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2014-08-09, 03:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. (W.Whitman)
Things that increase my self esteem:
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2014-08-09, 07:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
Honestly, considering the excellent BAB that Rangers have, you could easily RP Aragorn by going down the Archery path of Combat Styles and carrying a Bastard Sword for close-range fighting.
Aside from the spells and Animal Companion, the Ranger has a lot of things in common with a Dunedain Ranger from LotR: excellent knowledge of the wilderness and various fauna, specialization in fighting against certain foes(Favored Enemy), and automatically being able to Track all fit really well.
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2014-08-09, 08:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2013
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2014-08-09, 08:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2007
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- Imagination Land
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
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2014-08-09, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2014
Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
We discourage players playing a paladin because its kind of like a third wheel to the party. If a player does something stupid or unrighteous, then the paladin is forced to do justice to him or become fallen. It can derail a story unless the story is built around a holy quest or something like that.
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2014-08-09, 10:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2013
Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
To fulfill your vow, you must not own or use any material possessions, with the following exceptions: You may carry and use ordinary (neither magic nor masterwork) simple weapons, usually just a quarterstaff that serves as a walking stick. You may wear simple clothes (usually just a homespun robe, possibly also including a hat and sandals) with no magical properties. You may carry enough food to sustain you for one day in a simple (nonmagic) sack or bag.Tome of the Holy Grail: Draw power from legendary heroes.|The Dashing Dualist: Two weapons. One happy ending.|The Shifter: Be all that you can be.|The Professional: Mundanes, competent.|The Wuxia Fighter: Mundanes, Wacky.|The Generalist: Do literally everything.
Skill Trick Compendium|Cantrips for Days|Complete Control Revamped: Customize everything.|Bek's Book of Blissful Bewitchment: Who wants to spend their life in a musty cave?
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2014-08-09, 10:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2010
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2014-08-09, 10:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2014
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
One DM banned theability for the Wizard to leave spell slots 'empty' for preparation later or using Uncanny Forethought. At first he tried to tell me that the book said you had to prepare all your spell slots at the beginning of the day, but I showed him he was full of **** and he said it's a house rule then.
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2014-08-09, 10:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2014
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2014-08-09, 11:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2007
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- The Land of Cleves
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
The term "munchkin" far predates halflings being a useful race for anything but a thief.
And it should be noted that "munchkin" is not the same thing as "power-gamer" or "optimizer". A munchkin tries to be a power-gamer, but doesn't necessarily succeed. More to the point is the motivation: A munchkin tries to "win D&D" at all costs, whereas a power gamer might (or might not) be trying to make the game more fun for everyone.
As an illustration, munchkins are likely to take the Monkey Grip feat, or Vow of Poverty, because they're so unbalancingly overpowered. They aren't, of course, but many munchkins think so. And them being overpowered is a reason to take them, not a reason not to take them.Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
—As You Like It, III:ii:328
Chronos's Unalliterative Skillmonkey Guide
Current Homebrew: 5th edition psionics
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2014-08-09, 12:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2012
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- In the Playground, duh.
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2014-08-09, 10:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2007
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- The Land of Cleves
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
Oh, and
Quoth Tvtyrant:
5E is going with a similar concept right now. You would just drop everything's AC by the corespondent BaB to their CR. Balor's with ACs of 17, 15 for a mature adult gold dragon, etc.Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
—As You Like It, III:ii:328
Chronos's Unalliterative Skillmonkey Guide
Current Homebrew: 5th edition psionics
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2014-08-09, 10:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-08-09, 10:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2011
Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
Most people see a half orc and and think barbarian warrior. Me on the other hand? I think secondary trap handler and magic item tester. Also I'm not allowed to trick the next level one wizard into starting a fist fight with a house cat no matter how annoying he is.
Yes I know it's sarcasm. It's a joke. Pale green is for snarking
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2014-08-09, 10:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-08-09, 10:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2011
Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
Most people see a half orc and and think barbarian warrior. Me on the other hand? I think secondary trap handler and magic item tester. Also I'm not allowed to trick the next level one wizard into starting a fist fight with a house cat no matter how annoying he is.
Yes I know it's sarcasm. It's a joke. Pale green is for snarking
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2014-08-09, 10:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2014
Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
That's not really a 4e thing. The level appropriate workday is an invention of third ed.
What 5e is going for is a "Down to earth" world where a level 1 fighter isn't a nonthreat to a level 20 fighter because scaling is miniscule and magic is rare (unless you're a wizard then you get to ignore most of that).
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2014-08-09, 10:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2005
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- PA these days
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
The first game I played, the DM banned Sneak Attacks with any weapon except a dagger.
After talking me into playing a Barbarian/Rogue because the Uncanny Dodge would stack, and totally being into my character forswearing all weapons save axes .Last edited by Seffbasilisk; 2014-08-09 at 10:57 PM.
Life is a gamble, roll the dice. If your life is like cards, rig the deck.
"Boy, sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don'tchya think?" -Jayne
Greatest number of kills In Valhalla Round 1 with Hsams Goht
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2014-08-09, 11:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2008
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- Canada
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
Was it a Dragonlance campaign? Because that's actually part of the setting. He might just be a fan in that case.
That actually sounds kinda fun. Though I speak from the experience of having a friend take over 3 sessions to select all of their feats. (They never did finish selecting their spells either)Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
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Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2014-08-09, 11:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2013
Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
Wait. Didn't I read somewhere that "no feats" is how 5th edition is set up to work?
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2014-08-09, 11:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2007
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
I follow a general rule: better to ask and be told no than not to ask at all.
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2014-08-09, 11:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2014
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2014-08-09, 11:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
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2014-08-09, 11:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2013
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- San Diego
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
My Homebrew: The Shard Knight
The Shard Seeker
Please PEACH!
Apparently, I am Lawful Evil
-19 chaos, 8 evil and 6 balance!
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2014-08-09, 11:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2005
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- Terra Ephemera
Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
I thought it was nonsensical at the time when I joined the gaming group.
Acid. Acid was banned.
All acid effects. All acid energy types. All acid breath weapons. All acid spells. Acid psionic powers. Alchemical acid. All of it. Banned.
Then they realized it was affecting game balance, so they allowed all of it back in. Except it was now required to be renamed "headache juice". So black dragons breathed headache juice. Headache juice didn't melt flesh. It just gave you a headache. But it still, for balance purposes, worked on brainless, headless things like, say, treasure chest hinges. By giving the hinges headaches.
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Turns out one of the core players in the group had a phobia regarding chemical burns. She vividly remembers watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit as a very young girl, and had recurring nightmares about the cute little shoe being lowered screaming into the Dip.
.... er, I'm calling 1-decade rule on movie spoilers.I'm not an evil GM! Honest!
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2014-08-10, 12:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2014
Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
I had a DM ban everything but the "key four" classes and races: Elf, Dwarf, Human, Halfing ... Fighter, Rogue, Wizard, Cleric and everything but SRD materials.
After all, that lets you form the iconic party and makes sure you can't play any of those super munchkiny broken races or classes like Drow or Tieflings or Warlocks or Spellthieves.
It ended up being beneficial though, as one Elven Domain Generalist later he decided to give the other splatbooks he owned another look.Last edited by Anlashok; 2014-08-10 at 12:05 AM.
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2014-08-10, 12:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2013
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2014-08-10, 12:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2011
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- Somewhere south of Hell
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
Man, yeah. I had a DM ban a ring of the darkhidden in an under dark campaign because it was too OP, so I just got permanent greater invisibility.
Pfff.
Originally Posted by Lazarus
Druids are immune to that kind of poison.
No, that's wrong. Neither stupidity nor lack of righteousness requires a paladin to act, and a paladin only falls for intentional evil themselves.
Congratulations, you've just had te same conversation we did six months ago!
It's available for free, so less rumor mongering and more just waitif for people to read it and come to to heir own conclusions, please. If if is indeed bad, they won't need you to tell them. Who knows? Maybe you've missed some gems?
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2014-08-10, 12:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2011
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- Calgary, AB
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2014-08-10, 02:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2014
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