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2016-07-13, 07:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2015
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
*I'm no longer allowed to buy tarrasque saddles or tarrasque-mounted ballistae.
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2016-07-13, 08:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2010
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- Gridania, Eorzea
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2016-07-13, 04:32 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
* I must have more superpowers than 'the ability to teleport to wherever Jack Black chooses'.
* Cannot offer a PC the power to shapeshift, but everybody knows who they are. Of course they want credit when they turn into a giant lizard and destroy the city.
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2016-07-14, 03:51 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
* My next PC cannot be the tumbleweed from the special ability of a certain cowboy from a certain recent FPS.
** Wait, what is your backstory again?
* Must not create a race of sentient corsets.
** It cannot have male and female individuals.
*** It also cannot have discriminated bisexual and/or intersex individuals.
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2016-07-14, 06:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2008
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- Orlando, FL
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
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2016-07-14, 07:19 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
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2016-07-14, 10:34 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 bemoan the lack of 'Like' buttons on GitP.
** "First dibs" does not mean "Pokémon gets added to the GM's campaign for the PCs to interact with".
*** "Interact with", not "fight" or "capture" or "kill".
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2016-07-15, 08:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2015
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- San Francisco Bay area
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
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2016-07-15, 08:51 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
From my first Tunnels and Trolls game yesterday:
* Cannot name my dwarf rogue 'Urist McHammerson'.
** Especially when it's the other dwarf in the party who wields the hammer, I'm a spear dude.
* Cannot abuse the fact neither of the casters have more than 4 Strength to take all the gold.
* 'Gold gold gold gold gold gold gold gold gold' is not the second most common dwarven adventuring song.
** The most common is not 'don't kill them all before I get there!'.
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2016-07-16, 04:32 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
* The next time my wizard is grappled by a clay golem, I am not allowed to grind play to a halt for ten minutes with a rules debate about whether my gloves of shaping can let me grapple it into another form.
** Can't make my floating disk a pottery wheel.
*** That is NOT what the phrase "saving throw" means.
**** Cannot turn it into a coffee cup and say it got mugged.
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2016-07-16, 05:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2010
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- Gobbotopia
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
Reading this just made me think up a system that would allow this that i should totally implement if i ever DM game.
Everyone has one "Point of awesome" to spend at any time they want. Spending a "Point of Awsome" allows you to perform multiple actions in a row and bend the rules of the game to your whim for a short time, but the effect and result MUST be awesome. To spend a point of awesome you must first state you wish to do so, and once you have the attention of the DM and other players, you may state your plan. (i.e. "i cast spider climb on myself, run up the walls, and jump down onto the dragon casting smite evil upon it's skull as i fall down upon it. I then cast feather falling on myself and drift down to safety as the dragon lands dead behind me, uttering the quip "The bigger they are, the harder i fall." while putting on some cool shades.")
If the DM and other players agree to this, you perform the actions and potentially end the encounter quickly.
To re-gain a point of awesome, you must perform an aw some feat such as the above while adhering to the rules of the game. Spending a point of awesome allows you to do something awesome outside the game rules. Earning a point of awesome requires you do something awesome WITHIN the game rules.
Would require some refinement and most if not all of the party getting along well, but still. Awesome.Avy by Thormag
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2016-07-16, 05:28 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
*If my players cry whenever I say the phrase; 'And he leaps!' I am banned from DMing.
*No more making characters accidentally propose to NPCs, just because they don't know the NPCs culture.
*If the tarrasque is imprisoned in the form of a dog, with all it's normal powers and none of its destructive urge, may not give it to the players as a disobedient pet.
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2016-07-16, 06:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2013
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
I might be peeved at the GM's railroading.
Yes, my character is crazy, and doesn't always care about collateral damage.
Still, playing a relic Malkavian violin in the middle of a busy highway is a bit of an overkill.
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2016-07-17, 07:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2008
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- Orlando, FL
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
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2016-07-17, 12:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2014
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2016-07-17, 12:37 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
*** It most certainly doesn't mean 'attracted to people who have just left'.
* If I don't want my character revealed as bisexual, I should not interrogate both the incubus and the succubus.
** Despite at least a third of the group being bisexual, I cannot play a non-straight character again.
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* My sexuality isn't 'whatevers pragmatic at the time's, 'noncommital shrug', or 'meh'.Last edited by Anonymouswizard; 2016-07-17 at 12:38 PM.
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2016-07-17, 01:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2010
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- Its Complicated
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
*If only one member of the party has a permanent, clearly defined, clearly understood and obvious gender the rest of us will be sent back to come up with new PCs
**The GM is not learning new programs to refer to the party
***At least two members of the party should use the same pronouns
*If more than half the party qualifies as an object we will also be sent back
*The majority of the party should be humanoid at least the majority of the time.
**Opposable thumbs are not optional
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2016-07-20, 12:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2008
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- Orlando, FL
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
* I am henceforth banned from taking jobs by a Johnson to kidnap a child.
** It is entirely unfair to use an ice cream truck for the extraction.
*** No longer allowed to name the truck "Reasonable Penguin".
**** Nor allowed to let the team troll drive said truck while cosplaying.
***** At no point should there be more than one child in the truck!
****** If we find ourselves trying to make more nuyen selling the ice cream than getting paid by the Johnson, we're doing something wrong.
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2016-07-20, 11:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2010
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
This is the part where you quit Shadowrunning and start a job as Snow Crash-style ice cream delivery men.
...Actually, that could be a pretty cool game. You break into high-tech research facilities to sell boxes of top-shelf ice cream to scientists whose corporations haven't given them quality junk food for months, and/or trade for goods that'll let you crack Aztechnology's new ice cream formula months before it'll hit the market. Could be fun.
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2016-07-21, 01:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2014
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
Also spread rumors of various degrees of ridiculousness and make sure to erase as much evidence of the ice cream trucker's presence as possible. If there the only evidence available is hear-say, then nobody in their right mind would believe in your existence. It's the perfect crime.
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2016-07-21, 01:59 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
Last edited by goto124; 2016-07-22 at 07:24 AM.
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2016-07-21, 06:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2008
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- Orlando, FL
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
One of my favorite missions ever was giving the PCs a Macguffin box to deliver to a mafia boss across town, then have every other syndicate and gang come attack the team to steal it. After a crazy night of the strangest encounters found this side of Dude, where's My Car?, the PCs managed to deliver. The box contained a rare collectible pretty pony princess doll the mafia don bought for his daughters birthday.
The players were actually not upset about that. Not that I was allowed to do that stunt again. :3
So much for Reasonable Penguins. ^^;
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2016-07-21, 07:00 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
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2016-07-21, 08:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2012
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
** Pointing out published Tesseract dungeons exist (including Baba Yaga's Hut - the one with a Russian tank in the basement), or the standard use of ethereal as a 2-level direction doesn't help.
It is ridiculously easy to do zone-to-zone (4 and 5 number coordinates), though in-space play gets weird when you try to address how players perceive the extra directions, or if they can.
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2016-07-21, 06:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
Speaking as another player in Reltzik's group, our DM actually does have a system like this. However, Reltzik was all out of points, so it didn't help him this time. The points are mainly awarded when the DM feels like he's railroading us and are supposed to be spent to do cool stuff that the rules don't really cover.
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2016-07-25, 01:32 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
*The thing that stops one of the DM's plans cannot be that a particular character is gay.
*As a DM, not allowed to roleplay Cthulhu anymore.
**Seriously, breaking the fourth wall makes it creepy.
*If everyone greets the warforged by slapping him in the face, kissing him twice on the cheek, and then whispering in his ear, that is fine.
**What is not fine is me physically demonstrating on the warforged's player.
***No matter how much he appreciates it.
****No, it does not 'add to the experience.'
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2016-07-28, 03:02 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
***** The thing that stops all the DM's plans cannot be that two particular players are gay.
* As a GM, cannot allow a player to play a masochist PC.
** Also cannot allow her to investigate other NPCs.
*** Especially when 'investigating' consists of katana-stabbing and crossbow-shooting.
**** When she inevitably kills an NPC+, must not keep the NPC's corpse.
***** Said corpse cannot make an appearance when a second PC of the same player arrives in the same place.
****** Especially not in the exact state it was left in.
******* This PC is a pacifist!
******** Now you've made him upset.
+ When a player announces "my PC takes out a crossbow and shoots the NPC in the left eye", cannot respond with "she shoots the NPC in the right eye instead".
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2016-07-28, 10:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2015
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
Originally Posted by krugaan
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2016-07-29, 01:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2015
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- San Francisco Bay area
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing X: Bard is not a valid choice
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2016-07-29, 03:29 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
* Cannot mention that the killed NPC respawned video-game style.
** Or that the NPC returned to see her own corpse, being mourned by the pacifist PC.
*** Or that the pacifist PC gave advice to the NPC on how not to get killed next time.
The masochist PC I was talking about? She flirted with a different NPC by punching him. He did the most obvious thing - run away