Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.

[Anonymouswizard]

I'm sorry, who?

It's a reference to Barshens, who in an early video came across the phrase 'give Slepp the idol your bones'. Slepp eventually got memed into a (somewhat pathetic) dark god who wants your bones.

[KorvinStarmast]

It's a reference to Barshens, who in an early video came across the phrase 'give Slepp the idol your bones'. Slepp eventually got memed into a (somewhat pathetic) dark god who wants your bones.

* I may no longer charge into a shadow dragon's lair, remarking to my party mates that
"he just breathed on us, chances are it will be a few rounds before he recharges" as I bring the fury of the ax wielder to bear ...

** Because me saying that, you know, had to be what got the recharge roll to be a 6.

[Rater202]

I cannot rescue the unlikable loser who was created to be killed off.

[Anonymouswizard]

* Deviants do not get a power boost and new look halfway through the campaign.

[Bohandas]

It's a reference to Barshens, who in an early video came across the phrase 'give Slepp the idol your bones'. Slepp eventually got memed into a (somewhat pathetic) dark god who wants your bones.

clarifying this, it originated in a video where they were reading a bad machine-translation of a scandanavian news article about Justin Bieber which included a statement that fans "refused to give Slepp the idol their bones" and it turned into a running gag about Justin Bieber worshipping a dark god named Slepp

[danielxcutter]

* Deviants do not get a power boost and new look halfway through the campaign.

I thought that's what getting new Scars is about?

[Anonymouswizard]

I thought that's what getting new Scars is about?

This is more 'I can't look at Deviant and see anything other than Showa Era Kamen Rider: the RPG'

[Rockphed]

* I am not allowed to play a set of intelligent items that convince their owner to become a superhero.

[KorvinStarmast]

* I am not allowed to leap from a ten foot tall wall as part of my movement to maximize the distance my dwarf can move.
(Failed an acro check, landed hard and lost half of my movement)
** Must now climb down walls.
*** May no longer slit the throat of a cult fanatic (dropped to 0 HP) when the monk isn't looking
**** May no longer chastise the monk for turning pacifist in the middle of a fight where the cult and its demon patron are trying to kill us ...

Spoiler: why?

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the other players don't want to get into that discussion

[Telwar]

I thought that's what getting new Scars is about?

* I am not allowed to yell out "I AM MY SCARS!!!!1!!!!ONE!!!!" to a questgiver.
** Even if I have sacrificed more than they have.
*** I am no longer allowed to make WoW references that the rest of the group don't get.

[danielxcutter]

This is more 'I can't look at Deviant and see anything other than Showa Era Kamen Rider: the RPG'

Yeah, because once you get the premise basically everything reminds you of Deviant. It's not called the DIY splat for nothing.

[Anonymouswizard]

Yeah, because once you get the premise basically everything reminds you of Deviant. It's not called the DIY splat for nothing.

Of course not, it's called that because everybody would like to forget Beast exists it also helps that conspiracy horror gives a lot of room for the game to go in.

Also the depicted Cephalist is clearly disabled. That's actually really unusual for CofD and one of the things that helped establish the tone for me (as well as just being cool). While pretty much everything reminds you of Deviant it somehow managed to also have its own identifiable tone and feel.

[danielxcutter]

Yeah but Deviants are even more Build-A-Monster than Beasts.

[Bohandas]

*I am to stop using crude oil as my go to example of a naturally occurring substance

[Anonymouswizard]

Yeah but Deviants are even more Build-A-Monster than Beasts.

Well of course, Beasts are tied to specific metaphysics.

[danielxcutter]

Of course not, it's called that because everybody would like to forget Beast exists it also helps that conspiracy horror gives a lot of room for the game to go in.

Also the depicted Cephalist is clearly disabled. That's actually really unusual for CofD and one of the things that helped establish the tone for me (as well as just being cool). While pretty much everything reminds you of Deviant it somehow managed to also have its own identifiable tone and feel.

Speaking of this, in the newest book, Tending the Flame (for HtV), the example Watcher member has dwarfism.

[animorte]

I may not build Disney inspired PCs and only speak in quotes from their movie.

There's nothing in that rule about NPCs though!

[Anonymouswizard]

Speaking of this, in the newest book, Tending the Flame (for HtV), the example Watcher member has dwarfism.

I don't have it, although yeah I've heard about that and it's pretty dang cool. RPGs kind of just totally suck at disability representation (and aren't great at other kinds) so it's nice to see some that doesn't boil down to 'you can take these for extra shinies!'

Plus I actually really want to play that Cephalist.

[danielxcutter]

Well of course, Beasts are tied to specific metaphysics.

Well, that and the fact that the broken soul is practically the only similarity between each method of Divergence.

I don't have it, although yeah I've heard about that and it's pretty dang cool. RPGs kind of just totally suck at disability representation (and aren't great at other kinds) so it's nice to see some that doesn't boil down to 'you can take these for extra shinies!'

Plus I actually really want to play that Cephalist.

CofD is very LGBT+ friendly in general at least, fortunately.

I may not build Disney inspired PCs and only speak in quotes from their movie.

There's nothing in that rule about NPCs though!

Our crossover game in Los Angeles actually has a Keeper called the Mouse.

[Bohandas]

*The proper way of handling a cat that brings me dead mice and birds is probably not to train the cat to leave the mice on a tiny sacrificial altar

[danielxcutter]

There are probably multiple systems where you not only can but doing so would have a net positive effect on something, I imagine.

[Rockphed]

*The proper way of handling a cat that brings me dead mice and birds is probably not to train the cat to leave the mice on a tiny sacrificial altar

Is this something you are doing in game or during sessions?

[Rater202]

*"Omnipotent but only when naked" is not a valid super power.
**Especially for a sapient house cat.

[Rockphed]

*"Omnipotent but only when naked" is not a valid super power.
**Especially for a sapient house cat.

Do we have to shave the kitty to awaken its "divine rank = yes" property? That seems like an unwise move.

[Anonymouswizard]

*"Omnipotent but only when naked" is not a valid super power.

US naked or rest of the world naked? Because I think you can show the former on TV, and the latter after 9am... You dang Americans and your aversion to uncovered sexy bits, why can't my Sorcerer be a naturist!?

Do we have to shave the kitty to awaken its "divine rank = yes" property? That seems like an unwise move.

We don't have to shave the body hair off people for them to be naked, just remove their collar.


* 'The rules let me start forked into a dozen morphs' is not a valid reason to do so.

[Rater202]

US naked or rest of the world naked? Because I think you can show the former on TV, and the latter after 9am... You dang Americans and your aversion to uncovered sexy bits, why can't my Sorcerer be a naturist!?

Burn your feet on the asphalt, get arrested for indecent exposure.

[Metastachydium]

Burn your feat on the asphalt, get arrested for indecent exposure.

While Asphalt does sound like a pretty bad feat, and consequently, I can get why burning a feat slot to get it would be unwise, I'm not sure how that's indecent.

[Anonymouswizard]

Burn your feet on the asphalt, get arrested for indecent exposure.

Oh no, if only that was a law where I live!

More seriously while I've played in games that banned sexual content, and probably wouldn't have been able to go bottomless, the few times I've I quired about bare breasts I haven't had pushback. I actually had one habitually topless wizard who almost got to the table intended to feed into her coming from a foreign culture (the game sadly didn't go ahead).

[animorte]

While Asphalt does sound like a pretty bad feat, and consequently, I can get why burning a feat slot to get it would be unwise, I'm not sure how that's indecent.

Pfft. Made my day, you did.

[KorvinStarmast]

While Asphalt does sound like a pretty bad feat, and consequently, I can get why burning a feat slot to get it would be unwise, I'm not sure how that's indecent.

Should have picked a better feat, and maybe should have rolled for shoes.

* I may no longer begin an impromptu fight with a troll in a tunnel, even though the DM is the one who ran Tunnels and Trolls for us a few years ago.