Things I May No Longer Do While Playing XII: A Thousand-Yard Stare is not Permission

[danielxcutter]

I think Marshal gets Charisma twice to relevant skill checks, for starters. Assuming it's 3.5e. And Diplomacy is probably a class skill for them.

[Rater202]

Crossbreeding xenomorphs and Metroids was a horribly irresponsible thing to do.

[noob]

Crossbreeding xenomorphs and Metroids was a horribly irresponsible thing to do.

** Do not turn them into cyborgs to make them even more deadly.
*** If people starts suggesting nuclear weapons it is not that you should add them to those hybrids: they are suggesting those should be used to kill the hybrids.
**** At that point if nuking them makes them radioactive and even stronger "kill it with fire" seems impossible.
***** No that was not a challenge. Do not throw the planet in the sun.
****** You can not keep one as a pet even if their total kill count is a quarter of your own kill count.

[BisectedBrioche]

Crossbreeding xenomorphs and Metroids was a horribly irresponsible thing to do.

Science team has vapour for brains.

[danielxcutter]

Science team has vapour for brains.

Methinks it might be safer for the universe if they just got vaporized, period.

[Anonymouswizard]

* Even if it is a legitimate Victorian name I cannot use it if the other group members cannot take it seriously.

[Rockphed]

* Even if it is a legitimate Victorian name I cannot use it if the other group members cannot take it seriously.

* Stealing the names of my ancestors is only allowed if they sound like real names.
** Frosti Olafsen might have been a real person, but if you try to run one as anything other than an awakened ice golem or an ice wizard, you are not going to be taken seriously.

[danielxcutter]

* Stealing the names of my ancestors is only allowed if they sound like real names.
** Frosti Olafsen might have been a real person, but if you try to run one as anything other than an awakened ice golem or an ice wizard, you are not going to be taken seriously.

Is that one of your ancestors?

[Rockphed]

Is that one of your ancestors?

My siblings always used to pull out my parents' family tree program and navigate to "Frosty", possibly with a patronymic when I was a kid. The "Olafsen" is made up based on the snowchild from Frozen. This was the same program where we had managed to confuse people with the same name such that someone was his own great-grandfather, so I am not sure that Frosty was ever anything more than a legend. I also never had the knack for finding my way to him, so I can't check any of the details.

More from my ancestors:
* Just because I am a bard does not mean I am contractually obligated to fake my death at the first opportunity.
* Getting cut off in an ox-cart is not a good reason for road-rage.
** Friendly competitions are great. Extending them to get more work done is great. Refusing to go through with your promised reward because who was winning changed after the extension is very, very bad.
* Poison Ivy is not a "get out of combat" card.
** Not even if you figure out how to make a whip out of it.

[PhoenixPhyre]

I'm no longer allowed to name a subclass feature Baby Shark, Doo doo doo doo #todo: better name. Even if it gives you waterbreathing, a swim speed, and a bite attack. The bite attack should deal psychic damage and make you start helplessly singing that song though. That's ok. But not the name.

[TheTeaMustFlow]

* Even if it is a legitimate Victorian name I cannot use it if the other group members cannot take it seriously.

** Similarly, even if it's period-accurate, the medieval noblewoman cannot be called Tiffany.

* If the Cabal is made up of a mildly edgy Mystagogue, an very edgy Guardian of the Veil, and an idealistic Arrow doctor, the latter should probably not be the first to commit a Falling-level act of hubris.
** This goes double if the Arrow is the only one who isn't a Mastigos.
*** No, 'but Nazis' doesn't make violating the timestream OK. Do you want Wolfenstein? Because that's how you get Wolfenstein.
**** No matter what the rules say, trying to use Fate magic to cheat the roll to avoid losing wisdom for an act of hubris a) will not work and b) is itself an act of hubris.
***** Somehow passing the wisdom check despite your normal dice luck is not permission to do it again.

[Telok]

Character names may no longer be anagrams of the following:
"The paladin is an uptight *****"
"The sorcerer is a chaotic stupid *******"
"This is not an anagram"
"If it talks, sex"

[dspeyer]

* Just because I've summoned an Imp and CRISPRed it with firefly DNA does not mean "Bioluminescent Imps" are a demon species I can summon
** Even if I am on a different plane than my lab

[Telok]

* I may no longer cut and paste the druid fluff onto the warlock chassis in order to "bring about the downfall of civilization while shooting force butterflies at people because the fluffy bunnies told me to".
** I may not turn against the party during the BBEG fight because "Dude, for five weeks now! Bring about the downfall of civilization. What did you expect?" is perfectly in character and completes my DM approved backstory.
*** When the other players complain that my character's RP goals interfere with their murder-hobo ways I may not then bring and play a character so amoral, so mercenary, so murderous, and so loot focused, that the character's murder-hoboing make the players unfomfortable with murder-hoboing.
**** At least they stopped complaining about my characters having RP goals.
***** I may no longer claim that my backstory is DM approved unless the DM signed and dated it. Because that means they at least looked at it after I handed it to them.
****** I may no longer put a EULA modified from the DM's favorite news website on the back of the backstory in 1.5 size font.

[Anonymouswizard]

* The national lockdown has not, and never will, cause my character to snap into Adepthood.
** Even if I play the sanitation-based school.

* Even if the GM approves the etymolomancer I do not have the right to complain about other magickians mixing linguistic roots.

* My character cannot gain power from having multiple romantic partners.
** That Adept school is banned and I know it.
*** I can homebrew the ethical polyamorist Archetype as much as I want, but the GM is not going to allow it.

[John Campbell]

* Even if it is a legitimate Victorian name I cannot use it if the other group members cannot take it seriously.

** It does not matter if I can produce documentation for "Diet Coke" as a legit period name. ("Diet" was a diminutive for some other name I forget, and "Coke" was a variant spelling of the occupational surname "Cook".)

[thorr-kan]

** It does not matter if I can produce documentation for "Diet Coke" as a legit period name. ("Diet" was a diminutive for some other name I forget, and "Coke" was a variant spelling of the occupational surname "Cook".)

Bubba ap Elvis. Legitimately documented SCAdian persona name.

(Registering an SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) name requires finding period (roughly 500AD-1500AD) documentation that the name was used. Somebody got this name registered for them in retribution. Our ancestors were *WEIRD.*)

Proof that history is stranger than fiction.

[Rater202]

There is not a government in the universe that would permit Tamaranean/Kryptonian(or Daxamite) hybrids as a supersoldier experiment.

[Lord Raziere]

* May not have my character do anything that may be considered "Being That Guy" or any variation upon the concept
** especially if being "That Guy" takes the form of holding up an important ritual to demand an apology from another PC and I'm the only one who can do the thing that'll make it continue
*** Not even if my PC had just saved the other PC's life and that PC just decides to throw it away for the sake of some random village out of stupid guilt over something they can't control

* May not "Be a total Franziska Von Karma" about this
** May not whip another PC out of frustration
*** May not whip random NPC's out of frustration
**** Whipping enemies to death in rage during combat however is perfectly in character and acceptable.

* My reaction to learning there is an evil double of me probably shouldn't be to ask whether I fall into the evil extremist archetype or the evil selfish archetype so I can prepare contingencies in case I fall to evil as well
** nor should my reaction to meeting the beautiful goddess between parallel universes be to blush and think about maybe asking her out on a date.

* If an enemy is be chosen by fate, I may not critically mind crush him on the first attack thus killing him before he truly does anything
** May not inadvertently cause roils throughout fate and the warp by killing him in ignorance of his status
*** May not claim that in wh40k, clearly being chosen by fate just means being Tzeentch's favored lackey that week and thus not all that special at all and that the only true higher plan for humanity is the God-Emperor's, being chosen by destiny? nothing but Tzeentchian heresy.

[Rockphed]

* If an enemy is be chosen by fate, I may not critically mind crush him on the first attack thus killing him before he truly does anything
** May not inadvertently cause roils throughout fate and the warp by killing him in ignorance of his status
*** May not claim that in wh40k, clearly being chosen by fate just means being Tzeentch's favored lackey that week and thus not all that special at all and that the only true higher plan for humanity is the God-Emperor's, being chosen by destiny? nothing but Tzeentchian heresy.

**** Accidentally killing the God Emperor of Mankind while time-travelled into the past deserves a better response than "oops".
***** I may not attempt to replace the Emperor in a vain attempt to fix the time stream after killing him by accident in the past.

[Anonymouswizard]

* While not banned by the rules, I deserve everything I get when I make my shadowrunner an 'internet troll'.

[danielxcutter]

Wasn't the God-Emperor of Mankind fairly OP back then as well?

[Rater202]

*My desire to be an immortal, invincible dragon sleeping in a pile of gold for centuries at a time shall forever be but a pipe dream

[danielxcutter]

*My desire to be an immortal, invincible dragon sleeping in a pile of gold for centuries at a time shall forever be but a pipe dream

I'm pretty sure there are more than a few systems where you can do that(aside from the immortal and invincible parts, but even then you can probably get close).

[Telok]

* Plan vetoed: Hover invisible in the sky over town shooting down lightning bolts with a mile wide illusion of buttocks centered on self.

** Plan vetoed: Use mirage arcana to turn maximum area into giant bowl of loose wasabi powder under the entire combat.

*** May no longer whip up quickie web page with random to-hit & damage generator that auto-rolls every 30 seconds and wave at the tablet saying "Autoattack neatest enemy" while reading a book during combat.

**** Autoattack webpage may no longer be more effective than half the other characters because the system nerfed or penalizes everything but simple damage attacking in combat.

[danielxcutter]

* Plan vetoed: Hover invisible in the sky over town shooting down lightning bolts with a mile wide illusion of buttocks centered on self.

** Plan vetoed: Use mirage arcana to turn maximum area into giant bowl of loose wasabi powder under the entire combat.

*** May no longer whip up quickie web page with random to-hit & damage generator that auto-rolls every 30 seconds and wave at the tablet saying "Autoattack neatest enemy" while reading a book during combat.

**** Autoattack webpage may no longer be more effective than half the other characters because the system nerfed or penalizes everything but simple damage attacking in combat.

...5e, I presume?

[TeChameleon]

* If a PC's mother decides that she's going to join the party to hunt bandits, there is no point fighting it; that argument was lost before it even started.

** If said PC's mother is with the party, she probably shouldn't be the most capable interrogator in the group thanks to judicious use of the 'mom voice'.

[Rockphed]

* If a PC's mother decides that she's going to join the party to hunt bandits, there is no point fighting it; that argument was lost before it even started.

** If said PC's mother is with the party, she probably shouldn't be the most capable interrogator in the group thanks to judicious use of the 'mom voice'.

"Mom" is a full bab class with sense motive, bluff, intimidate, use magical device, forgery, all knowledge, profession, and craft skills, and heal. I fail to see how it wouldn't make a good adventurer.

[Rockphed]

Wasn't the God-Emperor of Mankind fairly OP back then as well?

At some point he was weak and defenseless. Or his mother was.

[noob]

**** Accidentally killing the God Emperor of Mankind while time-travelled into the past deserves a better response than "oops".
***** I may not attempt to replace the Emperor in a vain attempt to fix the time stream after killing him by accident in the past.

****** If without the emperor god of mankind humanity steamrolls all the rest of the universe, never have chaos god worshippers problems due to the old religions still being here and being way less repulsive (who wants to worship the horrible god that tells you to kill violently people? very few) and that the world is overall a good place for humans I may not say "this looks good I hope the time travelling inquisition order does not comes" because it will summon them definitively.