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2012-10-19, 06:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
- A 1995 BMC Mini is a vehicle, not a "two-handed weapon" for a 350-point SM+2 dragon.
- Stop successfully sneak-attacking Magneto with said Mini!!
- Do not make a character solely for the purpose of breaking the combat mechanics. Your character Runs on combat mechanics, so guess what breaks first?
- Don't build a DMPC around a single funny line you heard on an Abridged Anime.
- Don't build a DMPC faerie dragon named "Reggie" to your campaign. It's 2-0 for causing your players to Rage-Quit your campaign.
- Not allowed to play a Cleric of Improvising, Imagination, or Invention dogmas. No one will understand it and the GM assumes it's some joke on Scientology.
- Not allowed to play a heroic character in a Super Hero genre campaign if my base racial trait is "equine".
- If a player pays the points of an unusual background in order to play a spellcaster in your modern GURPS Super campaign, don't having that player constantly meet spellcasters in every town she travels to.
- Do not joke about running a "Star Trek My Little Pony Zombie Apocalypse" campaign. You might just get taken seriously.
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2012-10-19, 07:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-19, 09:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
***if we do it accurately, Ragnaros as converted to 3.5 would have Hit Dice in the low 100s, and somewhere around 10k hp
****No, the Mailman would not help, as Ragnaros has the property that all fire elementals should have, "Healed by Fire"
*****Lava is both Fire and Crushing damage
******This does not mean that WoW raids would make bad dungeons.
*******WoW has, excluding Cataclysm, very good raids and dungeons.My Homebrew: found here.
When you Absolutely, Positively, Gotta Drop some Huge rocks, Accept NO Substitutes
PM Me if you would like a table from my homebrew reconstructed.
Drow avatar @ myself
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2012-10-19, 09:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
Larloch, The Shadow King (w/ Ioun Stones) avatar by Iron Penguin
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2012-10-19, 10:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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- You can't catch me anyhow
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
*When meta-game estimating how much hp a target has, it is in bad taste to describe that number in Magic Missiles.
**In character estimations with Magic Missiles are right out.
***If the only damage a bosss-monster takes is from my Magic Missiles, expect a witch-burning IRL.
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2012-10-19, 11:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
I may under no circumstances research the spell [character name's] Superior Magic Missiles.
It is not a 9th level spell dealing 1d4+1 per missile, 1 missile per caster level with no caster level cap.
Its range of effect is not Long (400 +40 feet per caster level).
It does not bypass spells that normally prevent Magic Missiles.
I may not take Arcane Thesis ([character name's] Superior Magic Missiles).
Rolling 4s on every single d4 of my Sudden Empowered Sudden Maximized [character name's] Superior Magic Missiles is just rude.
Adding Warmage's Edge on top of that will get books thrown at me.Avatar courtesy of Ceika.
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2012-10-19, 11:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
*Just because my opponent has an open wound does not mean I have LoS with his circulatory system
** I may not cast purify food and drink to turn his blood into water
*** Nor may I summon a swarm of ants inside his circulatory system to clog up his veins.
**** I may not be a caster
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2012-10-19, 12:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-19, 05:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2012
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
* I am never to base a character on V.
**No, not even if he is the ultimate rogue.
***I can't get away with this by masking it with other letters.
****"W" the masked rogue will be vetoed on sight, no matter how good his backstory is.Many thanks to Ceika for my Avatar
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2012-10-19, 05:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
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2012-10-19, 10:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
Last edited by Riverdance; 2012-10-19 at 10:23 PM.
Many thanks to Ceika for my Avatar
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2012-10-20, 09:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2011
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- The last place you look
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
Avatar by Venetian Mask. It's of an NPC from a campaign I may yet run (possibly in PbP) who became a favorite of mine while planning.
I am a 10/14/11/15/12/14 LG Clr 2
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2012-10-20, 12:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2012
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
*I may not cary a portal ring so my companion may make point blank range crossbow shots from 3 miles away
**chain lightning is right out
***as is eldrich glave
****No I may not apply sneak attack damage to such a balista shot because "he defiantly did not see that one coming"
*****No ballistas
**Nor may I use a catapult to lob a portal ring over the city wall to brake the siege from the inside
***I may definatley not toss the other ring into the sea to flood the city out.
****A volcano is not an acceptable alternative
*****No more portal rings for me
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2012-10-20, 12:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-20, 10:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
* When the players say they'd like to do one more quick thing before the end of the session, don't have them hear rumors that there is a vampire in the next town over.
** ESPECIALLY when the party has a cleric and a Radiant Servant of Pelor
*** Don't have all the townsfolk cheerfully inform the party that the rumors are true as soon as they arrive
**** Pointing them straight into the ominous castle overlooking the town is frowned upon
***** When the party enters the castle, don't have the vampire sitting right there, amicably chatting with them
****** It really confuses the party when they realize that said vampire is not evil (or at least, is not being detected as evil)
*x7 When, in the course of the conversation, the vampire agrees to help the neighboring town (which consists solely of elves) by providing them with food, it's ill advised for me to snigger at the fact that the vampire agreed to send pork… to the town full of nature-loving elves…
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2012-10-20, 10:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
My Homebrew: found here.
When you Absolutely, Positively, Gotta Drop some Huge rocks, Accept NO Substitutes
PM Me if you would like a table from my homebrew reconstructed.
Drow avatar @ myself
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2012-10-20, 11:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2012-10-20, 11:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
Oh, almost forgot for the above:
*x8 This entire scenario is ESPECIALLY true immediately after said Favored Soul lost enough sanity to make him question the gods and his place in life (even if he had restored his sanity)
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2012-10-20, 11:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
My Homebrew: found here.
When you Absolutely, Positively, Gotta Drop some Huge rocks, Accept NO Substitutes
PM Me if you would like a table from my homebrew reconstructed.
Drow avatar @ myself
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2012-10-21, 12:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
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2012-10-21, 12:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
Last edited by Arbane; 2012-10-21 at 12:31 AM.
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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2012-10-21, 12:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2012
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
Last edited by toapat; 2012-10-21 at 12:42 AM.
My Homebrew: found here.
When you Absolutely, Positively, Gotta Drop some Huge rocks, Accept NO Substitutes
PM Me if you would like a table from my homebrew reconstructed.
Drow avatar @ myself
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2012-10-21, 01:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2005
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- Terra Ephemera
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
* May not use a portable hole as a pit trap.
** May not use a portable hole for prisoner storage.
*** May not use a portable hole as a hiding place for anyone sapient, myself included.
**** May not use a portable hole to contain ammunition heavier than I could normally carry.
***** May not use a portable hole as part of a Disable Device or Open Lock check.
****** May not place a portable hole on my shield.
******* May not use said portable-hole-on-a-shield to catch fireballs, magic missiles, disintegration beams, breath weapons, or anything similar.
******** A portable hole may not be hurled like a Frisbee, and in any event is not vorpal.
********* May not use a portable hole as part of a disarm action.
********** May not invent a sport in which a portable hole is either a goal or a course hazard.
*********** When the enemy stares long enough into the portable hole, the portable hole does not stare back into them.
************ May not use a portable hole as part of a bluff check to file a disability claim.
************* May not use a portable hole to win a drinking contest.
************** I may not use portable holes. And I'm on probation where bags of holding are concerned.
* May not use portable holes to swallow all previous rulings, including the one banning it, and their associated asterisks.I'm not an evil GM! Honest!
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2012-10-21, 10:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
Some of these "rules" are very specific, and seem like maybe they would do better in the Funny Stories thread.
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2012-10-21, 10:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
*I am not to tame a Phase Spider
**I am then not to have it reside in a portable hole
***I am then not to feed it and use its webbing to make more portable holes
****I am not to build my Mage tower inside the portable holes
*****Having a Portable Phase Spider dungeon is also disallowedMy Homebrew: found here.
When you Absolutely, Positively, Gotta Drop some Huge rocks, Accept NO Substitutes
PM Me if you would like a table from my homebrew reconstructed.
Drow avatar @ myself
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2012-10-21, 04:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2012
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
*I may not bluff the paladin that my CE spellthief is the paragon of good.
**Especially if this causes him to fall, and he is bluffed into believing that he did not emulate me enough.Spoiler: Current Character List:
John Smith, Playing in the Dollhouse
Adam of Cyre, Cyre Red
Grok Magmaforge, Iron Crisis
ALADIN, Out of the Abyss
Ileana, Godlings
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2012-10-21, 04:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2012
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
* It doesn't matter if your ratfolk's name is Martin, your sword is not indestructible and grant instant swordsmastery.
** Nor does it if your ratfolk's name is Dandin, Matthias, Mattimeo or Luke.
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2012-10-21, 06:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
It's a little early but I thought of a name for the next thread:
Things I May No Longer Do While Playing V: Make Any Mention Of Pelor Or His Alignment. Ever.
*** If my badgerfolk's war cry is "Eulalia" I'm getting sued for copyright infringement.
****No he does not live in an inactive volcano.
*****I may no longer play badgerfolk
******Badgerfolk no longer exist.Many thanks to Ceika for my Avatar
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2012-10-21, 07:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-21, 08:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing IV: The Decanter of Endless Bad Ideas
*Badgerfolk automatically have a 100ft aura of empathy
**Badgerfolk may not be be True Neutral
***Eating snakes automatically poisons you with Godsblood
****You can never make the saveLast edited by Arcanist; 2012-10-21 at 08:54 PM.
Larloch, The Shadow King (w/ Ioun Stones) avatar by Iron Penguin