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

[Anonymouswizard]

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.

There's a prestige class for multiclassing everything, so I wouldn't be shocked. The main point was more 'I can't use my character build as an excuse to sing irrelevant songs at people'.


* I cannot play MC Beatbot, Warforged Bard until I have actually learnt to rap.

[Telok]

May not buy dinosaur print underwear for the other players.

The logic that doubling the number of people in the house wearing dinosaur underwear doubles the awesome is insufficent justification.

May not scare the big, tough, military players with a small child wearing dinosaur underwear.

Should not allow the little 70-something granny to intimidate the big, tough, military players with her dinosaur underwear.

[Rater202]

Skirts are not a kind of pants.

[KnotKnormal]

*Just because there is a cult kidnapping children does not mean that they are automatically pedophiles.
**child fight pits and child sex pits are not interchangeable terms

*must ask for consent from the victim before preforming torture for information.*

[Taevyr]

*must ask for consent from the victim before preforming torture for information.*

**Cannot torture the victim until he consents to having torture performed on him retroactively

[Rater202]

Under no circumstances can I use CRISPR to turn myself into a dragon.

[JAL_1138]

*In an Indiana Jones-inspired game, may not play “Florida Mann.”

[thorr-kan]

May not buy dinosaur print underwear for the other players.

MAY buy dinosaur print underwear FROM the other players, though...

[Anonymouswizard]

* Even if I'm playing an ork the hot pink trenchcoat does not give a +2 bonus to Stealth checks.
** Mainly because Shadowrunners have done that one before.
* Armoured underwear is funny once. It's tedious once I begin optimising it.

[Wookieetank]

Skirts are not a kind of pants.

*May not argue that they are a one legged pant.

[Bohandas]

*May not argue that they are a one legged pant.

Yeah. What if you're a snake?

[Anonymouswizard]

Yeah. What if you're a snake?

All the more motivation to find a mate.

[Spore]

*Just because there is a cult kidnapping children does not mean that they are automatically pedophiles.
**child fight pits and child sex pits are not interchangeable terms

*must ask for consent from the victim before preforming torture for information.*

***Virtual disapproving stares count as well. Cut that crap out.

[BisectedBrioche]

* The purpose of the Phantom rogue subclass's abilities is not to provide free tuition in downtime.
** Even if it needs to be good for something before level 9.

[danielxcutter]

* The purpose of the Phantom rogue subclass's abilities is not to provide free tuition in downtime.
** Even if it needs to be good for something before level 9.

Care to elaborate?

[BisectedBrioche]

Care to elaborate?

One of the new rogue subclasses in Tasha's is the Phantom, who gets abilities based around a mysterious connection to the dead. The main ability the class is based around is collecting "tokens" from dead enemies which offer various perks, but they don't get this ability until level 9.

Until then, the only abilities you get are a floating proficiency you can adjust per short or long rest and a nice, but limited option to deal extra damage to adjacent targets when you sneak attack. The floating proficiency is themed as basically a ghost entering your mind to offer advice.

Xanathar's downtime rules also include rules for learning a proficiency, with an associated cost in gold for tuition (and a need to track down a trainer).

I suppose I should clarify that, despite my last post, my DM actually accepted "I mean, if the ghost provides a proficiency, they must be able to let you train?".

[Cortillaen]

* I may not spend months and unholy amounts of quintessence casting a spell to erase a marble-sized bit of space from all memory past and present. Not even if I get silly amounts of successes.
** I may not take advantage of being the only person in the world with beliefs about that bit of space to shape it according to my will.
*** I may not turn it into the entrance to a functional pocket dimension, and especially not one accessible by every other multiversal version of me who had the same idea.
**** I may not drag the rest of the party into the pocket dimension to rescue me from the amalgamation of all those other me's.
***** I absolutely may not end up with control over a multiverse nexus all because I made everyone forget something.

* I may not create a suspended spell item that, on activation, converts all of my spellcasting potential at once into protections and physical enhancements. Not even if it did cost xp and a lot of downtime to make.
** I may not name the combined spell War-God's Mantle.
*** I may absolutely not use it to beat a high-ranking vampire to death with my bare hands instead of us running from it.

* If it involves setting metaphysics and I have to explain how "It makes perfects sense when you think about it this way", I am not allowed to even ask.

[danielxcutter]

* I may not spend months and unholy amounts of quintessence casting a spell to erase a marble-sized bit of space from all memory past and present. Not even if I get silly amounts of successes.
** I may not take advantage of being the only person in the world with beliefs about that bit of space to shape it according to my will.
*** I may not turn it into the entrance to a functional pocket dimension, and especially not one accessible by every other multiversal version of me who had the same idea.
**** I may not drag the rest of the party into the pocket dimension to rescue me from the amalgamation of all those other me's.
***** I absolutely may not end up with control over a multiverse nexus all because I made everyone forget something.

* I may not create a suspended spell item that, on activation, converts all of my spellcasting potential at once into protections and physical enhancements. Not even if it did cost xp and a lot of downtime to make.
** I may not name the combined spell War-God's Mantle.
*** I may absolutely not use it to beat a high-ranking vampire to death with my bare hands instead of us running from it.

* If it involves setting metaphysics and I have to explain how "It makes perfects sense when you think about it this way", I am not allowed to even ask.

*squints*

I've been reading a quest based off Mage: the Ascension(specifically the Technocratic side) and this kinda sounds like that? I dunno. Or is this the nWoD Mage system?

[Telok]

* May not "crit botch" a medic roll in a system without critical failures or botches.

** "I forgot which bard thingy did what and accidental gave myself a penalty." is not an excuse that will be accepted by people I've games with for a decade.

*** Getting a -6 total on a 1d20-1 roll, while impressive, does not let me decide that someone bleeding out from a head wound needs their temperature taken.

**** Nor does it let me mistake a wand of burning hands for a rectal thermometer.

***** No longer allowed characters capable of generating negative numbers or divide by zero errors.

[danielxcutter]

...How do you get a -6 on a 1d20-1 roll?

[P. G. Macer]

May not proselytize about Eilistraee at the dinner table (elsewhere is fine, just not while the rest of the party is eating).

[Rockphed]

May not proselytize about Eilistraee at the dinner table (elsewhere is fine, just not while the rest of the party is eating).

Here I would have thought Slanesh was the creature who was the worst to proselytize about during dinner.

[Lord Raziere]

Here I would have thought Slanesh was the creature who was the worst to proselytize about during dinner.

** No its Nurgle: "Let this food be blessed by Nurgle with pustules, rot, grime and disease, so that we may intake the holy toxicities..."

[Cortillaen]

*squints*

I've been reading a quest based off Mage: the Ascension(specifically the Technocratic side) and this kinda sounds like that? I dunno. Or is this the nWoD Mage system?

It's oWoD Mage: The Ascension, my first and favorite system. The Union goons probably aren't as inclined to (ab)use the metaphysical quirks, but I'd love to play a game from their perspective sometime (disclaimer: I use "goons" jokingly; I actually enjoy the depth and inner conflict they got fleshed out with as time went on). I love both the setting and magic systems in Mage so much; the amount of flexibility and potential for shenanigans are both immense. I'm not a fan of the dice system for skills and such (the probability distributions are way to squished together for my taste), but it's thankfully super easy to swap out those parts for a Shadowrun-style system instead.

Speaking of Shadowrun:
* I am absolutely never, under no circumstances, allowed to play a 'Runner with a code of conduct. Especially if that code includes minimizing harm to innocents (ie just folks trying to keep their heads down and survive) and keeping his word.

[P. G. Macer]

Here I would have thought Slanesh was the creature who was the worst to proselytize about during dinner.

While Slaanesh would definitely be worse, I’m playing D&D 5e, and the DM is therefore treating the WH40K Chaos Gods as not existing. What I wrote was a humorous play on the party’s in-character “no religion or politics while eating” rule.

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*There are no carnivorous livestock in continental Faerûn.
** The Dragonborn barbarian is not livestock
***Even if he is of similar Intelligence to a domestic pig.

[Anonymouswizard]

It's oWoD Mage: The Ascension, my first and favorite system. The Union goons probably aren't as inclined to (ab)use the metaphysical quirks, but I'd love to play a game from their perspective sometime (disclaimer: I use "goons" jokingly; I actually enjoy the depth and inner conflict they got fleshed out with as time went on). I love both the setting and magic systems in Mage so much; the amount of flexibility and potential for shenanigans are both immense. I'm not a fan of the dice system for skills and such (the probability distributions are way to squished together for my taste), but it's thankfully super easy to swap out those parts for a Shadowrun-style system instead.

I want to like Mage, and the Technocracy itself is in my mind better set up for games than the Traditions, but unfortunately I played Unknown Armies first. Now I look at Mage and find it comparatively dull and it's magick, while cool in it's own way, not having the same wow and hooks as UA magick does. While it would still be fun to play I think I'd actually much prefer Awakening and it's more stable metaphysics.

Although a kitty of that has to do with having come to like CofD a lot more as it feels more cohesive.

Especially Channeling. Dreaming had good fluff, but Lost has amazing fluff. I really, really want to run a lost 2e Chronicle, where I run mortal mages with variant Fae Touched rules (casting Contacts from Willpower rather than Glamour). And I'd jump at the chance to play a Changeling 2e game.

* Wizened powers are not for crashing the global market on precious metals.
** Cooking steaks into uranium is only funny until somebody gets hurt.
*** Unless I start acting within fairy tale logic my powers will be taken away.

Speaking of Shadowrun:
* I am absolutely never, under no circumstances, allowed to play a 'Runner with a code of conduct. Especially if that code includes minimizing harm to innocents (ie just folks trying to keep their heads down and survive) and keeping his word.

I'd love to play in or run a Shadowrun game where runners are professionals who don't cause unnecessary damage, loss of life, and betrayals. Heck, when I ran it most Johnsons were on the level, because skilled runners hard to find.

[danielxcutter]

It's oWoD Mage: The Ascension, my first and favorite system. The Union goons probably aren't as inclined to (ab)use the metaphysical quirks, but I'd love to play a game from their perspective sometime (disclaimer: I use "goons" jokingly; I actually enjoy the depth and inner conflict they got fleshed out with as time went on). I love both the setting and magic systems in Mage so much; the amount of flexibility and potential for shenanigans are both immense. I'm not a fan of the dice system for skills and such (the probability distributions are way to squished together for my taste), but it's thankfully super easy to swap out those parts for a Shadowrun-style system instead.

I recommend you read Panopticon Quest then. Very good for Technocracy fans.

[JAL_1138]

*Making a character who carries 50 derringers on his person, has a metric crapton of points in fast draw, and enough wealth to just discard each derringer after shooting it, with the intent of rapid-firing them at a comparable rate as someone with a semiautomatic or revolver, isn’t exactly a viable concept due to the multiple action limitations of the system.
**It is also silly.

[NotInventedHere]

* I cannot play a bard.
** No, it's nothing to do with the class, it's because my singing isn't that good.

Amusing mirror to this one: not me, but a fellow member of my group is not allowed to *not* play the bard, for similar-ish reasons. His talking being that good rather than his singing, but otherwise something of a parallel.

(Less succinctly but more accurately, his tendency to off-the-cuff improvise stirring speeches and inspiring dialogue is sufficiently strong that he's not allowed to play low-Charisma characters, because we all feel bad having to go "that was genuinely OOC moving and the whole table loved it, but we have to pretend it never happened because your character can barely string two words together.")

[Spore]

According to an argument between me and my DM:
*A bard has to have musical inclination.
** I cannot under any circumstance be a bard of writing, be it prose or poetry.
*** I am not to circumvent said prejudice by playing another charisma based class and refluff their several support options with oratory.

(Yes, this was a real point, and no I am not investing more time into it than necessary.)