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2014-08-10, 02:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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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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2014-08-10, 05:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
Two of the people in my playing group, as DM, refused to allow choosing your actions on the fly. For some reason they both thought it was ludicrous that, for example, if you chose to full-attack a creature, and it died before you ran out of attacks, that you could then choose to attack a second creature instead. Apparently "no-one can react that fast to switch targets", and you had to stop or use up the rest of your attacks on the corpse. They eventually relented when I looked up the specific rule that says it doesn't work like that, which took me a long time to do because I couldn't believe there'd actually have to be a bloody rule to clarify it.
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2014-08-10, 06:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
If build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day.
If you set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
My Homebrew
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2014-08-10, 06:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-08-10, 06:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
It's also specified in the rules of the game that you can heal a dying creature by drowning them, and 10th-level dragon disciples must be kept away from Complete Warrior lest they ruin reality forever. Some rules are silly.
This rule is also silly, not because it actually represents something which makes no logical sense but because it allows wizards to do pretty much whatever they like so long as you give them 15 minutes to do it in.
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2014-08-10, 11:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-08-10, 11:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
Complete Warrior states that if you ever stop qualifying for a PrC, you lose the benefits. Dragon Disciple 10 turns you into a half-dragon, which changes your type to Dragon. Dragon Disciple has this little prerequisite
Race: Any nondragon (cannot already be a half-dragon).
So Dragon Disciple 10 disqualifies itself from Dragon Disciple, which causes it to lose all DD abilities, which means that it qualifies for DD 10, which disqualifies it, etc.
You are in a perpetual state of both qualifying and not qualifying for the prestige class.I follow a general rule: better to ask and be told no than not to ask at all.
Shadeblight by KennyPyro
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2014-08-10, 12:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
So I know this is supposed to be things we've personally played under, but is anyone familiar with Kevin_Video from BG. He was the only poster and only sane person from a group with the craziest houserules I've ever heard of.
1. Every so often we hop down a generation and everyone has to play their old character's children.
2. It has to be your children not just family members, so all PC's must breed.
3. You can't breed with anything normal, like a human, dwarf, elf, orc, etc.
4. Every generation has to be reflected in the character, nothing can get lost in the genetic soup.
This led to people playing Half-Dragon Half-Medusa Half-Celestial Centaurs with Bloodlines and the normal ECL/LA rules were in effect. Nobody ever leveled and everything that was vaguely challenging oneshotted people.
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2014-08-10, 12:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.
Taken from The Devil's Dictionary
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2014-08-10, 12:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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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.
Shadeblight by KennyPyro
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2014-08-10, 12:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-08-10, 12:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-08-10, 12:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
That was actually eventually the community's recommendation to him. I'm not sure if I started it or if I was the first or second person to ditto it. In this case he was supposed to end the cycle by playing a homosexual or asexual artificer who built a Warforged son.
edit: You know, I think it had to be asexual, since the Dm would hand wave a homosexual couple producing heirs that were genetically both of theirs.Last edited by Hand_of_Vecna; 2014-08-10 at 12:38 PM.
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2014-08-10, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
I imagine that, enough intermingling will either turn all characters into mongrelfolk, or turn them into Golden Bidoofs.
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.
Taken from The Devil's Dictionary
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2014-08-10, 12:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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- In the Playground, duh.
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2014-08-10, 01:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-08-10, 01:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
It doesn't contradict earlier rules so its a new rule introduced in so far as that's how PrC's now work. It will specify when its for specific application (such as polymorph subschool). Alternatively you can argue retraining is only applicable for feats and content from the PHB2 I guess.
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2014-08-10, 01:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
Bad example. Retraining is a new, self enclosed rule that exists in a primary rules book.
The PrC rules exist only in a splatbook (and explicitly don't exist in the primary source on PrCs) and applying them generally causes certain PrCs to break or have redundant qualities.
"This rule that was only in a specific book and causes problems if applied generally is clearly only intended for that book" is far more logical than "Well they never put this rule in the reprinting of core materials and applying this rule broadly causes some PrCs to break, so doing so is both dysfunctional and ignores primary source rules but Nevermind all that it's totally how it works guys" anyways.
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2014-08-10, 02:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
Actually chocolate is poisonous to all mammals (not sure about other clades), humans just have a very high tolerance to it.
I did hear the "lethal dose" (I assume they mean the 50% kill lethal dose) for humans as being about 20lb - simpler just to drop it on someone's head.
I can't think of any stupid bans I have played under - hmm.Last edited by Khedrac; 2014-08-10 at 02:26 PM.
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2014-08-10, 02:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
A friend o' mine was playing in a campaign where lycanthropes were banned for being "furbait"
Just...what?
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2014-08-10, 02:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
Well, if we wanna get technical, every ingestible substance is poisonous, its just a matter of the dosage required. And how fast the body flushes it before it does damage.
More on-topic, I've played in a group with a DM that banned Rogues and almost all item-manipulating mechanics. Because apparently the ability to actually look for traps using game mechanics is too much "roll-playing", and if you wanna figure out the trap's location, you're gonna have to say, in exact detail, how you're trying to look for a trap, and then the DM can fiat whether you find it or not. Same for UMD. You don't just roll to figure out whether you can use it, you have to specifically say what word you say in what language to try and activate it. Gods help you if its a proper noun.
Almost needless to say, random wands found were almost always sold, and "monk trapfinding" (going "screw looking, that's what reflex saves are for") was popular. They later banned any form of non-temporary regeneration or fast healing, as well as binders, because they thought it took all the challenge out of traps (because you could just wait out the damage/ability damage).Avatar by TinyMushroom.
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2014-08-10, 02:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
I can see it, in Old World of Darkness there was a very large furry contingent amougnst Werewolf the Apocalypse players. I've often suspected that Werewolf/Werewolf breeding being a bigger nono in the new werewolf to be a big factor in it's rejection by a large portion of it's playerbase. Not like 100%, I think it was roughly equal parts lack of furbait, missing how OP old werewolves were compared to things from other subsettings, and people that miss the Wyrm/Weaverfluff.
Oh, Old werewolf also sanctioned and even encouraged werewolf on normal wolf breeding which is also a no no is new werewolf. It doesn't cause painful phantom pregnancies that produce monster ghost babies that hate werewolves, but it's still a hefty sin in their morality,Last edited by Hand_of_Vecna; 2014-08-10 at 03:05 PM.
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2014-08-10, 02:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
The ban makes slightly more sense with this picture http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/MM...MM35_PG173.jpg
D&D used to have a Foxwoman monster. I believe Something Awful covered it in the WTF D&D? series.
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2014-08-10, 02:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-08-10, 03:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most nonsensical ban you've played under
Imagine if all real-world conversations were like internet D&D conversations...
Protip: DnD is an incredibly social game played by some of the most socially inept people on the planet - Lev
I read this somewhere and I stick to it: "I would rather play a bad system with my friends than a great system with nobody". - Trevlac
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2014-08-10, 03:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-08-10, 03:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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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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2014-08-10, 03:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-08-10, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-08-10, 03:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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