Things I May No Longer Do While Playing XI: I May Not Postpone Naming My Thread

[Personification]

*If I am a GOO Bladelock, my pact weapon may not be named Mind Screwdriver
** Especially if it is a screwdriver
***It may not be a screwdriver
****Rock Gnomes' tinker tool proficiency does not make them automatically proficient in mind screwdrivers
*****I am no longer allowed to play D&D

[Guizonde]

Personal experience here--Spanish is one of those languages that's easy to learn curse words from.

i know! unfortunately for her, she grew up on the ivory coast, so she doesn't have the local knack for speaking either the local dialectals of occitan, catalan or spanish. much to my dm's chagrin, about half of the group does have this knack.

*"va t'en cagar a la vinha et porta me la clau" does not translate to "have a nice day" in dwarven, despite sharing the sentiment.
**last time i'm allowed to play a character with 4 languages.

[Potato_Priest]

*If I am a GOO Bladelock, my pact weapon may not be named Mind Screwdriver
** Especially if it is a screwdriver
***It may not be a screwdriver
****Rock Gnomes' tinker tool proficiency does not make them automatically proficient in mind screwdrivers
*****I am no longer allowed to play D&D

Fortunately, pact of the blade does make you proficient in mind screwdrivers as long as they're your pact weapon.

[Personification]

Fortunately, pact of the blade does make you proficient in mind screwdrivers as long as they're your pact weapon.

Well yeah, but not if I can't make it a pact weapon

*My character concept for a D&D character cannot be "What if Vin were also a Knight Radiant with infinite stormlight?"
**Especially if my class is monk
***May not name my refluffed Bladelock "Szeth-son-son-Valano"
****The Cosmere is not an approved D&D sourcebook

[2D8HP]

* Drow in space are still not word elves.

*ahem*

Did someone say "Drow in Space"?

The 1981 science-fiction novel "Forerunner" by Andre Norton, who also wrote "Quag Keep" which was the first D&D novel (she had played at Gygax's table), featured a character that has a Drow appearance



Anyway here's a link on

Forerunner

* 2D8HP is no longer allowed to speak sentences that begin with "That reminds me..." at the gaming table.

[DeTess]

*My character concept for a D&D character cannot be "What if Vin were also a Knight Radiant with infinite stormlight?"
**Especially if my class is monk
***May not name my refluffed Bladelock "Szeth-son-son-Valano"
****The Cosmere is not an approved D&D sourcebook

*****May not point out to the DM that using the Cosmere as a source-book instead of the standard D&D magic system results in a far more balanced system.

Speaking of which:
*A character can't have his own gravity-field.
**Not even if he's an Iron-ferring.
***No, even an iron compounder can't manage that.

*I should not have a minor mental breakdown when a player burns trough a year's worth of stored Connection while on top of a Perpendicularity.
**If I'm not willing to have to (come up with and) deal with the consequences of that, I should not set up a situation in which it is the most logical thing for said player to do.

[Anonymouswizard]

*ahem*

Did someone say "Drow in Space"?

The 1981 science-fiction novel "Forerunner" by Andre Norton, who also wrote "Quag Keep" which was the first D&D novel (she had played at Gygax's table), featured a character that has a Drow appearance



Anyway here's a link on

Forerunner

At least it's not CthulhuTech.

* May not mention CthulhuTech.

*****May not point out to the DM that using the Cosmere as a source-book instead of the standard D&D magic system results in a far more balanced system.

Speaking of which:
*A character can't have his own gravity-field.
**Not even if he's an Iron-ferring.
***No, even an iron compounder can't manage that.

*I should not have a minor mental breakdown when a player burns trough a year's worth of stored Connection while on top of a Perpendicularity.
**If I'm not willing to have to (come up with and) deal with the consequences of that, I should not set up a situation in which it is the most logical thing for said player to do.

I'm now trying to remember how connection works in the Mistborn RPG. But a year's worth, assuming a starting Ferring that would be (365.25*24*4=)35064 Charges of connection. That's over three hundred and fifty standard metalminds of charges (there's a reason the book suggests not running Feruchemy at maximum capacity).

And while Allomancy gets a lot of love, Feruchemy is really the more balanced (against itself, if given storing time it dominates everything) and interesting system, especially when split into Ferrings. Allomancy is actually intentionally unbalanced and not even the variable burn times truly finish (as you can start and stop effectively at will). Tin burns for hours compared to minutes for pewter, but you don't have to burn pewter constantly outside of combat.

[Personification]

*****May not point out to the DM that using the Cosmere as a source-book instead of the standard D&D magic system results in a far more balanced system.

******When the DM inevitably argues that KR are OP, I may not point out that Vasher and Nightblood are probably the scariest people on Roshar, that there is a relatively easy Aon that basically replicates the spell flame strike at a high level, or that Vin literally jumped in the air holding a sword larger than she is tall and then bisected someone with the sword half a mile from her starting point when she landed
*******Also, Bands of Mourning
********May not use replying to people as an excuse to talk about literary awesomeness
*********Not even when that awesomeness is a magnetically-powered leap of bisection

*A character can't have his own gravity-field.
**Not even if he's an Iron-ferring.
***No, even an iron compounder can't manage that.

****May not bring up reverse lashings

*May not derail thread by referencing an amazing book-universe thing

*May not be Hoid

[Lord Raziere]

* When being judged to go to heaven or hell, I may not greet the judge with a "whazzzzzaaaaaaaaap?"
** Upon the judge asking "what do you have to say for the things you've done in your life?" My response may not be "The Aristocrats!" no matter how good or bad I've been.
*** May not insist the judge send to me to hell so that I can fight evil people and take their stuff forever because I'm adventurer and thus would be my form of heaven.

[Socratov]

i really wish i'd thought of that sooner for my current character!

*no more cursing in spanish to avoid teaching the cleric new bad words.
**only allowed to curse in a language the dm can understand.
***may not ask the paladin's player to teach me the rudiments of his occitan (béarnais) and in exchange i'll teach him my gascon so we can both annoy the dm.

I'd like to point out that learning to curse in multiple languages is actually a good thing and promotes innovative self-expression of anger...

As for Spanish, as far as I have been taught it's not much more then "Io a mierda á [list of things you would take a dump on]"

[GrayGriffin]

* Not allowed to glomp the serial killer because I thought he was my adoptive older brother.
** ...who is also a serial killer.
*** He works as an adventurer now technically.
**** Glomping random people due to mild resemblances is still a bad idea.

[PhoenixPhyre]

*** May not insist the judge send to me to hell so that I can fight evil people and take their stuff forever because I'm adventurer and thus would be my form of heaven.

I actually have a faction (of paladins, even) in one of my settings who are based around a mild variation of this--they have all committed unforgivable sins and know they're damned. So they do all the dirty work here so no one else has to get tainted and train so when they go to the Hells they can kick the doors down from the inside and slaughter some fiends in their home lands where it will last.

[Rater202]

* Not allowed to glomp the serial killer because I thought he was my adoptive older brother.
** ...who is also a serial killer.
*** He works as an adventurer now technically.
**** Glomping random people due to mild resemblances is still a bad idea.

*****In general, maybe don't hug serial killers.
******No matter how cute or cuddly looking they are.

[DigoDragon]

I'd like to point out that learning to curse in multiple languages is actually a good thing and promotes innovative self-expression of anger...

And gets past the censors.


* Banned from casting Pumpkin Spice flavored magic missiles.
** It is Boccob the Uncaring, not Boccob the dude that doesn't give a flying flip.

[Personification]

*May not cause an Elder Brain to have an existential crisis by convincing him that he might NOT be a brain in a jar

[Guizonde]

*if my idea causes an alignment change in the dm, it's veto'd.
**if my plan c is everyone else's "godzilla threshold", i'm to tone down the overkill.

[Personification]

*if my idea causes an alignment change in the dm, it's veto'd.
**if my plan c is everyone else's "godzilla threshold", i'm to tone down the overkill.

***May not name my animal companion, familiar, steed, etc. Godzilla Threshold

[Guizonde]

***May not name my animal companion, familiar, steed, etc. Godzilla Threshold

****naming your rock band "godzilla threshold" is right out.
(no, seriously, it's considered copyright infringement)

[Personification]

****naming your rock band "godzilla threshold" is right out.
(no, seriously, it's considered copyright infringement)

*****May not get around copyright by interpreting "Rock Band" to mean "band of Rock Gnomes"

[Lord Raziere]

* May not dress up for "Reverse-O-Ween" while on Halloween
** May not wait at my house with an empty bowl to take candy from children to fill up my own while proclaiming "Treat or Trick!" while on "Reverse-O-Ween."

[Personification]

*May not use the pseudodragon to make a pseudo- template that turns high CR monsters into cute 1/4 challenge rating versions of themselves
**This is not a pseudoCthulu (Thanks JAL_138 for posting this image earlier in the thread)

***It is also not what happens when someone puts an Illithid tadpole in a pseudodragon's ear

[Mith]

*****In general, maybe don't hug serial killers.
******No matter how cute or cuddly looking they are.

*******Unless it is your cat. Always hug your cat.
********Unless they don't want to be hugged. Since they are cute, cuddly serial killers.

(Perhaps if I am in a whimsical mood next time I play a one shot, I'll do a CE Tabaxi Frenzy Barbarian named Fluffy Destroyer of Worlds)

*As a level 20 adventuring party, may not take a group of orphans along to the epic final showdown to give them a rapid multi-level boost.

**May not make the traumatized, now significantly more powerful orphans the next campaign's PCs.

[Fable Wright]

******When the DM inevitably argues that KR are OP, I may not point out that Vasher and Nightblood are probably the scariest people on Roshar, that there is a relatively easy Aon that basically replicates the spell flame strike at a high level, or that Vin literally jumped in the air holding a sword larger than she is tall and then bisected someone with the sword half a mile from her starting point when she landed

*******May not wonder why you're playing D&D instead of Exalted.

* May no longer give cybernetic characters accents by rapidly typing up what they're going to say on my phone and just read out the autocorrected garble.

[DigoDragon]

* May no longer give cybernetic characters accents by rapidly typing up what they're going to say on my phone and just read out the autocorrected garble.

** This is once verbosely more resume it'd die alien raves that don't soak English.

[Personification]

(Perhaps if I am in a whimsical mood next time I play a one shot, I'll do a CE Tabaxi Frenzy Barbarian named Fluffy Destroyer of Worlds)

*May not do this and have Fluffy the Destroyer team up with the LE Storm Sorcerer Stormaggedon, Dark Lord of All
**One cannot receive class levels before their first birthday

*******May not wonder why you're playing D&D instead of Exalted.

I only play D&D 5E, and I'm not well versed in gaming in general other than this, so I don't know what that is. Those were all book references.

[Katrina]

Because in Exalted, that's Tuesday. In D&D, it makes your GM reexamine his life. ;p

Also, everytime I vote for Exalted in my group I end up playing my second favorite game.

* [Mutants and Masterminds] no longer allowed to play an Alien with the "doesn't understand humanity" complication.
* That goes double for human super geniuses.
* Despite how in theme it is, my session in the "pass the hat" gming should not involve my tech genius's a.I. sidekick 's evil dimension clone showing up and demanding a husband all "Frankenstein's bride" style.
* Especially if the genius's only protest is that "gender is only a social construct for machines!"

[Fable Wright]

I only play D&D 5E, and I'm not well versed in gaming in general other than this, so I don't know what that is. Those were all book references.

I am well aware of the Brandon Sanderson references. Exalted 3e is a game where the PCs basically start as full Mistborn. The Bands of Mourning are a very easy conversion, Flamestrike is a spell most starting characters can cast if they want to, and bisecting someone from half a mile away is pretty much a standard stunt.

[Lord Torath]

* I may not have my ally spirit Manifest under the desk of the security guard and Stunbolt him or her into unconsciousness.
** I may not not teach my ally the Computer skill to allow it to deactivate the security cameras and door locks.
*** I may not have a higher Computer skill than the decker.
**** I may not teach my ally spirit the Car skill to allow it to hijack the truck with the McGuffin in it (after Stunbolting the driver).
***** I may not summon an ally spirit with the intention of having it sit back in my workshop making Orichalcum all day.
****** I may not summon an ally spirit. Period!
******* I may not use the Fashion spell to make our Millitary-Grade Heavy Armor look like thermal underwear and the helmets like ski caps.
******** I may not use Turn Target to Goo to steal the cyberware from our opponents to sell on the Black Market.
********* I'm no longer allowed to play a mage in Shadowrun!

[DeTess]

* I may not have my ally spirit Manifest under the desk of the security guard and Stunbolt him or her into unconsciousness.
** I may not not teach my ally the Computer skill to allow it to deactivate the security cameras and door locks.
*** I may not have a higher Computer skill than the decker.
**** I may not teach my ally spirit the Car skill to allow it to hijack the truck with the McGuffin in it (after Stunbolting the driver).
***** I may not summon an ally spirit with the intention of having it sit back in my workshop making Orichalcum all day.
****** I may not summon an ally spirit. Period!

*******Basing a character on Angel Summoner is a bad idea in a world that assumes everyone is a BMX bandit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFuMpYTyRjw

[DigoDragon]

********* I'm no longer allowed to play a mage in Shadowrun!

Did you teach a water spirit to drive a car? Cause you're missing out if you haven't ;)

Yeah, i'm not allowed to do that anymore. It didn't end well. XD