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

[danielxcutter]

To be fair, this is the same genre that gave us such names as 'Trapped in Another World with my Smartphone' and 'The Tone I Got Reincarnated As A Slime'. It's too be expected.

To be fairer, they sound much more snappier in languages closer to Japanese.

I mean, Korean and Japanese are different, but I've found Japanese-to-Korean translations much smoother than Japanese-to-English.

[Rater202]

I'm pretty sure that the names sound better in the original Japanese.

Especially since in Japanese you can shorten a long title down to a short phrase or even a single word without it losing the meaning.

[danielxcutter]

I'm pretty sure that the names sound better in the original Japanese.

Especially since in Japanese you can shorten a long title down to a short phrase or even a single word without it losing the meaning.

Using "That Time I Was Reincarnated As A Slime" as an example, "Reincarnated" uses like two kanji. English in general uses more letters(if not necessarily syllables) than Japanese or Korean for the same word, I've noticed that when doing college reports.

[Mandark]

*The artificer and gunslinger are not allowed to make an unwinder round.
**Doesn't matter the system. NO unwinder rounds.
***Stop finding/making more and more ridiculous ways of delivering an unwinder round. They are still not allowed.
****Not even if you summon an unseen servant to clean it up. After the second time, they will complain to their bosses and that will ruin it for everyone.

[danielxcutter]

*The artificer and gunslinger are not allowed to make an unwinder round.
**Doesn't matter the system. NO unwinder rounds.
***Stop finding/making more and more ridiculous ways of delivering an unwinder round. They are still not allowed.
****Not even if you summon an unseen servant to clean it up. After the second time, they will complain to their bosses and that will ruin it for everyone.

What the hell is an unwinder round?

[Mandark]

What the hell is an unwinder round?

I am sooo glad you asked. Have a link to a description.
https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/...ion-flippancy/

And a link to one in action
https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/...aximum-trauma/

No good can come from one in your game.

[danielxcutter]

I am sooo glad you asked. Have a link to a description.
https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/...ion-flippancy/

And a link to one in action
https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/...aximum-trauma/

No good can come from one in your game.

Oh, so basically explosion bullet.

[Rater202]

*I can't make a weapon that does extra damage to werewolves in a game with no werewolves.

[Telok]

* Not allowed to suggest we play a supers game with the intent of making a quackzilla.

** Supers characters being smart, wealthy, famous, and good looking is normal. Supers characters that can grow to enormous size are also normal. May not have a character be all that and a duck.

*** Not allowed to make characters that can't speak, have no hands, and grow to the size of aircraft carriers when startled. Especially if I take an "easily startled" drawback.

**** Not allowed to make supers characters based on Little Shop of Horrors.

***** Not allowed to make super-dentist characters either.

****** Not allowed to summon Godzilla and Mothra at the same time as a distraction, to stop a car chase, to stop a bank robbery, to rescue a hostage, or as a party favor.

******* Not allowed characters that can summon multiple ticked-off unkillable kaiju at once.

[Anonymouswizard]

* If my attack leaves a crater it does not count as nonlethal.

* I cannot play a bard.
** No, it's nothing to do with the class, it's because my singing isn't that good.
*** Must stop trying to burst into renditions of Kawaita Sakebi at the table.
**** At least until I learn to 1) sing, and 2) speak Japanese.

[Telok]

* If my attack leaves a crater it does not count as nonlethal.

Depends on the target. I've had players drop orbital strikes on cities as warning shots to people that they knew it wouldn't kill. Then they realized I was willing to calculate the survival rates and figure out how many angry heroes capable of casting teleport were still alive.

[BisectedBrioche]

* Just because medieval doctors used leeches doesn't mean that the healer's kit contains vials of leeches.
** Just because there are leeches that feed on other leeches doesn't mean you can make special leech healed leeches.

[Telok]

* "Dead is dead. Meat is meat. I've got BBQ sauce."

** "Its not cannibalism if its outside your species. Besides, they only elves."

*** "My bad. I'll pay for your atonement spell. Tho, in my defense, you didn't say your sect had dietary restrictions."

**** "I don't have enough sauce for an orphanage.... You can't blame that on me. I don't cast Fireball."

[Rockphed]

*I can't make a weapon that does extra damage to werewolves in a game with no werewolves.

** Nor can I take "Disadvantage: Susceptible to Werewolves" in a game without werewolves.
*** "Disadvantage: easily dominated by vampires" is likewise banned in games without vampires.
**** A werewolf curse, on the other hand, can be a disadvantage even if I don't actually turn into a giant wolf during the full moon.

[Anonymouswizard]

** Nor can I take "Disadvantage: Susceptible to Werewolves" in a game without werewolves.
*** "Disadvantage: easily dominated by vampires" is likewise banned in games without vampires.
**** A werewolf curse, on the other hand, can be a disadvantage even if I don't actually turn into a giant wolf during the full moon.

* "Tastes Good To Dragons" is not a valid disadvantage in a space opera game.

On that note.
* Cannot have the entire Galactic Senate be replaced by shapeshifter clone spies.

[PhoenixPhyre]

* May have the ancient ur-vampire whose title is "Lord of Nightmares" have a True Name which is awful and painful to say and hear.
** That True Name may not be "Kender". Especially if playing with a bunch of people not steeped in the lore and in-jokes of D&D.

[quinron]

* "Dead is dead. Meat is meat. I've got BBQ sauce."

** "Its not cannibalism if its outside your species. Besides, they only elves."

*** "My bad. I'll pay for your atonement spell. Tho, in my defense, you didn't say your sect had dietary restrictions."

**** "I don't have enough sauce for an orphanage.... You can't blame that on me. I don't cast Fireball."

Counterpoint from my game tonight:

*The friendly local goblins who don't get sick when eating spoiled or unsuitable meat still have a sense of taste
**This also includes "taste" as in "decorum"
***What I'm saying is, when you plonk a few corpses in front of them, they're not going to thank you for a bounteous feast

[Telok]

Counterpoint from my game tonight:

*The friendly local goblins who don't get sick when eating spoiled or unsuitable meat still have a sense of taste
**This also includes "taste" as in "decorum"
***What I'm saying is, when you plonk a few corpses in front of them, they're not going to thank you for a bounteous feast

Are those things you're no longer allowed to do in a game?

[TeChameleon]

* "Tastes Good To Dragons" is not a valid disadvantage in a space opera game.

On that note.
* Cannot have the entire Galactic Senate be replaced by shapeshifter clone spies.

It... really depends on the space opera.

And replacing the entire Galactic Senate with lookalikes would probably make them too effective

[danielxcutter]

Does Stellaris count as a space opera? Because I'm pretty sure there are dragon-like things there.

[Taevyr]

Does Stellaris count as a space opera? Because I'm pretty sure there are dragon-like things there.

Stellaris is more like a bunch of spreadsheets wearing an intricately crafted space opera trenchcoat.

But more seriously: it has more than a few elements of space opera, but I'd hesitate to describe it as one. Mainly due to it being a 4X/Grand Strategy which mainly revolves around building an economy, not an RPG of any sorts.

[Anonymouswizard]

It... really depends on the space opera.

And replacing the entire Galactic Senate with lookalikes would probably make them too effective

Actual thing I was referencing. (Yes, one of those flaws does actually come up later.)

Oh, and for the other one.

[Rater202]

*When preparing to heist a palace during a banquet, I can rug the wine or the gravy not both.
**I am to tell my compatriots who are running interference at the banquet proper what all has been drugged.
***Because if I don't, the wizard gets high on the drugs in the wine, drinks all the gravy straight from the boat, and almost dies of an overdose.

[danielxcutter]

*When preparing to heist a palace during a banquet, I can rug the wine or the gravy not both.
**I am to tell my compatriots who are running interference at the banquet proper what all has been drugged.
***Because if I don't, the wizard gets high on the drugs in the wine, drinks all the gravy straight from the boat, and almost dies of an overdose.

I’m not sure if something that makes you high would be a good idea to slip into alcohol in the first place, and also what’s a Wizard with pissant Con drinking wine during a heist in the first place?

[Rater202]

Nothing good can possibly come from combining klyntar symbiotes with life fibers.

[Lord Raziere]

* Seeing what happens when Rogue from X-Men and All For One from MHA touch each other is probably not a good idea
** Or what happens when Amanda Waller meets Magneto
*** Lobo and Deadpool, while a hilarious teamup, probably shouldn't happen for the sake of everyone else

* putting Lex Luthor and Victor von Doom in the same room together is just asking for trouble, no matter how it turns out
** Even if its just them shouting "SUPERMAN!" "REED RICHARDS!" back and forth at each other for hours when they disagree on who to kill first.
*** Even if they just compromise and settle for killing a parallel universe version of both known as "Mr. Super-Fantastic".

[Drakeburn]

* Just because the guidelines for a superpowered teen campaign says I can use villain archetypes from the Cosmic Handbook, doesn't mean they're all suitable for such a game.
** Like the space dragon.
*** And the Time Master.
**** Overkill does not even begin to describe siccing an expy of Galactus on a party when their characters are just superpowered teenagers.
***** I may not be surprised if the table bans me from using that handbook ever again.

[danielxcutter]

*May not ask someone to read the acronym of Old World of Darkness out loud.

[Anonymouswizard]

* My Druid may multiclass to Bard, but they're not required to sing Tree Wizard.

* If I cannot rap in real life I cannot do it in character either.

[danielxcutter]

* My Druid may multiclass to Bard, but they're not required to sing Tree Wizard.

* If I cannot rap in real life I cannot do it in character either.

I'm pretty sure there's a 3.5e prestige class specifically for multiclassing Bard and Druid.

I'm also pretty sure it sucks, but eh.