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2016-06-22, 06:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
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2016-06-26, 02:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2015
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
*May not "roll up" a new Wizard PC just to cast Spell!
***There is no such spell either!
*****It was not "written up" by Gygax in '79!
******Do not start bringing out old issues of "The Dragon"
******* So'is'y'r'mom'a is not an Elvish name meaning "Soft Autumn Breeze"
********You did not use Tolkien's Quenya language!
**********It's not Sindarin either!
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2016-06-26, 05:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2014
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
* Must not create a beholder with only one HP.
** Upon death, the beholder cannot fly around the room rapidly while deflating with a fffffffffffffffffffffff sound, before flopping ungraciously onto the floor as a flat piece of leather.
*** Cannot use a balloon IRL to simulate the effect.
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2016-06-26, 06:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2013
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- Red Dragon Territory
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
* The correct way of subtly finding out if someone is a vampire is not "Excuse me, sir, are you a vampire?"
** This appplies doubly if I have the ability to read minds.
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2016-06-26, 04:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2015
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- Canada
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
*My character's goal in life is not to bang a celestial.
**Nor is it to happily marry one.
***This goes double if I am a tiefling warlock.
****Triple if my goal is instead to create a half-fiend-half-celestial.
*****Not allowed to then play as that character in the next campaign.
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2016-06-26, 05:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-06-26, 08:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
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2016-06-26, 11:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
* My pokemon trainer cannot be a shameless flirt to all the ladies
** especially if they are themselves female
*** My pokemon team are not my harem
**** I cannot be involved in a love triangle between me, my Gardevoir and my Lucario due to both pokemon having empathic connections to their trainers, especially if they are both female as well
***** Most Especially can't try to use Burst to fuse with both of the above at the same time just to see what would happen.
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2016-07-01, 06:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2015
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- Canada
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
*My backup characters cannot all be siblings of my first one.
**Especially if they all have different alignments.
***No, they cannot all be different races.
*If I roll an 18 and a 3 on a character, not allowed to make a wizard with 3 intelligence and 18 strength.
**Not allowed to roll my ability scores; 17, 17, 17, 18, 18 (that was insane).
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2016-07-02, 04:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2005
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- Terra Ephemera
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
* Okay. Here's the search plan for the dungeon. First, we explore every hallway and map them out to kill any patrolling monsters around and make sure we don't get flanked, BUT we don't open any doors or go into any rooms that the DM has carefully prepared with more intelligent encounters. THEN we'll explore those rooms one at a time, but not touch any treasure, read any books, work out any puzzles, try to answer any riddles, or open any chests. Bonus points for chortling whenever the DM cusses us out for AVOIDING EVERYTHING HE PREPARED. ((No longer allowed to do this. Obviously.))
Last edited by Reltzik; 2016-07-02 at 04:30 PM.
I'm not an evil GM! Honest!
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2016-07-02, 05:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2015
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
*Not allowed to play a mad scientist in D&D
**Even if its the only way i'll play Curse of Strahd
***i rolled a paladin and must stick with people until dead - and accept the party revivle from Jennie even if i desperately want to play a Bladesinger
****not allowed to roll backups until the character is dead....even if i like makeing characters
*If my Marine has a higher social standing then the noble i must have a valid backstory reason
**no 'because i read about something similar in GURPS 'Ground Force' and thought it was cool' is not a valid reason
*** Being a professional Champion for nobles IS a valid reason how ever.....but must ask if that's a -thing- in the subsector the campaign happens in.
*do not need to repeat 'On Target' every minute if we are playing shadowrun.....yes i am playing a sniper with a police background, no it is not so ingrained in the character to do it even though one of the other players gets the joke....the DM doesnt and its annoying.
** do not need to say 'Tango Down' either in fact if they did it in a movie or Rainbow six its Vetoed
*** getting more kills then the street samurai and Drone rigger combined will cause the DM to look at your rifle askance even if he approved it before the run expect your ammo to run out verrrry soon.
did i do that right ? >.>
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2016-07-02, 06:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2011
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- Below sea level
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
*I may no longer use the message cantrip to torture enemies with an hour long "Hey! Listen!"
**If the target gives up after 5 minutes it's considered bad form to look sad...
***If while doing said action my DM asks what my alignment is, I may not answer "True Neutral, als known as Not Giving a ****"
****The fact that it ultimately remained very successful does not make it standard practice.
*****Not to then threathen the DM with a character that is basically Havelock Vetinari during his Grand Sneer if he kills my current one...
******doubly so when the Vetinari Build is basically a Lorebard that's very effective at finding mages and disabeling them.
Oh, and contrary to popular belief these really all happened. I call them Last WednesdayLast edited by Socratov; 2016-07-02 at 06:38 PM.
Warlock Poetry?
Or ways to use me in game?
Better grab a drink...
Currently ruining Strahd's day - Avatar by the Outstanding Smuchsmuch
First Ordained Jr. Tormlet by LoyalPaladin
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2016-07-02, 07:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2008
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
*My alchemist can only throw one bomb in a round
**My cohorts can't throw bombs for himThe gnomes once had many mines, but now they have gnome ore.
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2016-07-03, 02:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2015
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- Canada
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
*May not make a god of bureaucracy.
**No, I am not allowed to play Clark the Clerical Clerk.
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2016-07-03, 02:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-07-03, 02:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2007
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
My Explorator/Chief Enginseer may no longer space 100 crew members on suspicion of possession, even if he was nearly killed by just one possessed auspex operator and they were likely possessed due to proximity to a Chaos Space Marine ship.
Last edited by RelentlessImp; 2016-07-03 at 02:58 AM.
Now if you don't mind, I am somewhat preoccupied telling the laws of physics to shut up and sit down.
I cast irresistable phantasmal killer as a 4th level spell. No save, just die.
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2016-07-03, 03:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2015
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- Everywhere and nowhere
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2016-07-03, 04:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2013
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- H.M.S. Salacia's Favour
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
*Loudly Ahems*
Originally Posted by Encyclopedia Magica, Volume 1, pg. 151
So clearly, you can totally make a beholder with one hp who goes fffffffffffffffffffffff on death."I speak with a voice that will never move others, I speak with a passion that will never be heard." - Kreia, KOTOR II
"I must remind them of the drama of it all." - V, V for Vendetta
Well, what's it goin' tae be, lads? Shall ay fid'le th' fid'le er fid'le yer innards?
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2016-07-03, 06:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2009
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- In my library
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
* May not get annoyed at the Dm throwing a party with only one primary spellcaster against an encounter including four monsters resistant to nonmagical damage.
** Especially when my character spends 3 rounds attacking one of them with no indication that it isn't doing anything ('why didn't you say it didn't flinch on any of my attacks?' 'you didn't ask!'1 ).
*** It's not the well done bait-and-switch I mind, it's the fact that we didn't get any clue as to what they actually were or their capabilities unless we asked them 'did they react to this attack?'
1It might just be because I'm so used to playing with a different GM, but I expect to hear the enemy's reactions if they aren't what's expected, seeing as I've been in a game where an enemy reacted to discovering that I was wearing armour.
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2016-07-03, 08:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2011
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
Warlock Poetry?
Or ways to use me in game?
Better grab a drink...
Currently ruining Strahd's day - Avatar by the Outstanding Smuchsmuch
First Ordained Jr. Tormlet by LoyalPaladin
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2016-07-03, 10:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2009
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- In my library
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
It might also be because I'm used to a very different style of fight. I'm used to being in fights with roughly human enemies where planning can make you win in a round or two, and it's hard to be resistant or immune to anything. Heck, I personally prefer HP totals within the range of a couple of weapon attacks1, so the idea of being able to throw 60+ damage at an enemy, even if only 30 gets through, just rubs me the wrong way.
But yeah, I wasted two turns on attacking an enemy because of the combat equivalent of 'you must roll a spot check whenever you move'. I probably could have taken down one of the ones damaging the Barbarian due to how well I was rolling for damage. I know for some groups what I want might come across as needless handholding, but is 'he didn't seem to notice your crossbow bolt' and 'he flinches at the acid orb, stifling a scream' really that hard.
I mean, I'm bad at this sort of thing. This is why I don't tend to run enemies with inherent resistances, so a character doesn't spend 3 rounds attacking a guy they can't hurt. Also, call me old fanished but if there's 8 enemies then there should not be 4 with at least the hp of the party tank, plus resistance to nonmagical damage (the party was a Greataxe wielding barbarian, a spear using bard1/rogue2 [no combat spells], a tiefling sorceress, and a dragonborn fighter with a heavy crossbow, not a lot of magical damage there).
1Otherwise I prefer a more abstract damage system such as in Legends of the Wulin, where each hit might not cause damage, but does make later hits more likely to, up to taking someone out.
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2016-07-03, 10:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2011
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- Below sea level
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
Warlock Poetry?
Or ways to use me in game?
Better grab a drink...
Currently ruining Strahd's day - Avatar by the Outstanding Smuchsmuch
First Ordained Jr. Tormlet by LoyalPaladin
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2016-07-03, 10:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2010
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- The Pacific Northwest
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
Anonymouswizard you have a valid complaint here, it states in either the DMG or MM (maybe both, can't recall off the top of my head this late after work) that any attack that seems to not deal full damage must be called out as such by the DM or player who received the reduced damage from the attack. It can be as descriptive or vague as you like, but you MUST give some indication that the attack was less effective than it should have been. Rule 0 should not be used to counter this, as it should be something the characters should be able to observe in-universe. The only time it shouldn't be called out is if they have some way to hide the reduced effectiveness, such as illusions that make the wounds appear as normal or even greater than normal (these then have their own problems such as Will saves to disbelieve and vulnerability to True Seeing).
Elxir Breauer, at your service...
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2016-07-03, 11:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2009
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- In my library
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
Yeah, as I said I know that I personally aren't good at this sort of thing, but that's both caused and solved by my staying about a kilometre away from monsters with immunities. What was really weird and annoying is, looking back on it, there were implications of attacks doing full damage, but no implications of attacks doing partial damage. If in real life I'd failed a perception test and just hadn't heard the 'your target didn't flinch' that would be fine, but what really annoys me is the 'you didn't ask'.
I suppose it was my fault as well for being right before the initiative before the enemies acted. It's not like there was much time between 'I rolled a 13 for damage' and 'these guys move here'.
Now, part of it might be bitterness due to the fact that we fought an encounter that took ages where only one character could deal full damage, and was obviously balanced with the intent of having the DMPC along for the ride (which I have complained about to the DM multiple times, and still plan to kill him in his sleep once we leave the kingdom1).
1He's a super-rich druid prince who was originally going to be several levels higher than the party. Oh, and as far as I can tell the story revolves around him. The only reason he isn't dead yet is because the party hasn't forged a will.
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2016-07-03, 01:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2011
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
Warlock Poetry?
Or ways to use me in game?
Better grab a drink...
Currently ruining Strahd's day - Avatar by the Outstanding Smuchsmuch
First Ordained Jr. Tormlet by LoyalPaladin
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2016-07-03, 02:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2009
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- In my library
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
Yeah, no, we basically get a long rest every combat, so no burning of resources (although I still ration my Superiority Dice). The combat was dramatic but had no dramatic tension, it was basically a slog.
Now, it's entirely possible that you're right about what the GM wants, but from what I can tell they want to present hard but fun fights while having no knowledge on how to make them fun (essentially a Combat as Sport encounter with little balance, while half the party prefers Combat as War). Now I've played Combat as War games, and failing to begin with the upper hand can be fun, as can mopping the floor by preparing and luring the enemy into a trap. Here we got to recon and plan, but were only given incorrect information leading to our well excuted being worthless when it should have taken out half the enemy in the surprise round (with a sleep spell that 3 demons failed the save on but ignored, and an improvised grenade which should have wounded the rest), and we were only saved by the prisoners finally deciding to fight (compared to a fight I've played were the police we notified closed off the escape route after we managed to make our enemies flee despite being outmatched).
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2016-07-04, 03:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2014
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2016-07-04, 09:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
* When outfitting my D&D character, I'm not allowed to buy a stiff.
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2016-07-04, 09:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2014
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2016-07-04, 10:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
Okay, so what I'm getting here is that this is not a 3.5 game, so I could be wrong on what I said before. I tend to default my thoughts to 3.5 or Pathfinder, so I've made bad guesses before. If so, I am sorry for the possibly faulty information.
Now for an on-topic contribution to the thread (3.P):
*As DM, may not throw a group of 5+ Phase Spiders against a 4 person party of level 7 characters is I have no intention of killing at least one party member.
**This goes double if the caster in the party is the only one they can grapple and go ethereal with, and the caster is not capable of dealing with casting during a grapple.
***The Half-Minotaur Krynn Minotaur Anti-paladin should most certainly be the tank, but I should reread his Unholy template once in a while before throwing Incorporeal Undead at the party.
****Yes it's my fault that the Sorceror died to the Phase Spider group (6 in this case), even though she was the one to finally make the concentration check to cast a Fireball at point-blank range. (Player had forgotten they did NOT have a Ring of Evasion, and they couldn't have used Evasion in that situation anyway).
*****When throwing random Undead at the party, I should probably not look strictly at the CR in the book and figure they can handle it.Elxir Breauer, at your service...