YMMV / Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG

• Alternate Character Interpretation: While Mr. Welch is clearly a Loonie, there are plenty of cases where the rules seem simply designed to ensure that the GM can railroad the campaign. For example:
  410. If the NPC is on the cover of the rulebook, I can't kill him.
• Genius Bonus:
  1189. A stagehand does not get a better sneak bonus than ninjas. ^note The Western concept of the ninja comes from Eastern stagehands: both are completely clad in black.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Entries 171 ("My character's dying words are not allowed to be 'Hastur, Hastur, Hastur.'") and 336 ("Cannot start a Cthuhlu character with a pre-existing hatred of books, altars and cutlery.") were both written before the story of Old Man Henderson was posted.
  • Kerillian from Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide is an elf with a Scottish accent, which Mr. Welch is forbidden from playing. Similarly, The Dragon Prince has Rayla, another elf with a Scottish accent, as one of its main characters.
    188. I cannot play an elf with a Scottish accent, nor a Cajun dwarf.
  • Entry 958, prohibiting him from using shotgunchucks, has become even more hilarious since Sun Wukong from RWBY has been shown to use shotgunchucks. (Sun's pretty handy with them, but probably a lot less destructive than Welch would have been.)
  • Any 7 Days to Die player will get a giggle out of Entry 1483 (There is more to stopping a zombie horde than punji pits) since punji pits are the best way to stop a zombie horde.
  • #2005 is "Can't just program the probe droid to go to light speed through the Star Destroyer." The Last Jedi involves a maneuver that's pretty much just that, except it's a rebel cruiser making a Heroic Sacrifice. And since the Star Wars movies don't have a DM banning Cutting the Knot, it works and ends up slicing the Star Destroyer (Supreme Leader Snoke's craft) in half.
    • For that matter, #1773 is "Can't use a wish spell to make the last Star Wars trilogy not suck". Obviously this is supposed to be a Take That! towards the prequels, but after the divisiveness of The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker, that rule now applies to two Star Wars trilogies.
  • ”I cannot steal my own soul.” Mortal Kombat 11 has Revenant Liu Kang do exactly this during the climax.
  • Entry 160 ("I will not load any gatling weapon with nothing but paint rounds") is a bit less outlandish given the existence of Splatoon.
  • Entries #1086 and #1401, prohibiting him from shooting at natural disasters, turn out to be something that needs to be said to real people (Florida men, to be exact).
  • Entry 69 ("There is more to wizardry than magic missile. Even if I can do 200 damage automatic with no save.") is taken to its logical conclusion in Mage Hand Press' School of Magic Missile subclass.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: A number of cases imply that the rest of the players thought Mr. Welch's idea was fine, but the DM nixed it anyway.
  452. Not allowed to convince the entire party to base the group only off Gary Oldman characters.

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