic such as beating a detonator with a rock to set off a nuke is not.

[Slipperychicken]

** Not allowed to be a smart-arse and say my second solution is 40 pounds of plastic explosives.
*** Using real-world logic such as burning plastic explosives to cook your food is okay. Using TV logic such as beating a detonator with a rock to set off a nuke is not.

****Using a bathtub full of explosives to end a campaign, while awesome, is right out.

[Balmas]

****Using a bathtub full of explosives to end a campaign, while awesome, is right out.

*****Filling an ice-skating rink with enough explosives to blow up Hastur, and doing so while blaring the Canadian national anthem in a grand suicidal ploy is both permissible and friggin' awesome.

[Red Fel]

*****Filling an ice-skating rink with enough explosives to blow up Hastur, and doing so while blaring the Canadian national anthem in a grand suicidal ploy is both permissible and friggin' awesome.

****** If any of my characters, for any reason, utters the phrase "'air eh namblies be keepin' me wee men," the campaign immediately ends, and the DM will lose all respect for me, and punch me.

[Loxagn]

*It is considered bad manners to interrupt the villain's monologue with a fit of hysterical laughter.
**Even if what prompted this was the phrase 'I cannot allow you to go any further'
***Even though I just murdered 3/4 of his army to get here.
****Even though he only brought two guys to protect him and he himself is a noncombatant.

[Mrc.]

*I am no longer allowed to interrupt any monologues by mooning the entire room.
**On the incredibly unlikely yet fortuitous event that one member of the group doesn't understand what mooning is, I am not to demonstrate.
***Bearing the above in mind, no more illusionists.

[Socksy]

* Major Creation, Create Water, and Teleport are never, ever allowed to be the three spells in my Spell Sequencer. Ever.

[illyahr]

I prefer to go super-psion.

Read the sig.

[Loxagn]

*It is not professional to flirt with the other running group's troll in front of your principal.
**No matter the size of her gun.

*Taking the Paranoia drawback is a fun roleplaying opportunity.
**Taking a Sleep Regulator implant (which causes paranoia), while amusing, is not necessarily a good idea.
***Taking the Addiction: Jazz (which ALSO causes paranoia) drawback is probably not at all a good idea.
****Especially since Wired Reflexes ALSO makes you twitchy and paranoid.
*****I am to remember that combining these traits in a hypercompetent gunslinger with a nigh-superhuman aptitude for anything with a trigger is very likely to end up with somebody getting shot over a misunderstanding.
******Not allowed to base a character on crippling paranoia again.

*If the character can reliably plant a bullet down another gun's barrel, it's time to retire him.

*No, I am not allowed to commission a fully-automatic assault cannon. Even if it would be hilarious.

*Constructing a 'gun rack' drone that can be worn on my back and hand me guns when I need them is a useful, innovative idea.
**Attempting to make use of the 'arm' drone modification to create a machine to wield all my guns at once will get books thrown at my head.
***Especially if my ridiculous dice pool means I can still hit.