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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
lol, wow, your players need to learn to not get so attached to their characters.
* I may not, as a mid-20's college male, set my campain in a world I homebrew in extensive detail based on a popular female-targeted tv series I am a rabid fan of in order to try to attract girls to my group.
** Doing so in order to give myself and my heterosexual male friends and I a chance to write our own self-insert fanfiction is sad and pathetic, but allowable.
*** Not keeping the above rated pg-13 or nicer is banned, however.
**** Doing point 2 in a group that's already gender-mixed may be acceptable, provided I'm not just doing it in order to impress my crush.
***** Better yet, pretend this post doesn't exist. I am not allowed to base my campaigns on any tv show. Just to be safe.
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
lol, wow, your players need to learn to not get so attached to their characters.
* I may not, as a mid-20's college male, set my campain in a world I homebrew in extensive detail based on a popular female-targeted tv series I am a rabid fan of in order to try to attract girls to my group.
** Doing so in order to give myself and my heterosexual male friends and I a chance to write our own self-insert fanfiction is sad and pathetic, but allowable.
*** Not keeping the above rated pg-13 or nicer is banned, however.
**** Doing point 2 in a group that's already gender-mixed may be acceptable, provided I'm not just doing it in order to impress my crush.
***** Better yet, pretend this post doesn't exist. I am not allowed to base my campaigns on any tv show. Just to be safe.
****** The above goes double when said female-targed TV series is aimed at pre-teens and young teens…
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*Proceeds to google "Bride of the Portable Hole", jokingly wondering if it might exist*
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
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sorry, but no. It is MESMOWP...
Well, my cats often say "mesmowp"...
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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?
The problem with this is that (1) it's okay to drop the little words, like "and" or "by", and (2) it's also okay to use multiple letters from one word if your acronym would be unpronounceable.
So LASER, RaDAR, and SPECTRE actually follow the rules, since "counter-intelligence" is one word. CAPTTTCHA, however, does have a problem.
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Well, my cats often say "mesmowp"...
The problem with this is that (1) it's okay to drop the little words, like "and" or "by", and (2) it's also okay to use multiple letters from one word if your acronym would be unpronounceable.
So LASER, RaDAR, and SPECTRE actually follow the rules, since "counter-intelligence" is one word. CAPTTTCHA, however, does have a problem.
* I may not derail threads with technicalities.
If you are counting the compound word "Counter-intelligence" as one word, then you should also count the compound words from the original MEOW as single words as well. You can't have it both ways.
** I MAY NOT derail threads with technicalities.
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*Proceeds to google "Bride of the Portable Hole", jokingly wondering if it might exist*
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
* No matter how Ironic it is, the party - after going chaotic stupid in the last town - may not run into a party of higher leveled characters murdering everything for fun...
** No justification exists for a chotic stupid paladin that will prevent its fall
*** not even that
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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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If you are counting the compound word "Counter-intelligence" as one word, then you should also count the compound words from the original MEOW as single words as well. You can't have it both ways.
** I MAY NOT derail threads with technicalities.
Technically I never made a judgment on the validity of MEOW.
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
I may not ask for a quiet corner in the Temple of Pelor to cast Desecrate to boost my Animate Dead spell. They will be upset with me, even though we're ostensibly on the same side.
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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 ask for a quiet corner in the Temple of Pelor to cast Desecrate to boost my Animate Dead spell. They will be upset with me, even though we're ostensibly on the same side.
** In Aldhaven, their only problem with that would be that you're a rogue necromancer and didn't pay them their cut first.
*** I am not allowed to present my players with concise evidence why Pelor, in every instance that doesn't explicitly state him to be good show him as a jerkass at best, ultimate evil at worst.
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** In Aldhaven, their only problem with that would be that you're a rogue necromancer and didn't pay them their cut first.
*** I am not allowed to present my players with concise evidence why Pelor, in every instance that doesn't explicitly state him to be good show him as a jerkass at best, ultimate evil at worst.
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
*If I am to fake a party member's death in front of their enemies, I must first acquire their consent.
**This does, in fact, require me to inform them of my plan.
***Especially when the plan is to hold them underwater until they stop kicking.
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
As a DM:
*If you call for an unnecessary spot check to heighten tensions, you can expect that a natural 20 will be rolled.
**Thou shalt have a good poker face when the PCs interpret the subsequent "You don't see anything" as "Egads, something invisible, kill it with all your high level spells."
***Be consistent. Thus, you can now expect your PCs to cast Glitterdust on a torch to make a gout of flame at least once per session.
(Yay for the most recent gaming session!)
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As a DM:
*If you call for an unnecessary spot check to heighten tensions, you can expect that a natural 20 will be rolled.
**Thou shalt have a good poker face when the PCs interpret the subsequent "You don't see anything" as "Egads, something invisible, kill it with all your high level spells."
***Be consistent. Thus, you can now expect your PCs to cast Glitterdust on a torch to make a gout of flame at least once per session.
(Yay for the most recent gaming session!)
Ah, the number of times such things have happened to my poor DM'ing self...
****If we roll opposed rolls for Spot and Hide, and I roll a 2 while the player rolls a 20 and the player still fails, I am legally allowed to be shot.
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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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Ah, the number of times such things have happened to my poor DM'ing self...
****If we roll opposed rolls for Spot and Hide, and I roll a 2 while the player rolls a 20 and the player still fails, I am legally allowed to be shot.
* If the player is in the Aldhaven docks district at night, their subsequent death to knives in the dark is 100% justified.
@V We did warn everyone in Aldhaven to stay out of the Docks at night. If you ever read the obituaries post, we point out explicitly those who died in the docks... at night...
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
Similarly, if I am told, "stay out of (insert place here)" and the first thing I do is go there, I will be rolling a new character. Preferably with a higher Wisdom score.
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*In Star Wars games, I am not to confuse my party members by creating a Sith with more ethics than their Jedi.
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Wow! Not only was that awesome, I think I actually kinda understand Archeron now. If all the "intermediate" outer planes got that kind of treatment, I doubt there would be anywhere near as many critics of their utility.
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*In Star Wars games, I am not to confuse my party members by creating a Sith with more ethics than their Jedi.
** The sith thats has been hunting the party may not be doing so out of concern for the people and to stop these super-powered marauders before they destroy a planet. it's just wierd*
* gotta love the fact that the difference bwteen light/dark side is the emotions/attitudes they draw power from, not what they do with it...
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*If my characters first action is to attempt to find a brothel, I am to expect it to be below my characters standards and above his price range.
** Unless the DM is feeling very, very cruel - whereas the brothel is cheap, high class, filled with lovely men and ladies of all species and specifications...which will all turn out to be level draining succubi.
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
If my character's main motivation is to find the people who massacred his village, his first action upon finding those people should not be to congratulate them heartily and sincerely.
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