History Main / ObviousRulePatch

* ''LetsPlay/{{Dream}}:'' About halfway through the second Death Swap, it is revealed that Dream and George came up with a special rule: you can't travel to the Nether to kill the other person with lava. This is likely to stop every Death Swap afterwards from degenerating into who can travel to the Nether first, as there are only two other reliable counters to this plan. The first one is by using Fire Resistance potions, which are only possible to make (or find) in the Nether by finding blaze rods and magma cream, or by trading with Piglins. The second solution is to [[RareRandomDrop get incredibly lucky with finding an enchanted golden apple,]] as Dream and George found out the hard way.

** Zero III forces all nine players to play the AB Game in the first round, but later on, you find out that you can in fact not participate, which will make your vote default to Ally. This presents the obvious solution of ''everyone'' agreeing to not vote, rendering trust a non-issue, since everyone could just stay outside the AB Rooms entirely and keep an eye on everyone else. Anyone who enters an AB Room at that point clearly intends to Betray, which their opponent(s) can simply counter with their own Betray, making Betraying entirely pointless. Repeat until everyone has 9+ BP and can all escape together. Those with less BP as a result of any Betrayals in Round 1 could also guard the Number 9 Door from those with more BP to keep them from escaping early and trapping everyone else inside. Since this would ruin the entire point of the AB Game, the rules state that at least one person from each team of three ''has'' to vote, or else all three of them are punished with death.

->''"That said, you ''can't'' create a focus item that helps you create other focus items. It's...uh, it's a magic thing. Just doesn't work."''
-->-- '''[[TabletopGame/TheDresdenFiles The Dresden Files RPG]]'''

* In ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'', a lot of additions have been made to "Da Rules" from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' thanks to looper antics. For example, there is now a rule against wishing that Vicky and Mr Crocker were fairy godparents, thanks to Cosmo and [[WesternAnimation/WinxClub Musa.]] Cosmo's involvement was him mishearing Musa's comment about it.

** In "Love Struck", Timmy wishes that the world was separated by gender, but it soon starts to escalate into a war between to two gender and to nearly kill Cupid. Once everything is fixed, a new rule is added to Da Rules that forbids "a world separated by gender" wish from ever being granted again.

->''"That said, you ''can’t'' create a focus item that helps you create other focus items. It’s...uh, it’s a magic thing. Just doesn’t work."''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has at least two examples of this:

* Ever since the show began, there has been a rule prohibiting one player from sitting out in back to back challenges (meaning one person could not sit out in a reward challenge and an immunity challenge in the same episode) with a reset occurring after Tribal Council. But as the series phased out single reward challenges and only had one challenge per episode, some players took advantage of this loop hole and sat out in multiple challenges in back to back episodes (one of the more egregious examples being four time player Sandra in her later appearances). But after Claire from ''Survivor 44'' sat out in the first three immunity challenges, Jeff put a stop to that come the following season and announced that nobody was allowed to sit out in back to back challenges after Tribal Council, meaning that everyone had to compete in a challenge no matter what.

** After Nat & Kat on Season 17 took detailed notes throughout the race in anticipation of the FinalExamFinale, Season 19's FinalExamFinale instructions specifically forbade the use of notes. (There was no FinalExamFinale in Season 18.)

* Toys/AmericanGirl used to allow buyers to send dolls into the hospital in any state--including missing heads, limbs, or entire bodies (with people citing that the parts were too damaged to send in). However, unscrupulous people would send in headless bodies and state they were rarer and/or retired dolls, then place the new heads on other matching bodies to sell at a profit. Because of this, any dolls sent in for repairs ''must'' include the entire head and body, regardless of damage, and no parts replaced are returned.

--->School Rule No.145 : No boy is to enter the room of any girl.\\
School Rule No.146 : No girl is to enter the room of any boy.\\
School Rule No.147 : (provisional) : It has been pointed out that our injunction to 'read boys for girls, and vice versa', can, if taken together with the two previous rules by someone with little to do but argue, mean that no pupil is to be in any room at all. This was not the intention. No pupil is to be anywhere except where they should be. A girl is defined as a young person of the female persuasion.\\

School Rule No.149 : [[RulesLawyer Arguing over the wording of school rules]] [[RageQuit is forbidden.]]

** Players using the rules quickly noticed that the sheer prevalence of some early ComMons would glut the party with copies of the same unspectacular pokemon, leading to homogenous and uninteresting team compositions. The duplicates exception was quickly accepted by the community - if the first encounter in a route is a species you already own, you're allowed to disregard it and catch the next encounter.
** Similar to the "Dupes Clause" is the "Shiny Clause": if you encounter an extremely rare Shiny Pokemon, you are allowed to ignore all normal catching rules to catch it.

* [[http://xkcd.com/246/ This]] xkcd panel.