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    Quote Originally Posted by Sparky McDibben View Post
    I believe they prefer "differently constructed beings from outside known reality."
    I believe most of them prefer 'Nova'

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    Aberrant is a superhero game where the idea that supers (called Novas) are generally going to eventually mutate into something inhuman (it's avoidable in 1e, in 2e it's an inherent part of gaining power). I don't believe characters that actually achieve it have a name in the timeframe of Aberrant, during the sequel Aeon they're called Aberrants and are assumed by most to be the only kind of Nova out there (there's some sane low powered Novas on some of the planets they colonised and a heavily limited variety that doesn't go all alien god, but they're secrets).

    Divas Mal, who depending on edition is either the first Nova or just an unusually powerful one who set off the mass eruptions, takes around two centuries to potentially achieve it (it's ambiguous, he could also just be on the other side of the galaxy).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zelphas View Post
    So here I am, trapped in my laboratory, trying to create a Mechabeast that's powerful enough to take down the howling horde outside my door, but also won't join them once it realizes what I've done...twentieth time's the charm, right?
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    How about a Jovian Uplift stuck in a Case morph? it makes so little sense.

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    My Bard has to have more in their repertoir than Viking Metal covers of ABBA songs.
    I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.

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    * My powerset cannot be entirely built around the ritualistic sacrifice of other PCs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zelphas View Post
    So here I am, trapped in my laboratory, trying to create a Mechabeast that's powerful enough to take down the howling horde outside my door, but also won't join them once it realizes what I've done...twentieth time's the charm, right?
    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Raziere View Post
    How about a Jovian Uplift stuck in a Case morph? it makes so little sense.

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    * I'm not allowed to play a halfling with new players at the table. I may or may not use Nimble to play croquet with everyone's legs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anonymouswizard View Post
    * My powerset cannot be entirely built around the ritualistic sacrifice of other PCs.
    TBH, we had a session in EPT where one of the PCs tried to pull that off, kinda.
    Didn't work.
    * Must not relive the session where the pile of undead incited a bunch of stoned players to ideate a series of unspeakable acts ...
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    b. greenstone (paraphrased):
    Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rater202 View Post
    My Bard has to have more in their repertoir than Viking Metal covers of ABBA songs.
    ** No, ABBA covers of Viking songs are not any better
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    *May not make an "Ever-Replenishing Deck of Many Things" that never runs out of cards
    ** May not make it a cursed item that binds itself to you when you pick it up
    *** May not make it so that you can only get rid of it by deceiving others into buying it from you in a dishonest trade.
    **** May not make it try to compel you to draw a card from it with a will save once every day.

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    * I may not play any character if the concept or implementation causes me to spontaneously break out in evil, creepy, maniacal, insane, ironic, or sarcastic laughter

    * I may not use speak with dead on the entire battlefield.
    ** I may not use the question "what is your detailed life story?" to max out the duration of the chatter.
    *** I may not load up a wagon or cart to tow around and then claim a stealth bonus because nobody can ignore the babbling corpse pile.
    **** I may not inflict RL sanity loss on my DM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Telok View Post
    **** I may not inflict RL sanity loss on my DM.
    oops, likely a little too late for that.

    * May not charge into a room and trip over the silken rope (spider silk, drow in the room) that unleashes ball bearings in a 15x30 area behind me for my allies to negotiate.
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    (I made the dex save, what was their problem? )
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    a. Malifice (paraphrased):
    Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
    b. greenstone (paraphrased):
    Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
    Gosh, 2D8HP, you are so very correct!
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    Default Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.

    If the plan involves loading the Ark of the Covenant or an equivalent artifact into a catapult and firing at the enemy, it's banned.
    I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.

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

    * May not name my next album Tears of the Zombie after the party cleans out a well full of zombies.
    ** May not observe that {Bard} will fiddle while zombies burn as the party watches and waits for the zombie bodies to be consumed in a bonfire. (That took a while, and nobody brought marshmellows)
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    Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Works
    a. Malifice (paraphrased):
    Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
    b. greenstone (paraphrased):
    Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
    Gosh, 2D8HP, you are so very correct!
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    Default Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.

    *Francis Drake the pirate and Francis Drake from SETI are not the same person
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bohandas View Post
    *Francis Drake the pirate and Francis Drake from SETI are not the same person
    My time traveling character's goals must be more than just making unrelated people who share names the same person.
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    Rockphed said it well.
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    My in-character motivation can't be trying to find and exploit broken combos and loopholes int he laws of biology to become OP.
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    Isn't that almost literally some of the Progenitors in Mage: the Ascension?
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    Quote Originally Posted by danielxcutter View Post
    Isn't that almost literally some of the Progenitors in Mage: the Ascension?
    And quite a few of the Progenitors in Deviant: the Renegades, and they know even less!

    * My goal for character creation cannot be 'min-max Speed to 0'.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zelphas View Post
    So here I am, trapped in my laboratory, trying to create a Mechabeast that's powerful enough to take down the howling horde outside my door, but also won't join them once it realizes what I've done...twentieth time's the charm, right?
    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Raziere View Post
    How about a Jovian Uplift stuck in a Case morph? it makes so little sense.

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    * Learning broken combos of martial arts is basically Cultivation
    ** May not learn the Creation-Slaying Oblivion Kick to counter the hax of Cultivators

    * May not go to Super Mario sunshine to learn the secrets of "Chuckster Fu"
    ** May not ask various jumpers and reincarnators if they've played Super Mario Sunshine
    *** If they have, may not immediately greet myself as "I'M A CHUCKSTER!" and throw them.
    **** That is a long way to go, and some powerful people to tick off, just for a single joke

    * May not take the DF Archive perk that allows me to remember all records and documents in a world
    ** May not use it to screw with the economy of any world
    *** Or passively spy on my enemies
    **** or quote laws and rules to anyone
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rater202 View Post
    My Bard has to have more in their repertoir than Viking Metal covers of ABBA songs.
    Now I have Yngwie Malmsteen's Gimme Gimme Gimme in my head.



    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Raziere View Post
    * May not create Whenwolves from outside time that appear whenever someone asks the question "When?"
    ** Or Whowolves, wolves that disguise themselves as humans they steal faces from to trick them
    *** Howwolves are not werewolves that can how they are werewolves to confuse people as to what werewolf rules they are running on.
    WTFwolves?!

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    It is still cannibalism when you are in bear form.

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

    My Superhero/Villain/Other-Empowered-Individual character can not just transparently be Jade Chan's Queen of The Shadowkhan persona.
    I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.

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

    *I may not turn the other PCs over to Darth Vader, in hopes that I will be his next apprentice.
    *I may not dispute that using the death star on a civilized planet deserves a DSP.
    *PC Droid characters are not a source of CP for a Gamorrean.
    *I will not send a PC Droid to negotiate with the imperial without telling him about the thermal detonator in his chassis.
    *I will not play a suicidal power Droid, and if I do, I won't blow up the party in the process.
    *I won't use the World between Worlds to restore the EU to Canon status.
    *My force sensitive gambler will not have a hunch and bet Alderaan will be destroyed.
    *I will not use mind transfer to steal a star destroyer, become a grand moff, or take over the rebellion.
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    Not allowed to have a serial killer disguise himself as a chair.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rater202 View Post
    Not allowed to have a serial killer disguise himself as a chair.
    ** Particularly not a Windsor Chair.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zelphas View Post
    So here I am, trapped in my laboratory, trying to create a Mechabeast that's powerful enough to take down the howling horde outside my door, but also won't join them once it realizes what I've done...twentieth time's the charm, right?
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    How about a Jovian Uplift stuck in a Case morph? it makes so little sense.

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

    The wacky comic relief character can't end up becoming the responsible big sister type.
    I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.

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    I recall a similar D&D comic involving a firbolg clown...
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    Default Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.

    Quote Originally Posted by Rater202 View Post
    The wacky comic relief character can't end up becoming the responsible big sister type.
    That's literally Sokka, except big brother.
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    Quote Originally Posted by animorte View Post
    That's literally Sokka, except big brother.
    Huh, I missed that part of Legend of Korra. It clarifies so much about the first season
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zelphas View Post
    So here I am, trapped in my laboratory, trying to create a Mechabeast that's powerful enough to take down the howling horde outside my door, but also won't join them once it realizes what I've done...twentieth time's the charm, right?
    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Raziere View Post
    How about a Jovian Uplift stuck in a Case morph? it makes so little sense.

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    *The exisfemce of psi9nic fattoos is not proof fhat all psionicists are hipsters
    **Nor does it indicate that psionics is a skill that you learn in jail
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bohandas View Post
    *psi9nic fattoos
    The name of my next band.
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    b. greenstone (paraphrased):
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    Yeah, it was like 3:00 in the morning when I tried to type that last post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bohandas View Post
    Yeah, it was like 3:00 in the morning when I tried to type that last post
    Even correctly spelled, that's a great name for a band.
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    b. greenstone (paraphrased):
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    Gosh, 2D8HP, you are so very correct!
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