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Krautman WHAT HAS SCIENCE WROUGHT from Hiding from the man, man Since: Jan, 2010
WHAT HAS SCIENCE WROUGHT
#51: Apr 1st 2011 at 1:31:48 PM

I am not to use Stone Shape and Create Water to flood a cavern of nagas.

...and that's terrible.
CountDorku Since: Jan, 2001
#52: Apr 1st 2011 at 2:16:12 PM

There is a limit to how closely my character can be a Deadpool clone.

Ezekiel Smooth as a Skunk from The Other Side Since: Jan, 2001
Smooth as a Skunk
#53: Apr 1st 2011 at 3:14:55 PM

5. If I'm the only one in the party with ranks in Move Silently, can't use Ghost Sound to give myself theme music.

The comics equivalent of PTSD.
Diamonnes In Riastrad from Ulster Since: Nov, 2009
In Riastrad
#54: Apr 1st 2011 at 3:43:14 PM

^ Brilliant. Mind if I use that?

My name is Cu Chulainn. Beside the raging sea I am left to moan. Sorrow I am, for I brought down my only son.
Ezekiel Smooth as a Skunk from The Other Side Since: Jan, 2001
Smooth as a Skunk
Diamonnes In Riastrad from Ulster Since: Nov, 2009
In Riastrad
#56: Apr 1st 2011 at 4:27:01 PM

^ To give my Wizard theme music.

My name is Cu Chulainn. Beside the raging sea I am left to moan. Sorrow I am, for I brought down my only son.
Michael So that's what this does Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
So that's what this does
#57: Apr 1st 2011 at 4:37:35 PM

You're giving me ideas.

So, I have a power to make a sense misreport something. I've used the 'misreport the sight of a person as some insects' thing, now to extend that to footsteps as music.

edited 1st Apr '11 4:37:48 PM by Michael

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#58: Apr 2nd 2011 at 2:16:41 AM

A Mickey Mousing spell? Fund it!

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Michael So that's what this does Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
So that's what this does
#59: Apr 2nd 2011 at 6:51:01 AM

... I may have to post a new example here in a few weeks at this rate. Just need to buy up the ability to affect multiple people with it first.

Azreal341 Since: Jan, 2011
#60: Apr 5th 2011 at 7:02:33 AM

1. My bard cannot ever convince the final boss to commit suicide.

2. My bard cannot point out the flaws in the big bad's plan.

3. My bard cannot use his lute as a bow.

4. My bard cannot disguise himself as a pimp.

5. My bard cannot then infiltrate the local crime syndicate.

6. My bard cannot TAKE OVER the local crime syndicate.

7. My bard cannot pickpocket the rouge's lockpicks.

8. My bard CAN sing badly on purpose to demoralize the enemy.

9. He cannot, however, hypnotise them. No matter how mesmerizeing his voice is.

10. Even if the rules allow it, I cannot be a cleric of Atheism.

edited 6th Apr '11 5:39:44 AM by Azreal341

badgertaco Hi, I'm Talos from The Imperial Throne Since: Jun, 2010
Hi, I'm Talos
#61: Apr 5th 2011 at 5:09:15 PM

1.I am no longer allowed to claim to be a god.

2. I am not allowed to be a cleric of myself

3. I am no longer allowed to declare holy war on the dwarves

4. I am no longer allowed to play bard

4a. I am no longer allowed to have high charisma

4b. The group is no longer allowed to have two mages

5. I am no longer allowed to seduce a MALE High Priest Dragon, even if its' intellect has been lowered to zero.

5a. I am no longer allowed to seduce anything whose ... private parts are bigger than me

edited 5th Apr '11 5:09:59 PM by badgertaco

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Diamonnes In Riastrad from Ulster Since: Nov, 2009
In Riastrad
#62: Apr 6th 2011 at 12:54:17 PM

New addition:

I am not allowed to make a creature Medium and Large at the same time.

My name is Cu Chulainn. Beside the raging sea I am left to moan. Sorrow I am, for I brought down my only son.
Krautman WHAT HAS SCIENCE WROUGHT from Hiding from the man, man Since: Jan, 2010
WHAT HAS SCIENCE WROUGHT
#63: Apr 6th 2011 at 12:59:10 PM

How does that work?

...and that's terrible.
Diamonnes In Riastrad from Ulster Since: Nov, 2009
In Riastrad
#64: Apr 6th 2011 at 1:22:50 PM

Dire Familiar Incantation and Familiar Mount cast at the same time.

My name is Cu Chulainn. Beside the raging sea I am left to moan. Sorrow I am, for I brought down my only son.
ABNDT Nightmare Muse from Last seen trolling Elesh Norn Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
Nightmare Muse
#65: Apr 6th 2011 at 11:36:55 PM

Not allowed to replace the entire party with Ice Assassins.

If one of the other players has created a backstory heavily involving mental trauma, not allowed to cure it five minutes into the campaign.

Panhandling sign glued to hands. Need $5 for solvent.
Azreal341 Since: Jan, 2011
#66: Apr 7th 2011 at 5:36:01 AM

10a. Even if I multiclass as a Buddist Monk I STILL cannot be a Cleric of Athiesm.

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#67: Apr 7th 2011 at 5:44:53 AM

[up]But can you be a cleric of the atheist God of Evolution ?

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Azreal341 Since: Jan, 2011
Diamonnes In Riastrad from Ulster Since: Nov, 2009
In Riastrad
#69: Apr 7th 2011 at 12:48:33 PM

You can play a Cleric of Atheism in Eberron. :P

My name is Cu Chulainn. Beside the raging sea I am left to moan. Sorrow I am, for I brought down my only son.
blueharp Since: Dec, 1969
ManCalledTrue The Lunatic in Your Hall from Nowhere Since: Jan, 2001
The Lunatic in Your Hall
#71: Apr 7th 2011 at 3:46:30 PM

Or declare atheist your "philosophy" in vanilla D&D. Pick two domains, come up with some practices, and away you go.

I haven't known true fear in a very, very long time.
khyron1144 from Someplace or other Since: May, 2010
#72: Apr 7th 2011 at 11:34:59 PM

I suspect that when the GURPS Pb P game I'm going to be in gets underway, I'll be banned from playing flirty omnisexual ghoul gigolos.

Vorthon from a pale blue dot Since: Feb, 2010
#73: Apr 12th 2011 at 6:16:22 AM

1. I am not allowed to scalp the goblins we just killed so I can wear their skin as hats.
2. When designing homebrew campaign settings, must avoid worldshapes which give the players aneurysms from trying understand them.
3. Just because my cleric worships a trickster deity, it still doesn't excuse glueing the ranger to his animal companion with sovereign glue.
4. Not allowed to open portals to the Far Realm just to see what comes through.
5. A Well of Many Worlds is a portal to other planes/worlds/realities. Not a garbage disposal.
6. No climbing inside a portable hole and casting Genesis just to see what happens.
7. The plane's name is 'The Ever-Changing Chaos of Limbo'. Not 'Funky Acid Trip Land'
8. Not allowed to use a pair of Immovable Rods to develop the world's first space program.

edited 12th Apr '11 8:50:22 AM by Vorthon

"If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods." - Arthur C. Clarke
stevebat Since: Nov, 2009
#74: Apr 12th 2011 at 7:03:05 AM

  • 1. T-Rex does not count as a viable Wild-shape form
    • 1A. It also does not count as a companion

  • 2. I am not allowed to use smite evil as a villain detector.
    • 2A. nor am I allowed to use Holy Word.
  • 3. I will no longer use the term "your mother" when casting Banshee's Wail
    • 3A. I am not allowed to use the term "your mother" when casting any spell
  • 4. Under no circumstances am I allowed to make a melee fighter scream "leroy jenkins" when wading into melee
  • 5. Kobolds are not mounts
    • 5A. Neither are they pets.
  • 6. I am banned from using the spell wish.

edited 12th Apr '11 7:03:31 AM by stevebat

Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#75: Apr 12th 2011 at 1:22:00 PM

1) The use of the song Friday to extract information is a war crime and a karma hit; even in the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millennium.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

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