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

[Rater202]

**I also cannot arrange a royal marriage with myself to create a personal union between said countries, no matter how strategically beneficial it may be.

***I can't take a noble from each country as a spouse to secure political alliances as pretext for having a harem.

[Lord Torath]

***I can't take a noble from each country as a spouse to secure political alliances as pretext for having a harem.

****No, it doesn't help if that's how it works in the Tamul Empire. Domes of Fire by David Eddings

[TeChameleon]

* The correct response to the DM sending a 'have run out of miniatures, markers, and loose change' number of enemies after us is 'run away', not 'woot, target-rich environment!', especially when you don't have any AoE specialists and the enemies roll to self-resurrect on anything but death by radiant damage.

** As the fighter, gloating that I'm the only one who bothered to secure a reliable source of radiant damage in one of the many opportunities we had, is allowed, but kind of poor form.

[Anonymouswizard]

* There are character concepts that don't require maximised Fast Talk and Outright Lie.

[Rater202]

I need to verify if a religion has an "anti-christ" type figure before I include "convince people that I'm the religion's anti-christ figure" as part of a plan to rob a temple.

[Personification]

I need to verify if a religion has an "anti-christ" type figure before I include "convince people that I'm the religion's anti-christ figure" as part of a plan to rob a temple.

** Doubly so if instead I would be required to roll deception to convince them that I am NOT.

[Altheus]

Not allowed to have my cleric schism from his church and start his own. (NO! there are not holy vendors of paper, nails, parchment and ink)

[noob]

Not allowed to have my cleric schism from his church and start his own. (NO! there are not holy vendors of paper, nails, parchment and ink)

I wonder why you are not allowed to do that?
It is not exactly disruptive and can be an easily exploitable plot hook.

[Altheus]

I wonder why you are not allowed to do that?
It is not exactly disruptive and can be an easily exploitable plot hook.

Strictly speaking, not allowed to turn against idolatry and destroy the holy artifacts that the campign hinges on.

[Rater202]

*After accidentally overwriting an important NPC with a copy of my consciousness and turning them into an extension of myself, I can't decide to do it again.
**I am not the big bad.

[danielxcutter]

*After accidentally overwriting an important NPC with a copy of my consciousness and turning them into an extension of myself, I can't decide to do it again.
**I am not the big bad.

Is this D&D 3.5e or is there another system where you can do this?

[BisectedBrioche]

* You cannot play a Phantom and argue that learning a new proficiency is free, because ghosts don't need to pay rent.
** Cannot argue you should be charging the ghost rent for living in your head.

Is this D&D 3.5e or is there another system where you can do this?

IIRC there's 3.5e Psionic powers (Mind Seed?) that do that.

[Rater202]

*I can't make allusions to other people's D&D games and act like they're happening in other parts of the world.
**Even f it's implied that those games are a canonical part of the setting.

[Bohandas]

Is this D&D 3.5e or is there another system where you can do this?

You might be able to do it in Paranoia as well

[Rater202]

*I can't be a parasite hiding in the bodies of random NPCs slowly taking from them whatever it is of them I need to evolve myself and then sucking them dry for resources once I've gotten everything I need from them.
**Such an organism logically wouldn't have a "perfect form."

[PhoenixPhyre]

*I can't make allusions to other people's D&D games and act like they're happening in other parts of the world.
**Even f it's implied that those games are a canonical part of the setting.

I actually do this regularly, as my world features multiple groups whose actions affect other groups who are concurrently playing (same universe time) and old parties become NPCs after they're done.

My players love interacting with the results of others' actions and even their old characters.

[Rater202]

*I can't sing "Diggy Hole" every time I visit a dwarven mine.
**Especially if I'm not a dwarf.

[Drakeburn]

*I can't sing "Diggy Hole" every time I visit a dwarven mine.
**Especially if I'm not a dwarf.

*** Cannot sing "Heigh Ho" either.

[Telok]

* I may no longer use gnome marine biologist vampire space pirates more than once a campaign.

** Only one combat drug addicted, cyber-yeti bodyguard, dual weilding power fists at any time.

[danielxcutter]

...You mean once is fine?

[Telok]

...You mean once is fine?

Yeah, one just punched someone's leg off and laid out two brick characters before going down. Two was people running around, hiding, teleporting, shooting out lights, hacking doors, anything to stay out of melee. Although the PCs didn't have any bricks in the party then.

[danielxcutter]

...Bricks?

[noob]

...Bricks?

Tough and hard hitting characters.
Like superman for example.

[danielxcutter]

Tough and hard hitting characters.
Like superman for example.

Oh yeah, you mean beatsticks. Got it.

[BisectedBrioche]

I actually do this regularly, as my world features multiple groups whose actions affect other groups who are concurrently playing (same universe time) and old parties become NPCs after they're done.

My players love interacting with the results of others' actions and even their old characters.

Yeah, in the game I'm in at the moment, one of the major godlike figures is the DM's old character (who basically became that setting's version of Santa).

[Rater202]

*I am not immortal, I do not have inside me blood of kings.
**I am preemptively banned from basing any other characters of Queen songs.

[Rockphed]

*I am not immortal, I do not have inside me blood of kings.
**I am preemptively banned from basing any other characters of Queen songs.

*** Gilbert and Sulluvan songs are right out.

[Anonymouswizard]

*** Gilbert and Sulluvan songs are right out.

**** Cannot design the whole adventure just as an excuse to sing 'I've Got A Little List' at my players.

[Lord Raziere]

* May not turn a dungeon full of monsters and traps that I need to be cautious about going through on its head by simply shouting "HEY MONSTERS! WE'RE HEEEEEEREEE!!" and letting the echo carry
** May not figure that the traps set up work in reverse and thus make the monsters charge into their own traps and die trying to come to us
*** May not kill the entire dungeon through its own stupidity by raising the alarm
**** Alternatively may not assume the remaining monsters are all stupid enough to gather into one place to get destroyed by a singular fireball.
***** Even more alternatively, may not give the monsters an opportunity to get into better defensive positions when it turns out they aren't as stupid they look.

[Rater202]

Cannot trick the bad guy into singing the entire score of Pinafore.

* May not turn a dungeon full of monsters and traps that I need to be cautious about going through on its head by simply shouting "HEY MONSTERS! WE'RE HEEEEEEREEE!!" and letting the echo carry
** May not figure that the traps set up work in reverse and thus make the monsters charge into their own traps and die trying to come to us
*** May not kill the entire dungeon through its own stupidity by raising the alarm
**** Alternatively may not assume the remaining monsters are all stupid enough to gather into one place to get destroyed by a singular fireball.
***** Even more alternatively, may not give the monsters an opportunity to get into better defensive positions when it turns out they aren't as stupid they look.

******In general must assume that the monsters are stupid enough to be killed by their own traps: If they were, they'd have been killed by them leaving only the smart ones behind. Natural selection.