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

[Rater202]

*My backstory can't be "tricked the bad guys into paying for my power enhancements and training no strings attached and then screwed them over royally when all was said and done."
**Cannot have a reputation for tricking villains into helping me defeat them that everyone keeps falling for despite knowing that it's a thing I do.

[Lord Raziere]

*My backstory can't be "tricked the bad guys into paying for my power enhancements and training no strings attached and then screwed them over royally when all was said and done."
**Cannot have a reputation for tricking villains into helping me defeat them that everyone keeps falling for despite knowing that it's a thing I do.

*** my purpose in life may not be figuring out ways to humiliate evil people and seeing their villainous breakdowns through convoluted plans.
**** may not do this just because I'm so good at martial arts that I became bored with beating people normally
***** my pipe is not actually a magic wand that does anything I want it to.
****** If I keep meeting villains that can shrug off a plan failing instead of breaking down, I have only myself to blame.

[Rater202]

*If I really want to, I can be a Gem.
**I cannot, however, be Grey Lonsdaleite.

[Anonymouswizard]

* There are genres where psychics are not acceptable PCs.

[Telwar]

*My backstory can't be "tricked the bad guys into paying for my power enhancements and training no strings attached and then screwed them over royally when all was said and done."

NGL, one of my Shadowrun character ideas is almost exactly that. And he had the Enemy (University of Georgia Athletic Boosters) to help pay for it!

* Not allowed to let my character's backstory be that he was built to be a ringer for the local university football team, only to be disqualified not because of the massive quantities of delta-grade bioware that are all but undetectable, but that he tests positive for being an adept.

[Anonymouswizard]

NGL, one of my Shadowrun character ideas is almost exactly that. And he had the Enemy (University of Georgia Athletic Boosters) to help pay for it!

It also sounds roughly like the origin of Kamen Rider Stronger.

* If none of the other players have seen it it cannot be the primary reference for my character.

[Rockphed]

It also sounds roughly like the origin of Kamen Rider Stronger.

* If none of the other players have seen it it cannot be the primary reference for my character.

** If it has not been published yet, it cannot be the primary reference for my character.
*** I cannot base characters on an (as yet unused) outline I stole from an author.

* I cannot increase my magical power by carrying around a non-magical rat and claiming it is my familiar.

[Anonymouswizard]

* I cannot increase my magical power by carrying around a non-magical rat and claiming it is my familiar.

** Especially if I'm a rat.
*** Carting around a very confused human won't help either.
**** My Blue Rose privileges are revoked until further notice.

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One of the major character races in Blue Rose is intelligent psychic animals, and them being dedicated casters is a pretty standard build because of the distinct lack of hands. Rats are one of the options, and unlike the core rulebook's cats are actually rat sized.

Oh sure, you could play a rhy-ape, but that's missing out on half the fun.

And yes, they can have familiars of normal PC races.

[Telok]

* Not allowed to bring over from the DtD game a Malkavian mindflayer space marine cyber-doc with the flaw "day job: owns Bob's Budget Brain Bending shop" and full ranks in the Fame background, into a DnD game. Apparently the difference between the "the" and the "and" is important somehow.

** Not then allowed to taunt the barbarian about his lack of awesome because he can't punch out a 30m tall mecha or make 15m jumps.

[Rockphed]

The orphan background does not grant protection from plot.
* Buying the "wings" mutation without the flight ability does not make me sephiroth.
** I should not spend more time mourning the character who died before he got a name than he spent being played.

[DCraw]

*"Testiculum Aries Attigit" is not acceptable as a motto
** Nor as standard practice

[Socksy]

* There are genres where psychics are not acceptable PCs.

Really? Which ones?

* If one of us is a Red Mantis Assassin, everyone will want to be a Red Mantis Assassin.
** I can't substitute a Divine Curse for an Oracle Curse.
*** Especially if we're all Red Mantis Assassins.

[Anonymouswizard]

Really? Which ones?

Fantasy, apparently.

[danielxcutter]

*"Testiculum Aries Attigit" is not acceptable as a motto
** Nor as standard practice

Do I want to know what this means?

Fantasy, apparently.

I mean D&D literally has mind flayers...

[KorvinStarmast]

Do I want to know what this means?

Something like

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"the battering ram has touched the testicles"

[Anonymouswizard]

I mean D&D literally has mind flayers...

And some people still don't think I should be able to play a telepath.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't play a psychic in realistic games, but they are incredibly rare IME. And I'm not certain it's appropriate in something like Nobilis (Exalted on the other hand...). But yeah otherwise I prefer me psychics to me wizards.

[DCraw]

Something like

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"the battering ram has touched the testicles"

That translation is pretty accurate (though my Latin is pretty bad). For context, Roman armies had a policy that they would accept the surrender of a besieged town up until the point where they were forced to attack - after which all bets were off. This gave us the phrase Murum Aries Attigit ("the Ram has touched the Walls").

I had a character who came across a Ring of the Ram and decided to implement a similar policy on a personal level with the motto Testiculum Aries Attigit ("the Ram has touched the Balls").

[Rater202]

I cannot give Commander Shepard an umbras cube.

[Eldan]

I cannot give Commander Shepard an umbras cube.

Hah. That reminds me of one that just recently happened to me:

*Can not call every intimidate check a "Renegade Interrupt".

[Lord Raziere]

I cannot give Commander Shepard an umbras cube.

** Mostly because she'd just absorb asari biology and have children with every alien species that she romances

* May not be a precursor who wakes up in the current day of the fantasy setting
** may not complain about the lack of magical internet
*** may not have a wand-gun
**** may count as a wizard just because I'm from a different time period with higher tech.
***** may not consider my spells conveniences and such that everyone has forgotten
****** May not consider the greatest things elves ever created as low tech.

[Rater202]

** Mostly because she'd just absorb asari biology and have children with every alien species that she romances

Was thinking more about how it's an outside context problem of, at a bare minimum, universe-shaking power, but that is also a valid reason.

[Lord Raziere]

* My next campaign idea may not be "Dresden Punk" using the Dresden Files Rpg but in a cyberpunk world set after the events of the "Empty Night" that Harry foils but disappears in the process of doing so.
** May not replace the Red Court with a Steel Court of vampires that are basically demons from the Nevernever merging with people to become cybernetic-parasites, whose abbreviation is "Stampires"
***may not make the supernatural well known and common knowledge in this world and thus everything becoming worse because instead of taking up arms people have mostly accepted the existence of these monsters in their lives complete with corporations trying to commoditize magic
**** the White court may not control social media with their pale beauty.
***** may not make the punk aspect being that your some of the few people actually trying to fight back against what society has become with the Paranet.

[dspeyer]

* My backstory should not cause angels to suffer mental breakdowns as they try to cope with the theological implications.

[KorvinStarmast]

I may no longer fall asleep between encounters.

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VTT: Yes, I missed the battle with the Choldriths...whoops!

[Anonymouswizard]

* My backstory should not cause angels to suffer mental breakdowns as they try to cope with the theological implications.

Maybe it's just because I'm currently reading through Glitch, but my first thought was 'Excrusian'. Mainly because I'm fairly certain they did that when they first showed up.

I could see one working in a D&D game though. Replace the Far Realm with Ninuan, play one of the ex-human(/cat/fox/lampshade) ones, and watch most outsiders try to wrap their heads around the mechanics of Not-things. You'd probably run it as some kind of Sorcerer or Warlock instead of trying to transfer actual mechanics.

Actually, I like the idea of writing up a Void patron.

* If my objection is that the BBEG is not trying to destroy enough of reality I'm probably not LG.

[Telok]

* Not allowed to combine twin las cannon, zen archery, and buttock enhancement surgery into one character in other people's games.

[Rater202]

*No one is going to find a cocktail consisting of eight oz of cranberry juice, eight oz of 7Up, two tablespoons of (real)grenadine, a quarter shot of gin appetizing.

[Rockphed]

*No one is going to find a cocktail consisting of eight oz of cranberry juice, eight oz of 7Up, two tablespoons of (real)grenadine, a quarter shot of gin appetizing.

Except for grenadine and gin, that sounds drinkable. Gin is, as I understand, tasteless. Is grenadine that disgusting?

[Rater202]

Except for grenadine and gin, that sounds drinkable. Gin is, as I understand, tasteless. Is grenadine that disgusting?

No. Grenadine has a sweet, tangy, fruity profile(real grenadine is made mostly of pomegranate juice)

The problem is that cranberry juice, even when sweetened, is very sour and mixing it with a lemon-lime soda and grenadine isn't going to cut down on that much, even if it makes it sweeter and with a quarter of a shot of gin there's gonna be very little alcohol in it.

You're basically drinking sour sugar for no payoff.

Admittedly, saying that no one would find it appetizing is an exaggeration

[danielxcutter]

Sounds like you might get something with some adjustments to the mixture though?