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Old 07-23-2012, 09:23 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1021
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*I am not only mostly dead.
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Old 07-23-2012, 09:55 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1022
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**Even when at -9 hp. Saying something like this even by accident will result in lightning strikes.
***Being indoors be damned.
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Old 07-23-2012, 10:00 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1023
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*I am not only mostly dead.
Definitely going to have to make a healer who says this now…

* My cleric with a lisp can no longer officiate any church events.
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*Proceeds to google "Bride of the Portable Hole", jokingly wondering if it might exist*

*It does.*

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Old 07-23-2012, 10:03 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1024
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Even if I am the Lord of the area we are in, my barbarian with 5 charisma still has to have the party Bard write my speeches.

If I am the party Bard, someone else has to write my speeches still.
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Old 07-23-2012, 10:54 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1025
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*Inventing a weapon that involves infants in any possible way is wrong.
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Old 07-24-2012, 01:11 AM   Top  -  End  -  #1026
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*I am not only mostly dead.
**Unless the party cleric has revivify prepared.
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Old 07-24-2012, 01:16 AM   Top  -  End  -  #1027
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My half-dragon my no longer shout "HALT! I AM REPTAR!" before using his breath weapon.
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Old 07-24-2012, 02:22 AM   Top  -  End  -  #1028
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** No, not even if I am wearing a Hat of Disguise and a multicoloured scarf.
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Old 07-24-2012, 09:33 AM   Top  -  End  -  #1029
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  • My druid may not develop a theory of evolution, no matter how many ranks in Knowledge (nature) he has.
  • Nor may he cast Genesis and create a demiplane with accelerated time to test said theory.
  • Depending on what selection pressures are present, millions of years of accelerated evolution may not produce a stronger monster.
  • On the off chance it does, I may not create hundreds of demiplanes in order to acquire new Wild Shape forms.
  • Inspire Courage does not use power metal lyrics.
  • My bard may not imbue his guitar with a permanent Haste effect and start a band called Dungeonforce.
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Old 07-24-2012, 10:15 AM   Top  -  End  -  #1030
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**Unless the party cleric has revivify prepared.
*I am in any event forbidden from using Suggestion to tell the party cleric to change his name to anything with the words "Miracle" and "Max" in it.
* I am also forbidden from achieving godhood for the stated purpose of "appointing the party cleric Pope so I can contradict all his dogma".
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Old 07-24-2012, 03:15 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1031
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* If the game system does explicitly have the souls of the powerful ferried from their body by the Grim Reaper, I may not bluff him into believeing I'm still alive after dying
** Nor can I bluff him itno believeing the other guy is dead
*** The annoying halfling party member is right out

* If the game we're playing requires each character to have a rival, my rival may not be any of the following; imaginary, a housecat, a great wyrm black dragon polymorphed into a housecat, the person who killed my father, may father, my evil self, the DM
** I may not forget who my rival is and thus, upon meeting him, dismiss him as a random mook
*** Even if he did fall in one turn.
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Old 07-24-2012, 05:31 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1032
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* I'm no longer allowed to have an Elan Swordsage named Sean Connery with a katana.
** Even Especially if it is an anachronism.
*** Warblade is right out.

(Highlander 1 references for those not nerdy about 80's films.)
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Old 07-24-2012, 08:45 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1033
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* I'm no longer allowed to have an Elan Swordsage named Sean Connery with a katana.
** Even Especially if it is an anachronism.
*** Warblade is right out.

(Highlander 1 references for those not nerdy about 80's films.)
**** Levelling up does not involve decapitation of fellow party members.
***** Or any form of [lightning] based spell cast on myself.

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* I am not allowed to chain-gate solars in order to provide Latin chanting soundtracks for the party's battles.
* I am not permitted to cast Stand on the enemy's blackguards just so I can say "The Dark Knight Rises".
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Old 07-24-2012, 08:53 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1034
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*Creating sheets for famous characters is a hobby, not a job.
**Players will not be expected to use these.
***Dieing in an avalanche of Dr. Who character sheets will be what's coming to me.
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Old 07-24-2012, 09:42 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1035
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- Willing Deformity: Madness is a privilege, not a right.

- I may not role play The Joker.

- Horrifying the BBEG with my actions does not constitute a victory, moral or otherwise.

Man, that was a good campaign.
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Old 07-24-2012, 09:52 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1036
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No. Sorry, but that's just not happening.
*Stop complaining, I won't change my mind.
**You're bluffing.
*** Fine. Just never show those to ANYONE.


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Old 07-24-2012, 10:13 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1037
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If the fresh level 1 party looks at what has just happened and the resulting 'obvious explanation' involves more than a dozen double crosses, four triple crosses, and someone they aren't even sure how many times that guy has betrayed people, my DM license will be revoked.
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* I may not name my character "Hiro Protagonist"
** Especially if the campaign is centered around plane-hopping.
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*Proceeds to google "Bride of the Portable Hole", jokingly wondering if it might exist*

*It does.*

What.
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Old 07-25-2012, 12:14 AM   Top  -  End  -  #1039
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If the fresh level 1 party looks at what has just happened and the resulting 'obvious explanation' involves more than a dozen double crosses, four triple crosses, and someone they aren't even sure how many times that guy has betrayed people, my DM license will be revoked.
I would play in that game. For sure.
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Old 07-25-2012, 01:29 AM   Top  -  End  -  #1040
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I may no longer quote Kenshiro when my monk performs Flurry of Blows.
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Old 07-25-2012, 10:32 AM   Top  -  End  -  #1041
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*My dragon bloodline sorcerer/dragon disciple is not "the one they fear."
*In their tongue, he is not Dhovakiin, Dragonborn.
*The verbal components of his spells never consist of "Fus," "Roh," or "Dah."
*He may never hire a band of Savage Skalds to follow him around singing in a vaguely Viking-ish language whenever he spots a dragon.
Changing class to Dragonfire Adept won't give me a pass on this one.
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Old 07-25-2012, 10:49 AM   Top  -  End  -  #1042
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* May not make a playlist of songs suitable for any situation to play as background music
** Especially if I'm NOT a Bard
*** If I try this and I AM a Bard, the others may point out that I can only play one instrument at a time, so all the music with more than just one instrument shouldn't be played
**** I may not see this as a challenge.
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*It does.*

What.
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Old 07-25-2012, 10:51 AM   Top  -  End  -  #1043
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I would play in that game. For sure.
I may not make up the plot as I go along in such a game. It must have everything down in DM notes so that I can prove that's really what was happening.

*I may however, write so horribly they can't read it.
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Old 07-25-2012, 10:58 AM   Top  -  End  -  #1044
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* May not make a playlist of songs suitable for any situation to play as background music
** Especially if I'm NOT a Bard
*** If I try this and I AM a Bard, the others may point out that I can only play one instrument at a time, so all the music with more than just one instrument shouldn't be played
**** I may not see this as a challenge.
***** I may not use Ghost Sound to get pass this restriction.
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- My Half-Minotaur, Water Orc Bardblade isn't allowed to use her massive carrying capacity to abuse Summon Instrument.

- There is no use of Summon Instrument that enables it to create Total Cover against enemies.
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Old 07-25-2012, 12:17 PM   Top  -  End  -  #1046
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* May not make a playlist of songs suitable for any situation to play as background music
** Especially if I'm NOT a Bard
*** If I try this and I AM a Bard, the others may point out that I can only play one instrument at a time, so all the music with more than just one instrument shouldn't be played
**** I may not see this as a challenge.
***** I may not take Versatile Performer so that I get to play multiple instruments at once anyways
****** I may not get a bonus for playing more then one instrument at the same time
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****** I may not get a bonus for playing more then one instrument at the same time
*******Some people are exceptions.
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* May not make a playlist of songs suitable for any situation to play as background music
** Especially if I'm NOT a Bard
*** If I try this and I AM a Bard, the others may point out that I can only play one instrument at a time, so all the music with more than just one instrument shouldn't be played
**** I may not see this as a challenge.
* I may not take ranks in Perform (one man band).
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* I may not take ranks in Perform (one man band).
** Nor may I take ranks in Perform (Wurlitzer Organ).
*** If I somehow MAKE a Wurlitzer, I may not bring it with us while adventuring…
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*It does.*

What.

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- My Half-Minotaur, Water Orc Bardblade isn't allowed to use her massive carrying capacity to abuse Summon Instrument.

- There is no use of Summon Instrument that enables it to create Total Cover against enemies.
*No matter how many Nat 20s I roll, I cannot stab someone in the heart with a grand piano.
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