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2023-03-30, 03:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
I think you've got that bacwards. You are REQUESTED AND REQUIRED to breach and sweep using explosives and fireballs. It's a moral imperative! At least for me; I was running a kender cleric of Sirrion
(Dragonlance god of fire) in I9 Day of Al-Akbar. I got ahold of the delayed blast fireball, figured them out, matched them up with my hoopak, and we steamrolled the opposition.
*As the DM, not allowed to weaponize the party's catchphrase of "We were minding our own business!" as an excuse to attack them, when there were, in fact, minding their own business.I have a blog; come see what I've created: https://thewhiteminotaur.wordpress.com/
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2023-03-30, 06:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-03-30, 06:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. 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.
Second known member of the Greyview Appreciation Society
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2023-03-30, 07:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
Might be problematic if they were playing an Oath of Redemption pally... or if they were doing it in such numbers as to significantly increase the gods' workload... (wouldn't surprise me, on this board)
* Triple-teaming the BBEG in combat is sound tactics, and allowed, maybe even encouraged.
** Triple-teaming physics in such a way that the BBEG ends up as collateral damage, however, will make the DM sad.
* Not allowed to point out to the DM that he has specifically asked me to build a Gnomish artificer, despite knowing darn well what my sense of humour tends to be like. Particularly a Gnomish artificer from a country whose national character is loosely based on my own RL personality.
** Not allowed to attempt to introduce Emwelchus, Gnomish god of Heavy Artillery, into the campaign world
(although I'm going to try anyways... or maybe just Emwelchus, Gnomish god of Explosions)
*** There is no Gnomish religious order called 'The Little Sisters of Perpetual Combustion', and it is wrong of me to try and create it.
**** I'll probably get away with horrifically abusing wands of low-level spells crafted into 'experimental Gnomish warheads' for a while, but I'm probably not allowed to see just how stupid I can get with it. I suspect the 8 single-shot wands of Fireball slaved to the same command word, bundled with a magic mouth on the bolt itself to speak the command word on impact, in order to make an AIM-9 Sidewinder Ballista Bolt will be the limit, but we'll see (don't really know if that's 100% RAW legal, but I'm pretty sure my DM will let me get away with it, at least once)
***** The Gnomish equivalent of Halloween isn't a psychotic illusion-fest that is so traumatizing to non-Gnomes that anyone caught in the country that day has to hide in a lead-lined bunker with permanent trueseeing cast over it. Or maybe it isTimes being what they are, the stars aligning and the End of All Things barely registered as background noise.
At a bit of a loss as to what to do next, and with bills to pay, a certain Elder Thing has taken up bartending.
This is...
The Last Call of Cthulhu
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2023-03-30, 09:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
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2023-03-31, 08:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
That reminds me...
*I may not foil the party's plans with a group of meddling kids.
**Even if that includes a talking dog.
***Especially if that includes a much smaller talking dog.
However, we can foil the DMs plans with a coordinated group of meddling PCs (and have).Something Borrowed - Submission Thread (5e subclass contest)
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2023-04-02, 06:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
My Makavian's derangement cannot be Jerusalem syndrome.
I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2023-04-02, 11:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
*May not speculate about how familial curses that last for n generations interact with inbred royal lines
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2023-04-03, 01:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-04-03, 04:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
* Vestals were not the real life version of the Sisters of Perpetual Combustion.
* My gnomish artificer should not act like Lina Inverse.
** Neither my gnomish artificer or any homunculus may act like Pokota.
* If my kobold artificer builds an airship for the party, it must be sized for medium creatures. Not tiny.
** Yes, even if all the players are kobolds.
* Cannot create the manga version of The Necronomicon.
** Or the colouring book.
*** None of Junji Ito's books are any of the above already.
* Speaking of Junji Ito, I will never drink oil in front of other people at the table regardless if we're playing a game or not.
* No puzzle should require reinstalling Windows 98 to solve.
** Make that any OS.**** Photobucket ; RIP avatars
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2023-04-03, 06:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
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2023-04-04, 06:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2013
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
"Friendship=Magic" does not appear anywhere in the Life Equation.
I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
Read my fanfiction here. Homebrew Material Here Rater Reads the Hobbit and Dracula
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2023-04-04, 08:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
Cool elan Illithid Slayer by linkele.
Editor/co-writer of Magicae Est Potestas, a crossover between Artemis Fowl and Undertale. Ao3 FanFiction.net DeviantArt
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Currently playing: Red Hand of Doom(campaign journal)Campaign still going on, but journal discontinued until further notice.
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2023-04-04, 10:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
* If I'm actually kind of hoping for a fight, I probably shouldn't insist that we try diplomacy first on the only (potential) combat encounter of the night.
** Even if in one of the few sessions I missed, the party nearly destroyed the world by accident by assuming that a character was evil (and promptly killing them) because the monster manual said so, despite this being a homebrew world. And the character not being evil. Or aggressive.
*** Should probably stop bringing up the time the party murdered the good-aligned, friendly lich for no reason. Especially since it was years ago.
**** And should probably stop being annoyed about missing a fight, given that we now have right of passage, a friendly (or at least non-hostile) guide, and warning of a local empire that uses huge swarms of undead as troops.Times being what they are, the stars aligning and the End of All Things barely registered as background noise.
At a bit of a loss as to what to do next, and with bills to pay, a certain Elder Thing has taken up bartending.
This is...
The Last Call of Cthulhu
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2023-04-05, 11:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
I have a blog; come see what I've created: https://thewhiteminotaur.wordpress.com/
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2023-04-06, 02:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
*May not refer to laudanum as "steampunk fentanyl"
"If you want to understand biology don't think about vibrant throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology" -Richard Dawkins
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2023-04-10, 09:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
*I'm not allowed to translate Drgonforce songs into fantasy languages for my Bard songs.
**Especially not The Last Dragonborn into Dovahzhul in an Elderscrolls-themed game.I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2023-04-11, 02:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
... why on Earth not, unless your singing voice is even worse than mine?
* Playing Valhalla Calling (whatever version) is going to make people nervous, even if it is thematic.
** Yes, it's an awesome song, but people go to Valhalla when they're dead. Are you deliberately trying to invoke a TPK?
*** Fine, but even in the afterlife, trying to out-drink Thor is going to cause a CON check.Times being what they are, the stars aligning and the End of All Things barely registered as background noise.
At a bit of a loss as to what to do next, and with bills to pay, a certain Elder Thing has taken up bartending.
This is...
The Last Call of Cthulhu
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2023-04-11, 03:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
*Walter White was not one of the suspects in Clue
"If you want to understand biology don't think about vibrant throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology" -Richard Dawkins
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2023-04-13, 06:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
* May not set fire to the insane asylum in Charhollow
** May not get into a gunfight against unknown enemies with an ally who had just joined the group and had (1) zero investment in the plan and (2) who'd been arguing with his wife (IC and OC) for about 30 minutes before we staged the raid.Last edited by KorvinStarmast; 2023-04-13 at 06:41 PM.
Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. 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.
Second known member of the Greyview Appreciation Society
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2023-04-16, 08:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
* No longer allowed to employ the "if I roleplay in a really entertaining and comedic way so that all the other players are laughing, they will want my character to stick around and thus not report my treason to Friend Computer" strategy. It's just too damned O.P.
I'm not an evil GM! Honest!
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2023-04-16, 08:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
I thought that was half the point of playing Paranoia when you're not getting instantly murderlized by Friend Computer.
Cool elan Illithid Slayer by linkele.
Editor/co-writer of Magicae Est Potestas, a crossover between Artemis Fowl and Undertale. Ao3 FanFiction.net DeviantArt
We also have a TvTropes page!
Currently playing: Red Hand of Doom(campaign journal)Campaign still going on, but journal discontinued until further notice.
Extended sig here.
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2023-04-22, 12:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
I'm not allowed to make a character who kills enemies with copies of Robert's Rules of Order. Whether by hitting them with books or annoying then to death by quoting out of context, irrelevant passages.
In fact, I'm not allowed to reference RRO anymore.Dawn of Hope: a 5e setting. http://wiki.admiralbenbo.org
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2023-04-22, 03:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
*May not advocate for implementing Friend Computer's policies in real life
**Not every political problem can be solved with tranquilizer pills
***Or at least that's what people keep telling meLast edited by Bohandas; 2023-04-22 at 11:53 AM.
"If you want to understand biology don't think about vibrant throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology" -Richard Dawkins
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2023-04-22, 03:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
* I may not challenge the enemy leader to a porridge eating contest.
** Even if I can cite precedent.
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2023-04-22, 06:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-04-22, 07:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
*"Homer Simpson did it" is not a good justification for doing anything, let alone in a Cthulhu Mythos game.
**Especially not challenging Cthulhu himself to an eating contest.
***I cannot eat CthulhuI also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
Read my fanfiction here. Homebrew Material Here Rater Reads the Hobbit and Dracula
Awesome Avatar by Emperor Ing
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2023-04-22, 09:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
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2023-04-23, 03:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 14: The DM is not my therapist.
"That's a horrible idea! What time?"
T-Shirt given to me by a good friend.. "in fairness, I was unsupervised at the time".
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2023-04-23, 11:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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