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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
*I may not give my character the flaw 'believes he is always right.'
**Or 'believes he is smarter than everyone else.'
*** 'Incapable of talking to woman unless drunk' is right out.
**** 'Impulsive pervert' is just weird.
***** I am to stop basing character flaws off of big bang theory.
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
*If I base a character off of the Harry Dresden novels, it may not be the giant necromantic monster.
**Or the plant monster.
***Or the wolf monster.
****In fact, for now on, I must roleplay humanoids only.
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* I am not to base characters off of Edgar Allen Poe's writings
** Or Steven King
*** If I need to pull out a Lovecraft novel to explain what something looks like, I am to gracefully retire into using nothing but gnomes.
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
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* I may not base a character on Captain Jack Sparrow.
* I may not base a character on Edward Scissorhands.
* I may not base a character on Barnabus Collins.
* I may not base a character on the Mad Hatter.
* I may not base a character on Sweeney Todd.
** I may never watch a Johnny Depp movie again.
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
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Originally Posted by Jay R
* I may not base a character on Captain Jack Sparrow.
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did this once, it was hilarious. I played him as a dread pirate (with some cocktail of classes to start with), I was put into decisions pertaining a pirate's refugee island and defending that against the armada of a thrane (In Eberron) and needless to say it was a great success! At some point I was like:
"Where is the enemies admiral! I want to slice and dice him up too (like I had just done)!"
at wich my DM says: "you remeber that exploding ship? Well his hat is jsut now floating right beside your boat..."
me: "Soooo... No slicing and dicing?"
DM: "nope."
me: "Aw shucks!"
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
* I may not build a druid where a single class feature I have will invalidate two party members at once.
** Especially if I have to gimp my feats to avoid doing so.
*** Even if it is far too easy.
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
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Originally Posted by Acanous
Please elaborate.
I know of one acronym I use often in futuristic RPG's, C.A.T.S. (Command and Tactical Support, a unit designation) and a C.A.T.S. M.E.O.W. is just too good to pass up.
It is a poor acronym, I'll admit, but it was Mechanized Energy-sufficient Man-operated Weapons platform. More or less M.E.O.W.
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
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Originally Posted by planswalker
sorry, but no. It is MESMOWP... dropping half your words in an acronym is very bad form...
But reasonably common anyway. There is no clear rule that they are always exact initialisms.
"Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation": LASER or LABSEOR?
"Radio detection and ranging": RADAR or RDAR?
"Completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart": CAPTCHA or CAPTTTTCAHA?
"Special executive for counter-intelligence, terrorism, revenge, and extortion": SPECTRE or SEFCITRAE?
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*Even though I'm playing Nobilis, I may not play an acronym
**Or a present participle, should I feel inclined
***Especially not if I'm the Power of Grammar and Syntax
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
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Originally Posted by Jay R
But reasonably common anyway. There is no clear rule that they are always exact initialisms.
"Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation": LASER or LABSEOR?
"Radio detection and ranging": RADAR or RDAR?
"Completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart": CAPTCHA or CAPTTTTCAHA?
"Special executive for counter-intelligence, terrorism, revenge, and extortion": SPECTRE or SEFCITRAE?
Exactly my thought-process, and besides, it was for a joke character, so I didn't really mind that the acronym sucked.
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
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Originally Posted by Jay R
But reasonably common anyway. There is no clear rule that they are always exact initialisms.
"Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation": LASER or LABSEOR?
"Radio detection and ranging": RADAR or RDAR?
"Completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart": CAPTCHA or CAPTTTTCAHA?
"Special executive for counter-intelligence, terrorism, revenge, and extortion": SPECTRE or SEFCITRAE?
* I must refrain from creating a campaign centered around killing the morons who came up with the above acronyms...
** Especially those who skip at least 2 letters in a row to make it
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*I may not put profession(economics) on my sheet and put ranks in it (neither craft or perform)
*I may not make use of my insights into the world economy irl to wreck the economy in game and get filthy rich (say getting wbl at 3 times the speed)
**I may nog teach anything in in any DnD campaign
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
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*I may not put profession(economics) on my sheet and put ranks in it (neither craft or perform)
*I may not make use of my insights into the world economy irl to wreck the economy in game and get filthy rich (say getting wbl at 3 times the speed)
**I may nog teach anything in in any DnD campaign
But... Pointing out the flaws in the economy of a world where vast quantities of treasure are buried deep below the ground and then brought back without the markets of precious metals collapsing is the best part!
***Knowledge (Economics), while a reasonable sounding and believable skill, will never confer any bonuses upon your character.
****Nor will Knowledge (Physics), Knowledge (Chemistry), Knowledge (Climatology) or Knowledge (Biology).
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
* May not use a combination of feats and quirks of item creation to make an item for only 22.5% of the normal cost.
** May not argue that several of the discounts stack, actually knocking the total cost to 17.5% of the normal cost.
*** May not fudge the math and insist that you're actually making the item for 5% of the normal cost.
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
*I may not play an inanimate object
**Just because certain previously inanimate objects can be animated does not mean I should play one.
***If I can reanimate broken animated object I am not to play an undead animated object.
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
As a player:
*I may not have access to the maximize spell feat
**I may not have access to the empower spell feat
***I may not have access to any metamagic feats
****I may not have any metamagic rods, either
As a DM:
*The pyroclastic dragon may not use heighten breath
**Said pyroclastic dragon may not heighten it's destruction breath to a DC such as that the breath will take several years to recharge
***I may not use the Dracinomicom
*I also may not use Heroes of Horror
**Or any issues of dragon magazine
***I may only use the core 3 rulebooks
****I may not use the players handbook or DMG
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