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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
Sonic Rainboom Aside, please note we have defeating dragons on more then one occasion, tearing down a several story building with bare body parts, successfully Wrestling a Bear, Outright Winning a Staring Contest against a creature that has a Medusa style gaze attack, And most recently Canon Confirmation that at least one of them can outright Ignore the fourth wall.
Yeah, Even Batman and Conan and Harry Dresden are gonna get a run for there money against opponents capable of feats like that.
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*If raising taxes give a 5% boost for -1 loyalty, and I have the ability "exalted monarch" (hero of the people AEG empire, your people never rebel no matter how much you abuse them) I am not allowed to infinitely raise taxes in order to fund world domination.
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*I am not allowed to start campaigns with oil and tindertwigs... ever again
*I am not allowed to light the rogues tail on fire... even if he did steal my things
*I am not allowed to start campaigns with lots of rope, grappling hooks, oil, acid flasks, alchemists fire, caltrops, and/or tanglefoot bags or any other alchemical items in conjunction with craft (traps) ever again.
*I will not reference sleeping with an old man ever again
*Even if I succeed at all checks, I am not allowed to make reins of adamantium razor wire for the evil dragon we are fighting, attach them to an immovable rod... and then activate said rod.
*I am not allowed to climb dragons to get into position to use adamantium razor wire on them ever again
*I am not allowed to play a bard and use charm person to sleep with other PC's against their players will ever again
*I am not allowed to use spells for sexual means
*I am not allowed to fill all my spell slots with 'cheat' when entering a town and use it to end up owning every building in town... and 'favors' from most male NPC's female relations...
*I am not allowed to ever gamble as a bard... EVER
*I am not allowed to become emperor of the empire and then use the standing army to clear dungeons
*I am not allowed to ready an action for when our fighter charges.... then cast baleful polymorph to turn him into a chicken when he does
*I will not use Geas to force PC's to perform sexual favors, to fight each other for my amusement, or to force the dwarf cleric whose form of praying is to drink to abstain for the rest of his life again (I miss my evil tiefling bard)
*I will not use arcane locks and glyphs of warding on the doors to other PC's rooms anymore.
*I will not use arcane locks and glyphs of warding on NPC's rooms anymore.
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*Even if I am a monk of many styles, cannot have more attacks of opportunity than the rest of the party’s collective normal attacks.
*Not to enter arcane trickster solely so I can steal panties at a range of 30 feet.
*Cannot use steal spell to cast genesis, even if the martial components are right there
*Bear cavalry is not an appreciated character concept.
*My character cannot be a shifty trader.
* Cannot use wall of stone and then stone to flesh in order to provide a free supply of limitless meat.
*No tinned trollflesh.
*Cannot fill a bag of holding with colossal arrows and then use telekinesis to launch them at my enemies.
*Cannot do the same with a bagful of alchemist’s fire.
* It’s just crass to do the same with a bag of wights.
*Not you slay a cloud giant just to reanimate it’s corpse and make it my skeletal familiar.
*If I repeat the trick with a dragon, the Wight template from undead revisited and create undead, books will be thrown.
* Cannot combine the powers of the party alchemist, wizard, and druid to fill a bag with enough delayed blast fireballs, explosive runes, remote bombs, and fire seeds to kill a tarresque, and then feed it to one.
* Cannot waste five minutes and 2 rounds of our time casting sleep on the BBEG, Implanting a bomb, and then detonating it as soon as he wakes up.
*My arcane trickster cannot use form of the dragon and greater invisibility in conjunction ever again.
* Not to drug the owner of ye local magic mart, so I can steal all the scrolls and learn ALL the spells.
*Not to slaughter everyone as the mage’s college and then use blood transcription to learn their spells.
*If it’s the lich training camp for the big bad’s forces, it’s still an evil act.
* Cannot abuse tireless rage to rage, use all my once-a-rage abilities, and then unrage and repeat the process next turn.
* Cannot call this gear third.
Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
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* I am no longer allowed to convince the rest of Team BAD@$$ to dress up as the cast of Friendship is Magic for Halloween any more, lest someone else gets stuck that way.
While we're taking a trip down memory lane:
*I may never again punch through the fourth wall, with the result that a dot of legend gets erased from the Big Bad's character sheet.
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Fortunately, a Monk 1/Warblade 19 uses Iron Heart Surge to end the Monk character class, and the day is saved.
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My Shapeshifter cannot use Operation: Turn into a Naked man as a solution to all failed infiltration rolls <Shadowrun>
*Party of horny teenagers or no, operation: Turn into a naked woman will bring similar results.
*There is no island of Lusty Argoinain Maids.
*Come to think of it, there are no islands of Argoinians, maids, or Lusty X Ys either…
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* If a party member is about to score, my congratulatory fist-bump/high-five/pat-on-back may not deliver a Bestow Curse spell such that the curse is impotence.
* A curse guaranteeing conception is right out.
* ESPECIALLY if the party member in question is female.
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
* I am no longer allowed to grapple a hydra and two minotaurs at the same time.
* I may not make a rail gun using a bar stool, a bottle of sovereign glue, and several wands of magic missile.
* I may not help the old woman across the street and then ask for payment.
* I may also not insist on payment up front.
* My minotaur does not have the racial ability to lead a stampede.
* My minotaur's gold nose ring did not "come standard".
* My minotaur may not take Improved Bull Rush for any reason.
* Even if it is thematically appropriate.
* I may no longer play a minotaur.
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* I am no longer allowed to grapple a hydra and two minotaurs at the same time.
* I may not make a rail gun using a bar stool, a bottle of sovereign glue, and several wands of magic missile.
I'm stealing this idea for my current campaign. Screw me and our monk making the rogue wrist-mounted repeating crossbows...
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*you may not build a space ship in a medieval setting
*okay according to the stronghold builders guide book you can but it don't see the point
*you could just use teleport to explore other planets you know.
*I'm imposing a light speed limitation
*you can't Iron Heart Surge special relativity
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Don't you see? With gravity slain, now we can FLY!
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Don't you see? With gravity slain, now we can FLY!
*If I play Black Mage, Fighter, Thief, or Red Mage from 8-bit theatre, the D.M is playing Sarda.
*Cannot kill gravity or any of it's incarnations.
*No, grind-killing aeons will not let you do this.
*Cannot make a jetpack using 8 linked decanters of endless water
*this does not give me an excuse to try the same with 80 of them.
*Cannot attach a saddle of flying to any mount.
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* I may not melt down five +1 longswords and forge them into a +5 greatsword.
* I may not convince the entire group to play warforged druids just so we can be the Autobots.
* Said warforged druids are also not allowed to fuse together to become the Megazord or Voltron.
* Even if someone takes a level dip of artificer.
* I may not farm exp for repeatedly killing a lich without destroying his phylactery.
* I may not play a cleric in All Flesh Must Be Eaten.
* I may not kick the gnome down the stairs to test for traps.
* I may not store food in the dwarf's beard.
* Or in the elf's ears.
* Halflings are not a healthy part of my balanced breakfast.
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Wouldn't Warforged Druids be the Maximals?
__________________ The OmegaDex, the complete index to just about everything related to Star Wars Saga Edition.
"Waspinator not want to be destroyed! Waspinator has plans!"
-Waspinator, Transformers Beast Wars
"When was it that the twerps were chosen for this mission?"
"It was when the mission became scary!"
-Team Rocket, Pokemon
"It's not like chess, where choosing to play black or white dictates your entire strategy. Also, chess doesn't have steam cannons."
-Dragonmech designer
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(Not one of mine, but a player I know)
*May not play a bear-riding, vodka-swilling, Russian who dual-wields lances.
*Even if lances are considered one-handed weapons when mounted and we can't find anything that says dual-weapon feats don't work that way.
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Fortunately, a Monk 1/Warblade 19 uses Iron Heart Surge to end the Monk character class, and the day is saved.
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* no matter how good I am at optimizing I can not play as either ezio auditore or altiar
* can not then proced to form a secret underground organization for the sole purpose of training enough followers to take over the world
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