Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 13: This Is A Banned List Not A Drinking Game

[Rater202]

*I can not use my godlike powers over death to summon forth the ghosts of every pig ever slaughtered in Chicago's historic meatpacking district to form a massive army of spirits.

[Bohandas]

*Losing all sanity in Call of Cthulhu does not force your character to become a politician
**Or a Hollywood actor

[KorvinStarmast]

*I can not use my godlike powers over death to summon forth the ghosts of every pig ever slaughtered in Chicago's historic meatpacking district to form a massive army of spirits.

**Must play Pink Floyd's Pigs on the Wing while this army of porcine spirits invades London. Or maybe play Pigs: it has a more dire tone to it.

[Bohandas]

*The Great Old Ones do not live in a rest home in Florida
**Neither do the Elder Gods

[thorr-kan]

*The Great Old Ones do not live in a rest home in Florida
**Neither do the Elder Gods

Of course not.

***Elder Ones and The Great Old Ones live in a rest home in Louisiana.

[Rater202]

Just because I have a charm called Unlimited Murder Works, that doesn't mean I have to recite an aria every. Single. Time.

[Anonymouswizard]

Just because I have a charm called Unlimited Murder Works, that doesn't mean I have to recite an aria every. Single. Time.

Whoever's running this game is a spoilsport.

* Saber is not a pornomancer.
** Even if she gets her magic in the same way.

[danielxcutter]

Whoever's running this game is a spoilsport.

* Saber is not a pornomancer.
** Even if she gets her magic in the same way.

Tbh it wasn't just Saber, also that stuff got phased out a lot once the Fate franchise really kicked off.

[Anonymouswizard]

Tbh it wasn't just Saber, also that stuff got phased out a lot once the Fate franchise really kicked off.

Depends which route, I believe that a different character benefits from a mana transfer ritual in each.

Honestly, I'm a bit torn over the phasing out. I fully agree with removing the scenes, but the fact that this is a Thing That Can Work was a nice world building element. Plus we end up with Rin in her underwear for no reason, just go nudge nudge wink wink and cut to the next scene.

[Socksy]

* Not allowed to start with a Willpower of 10 as a VtM fledgling unless I have very good reason.
** Definitely not allowed to start with a Willpower of 10 as any Rogue Trader character, regardless of reason.

[danielxcutter]

* Not allowed to start with a Willpower of 10 as a VtM fledgling unless I have very good reason.
** Definitely not allowed to start with a Willpower of 10 as any Rogue Trader character, regardless of reason.

...Is that high or low?

[Anonymouswizard]

...Is that high or low?

High in WoD(/CofD), the maximum you can get in WoD if I'm not mistaken. The average human has 2-3 (3-5 in CofD).

In Rogue Trader it's very, very low. Normally characters can't begin with less than 25 or 27 (depending on generation methoc), even in Dark Heresy I don't think you can have less than 22RAW. This is before Homeworld modifiers, but those are +/-5. The average human has about 30.

In both games high Willpower can be very useful. I believe it makes you next to impossible to Dominate in every version of Vampire, for starters.

[Socksy]

...Is that high or low?

10 Willpower is the maximum in the game in VtM, which uses d10s, and is about half of the minimum in the game for Rogue Trader, which uses d100s.

[danielxcutter]

High in WoD(/CofD), the maximum you can get in WoD if I'm not mistaken. The average human has 2-3 (3-5 in CofD).

In Rogue Trader it's very, very low. Normally characters can't begin with less than 25 or 27 (depending on generation methoc), even in Dark Heresy I don't think you can have less than 22RAW. This is before Homeworld modifiers, but those are +/-5. The average human has about 30.

In both games high Willpower can be very useful. I believe it makes you next to impossible to Dominate in every version of Vampire, for starters.

Oh right, I remember that TTS special in Warhammer Fantasy.

...Damnit, now I made myself sad. ;w;

[Laughing Dog]

*The incantation for Baleful Polymorph is not "Ka-Ox!"
**Wild Shape has no incantation, and even if it did, it would not be "Ka-Bear!"
***The incantation for Plant Growth is not "Ka-Bloom!"
****The incantation for Power Word: Kill is not "Ka-Dead!"
*****Fine, the incantation for Fireball is "Kaboom!"

[KorvinStarmast]

* I my no longer attempt to melee with an archduke of hell (CR 24) when I am playing a lore bard. (She got turned into a statue of gold with a single swing of his money bag/gold purse. You could say that he has the Midas touch, and that it's as close to becoming a Solid Gold Dancer as my lore bard will ever get).
** I may no longer let my contingency spell expire (It has a ten day shelf life, which I re-learned to my chagrin during that same battle)
*** I may no longer attune the flame tongue (Lore Bard again) rather than the ring of evasion that allows me to make any dex save I fail (up to to 3 times per day). I fail dex saves a lot; it's a thing with this character.

[Anonymouswizard]

* It is bad form to point out that the default starting equipment includes no clothing.

[danielxcutter]

* I my no longer attempt to melee with an archduke of hell (CR 24) when I am playing a lore bard. (She got turned into a statue of gold with a single swing of his money bag/gold purse. You could say that he has the Midas touch, and that it's as close to becoming a Solid Gold Dancer as my lore bard will ever get).
** I may no longer let my contingency spell expire (It has a ten day shelf life, which I re-learned to my chagrin during that same battle)
*** I may no longer attune the flame tongue (Lore Bard again) rather than the ring of evasion that allows me to make any dex save I fail (up to to 3 times per day). I fail dex saves a lot; it's a thing with this character.

…Mammon? I think PF’s version does something like that.

* It is bad form to point out that the default starting equipment includes no clothing.

I thought a lot did.

[Anonymouswizard]

I thought a lot did.

A lot of designers just forget, but you're right that most do put a note in somewhere. Still amusing when it happens.

[Silly Name]

* It is bad form to point out that the default starting equipment includes no clothing.

For D&D 5e? You're correct, but that's because set of clothes are provided by your Background's Equipment, not your class' starting equipment. Or were you referencing some other system?

[Anonymouswizard]

For D&D 5e? You're correct, but that's because set of clothes are provided by your Background's Equipment, not your class' starting equipment. Or were you referencing some other system?

I was referring to a couple of other games I've seen. Admittedly it's only intentional in The Burning Wheel.

[BisectedBrioche]

* The harpies' eggs were intended as treasure or food, not for your character to adopt!

[Bohandas]

*Cubone is not "the Ed Gein pokemon"

[Anonymouswizard]

* My class is not 'elf'.
** Or 'warrior-elf'.
*** I am to use the same rulebook as everybody else.

[Milodiah]

*If the lizard monsters' venom turns out to be a powerful hallucinogen, not allowed to start selling it on a large scale to enemy cities to weaken them.
**If my argument for being allowed to do something is "well the British Empire did it", I am not allowed to do that thing.
***East India Company is not one of the squares on the alignment chart, and even if it were I'm not allowed to be that. I'm already bad enough as Lawful Evil.

[Bohandas]

*Werewolves are not vulnerable to Coors Light

[danielxcutter]

Do I want to know what that is?

[TeChameleon]

Coors Light is a beer(-ish?) with the advertising slogan 'the silver bullet'.

[Eldan]

* My class is not 'elf'.
** Or 'warrior-elf'.
*** I am to use the same rulebook as everybody else.

****You are a diviner, not a cliomancer.
*****Please, can we just play normal D&D.

[Anonymouswizard]

****You are a diviner, not a cliomancer.
*****Please, can we just play normal D&D.

****** No.